Li Ji said the words "the appearance is the inside", and Shi Bufan immediately understood what Li Ji meant. According to Shi Bufan's memory of Li Ji www.biquge.info's position change in the early years of Zhenguan, if Li Ji does not take long, he will also be released to serve as the governor of the prefecture, and he will be used as an important general to defend against the Turks and guard the place in the next ten years. Only after more than ten years of Zhenguan will he be returned to the imperial court to serve as the secretary of the military department.

However, Li Ji's meaning is obviously very obvious, he wants a partner to help him find out the news for him in the capital Chang'an, and if necessary, he can speak for him. The Jingguan of Chang'an spoke for the local officials, so as to ensure the emperor's trust in the local officials, and even inquire about some policy changes of the central government, so that the local officials could know in advance and make preparations that would be beneficial to them. Of course, for the central officials, this alliance also helped him to consolidate his position. With the support of the local powerful faction, the status of the central officials is also unprecedentedly stable, and even if the emperor wants to move him, he will worry about the backlash of the local powerful faction.

This is also the so-called "appearance of the surface", and the appearance of the political circle is also the meaning of the appearance. However, there is a suspicion of forming a party for personal gain, which was what the ancient emperors were worried about. However, Shi Bufan will not be worried. Because there is no such situation in any dynasty, only those stupid kings will be afraid of their courtiers forming parties for personal gain, and the truly powerful kings will not only not be afraid of party strife, but will control party strife, use party strife, and use party strife, to maintain the authority of the king.

In line with the practice of watching people put down dishes, if it is in the face of those mediocre emperors, Shi Bufan will not dare to mess around. However, in the face of Li Shimin, a generation of heroes and a generation of heroes, he is not afraid of party struggle. Because the more wise the British lord is, the more he knows the inevitability of party strife, and the more he knows that it is inevitable for his courtiers to form a party for personal gain, so they will not do anything inappropriate because of this. Only those stupid kings naively think that the whole world belongs to him, and the whole world should obey him, and it is absolutely unforgivable for courtiers to form parties for personal gain. Forming a party for personal gain is just an excuse, just an excuse for political struggle, and if it fails, it will naturally be "formed for personal gain."

"Why choose me?" Shi Bufan asked Li Ji.

Shi Bufan thought of the original history, after Li Shimin's death, Li Ji served as a scholar and became one of the real power factions of the Tang Dynasty. At that time, Tang Gaozong Li Zhi hoped to establish Wu Zetian as the empress, and Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu, the two people who were later called traitors, supported it, but the eldest grandson Wuji and Chu Suiliang desperately opposed it. This is actually a signal that the Hanmen forces have really begun to step onto the stage of history. Although it is just a deposed queen, there are many signals behind it.

Wu Zetian is the daughter of Wu Shi Tong, although Wu Shi Tong is a national prince, but his background is very low, he was only a timber merchant at the beginning, and he is still a poor family. But Li Zhi's first queen, Queen Wang, was the daughter of the Taiyuan royal family, so she represented the Shi family. The eldest grandson Wuji and Chu Suiliang are from the Shi clan, so they naturally want to maintain the position of the queen of the daughter of the Shi clan. As for Wu Zetian, if he ascends to the position of queen, it will be a huge shot in the arm for the rise of Hanmen.

At this time when the ass decided the head, the eldest grandson Wuji Chu Suiliang objected, but Li Ji said that this was the emperor's family affair, and there was no need to listen to others. On the surface, there is nothing wrong with this sentence, but the establishment of a queen is never just a family matter. You must know that the queen has to go through the deliberation of the province of Menxia, and Liu E of the Song Dynasty was beaten back by the ministers in charge of the deliberation of the imperial court several times, and finally came up with a "borrowed belly to give birth", which reluctantly fooled those courtiers.

Therefore, the establishment of a queen is not an ordinary family matter, if it is just a few middle and low-level concubines such as nine concubines, then the emperor can make a decree. But this high-ranking concubine, that must be reviewed by the province. So this Li Ji is a "family matter", and this is purely going to the grave to burn newspapers - fooling ghosts!

Li Ji's position on this sentence has been very clear, he supports Wu Zetian as the queen, because as the highest representative of the Shandong Shu clan in the imperial court, he naturally has to find a way to make profits for the Shandong Shu clan, a queen from the Shandong Shu clan has immeasurable benefits for the Shandong Shu clan.

