Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 864 Li Yan Youzi's First Growth ([-]) (Subscribe!)
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There are two people who say whether there are eight sage kings in history, but Li Yan's son Li Ji is really called "Eight Sage Kings".

Li Ji's title of prince is actually not "Sage King", but "King Ji".

However, Li Ji is upright, speaks out of righteousness, is smart and heroic, he is happy and outrageous, and likes to help the poor most, so the people call him the Eight Sage Kings.

So far, among Li Yan's sons, apart from Li Cun, the most famous one is Li Ji. Whether it is Li Yan who is upright, Li Wei who is capable of defeating thousands of troops, or Li Mao who is talented Not as good as Li Ji.

Moreover, Li Ji has a profound background. His uncle Hua Rong was the head of the top ten generals who founded the country. His other sons are simply incomparable.

Therefore, when Li Ji stood up and made a mess, everyone went downhill.

Li Ang said: "I really don't know. When the little yellow gate of the prince's mansion notified me, he only said that he must be present today, and that little yellow gate also won the gold medal of the prince. 87 come here together."

Li Wei said: "Even I, the wounded, was notified that he must be present. The matter is naturally a big deal, and it should be related to us."

Li Mao analyzed: "Although this matter is not small, it should not be a big deal. I didn't see the prince and didn't use the guards."

At this time, another person walked in.

This person seemed to want to keep a low profile, but as soon as he came in, all the princes looked at him.

Seeing this, he could only politely nod to the princes, and then sat down in an inconspicuous place.

But even so, others still looked at him from time to time.

It can be seen from this that he has a very important weight among the brothers.

His name was Li Xiu, and he was Li Yan's fourth son (Li Yan's third son died young, so he was only younger than Li Cun and Li Wei, and older than Li Yan's other sons.)
Let alone Li Cun, Li Ang, and Li Xu, Li Wei, Li Yan, Li Mao, Li Ji, and Li Xiu’s backgrounds are all incomparable—Li Wei, Li Yan, Li Mao, and Li Ji, Li Xiu’s mother is Chen Liliao, Cheng Wan'er, Hua Baoyan, and Liang Hongyu, although they are not Li Yan's queens, are all Li Yan's concubines. The key is that they are all Li Yan's beloved women, and Li Xiu's mother is Cheng Wan'er's envoy. Nuhuan'er (at the beginning because Cheng Wan'er was pregnant, Cheng Wanli specially sent her to be Cheng Wan'er's maidservant), now, because she was earlier than Li Yan, she gave birth to Li Xiu, and Li Xiu was very competitive, so she was taken away. Li Yan was promoted to Wanyi.

More importantly, because Huan'er's family background is very low, and Huan'er was sold to Cheng's family since he was a child and has no family members, so Li Xiu has no support behind him.

Compared with other brothers, Li Xiu's only advantage is that he is older.

It's a pity that when Li Xiu was young, Li Yan only devoted himself to cultivating Li Cun and didn't give other sons a chance.

Therefore, Li Xiu did not have the opportunity to become an official until the first year of Tietong.

At that time, Li Xiu was already 16 years old.

However, due to historical reasons, Li Xiu could only follow Li Yan to handle state affairs and political affairs with those thirteen or fourteen-year-old brothers, and started with those thirteen or four-year-old brothers.

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In this regard, Li Xiu never complained, and he meticulously completed all the tasks assigned to him by Li Yan.

Moreover, whenever he has time, Li Xiu goes to the library to enrich himself.

During the two years with Li Yan, Li Xiu's performance made Li Yan look a little sideways.

In addition, Li Yan delayed Li Xiu for three years.

Therefore, out of admiration and compensation, after careful consideration, Li Yan threw Li Xiu to Beihai County to practice. When Li Yan chose a place for his sons to practice, there was an unwritten rule. That is, the more Li Yan is optimistic about his sons, the more he will throw them to remote and difficult areas for exercise. Of course, Li Yan's sons can also tell Li Yan that they want to go to remote and difficult places for exercise, but this There are still some differences between the two.

