Li Cunxu repeatedly dissuaded her mother, and finally gave up her mother's idea and sent her brother Li Cunwo to Taiyuan to take care of her. On May 6, conclusive news came from Taiyuan: Concubine Liu died of illness. Empress Dowager Cao was heartbroken and regretful, and did not enter water for several days. Although Li Cunxu hurriedly stood by his mother's side, and kept comforting and persuading her repeatedly. However, Empress Dowager Cao fell ill. After only two months, she followed Concubine Liu's footsteps and met in the Huangquan.

Li Cunxu was heartbroken. After his mother died, he ordered to stop courting for seven days, and he was stuck in the palace for five consecutive days without eating. After everyone was constantly persuading him, he resumed eating. A few days later, the depressed Li Cunxu suddenly thought: he should go to Empress Dowager Cao’s tomb in person to check the quality, and never let his mother suffer grievances.

Li Cunxu did not let his mother and father Li Keyong be buried together, but built a new cemetery for his mother in Shou'an County, about 70 miles southwest of Luoyang. Li Cunxu went to Kunling in the rain. He was angry and found that this not-so-long road was in poor condition: the road was muddy along the way, and some bridges were broken, and no one came to repair them!

At that time, the continuous heavy rain had been falling for more than a month. Floods were everywhere. Not to mention outside Luoyang City, even the Tianjin Bridge, which all officials must pass to court, had been cut off, and everyone could only board the boat to get off work. Therefore, it was normal for the roads outside the city to be muddy and the bridges were damaged.

But Li Cunxu was a big shot with unreasonable privileges, and there was no need to understand the actual difficulties of the people below. The Emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty was furious and asked the left and right: Who is the responsible official on this road? The left and right answered: "This is the jurisdiction of Henan County, and the Henan County Magistrate Luo Guan should be responsible." When he heard this name, Li Cunxu, who was already displeased with Longyan, became even more angry!

It turned out that although Luo Guan had a low position, he was not very arrogant because of his uniqueness and integrity. He followed the law and did not avoid the powerful and powerful. He was a well-known official at that time. Luo Guan was originally a Jinshi and served as a low-level official in the Censorate and the Three Provinces. It was not very eye-catching at that time. However, since he became a parent official in Henan County, he had to have contact with Li Cunxu's confidant powerful people, and the situation was very different.

The actors and eunuchs often wrote notes and asked Luo Guan to help them do things. Naturally, such things are usually not so open and not so reasonable and legal. How can that be? The stubborn Luo Guan refused to handle any of them. That's not all. Luo Guan packed these notes and gave them to Guo Chongtao for a look, asking Guo Chongtao to submit a memorial to the emperor, and warned them of these unhealthy acts and eunuchs around Li Cunxu. Such unreasonable officials naturally made the actors and eunuchs around Li Cunxu so angry.

Since Zhang Quanyi rebuilt Luoyang in the late Tang Dynasty, he has been in charge of this city for a long time and has never left. Therefore, he has a high prestige and great power in the local area. Most of the officials and staff of all over Luoyang were Zhang Quanyi's disciples and old friends. At that time, all officials appointed to be county magistrates in Luoyang were carefully served by Zhang Quanyi like slaves who saw the master, because only by grievances and demands from all over the country could their officials go on to the present.

However, Luo Guan, who came to Henan County Magistrate, insisted on following the formal law and doing his business in public. He refused to reduce his value to serve Mr. Zhang, making the old man feel very embarrassed. Not only that, among Zhang Quanyi's many old subordinates, Luo Guan was also in trouble.

He must be punished according to the law, and he never looks at his owner when beating a dog. Therefore, Zhang Quanyi was so angry that he was so angry that he was dying of Luo Guan's disrespectfulness! Zhang Quanyi was the adopted father of the queen Liu Yuniang, so he naturally sent someone to the palace to complain to his goddaughter.

Not long after, among Li Cunxu's confidants, except Guo Chongtao often praised Luo Guan for his loyalty, almost everyone from the queen to the gatehouse shouted injustice to Li Cunxu: How arrogant and rude the little county magistrate named Luo Guan is! How arrogant and domineering! He bullied us on the surface, but in fact he just didn't take the emperor seriously!

After a long time, Li Cunxu, who had heard too many bad words, gradually remembered the name Luo Guan and was very disgusted with him. However, Luo Guan was very strict in conduct and could not grasp any of his handles for the moment. Li Cunxu temporarily recorded the account and waited for the time to settle it together! Now, it was when Li Cunxu was in the most annoyance and was most angry. Luo Guan hit the gun, could he still have good fruits to eat?

Soon Luo Guan was called to Li Cunxu, and Li Cunxu was furious at him. But Luo Guan seemed to be afraid. Even when facing the emperor, he refused to bow his head and beg for mercy. He retorted hard: "I have not received an edict to repair the bridge road outside the city in advance. If you want to investigate, you should pursue those who accept the edict!" If you think about Luo Guan, it is indeed understandable. In the face of a flood that has not been encountered in a century, the disaster relief in Luoyang City has not been completed, so naturally he will not take care of the outside of the city.

But Li Cunxu didn't think so. He was furious and shouted: "This is the scope of your Henan County. You dare to blame others? It's outrageous!" Li Cunxu immediately ordered: Hear Luo Guan to the prison and wait for the punishment! The confidants around Li Cunxu who hated Luo Guan took the opportunity to call the prison officers in the prison: He was well served by the magistrate Luo, and don't let him live in the prison cell comfortably! So, when Luo Guan got off the prison, he was tortured by the inhumane jailers, and was tortured so hard that his whole body was covered in blood and had no inch of intact skin!

