Chapter 395 Father and Son Rebellion

In the East Palace, a clear sound of reading came from the inner hall, with a slightly immature voice, and it could be heard that a young man was reading.

Confucius said: Governing with virtue is like the North Chen, where the stars share it.

Confucius said: Three hundred poems are summed up in one sentence, saying: "Thinking without evil."

Confucius said: Guide them with politics and govern them with virtue, so that the people are exempted from shamelessness. Guide them with virtue and govern them with etiquette, and have shame and integrity.

Confucius said: I am determined to study at 150, I am determined to be aware of my studies at 30, I am not confused at 40, I am not confused at 50, I am known to heaven at 60, I am obedient to my ears at 70, and I am following my heart and not exceeding the rules.

In a study room full of books, an eleven or 2-year-old boy was reciting the "Analects of Confucius" seriously with his hands behind his back. Opposite him, a middle-aged man had a serious expression. As long as the boy paused for a moment, he frowned and looked angry, which made the boy quite scared.

The young man is the current crown prince, Li Shi, the eldest son of Li Yu. He was born in the first year of Tianbao and was twelve years old this year. The little guy looks quite like his mother, Empress Chen, who is handsome and elegant, and has extraordinary talent. From the day his father ascended the throne, he was enthroned as the crown prince and lived in the East Palace to study. He usually stayed in Chongwenguan, with famous teachers and a group of noble young men accompanying him to study. However, today he did not go to Chongwenguan, but endorsed his book in his study.

The middle-aged man sitting opposite him was not a great scholar who taught him to study, nor was he a eunuch who took care of his daily life, but his grandfather, the emperor Li Heng, back then.

After Li Heng had an argument with his son because of the differences in Hexi's strategy, he was angry and stopped asking about political affairs. Although he didn't ask about political affairs, he did not stroll around like before and cultivate his mind and character. Instead, he made friends with important officials everywhere, or came to the East Palace to supervise his grandson's study. In his angry words, he had given up on his son, and now he placed all his hopes on his grandson.

"Stop!" Li Heng waved his hand and stopped his grandson's endorsement.

"Do you know what you're carrying?"

"Report to my grandfather, my grandson is reciting the "Analects of Confucius. Political""

"Then I ask you, what is the government?"

The young Li Shi thought for a moment and said, "The emperor said that the people are in power."

"Your father is wrong. It should be the ruler and the country. If your father really takes the people as the ruler, will he issue money? He is just saying, but in fact he is still ruler and the people are just in the name. Do you remember?"

"The grandson dares not talk about his father behind his back."

"You dare not say that I dare to say that he is just an incompetent son to me. You must not be an example."

As soon as he finished speaking, a cough came from behind. When Li Shi saw this, he was so scared that he bowed and bowed, "See Father!"

Li Heng turned around and saw his son Li Yu appear at the door. He snorted and looked at the corner of the room with his hands behind his back.

When Li Yu heard that his father always went to the East Palace these days, he couldn't help but feel a little suspicious, so he came to the East Palace to visit him in the afternoon. Unexpectedly, he happened to hear his father teaching his son some bad thoughts, which made Li Yu feel dissatisfied. If Li Heng interfered in politics and stole the right to recruit soldiers, he could still bear it a little, then the father taught his grandson's bad rebellious words in private, which made Li Yu unable to bear it. He would never tolerate anyone instigating and poisoning his son, even his father would not allow it.

Li Yu walked over with a blue face and said to his son: "Shier, you go back to the bedroom first. I have something to talk to your grandfather."

"Yes! The child is leaving."

Li Shi bowed and left, and the room was as quiet as death. After a while, Li Yu said coldly: "If you have any opinions about me, just say something inappropriate in front of Shi Er."

Li Heng snorted, "You are the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. I dare to have any dissatisfaction with you. I dare not provoke you. I am just teaching my grandson how to be a monarch in the future and not let those so-called benevolence and righteousness harm you."

"What does Father mean?"

Li Yuhan said with a face: "As the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, shouldn't I advocate benevolence and righteousness? Should I let me abandon etiquette, righteousness, integrity and shame? Is that a good emperor?"

"I didn't say you don't want benevolence and righteousness. Your problem is that when you should be kind and righteous, you are not kind and righteous, and when you should be kind and righteous, you are false and righteous, which will ruin your own big things and harm my grandson."

Li Heng said very meanly, which made Li Yu's face unhappy. He thought about his bad words in front of his grandson. His anger finally made Li Yu lose his mind and his tone became higher.

