Qian Song

Chapter 152 Seven Sons and Five Daughters
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So far, Li Cun has seven sons and five daughters.

The seven sons, Li Cun named them Li Biao, Li Xun, Li Xun, Li Di, Li Xun, Li Zhen, and Li Xun respectively.

Li Cun named the five daughters Li Lichun, Li Yushui, Li Jingzhe, Li Chunfen and Li Qingming respectively.

Son, Li Cunquan copied Lao Zhu.

It is a pity that Lao Zhu only has 28 sons. Judging from his posture, 28 names are definitely not enough for him.

But it doesn't matter, Lao Zhu's principle of naming his son is based on the theory of infinite reincarnation such as "wood gives birth to fire, fire gives birth to earth, earth gives birth to metal, metal gives birth to water, and water gives birth to wood" in the five elements theory of China. Let your descendants reproduce endlessly, endlessly, and the dynasty continues and prospers unabated. Therefore, if there are not enough sons, you can find them later. Besides, with this basic principle and this order, Li Cun can still It doesn't matter how many literati are born under him.

The daughters were named after the 24 solar terms.

However, there are only 24 solar terms in total, which is definitely not enough, so we will talk about it later.

It is worth mentioning that Li Cun's eldest son, Li Biao, was born to Fang Baihua.

Li Cun didn't want to worry about who would inherit his family business in the future, and he didn't want Fang Baihua, the master of the backyard, to get a wrong name.

Therefore, not long after returning to Hangzhou from Suzhou, Li Cun announced that his eldest son, Li Biao, would be his eldest son.

As for, in the future, if Li Biao is not capable enough to inherit his family business or even the empire, he will have time to change it later.

In fact, there is another small reason why Li Cun is like this—a small and trivial reason.

That is, Li Cun can actually save the lives of Fang La's family, at least Li Cun can save the lives of other Fang family members except Fang La.

For Li Cun, this is actually not difficult at all.

——As long as Li Cun sent Chen Kuutong and Tian Maang to see Tong Guan, he would express that he wanted Fang La's family to survive, and those cowards would not dare to kill Fang La's family if they were too large.

Moreover, in terms of time, Li Cun might be in a bit of a hurry to save Fang La, but he still has plenty of time to save the rest of Fang La's family.

But Li Cun chose not to save him.

This is not to say that Li Cun hates Fang La's family.

Although Fang La took advantage of Li Cunzhi's danger to miss Li Cun's territory, this was mainly due to Fang La's limited thinking, and it was nothing.

The point, regardless of whether it was intentional or unintentional, Fang La helped Li Cun resist the Song army on the western front for a long time, and won the opportunity for Li Cun to wipe out the Song army on the northern front.

More importantly, Fang La did not surrender to the Song Dynasty in the end, which is really rare.

——Imagine, if Fangla took his millions of people to vote for Zhao Song, then Li Cun would not be one-vs-one with the Northern Song Army, but one VS Northern Song Army and Western Song Army In addition to the three families of the Fang Layi Army, Li Cun might really be wiped out by Zhao Song. You know, the heartless cannon and the thunderbolt are just two weapons that are slightly ahead of this era. They are really not Tong Guan and Liu Yanqing. They say that one blow can kill thousands of artifacts.

Therefore, as long as Fang La was able to persevere until the end without surrendering to Zhao Song, Li Cun could not hate Fang La, and even had to admire Fang La's determination.

But even though Li Cun admired Fang La as a staunch Qiansong fighter, Li Cun still didn't want to save Fang La's family.

First of all, Li Cun and Fang La's family really don't have this kind of friendship, so there is no need to let them become a bargaining chip for Zhao Song.

Secondly, although Fang La is nothing to worry about, Fang La is a person who has the ambition to be an emperor after all. Even if only Fang Hao is rescued, it may bring trouble to Li Cun. Don't forget, Fang Hao is the so-called prince of the Yongle Dynasty. Who can guarantee that Fang Hao's status as the "Prince" will not be used by those who want to?
Again, if Fangla and the others do something wrong, Li Cun will have to kill them himself, which may create a gap between Li Cun and Fang Baihua.

So Li Cun might as well use Zhao Song's hand to completely solve Fang La's trouble.

In the handling of this matter, Li Cun did not feel that he had made a mistake.

But from Fang Baihua's point of view, Fang La and Shao Shi were the ones who raised her up since she was a child. She definitely hopes that Fang La's family can live, even if only Shao Shi and Fang Hao are allowed to live.

Although Fang Baihua would never know that Li Cun had a chance to save Fangla's family, to a certain extent, Li Cun did feel sorry for Fang Baihua a little bit.

