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A group of candidates for the crown prince who reached the finals had just come out of the Qianqing Palace, and a middle-aged man who looked almost exactly like Li Cun, but had blonde hair and blue eyes, and was extremely burly, and a righteous civil official, that is, Li Ji, the son of Li Cunsheng, and Shi Hao, the chief strategist of Li Xiang, greeted Li Xiang.

Seeing this, Li Xiang smiled and informed the other crown prince candidates, and then walked towards Li Ji and Shi Hao.

After the three of them met, Li Ji bluntly asked Li Xiang: "What did my father talk about with you?" Could something have changed? ”

Li Xiang smiled bitterly: "My father announced that the emperor in the future can only serve for five years, and if he does a good job, he can be re-elected for one term, that is, he will do it for ten years, and then he must abdicate, and the crown prince is no longer selected by the emperor himself, he has always been voted by members of the imperial family......"

After listening to this, Li Ji frowned and said, "Father, what does this mean?" ”

Li Xiang said: "I should be afraid that the emperor in the future will be lazy and slack, or the emperor will be too long and become mediocre." ”

Then, Li Xiang stretched his waist and said: "That's fine, if I am elected, at least I don't have to die of exhaustion in office like the imperial brother." ”

Li Ji said: "Ten years is enough for me to wait for a show, but it's just ...... It's a pity that Zichi, that kid is also a good seedling to be an emperor. ”

Li Xiang shook his head: "It's not certain whether I, the emperor, can become an emperor, let alone him, take a step back and say, if he is really a good seedling to be an emperor as you said, he will rely on his own ability to let the members of my imperial family elect him." ”

When Shi Hao heard this, he asked: "Did King Xiang choose to accept this new system?" ”

Li Xiang smiled: "Zhiweng will test me? ”

Shi Hao smiled and did not deny it.

Li Xiang said a little helplessly: "My father says that he is old every day, but who doesn't know, he will control three or five girls every day and night, sometimes the interest comes, and he has to have a swimsuit party or something, not to mention that we are nearly forty years old, that is, those young guys, are not as strong as his old man, just his old man's body, live a hundred years old, there is no problem at all, and as long as his old man is alive for a day, it must be what he says, who eats the bear's heart leopard dares to resist?" ”

Shi Hao nodded secretly, feeling that Li Xiang was quite sober.

That's exactly what it is.

Don't look at the people who fought the world with Li Cun back then, many of them have passed away.

But because of the myths created by Li Cun in the past, the soldiers of the Daqian Dynasty, as well as countless young people, still worship Li Cun incomparably, and Li Cun gives an order to let them do something, and they will definitely move forward.

It can be said that Li Cun's prestige is not anyone, yes, it is anyone, there is no one before or after, even if it is a new emperor, and it is a new emperor who has done a very good job, it cannot be compared with Li Cun at all.

Li Biao is the best example.

The key, don't forget, Li Cun is a humanoid planter, in the past few decades, he has created thousands of sons, and thousands of daughters, if Li Cun's grandsons and grandsons are also counted, this number of people, even if there are not 100,000, there must be 80,000.

The key is that Li Cun's 180,000 sons and grandchildren are full of all corners of the Daqian Dynasty and are in charge of all fields of the Daqian Dynasty.

It is no exaggeration to say that even if Li Cun is not the emperor, the Daqian Dynasty must be under Li Cun's control.

Unless the new emperor dares to take the risk and kill Li Cun.

But there is another problem here, that is, Li Cun is cautious by nature, when he sleeps, he is surrounded by masters.

And once you can't kill Li Cun, whoever gets Li Cun will die and die.

Li Xiang also said: "And the new system created by my father will definitely be supported by all the royal family and most officials, if I oppose it, I will be the enemy of almost everyone, and I will have a chance of winning." ”

Shi Hao smiled knowingly, he didn't look at the wrong person, Li Xiang did have great wisdom.

