Cultivation of chastity

Li Tai didn't dare to be negligent, and he didn't go directly to make an appointment with Fang Xuanling. After all, if he had a close relationship with Fang Xuanling in private now, Fang Xuanling didn't need to care, but he couldn't care less. make mistakes.

Therefore, the next day Li Tai went up normally, but when he went down, he approached Fang Xuanling generously!

After all, going to Fang Xuanling in private is forming a party for personal gain, but if you just go to chat with Fang Xuanling in front of everyone, then the people in the palace will not say much even if they see it.

After all, could it be that Li Tai, the king of Wei, couldn't exchange a few words with Fang Xuanling!
"Qing Que has met Fang Xiang, I don't know what Fang Xiang asked me for yesterday?" Li Tai asked Fang Xuanling openly and aboveboard.

"Why don't we go for a walk together!" Fang Xuanling looked at Li Tai's cautious look, smiled and made a gesture of invitation.

"Please, Mr. Fang!" Li Tai respectfully asked Fang Xuanling to go ahead, half a body ahead of him.

Seeing this scene, Fang Xuanling didn't say much, but just straight to the point and spoke to Li Tai.

Whether it is Fang Xuanling, who has always been pursuing the streamlining of government agencies, or Li Tai, who advocates working, they don't like Taijiquan in the cloud.

Both of them have various affairs, so if they have time to put on airs, wouldn't it be good to deal with a few more government affairs!
"These days, I was away from the court because of my mother's worries, but I heard that King Wei offered a plan to plot Goguryeo!" Fang Xuanling said.

"It's not a conspiracy, at most it's just subjugation!

Goguryeo has been my Chinese territory since ancient times, but during the Han Dynasty, the Central Plains were in chaos, so it was stolen by foreign thieves.

Now that my Tang Dynasty has inherited the Han Dynasty, it is natural to take back the territory of the Great Han! "

Li Tai didn't know what Fang Xuanling was going to say, so he told the truth.

"Did the King of Wei know that when Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty conquered Goguryeo three times, the country was destroyed and the family was destroyed?" Fang Xuanling said in a deep voice.

"Understood!" Li Tai nodded and said, "So Goguryeo will be destroyed even more. At least before Datang falls into civil strife, I will not allow any foreign regimes around Datang that will threaten Datang, not even one!"

"Civil strife?" Fang Xuanling said in a deep voice when he heard Li Tai's words, "Nowadays, the sages of the Tang Dynasty are unparalleled in power and virtue, and the courtiers are respectful and diligent. Why should King Wei alarmist and cause civil strife!"

"There may be no future now, as long as the aristocratic family continues to use money to buy and sell land, one day there will be a problem of land annexation in the Tang Dynasty, which will lead to civil strife and the tragedy of the Han Dynasty. Can we still turn a blind eye to it?

The only thing I can do is to beat all the foreign races around to death. Even if chaos breaks out due to land annexation, at least the Han people will unify the world! "

Li Tai said to Fang Xuanling quite calmly, probably only Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui were the ministers who listened to these words.

When Fang Xuanling heard Li Tai's words, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

I am looking for you because I want to hear about your future governance philosophy. I hope that you, King Wei, can be more frank, but are you too frank, King Wei?

If someone else said that, shouldn't they be sent to Dali Temple, then at least three clans would be implicated.

"The king of Wei has filtered it, as long as the ruler is wise and his ministers are wise, there will be a way to stop land annexation!" Fang Xuanling persuaded.

"Land annexation is unstoppable." Li Tai shook his head and said,

"Because land is the most basic means of production, and people's pursuit of profit will eventually instinctively occupy more means of production. As long as people are still there, this instinct cannot be changed."

When Li Tai said this, he couldn't help but think of his previous life. Although the land is theoretically owned by the state, as long as other things with profit and value-added appear, people will instinctively chase after them.

Houses, stocks, or others, as long as socialism has not been truly realized, the pursuit of profits will not stop.

"Production materials?" Hearing Li Tai's words, Fang Xuanling couldn't help muttering to himself.

Although this term is quite new, Fang Xuanling can still understand what this thing is based on the context. Perhaps this is the beauty of Chinese.

But Li Tai continued, "So, everything I have done is not to change land mergers, at most it is just delaying the outbreak of land mergers through the system.

