After the relationship became Weng's son-in-law, Li Er's title and attitude immediately changed. "Hou Junji came to see me last night."
Li Yunze was amused and said, "Ask Your Majesty to help him stand up?"
Li Er, who was holding his hands behind his back, shook his head slightly and said, "You are here to ask me to come forward and make peace."
"He said that he drank too much horse urine and did stupid things in a daze. Please help me make peace. I am willing to bear the thorn for you to apologize."
After hearing this, Li Yunze simply asked, "How did the court decide on Hou Junji's swallowing of the loot?"
Gaochang State is located at a key node of the Silk Road. For many years, it has made a lot of money just from collecting tolls.
In that part of the Western Region, those who have wealth must naturally hide it in the city, otherwise they will become the plundering targets of countless Caotou tribes and horse bandits.
Hou Junji captured the capital of Gaochang State and captured countless items.
However, most of these seizures fell into the hands of Hou Junji and the sergeants.
Ordinary sergeants and middle- and lower-level officers were naturally difficult to deal with. Even Li Er could only turn a blind eye and pretend he didn't know.
After all, punishing sergeants and officers will shake the morale of the military.
But as the commander-in-chief, Hou Junji immediately became the target of everyone's fire.
Li Er's original intention was to give him a beating. After all, he was an old man from Tiance Mansion, so it was hard to kill him.
Historically, Hou Junji attacked Gaochang Kingdom several years later. At that time, Li Chengqian's position as crown prince was already in jeopardy, and Hou Junji was Li Chengqian's strongest supporter, so Li Er took advantage of the situation and imprisoned him on the charge of swallowing the loot.
As of now, that time has not yet arrived.
After hearing Li Yunze's inquiry, Li Er thought for a while, "He did make a mistake, but he had contributed to the destruction of the country before, so the merits and demerits outweigh the merits."
"Actually, none of these are important."
Li Yunze said calmly, "What is really important is that Hou Junji has been tied to the prince."
As soon as these words came out, Li Er's expression suddenly changed slightly.
The matter of establishing a direct descendant or establishing a virtuous person was a matter of fierce debate in the court.
But on Li Er's side, he had already made up his mind.
Everyone else is easy to say, but Li Chengqian will never agree. Hou Junji, on the other hand, is firmly tied to Li Chengqian, and it is truly a case of both loss and prosperity.
If Li Chengqian fails to inherit the throne, then with Hou Junji's courage, trouble will inevitably arise.
The emperor was never afraid of trouble caused by civil servants, because the civil servants had no troops.
But military commanders are different. Once military commanders make trouble, it will truly shake the foundation of the country.
The generals of the Tang Dynasty were more destructive than the generals of later generations.
Needless to say, they have a large army at hand when they go on an expedition. Even if they have hundreds of generals from their own family, they are an extremely powerful force.
During the Xuanwu Gate Incident, Li Er relied on his family members and his generals to succeed in the uprising.
And precisely because he had done such a thing before, he would never allow his descendants to do such a thing.
Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, almost none of the prince lineage of the founding emperors of the past dynasties has been successfully continued.
Although Liu Ying, the prince of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, became emperor, he was soon replaced by Liu Huan's line.
Of course, there is no need to say more about Li Er. His temple name in history is Taizong.
After the death of Zhao Kuangyin, the throne fell into the hands of his younger brother Zhao Guangyi. It was not until Wanyan Gou lost his son in the Southern Song Dynasty that the throne was transferred back to the lineage of Taizu, so Zhao Guangyi's temple name was also Taizong.
As for Zhu Di, similar to the Han Dynasty, he also snatched the throne from the prince's lineage, so Zhu Di was also Taizong.
The Tatar spat.
Li Er didn't know what happened next, but he knew very well that this was a real threat. He was also undecided about whether to pass the throne to Li Chengqian because Li Chengqian's performance was so poor.
Although the injuries suffered by Lu Ma were healed and there were no sequelae, Li Er drove away all his teachers and replaced them with a new batch.
This made the young and impulsive Li Chengqian think that this was the prelude that Li Er was going to destroy him, and then he began to lie down and do nothing, not only humiliating his younger brother, but also doing all kinds of things that made people look at him all day long.
Like wearing Turkic clothes and strutting around the market, that's not worth mentioning.
The most exaggerated thing is that not long ago, Li Chengqian led people to forcefully break into the stock exchange and demanded that people give him the stocks for free.
In anger, Li Er whipped him severely and asked Li Yunze, the nominal master, to discipline him.
But Li Yunze doesn't know how to discipline male students. He has always only taken care of female students. The method of discipline is nothing more than another beating.
Now that Li Yunze directly raised this matter, it touched Li Er's hidden pain.
He was pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back, looking slightly anxious. "Do you have any good ideas?"
"That depends on whether His Majesty is determined to depose the crown prince." Li Yunze smiled slightly, "If he is determined to depose the crown prince, Hou Junji will naturally have to deal with him. Even if he is not killed, he must be deprived of military power and left idle."
The biggest trouble now is this, Li Er can't make up his mind, after all, he is his eldest son.
After hesitating for a moment, he asked again, "Is there any other way?"
"have."
To Li Er's surprise, Li Yunze actually nodded and said, "It can be divided."
