Chapter 1152 If you want to inherit the throne, you must first live long
The fiscal expenditure budget plan for the 11th year of Xuanping is considered to be quite special among the fiscal expenditure budget plans in previous years, because no one is satisfied with it, whether it is the military or the cabinet, or down to the details of each agency.
In the final analysis, the psychological bottom line they had previously agreed upon was 85 million taels of silver, but in the end, the Holy Emperor Li Xuan restricted it to 80 million taels of silver, which caused various agencies to focus on these 8,000 taels of silver.
Fierce conflicts arose during the distribution of money, but there was no point in conflicting. If everyone agreed to this plan, then it would be impossible to say that one or a few of them would suffer while the others would remain unscathed.
If this were to happen, no matter whether it was a military representative like General Lei Wan or a minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs like Ma Wei, they would have the guts to directly withdraw from the negotiation.
Therefore, in the end, there was really no choice but to share the shortfall of five million taels of silver equally among everyone.
However, after Li Xuan saw the fiscal expenditure budget plan sent by Liu Bagou, he showed a satisfied look!
Even if the quarrel was too loud, it was still not settled with 80 million taels of silver!
In this way, there is a high probability of obtaining a fiscal surplus of approximately 6 million taels of silver next year, and there is no need to issue any government bonds, effectively curbing the fiscal deficit.
The extra six million taels of silver can be used as emergency funds. If a war breaks out or a large-scale disaster breaks out, there will be money for emergency response. Instead of having to deal with floods every time there is a flood like in previous years,
During droughts, you have to piece together things to get enough relief funds.
Now that he is fine, having six million taels of silver in hand gives Li Xuan more confidence!
Controlling the fiscal deficit is Li Xuan's bottom line for Xuanping's fiscal work in the eleventh year!
He did not want the fiscal deficit to continue and eventually lead to complete financial bankruptcy, which would be a huge blow to the stability of the empire.
After the fiscal expenditure budget allocation plan is finalized, it also represents the end of the Xuanping decade!
In the next few days, the overall situation remained calm. Most of the coupons Li Xuan saw were New Year greeting coupons sent by ministers!
On New Year's Eve, according to the practice of previous years, the Holy Emperor held a Spring Festival state banquet to entertain officials, nobles, famous gentry entrepreneurs and other representatives!
The Spring Festival state banquet has become a tradition of the Tang Dynasty. It is held every year, and this year is no exception.
And this kind of thing that has become a routine has a whole set of procedures, and Li Xuan is too lazy to worry about it.
After eating the state banquet outside, Li Xuan returned to the harem, where there was still a family banquet waiting for him!
The number of people attending a royal family banquet is naturally not comparable to that of state banquets outside. There are only about a hundred people, well, most of them are Li Xuan's concubines!
Of course, ordinary concubines naturally have no sense of existence. The only ones who have a sense of existence are Li Xuan and his mother, Queen Mother Bai, and then there is Empress Dong, a dozen princes, and the biological mother of the princess. However, the biological mother of these nine princes and princesses
, not everyone has a sense of presence, for example, the fourth female concubine of the Emperor, her presence is not very good, sitting in the corner.
Because the concubine Xi was not from the Central Plains, but from Korea. In the eighth year of Xuanping, the Imperial Army of the Tang Dynasty invaded the Korean Peninsula. After entering the Korean Peninsula, the Imperial Army of the Tang Dynasty directly destroyed the remaining resistance of the Korean indigenous people, and then divided the Korean Peninsula into
The four prefectures are directly included in the jurisdiction of Liaodong Province.
Although the royal family of the Li family in the Korean Peninsula had been captured by the former King Myeonghye before the Tang Dynasty King invaded the Korean Peninsula, and all of them were massacred before the city of Ryugyong was broken, the Korean Peninsula has been a state of affairs for hundreds of years.
It maintained a high degree of independence, as was the case during the Ming Dynasty. Although it was ruled for a time during the Yuan Dynasty, it also maintained a high degree of independence.
There is no problem at all in letting them become a vassal state, but directly integrating them into the mainland still encounters resistance from many indigenous people!
In the subsequent series of immigration and suppression processes, they encountered resistance from many indigenous people, which made the immigration and integration process somewhat difficult. This was done in order to alleviate the resistance of local indigenous people and to promote the marriage policy.
Li Xuante secretly aimed to select a number of Goryeo women to enter the palace.
Selecting beautiful girls from unstable areas or certain groups to enter the palace as a sign of appeasement is also an old method often used by Li Xuan. He had done it many times during the Unification War, and it was naturally not the case in the Korean Peninsula.
Xi concubine is a beautiful Goryeo girl who entered the palace in the eighth year of Xuanping Dynasty.
After this beautiful Goryeo girl entered the palace, her luck was really good. Li Xuan just favored her as a routine when she first entered the palace, and she got pregnant!
You know, Li Xuan's body still has some problems. In the words of later generations, the sperm survival rate is a bit low, well, very low. If you want to get a harem woman pregnant, you often need to be favored many times. Otherwise, the harem woman
There are many, Li Xuan also likes to do that, and he likes the new and hates the old, and the concubines in the harem are not stupid enough to use contraception.
If they were normal people, their children would have already exceeded 100!
It would be like it is now, with only four sons and five daughters in total!
