Chapter 714: There are Heavenly Demons in Shaanzhou
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Wu Zetian's face sank, and he said: "That is Cui Geng's big words to bully the king, Jing Zhaoyin, and even the duties of the water and land transfer envoy, should be dismissed!" โ
Wu Sansi said: "Since this is the case, the minister has no objection. โ
Wu Zetian said: "Cao Yun is a major event, which is related to the safety of the world, if someone makes a stalk from it for his own selfishness, don't blame me for turning my face and being ruthless!" โ
Wu Sansi knew that Her Majesty the Empress was warning him, so he shrunk his neck and said, "Weichen doesn't dare!" โ
"Hmph, it's better not to dare!"
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This turmoil ended with Wu Yizong being a villain in vain, and Cui Geng getting the prime minister's ticket. For a time, Cui Geng's reputation rose to a higher level, and his limelight even overshadowed Zhang Khanzhi, the head of the prime minister.
The reason is very simple, Old Man Zhang is almost eighty years old this year, no matter how powerful he is, how many years can he toss? Cui Geng is different, he was in his thirties when he visited the prime minister. Let's just count him as if he lived to be seventy, and this is more than thirty years.
The ups and downs of the Huan Sea, in more than 30 years, how can you pay homage four or five times? If anyone offends him now, even if he is safe, is he not afraid of implicating his children and grandchildren?
Therefore, after the dispersal of the dynasty that day, Cui Geng received countless invitations, and even more than a dozen marquis and grandfathers came to ask for guilt in person.
These people are naturally the ones who colluded with Wu Yizong and were ready to snatch him from the Chang'an Cup.
Cui Geng counted carefully, that's right, these are the people who chirped crookedly and contributed the least money when preparing for the Chang'an Cup. Is it any wonder that they are angry and want to reallocate their members?
Capital sins can be forgiven, but living sins are unforgivable.
Cui Geng simply cleared these people out of the Chang'an Cup. And strictly ordered them not to restore the water mill on the Zhengbai Canal.
Things in the world are like this, business is official, and there are many constraints, but if it involves personal grievances, it is much simpler.
Instead of accusing Cui Geng of being too severe, those people also breathed a sigh of relief, thanked Cui Geng for his magnanimity, and announced that they would never be an enemy of Cui Jingzhao in the future.
After Cui Geng announced that the business of dredging the Tongji Canal could be handed over to them, these people were simply grateful and burst into tears.
Slapping a sweet date to a sweet date is not a sophisticated means. However, the key is who used it.
The emperor can make the fierce warrior die to the ground. Cui Geng, the young preparatory prime minister, made it no problem to subdue dozens of short-sighted declining nobles.
Then, Cui Geng accelerated the screening of the palace maids and eunuchs of the former Chang'an Palace, and reinstated them to their posts. Although these people do not have a high status, they have also formed a great good fate.
All arrangements were stopped, and Cui Genglian gave an order and sounded the clarion call for the reform of Caoyun.
It is said that Cui Geng governs dozens of state capitals, but in fact, there are three states that really want to contribute now: Yongzhou, Luozhou and Shaanzhou.
Cui Geng personally sat in Yongzhou and dredged the "Tongji Canal". The Tongji Canal stretches for hundreds of miles, and the amount of work is very huge, which is the most difficult section.
Luozhou mainly builds warehouses at key nodes, and there are regulations for everything, needless to say.
Finally, there is Shaanzhou, where Sanmenxia Natural Insurance is located.
According to Cui Geng's plan, in order to bypass the natural danger of Sanmenxia, it is necessary to dig a plank road of forty miles on the mountain to facilitate transportation.
This job is both arduous and quite technical, and it is really difficult to do.
However, it is very fortunate that the current assassin of Shaanzhou is called Yang Wulian, who is a rare technocrat.
At the beginning, when Li Xian was not ousted by Wu Zetian, Yang Wulian was a young craftsman, and the pavilions and pavilions built were beautiful. Li Xian was very happy when he saw it, and wanted to promote him to prime minister.
As a result, Yuan Shuji advised: "Yang Wulian is in the ninth secretary, and he doesn't think about the strategy of governing the country and the country, but he builds a gorgeous palace to lure His Majesty to enjoy himself, which is really ashamed of being a minister!" If you don't belittle him, how can you let him continue to be promoted? โ
As a result, Li Xian really listened to this advice and demoted Yang Wulian to the assassin of Lingzhou. After more than ten years of ups and downs, Yang Wulian has now become the history of Shaanzhou Thorn.
