Great Tang Southern Emperor

But at the same time, Yu Zhining has another identity, that is, a disciple of Confucianism. Although he is not close to Confucianism, seeing that Li Shimin even said the words to depose Confucianism, he immediately panicked.

It seemed that my words really frightened these people, even Yu Zhining couldn't sit still.

"Your Majesty, these people committed crimes, and they themselves committed crimes. This has nothing to do with Confucianism." Yu Zhining, who is over 50 and has gray hair, still defended himself after hearing Li Shimin's question: "These people have committed crimes, and you punish them." That’s all they are, why bother with the school of thought? Respecting Confucianism alone is the strategy of governing the country that has been pursued since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and dismissing them rashly may cause catastrophe.”

"But look at these people, do you dare to say that the teachings of Confucianism are not problematic?" Li Shimin picked up a person casually and glared at him: "The civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty are all disciples of Confucianism, but look for yourself, in this Manchu Dynasty, there is no How many people appeared in this box? I use such corrupt and evil officials to govern the world for me, how much should the people of the world suffer? How dare you say that it is not your Confucian profound meaning that solves the problem?"

"Your Majesty calm down..."

When Yu Zhining tried to persuade him, Li Shimin became even more angry: "Calm down? The people I trusted in the past all look like this. How do you make me calm down?"

"Your Majesty, please hold off on the wrath of thunder." The speaker was another person named Li Xuandao, who was born in the Li family in Longxi. According to his seniority, he was still Li Shimin's uncle, but he was already a distant relative. Li Xuandao's age He was older than Yu Zhining and was over 60 years old. Seeing Li Shimin's anger, he had no choice but to stand up.

"What do you want to say?" Seeing that it was Li Xuandao who was speaking, Li Shimin had to suppress his anger. Although Li Xuandao was not very close to the master house, he was not within five clothes, although Li Shimin would not call him Clan uncle, but he won't save his face either.

"Your Majesty, I think what Yu Zhining said is right." Li Xuandao stood up tremblingly, and persuaded in a low voice: "The same rice feeds a variety of people, and the same teaching will naturally teach different people. It’s determined by a person’s personality, and it’s not a matter of doctrine.”

"The whole court is full of Confucian disciples, and half of them are people who are corrupt and pervert the law. Tell me, this has nothing to do with Confucianism? Who is it?" Li Shimin was even more angry. He did not expect that the evidence of Confucianism breaking the law was so complete. , There are still people who speak for them.

Li Shimin was angry, and there was a person beside him who was even angrier than him. Just when he sneered and wanted to defend himself again, a knife suddenly flew over, and Li Xuandao was caught off guard, and was hit on the face.Li Xuandao let out a cry of pain, and the nosebleeds flowed down immediately, which shows how much force the person who hit him used.

As the zhezi flew over, there was an even more angry voice: "Old man Li, if you want to defend Confucianism, you can, but before you defend, you'd better take a look at this first, to see if Confucianism still exists You are qualified to defend them."

"What?" Li Xuandao picked up the memorial and glanced at it, and suddenly felt that his eyes were dark, and when he saw half of it, he trembled all over, suddenly spewed out a mouthful of blood, and shouted: "You really are not a son of man~ "

Then passed out.

"It's really good. Cooking babies is like Duke Huan of Qi's... Making human wax, offering it to the tomb, it will last for thousands of years... Beasts..." Gao Shilian picked it up, only looked at two, and felt his eyes darken. , Shouted a beast, fainted.

After the panic, the fainted person was carried away by the imperial physician, and the rest were divided into two camps, one was full of anger, and stared angrily at the other side.The other party seemed to have lost their parents, and their faces became more and more miserable.

Chapter 620 Kill

Chapter 85 kill

"Your Majesty, just tell me what to do next? Kill or arrest, or let go?" Cheng Yaojin was already furious at this time. He was the one who smashed Li Xuandao just now, and he was second only to Li Xuandao Li Shimin, the second person who saw the note, felt even more angry about the crimes on the note.

What is recorded in this booklet is not someone else, but the numerous crimes of Tao Gongqian, the governor of Xuzhou.

This Tao Gongqian has no other hobbies, but he has a quirk, that is, he likes to believe in heresy.I don't know where he got an evil prescription, saying that eating babies can lead to longevity. Since then, there have been many major theft cases in Xuzhou, but Tao Gongqian relied on his own power to suppress them.

But later, when he ate more babies, the aging speed of his body did not decrease.Tao Gongqian, who was afraid of death, started to build mausoleums extensively in order to enjoy the glory and wealth after death, corrupted a large amount of tax money, and privately raised troops to intercept and kill passing merchants.Collect young girls, make human wax, and enshrine them in the tomb, and make mercury dolls from three-year-old babies as funeral objects...

All kinds of animal crimes are simply unacceptable—it is ridiculous that such a person is also a disciple of a sage and a disciple of Confucianism.

