Guo Chongtao's actions to create allies for himself seemed to have achieved success. In fact, Guo Chongtao and his disciples were too optimistic. They forgot that not everyone knows how to be grateful, but Guo Chongtao thought he had reliable guarantees. He no longer thought about retreating and avoiding disaster, but instead returned to his old ways. For the long-term interests of the country, he did many things that made Li Cunxu and the people around him unhappy.

Due to excessive extravagance, the expenses for sacrifices to the sky in the southern suburbs exceeded their original expectations, and they made an incomplete hole in the court. Guo Chongtao donated 100,000 yuan of property to fill it. His move did not bring benefits, but instead caused dissatisfaction among many people. When everyone accepted bribes together, it was naturally hello, and hello everyone. Now that the court is in deficit, there are naturally a treasury envoys responsible. What private money do you donate? Do you want to embarrass everyone? Or do you want to make everyone lose money?

But Guo Chongtao did not think about these people at all. Instead, because the funds were still insufficient, he even made a more serious report to Li Cunxu and said: Please ask the emperor to be an example for the ministers and use the money from the royal treasury to make up for the deficit. As soon as he heard about the money, Li Cunxu's face suddenly turned cloudy and refused to answer for a long time.

Li Cunxu is definitely not a stingy person! He has a noble background and has long been used to being generous to the people around him. He is very generous to everyone, almost responding to every request, and has no control over the rewards. At that time, Li Cunxu was angry with Guo Chongtao for the first time because he wanted more subordinates to enjoy the special food supply with him, while Guo Chongtao was afraid of spending money and wanted to reduce the welfare of the soldiers. Why is it the opposite? Is it because the royal treasury has no money?

The royal treasury at that time was divided into two halves. The vassal states in various places paid tribute to the palace. In order to achieve twice the result with half the effort, they used the good steel on the blade, and they first understood the internal situation of the palace. Therefore, each batch of tributes entered Beijing must be divided into two parts, one for Li Cunxu, and the other for the woman Liu Yuniang, who spoke only after Li Cunxu.

Unlike Li Cunxu, who had never experienced the taste of poverty in his life, Liu Yuniang was afraid of being poor when she was a child. Different experiences made the couple's attitude towards money very different. Li Cunxu took a lot of money and then spent a lot of money. Liu Yuniang tried her best to accumulate money and then did her best not to spend a single child.

When she was still in Weizhou, Liu Yuniang carefully managed her finances. She directed her servants to do business under her own signs, relied on her power, bullied the market, and monopolized the firewood, vegetables, fruits and other markets in Weizhou. The servants were even more arrogant. They would never pay taxes or stall fees. Whoever dared to compete would beat them. Because they were overdoing their work, they angered a tough guy. Zhang Tingyun, who was the inspector of the Three Cities of Weibo, arrested several servants who were too evil and killed, and Liu Yuniang's improper behavior was restrained.

After arriving in Luoyang, Liu Yuniang's wealth-loving heart became more and more inclined. She took the lead in the bribes and accepted bribes, and built her own treasury in the royal treasury. Any treasury expenses such as banquets, entertainment, rewards, and personal army were used by Li Cunxu's part of the treasury money, and Liu Yuniang would never pay. However, Liu Yuniang believed in Buddhism and sometimes gave some charity to the nuns, asking the nuns to copy Buddhist scriptures, pray for themselves, and strive to make greater wealth!

Therefore, Li Cunxu spent all his money at will, and there was not much left. Guo Chongtao asked the royal treasury to pay, which was equivalent to making Liu Yuniang never lose any penny.

How can it be easy for a rooster to pay? Guo Chongtao didn't know that for just this matter, he had completely offended this woman who held grudges but did not remember her kindness.

Of course, even when facing someone like Liu Yuniang, she would be irresistible to Li Cunxu if she really wanted to requisition her private money. However, that would lead to the rebellion of the couple and life would be in harmony from then on. For a madman like Li Cunxu who is pampered with his wife, he would not want to do it no matter how he would.

So Li Cunxu came up with a compromise plan: "I still have some savings in Taiyuan, so I can get the rented ward to transport it." The Taiyuan savings mentioned by Li Cunxu were not his property at all, but the property of the deceased Li Sizhao and his wife. After Li Sizhao died, he was inherited by his son Li Jitao. Li Jitao was executed for rebellion, and his mother, Old Lady Yang, returned to Taiyuan for retirement. The huge amount of property she had carefully saved was also brought to Taiyuan.

Although she failed to save her son with money, the sad old lady Yang's shrewdness in financial management has not diminished. She had a premonition of the risk and had hidden a large amount of property in batches. As Mrs. Yang expected, Li Cunxu tightened her hands and thought about her money. An imperial edict came down, and in the name of confiscating the property of the rebel Li Jitao, he requisitioned all the property that the old lady had not yet been transferred away and transported to Luoyang to fill the gap.

Li Cunxu did this a bit inauthentic. It is reasonable to confiscate the thief's property. Why didn't he do it when he was killed? Before Li Jitao was killed, he rebeled in Luzhou and had never been to Taiyuan. How could he put his private property in Taiyuan? Since Li Jitao is dead, everyone in Taiyuan's money can only be the widow of Li Sizhao, the great hero Li Sizhao, and other sons who did not participate in the rebellion. Therefore, as soon as this incident came out, Li Cunxu's original glorious image was greatly hit in the minds of the soldiers of the Later Tang Dynasty.

