Section 41: Li Er's Democracy
The emperor in the eyes of the people and the emperor in the eyes of the courtiers are very different.
In their eyes, the emperor is benevolent, kind, and the emperor who knows best how to sympathize with the hardships of the peasants, he not only reduces agricultural taxes one after another, but sometimes gives farmers some necessary subsidies, such an emperor is rare throughout the ages.
Those villagers and elders who went to Chang'an in groups to meet the emperor in the eyes of the emperor were thrifty and kind, and always welcomed their arrival, sitting in the Wanmin Palace to dine, this was the supreme glory for them, they didn't know what to eat, they only remembered that the majestic man laughed and kept urging them to drink, and only remembered that the woman who was the mother of the world arranged a wonderful song and dance for them.
They don't know how to get out of the palace, the soles of their feet are soft, and they are soaked in mellow imperial wine, exuding a strong aroma of wine from the inside out, this life is worth it, especially when they think of the scene where the white-haired prime minister with the same gray hair stood outside the hall and gave him off, sweat was like rain, and tears were stained with his clothes.
Yun Ye also entered the palace to participate in the banquet, but he and a group of sons-in-law were still so unwelcome, the side hall was deserted, everyone seemed to have something on their minds, and they drank their own wine with their heads down and rarely spoke.
Yun Ye stood in the side hall with a wine jug and looked at the villagers who were sent away, sighing in his heart, the eldest grandson Chong leaned behind him and whispered, "How is it?" ”
"These people can pull to the mat road, worms, believe it or not, now pull them to the mat road, they are willing to have no complaints, maybe they will ask their children and grandchildren to finish the mat, let the children and grandchildren continue to pad."
Yun Ye took a big sip of wine and replied in a low voice.
"It's so beautiful, a sentence The Palace of the People is the palace of all the people in the world, and it will collect the hearts of the people of the world, and from then on, the Tang Dynasty will no longer have the people to worry about revealing the rod, you see. In the future, there will always be these poor relatives of His Majesty Xià who will come to the Wanmin Palace with a bag of grain on their backs or two chickens to eat and drink. ”
Changsun Chong's words carried infinite resentment, knowing that he had resentment. The emperor now gave all his courtesy to the people, and this year's routine feasts have been replaced by these hillbillies, which makes him very dissatisfied.
Yun Ye smiled and patted Changsun Chong's shoulder and said, "Let's take the most simple example, worm, who will feed the chickens that have been fattened and fed more grain?" ”
The eldest grandson shook his head regretfully and said: "In the end, you have been reused, the north court of the empire will be under your control in the future, and it is already expected to be prosperous, we can only eat and wait for death in Chang'an, and it is rare to see Tianshan Yue." ”
"Is it necessary for you, Doctor Qingguanglu, to envy me, the general of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate? I'm going to eat sand. The situation there changes three times a day, and going there is equivalent to doing it on the crater with a butt, and you still envy it. ”
The eldest grandson shook his head and said: "Beiting is the only area where a major war is likely to break out in the Tang Dynasty, and it is also a good place to make meritorious contributions, as long as you can gain a firm foothold in Beiting, and move the border line of Datang to the north and west, the Yun family will be able to lie on this merit book and wait for death within a hundred years." ”
Yun Ye glanced at the eldest grandson and said, "Then what are you doing now?" ”
"Eat and wait to die!"
Yun Ye grabbed Changsun Chong's collar and roared in a low voice, "What the hell do you bastard think." Lao Tzu needs to go to Beiting to endure for a few years, and then fight with countless unknown enemies. You have to do more work than a donkey, so that you can get to the highest level of eating and waiting for death, and you are now starting a happy life of eating and waiting for death, that's it, you still envy me, you were kicked in the head by a donkey? ”
The eldest grandson blinked. I didn't react for a while, but I can really understand it this way literally, but I always feel that something is wrong in my heart, something is very wrong!
I didn't have time to think about it, the queen came. She had finished entertaining the princesses, and then she remembered that there was still a group of concubines who needed to be appeased, so she rushed over with a large group of minions.
Gao Yang walked with a swaddling baby in his arms and didn't look at the ground at all, his eyes had grown to the door of his head, which was very similar to a hen that had just laid an egg, and the wife of the eldest grandson Chong, Li Liqian, walked at the end with a gloomy face, and there were many princesses who were also gloomy, including poor Lanling, who had no children.
"Why didn't you know to send it when those villagers left just now? If you don't tell you, don't you have a little self-consciousness as a junior? Fang Qing, old people like Du Qing have gone, but you haven't moved, and etiquette has been learned in the dog's belly? ”
As soon as the eldest grandson came, he scolded, this is not easy to calculate, at least Yun Ye thinks so, there is really no way to reason with a woman who is too deep in the play, this is the palace, there is a law in every word and deed, it is not a neighbor who comes to visit the door, whoever wants to do whatever he wants, and when he sees her blushing face, he knows that he has drunk a lot of wine.
