The arrival of Li Jie, the king of Yun'an County, and Li Wei, the king of Yangchuan County, pushed the celebration to the first **, Li Wei and Li Mao did not deal with each other, and after taking a look, they went to meet acquaintances.

Li Jie called Li Mao aside and scolded: "Why did you forget your old friend when you became the master of the courtyard, and you didn't come to me once." Li Mao said: "Li Mao is just a six-little official, how dare he come to the door without permission to disturb him, and he is not in line with the etiquette." Li Jie smiled: "You and I are friends, and we care about those troublesome courtesies." He smiled again: "Since you have become the master of the Shangdu Jinju Academy, Yun Shuai has asked for an official for you." ”

Li Mao said: "Although a certain has served as a servant for two years, he has not been able to be selected and promoted because he has served as a military minister in the frontier. The day before yesterday, I went to the Ministry of Officials and said that the seniority should be calculated from the beginning of this year, and the date of the examination has not yet arrived. Li Jiedao: "It's a pity, it's a pity, it's a pity that a talent like Brother Maohua stays in the capital to deal with the divisions and do these things that are ushered in." ”

Seeing that Li Mao didn't accept the offer, Li Jie said again: "The day before yesterday, the eldest brother asked me where to travel after the beginning of spring, and I said that I would go to the hometown of Liaodong, and the eldest brother remembered you, saying that Li Maohua didn't want to immigrate to Liaodong and colonize and expand production, how things went." How did I know, I just said it to him so casually that day, but I didn't expect him to remember it. ”

"There's no way, I can only perfunctory say that some progress has been made, but Li Maohua has recently stayed in the capital to take charge of the Jinju Academy, which has delayed a lot of things. Brother Wang sighed again and again when he heard this, saying that it was a pity for a talent. Brother Maohua, King Guangling rarely praises a person in person. ”

Li Maoyao arched his hand in the direction of the Sixteen Princes' Mansion and said, "The king praises falsely, Li Mao is ashamed." ”

At this time, there was a sudden drum music outside the door, and the eunuch who recited the letter of the crown prince suddenly Tu Chengguang sent a congratulatory gift to Uncle Wang's mother on behalf of the crown prince. The crown prince held half of the Son of Heaven Luan, and his appearance was extremely noble, and all the officials and those with titles at the birthday celebration scene came forward to salute.

After Tutu Chengxuan offered his birthday gift, he saluted Li Wei, the king of Yangchuan, and Li Jie, the king of Yun'an, and asked Li Jie: "Your Royal Highness has an edict, and the king of the county has asked Ziqing Li Mao to come to Shaoyang Courtyard tomorrow." ”

Li Jie smiled and said: "This is Li Mao, and the envoy can preach in person." Tu Tu Chengguang glanced at Li Mao, and praised softly: "Young, young, Wang Bingchen only became a magistrate at the age of forty-two, and you are much younger than him." ”

Tu Tu Chengxuan is tall, with long legs and long hands, even half a head taller than Li Mao, but his waist is always arched, and he has a shallow smile on anyone's face. He has served in the East Palace for many years, and has won the trust of Li Chun, after Li Chun opened the mansion, Li Yu gave it to Li Chun, and now he is running in two places, and he has ** in both places. Give the power of the literature network

Li Jie asked Tu Chenghuang in private: "Why did my father look for Li Maohua?" ”

Tu Tu Chengguang replied softly: "The sage summoned Zhu Ronghe, the general of the Left Guard, in the Zhonghe Hall today, he was a veteran of the Pinglu Army, and when he said that the dynasty abandoned Liaodong due to the Anshi Rebellion, the sage sighed, and the sage asked the prince, 'When will the country recover the lost land', the prince was speechless, sighing and crying. After returning to Shaoyang Courtyard, the prince asked the minister to take the map of Liaodong, looked at it again and again, and then ordered the matter. ”

Li Jiexiao said to Li Mao: "The prince summoned you eighty percent for the affairs of Liaodong, you have to know in your heart." ”

With Li Jie's reminder, Li Mao's mind ran all to the affairs of Liaodong. The original intention of immigrating to Liaodong was to find a refuge for himself, and this place did not need to be too big, as long as he could gain a foothold.