Just as Li Xiang said, all members of the royal family will definitely support Li Cun's decision.

After all, in this way, first of all, it will increase their authority, and secondly, they will also have the opportunity to become emperors, even if they can't, their children and grandchildren may also become emperors in the future, this new system is a great good thing for them, how can they not support it?

There are also most civil and military officials who definitely support this new system created by Li Cun.

You must know that this can not only elect excellent crown princes, but also elect excellent emperors, so that excellent emperors can govern with all their strength during their limited term of office.

This can also unite all the royal families and the Great Qian Dynasty.

Crucially, it gave all the royal men the opportunity to become emperors peacefully, so that they did not have to risk the use of force to seize the throne.

And that's not even the most critical thing.

The most important thing is that Li Cun also gave the prime minister a legal channel to limit the imperial power.

In this way, the future emperor will not be able to do whatever he wants, and the power of his subjects will be increased to a certain extent.

Therefore, most of the civil and military officials will definitely support this new system created by Li Cun.

Therefore, as Li Xiang said, if he dares to oppose the new system created by Li Cun, he will definitely not be able to become the emperor, and even if he does, he will definitely be deposed soon.

Seeing that Li Xiang had this sober understanding, Shi Hao said: "Your Majesty is far-sighted, although the new system is a bit deviant at first glance, but when you think about it carefully, it is far-reaching. ”

Li Xiangxin said: "Yes, another one supports the new system." ”

Shi Hao also knew that the biggest victim of this new system was Li Xiang, who was most likely to become the prince, so he stopped at the point and changed his tone:

"Although Your Majesty can live a long life, and the influence on my great cadres is unparalleled, but Your Majesty has long been tired of the throne, only because Taizong died suddenly, and has not been able to elect a new suitable crown prince, Your Majesty has to govern in person, if King Xiang can successfully inherit the throne, I think, Your Majesty will not interfere with King Xiang's governance, just like when Taizong was in power."

This doesn't need to be said by Shi Hao at all.

People know that Li Cun has long been enough for this emperor.

It was only for the sake of the Daqian Dynasty to be responsible, and before a suitable heir was elected, Li Cuncai reluctantly became the emperor for a few more years.

Besides, there is also the example of Li Biao first.

Therefore, all the candidates for the crown prince are not worried, after they win the election, Li Cun will not give them power, the fact is the opposite, as long as Li survives, no matter who they are, after winning the election, because of Li Cun to escort them, they will definitely be able to show their own political ambitions, and there will be no situation of being hollowed out by others.

Shi Hao said: "Therefore, this is a disadvantage and a benefit, so the king should look at it." ”

Li Xiang said with a smile: "Ten years is enough for me to cut off the stubborn diseases of the Great Qian Dynasty, and the emperor has done too much, so it is better to put all my energy on these ten years." ”

Li Ji and Shi Hao said in unison: "This is the correct solution!" ”

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Three months later, the election results were in.

Lee Sang-sang was elected with a high number of votes.

The second highest number of votes was Li Cun's fourth son, Li Di.

The results came out, and Li Cun didn't talk nonsense, and directly issued an order to appoint Li Xiang as the crown prince and the first heir to his throne; Li Di is the Speaker of the Imperial Parliament and the second in line to the throne.

Unexpectedly, Li Cun did not send away the rest of the candidates for the crown prince, but put them all in important positions and continued to train.

At the same time, Li Cun asked Li Di to preside, and let his children and grandchildren elect 30 outstanding children and grandchildren, and re-follow the old path of Li Xiang and Li Di running for the crown prince candidates.

What is not surprising is that as soon as Li Xiang became the crown prince, Li Cun threw all the government affairs in his hands to Li Xiang, so that Li Xiang would be in power from now on.

Li Cun was so happy to give power to Li Xiang, which made Li Xiang's team excited.

