sweeping the world

Chapter 354 The Queen's Candidate

Liu Yan has always had a very good impression of Tuobaxiu, she is a strong woman who knows how to give in, especially the idea that her husband's family is the main one is deeply suitable for being a virtuous wife.

Tuobaxiu had already given birth to a daughter for Liu Yan. Due to frequent wars, Liu Yan rarely cared about the mother and daughter, but Tuobaxiu never complained. He never asked Liu Yan to help Tuoba Shiyiqian, and some of them were the dowry that he never forgot to leave on the grassland.

People's hearts are really long. Liu Yan, who had always felt a little neglected towards Tuobaxiu, when he heard that Tuobaxiu called that fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl his sister, he couldn't help but feel nervous. It is possible, but...he is not the husband of an ordinary family, he is the king of a country, and it is never easy to be the king of a country.

Politicians are ruthless creatures who need to put their interests first. Don't talk about feelings with politicians, or you will really hurt your feelings.

As a politician, if you don’t only look at interests but also value feelings, it can be said that governing the country by such politicians is the way to self-destruction, unless there are some abnormally fucked people, or the emotions of politicians are not in people. It is in the national interest.

For Liu Yan, he can only choose a seemingly cold-blooded path. This does not mean that he has no feelings, but that he must put his feelings before the country.

To be honest, the greatest interest of a country's lifelong leader is very simple, and this is even more true under the system of family, country, and world. Love is not just for a certain person, and efforts to govern the country well may not be out of love for the people, but out of love for the people. Only when the country becomes better can we control the country to go in the direction we want.

Liu Yan wants the country he built to become an empire that rules the world. He can't do it alone, even with a system, so he needs more like-minded people and thousands of subjects.

Furthermore, you always need companions on the road to progress, and you also need people to share with after hard work. Those who are single husbands don’t really want to do that, and they really can’t find anyone who can work together!
Seeing Liu Yan's inadvertent expression, everyone in the room exclaimed "something bad" in their hearts. What they were most afraid of was this kind of situation. Many people wanted to persuade them but didn't know how to speak.

The expression on Sang Yu's face stiffened for a moment, but he soon returned to his cheerful demeanor, and said with a smile: "Your uncle first fought hard with the Xiongnu tribes for two years. After his vitality was seriously injured, he was attacked by Murong Hui. , but with our constant support, it won’t be that bad.”

Cai You immediately gave Sang Yu a thumbs up secretly under the desk. It was very appropriate to say at this time that Liu Yan had been assisting Tuoba Daiguo.

The Han Dynasty has been supporting Tuoba Shiyiqian from the beginning. Although it is based on transactions, Tuoba Shiyiqian has always been in debt. The only time he repaid the debt was two years ago, but those things Not even enough to pay interest.

The Tuoba Dai Kingdom is located in the grassland, with Heshuo to the west where the Xiongnu tribes are entrenched, and the Murong Yan Kingdom to the east. After all, Liu Yan did not have any good intentions when he chose to aid Tuoba Shiyiqian at the beginning. Wanting to make Murong Yanguo feel pressured, what the Hanbu did not expect was that after Tuoba Daiguo received assistance, he still seemed vulnerable to Murong Yanjun.

Sure enough, Liu Yan's unnatural demeanor was not that serious, he stopped asking about Tuoba Daiguo's affairs, and focused on asking about rewards.

"Xu Zheng is the one who has won the highest title this time." Lu Yi took the document and said somewhat scripturally: "Xu Zheng presided over the matter of going south to Xuzhou and led the army to invade Yuzhou. His achievements are obvious to all."

Xu Zheng is about to become a public servant with the eighth-level title, and his official position should also be moved up. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he will be a Weiwei, one of the nine ministers (first changed to Zhongda Fu Ling and then Guang Luxun in the Western Han Dynasty, and then to Guang Luxun in the Eastern Han Dynasty). He was changed back to a guard), he was gilded, and then sent out to fight some key battles, and then he became a full-fledged captain.

The frustrating thing about any important position in any country, whether public or secret, is that there are already backup candidates.It's just a public election, but there are still obvious candidates.What is secret is the internal decision-making of the top management. What is certain is that there is not only one candidate, but it is a "quiet" competition among the candidates.

