From February of the fifteenth year of Kaiyuan to the autumn of the sixteenth year of Kaiyuan, the time of Yuwenrong's release was about one and a half years. During this period, in addition to serving as the assassin of Weizhou, he later served as the assassin of Bianzhou.

Originally, due to the lack of provincial-level institutions in the Tang Dynasty (although there was a Dao, there were no fixed institutions and officials), a practice was later formed, and the Dazhou Assassin Shi was also responsible for the affairs of the entire Dao, while the Wei Prefecture (now Daming County, Hebei Province) Assassin Shi usually supervised the entire Hebei affairs, while the Bianzhou (Kaifeng City, Henan Province) Assassin Shi supervised Henan, so although Yu Wenrong left the capital, he actually went to the front line to directly supervise the business, and its business scope in addition to the original "inspection of the field", "bracketee" and "tax reform" in addition to the three items, but also added "disaster relief" and "Cao Yun". (One machine is multi-purpose, such a talent boss likes it the most; Fuel-efficient, durable, high C/P value)

During this period of time outside, in addition to serving as the assassin of the two states, Yu Wenrong also served as a bunch of positions in the middle, such as Hebei Xuanfu Envoy, Henan Interview Envoy, Jianghuai Transfer Envoy, Henan North Ditch Dike Breaking Nine Rivers Envoy, and even concurrently serving as a household servant, etc., which also indirectly proved my previous statement.

During this period of time, Yu Wenrong once again gave full play to his talents in the economic field and made important contributions.

In the past, when floods occurred, the states along the river could only issue a document to the central government and wait for the central government's instructions, during which no immediate response measures were taken, which often led to the expansion of the disaster. After receiving the order, the central authorities can only coordinate with various departments in the middle, but disaster relief involves the cooperation of the household department (finance), the transportation (transportation), the prefectures and counties where the money and grain are exported, and the prefectures and counties in the disaster-stricken areas.

In the sixteenth year of Kaiyuan (728 AD), the great flood in Hebei, under the overall planning of Yu Wenrong, quickly transported the grain from the Jianghuai region to the disaster area in Hebei, and its number reached more than one million stones, saving a large number of victims, Li Longji was deeply gratified, so in the autumn of that year (August or September), after Yu Wenrong was completed. The edict ordered him to return to the capital.

After Yu Wenrong returned to Beijing, he was appointed as the official Hongluqing and the head of the household department, and at this time his main work was tax reform and opening up new sources of revenue, and he achieved good results in both aspects. Therefore, in June of the seventeenth year of Kaiyuan (729 AD), Yu Wenrong was promoted to the rank of Huangmen Shilang and Tongzhongshu Men Pingzhangshi, officially stepping into the ranks of prime ministers, and Yu Wenrong also reached the peak of his political career at this time.

At this time, Li Longji's arrangements for the government were laid out in this way. First of all. The three patriarchs: Yuan Qianyao/Song Jing/Zhang Shuo were respectively arranged to positions with extremely high quality but relatively no real power, which were used to stabilize the government. Among them, Yuan Qianyao served as the crown prince and young master, Song Jing served as the right prime minister of Shangshu, and Zhang Shuo served as the left prime minister of Shangshu.

In terms of the selection of prime ministers to deal with practice, Xiao Song is the Zhongshu Ling Yao and the envoy of the Hexi Jiedu, in charge of the military aspect; Yu Wenrong is in charge of finance; Pei Guangting is a waiter in the middle school and is in charge of personnel administration, so it should be said that such an arrangement is more reasonable.

But being reasonable doesn't mean it's okay, and the problem is often not because of "things", but more because of people.

The first is the problem of Yu Wenrong's own life.

In the traditional Chinese politics. At the ministerial level and below, you can be just an expert in a certain field, such as a financial expert, a river management expert, a military expert, as long as you have someone above you and work hard to play professionally.

But if you become the prime minister, then you must be an expert in human beings. Because at this time, there is no one who can cover you, on the contrary, you have to cover many people.

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Yu Wenrong's misfortune is that he is an expert in handling things. But not an expert in being human.

So after rising to the high position of prime minister, his problems were like the king's new clothes, all of them were looked at, and everyone knew how to attack him.

First of all. Yu Wenrong was promoted too fast and too complacent, when he first became the prime minister, he boasted confidently to the left and right: "Let me live here for a few months, and I will have nothing to do at home!" It can be seen that his mentality is no longer balanced.

Secondly, Yuwenrong employs people regardless of party affiliation. likes to travel with people, and even invites friends to drink, and if these people act at a loss, Yu Wenrong has to be implicated.

Finally, and the most strict thing, Yu Wenrong is very confident in what he does, he can't listen to others, and sometimes he often argues loudly in front of the emperor, so after a period of time, the emperor also feels that he can't stand it. In addition, the number of people who spoke ill of him around the emperor at this time only increased, and the emperor gradually lost patience with him.

