Struggle in the early Tang Dynasty

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"Smart people don't do secret things. As long as that rumor is still there, as long as Brother Yu is still the long history of the Jin Palace, Brother Yu has to be a little vigilant towards you! I hope Brother Guo will forgive me!"

Guo Ye pointed with his hand and said, "You, you! Sour! By the way..."

Suddenly, a thought flashed in Guo Ye's mind, and he said: "Your Majesty's actions a few days ago have caused dissatisfaction among all the officials, and there are undercurrents surging. I'm afraid you have more than one plan, right?"

Ma Yuanju said: "Everyone is happy now. Let him pass on the past. There is a saying that if the water is clear, there will be no fish, and if people observe it, there will be no disciples. Why should Duke Qin go into it?"

Guo Ye waved his hand and said, "I'm not talking about the officials, but about you, Brother Ma. Did Brother Ma try his best to promote the plan of asking someone Guo to persuade His Majesty?"

"Er... so to speak."

Guo Ye gave a big gift to Ma Zhou, and said, "Brother Ma is righteous! Please be respected by someone from Guo!"

"I can't, I can't, Duke Qin please get up!"

Guo Ye said sincerely: "My little brother is also stupid, and I just figured it out now. Although Guo is the person who is suitable to persuade His Majesty, he may not be the only one. If there is no strong recommendation from Brother Ma, this person may not be me. .”

"In this matter, although Ma has some minor achievements, he mainly relied on your past reputation. Qin Guogong went to the Three Koreas twice, and with his three-inch tongue, he turned Goguryeo upside down. Based on this merit alone, in the matter of admonishing His Majesty, who else can you do?"

Guo Ye smiled wryly and said: "Brother Ma, you don't have to be too modest. At that time, I was like a mouse crossing the street, and everyone shouted and beat me. With Guo's reputation at that time, it was difficult to get the ministers to agree to this matter. What's more... ..."

Speaking of this, Guo Ye lowered his voice and said, "I'm afraid that this plan of persuading His Majesty was not your first choice at the time. If it weren't for you, the current Chang'an City would have killed a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood! I still want to On behalf of the people of Chang'an City, thank you."

Ma Yuanju waved his hands again and again, and said: "Mr. Qin, you are talking too much. Why do you want to do this? Why do you want to do this!"

Seeing that Guo Ye wanted to say more, Ma Yuanju hurriedly said: "Don't talk about this, it's getting late, if you have nothing else to do, brother Yu will leave for now."

Guo Ye saluted again, and said: "In short, Brother Ma's kindness today will surely be repaid by Mr. Guo!"

Ma Yuanju clasped his hands together and said, "No need! No need! If you don't blame me as a brother for being rigid, Ma will be satisfied. We have known each other for many years, but Ma has always treated you like a little brother..."

He sighed softly, and continued: "Although good fortune tricks people, now my brother has to become your enemy in a certain sense. But Brother Yu still hopes that everything will go smoothly for you, dear brother, without any disasters or difficulties."

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The next day, His Majesty Li Er fulfilled his promise and issued two imperial edicts.

In the first imperial decree, His Majesty Li Er declared that he was so poisoned that he acted faintly a few days ago.Fortunately, Qin Guogong discovered the thief's conspiracy, and he regained his sobriety.

Wei Zheng, Kong Yingda, Cen Wenwen and Guo Ye should be reinstated as officials.Qin Guogong made great contributions to saving his family and rewarded three hundred households in the town.

With this imperial decree, the depression in the court for the past few days was swept away, and the court and the public were full of joy.

However, the second edict was far less popular than the first one.

This imperial decree is to depose Ji Xin from the position of City God.From now on, the City God of Chang'an City will be Zhuo Yuan, the City God's grandmother will be Arsenic, and the Deputy City God will be Li Luojia.You Si should quickly rebuild the City God's Temple and create golden statues for these few.

Who is Zhuo Yuan?Who is Arsenic?Who is Li Luojia?Everyone doesn't know!This decree is really inexplicable.People looked at each other.There is a lot of discussion!

Guo Ye has become the Minister of Rites again, and he is really in charge of this matter.So he coughed and told about the past of Zhuo Yuan, Arsenic and the silly tiger Li Luojia.

After listening to it, people were quite disapproving.

Thinking about it, these three people had no official positions before, and what they did could not be called saving the country from danger.With this little credit, these three actually took Ji Xin's position as City God, no need to ask, there must be something tricky in it!

Of course, this trickiness is also obvious.They were all Guo Ye's subordinates before they were alive, and this imperial decree was issued at such a sensitive moment, so no need to ask, Guo Ye must have urged His Majesty Li Er to issue this imperial decree.

This is really a one-person attainment, and the chicken and dog ascended to heaven.

Although he secretly slandered him, no one stood up to persuade His Majesty Li Er to withdraw his order.

