Chapter 55: The Dragon Patrols the World (I)
Since ancient times, emperors have been in and out of the deep palace of the emperor's mansion, from the moment he ascended the throne, he can see the ordinary people have little chance of seeing ordinary people, the nobility of theocracy, in fact, lies in this mystery that is not understood, so even if it is a tour, the emperor will also make a big fanfare, and do his best to be extravagant. But there is such an emperor, because he heard about the construction of the Guigu, he did something that no emperor has the courage to do since ancient times: plainclothes out on patrol, this person is Li Er, who is known as the first emperor of the ages in later generations.
As early as the early years of Zhenguan, Xu Yang took advantage of the emperor's respect and put forward that bold Jianyi, that is, a private visit to the microservice, under the instigation of such a later generation, Li Er naturally couldn't help but want to know how the people under his rule evaluated him, because there were many micro-service actions that only took a dozen guards to travel.
Out of the palace, the free air, the unrestrained world, this allows Li Er to fully enjoy the life experience of being an ordinary person, which is nothing in the eyes of ordinary people, but in those who are high and powerful, accustomed to luxury, this kind of life is what they love, so Li Er will not only participate in a hunt once a month, but also rest after the hunt, through the tall imperial city walls, to see the life of the people in the outside world.
Civilian clothes out on patrol, this is a plan that Li Er set a long time ago, as he grows older, the prince Cheng Qian's expression makes Li Er very satisfied, although Cheng Qian does not have much ambition, but as a master of the success is more than enough, the ministers of the court have already seen the shape of the court. Li Chengqian is deeply respected by Guiguzi. Guiguzi is a staunch supporter of Li Chengqian. Xu Yang also told His Majesty that if he succeeded to the throne, the heirs of the Tang Kingdom would be safe within 500 years.
Although this is a bit big, Li Er loves to listen to it, when he killed his brother and ascended the throne, he opened an extremely tragic head for the inheritance of the heirs of the entire Tang Empire, which is why every time the Tang Dynasty changed emperors in the real history later, it was bloody and killing. Therefore, Comrade Lao Li has always hoped that future generations will not be like himself, stepping on the corpse of his brother to ascend to the throne.
Don't worry about it now. Li Chengqian, both in appearance and ability, is enough to be qualified for the position of the crown prince, compared to Chengqian, the other princes do not seem to have much interest in the hot throne, the most likely to compete for the Wei King Li Tai, soaked in Nanshan Academy all day long, wearing work clothes, and a large number of craftsmen mingle, I heard that what plane is being studied, and the Wei Wang Party, who originally had high hopes for him, has completely died.
The remaining three princes who are expected to compete for the crown prince seat are a little more promising, except for Li Ke. volunteered to go to Tibet, and the rest of Li Su and Li You were waiting for death. However, Li Ke is far away from the central control agency in Tubo, not only is the news inconvenient to disseminate, but it is even more unrealistic to be favored, although Li Yu and Li You are well-known gentlemen, but after all, these two are disciples taught by Guigu, even if they eat, drink and have fun, but they also have a very good investment vision, and the coal mine business in which they are shareholders is becoming more and more prosperous, and the daily progress is enough for them to squander.
As for the young Li Zhi, the ministers of the court have automatically ignored this little prince with a weak personality like a glutinous rice dumpling, so throughout the princes in the court, no one can compare with Li Chengqian, so with the passage of time, in the past two years, Li Er has handed over more and more important resolutions of the court to Li Chengqian to deal with.
Of course, Li Chengqian also lived up to expectations, and many things were handled in an orderly manner, which also reassured Li Erda, and because of this, Li Er went to Quanzhou to patrol this time, so he stayed in the prince to supervise the country, and he became a hand-shaken shopkeeper, only with more than 30 guards with extremely high martial arts, and a caravan embarked on the road of dragon patrol,......
"Your Majesty, the Flying Rider has sent a document from the Heavenly Khan Dao." In a smoothly moving carriage, a white-haired man spoke in a shrill tone to the richly dressed man sitting in the back of the carriage.
"Read." The man didn't open his eyes either, but just closed his eyes and said a word lightly.
"No." The white-haired man received the will, cleared his throat and said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has received a reply from His Majesty, and has ordered the repair of the Heavenly Khan Road for a year, advanced from the north of Chang'an City to the northwest border, has built sixty-eight post stations, each post station is sixty miles, enough to have more than four thousand miles, the post is equipped with horse gardens and food, for the envoys to stay, now on the Silk Road as far as the northwest, a total of more than 30 countries come to see the Tian Khan, is expected to arrive in Chang'an in April this year. ”
After listening to the words of the white-haired father-in-law, Li Ercai slowly opened his eyes, stretched his waist, and said in a lazy tone: "Are there only thirty countries?" ”
The white-haired father-in-law was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "There are many small countries in the Western Regions located in remote places, and the transmission of information is extremely slow, it is estimated that more countries will come to visit His Majesty in the future, but those thirty small countries have some reputation on the Silk Road, and many countries control important places, such as Gaochang, Yanqi, Tuyuhun, etc., this towering Khan Dao can now make it more convenient for His Majesty to manage these frontier areas, not only that, but the silk fabrics, tea, ironware, coins, seeds, etc. Production tools can be sold through these countries in exchange for horses, camels, mink, cotton cloth, jade, etc., which are needed by our Datang. ”
"Hmm......" Li Er also nodded, "I remember that some time ago, I discussed with Wei Aiqing about national affairs, and Wei Aiqing, who has always disliked businessmen, also said, 'Businessmen, communicate with each other, for the disaster of the nobles, for the benefit of the world. The Silk Road is an important opportunity for my Tang Dynasty to do business with foreign countries, and you want to send a letter to Qian'er, just say, the towering Khan Dao not only to protect, but also to expand, I want to let the people of the world are in my land, enjoy the power of my Tang Dynasty. ”
Hearing Li Er's words, Bai Fa hurriedly bowed his head and kowtowed, "No." ”
"That's right." Li Er just finished speaking, and said: "Let's take a train all the way from Luoyang, then change to a car, and now change to a carriage, this has been more than ten days, why haven't we seen Quanzhou?" This road is getting more and more difficult to walk, I used to correct the music in the palace, I learned how prosperous this Quanzhou is, but now why do I find that this road to Quanzhou is becoming more and more barren? ”
Hearing Li Er's questioning, the white-haired father-in-law hurriedly said: "Your Majesty doesn't know, the coastal area of Quanzhou City is extremely developed, but most of the places that go deep into the interior are still in such uninhabited places, and you must be able to enter Quanzhou City after walking for a while." ”
Before Bai Fa finished speaking, someone outside the carriage suddenly knocked on the wooden door and said softly: "Childe, the boundary of Quanzhou has arrived." ”…… (To be continued......)