Fu Tang

Now that Li Congjia heard that there was a problem on the front line, he was very calm. Whenever these bastards did not have a problem, it was as if they hadn't enjoyed the game.

He looked at Zhao Kuangyin and said, "Tell me about it."

Zhao Kuangyin smiled wryly and said: "I just came here to tell you in advance, I guess people will come to Honglu Temple later."

Li Congjia was shocked: "Why is it related to Honglu Temple?"

Zhao Kuangyin said: "Funan should have issued a letter of credence in protest."

Li Congjia was almost laughed angrily: "They still have the nerve to protest? They really have thick skins."

But how many shameless kings are there?It's not bad if you haven't completely discarded the lower limit.

Li Congjia raised his chin to Zhao Kuangyin and said, "Don't worry, I want to see what Funan can protest."

Just as Zhao Kuangyin was about to say something, the second person to complain to him came today.

When Li Congjia saw the combination of Wang Pu and Honglu Temple Minister, he was completely confused. He turned his head to look at Zhao Kuangyin, and complained: "Is it only the Honglu Temple Minister who agreed?"Why did the cabinet get involved?

Let's mix it up, the most important thing is that Wang Pu's face is really ugly.

Wang Pu said angrily: "Your Majesty, can the Privy Council still be a reliable general?"

Zhao Kuangyin coughed several times listening to it, and signaled not to overturn a boat of people with one pole. They... at least he and Li Hongji are still very reliable.

As a result, Wang Pu turned his head and said to him: "Duke Qin is not innocent in this matter."

Zhao Kuangyin shut up resolutely, Li Congjia rubbed his temples with a headache and said, "Wait, wait, can you tell me what happened first? We quarreled when we first came up, is there any sense of dignity?"

Wang Pu glared at Li Congjia. He felt that their Majesty was the most disrespectful person. However, he still clearly distinguished the priorities, so he said, "Funan sent a letter of credence to protest."

Li Congjia nodded: "And then? I already know this."

Wang Pu raised his eyebrows: "Then Funan has already written the surrender letter, and His Majesty also knows?"

Li Congjia was suddenly surprised: "The letter of surrender? Funan wrote the letter of surrender? Why didn't I see it? Now that the letter of surrender was written, why write a letter of protest? It's unnecessary?"

Wang Pu snorted: "I'm afraid I have to ask General Yang."

Li Congjia suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart, so he bit the bullet and asked, "So, what did Yang Ye do?"

Wang Pu turned his head to look at Zhao Kuangyin, which means that Yang Ye is a member of your Privy Council, so let's talk about it for you.

Zhao Kuangyin had no choice but to express bitterly: "Yang Ye...withheld the letter of surrender and continued to attack Funan. Funan originally thought that writing the letter of surrender would be safe, so he didn't take too much precaution, but in the end...he was caught by Yang Ye. Two more cities were captured."

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Everyone present was shocked and looked at Li Congjia very worriedly. Not surprisingly, Li Congjia's face was very ugly at this time: "Does everyone remember to eat or not to fight? Withholding the letter? He is very courageous." .”

Zhao Kuangyin hid aside and didn't dare to say anything. He knew that Li Congjia would be angry, so he wanted to come over and explain it to him in advance. By the way, he would explain in a tactful way, at least to excuse Yang Ye a little.

In the end, he didn't expect the cabinet and Honglu Temple to move so quickly. Before he had time to say anything, the two rushed over, and they had a face of asking for a crime.

Li Congjia said with a sullen face: "The Minister of Honglu Temple will go back first, and is going to reply to the King of Funan. As long as they surrender unconditionally and agree to Datang's conditions, we will accept it. Wang Cifu will also go back first. I will deal with this matter."

After Li Congjia said so, Wang Pu couldn't continue to pursue him, so he had to turn around and take Honglu Siqing who came over to make soy sauce once, and left the study.

Li Congjia turned to stare at Zhao Kuangyin and asked, "Tell me, what's going on with Yang Ye?"

Is the Privy Council bad Feng Shui?Why does every general who goes to the front always commit some crimes?It's neither reward nor punishment.

Zhao Kuangyin had no choice but to say: "I don't know the specifics. I just received the news about Yang Ye's deduction of the book, but I think... Yang Ye has always been honest and reliable. He must have something to do with it. Why don't you let him Go up and defend yourself."

Seeing that Li Congjia seemed very angry, Zhao Kuangyin decisively changed his strategy and stopped interceding with Yang Ye, but he wanted to ensure that Yang Ye had a chance to defend himself.