"Please tell me clearly. When did I behave like a false benevolence and righteousness? When did I want to harm my son? I have been enduring you and enduring your fingers at my country, because I am your son, but are you like the Supreme Emperor? Today I actually say that I am a false benevolence and righteousness. Have you made the words clear?"

"Aren't you? You kept saying that you should think about the people of the world, but how did you do it? Isn't this your false benevolence and righteousness? You just as soon as you ascend the throne. This is the time when you deserve your kindness, but you are not kindness; but I advise you to take back Hexi directly, reset the Hexi Jiedu, and turn against Li Qing'an directly, but you said that you were afraid of being timid and using despicable means to seize his Hexi. Do you think he would not use the same means to regain Hexi? You simply turned your face, but he did not dare to act rashly. This is the time when you deserve your kindness, but you have to talk about benevolence and righteousness."

The more Li Heng said, the more hatred he felt in his heart, he lowered his voice and said, "Also, I asked you to send him back directly. Who would doubt you at this time? But what about you? You should recite the feelings of ancestors and grandchildren and wake him up again. What should you do now? If he does not remember the feelings of ancestors and grandchildren and does not recognize you as the emperor, wouldn't you be stunned?"

Li Yu became more and more disgusted as his father listened. He couldn't help but retort: ​​"He is my grandfather, just like you are my father. Can I do that kind of thing that destroys human relations? Please don't say such words in the future."

"Hmph! There is only one throne. Is there any relative relationship in front of the throne? I think you are becoming more and more confused. You will die at his hands sooner or later, just wait and see!"

After saying that, Li Heng turned around and left. When he reached the door, he heard Li Yu say coldly: "I don't have a father like you, and I don't have a grandfather like you. Please don't come to the East Palace again in the future."

Li Heng was shocked all over and he left without looking back. Li Yu stared at his father's back. He had not seen his father's true face until today. At this moment, his heart was filled with endless sorrow.

Li Yu returned to Daming Palace physically and mentally exhausted. At this time, it was already dark. Just as he was about to return to his bedroom, Zhang Zhenying, the eunuch in the imperial study, came to report, "Your Majesty, Yang Prime Minister and the fifth doctor were urgently requesting a meeting, and they have been waiting for a long time."

Only then did Li Yu remember that tomorrow was the day to issue new money. Although he felt very tired, he cheered up and said, "Go to the Imperial Study!"

The carriage turned its head and headed towards Zichen Pavilion.

Outside the Zichen Pavilion Imperial Study Room, Yang Guozhong and Di Wuqi had been waiting for a long time. An hour ago, Di Wuqi was beaten up. Fortunately, everyone was dissuaded by the shopkeeper and his friend, so he escaped from the back door of the restaurant. Despite this, his face and body were covered with blue bruises, his eyes were blue, and his nose was broken, and he was in a very embarrassing state.

Escaped from the restaurant, Di Wuqi went directly to Yang Guozhong's mansion. He reported to Yang Guozhong all the things that happened today. Yang Guozhong also realized that the situation was serious and immediately brought him to Zichen Pavilion to meet him.

Wuqi sat on a soft pier, leaning against the wall, and the pain in his neck made him grin and Yang Guozhong whispered to comfort him, "Fifth Envoy, please rest assured, I have ordered Jingzhao Yin to investigate the suspect who beat people. I will ask the shopkeeper of the restaurant to explain. If he can't explain, I will let him take the blame. In short, I will definitely give you an explanation."

"Thank you, Prime Minister, but this time I didn't expect someone to leak the news, which would put the money issue at a threat of failure. Prime Minister, if the thief in the country is not eliminated, the country will be peaceful!"

"Who does the Fifth Envoy think it was leaking the news?"

This is what Yang Guozhong cares about. He doesn't care about the issuance of money. He is concerned about the power struggle. He already has some idea in his mind.

"The officials think Pei Min is the most suspicious. He has always opposed issuing money. I suspect that he leaked it to Li Qing'an, so Li Qing'an started to spread rumors."

If it were a few days ago, Yang Guozhong would have agreed with Di Wuqi's speculation, but after the persuasion of his military advisor Linghu Fei, he had changed his mind. In his eyes, although Li Qingan was a jackal, but far apart, it did not harm him much, while Zhang Yun was a poisonous snake. He supported King Shu Li Yu, while he himself supported King Jing Li Mao. Although the two cooperated, they were incompatible. If he was not careful, he would be plotted against by this person. Therefore, although Pei Min made him hate him, Pei Min's existence undermined Zhang Yun. If Pei Min fell out, Zhang Yun would make a comeback immediately.

