Chinese dining table

Chapter 495 The truth is the scourge!
The first court meeting after the new year finally started.

This is also the first time for Yunchu to participate in the first court meeting after the New Year, so Yunchu is not very familiar with the ceremony.

Well, take one step forward, two steps back, and two steps forward. At the same time, you have to wave your sleeves to make the back of the robe fly, and the front hem must be firmly held down by the jade pendant that suppresses the front hem, otherwise Even if it's a faux pas.

This grand meeting requires kneeling, but according to the explanation in "Yonghui Law", it is not the emperor who kneels, but the emperor, and it is only once a year.

Li Zhi sat motionless on the highest place, even the bead curtain hanging down from the sky crown remained motionless, really like a god.

This kind of dance needs to be performed three times, and Yun Chu dances very seriously.

If you don't take it seriously, you can't do it anymore. He is now Lord Marquis, and he was ranked in the front when he went to court, side by side with Doctor Yushi.

Today, Doctor Yushi is going to dance while monitoring the officials. If he is caught today, he will be the first official to be dealt with in the third year of Xianqing. Know.

According to past laws and regulations, Beijing officials who have an accident on this day will definitely be sent to a very bad place to suffer.

Fortunately, Yunchu's physical coordination is relatively good, and he finally managed to overcome this hurdle.

Because it is Lord Hou, Yunchu could see very clearly that Changsun Wuji, who was standing at the front, didn't dance well, he could even sway his body casually, and Li Ji, who was standing next to him, didn't seem to dance well either. Just pretending to be prevaricated.

Not only the two of them, but the officials in the first three rows seemed to be putting on a show. It seemed that they were very disgusted with the dancing for Li Zhi.

It's not that there are no good dancers among the bosses. For example, Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu dance very well.

Just after the ceremony was over, all the ministers bowed their hands to each other in the main hall, congratulating each other on everything going well in the new year, when Xu Jingzong came out of the class with a gloomy face to start the performance.

"Qizou Your Majesty, my minister Xu Jingzong's impeachment of Minister Han Ai of the Ministry of Punishment is perfunctory in etiquette, disrespectful to heaven and disrespectful to Your Majesty.

At the same time, the minister suspects that Han Ai is also colluding with Chu Suiliang, trapping His Majesty in a place of inhumanity, injustice, loyalty and filial piety. "

After speaking, under the eyes of all the people, he took out a memorial book from his sleeve, held it in his hand, and waited quietly for the censor to take it away.

When hearing Xu Jingzong's reasons for impeachment, Han Ai, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishments, could only chuckle softly: "Chu Suiliang, governor of Aizhou, has died while serving in Aizhou. Does Xu Shizhong mean that I am colluding with a dead man?"

When Xu Jingzong saw that the memorial had been taken away by the censor and presented to the emperor, he said to Han Ai, "I heard that there is a man who looks exactly like Chu Suiliang in your house, and I also heard that it is this man who looks like Chu Suiliang who stays everywhere in Chang'an." When writing pen and ink, it is my duty to belittle His Majesty's benevolence and filial piety everywhere.

Han Ai, as His Majesty's servant, don't you feel ashamed? "

Han Ai laughed loudly and said: "The person who looks exactly like Chu Suiliang is in the official residence. Xu Shizhong might as well recruit him to see if this person is real or not. There seems to be some people in the court who are similar to Chu Suiliang." Dear people, let them identify who this Chu Suiliang is."

Without waiting for Xu Jingzong to return, Li Yifu stepped forward holding the wat board and said: "I seconded Xu Shizhong's words, Han Ai really has the heart of disobedience."

While speaking, he also took out a memorial from his bosom and held it in his hand, allowing the censor to take it away and present it to the emperor.

There was no sound in the hall, and Han Ai looked at the emperor Li Zhi with full expectation. He still thinks that Chu Suiliang was dealt with extremely wrongly, and he also believes from the bottom of his heart that the emperor should not have put Chu Suiliang to death so unconscionably.

Perhaps because he had put life and death aside a long time ago, Han Ai took a step forward holding the wat board and said: "Chu Suiliang was entrusted by the late emperor, and he has always been single-minded and unambiguous. In the past, he was sincere and sincere in discussing things, how could he let His Majesty's virtue Falling behind Yao and Shun, will His Majesty's faults be left in the annals of history like dust?"

Li Zhi looked away from the memorial, looked at Han Ai and said calmly: "I know Chu Suiliang's feelings.

He disobeyed and was prone to commit crimes, and I punished him, is there any fault?"

Han Ai said in a trembling voice: "People are not dead, but the world knows that he is dead, this is a shame and humiliation to him.

Who would have thought that his loyalty would be deeply slandered and caused ugly words, which would make the strong man feel sad and damage His Majesty's god..."

Yun Chu's position in the Tai Chi Hall was in the ninth row, neither in the front nor behind, and he didn't pay attention to what happened in the main hall.

In fact, it is useless to listen to it. Today was originally the last confrontation between the emperor and Chu Suiliang and Han Ai, the two people who opposed him in the beginning.

As for the result of the confrontation, it must be that Han Ai and Chu Suiliang were unlucky, and there will be no variables.

In the past, I only saw this confrontation in the history books, and the history books wrote it clearly.

