Chapter 31: Angry Wei Zheng
Li Shimin stretched out his hand to stop the eunuch Wang De, who was about to open his mouth, and he quietly took two steps forward and stood behind the screen of the Liangyi Palace.
No minister could see it, but he could hear the discussion in the hall clearly.
For Li Yuanjing, Li Shimin is a little entangled, but for Wei Zheng, Li Shimin can be said to be afraid and loved, in this kind of small matter, he wants to see how Li Yuanjing makes Wei Zheng deflated.
After all, in the past, Wei Zheng always trained himself like a cat and a mouse.
"The minister also wants to see for a long time, but the court doesn't want to go to the court, and he doesn't see the court, how can His Highness be flexible?" Wei Zheng squinted his eyes slightly and looked at Li Yuanjing.
Those who are familiar with Wei Zheng know that he is angry.
Even if Li Shimin was here, he didn't dare to speak to Wei Zheng in such a tone.
Of course, everyone knows that Wei Zheng's image is outspoken and risking death, while Li Shimin's image is that he is benevolent, righteous and wise, daring to overthrow himself and accept advice.
To put it more simply, everyone is an actor, Wei Zheng wants to be famous through the ages, Li Shimin wants his reputation, he needs to solve this problem from all sides, so in the face of Wei Zheng's advice, he can only endure it.
I don't know how many times Li Shimin secretly thought about killing Wei Zheng altogether, but after the impulse, he calmed down, just scold, reputation still has to be wanted, and over time, Li Shimin is used to having a Wei Zheng around him who is constantly scolding himself.
At the very least, it will save you from making more mistakes and will also leave a good name.
"Sage Kong also said that he wanted to save his body three times, which of you did it?" Li Yuanjing stretched out his hand to bake the fire, and looked at Wei Zheng as if he cared for the mentally retarded.
This product really has no spirituality at all, since it is a debate, it doesn't matter if the two stand closer, they won't even rub warm, just by virtue of this, Li Yuanjing feels that he has won.
"Sage Kong also said that the gentleman is a gentleman, has His Highness ever done this?" Wei Zheng snorted coldly, a bastard prince who doesn't learn and has no skills, actually insults people with the Analects, don't you really think that no one in the world can use the Analects to scare you except you?
Li Shimin behind the screen gently covered his mouth and forced a smile.
This Li Yuanjing is still a little tender, and he was deviated from the topic by Wei Zheng's words, from being flexible to not doing his job.
"Don't talk nonsense......" Li Yuanjing waved his hand, arguing with people like Wei Zheng with academic discourse, of course he didn't have the upper hand, just to pretend to be a force, the real killer should be to kill him with two clicks with lightning speed, so that he has nothing to say, so that he is speechless.
Wei Zheng's eyes glared at Li Yuanjing angrily, and he actually said that the old man was?
The ministers wanted to laugh, but considering that Wei Zheng was their colleague after all, it was not good not to give this face, so they endured it.
After thinking about it, I decided to deal with Wei Zheng in a more elegant way.
"In a certain place, due to a disaster, there is no grain production, and there is no grain in the official warehouse, dare to ask Wei Zuocheng, what should I do?"
"Of course, we will transfer grain from other places, and the Son of Heaven will exempt the taxes in the disaster area, and all kinds of measures will be promulgated!" Wei Zheng suspected that Li Yuanjing was deliberately manipulating him, so why do you need to ask about such a simple matter? Any official knows what to do!
"If there is no grain in the land, what if the Son of Heaven can only reduce the allotment?"
"This is impossible, in all dynasties and dynasties, tax cuts in disaster years have become a routine, the Son of Heaven cares about all the people in the world, how can he ignore the world for some petty profits?"
Li Yuanjing rolled his eyes, still unmoved, and said calmly: "Hypothesis, do you know what hypothesis is?" This is a discussion, not a fact, why are you so excited? Just tell the king what to do in this situation! ”
"Of course it is......" Wei Zheng opened his mouth, but he didn't know how to respond to the question.
This situation has not happened before, the official warehouse is short of food, and the disaster area is out of production, at this time it is not important to pay taxes or anything, but whenever this happens, the disaster area is basically a piece of life, basically every family and immortal individuals are embarrassed to say that they are in the disaster area.
Usually a few people will die in a family, and it is even possible that the family will be wiped out.
But there is really nothing the court can do about this kind of problem, the most important thing for disaster relief is food, and there is no food in other places, how can this disaster be relieved?
"Let them die, of course?" Li Yuanjing looked at Wei Zheng with a smile, there was no need to bake the fire at this time, the four braziers had already raised the temperature around him a lot, but he was a little thirsty.
Wei Zheng wanted to say that this was the case, but he didn't dare to open his mouth, no one in the hall dared to open his mouth, even if it was a discussion, they didn't dare.
Li Shimin, who originally planned to come out to stop this farce, also stopped again.
Li Yuanjing is quite capable in dealing with disasters, although he is greedy for his credit, but Li Shimin knows whose credit it is, so he is also a little jealous of Li Yuanjing.
He wanted to hear what Li Yuanjing would do when he encountered this situation.
"It's a shame that you still have the title of the world's first admonition, but this king didn't expect that you didn't even have the courage to admit the facts." Li Yuanjing bluntly said with contempt.
It doesn't matter what offends people who can't be offended, it is useless to ask for the support of your ministers? That would only mean that I didn't die fast enough.
On the premise of not violating the principle, the more people you offend, the safer you are, although today's original intention is not to scare people, who let Wei Zheng jump out first to find his own fault?
"Did the court let them die? Of course not, even if you ministers are killed at this time, can you change this outcome? Of course, you can't, saying that you are too old-fashioned and too rigid in your thinking, that is because this king has already guessed your way to deal with this matter, and it must be waiting for the harvest year to save more food for emergencies.
No matter how much grain is stored, there will always be a time when it will be exhausted, and the solution is ......" Li Yuanjing turned around with a pair of small-eyed chicken thieves, and arched his hand towards the ministers with a smile on his face:
"It's not that this king is stingy, but because this king has worked so hard to come up with countermeasures, I can't give them to you, right?
It's better to do this, this king suffers some losses, since today he is pointing at Wei Zuocheng, then Wei Zuocheng wants to know the answer, so he will give this king a thousand guan, and the princes will only pay half, and one person will pay five hundred.
This king guarantees that this method is true and effective, and when the time comes, you will jointly play, with the character of the imperial brother, you will definitely agree, and once the thing is done, the princes will go down in history......"
Li Shimin's face had turned black into a piece of charcoal, and he was listening to it with relish, but he didn't expect Li Yuanjing to be deadly, and he asked for money at a critical moment, and he was almost ruthless like blackmail.
"Am I going to pay you 500 guan too?" Li Shimin strode out from behind the screen and looked at Li Yuanjing.
Li Yuanjing was stunned, and pretended to be heartbroken: "If the imperial brother wants to know, of course the younger brother won't ask for money, but he can't let them know, and he wants to go down in history, and he doesn't want to give money, how can there be such a good thing in the world?" ”
"Huh?"
Li Shimin stared at Li Yuanjing with a smile, not to mention that expression, Li Yuanjing was almost scared to pee, so he could only whisper: "Existence is reasonable, just like some grass will die without water, and some can survive on the dry roadside, there must be crops in this world that can grow on arid land......"