Great Tang Southern Emperor

"By the way, I haven't congratulated my concubine for making a step forward and being promoted to empress."

"Hey, don't say these polite words. Concubine Mother is tired of hearing them." Concubine Yan smiled and waved her hands: "Let's talk about something serious, did your father give you a letter?"

Li Zhen naturally knew what she was asking, and admitted: "I have already said it, just after your concubine concubine's conferment ceremony."

Sure enough, upon hearing Li Zhen's words, Concubine Yan burst into a smile: "Mother and Concubine just said, there is no one in this world who can afford the position of Crown Prince except you."

Although Concubine Yan has nothing to do with the world, it doesn't mean that opportunities are presented to her, and she won't fight for them either.

The current situation is that among all Li Shimin's sons, Li Zhen's talent is the most outstanding. It's just that the prince Li Chengqian was still there before. Concubine Yan became more and more worried.

Because once it is Li Chengqian who succeeds in the end, the relationship between him and Li Zhen will definitely not tolerate the existence of Li Zhen, let alone Li Zhen's talent, no matter which emperor he is, it is unacceptable. There are endless.

Then in the face of Li Chengqian's threat, Li Zhen has no choice but to resist if she wants to survive—although Li Zhen has a high possibility of winning this war, Concubine Yan doesn't want her son to bear a burden that is similar to her own. The same infamy as her husband.

Fortunately, there is no such thing as an absolute road, and when Concubine Yan was secretly worried about Li Zhen's future, something went wrong on Li Chengqian's side—because of speaking rudely and pushing out his brothers, these behaviors violated Li Shimin's taboo, and he directly wrote The imperial edict deposed Li Chengqian.

Concubine Yan's worries were all gone - as she said, among the princes of the Manchu Dynasty, besides Li Zhen, who else is qualified to be the prince?

"Mother and concubine won the prize."

"..."

Chapter 695 The princes came to visit

Chapter 58 The princes came to visit

After talking with Concubine Yan for a while, Li Zhen left the Lizheng Hall—although he is not in Lingnan, his daily workload has not decreased at all, and there are still many tasks that cannot be separated from him, and he needs to preside over them. .

But different from when he came, this time when he went back, Li Zhen went back alone. As for the two cute babies Li Zhao and Li Huang, Li Shimin and Concubine Yan stayed behind very domineeringly.

Li Zhen wanted to argue with them, but the two of them kicked Li Zhen out very arbitrarily, and gave a very strong reason - what do you two young couples know about taking care of children?It is best for children to be taken care of by us. Your most important task now is to give us more grandchildren, and you don’t need to worry about anything else.

Li Zhen hides her face and flees...

Sure enough, the most unreasonable people in this world are parents.

If you reason with them, if they fight with you, if you fight with them, then they... uh... they will call you unfilial...

In short, no matter how you tell them, you are unreasonable...

Returning to the palace dejectedly, Li Zhen saw a group of unexpected guests: "Eldest brother and three brothers... Nine brothers and ten brothers... Why are you here? This is really rare, we haven't been together for a long time."

The people who came were Li Zhen's older brothers and younger brothers, from Li Chengqian to the youngest Li Ming, they were all waiting for him in the front yard: "Why don't you go sit in the living room, why are you waiting for me here? , why isn't Mei Niang here? This is really rude."

"You are welcome, eighth brother. We have just arrived. My younger brothers and sisters are in the backyard with your sister-in-law and younger siblings." Li Chengqian waved his hand: "We have nothing else to do when we come to see eighth brother this time, but eleventh brother and the others want to ask eighth brother Brother confirms one thing..."

"There are a lot of people here, so I'll talk about these things later." Li Zhen probably understood what these people meant, and greeted: "Anyway, let's go into the room and talk about it. If you have any problems, I will definitely tell you everything."

Came to the living room, served fragrant tea, Li Zhen said with a smile: "Speaking of which, we brothers haven't gathered so well for a long time, it's a pity that the second brother, the eleventh brother and the twelfth brother are gone, otherwise it would be more perfect , but there is no way to do it. Anyway, this is a rare thing, since everyone is here, don’t leave today, the younger brother will cook for himself tonight, let’s have a good gathering.”

Maybe it's because of Li Zhen, except for the three who died early due to illness, all the damned princes in history are still alive and kicking, and even some bastard problems have not appeared - such as Li You and Li Ah, these two should be the two most assholes among Li Shimin's sons, but because of Li Zhen's secret guidance, although their temperament is still the same, they rarely harm the people.Instead, they aimed more at the aristocratic nobles, and on the contrary, the aristocratic families in the fief were severely affected.In this way, although someone also sued them, after investigation, Li Shimin only gave a little punishment symbolically, but in his heart, not only did he not hate them, but he was very satisfied with their performance. The fact that Li Yin and Li You gave him a wonderful gift at his birthday banquet was just a light slap in the face, and they didn't punish him too much.

"Brother, don't be in a hurry about the party. I just want to ask one thing when I come here." Li Ming, who is the youngest and most impatient, jumped out: "Since we are all here together, if you want to come, you should also Knowing the purpose of our pulling, let's open the skylight and speak plainly, starling, listen to the brothers and the others, are you planning to restart the enfeoffment system and enfeoff the land to our brothers? Is this true?"

"..." As soon as these words came out, the whole living room fell silent, and everyone looked at Li Zhen.

The people standing around waiting were sweating profusely with fright. They seemed to have heard something extraordinary. Will we be silenced?

Li Zhen frowned, and told the left and right: "You all go out, and no one is allowed to spread today's words, or be careful with your heads."

"Yes." As if there were hungry wolves chasing after them, they all ran out in a panic, and a few people almost collided with each other in order to fight for the road. Li Zhen was speechless because of his embarrassment. is it scary?

