Great Tang Southern Emperor

Chapter 537 Cen Wenwen's Advice

Chapter 2 Exhortations of Cen Text

Speaking of this, a sneer appeared on the corner of Li Zhen's mouth: "The situation you mentioned might have happened before, but it's different now. Today's public opinion is in our hands, and what we want to say, isn't it just what it is?"

"Your Highness is talking about newspapers?" Cen Wenwen's eyes lit up. Today's newspapers are very popular in the Tang Dynasty, because there are too many useful things recorded on them, from palace gossip, to court and field anecdotes, to rivers and lakes legends and folk tales, Agriculture, economy, finance, etc., etc., have what you want, and are deeply loved by the people.Many farmers have learned some farming experience from the newspapers, and some businessmen have made a fortune through the information in the newspapers and made a lot of money.

"It's not just newspapers, do you think that since they formed an alliance with the aristocratic family to assassinate me, the emperor will still use them again?" Li Zhen asked back.

"This..." Cen Wenwen's complexion changed. He is also a Confucian disciple. Hearing Li Zhen's words, he felt a little uncomfortable.However, he also knew that this time Confucianism did go too far, and dared to assassinate a promising prince by means of assassination.What's more, what Li Shimin hates the most is the aristocratic family, but Confucianism colludes with the aristocratic family...

Not to mention that they were not successful, even if they were successful, Li Shimin, including his successors, would not reuse Confucianism—no ruler would be willing to use a school that can blatantly assassinate the prince of a country for his own benefit of.

Confucianism has really passed this time, especially the methods are too despicable, such a small person's style is completely inconsistent with the gentleman's way they preach-a school that doesn't even abide by its own code of conduct, how dark it is behind the scenes, don't think about it Can almost guess.How can the monarch dare to use such a school with one set on the surface and another set on the inside?

It can be said that this time Confucianism pushed itself into the abyss of eternal doom, and no one can save them.

"Okay, let's not talk about this. Didn't we say that there is a banquet? Let's go quickly. I haven't been able to eat or sleep well on the boat these days. Today can be regarded as a good time to pay homage to my five internal organs temple. After saying that, Li Zhen knocked lightly on the horse's belly and ran forward quickly. Cen Wenwen followed immediately, and the whole team was much faster.

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The next day, Li Zhen got up very early in the morning. Although he returned to Yuezhou, it didn't mean he could rest. This was impossible. Given his status, wouldn't it be easy to find something to do?

Fortunately, he brought some of the operations in Wentian Shuyuan to the Yue Palace, and Cen Wenwen was beside him to preside over the overall situation. Thanks to their efforts, Yuezhou has not discovered any major incidents in the past few months.

After reading the reports for the past few months, it was already noon in the morning, and just about to have some lunch, I saw my subordinates come in to report: "Your Highness, Yuchi Baoqing, Pei Xingjian and other adults together with the adults of Tiance Mansion Come and see you."

"They?" Li Zhen was stunned, and suddenly realized that it had been almost a day since she came back, and she hadn't met all the subordinates of Tiance Mansion, which is really unreasonable.

"Let them in quickly."

"Chen Yuchi Baoqing has seen His Highness." Yuchi Baoqing came up with a big salute, and everyone behind him hurriedly followed.

"Everyone, please get up quickly." Li Zhen hurriedly stepped forward to help everyone up, and said apologetically, "I'm really sorry, my king has just returned to Yuezhou, and I haven't had time to meet you in the future. I'm really sorry .”

"What's your Highness talking about? Your Highness is busy with business. It should be our fault that I disturb Your Highness at this time." Yuchi Baoqing, his elder brother Yuchi Baolin, and their father Yuchi Jingde were all carved out of the same mold. With thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a black face around his cheeks, from a distance, he looked like a small Yuchi Jingde.There is no need to identify them at all. When the three of them come together, everyone knows that they are father and son.

However, unlike Yuchi Jingde's idiot, the Yuchi brothers have studied literature and martial arts since they were young. Although they have not achieved much, they are very familiar with what people say - about this, they are better than others. The Cheng brothers are much stronger.

At this time, Cheng Chuliang was already jumping up and down next to Li Zhen, scratching his ears and cheeks: "Your Highness, don't be polite to me, Xiao Cheng feels uncomfortable when I hear these literary things, so don't be polite, let me just say it straight. We came here to find something to do with His Highness."

"You coward, do you still have any rules? Play while you're at it." Yuchi Baoqing was furious, and he slapped Cheng Chuliang aside in a big slap.

