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"I am a big middle, I don't get along, I don't pay compensation, I don't cut the land, I don't pay tribute, the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies!"

Upon closer examination, what Li Yan said was actually a tight spell for himself and his descendants, which greatly limited the means for himself and his descendants to deal with difficulties, and also greatly increased the difficulty for himself and his descendants to tide over the crisis.

There are just too many such examples.

Like, the Han Dynasty, first the emperor was surrounded, took the lady's route to save his life, and then he should be friendly and friendly, but he never forgot this shame, endured the humiliation, waited for the opportunity, and finally became strong and immediately counterattacked, sealed the wolf Juxu, and passed through the Western Regions, and finally shouted out "Those who commit Han crimes will be punished even if they are far away".

Like, the Tang Dynasty was also oppressed by foreign races, but it was time to borrow troops and borrow troops, and it was time to negotiate peace and peace.

And there are many counter-examples.

The most significant is Emperor Chongzhen at the end of the Ming Dynasty, if he is flexible in his thinking and runs to Nanjing to continue to resist, the worst and worst, he can also follow Zhao Gou's example, and Li Zicheng or the Manchu Qing Dynasty to rule by dividing the river, it is impossible to become the king of the dead country.

But although Li Yan clearly shouted out the various drawbacks of this sentence, Li Yan still shouted it without hesitation!

Why?

First of all, after shouting these words, Li Yan can immediately win the recognition of the people in Dazhong, and Li Yan can win the hearts of the people all over the world.

"Don't get along, don't pay compensation, don't cut the land, don't pay tribute", forget it, this can only say that the emperor has backbone, dare to harden steel, whoever wants to come to my big middle school to rob, it's best to weigh it carefully, there is no benefit and don't say it, and I have to be stubbornly resisted by my big middle.

And for the people, what greatly benefited them was that "the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies in Sheji" - all along, the people of the Central Plains Dynasty have been harassed by the Hu people from the north, many people, especially the people of Hedong and Hebei, are all worried about living, even the people of Henan, this time they have been seriously violated by the Jin people, several cities, have been slaughtered by the Jin people, and now, Li Yan, the emperor, wants to personally guard the country for the people of the whole world. To personally defend the people of the whole world against the Hu people in the north, the national defense line was broken by the Hu people again, Li Yan, the emperor and those bigwigs in the court, died first, not them, the people, died first, therefore, it is impossible for the Chinese army not to guard Yanyun and guard the frontier wholeheartedly, is there anything safer than this?

So, what reason do the people of the world have not to support Li Yan, the emperor who is committed to protecting them? Especially after the Jingkang disaster happened, and the Han people were bullied by the Jin people!

This also led to the fact that the prestige of Li Yan, the new emperor, soon reached the point of boundlessness, and even, many people who were looking forward to the restoration of Zhao and Song in the past now raised their hands to support Li Yan as emperor!

Secondly, after shouting these words, those who wanted to stop Li Yan from moving the capital didn't even dare to open their mouths - if they dared to stop it, it would almost be equivalent to being the enemy of the whole world.

Again, after shouting these words, it is possible to force Li Yan and Li Yan's descendants to the Jedi, but there is a saying, "put it to death and live later", it is precisely because of this that Li Yan and Li Yan's descendants can be forced not to slack off, dare not waste the government, dare not not make progress, and even can force many ministers who defend the city and like to advocate peace to weigh their own ideas.

In the end, if there is really the kind of emperor who lives in such a place on the edge of life and death and dares to be unscrupulous among Li Yan's descendants, Dazhong will eventually die, and even if Dazhong only has him Li Yan's dynasty, Li Yan will let Dazhong stand on top of history, in other words, Li Yan believes that people die and birds rise to the sky, and they will not die for thousands of years!

Li Yan planned to move the capital for a day or two, so he shouted "I am a big middle, no harmony, no compensation, no land, no tribute, the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies!" On the second day, Li Yan issued a series of personnel appointments.

