Originally, Li Xiang had thought about letting Zhang Jiuli be a counselor on his own. If he were to be a counselor on his own, it would be a bit of a waste of his talent.
But if he is given certain rights and allowed to act on his own, Li Xiang is still a little worried at this time. He sends his family members to the frontier in order to catch him. But as his achievements increase, you can't help but give him some benefits. At that time, bring his family members back in batches, which is equivalent to giving him benefits.
But this is only a temporary solution and not a fundamental solution. After all his family members come back, how will you take care of him?
Changsun Pingting's method can be said to have solved all of this perfectly. Apart from a few followers around him, he was not allowed to have any direct subordinates. No matter what he wanted to do, he had to find people from other people.
Li Xiang only needs others to cooperate with him perfectly, and the people who cooperated with him last time and the next time are completely different, which reduces the possibility of them establishing a relationship. In this case, Zhang Jiuli has no choice but to hold on to Li Xiang's thighs.
For example, in this incident, Zhang Jiuli was able to mobilize a large amount of resources under Li Xiang, but this required Qian Ping to be present. If Qian Ping was not present, Zhang Jiuli might not be able to mobilize anything. This is a very good application.
"You are really smart, but it's a pity that you are a girl. If you were a man, I would let you do many things directly."
What Li Xiang said was the truth. No wonder Li Shimin was so willing to use Changsun Wuji. It seemed that Changsun Wuji was also such a person. Changsun Pingting inherited everything from his father perfectly.
"If I were a man, would you still be hugging me now? What would that mean?"
Changsun Pingting's words immediately extinguished Li Xiang's idea. 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 her like a hungry wolf.
Qinzheng Hall
"This is simply outrageous. If it weren't for this group of officials, I wouldn't have known that a place known as the Land of Abundance actually practiced cannibalism. These Yizhou officials truly deserve to be killed."
When Li Shimin saw the memorial sent back by the newly sent officials, he found that almost no one was left in the surrounding villages. He was so angry that he wanted to kill everyone. Li Xiang had killed so many people before, and Li Shimin felt that it was a bit excessive. Now it seemed that Li Xiang was really a killer, and he killed all the remaining people.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me. I am guilty."
Several ministers in the hall knelt down one after another. The emperor is just one person, and it is impossible for him to see everything in the world. All of you are related to Sichuan, so of course you are guilty.
"Of course you are guilty. You are all guilty of negligence, starting with the Minister of Revenue, to the Minister of Personnel who conducted the assessment last year, and the Inspectorate..."
Li Shimin threw the memorial on the ground and began to get angry at the officials in front of him. Li Shimin was filled with anger about the things in Sichuan. He originally thought that the local people could have enough food to eat, but a large number of people starved to death every year. You people receive salaries from the court every day, but you know nothing about the local situation. If you are not properly disciplined, how will the people of the world live in the future?
The final result was that Li Shimin demoted everyone, including the Minister of Revenue Tang Jian, by one level, and also fined them half a year's salary. In addition, everyone was required to write a letter of confession.
Li Shimin did not want to read this thing that was similar to a self-criticism letter himself, but wanted to publish it in the Tang Daily.
When Li Xiang first founded the Tang Daily, Li Shimin thought it was useless and always felt that this thing was a bit of a loss. You know, paper and ink are expensive, and it is impossible to make back the money by selling each copy for only two cents.
But now Li Shimin has also become popular. Although it is still only two cents as before, whether it is the advertisements or some other miscellaneous articles, Li Xiang can recover his costs and even make a lot of money.
The most important reason was that because of the popularity of the newspaper, Li Xiang established his own papermaking workshop, and attracted many literati from all over the country.
Who doesn't want their article published in the newspaper these days? If you want to be published, you must follow the thinking of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. If your thinking doesn't keep up, and you keep adding a lot of nonsense, then even if your article is well written, it won't be published in the newspaper in the end.
Don't the Five Surnames and Seven Families control some powerful Confucian scholars? Don't these people often oppose the royal family? But your reputation is limited to a certain area, only among certain scholars, and the whole world is completely unknown.
Nowadays, Li Xiang has cultivated another group of celebrities in the newspapers. These celebrities specifically oppose these great scholars of the time, and they have a larger market among the common people because they start from the perspective of the common people, which is much better than those great scholars of the time.
Those great scholars of the time can only talk about governing the country, but they don’t understand the conditions in different places. If a debate were to start, those people would be defeated in a few moves. Only then would everyone realize that the so-called great scholars of the time are just empty names.
Li Shimin also wanted to take the Tang Daily into his own hands, but he thought that he already owned 20% of the shares, and Li Xiang was very respectful to him. If he stretched his hand too far, he would probably be ridiculed by the world. How could a grandfather covet his grandson's property?
Moreover, Li Shimin was a little afraid. If he really took control of the Tang Daily, what if he ran it at a loss? Wouldn't that mean he had ruined a good newspaper? Then the whole world would laugh at him even more.
So Li Shimin could only think about it in his mind. Whenever an official made a mistake, he would ask them to write something similar to an apology letter, and then arrange for it to be published in the Tang Daily so that everyone in the world could see it. This was also what the officials considered the most severe punishment.
Many people would rather kneel or kowtow to death outside the Qinzheng Hall than publish such a self-criticism. It was too shameful, but this was Li Shimin's heaviest punishment...
