Chapter 9: The Clan Assembly

I spent two days in Taiyuan City.

Li Shen always had a strange feeling, as if Taiyuan City had a feeling of whitewashing the peace, making him look unnatural.

Even though Taiyuan is a big city in China, its population flow and employment opportunities are far lower than those of Chang'an City, but it makes Li Shen seem as if the living standards of the people here are the same as those of Chang'an City, which makes him completely speechless.

In the darkness of the night

Li Shen smiled speechlessly, sat on the edge of the bed and sighed in a low voice, he really didn't expect to encounter such a situation, the people of the entire Taiyuan cooperated to fool him, modern government officials often deal with the things of superior leaders, but I didn't expect someone to start using it in ancient times.

"Ready to leave tomorrow?" Wu Meiniang asked teasingly.

"Do you think you'll be able to walk tomorrow?"

"I'm just asking, if you go, will they be too lazy to stop you? If you don't leave, the Li clan will dare to come over, and I'm afraid that the contradiction will be even bigger at that time. ”

"No matter how big the contradiction is, it always has to be solved, anyway, sooner or later, it will be faced, this kind of thing is just delayed, it won't take long, I just ascended the throne last year, they didn't have the embarrassment to come to me, how can they just let it go now."

Wu Meiniang nodded slightly, and said, "Have you thought about it, how to solve it?" ”

Li Shen shrugged his shoulders, what can be done, even if these people give them certain benefits, they will not compromise, they have privileges in their hands, this money is still not something that can be obtained by hooking their fingers, once the power is gone, there will always be a time when the money is spent, no one is a fool.

"Take one step at a time, and they won't be able to make waves."

"Although the waves can't be turned over, they can also disgust you, how to say it is also a clan matter, if it is not handled well, the impact on you is not very good, you look at the way yourself, this kind of own thing, I am really inconvenient to block it for you."

"Do you have a solution?" Li Shen asked.

Wu Meiniang glanced at Li Shen and said: "If I had a way, I would still be sitting here and talking about these things, I would have told you a long time ago, this kind of thing is not government affairs, my own affairs, my own people, of course, it is resolved through negotiation behind closed doors, if it is known to everyone, it can be solved, but have you ever thought that the entire Li family will still have face at that time?" As the patriarch of the Li family, your face is even more gloomy, how will the people think of the Li family when the time comes? This kind of bad thing is really a headache. ”

"Okay, let's not talk about that, by the way, I forgot to ask you one thing, what happened to Pepe these days? Why does she always feel that she is preoccupied, and when she asks her, she says no, even Begonia doesn't know, do you know? ”

"What can she have on her mind, eat and drink well all day long, you are too worried, it's not too early, I'll go and ask someone to get you some water, take a bath, and sleep." Wu Meiniang stood up and said with a smile.

Staying in the mansion for three days, Li Shen and the others have never gone out again, knowing that the people of the Li clan from all over the country have dared to come, he is just waiting for them to arrive one by one, for his route out of Chang'an City, these people have been almost clear since he left Chang'an City, Li Shen doesn't know what to say, want to go out to play, there are so many things.

Two days later, even Li Daozong of Lingnan rushed over from Lingnan, Li Shen knew that it seemed that it was really difficult to solve this matter so easily, and even Li Tai, who was in Chang'an City, invited them all to Taiyuan City.

The Li clan in Taiyuan City has carried out large-scale construction since Li Yuan ascended the throne, and in the hands of His Majesty Li Er, it has also been expanded and built once.

In the early morning, the sky was blue.

Up to 10,000 people relied on the procession to appear in the ancestral hall of the Li clan.

The sound of the horn kept sounding.

Li Shen changed into a yellow dragon robe and led the Li clansmen to carry out the sacrificial activities.

Large-scale sacrificial activities, and the Li clan has not held them in recent years, and the whole sacrificial activity was carried out for one day.

"I've seen Your Majesty." Li Daozong said with a smile.

Li Shen nodded slightly, and said, "I really didn't expect that Uncle Huang's speed is quite fast, the distance from Lingnan to Chang'an City is not ordinarily far, and he rushed over so quickly." ”

Li Daozong smiled slightly embarrassedly, and said: "This king really didn't know what was going on before he came, that is, the king of Xiangyi sent a message to them, saying that a clan sacrifice ceremony would be held, so that this king could rush over, but I didn't expect it to be such a thing." ”

"Sit down!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Li Shen took a sip of the teacup and said, "Those old guys should have told you about this incident, what is your attitude?" ”

"This ......" Li Daozong glanced at it a little, a little hesitant.

"Say what you think."

"Since Your Majesty said so, the minister is also relieved to say it boldly, it is indeed a little inappropriate, this country was brought down by the joint efforts of the Li family, and the things that should belong to them were completely cut down by Your Majesty, no matter how you say it, it has passed a little, at least the conditions implemented by Your Majesty today are a little too harsh."

"Uncle Huang, can you guarantee that your descendants will be able to pass on the title forever?" Li Shen asked with a smile.

"As long as this one is big... If the Chinese Empire does not fall, this title can still be passed on. Li Daozong replied with some embarrassment.

"How much does the imperial court provide to the imperial uncle for a year?"

"That's okay."

"Uncle Huang thinks how useful these are to you?"

"Barely making ends meet." Li Daozong said, and then said: "This is not a question of Yulu, but a question of status. ”

Li Shen nodded and said, "It's true that they all have a very high status now, but has Uncle Huang ever thought about how many people the Li clan will have if Huaxia is inherited for five hundred years." ”

"It's too much to calculate."

"These people all enjoy royal privileges, what do you think Uncle Huang will have on the empire? With the money provided by the empire and doing nothing, will the empire be able to afford the Li clan people to suck the blood of the people of the empire after five hundred years? ”

"This ......"

"Uncle Huang is a person who understands, since ancient times, the children of the royal family have enjoyed the high salaries of the imperial court since they were born, and when they grow up, they have been allowed to hold official positions, and go to various places as officials, and in the end, the entire court is managed by their own families, anyway, this court is also their own people, they can come as they want, and if they want to oppress the people, they will be bullied casually, so that the people will complain, and the people will not have a good life, and finally the people will have no way out, and they can only resist, I don't know if I can say this?"