Yang Guozhong pretended to think and said, "I think there is little possibility for Li Qing'an. We decided to issue silver coins at the beginning of the month. It has only been seven days since then. Even if we use Fei Ge to send a message, it is too late to go back and forth. I think it shouldn't be Pei Min's leak."

Wu Qi was stunned. The three most suspicious people were excluded. Yang Guozhong and Pei Min were excluded, so that only Yang Shenyu was left. Could it be him?

"What the Prime Minister means is it done by Yangfujian?"

"This is just a guess, there is no evidence, and I don't want to talk nonsense."

Wu Qi's thoughts changed, and he suddenly realized that Yang Guozhong was going to use this matter to mess with Zhang Yun. At this moment, the eunuch shouted from a distance, "Your Majesty is here!"

Wuqi and Yang Guozhong quickly stood up and saw a few lanterns approaching. Li Yu walked quickly towards this side surrounded by a large group of guards.

"See Your Majesty!"

"Two dear friends, go to the imperial study room and talk!"

Li Yu went directly into the imperial study room. The light in the imperial study room was bright. A eunuch had already lit a plate of charcoal fire, which was particularly warm. Li Yu sat down, and then he realized Di Wuqi's strangeness and said in surprise: "Die Wu's Love, what's going on?"

"Your Majesty, I am beaten up by a group of mobs who oppose money."

Wu Qi briefly said what happened in the winery and finally said: "I think this matter is very strange. This rumor was circulating two days before the issuance of the silver coins. It is obvious that someone is deliberately destroying the issuance of the silver coins. Your Majesty, we are still careless."

Li Yu didn't say anything for a long time, and anger gradually emerged on his face. He slapped the table and cursed: "Who has leaked the secret? If I know, I must kill him!"

At this time, Yang Guozhong bowed and said, "Your Majesty, there are only six people who know the specific date of issuing silver. In addition to the three of us, there are also Minister Pei, Li Hanlin and Yangfujian. Although Minister Pei opposed issuing silver, he was from the famous Pei family. He would make an explicit advice, but he would not plot. I think it was not him, and it had nothing to do with Anxi and Li Qing'an. The journey was too long and there was no time to rule out him. Then Li Hanlin and Yangfujian."

"Li Mi is my master. He will never betray me. I can trust him."

At this time, the three of them stopped talking. Now there is only Yang Shenyu, the chief supervisor of Taifu Temple. Could it be him? There are some things that Yang Guozhong needs to say. Li Yu also wanted to find out that Yang Shenyu is Yang Shenjin's younger brother and Zhang Yun's confidant. This time, the issuance of silver is to recruit soldiers and deal with the three kings. It is related to the interests of Shu King Li Yu. So will Zhang Yun take action? The answer is about to come out.

Li Yu paved back and forth in the imperial study with a gloomy face. For some reason, he always remembered what his father said, "When it is necessary to be kind and righteous, he is not kind and righteous, but he is benevolent and righteous when he is not meant to be kind and righteous." This sentence is not completely wrong to some extent. Sometimes he is a little too weak. For example, Zhang Yun, who clearly knows that he supports the King of Shu and has been secretly opposing himself, but he has no choice but to do anything to him. Can't he really touch him?

Li Yu glanced at him and saw Yang Guozhong with hope on his face. He suddenly remembered what Li Mi said, "Be good at taking advantage of the conflicts between ministers and factions." This is the art of the emperor. Since Yang Guozhong intends to deal with Zhang Yun, why didn't he satisfy this person?

Thinking of this, Li Yu said to Yang Guozhong: "You are fully responsible for the thorough investigation of the leaked case of Yang Xiangguo. No matter who is involved in this matter, as long as the evidence is sufficient, I will definitely punish you strictly without lending."

Yang Guozhong was overjoyed. With Li Yu's words, he could let go. He immediately bowed and bowed, "I obey the order! I will immediately find the source of the news."

After Yang Guozhong stepped down, Li Yu sighed to Di Wuqi: "The fifth beloved, now public opinion is not good for us to issue money. Do you have any countermeasures?"

