A scholar of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty

Cheng Yaojin saw Changsun Wuji again and said, "Changsun's family, what are you doing with such a stinking face so early in the morning!"

Changsun Wuji: "..."

"Could it be that you lost money early in the morning?" Cheng Yaojin asked again

The corners of Changsun Wuji's eyes twitched twice.

The heavy palace gate opened, and the generals and ministers walked into Chengtian Gate and headed towards Taiji Palace.

Chapter 183 State Announcement County Marquis

The sky broke through the clouds and shone on the Chang'an Imperial Palace. Civil and military officials walked into the Taiji Palace. The six officials reported their affairs. All the procedures were the same as before, until everyone thought that this court meeting would be as dull as before. When it was over, Changsun Wuji walked out of the court, "Your Majesty, the old minister wants to sue someone."

Sue people in Tai Chi Palace!Isn't this what Wei Zheng often does?Why did Changsun Wuji also do it, and all the officials wondered why they had offended the oldest and most cunning Changsun Wuji in the court?

Li Shimin nodded and looked at him, "Mr. Zhao, just speak up."

"The old minister told the governor of Pushan County, Gu Qing!" Changsun Wuji said loudly, "Gu Qing used power and money to recruit Chang'an craftsmen, and since he bought the major merchants in Chang'an, he has controlled the prices of Chang'an. Now the price of pens and inks in Chang'an is getting worse. It is even more high, and if things go on like this, the people of Chang’an can’t afford anything.”

Changsun Wuji sued Gu Qing in front of the palace, and immediately started talking in a low voice among the court, and they all quietly looked at Li Er's face.

"Old man Changsun, what you said is wrong!" Cheng Yaojin was not happy, "You said that the Chang'an merchants that Gu Qing recruited are more expensive?"

"Indeed." Changsun Wuji said.

"Your Majesty!" Cheng Yaojin bowed coyly, "Chang'an pens and inks are already expensive. Ordinary people can't afford this thing. My Cheng family doesn't care too much. You say it's expensive! When did that thing get cheaper? It's just you rich people playing tricks, just to pretend to be gentle."

"Let's talk about it!" Cheng Yaojin said again, "Who doesn't know that Gu Qing is spending money like water now, he opened bookstores for the common people, and opened factories for the farmers, who wouldn't expect Gu Qing's factory to make the farmers eat more food, Eat more meat."

"Bring Gu Qing here." Li Er said to Wang Qin beside him.

In Pushan Village, Yang Sheng was rushing towards Gu Qing's home, and Fan Jian also rushed over, "Brother Yang, hurry up, my wife is going to give birth suddenly, and the midwives are already delivering the baby."

"Didn't you say that there are still some days left?" Yang Sheng's eyes flickered with panic, and he rushed towards the Taoist temple.

Gu Qing waited outside the Taoist temple and saw Yang Sheng coming in a hurry, "Don't get excited, it's not too early to give birth to the baby, the midwife has already delivered the baby inside, don't worry."

Yang Sheng ran up to Sun Simiao, "Master Sun, my wife is now..."

"Don't worry!" Sun Simiao said calmly, "She started to have abdominal pain when she was walking with Wu girl. The old man has adjusted her pulse. The fetal image is stable and the labor is half a month early, but it's nothing serious."

Listening to Sun Simiao saying that Yang Sheng was about to enter the Taoist temple, Sun Simiao wanted to stop him, but he was in no hurry.

"It's okay, our family doesn't pay much attention to this." Gu Qing said with a smile.

When Yang Sheng broke into the delivery room, he heard the cry of the child, "Did you give birth?"

"It's a daughter." The midwife held the baby, "Look at how loud the baby's cry is."

"Show me?" Yang Sheng took the child excitedly, and excitedly came to the bedside of Wang Yuan, who was about to collapse from sweating profusely, "Yuan'er, we have a baby."

"Husband, it's a daughter." Wang Yuan said feeling a little lost.

"Hello, daughter, I like my daughter too." Yang Sheng hugged the child to Wang Yuan's pillow, "Look at her, how loudly she is crying."

Wang Yuan looked at her daughter with a happy expression.

Gu Qing nodded reassuringly when he heard the crying inside, Wang Qin came with a carriage, "Mr. Gu, His Majesty summoned you."

