Chapter 159 Li Linfu's Sorrow
As the prime minister at the peak of his ministers, he was inferior to tens of thousands of people. Yang Guozhong was proud, and the crowded families showed the arrival of the Yang Guozhong era.
On the contrary, Li Linfu's mansion, which was holding a funeral, was extremely deserted. The so-called followers, students, confidants, etc. in the past were all as far away from the plague, and they were as clear as possible about their relationship with Li Linfu.
All officials are fencemen, mainly for their own interests. Following Li Linfu and being loyal to Li Linfu was because Li Linfu was still alive and was still in the prime minister.
The living Li Linfu holds the great power of the prime minister and can manipulate the future of life and death. Li Linfu is loyal to Li Linfu in order to obtain the help of Li Linfu, and dare not betray Li Linfu because of Li Linfu's rights. They cannot afford Li Linfu's revenge.
Now that Li Linfu is dead, the prime minister has become Yang Guozhong. Li Linfu cannot bring any help to them, nor can he crawl out of the coffin to retaliate against them. Of course, they are afraid of being misunderstood by the new prime minister Yang Guozhong.
Although they followed Li Linfu and were loyal to Li Linfu before, it did not prevent them from turning to Yang Guozhong who was in power after Li Linfu's death. Yang Guozhong could not really take revenge on them one by one because they were loyal to Li Linfu before.
Indeed, there were too many people following Li Linfu at the beginning. In order to win people's hearts and stabilize his position as prime minister, Yang Guozhong did not take revenge one by one.
Of course, unless someone is unaware of the current affairs.
The so-called "knowing the times" is easy to understand, which is to show a "big gift" that satisfies Yang Guozhong, so that Yang Guozhong "forgets" what they did before.
This is the reason why Yang Guozhong’s mansion is crowded with people.
"The officials paid a visit to the Prime Minister. The small gift is not respectful. Congratulations on the position of Prime Minister. In the future, the officials will definitely only follow the prime minister." This is a fourth-rank official. While paying a visit to Yang Guozhong, he presented a box. No one knows what it contains.
Yang Guozhong waved his hand, and immediately a servant took the box, someone registered and posted a number behind him.
Except for Yang Guozhong himself, no one knows how much money Yang Guozhong received from apologies or "filial piety" during this day, but it is no less than one million yuan.
Li Fei relied on his knowledge of being ahead of him for more than a thousand years and had produced many things. He seemed to be very profitable, but he was far inferior to Yang Guozhong, who became the prime minister. After all, Li Fei could not have obtained millions of coins of value in one day like Yang Guozhong. This was just the beginning. In the future, the chambers of commerce that had previously defected to Li Linfu to give money to Li Linfu for care would also turn to Yang Guozhong one after another, and the money brought by this was nearly one million coins.
Yang Guozhong was full of complacent spirit and his face was full of arrogance.
"Master, Li Linfu will be buried the next day. Your Majesty posthumously awarded him the Grand Marshal and the Grand Governor of Yangzhou." Although Li Linfu was dead, Yang Guozhong has always sent people to pay attention to the actions of Li Linfu's family.
"Taiwei? The Grand Governor of Yangzhou?" Yang Guozhong's face looked very bad. Why did that old guy Li Linfu receive this honor after his death?
Needless to say, Yang Guozhong's hatred for Li Linfu, Li Linfu suppressed Yang Guozhong miserably in the past few months, and even planned to plot against Yang Guozhong leaving Chang'an City to go to Jiannan Road, which scared Yang Guozhong very much during his lifetime. Yang Guozhong will avenge his anger, and even if Li Linfu dies, he will not plan to let Li Linfu go easily.
When he went to the palace, he passed by the Li family's residence and looked at the grand gate covered with white cloth. Yang Guozhong's face was very cold.
After being prime minister for nearly twenty years, Li Linfu once received too much glory, and this prime minister's mansion is one of them. Not only is it adjacent to the palace, it is also extremely luxurious. The prince's mansion is a little worse than it. Li Linfu died even though he died, and such a mansion was not something his family could continue to occupy.
"Your Majesty, I heard that former Prime Minister Li Linfu once had an adopted father and son with a Tieler general. Some time ago, the Tieler general rebelled. Although he was quickly destroyed by the governor of Gao Xianzhi, Li Linfu cannot be without responsibility. In addition, I have always been puzzled. Why did Li Linfu know what His Majesty and I said privately, and even Li Xiu knew. Could it be that Li Linfu had set a gap beside His Majesty, and there were doubts about Wang Hui's rebellion, and Li Linfu didn't know what he wanted to do at the beginning." Yang Guozhong said bad words from Li Linfu to Emperor Xuanzong of Tang.
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang was stunned for a moment, and immediately thought of what Li Xiu entered the palace and asked him to see the seriously ill Li Linfu. Those words were all said to Yang Guozhong in private. Except for Gao Lishi and the other three eunuchs present, no one knew. How did Li Linfu and Li Xiu know?
Did Li Linfu really bribe the eunuch around him and kept "surveillance" on his every move of the emperor? What did Li Linfu want to do?
Check! Must check!
This investigation really made Emperor Xuanzong of Tang find out something, and Li Linfu did bribe some eunuchs around him. It was precisely because of this that his private conversation with Yang Guozhong was spread to Li Linfu's ears.
Suddenly, Emperor Xuanzong's face changed and became very ugly.
The adopted son of the Tiel tribe rebelled, and Wang Hui's rebellion was still in between, one by one, one by one, bold and ambitions were shocking! Could it be that Li Linfu did want to rebel?
"Li Linfu failed my trust and dared to set a gap around me, and he had an unshirkable responsibility for the betrayal of the generals of the Tiele tribe, which was like a rebellion! He passed on my order, deprived Li Linfu of all his official positions, seized his property, and his son Li Xiu and others were exiled to Lingnan!
With Yang Guozhong's frame-up and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang himself being suspicious, Li Linfu would not be at peace even if he died.
After being named "incidentally rebelled" by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Li Linfu naturally could not continue to be buried according to the standards of the prime minister and the Taiwei, and could only be buried in the standards of ordinary civilians.
The funeral was about to be held tomorrow, but the coffin was forcibly cut open. The prime minister's office on the body was stripped away, and the golden jade in his mouth was taken away. He put on the most ordinary coarse cloth and re-installed it into a thin coffin.
In addition, Li Linfu's family, his son Li Xiu, his wife and concubines, were all arrested. A large group of officers and soldiers seized all their property.
After being prime minister for nearly twenty years, Li Linfu was very wealthy. He found out his property of less than 12 million yuan at once, which shocked Emperor Xuanzong of Tang. What do you want to do after plundering so much money? How many people can they win the hearts of!
After distrust of Li Linfu, all his imaginations of Li Linfu were full of maliciousness.
Li Linfu worked hard for nearly twenty years, and was working as a prime minister and also carried out most of the memorials of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang. There were a lot of big and small matters, but in the end he was completely denied by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang. The whole family was exiled to Lingnan. It was so miserable. This has to be said to be Li Linfu's sorrow.
Chapter completed!