Qian Song

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After having the matter of establishing the crown prince firmly in his hands, Li Cun was actually under a lot of pressure.

You know, if this heir is not chosen well, the Daqian dynasty will be over, and even if Li Cun dies, he will die with his eyes open.

After thinking for a long time alone, Li Cun issued an imperial edict to all his children and grandchildren:
"Government and benevolence reflect the great virtues of heaven and earth. I only follow Jun's destiny, inherit and protect Hongtu, and strive for the period of Xixi and harmony to ensure the success of the industry. The emperor and the sky are all overthrown, and I can forget the cultivation of the territory; The late king has blessed and enlightened the descendants, and it is advisable to keep the idea of ​​​​management in mind. All nations will serve as emperors, and all barbarians will be welcome..."

The general meaning of Li Cun's imperial edict is that he is old and not suitable for high-intensity government work. He is now recruiting his outstanding children and grandchildren to assist him in handling government affairs. However, he does not know who is outstanding and who is not. But "the eyes of the masses are sharp", so it is up to one's own children and grandchildren, in line with the principle that a good member of the Daqian dynasty is a good member of the Daqian royal family, they must recommend virtuous people but not relatives. Each of them selects ten people, and finally votes to select thirty. Outstanding royal children came to Beijing to assist him in handling government affairs.

Afraid that his children and grandchildren would be chosen randomly, Li Cun then added an imperial edict to the effect that if anyone chooses randomly and misses my major events, I will remove them from the clan.

At this time when Li Cun had just suppressed the matter of establishing the crown prince, it was obviously very abnormal for Li Cun to suddenly issue such an imperial edict.

Some smart people quickly realized that Li Cun, who was impeccable in his work, must have already appointed the crown prince, but he was probably not satisfied with the crown prince he had appointed, or he wanted to see if there was a better choice. Only then did he recruit his outstanding children and grandchildren to see if he could choose a more suitable crown prince.

This speculation quickly spread like wildfire.

At the same time, Li Cun's children and grandchildren, who were interested in taking charge of the Daqian Dynasty, also began to canvass for votes.

Having said this, some people must want to ask, is this really the case?
That's right.

Just in case, Li Cun did set up the crown prince.

But just as many smart people had guessed, Li Cun also wanted to see if he could choose a better and more suitable successor.

To be honest, Li Cun, who had no choice but to cheat on this matter, was not sure either. He was afraid that he would just listen and believe.

Therefore, Li Cun asked his children and grandchildren to vote for some candidates first, and then talk about it.

Just as Li Cun said to his children and grandchildren in his imperial edict, the rise and fall of the Daqian Dynasty is related to how each of them will live in the future. If they are smarter, they will recommend some talents to themselves who can take on important responsibilities.

To put it bluntly, Li Cun planned to let his descendants establish an electoral system within the royal family.

In other words, the candidates for the crown prince must be selected within the royal family and elected by all the adult men of the royal family. These candidates for the crown prince must then be given some experience opportunities (for example, let them go to the main areas of the Daqian Dynasty and various vassal states). Walk or give a speech), and then based on their performance, all adult men of the royal family will vote for the crown prince from among them.

As for how to implement it specifically, Li Cun believes that as long as he gets a start, someone will help him gradually improve it.

In fact, based on his own feelings, Li Cun was prepared to impose a five-year term, and an emperor could be re-elected for one term at most, which meant he would be emperor for ten years.

——At the end of five years, if more than half of the adult men in the royal family feel that the emperor is incompetent, then the emperor will not be re-elected, and the crown prince will directly ascend the throne, and a new crown prince will be elected again.

The reason why Li Cun had such an idea was mainly because Li Cun considered that many emperors were enterprising when they first became emperor, but became dull after a long time.

There are many examples like this.

Like Duke Huan of Qi, like the First Emperor of Qin, like Liu Che, like Cao Rui, like Sun Quan, like Xiao Yan, like Wu Zetian, like Li Longji, like Kangxi, like Qianlong, and like Zhao Ji.