If this continues, the Privy Council will really be overwhelmed by the cabinet, but fortunately, the Privy Council still has a lot of credit in hand, but if there is credit and still be overwhelmed, in the future... I am afraid that life will be difficult.

Li Congjia knocked on the case and said: "Let Yang Ye hand over everything to the governor of Yazhou, and finish it if he can. At present, it seems that there will be no fight. Even if the governor of Yazhou is there, it won't happen for a while." He will be called by Funan, let him return to Beijing quickly!"

Zhao Kuangyin didn't talk nonsense at all, but just said: "Yang Ye has the seal of a great general in his hand, and he didn't obey the orders of the Privy Council during the war. I'm afraid you need to write a handbook."

Li Congjia said decisively: "I will write!"

This is also another feature of Datang today. Usually these generals are indeed under the control of the Privy Council, and the senior officials of the Privy Council do manage him, but once a war breaks out and the generals get the general seal or the general seal, then He will only obey the orders of the privy envoys and the emperor.

And when there is a conflict between the order of the emperor and the privy envoy, the order of the emperor is the main one, and the order of the privy envoy can be completely ignored.

Li Congjia set this threshold mainly because he considered that the future emperor might not be qualified for the position of privy envoy.

He can compromise on other political matters, but he firmly believes in one truth, that is, military power cannot be left alone.

If the regime falls, it may be possible to rely on military power to win it back. Once the military power is gone, it will be at the mercy of others!

After Zhao Kuangyin left, Li Congjia turned his head and said to Shi Xueting: "Then what is the saying that the generals are not subject to military orders abroad is really annoying. Many generals use this as a token. I really can't bear it!"

Shi Xueting fully understands Li Congjia's uproar. The matter of Yang Ye can be big or small. If he insists on talking about it, it is basically making trouble!

But Shi Xueting couldn't add fuel to the flames, of course he knew Yang Ye well, Yang Ye was really an honest man in the Privy Council, but this honest man made big things out of nothing, he was really capable.

He suddenly thought of Lei Youzhong and Guo Yu from before, and couldn't help but feel a little weird. Could it be that the feng shui of the Privy Council is really bad?

Li Congjia saw that he didn't speak, so he had to ask again: "What's wrong? Do you think there's something wrong?"

Only then did Shi Xueting say: "Don't be too anxious, maybe the people sent by Yang Ye are slow, so they haven't had time to send them over."

Li Congjia rolled his eyes: "Are you treating me like a child? No matter how slow you are, you can't slow down to this point, right? They have sent over the letters of credence they protested, but the letter of surrender from him hasn't arrived yet? What do you want to do? "

Shi Xueting was dumbfounded, this question...is really hard to answer, so he had to change the subject and ask: "Do you really intend to accept Funan's surrender?"

Li Congjia nodded and said, "If he can accept Datang's conditions, then accept it."

Shi Xueting asked: "What conditions? Let Funan become the next autonomous region?"

Li Congjia shook his head and said, "No, I won't make Funan an autonomous region, but ask him to surrender. Well, what do you think of a United Nations?"

Shi Xueting had some doubts: "The United Nations? What is this?"

He originally thought that he was used to the special words that Li Congjia popped up from time to time, but he didn't expect Li Congjia to say it again.

Li Congjia thought for a while and said, "Well, strictly speaking, it should be called the United States, which is to build a federal republic."

Li Congjia wants to emulate the United States of later generations. Of course, the United States of later generations is a federal republic and a constitutional country, but when it comes to Li Congjia, it will probably become a federal republic and a monarchy.

Shi Xueting listened very interested: "Tell me in detail."

Li Congjia had considered this issue before, and now he said without thinking: "Actually, in the simplest terms, this is to establish a federal court, and the countries that join the federation will give part of their rights to the federal court, while retaining part of the right to manage internal affairs. "

Shi Xueting thought for a while and vaguely grasped a point and said: "In other words, these countries still exist, but they don't have the right to fully govern the country, but they want to share the rights with the federal court?"

Li Congjia nodded: "What do you think?"

Shi Xueting said slowly: "This... I can't say it well, I'm afraid it will take a collective effort, this matter affects too many aspects, especially the transfer of part of the rights, how much should be handed over? If there are too many, will the countries in the Federation exist in name only? If there are too few, will the imperial court’s control over there be reduced? This balance point is very difficult to find.”

Li Congjia nodded: "I also know this, so this is just my idea at the moment, and I haven't said it yet, or wait until I come up with a general framework."

