In the year of the famine, Li Dan took some students from the Imperial College and concentrated on some important capitals such as Chang'an and Luoyang. Together with the local officials, he vigorously promoted to the local people those things that could help them survive the famine in the future. New crops for disaster.
But even though the common people were already hungry, their faces were sallow, their eyes were dull, their legs were weak, and they would rather eat leaves and grass roots, even if it was Guanyin soil, there were still some local wealthy families, or local officials who were obstructing it covertly or openly. Li Dan's hard promotion.
In their opinion, these strange-looking seeds that they have never seen before are like species with an unknown aura. Even the food made by Li Dan from the new species is presented in front of many common people, officials and wealthy families. After eating the noodles in big mouthfuls, it still failed to dispel the doubts in the hearts of the people that they had been brainwashed by officials and wealthy families.
It was also from that time on that when Li Dan was lamenting the ignorance of the people and the stubbornness of the wealthy families, he fully realized how much these wealthy families, who claimed to be thinking about the welfare of the people in the world, actually made him. Feeling hateful.
I also realized that although Tang Jiangshan's surname was Li, if he truly reached the lowest level and truly talked about his influence on the people, the influence of a wealthy family would be much greater than that of the royal family in the minds of the people.
Since then, he has often complained in front of Li Hong about the stubbornness of these wealthy families and their influence in the hearts of the people. But while he said these words, his heart was still full of helplessness and helplessness. contradiction.
He didn't know what he wanted to do and what he wanted to express after telling his brother the emperor about his dissatisfaction and complaints against the local wealthy families!
Do you want the emperor's brother to increase his suppression of the local wealthy families, the five surnames and the seven kings? So that the people will not be deceived by those people? I still hope that the imperial brother will see the influence of the wealthy family and Wu Xing Qi Wang in the hearts of the people, and realize the deep-rooted strength of Wu Xing Qi Wang, so that he can ease the relationship with Wu Xing Qi Wang, even if it is for the sake of the Tang Dynasty The country or the people.
At that time, Li Dan was sleeping in the open and running around, and he had lost weight. Even so, Li Dan still insisted on promoting the planting of new crops to local people and the government.
In Li Hong's view, Li Dan's behavior back then was like that of an insurance seller in his previous life. He led a group of people, ate bread and boiled water, and went door to door with new species and products made from new species. Food was sold to every household.
However, even so, many people still feel like seeing a monster when they see a new species, fearing that they will avoid it and get into trouble.
This promotion had a huge blow to Li Dan. It was even said that Li Dan had never hated the Confucian sages left behind by the Imperial College, Hongwen Hall, and Chongwen Hall so much. But since this time, after returning to Chang'an, Li Dan even wanted to remonstrate with Li Hong and asked for orders to expel all these people from the Imperial College to prevent them from continuing to harm the next generation.
The three brothers truly demonstrated how brothers work together and can cut through metal. At that time, Li Zhi and Wu Mei saw everything that happened to the three of them, and they were deeply gratified. They never I didn't expect that the royal brothers could work together like this.
Here Li Dan is selling "insurance", while over there Li Zhe is using a hot air balloon to carry food over the mountains, hoping to distribute the food from the Luoyang granary to various states in the shortest time and at the lowest cost. However, the unstable working characteristics of the hot air balloon hit him again and again. After failure, Li Zhe wanted to jump off a cliff to vent his helplessness.
At that time, Li Hong's two brothers were running around, trying their best to do everything they could for him, the new emperor of the Tang Dynasty. But he was in the Daming Palace in Chang'an, and he was also on pins and needles, like snowflakes in winter. , a letter was thrown at him, and seven or eight of the ten memorials hoped that he could worship heaven and ancestors, and even issue edicts to pray for good weather from heaven.
None of the three of them had it easy at that time. They were in different environments, and their hearts were all suffering like fire. But fortunately, they have all survived now. Whether it is Li Dan or Li Zhe, for The fiefdom's thoughts have become indifferent since the blow of this famine year.
In their hearts, the gains and losses of the fiefdom were far less important than the Tang Dynasty under the rule of the emperor's brother. Even if the fiefdom had avoided the famine, they would not have felt any better at that time. After all, at that time, The people of the Tang Dynasty lived a miserable life.
"The fiefdom should be yours or yours. Even if you don't want it, I still want the court to take it back. My father and mother must agree to it. Your memorial was sent over at that time. At that time, I was in The Daming Palace resisted the pressure of the court ministers to remonstrate and issue the imperial edict. Even so, the emperor and his mother called him to the Xingqing Palace to reprimand him for a full hour. After the fiefdom was handed over to the imperial court, but every year It's yours and it's yours. The Ministry of Revenue has no money in the past two years. I will make up for it in a few years." Li Hong rubbed his forehead. Once the three of them talked about the famine that year, they all looked frightened.
"Then... what can I do for you now? You can't really lock them up for a few days and then release them all, right?" Li Dan asked the palace maid to change Li Hong's tea again. It was already late at night, and Li Hong's tea is getting stronger and stronger.