In Li Cun's opinion, ten years as an emperor is just right.

——If there are special circumstances, such as a war, it can be extended for ten years.

The crown prince is not selected by the emperor, but by voting by the royal family. The key is that there is a time limit for becoming emperor. This is simply an anecdote through the ages.

Li Cun was also afraid that he had created this system and the world would not be able to accept it for a while, and even felt that he was making a joke about the country and the country of the Daqian Dynasty.

Therefore, Li Cun decided to do it first and then talk about it. Once there is a precedent for this matter, a system can be formed later.

Although Li Cun did not fully reveal his thoughts, he had actually encountered some resistance.

Among them, some came from the conservative ministers of the Daqian Dynasty, and some came from a very special person.

This person is Empress Fang Baihua of Daqian, who has always understood justice.

Speaking of which, this matter was actually caused by those who wanted Li Cun to make Li Yunwen the crown prince. They dug holes and tried every means to lobby Fang Baihua, and asked Fang Baihua to lobby Li Cun to make Li Yunwen the crown prince.

In the first half of her life, Fang Baihua focused all her thoughts on Li Cun and wanted to be a good queen and Li Cun's virtuous wife;
For the rest of her life, Fang Baihua focused all her attention on Li Biao and taught Li Biao to be a good emperor.

For this reason, Fang Baihua didn't even stay with Li Cun.

It can be seen from this that Fang Baihua has high expectations for Li Biao.

As a result, Li Biao died young, leaving Fang Baihua's white-haired man to send his black-haired man away.

One can imagine how severe this blow was to Fang Baihua.

It can be said that since Li Biao passed away, Fang Baihua's health has deteriorated day by day.

And Li Yunwen is also considered well-behaved and filial.

During the period before Li Biao's death, Li Yunwen had been waiting outside Li Biao's small courtyard, fully clothed.

After Li Biao passed away, Li Yunwen continued to serve Fang Baihua.

Looking at Li Yunwen who looked very similar to Li Biao, it was difficult for Fang Baihua not to mistake Li Yunwen for Li Biao.

Coupled with hints from thoughtful people.

After going back and forth, Fang Baihua inevitably came up with the idea of ​​cultivating Li Yunwen into the second Li Biao.

Therefore, Fang Baihua went to Li Cun and tactfully told Li Cun that he should still follow the ancient saying of "establishing a direct line by virtue of elders rather than virtue", and said that although Li Yunwen had some problems with his character, the two of them could slowly teach Li Yunwen , just like they taught Li Biao.

Li Cun immediately scolded Fang Baihua with a cold face: "You're confused! How dare you use one person's selfish desires to deceive me into harming the safety of billions of people!"

When Fang Baihua heard this, she immediately became silent.

But after being married to his father for almost 40 years, Li Cun could still tell at a glance that Fang Baihua was having trouble with him.

Li Cun was not afraid that Fang Baihua would make him angry, he was just afraid that Fang Baihua would make her own body angry.

So in the end Li Cun relented and said, "Let him go to Dongping Mansion to be the prefect first."

Fang Baihua knew as soon as she heard that Li Cun had given Li Yunwen another chance, and she immediately beamed.

Unlike those conservative ministers who did not support Li Cun's chaos in changing the system of establishing the crown prince, Li Cun's children and grandchildren strongly supported Li Cun's method of selecting the crown prince from among them. After all, even if they were not selected, their future would be Among the children and grandchildren, it is impossible to say that one person will become the emperor of the Daqian Dynasty.

In addition, there are also some people with keen eyesight who thought that the election method created by Li Cun could not only select an excellent crown prince, and then an excellent emperor, but also unite all the royal family. The key is to give all the royal men peace and equality. Go to the emperor's channel so that they don't have to risk using force to seize the throne.

Regardless of whether others agreed or opposed it, Li Cun introduced his own election law step by step.

And Li Cun's prestige has long been so high that no one can shake it, and it has even been high enough that he can do whatever he wants.

