Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 141 Feng Ang
To be honest, for Fang Xuanling, the [-] people were just a slap in the face, just an opportunity for Fang Xuanling to have a private conversation with Li Tai.

Because for Fang Xuanling, relying on his own spiritual talent, the more familiar he is with the other party, the easier it is to imitate his thinking.

And I lacked an opportunity to contact the King of Yue alone to simulate and judge the thinking and mentality of the King of Yue.

But I didn't expect my conversation to go so smoothly. Did I expect Li Tai to leave Chang'an?
Just like that sentence, as long as Li Tai didn't bring it up, who can beat Li Shimin's meaning.

It is impossible for him to let Li Tai go to the corners and corners to seal it. At that time, he will just use the procedure of 6 people to make amends.

Therefore, Fang Xuanling was more of a tester, but he did not expect that Li Tai actually agreed.

And I used my spiritual talent to imitate Li Tai's thinking, and Li Tai really served purely for the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.

With this kind of vision, structure, and heart, Fang Xuanling felt that there was nothing wrong with Li Tai becoming Li Shimin's second.

However, as a literati student of Confucian origin, he still instinctively feels that an orderly inheritance can better maintain the stability of the Tang Dynasty.

When I think of this, I have strengthened my mind, and I must not let the incident of Xuanwumen happen again.

Under such circumstances, it is the best choice for Li Tai to leave Chang'an.

Since ancient times, in the case of the great unified dynasty, there has been no successful case against the central government anywhere.

Not to mention that the current prince is smart and kind, and he will recall Li Tai to the central government when the prince successfully ascends the throne.

Then Li Tai will become an important minister of the clan, and Li Chengqian will become the best cooperation to maintain the Tang system.

Fang Xuanling looked at Li Tai, and naturally admired him more and more. After the two parties finished the transaction, Fang Xuanling even brought out good tea to entertain Li Tai.

It's a pity that Li Tai couldn't drink the tea with vinegar, and even at the moment of entrance, he thought that Fang Xuanling was going to poison himself to death.

So Li Tai resolutely retreated after finishing the deal. Life is so beautiful, and he still wants to live.

"Father, King Yue has left?" Fang Xuanling's son, Fang Yi, walked out, but saw Fang Xuanling sent Li Tai away and returned to the room.

"The king of Yue acted swiftly and resolutely. Now that the matter has been settled, he will naturally leave." Fang Xuanling said calmly.

"Oh!" Fang Yi said straightly, "Mother asked me to inform the kitchen that the food is ready, please ask Aye to eat with the King of Yue.

Unexpectedly, King Yue was so capable, coming and going in such a hurry, he didn't intend to stay for dinner. "

"The king of Yue has always done things like this, it is indeed my great fortune!" Fang Xuanling nodded, admiring Li Tai's strength of character.

Li Tai asked Lu Anshou to rush home quickly. I have to say that I ran all day today and didn't have a good meal. I just took the snacks in the car to satisfy my hunger. Naturally, I have to eat a good meal first. Fill your stomach and talk.

Naturally, the Yue Palace would not stop eating, and even Lu Anshou and the others ate along with them.

In terms of basic necessities, food, housing, and transportation, Li Tai never treats his subordinates badly, but when eating, Li Tai eats with his rice bowl, while Lu Anshou eats with his rice bucket.

Although the painting styles of the two are somewhat different, eating together is exceptionally harmonious.

After eating, Lu Anshou continued to stand guard, while Li Tai was thinking about today's affairs in the study.

For Li Tai, reaching a deal with Fang Xuanling this time is a trivial matter, the most important thing is to know Fang Xuanling's attitude.

This is very important. Maintaining the orderly inheritance of the Tang Dynasty is not the same thing as supporting Li Chengqian!

In the case of Li Chengqian is already the prince, the status has been determined, and the monarch and his ministers are different, so he hopes to leave by himself.

But what if Li Chengqian is not the prince anymore...

You know, when Li Chengqian was lawless, Li Shimin, in order to ensure Li Chengqian's position as the crown prince, found Wei Zheng as Li Chengqian's teacher instead of Fang Xuanling.

It can be seen from here that Fang Xuanling actually doesn't like Li Chengqian.