The next day, Guo Chongtao, who learned that Luo Guan was arrested, hurriedly entered the palace and wanted to plead for the good official he admired the most, but met the eunuch who went to the prison to execute Luo Guan. Guo Chongtao hurriedly asked the eunuch who sent the imperial eunuch to temporarily suspend his eunuch and rushed to Jin to meet Li Cunxu. Seeing the emperor with a blue face, Guo Chongtao advised: "Luo Guan has no other fault, it is just that the roads and bridges have not been repaired in time. According to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, crimes will not be killed."

Li Cunxu roared with ruthlessness: "The Queen Mother's coffin is about to be shipped, and the emperor's carriages and cars have to travel many times. At this critical moment, the bridges and roads are all broken! Do you dare to say that he is not guilty? It is clearly a gang and shelter!"

The hat was big and heavy, so Guo Chongtao had to take a step back and begged in a softer tone: "Even if Luo Guan was guilty of death, he should go through normal procedures. Wait for the confession to come out first, convene the relevant officials to discuss, and convict the court's code, and then it will not be too late to execute him. Now you are in the position of Supreme Ten Thousand Chengs to exert a thunderous anger at a small county magistrate. If it is spread out, let the people of the world discuss your Majesty's unfair enforcement of the law. This is my fault!"

Li Cunxu was obviously a little impatient and said angrily: "Since Luo Guan is your beloved, it's up to you to do it!" After that, Li Cunxu shook his sleeves and turned back to the harem.

How dare Guo Chongtao take care of such a thing? He hurriedly followed and begged hard. However, Li Cun

As soon as Xu entered the harem, he immediately closed the hall gate and blocked Guo Chongtao outside. No matter how hard the Privy Councilor wanted to save Luo Guan's life, he had no choice. On the same day, Luo Guan was executed in prison. Not only that, his body, which had been tortured to the point of being unnatural, was dragged to the gate of the county government for public display!

The annoying thorn was finally pulled out. Except for Guo Chongtao, this incident was considered very satisfying in Li Cunxu's confidant circle! Li Cunxu, who was surrounded by this group of people, naturally would not feel that there was anything wrong with him. However, in the wider world, most people think that Luo Guan died unjustly and feel indignant about it.

Although Li Cunxu did not deliberately destroy the official atmosphere, he had already issued a heavy warning to all the few people in the officialdom and who wanted to maintain moral integrity by torture and killing Luo Guan: It’s okay to be greedy and abuse the law, but he refused to join in with the crowd. This is the end!

After the destruction of Liang, Li Cunxu's actions in recent years gave people a feeling of doing things in a rebellious way. It seemed that he was completely different from the wise and powerful Li Cunxu before the destruction of Liang. Li Cunxu was still very good at taking over Qi State in an orderly manner, restricting and weakening the old ministers of the Later Tang Dynasty, and decomposing and digesting the surrendered ministers of the Later Liang Dynasty with a smile, surrendering troops, and thus continuously expanding the imperial power. His shrewdness did not weaken at all. However, due to the suspension of large-scale wars, his greatest strength had no chance to show for a while.

After Zhang Chengye's death, Guo Chongtao became his successor and took on the role of a counselor around Li Cunxu. Obviously, his work results in this regard were much worse than Zhang Chengye. Compared with Zhang Chengye, Guo Chongtao was better in talent. However, he was far inferior to his qualifications, relationship with the harem, and selflessness.

Because of his lack of qualifications, he did not have enough weight to Zhang Chengye in his advice to Li Cunxu. Because Zhang Chengye was trusted and respected by Li Cunxu's mother, Empress Dowager Cao, even when he could not stop Li Cunxu's indulgence, he had a powerful ally to suppress the young master Hu Wei. Guo Chongtao basically had no ally in the harem. He wanted to rely on showing kindness to Liu Yuniang to seek help, but Liu Yuniang did not remember his kindness, but only his revenge.

Although Guo Chongtao is the most positive person in Li Cunxu's circle of confidants, he also has moral stains, and the stains are not small. He has his own faults and naturally he lacks confidence when he advises others. Therefore, Guo Chongtao's advice to Li Cunxu's desire to indulge his power has all failed.

After Li Cunxu destroyed Liang and the Later Tang unified the north, the Former Shu reacted slowly. Among the major forces in the south, no envoys were sent to congratulate him. However, the Former Shu did not send people to Luoyang, which would not prevent Li Cunxu from sending envoys to Chengdu to inform Wang Yan: The false Liang had been destroyed and the Tang Dynasty was revived. When this grand event occurred, you would not have any indication?

Only then did the Hanlin scholar Ouyang Bin send a Hanlin scholar to Luoyang to present a letter to the country. In the letter, Wang Yan lowered his value and did not use the title of emperor. The greeting was: "The Lord of the Great Shu Kingdom wrote to the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty." A little earlier, the letter to the Later Tang Dynasty also wrote: "The Lord of the Great Wu Kingdom wrote to the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty". Except for the different names of the country, the two were exactly the same. Since Li Cunxu had decided to attack Shu first and then take Wu, he praised the letter to Wu first for "the words and despicable words and despise the same note", but he was straightforward and provocative, deliberately making trouble, accusing the former Shu Kingdom of "the principles of "a little resistant" and lack of politeness.
Chapter completed!