Chapter 19 Chapter 19 Gai Suwen died of illness

History seems to be very strange. Every time after Fengchan Taishan, the country will have a process of peace and prosperity.Li Zhi is, Wu Zetian is, and Li Longji is too (you can refer to history books, don't fool around).But now, the greatest thing about Empress Wu is that she was able to let Li Zhi build a second sacred monument on Mount Tai when Li Zhi was in power.The Sa family has seen this inscription before. The bodies of the two steles are tree together, and a hijab is connected on top to show that they are equal.Li Zhi didn't think there was anything wrong, but instead agreed to make a wish for the officials on behalf of Empress Wu.This wish was particularly festive, and they promised everyone that everyone would get a raise and a promotion when they returned home.

This made all officials' favor towards Empress Wu sharply increased, and also established her good image.However, one thing happened, which made the celebration even crazier. It is said that Li Yi's mansion, who was exiled to Xunzhou, heard that the second sage was going to pardon the world, so he seized the opportunity and hurriedly wrote a letter to Li Zhi "Some Good Suggestions on Feng Chan".He begged Li Zhikan to let him go and let him return to Beijing to take up some unimportant official positions because of his meritorious service in killing the culprit. After reading it, Li Zhi gave an instruction: The sinners who have been exiled cannot enjoy the amnesty, so you should just be obedient!

Li Yifu went mad with frustration and died within a few days.Hundreds of court officials and more than a thousand people laughed and clapped their hands in celebration.After returning from Mount Tai, Li Zhi's luck has always been good. The luckiest thing is that Gai Suwen, the ruling faction in Korea, died.I don't know if Li Zhi asked the gods to show up and cursed this dear friend severely.But no matter what, Mo Lizhi, who controlled Goryeo for more than 20 years, has disappeared, and Goryeo is also facing an unprecedented predicament. This is another lucky thing. Gai Suwen has three sons, the eldest son Yuannan, who inherits his father Mo Lizhi's position, looks forward day and night to the day when he will coerce the emperor to make the princes; the second son Yuan Nanjian fantasizes that he is also Mo Lizhi, expecting the eldest brother to die like a brother, He can be Mo Lizhi; the third son, Yuan Nan, was born with symptoms of dystocia. He was mainly responsible for supporting the second brother. Because the conflict between the second brother and the eldest brother became more and more intense, he believed that if the eldest brother did not die, he would have to die. .

At Gai Suwen's funeral, the three brothers cried and beat their chests.The eldest boy, Da Yuan, warned his two younger brothers, "Our father is dead, we must live strong!" Yuan Nanjian and Yuan Nanchan nodded knowingly, their eyes resolute.The boy wiped his tears and patted his brother on the shoulder, "Korea is experiencing unprecedented embarrassment. My son will never have a father, but the country cannot be left alone for a day. My opinion is that the three of us must go to the grassroots to appease The hurt emotions of the masses. But I figured it out, the capital cannot live without the two of you, and the two of you will be the regent in Pyongyang. I will go down alone to appease the masses, after all, I am Mo Lizhi!"

The two younger brothers nodded sadly, they knew that the elder brother was not suspicious yet.Yuan boys didn't doubt them and left them as regents in Pyongyang, but the two younger brothers didn't think so. Yuan Nanjian said: "Yes, without the care of the great leader, the people may be overly sad. If they don't comfort them, they will cry to death. Brother, don't worry, we will do what we should do well. Do it well." The boy looked at his two younger brothers with admiring eyes, then turned his head and went to the countryside. Yuan Boy is a nice guy, he managed to appease the people, but someone told him that when he was busy outside, his two younger brothers had discussed the result in Pyongyang, they didn't lie, they did a good job Things to do.That is, when Yuan boys finished comforting him, they shut the door and refused to accept.

Boy Yuan refused to believe that his younger brothers would treat him like this, so he first sent a spy to Pyongyang to spy.The spy was probably a complete amateur player. Not long after he entered the city gate, he was arrested by Yuan's second son.Yuan Nanjian exhausted all kinds of methods to extract a confession, and finally learned that Boss Yuan had begun to suspect the two of them.The two were a little flustered, and after an emergency discussion, the two thought that calling the boss back and killing him was the safest way right now. But the Yuan boy is already frightened now, how can he be called back?

