Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 653
"Brother, don't worry. This time we will definitely make King Qi bow his head.!"

In Yu Changsheng's study, there were three people sitting in total, Yu Changsheng, Yu Changze, Yu Changqing, these three were three brothers, and they were also the three who were in charge of the entire Yu family. We talked together.

The one called Big Brother is Yu Changze, the second child.

"Yes!" Yu Changqing, the third child, also echoed: "The water in the entire Dingzhou is controlled by my Yu family. We can give it if we want, and we can give it if we don't want to. Even the governor's mansion can't do it. This time Li You will do it." It's too much, directly took down the military leader and governor of Dingzhou, this is seizing power, if His Majesty asks the crime, we will directly tell His Majesty that King Qi Li You is suspected of treason."

"That's a good suggestion..." Yu Chang clapped his hands and applauded.

"Well!" Yu Changsheng only showed a slightly relaxed expression at this time: "First, we will do it together according to what we have discussed. First, we will cut off the water of King Qi and King Qi's army. I want to see how King Qi will deal with it." Well, if King Qi doesn't let Jing'er go, then he won't even be able to drink a drop of water."

Water is the source of life, and any creature cannot live without water.

Many friends in the south may not have any concept of water, because the rain in the south is really abundant, and you can play in the river without any scruples. However, due to terrain and environmental pollution, the distribution of fresh water resources in our country is seriously unbalanced. It has also led to extremely difficult life in some water-deficient cities in my country.

Among them, Wuwei was the most water-deficient place in ancient times, and the water shortage here is beyond people's imagination.It is definitely not a legend to only take a bath three times in a lifetime. Many people who have never left Wuwei will only take a bath when they are born, married, and died. The residents here use water repeatedly many times.

Of course, there is no shortage of water in Wuwei now, because of the introduction of water from the Yellow River. If you say that people in Wuwei are short of water and only like to bathe three times in their life, they will mock you as a fool.

But people in Wuwei should not get too excited. There used to be a serious shortage of water in Wuwei. I hope everyone will cherish water.

"Fifth brother. Someone came from Yu's house and said that there is no water. Now we have to start irrigating the farmland if we get water, and we can arrange a bucket of water for us a day!" After Li Zhi came back, he found Li You at the first time. The news of the water cut off told Li You.

And Yu Jia's excuse is really irrefutable, you can't compete with common people for water!

The last time Li Zhi was cheated like this, Li Zhi dared not speak out, but now the Yu family is doing the same old trick again, of course Li Zhi came to find his fifth brother immediately.

"You tell the people of Yu's family that there is no need to arrange a bucket of water for us. All the water will be reserved for the people of Dingzhou to irrigate. Yu's family has done a good job. It has protected the water for the people in Dingzhou's farmland and looks forward to a bumper harvest in Dingzhou next year."

Li Zhi was taken aback by Li You's words, and quickly said, "Fifth brother, this is not acceptable, if we don't say it, we will die of thirst!"

"No water?" Li You laughed, then picked up his teacup and poured out a cup of tea slowly, looked at Li Zhi and said, "Don't worry, there is plenty of water, and you can take a bath every day, he at home Trying to trap us with water is a dream."

"Really?" Li Zhi's eyes lit up.

Li You nodded: "Don't worry, I've sent water to your room. You don't need to boil the water, you can drink it directly. It's a good mountain spring water, very sweet."

"Then can I use it for bathing?" Li Zhi looked at Li You: "I haven't bathed for almost three days. I just went out with my son, and my son said that I have a smell. Didn't take a bath, if you tell me, Sizi will definitely tell everyone about it."

This is Li Zhi. He may not be an aggressive king, but he is indeed a qualified and conservative king. As long as it is for the people, Li Zhi is still willing to pay.

"Okay, you can. I told you that water can be used casually!" Li You smiled slightly.

Then I heard Li Zhi's cheers, and immediately ran to take a bath. Just after Li Zhi left, Xue Rengui also arrived. After seeing Li You, I heard Xue Rengui say in a displeased way: "Your Highness, the members of the Yu family are here. They provoked us and directly blocked the river next to our camp, preventing us from using the water in the river."

Li You chuckled: "I just sent Changsheng's student, Zhou Shengsheng, the governor of Dingzhou, to death row and asked him to accompany Yu Jing. The Yu family is planning to cut off my water supply and let me submit! "

"Bastard, how dare you threaten the royal family!" Xue Rengui was furious.

"Threatening the royal family is nothing!" Li You stood up, poured a cup of tea for Xue Rengui, and said, "These old-fashioned nobles don't take our Li family seriously at all. They think our Li family's blood is not right, and they are the real nobles. exist.

This time the father attacked Goguryeo, in fact, so that the future generations would not be harassed by Goguryeo, but these nobles only looked at the immediate interests and worried that their strength would be weakened.

