In a continuous and luxurious building complex in the east city of Chang'an City, there is now the depth of the house of Zhang Yaoshen, the Deputy Speaker of the Democratic House. Deputy Speaker Zhang sat upright on the main seat and greeted several middle-aged and elderly guests with a smile.

Of course, those who can be personally received by Deputy Speaker Zhang are also valuable in the Tang Dynasty.

For example, the old man on his left is Guo Yunguang, the current Minister of Revenue, and the old man on his right is Senator Xu Jing from the Democratic House.

Don’t think that Xu Jing is an ordinary congressman. This is the leader of the Jizhou Chamber of Commerce. He has great fame and influence in all capitalists in Jizhou. Of course, the Jizhou Xu family is also a local wealthy businessman.

If it is divided by provinces in later generations, Jizhou includes Hebei, Shanxi, northern Henan and Liao Province in later generations, and the territory is not very vast, and Liaoxi County is just a county under Jizhou.

In the past century, the northern Yue Kingdom has invaded Dacaogu in western Liaoning again and again, and invaded western Liaoning to make war money. This is the territory of Jizhou.

Most of the money in wars were operated by merchants in Jizhou, and they were devouring profits.

The massive amount of food, military equipment, etc. flowed from the Tang Dynasty to the Yue Kingdom also operated from Jizhou. If you understand this, you can imagine how powerful President Xu, a congressman who is standing at the peak of capitalists in Jizhou, is.

The entire Jizhou Capital Congressman was transferred to Xu Jing. Even though he was just a congressman and did not hold an official position in the three provinces and six ministries, he could still sit opposite a minister.

Just say that Guo Yunguang was just one of the democratic congressmen before he served as the Minister of Revenue, and served as vice president of the Jiaozhou Chamber of Commerce.

In the downward trend, most of the elderly or middle-aged people, status, power, influence, etc. are just a little bit worse than Guo Yunguang and Xu Jing.

Deputy Speaker Zhang picked up the teacup and invited the tea, then smiled and said, "Everyone, it will take a long time for the news that the Supreme Emperor fell into the water. When this person is seriously ill, it is time for us to launch a proposal to give His Majesty a headache."

Deputy Speaker Zhang, Guo Yunguang, Xu Jing, etc. are the main masterminds behind the manipulation of the eunuchs such as Ochuan and the regicide.

After fighting with the old emperor for decades, their results were not great. After all, the old emperor is a guy with a strong and superb skill. Once he is seriously ill and is waiting to die, the newly promoted Li Sheng? The many big figures here are confident that they can give Li Sheng a few tricks, which makes the opponent lose his power and retreat and feel embarrassed.

It is difficult to continue to use Li Gui to fall into the water. If Li Gui falls into the water, as long as Li Sheng is not stupid, he will take his own safety measures and take the maximum limit. It is difficult to have another chance to start.

In dealing with Li Sheng, their follow-up measures were to use the Confucian celestial being to hype public opinion. That is to say, Li Shengde was not worthy of his position, which led to the great disaster after ascending the throne, and the crime was blamed on Li Gui. Li Gui fell into the water, which was a respectful and punishment brought by God, etc.

In the next step, we will support some princes with poor abilities and great ambitions to compete for the rule of law.

Their target had long been set, which was the ninth son of the old emperor Li Gui, Li Zhe, who was named King of Sui.

Li Zhe is a standard fool who was fooled by some emerging Confucian theories. He is determined to think that he is a saint king, willing to rule the world with scholars and officials, and create a rookie who has lived through the ages. Yes, in the minds of all the great figures, Li Zhe is a fool and a good guy to fool.

He had ambitions for the throne of the Tang Dynasty, but had very poor abilities. He had never experienced the prince's traveling to the world and nurturing the real people's sentiments. It was too easy to get him up to the throne.

"Your Highness the Prince of Sui has a certain grudge and conflict with Your Majesty, and he is even more dissatisfied with Your Majesty. With the support of many of our wise ministers, all the officials will definitely catch Your Majesty off guard."

"This is not enough, and there is a need for greater unrest. Bingzhou, Yuzhou and other places, the chaos will still be chaotic. There are warnings of the emperor who fell into the water and was seriously ill, and there are warnings of the unknown life and death, and there are people in various places who are resentful and the people are in a tide."

"In Chang'an, all officials return to the Nine Wise Kings..."

"If Your Majesty wants to survive this disaster, at least he must show enough sincerity, such as exemption from commercial taxes. We do not ask that we can definitely promote the Sui King to ascend a great treasure, but we must set a small goal and take down commercial taxes."

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What this group of big figures pursued is not to turn the Tang Dynasty royal family into history at once, which is too unrealistic.

Among the royal family, there are fools and rookies like the King of Sui Li Zhe in the royal family of the Li family, but there is no shortage of elites. If an elite prince borrows troops from the Shang Dynasty or Rome, even if he fights to destroy the entire Tang Dynasty, he will still have to lose all his capital power. That would be funny.

No one can afford such consequences.

This time, when the Supreme Emperor Li Gui was forced to confess to Li Sheng, their most important purpose was commercial tax. Even if the commercial tax in the Tang Dynasty was not high, it was just twenty tax one, and it would not be able to withstand the great men here. I felt sorry for them.

Every year, each of them has a huge amount of wealth, hundreds of millions of trump cards, and twenty taxes are too painful.

Of course, if Li Gui's situation is unclear, Li Sheng will be completely in chaos and cannot withstand all kinds of pressure and lose ground. If he cannot stabilize the situation, those present will not mind ousting him and using military power to push Li Zhe up in a coup.

Whether this can be achieved depends on whether the 30,000 imperial guards led by Li Sheng can fight.

If Li Zhe came to power, the 30,000 imperial guards who were loyal to the royal family would collapse? Then the entire Tang Dynasty would become a paradise for capital upstarts.

Li, just be a mascot decoration.

With laughter, a certain congressman suddenly said in surprise, "By the way, I heard that there seems to be some funny news in Yangzhou recently, saying that a farmer sage has mastered the power of inhumanity."

"Is this matter true or false, or is it exaggerated to be exaggerated?"

This time, the methods of the upstarts were not caused by coveting the cultivation resources mastered by Li Gui. After Li Gui got the training start package, he was too low-key. No one in the outside world knew about it except Li Sheng. No one of his concubines and eunuchs knew about it.

Do you practice? Everything is in the storage ring. As long as Li Gui finds a quiet room and tells outsiders that they cannot enter without his summons. Then hiding and practicing is like a dead house.

No matter how curious they were, they doubted why Li Gui abdicated when he was less than fifty years old and could not peek at close contact, so they were not sure about those.

They would have used such a trick for more than ten days after Li Guigang abdicated, because after Li Guicheng became the Supreme Emperor, the guards around him fell sharply after moving out of the Daming Palace.

The Emperor lives in Daming Palace, which is the most strict and safest place. Now that Li Sheng belongs to Li Gui's guards, Li Gui's guard power is too low. Even the eunuchs who are close to him are still sent by the new emperor in Daming Palace, and there are only a lot of space they can operate.

The big names in the past didn’t want Li Gui to fall into the water, but they didn’t have a chance!
Chapter completed!