I have a backstage in Datang

This sentence seemed to remind Wang Xun who was becoming angry from embarrassment. Sure enough, Wang Xun's face darkened, and he quickly realized that he had been fooled by Hou Junji.

The reason why Hou Junji swears at others is nothing more than a trick to mess around. If he only cared about arguing with Hou Junji, he would have put the matter of Hebei aside.

At that time, the Li family and the royal family will work together, and the matter of the new post station will not be stopped even if they want to.

After Wang Xun figured this out, his breath of embarrassment and anger quickly calmed down. He stroked his beard lightly, and suddenly looked at Hou Junji with a smile on his face, and said, "No matter how loud General Hou scolds, it will still be the same after all." You can't stand on one word. The matter of the Hebei post station must never be achieved. There is no other reason. It is just a waste of money and people..."

Hou Junji immediately retorted, staring at him and said, "Did Hebei ask you to pay? Did you ask the imperial household department to pay?"

Wang Xun was still calm, and said lightly: "Even if you don't need to pay money from the court, it still occupies the land of the world. A post station has to own as much as a thousand acres of land. Isn't this a competition for the interests of the people? Isn't this Is it a waste of money?"

Hou Junji immediately refuted again, loudly saying: "Hebei Dao soldiers have suffered for many years, and there are desolate lands everywhere. If the post station can be set up, it will be a great benevolence for the people. The barren land will be covered by post station soldiers. Responsible for the reclamation, and the harvested food is directly fed back to the local people, how can this matter become a waste of money and people?"

These words made Wang Xun speechless, because what Hou Junji said was the truth.

Things in the world cannot escape a word of reason, no matter how good the aristocratic family is at eloquent sophistry, some truths can never be sophistryed, because sophistry cannot fool people like fools.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see the benefits of owning land at the post station, and because of this, Wang Xun couldn't make further fuss about it.

Chapter 22 [Li Jiancheng is a good man]

But Wang Xun soon thought of other ways, and suddenly said in a dark voice: "General Hou is an official sent by the Tiance Mansion to the court, why is he suddenly talking to Hebei so enthusiastically? Is there something strange about it? Notice Three The surname house slave has always been contemptuous."

This was to criticize Hou Junji's character, and it was also hinting and setting up a trap. Everyone knew what he meant by saying this, and it was nothing more than to arouse suspicion in the heart of Emperor Li Yuan.

The lieutenant generals of the Detachment of Women wrote a letter to set up a new type of station, so what's the matter with you, a general from Tiance Mansion, standing up and helping to speak?

I have to say that this trick of provoking and splashing dirty water is still vicious.

Unfortunately, Hou Junji's next sentence made him stand there in a daze.

I saw Hou Junji bursting out laughing, saluted Li Yuan suddenly, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, I have a memorial. Regarding the establishment of a new type of post station, our Luoyang Tiance Mansion must follow suit..."

Just this sentence shocked all the civil servants.

Tiance Mansion actually wanted to follow suit.

A group of officials of the aristocratic family faintly felt that something was wrong, they hadn't expected this possibility in advance.

Who would have thought that the Tiance Mansion would sit back and watch the Women's Army grow stronger and ignore it.

Who would have thought that Li Shimin chose to share a share of the action together.

But listening to Hou Junji's memorial every word, as if to let everyone hear clearly, he said slowly: "The entire Guanzhong, Heluo, Shandong, Lianghuai, and all the lands controlled by Tiance Mansion To set up a post station, this matter is just a report, but not a request for approval, because His Majesty once gave His Royal Highness King Qin to set up an official office..."

Just report!

Not asking for approval!

Because the King of Qin can set up his own official office.

That is to say, no matter how the court argues or refuses, the Tiance Mansion will continue to act according to its own plan.

Li Shimin also wants to set up a new type of station.

This move caught all the aristocratic families by surprise.

"No!" Wang Xun almost didn't think about it, and wanted to refute loudly when he blurted out.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Li Yuan suddenly said with a faint smile: "Yes!"

The new type of post station is conducive to the royal family's seizure of local power. As long as the people of the Li family are not fools, how can they not support it.

Even the emperor Li Yuan had begun to end, and the officials of the Manchu dynasty became even more furious. Wang Xun suddenly turned his head to look at a person in the palace, and said loudly, "Your Highness, how can you keep silent about the important affairs of the country?"

This almost made it clear that Li Jiancheng should refute and help his family destroy the establishment of a new type of station.