Therefore, watching Fang Baihua, who has always been very strong, cry like a child who lost his parents because Fang La's family was executed by Zhao Ji, Li Cun, who is not hard-hearted, actually feels a little guilty.

But then again, if time goes back and Li Cun makes another choice, Li Cun will still not save Fang La's family and cause trouble for himself.

So Fang Baihua could only be wronged.

And this has also become a negligible reason why Li Cunfang Baihua's son is the son of the world.

In fact, this matter has already been counted in the past, and Fang Baihua has also come out of grief.

But what Li Cun didn't expect was that Bao Kang actually handed Li Cun a letter written by Fang La.

In this letter, Fang La did not greet Li Cun, nor was he polite to Li Cun. Fang La only said that he hid the gold, silver and jewels he had looted from various places since the uprising in a secret place, where only his son Fang Hao knew that as long as Li Cun could treat Fang Hao kindly, the treasure would be given to Li Cun.

Seeing this, Li Cun couldn't help being a little dumbfounded.

It won't be long before the land in the southeast will belong to me. At that time, I, who has the greatest say in maritime trade, can still be short of your gold, silver and jewels?
The point is, it's too late to talk about this matter now, Fang Hao is already dead.

Li Cun shook his head, he didn't take this matter too seriously, and then looked at Bao Kang, Fang Qifo, Song Jiang and others who came to vote for him.

Li Cun said: "I will wait for you to be a villain first and then a gentleman. First of all, it is a great honor for you to vote for me. However, Manichaeism is heresy and sorcery. If you wait to vote, you will either quit the religion. Accept my ban on Manichaean law, or I will send you to Song Dynasty."

The main doctrine of Manichaeism is "Two Schools and Three Worlds", advocating light.It can be summed up in eight words: "cleanness, brightness, strength, and wisdom".He has a very lofty ideal, which is to save the people from darkness.Darkness and light, goodness and evil, in Manichaeism's thinking, must always compete with each other.The theory of "Three Realms" taught by Manichaeism is a trilogy of struggle between darkness and light.At the beginning of the prelude, it is the past, and darkness covers the world; at the middle of the middle, it is now, the King of Light leads everyone to fight against the darkness; at the end of the finale, it is the future, the light overcomes the future and illuminates the world!
Such teachings are often easily used and misinterpreted by those who want to, and the congregation is therefore easily incited to become a tool for some people to realize their selfish desires, and even become a tool for careerists to rebel.

In the eyes of any ruler, a religion like Manichaeism must be attacked.

Let’s talk about Lao Zhu. After Lao Zhu succeeded in rebelling with the help of Mingjiao, the first religions to be destroyed were Mingjiao and other religions. Because Lao Zhu is so smart, how can he not understand? Someone will follow suit and use Mingjiao to oppose him.

Li Cun was also afraid that someone would use Manichaeism to rebel against himself or against his descendants in the future.

Therefore, Li Cun must also ban Manichaeism.

As soon as Li Cun said this, Bao Kang, Song Jiang and others who did not believe in Manichaeism must be fine, while Fang Qifo and others who believed in Manichaeism would not look very good.

Lu Shinang, who was also lucky enough to survive, saluted Li Cun and said: "The governor knows that I teach the doctrine, I teach..."

Li Cun interrupted Lu Shinang and said: "I know the teachings of your teaching very well. You don't need to wait to explain it to me. I admit that the teachings of your teaching are good, but they are very easy to be used by those who are interested. Therefore, if the people you teach want to live comfortably, I will definitely try my best to make all the people under my rule do the same. If you only care about the existence of your religion, then prepare to leave Jiangnan."

Without waiting for Fang Qifo and the others to say anything, Li Cun said conclusively: "I will give you three days. After three days, those who choose Manichaeism are ready to board the boat. I will send you to the Song Dynasty, and those who choose to live a stable life , we must abandon Manichaeism.”

After saying this, Li Cun stopped looking at Fang Qifo and other Manichaeists, but looked at Bao Kang, and said with a smile: "Lu Changshi has recommended Bachelor Bao to me many times, and I really met Bao Xueshi. It's too late."

Bao Kang also said regretfully: "I have long wanted to see the governor, but it's a pity that good luck tricks people."

Li Cun said with a smile: "It's not too late now."

Not wanting to, Bao Kang said in low spirits: "Today the governor has all the military equipment, no need for Bao Kang to be mediocre, Fang Shenggong's letter, Bao Kang has already brought it, and Fang Shenggong's son has passed away, so there is no need for Bao Kang to take care of him..."

