The first rebel of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 2116

Let's say that Li Shimin lived in Qingzhou for a day, and every time he went to a place, someone would follow up and report.

And he also put forward some suggestions on the construction of Qingzhou.

It can be said that this trip is more like an inspection.

The people of Qingzhou also welcomed Li Shimin's form very much.

This is a good thing.

Because although Qingzhou has developed well under the leadership of Xue Rengui and Li Lizhi.

Although there is also the blessing of Shengtang Group, some official facilities are still not complete.

These things are not something Sheng Tang Group can do, and Li Shimin still has to deal with them.

After Li Shimin arrived in Qingzhou this time, he discovered that there were so many problems.

When the local officials heard that he was coming, they followed him directly and gave Li Shimin the highest standard of treatment.

Li Shimin's suggestion was also formed into a booklet, and then passed on to Chang'an.

After he goes back, he will give instructions.

There are so many things involved.

Li Shimin found a lot of problems, so he didn't have much fun playing.

Many concubines were upset.

But what else can they say?

You can only express dissatisfaction in behavior, and you dare not say a word if you are dissatisfied.

Everyone thinks that it is better not to play.

It's not as interesting as being in Chang'an City.

Because after coming out, it was the officials who saw the most, and the time they really spent together was very short.

Finally, Li Shimin finally wanted to go back.

This excursion made everyone very depressed, so Empress Changsun had to organize another excursion, this time without the participation of the emperor.

Everyone agrees.

It is inconvenient to do anything with the emperor, it is better not to.

As soon as Li Shimin returned to Chang'an, he also gave Sheng Tang Group a lot of suggestions. Some suggestions were sent, and some suggestions came back.

For this, Di Renjie expressed a lot of thanks.

On this day, Li Shimin was reviewing Qingzhou's papers.

Dai Zhou came into the palace.

His expression is not very good.

"Your Majesty! I have something to report."

"Say, what's the matter?"

Li Shimin put down his pen and asked.

"According to the investigation, Dang Renhong embezzled more than 100 million yuan when he was the governor of Guangzhou. Now he has been taken into custody. Your Majesty please make a decision!"

Dai Zhou said so.

Speaking of Dang Renhong, he is quite capable.

When Li Yuan entered Kanto that year, Dang Renhong led more than 2000 men to join Li Yuan in Puban, and followed him to pacify the capital.

Soon after, the official worshiped the governor of Shanzhou.

When Gu was begging Wang Shichong, Dang Renhong was responsible for transshipment of food and payment, and he did a good job at this time.

Therefore, he got Li Yuan's life.

He successively served as the governor of Nanning, Rongzhou and Guangzhou.

According to Li Shimin's reply, Renhong is a man of talent and strategy, and has left a reputation wherever he goes. Li Er thinks highly of him.

Li Shimin was quite shocked when this happened now.

"Dang Renhong's character is very good in my opinion, why would he embezzle millions?"

Li Shimin was very puzzled.

This is a lot of millions, and the money an official can get in his lifetime is only tens of thousands of taels, or even less.

But Dang Renhong embezzled millions.

"Your Majesty, I didn't believe it at first. Later, a large amount of money and ledgers were found from his mansion. He couldn't tell where the large amount of money came from. In these points, his crime has been confirmed!"

Dai Zhou said again.

"Where is the case now?"

"Your Majesty, at the Dali Temple, because your Majesty went on a trip, the Dali Temple has played five times, requesting to deal with Dang Renhong! Put him to death!"

Li Shimin attaches great importance to Dang Renhong, and played five times in Dali Temple, which is to press Dang Renhong to death.

Who made him greedy.

Now there is no other way but the death penalty.

At this time, Li Shimin wanted to protect the party Renhong.

However, at this time, Li Shimin directly ordered that officials above the fifth rank gather in front of the Tai Chi Hall.

Hundreds of officials, big and small, didn't know what Li Shimin wanted to do this time.

In the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, I am afraid that only Dali Temple and Dai Zhou know what Li Shimin wants to do.

But at this time, Dang Renhong was escorted up by soldiers.

At this time, Dang Renhong was gray-haired and in a very poor condition.

When Li Shimin saw him like this, he felt pity directly.

The people from Dali Temple stood up again.

