Chapter 25: The New Riches of the Great Han
The Great Chu Emperor set up the crown prince, and this matter naturally spread quickly. Since Li Ming ascended the throne, there has been no crown prince, and there have been rumors that Li Ming does not like Li Chong and intends to abolish the heir.
Now that Li Chong has become the crown prince, the person who said such cool things naturally closed his mouth obediently. For many old ministers, Li Chong grew up under his watch, and finally became the crown prince, which made them breathe a sigh of relief. Some things are like that, and no one knows what the outcome will be without the dust settled.
A few days later, Li Chong accepted Dong Bai and Zhen Mi as concubines, and then officially moved out of the palace and lived in the prince's mansion that Li Ming had already prepared. In contrast, the other sons and daughters still live in the palace.
Then everyone suddenly found a problem, many of them didn't know who the prince was. It is rare to see the prince out of the prince's mansion, only knowing that there is a Xiang mansion next door to the prince's mansion, and there is a young man named Xiang Chong every day, who will report to the guards.
No one knew that between the Prince's Mansion and the Xiang Mansion, Li Ming deliberately prepared a secret passage, so that Li Chong could still enjoy his dual identity. In the final analysis, this is also what Li Chong meant, he hopes to have more contact with people at all levels of society and understand the actual situation, instead of being locked up in the palace and listening to the data and intelligence reported by the courtiers below.
Li Ming was very supportive of Li Chong's idea, so he gave him five years to experience the identity of 'Xiang Chong'. At the same time, he promised that after two years, he would be transferred to the Southern Expeditionary Corps, so that he could learn about the living habits of ethnic minorities in the Nanzhong region.
What Li Chong didn't know was that the shadow guard beside him was more than three times more than three times more directly. It is not too much to treat one's heirs, no matter how many times the protection is increased.
"Meng Huo, are the tribes over there still willing to accept your leadership?" Li Chong's part, Li Ming couldn't pay so much attention, he was more concerned about the rule of Nanzhong. Meng Huo is only in his twenties, and he is directly in charge of several counties and hundreds of tribes, will it be a little difficult.
In order to understand the situation, this did not call Meng Shu back. The latter did not bring his wife, Mrs. Zhurong and the soldiers, and came to Shouchun alone, which took more than ten days before and after.
"Your Majesty, after the rebellion of the remnants of the Nanyue Kingdom before, there are only more than a hundred tribes left among the hundreds of tribes. Most of the tribes expressed their gratitude to the Great Chu for being able to drive away the remnants of the Nanyue Kingdom.
At the same time, Da Chu supported a lot of materials to come over, and we won't take the materials but don't know how to be grateful. If I have to say anything, I can only say that Da Chu's Huaxia work was too radical, which made some tribal chiefs worry that their power would be damaged, and King Duosi and King Mulu instigated it, so they launched a rebellion.
Now, not to mention anything else, in the areas under his control, the people and tribes are absolutely loyal to Dachu, and the only hope is that the process of Huaxia will slow down a little. Meng Shu told Li Ming about the current situation in Nanzhong.
"In other words, in the case of slowing down the process of Huaxiaization, you can control the entire Nanzhong region, right?" Li Ming looked at Meng Shu thoughtfully.
"The subordinates must control the Nanzhong region for Your Majesty!" Meng Shu patted his chest and reassured. Now in the Nanzhong region, not only their Meng clan and Zhurong clan are on top, but also many Wuxi tribes have migrated over, Shamoke is his right-hand man, plus Meng Wei, it is enough to make other tribes clearly aware of the consequences of rebellion.
"I heard that Mrs. Meng gave birth? What is the little guy called? Li Ming thought for a while and asked.
"Your Majesty, Mrs. She gave birth to a girl, we named it Hua Fei, the little baby is very similar to her mother, she must be very good-looking when she grows up!" Speaking of his wife, Meng Shu, a barbarian, suddenly showed a happy expression.