After thinking for a while, Bao Kang went on to say: "Bao Kang wants to seek personal favor with the Metropolitan Governor, and begs the Metropolitan Governor to reward Bao Kang with two thatched huts, so that Bao Kang will die."

General Lu really recommended Bao Kang to Li Cun, saying that Bao Kang is a great talent, he is upright and can be reused, and told Li Cun about Bao Kang in detail.

In Li Cun's view, Bao Kang is an idealist through and through. Such a person is suitable for starting a business, rather than sharing the fruits of labor created by others.

Based on this, Li Cun did not answer and asked instead: "Has Xueshi Bao ever heard of Liuqiu?"

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Bao Kang responded for a moment, and said, "But the Yizhou explored by Soochow during the Three Kingdoms?"

Li Cun nodded: "That's right. I own this island now. About [-]% of Fujian Road covers it. The plains in the west are fertile and suitable for farming. The mountains in the east are lush with trees and rich in resources. It is an undeveloped treasure island. Hundreds of thousands of people have immigrated to it in the past, and they will continue to immigrate in the future. However, this place has not been civilized for thousands of years, and it is difficult for people without great perseverance to govern..."

Li Cun had already talked to this extent, if Bao Kang didn't understand that Li Cun wanted him to lead people to reclaim wasteland, then Bao Kang would not be worthy of the title of "great talent" that General Lu gave him.

Li Cun was right about Bao Kang. Bao Kang was an idealist through and through. He just wanted to use his limited life to do something meaningful.

As for the development of this barren land of Liuqiu, if it is done well, it is destined to be recorded in the annals of history.

For Pao Kang, this is a very meaningful and challenging task.

So Bao Kang immediately said: "Xiao Ke is willing to give it a try."

Seeing that Bao Kang was willing to reclaim wasteland, Li Cun felt relieved.

Liuqiu's current conditions are really too difficult.

As a result, in just a few months, Li Cun has changed three chief officials, and the current one has also written a memorial to Li Cun, begging Li Cun to transfer him back.

This kind of thing can't be done by force, if it is not someone who really wants to develop Liuqiu, even if he is really forced to put him in Liuqiu, it will not be of any benefit to the development and construction of Liuqiu.

Therefore, Li Cun had long wanted to find a down-to-earth idealist to help him preside over the development of Liuqiu.

Li Cun just didn't know whether Bao Kang was really an idealist, or a person with weak willpower.

And this can only be proven by time.

Li Cun set his sights on Song Jiang again.

To be honest, this Song Jiang was nothing like the Song Jiang in Li Cun's impression.

First of all, it doesn't look like it from the outside.

In Li Cun's impression, Song Jiang who has the name of "Black Saburo" should have dark skin, but this Song Jiang looks fair and clean.

In Li Cun's impression, Song Jiang should wholeheartedly want to accept the Zhao Song court's recruitment, but this Song Jiang is wholeheartedly trying to rebel against Zhao Song.

but--

The two Song Jiangs also have some similarities, that is, they are thick and dark enough, but the Song Jiang in Li Cun's impression is more subtle, and the Song Jiang in front of him is more direct.

Li Cun suppressed his incompatibility, and said: "I am as equal as you, so you can rest assured to work hard with me. If you have credit, I will reward you..."

While saying these words, Li Cun has been observing the performance of Song Jiang's group.

As a result, Li Cun found that Yang Zhi had the highest buttocks, Guan Sheng was the most reserved, Shi Bin was the most looking forward to it, Zhang Shun and Peng Qi were a little nervous, Wu Yong's eyes kept rolling around, and Song Jiang had the deepest city.

Putting aside personal feelings, Song Jiang's gang of little thieves actually didn't deserve Li Cun's attention to them at all.

In fact, if Song Jiang hadn't kidnapped the remnants of tens of thousands of Fangla rebels led by Bao Kang and others, Song Jiang and his gang were really not qualified to let Li Cun meet them.

Now, Li Cun tested the school for Song Jiang and others, and finally left Song Jiang and Wu Yong in his Metropolitan Governor's Mansion as an opportune text, and sent Yang Zhi, Guan Sheng, Shi Bin, Zhang Shun, Peng Qi and others to the recruits re-education, and then make appointments according to their ability...

After handling the matter at hand, Li Cun began to set his sights on the game with Zhao Song Dynasty.

Politics is an end, war is a means, and war always serves political ends.

Li Cun has already won the war, and now it depends on how much Li Cun can get by relying on this victory.

Then we have to look at Li Cun's political wisdom...

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