Chapter 404 Internal and external phases are one

After the prince fainted from illness, although the famous doctors of the Imperial Physician Department headed by Liu Shenwei prescribed a conditioning prescription, the prince's condition improved.

However, this did not reassure Li Zhi, but his heart was a little panicked in the past few days, and there was a deep worry and panic in his heart.

"What should I do if Nuo is Hong'er leaves me first?"

Li Zhi has been thinking about this question for the past few days.

Li Hongren's filial piety and unusually precocious literary talent made Li Zhi always love him and have high hopes.

Because Li Zhi suffered from a stroke in the fifth year of Xianqing, he was so serious that he was unable to manage the government, and the sense of crisis in his heart became increasingly serious, and he urgently trained Li Hong to become a qualified successor, and in the following days, let Li Hong supervise the country in Chang'an with his own evidence.

Li Hong began to supervise the country at the age of eight, and until this year, that is, the fourth year of Xianheng, he has been in charge of the country six times. Except for the first time when he was too young and incompetent to be taken to the Eastern Capital by Li Zhi and Empress Wu, the remaining five times were all competent and happy, and the government and the opposition gave high praise: "The prince is benevolent, filial and humble, and he is a ...... of Chinese and foreign subordinates."

During the period of imprisonment, Li Hong's literary talent was different from that of ordinary people, so that when he was only ten years old, he summoned Xu Jingzong, Shangguanyi, Yang Sijian and other officials of the Eastern Palace to collect ancient and modern anthologies, excerpt the good sayings and beautiful sentences in them, and classify them. In the end, Li Hong himself reviewed and compiled a large-scale anthology of 500 volumes, named "Yaoshan Yucai" dedicated to Li Zhi.

Li Hong had such extraordinary talent and ability at a young age, which made Li Zhi very pleased, and gave 30,000 horses of silk and silk to show his appreciation and encouragement.

Think about the future generations, what can a ten-year-old child do? I can't even recognize all the words, let alone learn from ancient and modern anthologies and excerpt the beautiful sentences in them.

"Nuo is Hong'er who went before me, and only Xian'er took over the position of the prince to stabilize the society."

Li Zhi made a precautionary measure, but the resolute and handsome face of his fourth son, Li Yu, appeared in his mind. Thinking of the huge military force of as many as 120,000 people in the Anton Protectorate in Li Yu's hands, as well as the various commercial houses in Li Yu's hands that earned huge profits in the world. It was the existence of these trading houses that provided the consumption of Li Yu's army of 120,000, and there was still a surplus to collect the people to immigrate to the overseas islands.

Li Zhi's heart suddenly felt uneasy about his fourth son.

"After Nuo is Wu Bintian, whether Hong'er is still succeeding to the throne or is no longer succeeded by Xian'er, will Yu'er, who has a heavy army and strong Anton, have the idea that he should not have the throne and raise troops to seize the throne?"

Li Zhi sat on the warm collapse and muttered to himself, suddenly regretting his indulgence of Li Yu in the past three years, and the situation that has developed into an uncontrollable situation today.

This scene happened to be heard by Zhang Chao, the provincial commander of the inner chamberlain who brought the decoction to Li Zhi and the eunuch close to Li Zhi.

Zhang Chao was shocked when he heard this, and he was worried about Li Yu, and he still served the decoction as usual: "Sage, it's time to drink the decoction." ”

Li Zhi, who was deep in thought, came back to his senses, looked at the bowl of dark decoction and smiled bitterly, and complained in his heart why the thief God treated my father and son so harshly?

Li Zhi picked up the small bowl and drank all the soup inside, and threw it into the wooden stack in Zhang Chao's hand with resentment.

"Sage, what are you worried about today?"

