Chapter 23 of the Northern Tang Dynasty ----: Li Bin's Choice (8)

One is Bianliang, the other is Yanzhou, wait for the choice!

Li Bin, the county magistrate of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Taishi of the inspection school, and the Yanzhou observation envoy of the Shizhong, was wearing a purple silk official robe, wearing a three-beam Jinxian crown, a jade belt around his waist, holding an elephant wat in his hand, and standing in the court with a long body. ^UC e-book^ Go to see the latest^ Dozens of people in the courtyard are wearing vermilion and green official robes and heads. Although there are many official quotas in Yanzhou, but after the wealthy families of the world are squeezed out of the center of power, there are already less than 100 civil officials from the imperial examination, and recently the Jiedu Mansion has appointed 28 county magistrates in four prefectures, and some of them follow the new judges of the three prefectures to take office, and the number of people who stay in Yanzhou is even less, except for the county commanders, the rest are now here.

Prime Minister Li Cheng threw down ---- Li Shizhong with a faint word, almost smashing the civil officials standing in the court. For more than ten years, although the world is in turmoil, and usurpers and thieves emerge in endlessly, from the mouth of this Confucian leader in Yanzhou, who has read poetry since childhood, how can he ever hear half a sentence of great rebellion?

What's going on today? The old man in the middle of the service ordered everyone to be summoned into the mansion, and without half an explanation, he threw out such a dry sentence.

Choose? What to choose? Choose to rebel and stand on your own feet or choose to submit to the imperial court?

Not only did everyone find it incredible, but even Qin Gu, who was in charge of summoning everyone to come, felt that they couldn't understand it.

Could it be that Li Bin suddenly lost his mind and went crazy? At this time, you want to push Li Wenge to become self-reliant? It's not impossible, compared with the Northern Han and Southern Tang Dynasties, Li Wenge's strength is indeed slightly weaker, but compared with the Southern Han and Southern Chu and other places, General Li's strength has reached the point where he can dominate himself to a certain extent.

Only, is now the right time?

Despite the edict of Tui'en, the Great Zhou court and Guo Wei, the son of the Great Zhou Dynasty, have not made any "unreasonable" actions that make Yanzhou feel intolerable so far. It doesn't make sense to engage in theory!

Although the name is useless, many things are really difficult to do without it......

Qin Gu was pondering. But he heard a person behind him ask proudly: "Xianggong wants a certain choice." Don't know what to choose? ”

Everyone looked sideways. It is the former Zhangwu Army Festival Envoy Cui Bao. He is currently the chief secretary of the Agricultural Department of Cao Si, the official secretary of Yanzhou Buzheng.

Li Bin glanced at this outdated "Qinghe Cui". said lightly: "Ten years of hard work. It's just for the sake of being an official for the imperial examination! Now the imperial court has come to the decree. The princes also have the opportunity to choose. is willing to continue to follow Captain Huairen and a certain as a magistrate in Yanzhou. He handed you to Jiedu Prefecture and resigned by himself, and returned it to the director. Unwillingly. The old man prepared a letter of recommendation for you. Let's go to the Bianjing City Officials Department to be selected! Let's go together. It's finally quite a match. The old man doesn't want to see you die in Yanzhou......"

Cui Bao smiled lightly. Squinted at the article. But he said: "Xianggong's words are wrong. Since three generations. There are more than a thousand laws to blame. But there has never been a person who has been blamed for resigning. Prime Minister and Captain. The sword is too fast to punish the innocent! ”

Li Bin glanced at him. Said slowly: "It's a famous family to go." Why don't you become an official in your ancestral land? But he moved all the way to this place to make a name for himself? ”

Cui Bao nodded: "Born in troubled times." The family road is falling! ”

