Chastity Layman

  Chapter 793 Canonization of the King of Yue

   "Chengqian, do you think what the emperor said?"

  Out of the Daming Palace, Li Shimin was thinking about what the Supreme Emperor said just now.

"The teacher once taught me that there are advantages and disadvantages in everything. There can be no perfect thing. There is no gold and no man is perfect. This is especially true for institutional policies. We can only formulate more in line with the current situation according to the national conditions, and then keep pace with the times. Continuous improvement. The system of world feudalism established by the saints is far more beneficial than harmful in today's world. The disadvantages mentioned by the Supreme Emperor do exist, but they may not appear until two or three hundred years later, but I think that two or three In a hundred years, the situation has changed, as long as future generations can adjust with the times, then there is no need to worry.”

   Li Shimin smiled.

"Actually, don't I know that a dynasty can't really last for thousands of years. What I'm looking forward to is that it would be good to have the Zhou Dynasty for 800 years. It would be great if it was like the Han Dynasty for 400 years. What I worry about Those who are like Qin II and Sui II."

   Li Shimin read history, studied the dynasties and dynasties, and found that although the dynasties that implemented the enfeoffment system would inevitably suffer from the disaster of feudal towns in the end, they were much longer and stronger than the fully centralized dynasties.

As for the reason, there are many researchers, and Li Shimin also has some experience. He believes that the centralized dynasty was fine at the beginning of the founding of the country. Lack of local control.

  So it is easier to collapse, and the dynasty that practiced the feudal system, in the middle and late stages, can rely on the inertia of local autonomy to help the court continue for a long time.

  In the final analysis, this is the difference between the big court and the small court.

  He even drew a conclusion from the history books that the more centralized a dynasty passed the initial stage of its founding, the less pioneering it was, because it mainly prevented involution.

   "I want the Tang Dynasty to surpass the Qin and Han Dynasties." Li Shimin's words were extremely domineering.

   "My son understands my father's ambition, and my son will definitely inherit my father's ideals in the future, expand the territory, and let the Tang Dynasty surpass the Qin and Han Dynasties and become the first empire in China."

  Li Shimin is very relieved.

  The thinking of the Supreme Emperor is still somewhat conservative and short-sighted after all, how can he understand Li Shimin's ideal achievements.

If he is only satisfied with the status quo, then he really doesn't need to implement the system of enfeoffment, just like Yang Jian and Yang Guang's father and son, they promoted the imperial examination, suppressed Guanlong, and suppressed the gentry. Replacing the powerful and strengthening the centralization of power, the imperial court is indeed strong in the short term, and it can also prevent threats to the imperial court.

   But once the imperial court does this, it will lose its ambition and just stare at the interior all day long. How can it go further?

   Or in other words, if the king of the Tang Dynasty was focused on guarding against the nobles and officials, wouldn’t it be necessary for the horse to run and not to eat grass?

  Why Yang Guang was defeated was because he was harsh and ungrateful. Even the titles were reserved only for the third class of Duke and Marquis. High-ranking officials were easily refused to confer positions, and it was easy not to give them real seals. Who would work for the court in this way?

Benefit.

  Benefits are equally shared, and the world is shared, so that it can last forever.

  Back to Ganlu Hall, Li Shimin saw that there were many memorials piled up on the imperial case.

  On the left is the memorial that was played through the silver platform, which passed through the prime ministers of the Zhengshitang. The prime ministers of the Zhengshitang had already pasted yellow tickets on the memorial, and the academicians also gave simple instructions to refine key points and give reference suggestions to the emperor.

  The memorial on the right is presented by the Secretary in front of the palace. These are all secret memorials by officials, all the way secret, without a third hand, even the prime ministers have no right to open them.

  Li Shimin picked up a secret memorial, but it was submitted by Zhou Shaofan, the governor of Guangzhou. The secret memorial did not have strict format requirements, and it might not even have important affairs.

   Zhou Shaofan’s notebook begins with the recent weather conditions in Guangzhou, and then writes some pieces such as the situation of Canton Road, the trade of Guangzhou Port, the taxation of the Municipal Shipping Department, and so on.

The last thing he wrote was the situation of Liuqiu he had inquired about. Qin Lang led the navy to use troops against Liuqiu, how many fanshes were broken, how many camphor sulfur, gold and silver buckskins were plundered, and how many people were robbed, etc., wrote It's very detailed.

  This is first-hand information, although it may not be completely accurate, but it is inexhaustible, because Zhou Shaofan can report freely without going through the hands of other departments and personnel, without much scruples.

Li Shimin looked through some other secret documents and various news, but there are always some news that can be corroborated by each other. After comprehensively combining the public memorials and reports from various places presented by the Zhengshitang, Li Shimin is very satisfied with the following You have a fairly clear understanding of the situation, and you don't have to worry about being deceived.

   "I didn't expect that Qin Lang could really make a fuss. In more than half a year, he has captured more than 100,000 people from Liuqiu."

  The emperor muttered to himself, and took out a folder from the bookshelf behind him, which contained some notes of the emperor himself. He opened the report comparing Qin Lang's previous performances.

   Forget it, Qin Lang asked to hand over 200,000 guan, more than 5,000 slaves, and a lot of buckskin camphor and other things.

   "It seems that this kid gave me 20% of the income."

  The emperor got 20%, the imperial court got 10%, the crown prince got 10%, the three major fleets got 30%, and the remaining 30% seemed to end up in the hands of some people like Qin Lang.

  However, Li Shimin just smiled, he knew that it was impossible for Qin Lang to swallow the 30% by himself, and many people divided the 30%.

   This is expected. What he cares about is whether he takes less of his share. Now it seems that Qin Lang is very disciplined.

   Even his 20% may have taken a little more.

