Fu Tang

Shi Xueting took a look at the letter and said with a smile, "Isn't this a good thing?"

Li Congjia looked suspicious: "But why do I always feel that there is something wrong with this? The people of the Northern Zhou Dynasty surrendered to Datang on their own initiative?"

Yes, this is the case with Yang Xinxie’s letter back. In fact, besides this letter, there is another thing like a Wanyan book. It is written by someone who is willing to surrender, and the bottom is full of signatures, which will not be signed. Just press the fingerprint.

Li Congjia has never believed that there is a free lunch in the world. Thinking about when Li Hongji tried to persuade him to surrender, the generals of the Northern Zhou Dynasty were all righteous and refused to surrender. Having come up with such a thing, Li Congjia wondered if this silly boy had been cheated.

Either he deceived others, but this possibility... Li Congjia decided to put it aside for the time being.

Shi Xueting had confidence in his apprentice, seeing that Li Congjia was really skeptical, he just said: "Wait a little longer, I don't know who he learned from, the first letter never mentioned the main point, wait for him It’s time to tidy up when you come back.”

Li Congjia nodded, the problem is that this guy does this not once or twice, and each time he needs to write another letter to patch it up. I wonder if it is not easy to deliver letters these days?Even if they have a dedicated channel, the time between the two letters is very long, and the wait will be extremely anxious.

Li Congjia rubbed his hands and said, "Next time he doesn't speak clearly like this again, let him deliver the letter by himself, and beat him if he is slower than the messenger!"

Shi Xueting: ...

Are you really sure you don't want to take the opportunity to beat up Shishiro?

Fortunately, Yang Xin's second letter was only a few days late. This time he was more clever and directly reviewed his previous mistakes. unwilling.

The reaction of the common people can be regarded as a reflection of the inaction of the officials. After the earthquake in Daliang, the Northern Zhou Dynasty did not start the rescue as Li Congjia imagined. And the whole family left Daliang, as for the common people?They don't care if these people live or die.

The officials all did this, and the remaining wealthy businessmen who were able to do so followed suit one after another. In the end, the people left in the earthquake zone were the ordinary people.

In his letter, Yang Xin described that Daliang is already a hell on earth, full of chaotic and collapsed houses, the dead were buried in a hurry as soon as they were wrapped in straw mats, and the living were like walking corpses. food scene.

Yang Xin's life was not very good since he was a child, and he sometimes had enough food and clothing, but he had never seen cannibalism. Later, with Li Congjia and Shi Xueting, he seldom even had enough food and clothing , Seeing such a scene was directly stimulated.

So he almost donated all his rations, thanks to the rationality of his subordinates, who prevented him from committing suicide and prevented him from starving to death in the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

Then Yang Xin planned to drop a large amount of food for disaster relief, but at this time, the rational gene in his body replaced the emotional gene, and he began to think that if he used a large amount of food for disaster relief, Datang would not get any benefits, and Li Congjia probably would not agree.

No, no, no, Li Congjia may agree, but his agreement probably won't get out of the cabinet.

So Yang Xin came up with such a ten-thousand-word statement. Anyway, there are no officials left in Daliang now. As long as the common people can save them now, that is the existence of Jade Emperor Tathagata Buddha.

Li Congjia looked at the Wanyan book in his hand, looked up at Shi Xueting and said, "This matter... is a bit troublesome."

Not only was it a bit troublesome, it was very troublesome. If he wanted to go to Daliang to relieve the disaster, Li Congjia had to send another person to fight first. After all, there was a Henan government between them and Daliang.

Henan Province is still ruled by warlords and refuses to submit to the Tang Dynasty. In this case, there is no other way but to fight. However, if you want to transfer troops, you must at least pass the Privy Council. This is all a process, and rushing is also a process. During this process, how many people will die in Daliang?

After all, Yang Xin mentioned the plague in his letter, and the plague over there has already shown its power. Even if Yang Xin has tried his best to prevent it, he can only save a few people in the face of such a disaster alone, and there is not much to do. .

Just when Li Congjia asked Taofu and Chunsheng to notify the cabinet and the Privy Council respectively, Fan Zhi and Wei Renpu came hand in hand, and as soon as they came in, they begged Li Congjia to save Bei Zhou in tears.

Li Congjia was stunned by their crying, and he hurriedly said, "What's wrong with the two old gentlemen? What happened?"

Fan Zhi and Wei Renpu were too sad to speak, and tremblingly took out two letters. After Li Congjia took them over and read them, he realized that they were written by the old disciples of the two old gentlemen who stayed there, and described the Take a look at the tragedy on the other side of the beam.

