Chapter Ninety-Eighth: The Officials Admonish the Emperor to Godson
In fact, both the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment prisons were expanded. When the Guanlong people embezzled money to provide food for disaster relief, and the Central Plains families objected to sharing their land, they built large prisons and arrested many people from official families.
jail.
Now, it's the southerners' turn. The Minister of Dali Temple and the Minister of Punishment originally thought that they could easily contain the criminals this time. However, as time passed, more and more criminals filled the prison. They gradually felt the pressure and found that the prison cells
There was simply not enough manpower to allocate. In desperation, they could only ask the emperor for support.
Li Zhiyun did not refuse them, and dispatched the guardsmen to the prison, putting the prison under complete control. For the soldiers who practiced day and night, guarding the prisoners was a good vacation activity, and they were very happy to do it.
However, as time goes by, it is inevitable that you will feel impatient. Generally speaking, it is just the criminals who shout that they are not guilty every day, or they are crazy and curse the emperor and criticize the court crazily. Some of their pleadings are not successful.
Simply become a threat.
Such as: 'If you don't let me go, the southerners will rebel and the world will be divided', 'The emperor is very cruel and calls on the heroes of the world to rebel', 'There are traitors in front of the saint, and he should stand beside the emperor to rectify the hearts of the people of the world', 'The saint has no way,
The saint has no intention, etc.
I scolded, begged, and cried bitterly, but it was of no use. The soldiers who were tired from training found it interesting at first, but then they just felt bored. After asking for orders from their superiors, they killed several of them.
The raving guy had his head passed around the prison cells. For a moment, there was complete silence.
Tai Chi Hall, Huazhang Pavilion.
"Your Majesty, stop it. Nearly 30,000 people have been escorted to Chang'an. If the investigation continues, I'm afraid all the big families in the south will rebel!" Du Ruhui pleaded hard.
Li Zhiyun stood in front of the window with a scroll in his hand, admiring the palace complex. Behind him, Du Ruhui, Fang Xuanling, Xue Shou, Wen Yanbo, Dai Zhou, Li Jing, Zhao Cijing and others were listed. After Du Ruhui finished speaking
After that, the remaining people also quickly asked the emperor to stop.
Nothing else, the main reason is that the emperor's actions this time are too terrifying, even more terrifying than the previous thorough investigation of the Central Plains. In just half a month, more than 30,000 people have been arrested. This is not 30,000 corrupt officials, but including
Everyone including officials, aristocratic families, and wealthy families, including their descendants, including all their family members.
This is to dig out their roots and catch them all!
In fact, they are repeating the old story of Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty. They can't tolerate it and worry about it. If the oppression continues and the south becomes unstable, won't it lead to the division of the empire?
"rebel?"
Li Zhiyun slowly turned around with a cold smile on his face, "Keming, you just said that the southerners are preparing to rebel?"
"Your Majesty, if they continue to be implicated, they will rebel."
"Then do you think I can suppress them?" Li Zhiyun asked.
Hearing this, Du Ruhui was unable to answer for a moment because he suddenly realized the terrible fact. The situation between today and Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty is completely different. When Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty was bent on killing the Guanlong people, the southern nobles and Shandong nobles looked on with cold eyes.
, they did not regard Emperor Sui Yang's actions as a sign of goodwill towards themselves.
Moreover, at that time, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty repeatedly conquered Goguryeo and sent the Guanlong people to their deaths, leaving the people of the world in dire straits. He had already lost the support of the people and lost all his advantages. In dealing with the Guanlong people, he lost the support of Guanlong, and could not get the Shandong gentry and the southerners.
With the support of the gentry and the loss of popular support, how could it be possible to suppress the rising rebellions in the world?
And what about now?
The people's hearts are as stable as Mount Tai. The people of Guanlong focus on the position vacated by the southerners and fully support His Majesty the Emperor. Once there is a change in the south, it will only be a change in the south. When the imperial army goes south, it will definitely cure the disease and completely pacify the south.