During the war, the various beautiful promises made by the emperor to us were all fake! He only remembered the faults and did not remember the merits! No wonder many actors and eunuchs who had no merits are promoted one after another, and we followed him to fight south and north, spitting blood and conquering this country together, but few of them deserved rewards! When the court was short of money, the emperor refused to give up and was promoted by him. He also refused to give up the actors and eunuchs who were bribed to feed him recently, but the first thing he thought of wasting the people who had fought for him. Even Li Sizhao, who died in battle for the country, ended up like this!

From heroes, officials, to the army, the people, and the vast majority of people in the Later Tang Dynasty, resentment towards Li Cunxu's new dynasty was slowly arising, silently growing, and silently saving. The ruthless years ushered in the three years of Tongguang. This year, the entire land of North China had almost no rain, which seriously affected the growth of seedlings and herald the arrival of the famine. However, at the beginning of this drought, it was not all bad things.

The Yellow River embankment restoration project started in July of the second year of Tongguang, Lou Jiying, the general of the right sect, was responsible for blocking the sour jujube dug by Duan Ning a year ago. This idea was very good, but Lou Jiying, the general who surrendered from Houliang, was not an engineering expert, and the execution was very difficult. Half a year later, the breach was first blocked and was washed away by the river. Then the civil servants encountered a snow disaster and fled in large numbers, but they could not be caught. One trouble after another, they could not be completed.

Now, the water is too small, the river is dry, it is a good opportunity to block the mouth. Li Cunxu decided to leave Luoyang, North

During this trip, Li Cunxu had several purposes: one was to supervise the progress of the Yellow River estuary blocking project; the other was to revisit the old place, remember the past, and relax his feelings. When he arrived at the sour jujube, Li Cunxu checked the actual situation of the breakup and ordered Fu Xi, the former general of Chengde who had been promoted to the Jiedu of Pinglu, to command the estuary blocking project instead of Lou Jiying.

At the same time, Li Cunxu instructed: give up the section of the Yellow River embankment at the breach, and rebuilt a new section of the river embankment at the level of the flat water outside the original embankment, and then extend it to the old river embankment. This new water control plan widens this section of the river, reduces the construction difficulty, but increases the project volume. With the emperor's personal instructions, under Fu Xi's strict supervision of construction, the recruited people worked day and night to repair it. This new section of the river embankment was completed in early March, and the Yellow River water flowed into the river again.

After Li Cunxu gave his instructions, he left immediately and arrived in Xingtang on the 17th day of the first lunar month. As soon as he arrived in Xingtang, Li Cunxu discovered something that made him very unhappy. It turned out that after the death of the Lulong Jiedu Li Cunshen, Li Cunxu and Guo Chongtao asked the Xuanwu Jiedu governor Li Siyuan to go to Youzhou to resist the harassment and attack of the Khitan army. Li Siyuan was ordered to lead his army north and pass through Xingtang. When he knew that this city that once served as the capital of the Later Tang Dynasty still stored a large amount of military supplies, he used a letter to borrow 500 sets of exquisite armor from the left-behind commander Zhang Xian.

Zhang Xian believed that the war was about to begin in the front. If you ask the Luoyang court first and then allocate it after you get the approval, it will inevitably miss the opportunity for war. So he did not make a request and allocated the armor to Li Siyuan. When Li Cunxu knew about this, he was furious and said, "I should be the only emperor in this Tang Dynasty, right? Li Siyuan's official letter is not an imperial edict. How dare you, Zhang Xian, not let me give you my approval, so you borrow my armor to Li Siyuan without authorization?"

While angering Li Cunxu, it also greatly enhanced Li Cunxu's dissatisfaction and suspicion of his nominal brother Li Siyuan. Li Cunxu did not deal with Zhang Xian seriously, but was fined one month's salary and ordered him to immediately send someone to the camp of Li Siyuan's army to take back the armor he took. He thought that Li Siyuan's prestige and power were too heavy, and Zhang Xian, a literati, could not resist it, so he handled the matter in this way.

Li Siyuan did not notice the change in his position in Li Cunxu's heart. He had just defeated an invading Khitan army in Zhuozhou and happily sent envoys to win Li Cunxu. Seeing that Zhang Xian sent someone to get the armor, Li Siyuan didn't care much. Since the war was won, the war was slightly settled, and it was necessary to return the armor back. At this time, although Li Siyuan was appointed as the governor of Xuanwu Jie, his family and most of his family were not in Bianliang or Zhenzhou, and still stayed in his former residence in Taiyuan.

For the sake of the king's order, Li Siyuan had not returned home for a long time and was quite concerned. The threat from the Khitan was still there and he could not go back. So, Li Siyuan, who felt very good, submitted a memorial to Emperor Li Cunxu, requesting that his adopted son Li Congke, the governor of Weizhou, be appointed as the commander of the Neiya Horse and Cunzhu in Beijing, so that he could take care of his family nearby.

This is not an excessive requirement, but the timing is really not chosen well. Li Cunxu, who was suspicious of Li Siyuan, thought of the worst of his every move of this righteous brother. So the Emperor of Later Tang suddenly broke out and said furiously: "Li Siyuan relies on his heavy troops and lives in a big town. He forgot that all major affairs in the world must be decided by me? He actually asked for an official position for his son without authorization!"
Chapter completed!