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The reason why Li Yan strongly supports Li Podi, the third generation, and pushes Li Podi, the third generation, to run for the crown prince is mainly because most of the candidates for the crown prince this session are not optimistic about Li Yan.

Here are a few examples:

Like Li Ji, who has the biggest opportunity today, Li Yan is not very optimistic.

Although Li Ji is deeply popular among the royal family, he is also known as the Eight Sages King.

But in Li Yan's opinion, Li Ji's ability is not strong, at least it has not been confirmed.

Initially, Li Yan threw Li Ji to the Eastern Qarakhanid Dynasty and left Li Ji alone.

But within a few years, under Li Ji's rule, the Kangli people and the Qarluqs rebelled, which led to Dazhong's second expedition to the west.

After the Great Central and Western Conquests of Central Asia, Li Yan divided Central Asia and gave Li Ji a three-point Gur (Afghanistan in later generations) and became a Je country.

And yet—

This country has not developed well over the years, not only is the economy not in the middle, but the local Gur people have also broken out in revolt.

Of course, you can also say that Li Ji has been participating in the election of the crown prince all these years and has no energy and time to govern the country.

But in Li Yan's view, this reason is not sufficient.

Li Bi, who has the same situation as Li Ji, is not like Li Ji - although Li Bi is not in the Bi country, the ministers he appointed still govern the Bi country in an orderly manner, the economy is very prosperous, and the law and order and politics are very stable.

In the final analysis, it is still Li Ji's employment problem.

This is a taboo for being an emperor - being an emperor, you can't bear it, but if you don't use people's eyes, you can't do it.

Therefore, in Li Yan's heart, he did not want Li Ji to be the crown prince, and then to be the emperor.

In fact, not only Li Ji, but also Li Maung, Li Ci, Li Jian, Li Ji, Li Dian, and Li Yan are not optimistic.

Li Maung and Li Jian, especially the former, are too angry, such people, in Li Yan's opinion, are the most unsuitable to be emperors, because they have heard too much, and then they will not decide, the key is that such an emperor is easy to be kidnapped by those civil servants, or even set aside, and then lose imperial power.

Li Ci is just the opposite, too decisive and decisive, that is to say, Li Ci's murderous spirit is too heavy, such an emperor is not good, he will cause panic among the courtiers and the people, which is not conducive to stability, you know, for the government, stability is greater than everything, the rulers, the most afraid is change, the people, the official, the palace change, all mean that the rule may be overthrown, and, if you are used to using killing to solve the problem, after a long time, it is really possible to become a tyrant, and then you will often use force to solve the problem, will become reckless.

I would like to add here that if you want to choose one of Li Maung, Li Jian, and Li Ci as the emperor, Li Yan will not hesitate to choose Li Ci, that is to say, in Li Yan's opinion, tyrants are better than those scholars to be emperors.

Although Li Yan is Li Yan's staunchest supporter, and he has perseverance and tenacity in doing things, Li Yan is still not optimistic about Li Yan as the emperor - those who become emperors must have their own judgment and cannot blindly follow the trend, after all, political struggles are extremely complicated, and it is impossible to always have a bright light for you to refer to, so a character like Li Ji is definitely not suitable for being an emperor.

Li Dian is too businessman, such a person is too calculating, so he has less of the overall situation, and he is worse in terms of trade-offs, and the emperor will inevitably have to face trade-offs, which is a little difficult for Li Dian, in addition, Li Dian is too smart and too capable, so that he has never suffered a setback at all, and often such a person, once he suffers a setback, is likely to collapse, or even go with the flow, just like Emperor Yang of Sui, after being frustrated, he broke the jar and fell, and finally lost his country.

And Li Yan is optimistic, but there is not much chance.

Like Li Bi and Li Xu.

Li Bi grew up step by step from the army.

Such a Li Bi does not lack training, nor does he lack decisiveness.

The key is that Li Bi is not as murderous as Li Ci, he has always killed what should be killed, and never killed indiscriminately if he should not be killed.

Moreover, Li Bi is good at commanding troops and fighting with wisdom, which is in line with the qualities that an emperor should have.

Let's talk about Li Xu again.

Li Xu, who is young, can endure his temperament and stay in the desolate Mobei for thirteen years.

This is extremely difficult, and I am afraid that I will not be able to find a single one among ten thousand young people.

The key is that in such a difficult environment, Li Xu also built Beining City into a first-class city, stabilizing the northern frontier for Dazhong.

This is even more rare.

In Li Yan's opinion, if Li Xu becomes an emperor, he will definitely be a good emperor.

But the problem Li Bi and Li Xu face is that their voices are not high, like Li Bi, who has already run for election once last year, and the number of votes received last year was the second from the bottom.

In fact, there is no way to do it, after all, not everyone can see the shining points of Li Bi and Li Xu, and they are not as good at talking and packaging themselves as Li Maung and Li Jian.

In view of the fact that it was unlikely that Li Bi and Li Xu would win the crown prince, Li Yancai pushed Li Podi out.

Those who engage in intelligence are generally relatively low-key.

However, there are always exceptions.

Li Podi, who is only in his twenties, is not the second generation of the emperor, but the third generation of the emperor, and he has become the intelligence chief of Central Asia and Europe, and he is responsible for the intelligence collection of more than 100 vassal states in the two regions.

More importantly, he held all the kings of the vassal states in his hands, and if he ran for office, he would definitely get a lot of votes from the vassal states.

Therefore, Li Yancai pushed Li Podi out, wanting to see if he could defeat Li Ji and them to become the crown prince.

However, Li Yan can also do it to this extent - the rules are designated by Li Yan, and Li Yan cannot take the lead in sabotaging.

Therefore, whether Li Podi can defeat his uncles and become the crown prince in the end depends on himself.

Besides, if Li Podi has to rely on Li Yan for everything, then Li Podi is not worthy of being the emperor.

In a word, whoever wants to be emperor has to defeat others by himself.

The election is not just about selecting the crown prince, it is also a test of the real crown prince.

You must know that in the process of election, it is full of political games, and it is absolutely impossible for people who are not masters or people with great wisdom to win.

This is something that no one else can help with.

Therefore, before the election, Li Yan did not give anyone too much help, but just told Li Xu, Li Xu, Li Dian, and Li Podi, who were new candidates this year, about some methods he knew about canvassing votes.

Actually-

Li Yan: This is completely redundant.

After the last election, they should have summed up a lot of methods, which should be much more clever than Li Yan's clichés.

Li Yan told Li Xu and them again, and he could only show that Li Yan treated them equally.

Dading 10th autumn.

Li Ji, Li Maung, Li Ci, Li Bi, Li Jian, Li Xu, Li Ji, Li Dian, and Li Podi embarked on the journey of the election of the crown prince.

At the same time, Li Yan also began his last years as an emperor......

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