996 The Truth (II)
Suning has a habit, originally there was no, and later because of too many wars and power struggles, in these battlefields with gunpowder and the experience on the battlefield without gunsmoke made Suning develop this habit, no matter when, will leave himself a back hand, he deeply understands what the ancients said about the three holes of the cunning rabbit, what is necessary, after suffering a lot of losses, he began to build his own three caves.
He also believes that as a human being, the three caves are obviously insufficient, especially in the era of accompanying the king and the tiger, if a courtier wants to ensure his net worth and life while having power, it is not possible to do it in the three caves, maybe he needs four caves, five caves, or even six caves, the Tang Dynasty has the manpower of the Su family in the team to open up Jiangnan Lingnan and overseas, Suning has secretly arranged a lot of places for himself to avoid disasters with the help of his power, no matter what happens in the future, he can ensure the safety of himself and his family.
Although he is the marquis of the heirloom country, although his wife is the lord of the county, but so what? As long as the emperor is willing and determined, who will escape? Unless you kill the emperor and become the emperor yourself, such as Zhu Di, kill Emperor Jianwen and become the emperor yourself, then he will be safe, Suning will not do this, he will only be the emperor if his head is broken, but when the royal family threatens his own safety, there must be a backhand, the emperor will not fully trust Suning, and Suning will not be completely at ease with the emperor, especially in the face of Li Erma, the wolf-like emperor.
After Li Chengqian ascended the throne, he did not make very big changes to the state policy, and the more noticeable changes were that he was more gentle on the people and stricter on officials, and he adopted Suning's idea of co-governance between the government and the people for the people, and the people took the initiative to elect the three elders with high moral integrity and profound knowledge as agents to govern the localities together with the government. The three elders are locals and are well aware of the local situation, and if a foreign official comes to take office here and makes a wrong decision that is not conducive to local development, the three elders can refute it, disobey the executive order, and ask a higher government to arbitrate.
Meantime. In order to prevent the strong dragon from suppressing the head snake of the land, so that local separatist forces will arise, and on the contrary, officials will have to rely on the local three elders, resulting in the actual phenomenon of a country within a country, and the garrisons in various places will also be prepared to prevent trouble before it happens, and the rotation system of the three elders, the system of rotation and transfer of officials, and the process of electing the three elders, will all be presided over and made decisions by officials at a higher level and even at the central level. Checks and balances.
It is not okay for officials to be too strong and cause officials to prey on the people, and it is not okay for officials to be unable to govern because of the strong local forces, especially in Shenzhou, where the war is gradually disappearing, the economy is developed and the people are rich, and once they become rich, there will be a lot of things that should not happen. It is necessary to improve the law, and it is also necessary to check and balance each other.
Li Chengqian has a cautious and gentle attitude towards this. As the promoter of the Chenghe reform, Suning also gave up his military position at the first time and concentrated on being a civil official, but that's all. How can you keep yourself safe and your family safe? Thirty-year-old Suning has a more profound view of this, and after Li Chengqian ascended the throne, Suning is actually ready to leave.
Not for anything else, just to preserve the feelings and memories. If you still have doubts at the beginning, then by now, Suning has understood that the time has come to leave, if you don't leave, if you give up leaving, then for Suning, for the entire Su family, it is unimaginable.
So Suning didn't go far, he had an insight into Cui Xiaoyi's thoughts and actions early on, and even locked the target of doubt in his heart, but he didn't want to believe it, he didn't want to think about it, and he thought about it carefully, there were too many suspicious things in the course of so many years that he was deliberately ignored by himself, he didn't want to believe that this qiē was really true, he didn't want to believe that he had been hovering on the edge of life and death for so many years and didn't know anything, and he didn't want to believe that the person next to the pillow was actually the origin of Yiqiē.
The woman who hugged herself and let herself call her "Meng'er", the woman who told her that her real name was Yingmeng, Suning couldn't imagine that her surname was Li, Li Shimin's Li, Li Jiancheng's Li, Li Chengqian's Li, and Li Yuan's Li.
One qiē can be understood, one qiē can be understood, when Suning appeared under the moonlight with the four guards, when he looked at his partner of more than ten years with elusive eyes, what did he think in his heart, it is estimated that no one can understand, looking at each other, the eyes and emotions of the woman at that time, Suning seemed to understand, how this matter should be solved, or there is no way to solve it at all.
No one knows what happened on that ordinary and extraordinary night, people only know that they don't know that one night seems to hear hurried footsteps and shouting, there seems to be the sound of weapons intersecting, and the sound of shouting and killing, which seems to be a very unexpected thing in Chang'an City, which has been peaceful for a long time, but at that time it was still a curfew period, and the curfew order of Emperor Li Chengqian was not lifted, and everyone was very wise not to care about these things.
On the third day after that night, Emperor Li Chengqian ordered the curfew system to be abolished, and Chang'an City no longer needed a curfew system from now on.