All of them resisted secretly. After the father left, the child slave was directly kicked out of the Chunming Palace, and then he was arranged here, and then he used the name of the common people to deprive the child slave of water.

As soon as Zhinu heard that it was for the common people, he didn't care about anything, and just endured it silently, the Yu family deserved to die. That's why I became famous, but after this time, I might be reprimanded, maybe I can't go back to Chang'an. "

"Your Highness, Chang'an can't go back, where are we going?" Xue Rengui looked at Li You.

"I'm talking about me, brother-in-law, you Hubenwei can still go back." Li You looked at Xue Rengui with a smile.

However, Xue Rengui shook his head and said, "Your Highness, the Huben Guard only belongs to His Highness, and where Your Highness is, the Huben Guard will be there!"

Li You smiled and nodded: "Dengzhou. I predict that the conquest of Goguryeo will encounter obstacles this time. I plan to go to Dengzhou to develop shipping and prepare for the future attack on Goguryeo. It's just that Dengzhou is suffering. If you really If you follow me, you will suffer again."

"Your Highness, please rest assured that Hubenwei will always be loyal to His Highness. This is the most basic and certain principle of Hubenwei." Xue Rengui said very firmly. At this time, Li You looked at Xue Rengui and smiled: "Then That’s fine, let’s go to Dengzhou together, please believe me, within three years, I will make Dengzhou the second Chang’an of the Tang Dynasty.”

"Your Highness, we have always believed in you." Xue Rengui smiled and nodded.

"By the way, you don't need to be nervous about the water thing. Get out of the original camp and station in another place. The place near Dingzhou City, the water is the same as before. Come to me to get it, and I will be there. The most recent thing is to clean Dingzhou City, you are the key to me, so you must prevent being attacked, if someone dares to attack you, kill them directly, don't worry about other things."

"No!" Xue Rengui bowed to accept the order.

In this way, a week passed slowly. During this week, Li You and Li You's army were not affected by the lack of water. Not a small storm.

During the seven days, in Dingzhou's official circles, at least thirteen officials of the sixth rank and above who were related to the Yu family were directly ganged up to the end. These officials abused power, which is corruption.

And because of the corruption in Dingzhou's official circles, there are tricks.

What are elegant greed, commercial greed, stealing greed, and domineering greed:

Elegant corruption is a little better, that is, to accept bribes through antique calligraphy and painting, prompting words and embellishing pens. For example, if a businessman wants to do something, he may directly send expensive calligraphy and paintings to corrupt officials, or go to the corrupt officials’ house to buy a few pieces at a high price through an intermediary. Valuable antique calligraphy and paintings (a businessman spent 3 guan to buy a pair of "Listening to the Wind Map" from a Dingzhou official at the time, and he successfully loaned [-] guan.) Or pay a high price to hire corrupt officials Write a couplet, name it or something, and use this name to embezzle money.

This is okay, it is shameless, and it is still a kind of commercial greed. The so-called commercial greed is to use commercial means to be greedy. or as a precious item at a very low price, so that the money is collected and the stolen goods are bleached.

Kill two birds with one stone, very effective.

The above two kinds of greed are restrained, while the following two kinds of greed are unrestrained. The so-called stealing and corruption means that when no one is looking for you to do things, the only way to be corrupt is to steal.This kind of corruption generally targets the property of the state and the common people, taking advantage of power, colluding with accomplices, stealing state taxes, disaster relief funds, or levying taxes outside the regulations under clever names.

Dingzhou was stolen and embezzled 50 shi of autumn grain. At the same time, farmers were also levied taxes such as water foot money, food money, treasury money, and gods and Buddha money. The total amount of theft was as high as 200 million shi. It is really terrifying. .

The most hateful thing is tyranny, which is the most lawless form of corruption. This kind of corrupt official is either the great evil who dominates the government, or the parent official who is in charge of the life and death of one party. In other words, they are robbers in the officialdom. They use their power to Or bullying men and women, or directly embezzling the property of wealthy businessmen and common people.

An official in Dingzhou, Liang Ji, in order to seize wealth from the rich man Sun Fen, first gave him a carriage, and then "borrowed" 17 guan from him.Sun Fen knew that the money would never be returned, so he took the initiative to give Liang Ji [-] guan. Unexpectedly, Liang Ji was furious, and immediately sent someone to report Sun Fen for secretly hiding slaves and maidservants, stealing public property, and imprisoned Sun Fen's family and took [-] million guan. property.

This kind of tyranny is the most hateful. Li You directly confiscated the family properties of these corrupt officials. A total of nearly 300 million coins were copied. The Yu family next to him was also injured.

Because of this, the Yu family hated Li You to the bone.

　Sorry, I've been having physical problems for a while.Let me take it easy!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)