Li Bin nodded: "Yes!" If you go to know that there is nothing to rely on in troubled times, there is no reason to talk about the rebellion. The mutiny in Yanzhou two years ago. Presumably, all of you have experienced it. A husband advocates chaos, the state is ruined, the old man is just a life, and the captain Huairen is just a husband, and he goes out of the house to quell the chaos with the heart of death. When the chaos was peaceful, Taiwei Huairen stabbed nine people, and he was injured more than one or two? At that time, can the kings still use the law to say that the rebels put down their butcher's knives? ”

Zhao Liangchen, the chief tax bookkeeper, replied without hesitation: "Although the public is justified in asking, XT is to reward him for his efforts to help the crisis and solve the difficulties." The work of protecting the territory and the people. For this reason, the non-bureaucrats were against the captain. It was caused by the Taiwei's insistence on appointing a woman as an official and acting strangely. Since the Xianggong and Taiwei Bingzheng, Yanzhou has all the fields, industry and commerce, and Yubeikou, and its merits are seen by all, and all the bureaucrats are admired, and they want to work together to govern the place, so that the prosperous era of peace can reproduce a corner of this side, then Xianggong is a famous minister, Taiwei is a famous general, and the lower rank can also be a follower......"

Zhao Liangchen, as the chief tax bookkeeper, is a person who never speaks on weekdays, and he answers Li Bin's question today, but he is impassioned with the answer, which makes everyone look sideways for a while.

Li Bin secretly wondered, and continued to listen to his statement while looking this person up and down: "...... Only women and villains are difficult to raise, this is what the sage said. The bureaucrats resigned to admonish each other, but also to prevent the slightest mistake, women's governance is a great malpractice, Lu Hou chaos, Wu Zhou destroyed the Tang Dynasty, all of them are also said! Taiwei's move is obviously a chaotic life, a minister is a loss of government, a monarch is a chaos, and the bureaucrats are not selfish, the Taiwei should be admonished, how can he use an axe to impose on the bureaucrats? This high-ranking servant does not dare to do something, if the Taiwei does it, how is it different from Huang Chao? ”

Li Bin asked lightly: "Since Captain Huairen was appointed to the festival, can he be endowed?" ”

Zhao Liangchen shook his head: "No----

Li Bin asked again: "Is there indiscriminate killing and wanton punishment?" ”

"There is no ---- that Taiwei Huairen is cautious in his punishment and killing, and he has won the essence of the saint's benevolence!" Zhao Liangchen replied.

"Are there people who have been displaced and died on the road?" Li Bin continued to ask.

"No, when Taiwei Huairen took over Yanzhou, there were less than 80,000 people, and now it is double, although Taiwei is a martial artist, he does the government of benefiting the people, and the good people are also ......" Zhao Liangchen replied simply and neatly without hesitation.

"That's it......" Li Bin sighed, "You keep saying that you are messing with politics and life, you are treating Huairen as a saint, but you don't know how many people in the world can be saints?" Tang Taizong, the ancient saint, also has the Xuanwu Gate. It can be seen that nothing in the world is perfect, and you oppose women as officials, which is not unreasonable, but you threaten each other with gathering crowds to resign, and use the people's governance as a bargaining chip to blackmail the officials. Li Huairen appointed a woman as an official, even if it was inappropriate, the harm was not successful; However, the gathering of people to resign has made the government affairs of various government offices deserted and slack, and the people's livelihood has been hindered, and the harm is already in sight. Where are you admonishing, you are persecuting Huairen to take the lesser of two evils, such intentions, can it also be called the way of a saint? ”

"......" Zhao Liangchen hesitated for the first time, although what Li Bin said did not completely make him agree, but he had to admit in his heart what the Yanzhou civil government had done this time. In essence, it is indeed harmful to the current politics and people's livelihood.

"Moreover, women are in power and bring disaster to the country and the people. This is the reason for your collective resignation, and it is precisely this reason that the old man thinks that he has lost the way of a saint! Li Bin stroked his beard and shook his head.

"Please make it clear ----to the prime minister," Zhao Liangchen bowed and said.

