said that he wanted to see the country that he had beaten down with his own hands, and there were only two people, him and Li Chunfeng, so it was naturally a private visit to Weifu.

They started from Chang'an, traveled all the way to the east, passed through Bingzhou, and now they have arrived in Youzhou.

Bingzhou is the land of their Li family's Longxing, although it is now in Chang'an, but for the development of Jinyang, there is no slack.

Moreover, the upper part of the state is the northern Xinjiang where the Hu people have committed border crimes since ancient times.

This is true of the state, and the same is true of Youzhou.

It's just that now that the Turks have been destroyed, the entire Nanzhan Continent is under the control of the Tang Dynasty, and the prairie eagles of the year have become more and more capable of singing and dancing under Li Tang's iron horse.

The territory is large, and it is naturally not so easy to control.

No matter how advanced the system is, all kinds of problems will inevitably arise.

These are also in the expectation of Li Shimin and the imperial court.

As long as those local officials don't go too far and can guard the border and the people, the imperial court has always turned a blind eye.

Or, as long as the things are done in private, it is difficult for the imperial court to take the initiative to ask if they don't break out.

Even if Li Shimin let Li Junxian develop a group of internal guards and spread a huge monitoring network throughout the Tang Dynasty, there is always something beyond the reach of the whip.

But now that Li Shimin has personally gone to various places to investigate, many problems have been clearly exposed in front of his eyes. I thought I was seeing the rivers and mountains of this prosperous world with my own eyes before the death came. But at this moment, I found that this Datang was not the same as I imagined.

As far as Li Shimin saw with his own eyes, the people of Youzhou and the people near Jinggi of the Tang Dynasty are clearly living two kinds of lives that can be called worlds apart.

At least in the vicinity of Gyeonggi, there has not been a case where a clan has dared to take away the land of military dependents and forcibly occupy it.

"Listening to your accent, it's not our locals" The sturdy young man half sat on the ground, supported the ground with one hand, and looked at Li Shimin: "In our place, even the old men of the government office have no official words." ”

The implementation of the official language was also a basic national policy set by Li Shimin.

China is a vast land, and the customs and cultures of various places are different, and many mountainous places even have the phenomenon of "ten miles of different sounds, a hundred miles of different customs".

This is also one of the reasons why Li Shimin opened official schools all over the country and implemented the imperial examination.

In fact, as early as the Qin Dynasty, the imperial court had a rule that no matter where they were in office, even local officials must use official dialects, which can only be used in private.

Therefore, all dynasties after the Qin period still used the Chinese language as an official language, but it was not promoted to the people.

In order to break the monopoly of the gate valve on the scholars, Li Shimin hopes that there will be more scholars under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, so running official schools and promoting official language are naturally indispensable links.

And its additional function is to implement the official dialect on the basis of retaining the local dialects, which makes it more convenient for the people of the Tang Dynasty to communicate in various places.

The main reason is that there is no resistance to the implementation of the official language, and the change is not in the moment, and the change will be completed naturally. Just like now, the implementation of the official language has been quite effective, even if not everyone can speak it, but the people of the Tang Dynasty can basically understand it.

However, having said that, officials naturally do not speak a dialect in the capital, but when they go to the locality, unless they really do not speak the local dialect, or speak on important official occasions, they rarely speak official language.

This is not a problem, Li Shimin himself is provoked, and he will scold a few Longxi dialects or Taiyuan dialects.

If the officials are still like this, let alone the people, it is more comfortable to speak their own local dialect.

This also exposed some problems, that is, Li Shimin still focused more on those poor students.

In an ordinary people's house, how can there be any opportunity to read?

This is also Li Shimin's real feeling after walking through many places in a down-to-earth manner this time.

Just like these "bastard boys" in front of him, even when he saw them idle, when he counted them down, he actually asked them why they didn't go to farming, instead of asking them why they didn't go to study.

But Li Shimin himself knows very well why he asked like this. Because if you don't have a relatively solid family background, how can you have the confidence to study?

Li Shimin also gave Li Chunfeng a look, and even though Li Chunfeng understood what His Majesty meant, he nodded slightly and went to the village.

