Chapter 5: Nameless (6 I)
"Jia Sheng's use?" Li Jiancheng frowned and repeated stiffly in Chen Yanshou's tone. He didn't understand why Chen Yanshou compared Zhong Jian, who had won all battles, with Jia Yi, a famous scholar in the Han Dynasty. In his opinion, there is no similarity between the two at all. Jia Yi was depressed all his life, and Li Xu was only in his early twenties, and he had already been crowned the king of the county and the general of the hussars. Titles and official positions are almost to the limit of a human retainer. As for temperament, although Zhong Jian is clean and self-conscious, he is by no means a guy who is more serious about death. As long as others don't target him too much, he may not take the initiative to find trouble with others!
"Yes, Jia Sheng's use!" Chen Yanshou emphasized very seriously. Jia was never entrusted with important responsibilities when he lived, but for nearly two decades after his death, two generations of great Han emperors carried out his ideas of governance to the letter. In the old man's opinion, when it comes to the ancient and modern emperors who treat their subordinates, there are few people who are as good as Jia Yi! ”
"Uncle Chen has a unique eye!" Li Jiancheng thinks that he is not a stupid person, and he has fully understood what Chen Yanshou wants to express. But he strongly disagreed with the proposal. At present, he urgently needs a famous future who will win all battles to suppress the limelight of his younger brother Shimin and Liu Hongji, Yin Kaishan, Hou Junji and others. Trying his best to recruit Li Xu under his command but putting him on the shelf, isn't it equivalent to watching the power of the people of the world grow and grow day by day?
Seeing that the young master praised himself and stopped speaking, Chen Yanshou felt more and more disappointed in his heart. Regarding the question of whether Li Xu was willing to work for Jiancheng in the end, he has always been skeptical. Speaking from the heart, the lord Li Yuan and the young master Jiancheng really treated Li Xu well, and they were both kings and generals. But these benefits are based on the exchange of interests. I'm afraid that in the eyes of the other party, there is no difference between the current Tang King Li Yuan and Yang Guang, the son of the Great Sui Emperor back then. Even if he barely scores a point, it is estimated that Yang Guang's affection for Li Xu is more sincere. At least when he continued to add officials to Li Xu, he didn't think too much about the return and utilization.
In this case, if Shizi Jiancheng wants to impress Li Xu, he must come up with something more important! Crowned as a high-ranking official? Hmph, even if there is no reward from Tang King Li Yuan's fake Yang Yu's hand, with the tens of thousands of elites in his hands and the territory of the six counties, Li Xu himself asks for the name of the prince, in the current situation, can the king of Dongdu Yue and the emperor of Jiangdu be stingy? It is rumored that Princess Da Sui is waiting on the edge of the Yellow River with a dowry, always waiting for Li Xu to marry. Give it money? If Li Xu was really greedy for money, he would not have implemented the new policy of raising troops in Tuntian in the six counties that would take at least three or five years to see the benefits! Mighty soldiers? I didn't know before I came to Zhuo County, but after arriving in Zhuo County, Chen Yanshou found out how big the difference was between the so-called Hedong Jiashi and the Boling elite. He had made a bold assumption, though he didn't want that to happen. If Li Xu disregarded the risk of the Turks going south, he decided to swear to the death to maintain the prestige of the Son of Heaven in the Eastern Capital. He led the elite of Boling to the west, and within two months, no city in the counties east of the river could be kept. Li Yuanji, who stayed in Taiyuan, and the soldiers and horses under his command were not enough to cushion the Boling elite. The 50,000 "elite soldiers" under the command of the prince are at most only able to fight and retreat! Even if the Li family transferred all their troops, Liu Hongji, Li Anyuan, Murong Luo, Wang Yuantong, Qi Poning and other old friends of Xuzi were willing to do their best to fight with him, and at most they drove the Boling army back to Hebei. If you want to annex the six counties in a war, you are simply a pipe dream!
Of course, in addition to the strength of the Li family in Hedong, there is also a network advantage that Li Xu can never match. King Tang can use the support of prominent families, wealthy families, and former colleagues and friends from all over the world to copy Li Xu's lair from all directions. But in that case, neither side will benefit much. Even if they could defeat Li Xu, the Li family in Hedong would have exhausted all the resources they had accumulated. There is no three or five years to recover, and there is no need to think about the words "winning the championship" at all.
Since the two methods of inducement and coercion do not work, Li Jiancheng said before, the idea of treating it with sincerity has become a good idea, but the key is to care about which aspect of this "sincerity" font is now. Xuzi has been in the officialdom for many years, and his brotherly righteousness and children's affection may not be as important as when he was a teenager. Li Jiancheng wanted to talk to him, but people may not be jealous of the Li family in Hedong. In this way, in Chen Yanshou's view, the only condition left in Li Jiancheng's hands that can make Xuzi tempted is to represent the Li family in Hedong and promise Xuzi to fully accept the new policies he has implemented in the six counties of Hebei.
Thinking of this, Chen Yanshou was unwilling to remind, "Has the prince ever found that the difference between Shanggu and Zhuojun and Hedong and Gyeonggi counties is also due to the war?" ”
"See. Zhong Jian does have the talent to inform the people. But I think he can play to his strengths better on the battlefield! Li Jiancheng nodded, his gaze still flat.
"What if all the places east of the river are governed in the same way?" With the last bit of expectation, Chen Yanshou continued to ask.
"That will take some time. At the moment, our family's energy is mainly focused on the battlefield. And Xuzi has been trying out Juntian's strategy here for more than two years! Li Jiancheng thought for a while and replied solemnly.