"Come here, send people to guard this place. No one is allowed to approach within a radius of ten feet, otherwise they will be killed without mercy."

"Yes." A muffled voice came from behind, short but powerful, and then there was no more sound.

But through the faint footsteps, everyone knew that martial law had been imposed here, and the following conversation should be guaranteed.

"Okay, now we can talk about it." After confirming the confidentiality of the conversation, Li Zhen turned around: "Fourteenth brother, are you serious, can this kind of thing be said in front of people? Fortunately, my palace It is one of our own, otherwise if we have to spread it to the outside world, it might cause some chaos.”

"That's right, Fourteenth Brother, it's better not to talk about this kind of topic in the future." Li Chengqian also said: "If this word reaches the ears of those old Xues outside, I don't know what they will say."

Li You also snorted and said, "Especially if you let the emperor know, maybe you will have other ideas. By then, we may not even have such a small fiefdom."

"Shut up." Li Ke reprimanded: "How can anyone arrange father emperor like this? From now on, please tell me less about such things, or don't blame me for being rude."

"Okay, okay, third brother, don't bother with them." Li Tai pretended to be a good old man, and begged for everyone: "Everyone is waiting too impatiently, as long as you get the letter from the eighth brother, you will be satisfied. Anxiety will naturally calm down—you think so, right? Eighth brother?"

"Okay, everyone shut up and listen to me." Li Zhen stopped everyone from arguing and said, "I know the purpose of your coming, so let me tell you clearly, as long as I can... Then what, the fiefdom is naturally indispensable to you, I can assure you here, if you still don’t believe it, we can make papers—in fact, there is no need for papers, the world is too big, if all of them are written down , the imperial court alone cannot rule, so enfeoffment is a must."

"Phew." With Li Zhen's assurance, everyone was finally relieved. After thinking about it carefully, it was indeed as Li Zhen said, the world is too big to be ruled. It's imperative, and you can understand it when you think about it.

Chapter 696

Chapter 59 Envelope

"There's no need for written evidence. We still trust myna's integrity, but myna, I heard from my elder brother, can you let us choose fiefs?" Li Fu asked, and his question was what Li Shen and others wanted to know the most. Although I already got the answer from Li Chengqian, but I didn't get Li Zhen's personal approval after all, I still felt a little uneasy - after all, the conditions are too good, if I choose some fertile land by myself, will Li Zhen still agree?

"I did say that, but I also said that you can choose your own territory, but it's up to me to agree or not." Li Zhen corrected: "After all, some places have too high strategic value, and these places are too important for Datang. It's important, how can I safely hand it over to others? It's better to hold it in my own hands. But if I veto it, you can choose again until I can admit it."

"That's not bad." Although what Li Zhen said was ugly, everyone unexpectedly accepted it, and he didn't say that he was loyal to the court and would never rebel. I put these places in my hands and the court They said the same thing in their hands—please, we are all grown-ups, so don't embarrass yourself by saying such childish words.

Indeed, you may be loyal to the court yourself, but can you guarantee that your sons and grandchildren will still recognize the court?In case he wants to be independent on a whim—you must know that he occupies a strategic location. Generally, such a place is related to the stability of a large area around him. It’s fine if independence fails, but if it succeeds, everyone Tang Ke is about to lose the right to rule a large piece of land.

So there is no need to say more about these polite words, saying them will only lower your IQ in the eyes of everyone.

Li Fu asked again: "Then starling, do you mean that these feudal states can be passed on to the descendants?"

"Of course you can, but the premise is that you must recognize the status of the suzerain of the Tang Dynasty, otherwise..." Li Zhen raised his eyes and glanced around: "Don't blame me as a brother for not being sympathetic."

"It's natural, it's natural." Li Fu was frightened by Li Zhen's eyes, and nodded while wiping away his cold sweat.

"So, big brother, your fief has already been laid down?" Li Yin suddenly said with envy: "A full quarter of Tianzhu, eighth brother, you are a little too generous, right? Now you are only number one. It’s just generational, if you are so generous, then when our descendants are born, won’t we have to entrust such a large place? The land in this world is so big, and there will always be a day when all the entrustments are finished. What will you tell our descendants to do when the time comes? ?”

Although Li Yin's words were full of jealousy, his real meaning was to remind Li Zhen that you are too generous now, and you have set a bad head for future generations. What do you want future generations to do?

It can be seen from this that Li Yin is not an idiot, and he is even very smart, but he didn't use his smartness on the right ground before. I believe that when he has a fief in the future, he should change his temper a little.

"There is no way to do this. After all, Tianzhu is a poor and remote place. If you don't give him a little older brother, he may not be willing to go." Li Zhen glanced at Li Yin gratefully, but in fact, this point has long been known. Thinking about it, that is - Tweeting Order.

That's right, even though the distribution of enfeoffments is still a castle in the air, Li Zhen has already thought of a way to restrict these enfeoffments, that is, the Tweet Order, which was the unique trick of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty back then. After successfully dividing the major vassal states into small countries, the threat of the vassals will be automatically eliminated. This is also one of Li Zhen's administrative policies that can be seen as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Moreover, this move is an open conspiracy, even if the princes can see through it and want to refuse it.

These big men are so high above, which one doesn't have a few sons?

There are three or five less, dozens or even hundreds more (Zhongshan Jing Wang Liu Sheng, known as the number one stallion in China, has more than 100 sons alone, and countless daughters, the reason why he has big ears This should be the reason why Liu Sheng was chosen as the ancestor - there are too many sons, even Liu Sheng can't remember clearly, and Zong Zheng can't even remember clearly. Cough cough, as for who the big ears are, everyone can think for themselves ).