After Li Chunfeng left, Li Shimin said to the bastard boy in front of him: "You guessed right, we are indeed from Chang'an. Count you kid on a bit of eyesight. ”

"Sure enough, it was Chang'an who came, and I heard that Chang'an had a holy Buddha, called Sanzang Master, have you seen him?" The boy asked curiously.

"Naturally, I've seen it, and I see it often."

"Heh" the young man pursed his lips, "I'm a lot older, and I don't blink when I talk nonsense." ”

Li Shimin smiled, "You also know Master Sanzang?" ”

"That's nature." The young man raised his eyebrows and said, "If it weren't for the fact that we were all the only sons in the family, otherwise we would have to go to Chang'an and worship under Master Sanzang." ”

"Hahaha." Li Shimin couldn't help but laugh and said: "In the entire Chang'an City, people who want to worship the Sanzang Holy Buddha as a teacher don't know how much, but even those princes and the yamen have no way to worship, how can it be your turn?" ”

"We've heard that Master Sanzang's first apprentice is to look at his character, understanding and roots, and it has nothing to do with his family." The young man clenched his fists and said very confidently: "I am a rare martial arts wizard in a hundred years. ”

"But you're no match for me, a sixty-year-old man." Li Shimin rarely had a childlike heart, and even had a verbal fight with this young man. "Do you dare to say wildly, saying that you are a once-in-a-century martial arts wizard?"

The boy was speechless for a moment.

"What's your name?" Li Shimin asked his name.

"My name is Lu Congyang." The young man said to Li Shimin: "My peers are ranked thirteenth, so everyone calls me thirteenth." ”

"Lou." Li Shimin thought for a moment after hearing this, the Lu family in Youzhou is also a local surname.

Not long after, Li Chunfeng also returned.

"Master, I've inquired clearly." Li Chunfeng didn't avoid these boys, so he said to Li Shimin in front of them, "This place is a small sect of a branch of the Fanyang Lu clan. Those who can be triumphant are less than a palm. Now the highest official is called Lu Jiangong, who is currently working as a guerrilla general in the Songmo Governor's Mansion. The other three also served in the army, and their families were with them, not in the village. ”

"Their young patriarch also died in a battle against the Turks."

Li Chunfeng also added.

"Got it." Li Shimin nodded, and then asked Lu Congyang: "When I was a child, I didn't have land, but now that I have grown up, why didn't the clan return the land to you?" ”

"We don't know exactly what the specifics are. I only know that when we are a little older, my mother will go to the clan to ask for land, but the clan elders say that our land has already been mortgaged to the clan in exchange for the clan's support for us. ”

Li Chunfeng frowned, and said, "But didn't you just say that you are young, plus your mother has to take care of you, and you have no spare energy to farm."

Lu Congyang waved his hand, "Mother told us so, but the patriarch wrote clearly in black and white, it was indeed our land in exchange for the support of the clan, and there was also a mother's signature on it, and my mother didn't recognize it, so I went to the government, but the government even accepted our land deed." ”

Maybe Li Chunfeng was surprised when he heard this, but Li Shimin seemed to have expected it at the moment, and he didn't feel any surprise because of Lu Congyang.

He is the emperor who sits high on the dragon chair, but he is by no means ignorant of civil affairs.

After all, his Li family was originally from the gate valve, and these tricks were actually not new to him.

Didn't their family do such a land annex back then?

Even if it is not through his Li Shimin's hands, the Li family must not stay out of the matter, and even their big clans are far more ruthless than the Lu clan here.

In the simplest terms. Keeping the lives of seven or eight of their boys alive is the greatest calamity.

Killing people and eliminating mouths and never suffering in the future is a common means for the gate valve clans.

It is precisely because he knows the ruthlessness of the gate valve clan that Li Shimin continues to support the students of the poor family, and above the court, he also suppresses those famous families as much as possible, but the effect is also very limited.

After all, before those poor students really grow up, they still need to govern the country.

"Only a body of tendon flesh will not work after all." Li Shimin patted Lu Congyang's shoulder and said more: "You might as well read books in the future, and when you sign a contract in the future, you can also understand what is written on it." ”

Without waiting for Lu Congyang to speak, Li Shimin said to Li Chunfeng: "Let's go." ”

Then he got up and left.

