Fu Tang

Li Congjia looked at the new Tang State, and was speechless for a while, what happened?From a war between the two countries to a struggle for orthodoxy?

However, this orthodoxy...is really hard to argue with. Everyone can confidently say that they are orthodox. After all, Li Congshan is the prince, Li Congjia is also the prince, and he also has Li Hongji, the eldest son!He used to be a prince too!

There are more capable orthodox princes than there are. The most important thing is that Li Congjia holds the imperial edict to abolish the prince. Fortunately, he followed the procedure at the beginning, abolishing the prince first, and then establishing the prince.

Of course, I don’t need to tell everyone about this edict. Anyway, they don’t recognize the existence of Li Congshan from the beginning to the end. In other words, this person is a fake, so if Li Congjia stands up and says that I am orthodox, it is equivalent to admitting invisibly Li Congshan, how can this be done?

But what Li Congjia never thought to understand was, how did Li Congshan force Gong Pangqian?Pang Qian's victory in the fierce struggle for power in Xiuguo proved that he himself or the forces behind him were at least very strong in Xiuguo. Li Congshan was a prisoner, how could he force the palace?

"Could he have been raised up to be a puppet?" Li Congjia turned to look at Shi Xueting and asked.

Shi Xueting asked back: "If it were you, would you make Li Congshan a puppet?"

Li Congjia thought for a while, and felt that he would definitely not do this. There is no orthodoxy in the present Xiuguo, and there is no such thing as coercing the emperor to make the princes, so why do you need puppets?It's easier to worry about yourself than anything else.

It is not too much to set up a puppet to serve as a minister for the sake of public opinion, and to salute that puppet?Don't do it.

Li Congjia said in amazement: "Could it be that he really went up based on his strength? The question is... how is it possible?"

These days, if you want to pull up a team, you must at least have money and people. It was so difficult for Li Congjia to start with money and people. What does Li Congshan have?

Li Congjia doesn't believe that there is nothing tricky about it.

Seeing him in a daze, Shi Xueting patted his head and said, "Don't think too much, I'll have someone check it out, there are holes everywhere in Xiuguo, it's easy to check."

Li Congjia came back to his senses, and said tangledly, "I'm just... hey, Qilang, Qilang is also suffering. If he can save me, I still want to save him."

Unlike others, Li Congjia felt a little guilty towards Li Congshan. After all, if he hadn't run away, Li Congshan would not have been promoted to the crown prince, and then thrown in the capital to resist the enemy in a blink of an eye.

And it wasn't Li Congjia, he felt that if he was the one who stayed behind, he might be able to turn the tide, but Li Congshan... Li Congshan was not raised as a prince since he was a child, and he himself was a relatively weak young man.

Shi Xueting comforted him: "I will try my best."

Li Congjia immediately said: "Don't, if there is a chance to talk about it, don't take the risk if you don't have a chance."

At least he can't take so many lives because of his guilt alone, and even if Li Congshan is rescued, he will have to live his life incognito, because according to the official records, he is already a dead person, and he is attached to the imperial tomb. The dead cannot be resurrected of.

As soon as Shi Xueting heard it, he knew that Li Congjia would not go all out to protect Li Congshan, so he could rest assured.

Two days later, Shi Xueting brought the news that Li Congshan really had a few people who could be used, but those few who were available didn't look like Han Chinese. There are many people who support Li Congshan.

And the reason why they supported Li Congshan was very simple, because they felt that Pang Qian had a relationship with Yelvjing that had to be said, so they were worried that Pang Qian was the running dog of the Khitan people!

Li Congjia:? ? ? ? ?

Yelujing is dead and you only thought of settling accounts?What were you doing before?You don't support Pang Qian, can he dance like that?

Shi Xueting sneered and said, "They dared to deal with Pang Qian only after Yelvjing died."

Li Congjia turned around in his mind before he figured it out. These people were probably bullying and afraid of being tough. They were afraid of messing with Pang Qian, so Yelujing immediately called. Now Yelujing died and was killed by an attendant. The new Yeluxian looked at it. Apparently, he has no interest in avenging Yelujing, he only punishes the evil leader, and doesn't care about the rest.

Li Congjia thinks... the establishment of this country is really... so magical. Thinking about those under his command, even if they knew about his relationship with Shi Xueting, they would treat him as ignorant or help cover it up. Of course, they may not now I didn't know it at all, but everyone tacitly didn't talk about it.

Xiuguo was really afraid that others would not know that his boss had an affair with the emperor of another country. However, in such a situation of betrayal, Li Congjia was also convinced that Pang Qian could escape with his life.

