Outside the Hall of Changle.

Wu Meiniang held the child and stopped Zhang Chao.

"Please father-in-law must save the emperor."

As she spoke, Wu Meiniang held the child and knelt down for Zhang Chao. Zhang Chao hurriedly reached out to pull her up, "Get up first." ”

"If the father-in-law doesn't agree, Mei Niang won't be able to kneel for a long time."

Wu's body, which has just finished giving birth, has become much plump, especially in Shangwei, which has skyrocketed a lot.

"I don't need you to ask, I'm sure I'll do my best to heal Your Majesty. Hurry up, if people see you like this, then you won't be able to tell it again. ”

Cheng Qian went back to the temple just now, and now they are the only ones here.

Wu Meiniang thanked her and got up.

Zhang Chao looked at the child in her arms, "Has the child been named?" ”

"Yesterday His Majesty named him Hiroshi."

Li Hong, the name is not bad.

"The child is still so young, you have just given birth, your body is still weak, and it is so cold outside, let's go back to the temple first."

Wu Meiniang hesitated, and finally asked, "Father-in-law, did Your Majesty really have a stroke?" ”

Zhang Chao looked her in the eyes, "Of course it's a stroke, don't you think it's poisoning?" I can tell you that there's nothing wrong with this, there's no need for that. You should know that the emperor promised His Majesty to send him to America in three years. His Majesty is also willing to go to the Americas, rather than continue to stay in Hanjing and stay in this Changle Palace. ”

"My daughter has also heard His Majesty say many times, and he said that if he has been imprisoned in this Changle Palace for the rest of his life, he might as well die. Although America was far away, going there was tantamount to exile, but he would rather go there. His Majesty often said that he would go to the United States to lay another piece of territory and re-create a Tang Dynasty. ”

Zhang Chao smiled.

"It seems that your relationship with Your Majesty is not bad now."

"Your Majesty has also been angry with me, but since Your Majesty was forced to abdicate, in this Changle Palace, although the concubines are all there, only I can appease Your Majesty."

"It's your job."

He knew that Wu Meiniang once knocked Li Shimin unconscious with a candlestick, and when the palace changed, he imitated Li Shimin's handwriting to write an edict.

But now, their relationship is very good, and this is by no means because the Wu family gave Li Shimin a son. Li Shimin has more sons, and it is more that the Wu family can understand more about current affairs and have different opinions than other concubines.

"Take good care of this child, he has just been born, and the future is still growing."

The early dynasty was not canceled.

Cheng Qian accepted Zhang Chao's suggestion and did not hide the news of Emperor Taishang's stroke.

In the early court, he directly announced the news.

The officials were shocked.

Many of them do have some conjectures of one kind or another, but Cheng Qian has a clear conscience.

The early dynasty ended.

Fang Xuanling and eldest grandson Wuji both stopped Zhang Chao.

"Wen Yuan has already been to Beigong?"

"The Emperor Taishang was sick with a stroke in the middle of the night last night, and His Majesty immediately sent someone to inform me when he found out. After I inquired and learned that His Majesty's condition was stable, he did not enter the palace in the middle of the night. I went to the North Palace early this morning, visited His Majesty, and listened to the diagnosis and treatment of the imperial doctors, and the situation is still very optimistic. ”

Zhang Chao told them that Li Shimin was still conscious and that there was a high possibility of recovery.

The eldest grandson Wuji was a little skeptical.

He did suspect that Li Shimin had a stroke and was poisoned.

"Actually, there is no need to doubt a few people, if I expect it to be true, at most there will be ten days and a half months, and the emperor will be able to speak. You may still be able to slurred your speech, but you will definitely be able to understand it. At that time, we went to visit the Emperor Taishang together, and after listening to his own explanation, we knew what was going on. ”

Fang Xuanling shook his head, "We didn't doubt Wen Yuan's meaning, but this happened suddenly, and we couldn't help but have some doubts." Your Majesty is actually still in its prime! ”

"Fang Gong, Your Majesty, this is a wind disease, and there are many people who have a stroke at the age of forty or fifty. Besides, Your Majesty's illness actually has many premonitions. Although His Majesty usually doesn't like to drink, he is good at meat, and he has grown a lot of weight in the palace over the years. Taking pills some time ago also damaged the body a lot. When the body is weak, it is common for illness and evil to take advantage of the weakness. ”

Back to the Cabinet.

The nine cabinet ministers held a morning meeting together, and Zhang Chao briefed the emperor again. At the moment, he also revealed the previous arrangement with Cheng Qian, "Three years later, His Majesty will be arranged to go to the Americas, and His Majesty himself is very willing to do this." He didn't want to stay in the palace all day like Emperor Gaozu, which would be unbearable, and he preferred to go to the Americas. Your Majesty and I both think it's actually quite good. ”

After all, the Americas are tens of thousands of miles away from the Central Plains continent, especially if they have to cross the ocean. After the emperor went, he basically couldn't come back.

"It's exile!" Although the tone of the eldest grandson Wuji was much better than in the past, it was still unkind.

Zhang Chao smiled, "What the eldest grandson said is not wrong, this is indeed a kind of exile." But when the imperial court arrives, it will arrange for a thousand families to go to the Americas with the emperor, and when they get there, they will even build a castle for the emperor, leaving them enough weapons for self-defense, as well as tools, seeds, livestock, etc. ”

In other words, to give His Majesty a castle and a territory to enjoy his old age. Even, if Your Majesty has the ambition to lay a piece of heaven there, it is not impossible. As long as Your Majesty promises not to return to the Central Plains in the future, we can even send a batch of materials and personnel to Your Majesty every few years. ”

"Send some of the most heinous criminals in the Central Plains to the Americas for the Emperor Taishang."

