The rise of the prince

Chapter 868
Years ago, the matter concerning the new ship of the Wangfu was in full swing, and the Shi Ship Department also began to continuously discuss and plan various regulations on shipping and maritime trade.

Years ago, Li Xingzhou was playing mahjong with the beauties in the palace. Someone told him that someone from the palace had summoned him, so he hurried into the palace.

When he arrived at Yangju Hall, he didn't see the emperor. Fu'an told him that the emperor, the empress, and concubine Tian went to the garden behind the palace, and just left him a bunch of reports.

Fu'an sent someone to serve him tea and exquisite snacks, prepared a brazier, and said: "Your Highness, these refreshments are carefully prepared for you by the Empress and Concubine Tian. These memorials were picked out by Wang Xiang and He Xiang. The emperor said that His Royal Highness will approve the paintings by himself, and then hand them over to Zhongshu for handling, and there is no need to report to him again."

Li Xingzhou understood what was going on, the emperor wanted him to learn how to handle state affairs.

The notes that the Zhengshitang has read have been marked with key points, and the memorials will have concise language summaries, and the suggested solutions will be noted next to them. If you agree, you can just tick it.

If you disagree, comment on the solution.

Most of these notes are good things, and they are not that important.

For example, how much fine wine, seafood, and ginger melon will be tributed by Zhejiang Province this year, how about Hunan lactose and white sugar, etc.

There are also cases reported from various places and a summary of this year's harvest.

These are all similar, and it is enough for the Zhengshitang to approve them according to the usual practice.

However, there were also several memorials that attracted Li Xingzhou's attention. One was that Yanzhou Quan Zhizhou reported that there was a rebellion in a vassal village in the prefecture, and he had led troops to suppress it.

However, someone from the neighboring prefectures and counties reported that the magistrate of Yanzhou used his power to occupy the land of the clan people and force them to resist, and then took the opportunity to catch the patriarch and kill him by dismembering his body in the street.

Li Xingzhou frowned. These memorials were thoughtfully put together by De Gong and the others, and they all said one thing, but at this time Yanzhou is thousands of miles away, how could he know what was going on.

Do you just criticize according to your own preferences or imagination?
Li Xingzhou felt that it was very likely that most of the emperors did this. After all, they were thousands of miles away, and they were too lazy to spend a lot of time, and they couldn't see or worry.

Just like an interesting survey, in modern warfare, an average of 10,000+ bullets kills an enemy. The infantry killing efficiency is already very low, but the infantry does feel the most guilty because they will directly witness the enemy's death.

The bomber is the most efficient way to kill the enemy. It can be said that it kills like hemp, but the bomber pilots and bombardiers don't feel any guilt, because they can't see how miserable the ground is and how dead people are. Although they know that they have killed countless people, they feel no guilt. Not as good as infantry, which kills far less.

The emperor probably also had this kind of mentality. He could feel the life and death of countless people with a casual judgment, but he couldn't see it.

It would be alright if the emperor had managed the hardships of the people and understood the state of the world, but if he didn't understand, he would always think of evading the matter and don't care.

Li Xingzhou sighed, but it was impossible for him to make a hasty judgment, so he decided to send someone to check it out.

Then there are excerpts from the northwest border and central Sichuan, which say that some businessmen in the border states and counties recently secretly sold weapons and iron to foreign countries.

There is even a report from the Military Weapons Supervisor that recently captured one or two spies sent by Xia Guo, aiming to inquire about the production process and design blueprints of firearms, and the household registrations of the two of them were actually bought from local senior officials.

The key point is that the senior officials they said were also liars, and the household registration documents they sold were all fake, which were inconsistent with the court's methods. They were arrested not long after they entered Beijing, and they confessed after being tortured.

Li Xingzhou was also furious.

In order to make the country rich and support war, Li Xingzhou has been relaxing the control on commerce and trade in the early stage, and there are no more restrictions.

But with the relaxation of restrictions, many people have become dishonest, such as selling weapons and iron to foreign feudal clans.

This used to be a serious crime that could be punished by death, but now it has jumped up again. If the two countries were hostile in the past, not to mention iron and weapons, even food was not allowed to circulate.

Up to now, Li Xingzhou has given great freedom of trade, except for some specific items that can be sold, and iron is among these specific items.

This also made him feel more and more that people are unreliable in the face of interests, so many of the foundations of the country's life must be held in his own hands. Some can be opened for sale, but some absolutely cannot.

In his memory, there were several times in history when foreigners entered the Central Plains, but they were all sold by their own people.

