Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 71 Li Shimin Protects Li You

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Aristocrats have always been something that Li Shimin is afraid of. Very early on, Li Shimin saw the disaster of the aristocrats, so since Li Shimin became the emperor, he has spared no effort to fight against the aristocrats.

In order to fight against the elites, Li Shimin implemented the imperial examination system so that the common people and the noble families stood on the same starting line.

It's just a pity that such a move didn't work.

The reason is also very simple. The imperial court itself has basically been completely infiltrated by the gentry class. Different groups are colluding with each other. I have the opportunity to take the exam, but I can't compare with the noble children who know the answer to the exam in advance.

If you can't be soft, you have to be tough. Li Shimin first dismissed some officials in the court who would not involve the fundamental interests of the aristocratic class, and then promoted some intellectuals who were more representative of the common class, including everyone We are more familiar with Wei Zheng, and these aristocratic classes are hard to say anything if their fundamental interests are not damaged.

During the Tang Dynasty, the aristocratic groups mainly occupied four positions according to the geographical division, namely Shandong, Jiangzuo, Guanzhong and Daibei.However, due to the decline of some gentry, only the Shandong gentry can really pose a threat to the royal family, and the Shandong gentry is represented by Cui, Lu, Zheng, Li, and Wang.

The ministers in the palace also used marriages to seek shelter for their official careers. Their strength should not be underestimated. In a sense, their rights even surpassed the imperial power, and this was something Li Shimin could not tolerate.

In the sixth year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin ordered the ministers of the common clan to write "Clan Chronicles". In the 12th year of Zhenguan, the "Clan Chronicles" was finally completed, but some gentry surnames still appeared in the first-class position, which also aroused Li Shimin's dissatisfaction , and then he personally rewrote the "Clan Chronicles", and arranged most of the surnames of the Shandong gentry in the third position. gentry status.

As a result, the status of the gentry in Shandong continued to decline. After the original gentry became the new gentry, Li Shimin also had more reasons to promote the gentry class.

At the same time, he also changed the position system, allowing him to have more than one prime minister at the same time, thereby directly promoting the common class to enter the supreme ruling group of the court, and this further damaged the influence of the aristocracy within the court at that time.

It can be seen that Li Shimin is jealous of the powerful, but unfortunately, Li Shimin's efforts did not get too much splash. At this time, in the main hall of Tai Chi Palace, Li Shimin watched kneeling at his feet and shouted to be punished. Minister of his own son.

It's true that Li Shimin didn't like Li You very much, but at this moment, Li Shimin didn't see that these powerful ministers were targeting Li You, but what he saw was that these powerful ministers were targeting him.

This is one of the reasons why Li Shimin was angry. He had already mentioned this matter before Li You came back. The emperor was called Jinkou Yuyan, and he said exactly what he said, but what do you mean now? This is obviously trying to suppress him in series.

Also because of this, Li Shimin no longer hated Li You, but had some sympathy for him. After all, being bitten by a mad dog was such an unlucky thing. Looking at this group of powerful ministers who wanted to suppress him in tandem.

Li Shimin sat firmly on the dragon chair and asked: "Ministers and workers, you keep saying that the fifth son of the emperor, Li You, made a profit of [-] guan, do you have any evidence?"

After Li Shimin finished speaking, Wang Xingzuo quickly raised his head and said, "You can check the tax, so it will be clear at a glance.!"

Li Shimin smiled slightly. Li Shimin looked at Wang Xingzuo and said, "It is true that the tax revenue is clear at a glance, but the tax account is the head of the household department, which is invisible to ordinary people, and Li You's profits have been exposed.

The Ministry of Finance deserves to be blamed! "

Speaking of which, an official of the Ministry of Accounting quickly knelt down and shouted: "Your Majesty, no one has disclosed the tax items of the Ministry of Accounting. How much money Li You made, the Ministry of Accounting did not calculate it. Tax paid.

So even the household department doesn't know how much money Li You has earned, so how can the household department expose it? "

"Haha!" Li Shimin laughed loudly, then looked at the officials kneeling in a row with unkind eyes, and said, "The Ministry of Households doesn't even know how much money Li You's earned, where did you know?"

"Ah?" All of a sudden, the kneeling official was also stunned.

Wang Xingzuo was also slightly surprised. At this time, Wang Xingzuo seemed to feel that he had made some mistakes!

However, we have come here, if we can't bring down Li You, then we will be the one to fall, so Wang Xingzuo said again: "Your Majesty, we only need to do a little deduction of the price and quantity of Li You's items to get Li You's price. Profit.!"

"It's true. The quantity and price of the things Li You sells are all there. It's easy to calculate. But Wang Yushi, have you calculated the cost? Li You's profit is only gross profit. Do you know how much Li You's cost is.? "Li Shimin hit the snake more than seven inches away.

It is true that everyone knows how much Li You sold, but the cost of these things is calculated by others. Of course, Li You knows that there is no cost, but others will not know.

It is impossible for such a beautiful thing to come without cost.

Wang Xingzuo was stunned on the spot. Because he seemed to know that he was going to die, but his last desire to survive made him shout again: "Your Majesty, even if there is no profit of one hundred thousand guan, there are tens of thousands of guan humanity.!"

"Then how do you know that Li You is so penny-pinching? You must know that only I have seen the donations from the Ministry of Accounts, and others should not be able to see them. I would like to ask you all, how do you see things that only I can see? By my side, what kind of eyeliner is placed?"

As soon as these words came out, those officials who didn't kneel down and blame Li You felt a little joy in their hearts, what a correct thing they did.

It’s just that these officials who kneel in front of Li Shimin and demand severe punishment for Li You are really out of luck. If they can’t explain clearly why Li You didn’t make a donation, Li Shimin will put an eyeliner beside me, hehe. Congratulations, One death penalty.

"This!" Wang Xingzuo was already confused. He raised his head and looked around for his reinforcements. After looking around, Wang Xingzuo finally saw Yin Hongzhi. At this time, only Yin Hongzhi could save him, and this time he It was entrusted by Yan Hongxin. You must know that Yan Hongxin is Yin Hongzhi's brother-in-law. Although Wang Xingzuo also knows that Li You is Yin Hongzhi's uncle, but now Wang Xingzuo can only put all his eggs in one basket.

"Yin Zhongcheng, please help me to say something!" Wang Xingzuo begged Yin Hongzhi.

After a while, Yin Hongzhi pursed his lips slightly, and then walked out, stood beside Wang Xingzuo and bowed: "Your Majesty, this minister told Wang Yushi about this matter."

(End of this chapter)