Chapter 24 Chapter 24 Li Sipang Sued the Prime Ministers Liu Yushi to Frame Quan Wanji

"Rules for Women" written by Guanyin's maidservant is a clever and gentle self-admonition book for women. It contains stories of concubines and rules of life. The only regret is that it has not been handed down.The difference from "Nv Ze" is that "Nv Commandment" written by a strange woman in the Han Dynasty more than 500 years before her death was widely circulated. The person who wrote this "Women's Commandment" is named Ban Zhao, and she is the younger sister of Ban Gu and Ban Chao. Have you ever heard of the three obediences and four virtues?

Obedience to the father at home, obedience to the husband after marriage, and obedience to the son after the husband dies are the three obediences; women's virtue, women's appearance, women's speech, and women's merit are the four virtues. The book "The Commandments for Women" has a brilliant literary talent, and there are many merits, but it also did a great job in suppressing women's freedom and obedience. However, at that time, people rushed to praise it. It has become the self-control of a little girl, and the dogma of three obediences and four virtues for women.

And everyone must abide by it, otherwise it is immoral. In November of the tenth year of Zhenguan (636), Empress Changsun was buried in Zhaoling. In five months, everything in Zhaoling was ready.There was nothing to discuss about the burial, but Li Shimin was more sensitive than anyone else.Everything else is fine, the problem is with the funeral objects.According to the daughter-in-law's last words, no jewelry is used for burial, just a crock pot or something.Li Shimin promised very well, but in the end he couldn't help but want to make the funeral more decent. After struggling for a long time, Li Shimin decided not to violate the last wish of Guanyin's servant girl.

But the thin burial has to be given a suitable explanation, why the thin burial?Li Shimin had long planned to push the boat along: The queen is frugal, and she asked me to give her a light burial in her last words. She said to me, "Those tomb robbers rob tombs just to get money. If there is nothing valuable in the tomb, they will steal a coffin and a skeleton." Is it?" My heart was broken when I heard that.I understand what the queen means, and I mean the same as the queen.The king regards the world as his home, so why hide things in the mausoleum and keep them for himself? This time the tomb was built on Jiuyi (sound: Zong) Mountain. More than 100 people built the tomb, and the tomb was completed in dozens of days.There is no gold, silver, men, horses, or utensils hidden in it, and the wood and soil used are all shapes.In this way, the thief's mind was broken, and she could feel at ease.

I declare that in the future, tombs will be built according to this specification, and descendants will regard it as the law, and there must be no violation! Tomb robbers believe that there is no tomb, only the tomb of Zongzi, which is not a good tomb. What's more, the tomb of Empress Changsun probably doesn't even have zongzi, only a wooden coffin.Empress Changsun gave birth to three sons for Li Shimin, namely Li Chengqian, Li Tai, and Li Zhi; she had four daughters, namely Princess Changle, Princess Chengyang, Princess Jinyang, and Princess Xincheng.In the past two years, Li Shimin, who has been depressed, seems to never find that happiness again. He transferred all his feelings for Empress Changsun to his children.

It is precisely because of this that there is the following story. Classmate Li Tai has always been favored. Li Shimin has been a little nervous recently. Li Tai told Li Shimin, "Father, why do you look down on me at the senior officials in the court?" Li Shimin was furious at the moment, thinking to his son, don't be afraid, do they think you are easy to bully, chubby, do they take me seriously! Don't be afraid, Dad will stand up for you. So, he called all the officials of the third rank and above, and scanned the audience with a very ugly expression.After a long time, he said, "During the time of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, officials below the first rank would worship the king when they met him on the road. The king is the son of the emperor, the son of the emperor! Not only did I not hear you respect them, but I also heard that many people looked down on them. If I indulge you today, I don’t know who will be in charge of the Tang Dynasty in the future!"

Fang Xuanling and others knelt down and kowtowed to plead guilty.The tense atmosphere suppressed the audience. They seemed to have seen the murderous Li Shimin again, a beast who killed dozens of people by himself. The bright spot is that all the staff couldn't afford to bow down, and the only one squinted, standing there calmly. Of course, he didn't kneel because he had bad eyesight, but because he thought Li Shimin was crazy. "Wei Zheng, you..." Comrade Wei Zheng felt grief and indignation at everyone's behavior, he felt a surge of power in his heart, and seeing Li Shimin looking at him, he said with certainty: "I think that none of the people standing in front of His Majesty today dare to despise King Wei. "Everyone was terrified, afraid that he would cause trouble.

Unexpectedly, Wei Zheng got more and more enthusiastic about his words, and even began to cite extensively, trying to refute Li Shimin, "In terms of etiquette, kings and dukes are equal. Officials above the third rank, although some of them come from lowly backgrounds like ministers, but your majesty has always respected us. But now Your Majesty said that those who are above the third rank should salute the prince, it really makes the ministers not know what to do, this is a kind of ignorant behavior, according to the ministers, this is not polite, but rude!" Everyone began to tremble, but Wei Zheng couldn't see the change in the frequency of everyone's legs, and then threatened, "Your Majesty, King Wei certainly didn't intend to humiliate the officials. His Majesty had previously stipulated that princes and princes should not worship each other. Now, Do you think it’s okay to change the order from day to day? Think about it, Your Majesty. Emperor Wen of Sui doted on his sons and let them enjoy special treatment. What will be their final destination? Your Majesty, you don’t know this time It's just that I don't want to admit that I am like him!"