Li Yan appointed Li Gang, who also served as the governor of Yanyun, and immediately rushed to Yanjing to take full charge of all political and civil affairs in the Yanyun area (including the three prefectures of Pingluanying).

Li Yan appointed Zhu Wu as the chief defense envoy of Yanyun, and immediately rushed to Yanjing to take full charge of the military deployment and defense facilities in the Yanyun area.

Li Yan appointed Li Guang as the head of Yandi, responsible for the political and civil affairs of Yandi.

Li Yan appointed Hu Quan as the general manager of Yundi, responsible for the political and civil affairs of Yundi.

Li Yan appointed Zhang Xiaochun as the prefect of Pingzhou - after the Chinese army broke through Yanjing, they rescued many officials of the former Zhao and Song dynasties, such as Cai Jing, Xu Cai, Zhang Zhongfu, Zhang Zhongyan, Zheng Yinian, Li Zhengmin, Bi Liangshi and dozens of senior officials and generals in the Northern Song Dynasty, including Zhang Xiaochun. Almost all of these officials and generals rescued by the Chinese army joined Dazhong, and only a few people did not want to serve Dazhong and chose to become civilians. However, among the very few people, Zhang Xiaochun is not included. Li Yan admired Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Yu for sticking to Taiyuan City, so he summoned Zhang Xiaochun to meet him. After Li Yan talked to Zhang Xiaochun, he found that Zhang Xiaochun was very talented, so this time he made him the prefect of Pingzhou, and was also in charge of the civil affairs of Luanzhou and Yingzhou.

Li Yan appointed Wang Shiyong as the chief supervisor of the palace, and was fully responsible for the construction of the Yanjing Palace.

Li Yan appointed Tao Zongwang and Jin Dajian as the palace supervisors to supervise the quality and construction progress of the Yanjing Palace.

From Li Yan's appointment of officials in the Yanyun region, it is not difficult to see how much Li Yan attaches importance to the Yanyun region, it can be said that Li Yan used a group of rulers to govern the Yanyun region.

The world can see that Yanjing has replaced Tokyo as the new national capital.

It is indeed immutable.

Soon, Li Yan issued another order - recruit craftsmen with high salaries across the country to build imperial palaces, build the Great Wall, build city defenses, and build official mansions in the Yanyun area.

With Li Yan's order, take a moment.

More than 100,000 craftsmen and their families belonging to the Ministry of Industry were the first to go north.

Immediately afterwards, the 200,000 craftsmen and their families that Li Yan had plundered from the Indochina Peninsula also began to gather from all over the country, and then went north one after another.

At the same time, the household department hired private craftsmen to go north with high salaries - not only craftsmen from various regions of the country and China, but even craftsmen from India, Arabia, and Western countries responded to the call, to put it simply, as long as the area that could be reached by the country, there were craftsmen who responded to the call.

In the end, the household department insisted on recruiting more than 400,000 craftsmen for Li Yan.

Why are there so many craftsmen calling?

Without it, the treatment is just too good.

Food, lodging, and reimbursement of round-trip travel expenses, three to ten times the salary (according to fame and craftsmanship), allowing them to bring their families, who also provide food and shelter, and also reimburse round-trip travel expenses.

Moreover, the people of the household department also went to the door to invite those famous craftsmen.

Let's put it this way, the craftsmen who are not found by the people of the household department are not first-class craftsmen.

In addition to the craftsmen, the household department recruited 5 million people at three times the salary, and these people also provided food and lodging, reimbursed the round-trip travel expenses, and allowed them to bring their families, and their families also provided food and shelter, and also reimbursed the round-trip travel expenses.

Seventy or eighty craftsmen, five million people!

Li Yan: How big is this palace going to build?

With so many people mobilized, the palace that Li Yan wants to build will naturally not be small, no, to be precise, Li Yan wants to build a palace of unprecedented scale!

Actually-

There is another reason why Li Yan wants to move the capital, that is, the palace he lives in now, that is, the Northern Song Dynasty Palace, is too small to accommodate his family.

