Tai Chi Hall.

After Li Shimin lived in the case, he watched the people come in one by one, waved his hand and asked Eunuch Gao to take the palace servants down.

Tang Jian bowed and said before he spoke, Li Shimin said, "I don't want to discuss trivial matters anymore today. I'm asking you to come here to discuss mining matters. The rest of the matters will be put aside for the time being!"

Tang Jian had no choice but to stand back.

Li Shimin looked at Li Mu again and glared at her warningly. Li Mu just looked down at the ground without saying a word, and did not respond to him. Li Shimin was immediately angry. The little brat actually gave me a look. It was really...

But in front of so many important officials, Li Shimin couldn't say anything, so he could only pretend not to see it, cleared his throat, and said, "I'm very angry today! The day before yesterday, yesterday, I discussed the Resource Law with my prime ministers and the six ministers of the ministries. How did you say it? This is a good thing, and that is a strong support. Why didn't everyone say a word today? What do you mean?!"

This is to force a statement.

The three prime ministers lowered their heads and did not speak. The six ministers looked at me and I looked at you. In the end, it was Li Daozong, the King of Jiangxia, who spoke first. He was the Minister of Zongzheng Temple and is now also the Minister of Justice.

"Your Majesty, I am a royal family and I will support you."

Tang Jian was hesitant about this matter, but today something like this happened in Liangyi Hall. Tang Jian had to give Li Mu an explanation and also said: "Your Majesty, collecting minerals and returning them to the court can make the national treasury full. As today is the first decision, everything is in trouble. It is the time to use money. I am the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and support Your Majesty."

The third one who stood up was Li Daliang, Minister of Works. Li Shimin had already talked to him about the affairs of the Ministry of Works. Li Mu was the leader of the plan now. Since Li Shimin came up with it to discuss it, he must also support it. Naturally, he also voted in favor of how Li Daliang could choose.

Three of the six ministers have already expressed their opinions. Li Shimin turned his attention to Li Jing, Minister of War. Since Li Jing returned to the court, he would be sick and not attending court unless Li Shimin summoned him. Today, Li Shimin called him here, but Li Jing still looked lifeless, as if he had not woken up. Feeling Li Shimin's gaze, Li Jing opened his eyes and said leisurely: "Your Majesty, the matter of minerals has little to do with the Ministry of War. I am the Minister of War, so I will not comment on this."

What the implication is, it will be done no matter what.

Li Shimin was not surprised and looked at Yu Shinan, Minister of Rites.

"Your Majesty..." Yu Shinan sighed and said, "If Your Majesty asks me about the real thoughts in my heart, I think... it still needs to be discussed."

"Okay." Li Shimin glanced at Yu Shinan deeply, turned his eyes to Changsun Wuji, and said, "Auxiliary, you haven't spoken much these two days. Do you think it's still necessary to discuss it?"

Changsun Wuji bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I support you. As Duke Ju said, the treasury is empty now and money is needed everywhere. Therefore, the act of filling the treasury is supported by me. I have few words these days because I am thinking about how to implement it. This matter is very wide, and if I do not engage in it carefully, it will have a very small impact. I am so simple that I have no good plans yet."

Changsun Wuji's words are smarter. I support it, but I don't know how to do it, but in fact I still don't support it. But if you say he doesn't support it, he has already said support. It can be said that there is more than advance or retreat, but it is actually just nonsense.

Li Shimin didn't expect that Changsun Wuji would be shaken at the critical moment. He felt very unhappy and did not stop at him. He looked at the three prime ministers closest to him.

In the courts of the Tang Dynasty, there were only the chief officials of the three provinces. High officials, Shizhong, Wang Gui, High officials, Zhongshu, and Cen Wenben. Originally, there was the Shangshu Ling, but because Li Shimin had served as Shangshu Ling, he abolished Shangshu Ling in the Zhenguan Dynasty and changed the left and right Pushe. The Shangshu Left Pushe led the officials, rituals and civil affairs, while the Shangshu Right Pushe led the troops, punishments and work affairs. The left and right Pushe can be called the "Critics". Now the Shangshu Right Pushe Du Ruhui was seriously ill in bed, and all the big and small affairs of Shangshu Province were settled by Fang Xuanling. Therefore, there were three prime ministers participating in the court today.

Among the three, if we talk about the right to speak, the Shangshu Zuo Pushe Fang Xuanling is the best, Wang Gui is the second, and Cen Wenben is the last. Now Li Shimin has asked the prime minister to express his opinion, and the first person to be the one is naturally Fang Xuanling.

Seeing Li Shimin forced him to express his opinion, Fang Xuanling thought for a while and said, "I think the same as Duke Zhao."

After saying this, he kept silent.

Next comes Wang Gui. From a standpoint, Wang Gui is a typical representative of a family. If the court takes back the minerals, the family will be the first to be affected. He should have expressed his opposition. But from the day before yesterday to now, Wang Gui's attitude has been very vague. Because after the profits of coal stone gradually became clear, the interests of the Wang family in Taiyuan will not only not be damaged, but will become rich because of this storm.

After all, Wang Gui is a representative of the clan. He is embarrassed to jump out and support him, but he really doesn't want to object. He wants to get away with it, but now he can't do it. Wang Gui gritted his teeth and stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I support you."

