Chapter 261: Wei Zheng's Pot "Let's do it this way, when Zhen'er wakes up, I will tell him in person, and now I have something else to say."
Li Shimin's face suddenly became gloomy, and he glared at Wei Zheng coldly: "Xuancheng, Hou Junji was recommended by you, and now that he has rebelled, I need an explanation." ” The main reason why Li Shimin asked Wei Zheng is this, Hou Junji can become the secretary of the military department, it is because Wei Zheng recommended him - Wei Zheng mainly recommended two people to Li Shimin before his death, Du Zhenglun, the secretary of the Chinese book, and Hou Junji, the secretary of the ministry, who thought that they had great talents and could be reused.
In particular, Hou Junji strongly recommended to Li Shimin, and praised him many times, thinking that this person has the talent of a prime minister, and the army should also let him be in command (the country is safe and not forgetful, there must be no generals, and the guards and horses should be commissioned to collect the expertise of Junji), Li Shimin thought about it again and again and did not adopt it.
The reason why it was not adopted was because Hou Junji was an old general of the Qin Palace, and when Taizong was still the king of Qin, Hou Junji followed him to fight in the south and the north, and he made many contributions.
It is exactly like this, Li Shimin also knows the root of Hou Junji, Hou Junji is proud and complacent, vain in speech, and is particularly greedy and likes to show off, once he is wronged, he will hold a grudge, Li Shimin knows his character too well, once he gains power, he is only afraid that the country will be unstable.
What's more, the appointment of the prime minister needs to be grasped by the emperor, but Wei Zheng Yijie Yushi Dafu (at that time was still the imperial Shi Dafu, not yet the prime minister), although he was on par with the prime minister in status, but after all, he was half a level lower than the prime minister, he recommended Hou Junji to Li Shimin as the prime minister, perhaps in the public heart, and did not want the talent to be buried, but he was offside and recommended the prime minister, and he had already committed a big taboo.
Wei Zheng served the feudal rule, and under the feudal ethics, his talents were transferred by the will of the feudal emperor.
And Wei Zheng, as a courtier, messed up ethics and committed a big taboo, of course he would not be liked by the emperor.
However, Wei Zheng is after all an important minister that Li Shimin relies on, and the person he recommends, Li Shimin, can't help but give face, and if he doesn't give it to the prime minister, he must not think about it, and a military secretary should be regarded as compensation.
So Hou Junji sat in the position of the secretary of the military department.
Then in the seventeenth year of Zhenguan, Hou Junji followed the crown prince Li Chengqian to rebel, was defeated and killed, and the dissatisfaction with Wei Zheng accumulated in Li Shimin's heart suddenly surged out.
However, Wei Zheng had already died three months ago, and Li Shimin, who had nowhere to get angry, simply overturned his tombstone, scraped off the inscription on it to vent his anger, and repented of the marriage contract between Princess Hengshan and Wei Shuyu, the son of Wei Zheng, who he originally said - for the rest of Li Shimin's life, such a thing was done once.
Although today's Tang Dynasty is different from the Tang Dynasty in history, Li Zhen's influence on the Tang Dynasty was not great at the beginning, and the history of the Tang Dynasty at that time was still moving forward along the old trajectory, so Hou Junji was still recommended by Wei Zheng, and he still sat in the position of the secretary of the military department.
By now, the trajectory of the Tang Dynasty has changed, and Li Zhen originally thought that Hou Junji's life experience had changed, but it wasn't until Hou Junji's arms smuggling incident that Li Zhen understood how correct a sentence it was that the country was easy to change and the nature was difficult to change.
Li Zhen even changed the development trajectory of the Tang Dynasty, but Hou Junji was still running on the road to death, and finally made an irreparable mistake.
Hou Junji's matter was committed, so as the recommender, Wei Zheng must give Li Shimin an explanation.
"The minister is guilty......
The minister had nothing to say.
Wei Zheng took the initiative to take off his hat and knelt down slowly: "The minister has no eyes, knows people without beads, only knows talents but does not know morality, has caused a major loss to the Tang Dynasty, and is a Tang official in vain. ” The so-called begging bones means asking for resignation, requesting that the bones be buried in their hometown, and returning to their hometown to spend their old age in peace, which is the meaning of resignation.
But where would Li Shimin let Wei Zheng leave so easily?
Li Shimin was indeed very annoyed in his heart, but he was not angry to the point of losing his mind, Wei Zheng's talent Li Shimin knew very well that if he really agreed to his request, not only would his officials cry cold, but more importantly, Datang would also lose a virtuous minister, the loss was too serious.
What's more, it is impossible for Li Shimin to remove Wei Zheng just because he doesn't know anyone, otherwise it's easy for people to compare Wei Zheng with Li Zhen - when Li Zhen was fighting Linyi, because he appointed Fang Yiai as the main general of the siege, so Fang Yiai connived at the soldiers to slaughter the city after he conquered the city of Linyi, causing tens of thousands of deaths (the official explanation is like this, everyone knows what the actual situation is), and committed a mistake, and the crime given to Li Zhen is also unknown to the person, but the punishment is only a one-year fine.
Li Zhen was only fined for one year if he didn't know anyone, and Wei Zheng was dismissed if he didn't know anyone, so the gap was too big?
The same crime, but the punishment is very different, which will give people the impression that Li Shimin is biased and takes revenge for personal gain, and has a great impact on his reputation, which is not what Li Shimin wants to see.
Of course, Li Shimin is not so easy to speak, you Wei Zheng made a mistake and wanted to resign, I must persuade you with good words, serve you like a grandfather, and kneel down and beg you not to resign?
What's so good?
"Hmph, think beautifully, the person you recommended caused such a big disaster, but you want to avoid it by resigning, how can there be such a beautiful thing in this world?"
Li Shimin's face turned cold, and he pointed at Wei Zheng and shouted: "Wei Xuancheng, you have improperly recommended people, made the thief and steal a high position, conspired to rebel, and caused my Tang Dynasty to perish, the crime cannot be punished, but you are loyal to the monarch and diligent, can speak out, and the merit is high, I sentenced you to a third-level demotion and a fine of three years. ” "Minister Wei Xuancheng, convinced."
What else can Wei Zheng say?
Li Shimin gave him this step, of course he had to take it, otherwise no one could say what the angry Li Shimin would do.
"Well, ladies and gentlemen, what do you think?"
"Your Majesty's rewards and punishments are clear, and the surrender is obedient."
Du Ruhui hurriedly stood up and agreed.
"The minister has no opinion, so it is good to punish him like this."
Fang Xuanling also followed suit.
"With Xuan Cheng here, the minister's grasp of this action is greater."
Li Jing also said with a smile.
"Your Majesty's rewards and punishments are clear, and the ministers have no opinions."
Others. “……” Several prime ministers of Datang have a good relationship, and the two sides have worked together for more than ten years, although they were rivals at the beginning, but no matter how big the grudge is, it should be smoothed out in ten years, so the relationship between several people is still very good.
Seeing Wei Zheng take the initiative to resign just now, a few people were really afraid that Li Shimin's head would be hot, so they agreed, but fortunately, the worst thing did not happen, and Li Shimin was still very sensible.
"So be it, that's the end of it."
Li Shimin waved his hand and began to say something else: "Next, let's talk about the immigration problem in Borneo, under the intervention of the government, the people take the initiative to immigrate, this is indeed a good method, let's discuss, can this method be used in Nanyang?"
” "Your Majesty, the minister thinks ......"
The next thing is to discuss the right matter, and ignore it here.