Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 661 Comparable to the great achievements of Emperor Qin and Han Wu (please subscribe!)

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Li Yan knew that Li Guang was referring to the "disaster of Empress Wu" that Li Guang had admonished before he left.

In fact, Li Yan has taken precautions against this, and will never let the harem interfere in politics.

As for further precautions, Li Yan was not going to implement them.

If Li Yan is not diligent, no matter who he delegates power to, it will lead to disasters—hand it over to eunuchs, and power supervisors will appear.Hand it over to the minister, and the minister of power will appear.Countless examples of this can be found throughout history.

Therefore, it is impossible to prevent this kind of thing with the system, and it can only be controlled by those in power.

Li Yan is confident that in his generation, there will never be power supervisors, power ministers, and power empresses.

As for future generations.

There is no country that lasts forever.

Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren.

After Li Yan's death, how can he control the flood?
In short, Li Yan can only manage his own generation well, and do the rest as much as possible.

After Li Guang withdrew, Li Yan asked the servant to call in Wang Shiyong and Xu Bingzhe who had been waiting outside for a long time.

After Wang Shiyong and Xu Bingzhe came in, they immediately bowed to the ground and said: "Your Majesty Wang Shiyong/Xu Bingzhe, pay homage to the emperor, long live my emperor! Long live! Long live!"

Li Yan said softly, "You two lovers, please be free from courtesy."

After hearing Li Yan's words, Wang Shiyong and Xu Bingzhe's last shred of apprehension disappeared—if Li Yan wanted to punish them, he would never be so kind to them.

Wang Shiyong and Xu Bingzhe slowly straightened up.

but--

After reaching a certain level, Wang Shiyong and Xu Bingzhe didn't dare to be straight anymore, and then Wang Shiyong maintained this respectful posture, holding up a jade seal with both hands, and said: "Your Majesty, this is the seal specially made by the former Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin after he ascended the throne. The national jade seal represents the inheritance of the Great Song Dynasty, and during the period when I acted as the agent of Bianliang City, I ordered people to keep it properly, and now I will present it to Your Majesty."

At the beginning, when Zhao Kuangyin established the Song Dynasty, he could not find the jade seal made by the Qin Dynasty, so he ordered someone to make this special jade seal.

The Jinren once asked for this treasure inherited from the Great Song Dynasty, but Song officials lied to the Jinren that the seal had already been buried, so it was preserved.

(Historically, this jade seal was later presented to Zhao Gou by Zhang Bangchang. Zhao Gou had some qualifications to inherit Zhao Song because of this jade seal.)
Li Yan looked at the imperial jade seal held in Wang Shiyong's hand, and then signaled Li Shishi to take it over—Li Shishi is the female official in charge of the seal.

After seeing Li Yan's signal, Li Shishi got up and came to Wang Shiyong to take the jade seal.

Wang Shiyong did not dare to look at Li Shishi.

But in the process of handing over the jade seal between the two, Wang Shiyong still caught a glimpse of Li Shishi unintentionally, and then his pupils shrank—he immediately recognized Li Shishi, who hadn't changed in appearance from more than ten years ago!
At this moment, Li Yan's voice sounded: "Did you recognize it?"

Wang Shiyong quickly bowed down and said, "I... I dare not!"

Li Yan smiled and said: "You don't need to make a big deal out of molehills. I don't care if others know that Shi Shi is here. I might as well tell you that Shi Shi is my lucky star, and part of the funds for my start-up are also funded by Shi Shi. Such a strange woman , it is my honor to be one of my concubines."

Hearing what Li Yan said, Wang Shiyong was secretly relieved.

Wang Shiyong said: "Your Majesty and Li... Your Majesty is talented and beautiful, so they should be together."

Li Yan is very busy today, and there are many people to meet, so he didn't continue this topic, but said directly: "You go to Shishi's table and have a look."

Wang Shiyong was puzzled, but he responded immediately: "No!", and then followed Li Shishi to Li Shishi's desk.

The two stood still, and Li Shishi pointed to the jade seal on the far left and said: "This is the jade seal handed down from the Qin Dynasty. The official family obtained it from this imperial palace 11 years ago."

