As soon as this remark came out, Li Zhen was dumbfounded.
The governor of Kaifeng raised his head in shock, with a dazed look on his face, as if he couldn't believe it. They had already explained the truth. Not only did the emperor not quell his anger, but he even wanted to behead him directly, without even going through the process!
When the governor of Kaifeng was in a daze, the palace guards had already entered the door, and the chief monk picked him up without saying a word, and before he could beg for mercy from Li Ye, he punched him in the lower abdomen, directly smashing his sea of qi, crippling him. Affected his cultivation.
Then, the guards ignored Kaifeng governor's screams and howls, and dragged him out like a dead dog.
"Your Majesty..." Li Zhen opened his mouth, wanting to plead and plead for the governor of Kaifeng, but seeing Li Ye's face was gloomy, with murderous intent in his eyes, he suddenly realized that the anger in Li Ye's heart was far from him. As expected, I was terrified for a while, and didn't dare to say a word.
"Where is the Minister of the Household Department?"
"The minister... the minister is here!"
"Drag it out, abolish your cultivation base, deprive you of your official position, and send you to Liangzhou, where you will be pardoned!"
"Your Majesty... forgive me, Your Majesty, please forgive me!"
When Hubu Shangshu was dragged out, not only Li Zhen was stunned, but even Cui Keli was stunned. The Ministry of Households manages the taxation of the world, and it is also responsible for stabilizing prices, and it is responsible for this. But neither of them thought that it would not be enough for Li Ye to kill the governor of Kaifeng just because of the incident in Kaifeng, and he would punish the Minister of the Household Department so severely.
That is one of the most important ministers in the dynasty.
Such thunderous fury made both of them unexpected and at a loss.
After disposing of the two officials, Li Ye didn't have any intention to explain, and looked at Li Zhen expressionlessly: "As a doctor of imperial history, you are ineffective in supervising all officials, what should you be guilty of?"
"I... I will die!" Li Zhen bowed to the ground, not knowing what to say.
"Your Majesty..." Cui Keli opened his mouth to speak.
"As the prime minister, commanding all the officials and presiding over the affairs of the dynasty, what crime should you have?"
"My lord, ten thousand deaths!" Cui Keli did not dare to touch Li Ye's wrath, so he could only prostrate himself on the ground.
By now, both of them have realized that this matter is far more serious in Li Ye's opinion than in theirs. If one of them doesn't deal with it properly, at least the chancellor won't be able to do it, and at worst, he won't even be able to wear his official robes.
"Now answer me, what caused the Kaifeng incident to cause such a situation, and what solution do you have?" Li Ye sat on the dragon chair, like a beast about to choose someone to devour, full of terror , "Think clearly before answering, I only give you one chance!"
Li Zhen and Cui Keli looked at each other, and they both saw the horror in each other's eyes. Under Li Ye's overwhelming coercion, the two of them were already terrified at this moment. In addition, the head of the governor of Kaifeng and the tragic situation of the Minister of the Household Department are right in front of us.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, it is an insult to duty to wait for the corpse to eat vegetarian food. The price rise in Kaifeng is all because the minister and the others ignore the suffering of the people. The minister and the others will draw up measures to increase the number of sheep and pastures, pick up lawbreakers, and ensure that within three months, prices will be reduced. Back to the previous level!"
Not long after, Li Zhen came to his senses and replied.
Cui Keli also quickly said: "Picking out lawbreakers is the most important thing. Under normal circumstances, even if the supply of sheep cannot meet the needs of the people, the price will rise gradually. A monthly increase of 20% is reasonable, but it is absolutely impossible to suddenly increase three times in just half a year!
"Here, there must be someone who controls the sheep market, who is making trouble. The governor of Kaifeng never mentioned this situation. The Minister of the Ministry of Households pretended to be deaf and dumb. He must be connected with the other party. It can be seen that the other party
It is also rich and powerful! Your Majesty dealt with these two people decisively, it is really wise! No matter how many dignitaries are involved this time, the minister will definitely enforce the law impartially! "
He has presided over government affairs for many years, and he knows very well that the market price of commodities is determined by the relationship between supply and demand.
But there is a prerequisite: it must be a free market.
If there is a monopoly power, for example, a powerful intermediate channel business group will act as a hindrance, lower the purchase price, and impose strict conditions for the opening of pastures, so that ordinary sheep pastures cannot continue to open, reduce a certain amount of production, and then raise prices to make people spend more. Only money can buy, so those who produce goods and those who buy goods will suffer.
Thinking of this, Cui Keli's forehead was dripping with sweat.
The reason for the rise in prices in Kaifeng, he had quite approved of the words of the governor of Kaifeng and Li Zhen before, but now he was shocked by Li Ye, thinking about it carefully, he felt a chill running down his back.
If the rich and powerful extract the wealth of the common people, the rise in the price of cattle and sheep will definitely not be the end, but just the beginning. After cattle and sheep, there are chickens and ducks as substitutes... No, not just substitutes, this situation will also be repeated in other fields.
At that time, won't vegetables, fruits, grain and cloth all have to rise
People's food, clothing, housing and transportation are basic survival needs. On the one hand, they are indispensable, and on the other hand, they are inseparable. If one aspect rises, if the problem cannot be controlled and solved in time, the other aspects will rise accordingly, and those things are inseparable from the common people, so they have to buy them if they rise.
If things go on like this, how can the common people survive
How much wealth and blood must these dignitaries squeeze from the people before they are content and let go
The answer is obvious: they will never be content and let it go!
If the price chaos in Kaifeng is not resolved in time, it will spread quickly until it becomes a nationwide chaos!
Since ancient times, represented by land annexation, the oppression and plundering of ordinary people's wealth by the rich and powerful has never stopped, and has never been truly resolved!
