Chapter 34: The Lord of the World
Mingyue: "Wang Niangzi said, I will be waiting for you at the top of the mountain tomorrow, please go back today." β
Li Shimin waved his hand, don't take it, let's go back to Chang'an!
finally won back a city, Li Shimin's mood can't be described as cool, it is very cool. The most important thing is that he found Wang Jue's weakness. If you dare to do something with her in the future, if you dare not agree, we will go to her house and set up a tent!
Hehe, you have to climb the mountain again?
For the past few days, the scales in Li Chengqian's heart have swayed from side to side, and now he feels like a fool. People like Daddy don't need to be worried, and they don't need anyone to sympathize. Li Shimin seems to have his own additional skills, and he can turn powder to black by doing anything casually....
Wang Jue was already angry, although it didn't match the script she expected, things finally went smoothly. Today, she has to prepare well and strive to seize the initiative in tomorrow's monarch and minister's advice!
Also thinking about Wang Jue is Li Shimin, after he returned to the palace, he tried on n clothes, ready to compete with Wang Jue for appearance and aura. The future 'Lord of the World' has to dress up well.
This day, which was recognized by later historians as the official opening of China's hegemony, finally came in the secret competition between the two sides.
Li Shimin climbed to the top of the mountain, and after seeing Wang Jue, he was so unhappy. He brought more than a dozen ministers, and Wang Jue only had four bear children behind him. The corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and he was full of superiority. Wang Jue didn't care how many people there were on both sides at all, she was here to act, not to make an appointment....
It was still by the Tianchi on the top of the mountain, and the servants of the Wang family had prepared tea cooking utensils early in the morning. The equipment is in place, the actors are gathered, and the show begins!
"You may be seated. Wang Jue got up and waved to everyone, and made another gesture of please. Seeing the bear children behind Wang Jue, synchronized with her movements, the ministers were all cute. Especially Fang Yiai, he is small, and he is dressed very thickly, and he can't stretch his arms.
After kneeling and sitting, Wang Jue began to cook tea and stopped talking. Li Shimin was sitting precariously, his aura was full of aura, and the ministers also had solemn expressions. In the mountains and forests, there is only the rustle of bamboo blown by the wind, accompanied by the sound of boiling water.
finally has a little meaning, Wang Jue doesn't want his fame moment to be pulled down too much by Li Shimin.
"Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was so happy that he worked on an expedition, which made the people miserable. Eighteen roads against the king and thirty-six roads of smoke and dust, besieged Emperor Yang of Sui in Siming Mountain, and since then the troubled times. I was ordered by heaven to complete the unification after 14 years. Since taking the throne, I have worked hard with my ministers. However, after years of war, the fertile land has long been turned into wasteland, and the people have lived in hardship. There are also neighboring countries eyeing each other, and there are constant border wars. β
When Li Shimin said the back, his voice was choked. After saying it in such detail, he felt that he was particularly bitter. During the war, his life was endangered many times, and it was finally reunified, and he had to make a coup d'Γ©tat, and in the end he robbed a mess. The ministers who came with Li Shimin also had tears in their eyes, bitter....
Wang Jue made a lot of calculations, but he didn't expect Li Shimin to perform sincerely. I wanted to embarrass him, but now I don't know what to do.
Li Shimin wiped away his tears with his sleeve, got up and bowed to Wang Jue, "For the people of the world, please help me!"
The ministers also stood up and bowed, "Please help the people." β
Fang Yiai: "Woo~ Daddy, don't cry.... β
The other three also had red eyes, "Teacher, you should answer!"
Her own people have rebelled, can she not do it? Li Shimin and his followers are also able to get out of the way. The experience of history tells her that the more people who can show their faces, the more they know how to give people no face. They have invested so much, if she doesn't come up with some dry goods, waiting for her result is not as simple as losing face.
Wang Jue also stood up and bowed, "Jue is willing to help!"
Li Shimin laughed heartily, "Okay! I have Wang Jue, like a tiger with wings, and a fish with water." β
After each of them sat down, the Tang monarchs and ministers looked at Wang Jue with unanimous eyes, we are done, you should give benefits, right?
