Chapter 446: Separation
"Boy." After the relationship became Weng's son-in-law, Li Er's title and attitude immediately changed
"Hou Junji came to me last night." Li Yunze was happy
"Looking for His Majesty to help him get ahead?" Li Er, who was holding his hands behind his back, shook his head slightly
"I'm here to ask me to make peace."
"He said that he drank too much horse urine and did stupid things in a daze, please help me make peace, and I am willing to take the blame for you." Hearing this, Li Yunze simply asked
"Hou Junji's devouring of the spoils of war, how did the court decide?" Gaochang is located at a key node on the Silk Road, and for many years, just collecting tolls has been making a lot of money.
In that place in the Western Regions, the wealth is naturally hidden in the city, otherwise it will become the target of countless grass-headed tribes and horse bandits.
Hou Junji conquered the capital of Gaochang State, and the seizures were naturally innumerable. It's just that most of these seizures fell into the hands of Hou Junji and the sergeants.
Ordinary sergeants and middle- and lower-level officers are naturally difficult to deal with, even Li Er can only turn a blind eye and pretend not to know.
After all, punishing sergeants and officers is shaking the morale of the military. But Hou Junji, as the main general, immediately became the target of everyone's fire.
Li Er's original intention was to beat one or two, after all, he was an old man in Tiance Mansion, and it was always difficult to make a dead hand. In history, Hou Junji attacked Gaochangguo a few years later, and at that time, Li Chengqian's position as the crown prince was already in jeopardy, and Hou Junji was Li Chengqian's most powerful backing, so Li Er used the topic to play and imprisoned him on the charge of swallowing the spoils of war.
Now, it's not that time. Hearing Li Yunze's inquiry, Li Er thought about it
"He did make a mistake, but he had the merit of destroying the country before, but the merits were offset by the demerits..."
"Actually, none of that matters." Li Yunze said lightly
"What really matters is that Hou Junji is already tied to the crown prince." As soon as these words came out, Li Er's color suddenly changed slightly.
The matter of Liyan or Lixian is in the midst of fierce quarrels in the court. It's just that on Li Er's side, he has already made up his mind.
Everyone else is easy to say, but Li Chengqian will never agree. And Hou Junji is firmly tied to Li Chengqian, which is a real loss and glory.
If Li Chengqian fails to inherit the throne, then with Hou Junji's courage, there will inevitably be trouble. The emperor was never afraid of the Wenchen making trouble, because the Wenchen had no soldiers and horses in his hands.
But the generals are different, once the generals make trouble, it will really shake the country's foundation. The generals of the Tang Dynasty are more destructive than the generals of later generations.
Needless to say, with a large army in hand, even if there are hundreds of generals in their own family, it is an extremely powerful force.
When the Xuanwumen Revolution occurred, Li Er relied on the success of his own and the generals' generals.
And it is precisely because he has done this kind of thing before, so he will never allow future generations to do this kind of thing.
Since the Han and Tang dynasties, almost none of the princes of the founding emperors of the past dynasties have succeeded in continuing. Although Liu Ying, the crown prince of Han Gaozu, became emperor, he was soon replaced by Liu Huan's line.
Li Er naturally doesn't need to say much, his temple name in history is Taizong. After Zhao Kuangyin's death, the throne fell into the hands of his younger brother Zhao Guangyi, and it was not until the Southern Song Dynasty that Yan had no son, and the throne was transferred back to the Taizu lineage, so Zhao Guangyi's temple name was also Taizong.
As for Zhu Di, it is similar to the Han Dynasty, and he also snatched the throne from the prince's lineage, so Zhu Di is also Taizong.
Tartar... Spit. Li Er didn't know what was going on, but he knew very well that this was a real threat, and he couldn't make up his mind about whether to pass the throne to Li Chengqian, because Li Chengqian's performance was too poor.
Although the injuries of the fallen horse were healed and there were no sequelae, Li Er drove away all his teachers and replaced them with new ones.
This made the young and impulsive Li Chengqian feel that Li Er was going to abolish his prelude, and then he began to lie down and rot, not only bullying his younger brother, but also doing all kinds of things that made people look at him all day long.
It's like wearing Turkic clothes to swagger through the market or something, it's not worth mentioning. The most exaggerated thing is that some time ago, Li Chengqian actually led people to forcibly break into the stock exchange, and asked people to give him the stock for nothing.
Li Er was furious and slapped him hard, and asked Li Yunze, the nominal master, to discipline him.
But Li Yunze doesn't know how to discipline male students, he has always only taken care of female students. The method of discipline is nothing more than another beating.
Now that Li Yunze directly raised this matter, it can be regarded as touching Li Er's hidden pain. He paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, looking slightly agitated
"What can you do?"
"Then it depends on whether Your Majesty is determined to abolish the crown prince." Li Yunze smiled slightly
"If you decide to abolish the crown prince, Hou Junji will naturally dispose of it, even if you don't want his life, you must deprive the military power and scatter." Now the biggest trouble is this, Li Er can't make up his mind, after all, it is his eldest son.
After a moment's hesitation, he asked again
"But is there another way?"