There was a population of 1,000 households, which was a population of 5,000 or 6,000. There are also castles, ordnance, food and tools, and livestock, with such good conditions, will Li Shimin not be able to live in the Americas?

As long as Li Shimin is not placed next to a powerful clan, then with this strength, it is enough to survive over there, and even enough for him to expand to the periphery.

In the future, sending some criminals to Li Shimin can be regarded as replenishing the population for him. The imperial court sent them some paper, books and other handmade products every few years, which was enough to ensure that this branch of the Tang Dynasty grew in the Americas.

When the other side is stable, Li Shimin can be allowed to exchange American captives, furs, medicinal herbs, etc., so that normal trade relations can be formed in the future.

"Yesterday, the martial artist gave birth to a prince for the Emperor Taishang, and His Majesty asked me how to confer the title. My opinion is to be named the United States, what do you think? Zhang Chao asked.

According to the system previously set by the Tang Dynasty, the emperor's son and brother can be crowned king, the emperor's son-in-law can be crowned prince, and the remaining son can be crowned county king.

Li Hong is Li Shimin's concubine prince, and he should have been crowned the king of the county. However, Li Shimin is the emperor after all, so Zhang Chao proposed to be crowned a prince of the country, and as for the title of the United States, it is because Li Hong will go to the United States in the future.

"The fief is in the Americas, and the emperor can go to inspect Li Hong's fief at that time."

"There is another matter, the subordinate officials of the Jin Wangfu recently reported to the imperial court, saying that the Jin Wangzhi has many complaints about His Majesty. In my opinion, Li Zhi, the king of Jin, needs to be punished, demoted to the title of the duke, changed his fief to Australia, and became the duke of Australia. ”

An American duke and an Australian duke are far away.

Li Hong, the American prince, everyone knows in their hearts that he was actually given to Li Shimin.

Emperor Li Shimin was sent to the Americas, and the deposed crown prince Li Zhi was sent to Australia, so that they could never threaten the emperor again. At the same time, it can be regarded as the two bases opened by the Tang Dynasty Emperor overseas, and maybe these two feudal countries will be able to grow in the future.

It has become a pioneer base for Datang's overseas development.

As for threatening the Central Plains Imperial Court, neither Cheng Qian nor Zhang Chao thought they had this ability. When they have this ability, maybe one or two hundred years later.

And for such a long time, Datang also has the opportunity to continue to open up to the United States and Australia. Sealing them as the Duke of the United States and Australia is not giving them the entire United States and Australia.

After Li Tai's death, his nephews were left with Cheng Qian and Li Zhi. Now Cheng Qian wants to exile Li Zhi to Aozhou, where it is said that the wild continent is huge but desolate, extremely hot, quite primitive and backward, and if you go, you really can't come back.

But the eldest grandson Wuji still didn't object after thinking about it again.

If Li Zhi goes to Australia, although it is hard, he may save his life. At least there is still a fiefdom, but if you stay in the Central Plains, it is estimated that something will happen sooner or later.

The best ending may also be to be under house arrest in the capital for a lifetime.

The arrangement of Li Shimin and Li Zhi can be regarded as being approved by the cabinet.

When the emperor recovers, he will be sent to the Americas. As for Li Zhi, he is ready to arrange it now, and next year he will be sent to Australia to be sealed, and the imperial court will give him 500 households, build a castle for him in Australia, and provide him with a batch of ordnance, farm tools, livestock, etc.

Every three or five years, the imperial court would send ships to replenish him with a group of prisoners and supplies, which were not given for free, and Li Zhi had to exchange them for local products.

The court sent him to Australia, but it didn't let him raise pigs there, and he even had to pay half of the taxes on his territory to the court. Although there are hundreds of households, there are not many of them.

"Ladies and gentlemen, regarding the candidates for the senior generals of the guards, I have drawn up a list here, and everyone will discuss it together."

Zhang Chao took out the list he had prepared, the Privy Council, the Fifth Military Office, the Military Department, the Third Army, the Tenth Army of the North Ya, the Sixteenth Guard of the South Ya, and the Fourth Fleet of the Navy.

Fang Xuanling's candidates carefully considered one by one, and Zhang Chao's arrangement still made him more satisfied. It's not all Zhang Chao's people, at least it's more pertinent.

For example, Zhang Chao even took the initiative to replace Su Lie with Qin Qiong.

The eldest grandson Wuji glanced at it and found that the position of the general of the four armies of the Northern Ya, who was originally inspected by his eldest grandson's family, had been taken away, and he only snorted.

If there is no objection, it is passed.

"Then let's discuss the candidates for the deputy positions of each guard again, and you can mention your own candidates." Zhang Chao said to several prime ministers with a smile.

Since he proposed the candidates for the main general, then the current deputy position is proposed by these eight prime ministers, which can be regarded as a mutual compromise, and he can't all say it.

Each prime minister has put forward several candidates for his own position, but fortunately, there are many deputies.

The deputy privy envoys, the squires of the military department, the generals of the various armies, the generals of the guards, etc., can almost be arranged in each other.

The end result, mutual satisfaction.