It has been a month since Li Yu left after listening to the play from Wei Renshi's house.

Wei Renshi paid attention to the movements in the court, but after all, he didn't hear the news of Han Yu being degraded, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart.

It seems that Li Yu came forward in time to save Han Yu.

Originally, in history, after Han Yu found that the victims were displaced, begging everywhere, and starving all over the place in Guanzhong, Han Yu was saddened to see the serious disaster. However, Jing Zhao Yin Li Shi, who was in charge of the administration of the capital at that time, blocked the news and lied that Guanzhong had a bumper grain harvest and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. Han Yu was angry and went to "On the Drought and Hunger", but was slandered by Li Shi and others, and was demoted to the order of Yangshan County, Lianzhou.

A year later, Shunzong ascended the throne and granted amnesty to the world, and Han Yu was pardoned, left Yangshan County, and went to Jiangling, and was not able to return to Chang'an until three years later.

Although according to the current time, if he is demoted, there will be a proper notice at the end of the year. But the news will definitely be there in advance.

And I haven't heard any news about Han Yu at the moment, so it is estimated that there will be nothing.

Wei Renshi also negotiated a good cooperation with the Jiao family, and Jiao Haiqing's father was immediately very excited when he heard that Wei Renshi intended to let Jiao Haiqing come to preside over the formation of a maritime merchant fleet for the royal family, and even said that he would do his best to help Jiao Haiqing.

The people of the Jiao family were busy, and the shopkeepers under Wei Renshi were also busy.

However, Wei Renshi is much more leisurely, July is hot, not as hot as before, the weather is good and people are leisurely, this is really a good time.

But Li Shi sent the guards, but summoned Wei Renshi, who was leisurely enjoying his leisure time, to the palace.

This time, Li Shi was not in the palace, but met Wei Renshi in a pavilion in the garden.

The water was cleverly drawn up to the top of the pavilion and gently flowed down the top of the pavilion, like a curtain, enclosing the whole pavilion.

Wei Renshi walked to the edge of the pavilion, and immediately a yellow door quickly opened a paper umbrella, and the water curtain was blocked by a door, allowing Wei Renshi to enter.

When he walked in, the yellow door took back the paper umbrella, and the four sides of the pavilion were surrounded by water curtains.

Ordinary gazebos don't have water curtains hanging on all sides, which is more interesting than other gazebos Wei Renshi has seen.

"Your Majesty." After Wei Renshi entered the pavilion, he saluted and said.

"Sit down." Li Shi asked Wei Renshi to sit down, but Wei Renshi noticed that beside Li Shi, he didn't see Liu Guangqi, the waiter who usually followed him.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Wei Renshi sat down and asked, "I don't know what Your Majesty has to summon Weichen?" ”

Li Shi said: "I heard the prince say that there was a great drought in Guanzhong some time ago, and I was deceived and deceived in the palace, but I didn't know that the people in Guanzhong were already hungry and displaced, and even had to sell land and houses, sell children and daughters to raise taxes, and even hungry people snatched dead bodies for food. I didn't believe it, but when Guy asked Jing Zhaoyin, Jing Zhaoyin said that although the sky was dry, the people still had a good harvest. ”

Wei Renshi knew that he hadn't finished his words, so he didn't speak.

Li Shi said again: "When I heard what the prince said, I felt uneasy. The prince has always been very measured, and this is the first time I have seen him so angry in front of me. Therefore, I sent my henchmen to go, and it was really as the prince said! ”

"I listened to the prince's words, Wei Qing argued with him, and once said that the hundred officials would not necessarily tell the king the true situation of the people for their own interests. And the king has lived in the deep palace for a long time, but only by relying on these courtiers can he understand the affairs of the people. As a result, the king became more and more closed, and became less and less aware of the affairs of the people and the people. Li Shi said again: "After thinking about it, I think this is not bad. I am in the palace, and now I am physically inconvenient and do not go out much, just like this time, I have been deceived. ”

Wei Ren said honestly, was he really deceived, or was he unwilling to accept the truth?

I can't help but think of another sentence - you can never wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep.

There's a story to it.

It is said that when Li Shi was hunting in a place called Xindian, he came to the home of farmer Zhao Guangqi, and Li Shi asked: "Are the people happy to live?" ”

Zhao Guangqi replied: "Not happy. ”

Li Shi said: "This year's crops have been harvested, why are you not happy? ”

Zhao Guangqi replied: "The state's edict does not keep promises. As mentioned earlier, there is no longer any other forced service except for the two taxes, and now the various compulsory charges other than the two taxes are much more than the two taxes. Later, he said that this was a peace bargain, but in fact, he took the people by force, and did not give money to the people. At the beginning, it was said that the government would collect the people's grain from the people's homes, but now they are forcing the people to send the grain to the camp in the western part of Beijing, which is hundreds of miles away. Due to the long distance, many families have died of exhaustion from farm work and their cars have broken down, causing families to go bankrupt and make it difficult to sustain themselves. What is there to be happy about when people's lives are so miserable! Every time the state issues a policy of preferential compassion for the people, it is just a dead letter! The Holy One lives in a heavily guarded palace, how would he know this! ”

After Li Shi heard this, he ordered that Zhao Guangqi's family be exempted from taxes and forced labor.

Sima Guang commented on this period of history, thinking that Li Shi did not understand the way of governing the country, and he should have thoroughly investigated the corrupt officials and corrupt officials in the relevant departments and the obsolescence of the villains around him, and then carefully examined the people's feelings, reformed the malpractices, implemented new policies, and abandoned flashiness.

But he only exempted Zhao Guangqi's family from servitude.

"The husband is wide from all over the world, and the people of the trillion people, and everyone says that they are the Son of Heaven, and every household is endowed with it!" Sima Guang's evaluation just shows that Li Shi is not ignorant of the people's suffering, but pretends not to know the people's suffering.

But Wei Renshi is naturally not good, and Li Shi said what he thought in front of him.

He just nodded and said, "That's what the minister said." The common people were only the reasons that the ministers found for their actions, and the court became an occasion for the interests of these people for themselves. And the king is above, and the people are below, and there is a gap in between. The king does not know the people, and the people do not know the king. ”

"Then what can Wei Qing do?" Li Shi asked.

Wei Renshi looked at Li Shi and said in his heart, even if there is any way, will you do it?

"Although I know that hundreds of officials are like this, if I get rid of these hundred officials, who can govern the world for me?" Li Shi said lightly: "It's not my fault. The world is so big and there are so many people, I can't personally verify the reports of the hundred officials to the people, which is true and which is false. ”

There was another year, and a year later, Li Shi died of illness, and Shunzong ascended the throne. Shunzong reigned for eight months, and Li Chun ascended the throne.

Wei Renshi looked at Li Shi in front of him, but what he thought was that after Li Chun ascended the throne, these methods might still be used.

Right now, since Li Shi asked so, let him know.

So Wei Renshi nodded and said: "There is indeed a way to bypass the courtiers and let the people know the true meaning of the monarch, and also let the major events that happened in the people be truly conveyed to the monarch." ”