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Although he has not been a serious emperor for more than 20 years, Li Cun has always been in his position after all, and he has really climbed up from the grassroots level step by step.

In addition, there are Chen Kangbo, Chen Yu and others to assist Li Cun in presiding over the government.

In less than two days, Li Cun completely took over all the power and everything else of the Daqian Dynasty.

The so-called once a son of heaven and a courtier.

Many people are worried that after Li Cun regains control of the imperial power of the Daqian Dynasty, he will clean up the old people left by Li Biao.

No, Li Cun was an old minister of Li Biao's dynasty and didn't move.

This also reflects from the side that Li Cun is not nostalgic for this imperial power, in fact, the Great Qian Dynasty needs Li Cun, and Li Cun came back.

As soon as Li Cun got started, all the civil and military officials of the Daqian Dynasty, especially those young courtiers, obviously felt the difference between Li Cun and Li Biao's government.

In short, Li Cun dared to delegate power to his courtiers, and Li Cun would never do it himself; Li Biao, on the other hand, is the opposite of Li Cun, who likes to take everything into his own hands and does everything himself.

There is no doubt that Li Cun's style must be more liked by his courtiers, whether it is those capable ministers who want to show their ambitions, or those mediocre ministers who like lazy government.

Of course, there are also some ministers who feel that if Li Cun continues like this, something will definitely happen to the Daqian Dynasty.

Some ministers even advised Li Cun to learn from Li Biao and be more diligent.

For such ministers, Li Cun doesn't need to make a move, those ministers who want to show their ambitions and officials who like lazy government will scold them to the blood.

On the contrary, in the end, it was Li Cun who kept these loyal and upright ministers who even dared to say such things.

——In Li Cun's view, these ministers are stupid, but their loyalty is commendable, and they can't block their words because of this.

As for the content of these ministers' advice?

First of all, Li Cun has always believed that a good court will definitely be able to operate normally regardless of whether the emperor is not there.

Therefore, if a dynasty wants to develop, as a person in power, it must learn to decentralize.

The same goes for employing people.

In addition to the real big things, the small things can be decided and responsible by the person in charge.

You know, the more power is decentralized, the more pressure there is on those below.

When there is a lot of pressure, there is responsibility.

If they are responsible, they have to be motivated.

If they are motivated, they will compete.

Only when there is competition can the Daqian Dynasty be vigorous.

Only with vitality can the Daqian Dynasty develop and grow.

Therefore, to be a good emperor is actually to use a good person and to decentralize power.

Liu Bang can't govern the world, and he has never won a war with his troops, which can be said to be a typical example of not being able to do anything.

But Liu Bang was able to get the followers and assistance of great talents such as Xiao He, Zhang Liang, and Han Xin, and he could also create the Han Dynasty and even the Han nation.

This is because Liu Bang is well versed in the way of employing people, and dares to decentralize power, let talents fight for themselves, and let talents govern the country for themselves.

It is worth mentioning that all the people who work for Liu Bang still think that Liu Bang is a good boss.

Speaking of which, in fact, we still have to talk about the duties of an emperor.

The most important duty of an emperor is actually to control the dynasty, so that the dynasty can develop steadily and not cause chaos.

Also, the emperor can actually do two words well, that is: choice!

It is also in the last two years, especially after Li Biao's death, that Li Cun has realized a simple truth, that is, perfectionists are not suitable for being emperors.

Just like Li Biao, he just pursues perfection too much, and in fact he is not suitable to be an emperor.

To be honest, if it weren't for Li Cun who has been stabilizing the overall situation for Li Biao, it's really hard to say what Li Biao, the emperor, would become.

Let's put it this way, the emperor makes strategic decisions, not does everything himself.

There is no far-reaching non-tranquility, no direction, no choice, no strategy.

Strategy is choice.

In fact, he will be the emperor, and the emperor is actually very good.

Select talents, and then delegate power to these talents, so that they can govern their own country, including letting them fight the country.