After she became pregnant and gave birth to the fourth daughter of the emperor, she was granted the title of concubine, but her status was still not high.
Because Li Xuan likes the new and hates the old, and his vision is getting higher and higher. Don't expect him to be favored a second time even if you are not a stunning beauty. Although this concubine's appearance and figure are also the best choice, there is still a gap between her and others, such as Kang Fei.
Yes, the difference is not limited to appearance and body, but also in terms of talent.
In the past few years, Li Xuan's favorite concubine has been Concubine Kang of the Song family, the biological mother of the third son of the emperor Li Xuan (suo third tone). This Song family is the true daughter of a large family from a scholarly family in the south of the Yangtze River. She is excellent in all aspects of music, chess, calligraphy and painting.
, let alone the temperament that is unique to ladies, and this person is also very good at dancing, um, taking off her clothes.
She also has a unique skill in playing the flute. It is very pleasant to listen to her playing a piece of music when you have nothing to do. After listening to the music, you can also let her continue to taste Li Xuan's meat flute.
Such a woman must have good looks, figure, temperament, talent, and unique dancing and flute skills, so she was naturally favored by Li Xuan.
Although Concubine Kang was favored by Li Xuan and had a good status in the palace, she still had to look at the faces of several other women in the palace.
The first one is naturally Empress Dowager Bai. She is Li Xuan. She sits in the harem with the dignity of the Empress Dowager. Even Empress Dong, the mother of the country, behaves as well-behaved as a little sheep in front of her.
The second one is Empress Dong. As the mother of the Tang Empire, she was the only empress to be canonized through formal etiquette. Although Empress Dowager Bai was also a empress, she did not do anything in the early days of the late emperor when the empire was first established and the conditions were simple.
A formal canonization ceremony, so strictly speaking, Empress Dong is the only queen in the Tang Empire who has undergone a formal canonization ceremony.
In addition, Empress Dong was also the only woman among Li Xuan's concubines who gave birth to three children in a row. The other women all had only one child. Empress Dong gave birth to the emperor's eldest daughter and the emperor's third daughter in the early years. , she finally lived up to expectations and gave birth to a leading son, the fourth son of the emperor, Li Hao (hao fourth tone, Tong Hao).
The Tang Empire is still a traditional feudal dynasty. Although so far, Li Xuan has not clearly stipulated whether the inheritance system of the throne is the direct line system or the meritocracy system, the current aristocratic inheritance system of the Tang Dynasty is a typical direct line system. Under the eldest son system, if a certain nobleman has a legitimate son, the empire will not approve the nobleman's concubine's status as heir apparent, let alone inherit the title.
This means that, based on the current inheritance system of the advanced aristocrats of the Tang Empire, although the fourth son Li Hao, born to Empress Dong, is only over one year old, he can't even speak well and likes to crawl all over the floor. This little guy will most likely be the future crown prince of the empire and the heir to the Li Xuan throne.
As for the probability that other princes can inherit the throne, it is not high for the time being.
Of course, it is quite difficult for children these days to grow up healthily, even for the royal family. Even if Li Xuan has taken all the protective measures, whether it is the delivery room or post-birth care, etc. Therefore, it is the highest level he can achieve, which is basically comprehensive disinfection. All kinds of recipes and prescriptions need to be reviewed by him, but even so, this kind of thing is still inevitable.
There had been two dystocias in the past few years, and at the end of last year, Li Xuan lost his first child in two lives. The fifth daughter of the emperor died a month after she was born!
Faced with this kind of thing, Li Xuan was also extremely helpless. A large group of imperial doctors and even the teachers and students of the Department of Medicine at the Royal Institute of Technology were all helpless.
The birth, old age, illness and death caused by the lack of medical conditions will not be changed just because he is the emperor.
Now, no one can guarantee, not even Li Xuan himself, that his children can grow up safely.
Under such a general environment, it is really uncertain who among the four existing princes of Li Xuan will inherit the throne in the end.
If Li Xuan lives long enough and lives to the age of seventy or eighty, then Li Xuan may have all his sons to death, and the one who can inherit the throne in the end, let’s not talk about other things, but it must be The prince who was still alive at that time!
Many emperors in history actually became emperors because they were born late and lived long enough. Jiaqing is the most obvious example. This man was born late. When he was born, many of his brothers had already been tortured by Qianlong. died.
When Qianlong wanted to establish a crown prince in his old age and abdicate, only six of Qianlong's seventeen sons were still alive, two of them were adopted by side clans, and only four were left to compete with Jiaqing. These four were under Qianlong's control It seems that they are all useless. If there were others, Qianlong would not want to establish any of them, but there was no way, there were only four people left.
Therefore, the tallest one could only be selected from among the short ones. This is why Jiaqing was able to inherit the throne!
Li Xuan doesn't know how long he can live, but although his body is not too strong, it is still relatively healthy. Although he indulges in lust, he has been restrained in recent years and will not go too far. At the same time, it is also the beginning Deliberately exercise and maintain your body.
He felt that he could live to be forty or fifty years old. If he was lucky, he might be able to live to be sixty or seventy years old.
In this case, he really has a very high probability of killing some of his older sons.
Therefore, no one can say whether the four princes here can inherit the throne. Li Xuan himself is not sure!