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Time flies, time flies.

In the blink of an eye, four years have passed.

After four years of selection, the crown prince was finally selected - Li Xiu won the election by a narrow margin.

In other words, Li Xiu is the crown prince.

This result is both reasonable and unexpected.

Li Xiu is undoubtedly very good, and his resume is dazzling enough, but the other eight princes who compete with Li Xiu are not general, especially the eighth Li Ji, among the members of the royal family, his popularity is not ordinarily high, so before the results came out, Li Yan always felt that Li Ji had a greater chance of winning.

But Li Ji lost to Li Xiu in the end.

The reason why Li Ji lost was not because Li Ji's popularity among the imperial family had fallen, on the contrary, Li Ji had received many more votes in various vassal states than others, and even more than twice as many as Li Xiu.

But Li Ji got far less county tickets than Li Xiu.

Li Yan learned from Chen Gongfu, Hu Quan, and Li Yan that whenever Li Xiu went to a county, he would look around before the election, and then at the time of the election, during the speech, he would put forward constructive ideas for the specific situation in the locality.

Although the votes in the county are also swayed by some local big families, ordinary people are also eligible to vote, and taking a step back, even the local big families will also consider their own interests.

Therefore, most of the people in many counties were moved by Li Xiu's speech, and then voted for Li Xiu.

Because Li Ji was not as meticulous as Li Xiu, he was defeated by Li Xiu on the county ticket, and finally lost to Li Xiu by a slight disadvantage.

After the crown prince was elected, Li Yan didn't talk nonsense, and asked people to directly choose the auspicious day of the zodiac - he wanted to give up the throne.

As soon as Li Yan's decision was announced, the ministers panicked, and the people panicked, as if the whole world panicked!

Although Li Yan has not been in much charge of state affairs and political affairs in the past ten years, Li Yan is the emperor, which can make everyone feel at ease.

To say a big word that is not a big word, Li Yan is the spiritual pillar of Dazhong, even if Li Cun has proved that he has the ability to manage the country of Dazhong, but the subjects of Dazhong still prefer Li Yan to be the emperor, even if Li Yan is only in name.

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty all asked Li Yan to take back his fate, and the people also petitioned one after another, hoping that Li Yan would be the emperor for another twenty years, not twenty years, ten years, not ten years, five years, don't give way now.

In this regard, Li Yan is sincerely moved!

This shows that he, Li Yan, is not bad as an emperor, and his subjects do not want him to give up the throne because of his greed for women and military force.

To be honest, the emperor is really proud of Li Yan's part, and he can really be proud.

But Li Yan still gathered the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty together, and invited representatives of 10,000 people.

Li Yan said in public: "There was no way in the previous dynasty, so that the people were displaced, and the suffering was unspeakable, I really couldn't live at that time, and I ran to the mountains at the age of twenty-two to gather righteousness, at that time I thought that one day, the emperor of the previous dynasty could descend Zhao'an, so that I could serve the country, I don't want to, the emperor of the previous dynasty was too mediocre, and when I fought the world for him, he actually stabbed me in the back, but even so, I still gave the Yanyun I beat to the emperor of the previous dynasty and retreated to Seoul, at that time, I thought that I would never step into the Central Plains again in this life, The world is so big, there is always my own territory, how to think, the former dynasty faint king actually caused the Jin people to go south, poisoning my people of the same species and origin, and then the Jin people destroyed their country, I changed my original intention, came to the Central Plains to compete for deer, and then ascended the throne to become the emperor. ”

After a pause, Li Yan continued: "I ascended the throne at the age of thirty-five, at that time, the Central Plains was full of wars, and there were people everywhere who could not survive. ”

Speaking of this, Li Yan's tone changed, and then he said in a harmonious voice: "Now, I am fifty-eight, in two years, I will be sixty, and I will be in the year of ear shun, and in another ten years, I will be seventy, and I will be in the age of ancient rarity, I am old, even if I am not old, I am almost old, I have worked hard for most of my life, I should also take a break, this country, I will be handed over to young people sooner or later, if a country wants to have a future, it should believe in young people, only by believing in young people and giving young people opportunities, can we truly say that the future is beautiful." ”

At this time, Li Yan called Li Cun, who was standing beside him, and then put his arm around Li Cun's shoulders and said: "Li Cun is my best son, he has actually controlled Dazhong for almost ten years, and he has used his ability to prove that he can be a good emperor of Dazhong, so I am relieved to hand over my country to Li Cun, I hope you can support Li Cun as you support me......"

Li Yan said very sincerely.

But when everyone looked at it, it seemed that Li Yan, who was only in his early twenties, called himself an old man, and said that Li Cun, who looked like he was fifty or sixty years old, was a young man, and they all felt that the scene in front of them was not sad at all, or even warm, but it made them want to laugh.

But no matter what, Li Yan decided to give way.

Moreover, Li Yan didn't just say that Li Yan had asked people to choose a good day and an auspicious day, and had already begun to send people to prepare for Li Cun's enthronement ceremony.

In addition, Li Yan has begun to let people clean up the Chengde Palace, ready to move there in a few days - this Chengde Palace is the place where Li Yan asked people to build for himself when he returned from the Western Expedition, and its scale naturally cannot be compared with the Forbidden City, but it is enough for Li Yan and his hundreds of thousands of concubines and palace maids to live, the key is that the environment there is pleasant, very suitable for the elderly.

From Li Yan's various actions, it is not difficult to see that Li Yan really wants to give up the throne to Li Cun.

Of course, Li Yan didn't leave any behind, and Li Yan still did not hand over the military power to Li Cun, but firmly grasped it in his own hands.

Li Yan did this:

First, it was Li Yan who was afraid that Li Cun would be young and vigorous, so he would use swords in vain.

Second, it is Li Yande who has the ability to supervise the smooth implementation of the electoral system formulated by himself, and don't let Li Cun and Li Xiu change it halfway, which will cause fratricide and even cause Dazhong to fall apart.

Third, Li Yan also wants to give himself a guarantee in his old age - there are too many examples in history of being killed because of loss of power, and Li Yan doesn't want to be one of them.

In addition, Li Yan still has many underage sons, and even many sons who have just been born not long ago, Li Yan also has to think about them, how can he pave the way for their future without power?

In short, Emperor Li Yan can be improper, but this military power, unless Li Yan is dying, otherwise, Li Yan will never give it to others easily.

But then again, Li Yan only holds the military power, not to prevent the new emperor from using the military power, but if the new emperor wants to use the military power, he must go through Li Yan.

In this regard, Li Cun was naturally a little unwilling.

But Li Yan has led the Chinese army to conquer the whole world in his life, and the people in the army, from top to bottom, can be said to be all Li Yan's people, all of whom admire Li Yan, and all regard Li Yan as their spiritual leader, so if Li Yan does not want to hand over the military power, Li Cun has no way.

Li Cun could only behave well and strive to get Li Yan to take the initiative to hand over the military power to him.

But no matter what, Li Cun is going to be the emperor.

This made Li Cun, who had been the crown prince for more than 30 years, very happy, and then drank some wine the day before he ascended the throne for the first time, wanting to celebrate.

But who would have thought that it was this bit of wine that killed Li Cun, so that Li Cun's last step to the emperor's throne stopped forever.

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