After the election of adult men from the royal family, four new crown prince candidates finally replaced Li Wei, Li Xiu, Li Da, and Li Yi to participate in this year's crown prince selection.

The four new candidates for the crown prince are: Li Xu, Li Xu, Li Dian, and Li Podi.

Li Xu.

Yelu Yu Liyan was the first son of Li Derivation.

More than ten years ago, in order to borrow the name of the Liao State to recover the people of Kedun City and the military states and grassland tribes of Mobei that originally belonged to the Liao State, Li Yan asked Yue Fei to bring Li Xu to Mobei.

Later, Li Yan renamed Kedun City as Beining City, and after Yue Fei led the expeditionary army to the west, Li Xu and Fang Xuedu stayed in Dingyuan City.

At that time, Fang Xuedu was already old, and he only stayed in Beining City for less than a year, Fang Xuedu fell ill, and then returned to Yanjing to recuperate, leaving Li Xu, who was only sixteen years old at the time, alone in Beining City.

After Li Yan learned of this, he did not arrange for anyone to replace Fang Xuedu to help Li Xu.

After Fang Xuedu came back, he told Li Yan that Li Xu is very responsible and smart, and he should be a talent.

In addition, Ningbei City at that time, including the entire Mobei, was not important.

Therefore, Li Yan asked Li Xu to temporarily manage Mobei.

Mobei, although it is not the northernmost part of Dazhong, it is already the northernmost part of the land where there are people.

It is sparsely populated and life is boring, and few people want to live there.

It is the troops stationed there that are usually rotated every three years.

But Li Xu stayed there for thirteen years.

Moreover, the thirteen years that Li Xu stayed there were not wasted time, but he was very active in governing there, and actively let the former Liao states such as Weiwu, Chongde, Huifan, Xin, Dalin, Zihe, and Camel that had been returned to Dazhong and the grassland tribes such as Rhubarb Murowei, Dira, Wang Jira, Cha Chira, Yexi, Nose Gude, Nira, Dara, Damili, Mierji, Hezhu, Wuguli, Zubu, Pusuwan, Tanggu, Kumusi, Xidi, and Jiaoerbi were completely subordinated to Dazhong.

Li Ci relied on killing to carry out tribal demolition and relocation, Li Xiu relied on skillful use of policies and repression, and Li Xu relied on only visiting tribes to demolish and govern tribes.

After Li Xu arrived in the city of Bac Ninh, he visited the military states and steppe tribes of the former Liao State, and told them what would happen if they did not follow the imperial court's demolition law to divide the tribes into tribes of less than 100 people and disperse them, and gave them many examples, such as Tatar, Kereh, and Mierbeg.

Moreover, Li Xu also said that he did not want to rely on force to force them to demolish, he wanted to live in peace with them, and he wanted to lead them to live a happy life.

The general trend is here.

Li Xu put his heart in his heart and tirelessly.

In addition, Li Xu's title is the King of Liao, and his mother is the last princess of the Liao State, the princess of the Shu Kingdom, so that the military states and grassland tribes of the former Liao State, which were originally subordinated to the Liao State, are very close to him.

In the end, Li Xu relied on his incorruptible tongue to say that the various grassland tribes in Mobei were peacefully demolished, and then completely obeyed the rule of Dazhong.

In addition to actively implementing the demolition and relocation plan of Dazhong, Li Xu was also actively building Ningbei City, where he built markets, hospitals, schools, and various advanced facilities to attract nomads to urban life.

In addition, Li Xu knows very well that it is interests, not persecution, that people are attracted to.

Therefore, Li Xu has always actively promoted the construction of the Dazhong railway to Ningbei City, and actively developed agriculture and animal husbandry, wanting to rely on the extremely rich water and grass in Mobei to provide livestock for Dazhong.

Under the active promotion of Li Xu, in the fifth year of Li Xu's arrival in Ningbei City, the Dazhong Railway was finally repaired to Mobei and Ningbei City.

After that, Li Xu began to sell a large number of livestock from Mobei to Dazhong, so that all the nomads could see the tangible benefits.

In this way, the nomadic people in Mobei are even more optimistic about Li Xu, and they are more actively involved in Li Xu's planning, they actively communicate with Ningbei City, and even directly join Ningbei City.

Later, Dazhong geologists found a large number of copper mines in Mobei, so the imperial court escorted a large number of prisoners of war and recruited a large number of miners to send them to Mobei to mine.

After Li Xu learned of this, he actively arranged for the miners to live in Bac Ninh City, and actively helped them marry herdsmen and let them take root in Bac Ninh City.

Later, Dazhong geologists found an extremely large natural gas field in Siberia.

After Li Yan learned of this, he boldly proposed to bring the natural gas from this natural gas field to Dazhong, and let the natural gas in this natural gas field replace firewood and charcoal as the fuel for people's cooking.

