Chapter 266 Face-to-face teaching

In the afternoon, a carriage rushed over on Chengtianmen Street in the imperial city. He saw the magnificent buildings and towering walls of the Shangshu Province from afar. The carriage turned a corner and stopped in front of the gate of the Ministry of Personnel with a 'ga!'. The carriage opened. A very tall man jumped out of the car. He was about 35 or thirty-five years old, with a wide forehead, black and white eyes, and a handsome appearance. This person was named Cui Guangyuan, and he was an old clan of the Cui family in Boling. He was appointed as the magistrate of Chang'an County and was also a well-known figure in Chang'an.

Today he just received the order from Yang Guozhong and rushed to the Ministry of Personnel. He had an old friendship with Yang Guozhong and was also a member of the Yang Party. Although his official position was not high, because of his special position, he became a person valued by Yang Guozhong.

Cui Guangyuan sorted out his official hat and robe, and quickly walked up the steps. After informing him, he was led into the gate of the Ministry of Personnel by an employee.

The Ministry of Personnel is the first largest department of the six ministries of the Shangshu Province, with a respectable status, so its buildings are also particularly tall and majestic, leading directly from a straight central axis to the end. Each cemetery house is distributed on both sides, and each cemetery house is filled with various documents. Here, the promotion and demotion of tens of thousands of officials in the Tang Dynasty and the evaluation of them. As the annual evaluation is about to begin, the Ministry of Personnel's examination after the provincial examination will begin immediately, so all the officials in the Ministry of Personnel are so busy that they can't help but want to use their own bodies.

Yang Guozhong's Shangshu Room is located at the bottom of the central axis, which is the center of each room of the Ministry of Personnel, and it means to take charge of the Ministry of Personnel. In addition, Yang Guozhong also has a court room in the Secretariat of the Daming Palace and the Qinzheng Affairs Building of Xingqing Palace, which is his office as the prime minister.

However, Yang Guozhong stayed in the Ministry of Personnel for many years. He valued the power of the Ministry of Personnel more than anything else. He only went to participate temporarily when there were meetings in the Political Affairs Hall. In theory, the Minister of Personnel did not ask about the specific affairs of the Ministry of Personnel, and was presided over by the Deputy Minister of Personnel. However, this was not the case with Yang Guozhong. Because he was in charge of the Ministry of Personnel, he had to punish all the affairs of the Ministry of Personnel, and invisibly seized the power of Wei Jiansu, the Minister of Personnel.

At this moment, in the Shangshu room, Yang Guozhong's head was as big as a fight, and his clan girl Yang Huahua sat aside and complained to him.

"Third brother, he smashed my sign. That's your handbook, which is equivalent to slapping you in the face. How can you sit still? When did our Yang family suffer such grievances in Chang'an? This matter has spread throughout Dongcheng City and will soon spread throughout Chang'an. He is so arrogant and domineering. If we endure this tone, will the Yang family still be in Chang'an in the future?"

Since Yang Huahua was knocked out by Yang Yuhuan in the imperial study two years ago, Li Longji took away many of her powers in order to appease the imperial concubine, such as the marriage rights of the royal clan, and so on. Moreover, she asked Li Longji to do things so much. For example, Li Qing'an smashed her signboard in Yang Jigufang early this morning. She ran to Li Longji to cry, but Li Longji did not respond, obviously she didn't want to care about this matter.

Yang Huahua was disappointed when she was Li Longji, but with her personality, she couldn't stand this tone, but she didn't want to collide with Li Qing'an head-on. After all, she was in the wrong, so she came to Yang Guozhong, hoping that Yang Guozhong would come forward and get her tone back.

But she didn't know that Yang Guozhong was carrying out a big event, and it was the critical moment, so how could she be disturbed by her out-of-sight?

Yang Guozhong was dizzy when she was quarreled, but he was opening a memorial that Zhang Yun had just sent. The content of the memorial was to oppose the public circulation of gold, silver and coins. There were two reasons. First, this thing did not pass the review of the Ministry of Revenue and was directly issued by the Hanlin decree, which was inconsistent in the process. Secondly, the output of gold and silver in the mainland of the Tang Dynasty was quite small, and there was not enough gold and silver coins to be minted, so it was meaningless to do so.

Yang Guozhong knew that Zhang Yun's purpose of sending memorials to him was nothing more than asking him to sign and submit them together. However, he was the Minister of Taifu Temple, and the gold and silver inventory of the Tang Dynasty was within his jurisdiction. It seemed that he was necessary to participate in this matter, but if he signed the memorial, it would become him to lead the opposition to the gold and silver order that Li Longji had just issued. Zhang Yun hid behind. In this way, he became Zhang Yun's knife, offended the emperor, and Zhang Yun killed two birds with one stone, and his intentions were cruel.