In the final analysis, the reason why the prosperous Kaiyuan collapsed overnight was not the Anshi Rebellion, but the collapse of the land equalization system and land annexation as the core. The wealth of the people was plundered by the powerful, causing countless people to lose their homes and properties and become refugees.
The refugees were recruited again by the feudal town and became soldiers of the feudal town. They lost their homes and harbored resentment towards the court. Naturally, they no longer wanted to be loyal to the emperor and serve the country. Chaos reappears!
Thinking of this, how could Cui Keli not sweat profusely? The emperor resolutely beheaded the governor of Kaifeng and condemned the Minister of the Household Department, which is really necessary! Cui Keli even felt that these two people were punished lightly, and that they should be punished for such a generation of disasters to the country and the people!
These people and the dignitaries who colluded with them are not eliminated. No matter how prosperous the Tang Dynasty is now, it is destined to be just a flash in the pan!
"Li Zhen!"
Cui Keli suddenly straightened his upper body, pointed at Li Zhen with a blushing face, and severely accused: "You just excused the governor of Kaifeng, and you still want to intercede for the Minister of the Ministry of Households, have you already colluded with them
"Okay, if you hadn't been backed by the court center and given them the courage to disrupt the market prices like this?! Are they really not afraid of the court and not afraid of death?!"
Li Zhen was stunned, with a blank expression on his face: "What does Mr. Cui mean?"
Cui Keli snorted coldly, bowed his hands to Li Ye, then pointed at Li Zhen, and yelled: "You bastard, you are still not guilty! Just now, His Majesty killed the governor of Kaifeng and investigated the Minister of the Ministry of Households just now. I want you to take the initiative to apologize!
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"This is enough to save you enough face, but you still don't know how to realize it."
! You really need His Majesty to find out the facts of the case, and the witnesses and evidences are solid, and then you will be beheaded, so that you will know the seriousness of the matter? ! "
In an instant, Li Zhen's complexion was as pale as paper.
He raised his head to look at Li Ye who was behind the case, and saw that the other party's eyes were indifferent, looking at him like looking at a stone, and he no longer had the deep friendship between monarch and minister as before.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!" Li Zhen shuddered, unable to support himself any longer, and prostrated himself to Li Ye, "I deserve death for my crimes! I owe Your Majesty's trust, and I have no face to face Your Majesty, Your Majesty... "
At the end of the conversation, he was already crying bitterly, his body lying on the floor was shaking non-stop.
Obviously, Cui Keli's reprimands are all true.
"Your Majesty, please forgive Li Zhenzhi's crime. He also lost his mind for a while, but now he has come to his senses. I also ask Your Majesty to give him a chance to pay for his meritorious deeds in following His Majesty's hard work for many years." Cui Keli also said. He prostrated himself on the ground, begging in a sad tone.
When he saw that Li Zhen didn't plead guilty in time just now, he knew that Li Zhen was finished. In order to prevent Li Ye from getting angry because of this, he reminded Li Zhen. The reason why his words are harsh is also to help Li Ye vent his anger, hoping that Li Ye can slow down his anger a little, so that Li Zhenfang has a chance of survival.
Cui Keli can only achieve this level of friendship as a colleague.
As for why he firmly believed that Li Zhen was in collusion with the Minister of the Household Department and the governor of Kaifeng, the reason could not be simpler.
He himself did not associate with those people.
Disturbing the market in Kaifeng and raising prices across the country will definitely bring unimaginable wealth. The benefits are too great. Without one of the two prime ministers to join them, those powerful and powerful would not dare to do so!
This is also the reason why Kaifeng's prices have risen for half a year, but it has not caused any big disturbances in the court. If it wasn't for the fact that the people of the Tang Dynasty have developed their wisdom and are no longer afraid of the government like a tiger, and the people of Kaifeng, led by monks, went to the governor's office to ask for an explanation, which eventually led to a situation where hundreds of people were killed or injured, this incident might not have come to light.
And once the price rise spreads to the whole country, it will not be so easy for Li Ye to solve this matter. At that time, in the face of the dignitaries of the whole country, Li Ye, the emperor, would not dare to take action against them lightly, otherwise his rule would be unstable.
Just like throughout the ages, the emperor could not really solve the problem of land annexation, but could only improve the situation through some decrees. It's not that the emperor and prime minister didn't know the crux of the problem, but that he couldn't shake that huge interest group at all.
The dynasty ended because the people rebelled because they couldn't survive, and the reason why the people couldn't survive was because they were exploited too much by the rich and powerful. Otherwise, how could the hard-working Han people have no way to survive and could only rebel when they encountered a calamity in the last days of the dynasty
Wasn't there a calamity year at the beginning of the dynasty
In the final analysis, it is this group of rich and powerful who will bring chaos to the world and end the dynasty.
So at this time, although Cui Keli tried his best to plead for Li Zhen, he was not sure that Li Ye would really miss his old relationship and let Li Zhen go. Li Ye's cultivation base is too high, his strength is too tyrannical, he has the ability to say what he wants, and he doesn't need to worry about any forces, especially when the situation is not out of control.
Sure enough, after a while, after Cui Keli heard about the case, Li Ye's calm voice came, "Cui Qing, for the matter of Kaifeng, you should go there yourself, I will let the Tsingyi Yamen assist you."
"Your Majesty, I will live up to your majesty's entrustment!" When Cui Keli received this decree, he knew that Li Zhen was completely hopeless, and his majesty still didn't give Li Zhen the chance to perform his crimes and meritorious deeds.
Even Li Zhen was able to give up decisively, which shows how strong His Majesty's determination is to control the powerful and wealthy groups and make decisions for the common people.