Chapter 3: Falling Flowers and Flying Flowers Become Spring Dreams III
Huangfu Lu's luck is really good, because he has two friends, two friends who dare to reach out and pull his brother at a critical moment of life and death.
is different from Huangfu Lu, in Li You's opinion, Ling Hu Chu is a good prime minister, very good. A small part of the reason for this judgment is because the good article written by Ling Hu Chu is not an ordinary good, but a huge good. As the emperor, Li You also has an identity, that is, a young man in literature and art, he likes all ministers who have attainments in art, such as Yuan Zhen, such as Bai Juyi, such as Liu Gongquan. Among these people, according to the degree of liking by Li You, Ling Hu Chu can roughly rank second, and the person who ranks first is not Bai Juyi, but Yuan Zhen.
That's not the main reason, though. Speaking of which, the method of making Hu Chu win the favor of the new Son of Heaven is more thunderous, because this method is more earthy, but it is affordable, and this is an effective method that is the scum of the soil, which is to bribe, to bribe the Son of Heaven, and the amount of bribes is 150,000 yuan.
It is the currency unit of the Tang Dynasty, one tael of silver is roughly equivalent to one tael of silver, and 150,000 taels of snowflake silver is 150,000 taels of snowflake silver, which is a large and small number. For a country, this number is not large, but for an individual, it is definitely not a small number. So, here's the problem, Ling Hu Chu gritted his back molars and took out 150,000 taels of real money to bribe the emperor, maybe the emperor didn't see it in his eyes, you say, is he Ling Hu Chu a little mentally retarded?
Rest assured, Ling Hu Chu's IQ is normal, very normal, and he is neither a fool nor a madman. There's a reason why he's doing it. There are roughly two reasons: First, the money is not his, but is out of other people's pockets and generous to others. It is said that after Li Chun's death, Ling Hu Chu got a part-time job, a very fat part-time job, a mountain envoy. The so-called mountain envoy is to repair the tomb of the emperor, of course, it is to repair the tomb of the dead emperor.
Generally speaking, the dead emperor is the living emperor and his father. The ancients believed that when a person dies, he becomes a ghost, and a ghost must also live and live like a human, so a dead person, or a living ghost, also needs a house. If this dead man was an emperor in his lifetime, then he needs a big, big house, no, many, many, big, big houses, like a palace, no, it should be said that this is a palace, a palace with magnificent architecture. No matter how difficult the empire's economy was, this money could not be saved in any way, especially Li Chun, because his son felt guilty and needed to soothe his conscience with the help of beautiful and magnificent buildings, and at least alleviate some of his guilt.
Therefore, Li Chun's grave is a huge project, very huge. As the foreman of the contractor, Ling Huchu certainly has oil and water to fish, in fact, he also lived up to expectations and was very happy. Speaking of which, in the face of such a fat and oily beauty difference, it seems a bit unreasonable not to fish a little, the problem is that Linghu Chu is a little too much, too much to the point of outrageous.
On the road to becoming rich through corruption, Ling Hu Chu fully carried forward the spirit of freedom and democracy, not only practicing it himself and taking the lead in setting an example, but also conniving and instigating his subordinates to embezzle and get rich together with him. As a result, state property has become a private warehouse, and whoever wants to take it can take whatever he wants, and he can take as much as he wants, and he does not treat himself as an outsider at all. Not only that, Ling Hu Chu also took it for granted that those workers, as long as they eat, they should not receive their wages, after all, the wages of so many people have accumulated together, which is not a small amount!
Ling Hu Chu acted so recklessly, it was inevitable that the people's resentment would boil, and the notoriety was predictable. However, Ling Hu Chu didn't care about these at all, because he handed over the bulk of the salary deduction to Li You, and the emperor became the biggest embezzler, what if the people's resentment was boiling, and what about the bad reputation? I'm not going to continue to be my prime minister!
This thing is new to say, is it rare for the king of a country to rarity those two stinky money, and he is willing to stand up for his subordinates? Don't say it, just those two stinky money, Li You is really rare, very rare, because he has no money! The emperor has no money, or the empire has no money? The emperor has no money, and the empire has no money! Where does the money go? Fighting a war consumed. Although the use of military forces during the Yuan and He years was an unprecedented success, the empire's economy was also on the verge of collapse. Back then, in order to raise money, Li Chun knew that Cheng Yi and Huangfu were not good birds, but he still ignored the opposition of the courtiers and insisted on worshipping them as ministers, just because the two had one thing in common: they were both very good at making money!
In fact, Ling Huchu's tricks to make money are not new tricks at all, they are all leftovers used by his sworn friend and Huangfu in the same year. Now, the emperor is out of the prime minister, and the first thing that Ling Hu Chu thinks of is this vacant phase, which must not fall on someone else's head. Therefore, when the new emperor Li You and the ministers discussed the candidate for the alternate prime minister, Ling Hu Chu strongly recommended his friend of the same year, Xiao Li, a bachelor of Hanlin.
Under the mediation of Ling Hu Chu, Xiao Li became the prime minister as he wished. At the same time as him, there was another person, a person who made Hu Chu very annoying, Duan Wenchang, and Duan Wenchang, a bachelor of Hanlin.
Hate is hate, in a short period of time, Ling Hu Chu has no energy to deal with Duan Wenchang, because he has to face a thorny problem next: how to save Huangfu Lu's head.
Legend has it that Huangfu Yu once colluded with the dead eunuch Tutu Chengxuan to conspire to make the damned Li Kuan emperor, which made Li You very hurt. The injured Li You gritted his teeth and swore that he would definitely cut off the head of the emperor, for sure! It turns out that there is no certain thing in the world, even if you are the emperor! Linghu Chu united with Xiao Li, took the eunuch route again, and finally saved Huangfu from the mouth of death.
With the unremitting efforts of Xiao Li and Ling Huchu, Huangfu Lu's dog life was finally saved. However, capital crimes can be avoided, but living crimes cannot be escaped. Huangfu Lu, the once invincible prime minister, was exiled to distant Hainan. At the end of the sky, the corner of the sea, the emperor will spend the rest of his life.