Zhenguan Crown Prince Li Chengqian

Chapter 706 You play with the common people, I play with your life

Li Chengqian's anger was understood by all the ministers in the palace. They all came from the war years in the chaotic late Sui Dynasty.

Rather than saying that they were the protagonists of that era, and the Prime Minister Mingzhu stabilized the world, it is better to talk about those unknown and ordinary soldiers who made their extraordinary lives.

After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the country was not peaceful. Surrounded by powerful enemies, spying on the Central Plains, it was the soldiers who abandoned their homes and businesses and fought bloody battles with powerful enemies to the end, which enabled the Tang Dynasty to operate normally and quickly recover the lost vitality internally. Prince It was against this background that he enlisted in the army.

Unlike the good-natured or pleasure-seeking princes of previous dynasties, he is a prince who dares to fight in front of the battle. He can put down his body and eat clothes and food with the soldiers, sleep in the snow and climb ice, so the relationship with the soldiers is naturally different from other princes. , won the hearts of the army and is easy to understand.

Having personally experienced the cruelty of the battlefield, he vigorously promoted the national policy of favoring veterans and their bereaved families in the court, built a new city in Huxian County to settle veterans, and provided a large amount of money from the Eastern Palace every year to subsidize him. .Now that something like this happened, if he wasn't popular, it would be a big weird thing.

The first one to stand up was Wei Zheng. The old man had seldom spoken since the Taiyuan Wang case, but today he encountered such righteous indignation, even if the crown prince looked down on him, he had to say that conscience is all meat. Long, no one who sees or hears it can't turn a blind eye.

"Your Highness, Fang Yi, the governor of Guangzhou, and Wu Shan, the magistrate of Shuxian County, have nothing to do with the state policy of the imperial court favoring veterans. In political affairs, there are too many people in the political affairs, so that the state leaders often ignore them. It is really a crime. The veteran thinks that they should be punished. Hand it over to the three judges to judge the crime, and use the law of the country and the military's prestige, otherwise, how will I explain to the million troops of the Tang army."

It doesn't matter whether Fang Yi and Wu Shan are dead, alive, ransacked, or exiled.But Zhongguan, this kind of thing is obviously not an exception. There are so many states in the Tang Dynasty, so many military houses, and there is more than one such confused account.Of course, these officials below are unwilling to offend the gentlemen in the capital because of the more authentic documents, which will affect their promotion path.

In Datang, all those who became officials wanted to be officials in Chang'an. In order to accumulate enough good-looking resumes, let alone a few veterans whose whereabouts were unknown, they would turn a blind eye to even ignorant things.

This problem exposed two problems: First, lower-level officials would rather harm the people than offend the superior officials for their own interests. What is the use of such officials.They can harm the people for small profits today, but will they be corrupt and pervert the law for big profits tomorrow?

Second, why are the officials below so afraid of the documents they exchanged? Does this mean that the old men in Chang'an City who drink tea in the yamen all day long have become lazy to a certain extent!They would rather let the money and food rot in the warehouse than distribute it to the people, posing a posture of "I don't take a penny, so I have no obligation to help you".

If the court wants not to lose the morale of the army and the people, and maintain its absolute authority among the people, should it conduct a top-down review, just like when the provincial officials were merged in the early days of Zhenguan, the court punished a large number of overstaffed and lazy officials.

Don't worry about gouging out flesh and healing sores. Official governance is the foundation of the stability of the court. Although this does not involve corruption and kingship, it is just a small lazy government, but it is an act of losing morals and ruining the family. It is easier to drive people to a dead end, so the radical Such inaction is imminent.

After Wei Zheng's words were finished, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Cen Wenwen and others stood up to second the proposal, and at the same time pleaded guilty to the prince. After all, the root of the problem came from their subordinates, and there was still a crime of negligence in discipline. .

For the ministers, Li Chengqian was not very angry. No matter what his personal relationship with him was, these people were diligent and diligent in their respective positions, and their gray hair was much more than that of their peers.The country is huge, the population is large, and the official affairs of the imperial court are complicated every day. As the head of a province or a department, do they have the experience of staring at the people below every day?
After a few words of comfort to the ministers, Li Chengqian asked them to get up first, and then let Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui lead the "correction" operation from top to bottom according to Wei Zheng's advice.Don't be afraid of offending people, no matter who it is, they will all be dismissed from office if they are involved in the issue of lazy government. It is useless for anyone to intercede.

As for the case in Gwangju, led by Wei Zheng and assisted by Dou Kuan, Minister of the Ministry of Integrity, he went to the whole of Gwangju to investigate. All officials involved in the case were dismissed from office and exiled to Yazhou without pardon.After the crimes of Guan Yi and Wu Shan were clarified, they were escorted to Beijing and handed over to the San Judiciary. Their descendants and family members were beheaded on the spot and buried in the wilderness in the name of deserters.

Solitary is to let the officials all over the world know: You play with the people, I play with your life, a tooth for a tooth, blood for blood, whoever harms the people must have the consciousness of extinction, and the salary of the Tang Dynasty is not white-collar.Anyone who is dissatisfied can come and go freely, such waste is not worthy of being a parent official.

After listening to the prince's edict, Fang Du and the others felt a little bit in their hearts, ruthless, just like those Pichang temples standing at the gate of the yamen, the prince has zero tolerance for such officials, and will never show mercy.Regardless of how Fang Yi and Wu Shan felt when they saw their whole family being killed, it is indeed cruel enough to say that those superfluous people in the court will be so frightened that they dare not sleep at night after hearing about it.

Among the officials, it was not the good old Fang Xuanling who showed regret on his face, but the school secretary-Changsun Wuji, his nephew was good at everything, but sometimes he was too emotional.This kind of method can make those people frightened, but it also gives King Wu and King Wei a chance to win people's hearts.

Changsun Wuji believed that if his methods had been softer, the power of the two princes would have collapsed long ago, and they would have survived until now.Those officials who joined the two factions, without exception, joined their camp because they were afraid of the prince's cruel methods.

Because they feel that the prince is not only harsh on himself, but also on the officials below. If such a person becomes the emperor, then all the officials in the world will have to tighten their belts to live. If this is the case, who would want to be an official? ?

But there is no way, this kid is a donkey, he will not go away, he will go backwards, and he has always preferred the attitude of lacking in the appointment of officials. Yes, doing this is to ensure the purity of the Eastern Palace. Over the years, there has never been an official in the Eastern Palace because of this. , Such problems are dealt with.

But there are so many officials in the world, can he finish it?Changsun Wuji sometimes wonders if this kid is ready to spend his whole life trying to break this worldly trend of profit. .
(End of this chapter)