"Your Majesty, Dang Renhong has embezzled millions of taels in the past few years. The money is all the people's fat and people's anointing. He has fattened him alone and suffered thousands of people! His house is in dozens of ruins, and gold, silver and jewels are even more innumerable." He even confiscated a large number of mobile phones, computers, etc. from his home, and he connived at his subordinates to accept benefits, and the behavior of betraying officials was fully demonstrated here. I implore Your Majesty, directly grant the death penalty!"

At the same time, many officials also came forward to request that Dang Renhong be killed.

This made Li Shimin very sad.

Dang Renhong fell to his knees, trembling all over.

The ministers of Li Shimin's killers are generally rebellious existences.

Like corrupt people, he killed few people, and if there was no Dang Renhong at that time, Datang might not have existed.

Of course, that's only possible.

But having said that, Dang Renhong is still very important.

Therefore, Li Shimin said: "Dang Renhong has meritorious deeds as well as demerits! I can't bear to let him die, but I can't find a reason to give him a way out for a while. I just want to change the law. I ask all my lovers to agree to save him from death."

At this time, the people from Dali Temple came out again and said: "Your Majesty! The decree is obtained by the king from heaven, and should not be broken because of personal affairs. Now I am partial to Dang Renhong and want to forgive him. in heaven."

In this way, Dang Renhong must die.

But Li Shimin said again: "I want to sit on a mat in the southern suburbs, eat vegetarian food only once a day, and use three days to apologize to heaven."

However, Fang Xuanling persuaded: "The power of life and death is in the hands of the emperor alone, why is he so self-deprecating?"

Yes, for a corrupt minister, there is no need to do that.

But Li Shimin said: "Then, I also have three crimes."

At this time, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were shocked.

The emperor has three crimes?

Could it be that Li Shimin also committed some serious crime?
"My dear friends, listen to what I have to say!"

Li Shimin said again.

"Your Majesty, you are not guilty, the only ones who are guilty are greedy people."

"Yes, Your Majesty, stop blaming yourself, there is no need to do this for corrupt officials."

However, Li Shimin said: "I have three crimes. First, knowing people and not being able to clearly observe them. Knowing that some people have greed but reusing them, giving them more power to embezzle. This is one crime!
Second, it is a second crime to confuse laws and regulations due to private interests;

Third, being close to good people without rewarding them, and hating evil people without punishing them are the three crimes. "

"So, I should apologize to God."

When Li Shimin said that, everyone stopped talking.

"Dang Renhong is also getting old, and it's only a matter of time before he dies, and I want to depose Dang Renhong as a commoner and exile him to Qinzhou. What do you think?"

When it comes to exile, it is only a temporary saving of life, because on the way to the place of exile, more than [-]% of criminals will die on the way.

And Dang Renhong is so old.

The probability of his death on the road is more than [-]%.

And at such an old age, what will he live on when he arrives at his destination?
There is only one dead end, even if you can survive, but that is just suffering.

So exile is tantamount to capital punishment.

At that time, Li Shimin treated Li Chengqian like this.

But fortunately, Li Chengqian survived and became king.

This is what Li Shimin did not expect.

But Dang Renhong is different. He is too old to be a king, and he has no physical strength.

Now he is sick all over.

Just give him a temporary life.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Dang Renhong said very shamefully: "Your Majesty, please give me a death sentence! I have enough to live. And if I commit a capital crime, it is unforgivable."

Dang Renhong wanted to die, so Li Shimin wouldn't let him die?
All the ministers also admired Dang Renhong. Most people want to live. The so-called death is worse than life.

But Dang Renhong is different.

In this way, his performance is also respectable.

Although he is a big corrupt official.

Fang Xuanling said at this time: "Your Majesty, if Dang Renhong wants to die, let him have a good time."

Other officials then expressed the same opinion as Fang Xuanling.

But Li Shimin didn't care.

"I have made a decision, it is a decision, there is no reason to take it back."

So, Li Shimin didn't want Dang Renhong to die now.

Perhaps, this is for everyone to see.

Maybe there is another reason.

"His Majesty!"

"Okay, come, take Dang Renhong down and exile immediately!" Li Shimin said immediately.

At this time, someone entered the palace and dragged Dang Renhong away.

Dang Renhong didn't want to resist anymore, and let the guards pull him away.

However, when he left the hall, the guards turned back.

"Your Majesty, Dang Renhong has committed suicide by biting his tongue!"

