Late Tang Dynasty: I

Chapter 132
The largest grain merchant in Datang is actually Li Ye's own uncle Wang Yu.

Li Ye's biological mother, Wang, was born in a humble family, and died shortly after giving birth to him. Li Ye also took good care of his uncle, and named him "Duke of Xiangguo" when he succeeded to the throne.

According to the original history, this uncle of the country was not satisfied, so he begged Zhaozong at that time to give him a Jiedushi Dangdang.

Zhaozong also agreed, but at that time Zhaozong, Jinkou was not very clever, and he had to agree with Yang Fugong to do anything.

After begging for a long time, I begged the uncle of the country for a Jinzhou Jiedushi. In fact, it was named as a Jiedushi, and it was in charge of Jinzhou. Jinzhou also relied on Chang'an. Fortunately, the king Huan was quite satisfied, and Zhaozong at that time was also happy to do business.

But they all underestimated Yang Fugong.

Yang Fugong did something even worse. When Wang Yu took office, he directly arranged for people to drown in the Jinshui River, drowning the family of the uncle and the family, even the servants.

His actions were so clean that even Zhaozong at the time couldn't speak.

But now, ever since Li Ye made a drastic move to secure the eunuch's military power, there is no Jiedu envoy to say that Master Wang Yu is living well now.

In addition to the uncle of the country, there are also Li Ye's good brother Wei Wang Li Yu, Ji Wang Li Bao who was almost made emperor, Ding Jianzhi, the prince's son-in-law, the Pei family, Zhang family, Lu family, and Wang family in Chang'an...

In just a few days, several families collected millions of shi of grain, and no less than 50 shi were shipped out of the pass.

What to do, Li Ye scratched his head.

"The Tang Dynasty did not ban grain merchants, and the actions of grain merchants did not violate the laws of the country. I think that His Majesty can issue an edict to strictly prohibit grain from leaving the customs, and the rest will not matter."

Smart people don't want to cause trouble, and there are family affairs of the emperor, Jing Xiang, an outsider, will definitely not get involved.

Li Ye was naturally aware of this situation. After Jing Xiang went back, Li Ye thought about it, and felt that what Jing Xiang said was safer.

There is no ban in the imperial court, and it does not violate the laws of the country if people do this, if they are punished, it will appear that His Majesty the Emperor is ungrateful and unkind, which is not beautiful.

Just when Li Ye was planning to just let it go, Xiao Huangmen reported that Uncle Wang Yu asked to see His Majesty the Emperor.

Li Ye's complexion was a little ugly.

"pass!"

Not long after, the uncle of the country entered the Xuansi hall.

The visitor looked similar to Li Ye's impression. He was quite tall, about six feet (1.8 meters) tall, not light in weight, with a round waist and fat body, fair complexion, double chin, and a Chinese-character face. majesty.

As soon as Wang Yu entered the hall, seeing that His Majesty had no enthusiasm for him, his heart sank, and he said hello first: "Your Majesty is well!"

Li Ye didn't even move his face, and said: "Uncle Guo is well!" and waited quietly for Wang Yu to attack.

Wang Yu thought to himself, it must be some bastard who slandered Lao Tzu in front of the emperor, otherwise the emperor would not be so indifferent to him. If he does not change the impression of his majesty this time, it may be difficult to have this opportunity in the future.

There were red circles in Wang Yu's eyes, and he looked at Li Ye with tears in his eyes, and said: "If the hostage slave (Li Ye's mother) sees that your majesty has grown up and become the king of a country, he will be relieved, You can smile at Jiuquan now!"

Li Ye was a little embarrassed when Wang Yu played the emotional card. He was such a reborn person, and he had no relationship with the original body's mother at all.It's like when a son-in-law cries for his mother-in-law, it doesn't matter if he shed tears, or he doesn't shed tears.

But Wang Yu saw that Li Ye was still indifferent to him, so he quickly took out the burden in his hand and said: "It's getting cold, An Niang specially made autumn clothes for His Majesty. When His Majesty was young, An Niang was the most kind to His Majesty." Beloved, I am afraid that His Majesty will be cold and hot, and it is not going to be autumn, so I hurried to sew on the autumn clothes, and the minister also said, Your Majesty is now the Ninth Five-Year Honor, there is nothing, but An Niang just refuses, Your Majesty, look..."

