Chapter 47: The founding of the country without a major case
Li Laiheng was lying high in the palace, quietly listening to Li Yuan's report. He knew all the important things in the palace, the capital, and the world in his heart and in his hands.
Not long after Li Yuan was transferred back from Jiangnan, he also brought back a lot of information about Jiangnan:
It is mainly about the struggle between the gentry and the villagers who resist tax and rent.
These struggles have become more and more intense since the Taicang case, and they have not completely stopped yet. It’s just that the gentry no longer dare to directly raise troops to rebel like they did when the Taicang case just broke out, but have adopted a more tolerant and neutral approach.
,Resist the Dashun policy.
The local officials in Dashun continued to uphold the spirit of fighting one faction against another, and continued to provide policy favoritism and judicial protection to villagers, farmers, and militiamen, supporting them to defeat the powerful rural sages at the village level.
local hegemony.
For a time, the countryside in the south of the Yangtze River was filled with bloodshed. Various small-scale armed fights occurred, and it was not surprising that dozens of them occurred a day.
In such a fierce struggle environment, the wise villagers with a keen sense of smell have long sold their properties and houses in the countryside and moved to the city. Other smarter people have long seen Dashun's determination to restrain annexation.
He has begun to use all his own capital to purchase shops and factories.
After all, in this aspect, Dashun not only does not inhibit the merger and development of wealthy merchants, but also provides various policy preferences and protection for the operations of wealthy merchants.
Which one is light and which one is heavy? A smart person will definitely be able to figure it out clearly.
There are only some people who lack the energy to move to the city and lack the capital and talent to run industry and commerce. Their wealth basically relies on the hegemony of rural clans.
In this way, we can only stay in the countryside no matter what, and fight to the death with those armed and unruly people.
But Li Laiheng didn't care about this.
After hearing Li Yuan's report that since the beginning of this year, more than a hundred people have died due to armed fighting in various provinces south of the Yangtze River, he nodded and said:
"This is great! The number of people who died is many times less than last year. It seems that the epidemic in Jiangnan has stopped in the past few months.
You have done a good job, this is how the Zhenfu Department should handle things."
Li Laiheng was leaning on the bed. Judging from the look on his face, it was probably not a lie that he felt cold. But similarly, Li Laiheng's condition would definitely not deteriorate to the point where he could not go to court or even meet with important ministers.
He was just playing some trick to lure the snake out of its hole.
Li Yuan lowered his head and complained secretly in his heart.
The emperor himself could see it clearly. After Li Laiheng inspected all the documents, he sighed:
"There are no people behind Prince Zhao's palace. They are just some scientific and technical officials. They are useless and don't even have any soldiers. How can they still think about making decisions? How ridiculous."
The Shun Dynasty was an imperial country, and it was still a patriarchal country with a feudal nature, rather than a country with popular sovereignty.
Li Laiheng knew this very well, but he still needed to suppress the royal family of the Shun Dynasty. After all, the Ming Dynasty had set a very bad reference example before, but Li Zijing was Taizu's biological brother. There was no good reason for Li Laiheng to
It is also inconvenient to handle.
Now, as for Prince Zhao's Mansion, Li Laiheng was a little surprised that he jumped out so easily.
He was originally worried about who supported and instigated King Zhao to be so bold.
In the end, Long Yiwei checked and found out that they were just some officials admonishing officials. What kind of situation could this lead to? It's ridiculous.
All of Fang Yiren's arrangements were also seen by Li Laiheng. The emperor was a little relieved. After all, most of the ministers in the court were prudent people, and there was nothing to worry about in the world.
Even if King Zhao jumped out to seek death, the emperor had no intention of killing people. He just happened to send this royal faction to Tianbao Mansion to guard the mausoleum to prevent anyone from having random thoughts.
He thought about it again and realized that the female official who had been ordered to wait outside the house with a pen had recently copied the imperial edict:
"I want to crown Xuan Ye as the King of Chu, and Xuan Yu will also be promoted to the Prince... Well, Xuan Yu will be crowned the King of Qi."
This incident of Zhao Wang Li Zijing made Li Laiheng think more about his successor. However, after careful examination, he still did not directly appoint his eldest son Xuan Ye as the prince, but instead named him the king of Chu.
In the history of Dashun, there were already king titles of King Qin and kings of Jin, so it is inconvenient to use them again.
Chu and Qi were both great states in ancient times, so they first granted it to their two sons.
Xuan Ye and Xuan Yu, both still in their infancy, were already crowned kings at this time.
This is something that cannot be done. After all, since Li Laiheng wants to suppress Li Zijing's family, the number of members of the royal family will naturally be very thin and sparse. If he has any shortcomings in the future, wouldn't the imperial power be extremely weak?
We had no choice but to pave the way for Xuan Ye and the others as soon as possible.
As for how many years these children will be successors in the future, it depends on how long Li Laiheng can live.
He originally planned to start a major case and start a killing spree following the incident in Prince Zhao's palace, but Fang Yiren's various arrangements and actions finally made Li Laiheng feel relieved.
"Since ancient times, the difficulty of winning the world has never been as great as that of a person who has great success... Taizu and Taizong all followed a difficult path. They did not rely on the power of the previous dynasty, but started their business completely from scratch. After a hundred battles, they became one of the best in the world.
In my hands, with the combined efforts of three generations, the world was unified - and the two generations of emperors either died on the battlefield or died due to battle injuries. Such a tragic scene of the founding of the country has never been seen since ancient times.
Already."
The founding war of Dashun had wiped out all kinds of old forces, and the break with the previous dynasty was also unprecedented.
The important ministers and generals of the two generations of Taizu and Taizong have sacrificed countless things. It can even be said that up to now, there is no one like Han Xin in the Shun Dynasty, there is not even a figure like Lan Yu.
The most authoritative ministers and those who might challenge Li Laiheng's power structure, such as Liu Zongmin, Tian Jianxiu, Zhang Nai, Niu Jinxing, etc., all left the scene one after another.
Seriously speaking, the person with the most status today is probably Gao Yigong.
After all, Gao Yigong was at least a relative, and he was also a duke and a powerful commander.
But Gao Yigong was a very low-key person, and Li Laiheng knew his temperament very well, and knew that Gao Yigong could be said to be one of the least ambitious people in Chuangying Yuancong.
This kind of person was able to intimidate the Yongli court with tens of thousands of troops. Gao Yigong's choice was to hand over all the remnants of the Shun army to the Yongli court of the Southern Ming Dynasty to help the small court deal with the various warlords vying for power.
princes.
How could Li Laiheng not be worried about such a selfless person?
"The matter of Prince Zhao's Mansion will be revealed lightly..." Li Laiheng said with a smile, "My condition has recovered. Alas! There is no one behind King Zhao. It's a pity that this matter has been lightly revealed. The court still cares about the Northern Expedition.
Let’s fight!”
Li Yuan was a little frightened when he heard it below. When he walked out of the door, he felt that the clothes on his back were completely soaked with sweat.
What a pity?
What do the two regrets mentioned by the emperor mean?
Li Yuan had to be glad that there was really no one behind Zhao Wang Li Zijing, and he was also glad that the arrangements and measures made by Fang Yiren satisfied the emperor. Otherwise, these two regrets would have turned into a bloody storm, and there would be no one to know
How many people were buried in it.
There were no major events in the founding of the country.
Will it be a good thing or a bad thing for Shun Chao?
Li Yuan was not sure, but he thought that the emperor was as young as Li Shimin. Perhaps the emperor could rely on his age advantage to gradually make the founding heroes naturally fade away from the stage of history...