Fu Tang

Li Congjia looked up at the sky in astonishment. The sun was shining brightly in the sky at this time, with only one or two clouds floating. He really couldn't figure out where the thunder came from.

Cui Shiji was slashed straight on, and several people around him were also slashed, and some people on the periphery were so frightened that they passed out, so a group of people fell directly on the square of Hanyuan Hall.

Cui Tong, who was still on the roof and refused to come down, yelled heartbreakingly: "Daddy!" Then he was about to jump down, and Li Congjia immediately sent someone to pick him up.

Cui Shiji had already been turned into charcoal by a bolt of lightning from the sky, so his son must not have any more problems, otherwise who would he turn to to settle the score?

Fan Zhi and the others glanced at Li Congjia tremblingly. Li Congjia hadn't calmed down his beating heart, so he could only reluctantly say: "Cui Shiji is not tolerated by the heavens, let's strike him with lightning!"

Fan Zhi immediately took the lead and knelt down and shouted long live. As for the fainted Shandong gentry and the crying Cui Tong, they had become the background, and Li Congjia against the background made people dare not look directly at them.

Li Congjia raised his hand to get the crowd to stand up, glanced at Fan Zhi, Fan Zhi understood immediately, and asked people to restrain Cui Shiji's body, and suppressed all the future Shandong gentry.

Li Congjia waved his hand and said, "Let's stop here today." After he finished speaking, he was a little hesitant. According to reason, he should strike while the iron is hot at this moment, and leave Fan Zhi and others to discuss how to deal with these Shandong gentry. Li Congjia's reputation has fallen to the bottom, and then Li Congjia can directly send people to conduct various inspections.

It's just that in the thunderstorm just now, these old men also accompanied him outside for a time, Li Congjia was scared enough, and these people are probably not much better, the most important thing is that when the lightning struck Cui Shiji just now, it was too Suddenly, the courtiers were not too close or far away from them. Cui Shiji was the first to bear the brunt of the lightning strike, and the others were also affected to some extent. There were a lot of scorched beards. Somewhat impersonal.

For the sake of the physical and mental health of his ministers, Li Congjia decided to let them rest first.

As for these Shandong gentry, it is natural that they are going to be imprisoned. Something about lightning strikes.

Shi Xuehe looked at the various statements, there were truths and lies, and there was even black Li Congjia, who vaguely said that he was rejected by the heavens, so he became angry and threw all the children of those aristocratic families into prison.

Shi Xuehe was a little apprehensive, and asked, "Your Majesty, do you really want to do this?"

Li Congjia nodded: "I know what you want to say. This time I will teach you to be a good boy. Rumors and such things cannot be unanimous, so that everyone can see that there must be someone behind the scenes. On the contrary, it is true and false. Those who hide The people in the back can't figure out what's going on, and it's not easy for them to fish in troubled waters."

Shi Xuehe nodded half-understanding, he didn't know that Li Congjia's rumors were not intended to promote how powerful he was, but to cut off the way for the Shandong gentry to force the court to submit through rumors.

Now if those people still have a way to go, other than rebelling or starting to spread rumors, they will definitely try to nail Li Congjia to the pillar of shame.

The first emperor's lesson is still there, how could Li Congjia act carelessly?

Shi Xuehe went down with the order, Li Congjia thought about it and thought that there should be no big problem, and the rest can be taken slowly, so he planned to take a good rest.

He had thought that today might be extremely difficult, and he was mentally prepared, but he didn't expect to risk his life.

Of course, if he doesn't want to risk his life, no one can force him, but the problem is that if he didn't risk his life at the time, the follow-up may not be so simple, and it may take a lot of effort.

In the final analysis, those lightning rods are very qualified and well-prepared. Li Congjia was happy and decided to reward these people. Well, let the Ministry of Industry submit the list tomorrow to see who made it. Be sure to reward them well. If these people hadn't done a good job, he would have confessed on the roof today!

Li Congjia originally wanted to give the entire imperial court a two-day holiday. Although the impact of the locust plague is still there, the initial panic has passed, and now it is gradually on the right track. The initial panic has passed, and the people found that they can still buy food. Some even have food in their homes, so they don't have to worry too much immediately.

In fact, it's useless to worry now, anyway, it's not that the entire imperial court is out of order, it's just a two-day holiday for officials participating in the Great Court Assembly.

What surprised him was that everyone didn't want a holiday. Except for a few ministers who were really frightened, everyone went to work on time the next day. Fan Zhi and others were even ready to punish the Shandong gentry.

