"Boy." After the relationship became Weng's son-in-law, Li Er's title and attitude immediately changed.
"Hou Junji came to see me last night." Li Yunze was delighted.
"Ask Your Majesty to help him?" Li Er shook his head slightly with his hands behind his back.
"You're here to ask me to come forward and make peace."
"He said that he drank too much horse urine and did stupid things while he was in a daze. Please help me make peace with you. I am willing to take the blame for you." After hearing this, Li Yunze simply asked
"How did the DPRK and China decide on the matter of Hou Junji devouring the spoils of war?" Gaochang State is located at a key node of the Silk Road. For many years, just collecting tolls has made a lot of money.
In that part of the Western Region, those who have wealth must naturally hide it in the city, otherwise they will become the target of robbery by countless Caotou tribes and horse bandits.
Hou Junji captured the capital of Gaochang State and captured countless items. However, most of these seizures fell into the hands of Hou Junji and the sergeants.
Ordinary sergeants and middle- and lower-level officers were naturally difficult to deal with. Even Li Er could only turn a blind eye and pretend he didn't know.
After all, punishing sergeants and officers would shake the morale of the military. But as the general, Hou Junji immediately became the target of everyone's fire.
Li Er's original intention was to give him a beating. After all, he was an old man from Tiance Mansion, so he couldn't kill him. Historically, Hou Junji attacked Gaochang State several years later. At that time, Li Chengqian's position as crown prince was already in danger, and Hou Junji was Li Chengqian's strongest supporter. Therefore, Li Er used the excuse to imprison him on charges of swallowing the spoils of war.
As of now, it's not that time yet. After hearing Li Yunze's inquiry, Li Er thought for a while
"He did make a mistake, but he had contributed to the destruction of the country before, but the merits outweighed the faults..."
"Actually, none of this is important." Li Yunze said calmly.
"What's really important is that Hou Junji has been tied to the prince." As soon as these words came out, Li Er's expression changed slightly.
Whether to establish a direct descendant or to establish a virtuous person was a matter of intense quarrel in the court. But on Li Er's side, he had already made up his mind.
Everyone else is easy to say, but Li Chengqian will never agree. Hou Junji, on the other hand, is firmly tied to Li Chengqian, and it is truly a case of both suffering and losing.
If Li Chengqian fails to inherit the throne, then with Hou Junji's courage, trouble will inevitably arise. The emperor was never afraid of trouble caused by civil servants, because the civil servants had no troops.
But military generals are different. Once military generals make trouble, it will truly shake the country's foundation. The generals of the Tang Dynasty were more destructive than the generals of later generations.
Needless to say, they have a large army at hand when they go on an expedition. Even if they have hundreds of generals in their own family, they are an extremely powerful force.
During the Xuanwu Gate Incident, Li Er relied on his family and generals to succeed in the uprising.
And precisely because he has done such a thing before, he will never allow future generations to do such a thing.
Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, almost none of the prince lineage of the founding emperors of the past dynasties has been successfully continued. Although Liu Ying, the prince of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, became emperor, he was soon replaced by Liu Huan's line.
Of course, there is no need to say more about Li Er. His temple name in history is Taizong. After the death of Zhao Kuangyin, the throne fell into the hands of his younger brother Zhao Guangyi. It was not until Wanyan Gou lost his son in the Southern Song Dynasty that the throne was transferred back to the lineage of Taizu, so Zhao Guangyi's temple name was also Taizong.
As for Zhu Di, similar to the Han Dynasty, he also snatched the throne from the prince's lineage, so Zhu Di was also Taizong.
Tartars... spat. Li Er didn't know what happened next, but he knew very well that this was a real threat. He was also undecided about whether to pass the throne to Li Chengqian because Li Chengqian's performance was so poor.
Although Luo Ma's injuries were healed and there were no sequelae, Li Er drove away all his teachers and replaced them with a new batch.
This made the young and impulsive Li Chengqian think that Li Er was going to destroy him as a prelude, and then he began to lie down and do nothing. Not only did he bully his younger brother, but he also did all kinds of things that made people look at him all day long.
Like wearing Turkic clothes and strutting around the market, that's not worth mentioning. The most exaggerated thing is that not long ago, Li Chengqian actually led people to forcefully break into the stock exchange and demanded that people give him the stocks for free.
Li Er was furious and whipped him severely, 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 spanking.
Now that Li Yunze directly raised this matter, it touched Li Er's hidden pain. He was pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back, looking slightly anxious.
"Do you have any good ideas?"
"That depends on whether His Majesty is willing to depose the crown prince." Li Yunze smiled slightly.
"If you decide to depose the prince, Hou Junji will naturally have to deal with it. Even if you don't want his life, you must deprive him of military power and leave him idle." The biggest trouble now is this. Li Er can't make up his mind. After all, he is his legitimate son. eldest son.
After hesitating for a moment, he asked again
"Is there any other way?"
"Yes." To Li Er's expectation, Li Yunze actually nodded and said.
"It can be enfeoffed." The enfeoffment system is not unfamiliar. It was enfeoffed before the Qin and Han Dynasties, and even in the early Han Dynasty. For this reason, there was a rebellion of seven kings.