Everyone buried their heads in their wide sleeves in horror, not daring to look up. Li Shimin was criticized as useless by Wei Zheng, showing embarrassment. After a moment of silence, he suddenly smiled and said: "...the words of reason, I have to obey. I was wrong, I forgot about justice because of selfish love, and the reason why I got angry just now was because I thought I must be reasonable. But after listening to Wei Zheng Only after saying the words did I realize that I was wronged. Alas, how can the Lord’s words contradict themselves!” Everyone looked up. On this day, Li Shimin issued an edict saying: "Decrees cannot be counted and changed, and the number of changes will be troublesome. The officials cannot remember them all. Moreover, if they are inconsistent, officials will take advantage of them and work together. From now on, anyone who wants to change the legal provisions , must be rigorously demonstrated and implemented with caution.”

Li Shimin's experience tells us that Wei Zheng is not easy to mess with.At the same time, it also explained that although Li Sipang was knowledgeable and talented, the ministers in the court would not nod and bow when walking on the street, because according to Comrade Wei Zheng, we are all on the same level, and if we want to worship, the younger generation must first worship the master. Li Ke is Li Chengqian's potential opponent, but the diving is too deep, and he may drown himself. Li Ke is the son of Li Shimin and Concubine Yang. Concubine Yang is the most precious daughter of Comrade Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty.

Li Ke was the third child among all the children. Because his biological mother was a nobleman of the Yang family and came from a famous family, everyone looked at Li Ke differently.Li Ke has fully inherited his grandfather's genes. He is talented and able to lead troops to fight.Li Shimin is very optimistic about Li Ke, and often says to others: "Among all my sons, Ke'er is the most like me!" Indeed, Li Ke is very similar to Li Shimin in martial arts. Unfortunately, Grandpa Yang Guang often came out to give lessons to Li Ke. Although Li Ke looks very heroic, courageous and insightful, he has some unhealthy hobbies.Gambling, hunting and disturbing the people, seeing that no one dared to take care of him, he directly led a group of people riding tall horses to trample on the crops of the people, once in a while was fine, but people found that this guy had to hunt several times a month, and he didn't care Don't worry about government affairs.After learning about this, Liu Fan, the censor who served next to him, didn't talk nonsense with Li Ke, and directly played it to Li Shimin.Although Li Shimin liked this child, he still sternly cut down three hundred households and educated Li Ke severely. Originally, the matter should be over, but Li Shimin is a person who digs to the bottom. He said: "Li Ke has fallen like this, and he blames Quan Wanji." As a long history, Quan Wanji must restrain Li Ke. If he can't uphold justice, he deserves to be executed.This is Li Shimin's attitude. Liu Fan's goal has been achieved. After Li Shimin finished speaking, he suddenly turned his back on him and launched an attack on Li Shimin. He said seriously: "Fang Xuanling, as a servant, serves His Majesty around, and cannot stop His Majesty from hunting." , the crime deserves death!" ... Li Shimin was stunned, it was the first time for him to be humiliated like this, but he knew that he was wronged, and he didn't want to get angry at the god-man on the curve, so he flicked his sleeves and hid aside to sulk up.He was angry with Liu Fan, what was Liu Fan mocking himself for?Like to hunt?Comparing Quan Wanji with Fang Xuanling, and including himself in it, isn't that clearly courting death? Speaking of which, this Quan Wanji is indeed a very unusual character.According to Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling, Wang Gui and others, this guy is a bad guy; but according to others, this guy is a good guy. The above content can simply prove that Comrade Quan Wanji is not only universal, but also diverse.As an ordinary official, he has an irritable personality, and he is quite outspoken.His shortcoming is that he likes to regard those who live better than him as his imaginary enemies, and often wants to destroy them with his mind.Therefore, Li Shimin soon discovered that Quan Wanji was an eccentric and selfish person. Speaking of which, it was also a day of heavy snow. On a certain day in the twelfth lunar month of the ninth year of Zhenguan (635), Quan Wanji, the official censor, said, "There are several good big silver mines in Xuanzhou (Xuancheng, Anhui) and Raozhou (Poyang, Jiangxi). Collecting millions of taels of silver. Your Majesty should let someone mine it, so as to increase our wealth." Li Shimin didn't take it seriously, and seemed very angry, "Go, I am the lord of a country. What I lack is not wealth, but the motto of benefiting the country and the people. Rather than gaining millions of silver, it is better to gain one more virtuous person!" He said He began to blame Quan Wanji in a questioning tone, "From the beginning until now, you have not recommended a single sage, and have not reported a single unscrupulous person, but you stand here and tell me about the tax bank, what are you? What are you doing? Yao and Shun threw gold and silver in the mountains, and left jewels at the bottom of the valley; Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty collected money together, you don’t know what happened to them? Don't learn from Yao and Shun, but learn from that stupid and cruel king, do you know it's a crime?!" Only then did Quan Wanji understand why Li Shimin didn't look right at him recently, so he went home and reflected. He was fired. Quan Wanji is more or less a character, Li Shimin loves talents and cannot bear to be idle, so he assigns him to his beloved son Li Ke as a teacher. Quan Wanji is really dedicated to his new job, and assisting Li Ke may not be difficult for him-but this is all fantasy.Li Ke's child is too wild, and he really can't control it.All of this, Liu Fan saw in his eyes, that's why he had the story about Li Shimin making a fuss just now, and at this moment, he offended Li Shimin. Li Shimin was angry a lot during this time, getting angry a hundred times a day.Sitting in the house for a long time, he began to reflect.Liu Fan stood outside and waited for a long time, finally, Li Shimin let him in for a private chat.After entering the room, Liu Fan found that Li Shimin was very calm, and he asked himself a little embarrassedly: "Why does Aiqing want to lose face in court?" Liu Fan cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty is benevolent, I dare not be stupid!" Li Shimin laughed and said, "That's very good."