Of course, being willing to give power to your courtiers does not mean that you will give up and do nothing.

In fact, on the contrary, while delegating power to his courtiers, Li Cun also paid special attention to the cultivation of two departments:

One is the Taiwan Advice Department.

Cultivating this department is very simple, that is, to reuse loyal and honest ministers, such as Li Guang, Hu Quan, Chen Gongfu and the like, so that they dare to say anything and have nothing to fear.

With these Taiwan officials who dare to admonish everything, they supervise officials at all levels, so that all officials at all levels are afraid and restrained, and they dare not be lazy in their administration, still less dare to be corrupt.

In fact, it is precisely because Li Cun attaches great importance to cultivating the Taiwan admonition department that Li Cun not only does not deal with those counselors who persuade Li Cun to learn from Li Biao, but also protects them and even commends them.

The other is the intelligence service.

After Li Biao's death, Li Cun took Wu Desi back.

In this way, Li Cun has in his hands the four major intelligence agencies of the Wu De Division, the pro-army Duwei Mansion, the Military Intelligence Department, and the Ninja.

With these four all-pervasive intelligence agencies, all the important personnel of the Daqian Dynasty are under Li Cun's surveillance, and it is no exaggeration to say that they absolutely have no secrets here in Li Cun, let alone how they usually behave.

All in all, Li Cun adopted a loose external and internal tightening method to govern the Daqian Dynasty, so that the Daqian Dynasty was quickly back on track.

As the Daqian Dynasty got back on track, a very important matter soon established the focus of the attention of the civil and military officials of the Daqian Dynasty.

This thing is, Lichujun!

Although Li Cun still looks very young and energetic, he is almost sixty years old after all.

Moreover, Li Cun's life is quite undisciplined, and he still maintains the habit of driving three or five daughters at night every day, and at least one of them is a first daughter.

If Li Cun dies on the belly of a woman one day, there is no prince in the Daqian Dynasty at that time, and the Daqian Dynasty may fall apart.

Don't forget, Li Cun has countless children and grandchildren.

The key is that Li Cun's children and grandchildren are full of various departments of the Daqian Dynasty, and some of them are still princes and kings with military power, or generals who have more military power.

If you fight for these people, I will take them.

The Daqian dynasty will definitely split.

When the time comes, if we want to unify again, it will be extremely difficult.

After all, no one believes that there will be another Li Cun in this world.

Therefore, the establishment of the prince has become the top priority of the Daqian Dynasty.

So, on the day that Li Biao died for a whole month, Chen Gongfu admonished in court: "The country cannot be without a monarch for a day, and the country cannot be without a prince for a day. ”

With Chen Gongfu taking the lead, all the civil and military officials of the Daqian Dynasty began to admonish and ask Li Cun to set up a prince for the Daqian Dynasty.

But—

In this process, many people also began to carry private goods, saying that the emperor's grandson Li Yunwen was talented, benevolent, pro-virtuous, studious, gentle and frugal, and begged Li Cunli to be the crown prince.

Moreover, these people also came up with the most basic principle of the ancient patriarchal system, "establishing the elder but not the young, and passing on the heirs not the concubines", and asked Li Cunli to make Li Yunwen the crown prince.

According to the current situation, that is, the untimely death of Li Cun's eldest son, Li Biao, if according to the most basic principle of the ancient patriarchal system of "establishing the elder but not the young, and passing on the heir but not the concubine", Li Cun can only pass on his throne to two people to best conform to this principle.

The first is to pass on the throne to Fang Baihua as Li Cunsheng's second son Li Qi.

The second is to pass on the throne to the emperor's grandson, who is also the eldest son of Li Biao, the grandson of Qiantaizong.

Li Qi is proficient in eating, drinking, playing, playing piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and fighting cocks, but he is the most typical type of Li Cun's son, and he himself does not have such high ambitions as the emperor.

