Qian Song

Chapter 495 Who should be appointed as the crown prince?
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Although he has not been a serious emperor for more than [-] years, Li Cun has always been in his position after all, and he has actually climbed up from the grassroots step by step.

In addition, Chen Kangbo, Chen Tao and others assisted Li Cun in presiding over the government.

In less than two days, Li Cun completely took over all the power and everything else of the Daqian Dynasty.

The so-called emperor and courtier.

Many people are worried that after Li Cun regains control of the imperial power of the Daqian Dynasty, he will clean up the old people left by Li Biao.

Unexpectedly, Li Cun, a veteran of Li Biao's dynasty, did not move.

This also reflects from the side that Li Cun is not nostalgic for this imperial power. In fact, the Daqian Dynasty needs Li Cun, and Li Cun came back.

As soon as Li Cun took charge, all the civil and military officials of the Daqian Dynasty, especially the young ministers, clearly felt the difference between Li Cun and Li Biao's governance.

In short, Li Cun dared to delegate power to his ministers and would never do anything he could not do himself. Li Biao, on the other hand, was exactly the opposite of Li Cun. He liked to take everything into his own hands and like to do everything. Do it yourself.

There is no doubt that Li Cun's style will definitely be more popular among ministers, whether they are capable ministers who want to show their ambitions or those mediocre ministers who like lazy administration.

Of course, some ministers felt that if Li Cun continued like this, something would definitely happen to the Daqian Dynasty.

Some ministers even advised Li Cun to learn from Li Biao and be more diligent.

For such ministers, Li Cun didn't even need to take action. Those ministers who wanted to show their ambitions and officials who liked lazy administration would scold them bloody.

On the contrary, in the end, it was Li Cunbao who saved these loyal ministers who dared to say such things.

——In Li Cun's view, these ministers are a little stupid, but their loyalty is commendable, and they cannot block the way of speech because of this.

As for the content of these ministers’ advice?

First of all, Li Cun always believed that a good court would be able to function normally regardless of whether the emperor was present or not.

Therefore, if a dynasty wants to develop, as the person in power, it must learn to decentralize power.

The same goes for employing people.

Except for really big things, small things can be decided and taken responsibility by the person in charge.

You know, the more power is decentralized, the more pressure there is on the people below.

When you are stressed, you have responsibilities.

If they have responsibility, they have to make progress.

As they advance, they will have competition.

Only when there is competition can the Daqian Dynasty be dynamic.

Only with vitality can the Daqian Dynasty develop and grow.

Therefore, being a good emperor actually means using good people and decentralizing power.

Liu Bang did not know how to govern the world, and he had never won a war when leading troops. It can be said that he was a typical example of a man who could not succeed in military affairs.

But Liu Bang was able to obtain the following and assistance of great talents such as Xiao He, Zhang Liang, and Han Xin, and he was able to found the Han Dynasty and even the Han nation.

This is because Liu Bang is well versed in the art of employing people and dares to decentralize power, allowing talents to build the country for himself, and let talents manage the country for himself.

It is worth mentioning that everyone who works for Liu Bang thinks Liu Bang is a good boss.

After all is said and done, we still have to talk about the responsibilities of an emperor.

The most important responsibility of an emperor is actually to control the dynasty and allow the dynasty to develop stably without causing trouble.

Also, the emperor actually only needs to do two things well, that is: choose!

It was also in the past two years, especially after Li Biao's death, that Li Cun realized a simple truth, that is, a perfectionist is not suitable to be an emperor.

Just like Li Biao, he just pursues perfection too much. In fact, he is not suitable to be an emperor.

To be honest, if it hadn't been for Li Cun who had been stabilizing the overall situation for Li Biao, it's hard to say what Li Biao, the emperor, would have done.

Let's put it this way, the emperor makes strategic decisions and does not do everything himself.

Without tranquility, there is no far-reaching goal; without far-reaching goal, there is no direction; without direction, there is no choice; without decision-making, there is no strategy.