Shi Xueting shook his head: "This won't work, no matter how comprehensive you think alone, there are loopholes, after all, too many things are involved."

Li Congjia had no way to tell Shi Xueting that he still had some understanding of this system. After all, there were ready-made examples in later generations. Although he might not know the specific situation, it is not a problem to figure out a general framework.

However, Shi Xueting's worry was justified, so he said, "Then let's discuss it with the cabinet later. Originally, I wanted Funan to be the first country to join the Federation."

Shi Xueting suddenly asked: "Why do you want to retain the political rights of Funan? I thought you wanted to turn Funan into the territory of Tang Dynasty."

Li Congjia explained in detail: "I did have this idea before, but after I looked at the map, and you said that the prince of Sanfoqi was staring at Datang, I thought it was not very good. The most important thing is that Datang Tang has been expanding, and the land area is already very large, if this continues, there will be chaos."

Shi Xueting instantly understood what he meant: "You mean to say that you will die far away?"

Li Congjia said worriedly: "Yes, it's not good if the territory is too big, at least for now, it's very difficult to manage if the place is too far away, and if it doesn't work, it will be like Khitan. Tribe-like things, and then these tribes began to rebel, after all, they originally had their own country, and they must not be convinced to be ruled by other countries."

The communication facilities are so poor these days, and the emperor is really far away from the mountains over there. If he wants to do something, who will know what happened?

It is true that he can send supervisors to travel around to monitor these officials, but that may cause another problem.

Li Congjia has never had a headache because of the large size of the country. This time it is really a headache. His idea is to hold the political sovereignty of these countries in his hands first. After the communication is developed, he thinks that he can control the place. A little bit of erosion of their rights, in the end they had to become vassals of Datang.

At that time, even if the country still kept its own country name, it basically existed in name only.

Of course, if you don’t want to be so troublesome, you can still oppress Japan after the massacre, but it’s okay to do it in one place, if there are more places... the history books of later generations may be more ruthless than Zulong, after all It's insane to do so.

Shi Xueting had to admit that Li Congjia's worry was right, and after thinking about it, he said: "Well, if there is indeed a reason for Yang Ye this time, and the cabinet still wants to hold on to it, then use this matter to divert Cabinet's attention."

Li Congjia raised his eyebrows. He had to say that Shi Xueting's method was really good. He didn't deal with Yang Ye's affairs in front of Wang Pu just now, but he was worried that these people would chase after them fiercely, and Yang Ye might not die by then. To shed the skin.

Now that there is such a big topic, it is not afraid that they will not be able to vent their energy.

Yang Ye didn't come back too slowly. In fact, before Li Congjia gave him the order, Zhao Kuangyin sent someone to scold Yang Ye quickly, and directly scolded Yang Ye bloody. This example is there, but Yang Ye dared to do it.

After being scolded, Yang Ye knew that he was going to be finished, but he still held his own and entrusted the matter to the governor of Yazhou, and at the same time he was ready to be called back.

After Yang Ye returned to the capital, he went directly to the palace to plead guilty without even returning home.

As soon as Li Congjia saw him, he found that he was black and thin, and there were silver threads on his temples. His heart softened for a moment, so instead of scolding him, he said calmly: " Put everything else aside first, and tell me what you think first?"

When Yang Ye saw that Li Congjia was not angry, he was relieved. To be honest, he was still very worried that Li Congjia would be angry.

Of course, what he was more worried about was that Li Congjia would punish him for offending him without asking anything. Now that it's all over, at least His Majesty is still willing to ask.

Kneeling on the ground, he immediately touched his forehead and said sullenly: "It's the minister who is obsessed, because he has learned from the past, so he thought that this time Funan provoked without authorization, His Majesty would not forgive them, so he didn't take this matter to heart, but It is to continue to attack Funan."

Li Congjia froze for a moment after hearing this: "What did you say? You said it was because you thought I would not accept Funan's surrender, so it was useless to write the letter of surrender as Funan?"

Yang Ye knelt on the ground and broke out in cold sweat layer after layer, because he heard the emperor who was on hand asked coldly: "Are you the emperor? Can you make the decision for me?"

Yang Ye shut up and didn't speak, just said: "The minister is confused, and the letter written is too nondescript, the minister... I got angry for a while, but I couldn't hold it back..."

Li Congjia frowned: "Isn't fish or fish? How is it written? Did you bring it back?"

Yang Ye directly took out a letter of surrender inlaid with gold leaf from his arms, raised it above his head respectfully and said, "I have already brought it."

