Man Tanghong

Chapter 860
Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda looked at each other.

What the hell?
What did we hear?

The grandson of the emperor... Oh, no, the grandson of the emperor will be sent to Tibet?
Doesn't that mean that Prince Li Jiancheng is about to die, and King Yong is going to officially take over the position of saint? !

Then are we going to greet the civil and military officials and get ready quickly? !

Under the strange eyes of Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda, Li Yuanji continued: "Now, I said that I want to deal with Tubo, do you have any opinions?"

Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda shook their heads quickly.

Ren Gui hesitated for a moment, then shook her head.

You are about to ascend the throne, how dare we have any opinions.

Didn’t I say something, Wei Junjie who knows current affairs!

Anyway, there is no one in Datang who can take over the position of saint under your silver prestige.

You are what you say.

"Then do as I tell you."

Li Yuanji didn't know that Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda, and Ren Gui had so many inner dramas, but through their reactions, he roughly guessed some of their inner thoughts.

There was only one thought in his mind, and that was...hehehehe...

He said that he wanted to seal Li Jiancheng's eldest son in Tubo, but what he really wanted to seal was Li Jiancheng.

Only Li Jiancheng can hold down Songtsen Gampo, the holy lord of Tubo who is about to rise.

Li Jiancheng's son who is a little older is still a little tender.

It's just that Li Jiancheng is still serving as the prince now, and it would make people feel a little weird and unethical to say that Li Jiancheng was entrusted to Tubo, so Li Jiancheng's son was asked to help Li Jiancheng take the blame.

The reason why he came up with the idea of ​​sealing Li Jiancheng to Tubo was also because he discovered in the past two years that if he wanted to support Li Jiancheng as a puppet, it would not be so smooth.

Li Jiancheng is not a person who is willing to be a puppet, nor is he a master who will keep his peace. After Li Jiancheng is supported, Li Jiancheng will definitely try his best to seize power from him.

He has no intention of fighting with Li Jiancheng internally, because he finds that external fighting is far more interesting than internal fighting.

So he simply decided to seal Li Jiancheng out, and then when Li Yuan was dying, follow the example of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, and make the emperor's grandson directly enthroned and become a puppet.

No matter who the emperor's grandson is, he will be several heads shorter than him in terms of seniority, power, and foundation. In that case, he can control the emperor's grandson calmly.

As for whether he will be provoked by the emperor's grandson who is in his prime when he is old, he is not worried at all.

Because he didn't intend to let the grandson of the emperor sit on the throne forever.

Didn't I say a word, the emperor takes turns to sit at my house next year.

There are three branches of the Li family, one from the family, one who sits for ten years, and rotates. Then let the Zen emperor form a three-member cabinet, together with the three prime ministers and the three chiefs of the military, form a core to govern the Tang Dynasty authority.

The [-] system is relatively stable.

Even if there is a dispute, the winner can also be contested.

In this case, no one will care who is sitting on the throne, and there is no need to go to great lengths to snatch it.

If the emperor wants to regain his own authority, what he has to face is no longer one person, or several people, but a group of people.

A group of people representing the interest groups of the royal family, a group of people representing the interest groups of the civil servants, and a group of people representing the interest groups of the military.

Any group of people, after gaining power, wants them to hand over power, then they will definitely fight to the death.

Of course, in order to ensure that the royal family maintains a certain advantage in this system, one of the three prime ministers must be a relative, and one of the three military chiefs must also be a member of the royal family.

In this way, the interests of the concubines, relatives of the royal family, and civil and military officials among the officials are all taken care of, and no one will object, let alone refuse.

The only one who may not be taken care of is the emperor.

As for the emperor's attitude, everyone doesn't need to care.

After having such an idea, Li Yuanji began to make preparations. With the lessons learned from the last time, Li Yuanji decided not to tell anyone about this matter, and also decided to spend more time preparing and completing this matter .

So what can be told to outsiders can only be lies, and some words to fool people.

The three of Xiao Yu were obviously fooled, so before they left the Tai Chi Hall, they never raised the question of why they wanted to visit Tubo.

After the three of Xiao Yu left the Taiji Hall, they immediately approved the funds needed by Li Daoli and the funds for building the city in Turkic. At the same time, they sent people from Honglu Temple to contact envoys from Linyi and Tubo.

The initial contact received a poor response.

The envoys of the two countries rejected the matter almost without hesitation.

However, neither Li Yuanji nor Xiao Yu was impatient.

It is a huge threat to them to draw up land and build cities on their land, and to garrison troops. If they are not careful, they will lose their sovereignty, and it is reasonable for them to refuse.

So we have to grind hard, talk slowly, and wait for the opportunity.

When the time is right, they don't need to say anything, they will take the initiative to approach Datang and ask him to build a city and garrison on their territory.

Just like Silla.

