Chapter 54 Brothers talk about their hearts + Li Chengqian's thoughts

"I think you're jealous." Cheng Chuliang was cursed by Fang Yiai, and he was not angry, but opened the envelope with a trembling hug, and took out the official document of the imperial court from it: "Your Royal Highness has said that the new Governor of the Three Buddhas is Li Siye, who is also our own people...... Well...... Well? Why is this happening? ”

"What's wrong?" Fang Yiai was confused by his weird tone, why did he say it so well before, but his tone changed so much later?

"How did this happen?" Cheng Chuliang's voice was a little crying: "Your Highness has obviously said that I will go to the Three Buddhas, why not?" Your Highness, Your Highness, wake up, the court didn't come as you said, you change it back for me. ”

"What are you arguing about? What should I do if I make a noise to His Highness? Has the arrangement of the imperial court changed? Fang Yiai also roughly heard something, and hurriedly snatched the official document from his hand, and after a cursory glance, he was immediately happy: "It's actually the port fleet hahaha...... It seems that His Highness is preparing for the two of us to partner up...... Hahaha, what is this called, this is retribution, there is reincarnation in heaven, who does the sky forgive? The present world newspaper is coming quickly...... Hahaha......"

"......" Cheng Chuliang was speechless, stunned there, and didn't say a word - he had nothing to say, now that the orders of the imperial court had come down, what else could he say?

"Oh, don't worry, isn't there still me?" Fang Yiai didn't smile when he saw this, but just patted Cheng Chuliang's shoulder hard and comforted: "Besides, the place in the port is not bad, it is less than two hundred miles away from Menggang, and the clipper boat will arrive in one day. ”

Meng Port is a purely commercial port, so the fleet is not stationed here, but stationed in the northern Harbin Port, which can not only play a role in protecting Meng Port, but also solidify the movement of Da Shi - after Da Shi suffered a loss in the hands of Da Tang, he also established a naval base in the direction of Tianzhu Port Zhofar, and mobilized a large number of warships here to supervise the movements of Da Tang.

Because it is very close to Menggang, the fleet stationed here can often get a lot of gains, but the more prosperous the place, the easier it is to corrupt people's hearts - in fact, if you count Cheng Chuliang, he should be the fourth governor of the port fleet, the first two were corrupted by money, and then they were put in prison for corruption, and they have all been executed.

The third governor has just been here for less than half a year, but he has been constantly co-opted by Li Chengqian, and he already has a tendency to fall to Li Chengqian, which Li Zhen absolutely does not allow, and it just so happens that this guy is not a good person, Li Zhen casually found an excuse to depose him, and even imprisoned a lot of generals here, the situation is similar to that of Luzon today, but no one resists and there is a war.

"Besides, we are brothers, brothers join forces, and we can just fight with Li Chengqian." Seeing that Cheng Chuliang was still crying and mourning, Fang Yiai couldn't help but smile even more happily, but he still said comforting words: "And it is foreseeable that Li Chengqian's life may not be easy, the war against Da Shi will start in another year at most, and then the brothers will probably be moved to this Tianzhu - there are so many of us brothers, what is one Li Chengqian?" ”

"You're talking light." Cheng Chuliang sighed, and said in a depressed mood: "Now no one knows what Your Majesty means, Li Chengqian has not been suppressed by anyone for many years, and he has gone too far, and gradually stretched out his hand outside his fiefdom, it is said that he has expanded his territory by at least two percent just by buying and selling land - if you want me to say, His Highness should not have given him this opportunity in the first place, what compensation?" It's not a sub-seal system yet? Okay now, right? ”

"Silence." Fang Yiai hurriedly covered Cheng Chuliang's mouth: "You are really bold enough, you dare to say anything, since His Royal Highness has done this kind of thing, he naturally has his reasons, where is our part in interfering in this kind of thing?" ”

"What's more...... Don't you know what Your Highness is capable of? When has he ever done something that harms himself or others? Since he dared to divide Li Chengqian out, he naturally had his means of checks and balances. Fang Yiai showed a sneer on his face: "According to my estimate, Li Chengqian's life should not be too easy...... Or don't look at his majesty now, he has controlled most of Tianzhu, but his good days should not be a few days. ”

"What do you mean?" Cheng Chuliang's expression was shocked: "Could it be that the Tianzhu Governor's Mansion is also going to be replaced?" That's right, the Tianzhu Governor's Mansion is one of the first few governors' palaces to be established, and since Luzon and Srivijaya are going to be replaced, then Tianzhu is naturally the time - or rather, all the governors' palaces are going to be changed, right? ”

