Chapter 2139 The first official of the empire: Chen Lifu
Chen Lifu wanted to become the first minister of the Xuanping Dynasty, surpassing Liu Bagou, Li Chunjing and other founding fathers.
And considering that the Tang Empire has always remained extremely powerful from the beginning to the present, and it also created the first industrial revolution in human history. The steam ships and trains built by the Tang people traveled all over the world.
Footprints spread all over the world.
The territory of the Tang Empire reached an unprecedented level in human history, and even something that no one before us could even imagine.
And the Holy Emperor became the most accomplished monarch in human history, and even redefined the title Holy Emperor, so that now the three words Holy Emperor have become exclusive to Li Xuan.
Under such a great emperor, in the heyday of Xuanping in the Tang Dynasty, it was very difficult to become a famous minister. But to become the first famous minister in the contemporary era, Liu Bagou and Li Chunjing were completely surpassed.
While waiting for the title of founding father of the Republic of China, Chen Lifu felt that he had not done enough.
Far from enough!
In the past few decades, Chen Lifu has done a lot of things, and his main achievements that are praised by others include taxation work in the early period and a series of administrative affairs in Shanghai, Songjiang Prefecture, and Guangdong in the later period. In his early years as an official, Chen Lifu
What he did was relatively successful, but this kind of success could only allow him to return to Gyeonggi and enter the imperial study room, but it was far from being able to make him a famous contemporary minister.
After all, those who can enter the imperial study, whether they are ministers on duty or ministers on duty, are those who do not have outstanding military exploits or political achievements. Without dazzling military exploits or political achievements, they cannot even touch the threshold of the imperial study. In the past decades of the Tang Dynasty,
How many imperial study ministers are there?
There have been more than 80 ministers on duty alone. Generally speaking, one or two people will become new ministers on duty every year, and at the same time, there will also be old ministers on duty.
If you include the walking ministers, there will be even more, at least a few hundred.
Therefore, relying on early achievements to enter the imperial study room is certainly a level that many people cannot reach in their lifetime, but it is still not enough for Chen Lifu, far from it!
He wants more!
However, after entering the imperial study room, he could only do his own work most of the time, which was to preside over the development of economic and industrial affairs.
In this field, he devoted himself to research and came up with economic development plans and global economic integration.
This is also his greatest political achievement. Relying on this political achievement, he also managed to keep the senior ministers on duty in the imperial study until they retired from office.
Chen Lifu finally got his wish and became the most senior minister on duty in the Imperial Study Room, and became the real and unnamed head minister on duty in the Imperial Study Room.
If this had been the pre-Ming Dynasty, Chen Lifu would have been the actual chief minister of the cabinet.
At this time, Chen Lifu was also thinking about how to accomplish something big enough to make him the number one minister in the Xuanping Dynasty during the few years he had been the actual head of the imperial study room.
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Develop industrial, commercial and economic affairs?
This is his old profession, and he has been doing it, but this is not enough!
In many aspects, it is actually very difficult for the contemporary Tang Dynasty to make any major breakthroughs. Many things do not even need to be done specifically. If you follow the trend and develop step by step, you can reach a huge height.
And no one would regard the development of the entire society as his contribution to Chen Lifu.
For decades after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, important ministers in the imperial study appeared one after another. Even the nameless foreman of the ministers on duty in the imperial study, after Liu Bagou and Chen Lifu, there were seven other people among them.
During the tenure of these people who presided over the imperial study, they also achieved a lot. Whether it was domestic development or external expansion, they all did a lot of great things.
In other dynasties, any one of them would be able to brag about it for hundreds of years.
But in the Tang Dynasty and in the Xuanping Dynasty, their reputation was actually just like that. In the eyes of many people in the Tang Dynasty, they were important ministers of the empire, well, that was it.
Don't blame the people of the empire for their high demands. There are actually too many famous ministers and generals in the empire. There are at least hundreds of founding fathers who can be named. There are at least twenty or thirty famous ministers and generals who are well-known to the world.
Woolen cloth.
And among the many famous ministers and generals, there was one who pulled up the Tang Empire with his shit and piss, and swore to support the Li Dynasty for two generations of emperors, all the way from Lijiazhuang to Huangzhushan and then to the unification of China, watching the Tang Dynasty
Liu Bagou who is fighting for global supremacy!
In addition, the Holy Emperor himself also admired Liu Bagou very much. He praised Liu Bagou many times in public as a model of a courtier in the new era!
A model minister in the new era!
This is the attribution given to Liu Bagou by the Holy Emperor!
When Liu Bagou celebrated his 80th birthday, Emperor Sheng made an exception and came to congratulate him in person, telling the story of a wise king and a wise minister for the entire empire!
This also pushed Liu Bagou, who was in his octogenarian years and had been bedridden for a long time since last year, relying on the empire's skilled doctors and countless expensive medicines to take his last breath, to the height of the first minister of the contemporary Tang Dynasty.
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It is extremely difficult for others to overshadow Liu Bagou's reputation!
However, Chen Lifu was unwilling to give in!
That Liu Bagou was just a fortune teller who had some bad luck. If he hadn't met the Holy Emperor a few years earlier, he would be where he is today.
To put it bluntly, any other person who followed the Holy Emperor would have gained such a great reputation back then.
Well, at this time Chen Lifu habitually ignored Wang Wenhua, Qian Mengjiu and other civil servants in the early Huang Zhushan era.
In fact, it was not ignored. Chen Lifu just ignored them. They were more embarrassed than Liu Bagou.
Vulgar fortune tellers like Liu Bagou can become famous ministers of the empire. Why can't he Chen Lifu? Why can't he surpass Liu Bagou and become the first famous minister of the empire?
Chen Lifu is unwilling to give in!
Since he is not willing to give in, he needs to do something.
Taking advantage of the fact that he has become the actual foreman in the imperial study, and that he is still a few years away from becoming an official, he wants to do something big enough to make himself famous, surpassing Liu Bagou in one fell swoop, and becoming the first in the Tang Dynasty.
Important matters for the minister.
That is to write a letter and promote global unification!
Because he had gone through many possibilities, he found that it was already difficult for him to surpass the other party in conventional ways, and even many things were taken for granted by people and they didn't think it was a big deal.
For example, although he has done a very high job in developing industry and commerce, no one thinks that this is his credit...
For the current plan, there is only one way to arouse the attention of the people and establish oneself to jump out from a group of important ministers of the empire and become the number one minister of the empire.
That is to promote and unify the world!
This is definitely a great achievement that has never been done before, and most likely will be unprecedented!
When future generations talk about the Xuanping era, they will say that the Holy Emperor unified the world. Then who assisted the Holy Emperor to unify the world?
It's him!
Chen Lifu!
For this reason, after careful consideration and preparation for a long time, in the winter of December of the 46th year of Xuanping, Chen Lifu formally submitted a letter, requesting to recover the lost land around the world!
In the memorial, Chen Lifu reiterated that all the territory around the world belonged to the great Holy Emperor. In the past, he was just too lazy to take care of it and allowed the indigenous people to steal it. But now, with the gradual increase of imperial subjects, the existing territories are overwhelmed, so it is time to
The lost land was brought back to resettle the people.
The whole world is not the royal land, it’s time to show the royal favor to many overseas areas again!