Wentang

Chapter 759 Li Shimin's plot
"It's really rare for you two brothers to come to me together. Why, do you want to close the country?" Looking at Li Tai and Li Ke in front of him, Yue Shan smiled.

Li Tai said angrily: "Stop laughing, I'm going to be annoyed to death by being blocked by a group of clans every day."

Li Ke's expression was more restrained. After all, Yue Shan was his master: "Me too. Now people from the clan come to the door every day. It's useless for me to hide in the military academy. I heard from my mother that many people have found her."

Yue Shan naturally knew what happened, so he didn't find it strange: "Then what are you guys looking for me for? I can't stop them all."

Li Tai said bluntly: "I came here to take refuge. Shui'er and Sheng'er Lu'er are here. When this matter passes, I will move out."

"Why he is looking for you, I don't know."

Shui'er is of course Yue Shui'er, Sheng'er and Lu'er are all their children, the eldest Li Sheng, the second child Li Xuelu, they really brought their family here.

Yue Shan pointed at him, and scolded with a smile: "Look at how promising you are, you are scared? Besides, my family is not safe, your clan is just blocking the door, I have not only the clan but also Qingliu here."

Li Taidao: "Your status is superior, you can close the door and refuse anyone, but I can't. Your house is so big, and it's empty, so what if you give us a room."

Yue Shan said: "Forget it, you can choose it yourself, you can live as long as you like."

Li Tai said proudly: "Lizhi has already prepared the yard, and now Shui'er and the others are moving in."

Yue Shan rolled his eyes and complained: "I told you to avoid it if you're fine, don't be an eyesore here."

"Uh..." Li Tai's expression froze, and he said with a sneer, "You guys are so boring, you just do some shameful things." After speaking, he ran away in despair.

Li Ke gave him an apologetic look from behind.

Yue Shan shook his head, isn't it written in the history books of his previous life that Li Tai wanted to compete with Li Chengqian for the crown prince?Why are you reacting so slowly now?No wonder Li Shimin didn't pass on the throne to him.

Of course, this is all joking.The environment creates character. In this life, Li Tai gave up the struggle for the throne early on, and devoted himself to studying in the academy, so naturally he didn't have such complicated thoughts.

After Li Tai left, he said to Li Ke: "Mr. Guo is full of praise for your performance, and praises you for being a general and a good learner."

Zhang Shigui, the Duke of Guo, succeeded Li Daozong as the head of the Military Academy a year ago.

Li Ke said gratefully: "Guo Guo Gong wrongly praised it, it is because of the teacher's good teaching."

Yue Shan shook his head and said, "You don't need to thank me, actually I didn't teach you anything, everything you have learned is through your own hard work."

Li Ke said seriously: "If there is no teacher for your protection, I would not be where I am today. You never forget my kind students."

Yue Shan was very pleased, and said: "Tell me, what do you come to me for?"

Li Ke said: "There are some things I want to ask you for advice."

"Go ahead."

"What does father mean this time, to test or to seal?"

"There is no need to doubt that this enfeoffment is bound to be carried forward. Moreover, the saint is using the enfeoffment to play a big game, and no one can stop his pace."

"Big chess?"

"It's just... well, it's better that you don't know. You have to keep abreast of the matter of entrustment, and keep quiet when you tell Concubine Yang. Especially take good care of the King of Shu, and don't let him talk nonsense."

"Here, I understand." Li Ke responded quickly, and after hesitating for a while, he asked another question: "If my father asks me about this matter, how should I answer?"

Yue Shan didn't answer his question directly, but asked: "Do you want to seal the country?"

Li Ke hesitated at first, and then said bravely: "Yes, I want to go to Fengguo to show my skills."

Yue Shan sighed: "I have really wronged you these years, and you can't use your talents. But I suggest you give up this opportunity to enfeoff, and even if you choose to enfeoff the country in the future, try to stay as far away from the mainland of the Tang Dynasty as possible, the farther the better."

Li Ke asked puzzledly, "Why?"

Yue Shan said: "Being close to the Tang Dynasty can use the local power to develop the feudal state, and it is safer to have the protection of the Tang Dynasty."

"If you are mediocre and unambitious, this is the most suitable place to choose, but I know you are a person who is unwilling to be inferior to others."

Li Ke said in fear: "The teacher misunderstood, the disciple is not this kind of person."

Yue Shan shook his head with a smile: "Perhaps you really don't have such thoughts now, but that's because you are trapped in a cage, and you don't have the conditions to have such thoughts."