"The Holy One has heard a saying, there is no thousand-year-old dynasty, only a thousand-year-old family. Dare to ask the Holy One, why is this so?"
Li Shimin scolded in his heart, damn, Lao Tzu has knelt down for you, why are you still playing this trick, I hate celebrities and celebrities the most. The ministers are small hearts trembling slightly, this thing doesn't want to take the family too, right? No, they are also the sons of the family...
Cheng Biting Jin was afraid that Li Shimin's answer would not be in line with Wang Jue's wishes, and then it was spread by the ministers, so he hurriedly grabbed the words, "This question is simple, I know it to the old Cheng! The founding monarch was wise, and the last monarch was mediocre." Look at Liu Hong, he favors the ten permanent servants, he doesn't go to court, and he still sets up stalls in the palace to play, won't the peasants revolt?"
I'll go, the ghost is on the body, Cheng Yanjin still knows about Liu Hong?
Wang Jue said: "Since we talked about the end of the Han Dynasty, I will take the Han Dynasty as an example." Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty fought foreign wars for many years, causing the displacement of the people, and the landlords and gentry took the opportunity to annex the land. By the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the royal family, nobles, bureaucrats, and gentry relied on their privileges to wantonly annex land, making class contradictions increasingly acute. After the new aristocracy of the Eastern Han Dynasty gained power, they still plundered the land on a large scale, causing a large number of people to become homeless. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, after being exploited from generation to generation, the common people caught up with natural disasters and had no way to live, so what could they do if they did not revolt? The most important thing in the rise and fall of a dynasty is two words -- land. β
The ministers were not happy, Wang Jue when they were eating white rice, and at the beginning of the reign of the saint, these people made countless suggestions, including dozens of policies on land control. Don't fool people with things we all know, or don't blame us for being unkind.
"The Holy One is a wise king, and the current land policy is much better than that of the previous dynasty. However, this still does not prevent the problems caused by the land, the root cause of which lies in the population. When the Han Dynasty was first established, the population was about 15 million, and after the rule of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, the population reached 40 million, and the land area remained the same. How many people died in a war at the end of the Sui Dynasty? People are almost dead, and of course there is no land now, but what about the future? The saint wants a foundation for thousands of years, but there is land that can accommodate the population that has multiplied for 10,000 years?"
Hey, Mom, this is to mention the Lord of the World? That's what we're here for! Although it doesn't sound very reliable, I still can't help but look forward to something in my heart.
"Please teach me. Li Shimin looked at Wang Jue's eyes with a green light, and the ministers were not far behind.
"Unfold the map. β
When Li Chengqian and Li Chongyi heard this, they got up proudly. They unfolded a six-foot fully open brocade silk in front of everyone, and on the brocade silk was Wang Jue's hand-drawn world map.
"This is?!" Li Shimin excitedly walked to the map to take a closer look, and the ministers who came with him couldn't sit still.
Wang Jue took a sip of tea indifferently and replied slowly: "This is the whole world, and it is the Tang Dynasty marked with vermilion." β
Although it was rude to ask this, Li Shimin couldn't help but want to confirm, "Can this picture be true?"
This picture is painted by the ancestors of the Hundred Schools of Thought, if there are occasional small countries that are annexed, or do not match the picture. β
Well, there are some places that are indeed small and bordering each other, and Wang Jue's answer made them believe in the authenticity of the map even more.
"Why are some places just circled and not named?"
"The people who lived on those lands were divided into tribes and did not establish a state, and their development process was similar to that of our Yao, Shun, and Yu periods. However, there are many resources in the land. Here, for example, is rich in gems and gold. And here, where potatoes and sweet potatoes are produced. Wang Jue was referring to South Africa and South America.
Li Shimin is about to go crazy with poverty, and when he hears the word gold, he can't wait to go to sea now! The Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers looked at the map together, falling into infinite yy, and some people were about to flow out. They also noticed that during the Yao, Shun, and Yu periods mentioned by Wang Jue, if they could reach the land along the way, the local aborigines' combat effectiveness and weapons should be far inferior to those of the Tang people.