But if you want to pull Yu Wenrong down, someone has to do it. It is speculated that the biggest possibility is Pei Guangting, who was originally a member of Zhang Shuo's party, and he could get the most benefits from Yu Wenrong's resignation.

It started as a small thing, but it became a big thing under the operation of someone with a heart.

This matter has to start with the war between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, Tang Taizong ordered Princess Wencheng to marry the Tibetan leader Songtsen Gampo, and the two sides had a period of peace. But after the death of Songtsen Gampo, the dispute between the Tang Dynasty and Tibet began to become fierce. Based in Shibao City (now southwest of Huangyuan County, Qinghai Province), the Tibetan Dynasty continuously sent troops to attack the Tang Dynasty's Hexi and Longyou regions, and the Tang Dynasty suffered greatly.

In March of the seventeenth year of Kaiyuan, Li Longji ordered the "King of Xin'an" Shuofang Jiedu to envoy Li Yi (the grandson of Li Ke, King of Wu, the third son of Tang Taizong and Yang Guang's daughter Yang Fei, who was later killed by the eldest grandson Wuji) and the garrison generals in Hexi and Longyou to discuss how to take Shibao City. Other generals believed that the city was in a dangerous terrain and a key place for Tubo to defend, and if the Tang Dynasty army could not capture it in depth, it would be very difficult to retreat.

However, Li Yi believes that the geographical location of Shibao City is very important, and even if it is difficult, it must find a way to capture it. He carefully studied the situation, and found that the stone fort city was built on the mountain, and there was only one mountain road leading to the castle, if it was attacked, the damage would be heavy, so he decided to adopt the tactics of long-distance running, secretly rao to lay an ambush outside the city, and then attack in an all-round way, Tubo was caught off guard, the reinforcements had not yet arrived, and the stone fort city had been captured by the Tang army, which was the so-called "first stone fort city battle" (there was also a second stone fort city battle in the eighth year of Tianbao)

Li Longji was overjoyed and renamed Shibao City to Zhenwujun (it is said that Li Longji likes to change other people's names very much, and many of his sons have been renamed two or three times, so that we can't figure out who is who), and held a grand banquet to reward the relevant meritorious personnel.

In September of the seventeenth year of Kaiyuan, Li Longji ordered Li Yi to return to Chang'an to report for duty.

The next more miraculous thing happened, there was a Yu Wenrong close confidant Li Yin, who was about to impeach Li Yi, but when the chapter had not been sent, the news was leaked again. Let King Xin'an know in advance, and through Princess Yuzhen and Gao Lishi, he told Li Longji in advance that someone wanted to impeach Li Yi. The next day, Li Yin's recital was delivered, and Li Longji was furious. Yu Wenrong was demoted to the history of Ruzhou (now Ruzhou City, Henan Province).

(1): Yu Wenrong and Li Yi have no grievances, if Yu Wenrong is afraid that Li Yi will come back and rob him of the position of prime minister, it is a bit unreasonable, because if Li Yi is the prime minister, it should be Xiao Song (he is responsible for military affairs) who is more likely to be robbed of his position. And not him. In this case, it is difficult for Yu Wenrong to find someone to impeach a hot prince who has no direct interest in him and has no grievances.

(2): Li Yin wants to impeach Li Yi, why is it so easy for the news to leak out, you must know that Li Yi is still on the road at this time, how can he get the news so easily?

(3): Although Li Yin was Yu Wenrong's former subordinate and served as a judge during the "Bracket Household", Yu Wenrong had already left Yushitai at this time. On the contrary, it was Pei Guangting who mastered the Imperial Historical Observatory (at this time, he was also the Imperial Historian and the chief of the Imperial Historical Observatory).

It seems that Pei Guangting is suspected of operating in the middle of this matter, and the change in Li Longji's attitude mentioned earlier is also the key, just like that, Yu Wenrong was dismissed and demoted after 100 days of being the prime minister.

After Yu Wenrong was demoted to Ruzhou, Li Longji found that the country's finances were deteriorating rapidly, and then he remembered Yu Wenrong's financial management ability, so he asked the prime minister (mainly Pei Guangting) and asked: "You have been saying bad things about Yu Wenrong in front of me before, and I have demoted Yu Wenrong to other places. As a result, the current national use is insufficient, is there any way you can solve it? Pei Guangting and the others naturally had no way to solve it, and they began to fear that Yuwenrong would be recalled by the emperor.