All his strategies revolved around this base point, and as for how to restore Liaodong, he had never thought about it. Now that he was asked to come up with a strategy for restoring Liaodong, Li Mao was a little worried.

He said goodbye early and returned to the concert hall to find the map of Liaodong sent by Zheng Xiaozhang from Yunzhou, this map was stolen by Zheng Xiaozhang at a large price from the military library of the library, this is the garrison map of the Pinglu army in his hometown, covering the entire mountains, rivers, lakes, towns and villages in Liaodong, Li Mao combined with the situation he mastered, and marked the existing Han strongholds in detail on the map.

His Liaodong expansion plan was based on these Han strongholds.

Seeing this picture, Li Mao's originally chaotic mind gradually became clearer, his thinking became more and more active, more and more organized, and a general strategy for restoring Liaodong took shape.

Thanks to the science and technology of later generations, Li Mao has a more accurate and intuitive understanding of the geography, landform, climate and minerals of Liaodong than anyone else in this era. Even after a millennium, this knowledge is beneficial.

Early in the morning of the second day, someone outside the gate of the Jinjuan Courtyard came to invite Li Mao into the palace, not from the Shaoyang Courtyard of Daming Palace, but from the Yun'an Palace. Li Jie was worried that Li Mao would not understand the rules when he entered the palace for the first time and would be embarrassed, so he specially sent someone over.

There are indeed many rules for entering the palace, and since Li Mao became the head of the Jinju Academy, he has entered the palace to participate in two court meetings.

According to the code system of the Tang Dynasty, every time the court meeting in Beijing and Kowloon, all the officials above the level must be present, and the number of people is above 2,000 people, and the huge Xuanzheng Hall is full of people.

Li Mao's imperial history is a post in a foreign town, and it cannot be compared with the imperial history in Taiwan, and his position is even after knowing Zhang Henian and Judge Zhong Jian in this court, he has never had the opportunity to see the face of the Son of Heaven, which is also one thing that Li Mao has always regretted.

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Waiting in front of the palace gate for a long time, there are Shaoyang Yuan envoys to send people to guide Li Mao into the palace, the scale of Daming Palace is equivalent to a medium-sized city, roughly divided into the former dynasty and chrysanthemums, the core building of the former dynasty is Hanyuan Palace, Xuanzheng Palace, Zichen Palace, with this as the central axis, the two sides are distributed left and right Jinwu Wei Yuan, Zhongshu Province, Menxia Province, Shaoyang Yuan, Hanlin Yuan and other institutions.

The crown prince of the Tang Dynasty lived in the East Palace on the east side of the Taiji Palace before the Xuanzong Dynasty, and then moved to the Shaoyang Courtyard in the Daming Palace. There are two places in Shaoyang Courtyard, the west courtyard is used for the prince's bedroom, and the east courtyard is used to deal with government affairs.

The crown prince Li Yu, the eldest son of today's son, was the king of Xuancheng County at the beginning, and later entered the king of Xuan, and was established as the crown prince in the fourteenth year of the calendar, and has been the crown prince in the Shaoyang Courtyard for twenty-three years, and the name of benevolence has long spread all over the world.

Since the eighteenth year of Zhenyuan, Li Shi, the son of heaven, felt that his health was deteriorating, so he consciously let the prince participate in government affairs, but due to the limitations of tradition, most of the government affairs that the prince could hear and heard were still limited to long-term planning, such as restoring the lost territory in Liaodong.

The crown prince Li is forty-four years old, calm and silent, not angry and self-assured.

At the beginning of September, it was rumored in the capital that he had suffered a stroke, and he couldn't speak, and Li Mao also ordered Lin Ying to try to find out. Not long ago, Li Mao also sent Lin Ying to Uncle Wang to spy on the news, but he didn't expect that he would be able to meet the prince in person only after **.

The money spent in vain was really wronged.

After the ceremony, the prince gave the seat. When he was still in Gushan Town, Caozhou, Li Mao asked Ge Rixiu and his wife for medical advice whenever he had spare time, and learned some skills to look at and hear. He peeked at the prince's face and saw that his face was dark, as if he had a hidden illness.

