The grandson of the emperor...oh, no, the grandson of the emperor will be sent to Tubo?
Doesn’t that mean that Prince Li Jiancheng is about to die and King Yong is preparing to officially take over the position of the saint?!
Then should we greet the civil and military officials and get ready quickly?!
In the strange eyes of Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda, Li Yuanji continued: "Now, I say that I want to visit Tubo. Do you still have any objections?"
Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda shook their heads quickly.
Ren Guizai hesitated and shook his head.
You are about to ascend the throne, how can we dare to have any opinions?
As the saying goes, Wei Junjie is a man who understands current affairs!
Anyway, no one in the Tang Dynasty can take over the position of saint with your silver power.
What you say is what it is.
"Then do as I say."
Li Yuanji didn't know that Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda, and Ren Gui had so many inner dramas, but through their reactions, he roughly guessed some of their inner thoughts.
There was only one thought in his mind, and that was...hehehehehe...
He said he wanted to seal Li Jiancheng's eldest son in Tubo, but what he really wanted to seal was Li Jiancheng.
Only Li Jiancheng could suppress the rising Tubo Holy Lord Songtsen Gampo.
Li Jiancheng's slightly older son is still a little tender.
It's just that Li Jiancheng also serves as the prince now. If Li Jiancheng is granted a title to Tubo, it will make people feel a little weird and unethical, so Li Jiancheng's son is asked to take the blame for Li Jiancheng.
The reason why he came up with the idea of enfeoffing Li Jiancheng to Tubo was because he discovered in the past two years that if he wanted to support Li Jiancheng as a puppet, it would not go so well.
Li Jiancheng is not a person who is willing to be a puppet, nor is he a peaceful master. After supporting Li Jiancheng, Li Jiancheng will definitely try his best to seize power from him.
He no longer wanted to fight with Li Jiancheng internally, because he found that fighting outside was far more interesting than fighting within.
So he simply decided to seal Li Jiancheng out, and then when Li Yuan was dying, he followed the example of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, and made the emperor's grandson directly ascend the throne and become a puppet.
No matter who the emperor's grandson is, he will be several heads shorter than him in terms of seniority, power, and foundation. In that case, he can calmly control the emperor's grandson.
As for whether he will be provoked by the emperor's grandson in his prime when he gets old, he is not worried at all.
Because he did not intend to let the emperor's grandson sit on the throne forever.
Isn't there a saying that the emperor takes turns and will come to my house next year?
There are three direct branches of the Li family, one from each family, one who will sit for ten years, in rotation, and then the emperor with the Zen throne will form a three-member cabinet. Together with the three chiefs and the three military leaders, they will form the core of governing the Tang Dynasty.
authority.
The three-three-three-nine system is relatively stable.
When there is a dispute, a winner can also be determined.
In this case, no one would care who sits on the throne, and there is no need to go to war to grab it.
If the emperor wants to regain his own power, he no longer has to face one person, or several people, but a group of people.
A group of people representing the interest groups of the royal family, a group of people representing the interest groups of the civil servants, and a group of people representing the interest groups of the military.
After any group of people has obtained power and wants them to hand it over, they will definitely fight to the death.
Of course, in order to ensure that the royal family maintains a certain advantage in this system, one of the three chiefs must be a relative, and one of the three military leaders must be a member of the royal family.
In this way, the interests of the concubines of the royal family, the relatives of the state, and the civil and military officials among the officials are all taken care of, and no one will object or refuse.
The only person who was not properly taken care of was probably the emperor.
As for the emperor's attitude, everyone does not need to care.
After having such an idea, Li Yuanji began to make preparations. With the lesson learned from the last time, Li Yuanji decided not to tell anyone about this matter, and also decided to spend more time preparing and completing this matter.
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So all I can tell outsiders are lies and some nonsense.
Xiao Yu and the others were obviously distracted by the lake, so before leaving the Tai Chi Hall, they never raised the question of why they wanted to visit Tubo.
After Xiao Yu and the others left Taiji Hall, they immediately approved the funds needed by Li Daoli and the funds for building a city in Turks. At the same time, they sent people from Honglu Temple to start contacting Linyi and Tubo envoys.
The response received from the initial contact was not good. The envoys of the two countries rejected the matter almost without hesitation.
However, neither Li Yuanji nor Xiao Yu were impatient.
To demarcate land and build a city on other people's land, and to garrison troops, is a huge threat to them. If they are not careful, they will lose their sovereignty, and it is reasonable for them to refuse.
So you have to grind hard, talk slowly, and wait for the opportunity.
When the time comes, without Datang saying anything, they will take the initiative to approach Datang and ask Datang to build cities and garrison troops on their territory.
Just like Silla.
While Xiao Yu and the others were busy spending money, studying economics, and negotiating with Lin Yi and Tubo envoys, Li Xiaogong's conspiracy against the Boling Cui family finally came to light.