Li Congjia compared Yang Xin's writing, and found that the people Yang Xin saw were not the worst people. It may be because someone stopped Yang Xin from going to dangerous places. After all, after the earthquake, the next There were several aftershocks, and this time all the houses that were in danger collapsed, and many people were buried under them.

But in this era, being buried below is basically painful and sentenced to death.

Li Congjia sighed infinitely, and before he said anything, he saw Chunsheng and Tao Fu come back and reported that the adults were already waiting in the Xuanzheng Hall.

Li Congjia got up and said, "Come here, two old gentlemen."

Fan Zhi and Wei Renpu looked at each other, and followed to the Xuanzheng Hall. Li Congjia took out the letter from Fan Zhi and the others and the Wanyan book that Yang Xin had produced just now, and said, "Let's take a look."

Just now Fan Zhi and Wei Renpu didn't see the Wanyanshu. After Li Congjia took it out, the two of them took it over and looked at it. Zhou Zong could only stand by and wait helplessly. So what if he is the chief assistant?The chief assistant should also respect the old and love the young.

After reading it, Fan Zhi immediately said: "Your Highness, the world will return to the heart, so this is the best opportunity to regain the Northern Zhou Dynasty."

Fan Zhi still had some affection for Bei Zhou before, and he also thought that if Li Congjia's methods were too radical, he would persuade him. Now it seems that it is better to assign Bei Zhou to Datang!

The Tang Dynasty has not always been smooth, but as long as there is a disaster, the imperial court's response is very fast, and Li Congjia attaches great importance to the relief supplies. Basically, anyone who dares to stretch out his claws will be chopped up, not only Claws and heads.

The cabinet and the Privy Council passed this matter very quickly, anyway, sooner or later they would have to fight, so Master Wang is also known as a teacher.

The problem is who to let go. This time Li Congjia is unwilling to let those gilded people go. After all, after the front line is over, it is estimated that there will be disaster relief. If a group of young soldiers go there, who will be responsible if something goes wrong?

Fortunately, this time everyone understands that there is no one who has to follow. Li Congjia directly asked Pan Mei to lead the team, and Gao Huaide was in charge of supervising the transportation of food and grass. As for Li Hongji, he did not let him idle. Anyway, they are all different warlords. Now the North is divided , all have to be divided into fights.

Li Congjia wrote a letter to Yang Xin after the deployment: Come back to me!

To save people is to save people, but Yang Xin cannot be used, not to mention that Yang Xin can't be of much help if he stays there.

Yang Xin came back obediently this time, and when he came back, he brought a question to Li Congjia: Is the treasury running out of money now?

Li Congjia hadn't thought of this question before, and when he mentioned it, he called the Hubu Shangshu over to ask, but the Hubu Shangshu almost burst into tears—someone finally paid attention to this matter.

The Minister of the Household Department wanted to cry for poverty several times before, but there was no place to cry. Li Congjia is not a luxury person. The cabinet and the Privy Council have greatly reduced his need to spend money every time. The places are all decided by the court, oh, it wasn't when Li Congjia led people to sweep the three states last time.

But that time Li Congjia didn't bring much supplies, it was more because he robbed others.

Hubu Shangshu felt bitter, and even the autumn harvest could not relieve him of some anxiety.

Li Congjia didn't look at the account book. In fact, in such a big country, an account book is definitely not enough to remember. He could only look at the figures roughly. After reading it, he rubbed his hands and said, "That...or the enthronement ceremony..."

Before he finished speaking, Hubu Shangshu said: "No!"

Li Congjia didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "I haven't finished yet, I mean, how about it be simpler?"

Hubu Shangshu asked: "How simple is it? No, no, no, His Highness can't discuss this matter with me. It's better to call everyone over."

Li Congjia: ...

After everyone came over, they were very tired when they heard that Li Congjia was going to make trouble at the ceremony again.

Li Congjia whispered: "No, I just want to save as much as I can. For example, some unimportant goldware, if you can use it, don't use it. If you have to use it... we can use copper to plate gold."

Zhou Zong frowned: "If you do this, if others know about it, wouldn't it be ridiculous?"

Li Congjia said in a very bachelor way: "They love to laugh, right? We have to have the same face. I want the face more. As for the face... is it Khitan dare to laugh or Nan Zhou dare to laugh?"

If you dare to laugh at me, I will beat you. I live frugally for the purpose of strengthening the army and the people. I don’t believe that I can’t handle you.

What's more, Li Congjia really didn't feel that he was being treated badly. Things are just like that these days. The basic necessities of life are restricted by the development of science and technology, no matter how luxurious they are.

With that money, it would be better for someone to get out the flush toilet quickly. He has been here for so many years and is not used to the toilet here.