"Yes." To Li Er's surprise, Li Yunze actually nodded and said
"It's possible to do a separation." The sub-feudal system is not unfamiliar, the Qin and Han dynasties were divided before, and even the early Han Dynasty was also divided, and there was a rebellion of the Seven Kings for this.
The county system has only gradually become popular since the Qin State. Hearing this, Li Er's eyes darkened slightly
"This matter is not proper, how can there be a place in the Tang Dynasty. Don't say that the ministers should not, and I am not allowed to leave the country within the country. "Under the feudal system, everything in the fief belongs to the lord, no matter how brutal the lord is, as long as he is not brain-dead, he will still be better under the rule.
But under the county system, all the officials are rogue officials, and they will leave after a period of time, where they care about the life and death of the local people, they will naturally earn as much as they can.
Of course, the general trend is that the county system is more reasonable, because in this way we can concentrate our efforts to do great things, and there will be no scattered forces in a state within a country.
Now that Li Yunze proposes to divide the seal, Li Er naturally will not agree.
"Who said it was going to be divided in Datang." Li Yunze's smile did not decrease
"The whole world is so big, why do you always keep your eyes on the homeland."
"In addition to the real core anointed place, there is something on the outside that can not only relieve the internal pressure, but also become an external barrier, just like the Western Zhou Dynasty back then." When the Western Zhou Dynasty was founded, there were barbarians everywhere.
After they were divided, they not only guarded the core territory, but also continued to expand outward to become the Nuoda dynasty.
Hearing this, Li Er's eyes suddenly lit up. But then, he asked with a little worry
"If the frontier becomes bigger in the future..."
"Then go big!" Li Yunze immediately interrupted
"What's the matter of getting bigger, it's still the world of the Han family. It's a hundred times better than insulting outsiders. In Li Yunze's view, it doesn't matter if the dynasty changes, as long as it is the Han family.
In Li Er's opinion, even if he entered the Central Plains, he was still the descendant of his Li family, and when he understood this, he immediately nodded slightly.
The matter of how to settle Li Chengqian, who had troubled him before, seemed to have seen the dawn. Li Yunze didn't care what Li Er thought, he simply stepped forward
"If Your Majesty is determined to pass on the throne to Cheng Qian, then let Hou Junji stay honest and don't make trouble for the moths to come out. If you have other ideas, you can let them prepare first. Li Er, who said this, pondered for a long time, and then asked
"Where is Hou Junji going?" The words are talking about where Hou Junji is going, but in fact, he is arranging where Li Chengqian goes.
It seems that Li Er has made up his mind to give up this tuba that has been abolished. After all, he is still young, and it is still too late to learn from the lessons and practice the trumpet again at this time.
Hearing this, Li Yunze spit out a place name without the slightest hesitation
"Wa Guo."
"Compared with the Tang Dynasty, the Wa Kingdom is naturally a small place, but it is not as small as imagined." Li Yunze explained
"And although there are not many fields, the land is fertile and can support many people."
"Most importantly, there is a lot of gold, silver and copper here." Li Er also nodded subconsciously
"Yes, there are so many gold, silver and bronze in the Japanese Kingdom, which also surprises me." Historically, the gold and silver production of the Japanese Kingdom once accounted for one-third of the world's total output, and it lasted for two or three hundred years.
Now many mines have been excavated under Li Yunze's guidance in advance, and better mining equipment and technology have been used, and even Li Er's output is secretly smacking.
"The Wa Kingdom calls itself the country of the rising sun, and dares to call itself the emperor. I don't know how to have a mine at home, and it's not far away, who is it if you don't engage him? Li Er nodded again and again.
In the past, the Wa Kingdom was a poor place across the sea, so naturally there was no interest at all. But who let their family open so many gold, silver and copper mines?
"Let Hou Junji go to the Wa State to be responsible for the mining and investigate the movement of the Wa State's national strength. When the time is ripe, you can send a general to fight to destroy the country. After that, the immigrants occupied the land, and when Chengqian was really unable to inherit the unification, he was sent over. Li Er was silent again, and said after a long time
"Let me think about this matter again." said that it was one or two, but three days later, he issued a holy decree, stripping Hou Junji of his military power on the grounds that he had swallowed up the spoils of war, and then arranged for the inspection of the mines of the Wa State, and directly kicked him to the Wa State to open a mine.
If Li Chengqian can repent and regain the appearance of an emperor in the future, Li Er may consider keeping him.
But if he still spends himself like this, then he can only send him to the Wa Kingdom to be the emperor of the soil. Li Yunze's proposal greatly stimulated Li Er's interest.
He has a lot of sons, and if they can all be separated, it's exciting to think about. Immediately, he began to study the map and sand table all day long, looking for those places that were suitable for his son.
The heir inherits the core place of the unification, and the other sons do not have to be idle princes, they can call themselves lonely and widowed, which is very attractive to Li Er.
After some searching, Li Er pointed to the map and said to Li Yunze
"I think this place can also be a place to be divided." Looking along Li Er's finger, Li Yunze saw that the place where his finger was Goguryeo.
"No." Li Yunze immediately shook his head
"This land belongs to Middle-earth."