Wei Renshi listened to the reminder of the chamberlain, and he probably had a guess in his heart, knowing why the emperor summoned him.

Or, just to ask yourself how to develop the economy, increase the income of the imperial court, and make the people rich - this is simply a fantasy!

Either that, or just ask yourself for money.

Combined with Wei Renshi's impression of Li Shi of Tang Dezong in history, it is almost certain that the latter.

After all, he can even ask the rich merchants in Chang'an City to borrow money.

Li Shi was an emperor full of contradictions. In his career as "emperor", it can be clearly divided into the early and late periods.

In the early stage of Li Shi's imperial career, he was still able to be strong and self-appointing, insisted on trusting civil and military officials, and strictly forbade eunuchs to interfere in politics, which was quite a Zhongxing atmosphere.

At the beginning of his reign, he issued an edict to the world to stop the state capitals, Silla, and Bohai to pay tribute to the eagle harrier. The next day, Li Shi also ordered that the loquat in the south of the mountain and the citrus in the south of the Yangtze River were only allowed to pay tribute once a year for the temple, and the rest of the tribute was stopped. He successively issued edicts, announcing the abolition of the annual tribute of slaves and maids to the palace in some places in the south, as well as spring wine, bronze mirrors, musk, etc.; It was forbidden to pay tribute to rare birds and beasts, and even stipulated that silver objects should not be added with gold ornaments.

In order to show his determination, he ordered the 32 dancing elephants offered by Wendan Guo to be released to the sun of Jingshan Mountain; For those Wufang eagle dogs that were specially supplied to the emperor for hunting, they were all released.

At the same time, 300 redundant eaters of the Liyuan envoy and the officials were also dismissed, and those who needed to be retained belonged to Taichang Temple.

On his birthday, he also refused to pay tribute from all over the country, and returned all the 30,000 horses donated by Li Zhengji and Tian Yue in the feudal town to rent on behalf of the family.

There are also reprimands of eunuchs, etc., these actions show the new atmosphere after the new monarch ascends to the great treasure.

It's a pity!

When the reduction of the feudal domain led to a rebellion, the wrong personnel appointment and improper coping strategy actually led to the Mukden Disaster and the Jingyuan Mutiny under the favorable situation, which became one of the landmark events of the defeat of the late Tang Dynasty.

And the difficulty of Fengtian also became a turning point in Li Shi's early and late career.

After experiencing the difficulties of Fengtian, Li Shi was discouraged, and since then his ambition has been gone, and he has been unable to recover, and he has begun to reign in a faint manner.

He became suspicious of the ministers, which led to frequent personnel changes in the imperial court, and frequent changes of prime ministers.

and feared the feudal town, so he began to appease the feudal town. Since his accession to the throne, the excellent situation and good opportunity to solve the problem of the feudal towns have been fleeting. Since then, the feudal towns have been arbitrary, and it has become difficult to return.

And on the contrary, he began to reuse eunuchs, and began to hand over the matter of commanding the forbidden army to eunuchs such as Dou Wenchang and Huo Xianming, dividing the Shence Army into left and right compartments, and at the same time using Dou Wenchang and Huo Xianming as the soldiers and horses on the left and right wings of the Shence Army, opening a precedent for eunuchs to divide the forbidden army. Later, the left and right lieutenants of the Shence Army were set up, which were also served by Dou Wenchang and Huo Xianming respectively. This position was directly appointed by the emperor, and he became the de facto commander with a higher status than the general of the Shence army. Since then, the command of the Shence Army has been in the hands of the eunuchs. Not only that, but he also fixed the method of eunuchs going to various feudal towns to supervise the army, and specially placed seals for the eunuchs who served as the eunuchs to supervise the army, which not only improved the status of the eunuchs, but also institutionalized it. Since then, the eunuchs have a heavenly constitution in their mouths, which clears the way for the eunuch dictatorship in the late Tang Dynasty in the future.

In addition to this, he also went on a rampage, not only did he come to like money, but he also took the initiative to ask the localities to pay him tribute. In addition, Li Shi often sent eunuchs to openly ask for money and offerings directly from various yamen, which was called "Xuansuo".

