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Hankyung, the Imperial Study.

The emperor held the piece that had just been sent from the southeast and read it carefully. This is the Taishi, Yue King Li Chao sent a fold, after Li Chao left Beijing, basically every ten days, this is Li Shimin's agreement with him. Let him go to the locality, play with him more, and actively participate in the discussion of major military affairs in the court, even if there is no major event, it is good to talk about local experiences and the implementation of the new policy.

However, in the past few months, Li Chao really rarely talked about the military and political affairs of the imperial court, and his recitals were more about what he saw and heard in each place, talking about the changes after the implementation of the new policy, the reaction of the people, the prosperity of industry and commerce, and so on.

Occasionally, there are one or two local customs and anecdotes, which is very interesting.

Li Shimin likes to read these pieces of Li Chao very much, but it is like reading a travelogue and reading geographical anecdotes. After reading these pieces, he usually forwarded them to the prince.

It's just that today's music is different from usual.

The chapter talked about the situation of the Shanyi people on Liuqiu Island, and then Li Chao asked for the establishment of a Confucius Institute in Liuqiu to spread and teach Chinese characters to the Shanyi and spread Chinese culture. Li Chao also played and asked to crown Confucius as king.

After the death of Confucius, successive emperors continued to pursue the title.

Since the Han Dynasty, he has deposed hundreds of schools and respected Confucianism. Since then, Confucianism has become the religion of governing the country in all dynasties.

Emperor Ping of the Western Han Dynasty posthumously sealed Kong as "Baocheng Xuanni Gong", "Baocheng" is the name of the country, "Xuanni" is the nickname, and "Gong" is the title.

In the sixteenth year of Taihe of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Xiaowen Yuanhong called Confucius "the father of Wen Shengni". "Wensheng" is an honorific title, and "Nuns" is an honorific title.

In the second year of the elephant of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Jing Yu Wenyan posthumously named Confucius as "Duke of Zou Guo", "Zou" is the name of the country, and "Gong" is the title.

In the first year of Emperor Kaihuang of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen Yang insisted that Confucius was "the first master and nun father";

The teacher, the father, and the father continued to pursue Confucius.

After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there has been no posthumous posthumous confession, and Li Chao believes that Datang should also be posthumously sealed, and it should be of higher specification.

"The ministers, please posthumously crown Confucius as the king of Wenxuan, add the title of Dacheng to the most holy king of Wenxuan, and give it to the Taishi."

Li Chao's posthumous specification can be said to be the highest in the past dynasties.

Wenxuan is the title, the king is the title, the Dacheng is the honorific title, and the Taishi is the official position. Compared to the dukes of previous dynasties, the prince is of course higher.

and posthumously crowned Confucius as the king of the last five generations.

The Confucian Temple worships King Wenxuan and the four with twelve philosophers and thirty-six sages.

Originally, there were only ten philosophers, and there were no four matches, Li Chao proposed to add four matches, and added two Confucius disciples to the ten philosophers to become the twelve philosophers.

The four major disciples of Confucius were all canonized, Yan Yuan, Zisi, Zeng Shen, and Meng Ke.

Fusheng - Yanzi, Zongsheng - Zengzi, Shusheng - Zi Sizi, Yasheng - Mencius.

Yan Hui was crowned the Duke of Yanguo, and participated in the title of Duke of Chengguo, Kong Ling was crowned Duke of Yi, and Meng Ke was crowned Duke of Zou Guo.

The Confucian Temple worships Confucius, the king of Wenxuan, and enshrines the four saints, twelve philosophers and thirty-six sages.

Confucianism was respected in the past dynasties, and Confucianism was very helpful to the consolidation of imperial power, and Li Shimin knew this very well. Li Chao's twist and turn at this time made him very happy.

It has been ten years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, and it has gone through ups and downs and ups and downs in the past ten years. Now that it is finally peaceful both inside and outside, it is a good time for Yanwu to cultivate literature, and at this time, it is also very useful for the stability of the rule of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Chao's proposal to set up Confucius Institutes in those places of confinement to promote Confucian education and Chinese culture is also very reasonable.

"Why didn't I think of that before?" Li Shimin couldn't help but sigh a little when he put down the concerto. Every time Li Chao put on some important pieces, after he read them, he always felt that this was exactly what he wanted, but he didn't think of it first.

"Wang Chengen."

"The minister is here." Wang Chengen, who had been standing on the side without any movement, immediately responded.

Li Shimin leaned back and leaned back in a comfortable position, "Wen Yuan should have been in Liuqiu for a while, right?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, King Yue captured Beisha City in Liaodong at the beginning of April, and then sailed south to Liuqiu, calculating the time, it will be almost a month to Liuqiu."

Li Shimin nodded, "I didn't know much about this Liuqiu at the beginning, but I didn't expect that Liuqiu turned out to be such a big island, it is said that there are hundreds of thousands of mountains on the island, and its land is two thousand miles from north to south?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, it is said that the Li family has almost finished exploring Liuqiu Island, and learned that the island is 800 miles long from north to south and about 300 miles wide from east to west. The topography of the island is varied, with mountains, hills, basins, plains and terraces, and the eastern part of half of the island is mountainous, with two and a half percent of arable land. There are large mountains on the island, which run north-south. ”

"The coastal areas of the middle and lower reaches of the western part of the island are flat alluvial plains. At present, the port of Ryuqiu built by the Li family, and the city of Ryuqiu is on the plain in the south of the west. ”

Li Shimin picked up a map from the imperial case, which was a map of Liuqiu drawn based on intelligence collection.