"Bereavement, look at Xiaofang'er, he was spitting bubbles just now." Gao Yang called out to her husband in a coquettish voice, she was ready to carry out the show to the end, ignoring Changle's increasingly embarrassed faces.
Fang Yiai obviously loved his child to the bone, and embarrassedly arched his hand to other brothers, so he hurried over to open the swaddling clothes to see how his son spit bubbles like the old turtle.
The eldest grandson glanced at Gao Yang, but did not reprimand, this is naked eccentricity, Yun Ye doesn't care, he has three fat sons and naturally relaxes, and it is not bad to take this opportunity to take a good look at the black face of the eldest grandson rushing at them.
The eldest grandson came not to appease these sons-in-law at all, but to ask why his grandson is so few, the inheritance of descendants has always been a major event in the Tang Dynasty, and it is also an important symbol to judge whether the couple is harmonious, one of the most important responsibilities of the eldest grandson's mother in the world is to reconcile yin and yang, and the reproduction of children and grandchildren is what she should manage, so those sons-in-law who have no heirs can only bow their heads and listen to the eldest grandson's reprimand.
After being scolded in the palace all day, the sons-in-law sent a letter of guarantee to promise that they would give birth to a baby next year before letting go of these poor people, and when they left the palace, Yun Ye looked at the gloomy faces of the eldest grandson Chong and Li Lizhi and couldn't help but say: "It's just that others are dim, what are you two gloomy." ”
As soon as these words came out, Li Lizhen's tears flowed out at once, she was originally the most favored daughter, whether it was her heart or appearance, she was the best choice, but now she has suffered a lot in the matter of her heirs, and she drank a lot of decoction without any movement.
The eldest grandson Chong said with some irritation: "God doesn't give it, what can we do." ”
"God, you are aunts and cousins, aunts and cousins, the eldest grandson and the queen mother, and Lizhi is the queen mother's daughter, what kind of children do you want in this situation, you know the cold rut? Your bloodline will become him one step closer, and you dare to mention any child, so it's best to go to the academy to read books when you have nothing to do, and then talk about other things after sorting out the clan bloodline. Yun Ye shook his head, the first thing that the royal marrying girl considered was whether the object of the marriage was worth wooing, and then the question of blood assimilation, as for whether they were suitable, it was not considered at all, and there were nieces and uncles who were married.
The chaotic relationship between the royal family is not clear, if you want to sort it out, you need the academy to set up a clan study, Yun Ye's mind is not on this, after February, he will go to Beiting, the royal family likes to be foolish and has nothing to do with him, with this kung fu, it is better to teach his son to draw a turtle is the right thing, this is a family heirloom, but I dare not lose it.
"Son, look, you must paint this turtle vividly, in order to look cute and cute, it is not appropriate to paint it as an eagle hook beak, although there are such turtles, but it looks gloomy and loses the original meaning of the auspicious picture." Yun Ye stood behind Yun Shou, and when he saw his son absent-mindedly, he reminded him.
"Daddy, can you take the child with you when you go out this time?" Yun Shou put down the pen in his hand and asked his father in a low voice, since his father came back, he felt a little relaxed, as long as he followed his father, Li Yanrong would not dare to come over, Xiao Wu would also become that gentle and lovely good girl, and his mother would no longer nag him, in short, there were many benefits.
"If Daddy doesn't go to the North Garden, it doesn't hurt to take you with him, it's not a bad thing for a boy to go to see the world early, but Daddy wants to go to the North Garden, that place is too harsh for you, you can only go there to see the vastness and majesty of the earth after you are fifteen years old, and there is only yourself under the blue sky and white clouds, which is a very wonderful feeling."
"It's a deal!" Yun Shou actually stretched out his palm to high-five his father, Yun Ye smiled and stretched out his hand to hit three times in a row according to Yun Shou's request, this child knew that he couldn't get out now, and deliberately played tricks on his father.
The family is still as warm as ever, and the other four children have reached the age of going to school, because they can't find a suitable husband, they will receive Xinyue's education at home, and the old man returned to Shuzhong a few years ago. The brother-in-law Xin Ran was reluctant to go back to Shuzhong, and wanted to find an errand in the Yun family, if it wasn't for his own brother, Xin Yue would be able to call the shots, but now he can only wait for the head of the family to come back and then arrange, this is the rule.
"There are so many stewards of the Yun family, it's not too late to find a shrewd and capable person to let him study for two years and then arrange it, now his temperament is still unstable, and the power given is too big, which is harmful to him, our family is different from the father-in-law, this family not only belongs to us, but also belongs to those retainers and generals, and it is not allowed to stab Lou Zi, in case it is smashed, even if we don't pursue it, those retainers will come forward to ask for the guilt, and we won't even have a chance to exonerate him at that time."
Xin Yue nodded, in terms of enforcing the rules, she was far more resolute than Yun Ye, she even wanted to formulate a house rule, the draft was written, and when she showed it to Yun Ye, he rubbed it and stuffed it in the stove and lit a fire. (To be continued......)
PS: Section 1