Li Congjia still admires the dedication of these people. It has to be said that those ministers at the beginning of the founding of the country were still very responsible in certain aspects.

Li Congjia looked at the brochure Fan Zhi sent up, nodded and said, "Sure."

This note is mainly to investigate and deal with the illegal affairs of Lu Zheng Wang's family. Of course Li Congjia must agree. Without this excuse, how could he deal with these families?

Of course, he has a bunch of black material in his hands, but now he is taking it out as if he is deliberately planning to do something to the family. Can you find out what you haven't found before?

As for the Cui family... that was about another brochure sent by Wei Renpu. Li Congjia looked at the brochure and was very suspicious that he asked these old men to go home to rest yesterday. Will the processing method be settled in such a short period of time, just waiting for his consent?

Li Congjia held the booklet and did not speak for a while. The cabinet ministers and the six ministers looked at each other. No one urged Li Congjia. They all knew that Li Congjia might be in trouble.

Li Congjia was indeed in a dilemma. The solution given in this brochure was very simple and rude. All males of the Cui family who were over 15 years old would be beheaded, and those under 15 would be enslaved.

This kind of punishment is too severe. The Cui family is a huge family, with no fewer than a hundred men over the age of 15. If Li Congjia's money goes down, the lives of more than 100 people will be gone.

Although countless people have died at the hands of the Tang army in these years of conquests, Li Congjia has never felt such great pressure. Of course, there is also one of the most important problems. The same goes for the three aristocratic families, each of which has a large number of people, including the slaves of the previous aristocratic family, there are now hundreds or thousands of people.

It is strange that Li Congjia is not under a lot of pressure.

He pondered for a while and put the booklet in his hand on the imperial case and asked, "Is this punishment a bit heavier?"

At the beginning, the Zhou family's rebellion was real, and it was nothing more than exile. The Cui family's rebellion and disobedience were always lighter than rebellion.

Wei Renpu knew that Li Congjia would say that, so he said: "Your Majesty is kind, it's just... a century-old family is not just talking, their resilience is extremely strong."

Wei Renpu didn't say it too blatantly, but Li Congjia already understood that if these companies are not completely wiped out, they will only be seriously injured. After 100 years, or even decades, they may recover their vitality, and then they will be able to keep up with The court challenged.

When Li Congjia thought of the various ethos in Shandong in later generations, he immediately took it for granted that the essence of Confucius was not left behind, but all the dross distorted by those Confucian scholars were passed down, and local protection was rampant.

If the death of some people can change, Li Congjia is not afraid of taking the blame.

Thinking of this, Li Congjia's heart hardened, and he raised his hand to write Zhu Zhu.

After Li Congjia finished writing, he said: "Send people to arrest them as soon as possible, and strictly verify, don't reveal anyone."

Li Congjia didn't want anyone to slip through the net at all, he endured his life to accumulate strength, and came to revenge after a few years. Well, he watched a lot of novels and TV, and his brain was so big.

In fact, even if he didn't say anything, no one would dare to let people go without permission, unless the person sent to do things has the internal support of the Cui family. Don't think it's better to be alone.

Li Congjia also asked Shi Xuehe to release the news that the Cui family had been imprisoned in the death row, so recently the city of Chang'an has been very lively, with all kinds of rumors and gossip flying all over the sky. Most of them say that he is short-sighted, and only people from aristocratic families don’t need it. Oh, and there are also people who say that he has a bad background. Of course, this bad background mainly refers to Li Min.

After all, Li Congjia's great-grandfather can't say well if he really counts up his ancestors.

However, he didn't expect that the common people's attention was not on this at all. They were all discussing that the emperor was not struck by lightning while standing on the Hanyuan Hall, but Cui Shiji was struck to death while standing below. It means that God really has eyes, and the emperor is benevolent, so if he doesn't kill the emperor, Cui Shiji must be a heinous person, otherwise how could he be killed?

Li Congjia never expected such a direction. He was already prepared for someone to take advantage of the troubled waters to blackmail him, and asked Shi Xuehe to find a way to guide the public opinion. It was not him who boasted about manipulating public opinion. Beat Cui Shiji eight times!

In the end, there was no need for his guidance at all. Everyone was guessing about Li Congjia's origin, and some even said that he was the reincarnation of a real dragon!

After all, there are too few spiritual entertainments in this era. It is an era when stories can be told from grandfather to grandson, and people of any age will like to hear such legendary stories. Li Congjia’s experience along the way is really in line with everyone’s appetite. There is even a storyteller who made up a joke!