Yuan Nanjian used dead people as an excuse. He had no experience in beating zombies, so he would not think of lying about Gai Suwen's corpse.He just forged a suicide note, and didn't mention anything else, he just said that he should let Boyan Yuan go back to Pyongyang. Anyone who has not filled their brains with water will know that Yuan Boy would not believe such an extremely mentally retarded method. Are you going back to Pyongyang? Boy Yuan looked back at the person he had brought out, and sighed. If I knew that something like this would happen, I should have brought everyone out in the first place.Yuan boy did not return to Pyongyang. On this day, he heard that his younger brother Yuan Nanjian was in the capital and called himself Mo Lizhi, commanding the country's troops.It was only now that he believed that family affection was always weak in the face of power.The army from Pyongyang began to encircle and suppress him. Boy Yuan had nowhere to escape, so he led his cronies to retreat to the city.Because the situation was out of control, he sent his son Yuan Xiancheng to Chang'an to sacrifice the city.

Boy Yuan promised that as long as the Tang Dynasty was willing to send troops to kill Yuan Nanjian, he could cede Liaodong to Datang. Of course, Li Zhi could not refuse such a request. In June of the first year of Qianfeng (AD 666), Qibi Heli, the general of Youxiaowei, became the pacification ambassador of Liaodong Road and led an army to rescue.As a guide, Yuan Xiancheng participated in the Tang army's attack very well.But what made Yuan boys feel dangerous was that Li Zhi, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, seemed to think that the number was not enough, so he sent General Pang Tongshan of the Right Jinwu Guard and Gao Kan, the governor of Yingzhou, as the marching chiefs, and tens of thousands of soldiers were conscripted to participate in the battle.

repent?So far, what else can we do? Yuan boy stood firm in Liaodong, and Li Zhi regarded him as Tejin, governor of Liaodong, pacifying ambassador of Pyongyang Province, and Duke of Xuantu County.Later, the Tang Dynasty sent Li Ji, a British official, to serve as the general manager of the Liaodong Road Army, under the jurisdiction of Lie Shaochang Bo Hao Chujun, the general manager of the army and the special envoy Dou Yiji, Dugu Qingyun, Guo Daifeng and others.Water and land go hand in hand, and kill Goryeo.Take a look, Li Ji, the invincible and invincible man, is now seventy-two years old!

I want to praise Li Ji loudly. He is the best-lived hero among the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and he is also the most politically savvy.He donates money generously, but is also cunning and cunning. He says what should be said and what should not be said. Once there is a task, he will not hesitate and be the first to charge forward.Li Jina's family didn't like to be with this old man very much, but they were full of respect for him.Because his family was too strict and his family members were a little lawless, the first one to stand up and beat them was not the judge and jailer, but his British father-in-law Li Ji.

