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After firmly grasping the matter of establishing the prince in his own hands, in fact, Li Cun's pressure is not small.

You must know that if this heir is not chosen well, if it is not done well, the Daqian Dynasty will be over, and even if Li Cun dies, he will die without turning a blind eye.

After thinking about it alone for a long time, Li Cun issued a holy decree to all his children and grandchildren:

"Benevolence is the great virtue of heaven and earth. I only have the life of a horse, the heir to the Hongtu, the period of Yu Zhen Xiqiao, and the business of Kebao Yingcheng. The emperor has paid all the overturns, and he can forget the cultivation of the frontier; The first king blesses the descendants, and the idea of management should be done. Wan Bang is a servant, and Siyi Xianbin ......"

The general meaning of Li Cun's holy decree is that he is old and not suitable for high-intensity government work, and now he is recruiting his outstanding children and grandchildren to assist him in handling the government affairs, but he does not know who is excellent and who is not, but "the eyes of the masses are bright", so his children and grandchildren, in line with the principle that the good of the Daqian Dynasty is the good of the members of the Daqian royal family, must be virtuous and not prosper, each of them elects ten people, and finally votes for 30 outstanding royal children to go to Beijing to assist him in handling the government affairs.

Afraid that his children and grandchildren would be chosen indiscriminately, Li Cun then added a holy decree, to the effect that if anyone chooses blindly and mistakes a major matter, I will remove him from the clan.

At this time when Li Cun had just suppressed the matter of establishing the crown prince, Li Cun suddenly made such a holy decree, which was obviously very abnormal.

Some smart people quickly reacted that Li Cun, who did everything well, must have already set up a crown prince, but it was likely that he was not satisfied with the crown prince he had already established, or he wanted to see if there was a better choice, so he recruited his excellent children and grandchildren to come back to see if he could elect a more suitable crown prince.

This speculation soon spread out.

At the same time, the children and grandchildren of Li Cun, who were interested in ruling the Daqian Dynasty, also began to run for votes.

Speaking of which, some people must want to ask, is this really the case?

That's right.

Just in case, Li Cun did set up the crown prince.

But just as many smart people speculated, Li Cun also wanted to see if he could choose a better and more suitable heir.

To be honest, in this matter, Li Cun, who has no way to open the hanging, is not sure, he is afraid that he will listen to it and believe it.

Therefore, Li Cun will let his children and grandchildren vote for some candidates first, and then speak.

Just as Li Zheng said to his children and grandchildren in the holy decree, the rise and fall of the Daqian Dynasty is related to how each of them will live in the future.

To put it bluntly, Li Cun is ready to let his children and grandchildren engage in an electoral system within the imperial family.

That is to say, the candidates for the crown prince must be selected within the imperial family, elected by all the adult men of the imperial family, and then these candidates will be given some opportunities to experience (such as letting them go to the main regions of the Daqian Dynasty and various vassal states to walk or give speeches), and then according to their performance, all the adult men of the imperial family will vote for the crown prince from among them.

As for how to implement it, Li Cun believes that as long as he makes a start, someone will definitely help him slowly improve.

Even, according to his own feelings, Li Cun is ready to forcibly stipulate that five years is a term, and an emperor can be re-elected for one term at most, that is, he will be an emperor for ten years.

- At the end of the five years, if more than half of the adult men of the imperial family feel that the emperor is incompetent, then the emperor cannot be re-elected, and the crown prince will directly ascend the throne and re-elect a new crown prince.

The main reason why Li Cun moved such an idea was because Li Cun considered that many emperors were, when they first became emperors, they were determined to forge ahead, and after a long time, they became mediocre.

There are many such examples.

Like Qi Huangong, like Qin Shihuang, like Liu Che, like Cao Rong, like Sun Quan, like Xiao Yan, like Wu Zetian, like Li Longji, like Kangxi, like Qianlong, and like Zhao Ji.

In Li Cun's view, it is just right for an emperor to be ten years.

- If you catch up with special circumstances, such as a big war, you can be in it for another ten years.

