Li Siyuan fell seriously ill again in early May, and he couldn't look at the court for more than 20 days, and the Luoyang court was even more chaotic, and most of the officials were privately competing with the northern army to contact each other, anyway, they were preparing to open the city to welcome the surrender as soon as the northern army arrived.

He Fujin, the envoy of Hezhong Jiedu, who was sitting in Heyang, reported the situation in Luoyang to Jinyang, saying that Luoyang is now surging, and those guys are urging the imperial army to cross the river to the south, and everyone is just looking forward to the arrival of Wang Shi every day.

Li Qi's reply was not in a hurry.

Anyway, Li Siyuan doesn't have much time to live, and the gang of wall grasses in Luoyang City deserve to let them worry for a while.

The main thing is that he hasn't figured out what to do with these guys.

It is unrealistic to depose all the officials of the Southern Dynasty, but if they are allowed to mix in the court of Jinyang, Zhun Bao can disrupt the political situation that has always been stable. If these guys ask them to do something practical for the people of the world, they are basically laymen, but when it comes to political intrigue and fighting, they are all good hands.

From the end of the Tang Dynasty to the present, he has gone through three dynasties without falling, and has rich experience in saving life and fighting.

As a qualified political leader, he must not be a person who is jealous and hateful, and has no room for sand in his eyes. As an official, everyone will have this or that shortcoming, fault, such as greed for money, lust, rudeness, cowardice, scheming, etc., if you abandon people for these reasons, there are almost a few people left in the whole world.

And some of the rest of them are just because they are hidden deeply, and you haven't discovered their shortcomings for the time being.

As an emperor, you must not focus on the shortcomings of your subordinates, but be good at discovering the strengths of your subordinates. This employment is the use of other people's strengths.

There are no saints in this world, and if such a character really exists, Li Qi must also get rid of the so-called "saints" first. The so-called "saints" or "godmen" were always the greatest threat to imperial power. People can believe in the ethereal gods and Buddhas in the sky, but there must be no room for "gods and men" in this world.

There is only one god in this world, and that is the king who is high up and radiant.

As long as he does not cross the bottom line of rules and tolerance, Li Qi will pretend to turn a blind eye to the impeachment of officials by the imperial historians and will not deal with it.

It will not be like the Song Dynasty, where as long as an official is impeached, he must first resign to avoid suspicion.

Now the impeachment of Ren Yuan has the most twists and turns, in that case, how many prime ministers do you have to change a year?

Young people are the most susceptible to brainwashing, and a clever politician is himself an excellent instigator or a clever liar, and if it is mixed with some later pyramid schemes or brainwashing methods commonly used by religious organizers, a determined young pro-army will be easily agitated.

The combat power of the Musketeer Army is powerful, and it is beyond the scope of the ordinary army in the Cold Weapon Age. Therefore, when he began to establish the musket army, Li Qi first selected from the sons of Jinyang Xungui and the children of the surrounding Huangzhuang Zhuanghu. In addition, Li Qi set up two missionary supervisors in each musket battalion, which were specially used to do propaganda and brainwashing.

The emperor's wisdom and greatness also need to be taught to these young people every day, every month, through newspapers, quotations and other reading materials, from the youth to constantly instill and cultivate the concept of loyalty and patriotism to them, so that they can grow into a model for the new generation of outstanding young people in the Tang Dynasty.

Once a person's worldview is formed, it will not change easily.

The newly merged Ordnance Supervisor Workshop produced less than 1,500 muskets per month, and before the steam engine was successfully developed, Li Qi's desire and scale to form a musket unit had to be limited by the size and output of the arsenal for a long time.

stayed in Jinyang until the matter of firearms production was straightened out, and then Li Qi left Jinyang and went to the Northland grassland to start a routine inspection.

Although the rule of the imperial court in the northland steppes was becoming more and more secure, it was also a way to strengthen the relationship by often summoning the tribal leaders of the steppes to meet them, and having a meal and chatting with them. At least these tribal leaders on the steppe will not meet them in the first place, and turn to the Khitan.

In ancient times, the emperor's tour was too big and the cost was huge, which was also a major reason for restricting the emperor's patrol.

Li Qi didn't care about these rules, and ran around the world with a thousand Praetorian Guards, ignoring the advice of those courtiers to pay attention to safety.

Of course, Li Qi will not go to those places with potential safety hazards.

Now, with the gradual improvement of the intelligence network, Li Qi's grasp of the situation in various places is becoming clearer and clearer.

Here's the thing, some people just know it's not very reliable, and you have to use it.

This is also a kind of high posture for the world to see.

The Northland prairies are already golden in August.

Li Qi had already arrived at the Elechuan River at the foot of the Yin Mountain, and summoned the leaders of the Tatars, Zhubu, Dangxiang Oyebu, Tuyuhun and other departments in this area to prepare for a large-scale "autumn hunt".

It's not that he likes hunting, but in this way, he wants to strengthen his control over the tribes of the Northland grasslands.

He was ready to turn this into a habit and a routine traditional system.

As soon as the emperor enters the Central Plains, he will be trapped in the palace, even if he travels, because of the huge momentum, he will not be able to perceive the real people's feelings. At the same time, because they rarely went out of the palace to inspect the world, the relationship with the border areas became more and more estranged, and over time, these grassland tribes would gradually become alienated, and as long as the dynasty was slightly turbulent and its control weakened, there would be a split situation of armed separation.

As an emperor, it is a great favor for the leaders of these tribes to gather with the leaders of these steppes from time to time, drink wine and eat meat, and call each other brothers.

Now the territory of the Tang State is not large, Li Qi and the cavalry, almost only two months, can patrol the grasslands in the north except for Hexi.

But in Li Qi's mind, in the future, his empire will be a huge existence with a vast territory, even far surpassing Meng Yuan. In order to maintain the integrity of such a huge empire, the emperor must not stay in the palace, but need to be constantly on the road all year round to maintain the centripetal force of the people everywhere.

The "Autumn Hunt" was not a simple hunting operation, but in fact a huge military exercise.

With the increasing expansion of the Tuntian area of the Northland grassland, most of the standing armies of various tribes have been incorporated into the series of town armies in various places and mixed with the Han army. Some tribal leaders also serve as military generals, but there are also some tribal leaders who have been reappointed as local officials, and there are no direct armed forces under their command, except for hundreds of personal soldiers.

Nearly 60,000 cavalry troops from the three towns of Yunbei, Yunnei and Jiuyuan gathered on both sides of the Jingshui (Xilamulun River) north of Yinshan, and the momentum was mighty......

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