"Dozens of Confucian disciples are in important positions, and employing people and administration are all familiar with the way, so that a woman can bring disaster to the country, and the way of all the kings and everyone. It's not as good as a weak woman? Is this a disaster for women or a country for public disasters? When a woman joins the shogunate, the princes avoid each other, is this true or fearful? If so, why bother to avoid it? Di Liang Gong slaughtered the auxiliary female dynasty, and cultivated politics inside and outside the imperial revenge. So far, I think that the famous ministers and countrymen, if Di Gong resigned and avoided the mountains and wilderness when he heard that the heroine was in the court, how could there be a later Zhongzong restoration artifact to move back? The princes regard Li Huairen as perfect, how harsh is it? And if you refuse to bend to Pinger, how lax? Li Bin said eloquently, quoting allusions like a few treasures, and the officials in the court listened to each other's disdain, and those who bowed to their conscience all bowed their heads in shame.

Zhao Liangchen muttered and asked, "Is it wrong to ask the superior to know and admonish?" ”

Li Bin said calmly: "There is nothing wrong. But is it necessarily a wise policy for you to advise? Since all the princes have seen and decided to be above Captain Huairen, now that his own family is resigning, why don't you take his place? ”

He paused and said, "So I want you to choose---- whether to choose this flawed but still able to protect the territory and the people with leniency Li Taiwei, or choose the court of Lishudi, Yanzhou, which has not been favored so far!" ”

The crowd was silent.

Li Bin glanced at everyone and said slowly: "If you are born in a prosperous era, then a Li Huairen is inadequate, and the imperial court will not lack local governors at any time." However, the troubled times with this warrior chaotic country are as far as Yanzhou is concerned. Can you still nominate a candidate who is better than Li Huairen? Far from it. Yan Guogong is now living in the mansion to study, and it is said that he has made great progress compared to before. Would you like to welcome him back to the government to govern affairs? ”

A faint smile appeared on the corner of Qin Gudi's mouth, and he began to admire Li Bin a little.

Since Li Wenge took charge of Yanzhou, Li Bin has rarely participated in political affairs, and Li Wenge is in charge of military and political power. Qin Gu also complained during this time, in the face of this slave who once lived in his own mansion, Li Bin's courage seemed to be even smaller than when facing Gao Yunquan.

However, Li Bin's words really made Qin Gu start to re-examine his own views.

As a matter of fact, although there are many strange and perverse things that Li Wenge has done since he came to power, his original intention of loving the people and benefiting the people is extremely clear, not to mention his military achievements, and he has uprooted the Tuoba family that has threatened Yanzhou for more than 50 years, and Yanzhou Lishu will no longer have to be plundered and destroyed by the party's iron hooves.

Compared with these things, although Li Wenge's shortcomings are conspicuous and dazzling, what are they?

Today, can we still find a feudal town that is willing to rule the place with the scholars like this?

It can be seen from the new official system he set up that this person has never been stingy in terms of power, and the previous festival degree made it impossible to control everything by the government office, so that the local official positions set up during the Sui and Tang dynasties gradually became ornaments, only Li Wenge did the opposite, not only abolished the cumbersome and cumbersome officials in the original section of the government, but also gave the local officials and the official of the department and the official real power. Although there are only five grades of the current judge of the earth section, his authority is similar to that of the early Tang Dynasty.

From this point alone, Li Wenge's temperance envoy is unique.

A monarch who is willing to share power with his subordinates cannot be much worse!

This is not Qin Gu's own concept, this is the consensus of the large-scale chaos in the late Sui and early Tang dynasties left to later generations of scholars.

Since the three emperors and five emperors, the most diligent emperor is Yang Jian, Emperor Wen of Sui, and the smartest monarch is Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of Sui.

The best monarch is not the most diligent monarch!

The best monarch is the one who is willing to share the world with the scholars.

The best monarch is the one who is willing to share power with his subordinates and is willing to accept the constraints of his subordinates......

Li Shimin is such a model.

Once you start thinking about things from the perspective of the new land. Some things that had been obscured by attachment began to surface little by little......