'There is no need to execute it immediately, the prince only needs to make a promise to Zhong Jian and those around him! Chen Yanshou shouted in his heart, his mouth moved, but in the end he didn't say anything.
Chen Yanshou privately believes that the reason why Xu Zi did not care about offending the wealthy families of the six counties and offending the powerful people left behind in Luoyang, and implemented the Juntian Order in Hebei and Henan is probably closely related to his own background. As a child of a poor family who has never forgotten his roots, Li Xu will always unconsciously regard the displaced people as himself or his father. This makes many of his moves seem both crazy and bold, and unbelievably stubborn.
If Li Jiancheng can make a decision on behalf of the Li family to implement the three policies of Juntian, Imperial Examination and Shangwu in all parts of the country currently controlled by the Li family and in the future, then Xuzi is not the only one who will be favored by the Li family. He himself, the poor scholars, and the low-level soldiers standing behind him, as well as his parents, relatives and friends, and people who had the same situation as him all over the world, will be the beneficiaries of the New Deal. As a person who knows how to repay his kindness, even if Li Xu is not optimistic about the future of the built, he will assist him without reservation.
This is the real "use of Jia Sheng", high-ranking officials and lords are not necessary, Xuzi himself already has enough official positions and titles, and there is no need for people to add icing on the cake. The ideas of governance that he adhered to, the things he paid countless costs for, and the things that he persisted in unyieldingly insisted on were the things he cherished the most in his heart! If Shizi Jiancheng is willing to fulfill this wish for him, Xuzi will not live up to Jiancheng in this life. On the contrary, if Jiancheng can't show this kind of courage, Chen Yanshou believes that even if Li Xu returns to the Li family in Hedong in the future, he will not be willing to be driven by a person whose reputation and ability are not as good as his own.
"Uncle Chen, is there anything else you haven't said?" Li Jiancheng finally noticed that the face of his henchman was not normal, yawned, and asked with a smile.
"The battle will probably be over in a year or two!" Chen Yanshou's already cold heart came out with a few small sparks, and the words that came out of the mouth were heated again, "With this merit of going north to fight the Turks, the prestige of the prince will be as high as the sky." But moving from chaos to order is a very time-consuming matter. Government affairs is originally the director of the prince, and the prince wants to make the Tang King always favor as before, holding 100,000 male soldiers, which may not be able to make the world recite a 'good' word in their hearts! ”
"Uncle Chen is right, but what to do still needs to be considered in the long run! It's really hard to make a decision at the moment! He was stunned for a moment, and then his brows twisted. After pondering for a long time again, Li Jiancheng finally slowly expressed his opinion. "Besides, my father's side has his own arrangements for the affairs of chaos and peace of the people, and it is impossible for me to act according to my temperament!"
"Shizi thinks it has a point. Chen was a little anxious! Seeing Li Jiancheng like this, Chen Yanshou grinned with a mouth full of white beards and apologized in a low voice.
"I know that Uncle Chen is planning everything for me." Li Jiancheng also smiled and rubbed his somewhat dry eyes. "If you have anything to say in the future, I hope Uncle Chen will know everything like today!"
Chen Yanshou smiled and bowed, "Chen has written it down, the prince should rest early, it's not too early!" Seeing that the other party did not continue to talk deeply, he took the initiative to pinch off the last few sparks in his heart and said goodbye.
Li Jiancheng smiled and sent the other party out of the second door, said goodbye to the juniors, and then returned to his bookcase with a smile, took out a stack of white and soft silk paper, and drew on it with a pen. Chen Yanshou wanted to express what he wanted to express today, and he actually understood it completely. He also knew that by doing so, he might tie Asahiko to his chariot forever. But he didn't dare to do that, not because he didn't want to, but because he didn't see any hope of success.
The Great Zhou and Great Sui dynasties were actually destroyed in the end at the hands of the family. His father, Li Yuan, came to a similar conclusion more than once in private. And the reason why Li Xu has been repeatedly harassed and framed by resentment and hatred is mainly due to his background. He is a black dragon that pops out of a mountain stream, and a group of koi fish kept in a pond naturally try to destroy it by all means before it grows up. And the new policies implemented by Li Xu in the six counties are tantamount to wanting to destroy the entire pond where koi fish are raised, and mix it with mountain streams and big rivers.
Among the heroes in the world, Dou Jiande is not the only one who draws nutrients from the decrees implemented by Li Xu. At present, the Yining Dynasty under the rule of the Li family has also borrowed a considerable part of the land equalization and reclamation policies. But it is impossible to eat Juntian, the imperial examination and the three strategies of Shangwu as they are. Not only did Li Jiancheng not dare to agree to Xuzi, but he changed his father Li Yuan to come in person, and I am afraid that he would not dare to rashly make this decision against the sky.
Unlike the Boling Army, most of the generals and henchmen under Li Xu come from ordinary families. At present, those who help the Li family in Hedong compete for the world include Pei Lian, Liu Wenjing, Chai Shao, and the eldest grandson Shunde. Behind each of these people stood a huge family with deep roots. After his father Li Yuan conquered Longquan, he insisted that no matter how high or low he was, he was already widely criticized by Liu Wenjing and others. If he dares to take another step forward, Li Jiancheng believes that without his younger brother Shimin reaching out to win him over, Pei, Liu and others around his father will immediately try every means to drag themselves down from the position of the heir of the Tang Dynasty.
Is it worth it to lose the support of all the humerus ministers around his father in order to get a Li Xu? The pen in Li Jiancheng's hand smeared, and the handwriting was painted black. It's a black-and-white gamble, and he doesn't dare to bet on which side to press.
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