Chapter 65 The Hongnong Yang Clan was demoted and used again
Following Han Zhongliang was Sun Fujia, the young minister of Dali Temple. When he saw the situation inside, he couldn't help but sigh, "The Yang family of Hongnong has a big family and a big business. Why do they need to collude with local landlords to enrich themselves? This is a way to bring disaster. They actually
It’s incomprehensible that this can be done.”
"Oh, it's just greed." Han Zhongliang commented.
As the minister of Dali Temple, he still knew a lot of inside stories. This time the emperor was furious and launched a rigorous investigation into dozens of states in the Central Plains, implicating so many people, which was nothing more than two angers.
The first one was angry, the Hongnong Yang family secretly made evil, and wanted to abolish the two prefectures of Luo and Zheng and divide the land into acres. The second one was the local officials, who colluded with the landlords, harmed the people, and caused the people to become homeless.
He personally had no opinion or opinion about the landowners' persecution of the common people.
This time, the emperor killed the chief culprit, confiscated the property of the principal culprit and his accomplices, and exiled tens of thousands of people. This shows that he was truly angry.
What's more, Yang Gongren was dismissed.
"Let's go."
"yes."
A few days later, as the imperial edict was officially announced, Yang Xu and others were taken to the execution ground and beheaded one by one.
At the same time, the prisoner's family papers were also sent to Sheng and Yunzhou one after another.
Changle Hall.
Queen Yang has been ill recently. The imperial doctor said that she was suffering from worry and needed to rest.
In the palace, only the emperor was sitting next to Queen Yang.
"I know. You must know what is going on outside. In your heart, are you blaming me for not showing any mercy?"
The emperor held her hand and asked softly.
Empress Yang shook her head and said bitterly: "How could I not know that my husband is a nostalgic person? If Yang Xu hadn't made a big mistake this time, how could my husband kill him? However, I was born in the Yang family after all, so I couldn't bear it.
Husband, don’t worry about me, I will be fine in a few days.”
Li Zhiyun shook his head gently and said: "You take good care of your health and don't think too much about other things. I will not implicate the entire Hongnong Yang family because of one Yang Xu."
"Thank you husband."
Li Zhiyun sighed: "The Yang family of Hongnong has a great family and a great business. As long as they show some restraint, I will not deal with them like this."
Queen Yang's mouth was bitter and she could not refute.
The truth is the most hurtful.
"By the way, I plan to transfer the position of Minister of Honglu Temple to Yang Shidao, the general manager of Hongzhou. What do you think?"
Empress Yang was startled, and then she said softly: "I am a woman in the harem. Your Majesty is the one who makes the decision. I have no objection."
"Well, then it's decided." Li Zhiyun said: "You have a good rest, and I will come with you in the evening."
"Um."
Watching the emperor leave, Empress Yang showed a smile of relief.
Soon after, the emperor issued an edict to promote Yang Shidao, the general manager of Hongzhou, to the rank of Minister of Honglu Temple.
When the news reached Yang Gongren's ears, he was speechless for a long time. He was happy and sad at the same time. He was happy that the emperor did not anger all the Hongnong Yang family's children, but he was sad that he had come to an end.
Yang Shidao has been in Hongzhou for nearly ten years. He has been unable to be transferred back to Chang'an before because he is the Prime Minister. Now, Yang Shidao has been promoted to Minister of Honglu Temple, obviously because the emperor will no longer use him.
Then he started using Yang Shidao.
He finally began to regret, regretting that he should not have secretly objected to sharing the family. Now it didn't matter whether he could be an official or not. He was worried that the emperor would anger the queen and even King Wuling because of the Yang family.
But now, the Ministry of Personnel cooperates with Yushitai to clean up corrupt officials, and has eliminated most of his old friends in the Sixth Ministry. Yang's reputation in the court has plummeted. How can he support King Wuling in the future?
Yang Shidao was the minister of Honglu Temple at the beginning, but he had many obstacles and was in trouble!
He regretted it.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work.
In the past, the local governors killed in the Central Plains were easy to fill the vacancies, but it was not easy to decide the position of the Prime Minister of the Political Affairs Hall.