"Once you get out of the cage and taste the taste of power, ambition will inevitably grow in your heart. Don't rush to deny it, listen to me."

"Ambition is not something to be shamed, let alone you have the ability to match it."

"But you have to choose a suitable release direction for your ambition. If you choose the right direction, you can create your own glory. If you choose the wrong direction, I don't need to say more about the consequences."

"How do you think your ability compares to the prince's?"

Li Ke pondered for a while, and then said: "I am inferior to him in governing the country, and I am slightly better than him in military affairs."

Yue Shan nodded and said: "Very pertinent, do you think you have a chance to compete with him?"

Li Ke shook his head and said: "No, he is full-fledged and presided over by his father and mother. He also enjoys a good reputation in the court and the public. No one among many brothers can compete with him. And everyone admires him, and no one wants to compete with him."

The mother here deserves to be the eldest grandson Wugou, and the queen is the nominal mother of all the princes and daughters.

Yue Shan said: "That's it. How can you allow others to snore beside the couch? Will the prince allow himself a talented and ambitious younger brother when he ascends the throne in the future?"

"At that time, he will definitely take measures to restrict you, and you will be bound in a bigger cage."

"The best way is to get away from home and go out into the wider world. It may be difficult at first, but once you get a foothold, it's really sky-high."

Is the sky high enough for birds to fly?Li Ke was also moved by what he heard, and couldn't help asking: "Where does the teacher think I should go?"

Yue Shan did not give him any advice directly, but analyzed: "Nanzhan Buzhou, Dongsheng Shenzhou and Xiniu Hezhou are the most suitable places. As for where to go, it depends on yourself.

"Let's talk about Nanzhan Buzhou first. The number of natives there is relatively small, the land is vast and fertile, and it is not far or close to the mainland of the Tang Dynasty. It is relatively easy to start."

"But the shortcoming here is precisely this. It's too unchallenging, and your military capabilities can't be brought into play. It's not far from Datang. In the future, it will be restrained by the local people, and the development potential is insufficient."

"Dongsheng Shenzhou is very far away from the Tang Dynasty, and there are tens of millions of descendants of Yin and Shang. After you get there, you can display your military talents a little bit, and the development potential is very high. If the construction is completed, you may not be able to create a brand new one there. Datang."

"Xiniu Hezhou, there are a large number of Hu people living on it with splendid civilization. These Hu people split into dozens of countries to conquer each other. The situation is a bit similar to the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, but there is no unified suzerain country."

"If you go here, both the beginning and the process will be the most difficult, and you may even be in danger of dying, but you can give full play to your military talents."

"Which of these three places do you want to go to, you can think about it yourself."

"Think clearly, and when the sage asks you, just tell him what you think honestly. He is your father, and he won't blame you for it."

Li Ke saluted and said, "Mr. Xie, I understand."

Yue Shan nodded and said, "Well, if you choose one of these three continents, when the sage asks you for a question, you can try to ask for orders to go to Liuzhao for some exercise."

Li Ke said in surprise: "Huh? This...may cause big brother's misunderstanding."

Yue Shan said: "If it was before, he might still be afraid, but now, as long as you don't think about it, he won't do anything."

Li Ke knew the reason after a little thought, and said pleasantly, "I understand, so I'll go back and collect information about Nanzhao."

"Well, let's go."

Watching him leave, Yue Shan heaved a sigh of relief, the matter of this apprentice can finally be resolved.To be honest, many times he himself regretted why he accepted Li Ke as this apprentice, was he crazy at the beginning?

Fortunately, everything is developing in a positive direction. Li Chengqian has firmly secured the position of prince, and his reputation has spread far and wide, and his existence is recognized by the government and the public.

The most important thing is that Li Shimin gave him part of the real power. I won't mention the tenure in Lianghu Dao that year, mainly in Liaodong Si Dao.

That is a vast land that once gave birth to the mighty Goguryeo.Li Chengqian has been running it for several years and has built it into his small kingdom, where his words are more effective than imperial edicts.

It is said that imperial power is the most ruthless, why did Li Shimin trust Li Chengqian with such great power?It's not that he is magnanimous, but that place is called Liaodong.

It is too far away from the Central Plains, separated by the Liaoxi Corridor and Shanhaiguan, and the Youzhou defense line that is being built.

Even if Li Chengqian had a different intention and waited for him to organize an army to fight, the court would have enough time to react.

Li Shimin was able to defeat Goguryeo, so he naturally had the confidence to defeat his son, so he was not afraid of his rebellion at all.