On July 7, after the Bolingcui family's ship was sailing to Dizhou after replenishing supplies in Yangzhou, it encountered the Sea Dragon King Pao Xiao. Among the more than 100 merchant ships, except for the three largest ships, the rest
All the ships were devoured by the Sea Dragon King, including the ten grain ships used by the Bolingcui family to transport food to the Tang Dynasty.
Before the news could reach Chang'an, the documents stating that the grain transported by the Cui family in Boling was sent to Boling by the imperial court as military rations.
Anyone with a discerning eye would know that this was Li Xiaogong taking the opportunity to add insult to injury and retaliate against the Boling Cui family for showing disrespect to him during the annexation of the Zheng family's property in Xingyang.
But no one came out to help the Boling Cui family call Qu.
Because Li Xiaogong's targeting was explicit, and it was within the scope of Li Xiaogong's authority. If the Bolingcui family couldn't handle it, it would only prove that the Bolingcui family was inferior to others.
Although wealthy families look out for each other, they don't always help each other with everything.
For example, in this matter, Li Xiaogong only started to attack the Bolingcui family after the Sea Dragon King finished his mourning. This means that the Bolingcui family's merchant ship was devoured by the Sea Dragon King and it was not Li Xiaogong who secretly used some conspiracy.
Li Xiaogong is now using his authority to target the Bolingcui family openly and openly, and everything he does is upright and without any cover-up.
People from other wealthy families would not help the Bolingcui family.
After all, although we are each other's allies, we are only allies.
As long as people are not targeting you with conspiracy and tricks, and if their targeting is not harming the interests of others, there is no reason for everyone to take the risk of being targeted and pay a huge price to help you.
We are not good people.
Therefore, when Li Xiaogong and the Boling Cui family fight, people from wealthy families will stand by and watch. If you win, then everyone doesn't mind adding icing on the cake. If you lose, then it's your fault that your skills are not as good as others.
If you lose miserably, to the point where you can no longer gain a foothold in a wealthy family, then I'm sorry, everyone will swarm you and eat you up.
Therefore, after Li Xiaogong started targeting the Boling Cui family, none of the top wealthy families responded.
The moment Cui Minqian of the Boling Cui family received the document from Li Xiaogong, he immediately gathered together the grain and transported it to Luoyang with the help of water transport. When the fleet was passing through Weizhou, someone plotted against it, and more than ten ships were killed.
The food was burned, and the accompanying Cui clan members were also stunned. They took off their clothes and threw them into the reed bushes on both sides.
Ms. Cui immediately realized that someone was targeting her, and her first suspect was Li Xiaogong.
For this reason, Wang Gui also specially impeached Li Xiaogong.
The reason why Wang Gui impeached Li Xiaogong was not because of fairness and justice, but because Wang Gui's cousin, the daughter of Wang Xiaoyuan, the former Sima of Yongzhou in Sui Dynasty, married Cui Fengju of the Cui family, and she was considered an in-law.
So when Cui Mingan was unable to go to court, he helped Cui Mingan to plead guilty.
Li Xiaogong ignored this.
Wang Gui continued to impeach Li Xiaogong without getting any benefits.
As a result, when Cui prepared the grain for the second time and transported it to Luoyang by land, things took a huge turn.
Cui's grain transport team was attacked again. This time Cui was careful and caught the person who attacked the grain transport team. After interrogation, it was discovered that he was a member of the Liu family in Hedong.
The Liu family in Hedong flourished in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. They were very prosperous in the Southern Dynasties, but declined after the Sui Dynasty. After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Pei family, who also lived in Hedong like the Liu family, rose up strongly, leaving the Liu family breathless.
, it seems even more declining.
After learning that Li Xiaogong intended to target the Bolingcui family and eliminate Bolingcui's involvement in water transportation and shipping, he had the idea of taking a gamble.
He wanted to help Li Xiaogong by saying this, win Li Xiaogong's favor, and thereby seize the Bolingcui family's share in water transportation and sea transportation.
Water transportation and sea transportation have been developed for more than two years. It is well known that the wealthy families involved in water transportation and sea transportation have made huge profits.
Therefore, other aristocratic families not involved in water transportation and sea transportation are jealous of this benefit.
Some are even involved in water and sea transportation
The aristocratic family is also jealous of the members in other people's hands.
Therefore, the Hedong Liu family wants to revitalize their family and seize the members of the Bolong Cui family. Other wealthy families can understand.
They even felt that if they were in the position of the Liu family in Hedong, they would be more vicious and cruel than the Liu family in Hedong.
Therefore, people from other wealthy families did not have any complaints about what the Liu family in Hedong did.
Some people even secretly went to encourage the Hedong Liu family to make the Hedong Liu family more cruel, and it would be best to unseat the Boling Cui family.