And strategy is choice.

In fact, if you know how to be an emperor, it is actually easy to be an emperor.

Select talents, then delegate power to these talents and let them manage their own country, including allowing them to conquer the country.

Of course, being willing to delegate power to your ministers does not mean letting go and not caring about anything.

In fact, on the contrary, while delegating power to his ministers, Li Cun also paid special attention to the training of two departments:
One is the Taiwan Admonition Department.

It is very simple to train this department, that is, to reuse ministers who are loyal, upright and dare to remonstrate, such as Li Guang, Hu Quan, Chen Gongfu and others, so that they dare to say anything without fear.

With these Taiwanese admonishment officials who dare to advise on anything to supervise officials at all levels, officials at all levels are fearful and restrained, and do not dare to be lazy in administration, let alone corrupt.

In fact, it was precisely because Li Cun focused on cultivating the admonishment department in Taiwan that Li Cun not only ignored those admonishers who advised Li Cun to learn from Li Biao, but also protected them and even rewarded them.

The other is the intelligence service.

After Li Biao died, Li Cun took Wude Si back.

In this way, Li Cun had four major intelligence agencies: Wude Division, Pro-Army Duweifu, Military Intelligence Department, and Ninja.

With these four all-pervasive intelligence agencies, all important personnel of the Daqian Dynasty are under Li Cun's surveillance. It is no exaggeration to say that they have absolutely no secrets at Li Cun, let alone their daily behavior. Find out what happened.

All in all, Li Cun used the method of loosening externally and tightening internally to govern the Daqian Dynasty, which quickly brought the Daqian Dynasty back on track.

As the Daqian Dynasty returned to the right track, a very important matter soon became the focus of attention of all the civil and military officials of the Daqian Dynasty.

This matter is to establish the crown prince!
Although Li Cun still looks very young and energetic, he is almost 60 years old after all.

Moreover, Li Cun was quite undisciplined in his life, and he still maintained the habit of driving three or five women every night, and at least one of them was a virgin.

If Li Cun dies in a woman's belly one day, and there is no heir to the Daqian Dynasty at that time, then the Daqian Dynasty may fall apart.

Don't forget, Li Cun has countless children and grandchildren.

The key is that these descendants of Li Cun are filled in various departments of the Daqian Dynasty. Some of them are princes and kings with military power, or generals who command the army with more military power.

If you fight over these people.

The Daqian Dynasty will definitely split.

It will be extremely difficult to unify them when the time comes.

After all, no one believes that another Li Cun will be born in this world.

Therefore, establishing a crown prince became the top priority of the Daqian Dynasty.

So, exactly one month after Li Biao's death, Chen Gongfu admonished the court: "A country cannot be without a king for a day, and a country cannot be without a prince for a day. Please make great plans for the country and the people, and do great things for us." Make him the crown prince."

With Chen Gongfu taking the lead, all the civil and military officials of the Daqian Dynasty began to advise, asking Li Cun to establish a prince for the Daqian Dynasty.

However, during this process, many people also began to bring in private goods, saying that the emperor's grandson Li Yunwen was talented, kind, friendly, courteous and thrifty, and begged Li Cun to make Li Yunwen the crown prince.

Moreover, these people also took out the most basic principle of the ancient patriarchal system of "establishing the elder rather than the younger, and passing on the descendants rather than concubines" and asked Li Cun to make Li Yunwen the crown prince.

According to the current situation, that is, the untimely death of Li Cun's eldest son Li Biao, if we follow the most basic principle of the ancient patriarchal system of "establishing the elder rather than the younger, and passing it on to direct descendants rather than concubines", Li Cun can only transfer his throne to Passing it on to two people is the most consistent with this principle.

The first one was to pass the throne to Fang Baihua for Li Cunsheng's second son Li Qi.

The second one was to pass the throne to Li Yunwen, the emperor's grandson and the eldest son of Emperor Qian Taizong Li Biao.

