Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 954
Chapter 76 Cracking the Earth and Conferring Marquises to Compete for People's Hearts

Fusang Datang, Qin Wangcheng.In the city, on the huge martial arts arena, Li Shimin rode his horse and galloped, bent his bow and shot arrows.

Hou Mo and Chen Xu at the side were counting: "Eight! Nine! Ten...Your Majesty hit ten arrows in a row."

Hou Mo and Chen Xu raised their hands excitedly.

The soldiers on the side and the ministers onlookers cheered in unison.

Li Shimin jumped off the horse, handed the bow to Hou Mo and Chen Xu, and took the silk cloth to wipe off his sweat.

Cheng Zhijie came up excitedly and said, "Your Majesty is really a good shooter! According to my opinion, His Majesty's riding and archery skills rank first among the emperors of all ages, and even the three ancient sage kings are incomparable."

Li Shimin laughed loudly and said, "Fang Xuanling used to tell me to be careful of flattery from courtiers. I think General Cheng's words are similar to flattery... Cheng Zhijie, are you a courtier?"

Cheng Zhijie's face remained unchanged and he said: "Your Majesty, my old Cheng Gan is a courtier, otherwise Your Majesty will hear unfavorable words every day, and as time goes on, I will be so aggrieved that I will die of aggrieved."

Li Shimin nodded and laughed in agreement.

After Li Shimin sat down, Cheng Zhijie looked around and found that no one was paying attention, so he asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, my old Cheng heard..."

Speaking of this, Cheng Zhijie lowered his voice and said, "Is the matter of cracking the soil and sealing the Marquis true or false?"

Li Shimin laughed and said, "Your news comes soon!"

Cheng Zhijie looked at Li Shimin for a while and said, "If the news is true, then I have been looking forward to this day for a long time. Your Majesty, you won't really miss this place, will you?"

Li Shimin sighed, "A little bit."

Cheng Zhijie sneered and said, "It's weird!"

Li Shimin smiled and said, "You can say whatever you want."

I didn't want to say this anymore, but Cheng Zhijie didn't let Li Shimin go, and said seriously: "Your Majesty, how do you plan to advance?"

"Advance?" Li Shimin said: "I will not advance. After this discussion, the matter will probably be slowed down. This is not bad. It is not a good sign if things are progressing too fast. Let's cool down first."

Cheng Zhijie pondered: "People leave their hometowns and are humble. We...in a word...I don't want to live like this for the rest of my life. When it's time to do it, do it quickly and drag it on. I'm afraid those mediocre people won't want to leave after getting used to it!"

Li Shimin said lightly: "If someone refuses to leave, we don't have to force it! Just let them stay here to plant seeds for our further future and greater cause."

Cheng Zhijie said happily: "After talking so much, I finally got a sincere sentence from you."

Li Shimin's development has reached a bottleneck.The first is the problem of talents. Li Shimin fled to Fusang, with only Du Ruhui, Cheng Zhijie, Hou Mo and Chen Xu by his side, and even the Xuanjia Tiejun had only a hundred or so people.

However, now Li Shimin only has more than 100 people in the city-state, and almost all the soldiers of the Xuanjia Iron Army have been named city guards by Li Shimin.

However, more than half of these soldiers of the Xuanjia Army did not know a single character. However, the natives of Fusang either did not understand the language or had no available talents.

After much deliberation, Li Shimin decided to crack the soil and make him a marquis.All the soldiers of the Xuanjia Army who followed Li Shimin who migrated from the Central Plains and the guards of the Qin Palace were all granted the title of Marquis. For example, Cheng Zhijie was granted the title of Duke of Lu, Du Ruhui was granted the title of Duke of Zhao, and Hou Mo and Chen Xu were granted the title of Duke of Chu.

Li Shimin's seventh son, Li Yun, was born in Fusang as the king of Wei, and his eighth son, Li Zhen, was the king of Jin.

The point is that Li Shimin can't even set up the shelf of the three provinces and six ministries now, and there is really no one to use.Li Shimin wanted to crack the soil and seal the marquis, so that the city-state would have a high degree of autonomy.At the same time, order the city guards of each city-state to recruit talents for themselves.

In this era, it is still a family country.Pay attention to one person gaining the Tao, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven.Now, the soldiers under Li Shimin's command have all become the founding princes of Fusang Datang, and their respective families will definitely send their children to come to Fusang Datang from thousands of miles away.This is not a false lord, but they are a real fief.The fields and mine resources in the fief, including the population, are all their property, and they will definitely manage it with care.

Of course, this is also the most helpless way.

There is a saying, 'the people are the foundation of the country'.There is another saying, there are people in Desi, there are soil, there is wealth in Tusi.The virtues of the ancestral system are as good as land and wealth, although they are expensive enough, they cannot be abolished because of this.

This is why everyone followed Li Shimin into exile for tens of thousands of miles without fleeing.Li Shimin dare not forget this virtue and heart!
Now Li Jiancheng is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and he is doing a good job.Occupying the people's hearts and righteousness, Li Shimin can't compete with Li Jiancheng at all. The only way to turn things around is to manage Fusang Datang well, and then compete with Li Jiancheng.

Of course, the enfeoffment system, which has disappeared for nearly a thousand years in Chinese history, will bring disaster to the future if it is raised again, but Li Shimin has no choice.

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Entering Hexi, Li Xiuning was surprised to find that caravans appeared from time to time along the way.Originally, as the year approached, caravans were rare even in Guanzhong.

But I didn't expect that the caravan went forward in the snow despite the severe cold.The people here are either busy or in a hurry, and everyone walks a little faster than in Guanzhong, as if everyone here is extremely busy.

Here you can't see the idlers wandering on the wharf of the Weihe River in Chang'an, nor the romantic literati on the banks of the Qujiangchi River all day long. Putting on a stage and performing arts is not about the elegant and elegant stories of the previous dynasty at all, but it is mostly about the gains and losses of the people's livelihood in the current situation. The government not only does not prohibit it, but the servants and subordinates are around to maintain order.

People here can't see the undisguised look on other people's faces...not to mention the more than half-repaired stone road outside the city, and the four-wheeled carriage between the post and the station, the driver actually saw it. When he arrived, he would pick up customers. From the gate of Jincheng Post City, forty miles away, it only cost ten Wen.

A layer of smooth mirror-like gray stone material was laid on the open space, with horizontal and vertical lines and some semicircular lines drawn on it with white ash. A tall shelf was erected at each end of the open space, with two wooden planks on top of the shelf. Perpendicular to the ground, in the center of the wooden board is painted a word "口" in white ash, and a circular circle bent with thin iron bars is fixed at the lower end of the word "口". The lower end of the net is open, and the nets on both sides are leaky, but I don't know what it is used for.

At this time, the surrounding earth mounds were full of people, and many of them were shouting with their necks stretched. The thick Guanzhong accent did not know what they were shouting. Li Xiuning looked at all kinds of people sitting on the earth mounds, and it turned out to be There are all kinds of teachings and nine streams, and there are many people in official uniforms and military uniforms—the most surprising thing is that there are some women among them, and from time to time they let out screams that make people frown.

Looking at these crazy people, Li Xiuning asked: "Chen Lang... what are they doing?"

(End of this chapter)