"It's not just that." Fang Yiai smiled and said, "Think about it, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is about to ...... What's that, the first thing he did after that must be the Great Food of the Western Expedition, and Tianzhu, which is across the sea from the main island of Great Food, will be a natural forward base, and almost all the materials and soldiers and horses transferred from the mainland will be placed here...... Do you think His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would put such an important place in the hands of someone who has a grudge against him? ”

"Then where will His Highness transfer him?" Cheng Chuliang asked: "Once the war starts, the whole country will move, it can be said that any position is very important, and it is not suitable for Li Chengqian to put it anywhere." ”

"And what if you leave him idle?" Fang Yiai asked rhetorically.

"Idle ......" Cheng Chuliang was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly said: "Yes, Li Chengqian didn't say that he wanted him to engage in politics for a lifetime when he was the governor, he is the king of the Tang Dynasty after all, he just needs to stay in his fiefdom honestly and live a good life, there are countless elites in the Tang Dynasty, where is his turn to come out to the sky?" ”

"That's how it is." Fang Yiai said slowly: "The reason why Li Chengqian was sent to the position of governor of Tianzhu was because Tianzhu was newly settled, and the situation was not stable, and it was best to have a royal family personally sit in charge to calm people's hearts, but now that five years have passed, Tianzhu has completely settled down, and Li Chengqian's role is gone, and his best way to deal with it is to return to his fiefdom." ”

"I see, it is really His Highness who is wise." Cheng Chuliang admired.

Li Chengqian's fief was actually not far from Hagang, located in the homeland of Qiaohan, a country in the north of Tianzhu, which was later defeated by the King of Jieri and became one of the vassals of the Jieri Empire. Later, the king of the ring of the sun died, and the king of Qiao Han became independent again, but he never thought that although the king of the ring of the sun died, the more terrible Tang Dynasty came again, so the kingdom of Qiao Han, which had not been independent for a long time, hit the front of the Tang Dynasty and was destroyed by the first war, and then Li Zhen later gave this place to Li Chengqian in the name of compensation, and changed its name to Hengshan Kingdom, which can be regarded as Li Chengqian's royal name.

Although the fief is a regression of the times, in a way, it is also a restriction on the feudal king, especially when this fief is surrounded by the territory of the imperial court, his every move will be seen by the imperial court.

This is the case in the Hengshan Kingdom, which is located in the northwest of the Tianzhu Continent, and was in the land of the Four Wars when it was still the Kingdom of Qiaohan, with Tomara, Kachwaha, Sindh to the west, Thar Desert to the south, Multan to the north, and Paravala to the southeast. Now although these places are all under the hands of Datang, the situation is even more serious, which means that Datang has completely blocked the Hengshan Kingdom, and if the troops stationed around it are not released, the people of the Hengshan Kingdom will not even be able to go out of the border.

It is precisely because of this that Li Chengqian is unwilling to want to expand outward, just to find a glimmer of life for his country -- and his method of expansion is to use money to buy land outside the country on the one hand, and on the other hand, he uses his status as the governor of Tianzhu to make friends with the governor's palace and the military people, in an attempt to seize the military and political power of the entire Tianzhu in his hands.

After another two years, Li Zhen may have realized Li Chengqian's ambition, so he asked the imperial court to set up another metropolitan protectorate outside the Tianzhu Governor's Palace, on the one hand, to prepare for entering the palace and eat big, and on the other hand, to watch over Li Chengqian and check his rights. It's just that Li Zhen's plan was sabotaged, although the Dadu Protectorate was indeed established, but his ideal candidate for the Earth Tiger was rejected, and instead sent a waste who had never heard of it to serve as the first Tianzhu Dadu Protector, but instead of playing a role in checks and balances, this waste himself fell to Li Chengqian, but let Li Chengqian take this opportunity to grasp the Dadu Protectorate in his hands, and indirectly controlled the military power by virtue of the hat of the Metropolitan Protectorate, and the limelight was unmatched for a while.

But Li Chengqian forgot one thing, that is, although he controlled the military power, this military power was the capital protector, that is to say, as long as the imperial court changed the capital protection, then his efforts on this would be in vain. And his identity is also a great weakness, after all, he is a waste prince, and it is already Li Zhen's grace to let him live, he still wants to go against Li Zhen now, how can Li Zhen spare him?