Or accumulate more hole cards for the younger generations, when the country really can't bear all kinds of conflicts, at least let them have the possibility of returning to Tang Dynasty like Liu Xiuguang and Wu Zhongxing. "

"Wei Wang is too pessimistic about the future!" Fang Xuanling felt that he didn't know what to say when he heard Li Tai's words.

After all, normally speaking, King Wei, you are now the most favorable contender for the throne, or you are about to become the logistics president who conquered Goguryeo.

Can't you be a little more sunny and energetic?

As pessimistic as you are, you always use the destruction of the Tang Dynasty as the benchmark when making plans. This makes me feel like I didn’t read the almanac when I went out today!
"What politicians need most is caution. Only when you know clearly that Datang's future will be lost if you are not careful, then you will be cautious when you act!"

When Li Tai said this, he said with emotion, "So I admire Zhuge Liang the most in my life. He is able to engrave caution into his bones, but he can overcome caution and keep moving forward. He is really a genius in the world."

Listening to Li Tai's words, Fang Xuanling couldn't help but smiled, and didn't want to ask Wei Wang about his ambitions.

After all, a person who can see the shortcomings that Datang cannot solve, but handles them carefully will not do anything excessive.

So Fang Xuanling said, "Then, King Wei, you have thought about it for so long, do you have any ideas about land annexation?"

"I have some ideas!" Li Tai nodded when he heard Fang Xuanling's words, "There is no way to completely solve it, but there are ways to delay. The first one is to insist on Aye's entrustment plan for 100 years. shake!"

Fang Xuanling heard Li Tai's words, but he didn't expect that the first sentence from Li Tai's mouth was this, and couldn't help but said to Li Tai, "Why?!"

Li Tai said calmly: "The final result of the land merger is the contradiction between man and land.

The aristocratic family with the most abundant land went out to establish a country, and the land left in the Tang Dynasty must be exchanged for resources, and the imperial court was their best trading partner.

After all, apart from the imperial court, no matter how well-prepared the other aristocratic families are, I don't believe they can prepare all the supplies they need.

And when the time comes, there will be an opportunity to reclaim the land after all. "

Fang Xuanling couldn't help being stunned when he heard Li Tai's words, but he didn't expect Li Tai to be so calm with him.

But Fang Xuanling thought about it again, but he had to admit that Li Tai was right.

There is an exception in the family where there is a figure of the Four Sages or Ten Sages who can support war with war and directly establish a vassal state by himself.

Otherwise, as long as your family wants to establish a vassal state, it needs the support of the Tang court itself.

And it needs the support of the Tang court itself, so for the top family, it is not without desires and demands, after all, there is a time to seek Tao from the court.

To be honest, the headache for the imperial court for those top families is that these families have already strived to the top of the five surnames and seven kings. As far as the Tang Dynasty is concerned, they have already reached the top. How do you want them to struggle.

Even if they are just waiting to die in the Tang Dynasty, their starting point is much higher than most people.

This made the emperor not know how to deal with them at all.

Let's talk about suppression, they didn't make a mistake, let's talk about reuse, these guys are salty fish without the slightest goal.

As long as they don't get involved, they can basically get involved in the official officials of the three provinces and six ministries, and some can even get mixed up with the servants.

And this group of people occupied important positions in the court because of the Matthew effect, but they didn't need to work, so the country was not yet settled.

Li Tai continued, "At the same time, when these people go out to build a country, the most important resource will change from land to population.

After all, it is impossible for someone not to take half of them there, and it turns out that he is a prince in that piece of land.

And as long as the population is brought there, Datang can also relax or strengthen the control of the population as needed.

After all, any aristocratic family can bring a population of 1 to 100. I believe they can do it, but I don’t believe they can bring a population of 200 million or [-] million. should die too"

Fang Xuanling heard Li Tai's words, and couldn't help but twitched the corner of her mouth, can you stop talking about the death of Tang Dynasty, don't rely on you being the king of Wei, I dare not sue you!

Looking back now, Fang Xuanling had to admit that through such a method, the country could indeed erode the population and land in the hands of the aristocratic family little by little.

But to change the way of thinking, whether those aristocratic nobles want to become a vassal state, it is up to the benevolent to see the benevolent and the wise to see wisdom.

It would be fine if no one around them became a vassal state. They hang out in a circle together, and whoever walks is a dog.

But if someone pats everyone's butt and says, "I don't want to be a man, I'm going to be a watchdog of the empire."

I'm afraid that this circle will explode directly, and one after another is deeply afraid that they will be one step behind others and lose the opportunity to break free from this ball cage.