"Who do you think can be the prime minister?" Li Zhiyun, Du Ruhui and Xue Shou, leaned on the railing on the bell tower of Donggemen and looked into the distance.
The two looked at each other, and it was Du Ruhui who spoke first: "I have two candidates."
"explain."
"The first one is Xuanling, the Minister of the Ministry of Justice. Although this person is an old friend of the former King of Qin, he is now loyal to His Majesty. After many years, he has already returned to his heart. In terms of talents, this person is good at planning, comprehensive, and cautious in his actions. He is quite
If you do your duty, you can enter the political hall."
Fang Xuanling?
Li Zhiyun was not worried about Fang Xuanling's loyalty, let alone his ability.
"Where's the other one?"
"Daiwei, Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs," Du Ruhui said: "Taking care of political affairs, dealing with complicated affairs, and handling all affairs, Daiwei can be the prime minister of the country."
Daiwei is an old man from Qiandi, needless to say.
"What do you think of You Pu She?" Li Zhiyun asked.
Xue Shou thought to himself: "Both of these two are talented people, and I don't know who to choose."
Li Zhiyun squinted his eyes and thought for a while, but did not answer them.
Both Dai Wei and Fang Xuanling can be used, and neither of them has any obvious advantages. If there is any, Dai Wei must have an advantage, because Dai Wei followed the emperor relatively early.
"Keming, who do you think is better?"
Du Ruhui said: "It's hard to choose a minister."
"You guys." Li Zhiyun turned around and looked at the two ministers, "I don't want to offend anyone at this time, so I will think about it myself."
As for who would become the new Prime Minister, the ministers were naturally discussing among themselves, but no one dared to recommend anyone.
The reason is simple: the emperor is still the same emperor, and they don't have the guts to do anything the emperor doesn't agree with.
The Zhenguan Dynasty was different from the Wude Dynasty. The current emperor said the same thing, and it was even different from the previous emperor.
Yang Shidao, the general manager of Hongzhou, received the imperial edict and arrived in Chang'an in mid-March to take up his duties.
After he heard the news that his brother had been deposed and Yang Xu had been killed in the Central Plains, he immediately visited his brother Yang Gongren.
study.
"Brother, you are so stupid!" He said sadly: "Your Majesty came out of troubled times and followed Emperor Gaozu to bring peace to the world. He is so domineering and unparalleled that you can't allow you to act so recklessly. How can you act like this? This is not self-indulgence.
Are you looking for a dead end?"
Yang Gongren rolled his eyes, "Okay, don't think twice about it after the fact. I have nothing to say at this point."
"Alas!" Yang Shidao sat on the chair, Gudong Gudong took a sip of tea, feeling sulky.
After a while, he asked: "Have you asked the Queen for help?"
"For the sake of King Wuling, I didn't speak." Yang Gongren said.
Yang Shidao breathed a sigh of relief, "It's okay, it's okay."
"What a fart." Yang Gongren said: "Now my old friends have been cleared away by the Emperor in one fell swoop, and I have left the central government. When you take office at Honglu Temple, the help from the central government is greatly reduced. What's so good about it?"
Yang Shidao said: "As long as King Wuling is still there and the Queen is still there, we have not lost. Now, I just hope that King Wuling can win the favor of His Majesty and be appointed as the crown prince by His Majesty as soon as possible."
"It's not that simple." Yang Gongren said: "Now His Majesty doesn't have any particular favor for any prince. The appointment of a prince will not be realized in the short term. You must not do anything at this time, otherwise it will definitely lead to trouble.
Your Majesty is taboo."
"Of course I know that." Yang Shidao nodded.
Yang Gongren said: "I understand, your Majesty is acting arbitrarily now, and the only people who can dissuade him are the old ministers of the Shence Mansion. Although we are your Majesty's ministers, we are inevitably close and distant. This time I have been dismissed, and your Majesty will transfer you
Returning to Chang'an, it is obvious that the Yang family of Hongnong has not completely given up. Now we need to stay dormant and serve you wholeheartedly, and we cannot think of him again."
"I have taken note of what brother said." Yang Shidao nodded.