Everyone looked at each other, a little helpless, and always felt that their model was a bit different. Since ancient times, the history books I read all said that the emperor wanted more luxurious palaces, grander ceremonies, and more exquisite food, and then various ministers took turns to persuade them. Remonstrance, how did they turn around when they got here?

But what Li Congjia said is also reasonable. If the Northern Zhou Dynasty is defeated, other places will be fine. The disaster relief here in Daliang needs a lot of money, which means they have found a burden for themselves by asking for trouble, but everyone present I can't tell what Daliang said, after all, he grew up reading sage books.

Moreover, Li Congjia didn't want to skimp on the ceremony. What he meant was that the utensils that were purely displayed for everyone to be plated with copper were considered innocuous.

Wang Pu turned his head and asked the Minister of the Household Department: "If you replace those utensils with gold plating according to what Your Highness said, how much can you save?"

The Household Minister naturally had an account book in mind, and after doing some calculations, he quickly reported a figure, and this figure was basically the sum of the tax revenues of ten states for a year.

Such a large gap became the last grass that overwhelmed the camel. In the end, the cabinet finally agreed with Li Congjia’s intention. After leaving the Xuanzheng Hall, Zhou Zong specifically asked the Minister of the Ministry of Households to ask him: “Except for the ones that have been settled, nothing else is allowed. Mix it with water! Your Highness is benevolent, and we can't bully His Highness's youth!"

Hubu Shangshu bitterly replied: "Don't worry, I don't dare to tamper with other things."

Others are either used to worship the sky or used by Li Congjia to worship the ancestors. If something goes wrong, one of them will not even think about living!

After everyone left, Shi Xueting looked at Li Congjia and asked, "Do you have other ideas?"

Li Congjia was grading papers, and after listening to it, he raised his head and asked, "What?"

Shi Xueting said: "In the past, if you really didn't have enough money, you would open the internal treasury to make up for it. This time, you didn't mention it from the beginning to the end. You just want to reduce the cost of the grand ceremony. You must have an idea. .”

Li Congjia said: "It's nothing, right? Although my internal treasury has a lot of money, it's not inexhaustible, let alone save it for the two of us to wander around the world in the future."

Shi Xueting couldn't help laughing after hearing this: "I can get it for you as much as you want."

Li Congjia raised his eyebrows: "Are you addicted to embezzling sesame oil money?"

Shi Xueting said frankly: "The money was originally given to me. Even if I don't use it, there is no other place to use it. What's more, it is good to take it from the people and use it to the people."

Li Congjia shook his head: "The operation of an imperial court must form a good cycle. You can't rely on others to pay you if you don't have money. This will only raise a bunch of corrupt officials. Anyway, someone will give money."

Sitting beside him, Shi Xueting rubbed the ink for him and said, "Don't change the subject, you haven't answered the question I just asked."

Li Congjia had no choice but to put down his ink pen and said: "I do have an idea. Part of the money I saved will be used for disaster relief. Of course, more of it will be used to raise funds from the people. Let those wealthy households donate a little bit, which can also ease some of the pain." Pressure, if they are willing to donate money, the imperial court that donates a lot will issue a plaque to commend it, which has no real impact, but it has a good reputation, and I believe there will be businessmen who are willing."

"What about the rest?" Shi Xueting asked, "What do you plan to do with the rest of the money?"

Li Congjia hesitated for a while before saying: "Shuijun."

Shi Xueting had a clear expression on his face: "As expected."

Li Congjia looked at him sideways: "You guessed it?"

Shi Xueting nodded: "Northern Zhou is not a big threat now, in fact, it's just a matter of time, and then your focus will probably shift to Yanyun Sixteen States or Southern Zhou, Yanyun Sixteen States must be planned by Northern Zhou Return to Datang, and talk about it after it is stable, and the problem in the Southern Zhou Dynasty is more difficult than that of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, there is a lot of water, and there is no navy, I am afraid it will not be easy to fight."

Li Congjia nodded: "It's not that we don't have a navy now, but our tactics and strategies have kept us from investing enough in the navy. There must be a lot of nonsense about fighting people, but I don't want to use human lives to fill it. It's better to use it." To take Nanzhou at the smallest price, human life is too precious now, especially young and strong."

Shi Xueting said: "Who do you want to train soldiers?"

Li Congjia didn't have a candidate in mind, but since Shi Xueting asked, he must have his intentions, so Li Congjia asked, "Do you have a candidate?"

Shi Xueting hesitated for a moment and asked: "Do you still remember the two masters of Tiance Mansion?"

Li Congjia nodded: "Remember, one Wei Zihang and one Chai Yuan, what's wrong?"

Shi Xueting said: "Wei Zihang has a lot of research on water warfare, let him try it."

Li Congjia was very surprised: "I said...the Western Regions...doesn't seem to have enough water to fight water battles?"

