Chapter 19 Li Ji's Letter
Li Yuanji was almost choked to death by Ling Jing's words. No wonder Dou Jiande refused to listen to you. You speak so directly and always say the truth that doesn't sound nice. It would be strange if Dou Jiande would listen to you.
Li Yuanji certainly knew that he was no match for Li Shimin.
Let’s not talk about the gap between him and Li Shimin.
Even the number of people they can use is a hundred times less.
There are only a few kittens in his house.
Only one of them followed him loyally, and the remaining two had yet to be conquered.
Li Shimin's mansion was a gathering of heroes, with over a hundred brave generals and over a hundred counselors. Most of them were loyal to Li Shimin, and all of them were bad people.
If both sides sent people to fight against each other, Li Shimin could crush him in one round.
But knowing it is one thing, but you cannot lose in momentum.
"I understand. You can go down."
Li Yuanji gave the order somewhat helplessly.
Ling Jing did not leave, but stood in front of Li Yuanji and continued, "Not long ago, His Royal Highness sent someone to deliver Bingzhou's government documents to your residence. How does deal with it?"
Li Yuanji was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood that this was Li Jiancheng's way of measuring him.
His fiefdom was in Bingzhou, which covered a large area and included three counties.
In addition, he holds the position of Dadudu of Bingzhou, and almost half of the government affairs of Bingzhou need to be handled by him.
He used to be on good terms with Li Jiancheng, so he could just give these things to Li Jiancheng.
Now that he had fallen out with Li Jiancheng, Li Jiancheng naturally was unwilling to work hard for him.
Li Jiancheng knew that he was not good at handling government affairs, so throwing these things to him was to put pressure on him.
Li Yuanji pondered for a while and ordered: "Go find Li Sixing and help Li Sixing sort out the government documents of Bingzhou into different categories. Send the important ones to me, and deal with the unimportant ones as you wish."
After a pause, he added, "Find some time to get in touch with other people and see if there is anyone among them who is willing to work for me. If they have talent and are willing to work for me, I don't mind meeting their small requests."
The "they" Li Yuanji mentioned were Dou Jiande's former subordinates.
Li Jiancheng handed over the local affairs of Bingzhou to him, which did make him feel a little bit of pressure.
He, Ling Jing and Li Sixing may not be able to handle everything.
Even if it is handled hastily, it may not be handled perfectly.
If you fail to achieve perfection, you may very likely take human lives.
As the supreme ruler of Bingzhou, with a single stroke of his pen, he could very likely make a group of people who were living a good life worse than death, or he could also make a group of people who were living a life worse than death live a good life.
How to write it specifically cannot be judged solely based on the documents submitted by local authorities.
One must use one's own wisdom and experience in local governance to see through the documents and the essence behind them.
Local officials have been using this method of deceiving their superiors and concealing the truth from their subordinates for thousands of years.
He didn't think that he could defeat the group of people below with his wisdom alone.
Although the living conditions of the local people were good or bad, it had little impact on him.
But since he shoulders this responsibility, he naturally has to be more responsible to the local people.
So he needs more people to work for him.
Letting Ling Jing contact other former subordinates of Dou Jiande was also to avoid directly recruiting former subordinates of Dou Jiande and angering Li Yuan again.
Ling Jing hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "Yes!"
Seeing that Li Yuanji had no other instructions, Ling Jing left the Wude Hall.
After Ling Jing left, Li Yuanji was not in the mood to read. Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin had each played a trick on him, and he was in a really bad mood. He simply stretched, lay on the couch, and started to hum.
In the afternoon, Xie Shufang suddenly ran into the hall to report that Yin Ashu wanted to see him.
Li Yuanji was also stunned for a while.
I thought to myself, this guy actually dared to show up after being beaten up by me, is he addicted to being beaten?
Full of doubts, Li Yuanji ordered Xie Shufang to bring Yin Ashu to the main hall.
Not long after, Xie Shufang and Yin Ashu appeared at the door of the main hall.
Yin Ashu no longer had his previous arrogance, nor did he treat the Wude Hall as his own home. Instead, he was well-behaved and submissive.
After seeing Li Yuanji, he bowed hurriedly.
"Yin Ashu pays respect to His Highness."
Yin Ashu had a scar on his face, which made him look even uglier, and his speech was a little lisp and unclear.
His front teeth had been knocked out by Li Yuanji .
Li Yuanji stared at Yin Ashu curiously and asked, "How dare you come to see me?"
Yin Ashu trembled with fear and said hurriedly, "I'm here to tell His Highness the news."
Li Yuanji was stunned and asked doubtfully, "What news can you give me?"
Yin Ashu hurriedly said: "This morning, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sent someone to see me, saying that His Royal Highness had recruited Dou Jiande's former subordinates. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wanted me to go to the Saint to file a complaint against you.
I dare not offend Your Highness, so I came here to tell you something."
The first words of Yin Ashu were true, but the latter words were just his guess.
After hearing what Yin Ashu said, Li Yuanji was stunned for a while, then slowly said, "Are you saying that the prince asked you to go to the saint to sue me?"
Yin Ashu nodded vigorously.
Li Yuanji seemed to be thinking about something. Not only did Li Jiancheng use the local government affairs to measure him, but he also wanted Yin Ashu to plot against him. How despicable.
Is this what you should do as a prince?