People don't know what happened to make the emperor announce the end of the curfew again, but people think that the reason why the curfew started this time was because of the assassination of the emperor, so does the lifting of the curfew also mean that the assassination of the emperor has been resolved? In fact, this is the case, but the official results of the investigation are different from what everyone has guessed these days, this time the assassination of the Emperor Taishang was jointly designed by some remnants of Tubo, Tuyuhun and Turkic, they hated the Tang Dynasty and hated the Emperor Taishang, so they decided to retaliate, and after a period of investigation, the imperial court has arrested all these criminals.
Therefore, the curfew will be lifted, the Emperor and the Empress will return to live in the palace of Sanyuan County, all the people can rest assured, this kind of thing will never happen again in the future, Datang will return to the original prosperous situation, and everyone does not have to worry about any other accidents. The government decree that used to be in force will continue to pass, and the expansion plan of the East and West markets will also be allowed and will be launched soon.
The people at the time were puzzled and didn't know what was going on, and the people who came later were also confused and didn't know what was going on. When later generations inquired about the most reliable historical books, they did not find a detailed record of this period of history, and even mentioned only a little mention of the assassination of Emperor Li Shimin in the second year of Chenghe and the official explanation - the remnants of the remnants of various ethnic groups......
Obviously, this explanation is not convincing to everyone, so we can only look for clues from some conjectures and conjectures recorded in the Yeji essays by some literati and writers at that time and in the later period, as well as folklore......
And after this incident, Suning also understood how many unsolved cases in history happened, and the reason why future generations could not solve the mystery, because an eternal mystery was created by himself, and the truth of this mystery case. will never be known.
At that time, the most common conjecture of people was that this incident was inseparable from the original Hou Suning of Sanyuan County, or there were rumors that it was the act of the emperor Li Chengqian at that time, but these were all wild essays and conjectures, as well as folklore, and had no practical value, and the official also used the Spring and Autumn penmanship, which was famous for its realism, and even the problem of Li Erma's initiation of the Xuanwumen Revolution was accurately recorded in the Tang Dynasty history books that were unimaginable.
People are even more suspicious that this is inseparable from the original Marquis Suning. After that, however, any discussion of the matter was forbidden. No one among the courtiers was discussing this matter, but no one among the people thought it was meaningful, and in the months that followed, there was an incident in the Tang Dynasty that shocked the world, which made this matter even more confusing - the world-shaking heirloom of the three original marquis, the vertical and horizontal Shangshu, and the Shangzhu State Suning resigned three times.
The whole world was shocked and puzzled. If Suning is a person in his seventies and eighties, then it is understandable to resign after experiencing this kind of thing, after all, it happened in his own fiefdom, and if something happens, it is normal for an extremely tired old man to resign. But Suning is not a person in his seventies or eighties, but only in his thirties.
Suning's age is still young among the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, and he is still the youngest of the high-ranking officials above the third grade, he is in the prime of life, with outstanding ability, he is the right-hand man of Emperor Li Chengqian, he is deeply trusted, and his power is all over the sky, and the Tang Dynasty has just won a big victory in Persia, and everyone is still looking forward to the fact that Su Hou Ye can go there and bring more benefits to everyone......
In the society of the Tang Dynasty, the businessmen are still counting on Su Hou Ye to introduce new policies to make money, the literati are still counting on the imperial court to continue to open science and scholars, and then let them go to the local area to govern the place, and the army is still counting on the imperial court to continue the war, so that they can accumulate more military merits and obtain greater rewards, but in this case, Suning resigned, making the progress momentum of the entire Tang Dynasty a pause, what is the situation?
The new emperor ascended the throne for only two years, and Suning was also in the prime of life, and people knew the relationship between Suning and the new emperor Li Chengqian, if the most promising courtier in this dynasty was who, there must be no doubt that it was Suning, if everyone did not think that Suning had the ability to become the leader of the ministers before the nineteenth year of Zhenguan, then after the last political storm in the nineteenth year of Zhenguan of the Emperor Li Shimin, no one doubted it.
At that time, the ministers were terrified, the department fell, and Suning was left to hold the last position of the imperial court, resist the traitors, protect the last loyalty, and then pave the way for the prince's accession to the throne and set aside the chaos.
Resign at this time? Everyone is waiting to see the day when Suning becomes the prime minister! Rumors are rumors after all, no one in Chang'an thinks that Suning will do such a rebellious thing, even if there are a lot of rumors, even if the truth of the matter is not as officially advertised, it must have nothing to do with Su Houye...... This time, though, they guessed wrong......
Suning's resignation incident and the assassination of Emperor Li Shimin became the biggest mystery case in the early Tang Dynasty, the official response to this matter was vague, and it seemed reasonable in many aspects, but it could not be convinced by everyone, no one knew what the inside story was, only that what happened later was more dramatic and legendary, no one knew why there was such a result, and the ending of this matter was actually like this...... (To be continued......)