Chapter 21 Chapter Twenty-One

On the first day of May in the eighth year of Kaiyuan (AD 720), there was a solar eclipse. Li Longji wore plain clothes in fear and fear, waved away the servants, minus the royal meal, and hid behind the screen to repent. He asked Dali Temple to thoroughly investigate the grievances, opened warehouses for relief, persuaded farmers to teach farming and mulberry, and made many books one after another.A few days later, Song Jing ran up to Li Longji and reprimanded him solidly, "A solar eclipse cultivates virtue, a lunar eclipse cultivates punishment. To be close to the virtuous, to be far away from the villain, to avoid evil, this is to cultivate morality. Yu Xing, if Your Majesty can really do it sincerely, there is no need to make so many books." Li Longji accepted Song Jing's opinion, and Song Jing, the attendant, worked hard, largely because of Li Longji's support.

Recently, Song Jing has collapsed, because the regulations at that time allowed criminals to file lawsuits endlessly. In this way, many innocent criminals appealed countless times, but Song Jing ruthlessly dismissed them, but some people still ran to Yushitai.Song Jing was in a hurry, and told Yushi Zhongcheng Li Jindu, "If you plead guilty, you will be dealt with according to the rules. If you are guilty after the joint examination of the censor but still do not plead guilty, you can appeal again, ignore it, and go directly to prison!" Criminals who think of good things, so they also joined the ranks of hating Song Jing.Moreover, most of the criminals in Dali Temple were officials with bad conduct. One day, they would be released and bite Song Jing hard.They will also frame Song Jing, saying that he is not strong enough.

This year, there was another severe drought in Guanzhong, and according to folklore, there was a drought near Chang'an. Drought, the legendary monster that caused drought. This strange thing is also mentioned many times in the official history. According to Kong Yingda, a bachelor of the Li Shimin Literature Museum, Hanba is small and thin, two or three feet long, has hair on his body, has no clothes, eyes on top of his head, and walks like the wind.Whenever there is a severe drought with a radius of thousands of miles, it will haunt it.Others say that the dry man is actually turned into a zombie after death. The corpse first turns into a dry man, then turns into a jiao, and finally becomes a spirit.

Ji Xiaolan’s notes say this: the drought demons mentioned in his era (the middle of the Qing Dynasty) were all zombies. If you can dig out the graves, find the dens of the drought demons, catch the drought demons and burn them, God will then rain . However, I have never seen what Lord Hanba looks like, and it is very evil anyway. Li Longji has seen it, it's fake, he thinks it's real.Li Longji watched the play offstage, and a thin man on the stage played the role of Hanba.The Hanba made various gestures, scurrying around like a monkey.When it approached Li Longji, Li Longji asked it with a smile: "How did you come out?"

"Thanks to my husband." "How to say?" "There are more than 300 people with grievances, let me come out to express their grievances. More than 300 grievances persist, and they are all suppressed by my husband, so I have to come out!" Xianggong is Prime Minister Song Jing. It was obviously just a performance, and Han Yan was also invited by a group of people who were rectified by Song Jing to lie. Comrade Li Longji actually believed it self-righteously, and he believed it to death. A few days later, Li Longji felt uncomfortable after watching this mentally handicapped performance. He found an unreasonable reason to demote Song Jing to the third division of Kaifu Yitong, and even demoted Su Ting, who had a good relationship with Song Jing, as Minister of Rites.The acrobat who played the role of Han Yan took a few pennies from the person who hated Song Jing, went home and had a full meal, and then fell into endless distress.

After Li Longji fired Song Jing, the treacherous people in the court cheered and cheered, and after Song Jing was dismissed, the economic effect was particularly obvious.Song Jing and Su Ting are no longer qualified to manage bad money, and no one in the court will implement their ideas, and they will no longer compete with bad money. There is a flood of bad money from the people, and the economy has been hit hard. The new person is named Yuan Qianyao (Huangmen Servant), and the other is Bingzhou Governor Shi Zhang Jiazhen (Zhongshu Servant, Tongping Zhangshi). Although the two are capable, but compared with Yao Chong and Song Jing, they are really far behind, and they are not a heavyweight at all.Li Longji liked them very much. After working in the imperial court for more than a month, Yuan Qianyao successfully replaced Song Jing and became a servant because of his outstanding performance; while Zhang Jiazhen successfully became a Zhongshu Ling because of his tough style.