Li Hong watched the tea cup being taken down by Li Dan and did not object. Instead, he picked among the memorials on the table. Finally, he got two memorials and handed one to each of them: "I'll wait for my father to see you in a few days." After the dizziness last time is cured, you can go to your respective fiefdoms. Here are the students you were originally asked to select from the Imperial College, Hongwen Hall, and Chongwen Hall. After the local government has promoted them step by step, these people will be asked to fill in the basics. As for the lack of time for the imperial examination, just wait until the day of the imperial examination and let them come back to take the imperial examination. "
"Is this... is this appropriate? You can definitely issue an order to advance the time of the imperial examination..."
"It's too late, there's not enough time. The imperial examination has always been a major event for the imperial court. It will take more than a month at most. You can't hold the imperial examination for them alone just because of time constraints, right?"
"I understand." Li Dan nodded thoughtfully: "It seems that many officials from my fief have come to Luoyang, so these people are..."
"Yes, according to the memorial submitted by the governor of Luoyang today, there are more than 20 people in your fiefdom, plus the number of people in the fiefdoms of Li Sujie and Li Shangjin. The officials of the four fiefdoms of you went to Luoyang this time to risk their lives to remonstrate. "There are more than 50 people and nearly 60 people." Li Hong sighed, and then continued: "This is enough to prove that the wealthy nobles headed by Qi Wang of the Five Surnames, in recommending scholars as officials. I have always purposefully made trouble in your fiefdom, so I want you to go back this time in the hope that your fiefdom can be completely cleaned up, so that if anything happens in the future, you will be implicated. "
"What a ruthless and vicious method. If it hadn't been for the Third Emperor Brother Li Shangjin and the Fourth Emperor Brother Li Sujie who had already submitted to you the movements of their fiefdom officials, I am afraid that this time the risk-of-death remonstration incident gathered in Luoyang, the Third Emperor Brother and the Fourth Emperor Brother The imperial brother will inevitably be involved, which will make you even more timid and hesitant about punishing the crime strictly, and you will have to consider the reasons for the royal family's involvement." Li Zhe's fists bulged with veins. He had always understood in his heart but not said it out loud. Now when he heard Li Hong remind him, he immediately understood the reason why Lao Wu mentioned their fiefdom just now.
"They also know that, brother, you have always protected the royal family members, especially the third and fourth brothers. When you were still the prince, they did many things with you. This time, the officials of the fiefdom risked their lives to remonstrate with you. , although it has nothing to do with us princes, after all, it is the officials of our prince's fiefdom who participated in risking their lives to remonstrate, which makes people have to wonder if we are also behind it... Damn, they are going to die. You are trying to trick us! You are trying to cause internal strife in our royal family!" Li Dan's chubby figure suddenly slapped the armrest of the chair, stood up and cursed angrily.
Li Hong looked at the two enlightened imperial brothers and finally understood the ruthless methods of the wealthy nobles headed by Wu surname Qi Wang. He smiled knowingly, then kicked Li Dan's calf to signal him Sit down, don't get angry.
"I haven't sorted it all out yet, but this incident is enough to show that the wealthy nobles headed by Wu Surname and Qi Wang are fully prepared this time to lose everything and lose both sides. Since they thought that so many court officials were involved, and After other members of the royal family were involved, I was able to show mercy outside the law. I was unable to punish them or severely punish them. I had no choice but to compromise and they remonstrated, so I did the opposite. In short, all these officials and noble titles will be dismissed!" Li Hong's tone was very calm, but Li Dan and Li Zhe felt their hearts trembling.
"Everyone?" Li Dan and Li Zhe almost bit off their tongues. The total number of everyone is more than 500 people. If they were all dismissed, wouldn't it be... For Datang, this was a huge scale. The rebellion would cause a huge shock, and no one could say whether its future influence would be good or bad, whether it would be beneficial or harmful to the court, the Tang Dynasty, and even Li Hong.
"Yes, everyone." Li Hong looked at the two imperial brothers with their mouths wide open and said firmly.
He did not tell the two of them that when Di Renjie and others went to the boat for a secret conversation, Jingwei had already told him the contents of their secret conversation. This was also the reason why he had the confidence to dismiss officials on such a large scale and abolish noble titles. s reason.
Li Dan was originally asked to select scholars who were capable of entering the official career, just to focus on training, hoping that one day they could make suggestions for the government and become important ministers of the court.
After all, with Li Dan's temperament, if he didn't restrain himself, most of the scholars who had hoped to enter the official career and make great achievements would be led by him to study, or be abducted by Li Zhe to do crazy research. The hot air balloon went.
That's why Li Hong asked Li Dan to select some scholars who had the potential to become officials, hoping that they would be able to make a difference in the court in the future, and to focus on training and distinguishing them, thus dispelling Li Dan and Li Zhe's coveting of them.
Unexpectedly, it was just an unintentional move to dispel the covetous ideas of Li Dan and Li Zhe, but today it became Li Hong's life-saving straw.
(End of chapter)