Shi Xueting smiled and said: "He is just interested. There are many military books handed down from the Tiance Mansion, and some of them mentioned the training of the navy."

Li Congjia understood: "On paper?"

Shi Xueting tilted his head: "It's better than that, anyway, it's just training soldiers, not directly sending him into battle."

Li Congjia nodded: "Then let him go, but when the time comes, the Navy will become a separate organization, and then he can no longer be affiliated with the Tiance Mansion."

Shi Xueting nodded: "I know this. He is very interested in this and has been studying it. Now that he is going to get it, let him have a place to play."

Li Congjia didn't have any other ideas, as long as the Privy Council approved it, there would be no problem.

In fact, the Privy Council Envoy is Li Congjia himself. As long as his idea is not particularly whimsical, it seems unreliable. How could anyone disagree?

The establishment of the naval army was put on the agenda, and Li Congjia directly named it the Huainan Army. Judging from the name, their responsibilities are self-evident.

Li Congjia didn't care if Shi Shouxin would feel flustered after knowing this, all he needed to do now was to prepare for the enthronement ceremony.

To be honest, if he is allowed to come, it is best to stabilize the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Oh, you can’t call it the Northern Zhou Dynasty now. Anyway, it is to stabilize the places in Kaifeng Prefecture in Henan Prefecture. .

But there has never been a perfect thing in this world, and no one is willing to push it back, and Li Congjia can only obey the public opinion.

The newly made dragon robe was sent to him. Li Congjia personally likes the black and red color scheme, which feels more atmospheric, so the dragon robe for the enthronement ceremony is also a black robe embroidered with golden dragons.

After seeing that suit, Shi Xueting couldn't help but asked in his heart, "Don't you want to try it?"

Li Congjia said blankly, "I feel weak when I see it."

The dragon robe has never been one piece but a set. Wearing this set of clothes... Li Congjia has already begun to think about whether it is too late to start exercising from now on.

Shi Xueting knew what he was thinking, and said with a slight smile: "You have to get used to it first, come on, let me help you."

Li Congjia was a little puzzled, he didn't know why Shi Xueting was so persistent, but he followed Shi Xueting's suggestion and put on this suit for a try.

I don't know if it was an illusion, but when Li Congjia saw the man in the black dragon robe in the mirror, he realized that he had been in this time and space for ten years.

In ten years, he has changed from an archaeologist who only valued cultural relics to the current emperor in dragon robes. The fate of his life is really amazing.

Shi Xueting looked at Li Congjia, his eyes gradually became fanatical, to the point where even Li Congjia who was in a trance couldn't be ignored.

However, he soon calmed down again. In the next few days, Li Congjia didn't see him much, but the two of them were indeed busy. Li Congjia was busy moving. After all, the enthronement ceremony was held in Daming Palace, and Shi Xue The court is busy with offering sacrifices to heaven.

Among them, Li Congjia also corrected everyone's address. These days, everyone likes to call the emperor "saint". Li Congjia directly said: Farewell, you should call your majesty.

He didn't say the rest of the sentence. He doesn't want to be a saint, and he can't be a saint. Others don't know what he thinks, but it's just a matter of address. Anyway, he has been called His Highness for so many years. Emperor, then everything is easy to say.

On the day of the enthronement ceremony, Li Congjia woke up early, and first sent officials to report to the Tiandi Zongshe, and then he himself did not wear the dragon robe directly, but put on a filial dress to announce a few feasts, and all the tributes and ancestor gods were placed on this thing After telling everyone that he is going to ascend the throne as the emperor, he will go back and change his clothes for the crown!

Li Congjia complained about it when he was watching the process before, and he had to change his clothes again. The emperor's filial piety...it's not easy to put on and take off.

But this is etiquette, and it has been simplified a little, so Li Congjia has to follow this process.

When Li Congjia was surrounded to change clothes, he was stunned as soon as he stepped into the room - Shi Xueting was actually here.

"Why are you here? Didn't you sue the Heaven and Earth Zongshe?"

Yes, according to historical records, officials were asked to make sacrifices, but Li Congjia simply let his national teacher go. Anyway, it was appropriate to entrust this matter to him, but he did not expect Shi Xueting to come back so quickly. What's more, when you come back, you don't go up to the front to prepare for the following ceremony, what are you doing here?Watching him change clothes?

Shi Xueting's face was serious and dignified, he stepped forward and waved his hands to get the others to step back and said, "I'll change your majesty's clothes."

The author has something to say: Li Congjia: The grand ceremony is about to be held, so don't mess around.

Shi Xueting: Nothing, I just want to experience the feeling of putting on the uniform for you and then taking it off for you.

Li Congjia: What are you doing at night?

Shi Xueting: You.

Li Congjia: ...