Li Shimin rubbed his big hands and asked pretending to twist: "I want to send a fleet to sea, does Wang Niangzi have a navigation chart?"
Wang Jue replied a little arrogantly: "Yes, but the ships on the Holy Heaven can't go too far, so let's explore nearby." β
Fang Xuanling asked, "How did the ancestors of your Hundred Sects pass?"
Fang Yiai: "Daddy, you are so stupid, of course you went over on the sturdy ship of our hundred schools." β
Li Shimin suddenly felt much more comforted in his heart, and there were people who were worse than him. Fang Yi's love to beat people can lead to school disputes, what if he is beaten? I can't imagine, Fang Qing is pitiful!
Li Shimin asked unwillingly: "The art of shipbuilding ......." β
"Datang's existing technology is too backward, even if the drawings are given to you, you can't make them. The knowledge of our hundred schools cannot be passed on at will, and if some knowledge is accidentally spread, it will cause serious consequences, such as a new method of steelmaking. Seeing that Li Shimin threw his face away again, and even dared to ask for the important inheritance of other schools, Wang Jue hurriedly refused sternly.
Seeing that the ministers also looked at him with disdain, and they also looked exaggerated as if everyone was in danger, Li Shimin was very embarrassed.
Every family has something that has been passed down secretly, from recipes and incense making methods to books accumulated over generations. You can change it, but you can't empty the gloves of the white wolf. If Li Shimin succeeds today, let him taste the sweetness, and he will not be able to attack them in the future? Fortunately, Wang Niangzi refused, and such unhealthy trends cannot be fueled!
"The saint thinks that his shipbuilding skills are not good, why don't you ask the Mo family for help?" "The benefits are given to you, and there should be dealings, Wang Jue once again used the Mo family to lead to the birth of a hundred schools.
Heheda, looking for the Mo family, can you tell us where the Mo family is? We have grown so big, we haven't even seen what the hair of the Mo family looks like. The ministers all looked at Li Shimin expectantly, Shengshang, hurry up and express your position, everyone has hinted at you! Wang Jue has a lot of good things in his hands, what else do you have to hesitate about? The Han Dynasty admired the Dong family's thoughts, and I haven't seen them for long! Besides, if we go to sea to dig for gold or something, we will also send people, you should find a way to build a ship!
If Li Shimin knew that his loyal ministers were thinking about digging the foot of the wall again, they would probably vomit blood, and Lao Tzu would be so poor, are you embarrassed?
Although Wang Jue's divination skills and what he said today have not been confirmed. But Li Shimin was given high-yield grain, movable type printing, and salt-making, and was concerned about the new method of steelmaking.
Today's meeting is just a play for the people of the world, not a real question of advice from the monarchs and ministers. Just like Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang's Longzhong pair, what is described is only a strategic vision. Li Shimin still has a lot of things to ask Wang Jue, such as the good policy of restricting the family, how to gradually annex the surrounding small countries, how to make the people rich in the current Tang Dynasty, and so on. There are many questions that are only suitable for private discussions.
And the lord of the world is just an ambition, and it will be difficult for him to achieve it in this life. However, some of the neighboring lands can be explored and even occupied. No matter how far away it is, it is not suitable for garrisoning, but it can be bartered with the local natives. If you want gold, you have to have a good ship, whether it is relying on the Baijia faction or the Mo family, you have to give the horse some sweetness first.
"It is too narrow to govern the country by only one family. After changing the concept of Yuan Zhen, I want to reactivate the doctrine of the hundred schools of thought. In the end, wealth is still moving, fame and fortune are pursued, and Li Shimin once again bravely entered the pit.
Although Wang Jue successfully won over Li Shimin and the old family, the Dong family also has the support of the emerging family, and it is not yet known who will die. The difficult thing is not to let Li Shimin relax, but to prevent the Dong family from instigating Confucianism to make a big incident, and the rest can only count on Kong Yingda.
After Li Shimin returned to the palace, he repeatedly chanted the words 'Lord of the World' like a demon. He knew that this was unrealistic, but he still secretly set his life goal here.
If you are ambitious, you may get what you want. If you don't even dare to think about it, then you are not even qualified to lose.