Chapter 836 Empty talk harms the country

Originally, Li Xiang had thought about letting Zhang Jiuli be a counselor alone. If he were to be a counselor alone, it would be a bit too humiliating for his talent.

But if he was given certain rights and allowed to take charge outside, Li Xiang was still a little worried at this time. He sent his family members to the frontier just to be able to capture him, but as he made more and more contributions, If there are many, you can't help but give him some benefits. At that time, you can get his family members back in batches. This is equivalent to giving him a benefit.

But this matter only treats the symptoms, not the root cause. After all his family members come back, how will you look at him?

Changsun Pingting's method can be said to be the perfect solution to all this. Except for a few followers around him, he is not allowed to control any direct subordinates. No matter what kind of things he wants to do, he must find them from other people. people.

Li Xiang only needs to let other people cooperate with him perfectly, and the people who cooperated last time and the next time are completely different, which reduces the possibility of them establishing a relationship. In this case, Zhang Jiuli can only hold Li Xiang tightly. There is no other option besides thighs.

For example, in this case, Zhang Jiuli was able to mobilize a large number of resources under Li Xiang, but this could only be done if Qian Ping was present. If Qian Ping was not present, Zhang Jiuli might not be able to mobilize anything. This is a very difficult situation. Good application.

"You are really smart. It's a pity that you are a daughter. If you were a man, I would have many things that I could just leave to you."

What Li Xiang said is the truth. No wonder Li Shimin is so willing to use Changsun Wuji. It seems that Changsun Wuji is also such a person. Changsun Pingting has perfectly inherited everything from his father.

"Then if I were a man, would you still hold me now? What would happen?"

Changsun Pingting's words immediately extinguished Li Xiang's thoughts. If Li Xiang had to make a choice, it would be better to have a woman like Changsun Pingting, so after Changsun Pingting finished speaking, Li Xiang immediately pounced on him like a hungry wolf.

Qinzheng Hall

"It's simply unreasonable. If this group of officials hadn't passed by, I wouldn't have known that the place known as the Land of Abundance was actually eating strange children. These Yizhou officials really deserve to be killed."

Li Shimin saw the memorial sent back by the newly dispatched officials. Almost all the surrounding villages were deserted. He was so angry that he wanted to kill everyone. Li Xiang had killed so many people before, and Li Shimin thought it was a bit excessive. Now look at it. Li Xiang was really a killer, and he killed all the remaining people.

"Your Majesty, forgive me, but the ministers and others are guilty."

Several ministers in the main hall knelt down one after another. The emperor is only one person. It is impossible for the emperor to show it to the whole world. You people are all related to Sichuan, so of course you people are guilty.

"Of course you are guilty. You are all guilty of negligence, starting from the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, to the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel who conducted the assessment last year, and the Inspectorate..."

Li Shimin threw the memorial on the ground and started to get angry at the officials in front of him. Regarding the incident in Sichuan, Li Shimin felt angry in his heart. He originally thought that the local people would have enough to eat, but as a result, a large number of people starved to death every year. You people receive your royal salary every day and have no idea about the local situation. If you are not properly punished, how will the people in the world live in the future?

The final result was that everyone, including Tang Jian, the Minister of Household Affairs, was demoted one level by Li Shimin and was fined for half a year. In addition, everyone was required to write a letter of guilt.

Li Shimin did not want to read this thing like a self-examination by himself, but published it in Datang Daily.

When Li Xiang first founded Datang Daily, Li Shimin still felt that it was of little use. He always felt that this thing was a bit of a loss. You must know that paper and ink cost money. Each page sold for only two cents and could not be recovered at all.

But now Li Shimin is also popular. Although it is still only two cents as before, whether it is the advertisement or some other essays, Li Xiang can recover the cost and even make a lot of money.

The most important thing is that because of the popularity of the newspaper, Li Xiang established his own papermaking workshop, which also attracted many literati across the country.

Nowadays, who doesn’t want their articles to be published in newspapers? If you want to be published, you must follow the thoughts of His Highness the Emperor Taisun. If your thoughts cannot keep up, you will always come up with a lot of nonsense, then your article will not be the same. No matter how well written it is, there will be no way to publish it in a newspaper in the end.

Didn’t Qiwang of the Five Surnames master some powerful Confucian scholars? Don’t these people often go against the royal family? But your reputation is limited to a certain area, only to certain scholars, and no one in the world knows about it.

Nowadays, Li Xiang has cultivated another group of celebrities in newspapers. These celebrities are specifically against these contemporary great scholars, and they have more market among ordinary people, because they are much better than those contemporary great scholars from the perspective of ordinary people. .

Those great scholars of the time could only talk about governing the country, but they did not understand the situation in various places. If they started a debate, those people would be defeated in one or two times. Only then did everyone realize that the so-called great scholars of the time were just empty names.

Li Shimin also wanted to take Datang Daily into his hands, but considering that he already occupied 20% of the shares, Li Xiang was very considerate. If he stretched his hand too long, he might be exposed to the world. People laugh at a grandpa who cares about his grandson's property. What's going on?

What's more, Li Shimin is a little scared. If he really takes Datang Daily into his hands, what if he loses money in business? Wouldn't that mean he has ruined a good newspaper? At that time, people all over the world will laugh at him even more.

So now Li Shimin can only think about it in his heart. Whenever officials make a mistake, let them write something similar to an inspection letter, and then arrange to publish it in Datang Daily so that everyone in the world will know about it. See, this is also what officials consider the most severe punishment.

There are many people who would rather kneel and kowtow to death outside the Qinzheng Hall than publish such an inspection letter. It is really embarrassing, but this is the heaviest punishment for Li Shimin...