Although the Holy Emperor Li Xuan is thirty-eight years old this year, his body is very healthy. Li Xuan pays attention to exercise and balanced nutrition all year round. Even though he is a concubine who often favors the harem, his health has always been relatively good.
Well, it’s just that my fertility is not that good.
If ordinary people like Li Xuan interacted frequently with concubines, and if the entire harem had more than two hundred concubines, after more than 20 years of hard work, the children would probably be dozens or even hundreds older, but
Li Xuan worked so hard, but now he only has eight sons in total. In the past two years, only one prince was born, the ninth son, but the eighth prince died of cold last year.
There were only twelve princesses in total, and two of them died in infancy.
Even the royal family cannot avoid the invasion of diseases. There are actually several concubines and princes and princesses who died due to dystocia in recent years. It is just because they did not survive that they were not sorted. Those who are sorted are all after the full moon.
Prince and princess.
After calculation, Li Xuan now has eight princes and ten princesses.
As for how many of them will reach adulthood, this is also unknown.
Even if Prince Li Hao can survive to adulthood, it is still unknown. Even if he becomes an adult, whether he can survive Li Xuan in the future is also unknown.
Because although Prince Li Hao's body cannot be said to be frail and sickly, he has the physique of an ordinary person and is not very strong. It is probably due to the influence of his mother, Empress Dong, that he was relatively thin when he was young. Later, he gradually grew up, although he has
Improved, but not that great.
Even if such people take good care of themselves, how long they can live is a big question mark.
By that time, if the prince dies before Li Xuan, no matter whether the prince leaves an heir or not, the empire will probably be in turmoil.
Zhu Di of the former Ming Dynasty seized the throne. This is an example that everyone knows.
To take a step back, in order to prevent this situation, Li Xuan should have raised many princes like pigs. No matter how bad the situation was, he would not be able to grant these princes real titles. However, Li Xuan chose to give his own princes the power to grant partial titles and allowed them to do so.
They formed a certain number of royal guards, and also had the power to distribute taxes in the fiefdom.
This also gave many princes the idea that if there were changes in the future, they could hope to take over the imperial capital and become the new emperor of the empire.
The thoughts of the Holy Emperor Li Xuan are actually not as complicated as outsiders speculate. His thoughts are actually quite simple.
Even if a prince rebels in the future, he will be far away overseas. The overseas territories will be able to stand up to the sky and become an independent country. However, it is wishful thinking to counterattack the mainland of the empire.
The Imperial Navy and Imperial Army are enough to dissuade any feudal king from crossing the sea to attack the mainland!
As for both the Imperial Navy and the Imperial Army, they chose to betray the Crown Prince and his heir. What else is there to say? It means that the Crown Prince and his heir are unqualified. Li Xuan does not have to let the Crown Prince inherit the throne.
The king introduced him to the imperial capital and Li Xuan did not mind becoming the second Zhu Di.
To put it bluntly, Li Xuan's measures may seem like establishing a direct heir, but they also give other princes a certain hope. In the end, the most capable prince will have the last laugh.
To a certain extent, this is an indirect promotion of merit.
As for whether there will be rebellion and independence in a hundred or even hundreds of years, Li Xuan doesn't care. Again, independence is a big deal. Anyway, no matter it is America or Australia, all the people living there will be the emperor's sons.
The people and the royal family are all descendants of Li Xuan. If they are independent, they will be independent.
Maybe the next World War on this earth will be fought between his descendants.
That kind of scene is very likely to occur, and Li Xuan is not averse to the occurrence of such a scene.
Li Xuan's mentality is actually quite similar to that of a rogue who doesn't care about the flood after I die!
At most, he was interfering in the choices and related policies of the second generation of emperors after his death, but when it came to the third or even fourth generation, they would do whatever they wanted, and he didn't bother to interfere.
What he wants to build is a huge empire that will unify the world, but Li Xuan has never pursued a thousand-year empire!
Even if the empire that unified the world immediately fell apart after his death, he actually didn't care much.
Li Xuan's attitude also left Li Xuan thinking about it, and he was making preparations from now on.
He put a lot of effort into recruiting officials in the palace, and at the same time he also managed his own positive image among the government and the public. What kind of image was he, a role that was neither good nor bad, unnoticeable, but not forgettable.
If you attract attention, you will die quickly, and if you are forgotten, you will be marginalized. Only in the middle, where you are not too noticeable and not marginalized, is the best position.
What Li Tian has done in the past two years is the product of this kind of thinking.