The most representative is the demise of the Later Jin Dynasty, which originally defeated the Khitan twice.

So the Khitan king wrote a letter falsely saying that he wanted to attach to the south, and the emperor sent a general Du Chongwei to meet him, but it turned out to be false.

At this time, Du Chongwei felt that Shi Jingtang could be the emperor if he bowed his head to the Khitan, so could I also be the emperor if I bowed my head to the Khitan?
So he actually brought 10,000+ Jin troops to surrender to the Khitan king. The main force of the later Jin Dynasty was exhausted, and there was no way to stop the Khitan. .

In the resisting prefectures and counties, because the dragons had no leader, they fought on their own, and were defeated by the Khitan ruler's concentrated superior forces and forced to land.

In the worst state, because of the resistance to the end, only 700 people survived from [-] people.

It is ridiculous to talk about national justice, family and country feelings, and the interests of the people with them in the face of interests.

And this kind of symptom began to gradually rise because of his previous policy of opening up to raise funds. Li Xingzhou immediately decided that this kind of thing must be severely punished!
But looking at Degong and the others' comments, I immediately felt that it was too cruel, ransacking the family and exterminating the family
Although in this era, such a serious crime is equivalent to treason, and family raids and extermination are the basic operations.

But he thought about it for a while and changed it. The culprit must be punished, and the house must be ransacked.

This reminded Li Xingzhou of one thing. In the past, some people could be sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime of treason in China, crazy attacks without human rights, feudal residual poison, etc., and they asked netizens from the United States and Japan to comment. As a result, Japanese netizens kindly reminded that in Japan, treason can be sentenced The death penalty can also be imposed in the United States.

It's no wonder that Degong and the others directly commented that the family was ransacked and the family was wiped out. The empathy of many human beings is always the same.

However, in Li Xingzhou's view, as long as human life is involved, one must be cautious.

Fu An was always by the side to answer some questions for him, and he knew a lot. In some places, Li Xingzhou didn't even know where he was. If he hadn't asked Fu An, he wouldn't even know where the memorial came from.

After reviewing slowly until the afternoon, Li Xingzhou ate some pastries and tea before he got a good read.

Then with the help of Fu'an, the above table was divided into two categories and three categories, and those who made a ruling and dealt with according to the opinions of Zhengshitang were directly sent to Menxia Province.

Those who have different opinions and have new solutions will also be handed over to the door, but they will not be separated and the officials should pay special attention.

In the end, no decision has been made for the time being. There is only one thing, which is the matter of Yanzhou, which needs to be investigated by someone.

After sitting for a whole day, Li Xingzhou also felt a little sore and backache. After the activity, he asked Fuan to clean up and left first.

When they got home, Shiyu, Gillian and the others were still waiting for him to eat, and the day passed like this.

From then on, every few days, the emperor would let Li Xingzhou enter the palace to review some important forms, and gradually, let him handle major military and political affairs.

In fact, there are a lot of things going on in the world, and there are more than 200 memorials sent to the palace every day. Fortunately, the prime minister read it and simplified it and gave a solution. Otherwise, the emperor might die of exhaustion.

Of course, the emperor can also ignore it completely, agree with everything with his eyes closed, and leave the matter to Zaifu.

Afterwards, Li Xingzhou's office gradually changed from Kaiyuan Mansion to Yangju Palace, and the ministers saw it and got used to it.

It was a matter of course, and it was logical, but Li Xingzhou himself had to travel a lot, going back and forth to and from the imperial city.

On the other hand, when new warships are being built, he also needs to go to the shipyard by the river to supervise them every day, so that the craftsmen understand his importance.

The recruitment expansion of the new army also started around the year, and many major events began in an orderly manner.
These actions of Jingguo cannot escape the eyes of outsiders, especially the expansion of the army and the building of ships, which frightened Goryeo to pay tribute one after another. This is the fourth time in several years. They thought that Jingguo was going to cross the sea to attack Goryeo.

After all, Goryeo and Jingguo were still far away in the past. Now Jingguo has defeated Jin Guo and controlled Liaodong, and Goryeo has become a neighboring country.

Since the lessons learned from the Tang and Han Dynasties, Koryo had a "big idea" in the country, which was put forward publicly. It means that whoever is big in the Central Plains will pay tribute to him, and the war in the Central Plains will find a big country to pay tribute, so as to ensure the security of the peninsula. .

This foreign policy is still pursued today, and it will be implemented in the next thousand years.

This move made Li Xingzhou dumbfounded, I was going to fight Xia Guo, why did you lie down on your own, so you issued an edict to appease him.

(End of this chapter)