But no one expected that Li Jiancheng, standing at the top of the courtiers, looked at his eyes, nose, nose, and heart, as if he had dozed off. It took him a long time to open his eyes in a daze, and said as if he was blindfolded: " This matter, yes!"

Only three words!

But it was like pouring cold water on the heads of all the family officials.

No one thought that Li Jiancheng would betray the aristocratic families that supported him.

Even Hou Junji of Tiance Mansion looked at Li Jiancheng with confusion, as if he couldn't figure out why the prince was like this.

I saw Li Jiancheng yawned, and suddenly said lazily: "Xiu Ning, it's my third sister, and Shi Min, my second brother. Since childhood, my elder brother has always loved them. Now my younger sister and younger brother want to do something. As for the matter, how can I not support it as an older brother? As an older brother, you have to pamper your younger siblings a little bit, and this is the case among the common people, let alone our royal family..."

Wang Xun was full of anger, staring at Li Jiancheng. Because he was too angry, he lost his dignity for a while, and asked loudly: "What does the prince mean by saying that, does it mean that you support them only because of family affection?"

Li Jiancheng seemed surprised, and asked back: "We are brothers and sisters of the same mother, shouldn't we pay attention to family affection?"

He is like a simple and honest brother, who seems to be unable to understand everything in this world.

However, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty vaguely guessed that Li Jiancheng's real thoughts must be more than that.

No one noticed, Li Yuan on the dragon chair nodded very subtly.

The emperor knew very well that this was the eldest son's decision. Even if all members of the Li family had disputes, they had always been unanimous in facing their own interests.

Li Jiancheng, the elder brother of the Eastern Palace Prince, chose to help his younger brother and younger sister fight against outsiders when facing his own self-interest and the great interests of the royal family.

Even if, in the future, his younger brother and younger sister will be more powerful than him.

But he still made the choice of his heart.

This is Li Jiancheng, the loser who was criticized as indecisive in the history books.

……

"Okay! Very good!" Wang Xun suddenly laughed angrily, his face was ashen.

He gritted his teeth, and suddenly said sullenly: "Since His Majesty agrees, and the Crown Prince also voiced his support, it seems that the establishment of this new type of post station will definitely be facilitated, and the royal family is probably determined to do something that wastes people and money. In this case, in this case..."

He took a deep breath and said suddenly: "Then it will be as you wish, and the ministers will no longer refute, but the scale of the station must be reduced. The area covered by a thousand acres will be changed to a hundred acres, and the garrison of a hundred soldiers will be changed to ten acres. People, in addition to the official position of postmaster, can only be set as the lowest level from the ninth rank."

After he finished speaking, he took another deep breath, dared to look directly at Li Yuan, and said again loudly: "Your Majesty, this is the bottom line of our family."

This is the bottom line of our family.

The implication is that if we cross the line we will flip the table.

This is the early days of the founding of the country, and the imperial power is not particularly stable. In addition, if the aristocratic families are united, they must be extremely powerful, and they really have the ability to overturn the table and not play with you.

Therefore, Li Yuan nodded happily, and said with a smile: "As Aiqing said, the post station will be reduced a little, covering an area of ​​a thousand acres, and changed to ten acres, and stationed with a hundred soldiers, instead of ten. As for the postmaster The official position, also according to Aiqing's suggestion, was changed from the ninth rank to the next..."

Good guy, things in the world are really a coincidence.

When Gu Tianya first mentioned the concept of the post station, he said that it would occupy an area of ​​one hundred acres and garrison ten soldiers, but a certain woman secretly enlarged the scale by ten times for a certain selfish purpose.

Unexpectedly, after getting it to the court, the aristocratic family's side has become a ten-fold reduction in establishment.

It was exactly the same as what Gu Tianya said at first.

It seems that when Gu Tianya said it at the beginning, he had already predicted the end of the matter.

It was as if he could guess the bottom line of the family.

……

Above the court, the royal family and the aristocratic family reached an agreement.

Now that they have reached an agreement, the next step is to implement it, but Li Yuan looked at the officials slowly and said, "Draft the decree, pass the letter, what the court decides today, will be the regulations of Tiance Mansion and the Detachment of Women's Army in the future."

A new type of station can be set up.

But at this moment, a person suddenly said, "Wait, I have something to say."

Li Yuan was slightly startled, looked at the speaker, and asked with a smile: "General Hou, do you still have a memorial?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty is not a memorial!" Hou Junji saluted respectfully, and then said again: "However, the princess's face is still to be given."

uh-huh?