In order to satisfy Li Shi's greed, Jiedu made various names in the name of Jinfeng to carry out additional exploitation of the people.

Some of them enter the service every month, which is called "monthly advancement", and some daily worship is called "daily advancement", which brings a heavy burden to the people.

In addition, the palace also uses eunuchs as envoys to buy people's goods at low prices, which is called the palace market.

They set up hundreds of people in the eastern and western markets of Chang'an and in lively places, called "white wangs", to inspect the goods that people were selling, and people did not dare to ask about their origin and talk about the price. It is generally an exchange of an item worth a hundred dollars for an item worth a few thousand. They dyed their worn clothes with reddish-purple cloth, paid the sellers according to their size, and extorted the price of their feet. It's called Miyagi, but it's actually a forcible seizure.

and pampered and trusted traitors, and raised a large group of traitors and evil officials to satisfy his desire for enjoyment.

Ouyang Xiu's evaluation in later generations is very appropriate: Dezong is suspicious and mean, he is self-responsible with his strength, he is ashamed to succumb to righteousness, and he forgets to be deceived by treachery. Therefore, he suspected that Xiao Fu was light, saying that Jiang Gongfu was selling straight and could not tolerate it; With Lu Qi and Zhao Zan, it will be ruined, and he will not regret it. and the difficulty of Fengtian, deeply punish Ai, and then implement a policy of appeasement. Because the imperial court is weaker, and Fang Zhen is stronger, as for the death of the Tang Dynasty, its suffering is this.

In fact, Dezong was really full of talents - Li Yu was the ruler of the country, Lu Zhen was the one who knew his virtues, Liu Yan and Yang Yan were in the middle of his finances, Li Sheng and Ma Sui Hun were in the war, and he wrote articles with "Chang Yang Zhi", which was a corner of Xichuan, and there was also a Wei Gao who "broke the 480,000 in Tibet".

can look at his old man's political achievements, and you can see how strange Dezong's ability to employ people is.

A good hand of cards is played poorly, and this is definitely the product.

Wei Renshi sighed, unfortunately, he met Li Shi, who had reached the late stage of the emperor's career.

So when Li Shi at this time heard that a person could go from being poor to having a lot of money in half a year, he would not think of asking that person how to make the treasury full and the people rich.

It's a claim.

The carriage carried Wei Renshi and the chamberlain towards the palace.

After passing the three halls of the former dynasty, when he arrived at the inner court, another chamberlain led Wei Renshi to the outside of a garden.

"Please Lord Wei stay here for a while, and let the slave maid go in and pass it on." The chamberlain said to Wei Renshi.

Wei Renshi nodded: "There is Lao, the waiter." ”

"Don't dare." The chamberlain bowed, turned and walked in.

After a while, he came out again and said to Wei Renshi: "Lord Wei, please come in, everyone is inside." ”

When Wei Renshi entered the garden, he saw Li Shi sitting there basking in the sun.

After walking a few steps forward, Wei Renshi bowed and saluted: "Minister Wei Renshi greets Your Majesty!" ”

Li Shi opened his eyes, sat up with the help of the chamberlain next to him, glanced at Wei Renshi, and said with a smile: "Give Wei Qing a seat." ”

The chamberlain next to him hurriedly moved Hu Yan.

Wei Renshi bowed and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your seat." But I don't know what His Majesty summoned Weichen to order? ”

Li Shi said: "I heard that Wei Qing has recently spent a lot of money and bought a mansion in Yankangfang next to the West Market, but is there such a thing? ”

You even sent an inner servant, didn't you ask knowingly?

However, Wei Renshi also said cooperatively: "Back to Your Majesty, there is indeed such a thing. ”

"It seems that Wei Qing's family has a lot of money." Li Shi said again.

"I know how to make some money." Wei Renshi replied again.

Li Shi turned his head to look at him, and said, "But how did I hear that more than half a year ago, Wei Qing's family was still in the middle of the road, and they spent the winter last year, or did they rely on the help of the previous Zhuang guests?" How can it take more than half a year to change so much? ”