This song is catchy and has a high-spirited melody. What’s even more rare is that the lyrics promote the idea of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism.
Propaganda throughout the army has advantages and no disadvantages.
Therefore, after just a little thought, Li Shimin agreed to Li Jing's proposal.
Li Jing, on the other hand, took the opportunity to propose that football, wrestling and other competitions could be promoted in the military.
After Li Shimin asked about the rules of the football match, he thought about it and readily agreed to Li Jing's proposal.
Li Shimin had led Bing, so he was naturally very familiar with the situation in the army.
If you lead soldiers to fight all the time, they will have no time to relax and think about all those messy things, so it will be easier to lead them.
But when you are waiting to recuperate, you are prone to accidents.
Because when you are free and energetic, it is easy to think wildly.
At this time, blindly high pressure may actually cause bad things.
Therefore, at this time, Li Jing proposed to promote the football game. After Li Shimin briefly understood the rules of the football game, he immediately agreed.
Because Li Shimin knew very well the significance of holding this football game in the army.
And since Li Shimin agreed to promote songs and football games in the army, he would naturally not pursue the disrespectful things like Cheng Yaojin and other veterans doing before, such as dancing in the hall.
Otherwise, Li Jing was actually not prepared to mention these matters in court. He was planning to advise Li Shimin privately.
Because yesterday, after talking to Li Min, Li Jing unexpectedly learned some tricks.
For example, each military branch organizes various competitions, such as archery competitions, riding competitions, fighting competitions, etc., and each army can determine a military king.
Then you can also organize a competition among the entire army to determine the overall king of the army.
In this way, just spending a small amount of money to reward those military kings can mobilize the training enthusiasm of all armies in the Tang Dynasty.
Even the military god Li Jing admired Li Min for coming up with this method.
What's more, that's not the only thing Li Min brought up yesterday.
For example, it would be best for the military to conduct political and ideological education classes regularly.
Li Jing was a little confused about the term political thought.
Li Min, this kid, often has some inexplicable words coming out of his mouth.
After Li Min's explanation, Li Jing felt that this proposal was also of great significance to the construction of the Tang army.
Of course, Li Jing was not prepared to address these issues directly in court.
If Cheng Yaojin and other old guys hadn't made such a fuss today, Li Jing wouldn't have even prepared to raise the song of self-improvement as a soldier in the court.
However, when Li Jing saw that Li Shimin did not show any other expression after agreeing, Li Jing began to feel dissatisfied.
Li Jing couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty, this military song, this music, and even the football match were all created by King Liang. The veteran believes that meritorious officials must be rewarded."
Hearing Li Jing's words, Li Shimin was also a little helpless.
What are the achievements that Min'er has made?
If there was a prize, I would have given it long ago, okay?
The current situation was created by Li Shimin with great difficulty, and Li Shimin was unwilling to destroy the delicate situation.
Supporting Li Tai and letting Li Tai compete with the prince is an imperial method.
Because Li Shimin was too young, and the age difference between the prince and him was too small, Li Shimin could feel the threat from the prince.
Therefore, Li Shimin strongly supported Li Tai and let Li Tai compete with the prince.
But there is a certain degree of problem that must be mastered. Once it is not mastered well, it may cause a disaster.
And if he rewards Li Min according to his merits, then he will probably drag Li Min into the battle group.
As a result, the entire Tang Dynasty may be involved in the struggle for the right to inherit the throne, which is something Li Shimin absolutely does not want to see.
Therefore, after Li Jing finished speaking, Li Shimin thought for a moment, and then said: "What Duke Wei said is reasonable. King Liang has made great contributions to the country and must be rewarded. In this case, let's give him another three hundred households' food seal!"
Li Jing was very dissatisfied with Li Shimin's stinginess, but he didn't say much.
In fact, with Li Jing's wisdom, why didn't he understand that this was actually Li Shimin's protection of Li Min?
A tree that is beautiful in the forest will be destroyed by the wind; a tree that is taller than others will be destroyed by the wind!
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In the blink of an eye, another half month passed.
Li Min couldn't help but come to the palace to find Li Shimin and said: "Father, I think it's almost time to close the net."
Hearing Li Min's words, Li Shimin said dissatisfiedly: "This is too early, isn't it? Where is this? It's not too late to engrave it for another month!"
In fact, during this period of time, these major aristocratic families were already suspicious.
Because Changsun Wuji printed more and more copies every day, and now it has reached 9,000 copies every day.
According to their budget, let alone Li Shimin, a poor guy, even with Changsun Wuji's family background, he definitely couldn't afford the compensation.
But why is Changsun Wuji still insisting?
These major aristocratic families sent countless spies to investigate this matter.
However, Li Shimin was cruel and almost put the entire city of Chang'an under martial law.
Once the emperor really wants to do something, even with the abilities of these big families, they can't even think of finding out anything in a short time.
For Li Shimin, this period of time could be said to be the happiest period since he became emperor.
It feels so good to have money coming into the internal treasury every day!
His investment of 5,000 guan was finally paid back. Not only that, but now he is receiving more than 200 guan every day.
Seeing the small treasury filling up little by little, it can be said that the money is rising every day. How could Li Shimin tolerate it being cut off like this?
Li Min tried to persuade him: "Father, with our current printing volume, we can almost reach the point where six or seven households can get one book. It's not enough to go too far."
At this time, the number of registered households in the Tang Dynasty was only more than two million. (Note, it is households, not people. The largest household may have several hundred people.)
At this time, the number of copies they printed had reached more than 300,000.
This amount doesn't seem to be much, and one household can't even get one copy.
But you have to know that in the past, you might not even be able to find a book in a village.
Moreover, there are bound to be many households who will not buy it no matter how cheap the price is.
This quantity is already a saturation quantity. If we print more, it will be a real waste.
In fact, why doesn't Li Shimin understand this truth? It's just that once a poor person starts to live a life of making money every day, he will become addicted. It's just hard to give up for a while.
Li Min couldn't help but persuade him: "Father, in fact, if we don't print these kinds of books, we can also print other books? We can still make money."
Hearing this, Li Shimin couldn't help rolling his eyes.
Can this be the same? Print other books and sell nine thousand books a day? Just sit and count the money?