The palace city where the royal family lived in the Song Dynasty may be the smallest pattern in the unified dynasty of the past dynasties, neither as magnificent as the palace city of Chang'an in the Han and Tang dynasties, nor as wide as the imperial city of Beijing in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Bianliang was developed from the state city of the Tang Dynasty, and the predecessor of the palace city was only the seat of the Jiedu envoy, which naturally cannot be compared with the old capitals such as Chang'an and Luoyang.

After the establishment of the Song Dynasty, Song Taizu had expanded the northeast corner of the Bianliang Imperial City according to the appearance of the Luoyang Palace, "Jianlong three years, the northeast corner of the Guanghuang City, ordered to paint the Luoyang Palace, according to the map to repair, the imperial palace began to be magnificent."

Although it is known as "magnificent", in fact, the imperial palace of the Northern Song Dynasty has a circumference of only five miles - the perimeter of the imperial city of Beijing in the Ming Dynasty is eighteen miles.

Didn't the emperor of the Song Dynasty want to expand the imperial city more magnificently and magnificently?

The dossier is yes – of course.

But if you do, you must first face a problem: demolition.

Bianliang City is a little different from the city before the Song Dynasty, the previous city was planned by power, which appeared neat and rigid, while Bianliang was spontaneously "grown", which appeared chaotic and vibrant.

As a result, outside the Bianliang Palace, there are dense houses and shops.

Therefore, no matter which direction the Miyagi is expanded, it is necessary to demolish a large number of houses and shops.

The emperors of the Song Dynasty did not think about expanding the imperial city to make their lives more comfortable.

Zhao Kuangyi, the second monarch of the Song Dynasty, made up his mind to expand the palace city, and even issued an edict to put forward a construction plan, so that Liu Yanhan and others in front of the palace could survey and map the papers.

Soon after, the drawings were drawn, and Zhao Kuangyi saw that there were too many houses to be demolished according to the drawings, so he asked the officials to seek advice from the residents within the scope of the demolition and requisition.

And those residents are not willing to move out at all.

Taking a step back, even if those residents were willing to move away, the imperial court would have to pay a lot of money.

You must know that after decades of development, Bianliang City at that time can be said to be an inch of land, not to mention the golden area on the edge of the imperial city.

And Zhao Kuangyi did not have the courage to carry out forced demolition.

In the end, I had to give up.

When Zhao Ji, who loves to build and enjoy the most, came to power, he also wanted to expand the palace.

But in Zhao Ji's period, the house price in Bianliang became even more expensive, so that Zhao Ji couldn't afford it.

In desperation, Zhao Ji could only expand the relatively independent Yanfu Palace.

But even so, the imperial palace of the Northern Song Dynasty was pitifully small.

Today, Li Yan has more than 2,000 titled concubines, and more than 10,000 palace maids without titles, plus more than 400 children and their future concubines and envoys, where is this small Song Palace enough for him to live?

And once Li Yan wants to expand this Song Imperial Palace, he will inevitably face the problems faced by all the emperors of the Song Dynasty.

The more important reason why the palace city of the Song Dynasty was not open enough was that the monarchs of the Song Dynasty, whether they were Ming monarchs or faint monarchs, were quite scruples about demolishing and demolishing people's houses, and did not dare to let go of their hands and feet to demolish and rebuild.

Why don't you dare to carry out demolition?

Of course, the emperors of the Zhao and Song dynasties could not all have the heart of a bodhisattva, and they would all think of their innocence and feel sorry for them.

This consensus of theirs has been cultivated, accumulated, infected, and precipitated, forming an invisible but perceptible atmosphere, which makes the emperor feel strong moral pressure when he unfolds the demolition drawings, and has to be restrained.

Moreover, the emperors of the Song Dynasty did not dare to expand the palace, also because of the obstruction of the Song Dynasty scholars.

For example:

When Song Renzong succeeded to the throne, because of his young age, the Empress Dowager Zhang Xian listened to the government.

In the eighth year of Tiansheng, a fire broke out in the Zhaoying Palace of Yuqing and was almost burned to ashes.

