mtl008 Chapter 794 The Endless Struggle
Chapter 794 The Endless Struggle
Chapter 794 The Endless Struggle
In the past, Yun Chu believed that all kindness and dedication will eventually disappear with the death of the individual.
He believes that in the condolences of some great people, there are always words like "green hills are silent, and the sky is full of tears", which is a modification of words and a deliberate expression to maintain the atmosphere.
Now, he doesn't think so.
Any great narrative, in the end, will become eternal like the green mountains and the sky. No matter whether anyone remembers him or not, there will be his imprint in this world after all.
Use a long knife to cut through the white clouds and the blue sky, and write a big herringbone there. Although it is fleeting, at the moment when the long knife breaks through the sky, this world belongs to you, and it can be called great.
As for whether others can remember you or not, it doesn't matter, and it doesn't matter, as long as you know it yourself.
This is a natural instinct for a grand narrative after people have surpassed the basic desires of food, clothing, housing, and transportation, which is another narrative of Confucian self-cultivation, family governance, and world peace.
Good people start to altruistic, and bad people start to pursue the ultimate self-interest. Whether it is altruism or self-interest, it is the two manifestations of night and day. If it appears, don't be surprised.
Because, good or bad, it is a concrete manifestation of human nature.
Yunchu has vaguely touched the threshold of breaking the sky now, and Chang'an is the cornerstone of his breaking the sky.
Whenever he thinks this way, Yunchu feels that his figure will become taller, but the height is very limited, and Li Zhi's figure is still above the clouds.
Today's Datang society is stable and peaceful.
Don't be surprised, this is almost the unified understanding of all the high officials and dignitaries in Datang.
Because they were invincible outside the court, the emperor's eyes were fixed on them. At this time, they missed those talented overlords extremely.
When Jieli Khan forced Emperor Taizong to kill the white horse to swear an oath on the edge of the Wei River, there was peace in the Tang Dynasty, and Emperor Taizong's tolerance for officials was also the highest.
When Li Jing led his troops out of Dingxiang Road, and Emperor Taizong led his troops out of Yunzhong Road to raid the Eastern Turks, even if an official in the rear was caught for corruption, the emperor would deal with it magnanimously, only scolding, not beheading.
The recent good days were when Li Ji's army marched eastward, and the emperor had not dealt with an official above the fifth rank for three years.
At that time, it was the happiest day for the officials. The soldiers in the front fought bloody battles to gain military merits, and the officials in the rear were singing and dancing to make political achievements. Everyone's life was very good.
It's over now. Every morning court is almost a test for the officials. They don't know what they have done. They are still discussing state affairs in the court in the morning, and they have to pack their luggage and go to the border eight thousand miles away in the afternoon.
There are no foreign enemies in the Tang Dynasty, and there is really no one in the world. The East Turks are gone, and the West Turks are basically gone now. Xue Yantuo is gone, and Tuyuhun is half breathed. As for the Three Kingdoms in the east, there are two kings I am studying dance and music diligently, and countless princes and the like have already devoted themselves to Buddhism. I heard that they are very Buddhist.
The only thing that can be counted on is Tubo, but now, Tubo would rather fight inextricably with Tubo Zanpu's grandmother's family, Nivalo, than go to the plateau to find troubles in Datang.
It is because of the strange thing of Qi epidemic that the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty will become weaker on the plateau, so that the Tubo group can be preserved.
At this time, Datang no longer has any enthusiasm for expanding its territory. The main reason is that it takes half a year for the land of Datang to travel from east to west by horse, and it takes a year to travel from south to north by horse and boat. , with or without a look.
However, even if they don't support it, Datang's pace of expanding its territory still hasn't stopped.
Today came a man with an unshaven beard and fierce eyes. At first glance, he was either a bandit or a giant bandit. He said that he had expanded five hundred miles in the north. The officials opened the map, but they didn't know the five hundred miles. Where is the place.
The furious officials checked this guy's household registration, and found that he was a man with a criminal record. He took this unrivaled hero who pioneered the territory and gave him a board, only to find out that this bastard actually led a group of rangers and swordsmen to wipe out in the north. They captured several small tribes of Khitan people, killed all the wildlings, and wanted to ask the court for some more benefits.
Tomorrow there will be another character, his whole body is black and shiny, he is standing on the ground with bare feet, his toes are spread wide, and he has a strong southern Hokkien accent. Such a guy is definitely a pirate.
After recruiting an interpreter who can speak Hokkien, it was only then that he found out that this guy had bought a large island more than 1000 miles away from the coastline of Datang. The county magistrate, at the risk of being beheaded by the court, has to ask for titles for his descendants.
The prime ministers were very annoyed by this kind of thing, so Shangguanyi made a memorial, hoping that the court would stop paying attention to such people in the future.
Originally, Shangguanyi's memorandum was very clear, and the advantages and disadvantages were demonstrated. In the end, his conclusions tended to be discarded, rather than encouraging these people to make persistent efforts.
The most worrying thing in his memorial is not that ordinary people go to the frontier at their own expense to expand the territory, but that the warriors take advantage of this convenience to act. Among them, Xu Jingye was used as an example, and he said that the imperial court had almost no control over Xu Jingye. It is a hidden danger. In the end, there was intentional or unintentional impeachment of the hero Li Ji for neglecting discipline, and the impeachment of Xue Rengui, who also served as the marching chief of Qinghai Road, to support the bandits.