You must know that Fang Xuanling, as the house minister, was under one person in the Zhenguan Dynasty, and most of the capable officials of the court were selected by Fang Xuanling.

Although Fang Xuanling's thinking simulation cannot judge a person's potential and ability, it can judge a person's heart and thinking, so Fang Xuanling's selection of candidates is more focused on people with outstanding hearts.

These people are upright and upright, and their abilities are not the best, but under a good system, these people can compare with those officials with ordinary minds but superior abilities by virtue of their own mentality.

After all, under a system, is it better to be an official with a score of about 85 points in one place, or have different ideas, but all rely on their own extraordinary talents to fight all the way up, at least an official with a score of [-] points or more is good, then The benevolent see benevolence.

Therefore, among the talents recommended by Fang Xuanling, there are very few such famous ministers, but the Zhenguan bureaucratic system created by Fang Xuanling is second to none in the entire feudal dynasty.

What makes them strong is not the ability of individual ministers, but the strength of the whole.

With Fang Xuanling's support, Li Chengqian's power would actually be terrifying.

So under such circumstances, it is a good thing that he has a deal with Fang Xuanling.

He can definitely let Li Chengqian know about the deal with Fang Xuanling when he has made some achievements and returned to the court.

At that time, will Fang Xuanling arrange himself to the local prefectures and counties for the order of the country's inheritance, or "Chong'er was born outside, Shen was born and died inside", there is Fang Xuanling sitting in the center at the center to dispatch him back at any time, and there is himself outside It depends on how Li Chengqian understands this matter.

Anyway, I definitely won't contribute to the flames, it's all up to Li Chengqian to guess.

Returning to the present, Li Tai thought for a while, no matter what Fang Xuanling's starting point was, as long as he could return to Chang'an again, then the transaction between himself and Fang Xuanling would become the bond between him and him.

It feels like the person who cares most about your safety is definitely your creditor.

You are also the easiest to become friends with them, especially after you have borrowed a sum of money from them. friendship.

Because they really want you to make a comeback—to pay back the money.

Of course, for Li Tai, the best thing about completing the deal with Fang Xuanling was that it gave him a clear development goal, and most importantly, bought him enough time.

For someone like me who knows how to plan and has already built an agricultural school, one or two years is enough for me to make a certain level of arrangement for Youzhou, so that I won't be tied up after I go there. A series of things need to be done. start from scratch.

Instead, he can immediately invest in his own plan and give full play to his greatest strengths. From this point of view, this is his greatest strategic advantage. If he can clarify the direction of his own development in the future, many arrangements will become more leisurely.

As for what he fought for from Fang Xuanling, such as salt and iron franchises, to be honest, wouldn't he be able to develop without these things?

Of course not, these are just hunting rabbits on New Year's Eve. It is a New Year with it, and it is also a New Year without him.

It's just that Li Tai originally planned to carry out a comprehensive expansion plan after the construction of Zheng Baiqu, but now he plans to shrink it a little bit.

After all, it was originally planned to set up the entire factory system this year, and even planned to let the peacock throw cotton-padded clothes on the market this year, but now, both the scale and the quantity need to be controlled.

Because you need to bring money to Youzhou, after all, in the place where the sky is high and the emperor is far away, you need enough capital to develop your talents.

Therefore, for the next period of time, I should keep a low profile and don't cause trouble.

But in fact, Li Tai didn't have time to think about it for the next time.

Because soon Tang Jian asked people to take the [-] people to settle in Zhengbaiqu, and Li Tai also started to take Du Chuke to arrange them.

With the experience of dealing with disaster victims at the beginning, these people are actually relatively easy to deal with.

At least the students from the agricultural college come out one by one, let them wash their bodies, prepare their clothes, build their houses, and register them one by one. After completing this series of steps, they can go to the construction site to move bricks .

After all, Zheng Baiqu's refurbishment was really short of manpower, and Li Tai didn't deceive anything about this.

Therefore, the Zhengbaiqu project is like a huge absorbent sponge, continuously absorbing these people and transforming them into labor force.

And these people were still a little panicked at the beginning, but when they could eat food after working, or even take home some food after working for a week, these people began to adapt to the working conditions of the construction site very quickly. Life.