What Jinshang did was very different from what Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty did, but the conditions that Jinshang could take advantage of and the support he received were completely incomparable to what Emperor Sui Yang could do.
Dai Zhou advised: "Your Majesty, if the south rebels, the empire will naturally suppress it. But has your Majesty ever thought that once the war breaks out, the hearts of the southerners will turn against the Tang Dynasty. Since the end of the Jin Dynasty, the north and the south have been divided for hundreds of years.
The Sui Dynasty could not unify
How can the southerners be united with the northerners for decades? Your Majesty's thorough investigation of local corrupt officials is a good move to win over the people of the south. But once war breaks out in the south, everything you have done will be in vain.
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Wen Yanbo also held up his hands and said: "Your Majesty, it is better to kill the chief evildoer, exile him, and move his lord to the northern border to replenish the population than to massacre."
"His Majesty."
The others spoke one after another.
It's not that they accepted many benefits from the southerners, they simply felt that they couldn't massacre like this, otherwise the south would change, and the people's hearts in the north and the south, which had finally healed up, would probably gradually go in opposite directions. And this would not be conducive to the long-term rule of the empire.
Li Zhiyun naturally listened to their words.
His original intention was not to imitate Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty and beat the southern gentry to death with a stick. That was an unrealistic delusion. The goal was to reduce the power of the southern gentry and balance it with the Guanlong nobles and Shandong gentry.
After all, the triangle relationship is the most stable.
"Do as Prime Minister Wen said and come up with a charter as soon as possible."
"Yes!" Everyone looked happy.
As long as the emperor is willing to open a crack, things won't be too bad.
As everyone gradually left, Prince Li Chengzhao, who was hiding behind the curtain, came out and bowed to the emperor.
"Father."
Looking at his son's tight little face, Li Zhiyun actually felt a little distressed. During this period, his son also dealt with these things with him. Moreover, Li Zhiyun instilled in him a lot of ideas about the dangers of aristocratic families, making him bear too much at this age.
Undue pressure.
"come over."
Li Chengzhao walked over, looked at his father's tall figure, and raised his little face.
"Are you tired?" Li Zhiyun placed his palm on his son's black hair and gently stroked his little head. At this moment, there was more tenderness between father and son.
Li Chengzhao shook his head and nodded again.
"What does this mean?" Li Zhiyun asked with a smile.
Li Chengzhao said: "The child is very ashamed. I always thought that they were afraid of their father and would obey him and did not dare to do anything evil. But this time, the child realized how naive his thoughts were. If the father had not ordered the thorough investigation,
Check, these people will be like evil insects, eating up the roots of the big tree. And the child is very stupid and doesn't have any good ideas."
"Zhao'er, you must remember that if you want to solve something, you can never be in a hurry. The more anxious you are, the more likely you are to make mistakes. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was anxious to solve the dangers of Guanlong, so the country of the Sui Dynasty could only last two generations. The same is true for other things.
So, don't be anxious, take your time, calm down, find their flaws, and hit them with a fatal blow. This time, I want a major change of blood in the south!"
Li Chengzhao thought for a while and guessed: "If my father doesn't completely solve the southern aristocratic family, is it because, firstly, as Prime Minister Wen said, and secondly, is he worried that the Guanlong people and the Shandong gentry will take the opportunity to grow bigger?"
The corners of Li Zhiyun's mouth curled up slightly, and his palm fell on his neck.
"Remember one sentence, balance, weaken, balance again, weaken again, until they are unable to resist, then you can stop it once and for all. The past few times, I didn't move to the south, not because I didn't want to move, but I had to let the most restless people settle down first.
Now the South is restless, and we have to let it settle down. In the future, other people will be restless, and the old things here can be restored."
Hearing this, Li Chengzhao had some enlightenment.
"My child understands a little bit."
"Go back and think about it."
"yes."
The prince's understanding has never been bad, and Li Zhiyun is satisfied with this.