(Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!! )

After Zhu Xie's mother and son entered the court, the streets of Chang'an were lively for a while, after all, Sha Tuo, who killed more than 30,000 enemies and lost more than 20,000 to accompany the Guang family to take the leader of the two generations of the one-month war experience is very legendary and tragic, it is difficult not to pay attention to it, because of its legend and tragedy, public opinion is one-sided sympathy for Sha Tuo, everyone is full of praise for Sha Tuo's loyalty and martial arts behavior to return to the Tang Dynasty, completely forgetting Sha Tuo's original betrayal of the Tang Dynasty and willing to be a lackey of the Tubo people to repeatedly attack the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, he was very satisfied with the disposition of the imperial court, praised the benevolent Emperor and was proud of being a citizen of the Tang Dynasty. This kind of public opinion is slightly less common in the "Outer History of the Spring and Ming Dynasty," of which the court officials were the main contributors, and is more reflected in the new "Spring and Autumn Period," which was sponsored by merchants and close to the burghers. One is called "The History of Chunming and Ming", and the other is called "This Spring and Autumn", and these newspapers all regard themselves as writing history.

That's why Li Yu sighed, the media is a thing, sometimes I can't believe it. Just like the legendary stock market, believing in the analysis of the media is equivalent to the birthday boy hanging himself when he is old, and he does not commit chronic suicide.

Public opinion's treatment of Sha Tuo overshadowed several other high-ranking officials who entered the court. In June, the Zhaoyi Festival made Lu Congshi forcibly recruited into the court by the imperial court, and soon, Lu Congshi's indisputable father died without knowing the current affairs, so that Lu Congshi, who served as the general of Zuo Xiaowei, had to worry about the law, from holding the power of life and death of hundreds of thousands of people to being idle and scattered, empty-handed. In September, the Huainan Festival made Wang Yi to be summoned to the court, Wang Ye ran the world's richest Huainan for five years, both public and private, can be described as hugely rich. And Wang Yi, who is in the prime of life and is in the rising period of his career, believes that there will be a return on investment, and when he entered the court, he gave Li Yu a large sum of money to enter the court - this is probably also the name of the feudal town, and all the feudal towns with unclean hands and feet or ghosts in their hearts must have such a come out of the court, such as Pei Jun, Yu Di and Lu Congshi, to show their loyalty and ability, and the former Emperor Dezong liked this very much. But the current one doesn't like it, and the reason why he accepts it is probably like Cai Yuanpei accepting a red envelope from a businessman and transferring it as a fund for the construction of the research institute.

In addition to giving it to the emperor, he also focused on three people, one is the prime minister Du Huangshang of the ruling pen, one is Zongzheng Shaoqing Li Yan, and the other is the inner servant and young eunuch Gou Sheng, the inner attendant Li Zhongyan is only a lot more than Gou Sheng, but Wang Ye didn't expect him to do anything at all, giving so much just hoping that he would not be bad, public opinion has always believed that Li Gonggong's ability is not one or two points worse than Gou Gong's, but the distance between the Sui Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty. With such a big investment, Wang Ye naturally has a plan, he is not willing to be a public servant when he comes to Chang'an, and he wants to ask for the prime minister.

The reason why Wang Yi's bribery is mentioned so much is because it involves a serious question, that is, whether the Tang Empire under Li Yu should tolerate corruption and bribery and other crimes under the premise of putting politics first.

As the emperor who should most combat this kind of endangering rule, Li Yu actually made a choice, after all, the main goal of the empire now is to level the feudal towns, and the long-term is to recover Hehuang, Anxi, and Beiting. Will cracking down on corrupt officials, especially local officials with military and political power, make the work of the empire more difficult?

After more than 20 years of indulgence by Dezong, there are not many local officials who are clean with their hands and feet when Li Yu crosses, and there are corrupt factions represented by Pei Yanling and Ju Wenzhen in the central government, and everyone knows how difficult it is to fight corruption. Over the past three years and more, although a number of local officials have been reshuffled and a large number of honest and upright officials have been promoted to the central authorities, officials at the level of Jiedu envoys have never been dealt with for embezzling and exploiting the people. From the bottom of his heart, Li Yu is eager to crack down on corrupt officials, although thanks to modern developed TV dramas, the brainwashed Li Yu knows and agrees that corrupt officials are more valuable than honest mediocrities. But Li Yu has now learned to think holistically, choosing the pros and cons. Perhaps this is a boon for corrupt officials.

The first to give the answer to this question was Bai Juyi, the least qualified bachelor of the Hanlin Academy.

Bai Juyi, who knew that Wang Yi had bribed him to obtain the position of prime minister, first wrote a letter to express his opposition. Bai Juyi's reasons are:

The prime minister is a human minister, and if it is not a great merit, it is generally not granted, how can it be given to people casually? The last time he gave Yu Di, it has already aroused criticism, but after all, Yu Di's talent and prestige are not ordinary (relying on Yu Di's generosity to the literati), Wang Di's specialty is to punish the law harshly, loot the people, and now there are so many people like him, if he is made the prime minister, then the same people as him will think that as long as they desperately loot the people and enter the service, they will be qualified to seek the prime minister, so what should the people do? If you give this or not that, you will still have opinions, Your Majesty, you should think about it.

Then served Li Yijian, the imperial history, the left Yuan Zhen, the imperial history of Cheng Pei Du, and even wrote to Li Fan in the matter to express his opposition. "The History of Chunming Dynasty" and "This Spring and Autumn" also commented one after another. Then, Wang Yi's bribery to Du Huangshang, Li Yan, Gou Sheng and others was also exposed. Public opinion is like this, and Li Yu's determination has been decided. And so it goes.

At the end of October, Du Huangshang resigned. In fact, Du Huangshang is over 70 years old, and since he came back from patrolling, his physical strength and energy have not been as good as before. The reason for accepting bribes is similar to the "59" phenomenon in today's society, and Wang Ye's political stance is still correct. At the beginning, Du Huangshang paid homage to the prime minister, Li Shigu sent someone to give gifts, but when he arrived at Du Huangshang's mansion, he saw that Mrs. Du only took two maids to the street, and went back without entering the door, so Li Shigu was quite jealous of Du Huangsheng. Unexpectedly, the late festival is not guaranteed, which makes people sigh. However, Li Yu did not make it too difficult for this conscientious old prime minister, but just asked him to hand over the stolen money, dismissed Du Huangsheng's Zhongshu order, and appointed him as Situ. The remorseful Du Huangshang died of illness at the end of November of the third year of Yongzhen at the age of 71. After his death, he was nicknamed "Xuan". Li Yu personally went to the Du Mansion to see a doctor, visited, and gave him a million dollars for three days.

Zong Zheng Shaoqing Li Yan was dismissed and fined for half a year. The young eunuch was fined for one year, but his ministry remained the same. Li Zhongyan was protected by Li Chen. And the problem of the initiator Wang Yi is more troublesome. The new Huainan Jiedu envoy was born in Fengxian, the former Dongchuan Jiedu envoy who did not go to office, and Wei Dan, the waiter of the Ministry of Works