When Xiao Yu and the others were busy spending money, studying economics, and negotiating with envoys from Linyi and Tubo, Li Xiaogong's conspiracy against the Boling Cui family finally came to light.

On July 100th, when the Boling Cui family’s sea-going ship sailed to Dizhou after replenishing in Yangzhou, it encountered the Sea Dragon King Roaring. Among the more than [-] merchant ships, except for the three largest ships, the remaining ships were all Swallowed by the Dragon King of the Sea, including the ten grain ships that the Boling Cui family helped Datang transport grain.

Before the news was sent back to Chang'an, the imperial court sent a document to Boling to confiscate the food transported by the Cui family of Boling as military rations.

Anyone with a discerning eye knows that this is Li Xiaogong taking the opportunity to add insult to injury, taking the opportunity to retaliate against the disrespect shown to him by the Cui family of Boling when they swallowed up the property of the Zheng family in Xingyang.

But no one came out to help Boling Cui to complain.

Because Li Xiaogong's targeting was obvious, and within the scope of Li Xiaogong's authority, if the Boling Cui family couldn't handle it, it would only prove that the Boling Cui family was inferior to others.

Although the aristocratic families look out for each other and help each other, they don't help each other with everything.

Like this incident, Li Xiaogong started to attack the Boling Cui family after the Sea Dragon King had finished roaring, which means that the Boling Cui family's merchant ship was swallowed by the Sea Dragon King, not because Li Xiaogong used some conspiracy secretly.

Now Li Xiaogong is using his power to target the Boling Cui family openly and aboveboard, and all his actions are upright without any cover-up.

People from other aristocratic families will not help the Boling Cui family either.

After all, although everyone is an ally, they are only allies.

As long as people don’t target you with conspiracies and tricks, and if their targeting doesn’t harm other people’s interests, there’s no reason for you to take the risk of being targeted and pay a huge price to help you.

Everyone is not a good person.

Therefore, when Li Xiaogong fights with the Boling Cui family, people from aristocratic and wealthy families will stand by and watch. If you win, everyone doesn't mind adding icing on the cake. If you lose, it's because you are not as good as others.

If you lose so badly that you can no longer gain a foothold in the wealthy family, then I'm sorry, everyone will rush up and swallow you up.

Therefore, after Li Xiaogong started targeting the Boling Cui family, none of the top aristocratic families responded.

Cui Mingan of the Cui family in Boling, the moment he got the documents issued by Li Xiaogong, he immediately collected the grain and transported it to Luoyang by water transport. The food was burned, and the accompanying Cui clan members were also stunned. They took off their clothes and threw them into the reed wormwood bushes on both sides.

Cui immediately realized that this was being targeted, and the first suspect was Li Xiaogong.

For this reason, Wang Gui also specially impeached Li Xiaogong.

The reason why Wang Gui impeached Li Xiaogong was not for the sake of fairness and justice, but because Wang Gui's cousin, the daughter of former Sui Yongzhou Sima Wang Xiaoyuan married Cui Fengju of the Cui family, which can be regarded as in-laws.

So when Cui Mingan was unable to go to court, he helped Cui Mingan call Qu.

Li Xiaogong paid no attention to this.

Wang Gui continued to impeach Li Xiaogong without getting a bargain.

As a result, when Cui Shi prepared the grain for the second time and transported it to Luoyang by land, things changed drastically.

Cui's grain transportation team was attacked again. This time, Cui was careful and caught the person who attacked the food transportation team. After interrogation, he learned that it was a member of the Hedong Liu family.

The Liu family in Hedong flourished in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. It was very prosperous in the Southern Dynasties. After the former Sui Dynasty, it declined. After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Pei family who lived in Hedong, like the Liu family, rose strongly, and the Liu family was a little out of breath. , it appears to be even worse.

After learning that Li Xiaogong intends to target the Boling Cui family and eliminate the Boling Cui family's participation in water transportation and sea transportation, he thought of taking a gamble.

He wanted to help Li Xiaogong express his anger, win Li Xiaogong's favor, and thus win the Boling Cui family's share in water transportation and sea transportation.

Water transportation and sea transportation have been developed for more than two years. It is well known how much profit the aristocratic families involved in water transportation and sea transportation have made.

Therefore, other aristocratic families who did not participate in water transportation and sea transportation are jealous of this benefit.

Even some aristocratic families involved in water transport and sea transport are envious of those in other people's hands.

Therefore, the Hedong Liu family wanted to revive the family, and wanted to seize the members of the Bolong Cui family, and other wealthy families could understand it.

They even felt that if they were in the position of the Hedong Liu family, they would be more fierce and cruel than the Hedong Liu family.

Therefore, people from other wealthy families have no complaints about what the Hedong Liu family has done.

Some people even ran secretly to cheer for the Hedong Liu family, to make the Hedong Liu family more cruel, and it is best to pull the Boling Cui family down.

Among them, Hongnong Yang's,

(End of this chapter)