But Yang Guozhong is no longer the ignorant minor official in the past. He saw Zhang Yun’s vicious plan. The emperor’s will had been issued. He would oppose the withdrawal of the will. Li Linfu had never done such a thing, so he actually asked him Yang Guozhong to do it!

He could not sign this memorial, and he could not do this evil man. Thinking of this, he snorted heavily, and threw the memorial aside.

Seeing that he was absent-minded, Yang Huahua couldn't help but raise her eyebrows and said angrily: "Third Brother, have you listened to me!"

Yang Guozhong had already received news from the two capitals' offices about what happened in the East City early this morning. It was related to the Yang family's cabinet. The head of the East City Municipal Office reported the matter as quickly as possible. Yang Guozhong knew the ins and outs of it. Although he was not satisfied with Li Qing'an's arrogantness, Pei Xiao's lesson was there! He could no longer cause trouble and ruin his major events.

"San Sister, what should you do if you ask me to do? If Li Qing'an just smashes your store sign in no way, it would be okay for me to stand up for you, but the fact is that you should start first. If they open a business, you will go to make trouble. If you want to smash their brand first, how can I speak for you? I'm very embarrassed!"

In fact, Yang Huahua was not entirely because of the brand being smashed. But when Li Qing'an, the Juhai Store, opened, just one hour later, more than 100 merchants came to her cabinet to withdraw money, withdrew nearly 30,000 guan, and all went to Juhai Store. The reason was that not only did not charge storage fees, but also profits. This completely broke the industry rules. If this continues, all the cabinet stores in Chang'an will close down. Of course, her Yangji Cabinet was the first to go bankrupt. Yang Huahua simply suspected that Li Qing'an was deliberately taking revenge on her.

Now Yang Guozhong is also perfunctory to her and doesn't want to care about this matter. Yang Huahua couldn't help but be anxious, "Third brother, I never beg you. I used to help you so much, and I never asked you to repay favors. Now I'm asking you for the first time, are you just rejecting me?"

"Sister Three, I can help you with other things, but I can't interfere in this matter."

"Why?"

Yang Guozhong sighed, picked up Zhang Yun's memorial from the table and said, "Did you see that Zhang Yun is going to oppose the circulation of gold, silver and money, but he did not dare to go directly to the emperor, so he asked me to sign it together. This was obviously a knife to use me as a knife and let me offend the emperor."

"Wait a minute!"

Yang Huahua interrupted him, "What does this matter have to do with mine?"

"It's a matter! The circulation of gold and silver is issued at the request of Li Qing'an. Now he has opened a cabinet again, and it is obvious that he wants to do gold and silver exchange business. I heard that he gave the emperor another 200,000 jin of silver, and promised to give the emperor 100,000 jin of silver every year. The emperor was very happy for this and trusted Li Qing'an. Moreover, his Anxi victory has not been awarded an official position and title, which should be the time when the saint's family is the most prosperous. At this time, I ran to impeach Li Qing'an and said that he bullied the Yang family. Do you know what the emperor would say? He will definitely say that you are the prime minister and should consider military and national affairs. It is not a trivial security guard. The third sister, you don't have to think about it. It must be the ending. Didn't you feel disappointed?"

Yang Huahua was extremely depressed when she saw that Yang Guozhong was indeed unwilling to help. However, she heard a shortcut to make money from Yang Guozhong's words, so she temporarily put down her revenge on Li Qing'an and asked, "Third Brother, do you mean that the emperor also wants to cast private money?"

"Shh!"

Yang Guozhong waved his hand, and he quickly walked up and closed the door. He came back and whispered to Yang Huahua: "If I guess correctly, the purpose of the emperor issuing the gold and silver and money circulation order is because he wants to cast silver. Didn't Li Qing'an give him a large sum of silver every year? How can he enjoy it if the silver does not turn into money?"

"But he is the saint, and the whole world belongs to him. Is he still short of money?"

"San Sister, you're thinking too simple."

Yang Guozhong sneered and said, "If the world is his and he can consume it as much as he wants, what should he do to maintain the money for the army? What should he do to maintain the salary of the officials? Where does the money for the construction of water conservancy and repairing the city walls come from? He was extravagant. Last year, he used nearly half of Zuozang's money and property for the Queen Mother last year. Gao Xianzhi won the Nanzhao and had no money to reward the three armies. In the end, he had to reduce the annual salary of the officials. This incident caused strong dissatisfaction among the officials. People went to Taifu Temple to cause trouble every day, saying that we were greedy for salary. He was not unaware of these serious consequences, but it was harder to make him frugal than to climb to heaven. Look at him going to the Huaqing Palace to spend the winter. Does that extravagant show mean to be frugal?"

"So Li Qing'an sent him the money, which hit his mind. Third brother, is that true?"