Empress Dowager Zhang Xian cried to the minister: "The first emperor tried his best to build this palace, and it was burned several times overnight, and only one or two small halls remained. ”

The ministers all heard the meaning of the queen mother, who wanted to rebuild the Yuqing Palace.

Prime Minister Lu Yijian immediately objected, saying that God's punishment was like this, and it must not be rebuilt.

Fan Yong said more fiercely in the matter: "This Yuqing Palace might as well be burned down." If it is left because of its existence, and it will be destroyed, the people will not be able to die. ”

Another prime minister, Wang Zeng, also opposed the rebuilding of the Yuqing Palace.

Empress Dowager Zhang Xian could only rest her thoughts, and only repaired the two remaining halls slightly.

It was not until twenty-five years later that two other halls were added.

Li Yan's courage is certainly not comparable to those unambitious emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty.

However, then again, if Li Yan were to expand the palace of the Zhao and Song dynasties, it would also be troublesome - this trouble was mainly reflected in the fact that everything in Bianliang was already a foregone conclusion, so the cost of expansion was too great, and it would also touch the interests of those powerful people.

Moreover, whether Li Yan cares about it or not, there are comparisons between the previous emperors of Zhao and Song.

Yanjing does not have this problem at all.

Yanjing has been devastated by war countless times, and the vicinity of the imperial city of Yanjing was originally occupied by the dignitaries of the Jin Dynasty and the criminals of the Great and Middle Dynasties.

Yanjing is not very strong.

Even if there are really a few little heroes, Li Yan doesn't have to consider their attitudes.

Therefore, in Yanjing, Li Yan can build as big a palace as he wants.

So how big a palace does Li Yan want to build?

The answer is: nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine and a half.

Li Yan wanted to build his palace on an unprecedented scale, only half a room less than the Lingxiao Palace, and Li Yan wanted to realize the idea that Zhu Di had not been able to realize.

Zhu Di originally wanted to build his palace for nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine and a half.

But later, for various reasons, Zhu Di tricked - he counted the four pillars as one (or maybe the people at that time were the rooms), but even according to this algorithm, the palace he built did not reach the nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine and a half rooms he wanted.

And Li Yan was ready to build a full nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine rooms according to the algorithm of later generations.

Some people may ask, how much does it cost Li Yan to do this? Aren't you afraid that others will say that he is arrogant and lascivious?

How much it costs, to be honest, Li Yan doesn't know, in short, the designation will not be less.

But Li Yan didn't care, because he was rich, very rich.

Over the years, Li Yan can be said to have obtained the vast majority of the wealth of Liao, Song, Goryeo, Japan, Indochina, and Zhuluo.

Over the years, Li Yan's people have discovered hundreds of gold and silver mines in Japan, large and small, and the daily output of gold and silver there has to be calculated in tons.

The maritime international trade controlled by Li Yan can be said to be a huge cornucopia.

These wealths, coupled with the money village that Li Yan made, Li Yan can be said to have countless amounts of money.

Therefore, Li Yan can afford to spend any money to build his own palace, and he doesn't even need to use the state's money.

As for it, are you afraid that others will say that you are arrogant and lascivious?

Was Qin Shi Huang afraid when he built Afang Palace?

Was Liu Bang scared when he built Weiyang Palace?

Was Li Shimin afraid when he built Daming Palace?

Why should Li Yan be afraid?

Moreover, there is another reason why Li Yan is so big and spends so much money on civil engineering.

That is, over the years, the population of the Yanyun area, which has been baptized by war, has withered.

What's more, there are too few Han people in the Yanyun area, and it can even be said that there are not many Han people in the Yanyun area at all - most of the Han people there are Han, not Han people in the traditional sense.

As the capital of a country, especially one based on the rule of the Han Chinese, this is absolutely not possible.

Therefore, Li Yancai built a large number of buildings, and used economic means to promote the elites from all over the country to flock to the Yanyun area, enriching the population of the Yanyun area, the Han population, and then making the Yanyun area the real center of Dazhong.

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PS: This is a big chapter of two in one, so that's it for today.