Although he knew that he had received Li Er's answer, when the eldest grandson Wuji retreated, there was no joy on his face.

To be honest, as far as preparation is concerned, the Shi clan is relatively well prepared, Qinghe Cui clan raised his arms, the Shi clan responded, and started to act so quickly, and Li Er could only respond passively, with the help of the Jiupin Zhongzheng system, the strength of the Shi clan has been strengthened, and most of the officials in the world are from the Shi clan, even if they are from civilian backgrounds, they will also vote under the door of those Shi clans, so that they can be promoted quickly, in a word, the imperial power and the Shi clan, the two are advantageous, and the two are defeated.

The eldest grandson Wuji also thought that if he wanted to get rid of the coercion of the Shi clan, he would not cancel the Jiupin Zhongzheng system, but is this possible? The world is all fought down by the Shi clan, that is, the current royal family Li family, who is also from the Shi clan, once this bottom line is violated, not only will he not agree, but the Li family of Longxi will also jump out to oppose it.

Who doesn't want to leave their glory and wealth to future generations and pass it on forever? Who can guarantee that every generation of the family will have excellent talents? Only the Jiupin Zhongzheng system can protect its own interests to the greatest extent.

And this contest, the eldest grandson Wuji is a little pessimistic in his heart, it is not that Li Er is incompetent, but that the scholar clan is too strong, even if this time the lack of officials is solved by tapping potential, correcting and other means, but this is only the beginning, the real foundation of the scholar clan, in the locality, the court is the world of the Li family, and on the ground, it is the scholar clan in charge, to put it mildly, the words of the patriarch are much easier to use than any holy decree, if the scholar clan does not cooperate, it is difficult to carry out any decree, and several local scholars work together to easily elevate the officials sent by the imperial court.

What does a bare-bones commander do?

The eldest grandson Wuji didn't have much to do, so he had to follow Li Er's instructions and see him walking.

The joint efforts of the Shi clan have an immediate effect. The imperial court is like a sophisticated machine, officials and departments are like parts, there are so many parts missing at once, and the huge machine of Datang begins to work ineffectively, and the office is blocked:

"Your Majesty, the Guozi Prison Guards made trouble, they protested against the injustice of the imperial court, and some people prepared a petition of thousands of people, asking for justice for General Liu Yuan."

Li Er roared loudly: "What about the sacrificial wine of the Guozijian? Dr. Guozijian and teaching assistants. What did they do, why did they not restrain themselves and let these students make trouble? ”

"Your Majesty, more than half of the doctors and teaching assistants of Guozijian have resigned and taken sick leave, and the newly transferred ones cannot serve the public. The anger of the people is unquellable. ”

Li Er:

"Your Majesty, the progress of the Daming Palace project is not smooth. The supply of materials cannot keep up. There was a failed phase of the project, and now it needs to be torn down and rebuilt. ”

Li Er scolded angrily: "Didn't the household department allocate enough money and silver to build it? Why is there a shortage of materials, and now they have to tear down and rebuild, what are they eating? ”

"Back to the emperor, the supply of materials is a one-period sign. Those merchants who supplied were inadequately prepared and did not renew the contract with the imperial court, the people of the Ministry of Works. Most of them are Cui Jingzhi's cronies, and there are countless secondments and resignations, or they are inexperienced in the new succession, so "

Li Er:

"Your Majesty, the money in the household department is in a hurry, and the expenses have been very large recently, and there is almost no money to be allocated."

Li Er said in surprise: "What? My Datang industry is prosperous, the tax is stable, and the treasury is also full, so why is there no silver to allocate? ”

"Back to the emperor, yesterday was supposed to be the day when the taxes and silver were put into the treasury in various places, but officials around the country either said that taxes were difficult to collect, or they were greatly reduced, or there were too many officials who resigned, and no one collected them, and even the lottery revenues that filled the treasury were sharply reduced by nearly seventy percent in the last period."

Li Er:

"Your Majesty, the landslide in Zhengzhou, requested to allocate funds for disaster relief, the flood in Chenzhou, and asked the imperial court to allocate money and food for disaster relief as soon as possible, Xuzhou went on fire, and more than 1,000 households were homeless, and Xuzhou Thorn Shi implored the emperor to reduce or exempt the taxes needed for this year to reassure the people."

Li Er said suspiciously: "What, these little things, they were not reported in previous years, and they were solved by themselves, why did they suddenly have so many twists and turns for help?" ”

"Back to the emperor, in previous years, there were natural and man-made disasters, and the local scholars would help each other, firstly, for the sake of good political performance, and secondly, it was also used to win people's hearts, but now the scholars not only did not help, but also secretly encouraged the people to storm the government, and asked the emperor to decide."

Li Er gasped and coldened

Without the cooperation and support of the scholars, and under their covert promotion, the decrees were ignored in many places, everything was not going well, and they were blocked everywhere, not only the taxes were sharply reduced, and it was difficult to collect them, but even the army was also affected.