Li Qi is proficient in eating, drinking, playing, playing music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and playing Cuju and cockfighting. He is the most typical of Li Cun's sons who just eats and waits to die, and he himself is not as high as the emperor. ambition.

It can be said that everyone has given up on Li Qi.

Li Yunwen advocated the Confucian theory of benevolent government. He and his advisers were committed to promoting civilian rule in the Daqian Dynasty. They did not like Li Cunding's separation of civil and military rule, and there were signs of restoring the system of the Song Dynasty.

Such Li Yunwen undoubtedly received the support of a large number of civil servants.

And literati have always controlled public opinion.

With these scholars endorsing Li Yunwen, and because Li Yunwen complied with the most basic principle of the ancient patriarchal system of "establishing the elder rather than the young, and passing on the lineage rather than the concubine", Li Yunwen's voice for becoming the crown prince was quite high.

How tall is it?
As soon as someone proposed to ask Li Cun to make Li Yunwen the crown prince, almost a quarter of the ministers in the court seconded the proposal.

If this were some emperor who had never seen the world or was weak, he would probably take advantage of the situation and make Li Yunwen the crown prince.

But Li Cun, without changing his expression, pointed to the "Upright and Bright" plaque above his head and said: "I have already appointed the crown prince, right behind this plaque. If I suddenly die one day, you will come with me." Just take out my edict here and follow it."

All the civil and military officials who had a vague tendency to "force the palace" never expected that Li Cun would do this.

In other words, the reason why these civil and military officials dared to force Li Cun to make Li Yunwen the crown prince was not because they were cowardly, nor because they were not afraid of Li Cun, the first emperor in the ages, but because they had "Li Cun is already 'old'" , the crown prince should be established, lest Li Cun suddenly die, and the Daqian Dynasty would fall apart because of the dragons competing for the throne."

Otherwise, even if they borrowed 1 courage from these people, they would not dare to force Li Cun to make Li Yunwen the crown prince.

As a result, Li Cun casually turned off all the civil and military officials. Whether they were ministers who were worried that Li Cun's sudden death would cause the Daqian Dynasty to fall apart because there was no crown prince, or ministers who wanted to promote Li Yunwen as the crown prince, everyone They were all speechless.

Aren't you afraid that my sudden death will cause the Daqian Dynasty to fall apart because there is no heir?
But I have already established the crown prince.

Even if I die now, the Daqian Dynasty will not be left without an heir, let alone fall apart because of this.

However, none of you should even think about who the crown prince I appointed is.

Some ministers sighed with emotion: "Your Majesty is your Majesty after all. Even if he does not care about government affairs for twenty years, he will never be led by the ministers!"

At the same time, some ministers who responded quickly all lamented Li Cun's skill.

Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Chinese royal family has continued the eldest son succession system.

The eldest son succession system circumvented the situation of princes competing for the throne and rebellion to a certain extent.

However, there are undercurrents from all sides, and tragedies involving princes fighting for the throne have occurred in all dynasties.

Qin Shihuang was hesitant on the issue of establishing a crown prince. He originally intended to let Fusu succeed him, but he was unable to issue an edict due to time constraints. Therefore, he allowed Li Si, Hu Hai, Zhao Gao and other villains to take advantage of the loophole, resulting in the Qin Dynasty only having two emperors. Die in this world.

Qin Shihuang's hesitation on the issue of establishing a crown prince also provided a painful lesson to later emperors.

Therefore, later dynasties were trying to find ways to avoid the disaster caused by the reserve position.

But no matter how they deal with it, the ending doesn't change much.

But this problem was easily solved by Li Cun.

The key point is that the situation faced by Li Cun was obviously much more severe than that of previous emperors, because Li Cun had too many children and grandchildren, and Li Cun's children and grandchildren were in charge of almost half or even more of the power of the Daqian Dynasty. The territory of the Daqian Dynasty is also too large. In this case, if one party is not handled well, the Daqian Dynasty will easily fall apart.

Li Cun's brilliance goes beyond that.

As it stands now.

