CHAPTER XXXVII
Looking forward to a new week······ )
The weather has cooled down, but the autumn tigers are still raging. The green trees on the side of the avenue, and the peasants still working in the fields, such a pastoral scene made a few of the people on the side of the road couldn't help but lose their minds and secretly brew poems in their hearts.
Twenty miles outside the Mingde Gate of Chang'an City, outside the long pavilion, a group of people stood solemnly on the side of the ancient road, a few forehands built a pergola to look into the distance, there were two people standing at the front of the crowd, one was wearing a purple robe, the other was wearing a crimson official uniform, the one wearing a purple robe took the towel handed by the people around him, and was wiping the sweat on his forehead, and the one wearing a crimson official uniform was behind a figure wearing a purple robe, stretching his neck to look into the distance.
After a while, a fast horse came galloping from a distance, and after a short time came near, and immediately the man stopped his horse and jumped down and knelt down, saying:
"His Royal Highness, the Quan Shilang has arrived five miles away!"
Hearing this, the people standing behind King Tan stood up straight, shaking their spirits, and some officials stepped forward to check the appearance of the guard of honor, and after a while, they saw a group of cavalry in the distance, escorting a carriage, walking here unhurriedly.
It was Quan Deyu who returned to Beijing who came, and waiting for Quan Deyu here were Li Jing, who was newly crowned King Tan, and Liu Yuxi, a protégé of Quan Deyu and a member of the Ministry of Rites. Li Yu ordered King Tan to go out of the city twenty miles to meet him instead of him, as a reward for his grace. The others only knew that Quan Deyu had been sick for a long time because of the cold when he crossed the Qinling Mountains, so the emperor praised him for his loyalty to the king and gave him special courtesy, but they didn't know that Quan Deyu had quietly done a big thing and came back.
Quan Deyu's car soon arrived, he had already learned the news of the crown prince from the palace newspaper, two days ago had ordered someone to send the congratulatory watch into Chang'an, and also knew that Li Jing was named the king of Tan, at this time lifted the car curtain, saw Li Jing outside, and was busy getting off the car with the help of the servants, and saw the courtesy:
"Old minister, Quan Deyu, see His Royal Highness King Tan!"
Li Jing is only slightly younger than Li Chun, and he also looks like a talent, Fengshen Sanlang, seeing that Quan Deyu is so gifted, he hurriedly stepped forward to support him, and said with a smile:
"Why is Lord Quan so polite? Not only did Xiao Wang worry about the adults and admired them, but even His Majesty also felt the loyalty of the adults, so he ordered the little Wang to come to welcome the return of the Quan to Beijing on behalf of his old man, I don't know if the Quan is in good health? ”
Quan Deyu was bumpy all the way, very haggard, and sure enough, as if he had a serious illness, seeing Li Jing relay the emperor's concern, he hurriedly replied:
"Thank you Your Majesty for your concern, the old minister is ashamed, he has worked in vain, and he has failed His Majesty's trust, I am really ashamed!"
"Lord Quan doesn't have to blame himself so much, Your Majesty said, Liu Pi is a clown, it's only been a few days since he jumped off the beam, Lord Quan is a good minister of the country, if there is any accident that is the real loss of the country!"
Quan Deyu was moved for a while when he heard this, and Li Jing smiled again:
"I heard that Lord Quan also beat a big insect when he crossed the Qinling Mountains, he is really Yunwen Yunwu, and he can be called a model for my generation!"
So everyone laughed, Quan Deyu has always been a literati, and this time he was also heroic, and when he saw Li Jing say this, he also felt very glorious.
After talking with Li Jingxu, Liu Yuxi stepped forward and saluted:
"I've seen Lord Squiro!"
Quan Deyu has a teacher-student relationship with him, so he can't help but be happy when he sees Quan Deyu return safely, because it is an official matter, it is inconvenient to make a private courtesy, so Quan Deyu also smiled slightly and nodded.
After everyone saluted, Liu Yuxi asked His Royal Highness King Tan and Quan Deyu to get in the car and go to Taiji Palace to see the car. Everyone lined up and walked forward in turn, and one of the officials who greeted them found a strange old man in Quan Deyu and his party, although his expression was calm, he seemed more excited, and he was very abrupt in the crowd.
"Strange, really strange."
"Master Zhang, what are you wondering about?"
"Oh, Lord Wang, I wonder where this man seems to have been seen."
"Which one?"
The official surnamed Zhang was just about to identify him, but the old man had disappeared into the procession, so he had to put down his arm as if he had lost something.