"Huh?" Li Shimin was surprised. He thought that Wang Gui was bound to oppose it. Among all the people present, there was no representative of the clan who was purer than Wang Gui, but he actually agreed... After thinking about it, Li Shimin understood that it was for money. After thinking about it, Li Shimin was very disgusted with it. He had another understanding of what Li Mu said that day. Sure enough, no covenant was reliable in the face of interests.

Wei Zheng stood at the end and suddenly showed anger when he heard Wang Gui expressing his agreement. Li Mu stood beside him, looked at him, and felt even more disdainful in his heart.

"Cen Xiang, what do you think?"

"Your Majesty, I think... it's better to choose a place and try it. If you suddenly retreat to the world, you may experience something."

Cen Wenben is a pure minister in this court and never expresses his opinions casually. However, if Li Shimin asks him, he will answer truthfully, discuss things based on the facts, and never help any side. Li Shimin also trusts him very much. Seeing that he put forward a different point of view than others, he felt it was feasible. Just as he was about to speak, Wei Zheng could no longer help, and went out to the crowd and shouted: "Your Majesty, this matter is not possible!"

Wei Zheng was thin, but his voice was loud and his words were straight and round. When he spoke, he seemed to have opened the halo of justice, as if he always stood on the commanding heights of morality and looked down. He had ghosts or timid people in his heart, and when he heard his voice, he had already weakened his momentum before he even argued.

What Li Shimin is most annoying is this voice. Since he summoned Wei Zheng to the court, Wei Zheng has to contradict him more than ten times a month. Basically, he doesn't let you do whatever you want, and specifically pick out what you feel uncomfortable. If two people argue, say one by one and one by one, it's nothing, but the tone and attitude of Wei Zheng always feels like educating people. As an emperor, Li Shimin likes to be educated.

However, Wei Zheng was famous and had a great reputation among the Shandong clans. After the Xuanwu Gate Incident, the Shandong clans once said that Li Shimin killed his brother and killed his brother, and his throne was not upright. As long as he was the king for one day, the Shandong clans would never become a scholar. The Tang Dynasty defined Shandong, which was not Shandong in later generations, referred to all areas east of Mount Wu or Huashan, including the three major clans of Fanyang Lu, Boling Cui, Xingyang Zheng clan, and more than 30 small clans, accounting for about half of the Tang gentry.

During the Wude period, Li Jiancheng pacified the powerful Shandong and rescued the gentry in Shandong, so he gained the support of the gentry in Shandong. At that time, Wei Zheng was his adviser. As the crown prince, Li Jiancheng could not do everything himself. Therefore, Shandong gentry in contact with Li Jiancheng was mostly in contact with Wei Zheng.

Li Shimin was afraid of a change, so he appointed Wei Zheng to stabilize the court, but he did not dare to put Wei Zheng in an important position, so he only gave him a secretary, similar to the secretariat of later generations, and was also the Left Secretary of the Shangshu, and the fourth rank.

But because of the huge force behind it, Wei Zheng was also very important in his speech in the court. All officials privately called him the Prime Minister of Wei. Because the Shangshu Right Pushe Du Ruhui was seriously ill, he was about to fail. Rumors between the court and the country that Wei Zheng must be the next Shangshu Right Pushe. But Li Shimin never promised such a promise. He knew that Wei Zheng was the representative of the Shandong clan. How could he easily grant such an important position of Shangshu Right Pushe?

Li Shimin had long thought that the biggest obstacle to whether the Tang Dynasty's resource law was passed or not was Wei Zheng. Therefore, he did not call Wei Zheng to come in the first two discussions. Today, officials above the fifth rank participated in the court discussion. According to the rules, the secretary-in-chief had to make records. Wei Zheng came uninvited, which led to a scene in the Liangyi Hall.

When Li Shimin heard Wei Zheng speak, he had to respond to him and said, "Xuancheng, why do you think it's not possible?"

"Your Majesty, when Zhulu Hou spoke just now, I had already wanted to say it. Zhulu Hou was loyal and patriotic, and his idea was very good, but he thought it too simply. Why did the aristocratic families and high families pass on for thousands of years? There is a reason for this."

When Wei Zheng spoke, he didn't even look at Li Mu, as if he didn't take him seriously at all. He said to Li Shimin: "The Marquis Zhulu gave two examples, one is the year of disaster and the other is the flood. In the year of disaster, refugees are everywhere, so what's wrong with the Gaomen and the big surnames closing their doors? Refugees do not know benevolence and righteousness, and do not know etiquette. Should they let refugees rush into the mansion and burn, kill and loot? In the year of disaster, the Gaomen and big surnames have already sheltered many people. If they can have the spare energy to help the court, it would be great, but if they don't have such spare energy, the court should not blame it for this."

"And the year when the floods were in trouble, the world was decided. Although the people in the seven cities on both sides of the Yellow River were very miserable, where was there any surplus everywhere in the world? The Queen of Min donated 100,000 yuan. This move is certainly worthy of admiration, but the donors were not guilty. Zhulu Hou pushed all the responsibility to the high-ranking surname. The minister thought it was biased!"
Chapter completed!