If there is no way to solve things, people will be solved, which is a common trick in ancient Chinese officialdom. That's what Pei Guangting did (Pei Guangting is good at personnel administration, that is, our current organization department, and is naturally a veteran in this area). It didn't take long for Yu Shitai to report Yu Wenrong's previous corruption and perversion of the law (according to some historical records, the time was October, that is, less than a month after arriving in Ruzhou), and investigated. Sure enough, there was "empirical evidence", and Yu Wenrong was demoted to the lieutenant of Pingle County (now Pingle County, Guangxi).

However, Yu Wenrong's bad luck did not stop there, and his political opponent would not give up on attacking him. In October of the eighteenth year of Kaiyuan, Zhang said that Jiang Cen, the party of the party's Sinong Shaoqing, reported that Yu Wenrong had embezzled more than 10,000 yuan during his tenure in Bianzhou, and Yu Wenrong was once again demoted to Yanzhou (Laibin County, Guangxi Province), and died on the way to Yanzhou.

Two months after Yu Wenrong's death, Zhang Shuo also died of illness at home, and no one won this pair of political enemies after all, and they all lost to the god of death in the end.

However, we must once again praise Yuwenrong's ability and driving force in the economy, although he was only a short 99 days, but during this period to promote the coinage method, greatly improved the ability and quantity of the Tang Dynasty to mint money, so that the Kaiyuan Dynasty, there was no more "bad money" incident. (No one dared to touch this matter before the prime minister, Song Jing/Su Ying stepped down after touching it, and Yuwenrong did it within 100 days, which shows his ability in economic and financial management!) ）

Yuwenrong died, and after losing the locomotive, the momentum of economic reform in the Tang Dynasty also slowed down. Although Pei Yaoqing, the cadre and successor of Yu Wenrong, who greatly appreciated him, had some reforms in Caoyun and made good achievements, but it could only be a partial operation, and it had nothing to do with the fate of the overall economic pattern of the Tang Dynasty.

For Li Longji himself, the favorable financial environment created by Yuwenrong has become the capital and excuse for his squandering, and he can no longer return to the frugality of the early Kaiyuan Dynasty, and the Tang Empire is also slowly declining in his increasingly extravagant profligacy.

Yan Ge Xing

At the beginning, I plan to start with a young "public security", talk about his life and his achievements, which are closely related to the prosperity of the Kaiyuan Dynasty; A small act he inadvertently made was a small flame in the Anshi Rebellion. He is the famous general of the New Century - Zhang Shougui!

When he was still a police officer, he had a leader named Liang Wanqing, who was the county lieutenant of a county, that is, the director of the county public security bureau.

But we can't look at the county public security bureau in ancient times from the current perspective, because in ancient times, there were few people in the county government, so if you imagine it as a costume drama, the director is the "chief catcher", and Mr. Zhang Shougui is the "fast catcher", which may be closer to the actual situation.

Liang Wanqing is a relatively "muddy" leader, basically he is a leader who doesn't know what to do and what is wrong, and he doesn't know the situation.

In fact, because Zhang Shougui is very Shanghainese and strong in martial arts, the gangsters in this county regard him as their eldest brother and dare not make trouble in this county, so the public security situation in this county is very good.

It's a pity that the director didn't know anything about this. He only saw that Zhang Shougui didn't do his job all day long, didn't catch thieves and robbers, ate and drank with a group of fox friends and dog friends every day, and reported public accounts, so the director was very dissatisfied with Comrade Zhang's appearance, and always wanted to find an opportunity to repair him.

To be honest, there are many such leaders in today's society. Many leaders are very happy as long as they see employees working hard and working late hours, not knowing that if the work is not efficient, they will not only waste the company's electricity bills but also mess things up; Similarly, many parents are very happy when they see their children sitting at their desks, but they don't know that if their children don't really want to study, they just waste time for rest and entertainment, and they don't know that these books may be useless after they go out of society.

In any case, when the boss wants to fix you, then there is a chance.

It is said that one day, the director of the bureau called Comrade Zhang and said:

"I need a horse today, this horse is fostered in a rural farmhouse, you go and bring it to me!"

When Comrade Zhang received the order, he moved forward in the direction instructed by the director, and when he went to the place, he was strange? Where are the horses? At this time, the farmer came out, holding a set of saddles, and said to Zhang Shougui:

"This horse was bought by the chief, and we were asked to saddle it and take it back to the county seat; But the horse was so fierce that it didn't let us get into the saddle, and kicked and injured several people. Now your arrival is just in time, sir, help us put the saddle on him! ”

Zhang Shougui thought to himself, this kind of thing is just a piece of cake for me, so he went up to put the saddle on. Unexpectedly, this horse was really difficult to handle, and Zhang Shougui took a lot of effort to complete the task, although he was not injured, but he also tore his uniform.

Although he broke his uniform, he still brought the horse back anyway and tamed a batch of fierce horses, Zhang Shougui was very proud, so he happily rode back to the county seat, humming a little song all the way. (To be continued.) )