It's just that when something like this happened in Xiuguo, Datang and Khitan were a little at a loss, should they fight or not?

Especially Khitan, previously reached a gentleman's agreement with Datang, both sides fought at the same time, how much they can get depends on their own ability, now this high-ranking man has transformed into Li Congjia's younger brother, although Li Congjia denies it, but if this Li Congshan decides to If Datang surrendered, wouldn't the Khitan want to confront Datang again by mobilizing troops again?

At this stage, neither the Khitan nor the Tang Dynasty wants to have a big conflict with each other. The Tang Dynasty is prosperous, but the Khitan is at a very important critical point. If it is not handled properly, the entire country may collapse. Originally This country is composed of many ethnic groups, and each ethnic group has its own beliefs and lifestyles. It is very easy to split.

And Datang is looking at Li Congjia. Although the cabinet directly denied Li Congshan's identity before, what if Li Congjia has a seizure and wants to recognize this younger brother?

Fortunately, Li Congjia did not disappoint them, he just said: "If Xiuguo still insists that that person is Li Congshan, the orthodox heir of Datang, there is no need to talk nonsense with him. After they are beaten and disabled, they will know who is orthodox." .”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and turned their heads to continue intensive preparations for the Northern Expedition.

At this time, Li Congshan was still condemning Li Congjia, saying that Li Congjia was a fake, and that Li Congjia had been confirmed missing before, so he was made the prince.

Li Congjia found it funny when he saw it. This is all about the year of the monkey. Even if it is true, does Li Congshan still expect Li Congjia to cede the throne to him?Even if Li Congjia agrees, you have to ask Li Congjia's people if they agree.

Shi Xueting was also a little speechless, turned around and asked, "If you were him, what would you do?"

Li Congjia felt that this assumption might not be true at all. If he was Li Congshan, he would not have waited until the city was broken and taken away. When he saw something bad, he ran away and expected him to defend the city for Li Jing?He might evacuate all the people in the city first, and then take his own people and fly away.

But if you really put him in the position of Li Congshan today.

Li Congjia thought about it seriously and said: "Reconcile with Datang first, whether you admit that it is an alliance of brothers or you are willing to become a friendly state, anyway, first stabilize Datang and Khitan at the same time, then consolidate your position, and kill those who are trying to The person who manipulates me, but to be honest...it's not easy, it's better to bow down to Datang directly."

Shi Xueting was very surprised: "If it were you, would you also choose to bow your head?"

Li Congjia shrugged: "I don't know."

Of course, he said this just because he felt that it would be shameless to admit it directly. In fact, if he was in Li Congshan's position, he might really bow down to Datang.

After all, how much face is worth, life is the most important thing!

What's more, if you look at the topographic map, you will know that both Khitan and Datang are determined to win the Sixteen States of Yanyun. In Yanyun sixteen prefectures, the entire north is in a state of defenselessness.

Such an important terrain, who gave them the courage to want to stand on their own?

So Li Congshan doesn't care what Li Congjia says. He is now focusing on the military reform. As long as the country is strong and the army is strong, weak countries will at most just sternly condemn them. In fact, do they dare to provoke a strong country?

It's just that he was asking the people below to make a plan, and when someone turned around, someone complained to the imperial court.

The person who filed the complaint was Zhu Yuan, an old man who had made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty. Zhu Yuan was always careless and not very talkative. Li Congjia would do whatever Li Congjia asked him to do, so Li Congjia still liked him Those who pay attention, at least after knowing that Zhu Yuan may be wronged, immediately put down what they are doing and let Zhu Yuan come in.

When Zhu Yuan came in, he was in a calm mood. He also knew that Li Congjia was busy with everything, and he would not beat around the bush, so he went straight to the point: "Your Majesty, the court does not allow businessmen to repair the roads that need to be repaired now." participate."

Li Congjia was stunned for a moment: "Huh?"

Zhu Yuan repeated it again, and Li Congjia was a little surprised: "Didn't the imperial edict be issued before? Chunsheng, go and call Tian Wen over. Zhu Da, sit down first."

Zhu Yuan was the eldest in the family, and Li Congjia felt that it was inappropriate to call him Lao Zhu, so he simply changed it to Zhu Da. As for the official position...Generally, Li Congjia seldom directly addresses officials by their names on informal occasions.

After Zhu Yuan sat down, Li Congjia asked, "Why did you come here to talk about this matter?"

As far as he knew, no one in Zhu Yuan's family was in business. How did he know about this?