After Shi Xuehe's report, Li Congjia didn't know what kind of expression to put on to face this matter. Shi Xuehe was also a little apprehensive. Start talking about the emperor!

Shi Xuehe felt that he had neglected his duty. This kind of thing had never happened when the younger brother was here. As soon as the younger brother left...

Li Congjia saw Shi Xuehe's dejected expression, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Well done, Datang doesn't waste people with words, let them talk as they like."

Shi Xuehe instantly felt relieved, as long as Li Congjia didn't blame him, this matter would not be a big deal.

After Shi Xuehe left, Li Congjia happily continued to read the booklet, and then began to read the news sent by the intelligence department, but he didn't see any news from Shi Xueting, so he couldn't help but feel very worried.

Just when Li Congjia was thinking about whether to give Lei Youzhong a secret decree to cooperate with Shi Xueting, he saw Li Hongji rushing over. Before Chunsheng reported, Li Congjia shouted: "Come in."

Li Congjia had a bad premonition in his heart. If it was an ordinary matter, Li Hongji probably wouldn't be so flustered.

After Li Hongji came in, he saluted and said: "Your Majesty, the Shandong gentry beheaded the envoys, and supported their troops to stand on their own."

Li Congjia was surprised at first, but then had a sense of expectation, and asked, "Which family is the leader?"

"It's the Lu family."

Li Congjia nodded and said, "Have you sent any news to the cabinet?"

Li Hongji saw that Li Congjia wasn't flustered at all, so he calmed down a little and said, "Someone has already sent them."

Li Congjia took a deep breath: "Let's go, let's have a meeting."

Li Congjia took Li Hongji to the Xuanzheng Palace, where the cabinet ministers, Zhao Kuangyin and Li Ping were all present.

After sitting down, Li Congjia said, "You can tell the people below that you don't need to collect the criminal evidence of these people. Now that the Lu family has been confirmed, are the remaining three families sure to participate?"

Li Hongji nodded and said, "They have all participated, even gentry, big and small, in Shandong."

Li Congjia sneered: "It's pretty united."

Fan Zhi immediately said: "For the current plan, we must quickly send people to quell the chaos. Shandong has also suffered from locust plagues. They will raise troops again. I am afraid that the people will have a hard time."

Li Congjia curled his lips: "They don't care about the life and death of ordinary people, they only care about their own family, pass on the order, order Qin Guogong to go to Shandong to suppress the rebellion as the marching chief, and Yang Ye as the deputy chief, and the evil leader's followers don't care whether they live or die!"

Zhao Kuangyin bowed to answer, although Li Congjia's tone was very calm, judging from his order, he must have been angered.

After getting the order, Zhao Kuangyin turned his head and went down to start preparations. By the way, he notified Yang Ye that although Yang Ye is not a low-level official now, he is not qualified for a meeting of this standard.

After Zhao Kuangyin left, Li Congjia turned to the Minister of the Ministry of Punishments and said, "The four families who are imprisoned in the dungeon don't have to stay anymore, they will be executed!"

Originally, only the Cui family was put on death row. After all, it was Cui Shiji and his son who were in charge from the beginning to the end. The others just stood behind and waved the flag.

It's just that everyone knew at the beginning that these people would go to death row sooner or later, as long as the people sent by Li Congjia found out everything, they would die.

From ancient times to the present, any family that can develop is not dirty at all. It is all kinds of things that challenge people's imagination on the surface, but it can be well concealed under the skin of the family. If it is revealed, the family's destruction will be imminent, and all members of the clan will be nailed to the pillar of shame. Even if someone escapes by chance, future generations will not dare to regard themselves as members of the family.

Originally, these four families took advantage of the national calamity to attack Li Congjia, it was a gamble, but they felt that they had a higher chance of winning this big gamble, so they did not turn back, but it is a pity that they failed, they had no way out, and the left and right were dead , so I had to choose another path - self-reliance.

The four families have been operating in Shandong for a long time, and they are basically regarded as the local emperors of Shandong. Even some people in Shandong may not know who the current emperor is, but they will definitely not know who the heads of these four families are.

So these people's uprising went smoothly. The only thing that makes them feel troublesome is that there is no legitimate reason. They can say that Li Congjia is a stupid king, but where is the stupid king?

The merchants under the emperor would rather lose money and sell grain at a lower price, wishing that the whole world would know about it. Li Congjia's reputation was raised to an unprecedented level just because of this incident.