He also impeached that Yunchu had an ambiguous relationship with Xu Jingye, and the acquisition of a large number of cattle and horses from Tuyuhun was suspected of being an enemy.
As soon as this memorial appeared, everyone knew that it was a map cannon to delineate a circle, and anyone who intersected with this circle would be damned.
Therefore, Li Zhi published Shangguanyi's memorial to the world, hoping that Tang officials would actively participate in the discussion and come up with a very clear and beneficial solution for future generations.
Yunchu felt that Shangguanyi was a complete bastard. Everyone in the world knew that he and Xu Jingye were enemies, and he almost killed Xu Jingye with his own hands. For this matter, Yinggong Li Ji looked down on him extremely. If it's not pleasing to the eye, how can you become an enemy?
Besides, today's Tuyuhun people are so poor that they have no tiles on the roof and no land to stand on. The herdsmen are struggling to survive by relying on a few lean sheep in the wind and snow. What horses and fat cows are there?
Horses have long been the mounts of the nobles in Chang'an, or made money for the rich merchants of the Tang Dynasty in the racetrack. As for the fat cattle, the fat cattle from Tuyuhun have long been boiled in hot pot by Chang'an people, or boiled into large pieces of stewed beef [-]% of the fat cattle that people in Chang'an eat now come from Linzhou, and the remaining [-]% come from the Yinshan pasture.
Shangguanyi's map gun-like attack, because there is no focus, so the attack power is not strong. This is Shangguanyi, the prime minister, who was tortured by the emperor and empress in Luoyang, the capital of the gods. Lead the eyes of the emperor and the empress from the gods to Chang'an, and then allow him to take a breath and linger on for a while.
"In the past, if the Tang Dynasty wanted to expand its borders, it needed the soldiers of the government to exchange their lives for the grassroots.
Now it's all right, the land that they acquired was offered to ask the emperor for titles, and what the court issued was nothing more than a set of official uniforms and a seal, and then gave it to this guy's old lady, his wife, and a county monarch of the fifth or sixth rank A kind of appellation, if a child gives an honest man a reward that even a dog can't smell, and can include such a large piece of land in the territory, this kind of good thing also needs to be rejected?
What did Shangguanyi think?Such a person is also worthy of being a prime minister? "
After Ruan heard the news, he threw all the wine glasses in anger.
He believes that whether the land is useful or not, it is best to hold it in your hands first. This kind of place should be managed by those who have been defeated. It is naturally a good thing to receive taxes. What if a golden bump grows out after soaking in urine?
Once someone starts to govern a place, there will be output slowly, and how to realize the output, only come to Datang, so a little bit of accumulation, the country will always have income, and it will become stronger little by little , Even if it is a penny, Prime Minister Shangguanyi can buy a copy of toilet paper... Doesn't this save a penny of the imperial court's national money?
After Rourou talked about her toilet paper theory, Shangguanyi's reputation in Chang'an and Luoyang became rotten.
Everyone is guessing how big Shangguanyi's butt is, so that he can't see such a big benefit.
Some people also think that Shangguanyi has a huge head, a person with a big head must have a big face, and a person with a big face...
Facing the raging rumors, Shangguanyi had a good temper, and responded to the rumors, "I like to use bamboo chips after I celebrate my birthday. Well, it's the same as the bamboo chips used in the canteen of Jinchangfang."
This is a malicious attack by name, but everyone knows that so far, only Chang'an people are willing to use toilet paper after they are born, and the rest of the place still likes to use bamboo chips.
Therefore, the theory of toilet paper can only come from Chang'an, it cannot appear in other places, it can only come from Yunchu's gentle mouth, it will never come from other people's mouth, Shangguanyi's disgusting attack is not aimless.
Li Hong, who had just returned to Luoyang, the capital of the gods, after hearing about this incident, summoned all the meritorious officials who had stayed in Luoyang and waited for the royal seal to expand the land, regardless of their identities or what they used to do , all invited to the Baihualou in the East Palace for a banquet.
During the banquet, we sang "Great Wind Song" by Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty - the wind rises and the clouds fly, and the strong warriors guard the four directions!
All of a sudden, those heroes who opened up the territory kowtowed like garlic!
"Great Wind Song" is an emperor's song. In the Tang Dynasty, there were only two people who could sing this song in public. One was the current emperor Li Zhi of the Tang Dynasty, and the other was the future emperor Li Hong of the Tang Dynasty.
After the courtiers heard the news that Li Hong rewarded these people in the East Palace, they turned a blind eye to the actions of the Tang people to expand their territories.
Even if Emperor Li Zhi of the Tang Dynasty agrees with Shangguanyi's suggestion, the policy will still come back when Li Hong ascends the throne.
Everyone is not in the mood to do such thankless things.
Li Zhi didn't have any opinions on this kind of land expansion from the people, but he agreed with Shangguanyi's other opinions.
A huge investigation team composed of censors and officials from the east and west pavilions left the capital on the second day and went to Chang'an in a mighty way. There were two main targets of investigation, one was Ying Gong Li Ji, One is Yunchu, the deputy left behind in Chang'an.
Baiyin, Gansu is really cold. The temperature difference of [-] degrees is unbearable for me who has just returned from the south. It snows in the mountains and rains in the flats, and there are frost warnings in the morning
(End of this chapter)