At the end of October, the emperor held a huge ceremony to sacrifice prisoners outside the mausoleum of his father Li Yuan in the imperial mausoleum, to comfort the ancestors of the Li family, but also to his father Li Yuan, as well as his brother Li Jiancheng who was killed by him, and his younger brother Li Yuanji showed off that he did a very good job of killing his brother and killing his brother than the emperor who robbed his father of abdication, especially good, extremely good.

At the beginning of November after the surrender of the prisoners, Li Shimin left Chang'an again and went to Wugong, that is, Wu Yuanqing's fiefdom to hunt.

On the tenth day of the first month, the emperor ran from martial arts to Qiyang, and after a few days of hunting, the emperor returned to martial arts again, and was fortunate to celebrate the good palace.

As I said before, the emperor was born in the annex of martial arts when he was born, so the emperor came to martial arts, which is considered to be a return to his birthplace, and his mood is naturally very different.

Especially when the emperor just stayed in Jinyang, the land of Longxing in Li Tang, for two months, met many people, went to many familiar places back then, and the emotion in his heart has not dissipated, he has many new feelings in the heart of the martial arts emperor.

If Jinyang is Li Tang's dragon prosper, then martial arts is Li Shimin's dragon birthplace, his real dragon was born from martial arts, and then Jinyang took off, and finally called for wind and rain in Chang'an, ruling the power of heaven and earth.

Returning to martial arts from Qiyang, the emperor and his entourage came to the Qingshan Palace.

According to the "Chang'an Chronicles": "Qingshan Palace is in the south of the county eighteen miles, the old first of Shenyao (Li Yuan), the place where Taizong descended, and the south of Weishui. In the first year of Wude, the martial arts palace was built, and the six Zhenguan years were changed to the Qingshan Palace. In the sixth year of Zhenguan, Taizong was fortunate to feast on the ministers and poems.

To put it simply, Qingshan Palace is one of Li Yuan's three mansions in martial arts, and it is also the place where Li Shimin was born. Therefore, after Li Shimin ascended the throne, he was fortunate several times.

Li Shimin was fortunate to be born in Qingshan Palace, the former residence where he was born, and convened the old martial arts elders to give a banquet in Qingshan Palace, talking and laughing, talking about the days of martial arts, Li Shimin himself talked less, mainly listening to the old men of martial arts to exaggerate how much he was born when he was born, how good he was when he was a child, how expensive he was, etc., anyway, it is the old people who think about the law to hold back the words of the praise, Li Shimin enjoyed the praise with a smile on his face, and then the guests and hosts had a lot of fun.

This kind of banquet lasted for several days, and finally on the 18th, Li Shimin left Wugong and returned to Chang'an.

After returning to Chang'an, feeling the wealth of martial arts, the family has sufficient surplus food, the clothes and food are very good, and they can go to the middle and upper families of Chang'an, Li Shimin said to the ministers with great emotion: "I am the lord of all the people, and I want the people to be rich." If they are taught manners so that the younger ones will honor the older ones, and the wives will honor their husbands, then they will all be honored. Lightly punish the meager endowments, and let them each rule their own industries, and then they will all be rich. If the home is sufficient, even if I don't listen to music, I will naturally enjoy it. ”

When the emperor was just proud that he had done a good job, made the people live a good life, and his education was extraordinary, someone jumped out impatiently and slapped him in the face, and Li Shimin slapped himself in the face.

Indoctrination, indoctrination with a hammer.

On the evening of November 30, the sixteenth year of Zhenguan, it was already very deep, and the lights of the Dongshang Pavilion where the emperor lived were still on, and Li Shimin looked worried and paced around the house.

What's going on?

It turned out to be a major case that haunted him. On this day, Dali Temple played five times to sentence the corrupt offender Dang Renhong to death.

Dang Renhong was a general in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, a hero of the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, a founding father, and had a good relationship with the emperor, and was Li Shimin's confidant.

When Tang Gaozu Li Yuan sent troops into the customs, it was Dang Renhong who handed over his more than 2,000 troops to Li Yuan's command and helped him capture Chang'an as soon as possible. When Li Shimin went on an eastward crusade against Wang Shichong, Dang Renhong vigorously prepared food and salary, and made great contributions; He served as the governor of Nanning, Guangzhou and other places, and everywhere he went, he governed well, and made outstanding contributions to the development of the southern Xinjiang of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin has always valued him very much. However, right now, it's this Aichen, as long as he waves his pen, he will be in a different place. What to do?

Li Shimin picked up the pen again and again, put it down again and again, and couldn't make up his mind. According to the law of the Tang Dynasty, Dang Renhong embezzled millions of dollars and should be punished. But this is a feudal society where the rule of man is greater than the rule of law, and the emperor has the power of amnesty, and whoever wants to be exempted from the crime can be exempted. If a meritorious minister of the imperial court commits a crime, the decision on the final execution belongs to the emperor. Li Shimin thought that he was kind to the imperial court, and felt that he was an old man, so he could not bear to put him to death, and wanted to change the "death penalty" to "dismissal", but he was afraid that he would be handled unfairly and lose his trust in the world.

"How can we leave a way for Dang Renhong to survive?" Li Shimin couldn't think of a way and was depressed.

I don't blame the emperor, if it's general corruption, forget it, but the amount of corruption that Dang Renhong embezzled is too much, one million is not the million money he said, if it is a million dollars, it is only a thousand yuan, but Dang Renhong embezzles millions of yuan, and the annual income of Datang is only tens of millions of yuan, and a minister embezzles millions of yuan, which is really huge greed, it is really shocking.

It is impossible for a state to have a million yuan in tax revenue in a year, but Dang Renhong, the governor of Guangzhou, has embezzled millions of yuan, which is equivalent to the fact that in the years he was a thorn, he embezzled a considerable part of the local taxes collected almost every year.

This is also thanks to the fact that he was the governor in Guangzhou, in Lingnan, and now that place is very rich because of shipping, as the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, the largest cargo distribution center, Guangzhou is too rich.

If it weren't for being too rich, Dang Renhong wouldn't have been able to embezzle so much, of course, because he was too rich, he could be accused of embezzlement for so many years, if he changed to another place, mother, a million guan, it was enough for a state to pay taxes for many years, if Dang Renhong could really embezzle millions of guan, it would be almost equivalent to embezzling all the taxes under his rule into his own pocket, and not paying a copper coin to the court.

This Nima, the corrupt is too vicious.

It is precisely because he is too greedy, too greedy and cruel, and accumulates money by unscrupulous means, so that he will be sued when he is transferred from the governor of Guangzhou in October, and he will stolen more than one million.

The emperor wanted to exonerate Dang Renhong, but he was also a little embarrassed, and he didn't know how to open this mouth and how to block the mouths of the people in the world.

That night, the courtiers brought him food three times, and he let him take it back wherever he could eat.

Seeing this scene, the courtiers persuaded: "Your Majesty does not need to worry too much. Isn't it a legal provision for merit and reason? Doesn't Your Majesty have the power of amnesty? Exempting Dang Renhong from the death penalty is not illegal in my opinion. ”