Not long after, the crown prince Li Shimin said to Li Xuan again: "Qin Qiong has already developed a fear of Wei Zheng, and if he wants to use Zuo Xiaowei's army to beat Wei Zheng, I am afraid it is impossible." King Yong'an, you are extremely resourceful, how about offering a plan for Gu and beating Wei Zheng? ”

Li Xuan said helplessly: "Only this once, whether it succeeds or not, I hope His Royal Highness can reuse Wei Zheng, and don't embarrass the ministers again." ”

Li Shimin readily agreed.

Li Xuan offered advice: "There are many powerful people in Beijing, relying on the relationship with the Tang royal family, acting recklessly, and being domineering, the minister suggested that His Royal Highness promote Wei Zheng to Jingzhao Yin to do rectification." ”

Li Shimin said with joy on his face: "Let Wei Zheng confront the magnates in Beijing?" This is a good idea, Lone will not show up, hide far away, Lone wants to see how he Wei Zheng and a scholar can fight against so many powerful people in Beijing who are like wolves and tigers? ”

Wei Zheng was Jing Zhaoyin, and when he first took office, he arranged a schedule, and every day he surveyed (kan) to ask about a county's case, and the cycle was repeated, never stopping. In just one month, 1,500 cases were handled, and more than 1,200 cases were handled in previous years. The cases he has tried, no matter how big or small, have achieved that the people will no longer cry out for injustice, and the powerful and local tyrants will not dare to do evil again. In addition, Wei Zheng also advised agriculture and mulberry, water conservancy, schools, and recommended talents to benefit one party.

Wei Zheng cherished the people, always stood on the side of the people, did not fear the powerful at all, and put life and death aside, which made the magnates in Beijing very dissatisfied, they sent their respective housekeepers to secretly investigate the evidence of Wei Zheng's illegality, they did not believe that Wei Zheng would have no problems.

A few days later, the housekeepers returned, crying and sad, and reported Wei Zheng's situation to the magnates: "This Wei Zheng is really honest, Wei Zheng never takes a sedan chair, walks to and from work, eats vegetables and radishes every day, except for a set of official clothes, only a few old clothes." After getting off work, wearing old clothes, shuttling between the markets, asking the people about their clothing, food, housing and transportation, and what impact the implementation of the policy has on the people. If no one identifies him, everyone will think that he is an old peasant who has gone to the city. His wife, Pei, cooked for him at home, and in her spare time, she weaved and sold cloth to make ends meet; His student and housekeeper Bian Si went up the mountain every day to chop firewood to save firewood money, and in his yard, he also opened a vegetable patch, watered and fertilized, and saved all the money for vegetables. Except for the court's money, he didn't accept any other money, and his family was not allowed to accept it. He has no entertainment, and his heart is only the people. ”

After listening to the butler's report, the magnates were collectively stunned. They didn't expect that there would be such people in this world, who neither wanted to be promoted nor rich, but only thought about doing things for those lowly people. Such a person, soft and hard, you can't win him over, you can't threaten him, you have no way to take him. The sea is inclusive, there is tolerance, the wall is thousands, and there is no desire to be rigid. Such a person only thinks about doing practical things for the people, and there is no other **, it is really difficult to deal with him.

Jingzhao Mansion, the officials in the mansion were also miserable at first, Wei Zheng couldn't help but be strict with himself, and he was also strict with the people around him. But over time, all the officials admired Wei Zheng. Because Wei Zheng not only strictly restrained them, but also treated his superiors equally. When the superiors came to inspect, Wei Zheng never took them to the restaurant, but treated them with his own usual meal - green vegetables and radish. So much so that the officials above were reluctant to inspect Jingzhao Mansion unless they had to. At the end of the month, Jingzhao Mansion counted a month's financial expenditure, which shook the entire Tang Dynasty, an unprecedented and unique one, two, or six yuan. This figure includes all the expenses of Jingzhao Mansion in a month, including transportation expenses, meal expenses, accommodation expenses, entertainment expenses, and all kinds of expenses, which is definitely a record-breaking number. Everyone couldn't understand how Wei Zheng spent the country's money so sparingly?

In Taiji Palace, the magnates in Beijing cried to the crown prince Li Shimin: "Your Highness, Wei Zheng's puppet has bullied us too hard, and we have reached the point where we are incompatible with him. If His Royal Highness can't remove Wei Zheng from office and punish him, then let's all leave the imperial capital of Chang'an. With Wei Zheng here, this day is really impossible. ”

Li Shimin asked: "Are you really willing to leave the prosperous imperial capital of Chang'an and go to a poor and remote place?" ”

The magnates unanimously and firmly stated: "We are willing." ”

Li Shimin's face was pensive.

At this time, Li Shimin's personal eunuch, Wang Fugui, walked into the Taiji Palace, respectfully handed Li Shimin a book of folds and said: "This is a copy of the folds urgently presented by Lord Jingzhao Yin Wei Zhengwei, please read it to Your Highness." ”

Li Shimin opened the fold and looked at it, he couldn't help but be furious, jumped like thunder, threw the fold on the ground, and scolded: "Wei Zheng, this puppet, is too bold, he dares to insult the court, attack the government, and attack Yu Gu." Come on, arrest Wei Zheng, the puppet, for me, and I'm going to kill him. ”

Hearing Li Shimin say this, the magnates all smiled, and secretly said in their hearts: "Let you Wei Zheng be rampant, and dare to insult the court, attack the government, and attack His Royal Highness the crown prince, and you yourself take the initiative to find death, which saves us a lot of effort." ”

Li Xuan, who was standing beside Li Shimin, slowly squatted down, picked up the folds that were thrown away by Li Shimin, and watched them line by line. After a while, Li Xuan said to Li Shimin: "Your Highness, although Wei Zheng's rhetoric is a little more intense, but more than ten things he said, each of which points out the shortcomings of my Tang Dynasty governance, can be said to be to the point." From this recital, His Royal Highness saw Wei Zheng's abuse and attack on His Highness and the Tang Dynasty, but Weichen saw that in addition to the abuse and attack, Wei Zheng had that responsibility, responsibility and loyalty to the Tang Dynasty and His Royal Highness. is such a loyal minister, His Royal Highness kills him, I'm afraid it's ominous. ”

Li Shimin was silent, and after a long time, he said: "Wei Zheng is like an ancient Bigan, but I am not the king of Shang." ”

After that, he withdrew the edict he had just issued, and put an end to the matter.

Seeing that Wei Zheng had scolded the court and the crown prince, the magnates panicked all of a sudden, got up one after another to say goodbye, and scrambled to flee from the Taiji Palace.

Wei Zheng's mansion. Pei Shi, the wife of Wei Zheng, who had just returned from selling weaving, saw a thin-skinned coffin in the courtyard of her home, and Wei Zheng was standing quietly next to the coffin, she was stunned, and then cried bitterly.

Wei Zheng said to her calmly: "Remember that when the time comes, just put me in." The country is full of evils, and someone has to raise it with those in power, and maybe that's the last thing I do for the people. ”