Quickly wear it and insist on being an old man forever

Chapter 68 The Queen Mother is immortal (68)

Without Confucianism in the middle, the relationship between Bai Sheng and Emperor Jianyuan soon eased a lot. In addition, in the next few years, Wei Qing and Huo Qubing's uncle and nephew joined forces to control Shi Yanran and directly drive out the Xiongnu. In the Western Region, other generals also conquered places such as South Vietnam and Southwest Yi, greatly expanding the country's territory.

Looking around, no strong enemies could be seen.

Emperor Jianyuan was naturally complacent.

He felt that he had great martial arts skills and extraordinary abilities, and his achievements had surpassed those of all previous emperors in the dynasty. At the same time, he had brought great rule to the world and made people's lives more prosperous.

After so many years of hard work.

It’s time to enjoy it anyway.

As a result, he started to cause trouble. While pursuing all kinds of auspiciousness and ordering people to prepare for the ceremony of becoming a Zen monk, he also recruited many new young women.

Mrs. Li and Mrs. Wang became pregnant one after another.

Wei Zifu is in love with Chi.

Of course, it may also be related to the fact that the Huns have been completely eliminated, and the Wei family's contribution is too great.

Although Bai Sheng could take care of these things, or even stop them, she felt it was not necessary. The relationship between the two had finally eased. If she continued to prevent Emperor Jianyuan from doing this or that, she would know the rift in their relationship without even thinking about it. It will definitely continue to increase.

No one likes to be lectured and admonished.

Who hasn't been tired of his mother's preaching when he was young? He was unwilling to listen to his mother's preaching, let alone his grandmother, and this was just an ordinary person. An emperor with a higher status would only be more disgusted than ordinary people in this regard.

Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty was sometimes admonished by Wei Zheng.

He was so angry that he wanted to kill this old guy.

Of course, in addition to this, the most important thing is that through Bai Sheng's hard development over the years, today's financial size and people's living standards have made a qualitative leap compared to more than ten years ago. At least there is no food and clothing. It was such a big problem, coupled with the huge increase in national fiscal revenue in the past two years, that the imperial court also abolished official corvee at Bai Sheng's suggestion and replaced it with spending money to hire people to work.

Even Emperor Jianyuan had to spend his own money.

The labor of the people cannot be wasted.

In this way, the impact on the people's livelihood will not be great, and it can even help the nearby people make some money, so Bai Sheng naturally does not need to be such a bad guy.

And things in the harem are even harder to manage.

If Bai Sheng didn't come forward to stop it, then no one could stop these things, so Emperor Jianyuan naturally indulged himself completely and began to spend money lavishly.

Although he is still under forty.

But there are already some signs of the late Tang Xuanzong period.

Fortunately, the world is now stable, and there are no enemies around the empire that can compete with it. In addition, the fiscal revenue is stable and abundant, so these things that Emperor Jianyuan was doing did not have any major negative impact, and even promoted it to a certain extent. the circulation of funds.

After all, money is money when it is spent.

It's just a pile of copper placed in the treasury.

At this point, the Daqian Empire has entered a period of stable and peaceful development, and the prototype of a prosperous age has initially emerged.

A prosperous age that far exceeds all the prosperous ages in the past.

…    Twenty years have passed in a flash.

A lot of things happened in the past twenty years. The Huns had some relapses, and South Vietnam and other countries also rebelled several times, but they were all easily extinguished, so overall it was relatively stable.

The big change is mainly that the total population in the latest statistics has tripled compared to 20 years ago. Fortunately, food production can keep up. In addition, many people continue to migrate as the territory expands, so There are no problems such as famine. As long as the spirit of external expansion can be maintained, the huge population will not become a burden to the country, but a demographic dividend.

Become a booster for the country's vigorous development.

In addition, Bai Sheng's business empire has become larger and larger, and has now developed into an existence similar to the East India Company. With the support of the army, it conquers cities and territories abroad, and indirectly controls other countries by controlling the royal families of those countries. , Feeding back the Daqian Empire.

At the same time, many princes and princes imitated it.

However, they were not strong enough and could only follow Bai Sheng to drink a little soup, but even so, it was enough to make them look down on the little income from farming, and they could barely be considered as having made a certain contribution to suppressing land annexation.

In addition, the development of hundreds of schools of thought is also quite prosperous.

Once again, there are signs of contention among a hundred schools of thought.

However, this time it is not that those schools of thought are fighting each other to the death, but each is shining in different fields. It has become a consensus that hundreds of schools of thought complement each other. Even Confucianism has to abandon the so-called idea of ​​deposing hundreds of schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone, and pursue Win-win cooperation, although it may still not be so harmonious, is much better than the hostility of the other hundreds of companies before.

Compared with the prosperity in these areas.

Emperor Jianyuan was a bit hard to explain.

First of all, he has many more children. Now Prince Liu Zhi has a total of seven half-brothers. The youngest is only two years old, and the eldest is a few years younger than him. He is now an adult and is actively looking for support. They allied themselves with others and wanted to dethrone Liu Ju from the throne.

After all, it was their father who brought down the original crown prince Liu Rong to become the new crown prince and ascend the throne.

There is such a good example ahead.

Who can be without ambition?

Moreover, the queen has been out of favor for many years, Wei Qing and Huo Qubing were also deeply feared, and Emperor Jianyuan even said that the prince was unworthy of me in public. These factors were added together.

He really couldn't help his younger brothers not being moved.

Secondly, Emperor Jianyuan resumed his pursuit of immortality, but this time he had to be a little more scientific, because he did not seek illusory alchemists and warlocks, but instead invested huge sums of money in the construction of chemical research institutes and medical research institutes, and found manpower. Researching these two directions, I hope they can find a more reliable method of immortality.

But he set his goals so high and vain from the beginning, and he failed to produce any results after so many years.

If Bai Sheng hadn't stepped in to protect them, the people in the institute might not have been replaced, but directly chopped off.

In addition, there are more things like reusing incompetent relatives who dote on the harem and concubines, selling official positions and titles to obtain more squanderable funds, and even reusing cruel staff.

In short, it is not a wise move.

But it's not too stupid.

Currently, the biggest problem in the entire court is that Emperor Jianyuan is old and his health is far worse than before. Prince Liu Ju is in his prime, less than thirty, and is feared by Emperor Jianyuan. There are also many other adult princes. Coveting the position of the prince, even many officials in the court had to start taking positions. Some supported the prince, and some wanted to support other princes and try their best to follow the dragon. In this situation, even if there is no so-called wizard The disaster caused by the poison will inevitably lead to other events.

　It seems to be normal to become dull as you get older, and so did Xuanzong of the Han Dynasty.

　　
  　
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