Li Mao was secretly taken aback.

Before summoning Li Mao, Li Yu had just returned from Yanying Palace, which was one of the main palaces of Daming Palace, and Yanying was an important way for the Son of Heaven and the Prime Minister to deal with government affairs after the Tang Dynasty, unless there was a grant permission, the prince had no right to participate.

He has been the crown prince for twenty-three years, and in the first twenty-two years, he has not set foot in this place. It was only a year ago that his father, Li Shi, the son of heaven, had a premonition that his time was running out, so he was allowed to sit in on the recital, but it was only an observant, and he had no right to express his opinions during the entire recital.

On this day, the Yanying Palace played against each other, and Wei Gao, the envoy of the Xichuan Festival, said that the Tubo Koubian was defeated by the border army, and asked the imperial court to allocate funds to build additional passes in the border area to defend Tubo.

Several governors opposed Wei Gao's proposal on the grounds that the treasury was insufficient.

The Son of Heaven asked the prince for his opinion on this matter, and Li Yu did not agree to allocate funds to build a border city, and he suggested that the imperial court should pay for immigration to the border land, and no matter how strong and tall the city is, if there is no military and civilian garrison, it will be an empty city.

Li Chen's views were highly appreciated by his father, and the Son of Heaven was getting older, and his attitude towards the prince became more and more trusting from imprisonment and suspicion, which made Li Yu feel a little comforted, but considering that his father's health was getting worse and worse, his heart was heavy.

This heavy heart became lighter soon after seeing Li Mao, the first time they met, both parties had a good impression of each other, Li Yu even personally asked Li Mao what kind of tea he liked to drink, although it was just an ordinary sentence, but it made Li Mao's heart warm.

When it came to the affairs of Liaodong, Li Mao's thinking was unusually clear and his thinking was unusually active, he asked for a pen and paper, sketched the geographical outline of Liaodong on the spot, marked the main mountains and rivers, and introduced his idea of restoring Liaodong to Li Yu.

Li Mao's strategy can be summed up as immigrating to build a city, from the point to the line, from the line to the surface, step by step, and after the strength grows, it will cooperate with the imperial court to conquer the army and recover the lost territory of Liaodong in one fell swoop.

Li Yu pondered for a moment and asked: "Liaodong is connected to Youzhou, and the south is separated by the Bohai Sea and Ziqing and Hebei, far away from the heartland, the favor of the imperial court is unattainable, where does the funds for immigration and city construction come from?" ”

Li Mao had already considered this question, and he replied unhurriedly: "Liaodong is a place with abundant water and soil, abundant products, suitable for agriculture and animal husbandry, immigrants to build towns, and self-reliance. The mink and ginseng produced in this area were very popular in the Central Plains, and it was possible to set up a trading company to sell Liaodong's specialties to the mainland, and to sell the salt and iron from the mainland to Liaodong, so as to raise funds. ”

Li Yu said: "Liaodong is far away from thousands of rivers and mountains, if the climate has been established, how to solve it if you do not obey the control of the imperial court." ”

Li Mao said: "As long as the court shows kindness, although it is thousands of miles, it will also be in Chang'an." The imperial court can also choose loyal and capable ministers to manipulate secretly, and when the time is ripe, a piece of edict will be sent to Liaodong, which is not the territory of the Tang Dynasty. ”

Li Yu said: "Liaodong is connected to Muwei, Khitan, Bohai, and Silla, and is adjacent to the Hebei Proud Domain, and the slightest mistake in the imperial court will trigger an unfavorable reaction. Are you willing to give up everything in front of you and go to Liaodong to serve the imperial court? ”

Li Mao said: "If His Royal Highness sends, Li Mao will be smeared with his liver and brains, and he will not give up." ”

Li Yu laughed, got up and said hello. He took the jade belt and his own sword and gave it to Li Mao, and said, "If you stay in the capital for the time being, there will be a summoning in the future." ”

Stepping out of Shaoyang Courtyard, Li Mao was still in a dream, and his mind was blank. (Dissertation College)