The face of the princess still has to be given?

What does this mean?

Everyone was confused and didn't know what Hou Junji meant.

Going to see Hou Junji smiled, and said with deep meaning: "The princess wanted to build a new type of post station, but was reduced in size by the court. I am afraid that the princess will be in a bad mood after delivering the decree, and maybe some big trouble will be caused, so what? , His Majesty should save face for the princess..."

He stopped talking, glanced at all the ministers in the hall, and said: "My colleagues, you should also save face for the princess."

There are no fools who can stand tall in court, and everyone soon understood what Hou Junji meant.

As a member of the aristocratic family, Wang Xun was the first to stand up and nodded, and said solemnly: "Then specially approve a post station, which can be set up according to the scale originally proposed by the princess. It is allowed to own thousands of acres of land, and it is allowed to send hundreds of soldiers. In addition, the official position of the station chief is also handled according to the princess's will, and he is on the seventh rank, at the same level as the county magistrate, okay?"

Hou Junji smiled, and added lightly: "As for where to set up this special station, it's up to the princess to decide."

All the ministers nodded together and said in unison: "It should be so."

Morning, it's over.

The court turmoil stirred up the general situation, but a poor boy who was struggling to survive in Hebei didn't know that he might be an official soon.

And the little selfishness of a certain woman was finally respected by all the ministers, and the scale of the inn was directly expanded by ten times, and only one was specially approved to be set up in the whole world.

Chapter 23 [Chai Shao, do you want to wear a green hat? 】

Today, the world is not completely peaceful, so the transmission of information is naturally quite slow. If the conclusion of the court wants to spread to the local area, ten days and a half months is relatively fast.

From Chang'an to Luoyang, it takes three days on a fast horse.

From Luoyang to Hebei, it took another ten days to run wildly.

Since the debate on the new type of station passed in the court, almost everyone's attention has been involuntarily turned to Hebei.

royal.

Family.

East Palace Prince's Mansion.

Qin Wang Tiance Mansion...

Everyone was in the same place, waiting for an answer full of curiosity.

"Where will the specially approved new post station be set up..."

Regardless of the millions of things in the world, there is something in common that can be seen from the small to the big. Just need to know where the woman set up the post, and everyone can guess some unusual anomalies from it.

At that time, whether you choose to avoid that station, or use that station to start some kind of struggle, no matter what choice you make, you can be prepared in advance.

It's not like it is now, everyone doesn't know what the princess is thinking.

……

In this era, it is indeed very slow to transmit messages only by horses.

But fortunately, there is another faster way to pass the book.

what is it then?

Birds!

Whether it is the royal family or the aristocratic family, as long as it is a powerful family to a certain extent, it will regard the transmission of the message as a solemn matter.

So, keep birds.

This kind of bird is a kind of falcon produced in Liaodong, East China Sea. Its wingspan can reach half a foot, and its temperament is extremely ferocious. It is not only good at hunting, but also flies like thunder.

If the eagle is given a full meal before departure, it can fly thousands of miles in a day. After being domesticated by humans, it is the fastest way for birds to pass letters in this era.

From Chang'an to Hebei, the falcon can reach in one day plus midnight.

From Luoyang to Hebei, it only takes one day to get there.

Even after sending a message and waiting for a reply, the total time spent is only about three days, which can be regarded as timely communication in this era.

……

This day is the third day.

It was just dawn, before the sun came out, suddenly seven or eight birds of prey flew over the entire city of Chang'an, and the difference between them was at most a cup of tea.

These seven or eight birds of prey, hawks and falcons, each flew into a certain place in the city, including the imperial city, the East Palace, the powerful people of Suzaku Street, and the mansion of the Duke and Marquis.

The news from Hebei has finally come back.

On this day, the officials in Luoyang's Tiance Mansion gathered, and saw a small roll of silk as thin as cicada's wings unfolded in Li Shimin's hands, and a pair of tiger eyes kept reading the words on the silk.

"Miyun, Hebei, ten miles outside the city, southeast, there is a village. This village is very small, with only fifteen households. The village is adjacent to a big river, backed by high mountains, and there is a big lake called Miyun Lake. It is just to the east of the big river flowing into it. Calculating the distance at the speed of a galloping horse, it takes about 370 breaths. The big river, the big lake, and the high mountains are surrounded by a circle. "