It can be said that everyone gave up on Li Qi.

However, Li Yunwen advocated the Confucian doctrine of benevolent government, and he and his advisers were committed to advocating civilian rule in the Daqian Dynasty, and did not like Li Cun's division of civil and military rule, which showed signs of restoring the system of the Song Dynasty.

Such a Lee Yunwen undoubtedly has the support of a large number of civilian officials.

And the literati have always controlled public opinion.

With these literati endorsing Li Yunwen, coupled with Li Yunwen's conformity with the most basic principle of the ancient patriarchal system of "establishing the elder but not the young, and passing on the heirs but not the concubine", Li Yunwen's voice as the crown prince is quite high.

How tall?

As soon as someone proposed to ask Li Cunli and Li Yunwen to be the crown princes, almost a quarter of the ministers in the court seconded the proposal.

If some emperors who have not seen the world or are weak, they are likely to take advantage of the situation to make Li Yunwen the prince.

But Li Cun didn't even change his expression and pointed to the "Zhengda Guangming" plaque above his head, and said: "I have already set up a prince, just behind this plaque, if I suddenly die one day, you can take out my edict from here and do it." ”

A group of civil and military officials who were faintly a little bit of a "forcing the palace" never expected Li Cun to come to this hand.

In other words, these civil and military officials dared to force Li Cun to make Li Yunwen the crown prince, not because they were bold, nor because they were not afraid of Li Cun, the first emperor of the ages, but because they had the righteousness of "Li Cun is already 'old', so he should appoint the crown prince, lest Li Cun suddenly die and the Daqian Dynasty will fall apart because of the dragons seizing the throne".

Otherwise, even if they borrowed 10,000 courage from these people, they would not dare to force Li Cunli and Li Yunwen to be the crown prince.

As a result, Li Cun casually made all the civil and military officials extinguish the fire, whether it was those ministers who were worried that Li Cun's sudden death would fall apart because of the lack of a crown prince, or the ministers who wanted to promote Li Yunwen as the crown prince, everyone was speechless.

Aren't you afraid that I will die suddenly, because there is no heir, and the Daqian Dynasty will fall apart?

But I've already made a crown prince.

Even if I die now, the Daqian Dynasty will not be without an heir, let alone fall apart because of this.

But don't any of you want to know who my crown prince is.

Some ministers sighed with emotion: "Your Majesty is Your Majesty in the end, even if he doesn't care about the government for more than 20 years, he will never be led by the minister!" ”

At the same time, some ministers who reacted quickly all lamented the cleverness of Li Cun's hand.

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, the Chinese royal family has continued the primogeniture system.

The primogeniture inheritance system has avoided the situation of the prince's rivalry and rebellion to a certain extent.

However, the dark tide of forces from all sides is surging, and there have been tragedies of princes competing for the throne in all dynasties.

Qin Shi Huang hesitated on the issue of establishing a prince, and originally intended to let Fusu succeed to the throne, but because of the urgency of time, he failed to issue an edict, so Li Si and Hu Hai and Zhao Gao villains took advantage of the loophole, resulting in the death of only the second emperor of the Great Qin Dynasty.

Qin Shi Huang's hesitation on the issue of establishing a prince also provided a painful lesson for later emperors.

Therefore, later dynasties are trying to avoid the disaster of Xiao Wall due to the storage position.

But no matter how they deal with it, the outcome hasn't changed much.

And this problem is easily solved here in Li Cun.

The key is that the situation faced by Li Cun is obviously much more severe than that of the emperors of previous dynasties, because Li Cun has too many children and grandchildren, and Li Cun's children and grandchildren are in charge of almost half or even more of the power of the Daqian Dynasty, and the territory of the Daqian Dynasty is also too large.

Li Cun's cleverness is not only that.

As it stands.