In addition, Li Cun has never exposed the core content of the electoral system.

Therefore, although there were some sporadic resistances in this matter, they did not prevent Li Cun from secretly implementing the electoral system.

Not long after, the thirty outstanding children and grandchildren selected by Li Cun's people all gathered in Kyoto.

Among them are:

Li Cun has become the son of the Minister of Civil Affairs, that is, Li Cun's fourth son Li Di.

Li Cun had already succeeded in saving Li Qi, the envoy's son.

Li Cun has become Li Zhu, the son of the Northwest Capital Transport Envoy.

Li Cun has become Li Mian, the son of the Minister of Education.

Li Cun was the son of Li Chu, the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Military Region.

Li Cun was the son of Li Shu, the governor of the Beijing Military Region.

Li Cun was the son of Li Song, deputy commander of the Northwest Military Region.

Li Cun was the son of Li Ji, the commander of the Japanese sub-military region under the Eastern Military Region.Li Cun was the son of Li Bai, the supervisor of the Jinan Branch Military Region under the Eastern Military Region.

Li Cun's son Li Shao served as supervisor in the Guangzhou Branch of the Southern Military Region.

Li Cun was the son of Li Qiang, the supervisor of the Chengdu Branch of the Southwest Military Region.

Li Heng, the genius son given to Li Cunsheng by Concubine Qian, has invented hundreds of inventions so far.

Li Qingzhao gave Li Cunsheng's son Li Li, who is currently a Hanlin scholar.

Li Cun was the son of Li Tan, the guardian of Srivijaya.

Li Cunliu asked his son Li Zi to serve as the guardian envoy.

Li Cun was the son of Li Shi, the prefect of Urumqi.

Li Cun's son Li Gui served as the prefect of Jinan.

Li Cun's son Li Gou served as the prefect of Lhasa.

Li Cun's son Li Zhen served as the prefect of Annan.

Li Cun's son Li Pu, the prince of Dalu Biaoguo (later Washington area), served as the king of vassals.

Li Cun was the son of the prince Li Cun of the mainland country (later New York area) who served as the vassal king.

Li Huan, the son of the prince Li Cun, was the prince of Suzhou in mainland China (later the Ottawa area).

Li Cun was the son of a vassal king in Central Asia (later Afghanistan).

Li Cun was the son of the vassal king Li Yi in Zhiguo in Central Asia (later Damascus area).

Li Cun was the son of Li Tong, the vassal king of Tong Kingdom in Central Asia (later Ankara region).

Li Cun was the son of Li Yue, the vassal king of Yue State in Eastern Europe (later Kiev region).

Li Cun was the son of Li Dong, the vassal king of Dongguo in Eastern Europe (later the Moscow region).

Li Cun was the son of Li Cun, the king of vassals in the Kingdom of Western Europe (later the Paris region).

Li Cun was the son of Li Su, the king of vassals in the Su State of Western Europe (later the Berlin area).

Li Cun was the son of Li Kai, the king of vassals in the Western European country (later London).

Li Cun's thirty sons are all very outstanding and each has his or her own glorious resume.

A few examples:
Li Di is the best among his sons who are ranked first.

His mother was just the daughter of a small aristocratic family in Muzhou who had just entered the aristocratic family. She was not particularly beautiful. It could be said that she was a very, very, very ordinary one among Li Cun's nearly [-] concubines.

At the beginning, Li Cun didn't know how he could be so accurate in getting Li Di's mother pregnant in one go and successfully gave birth to Li Di.

Li Di was talented and studied hard since he was a child. At the age of 13, he went to Shu to serve as the director of a county under Langzhou.

There, Li Di vigorously promoted the advanced planting technology newly developed by the imperial court, which tripled the county's total grain output in three years.

Because of his outstanding political achievements, Li Di was promoted to the post of county magistrate in Kuizhou.

In Kuizhou, Li Di vigorously laid railways and established steel plants and rail manufacturing plants.