This is not only because they will be able to take power immediately, but also because, in this way, Li Xiang will definitely be able to hold power for a while longer than the emperor who comes after.

In this way, Li Xiang's people hope that Li Cun will not pass the throne to Li Xiang too soon.

After Li Xiang took power, he immediately burned three fires:

The first fire is that all the promises he made when he ran for election were fulfilled.

This is what Li Cun told Li Xiang, Jun has no jokes, he can't let these promises become his handle, and the reason for others to attack him, and also, he must give a sample to the crown prince candidates who will run in the future.

The second fire is, adjust the officials.

The most significant adjustment is that Shi Hao has become a political adviser and Li Ji has become a member of the same Privy Council, that is to say, Shi Hao and Li Ji, one has become a deputy prime minister and the other is a deputy defense minister, and they are ready to take over Chen Kangbo and Chen Yu in the future.

In addition, Li Xiang knew that Li Cun was ready to use members of the imperial family to balance the ministers of the Daqian Dynasty, so he continued Li Cun's political path of reusing members of the imperial family.

The third fire is to move the capital.

Li Xiang believes that Jiangnan is too beautiful, picturesque, and pleasant environment, such a place is easy for people to lose their fighting spirit and be content with pleasure, so it is not suitable to be the national capital, and he wants to move the national capital to Yanshan Mansion in Beijing.

This is certainly not the truest reason, at least not the most important.

In fact, the main reason why Li Xiang wanted to move the capital was that the mainland of the Daqian Dynasty had a vast territory in the north, and the Siberian region and the Far East were important energy suppliers for the Daqian Dynasty.

In addition, after these years of recuperation, the nomads on the northern grasslands have gradually increased, and moving the national capital to Yanshan Mansion can effectively prevent the resurgence of the nomads.

In fact, some people suggested to Li Xiang that the capital be moved to Chang'an, Xijing.

However, it was vetoed by Li Xiang, just because the Daqian Dynasty was not only a land power country, but also a sea power country, and Chang'an was too far from the sea.

Li Xiang wanted to fulfill his promise and adjust the officials, and the civil and military officials of the Daqian Dynasty and all the royal families had no opinion, and they did not dare to have an opinion.

However, Li Xiang wanted to move the capital, but he was fiercely opposed by many civil and military officials and members of the imperial family of the Daqian Dynasty.

Among these civil and military officials and members of the imperial family, some said that Li Xiang worked hard for the people and hurt money, some said that Li Xiang's move was tantamount to abandoning the southern counties, and some said that Li Xiang was messing around.

In fact, the real reason is very simple, that is, these civil and military officials and members of the royal family, as well as the major forces behind them, are unwilling to leave the comfortable nest of Jiangnan and go to live in the bitter cold Yanshan Mansion.

Later, some civil and military officials and members of the royal family had the courage to come to Li Cun and wanted Li Cun to take care of Li Xiang.

But Li Cun didn't even raise his eyelids, so he said: "If you don't want to move the capital, you can stay in Jiangnan." ”

What does it mean to stay?

That's dismissal! That's the loss of their power! That's what got them out of this world!

Who can stand this?

The key is that Li Cunke can definitely do what he says.

A group of civil and military officials and members of the royal family were so frightened that they fled and left the Heart Cultivation Palace.

After everyone left, Li Xiang came out from behind the screen and said with a smile: "Father Xie supports his sons to move the capital!" ”

Li Cun said angrily: "Politics must use your brains, and you will not be so brutal in the future." ”

Li Xiangxin said: "I used my brain, so I asked my father to suppress them, I am using my strength to fight." ”

On the lips, Li Xiang responded: "No." ”

Who thinks, Li Xiang's tone immediately changed, and he said: "Erchen definitely doesn't want to bother his father, his father is already working hard enough now, Erchen understands his father's hard work, but there is a tricky matter, if it is not handled properly, Erchen is afraid that they will come to bother his father." ”

As soon as he heard Li Xiang add an accent to the words "Rili Wanji", Li Cun wanted to go over and slap this stinky boy who was neither big nor small.