If Li Cun establishes the crown prince too early, many disadvantages will inevitably occur. For example, the forces of all parties will compete with each other, causing the crown prince to become a victim of the throne; for another example, once the crown prince is established, the power of the crown prince will inevitably be increased, but if this is established If there is a problem with the crown prince, it will be difficult to deal with it, and it may even lead to serious problems of decentralization of power by the central government.

In addition, Li Cunliang also took great pains to choose the secret reserve system. In this way, Li Cun could slowly evaluate the heir. During this period, if he found that the heir he selected had acted inappropriately, he could also modify the edict at any time.

In addition, not announcing the crown prince in time is also beneficial to stabilizing the forces of all parties. After all, there is a powerful force behind every prince who is qualified to compete for the throne. As long as Li Cun does not announce who the crown prince is for a day, there will be a conflict between them. There are checks and balances on each other, and it is impossible for them to develop to the point where they are difficult to deal with.

In short, Li Cun suppressed the issue of establishing the crown prince with one move.

This shows that Li Cun's political skills are high.

This also allowed the ministers of the Daqian Dynasty to see that Li Cun was still the original Li Cun, the first emperor throughout the ages. As long as Li existed, the Daqian Dynasty would not be in chaos.

in fact--

The reason why the scene of "forcing the palace" occurred today is also because the ministers who supported Li Yunwen as the crown prince felt that the situation was not good.

Everyone in the Daqian Dynasty knew how Li Cun trained Crown Prince Li Biao.

But now, Li Biao has been dead for a month, but Li Cun has never meant to let Li Yunwen participate in politics.

This is not a good sign.

In addition, there was news that Li Cun and Li Biao had a candid and in-depth talk about establishing a crown prince.

What Li Biao meant was to ask Li Cun to train Li Yunwen to be the crown prince of the Daqian Dynasty just as he had been trained that day.

But Li Cun said that Li Yunwen was too soft-tempered, indecisive, and lacked political wisdom to be a prince, let alone an emperor.

Later, because Li Yunwen was Li Biao's eldest son, Li Cun only agreed to give Li Biao a chance to compete fairly.

Li Biao did not dare to disobey Li Cun until his death. He never agreed to the ministers who had gathered him to make Li Yunwen the crown prince. Instead, he honestly left the matter to Li Cun.

Now, Li Cun would rather create a secret crown prince system than listen to the suggestions of so many ministers and make Li Yunwen the crown prince.

Those who strongly recommended Li Yunwen to be the crown prince immediately realized that Li Yunwen probably had no chance.

Li Yunwen's teacher Hu Xian was very unwilling that such a good Li Yunwen would not be able to become emperor in the future. He went out and continued to push forward: "There are direct descendants, but there are no direct descendants. The emperor Sun Ren..."

Before Hu Xian finished speaking, Li Cun looked at Hu Xian coldly and said lightly: "Old Ai Qing, you really want to be the minister of this dragon?"

As soon as Li Cun said this, Hu Xian was immediately sweating!
Not bad.

Li Cun is almost 60 years old.

But Li Cun is now physically strong and can handle three or five women at night. Even with his sexual skills, it is not a problem to handle ten or eight women at night. Even a strong young man's body is not as good as Li Cun's.

In this case, there is no problem at all for anyone who strongly promotes someone to be the crown prince and says that he has a bad intention.

Hu Xian, who was already quite young, soon huddled on the ground in fear after hearing Li Cun's murderous words.

But at this time, Li Cun took back his momentum and said with a smile: "Old Ai Qing is old and can't stand anymore. Stop being obsessed with power and go home and study hard."

After hearing this, Hu Xian felt as if he had been granted amnesty and quickly knelt down and said, "Thank you Lord for your kindness!"

Hu Xian's passing at the gate of hell was witnessed by all civil and military officials and was deeply remembered in their hearts.

From then on, no one dared to discuss who should be appointed as the crown prince. This matter would undoubtedly be decided by Li Cunqiankun...

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(End of this chapter)