Chapter 162: Peak Duel (5)
Li Shimin watched the mighty crowd grinding his teeth and hissed, and murderous intent loomed in his eyes, until the crowd still looked at the empty street under the gatehouse after half a day, and his chest was hard to calm down.
"Your Majestyβ" Li Daozong shouted softly behind Li Shimin.
Li Shimin looked back at Li Daozong, squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth, and said, "The rebel son wants to rebel?"
"Uh-" Li Daozong was stunned when he heard this, not knowing how to answer.
Li Shimin turned his head to look at the other ministers again, and the ministers didn't dare to say anything when they saw this, and finally looked at Ma Zhou.
Seeing this, Ma Zhou shook his head and smiled bitterly: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is smart and wise, and he will not rebel." β
Li Shimin snorted heavily when he heard the words, meaning why didn't he rebel?
If you mess around like this, it's just the other way around.
Ma Zhou glanced at the ranks of people who were walking towards the Vermilion Bird Gate and said, "I think the East Palace's move is to deal with those people. As he spoke, he pointed to the officials who had come from the Liangyi Gate to oppose the reduction of the rent.
Li Shimin followed Ma Zhou's hand and saw that hundreds of young officials were also looking up at Li Shimin and others on the tower of Chengtianmen at this time, and his heart was even more angry, and he suddenly flicked his sleeves and strode down the city tower.
"Your Majesty, the young prince was bewitched by traitors, and he entered this misleading country, Your Majesty must not issue a decree to encourage their arrogance." As soon as Li Shimin walked down, he was stopped by a young official.
This person Li Shimin knows is his third sister Princess Pingyang and Chai Lingwu, the son of Chai Shao, the prince of the country, and is Li Shimin's nephew.
Because of the early death of Princess Pingyang and Chai Shao, Li Shimin also loves him very much on weekdays, but Li Shimin saw that he was blocking the way at this time, and he said such a thing, so he angrily raised his foot and kicked Chai Lingwu to the ground, and went to the Liangyi Hall without looking back.
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On the second day after Li Chengqian asked for the tenant rent in Guanzhong, Liu Renliang sat on the seat of the county magistrate in the hall of the Xianyang County Ya, Zhu Cheng sat sideways on his right hand, and a group of local gentry in Xianyang stood below.
Among them are the spokespersons of the Wei family and the Dugu family, but their status has plummeted compared with the guests in the county government a few months ago.
Liu Renliang sat quietly with a solemn face, and after a while, Sun Shilang came in from outside and walked to Liu Renliang's side and whispered, "My lord, everything is ready." β
Liu Renliang nodded, changed his smile and looked at the gentry of Xianyang County below, this smile made the hearts of the Xianyang gentry below tremble, and they didn't know how he was going to toss people.
Liu Renliang said with a smile on his face: "Inviting you here today, there is really a great good thing, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is kind-hearted and pitiful, the tenant rent of Guanzhong tenant farmers is too high, so please Your Majesty decree that all tenant rents in Guanzhong shall not exceed 30%, what do you think?"
"Humph! How can the imperial court manage how much of my tenant rent?" Wei Qingyan, the cousin of Wei Qingsi, the head of the Wei family, stood up and said loudly, the Wei family has long hated Liu Renliang and the East Palace, and at this time, after hearing such a "chaotic life", he naturally wanted to jump out and oppose it.
Liu Renliang sneered and ignored him, but looked at Dugu Shouzhong of the Dugu family, Dugu Shouzhong is Dugumou's brother.
The Dugu family is different from the Xianyang Wei family, because Dugu Mou's father Dugu Yanyun followed Li Shimin to launch the Xuanwumen coup, so there are many clansmen who are officials outside, seeing Liu Renliang, Dugu Shouzhong doesn't care, just smiled faintly and said: "This matter still needs to have a formal edict from the Son of Heaven." β
Liu Renliang smiled coldly when he heard this, looked at the others and said, "What about you?"
Everyone in the lobby didn't know what this meant, if it was like this in the past, there was no need to ask at all, there was the Wei family and the Dugu family talking, and the other gentry naturally followed, but since Liu Renliang took advantage of the situation, after he ruthlessly cleaned up the Wei family and Dugu a few times, the other gentry did not dare to follow their pace.
Seeing that everyone didn't dare to say anything at this time, Liu Renliang nodded with satisfaction.
Then he said with a solemn face: "The Wei family and the Dugu family have experienced a hundred years in Xianyang County, and generations of officials have accumulated evil like a mountain, and the people of Xianyang have gone to your two families to discuss the law." β
There was a gasp in the lobby, and everyone knew that since Liu Renliang gained power, he was calculating the Wei family and the Dugu family. Although the two families have been disgraced because of some cases, the people present do not believe that Liu Renliang can easily uproot these two.
But at this time, as soon as they heard Liu Renliang's tone that they were about to launch a general attack, the other gentry in the hall involuntarily took two steps back and distanced themselves from Wei Qingyan and Dugu Shouzhong.
"Liu Renliang, you are so bold! Do you know that my nephew is engaged to His Majesty's Princess Ankang?"