"Nanzhong Meng's family has to rely on you to support it, and there are no less heirs, and you have to work hard in the future. Well, when you go back, bring some gifts, and I congratulate you on your success. Li Ming smiled and said.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Meng was very happy to hear this, and Tian Ding's matter was originally on the agenda.
"I plan to merge the Nanzhong region into a new state, named Yunzhou, and govern in Yunnan. I also hope that you will serve as the first person in Yunzhou to assassinate the history! Li Ming finally showed his fangs, and he originally wanted to slow down the speed of Huaxiaization, but his appointment undoubtedly accelerated the progress of Huaxiaization.
"This ......" Meng Shu was a little interested in this identity, but at the same time, he had to take into account the opinions of the various clan chiefs.
"Don't worry!" Li Ming knew what Meng Yu was worried about, "All officials are limited to be selected from among the various patriarchs. However, it is subject to the supervision of the Ministry of Supervision. As compensation, I will send people to Yunzhou to teach various handicrafts and special agricultural planting techniques to help various tribes earn more income. How about the loss of power, which is made up for financially? ”
"They will surely be grateful to Your Majesty!" Meng Shu was also relieved when he heard this.
Meng Shu left the next day and returned to Nanzhong, or Yunzhou, which had been determined to be reorganized, and brought back a lot of gifts. The first batch of technical instructors has been selected and sent to Yunzhou to teach medicine, agriculture and engineering.
Their goal is to invigorate Yunzhou's economy, so that Yunzhou can generate taxes and become self-sufficient, and get rid of dependence on central government allocations. The ultimate goal is for Yunzhou to provide some financial revenue every year.
Li Ming was busy invigorating the economy and a series of political activities, and the Han side was also carrying out reforms.
At the court meeting, Liu Ting did not wait for the ministers to admonish, and directly threw out the concept of the nine-product Zhongzheng system. The ministers did have a plan, taking advantage of Shen Ye's death and the failure of the decisive battle, to force Liu Ting to make concessions to the greatest extent and let him compromise with the family gatekeeper.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the Jiupin Zhongzheng system came out, there was no way for the family gate valves to get along with each other. In order to compete for the place of 'Dazhongzheng', various families naturally competed with each other, and as a result, Liu Ting took advantage of this juncture to push his henchmen and some people who directly showed favor to an important position, and drove some opposing families to attack these henchmen.
As a result, the two sides fought for their heads, but he sat on a high platform and profited from it, and soon the family forgot what they planned to attack him. Now that I organize it again, I'm afraid there is no way, the people's hearts have been scattered, and the team is not easy to lead!
"Appoint, Sima Yi as the ruling Jinwu! Appointed, Lang Chen Qun as the Guanglu doctor! Appointed Zhuge Liang as Taicang Order! Appointed Wei Qi as the left eunuch of the court lieutenant! The follow-up decrees were passed down one after another, and four people were promoted in one breath.
Sima Yi is a member of the Han Soul, and has always been cultivated by Shen Ye as an heir, although the cultivation time is very short, it can be seen that he is Liu Ting's 'own person', and his upper position is understandable, but he didn't expect to replace Shen Ye as the ruling Jinwu in one step, and many old ministers couldn't help but look at this young man with vigilance.
Chen Qun is from the Yingchuan Chen family, and he can be regarded as a son of a famous family. However, he was just a speaker before, but he didn't expect to be promoted to Guanglu Doctor in one breath, so it can be seen that there must be some reason why there must be no visible people; Zhuge Liang is from the Lang Evil Zhuge Clan, and it is said that he once stayed in Huiji Academy for a period of time, and his heart was so far from the Han Dynasty that he came to defect, but did he directly serve as the Taicang Order?
As for Wei Qi, the Hedong Wei clan was originally a famous Han family, and Wei Qi's promotion to the left prison of the court captain became a matter of course.
And these four young people are not high in status at this stage, but the discerning people can see that they must be the upstarts of the big man!