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In the spring of the thirteenth year of Dading.

Although the election of the crown prince has not yet ended, according to the votes that have been cast, the next crown prince must be Li Ji.

Drawing lessons from last year's election failure, this year, Li Ji will look around every county he visits, just like Li Xiu in the previous term, and then at the time of the election, when he gives a speech, he will put forward constructive ideas for the specific situation in the locality.

In addition, Li Ji also excavated a virtuous talent-Liuzheng.

This Liuzheng is a Jinshi in the eleventh year of Dading, he is honest and honest, outspoken and daring, and has a great talent for governing the country.

In history, this Liuzheng is not an ordinary person, he is the master of filial piety, Guangzong, Ningzong three dynasties, tired officials signed the Privy Council, the right prime minister, the left prime minister, the young master Guan Wendian University scholar and other positions, successively received the title of Shen Guogong, Wei Guogong, Wei Guogong, after his death to give the Taishi, Zhen Zhongxuan, Shao Xichu, worship the left prime minister, during his reign, the law, cherish the name, raise talents, and in the palace struggle can be tolerant and generous, dedicated to the public and do not do anything for selfishness, Song Xiaozong called it "pure sincerity can be trusted", "true prime minister also", He was a rare virtuous minister in the early Southern Song Dynasty.

Youliuzheng is planning for Li Ji, coupled with Li Ji's original connections in the royal family, Li Ji can be said to be powerful this year and has always been a dominant family.

Li Bi, Li Xu, and Li Podi failed to fight Li Ji, which made Li Yan sigh secretly!

But rules are rules, since Li Ji has the ability to win the election over everyone, then Li Yan must let Li Ji be the crown prince, and then cultivate it carefully.

Li Yan only hoped that Li Jizhen did not show his ability because he did not have the opportunity to prove himself.

Actually-

Li Yan quickly figured it out.

Li Ji won the election with his own ability, which is enough to show that Li Ji is at least a political master, such a person, as long as he does not mess around, will never lose his country.

Moreover, before Li Ji became the emperor, there were five years before the prince tested his ability.

Taking a step back, Li Ji has passed the test of the prince for five years, and there is a five-year limit in the future, if he does not do well as this emperor, he will definitely be replaced after five years.

Therefore, although Li Ji did not quite fit Li Yan's wishes, Li Yan was still ready to support Li Ji as the crown prince.

At the same time, under Li Yan's tutelage, Li Xiu has been able to handle political affairs very well and can already inherit his throne.

Moreover, Li Xiu did not follow the path of Li Cun's way of doing things himself, but using people to help him share political affairs like Li Yan.

It's just—

Li Xiu is different from Li Yan who uses a lot of female secretaries to help him.

Li Xiu used ministers and scholars to help him deal with state and political affairs.

At this point, Li Xiu's evaluation is much higher than Li Yan's.

It can be seen that in the Great Middle Kingdom, women are afraid that there is no chance to turn over.

In the third year of Li Xiu's reign as the prince, Li Yan began to let go, leaving everything to Li Xiu to deal with, and he didn't even ask, and Li Yan began not to go to court for a long time.

In other words, from this time on, Li Xiu had already begun to take over the power of Dazhong.

And Li Yanna, despite his sixty-one years old, is still increasing the population of the royal family.

But—

After reaching the age of sixty, Li Yan has also reined in, no longer recruiting thousands of beauties from all over the world to his palace every year as before, but only accepting a few hundred every year, and this number is also decreasing year by year.

It's not that Li Yan's body is not good - although he is over sixty years old, Li Yan's body is still so good, and he still looks like he is in his twenties.

But there are too many women in Li Yan's harem, many women are still first daughters when they reach the age of leaving the palace, and even some women read Li Yan's name before they die, hoping that Li Yan can take a look at her.

Therefore, Li Yan decided to recruit less women into the palace in the future, or even no longer recruit women, and focus more on those women who have been with him for many years, and live up to fewer women.

Whenever this happens, time flies very fast.

Soon, it was the summer of the fourteenth year of Dading.

The election of the crown prince is finally coming to an end.

In fact, in the autumn of last year, Li Ji had already won steadily.

The reason why the election is still going on is because the election law designated by Li Yan stipulates that all counties and vassal states must be completed before the election can be concluded.

But—

The last dozens of stops are actually just a formality.

Almost everyone was waiting for the new crown prince Li Ji to return, and then Li Yan abdicated, and Li Xiu took over as emperor, and Li Ji served as the crown prince at the same time.

But just when everyone was looking forward to it, a bad news suddenly came back - Li Ji was dead, killed by the Khorezmians.

After receiving this electric service, even Li Yan was blinded, and then couldn't help but scold Han Yanzhi (Han Shizhong's third son) and Niu Tong (Niu Gao's son) who served as guards this time, they brought 30,000 elites to accompany Li Ji and others to participate in the election, how could Li Ji be killed by Khorezm?

Soon, Li Yan learned the specific story through telegrams.

It turns out -

At that time, Shah Jisi of Khorezm, on the eve of the destruction of the capital, led those who were willing to go with him to flee, and then fled all the way west to Asia Minor.

But soon after they arrived in Asia Minor, they caught up with the Crusaders.

Ah Jisi, who was greatly injured, naturally couldn't defeat the crusaders.

In desperation, Ajisi led his men and fled to the north of Khorezm, where they made peace with the Kipchaks.

Through intermarriage and other means, they slowly grew stronger with the power of the Kipchaks.

Soon after, Ajisi died, and his sand was inherited by his son.

His son always held a grudge against Dazhong for destroying the country, so from time to time he sent people to rob Dazhong's caravans and strengthen themselves.

This time, the Khorezmians were robbing a caravan when they were bumped into by the Electoral College.

Originally, it had nothing to do with the Electoral College.

But Li Ji felt that the Khwarazmian people were provoking Dazhong by plundering Dazhong's caravan, and he had to fight back immediately.

Therefore, Li Ji found Han Yanzhi and Niu Tong and asked them to attack and exterminate the flower bandits.

Niu Tong is a hot-blooded young man through and through, and immediately agreed.

Seeing that Niu Tong agreed, Li Ji was going to personally lead Niu Tong and 10,000 elites to attack.

Han Yanzhen did not agree with Li Ji to fight in person, Li Bi and others also advised Li Ji not to go, and Li Bi even expressed his willingness to fight on behalf of Li Ji.

But Li Ji said heroically: "There are thousands of people in the little Khorezm, I don't dare to lead the troops to fight with them, how will I lead our Dazhong in the future?" ”

Li Ji's position as the crown prince has been decided, and his identity will surpass others by a large margin.

In this case, Li Ji insisted, who could stop it?

As a result, Li Ji and Niu Tong led 10,000 elites to attack.

Niu Tong's blood is hot-blooded, but his ability to fight is not covered, otherwise, he would not have been sent to protect Li Ji and them.

Therefore, this battle was fought very smoothly, and the Khorezm people were defeated by Li Ji and Niu Tong and fled.

But somehow just like that, a stray arrow shot right in the face of Li Ji, who was rushing too forward.

Before Niu Tong could take Li Ji to the nearest city and county for treatment, Li Ji lost his breath......

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