Quickly wear it and insist on being an old man forever

Wude twenty-seventh year, the seventh day of the sixth lunar month.

Bai Sheng officially canonized Li Ke, King of Han Dynasty, as the grandson of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Li Shimin also came down, so Bai Sheng naturally changed the reign name to the original Wude reign title.

In total, this is the twenty-seventh year of Takeru.

The assessment of officials across the country is about to begin, and Li Ke cannot be allowed to be in charge of this matter as a prince, so Bai Shengcai specially canonized him as the emperor's grandson before this, so that he can be in charge of this matter legitimately!

On the night after the canonization, Bai Sheng specially summoned three other sons who had received excellent scores in previous exams and had been studying with Li Shimin into the Manlu Hall.

"No need to salute, please sit down!"

As soon as Li Yuanjia and the others came in, Bai Sheng said.

"No! Father!" Although Bai Sheng said there was no need to salute, they still bowed briefly before sitting down.

"Do you have any complaints today?"

Although a sensible person should have been able to tell a long time ago that Bai Sheng preferred the Han Dynasty King Li Ke to succeed to the throne, but the treatment of the four of them was indeed the same before. Bai Sheng was inevitably worried that they would have inappropriate thoughts.

That's why I specially brought them here, wanting to talk things over with them, have a heart-to-heart talk, and reassure each other.

"Don't dare!"

"My father's attitude toward the King of Han has been very clear for a long time. We all know it, so we have no complaints!"

"I don't have any complaints, I just feel like the dust has settled. I always had a glimmer of hope in my heart before, but now I feel completely at ease."

It is certainly impossible for them to have complaints or dissatisfaction, but it will not be too serious. As they just said, Bai Sheng's intention to value the King of Han Li Ke has been very clear, and they have already known it in their hearts.

I didn't give them much praise or hope in the first place, so when the dust settles, I won't be too disappointed.

“It seems there is still one.

I called you here today specifically to talk about this matter. I think you all know very well about the previous changes in the Xuanwu Sect. Although the people of the world were at fault, I did not have any problems. After all, I gave him hope and indulged him. Of course, his ambition is also due to his really strong ability. After this experience or lesson, I never want to see the past happen again. "

Speaking of this, Li Yuanjia and the others quickly bowed their heads and said:

"Father, don't worry, we will never be like this. If you are really worried, we can give up our current power and just be an ordinary virtual prince."

"That's right, Father, I am willing to delegate power!"

The three of them took it for granted that Bai Sheng was beating them, so they decisively expressed their willingness to resign from all their current positions and only retain the title of Prince Xujue.

Qin King Li Shimin was no match for their father.

How can they be so virtuous?

It is better to delegate power to ensure safety...

"Don't be afraid. You are doing this to make it seem like I'm terrible. Shimin has done so many wrong things, but I didn't kill him. I'm not knocking you. I really have something to discuss with you carefully. .”

Speaking of this, Bai Sheng paused before continuing:

"During the time when I was the Supreme Emperor, I thought a lot about it, and I also thought about whether raising all the other princes other than the prince like pigs would prevent things like the Xuanwu Sect Incident from happening again, but no one can I guarantee that nothing will go wrong with the prince. Once something goes wrong with the prince, the rest of the princes will be useless, which will be a disaster!

After thinking about it for a long time, this is my final thought.

Reinstate the enfeoffment system.

I found that many ministers did not understand the enfeoffment system of the ancient Zhou Dynasty at all, and only simply and crudely understood it as enfeoffing domestic land to princes, which could easily lead to civil strife in the country, as well as the disintegration of the country and other disasters.

But in fact, most of the land that was enfeoffed in the early days of the Zhou Dynasty was not under the control of the Zhou royal family. Some of them were simply divided into plots of land and told a certain marquis that the land belonged to you, and you could take it yourself.

For example, in the Qin State, it took them hundreds of years and many generations to finally stabilize the country.

The decline of the Zhou royal family was due to the fact that the land area they originally controlled was not large, and they also enfeoffed the surrounding land, leaving no room for expansion at all. On the contrary, the princes who were enfeoffed were still at the border. There are many places to explore.

In addition, the royal family continued to entrust the original land last week.

The land and population in hand are getting smaller and smaller.

This is the ultimate self-destruction.

My idea is to demarcate Kyushu, and make all the newly demarcated Kyushu areas the inherent territory of our dynasty, and the places outside Kyushu can be enfeoffed.

I will provide you with some support!

The price is that you have to treat me as a suzerain state and you as a vassal state, and pay a certain amount of tax every year. The specific details have not been planned yet. I just want to reveal this idea to you first. If you also have the idea of ​​​​breaking the earth and becoming a king, now You can start preparing.

