In the twelve hours of Chang'an, the phoenix male Yuan Zai can be said to have a sudden fame, this sister's kung fu is called the world's best, a Wang Yunxiu who has not yet come out of the boudoir to coax the five fans, confused has become his wife, of course, in reality, Yuan Zai is more cattle, and finally the official to the prime minister, in fact, according to the age to calculate, Yuan Zai is seven or eight years older than Li Bi, which is not very different from the image in the play, but the two eventually became the prime minister at the same time.
Yuan Zai has paid a lot of painstaking efforts behind him, because he himself has no backstage, Li Bi is different, he has been known as a prodigy since he was a child, and he was born in a famous door, the road to his career is naturally much smoother than Yuan Zai, Yuan Zai is not the same, he is born at the bottom of society, naturally he has to find ways to tie up the magnates, at the beginning Yuan Zai selected Li Fuguo, this person is the most famous eunuch in the Tang Suzong and Tang Dynasty, the power is monopolized, Yuan Zai has been further promoted through his official position.
However, in order to regain power at this time, Tang Dynasty Emperor was ready to deal with Li Fuguo, and Yuan Zai suddenly became the emperor's person, and it is said that after eradicating Li Fuguo behind his back, there was the merit of this person, which shows that for the sake of utilitarianism, Yuan Zai basically did everything to the extreme, but after successfully ascending to the throne, Yuan Zai's mind changed slightly.
It may also be that before the poor fear, Yuan Zai began to wantonly accumulate wealth, and even monopolized the government, at that time on the influence of the imperial court, Yuan Zai is said to be greater than the emperor, which also caused the emperor's dissatisfaction, originally planned to let Yuan Zai converge a little, give some face, but Yuan Zai did not know good evil, insisted on offending, the result was imprisoned for crimes, and finally copied out of the home is not gold and silver treasure, but slow pepper, a total of 800 stones, according to the Tang Dynasty estimates of 64 tons.
In fact, the emperor did not care very much about other gold and silver treasures, on the contrary, when he heard so much pepper, his face changed at that time, and an emperor's honor was actually resentful of a little condiment when eating, although it was a little difficult to imagine, but it had to be said that pepper was really a very precious thing in the Tang Dynasty. Before the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains did not produce pepper, his real channel was through the Silk Road, shipped back by Arab merchants, of course, pepper originated in India, from planting to processing has its own set of processes, so at that time the Central Plains basically did not have the ability to produce pepper.
Pepper transported back from such a long journey will naturally be increased in price layer by layer, and the average small household cannot afford to eat such a luxury, only the princes and nobles have it, because at that time pepper was basically equated with gold, you imagine that a person's home has 64 tons of gold, which must be a lot of wealth, richer than the royal family, which can not help but make the emperor also angry.