Of course, this is also a practice that Tang Gaozong Li Zhi wanted to weaken the influence of the Guanlong Group and kick the eldest grandson Wuji out. Therefore, Wu Zetian later forced the eldest grandson Wuji to die, not because it was all personal enmity, but because the political group they represented was completely different, and there was also a public enmity in it.

However, Li Ji originally waited until Wu Zetian to export, but what was the reason why Li Ji actually planned to cooperate with him so early and chose himself? There are a lot of people to choose from, why just choose Shi Bufan an eight-grade petty official?

"It's simple, you're young, talented, and promising." Li Ji said.

Shi Bufan replied: "I see, but General Li, is it worth it for you to put the gambling book on me?" I'm just an eight-rank petty official, and the future is all in the hands of the emperor, is it worth it for you to put your capital on me? Aren't you afraid that when the time comes, you will lose a fine light? ”

"Hehe, everyone knows that Shi Xiannan is good at financial management, eloquence, and handling foreign affairs, all of which are abilities that I have lacked since ancient times. One of these three abilities is enough to become a generation of famous ministers, an irreplaceable famous minister. Don't think I'm a poor family, I haven't read. is good at financial management, why was Sang Hongyang, a businessman, reused by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, isn't it because he is good at financial management? is good at eloquence, I won't say much about this, Su Qin and Zhang Yi are the best examples. And good at foreign affairs, look at Pei Ju Pei Xiang, this can be proven. Pei Ju is also unlucky, maybe he was born a few decades later, maybe it is enough to be no less than Fang Du. But you have three kinds of people at the same time, I really can't think of any reason why you don't have any hope of success. These three abilities have been lacking since ancient times, and the emperor really would rather lose General Wei Chi than lose you! Especially the emperor is a male lord, he wants to expand the territory and money, so he naturally wants you. Moreover, the expansion of the territory must be assisted by people who are good at handling foreign affairs, and that is inseparable from you. ”

"Pei Ju is already old, and everyone knows that Pei Ju's time is running out now. But you are still young, but you are not yet weak, so you have at least thirty years to go. You have an advantage over Fangdu, because you are more than twenty years younger than them, enough to boil them to death. Being young and talented is the biggest capital! ”

Shi Bufan knew why Li Ji chose himself, because as Li Ji said, Shi Bufan's current ability to manage, eloquence, and being good at handling foreign affairs are all talents that were very lacking in ancient times. In ancient times, there were not many people who studied financial management professionally, and there were even fewer courtiers who could manage money, and sometimes a dynasty may not be able to appear a person who is proficient in financial management. If Li Shimin only needs to be a Taiping Emperor, he may not need someone who knows how to manage money. But as a keen and pioneering person, there must be someone who knows how to manage money to help him, otherwise Emperor Yang of Sui will be his role model.

If you want to open up, you must be able to handle diplomacy, and when formulating foreign policy, you must fight whom, who to fight first, and how to fight, and you are all very diplomatic people. It's a pity that there were very few such people in ancient times, there was a Pei Ju before, but Pei Ju is old, an eighty-year-old person, almost at any time, and this life will pass.

At the same time, there is no reason why Li Shimin, a person who likes to open up, should not attach importance to talents who have the three rare abilities of financial management, eloquence, and foreign affairs. Li Ji understands this truth, Li Shimin definitely understands it, and even other officials understand it. Shi Bufan's ability is irreplaceable, almost absolutely irreplaceable, so even if Li Shimin loses anyone, don't lose Shi Bufan. This is also the inevitability of the extraordinary rise.

Therefore, Li Ji thinks that it is worth pressing the gambling book on Shi Bufan and forming an alliance with Shi Bufan, because Shi Bufan has a great advantage in addition to ability, that is, youth. Being young is one of the biggest assets of a politician, and sometimes victory or defeat is not based on who has better means, because the ability of both sides is similar. Therefore, on the contrary, the competition is about whose name is longer and who can get it later than him. If it weren't for the death of Li Deyu first, which caused the Li Party to lose its backbone, and although the Niu Dang and Niu monks and children of the Hanmen who represented the Han family died first, there were successors, and they might not have been able to successfully win the victory of this almost half-century-long party struggle.

