Tang's dining table

Mount Tai is right in front of us, but the emperor is going to Penglai.

A thousand miles east of Qufu, you can see Penglai Island on the seaside.

According to legend, a long time ago, there were three sacred mountains in the Bohai Sea. Everything on them was white, and gold and silver were used as palaces. The trunks of pearls were covered with trees, and they were all delicious. If you eat them, you will live forever.

After the First Emperor unified the six kingdoms, he came here in search of the sacred mountain and the elixir of immortality in order to ensure the eternal stability of the Qin Dynasty and his personal immortality.

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas." There is a sentence in "Hainei Bei Jing" that "Penglai Mountain is in the sea".

"Liezi. "Tang Wen" also records that "there are five mountains in the east of the Bohai Sea; one day is called Daixing, the second is called Yuanqiao, the third is called Fanghu, the fourth is called Yingzhou, and the fifth is called Penglai".

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che, once visited Penglai in the second year of Yuanguang. He said that he could not see the sacred mountain, so he built a small town and named it "Penglai" to comfort himself.

Yunchu had been to Penglai Island and also to Sanxian Mountain, a national 5A scenic spot. Because the government team was specially gifted with a sailing boat trip, they had a free meal of sea cucumbers and large crabs.

There are no gods there, not a single one is seen. The closest thing to a god is a monkey holding a stick and wearing the armor from when Sun Dasheng was the Monkey King. He is walking around asking tourists for money. Monkey Very smart, Yunchu gave him a steel coin, but he refused to accept it and insisted on the banknotes in his hand, and he liked the red one the best.

Li Zhi probably couldn't even see the monkeys when he went to Penglai Island, and he was not good at reciting poetry. He couldn't write the majestic "Guan Cang Sea" by Emperor Wu of Wei Cao Cao, let alone his teacher's "Langtaosha·Beidaihe". Yun Chu's understanding of the emperor was better than that of Wei Wu. Li Zhi definitely wouldn't write a poem to show his timidity when he went to Penglai. After going there, he could only sigh with a boring exclamation - ah - the sea is so big.

However, if he wanted to go, everyone had to go with him. Not only the 20,000 troops under Yun Chu's command had to go, but the 60,000 soldiers and horses responsible for guarding the emperor also had to go, as well as the nearly 6,000 civil and military personnel who accompanied him. Officials and their families must also go.

The most critical thing is Pei Xingjian. Xue Rengui's 200,000 troops must also leave the originally set camp and head east.

Taking an unparalleled cavalry force that could destroy other countries to go to Dengzhou to see the sea, neither Emperor Wu of Wei nor the instructors were as good as others.

It is because of the existence of such a powerful force that Shandong wealthy families such as the Boling Cui family, Qinghe Cui family, Fanyang Lu family, Xingyang Zheng family, Zhaojun Li family, etc., can quietly wait for the emperor's butcher knife to come, and Don't dare to resist at all.

Different from the situation discussed by Emperor Kong of Shandong and the empress in person, Li Zhi, who had already shown his fangs, did not give much courtesy to these Shandong wealthy families. He only sent ministers to tell these families that the emperor was prepared to take back the land awarded to them and carry out Secondary distribution.

Starting from the principle that everything in the world is the king's land, and the land that leads the land is the king's ministers, it is reasonable for the emperor to do something similar to robbing.

The Shandong wealthy family has deep roots and has never interacted with the Guanlong Group; the only Taiyuan Wang family does not belong to the Shandong force, but it is not a Guanzhong force, but it is its own family. In the eyes of the Shandong gentry, the Li and Tang royal family is nothing, just an outbreak. Just a household.

Shandong's wealthy families have been handed down since the Han Dynasty and have a history of nearly a thousand years. They have profound culture and long family knowledge. In comparison, the foundation of the Li and Tang royal families is very poor.

Although Li Tang is a royal family, they only launched a rebellion twenty years ago and won by force. Who can say for sure that the Li Tang royal family will not be overthrown by others in a few decades?

Those dynasties that circulated like a revolving door before the Tang Dynasty seemed to have nothing noble in front of these thousand-year-old families.

The real reason why Shandong's wealthy families looked down on Li Tang was because of the Li Tang royal family's "climbing the dragon and attaching themselves to the phoenix" and boasting about themselves.

The Li Tang family originally came from the Li family in Longxi and was one of the Xianbei-style "Eight Pillar Kingdom" military groups. However, they attached themselves to the Li family in Zhaojun among the "Five Surnames" and claimed that the two "Li families" were the same family five hundred years ago. Born to the same parents, this shows their noble status.

This is a bit deceptive. The Li family in Zhao County is a well-known civilized family, a scholarly family, the authentic lineage of the Han people, and their ancestral home is in Hebei; while the Li family in Longxi is located on the border, in Longyou, and the two places are separated by 108,000 thousand. Here, the Li Tang family forced themselves to say that they were from the same family, which made the wealthy families in Shandong look down upon them.

When you despise a person or a group of people, the first requirement is that you are stronger than him. Otherwise, it is easy to cause trouble to your own family.

There is never any advantage in vain in this world. How many benefits they have obtained by using their reputation in the past, this time they will spit it out and pay compensation.

Li Zhi didn't want any clan. He even threw aside the "Clan Chronicle" he had formulated before. He only hoped that there would be only one clan in the world, the Li clan in Longxi.