Yuan Qianyao and Song Jing have very similarities. They are unselfish and unkind.And Zhang Jiazhen is characterized by being strong in work, not listening to persuasion, and good at discovering talents. Miao Yansi and Lu Taiyi from Zhongshushe, Jiajing, a member of the foreign court, and Cui Xun, a servant in the palace, were all introduced by him. .The purpose of Brother Jiazhen's introduction of talents is not that simple. The four of them are all in the Ministry of Education, and they have a lot of power. They have done many good things, but also many bad things. Of course, everything is based on one principle: don't hurt Zhang Jiazhen.

Zhang Jiazhen's narcissistic and self-willed character is doomed to the tragedy of his life.Brother Jiazhen had conflicts with his colleagues as soon as he took office.He had the biggest conflict with Shuofang Ambassador Wang Jun, the main reason being that Wang Jun was very unwilling to listen to his nagging. Wang Jun is now in charge of the surrendered households of Turks and Tie Le. He believes that although these people have been surrendered, the Pugu Dudu Shaomo who led the surrendered households, and the Kipu tribe, do not live in the city, but live scattered on the side of the surrendered city. , there must be a problem here.The reason for doing this is because they are waiting for reinforcements.He suspected that the Turkic Vija was about to take action, and was ready to wait for an opportunity to capture the city.

As a result, Wang Jun wrote a letter, suggesting to stop talking nonsense and kill Shao Mo directly. Li Longji agreed to let Wang Jun personally preside over the murder, and instructed that only Shao Mo and others who instigated the rebellion should not be killed. Wang Jun got the order, held a big banquet, and invited Shao Mo and other leaders of the rebel faction.Shao Mo was a very unpromising person who would eat meat and drink wine if he could. He led a few people to the banquet, and he couldn't help but feel proud when he saw Wang Jun greet him with a smile on his face.Then, these guys were hacked to death by the ambushing elite soldiers.

When the news spread, people who pitched tents outside Jiangcheng rolled up their blankets and ran northward.This organized and premeditated rebellion ended with the death of Shao Mo and other leaders and the fleeing of the elite rebels, but we can hear from time to time that the people of Ba Yegu, Tong Luo and other tribes scattered in other descended cities , The scolding voice is endless.The tribes scattered in Datong and Hengye didn't know what to do. They lived their days scolding and worrying about the Tang army's oppression every day, panicking and uneasy. On the court side, a literati was sent as an envoy.His task was to influence the descendants, and, facing the wild tribal masses, he only led twenty people.