Li Wenge was detained by the Gao family father and son, almost died, and his subordinates mutiny rescued him, but he did not backhand the Gao family to exterminate, even now, the Gao family group that has lost power still lives in Yanzhou, including Gao Shaoji, who was the mastermind who wanted to kill him; After taking charge of the state. The first thing this stunned young marshal did was not to reward meritorious heroes, but to legislate in the army to strictly order officers not to interfere in local government affairs; It was very difficult to build a public field. Although he did everything he could to coerce and lure the powerful people of the world, he always refused to borrow his head to establish his authority, and from the time he became the envoy of the festival to the present year, he was still empty and had no money left, and all the floating wealth obtained from fighting the party in Gyeongju was filled into the treasury...... The more Qin Gu thought about all this, the more he felt that this soldier-born festival envoy was really rare. Not to mention that compared with those local feudal towns, even compared with the Guo Tianzi in Bianjing City, he is not inferior at all......

Guo Tianzi is already close to his sixtieth year, and this newly baked Taiwei Li is only in his early thirties......

Qin Gu suddenly understood Chai Rong a little, there was such a person sitting in the northwest. If you are the prince, you will also be restless, this person does not love wealth, is not good for women, then the love is good, it can only be these thousands of miles......

He remembered the conversation between himself and Li Wenge about the mutiny, and couldn't help but smile secretly in his heart: Huairen, Huairen, although you don't want to be the emperor, the general trend of the world has really come to that point. How can I let you?

Li Shimin is not a Xuanwu sect, and it is not Li Jiancheng who dies under the sword and spear of the generals of Tiance, but himself......

Throughout the ages, this has been the case!

This was the first time that Qin Gu seriously considered the issue of Li Wenge's self-establishment as emperor, although it was still early.

Although I have said it several times before, most of it is a joke.

Today's Li Bin's words suddenly woke up Qin Gu---- although Li Wenge has no city skills, he is really a bit imperial in some aspects......

Thinking of the scene of Li Wenge's body sitting on the imperial bed in a gown, Qin Gu couldn't help but want to laugh---- the so-called Mu Monkey and Crown, probably that's what it means, right?

There is no emperor. No Imperial Heart. But there is an imperial spirit......

Even the childish act of hanging up the crown angrily in a fit of anger, Qin Gu now has a different feeling when he thinks about it again--- this behavior is naturally not something that a person who wants to be an emperor can do. How could a guy who couldn't even endure this little thing could ascend to the supreme throne in the world?

Any emperor will not do this in the face of the coercion of his courtiers, and it is not surprising that when he encounters a monarch with a resolute temperament, it is not surprising that he will behead all his opponents, even if he encounters a so-called Ming monarch, he will temporarily compromise and accept the conditions of his courtiers, and return to his hands to first break up the alliance of the courtiers and then settle accounts one by one, the wiser the monarch will make this cycle longer. No monarch will be like Li Wenge, face to face with gongs and drums, if you are not satisfied with my practice, I will not do it, you resign to show me, I will also resign to show you......

Regardless of whether his resignation is true or not, this behavior itself at least shows ---that Li Wenge never thought of using the so-called imperial tricks to deal with these civilian officials, let alone use the power and force in his hands to subdue these people......

This method is by no means a practice that a good emperor and a qualified emperor should adopt, but Li Jieshuai and Li Taiwei did it, and it was done with a reasonable and bold attitude, which made people laugh and cry......

Whatever his purpose, this practice at least shows that no matter how much power he has, he has never meant to overpower others. In this era, it is too rare for people to be able to handle things like this---- such people may not be easy to form authority, but such people are definitely the best choice for the local scholar class with the goal of "sharing the world" with the monarch.

Armed with a sharp weapon, but would rather move his mouth than do it---- if the scholar class chooses the words, is there a better person to follow?

As Li Bin said: "Whether to continue to govern Yanzhou by Li Huairen, or to find someone else to govern Yanzhou, the choice of the monarchs should be self-evident!" ”