Although in terms of close relationship, Yuchi Baoqing may not be as close as Cheng Chuliang and Li Zhen, but in terms of martial arts, he is not inferior. Moreover, he is a little older than Cheng Chuliang. Before coming here, Cheng Yaojin asked Yuchi Baoqing to take care of him more—— This is tantamount to handing over the discipline power of Cheng Chuliang to Yuchi Baoqing, so Yuchi Baoqing can punch and kick Cheng Chuliang in all kinds of discipline, but Cheng Chuliang can't resist yet.

During this period of time, it was fortunate that Yuchi Baoqing was watching, otherwise, with Cheng Chuliang's ability to cause trouble, Yuezhou City would have been turned upside down by him long ago.

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, we are all my brothers, there is no need to be so polite." Li Zhen said with a smile: "Everyone may wish to speak directly about what it is."

"This..." Everyone looked at each other, and finally Yuchi Baoqing said: "Your Highness, it's actually not a difficult task, but can Your Highness...can you arrange something for us to do?"

"Huh?" Li Zhen was stunned: "What do you mean? You have been here for so long, hasn't Mr. Cen arranged things for you?"

"There are, but most of them are small jobs." Speaking of this, even Pei Xingjian felt aggrieved: "Of course, it's not that the subordinates think that small jobs are not jobs, so they don't want to do them, but even this small jobs There are only one or two items occasionally, which is not enough for us to share——Before your Highness returns, Baoqing will be better, there is at least one job to patrol the streets that consumes time, and the subordinate has been idle for seven days."

"Shouldn't it? Mr. Cen should not be such a person." As the superior is the most afraid of partiality, it is impossible for Cen Wenwen to make such a mistake.

"Don't care about Master Cen." Yuchi Baoqing quickly waved his hand: "Actually, if you are looking for work, you can still find a lot of jobs, but don't worry, don't forget that we are all members of the Tiance Mansion, are in the military, and meddle in local government affairs It's not appropriate, and it's easy to fall into the shoes of others."

"That's right." Li Zhen thought for a while: "That means you want to ask me for a longer job?"

Cheng Yaojin nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, yes, at least for a year or so."

"That's it." Li Zhen thought for a while, and said to the outside: "Come here, invite Mr. Cen to this king."

"Yes."

Chapter 538 Arrangements for Everyone in the Tiance Mansion

Chapter 3 Arrangements for everyone in Tiance Mansion

Cen Wenwen came soon: "I have seen Your Highness, but I don't know why Your Highness is looking for you here?"

He asked like this, but in fact, after seeing the people in Tiance Mansion, he already knew what Li Zhen wanted to come in.

"Mr. Cen is free of courtesy. It's not a big deal for me to find my husband. I just want to ask, are there any bigger bandits in Yuezhou?"

Cen Wenwen shook his head with a wry smile and said: "Your Highness understands what His Highness means, but His Highness thinks that if there are bandits in the territory of Yuezhou, I will be chased by these people from Tiance Mansion so that I will hide and dare not see them?"

Yuchi Baoqing also said: "Yes, Your Highness, these days, we have wiped out all the small-scale bandits and bandits in Yuezhou that should be wiped out, and the rest are useless. Those who ran so far Lu, just kill a few people—not enough to get between the teeth."

"There are no bandits anymore?" Li Zhen was very disappointed. She originally thought of using the job of exterminating bandits to send this group of people away, but unexpectedly they have already been done.

"It can't be said that there are no bandits anymore." Luo Zhe, who had been silent all this time, suddenly raised his head and said.

Luo Zhe is the only son of Luo Shixin, a warrior at the end of the Sui Dynasty. Although Luo Shixin is not the number one warrior in the world who hates the sky and the earth, as in the novel, he can still be a modern Meng Ben (a warrior of the Qin Dynasty in the pre-Qin period). Power can be divided, that is, Luo Shixin died too early, otherwise Qin Qiong would not be able to be the number one god of war in the Tang Dynasty.

As Luo Shixin's only son, Luo Zhe has completely inherited Luo Shixin's bravery, and in terms of military strength, he is definitely inferior to Li Zhen.It's just that he was a low-key person, and he didn't join the army or politics, so he didn't leave a name in history, so he didn't know about it. If it wasn't for Fang Yiai's introduction a few years ago, Li Zhen really didn't know that Luo Shixin still had descendants alive.

So don't look at Luo Zhe's lack of fame in history, in fact, if he really wants to fight, there may not be anyone other than Li Zhen who is his opponent. What's more rare is that although he has inherited Luo Shixin's bravery, he has been familiar with military books since he was a child. Being calm is a rare general.