There were two former Taiwei candidates, except for Xu Zheng and Lu Tai, but Lu Tai was eliminated when Murong Yan's army came under pressure.Later, many energetic generals appeared in the Han army. The problem is that under the current situation of seniority, there is really no one who can catch up with Xu Zheng.

Talking about qualifications is a very helpless thing. Maybe everyone hates this, but it is an illusion that has not been carefully considered.Qualifications represent repeated elimination and knowledge, but it does not depend entirely on time. The high-level is extremely important to know the truth, and the middle and lower levels are bad for qualifications.

Seriously speaking, it’s not that there’s nothing you can do if you’re forced to. It’s impossible for any country’s high-level executives to casually let someone who doesn’t know anything about it go up. That’s making fun of the entire country.

There are quite a few people in the Han army who can be called cutting-edge, such as Li Tan and Qian Jiantong who were sharp in offensive battles, Huan Wen who showed great ability in several battles in Dongping County, and even the leader of Jiangdu. Official Li Kuang.They all used actual achievements to show their extraordinary abilities. What is particularly gratifying is that these people are basically very capable, some are strong in offense, and some are good at defense. Among them, Huan Wen’s abilities are the most balanced. .

Among the middle and lower-level officers, Liu Yan also found many good seedlings that could be cultivated, basically people with sufficient coordination capabilities.

There is a relatively obvious process for the promotion of personnel in the army. It must be shown that the high-level eyes are watching, and then the coordination ability of the soldiers must be required. The coordination ability is the key to the lower-level officers. Climbing up is to have enough big picture.

After talking about the military, Liu Yan had to intervene in the civil service system.

Even though the founding of the People's Republic of China is imminent, the civil service system under Liu Yan is still in a state of many vacancies, which is an extremely embarrassing thing.

Liu Yan implemented a system with the shell of the Sangong and Jiuqing system. He learned from the first emperor who divided the important position of prime minister into two. Ji Chang was the prime minister of the left, and Sang Yu was the prime minister of the right.

The Han Dynasty regards the left as the most respected, so Ji Chang's ranking is above Sang Yu's. The divided power is that the left prime minister is the main one in everything, and the right prime minister is quite a deputy, but there is a mutual balancing mechanism.

Because of the existence of the left and right prime ministers, Liu Yan changed the power of the official position of doctor censor, from the power equivalent to the prime minister's deputy to the power similar to Song and Ming, such as specializing in finding faults.Because there is no candidate for the time being, it is vacant.

There are even more embarrassing things. For example, Liu Yan has no relatives, so Fengchang, the head of the Jiuqing, who is in charge of the etiquette of the ancestral temple, is in charge of the etiquette of the ancestral temple. Zongzheng.

The eunuch who was in charge of the imperial horse and state horse administration was rewarded to Tian Shuo.He has always been in the rear, but in terms of his contribution to civil affairs... Honestly speaking, because of his limited ability, his sense of presence and role is really not great.

From the very beginning, it was confirmed that Lu Yi was appointed as the Dian Ke in charge of foreign affairs and ethnic affairs. After a period of observation, he was considered competent, but it would be a bit of an understatement to say that he was excellent.

Cai You was chosen to be in charge of taxation, money, valley and financial revenue and expenditure. Compared with Lu Yi's mediocre performance, Cai You is really good in this position. Of course, the army's logistics has not been messed up after repeated battles. Because of Liu Yan's golden finger, there should be problems without the coordination of capable people.

The Shaofu, which is in charge of the taxation of mountains, seas, ponds and official handicrafts exclusively for the royal family, agreed to appoint Zhang Shi after discussion.He has always been in an enemy situation, and his sense of existence is lower than that of Tian Shuo. If Tian Shuo is a high-ranking senior, then Zhang Shi's contribution is completely worthy of being rewarded.The reason for the reward is that Liu Yan's industry does not need to be complicated to manage, so it has nothing to do with ability or not.

The court officers in charge of judicial trials are quite strange. Liu Yan appointed Huan Wen to be the official, which means that Huan Wen has changed from a military position to a civilian position, and he is still an official who is quite easy to offend.

In this way, the Chinese positions of the three officials and nine ministers are almost all active. The military position is highly complicated, and it cannot be settled when it comes to military power. There will be many more vacant positions than civilian positions.

To put it bluntly, Liu Yan is not the only one with vacant official positions. Things like this are very common in the Western Han and Eastern Han Dynasties.