The system of enfeoffment is not unfamiliar. It was enfeoffed before the Qin and Han Dynasties, and even in the early Han Dynasty. For this reason, the Seven Kings Rebellion was fought.
The system of prefectures and counties was gradually popularized starting from the Qin Dynasty.
Hearing this, Li Er's eyes dimmed slightly, "This matter is inappropriate. There is no enfeoffed land in the Tang Dynasty. Not to mention that the ministers should not respond, I am not allowed to leave the country within the country."
Under the feudal system, everything in the fiefdom belongs to the lord. No matter how cruel the lord is, as long as he is not mentally retarded, he will still treat his subordinates better.
But under the county system, all officials are exiled. They will leave after working for a while. They don't care about the life and death of the local people. Naturally, they only care about how much they can earn.
Of course, the overall trend is that the system of counties and counties is more reasonable, because this way we can concentrate our efforts on doing big things, and avoid the situation of a state within a state that disperses our efforts.
Now that Li Yunze proposes enfeoffment, Li Er will naturally not agree.
"Who said we were going to split up in the Tang Dynasty?"
Li Yunze's smile continued: "The whole world is so big, why do you always focus on your homeland?"
"In addition to the real core sacred land, there are many outside territories. Taking them out for enfeoffment can not only relieve internal pressure, but also serve as an external barrier, just like the Western Zhou Dynasty."
When the Western Zhou Dynasty was founded, barbarians were everywhere.
After the enfeoffment, they not only protected the core territory, but also continued to expand outwards and became the great dynasty of Nuo.
Hearing this, Li Er's eyes suddenly lit up.
But then, he asked slightly worriedly, "What if the border area becomes bigger in the future?"
“Then make it bigger!”
Li Yunze immediately interrupted, "It doesn't matter if we become bigger, the world will still belong to the sons of the Han family. It's still a hundred times better than humiliating someone from outside and joining the bandits."
In Li Yunze's view, it doesn't matter if there is a change of dynasty, as long as the world is under the Han family.
In Li Er's view, even if he came to dominate the Central Plains, he was still a descendant of his Li family. After understanding this, he nodded slightly.
The matter of how to arrange Li Chengqian's affairs that had troubled him before seems to have finally dawned.
No matter what Li Er thought, Li Yunze took a step forward simply, "If His Majesty is determined to pass the throne to Cheng Qian, then let Hou Junji wait and don't make any trouble. If you have other ideas, you can let him go first."
Go get ready."
After saying this, Li Er thought for a long time, and then asked, "Where is the best place for Hou Junji to go?"
The words were talking about where Hou Junji should go, but in fact they were arranging where Li Chengqian should go. It seemed that Li Er had made up his mind to give up this tuba that had been exhausted by practice.
After all, he is still young, so it is not too late to learn from experience and practice the trumpet again.
After hearing this, Li Yunze spit out the name of the place "Japanese Country" without any hesitation.
"Compared to the Tang Dynasty, the Japanese country is naturally a small place, but it is not as small as imagined." Li Yunze explained, "Although the Japanese country does not have many fields, it has fertile land and can support a large population."
"The most important thing is that gold, silver and copper are rich here."
Li Er also nodded subconsciously, "Yes, the amount of gold, silver and copper in the Japanese country also surprised me."
Historically, Japan's gold and silver production once accounted for one-third of the world's total production, and this lasted for two to three hundred years.
Nowadays, many mines have been excavated under Li Yunze's advance guidance, and better mining equipment and technology have been used. Even Li Er secretly staggered the output.
"The Japanese country claims to be the land of the rising sun, and yet it dares to proclaim itself emperor. It has a mine at home but it is not interesting, and the distance is not too far. If not, who will do it?"
What these words said was that Li Er nodded repeatedly.
In the past, Japan was a poor country across the sea, so there was naturally no interest in it.
But who allowed their family to open so many gold, silver and copper mines?
"First, let Hou Junji go to the Japanese country to take charge of mining and to investigate the trends of the Japanese country's national strength. When the time is right, you can send generals to go out to destroy the country. After that, you can immigrate to occupy the land. When Cheng Qian is unable to inherit the throne, you can send him there.
"
Li Er was silent again, and after a long time he said, "Let me think about this for a while."
It was a one-two punch, but an imperial edict was issued three days later, depriving Hou Junji of his military power on the grounds that he had swallowed up the spoils of war. He then arranged to inspect the mines of the Japanese country, and directly kicked the Japanese country to open mines.
If Li Chengqian can repent and regain his imperial status in the future, Li Er may consider keeping him.
But if he still wastes himself as much as he does now, then the only option is to send him to Japan to become the local emperor.
This matter proposed by Li Yunze greatly aroused Li Er's interest.
He has a lot of sons, and it would be exciting to think about it if they could all be entrusted.
Immediately, he began to study the map and sand table all day long, looking for which territories were suitable for his son to entrust.
The heir will inherit the central government and control the core area, and the other sons no longer need to be idle princes. They can call themselves lonely and widowed, which is very attractive to Li Er.
After some searching, Li Er pointed to the map and said to Li Yunze, "I think this place can also be a place for enfeoffment."
Looking along Li Er's finger, Li Yunze saw that the place he pointed was Goguryeo.
"No."
Li Yunze immediately shook his head: "This place belongs to China-Earth."