Li Ji had countless rewards, all of which were distributed to his subordinates and their subordinates. For so many years, the family members have not seen a single hair. Among Li Ji's relatives and friends, the most miserable one is his son-in-law Du Huaigong. Du Huaigong is also a smart person. He married Li Ji's daughter, and he always dreamed that one day Li Ji could speak well in front of the emperor, and he would be promoted to a higher rank.But after marrying his daughter for 20 or 30 years, he realized that the old man Li Ji was exactly like the legend, and he never spoke for his relatives.Du Huaigong is a person who likes cold humor, that is, the legendary funny man, similar to today's sketch actors, which is also an important reason why Li Ji's daughter likes him. When the clown cried, people still laughed. One day, Du Huaigong waited for an opportunity. Li Ji found him and said to him personally: "I have an official to do it for you, will you do it?" Du Huaigong thought it was fraudulent and asked, "What official?" "Go to Liaodong with me!" "Ah?" Du Huaigong's face twitched violently. "Serve the country, make meritorious deeds, and then have officials to do it, isn't it?" "Let me think..." On the second day, Li Ji and Du Huaigong. "Have you thought about it yet?" "Going out together, you will definitely not let me eat military rations, and I have no money to buy food myself!" "I give!" "what?" "I give!" "Oh... let me think about it." On the third day, Li Ji and Du Huaigong. "You should think about it!" "My son-in-law should not go, I have no car or horse, shame on Duke Ying!" "I match you!" Du Huaigong got the chariot and horse from Li Ji, and was in a melancholy mood. He drank two taels of Jiannan shochu that night, took advantage of the strength of the wine, rode his horse and fled to Qiyang Mountain (Taibai Mountain, Shaanxi Province), and hid desperately.Li Ji was amazed at what his son-in-law did, and asked around, only to find out that before leaving, the son-in-law said, "My father-in-law just wants to use me to scare the officers and soldiers!" After Li Ji heard this, two lines of old tears suddenly flowed out, "Du Lang has a loose temper, so maybe he might be killed to make an example to others." This is Li Ji. In the first month of the second year of Qianfeng (667 A.D.), 73-year-old Li Ji, without his son-in-law, embarked on the journey to Goryeo alone with tens of thousands of troops. Generally speaking, the emperor's actions can be divided into three types: active actions, inactive actions, and indiscriminate actions.Li Zhi probably didn't want to be the emperor who didn't do anything, so when he saw that the common people used too much money and the coins were small and thin, he figured out what he had to do.Currency is a wonderful thing. People buy a plate of fire for one penny, and sometimes they can buy ten liters of rice for five pennies. Now that the Central Plains has been stable for a long time, everyone has a lot of copper coins. As an emperor, shouldn't he reform the currency system to make transactions easier and the economy more prosperous?Of course, this method can increase taxes, and that is the more important reason.As soon as he said it, Li Zhi issued an edict to replace the original Kaiyuan Tongbao with Qianfengquanbao coins. The face value was increased by ten times, and the original circulating coins were abolished by compulsory means. In the month when the Eastern Expeditionary Army set off, the miraculous effect of Qianfengquan Baoqin also appeared. Because there is only a denomination of ten yuan, daily purchases of goods are severely hindered.And because the amount of copper in Dabao is only two or three times that of Xiaokaiyuan, it is an idiot for private piracy of Dabao to be rampant.It was only then that everyone discovered that what used to cost only one penny, now costs ten pennies.Moreover, there are even criminals who melt Kaiyuan Tongbao and cast it into new money. Since the new money is about the same weight as Kaiyuan Tongbao, this move has been approved by most people. Commodities cannot be sold, and people are reluctant to spend money. Inflation makes people's livelihood difficult. This is the main achievement of currency reform.The seven-month Qianfeng Quanbao money ended in a disastrous failure. This incident told Li Zhi not to issue money indiscriminately.Li Zhi conducted self-reflection. He felt that his father Li Shimin's rule of Zhenguan was so good, but it did not change the Kaiyuan Tongbao created by his grandfather Li Yuan. It is really insulting to the ancestors. He wrote a self-criticism and read it to the people of the world: "I was wrong, I was really wrong, I am sorry to the people of the world, I will change!" Li Zhi still wanted to treat the emperor as a good person. After the review, in order to make up for his mistakes, he asked all the officials to recommend talents.Every time he held a meeting, he would ask the minister if he had anyone to recommend.But month after month passed, not to mention Ma Zhou, Ma Yueyue didn't even exist.Li Zhi was very angry, and he asked the officials: "I want you to recommend sages, why don't you recommend them?" Seeing that no one said anything, Li Zhi shouted loudly, "Ah?!" Everyone was stopped by Li Zhi's roar Because they were afraid of saying the wrong thing and being killed all over the house, they didn't dare to breathe too much.Only Li Anqi (son of Li Baiyao), Chang Bo (the Minister of the Ministry of Officials) stood up. He cleared his throat and said slowly, "If Your Majesty is sincere, who among us would not do our best?" Li Anqi did not forgive Li Zhi, and he continued: "It's all Your Majesty's fault, not our fault. Previously, when the ministers recommended talents, they were said to be friends with friends, and they were either executed or demoted. If Your Majesty really needs If you are a talented person, don’t demote the recommenders to the last!” Li Zhi looked at Li Anqi with a rich expression, his frown suddenly relaxed, and he praised his behavior with a smile. From that day on, he began to really use the virtuous officials.