"Liuqiu is not much smaller than a Fujian."

"Your Majesty, Fujian is equivalent to the size of three Liuqiu."

"I know, but Fujian may not have so much arable land. I sold this island to the Li family for more than 20 million yuan, and I felt that I had cheated the Li family once, but now I feel that I have lost a lot. ”

Wang Chengen said, "At the beginning, Liuqiu was just an island of overseas Shanyi people, and His Majesty gave more than 20 million to the Li family, which is not a loss." Besides, this island was not really given to the Li family, but just a fief for them, and they also enjoyed one-third of the tax, and the rest belonged to the Tang Dynasty. ”

Li Shimin laughed a few times.

"That's right, let the Li family go to develop Liuqiu, anyway, I won't suffer. However, looking at the pieces sent back by Li Chao, the Shanyi of this Liuqiu is not as backward and primitive as we imagined, and they are actually not much worse than the slang barbarians in Lingnan. ”

Li Shimin was well aware of the actual situation of the imperial court in Lingnan, and although he set up prefectures and counties, he often had a false name. Almost all the places were still controlled by the wealthy clans, which were their hereditary lands, and the Han wealthy clans who had moved away in the early years combined with the local slang fangs to form a powerful local power.

From the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there was a feeling that the needle could not be inserted and the water could not be splashed.

The four provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Guangnan and Vietnam in Lingnan, except for one Guangzhou and one Jiaozhou, are now controlled by the imperial court, and the rest of the places cannot be controlled, and even taxes cannot be collected, and those Baiyue people in the four provinces of Lingnan have not been naturalized at all. If you don't naturalize, you won't be counted as a member of the Tang Dynasty, and if you don't become naturalized, you don't have to pay taxes and serve.

Even the places they occupy are their worldly lands, not the imperial court's.

In the past, the Central Plains was in turmoil, and the dynasties did not have the strength to attack these people.

In that year, the Southern Dynasty Liang was in turmoil, Chen Ba came to raise troops one after another, and Mrs. Xian of Lingnan raised troops to support him and help him conquer the Southern Chen Jiangshan. Chen Baxian and the Xian family are in an alliance relationship, of course, it is impossible to move the Xian family. Moreover, at that time, Nan Chen was also constantly attacked by the north, and the Western Liang established by the Southern Liang fled to Jiangling was also a threat, so Nan Chen never thought of sending troops to the land of Lingnan.

The Sui Dynasty pacified Nan Chen, and Mrs. Xian led Lingnan Baiyue to annex, and the Great Sui was busy dealing with the Turks at that time, so he was satisfied with the status quo in Lingnan. Later, Yang Guang kept fighting Liaodong, and he couldn't take care of Lingnan.

Now that Li Shimin has exterminated the Turks, reduced Tuyuhun and others, and is internally stable, he is no longer very satisfied with Lingnan, a land that has turned into an outsider.

Bondage, that was also because he couldn't control it, but now he doesn't want to compromise anymore.

Especially now with the rise of maritime trade, many maritime merchants represented by the Li family have opened up routes to Tianzhu and Persia, which has greatly increased the importance of the southeast coast and greatly increased the income of Guangzhou, Jiaozhou and other seaports.

The four provinces of Lingnan have also become the grain producing areas that Li Shimin has been aiming at for a long time, and after the introduction of Champa rice, two or even three crops are used for planting, so the grain output of the four provinces of Lingnan alone in a year is a huge number.

How can such a place be handed over to those powerful people all the time, how can they always be the emperor of the soil.

Liuqiu is also similar to Lingnan, and even more of a place than Lingnan before.

But now Li Chao is in full swing in Lingnan, there is no war, no rebellion, some just live in peace, the Li family has established a port in Liuqiu, established a castle, established a tunzhuang, established a workshop, and has more than 50,000 immigrants.

Li Chao's method made Li Shimin see a new way of governing Lingnan.

"The Confucius Institute, the promotion of Han culture, is really good."

First of all, we have to communicate, so that there will be no confrontation and conflict, and of course, in addition to communication, there must also be interests. Why didn't Liuqiu Shanyi beat Li Chao, because Li Chao's methods were very powerful, at first he used money to buy Shanyi's land, and then traded with them, bringing various commodities to meet the needs of Shanyi people.

At the same time, Li Chao built a castle, which was heavily guarded, with guards and militias, and Shanyi did not dare to start easily.

A delicate balance.

Li Shimin is now looking forward to Li Chao going to Yue as soon as possible, behind the Yue Kingdom in Lingnan Baiyue, Li Chao took 5,000 soldiers to conquer this place, establish cities there, set up states and counties, and become the princes of the Tang Dynasty.

For Baiyue Slang Fang, it is undoubtedly a thorn, or a knife.

In any case, compared with those fettered chieftains, the princes of the Tang Dynasty are of course their own people. After all, the chieftains were hereditary lords, they neither paid taxes nor served in the army, and the population under them was not the household of the imperial court, and even their territory was not considered the territory of the imperial court.

The fiefdoms of the princes are different, even if they are the territories of the princes, but the land is also the territory of the imperial court, and the people above are all organized households, and the princes can only share one-third of the taxes, and the rest of the military and civil taxes can belong to the imperial court.

Comparing the two, Li Shimin can't wait to turn all the land of Lingnan into a princes' fiefdom now.