For Li Chengqian, in Sidao, Liaodong, he can temporarily escape from his father's oppression, display his talents, and develop his own small forces.

Holding the Liaodong Four Ways in his hand, he is the second in command in the true sense of the world, so there is no need to worry about other brothers coveting the crown prince.This is the confidence that strength brings to him.

Letting Li Ke go to Nanzhao to exercise will not cause him too much rebound, at most it will pay more attention.

After sending Li Ke away, Yue Shan first went to the backyard to meet his sister, and then talked with Li Tai about the entrustment.

Li Tai's attitude is very casual, whatever he likes, anyway, he will never leave Datang in his life.After Fengguo waited for ten or twenty years, he let his son go to govern.

On the contrary, Yue Shui'er was more concerned, hoping to find a good place, and asked Yue Shan to help find a way.

What else can Yue Shan say to someone who has no ambitions like this, give up the first enfeoffment and wait to go to Nanzhan Buzhou in the future.

The reason has already been said before, the distance is too appropriate, neither far nor near.It is too troublesome for the mainland to send troops to conquer there, but it has enough influence to deter the princes and kings there.

As long as the Tang Dynasty does not perish, it will be difficult to create chaos there.Even if the Great Tang Dynasty is destroyed and a new dynasty is established, the nobles there will still not change, at most they will just change to a suzerain country.

Of course, if Li Tai's descendants don't live up to it and mess up the kingdom by themselves, then they can only blame themselves.

Discussions about enfeoffment are becoming more and more intense in the outside world, and there are those who oppose it. Naturally, the reason is that history has proved that enfeoffment is wrong.

There is support, and the reason is that the previous dynasties have never experienced a situation like the Tang Dynasty. It is difficult to effectively govern the territory thousands of miles away, and enfeoffment is the best way.

Those who opposed were headed by Qingliu, and those who supported were headed by the clan. Behind both groups were supporters who kept fighting.

Most of Qingliu's supporters are from the Homeland Difficult to Leave faction and are not qualified to participate in enfeoffment, and the support behind the clan is basically the dignitaries who think they are eligible for enfeoffment.

The fight between the two factions is called a dog's head dripping with blood.

It is inevitable that new schools of thought also participated, and there were also supporters and opponents.Both groups wanted to pull Yueshan into the water, and they asked him to preside over the overall situation in private, but he refused them all.

The reasons are all ready-made, retreating and writing books without asking about government affairs.

In order to avoid this turmoil, even the preparations for the construction of the museum have been postponed.

However, he has always paid attention to this matter, but his focus is not on the enfeoffment itself, but on the big move that Li Shimin hides behind the enfeoffment.

weaken the privileges of the elite.

Before, he talked to Li Shimin about productivity, production relations and social structure, among which he talked about taxation.

If you want the country to last longer, so as not to perish due to lack of finances, you must take back the tax-free privileges of the rich and powerful.

But it is so difficult to achieve this, so difficult that Yue Shan, a traveler, thinks there is no way out.

It takes two or three generations to completely defeat the aristocratic family and the powerful class before there is any hope.

But Li Shimin created a way out of no way, the exchange of interests.

Reform is actually a redistribution of interests, and the party whose interests have been harmed will naturally oppose it.Now Li Shimin has used a clever method to exchange your tax-free privileges with greater benefits.

Overseas territories are tasteless to the Tang Dynasty, and it is difficult to achieve effective rule if it is beyond the reach of the whip. On the contrary, the government's bloated structure and management costs have doubled.

But it's different for those rich and powerful, it's an opportunity for them to achieve a qualitative leap in the family.From a powerful person to a de facto princely king, everyone knows how to choose.

The earth is too big for human beings at this time, and it is so big that the dignitaries of the Tang Dynasty are not enough.Li Shimin doesn't have to worry about having no land to divide at all, as long as the powerful and powerful are willing, they can all be sent out.

And these dignitaries occupy the majority with tax-free privileges, send them away, and the remaining small part is not at the mercy of the court.

If he is allowed to accomplish this, it is really possible for China to realize the great cause of government and gentry paying food more than 1000 years ahead of schedule.

Judging from the current situation, this possibility is very high.Because no one objected to this matter until now, everyone's attention was focused on the enfeoffment itself, and the existence of enfeoffment for privileges was acquiesced.

It can be said that this is a conspiracy and a win-win outcome.The best part is that no one realizes that this is a bureau.

Whenever he thinks of this, Yue Shan admires Li Shimin, I really don't know how he came up with this idea.

(End of this chapter)