Now that he sees the American fleet setting sail, although he says it is a pity, he is not happy if you want him to go to America. Why, although America is good in many ways, there is one bad thing, and it is no matter what
They are all inferior to the Fuso Islands, because of the distance!
How far is Fuso from the mainland of the empire?
The Tsushima Strait is only a few dozen kilometers long!
Crossing the Tsushima Strait, you can return to the Busan Port on the Korea Peninsula in the empire's homeland. According to the empire's national railway plan, sooner or later a railway will be built on the Korea Peninsula and then connected to the Northeast Railway network. By then, it will be able to travel all the way
Take a train from Busan Port directly to Jinling City, the imperial capital.
Even if you travel by sea and land, you can start from Osumi Prefecture, pass through the Ryukyu Islands, and then go straight to Shanghai. The entire sea journey will only take a few days.
As for America, it is thousands of miles away all the way east. Even if you take a steam speedboat now, you have to bump on the sea for two or three months. Even if the technology develops in the future, it will probably take more than half a month or even a month.
It takes time to cross the Pacific.
Such a long distance was not only able to defeat the American vassal kings' attempts to attack the mainland of the empire militarily. It is estimated that by the time Li Bian knew that the Holy Emperor Li Xuan had passed away, he, Li Xuan, would have already returned to the imperial capital early and was sitting there.
The dragon chair is on the throne!
Therefore, in Li Yan's eyes, it is not important whether the fiefdom is rich or not. What is important is that it is close and can quickly return to the imperial capital!
It would be better if it was a place where there were not too many savages or dysentery, the climate was somewhat suitable for living, a certain economy could be developed, and there were financial resources to support a certain number of troops.
The Fuso Islands are obviously such a good place!
Today, Li Tian is eagerly waiting for the empire to officially land and annex Fuso. Unfortunately, although the empire has successively annexed many areas of the Fuso Islands, such as Ezo Island, Osumi Islands, and other islands
, but there has been no action on the four major islands of the Fuso Archipelago.
If it weren't for his status, and also to avoid attracting the attention of others, he would have personally intervened to let the empire annex the Fuso Islands as much as possible.
It's a pity that he can't intervene in this kind of thing, and he doesn't have the courage to intervene!
So now, he can only dream about becoming the queen of the Fuso clan, and he doesn't even have the guts to think about how to develop the Fuso Islands.
Because the vassal kings had no administrative rights in their fiefdoms, not at all. All they had was the right to tax and distribute dividends, and this power was not stated explicitly, but was reflected in the salary.
The salary of the imperial vassal princes mainly comes from two aspects. On the one hand, he receives a fixed salary according to his title. The Prince of Qi is the highest-ranking prince, and his annual princely salary is 18,000 yuan.
In addition, part of the King of Qi's salary is fief salary. The so-called fief salary means that a part of the fief's tax revenue is extracted as fief salary.
For example, the current fiefdom of the King of Qi is only one county, Dayu County. The total annual tax revenue of this county is about 150,000 yuan, and the King of Qi can obtain 1% of the fiefdom salary, which is 1,500 yuan.
This one percent ratio is also the highest ratio set by Li Xuan himself. No noble, whether a clan or an ordinary noble, can receive more than this ratio in fief salary.
Moreover, according to Li Xuan's plan, in subsequent actual operations, the fiefdom salaries that the nobles can receive will be even lower, because Li Xuan plans to adopt a 'overlapping enfeoffment system'.
For example, the fiefdom of an earl may be within the fiefdom of a prince or a county king. In this case, the fiefdom salary received by the earl is included in one percent of the prince's fiefdom salary.
To put it bluntly, the prince and the earl share one percent of the fief salary, and this can be extended to other low-level nobles in turn.
In addition, any noble's fiefdom and fiefdom salary ratio need to be specially designated by the emperor. No nobleman, including princes, does not have the power to grant or deprive others of the title, fiefdom salary, and ratio.
This was also a way for Li Xuan to provide relief to the nobles who controlled overseas territories. Although he gave them part of the fief tax, he also included nobles at all levels together to dilute these fief salaries.
Moreover, the emperor can divide the feudal lords according to his wishes. For example, if a noble is dissatisfied, he can seal off a large number of low-level nobles from his fief, and then dilute his fief's salary.
If the King of Qi controls the Fusang Islands in the future, there will also be fiefdoms of dukes, marquises, earls, and viscounts in Fusang. These fiefdoms actually overlap with the fiefdoms of the King of Qi, and each noble can obtain the fiefdom salary.