At that time, many people thought Li Yan was whimsical and thought that Li Yan was a fantasy.

But Li Yan has always done whatever he wants, no one dares to stop it, and no one can stop it.

Soon, Li Yan set up a gas ministry and sent capable officials to handle the matter.

After learning of this incident, Li Xuan resolutely took advantage of Dazhong to vigorously develop this matter, actively settled the Chinese in Beining City, and used Beining City as a transit point for Chinese to go to Siberia and return to Dazhong.

In short, Li Xu seized every opportunity to develop Bac Ninh City and spared no effort to govern Bac Ninh City.

After more than ten years of operation by Li Xu, Beining City has now become a big city, that is, compared with many big cities in the Central Plains, the key is that although the ethnic group here is complex, the people's life is stable, the political environment is also very stable, and it is very prosperous.

It can be said that Li Xu stabilized the northern border for Dazhong, which is really a great contribution to Dazhong, which attaches great importance to the north's efforts to become a dual empire.

Everything Li Xu did was seen by Li Yan and the world.

In addition, there are Yelu Dashi and other original Liao people who shouted for Li Xu.

So much so that Li Xu also stood out as one of the nine candidates for the crown prince this time.

When it comes to natural gas, we can't fail to mention Li Ji.

At the beginning, when natural gas was just an idea of Li Yan, Li Ji, as a fanatic who followed Li Yan, firmly believed that Li Yan's idea would come true, and then plunged headlong into Li Yan's "big natural gas" plan.

Of course, Li Yan is not struggling alone, and Li Yan has also sent many capable officials to promote the "big natural gas" plan.

But none of those capable officials and officials believed that Li Yan's "big gas" plan could really realize Li Yan's idea as unswervingly as Li Yan, and in the eyes of the people at the time, it was simply too fanciful, how could it be possible to bring such a distant natural gas to Dazhong as a combustion?

However, in the end, under the impetus of Li Yan, Li Yan and his team overcame one difficulty after another and developed feasible natural gas transportation and use technology, which provided the basis for Li Yan's "big natural gas" plan.

Immediately after that, Li and his team began to go to Siberia to build a gas gathering plant and prepare to start building pipelines.

The initial stage was the most difficult period.

At that time, in Siberia, not to mention the railway, there was not even a sheep's intestine trail, and it was even more difficult to transport something over than to climb to the sky.

fortunately

The gas field that geologists found was located in the west of Lake Baikal, in what was later Irkutsk, not too far from the city of Ningbei.

In addition, there is the support of more than 100,000 human and animal power provided by Li Xu.

In the end, all the difficulties were overcome by Li Ji.

Later, Li Yan stepped forward and ordered the Ministry of Railways to build a railway from Bac Ninh to bypass Xiaohai (Lake Baikal) to reach the natural gas field.

With the convenience of the railway, the construction of natural gas gathering plants has been greatly accelerated, and the construction of natural gas pipelines has become much easier.

After nine years, Li and the others finally brought natural gas back to Dazhong.

However, people's habits are very difficult to change, and when natural gas was first brought back, people were reluctant to use natural gas.

Later, after consulting Li Yan, Li Yan provided people with free installation of natural gas, free stoves for a limited time and other promotional means to encourage people to use natural gas.

The point is, it's easy to use natural gas, and it's much cheaper than using diesel charcoal.

Therefore, Li Ji and they slowly opened up the situation.

Today, more than half of households in Yanjing use natural gas, and in other cities in the Yanyun region, there are also between 10 and 50 percent of the population.

Compared to the huge large medium, there are still very few people who use natural gas.

But even so, the imperial court's investment in natural gas has been completely recovered, and there is still a lot of surplus.

Now, everyone can see that natural gas is definitely a big source of revenue comparable to the railway.

While Li Yan once again proved his vision, he also fulfilled Li Yan, who firmly believed in Li Yan, and because of his miraculous natural gas and his perseverance, he also stood out from his brothers and became one of the nine candidates for the crown prince.

By the way, Li Yan's mother did not have a deep background, she was just an ordinary palace maid who entered the palace through the draft, and later, because she was beautiful, she was fortunate by Li Yanlin, and then gave birth to Li Yan.

Like Li Di's mother, who is not from a high background, there is also Li Dian's mother.

Li Dian's mother was also a palace maid, and, unlike Li Dian's mother, who was a Han, Li Dian's mother was not even Han, and even Li Dian's mother was not an Oriental, but a Westerner, to be precise, Li Dian's mother was a Jew.

At the beginning, when Li Yan was in Angkor, there was a Westerner merchant ship that tried to smuggle across Golden Ou Kok, but was caught by the coast guard.

Under normal circumstances, all the masterminds have to be hanged, even if they are accomplices, they must also enter the labor camp for labor reform, and as for the female dependents, they must enter the teaching department.

