1105. Salt merchants conspired

Chang'an City, with a report from Huainan, Taiji Palace was also shaken.

In the Ganlu Palace, there was a crackling sound, and Wang Jingzhong frowned when he heard it at the door.

"Thief, thief, I'm blind, a dignified member of the three grades, actually committed a defection in fear of crime, where is my face, where is the face of the court, where is the face of the Tang Dynasty?" Li Shimin held Li Pojun's report tightly in his hand, kicked and slammed the desk and roared.

After a long time, Li Shimin closed his eyes and shouted: "The ministers of the political affairs hall are coming quickly."

The political hall is the office of the three high-ranking officials, and the ministers of the political hall are the prime ministers such as the eldest grandson Fang Du.

Wang Jingzhong knew that he didn't dare to delay at all, so he went to pass it on in person, and after a while, the eldest grandson Fang Du and others came together.

Seeing Li Shimin standing with his hands behind his back, several people were also unclear, just to see the courtesy, Li Shimin was silent, and the eldest grandson Wuji had to ask: "I don't know what Your Majesty is calling the ministers and so on?" ”

"Yangzhou assassinated Zhang Song, colluded with the state officials, greedy for a huge amount of money, intended to rebel, and ...... after the incident defected in fear of sin". Li Shimin said lightly and threw down the letter in his hand.

The eldest grandson and the others were shocked when they heard this, and when they circulated the report, their faces were also uncertain.

After a while, he couldn't stand being stared at by Li Shimin's eyes, and the eldest grandson Wuji said indignantly: "Your Majesty, we must arrest Zhang Song as soon as possible, hand him over to the three divisions for trial, and execute him to prove that he is not so, there is no way to clarify the law, and there is no way to revitalize the dynasty."

"What the eldest grandson Shangshu said is very true, if Zhang Song flees abroad, the prestige of the imperial court will not survive, and please ask Your Majesty to order His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to do his best to arrest Zhang Song." Gao Shilian also stood up angrily and said. The old minister Gao Shilian is the uncle of the eldest grandson Wuji, who raised the eldest grandson Wuji sisters to grow up, but he never regarded himself as an elder in a formal setting, and there was a clear distinction between public and private, which is also the reason why Gao Shilian was respected.

Fang Duwei and others also agreed.

Li Shimin waved his hand and said straightly: "Since you don't say it, the prince will also make every effort to arrest him, now, let's talk about the Yangzhou problem first, why did it rot so much, officials, how did you pass the assessment?" As he spoke, his eyes glared fiercely at his eldest brother, Changsun Wuji, because Changsun Wuji was the current secretary of the ministry.

Even though Li Shimin and the eldest grandson Wuji have a close relationship, Li Shimin's anger also frightened the eldest grandson Wuji, and the eldest grandson Wuji's fat face was full of shame, and he bowed straight and said: "The minister is guilty of not noticing, please punish Your Majesty."

"Qing is the pillar of the country, but this sin is inevitable, and he is now removed from the post of secretary of the ministry, leading the governor of Yangzhou, adding the three divisions of the Fuyi to assist the prince in clearing Yangzhou." Li Shimin looked at the eldest grandson Wuji and said bluntly.

The eldest grandson Wuji was stunned, then raised his head slightly, and saw that Li Shimin's eyes also understood, and immediately thanked him.

Several people in the hall were undecided, and they heard Li Shimin say: "The secretary and supervisor Wei Zheng visited the school officials and inspected the officials."

Wei Zheng's spirit was shocked, his eyes were shining, and he said loudly: "The minister will not disgrace his life."

Goodbye to the prime minister, he Wei Zheng finally paid his respect!

After there is no prime minister, the prime minister has always been the ultimate goal of civil officials, the three high-ranking officials are the ministers, and the six ministers are also ministers, Wei Zheng is the first time to ascend the phase, although it is only a temporary (inspection school), but it can be regarded as "entering the phase", he previously served as the post of Shangshu Zuocheng, is the adjutant of the Shangshu servant, only one step away from the phase, but then he was transferred to the secretary supervisor (director of the National Library), and was ordered to sort out and revise the chaotic ancient books of scripture and history since the Northern and Southern Dynasties, this is a Qing noble official, and his status is quite high, The level is also from the third grade, half a level higher than Shangshu Zuocheng, but it is far away from the center of power and cannot participate in the government and state affairs, which makes the "big troll" Wei Zheng uncomfortable.

Now that he has ascended to the phase all of a sudden, Wei Zheng is upright and selfless, but he is also secretly excited, that is the phase, Wenchen does not love fame, and can take revenge in his chest, it is simply cool Don't want it, Wei Zheng shook his spirits and made up his mind to make some political achievements.

With this short meeting, Wei Xianggong Wei Zheng was full of energy, and then the Tang officials were miserable, Wei Zheng was a person who even the emperor dared to spray back then.

Yangzhou, Hai'an, this small city near the sea, at this time is about to come to the storm, Gao Jifu, the deputy envoy of salt and iron who came to reform the salt administration, actually ignored the county order to dissuade him from taking five hundred miscellaneous soldiers out of the city, which frightened the county order of Hai'an Lu, and he was busy gathering the big households in the county.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the senior deputy envoy is angry, and he actually took five hundred miscellaneous soldiers with little combat power out of the city to intercept Liu Jingzhi, and now Hai'an has no defense at all, once Liu Jingzhi's rebels defeat the high deputy envoy to attack Hai'an, what should it be?" Lu Xian Ling didn't dare to be too cold in front of these big family members, and asked with a bitter face.

There are four people sitting in the hall, all of them have the faces of rich and noble lords, these four people are the four richest people in Hai'an City, listening to the words of the county lord, three of them did not speak, but just looked at a fat man sitting on the hand.

The fat man also smiled and said straightly: "The county is too worried, then Liu Jingzhi's rebels are only more than a thousand people, what kind of climate can it become, if the rebels really come to attack, the servants of my four families can be turned away from the city."

When Lu Xianling heard this, he was greatly relieved, straightened up and bowed: "That's really good, thank you Liang for your righteousness."

In Hai'an City, a well-known restaurant, the four richest men of Hai'an sat together, and one of them sat down and asked urgently: "Brother Liang, if the rebels really come to attack?" Are we really doing our best to block it? ”

The fat man called Brother Liang, when he was over the years, he had a round face and big ears, and he really looked rich and noble, and when he heard this, his fat face rolled his eyebrows, and he asked: "What if you don't do this?" ”

"Brother Liang, you have the lion's share of Hai'an's salt farm, and as soon as Gao Jifu comes over, the salt farm will be recovered, and we can only be reduced to the point of transportation and consignment, which is our lifeline." The man who had spoken earlier spoke in a hurry.

"Yes, Brother Liang, this Gao Jifu is really too arrogant, if this salt is collected by the official system, then what are we doing, our salt merchants who live on the sea can rely on this salt to eat." The other person also frowned and agreed.

"This salt is related to the national economy and people's livelihood, not our businessmen can control, in the past dynasties and dynasties this salt is the official's, from the beginning of the emperor's year, we can get a piece of the pie, now the court wants to take him back, we have to obey for the people." Liang Fatzi looked at the wine glass in his hand and shook his head and sighed.