Let's put it this way, a large section of the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway built by the Daqian Dynasty was laid by Li Di, and all the rails used were provided by the steelmaking plant and rail manufacturing factory established by Li Di.

In view of Li Di's achievements in building railways, when Li was in office, he transferred Li Di to the Ministry of Railways to promote the "big railway" plan he had proposed long ago.

Li Di has been working at the Ministry of Railways for 15 years.

Nowadays, a large part of the railways of the Daqian Dynasty were laid under the leadership of Li Di.

Even the main road leading to Europe and Africa is indispensable for Li Di's contribution.

It is no exaggeration to say that Li Di was one of the heroes behind the Daqian Dynasty.

Four years ago, all railways from the Daqian Dynasty to Europe and Africa were completed, and Li Biao transferred Li Di back to the court to serve as Minister of Civil Affairs.

In the past four years, Duke Li Di selflessly recommended hundreds of talents to the Daqian Dynasty.

The book hints that the current crown prince established by Li Cun is actually Li Di.

However, in Li Cun's view, Li Di also had some shortcomings.

First of all, Li Di has no military experience, which does not meet Li Cun's requirements for his successor.

Secondly, Li Di is very capable, but in Li Cun's view, Li Di is more suitable to be a prime minister rather than an emperor.

Thirdly, Li Di's three sons are all very good, especially his eldest son Li Gaochi, who is kind-hearted and shrewd. He is a very good child. Therefore, Li Cun is worried that Li Di will not be able to accept the electoral system he instituted.

Li Qi was Li Cun's son who was unwilling to go to the battlefield and said that he was good at arithmetic.

Li Qi didn't lie. He was really good at arithmetic. Not only that, he was also an economic genius and a financial genius.

Many years ago, Li Cun began to implement the gold standard and turned the currency of the Daqian Dynasty into the world's universal currency.

And Li Qi was one of the people who helped Li Cun manage all this.

At present, Li Qi is the top official of the reserve system of the Daqian Dynasty and controls the economic lifeline of the world.

However, like Li Di, Li Qi was not suitable for Li Cun's successor because he had no military experience.

The exact opposite of these two partial articles is Li Chun's son Li Chu, who served as the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Military Region.

This kid was born to be a soldier. He joined the army at the age of 12 and grew up in the army.

He possesses the bravery to defeat thousands of people, and a brain designed for fighting.

In the past 20 years, he has been fighting in the north and south, and has never been truly defeated. He has simply relied on his own military achievements to rise to the position of capital commander of the Northeast Military Region, one of the nine military regions in the Daqian Dynasty.

Among the younger generation of soldiers in the Daqian Dynasty (in fact, they cannot be said to be young soldiers, they are almost 40 years old now), the two most outstanding people are Li Chu and Yue Yun, both of whom were under 40 years old. He became the top leader of one of the nine major military regions in the Daqian Dynasty.

Moreover, the two of them actually led Li Cun's sons to the English Channel, and the other led Li Cun's sons to the Gulf of Guinea. The results were brilliant.

But Li Chu's shortcomings were more obvious. He knew nothing but fighting. Li Cun didn't know how his descendants chose him.

and also--

During Li Cun's western expedition, Li Cun's son Li Zhu was in charge of all grain, grass, baggage, and weapons and equipment arrangements.

Li Cun’s son Li Mian is committed to letting people all over the world speak Chinese, use Chinese characters, and promote Chinese culture.

——Li Mian has been vigorously building various schools since 20 years ago to promote Chinese language, Chinese characters, and Chinese culture.Today, with the strong support of Li Cun and Li Biao, he has built tens of thousands of schools.

Li Cun was the son of a group of officials from the Daqian Dynasty.

Li Cun and the other princes became very good sons.

blah blah blah...

Li Yunwen stood with Li Cun's sons who were the best of the best. Needless to say, Li Cun said that those who wanted Li Cun to make Li Yunwen the crown prince, including Fang Baihua, felt that Li Yunwen and Li Cun's sons were the best of the best. There seems to be a big gap between the sons...

... (end of this chapter)