Because relying on one's own labor to keep oneself alive is the best thing for the people of this era.

What I am most afraid of is that no matter how hard I work, in the end, I don't even have money to eat.

At this moment, with the support of Gaoling's bumper wheat harvest, with Li Tai's previous industrial layout as a guide, there are even various supporting facilities for the laborers in Zhengbaiqu when they are on vacation.

Therefore, the surrounding area built around Zheng Baiqu, these places that should have been depressed, became lively instead.

Among the three canals in the renovated Zhengbai Canal, two of them are planned to pass through the two wings of Gaoling.

So naturally Gaoling successfully reaped the dividends of Zheng Baiqu's construction, adding fire to the already bustling city.

"This is Chang'an?" A muscular old man came to Gaoling by boat.

When I got off the boat, I saw the busy scene of cars coming and going at Gaoling Wharf, and I felt an indescribable amazement in my eyes.

"Father, this is Gaoling. It is only one day away from Chang'an. Generally, all envoys or officials who visit Chang'an will rest in Gaoling for one night and leave for Chang'an tomorrow." The middle-aged man who came to greet the old man said. road.

"I've been walking all the way, but the population is sparse and there is no prosperity, but only here, I seem to see the scene of the Sui Dynasty's huge crowds again!" The old man said to the middle-aged man in front of him, "It really deserves to be the capital of the country."

Looking at the official boat the old man was sitting on, and the armored guards following him closely when he got off, he knew that the old man was not an ordinary person.

He is Feng An, who lived all the way from the Sui Dynasty to the great Tang Dynasty, went to Liaodong with Yang Guang, and also pacified Lingnan during the war in the Sui Dynasty.

The most arrogant gesture is to take off your helmet and shout at the rebels when suppressing the Lingnan rebellion:

"Do you know me!"

Then the generals in the rebel army knelt down and surrendered, and they won the war and captured the Guangzhou area.

A plot that you might not dare to write in a novel, but it really happened to Feng An in history.

And such a person, even in the troubled times of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, seemed to see that only Li Shimin could save the world, so he didn't even take the title of King of Vietnam. Li Jing came with an edict to surrender, and then he decisively joined Li Tang.

When Li Shimin became the emperor, there were more than a dozen memorials that he suspected at first that he would rebel.

Even Li Shimin was ready to send troops to exterminate him, but Wei Zheng persuaded him, saying that he would know by sending an envoy there.

Then it proved that he was really loyal to the court, and even his eldest son was sent over as a proton.

The sucrose that Li Tai ate last time was a bribe his son dropped by when he came to the court.

After all, although sweet candy has been discovered, it is really not easy to make. The most famous sweet food in the whole court is still honey.

Although the sweet party also wants to rise in this era, the social foundation does not allow it!

At this moment, Feng An went to Beijing to meet Tang Taizong, because the news that Tang Taizong had solved the Eastern Turks finally fell into Feng An's ears after a year of transmission.

Feng An felt that it would be better for him to take the initiative to show his loyalty to the court than to continue to be the king of Vietnam in the south without knowing his life or death. After all, he had no need to confront Datang.

To some extent, this can also be regarded as the spread of Li Shimin Tian Khan's reputation.

Because Datang is not a dynasty that is not Han and Wu like Han and Wu, and does not allow all other ethnic groups except the Han to be inappropriate.

It was a kind of imperial court that could recognize the coexistence of alien races and Han ethnic groups, which made Feng An willing to take the risk to try it. After all, if he could get the King of Vietnam recognized by the imperial court, he would be more willing to accept it.

In fact, his choice cannot be said to be wrong. After all, the current imperial court may not even want to manage the areas south of the Yangtze River, let alone his areas in Guangxi or even Hainan.

It's not that Datang can't reach here, but a problem of management costs and local output.

As long as Feng An doesn't make trouble, the court actually doesn't mind that there is a Vietnamese king there who can manage the local affairs properly.

After all, even when the Jiangnan area was being further developed, Vietnam and other places said no, let alone Datang at this time.

At least before the Anshi Rebellion, although the south had been developed, the level of development in the north was still far behind.

"Really, it's very prosperous!" Feng An sighed again.

(End of this chapter)