Concubine Yang's words made Li Su a little depressed, and he said: "Mother, this is our family matter, so we don't need these ministers to ask." ”

Shaking his head, Li Su sat down opposite Concubine Yang and said softly: "You think this draft is just for you to enrich the after. Palace? Now that you are the emperor, you need to use the draft to maintain the relationship between all levels of the Tang Dynasty, otherwise why do these show girls still pay attention to their backgrounds and must be born in the family of eunuchs? Although the Tang Dynasty is now peaceful on the surface under your governance, if your courtiers marry each other, a new interest group will soon be formed, rather than this, it is better to summon the daughters of these people into the palace, even if you don't go to pamper, it is okay to be a female official in the palace. ”

Hearing this, Li Su lowered his head and pondered, he was not thinking about the affairs in the Tang Dynasty, but the current colonies, although the expeditionary forces have supported the puppet government, but how to make these puppet governments serve the Tang Dynasty wholeheartedly is a problem, during this time, small-scale conflicts frequently broke out in various regions, the expeditionary force continued to suffer casualties, and local contradictions became more and more prominent, which made Li Su feel that pure force still did not work, and some periods had to follow the ancient way.

Seeing that Li Su didn't speak, Concubine Yang continued: "And the influence of the power of the Shi clan gate lord in the people is not so easy to eliminate, between the people and the officials, isn't that proud to be able to marry the five surnames and seven hopes?" ”

"The mother has a point." Li suddenly raised his head and said, "However, the sons of this show girl want to add some people from other places." ”

Li Su agreed to this matter, Concubine Yang was already very happy, she naturally hoped that Li Su would have many children and grandchildren, and there was another account in her heart, although there were many concubines and concubines of the emperor in ancient times, and there were many heirs born, but there were not many heirs who could survive peacefully, and they basically died in the all-out struggle. In history, there were even some emperors who died and had to let their brothers' heirs inherit the throne.

Li Shimin abdicated and told Li Su not to kill his brothers indiscriminately, Li Su has done the same now, but now Li Shimin's heirs are basically all grown up, and it is difficult to ensure that there are not a few of them who contain evil intentions.

However, Li Su doesn't take it seriously, she, who is a mother, can't help but think about Li Su, she was born in the royal family. She has seen too many human tragedies, and at this time it can be regarded as a rainy day, she continued: "This is not a problem, Your Majesty, what place do you want to add a woman?" ”

"Now the territory under the control of the Tang Dynasty is too vast, and it is far from enough for us to manage it, which requires the full support of these colonial puppet regimes, and I am not very relieved that the expeditionary force has been stationed abroad for a long time, in order to appease the magnates of these colonies. I thought that I should also choose some women from their families to come to Chang'an. Li Su said with a deep groan, he mainly aimed at the puppet regime in the colony, in order to stabilize overseas, after all, he did not have so many resources to change officials all over the world.

Concubine Yang nodded. "What the emperor said is also reasonable, these countries are far away, and the expeditionary force costs a lot every year, and it is said. Years of foreign conquest have made the soldiers very war-weary, and many deserters have appeared. ”

Speaking of this, Li Su's expression was a little gloomy, and the overseas colonization for more than ten years had indeed made a group of veterans feel tired. Therefore, Li Su recently asked the expeditionary force to temporarily stop its operations in Europe, and instead focused on maintaining the colonies that had been conquered, after all, it could not become fat in one bite, and it could also lead to indigestion.

"This is also where the child is troubled, now the child plans to stabilize the rule of these regions, integrate them into the Tang Dynasty, and the conquest of other regions is not in a hurry for a while, and the outside must first be inside, this draft is mainly for these colonies and families, then please ask the mother concubine to preside." Li Su tidied up his clothes and stood up.

Concubine Yang nodded lightly and said, "The left and right concubines don't have anything to do, so I'll check for you." ”

"Then it will be bothering the mother." Li Su said, and then he resigned from Concubine Yang and left Cining Palace, more than ten years of life have made Li Su have integrated into the Tang Dynasty, so there is no rejection of the draft, after all, he is now the emperor, and the draft is beneficial to him, which can further weaken the power of the family, reduce their private marriage, and maintain the rule of the colony, but the bitterness is these women who enter the palace, but Li Su understands that the benevolence of women at this time will only cause suffering in the future, There were some things he could only grit his teeth to do, and at this time, he once again realized the difficulty of managing a country, not to mention the many colonies.

The news of the draft quickly spread, and the officials who were looking forward to this were like cats that smelled fishy, and the five surnames and seven wangs were another situation, universal education had weakened the power of the scholars in the imperial court, and Li Su wanted to break the marriage between the scholars.

"This emperor is much more difficult to deal with than the emperor." In a quiet garden-style courtyard on the outskirts of Chang'an, the eldest grandson Wuji held a white porcelain teacup and tasted the matcha tea passed from Yizhou, and opposite him sat six old men, all of whom were old members of the Guanlong aristocracy, and the seven families in the former Eight Pillars Kingdom were all here, and it was they who assisted the Li family to lay down the Tang Dynasty.

A thin old man said: "What Elder Changsun Ge said is very true, in the past, no matter how bold the emperor was, he didn't dare to do anything to the five surnames, but now this emperor is a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, and dares to do anything." ”

"This is also a matter of no choice, where is there still a part of us scholars in the current Tang Dynasty, whether it is in the court or in the army, we basically have no right to speak." Another said.

The eldest grandson Wuji said: "You don't have to think about the previous days, they are gone, but the current days are not bad, and the most important thing is to be idle." ”

"You're relaxed, you don't have a girl under your knees, so naturally you don't have to worry about this draft, but we're sad." The thin old man said.

Eldest Sun Wuji chuckled: "Didn't they all say that it was voluntary?" What's the worry, if my daughter doesn't have that very good look, I don't think she has to be sent to the palace, anyway, it's all resources, the emperor said so, what else do you have to complain about. ”

"That's just as well." The others nodded in agreement, the Eight Pillars Kingdom would gather every year, including Li Yuan's lineage in the past, but since the Li family ascended the throne, there are seven families, and the Eight Pillars Kingdom, which used to make the Tang Dynasty tremble by stomping their feet, can only gather and chat like this now, and can no longer exert any influence on the Tang officialdom.

"Ahem, but why did the emperor say voluntary? That's kind of weird. Someone asked again.

The eldest grandson Wuji said: "This is the emperor's shrewdness, this is to test whether we are sincere to him, and the emperor also understands that the family is only afraid of his force and chose to back down, if you continue to persecute it will only be counterproductive, after all, the family has been inherited for thousands of years, and there are many clans with hundreds of thousands of people, these clansmen are either in business, or as officials, or in the army, how can they be compared with ordinary people, in the end, the economy of the Tang Dynasty is still controlled by the old scholars, if it is urgent, it is enough to cause a turmoil." ”

"It's no wonder that the emperor has vigorously supported the upstarts and built a new city over the years, it turns out that he is taboo about this." A person is enlightened.

Sighing, the eldest grandson Wuji said: "The taboo is just a taboo, far less than the fear of Cheng Dù, even the big chaos The emperor can calm down, the emperor just doesn't want to kill, so everyone, I advise you not to get too close to other old scholars in the Eight Pillars Kingdom, this era has passed, just live your life in peace, don't think about some non-dividing things, so as not to accompany your own family when the time comes." ”

Eldest Sun Wuji's words meant something, and many people showed unnatural looks, obviously being stabbed in the sore spot by Eldest Sun Wuji, just as Eldest Sun Wuji said, the scholar clan is that the surface of this pool of water is calm, but there is an undercurrent inside. (To be continued......)