The crown prince is not selected by the emperor, but voted by the imperial family, and the key to being the emperor still has a time limit, which is simply a miracle through the ages.

Li Cun was also afraid that he would not be able to accept this system by himself, and the world would not be able to accept it for a while, and even felt that he was joking with the Jiangshan Sheji of the Daqian Dynasty.

Therefore, Li Cun decided to do it first, and then talk about it, once there is a precedent for this matter, a system can be formed later.

Although Li Cun did not fully expose his thoughts, he had actually met with a certain amount of resistance.

Among them, some of them are from those conservative ministers of the Daqian Dynasty, and some are from a very special person.

This person is the queen of Daqian, who has always understood righteousness - Fang Baihua.

Speaking of which, this matter is actually caused by those who want Li Cunli and Li Yunwen to be the crown prince, and they are trying to lobby Fang Baihua by all means to persuade Fang Baihua to persuade Li Cunli and Li Yunwen to be the crown prince.

In the first half of Fang Baihua's life, he put all his thoughts on Li Cun, and was dedicated to being a good queen, Li Cun's virtuous helper;

In the second half of his life, Fang Baihua put all his thoughts on Li Biao and taught Li Biao to be a good emperor.

For this reason, Fang Baihua didn't even go to live with Li Cun.

It can be seen from this that Fang Baihua has high expectations for Li Biao.

As a result, Li Biao died young, allowing Fang Baihua to send a white-haired person to a black-haired person.

The blow to the other party can be imagined.

It can be said that since Li Biao's death, Fang Baihua's body has been getting worse day by day.

And Li Yunwen is also well-behaved and filial.

During the period before Li Biao's death, Li Yunwen had been serving outside Li Biao's small courtyard without clothes.

After Li Biao passed away, Li Yunwen has been serving by Fang Baihua's side.

Looking at Li Yunwen, who looks very similar to Li Biao, it is difficult for Fang Baihua not to regard Li Yunwen as Li Biao.

Plus the hints of those who have a heart.

After coming and going, Fang Baihua inevitably moved, and then cultivated Li Yunwen into the second Li Biao's idea.

Therefore, Fang Baihua found Li Cun and euphemistically told Li Cun that he should still follow the ancient precept of "establishing a successor to be a long man rather than being virtuous", and said that although Li Yunwen's character is a little problematic, the two of them can slowly teach Li Yunwen, just like they taught Li Biao at the beginning.

Li Cun immediately scolded Fang Baihua with a cold face: "Confused! You dare to use one person's selfish desires to mislead the safety of hundreds of millions of people! ”

When Fang Baihua heard this, she immediately stopped squeaking.

But after almost forty years of his father and wife, Li Cun could still see at a glance that Fang Baihua was in a mood with him.

Li Cun was not afraid that Fang Baihua would be angry with herself, he was only afraid that Fang Baihua would be angry with her own body.

So in the end, Li Cun relented and said: "Tell him to go to Dongping Mansion to be a prefect first." ”

Fang Baihua knew as soon as she heard that Li Cun had given Li Yunwen another chance, and she immediately smiled.

Unlike those conservative ministers who did not support Li Cun's system of changing the establishment of the crown prince, Li Cun's children and grandchildren strongly supported Li Cun's practice of selecting the crown prince from among them, after all, even if they were not elected, there might be a person among their children and grandchildren who would become the emperor of the Daqian Dynasty in the future.

In addition, there are also some people with discerning eyes who think of Li Cun's election method, which can not only elect an excellent crown prince, and then elect an excellent emperor, but also unite all the royal family, the key is to give all the royal men a channel to become emperors peacefully, so that they do not have to risk using force to seize the throne.

Regardless of whether others are in favor or against, in short, Li Cun has introduced his own election law step by step.

And Li Cun's prestige has long been so high that no one can shake it, and it has even been high enough to do anything wrong.

In addition, Li Cun has not exposed the core content of the electoral system.