  Of course, in the official report, there are completely different numbers, but Li Shimin doesn't care about those.

  Qin Lang stayed in Liuqiu for more than half a year without moving, and Li Shimin didn't urge him.

   Judging from the various reports in the past six months, this Liuqiu Island is really a treasure. Qin Lang has been digging out treasures from there continuously, and he has also earned a lot of money.

   Just the 100,000 population is enough to make the emperor tempted.

  Although a population of 100,000 is actually not that much, after all, there will always be some wars against the barbarians every three years or five years, and there will often be tens of thousands beheaded and tens of thousands captured. But no matter how many dead people there are, it doesn't make sense.

   What Li Shimin cares about is the population in his pocket.

  After all, when the Tang Dynasty counted household registration, it actually only counted good people with registered households, and any slave tribes in the past were not counted, and barbarians and the like were not counted at all even under the rule of Jiji.

  Qin Lang is now constantly seeking captives from others. Basically, the Pingdi Fan was beaten terribly, but the Gaoshan Fan has not been touched yet.

  The population of 100,000 is only a small part of Liuqiu Island, and there is still a lot of potential to be tapped in the future.

  According to Qin Lang's public report to Chen, to speed up the development of Liuqiu immigration, then in ten years, Liuqiu will become a huge granary for the imperial court, and its grain output can reach Huainan.

  Although Li Shimin suspects that this is an exaggeration, even if there is only one-third of Huainan, it is quite remarkable. The Fujian Road opposite Liuqiu has not been developed because of the mountains and the lack of land.

  If Liuqiu really can produce so much grain, it can completely supply Fujian and provide food for the imperial court to further develop Fujian.

  Fujian is mountainous but bordering the sea and has many excellent ports, suitable for shipbuilding and trade, while Liuqiu has many plains and lacks good ports. The two sides face each other across the sea and complement each other.

   Picked up several reports from the Dianqian Division.

Looking at the current situation of the various forces on Liuqiu Island, there is no doubt that Qin Lang was the first to go to the island and had the upper hand. Now the Qin family has great advantages in Danshui, Penghu and other places, and they have mastered the island. Several major trades such as camphor incense, deerskin, and sulfur have now begun to enclose land on a large scale, building sugarcane gardens, cotton gardens, and growing rice.

  The Qin family undoubtedly wanted to use the fertile fields there to increase sugar production and even develop the emerging cotton industry.

  Of course, the Qin family did not completely eat alone, and now there are many nobles from the court and relatives who have begun to pour into Liuqiu, and they are all running around to enclose land.

   Not to mention anything else, the 100,000 Island Fans were a feast to be divided, and each family got a big piece of pastry.

   There are also Hou Junji who are at odds with Qin Lang like this, did not find a chance to go in, and were turned away, so now they are very angry.

  The emperor remembered the words of the Supreme Emperor again.

   Staring at the Liuqiu map on the screen for a long time.

   This place is even better than originally imagined. It would be a pity to give up on Weiguoguo.

  After much deliberation, he asked someone to come to Zong Zhengqing.

   "I want to choose a nephew from the clan to be his heir for King Ai of Chu, which one do you think is suitable?"

  Zong Zhengqing originally belonged to the royal family, and the seniority of the clan was higher, and he was responsible for managing the royal family. Of course, he knew very well about the royal family, but the Li Tang clan was actually very big.

Counting from Li Hu's generation alone, there are a lot of descendants. After all, Li Hu gave birth to eight sons, and each of the eight sons gave birth to a bunch of sons. This generation has been done for five generations.

  The number of personnel is earlier than a hundred.

  This is not counting Li Hu's cousins ​​and other clans.

Zong Zhengqing was very surprised to find an heir for Li Kuan. The reason was that when Li Kuan was in Wude, he directly adopted Li Zhiyun, the fifth son of the Supreme Emperor, but he died of illness within a few years of adoption. So simply get rid of the country. Later, the emperor felt that his brother Zhiyun was also a brother after all, and he took care of the emperor's face, so he found a clan Li Linggui for his successor Zhiyun.

   "Sage, there is a suitable one for the Changfang branch, Li Yuanzhang."

  Li Yuanzhang is the great-grandson of Li Yanbo and the grandson of Li Hu.

  Li Yanbo belongs to the branch of Li Hu's eldest son, and is the second grandson of Li Zhaozhong, the second son of his eldest son Li Yanbo.

  Li Yanbo also died early in the past, so it was the turn of the third eldest son, Li Yan, to take over the Duke of Tang. Li Yan also died early, and the title was passed on to his fourth son, Li Yuan.

   Li Yuan became the emperor, and the throne was passed on to the second son Li Shimin.

  In terms of seniority, this Li Yuanzhang is Li Shimin's grandnephew, so it is very appropriate for Li Kuan to adopt him.

   "Li Yuanzhang? Good name, how old is he, and how is his conduct?"

   "Return to the Holy Lord, Li Yuanzhang is eight years old this year. He is studying in the Hongwen Library. He is very smart and has a gentle personality."

   Zong Zhengqing told the emperor that Li Yuanzhang's grandfather, Li Zhaozhong, was the prefect of Nanyang during the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Li Yuanzhang's father served as Secretary Cheng.

   "Resigned?"

   "Well, Li Yuanzhang is his youngest son."

  Although Li Zhaozhong was Li Yuan's peer, because he belonged to the head of the house, he had already served as the prefect in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. The head of the house was a generation older than Li Yuan's.

   "Changed the posthumous designation of King Ai of Chu to King Ai of Yue, succeeded by Li Yuanzhang, the patriarchal family, and was named King of Yue. He was brought into the palace by the birth mother Liu Meiren of King Ai of Yue. He was bestowed the title of governor of the state, and he will become a vassal state when he grows up."

  (end of this chapter)