After all, it is only a small city god position, which has no influence on the government, so why do you need to make His Majesty suffer from this kind of matter?

Besides, don't look at the monk's face to see the Buddha's face.Qin Guogong has just made such a great achievement, even if it is only for the sake of Qin Guogong's face, it is not appropriate to get entangled in this matter.

The days passed day by day, and the Town God's Temple was also renovated. Amidst the sound of firecrackers, Chang'an City ushered in a new City God.

It's a pity that the people of Chang'an City, like those officials, don't like these new city gods.

There are very few incense sticks in the Town God's Temple, and Guo Ye is deeply worried about this.

Although Guo Ye was a complete atheist before time travel.But after going through such an unscientific time-traveling experience, if Guo Ye is still indifferent to the theory of ghosts and gods, he will be too nervous.

The current Guo Ye can be called a pan-believers.Believe a little in everything, but not deeply.

For example, regarding the matter of Zhuo Yuan and the others being named city gods, if His Majesty Li Er hadn't taken the initiative to confer them, Guo Ye would not have taken the initiative to promote this matter.

But now that the three of them have been sealed, Guo Ye still very much hopes that their incense will flourish.What if the position of City God is really good for them?

Ever since, Guo Ye ordered someone to paint the achievements of Zhuo Yuan and others on the wall of the Town God's Temple.They also dispatched people to publicize the achievements of these people in densely populated teahouses and restaurants.

In the end, he also persuaded Master Xuanzang to give more publicity to the new city god of Chang'an City when he was preaching to the believers.Due to Guo Ye's affection, Master Xuanzang could only obey his orders.

Unexpectedly, after this set of combined punches, the results still had little effect.People did admire the righteous deeds of Zhuo Yuan's three people, but that was all there was to it, they would not be worshiped as gods.

In the end, in desperation, Guo Ye had no choice but to make a big move.This time he no longer preached that these few people killed the enemy to serve the country and sacrificed their lives for the country, but made the three of Zhuo Yuan a myth.

Back then, in order to preserve the peace of Buddhism in the Central Plains for thousands of years, Guo Ye proposed a plan to become a Buddhist monk to save Buddhism.For this plan, he also took out the "Journey to the West" from later generations.

In "Journey to the West", there is a plot of Tang Wang's tour of the underworld, which was deleted by him because it involved slandering His Majesty Li Er.Now is a good time to take out this story, adapt it a little bit, and publicize the achievements of Zhuo Yuan and the others.

In Guo Ye's new story, the Dragon King of Jinghe violated the rules of heaven and should be executed for the crime, and the prison officer is Wei Zheng and Wei Xuancheng.In order not to be killed by Wei Zheng, he begged on the head of Emperor Datang.

His Majesty Li Er fully agreed, and dragged Wei Zheng to play chess.However, due to a momentary negligence, the old dragon still died unexpectedly.In the end, a ray of wronged soul of the Dragon King came to the palace to demand his life.

It was to avenge the old dragon that His Majesty Li Er deposed Wei Zheng.But the Dragon King of Jinghe was still unwilling to let go, and even dragged his soul into the underworld.

In Fengdu City, His Majesty Li Er was besieged by the ghost army led by Jiancheng Yuanji.Fortunately, the three of Zhuo Yuan arrived, not only saving his life, but also beating up the dragon ghost who wanted revenge.

In the end, of course, everyone is happy.Li Shimin returned to Yang, and Wei Zhengguan returned to his original post.All of this is the work of Zhuo Yuan and the others.The three of them had such great achievements in protecting the sky, wouldn't it be natural for them to be named City God?

The content of this story is bizarre, the plot twists and turns, and it is fascinating.Guo Ye believes that as long as it is brought out, it will be popular in the world, and the incense of Zhuo Yuan and the others will not be a problem at all.

The only thing to worry about is His Majesty Li Er's attitude.In order to obtain his understanding, Guo Ye personally entered the palace to face the saint.His Majesty Li Er laughed out loud after listening to it!

He said: "This story is well-made, much better than the story of poisoning! In the story of poisoning, Wei Zheng was demoted for no reason, so I made some mistakes. But in this story, Wei Zheng made mistakes first, so I had to be demoted." His official. Good! You can spread it like this!"

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After the matter of the Town God's Temple is settled, the case of His Majesty Li Er's poisoning is considered to be over.As for the arrest of the mastermind behind the case, we can only figure it out slowly.

Guo Ye took a careful look at the impact of this case on the court. The biggest beneficiary of this case is undoubtedly himself.

All of a sudden, he changed from everyone calling out to beat the courtiers to a hero who turned the tide, and successfully escaped the public opinion of Wang Gui's death.In addition, it also comes with fighting for posthumous honor for the dead subordinates.

The second beneficiary is Guo Ye's elder brother Wei Chigong.He didn't do anything, and he got a minister of the Ministry of War for nothing.