Outlaws of the Marsh

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Time flies, the years are like a shuttle.

In the blink of an eye, four years have passed.

After four years of selection, the crown prince was finally selected - Li Xiu won the election with a narrow margin.

In other words, Li Xiu is the crown prince.

This result is both reasonable and unexpected.

Li Xiu is undoubtedly excellent, and his resume is also dazzling enough, but the other eight princes who competed with Li Xiu are not ordinary people, especially the eldest, Li Ji, who is not so popular among the members of the royal family. Therefore, before the result came out, Li Yan always felt that Li Ji was more likely to win.

But Li Ji lost to Li Xiu in the end.

The reason why Li Ji lost was not because Li Ji's popularity among the royal family had dropped. On the contrary, Li Ji got much more votes than anyone else in each vassal state, even more than twice that of Li Xiu. Some.

But Li Ji got far less county tickets than Li Xiu.

Li Yan learned from Chen Gongfu, Hu Quan, and Li Yan that every time Li Xiu went to a county, he would look around before the election, and then during the election, when speaking, he would make constructive suggestions based on the specific local conditions. idea.

Although the votes in the county are influenced by some big local families, ordinary people are also eligible to vote. Taking a step back, even the big local families will also consider their own interests.

Therefore, most people in many counties were moved by Li Xiu's speech, and then voted for Li Xiu.

Because Li Ji was not as meticulous as Li Xiu, he was defeated by Li Xiu in the county ticket, and finally lost to Li Xiu with a slight disadvantage.

After the crown prince was elected, Li Yan didn't talk nonsense, and asked people to directly choose the auspicious day-he wanted to give up the throne.

As soon as Li Yan's decision was announced, the ministers panicked and the common people panicked, as if the whole world panicked!
Although in the past ten years, Li Yan has not cared much about state affairs and political affairs, but Li Yan's being the emperor can make everyone feel at ease.

To say a big word that is not a big word, Li Yan is the spiritual pillar of Dazhong. Even though Li Cun has proved that he is capable of managing the country of Dazhong, the subjects of Dazhong still prefer Li Yan to be the emperor, even if Li Yan is only in name .

All the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty asked Li Yan to take back his order, and the people also petitioned, hoping that Li Yan would be the emperor for another 20 years. If there is no 20 years, ten years will be fine, if there is no ten years, five years will be fine. Don't give up the throne now .

Li Yan was really moved by this!

This shows that he, Li Yan, was not bad as an emperor, and his subjects did not expect him to cede the throne because of his lust for women and militarism.

To be honest, being the emperor for Li Yan's sake is something to be proud of, and something to be proud of.

But Li Yan still gathered the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty together, and invited 1 representatives of the common people.

Li Yan said in public: "The previous dynasty had no way, so that the people were displaced and miserable. I really couldn't survive at that time. I ran to the mountain to gather righteousness at the age of 22. At that time, what I thought was that one day, the former emperor I can lower Zhao'an so that I can serve the country. I don't want to, the former emperor was too fatuous and unreasonable. When I conquered the world for him, he even stabbed me in the back, but even so, I still defeated Yan Yun I gave it to the former emperor and retreated to Seoul. At that time, what I thought was that I would never step into the Central Plains again in this life. The world is so big, and there is always my own territory. How can I imagine that the former emperor's stupid king actually caused the golden people to go south , abused my people of the same species, and later was destroyed by the Jin people, so I changed my original intention and came to the Central Plains to compete, and then became the emperor."

After a pause, Li Yan continued: "I came to the throne at the age of 35. At that time, the Central Plains was full of wars and people who could not survive. It can be said that it was devastated. If you count it, I have been the emperor for 23 years. In the past 23 years, I can stand up and say that I have done something to the community, I have done something to the people of the world, I have done something to this world, of course, I have done some ridiculous things, even wrong things, right and wrong, I won’t judge by myself, I will leave it to future generations to judge.”

Speaking of this, Li Yan changed his tone, and then said in a harmonious voice: "Now, I am 58, and in two years, I will be sixty, and I will be in the year of Ershun, and in ten years, I will be seventy , It's the age of seventy, I'm old, even if I'm not old, I'm getting old soon, I've worked hard for most of my life, I should take a break, sooner or later I will hand over this country to young people, one If the country wants to have a future, it should trust young people, and only by trusting young people and giving them opportunities can we truly say that the future is beautiful."

At this time, Li Yan called Li Cun who was standing beside him, put his arms around Li Cun's shoulders, and said: "Li Cun is my best son, he has actually been in control of Dazhong for nearly ten years. He has already proved with his ability that he can be a great emperor, so I am relieved to hand over my country to Li Cun, and I hope that you will support Li Cun as you support me..."

Li Yan spoke very sincerely.

But when everyone looked at it, it seemed that Li Yan, who was only in his early twenties, called himself an old man, and said that Li Cun, who looked like five or sixty years old, was a young man. They all felt very funny, and felt that the scene in front of them was not sad at all, or even warm. , but it made them want to laugh.

But no matter what, Li Yan decided to abdicate.

Moreover, Li Yan is not just talking, Li Yan has asked people to choose a good day and auspicious day, and has already begun to send people to prepare for Li Cun's enthronement ceremony.

In addition, Li Yan has already started to have Chengde Palace tidied up, planning to move there in a few days - this Chengde Palace was built by Li Yan when he came back from the Western Expedition, and its scale is naturally not comparable to the Forbidden City. But it is enough for Li Yan and his tens of thousands of concubines and maids to live in. The key is that the environment there is pleasant and suitable for retirement.

From Li Yan's various actions, it is not difficult to see that Li Yan really wanted to cede the throne to Li Cun.

Of course, it's not that Li Yan didn't leave behind at all. Li Yan still didn't hand over the military power to Li Cun, but firmly held it in his own hands.

Li Yan did this:
Firstly, it was because Li Yan was afraid that Li Cun would be young and aggressive, so he would use his sword rashly.

Second, it is Li Yande who has the ability to supervise the smooth implementation of the electoral system he formulated. Don't let Li Cun and Li Xiu change it halfway, which will cause brothers to fight each other, and even cause the big and middle schools to fall apart.

Thirdly, Li Yan also wanted to give himself a guarantee in his later years-there are too many examples in history of being killed due to loss of power, and Li Yan didn't want to be one of them.

In addition, Li Yan has many underage sons, and even many sons who have just been born. Li Yan also has to think about them. How can he pave the way for their future without the right?
In short, Emperor Li Yan can be wronged, but unless Li Yan is about to die, Li Yan will never give this military power to others easily.

But then again, Li Yan only held the military power, not to prevent the new emperor from using military power, but if the new emperor wanted to use military power, he had to go through Li Yan.

In this regard, Li Cun is naturally a little unwilling.

But Li Yan led the Chinese army to conquer the whole world in his life. The people in the army, from top to bottom, can be said to be all Li Yan's people. They all admire Li Yan and regard Li Yan as their spiritual leader. Therefore, If Li Yan doesn't want to hand over military power, Li Cun has nothing to do.

Li Cun could only behave well and try to let Li Yan take the initiative to hand over the military power to him.

But no matter what, Li Cun is going to be emperor.

This made Li Cun, who has been the crown prince for more than 30 years and the prince for more than 20 years, very happy, and for the first time, he drank some wine the day before he became the throne, and wanted to celebrate.

But who would have imagined that this little wine killed Li Cun and stopped Li Cun's last step to the emperor's throne forever.

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(End of this chapter)