From the original anger and impulsiveness, it slowly turned into low and lost, Cui Shang and Cui of Qinghe Cui's took a leave of absence for less than half a month, Li Er felt physically and mentally tired, even his hair was a lot whiter, and he was white with anger and tiredness.

Looking around, although there are available people, but the available people are far from enough, the more and more things accumulate, the problems are becoming more and more complex, and the contradictions are becoming more and more acute.

On the day when the eldest grandson Wuji was tired, Li Er knew that he had lost, lost completely, without the support of the scholars, he really couldn't let Datang run at high speed and in an orderly manner, and the scholars were like human bones, scattered all over Datang, once these bones were struck, then, the "giant" of Datang was like a mess of mud.

The Li clan can gain the world, but it can't completely control the world, because of the existence of the scholar clan.

But Li Ergen was unwilling to fail, and he couldn't accept this fact, so

Today is the fifteenth day of Liu Yuan's detention, just half a month, in this half month, Liu Yuan's life is not sad, eat and sleep well, from time to time there are familiar people to visit, that is, Xiaoniang and others, also with the help of Li Lizhen, come to visit every three times, sometimes in prison with Liu Yuan to play leaf cards, play Liu Yuan's invention of sparrows, no need to go to court, no need to train the Yang Wei army, life is as happy as a fairy, and Li Er, who is anxious all day long, is simply a sky, one is underground.

Liu Yuan doesn't remember how many groups of guests have come in the past ten days, but the guests who came tonight are absolutely unique.

The person who came was wearing civilian clothes, wearing a black coat and avoiding people's eyes: Li Er.

Liu Yuan never thought that Li Er would come here to visit him, or come to visit late at night, and as soon as he came, he cleared all the people nearby, and sent his most trusted Jin Zhiwu to guard to prevent anyone from overhearing his conversation with himself.

"See the emperor for the guilty." Seeing this special visitor, Liu Yuan hurriedly saluted.

Li Er took off the black cloak, threw it on the desk casually, looked at the surrounding environment casually, sat on the Hu bed in the end, waved his hand to Liu Yuan and said, "Excuse me, I know that you don't like to grovel, so all the vulgar etiquette will be waived tonight." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Liu Yuan was also unceremonious, and sat cross-legged opposite Li Er.

"Do you know what's going on outside the road?"

Liu Yuan was not pretentious, nodded and said, "Zhilu Dao, it seems that the emperor's situation is not very good. ”

The world of the Shi clan, the Jiupin Zhongzheng system is still there, although Li Er's throne is stable, the national strength of the Tang Dynasty is strong, but the strength of the Shi clan is also stronger, and now to challenge the Shi clan, it is simply a suicide act, even a generation of traitorous male Cao Cao, can not eliminate this although it helped him to obtain the world, but also made him restrain his hands and feet, recent visitors, more or less also mentioned Li Er's situation, in a word, a bit like singing a one-man show, no one supports, no one applauds, some, most of them are stabbed in the back with a soft knife.

Li Er stared at Liu Yuan and said, "Then do you know that this matter started because of you." ”

"Wrong, Your Majesty" Liu Yuan said with a sincere face: "I can only say that this matter is just an opportunity, and the two sides have deep grievances, and they are about to break out." ”

"Believe it or not, I can kill you right away." Li Er's words suddenly became gloomy, his gaze suddenly became as sharp as a knife, and Liu Yuan also had a feeling of palpitations as soon as he touched his Feng Yesterday's gaze.

It seems that in an instant, Li Er suddenly changed from a pampered emperor to a brave general on the battlefield.

However, Liu Yuan quickly calmed down, shook his head and said, "The emperor won't kill me." ”

"You're so confident?"

Liu Yuan nodded and said: "If the emperor kills me, you don't have to say this to me, and you don't need to come here in person, in fact, the minister has no malice towards the emperor, let alone a threat, on the contrary, the minister has only benefits to the emperor." ”

Li Er was silent for a moment, and he didn't even object.

After half a ring, Li Er asked Liu Yuandao: "You are so professional, then guess what's the matter with me?" ”

"How do you end this confrontation and find a step that will make it easy for both sides, right?"

"Yes, now that the Tang Dynasty is getting more and more chaotic, and the internal fighting will only benefit the foreigners, when I think of the tragic situation when the Five Hu Chaohua is in China, I shudder" Li Er suddenly smashed his fist on the case, and said with an unwilling face: "I am a little unwilling, under the whole world, it is not the king's land; On the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister, I am the king of a country, and I have to be at their mercy for anything. ”

Liu Yuan understands that the desire of the human heart is endless, no matter which emperor has real power in his hands, he can't do whatever he wants, who will be willing? Li Er is no exception, but he can appear here and say these words to himself, which shows that he has recognized his own situation and the strength of the Shi clan, and his heart is ready to compromise, but he is unwilling in his heart, and looking for himself is just to let himself convince him and make his heart better.

From this point of view, not only are sluts hypocritical, even the emperor, but there are also times when they are hypocritical, and Li Er still trusts himself very much when he says this.

Liu Yuan's eyes rolled, and he smiled slightly, and he had an idea in his heart. (To be continued......)

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