"Summoned?" Gu Qing asked suspiciously, "What's the matter?"

"Master Gu, please." Wang Qin made an invitation gesture, but did not answer.

After explaining a few words to his master, he got into the carriage and asked Wang Qin again, "Your Majesty, how do you feel today?"

"Very good." Wang Qin still had an unshakeable smile.

The carriage staggered, Gu Qing came to Chang'an with doubts in his heart and walked all the way into the palace. When he arrived at the Taiji Palace, all the ministers were there, Changsun Wuji and Cheng Yaojin stood in front of the court.

"Gu Qing, waiting in Pushan County, pay my respects to Your Majesty." Gu Qing bowed and saluted.

"Gu Qing." Li Er opened his mouth and said, "Zhao Guogong, is there such a thing as telling you to control merchants to raise prices in Chang'an?"

Hearing this, Gu Qing quietly glanced at Changsun Wuji, who was standing calmly, and made a mistake!This Changsun Wuji is still very tall. Many of the merchants he recruited have friendship with the Changsun family, and Changsun Wuji asked them to raise the prices before again, so it was a miss!

"Gu Qing?" Li Er called again.

"Stinky boy! Your Majesty is asking you something." Cheng Yaojin drank in a low voice.

"Ah?" Gu Qing looked like he had just recovered, "Your Majesty, I know I was wrong."

"Gu Qing, do you think you can expose your mistake once you know it?" Changsun Wuji turned to Gu Qing and said, "You let the prices in Chang'an be high, how do you let the people live? You recruit craftsmen with one hand, and merchants with the other. Do you want to unify Chang'an's money and taxation? His heart can be punished..."

"Wait!" Gu Qing interrupted Changsun Wuji, "I can't bear Zhao Guogong's hat, and I dare not control Chang'an's money and taxes."

"You still want to quibble!" Changsun Wuji pointed at Gu Qing and shouted.

"Changsun Wuji!" Cheng Yaojin also yelled, stepped forward and stood in front of Gu Qing, "You are already old, how shameless you are to toss a junior like this?"

"You Cheng Yaojin has nothing to do here!" Changsun Wuji's momentum did not give in at all.

"Oh!" Cheng Yaojin sneered, "I, Cheng, changed my name to Cheng Zhijie a few years ago. I still recognize Cheng Yaojin in terms of friendship. Don't forget, Changsun Wuji! Gu Qing opens the bookstore to teach Children learn to read and write, make firearms, save the frontier, new paper, movable type printing, which one is not for the people! A laborer earns a hundred cash a month, and it is not for the people to eat more food! Can your eldest grandson Wuji do it? You When eating meat and drinking wine, do you think about the life of the common people?"

"You say that Gu Qing controls Chang'an's prices, but I, Cheng, don't believe that there is no connection between you and those merchants!"

The echo of Cheng Yaojin's words echoed in the Taiji Palace, Gu Qing's heart was more than half cold, and he was playing too much, too much!I have played myself into a pit, people's hearts!popular support!I made a big taboo.

"Lu Guogong back down." Li Er said expressionlessly.

Cheng Yaojin bowed to Li Er and returned to the court.

"Gu Qing, what do you want to say?" Li Er asked again.

"I thought, I..." Gu Qing took a deep breath, "I was wronged by Duke Zhao."

"Let's hear it." Li Er finally showed a smile on his face, and looked at Gu Qing with great interest, as if he was watching a prey.

Chapter 184

Standing in front of dozens of ministers, Gu Qing looked at Zhangsun Wuji in the grand Taiji Palace, "My boy did not increase the prices of the merchants, but the price changes because of the shortage of workers. This is what Pushan Workshop Already increasing output to maintain prices."

Gu Qing went on to say, "Dare to ask Mr. Zhao, how much is Doumi now?"

"Of course the old man knows." Changsun Wuji was about to speak.

"Let's talk about it, kid." Gu Qing said, "In the first year of Zhenguan, Guanzhong was hungry, and a rice bucket was worth a piece of silk, and a rice bucket was three dollars! It is said that a rice bucket is only three or four dollars, and today’s rice bucket is only three dollars.”

This passage is the original passage in Zi Zhi Tong Jian, and Gu Qing remembers very clearly that he memorized it a lot when he was studying.