Of course, if you don't want to take these risks, you can just be an ordinary prince, but don't have any other ideas. Do you understand what I mean? "

Bai Sheng did this because he did not want the capable members of the royal family to be buried. The most important thing was to prepare for the future and completely eliminate the hidden dangers of the family.

Although the aristocratic families are deeply rooted and have greatly hindered class circulation and hindered the upward path of poor families and even common people, it does not mean that they are all bad people and deserve to die. Bai Sheng wants to root them out.

It's not that I want to wipe them all out.

Rather than killing those people, or reducing them to slaves and exiled to do hard work, it is better to send them abroad and let them promote culture.

And incidentally assimilate the foreign natives.

In this case, it is quite necessary to plan the split-earth kingship and enfeoffment system in advance. In addition, try to lead the fight outside the country, so that everyone should not fight internally, but think about external expansion, which will contribute to the continuation of the country and other aspects. In fact, there are advantages in terms of it. The most important thing is that after these years of development, they have great advantages in technology.

Enough to deal with altitude sickness and miasma dysentery.

We already have the confidence and ability to expand our territory.

"This……"

I have to say that Bai Sheng's words shocked Li Yuanjia and the others quite a bit, because since the Western Jin Dynasty, it has become almost everyone's consensus that the enfeoffment system is undesirable. They did not expect that their father would mention it again.

But as they listened, they gradually understood that the enfeoffment system mentioned by Bai Sheng was different from the enfeoffment system in their imagination. The enfeoffment system in their imagination was to get something for nothing and directly obtain the ownership of a part of the land and population, while their father The emperor's so-called enfeoffment system only gave them support and let them go out and fight on their own.

How much land can be conquered and how many people can be occupied?

How much territorial and national power can be obtained.

In the future, if you have the ability, or if your descendants have the ability, you can continue to expand, which is considered entrepreneurship.

Then they hesitated.

If the land and population were directly given to them, and they were allowed to split the earth and become kings in the Tang Dynasty, they would definitely agree with both hands and feet, and if everything had to be done by themselves, it would be difficult for them not to hesitate. After all, Lingnan is already a place of exile and a barbaric place, not to mention places outside Lingnan. Are you sure that going to those places is to break the soil and become a king, rather than being exiled and suffering?

Seeing the embarrassment on their faces, Bai Sheng didn't care: "You don't have to answer me right away. You can go back and think about it first, but I hope you remember that the Qin State back then just got a decree from the Zhou royal family to enfeoff, and then spent all its money. The strength of the whole clan is to compete with the Quanrong for territory and obtain their own fiefdom. Compared with them, the support you can get from me is already much stronger. You only have one chance, don't miss it.

Of course, if you really don’t want to, you are timid.

I won't blame you either.

Just stay in the country and be a peaceful prince!

I am still carefully considering and planning the specific enfeoffment system. In the future, I may even need to discuss it with the current Crown Prince Keer. It will not be officially launched so soon, so you have plenty of time to think about it slowly.

But keep it secret, okay? "

"Understood, I will consider it carefully!" Li Yuanjia replied, as did the remaining two princes.

I replied with similar words.

Then they all resigned and went back to think carefully.

At the same time, the next day, they went to Honglu Temple one after another to learn about the situation in foreign countries, and by the way, they sent people from the royal palace to look for foreign businessmen and learn more about foreign countries.

Obviously they are not willing to give up directly. They still have some ideas in their hearts, but they are worried that it will be difficult to cope with the complex situation and the foreign living environment is too poor. Therefore, they still want to know more about the situation and try their best to know themselves and their enemies before going. Make the final decision.

Although outsiders thought they were a bit strange, the advantage was that they kept their mouths shut, so the news did not leak out.

Of course, more importantly, most officials are busy dealing with this assessment and are not in the mood to pay attention to too many other things. By the time this national official assessment is over, Li Yuanjia and the others have already made their own decisions.

Either give up completely, or prepare in private.

With the incident over, Bai Sheng then arranged several major tasks for Li Ke to do, which indirectly enhanced his prestige and allowed him to gradually take over power.

When he completed everything successfully, it was already the 30th year of Wude, which was also the year when Bai Sheng became Zen again.

Zen gave way to Li Ke.

The final wish to support him to ascend the throne is fulfilled.

Although Bai Sheng actually still has a lot of things he wants to do and implement, or some prerequisite preparations that must be made to completely eradicate the family, but after all, Li Ke was educated by him personally, and many of his ideas are basically the same as hers. At the same time, Li Ke also promised to complete Bai Sheng's original plan in his lifetime.

This is the plan to eliminate the family members.

So Bai Sheng just put down his burden with peace of mind.