Zhu Yuan explained: "It was a businessman who took refuge under the minister's family. He wanted to participate immediately after knowing that the road was going to be built, but after giving gifts to many people in the household department, he found that the household department did not take these few items into account at all. The right to build roads is delegated to businessmen, and they dare not build roads in other places, for fear of violating the law, so they asked the ministers, ministers... If you are not angry for a while, you will..."

Zhu Yuan scratched his head at this point and added: "I don't know how to deal with those civil servants, and your majesty has always attached great importance to this matter, so I came to inform your majesty directly."

Li Congjia nodded to show that he knew, and he was very puzzled. Since Tian Wen became the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, he has been working hard, so that he dared not go to the west.There are also people under him who have learned to accept gifts. Of course, Li Congjia didn't want everyone not to accept gifts. He just used state affairs as bargaining chips, which is not acceptable.

Li Congjia couldn't help thinking that because the gifts from the merchants did not satisfy the appetite of these people, the Ministry of Households refused to release the construction rights.

If this is the case, Li Congjia began to think about whether to establish a Ministry of Communications to separate this matter from the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Communications has full jurisdiction over this matter.

As soon as Li Congjia finished thinking, Tian Wen came over in a hurry.

Li Congjia asked directly: "I heard that the construction rights have not been sold yet, what's the matter? Is it difficult to sell or you don't want to sell?"

When Tian Wen heard this, his head started to sweat. He knew that it was difficult to hide this matter from Li Congjia, so he said honestly: "Your Majesty, the cabinet deliberated on this matter and felt that the road construction should be done by the court." It's better to do it."

Li Congjia looked strange: "Didn't you say that the contract would go out a long time ago, why should the court come?"

Tian Wen then said: "Now we all know that building roads can still make money, but the imperial treasury is empty, so..."

After Li Congjia heard this, he couldn't laugh or cry. It turned out that this reason caused the Ministry of Households to refuse to sell the construction rights.

After hearing this, Zhu Yuan on the side immediately said: "Oh, Brother Tian, ​​you... If this is the case, you shouldn't have let it out in the first place. Now many businessmen know that the imperial court is going to hand over the right to build roads, and you Going back on your word, wouldn’t this make the imperial court lose its trust?”

Although Zhu Yuanren is straightforward, he is not stupid. He knows that there is an excuse of empty treasury, Tian Wen will definitely be fine, and his behavior is tantamount to offending someone.

Zhu Yuan was not afraid of offending civil servants, anyway, these civil servants could do nothing to them now, but he was afraid that Li Congjia would have opinions on him.

Tian Wen is also very helpless, and he doesn't want to do this. The problem is that the cabinet urgently called for a stop. What can he do?

Li Congjia thought for a while and said: "I know about this matter, you all go back first, what should you do, don't think too much."

Li Congjia said the latter sentence to comfort Tian Wen, but at this time, both Zhu Yuan and Tian Wen were at a loss. According to Li Congjia's emphasis on this matter, he actually exposed it so lightly?Isn't it right?

The two left with full of doubts, Li Congjia turned around and asked Tao Fu to call the cabinet ministers over, and one Song Qiqiu who stayed behind came out, and the others came to the meeting.

Song Qiqiu knew that he was about to retire, so he had already started to retreat to the second line consciously. The only thing he didn't know now was that he retired, who would fill this position.

After everyone came to the Xuanzheng Hall, Li Congjia talked about the road construction, and the cabinet members didn't feel embarrassed at all. After all, the country needs to develop, so how can we get some money?Anyway, they are all for the country, and they don't put money in their own pockets.

Li Congjia was very straightforward: "Well, this is not a trivial matter. Let's set up another Ministry of Communications to take care of this."

The country is so big, the days when roads need to be built are coming later, and it is also necessary to set up a department. If they are all thrown into the household department, it is easy to increase the number of officials in the household department, and the household department has more staff. Shouldn't it also increase?However, some departments do not need so many people, so many idle posts are formed.

Li Congjia does not intend to support idlers, so it is necessary to set up a separate one.

As for the right to build, Li Congjia said cunningly: "Before it was just an experiment, because the experiment was very successful, so starting from the next road, the right to build will be auctioned, and whoever bids the highest price will be authorized by the court."

Zhou Zong said: "However, it may not be good for the imperial court to directly send people to build roads, and then charge them."

After all, the auction fee is only a one-time fee, but the fee is a steady stream.

Li Congjia said: "In this way, find someone to survey the country's road conditions little by little, and then plan various routes. The main road will be built by the imperial court, and the branch roads will be contracted out. This will also speed up the construction speed."