Li Congjia didn't move, Shi Xueting personally took it and handed it to him.

Li Congjia opened it and took a look. He was surprised to find that the surrender letter was actually written in Chinese, but this is not surprising. Chinese is probably the common language these days. Live by relying on Datang, or have trade relations with Datang.

If you want to continue doing business, you must learn Chinese.

After reading it, Li Congjia threw the letter of surrender on the imperial case and laughed angrily.

He doesn't know how to say Funan is good, just like Yang Ye said, this surrender is written like a letter of persuasion, full of stubbornness between the lines, there is a kind of feeling that although we lost, we don't want to admit it, now you want Give me a face, let's stop fighting.

If such a surrender is in his hands, he might really be the same as Yang Ye. Whatever you do, keep fighting!

Yang Ye secretly glanced at Li Congjia's expression, and felt relieved.

Li Congjia said: "I handed over the general's seal, go back and think about it behind closed doors, and don't come out unless you are allowed, you understand?"

I know, of course I know.

Yang Ye was relieved immediately, he knew that confining him at this time was actually another kind of protection for him.

Yang Ye kowtowed respectfully and left the study. As soon as he left, Li Congjia said, "King Funan's IQ is really not very high."

Shi Xueting glanced at him leisurely and said, "Oh? I don't think so."

Li Congjia handed him the letter of surrender and said, "Look, how did he become king with such an IQ?"

After Shi Xueting received it, he didn't read it, but checked the letter of surrender. Li Congjia saw his action and asked, "Why? Do you think there is something wrong with the letter of surrender?"

Shi Xueting chuckled: "I don't think so, but there is indeed something wrong with this letter of surrender!"

Li Congjia stared instantly: "Isn't it? What's wrong? I didn't even see it!"

Shi Xueting leaned over and pointed to the edge of the surrender book and said: "The gold leaf on the outside is fine, and the big seal inside is fine, the only problem is that the inside pages have been replaced, and the replacement is so ingenious that it will The inner page with the large seal is combined with the new inner page with the written content, if you don’t understand these, you won’t be able to see it, even if you don’t understand it carefully, you won’t be able to see it.”

Li Congjia's expression darkened immediately: "Yang Ye can do it, but he actually knows how to deceive the emperor!"

But Shi Xueting shook his head and said, "It may not be Yang Ye's doing."

Li Congjia turned to look at Shi Xueting: "Huh? What do you mean?"

Shi Xueting said: "Yang Ye brought his vassals there, all the soldiers were recruited from the local area, and his vassals, if I remember correctly, should not have any experts in this field. As for Yazhou, are there any soldiers?" , then it’s hard to say, but I don’t think Yang Ye will be so confused. If he doesn’t do this, maybe he will be given an idle job like Lei Youzhong. There is no threat to his life, but if he does this But it is the crime of deceiving the emperor, the kind of the Yi tribe, he should not be able to settle this account, unless he is very confident that no one will see it."

Li Congjia asked: "Then what do you think...of the deception?"

Shi Xueting put the letter on the imperial case and said: "Just now when I got it in my hand, I felt that there was something wrong. This method is too rough. It means that your attention is not here, so you didn't see it. If you If you really look carefully, you may be able to find the problem."

Li Congjia didn't continue to look for flaws, but thought about what Shi Xueting said. Seeing him pondering, Shi Xueting said, "Don't worry, I'll send someone to investigate and see who is so bold."

Li Congjia said helplessly: "It seems that this time it will really be delayed, at least until you find out, I can't let them convict Yang Ye. There's nothing wrong with him doing that."

The master is worried about the humiliation of the minister, and the minister is dead. The surrender letter is not to the point of publicly insulting Li Congjia, but the other party is looking down on Datang, insulting Datang, must fight!

Shi Xueting went to find out who was so bold, Li Congjia had no choice but to give the cabinet the general concept of a federal monarchy, and prepared to discuss with the cabinet by the way.

And the cabinet... has become numb. After the autonomous regions and colonies, there is a federal monarchy. Where did their majesty find so many wonderful ideas?

However, I have to admit that this is a very good way, and it may be possible to bring all these surrounding countries into the Datang system in a very peaceful way.

As for political sovereignty, the Tang court will definitely be in the dominant position at that time, so isn't it just a matter of how much political sovereignty is given to them?

What needs to be considered at the moment is how to set up those things in detail, from military to political to economic, and even art and other aspects are involved. This is a huge project.