Chapter 437: To clean up Li Shimin
On the second day, Li Chengqian drove to Luoyang, and at the same time ordered the Taoist king Li Yuanqing and all the scholars to drive to Luoyang.
It's just that because the evidence of the collusion between all the Shi clan and Cai Wenying has been destroyed, Li Chengqian can no longer transport the Shi clan patriarch except for Yichuan County, who has attacked him, back to Luoyang in a prisoner car.
Of course, this time the scholars also gave Li Chengqian a lot of face, and all the gentry who Li Chengqian ordered strictly, such as the Zhu family of Song County, no matter whether there was evidence that he had colluded with the Sanming Immortal Sect, no one raised any objections.
Even all the officials of the Daowang Mansion wrote testimony in their own hands, proving that Xiao Tan, who was beheaded by Li Chengqian, was the only official in the Daowang Mansion who colluded with the Sanming Immortal Sect. So Li Chengqian was right to kill him, even if Li Chengqian wanted to kill his whole family, the officials of the Daowang Mansion could find out the charges for Xiao Tan.
In this regard, Li Chengqian could only grit his teeth secretly, but he couldn't do anything with these people.
The chariot and honor guard of the crown prince at the entrance of the county government of Songxian County were more than two miles away from front to back, and more than 1,000 people stood there with weapons and banners with serious expressions, waiting for Li Chengqian to take off.
Xue Rengui and Wang Fangyi carefully rode their war horses back and forth, for fear that the honor guard would make a mistake.
Songxian County Yahou Hall.
Li Chengqian sat calmly on the main seat, and below him sat Xue Dading, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Xu Jingzong, a scholar of the Chongjiao Palace, and Pei Xingjian, the commander of the prince's mansion.
"Xue Qing's family will hand over the matter of the orphan king to you, in the construction of water conservancy projects, His Majesty and the orphan king trust the Xue Qing family very much, and hope that the Xue Qing family will build a reservoir for the Tang Dynasty that will not be bad for a hundred years. Let this reservoir benefit the people of Song County and Yichuan County, and also contribute to the steel mill in Luoyang. ”
Xue Dading's eyes turned red when he heard this, and he got up very solemnly and bowed to Li Chengqian, and said in a sonorous tone: "Please rest assured, His Royal Highness the Prince, even if the minister is smeared with liver and brain, he must repair the reservoir in Song County!" ”
Xue Dading already knew that this time the matter involved the interests of all forces, and he was almost framed, and even His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was affected. But in order to repair this canal, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in front of him not only protected himself but also continued to reuse himself, and he really couldn't repay His Royal Highness the Prince's Longen.
Seeing this, Li Chengqian got up and helped Xue Dading up, looked into his eyes, and said sincerely: "You are a person who does practical things, the Lone King gives you the opportunity to do practical things, you just need to do the things that the Lone King explains, don't think about anything else." ”
"The minister respectfully obeys the teachings of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Xue Dading saluted again.
Li Chengqian helped Xue Dading to sit down, turned around and sat back, then restrained his emotions, looked at Xu Jingzong and Pei Xingjian and said: "Song County has just been troubled by the Sanming Immortal Sect, and the people are panicking, you two stay in Song County to settle the people here."
As for the resettlement method, you have also done it in Yichuan County, and the lone king believes that you can do a good job, and the gentry here have also submitted a request to the lone king to move overseas, and their land will be distributed to the people except for the construction of the reservoir.
The people who did not have land were allowed to go overseas with the king of the Dao, and told them that the imperial court had given them weapons and agricultural tools to help them carve out a world overseas. ”
"Your Ministers obey!"
Xu Jingzong and Pei Xingjian knew in their hearts that ordinary people would divide their fields and grain, and the members of the Sanming Immortal Sect, especially the more core people, would be sent overseas.
After Li Chengqian finished explaining, he stood up and walked out, and the three of them followed behind to see Li Chengqian off.
Li Chengqian walked out of the county office, and the gentry and people waiting at the door saw Li Chengqian bowing to him one after another, and shouted long live.
Many people knelt down excitedly when they saw Li Chengqian, and they were the people who were most grateful to Li Chengqian, and yesterday some of the people who accompanied him at the East Palace also publicized to the people of Song County about the division of land and floating wealth in Yichuan County.
After hearing that the crown prince had issued an order to give all the fields of the Song County gentry to the people, the people of Song County regarded Li Chengqian as a god who saved the world.
Seeing this, Li Chengqian smiled and waved his hand before getting into the car, and the car slowly left Song County amid cheers.
The car slowly came to the outskirts, and there was no cheering of the people along the way. Li Chengqian sat quietly in the car alone, and slowly thought of Li Shimin, Li Chengqian's feelings for Li Shimin were very complicated, and Li Chengqian admired Li Shimin a little in later generations.