In Beihai County, Li Xiuxian served as chief bookkeeper in "Jibei County", a small county that is the most remote and closest to Beihai.

During the time in Jibei County, Li Xiu advocated the development of fishery in Jibei County, and transported Hokkaido crab, a specialty product, to the mainland for sale. The inland transshipment business sells the red salmon caviar made by the ghosts to the inland.

Li Xiu's two propositions have changed the economic situation of the people in Jibei County to a large extent, and also increased the population of this remote small county.

And this is just Li Xiu's small test.

Because of his achievements in Extreme North County, Li Xiu was soon transferred to Beihai County by Li Yan as a county lieutenant.

Li Xiu advocated the development of machinery instead of manpower to collect gold and silver mines when he served as the captain of Beihai County, and introduced a series of advanced technologies from Yanjing, such as trains, searchlights, advanced blasting technology, and so on.

As a result, Li Xiu's series of reforms made Beihai County the number one in terms of gold and silver mining, and the increase was more than seven times that of the past. More importantly, there is still a lot of room for growth.

Later, all mining areas followed Li Xiu's reform and increased the amount of mining with advanced technology, which led to a sharp increase in the gold and silver reserves of Dazhong. money.

In view of the series of achievements Li Xiu made in Beihai County, Li Yan personally arranged for Li Xiu to go to Angkor County for training, and asked him to help Wang Lun and Shi Bao solve the ethnic issues in the Indochina Peninsula.

Before Li Xiu came to Angkor County, Wang Lun and Shi Bao mainly used killing to stop the rebellion of the people of various ethnic groups in the Indochina Peninsula, that is, if there is resistance, they will be killed.

After Li Xiu arrived in Angkor County, he visited various regions and had in-depth contact with people of all ethnic groups.

After walking around, Li Xiu proposed a lot of relatively softer ethnic groups such as ethnic migration, joint struggle, friendly exchanges, kinship, alliances, trade manipulation, canonization, administrative jurisdiction, freedom of religious belief within limits, etc. policy.

Wang Lun and Shi Bao have been killing here in Zhongnan for several years now. It can be said that Zhongnan has been shrouded in blood.

However, most of the people here in the Indochina Peninsula have strong religious beliefs. Therefore, killing alone cannot completely solve the ethnic problems here in Indochina.

Therefore, the relatively soft ethnic policy proposed by Li Xiu caught Wang Lun and Shi Bao's eyes.

The point is, after killing for so many years, it is indeed time to seal the knife.

Therefore, Wang Lun and Shi Bao began to support Li Xiu in dealing with ethnic issues in Li Xiu's way.

Surprisingly, Li Xiu's series of methods are quite effective.

After the introduction of this series of new policies, the ethnic issues here in the Indochina Peninsula have been eased to a large extent.

Of course, this was also due to the killing of Wang Lun and Shi Bao, otherwise, Li Xiu's policy would not have been so easily accepted by the aborigines of the Indochina Peninsula.

Many people even assert that if Dazhong can keep occupying the Indochina Peninsula for at most one or two hundred years, the ethnic issues here in the Indochina Peninsula will be completely resolved.

Li Xiu became famous because of this, and the world knew him as the fourth prince with extraordinary abilities.

The reason why Li Xiu is in Yanjing now is that he was called back by Li Yan, in order to let him go to the Northeast to deal with the Jinren and Mongols after the Northeast recovered to a certain extent.

In other words, it won't be long before Li Xiu will go north to take on a heavier burden.

In addition, because of Li Xiu's great achievements in the Indochina Peninsula, he also became one of the few princes among his brothers who won the title of king.

From Li Xiu's experience and Li Yan's arrangements for Li Xiu, none of the princes could tell that Li Xiu had already made a name in Li Yan's heart, and his future was bound to be limitless.

In this case, Li Xiu can't keep a low profile if he wants to, because all the princes have already started to cling to him and even fear him!

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(End of this chapter)