Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 900 The New Crown Prince Candidate (please subscribe!)
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After being elected by the adult men of the royal family, four new crown prince candidates finally replaced Li Wei, Li Xiu, Li Da, and Li Yi to participate in this year's crown prince selection.

The four new crown prince candidates are: Li Xu, Li Xu, Li Dian, and Li Podi.

Li Xu.

Yelu Yu Liyan is the first son of Li Xiansheng.

More than ten years ago, Li Yan asked Yue Fei to bring Li Xu to Mobei in order to use the name of the Liao Kingdom to regain the people of Kedun City and the military states and grassland tribes in Mobei that originally belonged to the Liao Kingdom.

Later, Li Yan renamed Kedun City to Beining City. After Yue Fei led the expeditionary force to the west, Li Xu and Fang Xuedu stayed in Dingyuan City.

At that time, Fang Xuedu was already old. He only stayed in Beining City for less than a year. Fang Xuedu fell ill and then returned to Yanjing to recuperate. Li Xu, who was only 16 years old at the time, was left alone Throw it in Beining City.

After Li Yan learned of this, he did not arrange for someone to replace Fang Xuedu to help Li Xu.

After Fang Xuedu came back here, he told Li Yan that Li Xu is very responsible and smart, and should be a talent to be created.

In addition, it was not important that Ningbei City at that time included the entire Mobei.

Therefore, Li Yan asked Li Xu to take charge of Mobei temporarily.

Although Mobei is not the northernmost part of Dazhong, it is already the northernmost part of the land of people.

It is sparsely populated and life is boring, and few people want to live there.

The troops stationed there are usually rotated every three years.

But Li Xu stayed there for 13 years.

Moreover, the 13 years Li Xu stayed there was not a waste of time, but a very active governance there, and actively made it surrender to Dazhong's Weiwu, Chongde, Huifan, Xin, Dalin, Zihe, Tuo Wait for the former Liao State's Junzhou and Rhubarb Shiwei, Dili, Wang Jila, Chachila, Yexi, Bigude, Nila, Dalaguai, Damili, Mierji, Hezhu, Uguri The prairie tribes such as Zongbu, Pusuwan, Tanggu, Humusi, Xide, and Jiuerbi completely surrendered to Dazhong.

Li Ci's tribal demolition and governance relied on killing, Li Xiu's tribal demolition and governance relied on clever use of policies and suppression, and Li Xu's tribal demolition and governance relied on visits.

After Li Xu arrived in Beining City, he visited the military states and grassland tribes of the former Liao Kingdom one by one, and told them what would happen if the tribes were not divided into tribes with less than 100 people and dispersed according to the imperial court's demolition law. And gave them many examples, like Tatar, like Kelei, like Mierqi.

Moreover, Li Xu also said that he did not want to use force to force them to demolish, he wanted to live in peace with them, and he wanted to lead them to live a happy life.

The general trend.

Li Xu confided his heart to his heart again, tirelessly.

In addition, Li Xu's title is the King of Liao, and his mother is the last princess of the Liao Kingdom, the Princess of Shu, which made the military states and grassland tribes of the original Liao Kingdom who had surrendered to the Liao Kingdom very close to him.

In the end, Li Xu relied on his three-inch tongue to forcefully say that the various grassland tribes in Mobei were peacefully demolished, and then completely obeyed Dazhong's rule.

In addition to actively implementing Dazhong’s demolition plan, Li Xu is also actively building Ningbei City—he built markets, hospitals, schools, and various advanced facilities in Ningbei City to attract nomads. Enter city life.

In addition, Li Xu is very clear that what makes people flock to is profit, not persecution.

Therefore, Li Xu has always been actively promoting the construction of the railway from Dazhong to Ningbei City, and actively developing agriculture and animal husbandry, hoping to provide Dazhong with livestock by relying on the extremely rich aquatic plants in Mobei.

Under Li Xu's active promotion, in the fifth year after Li Xu arrived in Ningbei City, the Dazhong Railway finally reached Mobei and Ningbei City.

After that, Li Xu began to sell large quantities of livestock from Mobei to Dazhong, so that all the nomads could see the real benefits.

As a result, the nomadic people in Mobei followed Li Xu's lead and participated more actively in Li Xu's planning - they actively communicated with Ningbei City, and even directly joined Ningbei City.

Later, geologists from Dazhong found a large number of copper mines in Mobei, so the imperial court escorted a large number of prisoners of war and recruited a large number of miners to Mobei to mine.

After Li Xu learned of this, he actively arranged for the miners to live in Beining City, and actively helped them marry herdsmen women so that they could take root in Beining City.

Later, Dazhong's geologists discovered an extremely large natural gas field in Siberia.