Therefore, in this matter, although there were some sporadic resistance, none of them could prevent Li Cun from secretly implementing the election system.

It didn't take long for all the thirty outstanding children and grandchildren voted by Li Cun to gather in Kyoto.

Among them are:

Li Cun has already achieved the son of Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials, that is, Li Cun's fourth son Li Di.

Li Cun has already done it, and Li Qi, the son of the envoy.

Li Cun has already made it to Li Zhu, the son of the Northwest Capital Transit Envoy.

Li Cun has already achieved Li Mian, the son of Shangshu of the Ministry of Education.

Li Zhuang served as the son of Li Pestle, the commander of the Northeast Military Region.

Li Shu is the son of Li Shu, who served as the capital supervisor of the Beijing Military Region.

Li Song, the son of Li Cun in the Northwest Military Region, served as the deputy commander.

Li Zheng is the son of Li Ji, who served as the commander of the Japanese sub-military region under the Eastern Military Region.

Li Bai, the son of Li Bai, who served as the supervisor of the Jinan Sub-Military Region under the Eastern Military Region.

Li Shao, the son of Li Shao, who served as the supervisor of the Guangzhou Branch of the Southern Military Region.

Li Cun is the son of Li Zhan, who served as the supervisor of the Chengdu Branch of the Southwest Military Region.

Qian Guifei gave Li Cunsheng's genius son, and so far he has invented hundreds of inventions of Li Huan.

Li Qingzhao gave Li Cunsheng's son, Li Wei, who is currently the son of a scholar of Hallym University.

Li Tan is the son of the Three Buddhas who served as the town guard.

Li Zhiliu asked for Li Zi, the son of the town guard.

Li existed in Urumqi, the son of the prefect.

Li Gui, the son of the prefect of Li Jinan.

Li existed in Lhasa and served as the son of the prefect.

Li existed in Annan, the son of the prefect, Li Hakama.

Li existed as the son of the prince of the Continental Landmark Kingdom (later the Washington area) and served as the son of the princes and kings.

Li existed in the Prince's Continental Kingdom (later in the New York area) and served as the son of the princes.

Li existed as the son of the princes of the Continental Kingdom (later Ottawa region), and served as the son of the princes.

Li existed in the Central Asian Xiangguo (later Afghanistan region) and served as the son of the princes Li Xiang.

Li was the son of the princes of the Central Asian Zhiguo (later the Damascus region) and served as the son of the princes.

Li was the son of the princes of the Central Asian Tong Kingdom (later Ankara region).

Li existed in Eastern Europe (later the Kiev region) as the son of the princes and kings.

Li was the son of the prince of Eastern Europe (later the Moscow region).

Li existed in the Western European kingdom (later the Paris region) as the son of the princes.

Li Li existed in the Western European kingdom (later the Berlin region) as the son of the princes and kings.

Li existed in the Western European kingdom (later the London area) and served as the son of the princes.

Li Cun's thirty sons are all very good, and each has its own brilliant resume.

Here are a few examples:

Li Di is the best of his sons in front.

His mother is just the daughter of a small family in Muzhou who has just stepped into the threshold of the family, and she is not particularly beautiful, so it can be said that she is a very, very, very ordinary one of Li Cun's nearly 100,000 concubines.

At the beginning, Li Cun didn't know how he was so accurate, so he made Li Di's mother pregnant and gave birth to Li Di smoothly.

Li Di is gifted and intelligent, and has studied hard since he was a child, and at the age of thirteen he went to Shu to serve as the head of a county under Langzhou.

There, Li Di vigorously promoted the advanced planting technology newly developed by the imperial court, which caused the total grain output of that county to triple in three years.

Li Di was promoted to Kuizhou as a county governor because of his outstanding political achievements.

In Kuizhou, Li Di vigorously laid railways and established steel mills and rail manufacturing plants.

Let's put it this way, a large section of the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway built by the Daqian Dynasty was laid under the auspices of Li Di, and all the rails used were provided by the steel mill and rail manufacturing plant established by Li Di.