But after all, the identities of the two are here, and Li Cun can only think about it.

"What's the matter?" Li Cun asked.

Li Xiang rubbed his hands and said, "This ...... It's not good for the ministers to repair the money of the palace, otherwise these people will definitely have to make irresponsible ......."

There was no need for Li Cun to ask what Li Xiang meant, Li Xiang said honestly and unceremoniously: "Father, look, can you borrow some money from your sons and let your sons build this palace?" ”

Speaking of borrowing money, Li Cun was angry.

Li Cun's children and grandchildren borrowed money from Li Cun, but they never paid it back.

After all these years, Li Cun didn't know how much money he had lent out.

Seeing that Li Cun's face was wrong, Li Xiang hurriedly said: "Father, this is a serious matter, if we don't move this, our family's Jiangshan Sheji may not be able to be passed on to all generations." ”

Li Cun was too lazy to talk nonsense with Li Xiang, a faceless and skinless guy, and directly threw a bag in front of Li Xiang.

Li Xiang was not angry, so he went to pick up the bag and asked happily, "What is this?" ”

Li Cun pretended to be calm and said: "This is what I gave to your imperial brother, when your imperial brother was in power, it was never used, you can use it." ”

Li Xiang heard that Li Cun's voice was wrong, and knew that Li Cun still liked his imperial brother Li Biao the most.

Li Xiang directly opened the bag in front of Li Cun.

As a result, there are only two words on it, and it can also be said that there is only one name on it - Qin Hui.

Li Xiang understood in an instant.

If you ask, who is the first corrupt official of the Daqian Dynasty, I am afraid that even children will know that it is Qin Hui.

However, the world is very curious, the Daqian Dynasty will fight corruption every few years, but after so many times, Qin Hui has nothing to do.

Some people say that Qin Hui is Li Cun's favorite minister, and Li Cun is reluctant to kill Qin Hui.

Some people also say that Qin Hui is too capable, he has opened up the world's economy and trade, and Li Cun is inseparable from Qin Hui.

Li Xiang was also very curious about why his father had not cleaned up Qin Hui.

Dare to love because the Daqian Dynasty has been too rich all these years, so it can't use Qin Hui, a fat pig.

In fact, as early as more than ten years ago, his father had already handed over the pig-killing knife to his imperial brother.

Li Xiang, who wants to build a palace in Beijing, is now very short of money, how can he let Qin Hui go?

didn't say anything, Li Xiang grabbed the bag and left.

But just as Li Xiang was about to leave the Heart Cultivation Palace, Li Cun's voice suddenly came from behind him: "Leave him a whole corpse." ”

Li Xiang didn't understand why his father left Qin Hui's whole body, but he still responded: "No! ”

Next, Lee Xiang launched a huge anti-corruption campaign.

This time, the intensity of the anti-corruption campaign is unprecedented, and the big fish of Qin Hui has been caught.

According to statistics, Li Xiang confiscated nearly 10 billion yuan of gold and jewelry from Qin Hui's house, and his family's wealth was equivalent to the financial income of the Daqian Dynasty in the past ten years.

It's just that what is very puzzling is that Qin Hui built a treasure building and stacked all the treasures he embezzled with money in the treasure building, so that Li Xiang could easily find these stolen goods.

Moreover, when Li Xiang caught Qin Hui, Qin Hui didn't resist at all.

Li Xiang asked Qin Hui: "Why didn't Master Qin escape?" ”

Qin Hui smiled and said: "The whole world is not the king's land, where can Qin Hui escape?" ”

Qin Hui said again: "I'm old, I've lived enough, my life is worth it, such an ending is good." ”

Qin Hui didn't say anything before he died, but just glanced at his son Qin Zhen with great satisfaction, which was his greatest pride.