"Hey!" Li Ye was a little moved. An Niang is Wang Yu's regular wife and Li Ye's aunt. In the memory of the original body, this An Niang was indeed taken care of like Li Ye's mother. She even entered the palace for seven years when Li Ye was young. , take care of Li Ye.

Even now that Li Ye has changed his core, the emotion from the original body is still lingering.

"My aunt is interested, please thank her for me, how is my aunt?"

Wang Yu hurriedly said: "It's still in good health. If An Niang knows that His Majesty still misses her, she will be so happy."

Li Ye's complexion eased, and he said again: "Uncle Guo entered the palace, did you have anything to ask me for?"

Wang Yu shook his head and said: "It's nothing, it's just that An Niang thinks too much about His Majesty, the autumn clothes are already ready, so let me bring them over to His Majesty."

Li Ye looked at Wang Yu, he was a clever person, he didn't mention anything about the food, seeing that Li Ye was annoyed by him and not Anniang, he let Anniang pull Li Ye all the time, continuing the deep love between mother and child.

It's a character, no wonder in the original history, the coaxed Li Ye turned around, even begging the emperor for such things as Jiedushi.

He didn't reach out to hit the smiling person, and Li Ye didn't mention the food. Tongguan's food was deducted as soon as it was deducted, and the uncle of his family was not a person who was short of food.

After a while, Wang Yu left, but Li Ye didn't stay either.

After going out, Wang Yu wiped the cold sweat from his head.

"Your Majesty, this change is too great!"

……

Wang Yu went out on the front foot, and Li You, the king of Wei, and Li Bao, the king of Ji, came together on the back foot.As soon as the two entered the hall, they started arguing.

Li You stepped forward and said directly: "Your Majesty, what is the meaning of Yu Xiuzhu, the guard of Tongguan, who detained the king's caravan for no reason, and all the wealth of the king is in it. This is to let the king drink the northwest wind." Ah, is there still a kingly law in this Tang Dynasty? Your Majesty, you must be the master of your ministers!"

On the other hand, King Ji held his breath and stood silently behind Li You. No wonder after the death of Emperor Xizong, all the officials were keen on King Liji when discussing the successor, and Li You, the most honorable king of Wei at that time, no one could agree. Didn't think about him.

You must know that the one-word kings of the Tang Dynasty are also divided into high and low. The most honorable ones are Qi, Chu, Zhao, Wei, and Qin Yan. Among the old kings of the Warring States, the king of Qin is still the most respected.

And the next ones are the little kings of Shu, Huai, Lu, and Zheng.

The worst ones are of course Yiji, Shou, Fu, Qing and other miscellaneous one-word kings. Among them, Shouwang is the worst.

The last Shouwang was the son of Xuanzong Li Longji. At that time, Shouwang had a concubine named Yang Yuhuan, who was greened by his father.

Li Ye didn't answer Li You's words, turned to King Ji Li Bao and said, "How does King Ji think about this matter?"

Li Bao looked at Li Ye and saluted, the unwillingness in his eyes flashed away, but Li Ye still felt it keenly.

If Yang Fugong hadn't stepped in halfway, this Ji Wang would most likely become the successor of the Tang Dynasty!

"Your Majesty, I have come to plead guilty to Your Majesty!"

Li Ye frowned, seeing that King Ji's attitude was very sincere.

"Your Majesty, I failed to discipline the servants of the royal family well, so that they were so greedy for profit that they committed the crime of selling food. Please punish me, Your Majesty!"

Li You looked at Li Bao incredulously: "You, Saburo, that's not what you said just now, why..."

Li Ye glanced at Li You, stopped his mouth immediately, shook his head and said: "The imperial court has no ban on grain sales, what is the crime of King Ji!"

"Your Majesty, although there is no ban in the imperial court, the food relationship in Guanzhong is stable. I request Your Majesty to implement a ban on salt, iron, ox horn and tendon, grain, weapons and armor, and other materials. These materials should not flow into the various towns."

For a while, Li Ye couldn't tell whether what King Ji said was true or false, but there is still merit in this insight.

(End of this chapter)