In view of Li Di's achievements in building railways, when Li was in power, he transferred Li Di to the Ministry of Railways to promote the "big railway" plan he proposed a long time ago.

Li Di has worked in the Ministry of Railways for fifteen years.

Now the railways that have been paved with the Daqian Dynasty are largely laid by Li Di.

Even the main roads leading to Europe and Africa are indispensable to Li Di's contributions.

It is no exaggeration to say that Li Di is one of the heroes behind the scenes of the Daqian Dynasty.

Four years ago, the railway from the Great Qian Dynasty to Europe and Africa was fully completed, and Li Biao transferred Li Di back to the imperial court as the secretary of the ministry.

In the past four years, Grand Duke Li Di selflessly recommended hundreds of talents for the Daqian Dynasty.

It is implied in the book that the crown prince currently established by Li Cun is actually Li Di.

However, in Li Cun's view, Li Di also has some shortcomings.

First of all, Li Di has no military experience, which does not meet Li Cun's requirements for his heir.

Secondly, Li Di is very capable, but in Li Cun's opinion, Li Di is more suitable to be a prime minister than an emperor.

Again, Li Di's three sons are very good, especially his eldest son Li Gaochi, who has a benevolent temperament and is a shrewd person, and is a very good child, so Li Cun is worried that Li Di will not be able to accept the electoral system he has engaged.

Li Qi is Li Cun's original son who was unwilling to go to the battlefield and said that he was good at arithmetic.

Li Qi is not lying, he is really very good at arithmetic, not only that, he is also an economic genius, a financial genius.

Many years ago, Li Cun began to practice the gold standard and made the currency of the Daqian Dynasty a common currency in the world.

And Li Qi is one of the people who helped Li Cun manage all this.

At present, Li Qi is the highest official of the reserve system of the Daqian Dynasty, and controls the economic lifeblood of the world.

However, like Li Di, Li Qi is also not suitable for the heir in Li Cun's heart because he has no experience in the army.

The opposite of these two partial texts is Li Li's son Li Pestle, who served as the commander of the Northeast Military Region.

This kid was born to be a soldier, he joined the army at the age of twelve, and he grew up in the army.

He has the courage of 10,000 enemies, and the mind born to fight.

In the past 20 years or so, he has never been defeated in the southern and northern wars, and he has risen all the way to the position of the commander of the Northeast Military Region, one of the nine major military regions of the Daqian Dynasty, by virtue of his own military exploits.

Among the young generation of soldiers of the Daqian Dynasty (in fact, it cannot be said that they are young soldiers, they are now almost 40 years old), the two most outstanding people are Li Pestle and Yue Yun, both of whom became the leaders of one of the nine major military regions of the Daqian Dynasty before the age of 40.

Moreover, the two of them are actually, one led Li Cun's sons to fight in the English Channel, and the other led Li Cun's sons to fight in the Gulf of Guinea, which can be described as brilliant results.

But Li Pestle's shortcomings are more obvious, he can't do anything else except fight, Li Cun doesn't know how his children and grandchildren chose him.

And—

When Li Cun was on his expedition to the west, Li Cun's son Li Zhu, who was responsible for all the grain, grass, baggage, and weapons and equipment scheduling.

Li Cun's son Li Mian, who is committed to making the world speak Chinese, use Chinese characters, and promote Han culture.

——Since 20 years ago, Li Mian has been vigorously building various schools to promote the Chinese language, Chinese characters, and Chinese culture. Today, with the strong support of Li Cun and Li Biao, he has built tens of thousands of schools.

Li Cun is the son of a group of feudal officials who sit on one side of the Great Qian Dynasty.

Li Cun and the others were very good sons of princes and kings.

And so on and so forth......

Li Yunwen stands with Li Cun's sons who are the best of the best, and there is no need for Li Cun to say anything, including Fang Baihua, those who want Li Cunli and Li Yunwen to be the crown prince, they all feel that there seems to be a big gap between Li Yunwen and Li Cun's best of the best sons......

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