After hearing about Yang Wulian's past, Cui Geng really had some grievances for him, and Yang Wulian was a young craftsman, and building a palace was his job. Why did you do your job well, and you were still degraded? Are you unreasonable?
Therefore, although they have not met, Cui Geng has a great impression of him.
Yang Wulian is really worthy of Cui Geng, and after receiving the official letter from him, he immediately gathered people to build the plank road, and constantly reported the progress of the plank road.
The speed at which Yang Wulian built the plank road was far above Cui Geng's expected speed, which made him constantly sigh that this technocrat was really easy to use.
Three months later, seeing that the work of Tongji Canal was on the right track, Cui Geng rushed back to Chang'an City in secret.
Fame-wise, it is to deal with Kyung Zhao Yin's backlog of official duties, but in fact, he mainly wants to reunite his family for a while.
Coincidentally, on the second day after Cui Geng returned to the Jingzhao Mansion in Chang'an, the drums outside were loud.
There will be strange grievances when the drum sounds, Cui Geng didn't dare to slack off, changed into his official robe, and was promoted to the court to ask about the case.
"Might~~"
In the shouts of the officials, a thin and withered young man with a pale face was brought to the hall.
Syllable!
Cui Geng lightly patted the startled wood and said, "Who is kneeling down in the hall?" Where do you live and who is your surname? โ
"The villain's surname is Ma, his name is Ma Tianfang, he is 16 years old this year, and he is from Xia County, Shaanzhou."
"What grievances do you have that you want to beat the drum of grievances?"
Ma Tianfang took a deep breath and said: "The villain wants to sue the officials by the people, sue the people of Shaanzhou to assassinate Yang Wulian and the remnants of the people, and ask Cui Qingtian to be the villain's master,"
"Huh? Are you going to sue Yang Wulian? Cui Geng frowned and said: "Shaanzhou is Zhongzhou, and Yang Wulian is an official who lives in the fourth grade." If you want to sue him, you have to go to the Tianguan (Ministry of Officials) to sue, or go directly to Luoyang's Tongkuang, what are you doing in the Jingzhao Yin Yamen of the official? โ
"Cui Qingtian, in addition to Jing Zhaoyin's duties, aren't you also the duties of land and water transfer envoys? Isn't Yang Wulian in your hands? โ
Cui Geng shook his head and said: "Although this official can manage Shaanzhou, he can only manage things related to Caoyun. As for the rest, I can't help it. โ
"Then you can't go wrong." Ma Tianfang said: "The villain's complaint is indeed related to Cao Yun!" โ
"Huh? What the hell is going on? โ
"Please also ask Lord Cui to save the people of Luozhou, they are simply ...... It's hell on earth! โ
As soon as he mentioned this matter, Ma Tianfang gritted his teeth and said, "Yang Wulian requisitioned 3,000 people in order to build a plank road. The mountain is steep, and in order to catch up with the progress, many people fell off the cliff with no bones. But Yang Wulian not only refused to give them compensation, but also accused them of fleeing, imprisoned all their families, and refused to release them without paying enough money for 40 exemptions. Cui Qingtian, tell me, is this a human thing? โ
When Cui Geng heard what he said, his face changed suddenly, and he said, "Is this really the case?" โ
"The little one who sues the officials with the people has already put life and death aside, how dare he say half a lie? To tell the truth, the villain's father was one of the people who was forcibly requisitioned by Yang Wulian to repair the plank road and fell off the cliff. I finally escaped the capture of the government, came to the capital, and complained to you, can you ignore it! โ
Cui Geng was thoughtful and muttered: "What you said is all your words, but what evidence is there?" โ
"Hey, what more evidence do you need?" Ma Tianfang said: "Yang Wulian has done bad things, and everyone in Shaanzhou knows about it, and no one knows it." The common people even gave him a nickname, called "Heavenly Demon". That means that this demon was born to harm the people. If Cui Jingzhao doesn't believe it, even if he sends someone to Shaanzhou, he will find out as soon as he asks! โ
"Why send someone to ask?" Cui Geng felt that this matter was very important, and said in a deep voice: "I can't say it, this official is going to go to Shaanzhou in person to see this heavenly demon Yang Wulian." โ