After Li Yan learned of this, he boldly proposed to introduce the natural gas from this natural gas field to Dazhong, and let the natural gas in this natural gas field replace charcoal as fuel for people's cooking.

At that time, many people felt that Li Yan was whimsical, and that Li Yan was a fairy tale.

But Li Yan has always been able to do whatever he wants, no one dares to stop him, and no one can stop him.

Soon, Li Yan established a gas department and sent competent officials to handle the matter.

After Li Xu learned of this, he decisively used Dazhong to vigorously develop this matter, actively settled Chinese people in Beining City, and used Beining City as a transit point for Chinese people to go to Siberia and return to Dazhong.

In short, Li Xu seized every opportunity to develop Beining City and spared no effort in governing Beining City.

After more than ten years of management by Li Xu, Beining City has now become a big city, even compared with many big cities in the Central Plains. The key point is that although the ethnic groups here are complex, the people's lives are stable and the political environment is also very stable. , and very prosperous.

It can be said that Li Xu has stabilized the northern border for Dazhong, which is really a great contribution to Dazhong, which attaches great importance to the north and strives to become a dual empire.

Everything Li Xu did was seen by Li Yan, and by the world.

In addition, Yelu Dashi and other original Liao people cheered for Li Xu.

As a result, Li Xu also stood out as one of the nine crown prince candidates this time.

When it comes to natural gas, you have to talk about Li Xu.

At the beginning, when natural gas was just an idea of ​​Li Yan, Li Xu, a fanatic who followed Li Yan, firmly believed that Li Yan's idea would definitely come true, and then plunged into Li Yan's "big natural gas" plan among.

Of course, Li Xu is not struggling alone, Li Yan also sent many capable officials to promote the "big natural gas" plan.

However, none of those capable officials believed in Li Yan's "big natural gas" plan as firmly as Li Xu. Li Yan's vision, in the eyes of the people at the time, was simply too wild and unconstrained. Then the distant natural gas is led to Dazhong as a fuel?

But in the end, under the promotion of Li Yan, Li Xu and the others overcame one difficulty after another, and developed a feasible natural gas transportation and utilization technology, which provided the foundation for Li Yan's "big natural gas" plan.

Immediately afterwards, Li Xu and the others began to go to Siberia to build a natural gas collection plant and prepare to start building pipelines.

The initial stage is the most difficult period.

At that time, in Siberia, not to mention railways, there were not even small trails, and it was almost impossible to transport something there.

Fortunately-

The natural gas field discovered by geologists is just to the west of Lake Baikal, which is later known as Irkutsk, not too far from Ningbei City.

In addition, there are 10,000+ manpower and animal support provided by Li Xu.

In the end, all the difficulties were overcome by Li Xu and the others.

Later, Li Yan came forward and ordered the Ministry of Railways to build a railway from Beining City to bypass Xiaohai (Lake Baikal) to reach the gas field.

With the convenience of railways, the construction speed of natural gas collection plants has been greatly increased, and the construction of natural gas pipelines has become much easier.

After nine years, Li Xu and the others finally brought natural gas back to Dazhong.

It is difficult to change people's living habits. When natural gas was first introduced, people were not willing to use natural gas.

Later, after Li Xu asked Li Yan for advice, he provided people with free installation of natural gas, free stoves for a limited time and other promotional methods to encourage people to use natural gas.

The point is, using natural gas is indeed convenient, and it is indeed much cheaper than using diesel and carbon.

Therefore, Li Xu and the others slowly opened up the situation.

Now, more than half of households in Yanjing use natural gas, and in other cities in Yanyun area, [-]% to [-]% of people use natural gas.

Compared with the huge Dazhong, there are still very few people using natural gas.

But even so, the imperial court's investment in natural gas has been fully recovered, and there is still a lot of surplus.

Now, everyone can see that natural gas is definitely a big money source comparable to railroads.

While Li Yan proved his foresight once again, it also fulfilled Li Xu who firmly believed in Li Yan. Li Xu also stood out from his brothers because of his miraculous natural gas and his tenacious efforts, becoming one of the nine. One of the crown prince candidates.

By the way, Li Xu's mother did not have a deep background. She was just an ordinary court lady who entered the palace through a draft. Later, because of her beauty, she was lucky by Li Yan and gave birth to Li Xu.

Like Li Xu's mother, Li Dian's mother also came from a low family background.

Li Dian's mother was also a court lady, and, unlike Li Xu's mother, who was Han, Li Dian's mother was not even Han, and even Li Dian's mother was not an Oriental, but a Westerner. To be precise, Li Dian's Mother is a Jew.

At the beginning, when Li Yan was in Angkor, a western merchant ship tried to sneak across the Cape of Ca Mau, but was captured by the coast guard.

Dazhong's punishment for smuggling is very severe. Under normal circumstances, all the masterminds have to be hanged.

