In March of the fourth year of Yonghui, Li Chengqian issued an edict promulgating the Five Classics of Righteousness, a work of righteousness and sparseness compiled by Kong Yingda and others, "The Five Classics of Justice" to the world.

From now on, the annual Ming Jing examination must be based on this, and the imperial examination must also be answered according to this, and free play is not allowed.

After Li Chengqian left the court, when he returned to the office area, he passed by a place and suddenly heard a burst of elephant calls.

"Stop!" Li Chengqian called a stop, and the eunuch who was walking hurriedly stopped, Li Chengqian listened attentively and really heard the voice of the elephant.

"Wang Quan, what did you hear?" Li Chengqian asked, thinking that he was hallucinating.

Where are there elephants in Chang'an, let alone the sound of elephants that can be heard in the palace.

"Hello everyone! The slave and maid heard, and there was indeed the sound of an animal. Wang Quan said.

Wang Quan's answer confirmed that it was not his hallucination, and Li Chengqian asked, "Why is there such an animal cry in the palace?" Why have I never heard of it? ”

"Everyone, this is one of the tributes from the Lin Yi Kingdom." Wang Quan said.

"Didn't I hand over the tribute of Lin Yi to the Pawn Bureau? Why did this elephant appear in the palace? Li Chengqian asked.

He remembered that at that time, after receiving the envoy of Lin Yi and accepting the other party's tribute, he handed it over to the Pawn Bureau, shouldn't a creature like an elephant be in the Pawn Bureau! How can there be in the palace.

"Everyone, you forgot, you said that you haven't really seen the training elephant, and if you want to see it, let people keep it in the palace temporarily." Wang Quan said.

"When you say that, I remember! But there is such a thing, let's go! Swing the two ceremonial halls. Li Chengqian said.

Only then did the eunuch carry Li Chengqian towards the Liangyi Palace.

Li Chengqian summoned Li Ji to discuss military affairs, discuss the current situation, and the future strategy for the various ethnic groups around the Tang Dynasty.

"Sikong! Where is this country located? As he spoke, Li Chengqian asked about Lin Yiguo.

He knows that this Linyi country is a place in Vietnam, and he doesn't know where it is, and the only thing he knows is a sentence.

From the south of Linyi, they all have curly hair and black bodies, and their common name is "Kunlun".

"This Linyi country is located in the south of our Central Plains, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty destroyed the Nanyue Kingdom, and set up nine counties in the old land of the Nanyue Kingdom, including one Rinan County."

"And the country of Linyi is in the original Xianglin County, Rinan County, also known as Xianglinyi, and later omitted the word elephant, so it is also called Linyi." Li Ji said.

"In this way, Lin Yiguo should be located in the south of Jiaozhou." Li Chengqian said.

"That's right! Linyi Kingdom originally belonged to the land of the Western Han Dynasty and the South Elephant Forest, which was more than 1,000 miles south of Jiaozhou, and its territory was thousands of miles. Li Ji said.

"Since the country of Linyi was originally the territory of my Han people, why did it break away from the rule of the Central Plains and set up its own door?" Li Chengqian asked.

He really doesn't know much about this period of history, even since when Linyi became a country.

"This has to start from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in turmoil at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and there was a person named Oulian in the Zhan tribe, who killed the county commander at that time and called himself the king of Linyi."

"Later, in the last years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Linyi no longer paid tribute to the Central Plains, and Liu Yu, Emperor Wu of Liu Song of the Southern Dynasty, sent Du Huidu, the assassin of the state, to conquer Linyi in the south, and Linyi asked to surrender to Liu Song to pay tribute."

"During the Great Cause of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty sent the Sui general Liu Fang to attack the Linyi State and set up the Linyi County."

"The Tang Dynasty was established, and the Linyi Kingdom called the ministers and paid tribute to my Tang Dynasty, and the soldiers of the Linyi Kingdom took the vine as the armor and the bamboo as the bow, and fought on the elephant." Li Ji said.

This is the origin of the Linyi country, which is also a small country with a long history.

"Since this Linyi country originally belonged to the counties of my Central Plains Dynasty, and Emperor Yang of Sui also sent troops to attack and set up counties in its place, my Tang Dynasty should recover it."

"I think it's appropriate for me to send troops to attack Lin Yi Kingdom?" Li Chengqian asked.

Since it belongs to his own family, he naturally has to be taken back, how can he continue to be someone else's.

"Linyi is just a small country, why bother Your Majesty, if it is peaceful today, but surrounded by strong enemies, if we send troops to seize Linyi country, our division will be nameless." Li Ji said that he felt that it was not worth sending troops at all, and that Lin Yi was a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, there is no need to seize the Linyi Kingdom at all.

Li Chengqian didn't dwell too much on this topic, and after the two chatted about something else, Li Ji left the Liangyi Palace.

However, Li Chengqian wrote down Lin Yiguo in his heart, and had a reason for him to send troops south later.

In the fourth year of Yonghui, there was a drought in many places, even the Guanzhong area was affected, and the Huainan area was flooded.

In April, due to the drought and the records of the prisoners' crimes, Li Chengqian sent envoys to adjudicate the crimes of the whole country, and issued an edict to reduce the horse fodder in the province and the Taifu Temple, and ordered the civil and military officials to discuss political affairs.

At the same time, people should pay attention to whether there will be locust plagues, and what to do if they do.

It was another eventful year.

Li Chengqian also ordered that the palace began to shrink his clothes and diet, and even his meals were reduced again and again, with only a bowl of gruel and a few steamed buns every day.

"Everyone! The history of the same state sent a transcript. Wang Quan hurriedly came in and handed a copy of the recital to Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian took it and saw that it was a transcript sent by the history of the Tongzhou Thorn, which said that the meteorite fell from the sky in Feng Yi in Tongzhou, a total of 18, and the history of the Tongzhou Thorn was to report good news to the emperor.

claimed that this was auspicious from heaven, God blessed the Tang Dynasty, etc., Li Chengqian threw it aside directly before he finished reading it.

Now the disaster situation in various places has made him feel anxious! Now these guys still have the time to do these useless things.

"In the future, if there is such a notebook, you can just throw it away, and you don't have to present it to me again, and you will be upset to look at it." Li Chengqian didn't raise his head.

"No!" Wang Quan commanded.

"What is the situation of Shangshu's right servant and Beiping County Gongzhang Xingcheng now?" Li Chengqian asked.

"The Duke of Beiping County is still sick in bed, I heard that the situation is not very optimistic, I am afraid that I will not be able to survive!" Wang Quan said.

Birth, old age, sickness and death are just the normal state of life, there is nothing about it, Zhang Xingcheng is so old, it is normal to die.

"Who is in charge of Shangshu Province now?" Li Chengqian asked.

"It is Chu Suiliang who is in charge of the affairs of Shangshu Province." Wang Quan said.

In the past, when Zhang Xingcheng could still move around, the affairs of Shangshu Province were handled by Zhang Xingcheng and Chu Suiliang, but now that Zhang Xingcheng is gone, Chu Suiliang is in charge of the big and small affairs of Shangshu Province.

Li Chengqian naturally will not let Chu Suiliang become bigger and ignore it.

"Hello everyone! Jinyi Wei commands the envoy to report! A eunuch came in to report and handed a copy of the transcript to Li Chengqian.