After the Western merchant ship was captured, the coast guards searched the merchant ship for dozens of Western women, including three sisters who were very beautiful.

It just so happened that at that time, the customs of Jinoujiao didn't know what to give Li Yanjin a good thing to offer.

So, they dedicated the three sisters to Li Yan.

I have to say that the three sisters are really good-looking, and they are all standard Western beauties.

It's a pity that they don't come from a good background, they are just the daughters of ordinary Jewish businessmen.

In addition, the three of them were still young at that time, and the eldest was only fifteen years old.

So, Li Yan let the three sisters enter the palace as palace maids.

Of course, Li Yan was still fortunate to them later, otherwise, where did Li Dian come from?

Short section.

After Li Yanlin was fortunate to the three sisters, ten months later, Li Dian was born.

Li Dian's mother is not the eldest of the three sisters, but the second eldest has a daughter for Li.

Li Dian was extremely intelligent since he was a child, and at a very young age, he knew how to trade all the good things of other brothers into his own hands.

When Li Dian was thirteen years old, Li Dian became the richest of all the princes, and his money came from Huangming Zhengda (all of which he earned through investment), and he even paid taxes.

In other words, Li Dian is a business wizard.

Of course, Li Yan couldn't waste Li Dian's talent.

When other princes were still slowly studying, Li Yan threw Li Dian into the money bank system and asked him to start from the grassroots level.

By the time Li Dian was twenty years old, he had already become Zhang Kai's first assistant.

Zhang Kai once said to Li Yan: "It turns out that the minister is very worried that after the minister can't do it, no one can replace the minister in charge of the world's money village, and after Li Dian, the minister no longer has to worry about this matter." ”

It can be seen from this that Zhang Kai is optimistic about Li Dian.

Li Yan was very worried, and Zhang Kai lifted Li Dian too high, which in turn harmed Li Dian.

Therefore, Li Yan asked Zhang Kai to press Li Dian on the one hand, and at the same time created an opportunity for Li Dian to hone Li Dian.

In fact, Li Yan hopes that Li Dian can suffer some setbacks, so that it can be more conducive to Li Dian's growth.

But the development of things did not go as Li Yan intended, and all the difficulties he imposed on Li Dian were easily resolved by Li Dian.

Li Dianzhen is a genius, a peerless genius!

Later, Li Dian probably felt that his life was too unchallenging, and even took the initiative to propose to Li Yan: The imperial court must hold the money bags of each vassal state in its hands, so that it can effectively control a number of vassal states.

To put it simply, Li Dian wanted to establish money banks in all vassal states, and he did not allow vassal states to establish their own money banks, so that the whole world would unify their currencies and use derivative coins as the currency in circulation.

The difficulty of this matter is not ordinary.

It's not that Li Yan can't ban the vassal states, and he can't let the vassal states cooperate with the use of the Yan currency as the only circulating currency, but this system is too difficult to formulate, you know, the current transportation and communication are not as good as the later generations, let alone computer-aided, and what Li Dian wants to do is to become the existence of the Federal Reserve beyond the later generations!

How hard it is!

Therefore, Li Yan is not optimistic about this matter.

But first, if this matter is really done by Li Dian, then it can undoubtedly be as Li Dian said, the lieutenant general will seize the money bags of various vassal states, and if anyone dares to disobey, he can use financial sanctions to sanction him.

Second, Li Dian has always behaved too demonic, so Li Yan also wants Li Dian to suffer.

Therefore, Li Yan agreed with Li Dian to let it go.

At first, Li Dian did hit a lot of walls.

But slowly, Li Dian and the team he formed solved all the problems they encountered one by one, and some of the solutions were unheard of and unseen even by Li Yan, a person with knowledge in later generations.

It took Li Dian and his team seven years to establish a dozen to dozens of money banks in various vassal states to form a huge network of money banks, and all the money bags of various vassal states were netted into it.

At this stage, although the Qianzhuang network built by Li Dian and them still has certain deficiencies and needs to be slowly improved, they have already set up the most difficult framework, and the rest is the problem of slowly correcting.

has achieved such great achievements, and Li Dian has the name of a peerless genius, so he naturally stood out as one of the candidates for the crown prince.

The last candidate for the crown prince, Li Podi, is not Li Yan's son, but Li Yan's grandson, who is the son of Li Wei.

But

Li Podi is not Li Wei's eldest son, but Li Wei's second son, that is to say, Li Podi is not Li Yan's eldest grandson.

Don't look at Li Podi's name is very powerful, my father is still the bravest of Li Yan's sons.

But although this Li Podi has also been trained in the army, his most powerful thing is not his ability to fight, although his ability to fight is not weak.

Li Po's most powerful enemy is...... Engage in espionage.

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