As soon as the news came out, everyone was shocked, what happened.

However, this may be his most dignified life and death.

"Pull it down and hand it over to his family!"

Li Shimin also said, so to speak, Li Shimin still has feelings, if it was someone else, maybe he would just pull his body out and feed it to the dogs.

In fact, Li Shimin treated corrupt officials like this a few years ago.

That is, how much corrupt officials have been corrupted, how much money they will reward corrupt officials.

At that time, everyone felt that Li Shimin's behavior was very abnormal. Why not punish him but reward him?

But what everyone doesn't know is that Li Shimin's purpose of doing this is to arouse the shame of these corrupt officials.

Because for a long time, every time he went to court, Li Shimin would announce all the amounts embezzled by these corrupt officials in front of all officials.

This is tantamount to embarrassing corrupt officials.

And what he did even better was to reward these corrupt officials with the same amount of money.

And let these corrupt officials move the rewards from the palace back to their homes in person.

As a result, corrupt officials not only lose face in court, but also lose face even more on the way home.

You will also be pointed and pointed at by the people on the road!

And because of this method, there are fewer and fewer corrupt officials in Li Shimin's dynasty.

However, it is a bit difficult for officials in the capital, and for officials far away.

For example, today's case is an official in another place. Obviously, the emperor is far away.

At this time, Li Shimin said: "In the future, whoever dares to embezzle may end up not like Dang Renhong! Now that the Tang Dynasty has developed and the lives of you officials are better, why bother to embezzle? I really want to make money, Sheng The Tang Group can make money, you become officials, I think it is because you have a heart to govern, not because you just want to make a fortune!"

It is indeed the case.

Those who are officials now don't make much money, but if you want to make money, you can go to Shengtang Group.

Now Datang will make money in everything he does, and he will make more money than officials.

Since they have chosen to be officials, they should do well. If they don't want to be officials, then go to Shengtang Group and don't harm the court here.

Civil and military officials dare not speak.

Li Shimin also said: "It is my order that from today to 30 days later, all corrupt persons will hand over their corrupt proceeds, reward one-tenth of the corrupted amount, and never pursue it again."

Li Shimin said so, is that considered a big move?
"Yes!" Everyone said immediately.

And Li Shimin waved his hand, signaling to retreat.

In the next few days, the imperial treasury received hundreds of millions of money, and it was registered by a special person.

In fact, these are Li Shimin's plans.

He has recorded all these corrupt people. In the future, if it is investigated again, if his property is higher than one-tenth of the corruption, then he will not spare the other party.

And there are some greedy people, he chose to let them survive, but if there is a next time, then these people will have to die.

Li Shimin's doing so caused a sensation.

Although the early results are high, it cannot eliminate corruption.

Some corruption still exists, and Li Yin should be asked at this time.

Let Li Yin handle it, but how could Li Shimin ask him.

If you want to ask, let the minister do it.

Moreover, the occurrence of this kind of corruption in such a large area does not prove Li Shimin's negligence?
This point, he will not bear.

In this way, fifteen days have passed.

On this day, Dai Zhou found Li Shimin with a thick booklet in his hand.

"Your Majesty, these are one billion taels of silver, and the roster of corrupt officials, do you want to see it?"

Li Shimin glanced at the thick roster, he also wanted to see it, but after reading it, he might have other thoughts about these officials.

So, he gave up.

"Don't read it, seal this roster and save it. When we investigate corruption next time, if someone has the same name as the one above, and the amount exceeds [-] taels, kill him immediately!"

When Li Shimin said that, Dai Zhou understood.

"Yes, Your Majesty, I understand, that minister will go down first."

"Wait, did you say that one billion taels is so much?" Li Shimin only realized at this time that what Dai Zhou said was one billion taels.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Li Shimin was shocked.

Unexpectedly, these people have been greedy for so much money without being arrested in the past few years.

"Where is the one billion taels good to go? Dai Zhou, think about it carefully, let these money make money."

Li Shimin's intention is obvious, that is, he wants to reinvest the money so as to generate more money.

"Yes, Your Majesty, this minister is going to screen it. Then show it to Your Majesty?"

"No, you can invest directly. Remember, you are only allowed to invest in the Shengtang Group, and you are not allowed to invest in others!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

"Okay, you go down, I want to be quiet!"

"The minister backed down."

(End of this chapter)