Even Zhu Can, the man-eating king back then, can call himself a good man compared to Tao Gongqian.

"Kill!" Li Shimin was silent for a long time before spit out a word.

"Come on."

A group of guards rushed in stridingly: "Your Majesty, what are your orders?"

"According to this list, no one will be kept." Li Shimin took out a booklet that was a foot thick, and recorded the names of all criminal officials.

The commander of the guards opened the booklet, and he gasped immediately. He saw that the booklet was more than one foot long, and it was densely filled with the names of people in small letters. There were thousands of people, and looking at the positions of these names , or a supervisor, or a Mushou party, or simply a famous general in the army, it can be said that each of them holds power in their hands.

"Well, think twice, Your Majesty..." The commander of the guards was also a little tangled up. He was working in the palace, so he naturally knew a little bit of politics, and of course he understood the seriousness of the matter. If all these people were arrested, the entire Tang Dynasty might be in trouble. I can't go down.

"Shut up." Li Shimin scolded angrily: "How can you have the right to speak here? Why don't you hurry up and work for me?"

"Yes..." The commander of the guards had no choice but to arrest people according to the names on the list.

At this time, everyone understood that Li Shimin was playing for real, and all Confucian disciples panicked and begged for mercy.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me..."

"Your Majesty, I was forced to do so, and I have no other choice."

"Your Majesty, give me another chance, I know I was wrong."

"..."

However, if Li Shimin's determination was so easy to change, he would not be that ancient sage. Seeing that Li Shimin was unmoved by begging for mercy, and the guards were still unswervingly dragging them out with a cross, these Confucian disciples cursed one after another.

"Li Shimin, you will die badly."

"Hunjun, do you want to shake the orthodox position of Confucianism? Is my Confucianism status that you, Hunjun, can move?"

"Tyrant, you don't know right from wrong, just wait for the Tang Dynasty to perish."

"So what if you kill me? It's easy for you to kill me, but can you still kill the Confucian disciples in the world?"

"Li Er, you bloody tyrant, you murdered your brother and domineering sister-in-law, forced your father to abdicate, and even murdered ministers today, you will eventually be punished."

"Li Shimin, if you treat Confucianism like this, you can take revenge on our Confucianism. I will go first and wait for you underground, I will wait for you..."

"..."

However, although each of these people scolded more harshly than the other, Li Shimin was unmoved at all, and just looked at everything in front of him coldly.

After the Daxing Hall became quiet again, half of the people in the entire hall were missing, and the remaining [-]% belonged to Li Shimin's school, and the other part was the neutral school and a few clean-blooded Confucian disciples.

"Let's retreat."

"Retreat!" Wang Tingchu's sharp voice sounded, and the remaining people also saluted one after another, and exited the Daxing Hall.

Of course, according to the old rules, his confidant did not leave, but came to the imperial study room, held a small meeting, and continued to discuss major issues.But this time there were not many people, only Fang Du and Wei. As for Cheng Yaojin, Li Ji and others, the world would definitely be in chaos, and they had to prepare in advance.

"Your Majesty, everyone has been arrested, what should we do next?" Fang Xuanling stepped forward and asked: "So many people have been arrested, and most of them are heads of various departments. They can't keep going."

"It's okay, just let their deputy take over." Li Shimin obviously had thought about everything, waved his hand indifferently and said, "Zhen'er once said something to me, and I think it makes sense. That is, no matter where you are, Except in exceptional cases, supervisors and deputies are natural enemies."

How smart is Du Ruhui?With just these words, I immediately understood Li Shimin's meaning: "It makes sense, the deputy hates the supervisor for blocking his promotion path, and the supervisor is worried that the deputy will challenge his position...Unless there are special circumstances, the two really can't get along. Therefore, as long as we give the order to let the deputy directors of the various departments come to power, and add some courtship and favors, it will be easy to draw them to our side."

"That's what I mean." Li Shimin nodded: "Putting a batch and hitting a batch is enough for us to get through this difficult time."

"But in this way, we will not be able to achieve our goal of attacking Confucianism." Fang Xuanling asked: "Their deputies are also Confucian disciples. When they take office, they will also wave the flag for Confucianism, and they just took office , It’s hard to have any bad deeds, it’s easy to push them up, but it’s hard to let them go down.”

Li Shimin's face, which was originally filled with anger, could not help showing a smile: "I don't care about this, let Zhen'er handle it."

"Your Majesty...you are..."

"It's nothing." Li Shimin's expression changed: "It's nothing, you don't have to worry. The most important reason why a deputy is a deputy is that their talent is not as good as their supervisor. Such people are more than successful, but they are not enough to develop. Why don't they want to cause trouble?" Is it something simple?"

"but……"

Wei Zheng still had doubts, but was stopped quietly by Fang Xuanling: "Your Majesty's words are reasonable and far-sighted, and I am convinced."