When approaching the palace gate, the official surnamed Zhang suddenly lost his voice and shouted: "Oh my God, it must be ......"
"What is it?"
The official surnamed Zhang looked at the officials around him who were staring at him, and hurriedly swallowed his words back and said, "Could it be that the door of the government office where I came out in the morning was not closed?" ”
When the other officials heard this, they secretly despised it, you are just a green-robed official, do you still have your own special office? I'm even shocked by such a thing, and I'm embarrassed to mix in our pile! Then he turned his head back, and when the man saw that the crowd no longer looked at him, he breathed a sigh of relief and thought:
"How could he be caught in Lord Quan's car when he came back?"
At this time, in the imperial study, Li Yu and the ministers were deliberating, and it was Du You who was speaking now:
"Your Majesty, Taicang now has 800,000 stones, which has been stored for fifteen years, and Dongwei Bridge has 450,000 stones, which are reluctant to be given to all armies. This year's bumper harvest was abundant, and the minister wanted to request a temporary suspension of the transshipment of the North River, and to buy 200,000 stones in the state capital near the river, so as to save the disadvantages of agricultural injuries. "The Beihe River refers to the section of the Yellow River below Chengkou in present-day Inner Mongolia, and the Heyuan refers to the fair purchase of grain from the people at the government's expense. Du You's suggestion was to temporarily stop the transfer of military rations from Taicang, and instead let the government purchase new grain as military rations in the Yanhe Prefecture Prefecture, so that the army would not be dissatisfied with eating old grain, and could also avoid hurting the peasants by purchasing grain.
The suggestion is a good suggestion, but after the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the peace gradually became a requisition imposed by the government on the people. The imperial court successively set up full-time officials such as "peace envoys" and "deputy envoys for peace" to manage and manage the affairs of the court, and the peace was often carried out through the prefectures and counties according to the method of assigning people to individual households. Not only is there no fair price, but most of the "variegated satin" is used to fill the value payment, so that the households are subjected to another layer of exploitation.
In order to ensure the implementation of the strength, many officials who supervised wheat were directly transferred to inspectors, and under the strict supervision, although they tried their best to ensure the interests of the people, the administrative costs came up. Therefore, as soon as Du You's proposal came out, it immediately caused a controversy, some people agreed, and some people opposed, how to deal with the old rice in Taicang? Some people also objected because they were afraid of invading the people, and seeing the endless controversy, Li Yu ordered that the matter be handed over to the hundred officials for discussion, and then discussed at the court meeting.
After some more discussions on large and small matters, Li Zhongyan preached:
"Your Majesty, the Quan Shilang has returned to Beijing and is in the palace gate, may I ask Your Majesty if you will announce the right to meet the Shilang now?"
At that time, when officials went out, because of the limited transportation conditions, long time, long distance, and always very tiring, they would generally give him a few days off after returning to Beijing to meet again, but Quan Deyu's trip was very important, although Li Yu knew that the matter had been settled, he still wanted to see Quan Deyu as soon as possible. However, before Li Yu could speak, Du Huangshang reminded:
"Your Majesty, Lord Quan has worked hard here, Your Majesty should allow him to rest for a day or two before summoning him!"
The meaning of the reminder is already obvious, that is, try to operate in the usual form, Li Yu immediately reacted and agreed:
"Quan Shilang has been gone for many days, and it is quite hard, I really want to see him, so I will order Quan Shilang to come in tomorrow!"
Li Zhongyan then spread the word outside the palace. After a short time, the deliberations in the imperial study were over, and all the ministers got up and retired.
Li Yu also left Du Huangshang, Du You, Zheng Yuqing, etc., and summoned Wang Shao, the secretary of the military department, Fan Xichao, the general of the right Jin Wuwei, Yuan Zi, the general of the left Jin Wuwei, Li Yuan, the general of the left Yu Linwei, Yang Zhilian, Sun Rongyi, the lieutenant of the left and right Shence Army, the Hubu Shilang, and Pan Mengyang, the deputy envoy of the Duzhi salt and iron transport, to discuss the review of the military and the deployment of the autumn army, the supply of military salaries and military rations in a few days.
After that, the emperor separately summoned Situ, Tongzhongshu Men Pingzhangshi, and Zhang Maozhao, who was about to return to serve as the Yiwu Army Jiedu Envoy (Yiwu Army Leader Yiding Erzhou, once known as Yiding Jiedu Envoy), and rewarded Liang Ma Baojie and female music. In the evening, Zhang Maozhao was given a banquet. Then the tense day ended when Li Yu saw Youning's little head outside the imperial study.