When he first crossed over, he was also the same as the traveler he had seen in the book before, hoping to benefit the people of Datang with his talents, so that Datang's national strength would reach a higher new level, and try his best to make up for the regrets left by Datang to future generations.
wants to do all this, Li Chengqian feels that he can't just have himself, even if he becomes an emperor in the future, he still wants to have a stronger backer.
Li Chengqian's chosen backer was Li Shimin.
In the eyes of later generations, Li Shimin is a rare Ming monarch in Chinese history, and Li Chengqian crossed into his eldest son, thinking that he had a golden body to protect the body.
After Li Tai's death, Li Chengqian did very bold things, some things Li Shimin supported, and some things Li Shimin was not very optimistic, but after Li Chengqian did it, Li Shimin did not treat him badly.
Therefore, Li Chengqian believed that Li Shimin's help to his reform of the Tang Dynasty was more helpful than destructive. This summer, Li Shimin was sick and dying, and Li Chengqian gave up the temptation to immediately succeed to the throne as emperor and used modern medical skills to revive him.
But Li Shimin suddenly turned around at the most critical time, just to prevent Li Zhi from going overseas.
Li Chengqian was very incomprehensible to Li Shimin's approach, and when he returned to Luoyang, he wanted to clean up Li Shimin.
There are more than 100 miles from Song County to Luoyang, and fast horses can run back and forth in a day, but Li Chengqian's car drives, and the brigade can only walk 30 or 40 miles a day, and only on the fourth day can they reach a place 30 miles away from Luoyang City.
When they arrived here, there were officials from Luoyang who came to pass on Li Shimin's will: the crown prince returned victoriously, and tomorrow all the officials of Luoyang City will go out of the city thirty miles to meet His Royal Highness the crown prince, and Li Shimin will also go out of the city to meet him ten miles outside the south gate of Luoyang.
Li Chengqian put down the rebellion, and it was nothing for the civil and military officials to go out of the city thirty miles to greet him. Li Shimin personally went out of the city ten miles to greet him, even if it was a special gift, after all, the two of them were not only monarchs and ministers, but also father and son.
It can be seen from this that Li Shimin is a little weak-hearted.
On the same day, Li Chengqian ordered to camp thirty miles away from Luoyang City.
Early in the morning of the second day, the civil and military officials led by Ma Zhou and the clan nobles led by Li Zhi all came to the gate of Li Chengqian's camp, divided into three columns, and stood respectfully and solemnly, waiting for Li Chengqian's summons.
The kabuko brought in by the Luoyang Sect Division set up a stage to start their performance.
At this time, the gate of the barracks opened, and an attendant came out and said expressionlessly: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince summoned Ma Zhongshu to the camp to meet him." ”
This is also Li Chengqian, if any general dares not come out to welcome hundreds of civil and military officials into the camp, the minister will be impeached before the celebration banquet is over.
Of course, these Li Chengqian are not afraid, and the courtiers outside don't think that Li Chengqian has anything too much to do this, only one person feels a fever on his face, and that is Li Zhi, the king of Jin, who is standing in the first row.
But this is exactly the effect that Li Chengqian wants, he is not the kind of person who hides everything below, he is like this to Li Zhi, and he will also launch some corresponding revenge measures against Li Shimin.
Because most of the salutes to be held today are military salutes, Li Chengqian wore armor and sat in the Chinese military tent when he got up in the morning. Xue Rengui, Wang Fangyi and other East Palace generals dressed in bright light armor were lined up on both sides, and the entire big tent was very solemn and arrogant, which made people daunting at first sight.
"The minister's book orders Ma Zhou to see His Royal Highness the Prince!"
The chubby Ma Zhou walked in and saluted calmly.
"Ma Qing is flat!" Li Chengqian's expression was authentic.
"His Royal Highness Prince Xie!" Ma Zhou straightened up.
"I heard that Zhongshu Province asked Zhou Jin for a posthumous seal?" Li Chengqian was still expressionless.
Ma Zhou guessed that Li Chengqian was going to make a fuss about this matter, so he didn't dare to say more, so he said simply: "Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, Your Majesty issued a decree to posthumously crown Zhou Jin as the Imperial History." ”
"In the name of the prince of the lonely king and the prince of the country, these posthumous seals have been withdrawn." Li Chengqian said calmly, he wanted Zhou Jin to slap Li Shimin's face, and he would beat him for a thousand years.
"If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince feels that there is less posthumous, he can issue another decree to increase it, or posthumously posthumously seal Zhou Jin's deceased parents." Ma Zhou thought that Li Chengqian was chasing less, and suggested that he increase the specifications of the posthumous seal, and in order to save Li Shimin's face, he did not move Zhou Jin's gift, and instead posthumously sealed Zhou Jin's parents.
Li Chengqian knew that the crown prince of Jianguo did not have the right to change the emperor's will, and Ma Zhou did not dare and could not agree to his unreasonable demands. He is proposing this matter now, just to let Li Shimin know first that his dissatisfaction will be vented through Zhou Jin's matter.
At that moment, his face sank, and he got up and walked out without saying a word.