Zhang Chao asked cautiously, seeing that Li Zhi just sighed, he asked cautiously: "If you can trust the slave maid, why not let the slave and maid solve problems for the saint?" ”

Li Zhi glanced at Zhang Chao meaningfully, and Zhang Chao's heart suddenly rose to his throat, but he still pretended to have nothing to do. After all, I have been in this palace of intrigue and struggle for most of my life, and the slightest mistake is to lose my head, and there is still a little bit of self-cultivation kung fu that is not shocked.

Zhang Chao served Li Zhi when he was the king of Jin, and served him for decades, so it can be said that he is Li Zhi's absolute confidant, and he still has trust, and he also understands that some things have to be hidden in his heart for the rest of his life when he hears them.

Li Zhi sighed: "In the past three years, I have connived at Yu'er's wanton development of power in Anton. There are more than 60,000 standing soldiers and horses, and the number of united soldiers trained is also the same. According to the report of the secret agent, Andong's soldiers and horses are well-equipped and well-trained, and most of the leading generals are the founding ministers, the generals of the current dynasty, and the children of the gate lords of the Guanlong, Shandong, and Jiangzuo families. Although there are no talents such as Xue Rengui and other famous generals, they are not mediocre people, and there are many wise generals and fierce generals. The wise and brave Baekje general Hei Tooth Changzhi, who was able to conquer and fight, was transferred to his command by Yu'er last year on the occasion of the attack on Silla. The construction of a cast iron city in Andong is an unscrupulous smelting of steel and the creation of weapons and armor. In order to make high-quality weapons and armor, Cui Xuan, the commercial director of Yu'er, sends people to spend a huge amount of money every year to recruit skilled craftsmen who make swords in Tangxi Iron City, and I heard that the quality is better than that produced by the imperial court ordnance supervisor. In the past two years, taking advantage of the convenience of Wanquan Commercial Bank to operate trade in the Western Regions, it has purchased good horses from the Western Regions on a large scale, and last year it bought back no less than 5,000 good horses and put them into Yu'er's horse farm in Guanzhong. The various trading houses opened by Yu'er earn tens of thousands of dollars a day, which is enough to support the consumption of hundreds of thousands of troops......"

Zhang Chao was suddenly stunned by Li Zhi's continuous confiding about what King Yan had done in the past three years.

"This ...... If this is a different emperor, I am afraid that it will be directly determined that King Yan is going to gather troops to rebel, even if it is father and son. ”

Zhang Chao was afraid in his heart, how could Bai Si temporarily clear away the misgivings of King Yan in the heart of the saint.

Nuofei Li Yu has a deep affection with his brothers, he has not shown any thoughts about the position of the prince, he is filial to his parents, and he will return to Beijing to reunite with his family every Chinese New Year. The matter of the troops and horses gathered in Anton all explained the reason for the play, and he never deceitd. Even if the cast iron city, the trading houses, and the purchase of good horses were not presented to the imperial court, it was done above board, and there was no sense of concealment at all, and they also opened up overseas with great fanfare and immigrated to the real side, so that anyone could accuse Li Yu of misdeeds with justification and conclusive evidence.

This is also a big incentive for Li Zhihui's connivance, the promise is that Li Yu has a little sneak to cover up his current actions of buying good horses, building armor, and gathering soldiers and horses, no matter how much Li Zhi and Empress Wu love him, they will immediately deprive Li Yu of everything and be grounded in the two capitals.

"Zhang Chao said to you, Nuo is the queen of Wu Bintian, the crown prince succeeds to the throne, Yu'er, will he have an attempt on the throne? Will it raise troops to seize the position? ”

Li Zhi's eyes were filled with deep concern about what was behind him.

These words stumped Zhang Chao, Nuo accidentally answered wrong, but it hurt King Yan, Nuo did not answer to the sage's heart, and it was difficult to relieve the sage's fear of King Yan, and it would be unfavorable to King Yan sooner or later.

Zhang Chao's heart sank, and he whispered: "Sage, can you remember the mother and son of Empress Lu and Emperor Hui of the Western Han Dynasty?" ”

Li Zhi's eyes suddenly widened, and he stared at Zhang Chao in shock.