"Your Majesty, I still have the same old saying, I will issue silver and let the people adapt slowly. Now the people are afraid of silver and money because the late emperor issued silver and money improperly. One hundred coins is the price comparison. This price comparison is too outrageous, and there are too many bad money imitated. According to my investigation, if the silver content of silver is slightly increased and the price comparison is reduced, the people will eventually accept it. The key is that the Anxi silver dollar exists. We cannot compete for it no matter how much. As long as it exists, the silver and money cannot be circulated. Your Majesty is doing a good job now, blocking it.

With the source of Anxi silver dollars, the Anxi silver dollars will be less and less on the market, because everyone stores it in their homes and no one can bear to take it out. It will lose the circulation of money and become treasures. So I am very sure that as long as our second batch of silver coins are put into the market, Anxi silver dollars will be gone. Your Majesty then ordered the abolition of old silver coins and allowed to exchange old coins for new coins. In this way, there will be only two types of copper coins and Dali silver coins left on the market, and our silver coins will be issued successfully."

Wuqi's analysis greatly encouraged Li Yu's confidence. He thought for a while and said, "Although we say so, we still need to change our countermeasures in time and must not be too passive. If we still issue new money tomorrow as planned, I am very worried that there will be no money on the market and we must take action immediately."

"What do you want to do?"

Li Yu pondered for a moment, and immediately ordered: "Suixuan Changsun Quanxu to see me!"

Changsun Quanxu is currently the general of the Yulin Army. He holds the military power of the 80,000 troops loyal to Li Yu. He is one of the ministers most trusted by Li Yu. He happened to be on duty today. When he heard Xuan's summons, he immediately rushed to see Li Yu.

"My minister, Sun Quanxu, pays homage to Your Majesty!"

"General Changsun, I have something to entrust."

"Please give orders from your Majesty, I will never refuse to die."

"Very good!" Li Yu nodded and ordered: "You immediately send troops overnight to control all the cabinets and shops in Chang'an and the two cities. No matter who is involved in the backend, you must control them. In short, they are not allowed to transfer a penny of copper coins out."

"I obey the order!"

Changsun Quanxu left with great strides. At this moment, Li Yu suddenly felt that his heart had become hard and finally felt like an emperor.

"Didn't you say I'm not a good person and is useless? I'll let you see my thunderous methods tonight!" Li Yu murmured to himself.

In the dark, a group of fully armed soldiers rushed into the West and East cities. They smashed the doors of many large shops and rushed all the shopkeepers and shopkeepers who lived in the shops into the empty rooms and locked them up, sealing their money cabinets and cashiers with seals, preventing them from being transported away.

Generally speaking, there are several ways for the imperial court to issue big money or silver coins. One is to force shopping, especially to purchase food and other daily necessities, which will lead to a surge in prices. Then, the grain is sold slightly lower than the market price, in the name of suppressing grain prices. In fact, it is used to exchange for hard-to-wipe copper coins, thus pushing the big money to the market. Li Longji issued silver coins two years ago, which caused the grain price to double. Thanks to the bumper grain harvest in Longyou last year, the grain price would rise to heaven.

Another method is to force exchange in the copper coins concentration, mainly in cabinet shops and some large shops. Because Li Yu's approach to the throne, the method of purchasing grain would cause a surge in grain prices and public resentment. Moreover, the price of grain is no longer low, and if it rises, it will cause tragedy of starving people to death, and even civil unrest, so he adopted the latter method to force exchange from cabinet shops. Most of the people who save money in cabinet shops were merchants, so the last one was merchant. The ordinary people in Chang'an suffered little losses. All dynasties have taken action against merchants first.

Yang's Cabinet is the third largest Cabinet in Chang'an, and it was opened by Yang Huahua, the Lady of Guoguo. This new silver money issuance inevitably hit it. Yang Huahua also heard the news of issuing new silver money in the past two days. Similarly, her Cabinet was also run by money depositors. She had 250,000 guan in the money deposit in Xishi Cabinet. In just two days, the Cabinet was taken away by nearly 150,000 guan. Yang Huahua was panicked and immediately ordered the Cabinet to close the door because the money was sold out. On the other hand, she used the evening time to transport the 100,000 guan in stock.

Last night, they had transported 60,000 guan. Tonight they were about to transport the last 40,000 guan. The gate of the cabinet shop was closed and the lights in the lobby were dim. More than thirty friends were nervously counting and packing the copper coins. Yang Huahua also rushed to the cabinet shop to supervise in person. She urged in a low voice from time to time: "Hurry up, don't need to count them, pack them first, and the boat is waiting outside!"
Chapter completed!