"Obtained from this palace 11 years ago?" Wang Shiyong was slightly taken aback!
After a while, seeing Li Shishi in front of him, Wang Shiyong suddenly remembered that it was rumored that 11 years ago, the palace was stolen and the treasure was lost. Later, there were rumors that the treasure was the jade seal made by Qin Dynasty It is said that the jade seal made by Qin State was obtained by Li Yan...

Li Shishi who disappeared with that treasure has now appeared, Wang Shiyong said in his heart: "Are all those legends true?"

Li Shishi explained Wang Shiyong's confusion: "Back then, there was a tunnel in the Vatican Tower, which could lead directly to the imperial palace. Emperor Zhao ordered the eunuch Zhang Di to dig it for the convenience of listening to my palace playing the piano."

All the mysteries are solved.

At this moment, even Wang Shiyong, a treacherous minister, couldn't help shaking his head, thinking: "The emperor... Zhao Ji is so stupid, it's no wonder that Zhao Song will perish."

At this time, Li Yan's voice sounded again: "You can publicize this matter, but don't publicize it in an official form. Legends are best."

This is a declaration of orthodoxy, and it is also a blow to Zhao Song. Although the method is disgraceful, it will definitely be effective.

You can't say that Li Yan is despicable. In political struggles, there are always winners and losers, and there is no gentleman. The power of the Song Dynasty is still very strong, and Zhao Gou still has tens of thousands of people in his hands. You can't relax your vigilance just because you have the upper hand.

Wang Shiyong bowed immediately: "I understand what to do."

Li Yan signaled Li Shishi to continue.

Li Shishi pointed to the second Chuanguo Jade Seal and said: "This is the Qin Chuanguo Jade Seal of the Liao Kingdom, which was found by General Yang Zaixing from Emperor Tianzuo."

Everyone knows about this matter, and Wang Shiyong naturally knows it too.

Li Shishi pointed to the third party's Jade Seal and said: "This is the Jade Seal of the Liao Kingdom, and it was also found by General Yang Zaixing from Emperor Tianzuo."

"These are the jade seals of Emperor Tianzuo."

"These are the jade seals of Beiliao."

"This is Goryeo's imperial seal."

"These are the jade seals of Emperor Ruizong and Renzong of Korea."

"This is Taifeng's imperial jade seal."

"These are the jade seals of Taifeng Emperor Gaozong (Gongfu)."

"This is Japan's national jade seal."

"These are the jade seals of Emperor Shirakawa, Emperor Toba, and Emperor Sutoku."

"This is Li Chao's imperial seal."

"..."

"This is the imperial jade seal of the Champa Kingdom."

"..."

"This is the jade seal of the Khmer Kingdom."

"..."

"This is Zhu Luo Kingdom's heirloom jade seal."

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After listening to Li Shishi's introduction, Wang Shiyong could no longer describe his own mood.

Just from the nearly one hundred square jade seals, it is not difficult to see that Li Yan's great achievements are comparable to those of Emperor Qin and Han Wu.

This is more convincing than any inheritance.

Li Yan's voice sounded very timely: "I appointed Wang Shiyong as Minister of Rites and Xu Bingzhe as Minister of Rites. You two are fully responsible for my enthronement ceremony. All personnel and property will be transferred with you. In addition, the matter of publicity is also Both of you are fully responsible."

Wang Shiyong and Xu Bingzhe bowed to the ground at the same time, and said loudly at the same time: "No!"

In fact, from Li Yan's previous announcement that only the fifth of the six ministers was not appointed, Wang Shiyong vaguely guessed that Li Yan might appoint him as the minister of rites.

Although the position of Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites is no higher than that of Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials and Governor of Kaifeng before Wang Shiyong, it is a kind of affirmation in itself when everyone else is demoted and only he is leveled.

What's more, Wang Shiyong is still a senior member of the presiding party and has real power.

Furthermore, the new dynasty has just begun, and he, Wang Shiyong, has every opportunity to make further progress.

All in all, Wang Shiyong was very satisfied with Li Yan's arrangement for him.

Wang Shiyong has already made up his mind, even if there are only three days, he must hold a grand enthronement ceremony for Li Yan!

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(End of this chapter)