If Li Cun establishes the crown prince too early, there will inevitably be many drawbacks, such as the fact that all forces are tilting against each other, causing the crown prince to become a victim of the throne; For another example, once the crown prince is established, it is bound to increase the power of the crown prince, but if there is a problem with the crown prince, it will be difficult to deal with, and it will even lead to a serious problem of decentralization of power in the central government.

In addition, the choice of the secret reserve system is also Li Cunliang's painstaking intention, so that Li Cun can slowly assess, during which he can also revise the edict at any time if he finds that the heir he chooses has inappropriate behavior.

In addition, not announcing the crown prince in time is also good for stabilizing the forces of all parties, after all, every prince who is qualified to compete for the throne has a strong force behind it, as long as Li Cun does not announce who is the crown prince for a day, they can check and balance each other, and it is impossible to develop to the point where it is difficult to clean up.

In short, Li Cun suppressed the issue of establishing the crown prince with one move.

It can be seen from this that Li Cun's political skills are high.

This also made the ministers of the Daqian Dynasty see that Li Cun was still the original Li Cun, and he was still the first emperor of the ages, as long as Li existed, the Daqian Dynasty would not be in chaos.

Actually-

The reason why there is a scene of "forcing the palace" today is also because they support Li Yunwen as the crown prince and other ministers, and they feel that the situation is not good.

Back then, how Li Cun cultivated the crown prince Li Biao, everyone in the Daqian Dynasty knew.

But now, Li Biao has been dead for a month, but Li Cun has never had the intention of letting Li Yunwen participate in politics.

This is not a good sign.

In addition, when there was a rumor that the matter of establishing the prince was established, when Li Biao was alive, Li Cun and Li Biao had an open and honest conversation.

Li Biao meant to ask Li Cun to train Li Yunwen to be the crown prince of the Daqian Dynasty as he had cultivated him that day.

But Li Cun said that Li Yunwen's temperament is too soft, indecisive, and lacks political wisdom, so he is not suitable to be a prince, let alone an emperor.

Later, Li Cun saw that Li Yunwen was Li Biao's eldest son, and only promised Li Biao that he could give Li Yunwen a chance to compete fairly.

Li Biaozhi did not dare to disobey Li Cun's intentions when he died, and never promised those ministers who saved him to appoint Li Yunwen as the crown prince, but honestly left the matter to Li Cun to deal with.

Now, Li Cun would rather come up with a secret system of establishing a reserve than listen to the advice of so many ministers to appoint Li Yunwen as the prince.

Those who strongly pushed Li Yunwen to be the prince suddenly realized that Li Yunwen was afraid that he would not have a chance.

Li Yunwen's teacher, Hu Xian, was very unwilling that such a good Li Yunwen would not be able to become the emperor in the future, so he continued to push hard: "There is a grandson, there is no grandson, and the emperor's grandson is ......."

Without waiting for Hu Xian to finish speaking, Li Cun looked at Hu Xian coldly, and said lightly: "Old Aiqing wants to be this minister of the dragon?" ”

As soon as Li Cun's words came out, Hu Xian immediately sweated!

Not bad.

Li Cun is almost sixty years old.

But Li Cun is now physically tough, and he can control three or five women at night, and even sexually, it is not a problem to control ten women and eight women at night, and the body of the strong guy is not as good as Li Cun.

In this case, whoever pushes someone as the prince and says that his heart is punishable, there is no problem at all.

Hu Xian, who was already not young, listened to Li Cun's murderous words, and soon shrank on the ground in fright.

But at this time, Li Cun retracted his momentum and said with a smile: "Lao Aiqing is old and can't stand still, so don't be obsessed with power anymore, let's go home and do a good job." ”

When Hu Xian heard this, as if he had been pardoned, he quickly knelt down and said, "Thank you, Lord Longen!" ”

Hu Xian walked before the ghost gate, and all the civil and military officials saw it in their eyes and remembered it deeply in their hearts.

Since then, no one has dared to discuss who to appoint as the prince, and this matter will undoubtedly be decided by Li Cunqiankun......

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