Chapter 45: Intimate Female Official
Li Yuanai answered so readily, and Li Zhi was surprised.
Jiangnan is changing with each passing day, and Li Yuanai is not the only one who is famous.
Liu Rengui, who controlled the economy of Suhu and Hangzhou, was the upright, resourceful Shangguan Yi, the mature and persevering Lou Shide, the well-rounded Di Zhixun, and the literary Lu Zhaolin. They all made great fame in Jiangnan. With the changes in Jiangnan, fame spread throughout the country.
Among them, the best performers were Liu Rengui, Shangguan Yi, Di Zhixun and Lu Zhaolin.
Li Yuanai naturally had a very good understanding of several of his shogunate heroes.
Liu Rengui and Shangguan Yi have already shown the manners of prime ministers. The former is valued by Li Yuanai and replaced Zhou Rui as the governor of Suzhou.
Especially after Li Yuanai entered Quanzhou, Liu Rengui took charge of the overall situation, re-registered his household registration, set up officials from the government office, opened roads, built villages, repaired dams and dams, helped poor families, encouraged agricultural production, and built land temples for them. The details were handled more carefully than Li Yuanai.
Li Yuanai's general direction is supplemented by Liu Rengui's political level, and Suzhou has developed rapidly and shined.
It is the norm for a remote part of the south of the Yangtze River to stay away from the political center, and bureaucrats and gentry collude and rely on each other.
Shangguan Yi was ordered by Li Yuanai to supervise illegal and disciplined things in Jiangnan East, which was equivalent to an imperial envoy, holding Shangfang's sword. He wandered around, facing cunning bureaucrats and gentry, and made all kinds of tricks to govern the officials in Jiangnan East.
As for Di Zhixun, he was very successful in the Jiangnan gentry circle with his appearance and demeanor.
Even in ancient times, it was an era of looking at faces. Di Zhixun, an old man who is more handsome and more charming as he grows older, is born with a sense of affinity and convincing.
Whenever aristocrats need assistance, send Di Zhixun to negotiate, and everything will be bad.
As for Lu Zhaolin, Li Yuanai did not arrange complicated things for him. After contacting him, the literary talent of this gentleman, one of the four heroes of the early Tang Dynasty, was really useless, but his talent was all about poetry and parallel prose. Therefore, he was asked to be responsible for his clerical work, and to write for himself and polish his clerical documents while urging him to write poetry and parallel prose.
The poem written by Lu Zhaolin is full of ambitions and generous. Whether it is the ancient hero Liu Sheng who wrote "but he is heavy, he is not stingy with all his body light", or the purple horse who gallops on the battlefield and "when will he bleed when he will he dry", they all wrote a style different from the poetry of this era, stepping on the graceful wind of the Southern Dynasty to the bottom of his feet and making him famous.
These four people are now the most famous ones under Li Yuanai.
As for Lou Shide, his reputation is not because he is not talented, but because he is too low-key.
Although he acted vigorously and decisively in dealing with Jiangnan's lewd sacrifices and swept away all the disasters that harmed Jiangnan for many years, his soft character, which was not favored by others, was not popular.
Li Yuanai can hand over excellent answers to the tasks given to him, but he is not praised, and he lacks the sense of existence as if he is covered with a layer of gray pearl.
In Li Yuanai's heart, Lou Shide's Ganluo was better than Shangguan Yi and Di Zhixun, and he was a figure in Liu Rengui.
From the beginning, Li Yuanai didn't think about trapping them in his own hands. Where did the small Jiangnan need three prime ministers to manage it?
They exist just to have a perfect start.
Now that they have broken the deadlock, everything is on track, the value of their existence has been greatly reduced.
The small pattern in Jiangnan began to limit their upper limit. The things they could do were not as capable as their officials, and would not be worse than them. After all, the first-year homework was given to high school students, college students, and doctoral students, and the results were the same.
Letting go at the right time and letting them come to Chang'an to face the complex national affairs and major events in the world is the best choice and arrangement for them.
Even if Li Zhi doesn't want to ask for it today, Li Yuanai still has the idea of finding an opportunity to recommend them.
Li Zhi said this in person, and Li Yuanai responded without hesitation.
Li Zhi said: "What do you have to recommend?"
Li Yuanai said without hesitation: "Liu Rengui and Lou Shide, these two people are rare geniuses and can be of great use. Especially the latter, he knows how to advance and retreat, and is a turtle. He can tolerate and will not offend people. But when you have a task to him, he will take decisive action. He is not a person who is afraid of trouble. He is the most suitable for the officialdom."
He said here, paused, and said, "The last one is Shangguan Yi..."
Li Zhiqi said: "What's wrong with Shangguan Yi?"
The four talents Li Yuanai wanted were Shangguan Yi the one who was most impressed by him.
His talent and agility were even amazed by his father Li Shimin. He often ordered him to draft edicts and asked him to participate in banquets and banquets in the palace and write poems. At a young age, he was able to stay with the emperor.
When Li Yuanai chose talents, the only famous person was Shangguan Yi.
Li Yuanai said: "Shangguan Yi is a man with enough talent, but he is too proud and often acts smart. I wanted to polish it and eliminate his spirit, but the country is easy to change and his nature is difficult to change, and there is no effect. I wanted to suppress it, but with his personality, Liu Rengui and Lou Shide, he still stayed in Jiangnan, and he was afraid he would feel resentful. I just wanted to leave it to you... With your means, Shangguan Yi is no problem."
He remembered that Shangguan Yi in history also died of being smart. As prime minister Shangguan Yi actually persuaded Li Zhi to depose the queen?
Is it easy to get rid of the queen?
Some people say that Li Zhi is afraid of Wu Zetian, which is nonsense.
Before Li Zhi died, Wu Zetian could not even suppress Wang Fangyi. Most of the prime ministers in the temple were anti-military officials.
Wu Zetian wanted to consolidate his strength, but when the signs showed up, it caused Li Zhi's unhappiness. He directly slept with Empress Wu's niece and forced Empress Wu to poison his niece. He took advantage of the situation and killed Wu Weiliang, the only two promising Wu family, and Wu Huaiyun, and then asked her to issue an edict to scold the world for making peace with his nephew.
A series of slaps made the Wu family a laughing stock, and the Wu family broke up with the Wu family, and their faces were swollen.
But even so, Li Zhi had no idea of abolishing the queen.
It’s not that you are afraid, it’s that you can’t.
The deposed queen, not only the deposed queen, but also the crown prince of the current dynasty.
There is no reason why a son is the crown prince and a mother is a commoner.
Li Zhi was originally weak and didn't like women. He didn't have many sons, so it was not easy to raise a prince.
Shangguan Yi proposed that the deposed queen is no different from the deposed prince. If he doesn’t die, who will die?
Typical cleverness is mistaken by cleverness.
Li Yuanai couldn't care whether he would repeat the same mistakes. He had his own personal fate, and Shangguan Yi was not his son, so just do his best.
He really wants to commit suicide and cannot blame anyone.
At this time, Li Yuanai suddenly found a female official standing in the distance, looking at them from afar.
Li Zhi waved and signaled the female official to come over.
The female official walked quickly and bowed, "Crown Prince, King Wu, Your Majesty has woken up, summon you."
Chapter completed!