Comforting is not that easy, and if you fail to do so, you will die tragically. This man seems to have no fear, and he always smiles when facing obstacles from others.When others are about to cry, he can still laugh, which is not to say that he is not calm.He is now the governor of Bingzhou and the ambassador of Tianbing Jiedu.The deputy envoy is Li Xian (the emperor's brother). Obviously, Li Xian would not show up at the mission site. He didn't dare to come, so he wrote a letter of advice to the ambassador, asking the ambassador not to act rashly. The ambassador wrote back, "My meat is not a gazelle, so I will not be afraid of eating it; my blood is not a wild horse, so I will not be afraid of being stabbed. A soldier will die if he sees danger, so I will follow the autumn of death." (I am not a gazelle, so I am not afraid of them eating; I am not Wild horses, I am not afraid of their assassination. The scholar-bureaucrat saw danger and gave up his life. Now is the time for me to die.) Signature: Zhang Shuo, who loves you. Zhang said, wearing an old official uniform, talking and laughing with some of his subordinates, sleeping in a small tent in the middle of the lower house at night, without any precautions. Although Ba Yigu and Tong Luo are tough people, they also find it strange to meet such an ambassador.After figuring out that this is really the envoy of the Tang Dynasty, and after becoming a high-ranking official, I feel at ease when I descend to the household.Those who incited them to say that Li Longji was going to kill them all in the next step were really heartless. Among the descendants, the two most well-known brothers are Wang Jun and Zhang Shuo. Wang Jun once said that in order to completely solve the troubles in the west, he could send out the Basimi tribe in the west, and the Xi and Khitan soldiers in the east, and use their joint efforts to cover up the Turkic Pija. As for the time, it is set in this autumn.Vija was terrified at first, but Vija's military adviser said something that turned his nervousness into laughter.The military adviser of Vija was a wise man. He first comforted the Khan, saying that Basimi was too far away from Xi and Khitan, and it was impossible for soldiers and horses to arrive at the same time. If Tang soldiers came, we would run away.As he said, he pointed to the north, "When the Tang army came, we will retreat northward for three days. When they run out of food, we must go back south. The Basimi tribe is impetuous and eager to benefit, so we must come early to meet Tang soldiers. Rendezvous. It is also a breeze for us to defeat Tang Jun." Vija was puzzled, "Why?" The military commander was a little proud, "Wang Jun is a hero, and I am also very afraid of him, but he is at odds with the prime minister (Zhang Jiazhen). I have heard that every time he takes action, Zhang Jiazhen will strongly oppose it. Is there an exception? Think about it, Tang Bing’s reinforcements have no backbone at all, they arrived at our place first, but Tang Jun didn’t come or arrived late, how will the outcome be?” Bija smiled. Wang Jun was in a hurry, because Zhang Jiazhen really refused to let him send troops, and even sent someone to monitor him. When Vija and others came to assist the Tang army's Khitan and Xi's soldiers and horses, seeing that the Tang army did not come, the two departments scolded Wang Jun in their hearts and gave him a bad review.Vija obeyed the arrangement of the military adviser and did not chase Khitan and Xi in a hurry, but divided his troops into two groups and followed them to Beiting.They besieged Beiting Dufu all the way, sneaked all the way to the back of Basimi's army, and attacked back and forth, taking countless prisoners.Thanks to Zhang Jiazhen, after Mochu, Vija and Sulu were evenly divided and became the leader of the new generation of Turks. Wang Jun's troubles came. Tens of thousands of Hu people rebelled. He took the lead, entered Hucheng, beheaded 15,000 people, and captured the thief leader Kang Daibin alive.Seeing that the situation was not bad, Wang Jun called the leaders together for a meeting.The main purpose of the meeting is to educate the leaders to be honest and obedient, and not to kill and rob all day long.In the middle of the meeting, he asked Kang Daibin to be pulled out, and he chopped him up in public like a pig. The leader was not in a good mood to watch the slaughter of pigs, and was too frightened by Wang Jun's move to breathe.The whole thing was done very well, so Guo Zhiyun was very angry. Guo Zhiyun, a man of the sex, with the arms of a monkey and the mouth of a tiger, is extremely ferocious. He participated in martial arts fights and won many battles. He worshiped Guoyi three times.Guo Zhiyun and Wang Jun were placed in Beiguan by Li Longji, and they were both generals that the Hu people feared.The main reason for Guo Zhiyun's dissatisfaction with Wang Jun was Wang Jun's performance before the Hu thief was eliminated. Li Longji asked Wang Jun: "Can I send troops with Guo Zhiyun?" Then, let Guo Zhiyun send troops. Wang Jun wrote back, "No, it's enough for Shuofang to beat him up so that he can't take care of himself. Let Guo Zhiyun go back!" When the letter was floating in the middle, Comrade Guo Zhiyun arrived with his troops.From Wang Jun's strange expression, Guo Zhiyun saw that something was wrong. He found out what Wang Jun did, and felt that Wang Jun was an out-and-out villain, and he was extremely angry. Okay, the emperor asked us to join the two armies, why do you let me go? Guo Zhiyun was angry and refused to meet Wang Jun, and led the army to hide far away, squatting on one side, squatting in a pit and angry.Seeing Wang Jun's successive battles and victories, and finally beheading the thief at the waist, Guo Zhiyun was even more upset.He looked up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle, feeling particularly sad.After beheading Kang to treat the guests, Wang Jun calmed down and went to receive the reward cheerfully.Feeling that Wang Jun is very cheap, Guo Zhiyun was furious, and he sent his troops northward, and ruthlessly trampled the surrendered Huhu who had just surrendered.Such unconscionable actions made Jianghu bully to the point of crying. Therefore, Jianghu no longer surrendered, issued a statement, and cursed Wang Jun.The incident became known all over the world. In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Li Longji demoted Wang Jun to be the governor of Zizhou. Zhang said that the leader of the army killed tens of thousands of rebellious Hu. Originally, the rebellious Hu came up with a bad idea, asking DANG Xiang to help him, and said that they robbed the city of the Tang Dynasty, and the land belonged to them, and the gold and silver women belonged to DANG Xiang.The party is overjoyed.When Zhang said that he was about to kill, Dang Xiang was terrified, and turned around to kill the Hu people again.Rebel Hu was attacked before and after, and fled westward.Zhang said with a wave of his hand, that the parties were settled, and they were asked to go home and build a house, marry a wife and have children. Zhang Shuo came back with a high reputation. After returning to the court, Li Longji regarded him as the Minister of the Ministry of War and the third rank of Tongzhongshu. Just like that, Yao Chong couldn't calm down anymore.