Li Chunfeng was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly followed behind, he thought that Li Shimin would make a move, but he didn't expect that Li Shimin didn't even enter the village, so he turned around and wanted to leave.

Looking at the backs of Li Shimin and Li Chunfeng leaving, Lu Congyang also muttered two sentences in his mouth, and then got up from the ground and patted the ashes on his body.

"Who are the two of them, Brother Thirteen?"

"I don't know." Lu Congyang shook his head at first, and then said, "It seems that they may have been officials in the imperial court. ”

"Originally?"

"Aang." Lu Congyang nodded, "But now it seems that it is either to sue the old man, or to be demoted, at first I thought that I had met the minister of the Qincha who was privately interviewed by Weifu, and sure enough, the story told by the book and those storytellers is not something we can meet." ”

"Then again." Lu Congyang stretched out his hands, "Even if he is really Qincha, and he gives us the land back, will you be able to farm?" Can you plant it well? Can you still go to the ground? ”

The group of children immediately laughed and shook their heads.

"That's not it." Lu Congyang smiled, "How can our brothers be happy when farming?" I heard that there is a fugitive from Cangzhou who will pass by our territory in the near future, so you should make your moves brighter, capture this grandson, take a bounty, and honor the old lady. ”

"Don't worry, the ducks in their mouths can't let them fly away."

Outside the village.

"Your Majesty, you don't seem to have any plans to stand up for them." Li Chunfeng couldn't hold back after all.

"Just look at their fierce appearance, and I don't need to stand up for them." Li Shimin waved his hand and said, "But you can go to the county government office in a while to see who was in charge of hearing this case back then and where he is serving now. Make a record, stamp my letter, and send it to the ministry. ”

"Yes."

Li Chunfeng agreed, and he was leaving.

"Wait." Li Shimin stopped him again, paused for a moment, and then said, "Take the file, I will take a look at it first." ”

These things naturally can't help Li Chunfeng.

And after Li Chunfeng left, Li Shimin looked at a corner and deliberately quipped: "When did Wei Qing, who has always been bright and upright, also hide in such a dark place?" ”

Seriously speaking, today's Li Shimin is not an ordinary man, and the power of his human bloodline, even if it is not as good as Xue Rengui and Wang Xuance, but looking at the entire human race, it is also something that few people can match.

Therefore, the miracle was self-revealed, and when Wei Zheng arrived, he felt it immediately.

"Minister Wei Zheng, please see Your Majesty."

Even if he is a Yin God now, when Wei Zheng saw Li Shimin, he still greeted him as a courtier in the world, and the relationship between their monarchs and ministers was quite complicated.

It can be said that they are mutually fulfilling.

In fact, Wei Zheng knew that because of his direct advice, His Majesty wanted to behead himself more than once.

But His Majesty was able to hold back every time. Whatever the reason for this, even if it is for "show", this is not something that all emperors can do.

Power will make people's desires more and more inflated, and as His Majesty the Son of Heaven, being able to exercise such restraint is already a model of a Ming monarch.

People in the world often say that His Majesty is because of the change of Xuanwumen, "killing his brother to seize the throne and forcing his father to abdicate", he will definitely leave a thick ink in the history books, and if he wants to save his reputation, he can only force himself to be a Ming Jun, and do his best to prove to the world that he does have the ability to be a good emperor.

But Wei Zheng thinks. This is too much to underestimate this "heavenly khan".

If it weren't for the fact that he didn't have a firm belief in his own heart, he would never have achieved what he is today.

"Aiqing is exempt." Li Shimin took two steps forward and didn't let Wei Zheng bow down completely, "I heard that after Aiqing entered the underworld, Emperor Yudu took a fancy to him and was named the chief judge in charge of the Reward Division."

"The minister feels that it is better to let the minister hurry up and reincarnate neatly." Wei Zheng seemed to be a little dissatisfied: "Your Majesty knows, the minister has worked hard in the world all his life, and he thought that he would be able to die in one hundred places. I didn't expect to go to the underworld and not be able to live in peace. ”

"The minister even suspects that His Majesty is deliberately retaliating."

"That's what you said?" Li Shimin was a little confused.

"Your Majesty is the incarnation of Emperor Ziwei, and Emperor Yin Si Xudu is also Emperor Ziwei."