Yang Guozhong nodded, "That's true. This is Li Qing'an's cunning point. He knows how to please the emperor. With this money, he can mint money by himself and reduce the treasury expenses. 200,000 kilograms of silver! The money is worth 3.2 million jin of copper coins, which is enough to support his extravagance."

Yang Huahua didn't care about the affairs of the court. She only cared about whether she could mint money like Li Longji. She had collected a lot of gold over the years and was worried that there was no place to use it. Isn't this gold and silver circulation order being implemented? At this time, she had thrown the matter of Li Qing'an smashing the plaque behind her. Her mind was filled with golden coins, which made her smile. She asked quickly: "Since he can mint money, can I also mint money?"

Yang Guozhong laughed and said, "What do you think? Will the emperor blame you for serious crimes?"

At this moment, a report of the work was heard outside the door, "Shangshu Yang, the magistrate Cui has arrived."

Yang Guozhong suddenly realized that this was his big business. He was delayed by Yang Huahua for so long. He said to Yang Huahua: "Okay, I still have some serious business to do. You can do it in the matter of casting private money, but don't be so arrogant. Try to cast it quietly in the manor. I also have some gold and silver. Please help me mint the money and then exchange it through your cabinet."

Although it was not resolved that Li Qing'an had smashed the store sign, Yang Huahua gained even greater gains. Her heart had already flown to the coin stove, so she stood up and smiled and said, "Thank you, third brother, then I'll leave first, and I won't disturb your official duties."

Yang Huahua quickly walked through the side door, Yang Guozhong sat upright and said, "Let him come in!"

The door opened, Cui Guangyuan walked in. He was extremely tall and blocked the light of the house. He stepped forward and bowed, "I am not good at seeing Yang Shangshu!"

Yang Guozhong laughed, got up and patted his shoulder, "Come on! Come on! Please sit down with your brother."

The Secretary of State actually called him his brother. Cui Guangyuan was a little flattered and hurriedly bowed and said, "Shangshu Yang, you call me......"

"No hurry! No hurry! Sit down and talk slowly."

Yang Guozhong asked him to sit down and ordered someone to pour him a cup of tea. Yang Guozhong was the former Jingzhao Yin and was the magistrate of Chang'an County. He knew all the situations in Chang'an and Wannian counties. After asking him about his current situation, he slowly got to the topic.

"How is the investigation progressing in the assassination case of King Di?"

The assassination case of King Di was fully responsible for the assassination of King Di. Since the assassination occurred outside Chang'an, Wang Gong pushed the case to dozens of Jingzhao County under Jingzhao Prefecture, and ordered them to investigate the case with all their might. Chang'an County was no exception. Cui Guangyuan was so busy these two days that he had not slept all night yesterday.

He sighed and said, "Report to Shangshu Yang, all the yamen runners in Chang'an County have been dispatched, but there is no clue yet."

"Is that true? But I don't think this case is that difficult." Yang Guozhong said without saying a word.

Cui Guangyuan was overjoyed, and he stood up, "Shangshu Yang has any clues?"

He suddenly felt that he had lost his composure, so he quickly sat down and said embarrassedly: "I was exhausted by this case, which made Yang Shangshu laugh."

Yang Guozhong waved his hand and smiled, "This is the King of Kings of Jingzhao Yin. I don't know how to interfere, but I know that the assassin had already told you clues before he died, so why don't you care?"

Cui Guangyuan thought about it and said, "Did Shangshu Yang refer to the word 'Xing'?"

"Not bad! This is the most important clue, have you thought of it?"

"Reporting to the Secretary of State, the assassin has found out that it is the thief Liu Yun. The focus of our search is on this, and this word is what Liu Yun said before his death. We cannot determine which 'Xing' he was talking about, whether it is the surname, the Ministry of Justice, or the shape, so we have not taken into account the word Xing yet."

Yang Guozhong's face darkened and he said unhappily: "Hmph! That's you stupid. Haven't you found out that the thief Liu Yun had had a close relationship with the murderer Xing Jian the next year before? At that time, I was Jingzhao Yin and I specially checked the details of this Xing Jian."

Cui Guangyuan was not a magistrate of Chang'an County for a long time, and he didn't know about this at all. He was stunned for a long time and said, "Does Yang Shangshu mean that the word Xing mentioned by the murderer before his death refer to the famous hero Xing Jian?"

"What kind of hero is clearly the domineering of Chang'an."

Yang Guozhong was already a little impatient. He pulled out a book from the table and threw it to Cui Guangyuan, and said angrily: "You guys are not doing their jobs well. I have found the hiding place of the assassin accomplices. If it weren't for the taboo overstepping of power, I would have arrested him long ago, and this matter will be left to you."
Chapter completed!