The system of prefectures and counties was gradually popularized starting from the Qin State. Hearing this, Li Er's eyes dimmed slightly.
"This matter is inappropriate. There is no place for enfeoffment in the Tang Dynasty. Not to mention that the ministers should not respond, I am not allowed to leave the country within the country." Under the enfeoffment system, everything in the fiefdom belongs to the lord. No matter how cruel the lord is, as long as he No matter how stupid he is, he will still be treated better.
But under the county system, all officials are floating officials. They will leave after working for a while. They don't care about the life and death of the local people. Naturally, they only care about how much they can earn.
Of course, the overall trend is that the county system is more reasonable, because this way we can concentrate our efforts on doing big things, and avoid the situation of a state within a state that disperses our forces.
Now that Li Yunze proposes enfeoffment, Li Er will naturally not agree.
"Who said we were going to split up in the Tang Dynasty?" Li Yunze's smile did not fade away.
"The whole world is so big, why do we always focus on our homeland?"
"In addition to the real core sacred land, there are many territories outside. Taking them out for enfeoffment can not only relieve internal pressure, but also serve as an external barrier, just like the Western Zhou Dynasty." When the Western Zhou Dynasty was founded, barbarians were everywhere.
After the enfeoffment, they not only protected the core territory, but also continued to expand outwards and became the great dynasty of Nuo.
Hearing this, Li Er's eyes suddenly lit up. But then, he asked slightly worriedly
"If the border area becomes bigger in the future..."
"Then make it bigger!" Li Yunze immediately interrupted
"It doesn't matter if we get bigger, the Han family's world is still under the Han family. It's a hundred times better than foreigners humiliating and invading the bandits." In Li Yunze's view, it doesn't matter if the dynasty changes, as long as it is the Han family's world.
In Li Er's view, even if he came to dominate the Central Plains, he was still a descendant of his Li family. After understanding this, he nodded slightly.
The matter of how Li Chengqian should be settled that had troubled him before seems to have finally dawned. Li Yunze didn't care what Li Er thought, he simply took a step forward.
"If His Majesty is determined to pass the throne to Cheng Qian, then let Hou Junji stay calm and don't make any trouble. If you have other ideas, you can let him make preparations first." Li Er pondered for a long time after saying this. Then ask verbally
"Where is the best place for Hou Junji to go?" The words were talking about where Hou Junji should go, but in fact they were arranging where Li Chengqian should go.
It seems that Li Er has made up his mind to give up this tuba that has been worn out by practice. After all, he was still young, so it was not too late to learn from experience and practice the trumpet again.
After hearing this, Li Yunze spit out a place name without any hesitation.
"Japanese country."
"Compared to the Tang Dynasty, Japan is naturally a small place, but it is not as small as imagined." Li Yunze explained
"Although the Japanese country does not have many fields, it has fertile land and can support a large population."
"The most important thing is that this place is rich in gold, silver and copper." Li Er also nodded subconsciously.
"Yes, I was surprised by the amount of gold, silver and copper in Japan." Historically, Japan's gold and silver output once accounted for one-third of the world's total output, and this lasted for two to three hundred years.
Nowadays, many mines have been excavated under Li Yunze's advance guidance, and better mining equipment and technology have been used. Even Li Er is secretly stunned by their output.
"The Japanese country claims to be the land of the rising sun, and yet it dares to proclaim itself emperor. It's not interesting to have a mine at home, and it's not that far away. Who will do it if you don't do it?" Li Er nodded repeatedly at these words.
In the past, Japan was a poor country across the sea, so there was naturally no interest in it. But who allowed their family to open so many gold, silver and copper mines?
"First, let Hou Junji go to the Japanese country to take charge of mining and to investigate the national strength of the Japanese country. When the time is right, you can send generals to conquer the country. After that, you can immigrate to occupy the land. When Cheng Qian is unable to inherit the throne, you can send him there. "Li Er was silent again, and said after a long time
"Let me think about this matter for a while." He said it was one or two, but three days later, an imperial edict was issued, depriving Hou Junji of his military power on the grounds that he had swallowed up the spoils of war, and then arranged to inspect the mines of the Japanese country, directly They kicked the Japanese country to mine.
If Li Chengqian can repent and regain his imperial status in the future, Li Er may consider keeping him.
But if he still spoils himself like he is now, then he can only send him to Japan to become the emperor. This matter proposed by Li Yunze greatly aroused Li Er's interest.
He has a lot of sons. If they can all be divided among themselves, it would be exciting to think about it. Immediately, he began to study the map and sand table all day long, looking for those territories suitable for his son to entrust.
The heir will inherit the central government and control the core area, and the other sons no longer need to be idle princes. They can call themselves lonely and widowed, which is very attractive to Li Er.
After some searching, Li Er pointed at the map and said to Li Yunze
"I think this place can also be a place for enfeoffment." Looking along Li Er's finger, Li Yunze saw that the place he pointed was Goguryeo.
"No." Li Yunze shook his head immediately
"This place belongs to Middle Earth."