Hearing this, Liu Renliang sneered indifferently and said: "Wait for this official to tell Your Majesty all the hurtful things that your Dugu family has done over the years, and see if Your Majesty is still willing to marry your family?"
"You!" Dugu Shouzhong only said the word "you" and was fainted in anger.
Wei Qingyan's eyes flashed with cold light, and he didn't say anything, although their Xianyang Wei family was evil, Li Shimin no one was an official in the court, but in the past two years, their family has formed an in-law with Gao Shilian's family, Gao Shilian is the uncle of the eldest grandson and the prime minister, he doesn't believe that Liu Renliang can really bring down their family.
Liu Renliang should know that he has something to rely on, but since Liu Renliang is close to Li Chengqian, how can he be afraid of a dying Gao Shilian?
Liu Renliang no longer paid attention to Dugu Shouzhong and Wei Qingyan, and looked at the other gentry in Xianyang who had distanced themselves from them and said: "Your Majesty and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince intend to reduce the tenant rent, and this official knows that the Xian gentry are all supporting this matter, so he wrote a 'Respectfully Ask Your Majesty to decree that the tenant rent in Guanzhong will be set at 30% forever' for you to sign with this official." β
"Sancheng?" The Xianyang gentry jumped up all of a sudden, this is a halve!
Who can agree?
The lobby immediately became lively, Wei Qingyan couldn't hide the smile in his eyes, and deliberately coughed when everyone was talking for a while, attracting everyone's attention, and all the gentry forgot what happened just now and came to Wei Qingyan again.
An old gentry said loudly: "The people of Xianyang have always been led by the Wei family and the Dugu family, and now that we are being bullied by this dog official, we naturally want to ask the Wei family and the Duhu family to be our masters." β
"...... right"
When everyone heard this, they hurriedly agreed.
Wei Qingyan showed a smug look on his face, then turned his head to look at Liu Renliang, and saw that Liu Renliang still had a faint smile on his face, as if he was happy to see their actions come to fruition.
Although Wei Qingyan was strange, he didn't think much about it, and said directly to the gentry: "Don't worry, my Wei family and Dugu family will also write a note to expose the crimes of the dog official, and I will ask you to sign it together when the time comes." β
"As it should be!"
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Just when everyone was enthusiastically echoing Wei Qingyan, they heard a commotion outside, and a young man walked in and arched his hand upwards and said, "My lord, the Wei family and the Dugu family's clansmen in Xianyang have been brought to the New Year, and the people are waiting outside for the adults to avenge them?"
"What?"
"Arresting people so quickly?"
When everyone in the lobby was suspicious, Liu Renliang spoke, You have lived in Xianyang County for generations, and you know what you have done, if you provoke the people to go to your house to ask for an explanation, even thirty percent of the tenant rent will be gone. β
"Liu Renliang, do you know what you're doing?" Wei Qingyan couldn't believe it.
Liu Renliang sneered, and a cold light flashed in his eyes: "It's enough to punish the Nine Clans with the evil things that the Wei family has done over the years, take it!" β
As soon as Liu Renliang's words fell, a servant stepped forward and pulled Dugu Shouzhong and Wei Qingyan out, and there was an angry scolding of Dugu Shouzhong and Wei Qingyan outside the hall, but they were quickly suppressed by the cheers outside.
Liu Renliang waited for the voice outside to subside, looked at the stunned gentry in the lobby and said, "You don't agree to reduce the tenant rent to 30%?"
Gentry: ......
"You don't want to sign this official note?"
Gentry: ......
"Then go and talk to the people outside!"
The gentry's faces changed dramatically in fright: "No, no......"
Seeing this, Liu Renliang slapped the table and said loudly: "Then come and sign it." β
After the gentlemen signed their names, Liu Renliang got up and picked up the music and the stack of files on the table, and handed them to Zhu Cheng beside him with both hands, and Zhu Cheng also got up and took it respectfully.
Liu Renliang once again respectfully hugged his fist in the direction of Chang'an and said, "Please Lord Zhu hand these over to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" β
Zhu Cheng hurriedly hugged his fists solemnly and said, "Please rest assured, Lord Liu!" β
Zhu Cheng met Liu Renliang because he came to Xianyang County last time to recruit people to go to Longdaoyuan to open up wasteland, Liu Renliang wanted to take refuge in the East Palace, and Li Chengqian knew that Liu Renliang was a figure who could enter the prime minister with literature and martial arts, so he was naturally willing to accept him.
Although Liu Renliang was not promoted on this day, Liu Renliang had completely set up the Xianyang County Order with the help of the power of the East Palace, and the original Xianyang Lord Bo Weiman was also thrown into prison by him.
In this plan to reduce the tenant rent, Li Chengqian originally planned to let the tenant farmers directly attack a few gentry in Guanzhong and divide the land, so as to deter the opposition forces.
Unexpectedly, the monk jumped out first, and Li Chengqian took advantage of suppressing the monk to play a trick. Later, it was not satisfactory to see that the effect was not ideal, so according to the original plan, the people were mobilized in Xianyang to defeat the Wei family and the Dugu family.
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