It's a pity that Luo Zhe has always been indifferent to Li Zhen's courtship in the open and in the dark, and his reaction is mediocre, and he has no intention of officialdom. After Li Zhen learned that he was named the master by Li Shimin, he thought he would refuse, but he didn't expect this. It was a surprise that he actually agreed once.

"Oh?" Li Zhen was taken aback: "Master Bo (Luo Zhe) just said it out of nowhere."

Luo Zhe was young and mature, and he was calm. Seeing Li Zhen's question, he said: "Master Cen also said just now that there are no bandits in Yuezhou, but in a place as big as Lingnan Road, there should be many bandits, right?"

"I'm just about to talk about this." Cen Wenwen glanced at Luo Zhe approvingly, and he became interested in this young man, and then said to Li Zhen: "Although there are no bandits in Yuezhou, there are a lot of bandits outside Yuezhou. Some mountain villages are simply bandit villages. During the busy farming period, they are farmers. During the slack period, they gather together to gang up and rob houses. Moreover, these bandits are very rampant. They even dare to plunder the military supplies shipped to Nanyang. And the information is very accurate. I suspect that someone is supporting them behind the scenes. "

"You mean..." Li Zhengang was about to say that the aristocratic family was playing tricks, but when he saw Pei Xingjian, Wang Fangyi and others in the crowd, he quickly shut up and said, "In this case, why didn't you send someone to suppress the bandits?"

Cen Wenwen said helplessly: "It's not that I don't want to suppress the bandits, but...Your Highness forgot? I'm just the prince of Yue, and it's already a little more restrained to preside over Yuezhou's government affairs, let alone outside of Yuezhou?"

"That's right." Li Zhen understood that Cen Wenwen was only the prince of Yue, and at most he could only manage the internal affairs of Yuezhou when Li Zhen was away. As for the affairs outside of Yuezhou, he had no such qualification at all.

"I understand. I will give you an order. Pei Xingjian will be the chief of bandit suppression, Yuchi Baoqing will be the deputy chief, Luo Zhe will be the marching staff officer, Cheng Chuliang will be the forward general, and Wang Fangyi will be the deputy general...to command the three thousand guards of the King of Yue and to take charge of Lingnan Road For all the bandit suppression affairs, officials from all over the place must cooperate fully, but those who disobey will be killed without mercy." Li Zhen signed the order in twos and arranged most of the people in Tiance Mansion.

Cen Wenben has no right to give orders, but Li Zhen does. Whether it is the Lingnan appeasement envoy, the Lingnan road patrol envoy, or the Nanyang recruitment envoy, they can take charge of all Lingnan affairs during wartime.What's more, he still has the status of General Tiance, who was supposed to be able to command the soldiers and horses of the whole country... With so many identities, how could the officials of Lingnan Road dare to disobey Li Zhen's intention?

"Thank you, Your Highness." Pei Xingjian was overjoyed, and his heart was a little moved. He didn't expect Li Zhen to arrange a position for himself as a general manager. This is an incomparable trust in him. I haven't seen Cheng Chuliang, who is closer to the King of Yue, but a vanguard general. ?

"Thank you, Your Highness." Cheng Chuliang also quickly thanked him. He didn't feel too unhappy for Li Zhen's arrangement. He was very self-aware that this vanguard general was actually the most suitable position for him. Can't do it.

"Thank you, Your Highness..." The people who were selected were also very grateful, and they were not dissatisfied with their positions. Those who could be stuffed into the Tiance Mansion by Li Shimin were all the children of the family who had a good relationship with Li Zhen or had a good character. Some of them are newcomers. It is Li Zhen's trust in them to be able to mix with a powerful general. If they are asked to join the army now, at most they will start as a centurion. of?

The people who were not named were a little disappointed, but they didn't feel dissatisfied. After all, this was just a bandit suppression team of 3000 people, and there was simply no room for so many people in the Tiance Mansion.This time, they were going to suppress bandits, and the ones that were stuffed in were all skilled in the military, while the rest were mostly civilians, whose professions were not suitable for them. Naturally, Li Zhen would not let them go to die.

But there is one exception here, and that is Li Jingye, Li Ji's grandson.Li Jingye was born in the ninth year of Zhenguan, and he is only seven years old this year. Although he was very powerful later (in order to maintain the Li family dynasty, he raised troops to fight against Wu Zetian, but unfortunately his head was beheaded by his subordinates), but now he is still just a kid. A fart boy, who didn't know what his grandfather was thinking, actually agreed to Li Shimin's recruitment.