It was a very wrong choice to revolt against Li Congjia when the common people were most grateful and supportive of him, but they had no way out.

So Li Congjia didn't have any psychological burden at all, and killed all those people who stayed in Chang'an from the four families who cut melons and vegetables.

They have all rebelled, and the crimes of the Yi Jiu Clan, what are they still doing?But since their family members chose to rebel, it means that they have given up on them.

Ever since Chang'an became the capital of the Tang Dynasty again, there has been almost no such large-scale beheading incident. When the four families were pushed to the execution ground, they were still yelling at Li Congjia, but they were greeted by rotten eggs and vegetable leaves. There are people's saliva.

From the beginning to the end, no one felt sorry for them, but felt that these people had polluted the land of Chang'an.

After Li Congjia found out, he said to Fan Zhi: "So whether the emperor is good or the court is good, the common people know very well that they are not just fools."

Fan Zhi bowed and said, "Your Majesty's words are very true."

After saying this, Fan Zhi asked, "May I ask Your Majesty, what are the days of the National Teacher?"

Li Congjia said smoothly: "The national teacher is retreating to study Buddhism, what's wrong? What can I do with him?"

Fan Zhi chuckled and said, "Now there are no outsiders here, so why should His Majesty hide it? The National Teacher is not here, and there are fewer soldiers from the Tiance Mansion and the Huoqi Battalion. I'm afraid they left with the National Teacher?"

Li Congjia raised his eyebrows and looked at him: "What? Does the cabinet have to ask about the military arrangements of the Privy Council?"

Fan Zhi said helplessly: "It's not that the old minister wants to interfere with the order of the Privy Council, but...the Honglu Temple recently received a letter of credence from Dali, claiming that Lei You eventually joined forces with Lingnan natives to invade Dali for no reason. He wants to ask us for an explanation. .”

Li Congjia was taken aback after hearing this: "Dali? What does it have to do with Dali?"

Fan Zhi glanced at Honglu Temple Minister, Honglu Temple Minister immediately presented the letter of credence, Chunsheng took it and handed it to Li Congjia, Li Congjia was halfway through seeing it, and he was sure that the Lingnan native that Dali was talking about should be Shi Xueting them.

It's just...how did they hit Dali?Lei You finally got involved?

Li Congjia reached out to knock on the imperial case, and then said: "Although the land in the south of the Lingnan is smoky, the climate is very suitable for growing food, but the natives are rampant there, and it is extremely difficult to discipline the court, so I asked the national teacher to bring some people Let’s communicate with the natives in the past to see if we can let them grow some food, if it goes well, we don’t have to worry about winter food.”

Fan Zhi also agrees with Li Congjia's statement. He doesn't know if Lingnan is really good at producing food, but those natives are really annoying because they don't accept discipline. Those natives are also united tightly.

"The National Teacher's trip this time is full of dangers, but it's not appropriate for Lei Youzhong to use troops privately..." Fan Zhi looked at Li Congjia with some concern.

Li Congjia asked, "How far has the fight gone?"

Fan Zhi said: "I don't know the details, we have to wait for the people below to report."

Li Congjia nodded and said, "Let's wait and see the specific situation. Well, Lei Youzhong used troops without authorization and was fined for one year."

The corner of Wei Renpu's mouth twitched, one year's salary?Is this the punishment for privately deploying troops?The emperor’s eccentricity is too obvious. If it were another general, not to mention leading troops to fight people privately, but just leading troops to other places casually, he would probably be imprisoned to death. No one would let him go if he was not dismissed. he.

However, Li Congjia had already shown such an obvious partiality, it was difficult for them to say anything, and everything would be discussed after the following news came back.

News from formal channels came very slowly, but Shi Xuehe brought him a letter written by Shi Xueting.

After Li Congjia opened the letter, before reading the content, his first reaction was: "This word is not from the national teacher!"

Shi Xuehe looked at him very surprised and said: "Your Majesty can see it?"

Li Congjia looked up at him and asked, "What happened? The word is so distorted, it's not his handwriting."

Shi Xuehe coughed lightly and said: "This is really written by the younger brother, but the younger brother's right hand is injured, so he wrote it with his left hand."

Injured right hand?Li Congjia's heart tightened immediately: "Is it serious?"

Shi Xuehe shook his head and said, "It doesn't seem very serious."

Li Congjia didn't continue to question, after reading the letter, he raised his head helplessly and said, "Chunsheng, go and inform the cabinet to ask the Ministry of Officials to select a governor, and arrange all his subordinates by the way."