There is no nostalgia for power at all.

As soon as he abdicated, he moved out of Taiji Palace, but he did not move back to Da'an Palace. Instead, he moved to the newly built Daming Palace. There was a newer, bigger and better house to live in. Naturally, there was no need to return to the original old house, the original Da'an Palace. It serves as a separate courtyard and a dedicated gaming area.

If you want to play games, go there.

In order to avoid waste, Bai Sheng also opened the game venues in Da'an Palace to the public, and used the money earned to repair Da'an Palace and update the props inside.

And by the way, build some new game venues.

With Li Ke officially ascending the throne, Li Shimin, as Li Ke's biological father, is naturally not suitable to continue to be prime minister. After all, there are unspoken rules in the officialdom that a son cannot have a higher official position than his father. Now that his son has become the emperor, he is better than the emperor. A low-ranking prime minister is naturally inappropriate.

So he retired directly and went back to be the King of Qin.

The position of prime minister is taken over by other officials.

However, not long after he returned, Li Shimin fell ill, but it was normal. He was not in good health to begin with. He also suffered from wind disease and high blood pressure. Being the prime minister in recent years has been very hard. If Bai Sheng hadn't specially sent him A lot of Yangyuan Pills were given to him, and he might have died long ago.

Now he has resigned from the position of prime minister and returned to the Palace of Prince Qin.

The energy and energy that had been held up suddenly disappeared.

The most important thing is that his own desire to survive was not very strong and he stopped taking Yangyuan Pill, so his body naturally collapsed quickly and he died in the spring of the next year.

How to bury someone after death and how to determine a posthumous title.

It becomes a problem again!

Li Ke did not dare to make his own decision, so he went to the Daming Palace to ask Bai Sheng's opinion, bringing along many ministers' suggestions.

"Let him be Emperor Taizongwen.

Restore his throne.

As for where to be buried, he should be buried in the imperial mausoleum he built for me. The imperial mausoleum he built himself will be used by me again. I will treat it as a national funeral and give him some dignity after his death.

Wait, I have forgotten that Queen Wende's eldest grandson has been buried in Zhaoling. That's all. I can't be buried with my daughter-in-law. It's not right to move her out. Seeing as his wife has taken the place in advance. For the sake of face, let him be buried in Zhaoling. It was really an advantage for him! "

The mausoleum Li Shimin prepared for his original body was definitely crude compared to the emperor, so Bai Sheng originally wanted to switch it and bury Li Shimin in it, but he immediately thought that Changsun died earlier.

He was buried in Zhaoling a long time ago.

So we can only change the plan and let them bury them together!

"My grandpa is kind, but my grandson is at fault. He forgot that your imperial mausoleum is of crude size. Do you think we should change the place and build a new mausoleum for you, or should we expand and renovate it based on the original mausoleum? "

Because Bai Sheng himself never considered changing the imperial mausoleum during the years of his restoration, it was natural for Li Ke to ignore this matter after he succeeded to the throne, until today!

This is the time to quickly admit your mistake and prepare to make amends.

"There is no need for this, just like that, the imperial mausoleum was built with a lot of effort and money, and I will not be able to sleep well after I die.

By the way, you have to ask your mother later if she will be buried in Zhaoling in the future. If she wants to be buried in Zhaoling, she must make preparations in advance. After all, she is the Queen Mother and cannot be buried with Zhaoling. But Zhaoling did not prepare a place for her to be buried together, so you, my son, have to worry a lot. I only have one request, and that is that the Changsun family cannot be moved out. "

When the Zhaoling Mausoleum was originally designed, there was only one place for a joint burial, which was specifically reserved for Empress Changsun. Other concubines, civil servants and generals could only be buried with the Zhaoling Mausoleum.

But now that Li Ke has ascended the throne, his mother Yang Guifei has become the queen mother of course, and is also qualified to be buried with Li Shimin. If we don't ask before Li Shimin is buried, it will be difficult to bury them together later.

Because once Li Shimin was buried, the main tomb had to be completely closed and the mausoleum sealed. Li Ke's biological mother could only either be buried with her after death or build a new mausoleum for the Queen Mother.

If his mother wanted to be buried together.

Then he would have to be buried instead of sealing the mausoleum. At the same time, the internal specifications of the mausoleum would also have to be modified appropriately. It could not be the original dragon and phoenix specifications, but it would have to be changed to one dragon and two phoenix specifications. Otherwise, there would be no place for his mother and queen to be buried together!

"Thank you, Grandfather Emperor, for reminding me. I really forgot about this matter. Grandfather Emperor, I will take my leave now..."

Li Ke suddenly realized the next second and hurriedly left.

Prepare to go back and ask his mother what she thinks.