Section 63: Confidant in life

Your Majesty is for frugality, and the King is the father of all peoples. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info If your Majesty can share the weal and woe with the hungry people this time, the people will praise your holiness.

- Zhang Xuansu

I have nothing more to ask of you, but please let me share your pain and insecurity.

- Ren Jiaoxu

"Your Majesty." Ren Rail is heartfelt.

"Your name is Liu Renliang, right?"

"Yes."

"I need someone like you, you should hurry up and become an official, I hope you can share your sincerity with me all the time."

"O grace, Your Majesty." Ren Rail shouted.

The next day, the court. After the report of the hundred officials was over, Li Shimin said: "Today, I have something important to announce: I plan to cut the expenses and employment of the palace by half. ”

"Your Majesty, this is absolutely impossible, the expenses and employment in the palace reflect the majesty of the king." Zuo Guanglu doctor Li Xiaogong said.

"Yes, Your Majesty, there are many palace people from the previous dynasty in the palace, and it would be disrespectful to the first emperor to remove them." Xue Wancheng, the general of the cavalry, continued.

"Yes, please take back your majesty's order." Inner history Ling Xiao Yu said.

The above three people are all old ministers when Li Yuan was in power, and they are very representative.

Li Shimin was a little angry and asked loudly: "Take back your life?" Don't you all agree? ”

Most of the ministers said, "Your Majesty, please be clear." ”

Li Shimin did not expect that there would be so many ministers who would oppose it, and he was very helpless. Seeing Zhang Xuansu, who served the imperial history, did not speak, Shimin asked Xuansu: "What is Zhang Aiqing's opinion?" ”

"The minister agrees with His Majesty, Your Majesty is for frugality, and the King is the father of all peoples. If your Majesty can share the weal and woe of the hungry people this time, the people will bless you with your holiness. Xuan Su didn't care at all that his opinions were different from everyone's, and he talked about it.

Zhang Aiqing and the widow thought of one place. The widow does not think that reducing expenses will damage the majesty, and if the house is not swept, why is there less of the world, if even the palace cannot be managed, how can the widow govern the whole world? I'll start cutting down the manpower in the palace after a detailed review. Li Shimin sat up straighter and said.

Through cleaning and rectification, the imperial history department conducted a thorough investigation of the accounts and Du Mansion of Du Hai, the regular attendant of Li Yuan as emperor, and found many accounts and gold, silver and jewelry that could not be clearly explained. After Li Shimin ascended the throne, he still used Du Hai as the chief eunuch.

Li Shimin took the accounts, summoned Du Hai, and threw the accounts to Du Hai to see.

"Your Majesty, this, this ......" Du Hai glanced at the accounts and broke out in a cold sweat.

"The money in the palace is so wasteful, and you have lost a lot of goods outside the palace." Shimin scolded.

"Your Majesty forgives you."

"Bastard, how many people have been ruined by your greed. How can you be worthy of the first emperor, is this what you call the so-called law? came and confiscated all of Du Hai's family property, demoted Du Hai to a commoner, and exiled him to Lingnan. After the people gave the holy decree orally, they left the trembling Lao Du and left with a wave of his sleeves.

Yang Ziming, the eunuch who once felt that it was a waste to pour rice in the imperial dining room and pick up rice, was meticulously sweeping the ground. An old eunuch came to Yang Ziming with two little eunuchs. The old eunuch said to Yang Ziming: "Father-in-law Yang, great joy, His Majesty the Emperor has summoned you, let's go." ”

Yang Ziming came to Li Shimin, and Shimin said: "I plan to appoint you as a permanent attendant, please help me manage the palace, and you will stay by my side in the future." ”

"The Emperor's grace is magnificent, Your Majesty." Lao Yang is neither humble nor arrogant.

Another day at the court, the main discussion was about the Holy Cultivation Rite (1).

Li Shimin said: "The peasants are the most important people in the country, but because of the drought, they have suffered a lot, and what is more serious is that the harsh government has made them even worse, and the widows have to make a new set of calendars to reduce the burden on the peasants." ”

"Your Majesty's imperial grace is immense, long live, long live." Zhongchen Mountain shouted.

"Your Majesty, the minister proposed to sort out some methods to help farmers and alleviate famine, and there was a book called "Minutes of Famine Relief" before, and many methods were very applicable to drought, but they have not been taken seriously." Zhang Xuansu said.

"How can it not be taken seriously? I want to squeeze money out of my own expenses, publish this book and add new methods for the people to learn. "Shimin said.

"Your Majesty's imperial grace is immense, long live, long live." The ministers shouted again.

In Ren Fuzhong, Xiao Yue moved a meal to the kitchen again, and happened to meet Jiaoxu who was busy in the kitchen.

Jiao Xu asked Xiao Yue, "Isn't he still able to eat?" ”

Satsuki nodded.

"Ugh." Jiao Xu sighed softly.

"Miss, don't sigh, it's going to be okay after a long time. It's very pitiful that Miss Luo was taken away, but you don't feel sorry for that girl like Young Master Liu. You are now the only one for Young Master Liu. ”

Jiao Xu shook her head and said, "Maybe I want to challenge, Satsuki, you know what, I want to compete, I want to win him with dignity, I'm stupid." ”

"Miss."

"I thought that as long as I was good to Miss Luo, then Young Master Liu would also care about me. He said that she was his sister, and he said that they were not lovers, and I believed Liu Zhengze's words very much, so I also wanted to take good care of Luo Xiaoya. The West Wing was specially prepared for Xiaoya, but not for her, but for me. I want to get close to her and see if she will reject me because she loves Renji. But she's gone, what the hell is she thinking? She kept herself in Renlu's heart forever. How can this be, it has come to this point, I will never be able to win her. With that, Jiao Xu began to grieve. I don't know if she's grieving for Shinoa, or for herself, maybe both.

It was night, it was raining, but Jiao Xu still couldn't sleep and decided to go for a walk around the house.

On the shooting range, Ren Rail, who could not sleep, was shooting arrows by the faint light of the torches, and the rain became heavier and heavier, and the torches became weaker and weaker.

"Are you still alive? Will we ever meet again? Ren Liang thought to himself.

Jiaoxu saw Renjing, and Renliang also saw Jiaoxu. After Ren Rail finished shooting, he turned around and left.

Jiao Xu looked at Ren Orbit passing by: "Are you going to leave me here alone?" ”

Ren Rail stopped. Jiaoxu continued: "Can't you just be a little happier? I have nothing more to ask of you, but please let me share your pain and insecurity. Jiaoxu said, shedding tears of emotion.

Ren Liang has finally decided that Jiaoxu is his life partner.

Four months later, Ren Rail and Jiao Xu were married.

Four years later, Ren Liang and Jiaoxu's eldest son, Liu Mingxue, were both three years old.

Golden autumn is the harvest season. Because of the Tang Dynasty's light and meager endowment, the farmers who harvested were all laughing and happy. Liu Mingxue ran happily in the field with a bunch of ears of wheat, and shouted to Renliang who was buying wheat in the field: "Daddy, daddy, the child is here."

"They told you to run slower and be careful of falling." Jiao Xu said after him.

"Mother, don't worry." Ming Xuedao.

(1) Holy Cultivation: The king himself went to the fields to cultivate the fields in order to show the importance of the country's agriculture and farmers.