Is this what you should do as a brother?
“You did a good job.”
Li Yuanji praised Yin Ashu and told Xie Shufang, "Send someone to find the princess and bring ten gold cakes to Yin Jianmen as a reward."
Yin Ashu was so frightened that he waved his hands hastily, "I don't want any reward, and I don't dare to ask for a reward from Your Highness."
After a pause, Yin Ashu said timidly: "I am not a prison guard anymore... I have no official position or job now..."
Li Yuanji looked at Yin Ashu's little expression and wanted to laugh.
Li Yuanji frowned and shouted, "If I give it to you, just take it. Do you dare not refuse my reward?"
Yin Ashu immediately shook his head, "No... I don't dare..."
Li Yuanji nodded in satisfaction. "That's right. If you have any news in the future, remember to inform me in time. As long as your information is valuable to me, I don't mind rewarding you with some money."
Yin Ashu quickly bent down and said, "Thank you, Your Highness. Thank you, Your Highness..."
Li Yuanji waved his hand and asked Yin Ashu to follow Xie Shufang to receive the reward.
Yin Ashu obediently followed Xie Shufang out of the main hall.
After watching Yin Ashu's back disappear, Li Yuanji gritted his teeth and said, "I didn't expect that the first person to cause trouble to me would be my good brother."
Li Yuanji really didn't expect that the first person to cause trouble for him was Li Jiancheng.
Before he traveled through time, his predecessor and Li Jiancheng had a deep brotherly relationship, they were almost like wearing the same pants.
Historically, although the two brothers had their own thoughts, they appeared to be very close.
Li Jiancheng said that he would attack him if he wanted, as if the brotherhood they had before never existed.
"It should be my action of recruiting Ling Jing that caused him to misunderstand."
Li Yuanji roughly guessed why Li Jiancheng turned against him and did not even care about their brotherhood.
It was obvious that Li Jiancheng misunderstood that he had ideas about that position through his series of actions, so he turned against him .
That position was obviously Li Jiancheng's bottom line. He would turn against anyone who coveted it.
Li Yuanji muttered in his heart in silence, "Li Jiancheng, Li Jiancheng, are you mentally ill? Your biggest opponent is Li Shimin! Li Shimin! Why don't you go after Li Shimin but go after me?
You two are trying to trick me, do you really think I'm made of mud?!"
In order to avoid a head-on confrontation with Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin, Li Yuanji decided to disgust them.
Li Yuanji picked up the pen with malicious intent and wrote quickly on a memorial.
Not long after, a memorial with gorgeous words was produced.
After Xie Shufang sent Yin Ashu away, Li Yuanji asked Xie Shufang to deliver the memorial to Li Yuan as soon as possible.
The memorials Li Yuanji submitted to Li Yuan were not even worthy of being read by the Ministry of Personnel.
As Li Yuan's legitimate son, Li Yuanji had the power to write directly to Li Yuan.
When the memorial was delivered to Li Yuan, Li Yuan was having fun with Pei Ji.
In order to ease the pain brought to him by Li Yuanji, Li Yuan and Pei Ji enjoyed singing and dancing in Liangyi Hall for a day.
Various beauties came one after another, and when he met an attractive one, he would immediately keep her to serve him.
When Liu Jun walked into Liangyi Hall with Li Yuanji's memorial in his hand with a confused look on his face, Li Yuan was holding two beauties in his arms and making faces at them, saying that the two beauties in Pei Ji's arms were not as pretty as his.
Pei Ji was not willing to be outdone, and immediately suggested that the four beauties take off their clothes and compare their figures to see who had the better one.
"Everyone……"
Liu Jun did not dare to disturb Li Yuan's interest. He waited until Li Yuan and Pei Ji were almost as good as each other before appearing in front of Li Yuan with Li Yuanji's memorial.
Li Yuan glanced at Liu Jun and saw that Liu Jun was holding a memorial in his hand. He frowned and said, "Didn't I tell you that I won't handle government affairs today? If there is a memorial, send it to the East Palace and let the Crown Prince handle it."
Li Yuan was a generous emperor. He was generous to his subjects and even more generous to his son.
After ascending the throne, in order to better experience the joys of being an emperor, Li Yuan divided a large part of his power among his two capable sons, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin.
All local government affairs, as long as they were not related to the war or the appointment of local officials, were left to Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin to handle.
All the government affairs in the court, as long as they were not related to internal disputes within the royal family, as long as they were not related to the appointment of officials above the fifth rank, as long as they were not related to the promotion or demotion of titles or the increase or decrease of fiefdoms, were left to Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin to handle.
Only three types of memorials could ignore the above and appear before Li Yuan.
The first is that Li Yuan's meritorious officials fell seriously ill, or submitted their resignation to Li Yuan.
The second type is memorials from Li Yuan’s sons.
The third type is to report interesting things that happened at the official's home. For example, a certain official was enjoying himself at home with several wives, and suddenly he had a stroke.
In Li Yuan's view, reading this kind of memorial is much more interesting than reading serious government documents.
Of course, this does not mean that Li Yuan is incompetent.
On the contrary, Li Yuan was quite shrewd.
He generously handed over government affairs to his sons, which on the one hand relieved his own pressure, and on the other hand demonstrated his importance to his sons.
Another aspect is that it can kill the sons' energy and prevent them from thinking about trivial things.