"Huan Wen not only has made achievements in the military, but also has abilities in internal affairs. He will be a court officer first, and then make arrangements later." Liu Yan actually wanted to suppress Huan Wen, but he couldn't show it. It's very nice to see the posture Huan Wen wants to let him exercise.He didn't care about everyone's reaction, and continued: "Xie An is also talented in the military, so let him enter the military system."

The division of civil and military skills is not so clear these days. It is very common for both civil and martial arts to be able to dismount from a horse and become a prime minister. Take Sang Yu, who is always joking, as an example. He is good at swordsmanship, can ride horses and shoot arrows, military He has the ability to plan and command troops, but he can also make good achievements in literature.

Besides Xu Zheng, he considers himself a military general, and he has a lot of books to read. It may not be possible to be the governor of a certain state, but it is absolutely no problem as a prefect of a county.

Of course, Liu Yan's suppression of Huan Wen is still a "historical problem". Knowing that a person is likely to be self-reliant, he will not be a wise king if he does not take precautions. It can even be said that it is not wrong to kill him directly. A good king is still a bit far away, unable to ignore life and death, let alone learn to kill a person who has not done bad things just because it is necessary.

Everyone has no objections to Liu Yan's arrangement. What they want to accomplish most now is rather special, such as asking Liu Yan to accept more...well, women.

There is nothing wrong, the conditions did not allow it before, or what king would have a concubine!
Now, the Han Department is about to become the Han State. As the king of a country, Liu Yan cannot have too few women. More women are needed to help the country.

No kidding, the king donated some women and more descendants is really contributing to the country. The status quo of the family and the world dooms that a large population of the royal family is often not a problem, but a small population is a hidden danger to the country.

"What?!" Liu Yan was bewildered: "Not only do we have to accept the princesses of Xiao~chao~ting and Murongyan, but also Yuwen Xianbei and Duan's Xianbei, and even the royal family of Ran, Zhang, and Li. The royal family (Chenghan), and the daughters of the Xie family, the daughters of the Yu family, the daughters of the Zhang family, the daughters of the Guo family, the daughters of the Wang family... have to accept?"

Packing a big purchase?Liu Yan was confused when he heard this, so it couldn't be justified. Not only did every country have one, they all wanted it, even the noble families in the north and south of the Yangtze River wanted all of them as long as they submitted the list of their legitimate daughters.

"You can't have too many beautiful women, can you?" Sang Yu said with a shy face, "Your Majesty, the younger sister of the Yu family, please take good care of me in the future."

Lu Yi answered immediately: "The same is true here."

Do you know how broken Liu Yan's heart is?He calculated that there were at least [-] women to be accepted this time, and if there was one woman for one night, it would be a whole month. No, some of them might not even be able to line up.

What life needs is taste and interest. When you like it, you can enjoy it once. If you sing and sing every night, it is torture...

It is good for the king to form a family with all the ministers. Liu Yan is unwilling and unable to refuse, especially when the in-law relationship will make the ministers and himself more united. The benefits of accepting the noble family are also quite obvious, but accepting What the hell are the royal daughters of various countries! ?
A family daughter, that is a family daughter. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, even the royal family would be rejected even if they wanted to marry a family daughter to pay money. As a result, Liu Yan now came to a package that almost half of the family women with names and surnames accepted, which made him dumbfounded and at the same time have a headache.

Liu Yan couldn't refuse yet. He wanted to say something but couldn't say it. It would be impossible for him to be a peaceful king for a long time in the future. Most of the time he would definitely lead troops to fight outside. If there is no one in charge of the harem who can control the harem, It is easy to catch a fire at home, and it is very likely to cause harm to the country.

Cui Wan can appear in Liu Yan's bedroom, then Liu Yan can probably understand that Cui Wan must have passed through many tests, and was finally considered by the ministers as a suitable candidate to suppress the harem.

The problem lies in one point. Cui Wan looks only fourteen or fifteen years old. Liu Yan is still struggling with what to do with such a little girl, and even doubts whether a girl who should have been in junior high school has the ability to be a queen.

"That..." Liu Yan hesitated for the first time, not because he didn't want to accept those women, but: "The royal families of various countries allow their princesses to be young?"

……Dividing line……

In fact, the title of the chapter is: Elegant Butterfly, Kunase
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