Since Han Ai and Chu Suiliang were dealt with by the emperor, according to historical records, since Han Ai and Chu Suiliang died one after another, remonstrance was taboo inside and outside the court for 20 years.

The sun didn't come out until the end of the court meeting.

The matter ended with Han Ai being demoted to the governor of Zhenzhou. As for the Chu Suiliang that Han Ai kept saying, he was naturally a counterfeit. The emperor expelled this counterfeit Chu Suiliang from Chang'an with grace.

When leaving the imperial city, Yun Chu was still scratching his ears, because Han Ai's last words were very harsh.

Therefore, Yunchu made up his mind that from now on, he would not tell Li Zhi a single word of the truth, because the price of telling the truth was too heavy.

Basic necessities of life are always the biggest business.

These businesses should not be entirely in private hands.

However, there is no prohibition in the "Yonghui Law", so it is not easy for Yunchu to use official means to seize all these businesses in the hands of the government.

However, it was the salt, iron and wine trades that Yun Chu thought could be completely opened up, but the imperial court was very strict with them.

In the past, there was only salt and iron, which was an official business. It only started in the third year of Xianqing, and the wine was taken over by the emperor's decree.

From now on, all distiller's music can only come from the government, and the folks are not allowed to keep it privately.

Yunchu knew that the emperor wanted to take back the iron from the eldest grandson's family, and the salt and salted fish controlled by many big families.

Liquor is incidental. To be precise, the emperor just can't understand him. The Yun family earns huge profits every year by brewing anti-virus drugs.

Yunchu even believed that this was a sign that the emperor was going to treat him like a baby. If Yunchu was sensible, he would quickly hand over the brewing process of the anti-virus medicine and let the court operate it. In this way, the Yun family might still have a little The benefits of silk can be passed on to future generations.

Allowing the Yun family to monopolize the brewing of important materials such as anti-virus drugs for six full years, and allowing the Yun family to earn black-hearted money in this matter for six years, is already a favor given by the imperial court for the sake of the old god.

If the anti-virus drug had nothing to do with the old god, it would be considered a blessing from the emperor if the Yun family could monopolize the exclusive sales rights for two years.

Now, the emperor wants to truly turn the salt and iron into a state-owned enterprise and not give private individuals the slightest chance. This is not out of selfish grudges, but out of righteousness.

The household department knew who could be the master of anti-poison, so the document was given to the old god, and the old god sent a Taoist boy to deliver the document to Yunchu.

Yunchu didn't delay, and directly took out the secret recipe for making the anti-virus medicine and handed it to Xiaodaotong. Then, after the little Daotong went away and came back from the household department, he gave Yunchu another document, which said that the Yun family would still Antivirus can be brewed, but the quantity is limited to [-] jars, and the base wine for distillation is provided by the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Therefore, after Yunchu handed over the secret formula of anti-virus medicine, not only did Yunchu's income not decrease, but it increased.

Yun Chu was willing to regard these benefits as the face of the old god.

Since the Liaodong War, Datang's views on neighboring countries and tribes have changed a lot.

In the past, there may have been some subsidies for those Jiji countries and Jiji tribes, or even tax exemptions.

Not anymore, those countries and tribes not only have to pay tribute according to the list formulated by the Tang Dynasty, but also those foreign merchants will be taxed heavily when they enter the Tang Dynasty to do business.

Because, the high officials in the court finally understood one thing, the Tang Dynasty is the country with the lowest taxes on foreign merchants in the world.

Those merchants who brought the goods from Datang back to their hometowns often made sky-high profits.

When Emperor Taizong first ascended the throne, the national strength of the Tang Dynasty was difficult. At that time, the Tang Dynasty needed allies. Therefore, at certain times, Tuyuhun, Xue Yantuo, Turks, Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje, Waguo, and Tubo all took the form of allies. existing.

Now, Datang has become extremely powerful, so there is no need for allies, and a truly powerful country does not need allies.

When there is no external trouble, it is time for Li Zhi to eliminate the internal trouble.

At the beginning of January of the third year of Xianqing, Li Zhi issued an order to exempt Hebei Dao from money and food for three years in order to reward the people of Hebei Dao for their support to the Tang army during the Liaodong War.

In February of the third year of Xianqing, Li Zhi made another decree to exempt the money and grain of Hedong Road for two years, hoping to achieve the goal of hiding wealth among the people.

At the same time, Li Yifu was dispatched as the dethroning envoy of Hebei Province to handle all matters in Hebei Province.

Different from the turmoil in the court, the people in Wannian County and Chang'an County lived extremely happily.

Because, Wannian County has further relaxed the curfew of Fangshi. From the date of promulgation of the "Wannian County, Chang'an County Fangshi Management Regulations", adjacent Fangshi is allowed to open holes in the walls of the Fangshi, and the adjacent It is connected with the other squares and cities, allowing the people in the neighboring squares to move freely.

The first markets to respond to this policy were the commercial markets of Xishi, Dongshi, Jinchangfang, Guangfufang, and Pingkangfang.

This led to a longer commercial operation time in Chang'an City.

It also satisfied Li Zhi, who likes to overlook Chang'an City, that his city is finally no longer dark at night, but has a few more dazzling bright spots.

These lights were granted by Li Zhi, so he was quite proud.

　Chapter 2

　
(End of this chapter)