Fang Xuanling listened to Li Tai's words and said in a deep voice, "The king of Wei intends to make the aristocratic family also become princes and kings!"

"Otherwise!" Li Tai said calmly, "Otherwise, could it be that only my Li family's children can become the princes and kings, and will that help resolve the land annexation within the Tang Dynasty and the conflict between man and land in the future?"

When Li Tai said this, he shook his head and said, "It's meaningless.

If the land in the hands of the aristocratic family does not let go, then as time goes by, it will eventually come to the time when Datang is overwhelmed.

And at that time, even Datang will completely explode!

My purpose is to let Datang survive as long as possible, and what I have done can only be regarded as delaying the outbreak of conflicts. "

"King Wei is humble!" Fang Xuanling couldn't help but smile wryly when he heard Li Tai's words. King Wei obviously wanted to convey his political philosophy to himself, a political philosophy that allowed imperial power and aristocratic families to coexist.

To some extent, the current leader of the Tang family should be Fang Xuanling.

Although the Fang family's prestige could not reach the historical status of the Five Families and Seven Wangs, as long as Fang Xuanling was still alive, then Fang Xuanling could be regarded as the head of the family.

There is no other reason, because the entire organizational structure of the court was created by Fang Xuanling, and even Fang Xuanling's words in many cases may be more effective than Li Shimin's orders. To a certain extent, he is a bureaucrat. Realization of the system.

Therefore, Li Tai has nothing to hide from Fang Xuanling, and there is no need to hide anything.

What I have to do has always been a glorious and stalwart politician, not a conspiracy behind the scenes.

All my plans are also placed on the table frankly, if you are willing to follow yourself, then go, if you don't want to follow yourself, then don't blame yourself for leaving you behind.

What I need is only those who are willing to follow me. These people are not only members of my agricultural school, but also the aristocratic family that has evolved from the Spring and Autumn Period to the present. I have been trying to find a way to coordinate them.

I just hope that after I raise my own flag, more people will gather around me.

Therefore, I have never changed my political views on myself, that is enfeoffment!

I told Li Shimin how to solve the conflict between people and land that will arise in the future due to overpopulation, and enfeoffment.

I told Li Chengqian that you should not despair, even if you have no future, but your son still has hope, because of enfeoffment.

Facing Fang Xuanling now, Li Tai still held up the banner of enfeoffment, attracting families who wanted to become vassal states!

In short, Li Tai's system of enfeoffment has not changed, and talents who support Li Tai's enfeoffment will naturally gather.

However, when Li Tai first proposed enfeoffment, everyone just regarded it as a joke, and no one cared.

But when Li Tai established an agricultural school, sorted out channels, established the Silk Road, and even competed with the prince, Li Tai's political philosophy was still enfeoffment, and people couldn't help but think.

Now Li Tai has become the king of Wei, the first successor of the Tang Dynasty, and the political philosophy of the king of Wei is still enfeoffment.

Then Li Tai believed that those aristocratic families would eventually invest some money even for this tiny hope.

It has to be said that Fang Xuanling was a little skeptical, thinking:

"King Wei, don't you want to sit on the throne of the Ninth Five-Year King and become a great man who controls the power of the world?
Why do you still insist on enfeoffment, not only the Li family, but even the aristocratic family. "

But Fang Xuanling had to admit that in the face of King Wei's political ideas, at least before the formal start of enfeoffment, he believed that all aristocratic families and clans with a little bit of ambition hoped to support King Wei's ascension.

Because even if there is only one acre of land, who doesn't want to become a prince, make laws by himself, hold power by himself, and even use his own name to determine the surname of his descendants in the future!

Fang Xuanling found that his unspoken political ideas seemed so insignificant in the face of the enfeoffment insisted by King Wei.

Because the enfeoffment of King Wei was not enfeoffment of Guanzhong Xia, but the land outside China.

On the surface, it is enfeoffing the land, but in fact, it is hoped that through enfeoffing the land, the empire will further concentrate its internal rights and eliminate the aristocratic families.

"Forget it, let's not talk about it!" Fang Xuanling felt helpless, looked at Li Tai at this moment, and persuaded Li Tai seriously,
"King Wei, no matter whether this path is right or wrong, please don't change it, or you will be backlashed!"

"Qing Que, thank Fang Xiang for your warning!" Li Shi saluted Fang Xuanling very solemnly.