My Backyard is the Tang Dynasty Chapter 425

Published at 27th of October 2023 05:36:46 AM

Concubine Yang's words made Li Yin a little depressed, he said: "Concubine Mother, this is our family matter, so there is no need for these ministers to ask."

Shaking his head, Li Yin sat down opposite Concubine Yang, and said softly: "? Now you are the emperor, and you need to use the draft to maintain the relationship between the various classes in the Tang Dynasty. Otherwise, why do these beautiful girls have to pay attention to their backgrounds? Family? Although the Tang Dynasty is now under your governance, it is peaceful on the surface, but if your courtiers marry each other, a new interest group will soon be formed. Instead of doing this, it is better to call the daughters of these people into the palace Come on, even if you don't spoil me, you can still be a female official in the palace."

Hearing this, Li Yin lowered his head and pondered. What he was thinking about was not the affairs within the Tang Dynasty, but the current colonies. Although the expeditionary forces supported the puppet governments, how to make these puppet governments serve the Tang Dynasty wholeheartedly is a problem. During this period of time, small-scale conflicts broke out frequently in various regions, the expeditionary force continued to suffer casualties, and conflicts with localities became more and more prominent. This made Li Yin feel that pure force was still not feasible, and that in some periods it had to follow the ancient rules. way to come.

Seeing that Li Yin didn't speak, Concubine Yang continued: "Moreover, the influence of gentry aristocrats in the folk is not so easy to eliminate. Among the folks and officials, isn't that proud of being able to marry the five surnames and seven Wangs?"

"Mother and concubine are right." Li Yan suddenly raised his head and said, "However, I want to add some people from other places to the list of this beautiful girl."

Concubine Yang was already very happy when Li Yin agreed to this matter. She naturally hoped that Li Yin would have many children and grandchildren, and she had another account in her heart. Although the emperor had many concubines and many heirs in ancient times, there were not many heirs who survived in peace. Basically, they all died in the struggle with all their strength. In history, some emperors even died like this. Had to let the brother's heir inherit the throne.

Li Shimin abdicated and told Li Yin not to kill his brothers indiscriminately. Li Yin has also done so now, but now almost all of Li Shimin's heirs have grown up. But Li Yin never took it to heart.

but. Li Yin didn't take it seriously, as a mother, she had to think about Li Yin, she was born in the royal family, and she had seen too many human tragedies, so she was planning ahead at this time. She continued: "Is this a problem, Your Majesty, what kind of women do you want to add?"

"The territory under the control of the Tang Dynasty is too vast now, and it is far from enough for us to manage it. This requires the full support of these colonial puppet regimes, and I am not very relieved that the expeditionary force has been stationed outside for a long time. In order to appease the people in these colonies The rich and powerful, I think I should choose some women from their families to come to Chang'an." Li Yin said in a deep voice. He mainly aimed at the puppet regime in the colonies. In order to stabilize overseas, after all, he did not have so many resources to change officials all over the world.

Concubine Yang nodded. "What the emperor said is also reasonable. These countries are high and far away, and the expeditionary forces spend a lot of money every year. It is said that the soldiers are tired of fighting for years, and there are many deserters."

Mentioning this, Li Yin's expression was a little sad. The overseas colonization for more than ten years has indeed made a group of veterans tired, so Li Yin recently asked the expeditionary force to temporarily stop operations in Europe. Instead, focus on maintaining the colonies that have been conquered. After all, you can't get fat with one bite. It may also lead to indigestion, and these recent incidents have indeed made Li Yin vigilant.

"This is also what troubles Haier. Now Haier intends to stabilize the rule of these areas and integrate them into the Tang Dynasty. The conquests in other areas are not in a hurry. The foreign must be settled first. This draft is mainly aimed at these areas. Colonies and aristocratic families, then let the concubine take over." Li Yin straightened his clothes and stood up.

Concubine Yang nodded lightly, and said: "The left and right mothers and concubines have nothing to do, so I will check for you."

"Then trouble your mother and concubine." Li Yin said, and then he resigned from Concubine Yang and left the Hall of Compassion. After more than ten years of life, Li Yin has integrated into the Tang Dynasty, so he has no objection to the draft. After all, he Now he is the emperor, and the draft is beneficial to both parties. It can not only further weaken the power of the aristocratic families, reduce their private marriages, but also maintain the rule of the colony. The only thing is that these women who entered the palace But Li Yin understands that the benevolence of women at this time will only lead to future suffering, and he can only grit his teeth to do some bad things. At this time, he once again realized the difficulty of managing a country, not to mention Plus numerous colonies.

The news of the draft spread like wildfire, and those officials who were looking forward to it were like cats smelling fishy, ​​and the five surnames and seven Wangs were in a different situation. However, Li Yin's move is to break the marriage between the gentry.

"This emperor is much more difficult to deal with than the Taishanghuang." In a quiet garden-style courtyard outside Chang'an, Changsun Wuji was holding a white porcelain teacup and savoring the matcha from Yizhou. There were six old people sitting opposite him. , They are all old members of the Guanlong nobles. The seven families of the former Eight Pillar Kingdom are all here. It was they who assisted the Li family to lay down the Great Tang Dynasty.

A skinny old man said: "Elder Changsun Ge said this very well. In the past, the Supreme Emperor would not dare to do anything to the five surnames no matter how brave he was. Now the Emperor is a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers and dares to do anything."

"There is no way to do this. In the current Tang Dynasty, we, the gentry, have no say. Whether it is in the court or in the army, we basically have no right to speak." Another person said.

Changsun Wuji said: "You don't need to think about the old days, they are gone forever, but the days are not bad now, the most important thing is leisure."

"It's easy for you. You don't have a daughter under your knees, so you don't have to worry about the draft, but we are sad." The thin old man said.

Changsun Wuji chuckled lightly and said, "Didn't you say it was voluntary? What is there to worry about? If my daughter is not so beautiful, I don't think it is necessary to send her to the palace. Anyway, it is all resources, the emperor said so." , what else do you have to complain about?"

"That's true." Others nodded in agreement. The Eight Pillars Kingdom gathers every year, including Li Yuan's lineage before, but since the Li family ascended the throne, there are seven families, and stomping before made Tang tremble three times. The Eight Pillars Kingdom can only gather and chat like this now, and can no longer exert any influence on the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty.

"Ahem, it's just that why did the emperor say he was voluntary? This is a bit strange." Someone asked again.

Changsun Wuji said: "This is exactly the shrewdness of the emperor. This is to test whether we are sincere to him. Secondly, the emperor also understands that the aristocratic family chose to give in only because they were afraid of his force. It was counterproductive. After all, the family has been passed down for thousands of years, and there are many big clans with more than 100,000 members. These clansmen are in business, are officials, or join the army. How can they be compared with ordinary people? The gentry controls it, and if it gets into a hurry, it is enough to cause a turmoil."

"It's no wonder that the emperor has vigorously supported the upstarts and built new cities these years. It turns out that he is taboo about this." A person realized clearly.

Sighing, Changsun Wuji said: "Taboo is just a taboo, it is far from the level of fear, even the biggest disturbance can be calmed down by the emperor, the emperor just doesn't want to kill people, so everyone, I advise you to tell us Don't get too close to the other old gentry in the Bazhu Kingdom, this era is over, just live your own life in peace, don't think about some unreasonable things, lest you have to accompany your family when you have time."

Changsun Wuji's words meant something, and many people showed unnatural expressions. They were obviously stabbed to the sore spot by Changsun Wuji. Just as Changsun Wuji said, the surface of the pool of gentry has calmed down. It's an undercurrent. (to be continued)

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