The Cui family has been demoted to a third-class family in the "Chronicles of the Clan". This time, Li Zhi is ready to dig up the roots of the wealthy family so that they have no soil for continued survival.

Yunchu was very suspicious that the reason why Li Zhi suddenly took action to rectify Shandong and Hebei this time probably had nothing to do with the annexation of ordinary people's land. His butcher knife was aimed at the wealthy families here. As for saving the people from hanging upside down, It's just something that happens casually.

Wenrou feels that Yunchu's question should be the truth of the matter.

The higher you climb, the less you think about the people at the bottom...

This can be seen from the fact that the imperial court roughly allocated the land of wealthy families to the common people.

Very unfair...

The same goes for the common people. In the past, when the land was owned by wealthy families, everyone was poor. So, everyone watched each other eating pig food and felt that the world was very good. Now, when the court allocates land, it is based on head. As a result, some poor people who already had their own land immediately became rich households with the land in their hands and the newly allocated land.

As a result, everyone felt that the court was unfair.

When one or two families felt it was unfair, they could only endure it. When Baijia, Qianjia, or Wanjia felt it was unfair, their courage was frightening. They actually dared to kneel down on the emperor's only path and cry out for injustice. He believes that since the rent policy and land policy are being re-implemented, all the land in everyone's hands should be taken back and distributed equally to everyone.

Just when Yunchu thought it was necessary to come up with a good land distribution policy, Li Zhi took action. When he met people who were complaining about injustice in Licheng, he ordered the killing of a man who lived in Licheng and whose land had just been confiscated. The Cui family has many side branches.

When this branch of the Cui family, including more than 400 women and children, were executed by Pei Xingjian, and their heads were hung on the walls of Licheng, the dissatisfied people immediately dispersed, and no one felt that there was anything wrong with the imperial policy. This is an unfair place.

Yunchu knew that the emperor just suspected that the wealthy families here were unwilling to have their land taken away, and deliberately caused some troubles, and even wanted to provoke a popular uprising and give Li Zhi a headache.

The wealthy people here may have forgotten one thing. Li Zhi does not need any evidence to do something. As long as he has enough reasons to doubt who did it, he can do it to anyone.

Killing wealthy people was something Li Zhi wanted to do but didn't do. Now, since some people wanted to die, he immediately fulfilled their wishes. No matter whose head it was, he could always scare the people and make them dispel their worries. Click a little ninety-nine.

Some land was less allocated, but it wasn't that it was not allocated. There was really no need to risk one's life to trouble the emperor.

Emperor Li Zhi had given enough lessons to both the wealthy families and the common people, and Yunchu thought the matter would be over.

However, when Yun Chu led the army through Linzi, he smelled the stench of rotting corpses from a distance. He just glanced at the densely packed human heads hanging on the city wall and ordered the army to camp outside Linzi City for the night.

Since leaving Jeju City, the emperor would rather stay in the army at night than enter a city to rest.

Li Ji saw that Yun Chu had been looking at the top of Linzi City after ordering the camp, and said: "There is nothing interesting to see. When your head is hung up, you can only enjoy it by looking down from the top."

Yun Chu glanced at Li Ji who was lying on the chariot and said, "Is your little son coming soon?"

Li Ji sighed and said, "Your Majesty has sent a six-hundred-mile urgent mission and ordered Li Chengxiu, the brigade commander of the third regiment of Zhechong Prefecture in Lizhou, to come to the imperial court as soon as possible to serve."

Yun Chu weighed the distance in his mind from Lizhou on Jiannan Road to Linzi on present-day Henan Road. His face twitched and he said, "It's really remarkable that this child is still alive."

Li Ji had a sad look on his face, and sighed again: "Six hundred miles a day and night, changing horses every fifty miles..."

Yun Chu said: "This is the speed that can only be achieved when people are replaced. If Li Chengxiu doesn't change, how long will it take for him to arrive?"

Li Jidao said, "The fastest is at midnight tonight, and the slowest is tomorrow afternoon."

"Is he still riding?"

"Still riding."

Yun Chu looked at Li Ji and said: "Eleven thousand six hundred miles, according to military regulations, if you arrive within fifty days, it will not be missed. This little son of yours is stubborn and refuses to talk, and his temper is like burning fire."

Li Jidao: "Because of this, the crime he suffered this time was too great."

Yun Chu smiled and said, "I happen to know some good doctors. Would you like to introduce them to Mr. Ying?"

Li Jidao: "Sun Shenxian has prepared some ointment. If the child's internal organs are not damaged, just apply some ointment. Sun Shenxian said that running from the southwest to the east thousands of miles away, regardless of climate, water and soil, There have been great changes in diet, and coupled with the fatigue from the journey, Sun Shenxian thought diet came first."

Yun Chu nodded and said, "Indeed, no one in the world knows how to eat better than my family."

Li Ji cupped his hands and said, "In that case, I have the nerve to entrust the dog to your wife."

Yun Chu said in surprise: "Didn't you meet Your Majesty first?"

Li Ji shook his head and said, "Do you think His Majesty has anything to say to a brigade commander?"

Yun Chu shook his head and said, "Probably not."

Li Ji looked up to the sky and sighed: "No -"

Seeing Li Ji's regretful expression, this time, Yun Chu truly believed that Li Ji had the intention to kill Li Zhi again.