After the Western merchant ship was captured, the coast guards found dozens of Western women from the merchant ship, and among them were three very beautiful sisters.

It happened that at that time, the customs office at Jin'oujiao didn't know what to offer Li Yanjin.

Ever since, they dedicated the three sisters to Li Yan.

I have to say that the three sisters are really good-looking, and they are all standard Western beauties.

It's a pity that they are not of good origin, they are just the daughters of ordinary Jewish businessmen.

In addition, the three of them were still young at that time, and the oldest was only 15 years old.

Therefore, Li Yan let the three sisters enter the palace as maids of honor.

Of course, Li Yan got lucky with them later, otherwise, where did Li Dian come from?

The short section says.

After Li Yanlin got lucky with the three sisters, Li Dian was born ten months later.

Li Dian's mother was not the eldest of the three sisters, but the second - the eldest gave birth to a daughter for Li Dian.

Li Dian has been extremely smart since he was a child, and when he was very young, he knew how to use the method of trading to get all the good things of other brothers into his own hands.

When Li Dian was 13 years old, Li Dian became the richest of all the princes, and all his money came from Emperor Ming Zhengda (all of which he earned through investment), and he didn't even pay taxes. handed in.

In other words, Li Dian is a business genius.

Of course Li Yan couldn't waste Li Dian's talent.

When the other princes were still studying, Li Yan threw Li Dian into the bank system and asked him to start from the lowest level.

By the time Li Dian was 20 years old, he had already become Zhang Kai's first assistant.

Zhang Kai once said to Li Yan: "It turns out that I am very worried that after I can't work anymore, no one can replace me in managing the world's banks. After Li Dian, I don't have to worry about this anymore."

It can be seen from this that Zhang Kai is optimistic about Li Dian.

Li Yan was very worried. Zhang Kai lifted Li Dian too high, which further harmed Li Dian.

Therefore, Li Yan asked Zhang Kai to pressure Li Dian, and at the same time created opportunities for Li Dian to hone Li Dian.

In fact, Li Yan really hoped that Li Dian would suffer some setbacks, so that it would be more conducive to Li Dian's growth.

But the development of the matter was not as Li Yan intended. All the difficulties he imposed on Li Dian were easily resolved by Li Dian.

Li Dianzhen is a genius, a peerless genius!

Later, Li Dian may have felt that his life was too unchallenging, so he took the initiative to propose to Li Yan: The imperial court must hold the money bags of each vassal state in its hands, so that it can effectively control all vassal states.

To put it simply, Li Dian wanted to establish money houses in all the vassal states, and he did not allow the vassal states to establish their own money houses, so that the whole world could unify the currency and use derivative coins as the currency in circulation.

The difficulty of this matter is not ordinary.

It's not that Li Yan can't ban all vassal states, and can't allow all vassal states to use Yancoin as the only currency in circulation, but this system is really too difficult to formulate. You must know that the current transportation and communication are not as good as those of later generations. There is no computer assistance, and what Li Dian wants to do is to become an existence that surpasses the Federal Reserve of later generations!

How difficult it is!

Therefore, Li Yan is not optimistic about this matter.

But for one thing, if this matter is really done by Li Dian, it will undoubtedly be like what Li Dian said, the big and middle generals will seize the money bags of various vassal states, and anyone who dares to be disobedient can use financial sanctions against him .

Secondly, Li Dian has always been acting too evil, so Li Yan also wants Li Dian to suffer.

Therefore, Li Yan agreed with Li Dian to let go.

At first, Li Dian did hit a lot of walls.

But slowly, Li Dian and the team he formed solved all the problems they encountered one by one. Some of the solutions were unheard of and unseen even by Li Yan, who has the knowledge of later generations.

In seven full years, Li Dian and his team really established a dozen to dozens of money houses in various vassal states to form a huge network of money banks, collecting all the money bags of each vassal state. into it.

At the current stage, although the Qianzhuang.com built by Li Dian and the others still has certain shortcomings and needs to be gradually improved, they have already set up the most difficult framework, and the remaining problems are slowly corrected.

Having achieved such a great achievement, Li Dian is also known as a peerless genius, so he naturally stood out as one of the candidates for the crown prince.

The last crown prince candidate, Li Podi, was not Li Yan's son, but Li Yan's grandson—he was the son of Li Wei.

but--

Li Podi is not Li Wei's eldest son, but Li Wei's second son, that is to say, Li Podi is not Li Yan's eldest grandson.

Despite Li Podi's mighty name, Dad is still the bravest of Li Yan's sons.

But although this Li Podi has also experienced in the army, his most powerful thing is not his fighting ability, although his fighting ability is not weak.

The most powerful thing about Li Podi is... engaging in espionage.

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(End of this chapter)