Li Xiang glanced at Qin Zhen, who looked very similar to him, to be precise, very similar to his father, and seemed to understand a little, why did his father leave a whole corpse for Qin Hui.

Forty-one years of Hongwu.

Qin Hui's extraordinarily large corruption case was solved, Qin Hui was given to death, and everything in the Qin family was confiscated.

It's just that what people didn't expect was that Qin Hui's lone Qin Zhen was very not removed from his post for Qin Hui's corruption, and he also entered Li Di's shogunate and became Li Di's chief staff.

It is worth mentioning that with this momentum, Li Xiang dismissed a large number of corrupt officials and promoted a large number of his own cronies.

At this point, Li Xiang completely stabilized the situation in his administration.

Two years later, Li Cun issued an edict against himself:

"I started in the field, and after I won the world, when the people recuperated, but I wanted to benefit the people for 30 years to help the side, and I was very poor, old, weak and lonely. And every time I go down to a country, I will imprison the royal family and clan of my country, and accept the daughters of the royal family and the daughter of the clan of my country for my own use, so that I have nearly 100,000 female dependents in the harem. This is a big mistake too. Posterity is not to be imitated. You need to know that you can't do everything. In this life, I have killed countless people and robbed countless people. Even if there is retribution, I wish to bear it on my shoulders, and I will not condemn my offspring......"

This sin has been edicted, and Li Cun's reputation has risen instead of falling.

Most people don't think that Li Cun has done these things wrong, and many people even think that Li Cun doing this is the style that the real First Emperor of the Ages should have.

Some people even asked Li Cun to retract his guilty edict, bluntly saying that Li Cun was not guilty and should not be so.

At the same time, there are also those who don't open their eyes, taking the opportunity of Li Cun's edict to plead for the royal families and clans of various countries who were imprisoned by Li Cun, hoping that Li Cun can release them.

Who thinks, Li Cunli ignores these people.

In other words, Li Cunshi knows that I am wrong, but I just know my mistakes and do not change them.

Not only that, Li Cun also left an edict behind the plaque of Zhengda Guangming, emphasizing: After his death, the people in the city of all nations, if there is one, all of them will be buried with me, and if the descendants of future generations do not do it, it will be unfilial.

It can be seen from this that Li Cun is not indecisive because he is old, he still knows very well that the royal families and clans of these countries must not let go, and there will be endless troubles after letting go.

After another month, Li Cun made an order: choose an auspicious day for the zodiac and ask for a Zen position.

As soon as Li Cun's decision was announced, many people panicked!

Although over the years, there was Li Biao first, and then Li Xiang, who was dealing with court affairs, but the nominal emperor has always been Li Cun.

And as long as Li Cun is the emperor, it can make many people feel at ease.

It is no exaggeration to say that Li Cun is the Dinghai Divine Needle of the Daqian Dynasty.

Therefore, even if Li Cun doesn't care about anything, as long as Li Cun is still the emperor of the Daqian Dynasty, it will make many people feel safe.

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, whether it was sincere or false, all asked Li Cun to take back his life, and the people also petitioned one after another, hoping that Li Cun would be the emperor for another twenty years.

In this regard, Li Cun was also a little moved!

This shows that his subjects did not want to give up the throne because of their lust for women and their military insolence.

To tell the truth, the emperor is really proud of Li Cun's part, and he can really be proud.

But Li Cun still issued an edict saying: He is really old, and if a dynasty wants to prosper for a long time, it must believe in young people, Li Xiang is a prince carefully selected by himself, and he will definitely be a good emperor.

Li Cun said very sincerely.

But anyone who saw Li Cun's head without a single white hair and his face without a single wrinkle thought it was a bit funny.

However, no matter what.

A month later, Li Xiangdu ascended the throne as scheduled and became the third emperor of the Daqian Dynasty, and Li Cun also successfully became the emperor of Taishang, and finally gave up the throne that he had already sat on......

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