After Li Congjia finished speaking, he paused for a moment, because he discovered a very important issue—whether the land for exploration is suitable for road construction or not. Geologists are needed for this. Now... where are the geologists? Woolen cloth?

Of course, there were geologists in ancient times, but such workers were unable to protect themselves in times of war, and in this era, they were not on the list of the imperial court's primary protection, so it is likely that... their lives were not very good, Now that the country is re-established, it is actually not particularly easy to find these people.

Li Congjia felt a headache, so he had to ask someone to prepare for the establishment of the Ministry of Communications, and at the same time ask someone to recruit experienced geologists.

Zhou Zong and others saw that the Ministry of Communications was added, and they still needed people to go to the survey. This meant that there were many more civil servants in the Tang Dynasty, and these all required wages!

So before the money was earned, they made another fortune, and the Ministry of Finance was a bit depressed. Everyone knew that the Ministry of Accounting was the most profitable department, and the most valuable thing now was the construction rights of those roads. As a result, with a click, it no longer belongs to them, but to the new Ministry of Communications.

The most deceitful thing is that Li Congjia took the opportunity to make adjustments to the court again, and there was a great shift in the universe, directly throwing Tian Wen to the Ministry of Communications as the Minister of Communications, and then Zhao Pu to the Ministry of Households as the Minister of the Ministry of Households.

Tian Wen's whole body collapsed. He thought that he finally didn't have to deal with these roads, but turned around and became an official in charge of this stuff. He began to think whether he should retire?

Li Congjia didn't care whether Tian Wen was going to collapse or not. Apart from building roads, all he had left was to frantically search for the remaining memory in his mind. He wanted to write down some special forces training methods he knew before, and then go to train for a while. Wave.

To be honest, he has been through it for ten years. Except for some majors that he can remember because he memorized them too firmly in school, he can only remember a vague outline of the rest of the less important ones. After all, he has never thought of having One day he will engage in special forces!

Really sad.

In fact, there have been various special forces in China since ancient times, but in this era, the special forces are generally elite cavalry. The Xuanjia under it is invincible like a broken bamboo.

But now that Li Congjia is here, the situation has changed a bit, because the way of fighting has changed!

Once something like gunpowder is manufactured and used in the military, the speed of popularization will become very fast.

To be honest, Li Congjia is not very confident about the secrecy of this era. Although he has established a set of procedures, he is often unable to guard against it. What's more, many literati like to write books and write down what they know. Come out to circulate to everyone, I don't know what kind of impact these things will have on our own country if they are spread to other countries.

Therefore, Li Congjia must learn from the experience of later generations to deal with the future era of national gunpowder.

It is very useful to cultivate strong individual combat capabilities and demolition soldiers in this way. If possible, Li Congjia could even send someone to blow up the Khitan Palace. normal consideration.

Li Congjia worked out some projects, and decided to let the Privy Council take care of the rest. After all, isn't the younger brother taking it just to squeeze it?This is the same as doing scientific research. The boss is responsible for proposing the direction of scientific research, and the people under him are responsible for working overtime.

Li Congjia's idea is still a bit ahead of Zhao Kuangyin and the others, especially after spending so much effort to train a group of people with strong individual combat capabilities, but how can such people be willing to use them?Every death is a loss!Datang can't afford to die!Who will farm the dead?How else to eat?

Li Congjia directly took the picture back: "There are not many places that need to fight in the future. Slowly recuperate, the population will increase, and the problem of farming...you don't have to worry too much. Anyway, first get out the charter. If it doesn't work, use it first. Let Tiance Mansion experiment, anyway, I can afford it."

Zhao Kuangyin could only go to work overtime with tears in his eyes. At the same time, Li Congjia was wiping cold sweat thinking about how to promote production. To be honest, this era does not engage in professional soldiers. Many times it is because of low productivity, small population, too many people, and fewer people. There are fewer fields to grow, and less food produced, so fewer people can be fed. This is a vicious circle.

It's just that Li Congjia felt as if he really... didn't remember any way to increase crop yield.

Hybrid rice?First of all, he needs to find an archdruid like Mr. Yuan!

Li Congjia was very worried when he looked at the document from the Ministry of Households about the estimated amount of taxes for the coming year. He wondered if the short life of the ancient emperors was due to worry!

At this moment, Shi Xueting came over and handed Li Congjia the same scroll and said, "Look at this."

Li Congjia took it without even thinking about it, shook it open, and was startled: "Fuck, blood book? Where did it come from?"