Shi Bu's young advantage is enough to boil those prime ministers in their forties to death, and Li Ji probably knows that the rise of Hehanmen is not a short-term process, and it is not even possible to do it for decades. Li Ji didn't know at all that the struggle between the Hanmen clans in history even lasted for the entire Tang Dynasty, and even the Tang Dynasty would become a martyr for the scholars because of the struggle between the Hanmen and the scholars.

"However, with me, as long as productivity is developed rapidly, it may be shortened to decades." Shi Bufan thought.

What Shi Bufan wants to do is actually to ripen the Hanmen, why does he want to develop the productive forces so desperately, doesn't he want to mature the Hanmen class as soon as possible? Only sufficient productive forces can dismantle the gentry from an economic base. Otherwise, even if a group of scholars are defeated, there will still be a group of scholars who will rise. This kind of chaebol political lord and scholar status of the scholar clan, without their economic status, it is impossible to completely eliminate them.

However, Shi Bufan took a different path, not the road of intensive cultivation back then, but a different road. Of course, these people in ancient times did not understand economics, so they naturally could not predict what Shi Bufan was doing. When they really found out, the extraordinary thing to do was when they dug up their foundations, and at that time they were already on the verge of being finished. According to Shi Bufan, he once secretly made an economic model, and about 20 years is enough to greatly increase productivity, and it is not impossible to even reach the level of a thousand years later.

The progress of productive forces in ancient times was passive, but of course the passive was not as fast as the active. As long as we can take the initiative to guide the development of productive forces, it is not completely difficult to reach the level of progress in the ancient century. The speed of updating knowledge in ancient times is too slow, and it is only updated once in hundreds of years, so as long as there is a little progress, it is enough to cross the ability of productive forces to develop in ancient times for hundreds of years. Shi Bufan has self-confidence in himself, and has matured the entire economic productive forces, and finally matured the Hanmen group.

"How? I think you also need an important helper from the outside, as well as inside and out. You need me to be out there to secure your position, and I need you to help me speak in the capital, so we can work together. I'm a decade older than you, but I'm of the same generation, so we still have a lot of opportunities to work together in the future. If we don't cooperate, then we will all be divided in the future. As long as we are willing to cooperate, we can take charge of the center of the Tang Dynasty in the future. If we can't all cooperate, will we still have to face those warriors to defeat each other? Li Ji said.

Shi Bufan nodded and said, "Okay, I believe in you, General Li." I believe that when the time comes, we will have a lot of complementary advantages, which no one else has. What's more, who doesn't know that you Li Ji is the best at being a man, everyone avoided Li Mi back then, or you will collect his body and wear filial piety for him, who doesn't know that you Li Ji is the best at being a man? I believe that you will not sell me. ”

Li Ji's discipline is still relatively reliable, Li Mi surrendered to Li Tang that year, but Li Mi rebelled again and was killed. Those old subordinates of Li Mi were afraid of being implicated, but Li Ji chose to collect Li Mi's body for him, and even wore linen and filial piety. Such a courtier who emphasized righteousness and affection, even Li Yuan at that time was very moved, not only did not despise him because of this, but attached more importance to him, and even gave the surname Li at that time.

Li Ji can be a man, that is famous in the early Tang Dynasty, and he can be a man with righteousness, which is also the reason why Li Ji can gain everyone's respect. So Shi Bufan is not worried that Li Ji will sell him easily, not to mention that Li Ji will not sell it at a good price even if he sells it. Because those scholars look down on the poor after all, no matter how high the position of the poor people is, no matter how high the title is, they are also looked down upon by them from the bottom of their bones, so Li Ji, a smart person, will never choose to sell his natural hardcore alliance to curry favor with the enemy, which is more than worth the loss. Li Ji should understand the truth of cold lips and teeth, otherwise he would not be able to get to this point.

"Okay, we'll make an agreement. We won't make any words and sentences, I believe you are a county man. I think the county men will also believe me. In a few days, I will be sent to the state to serve as the governor of the state, so at that time we will also start. You speak well for me in the center, and I command the troops and horses outside, and from then on we are brothers who eat in a pot. (To be continued.) )