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Volume 1: Who Rides the Star to Break through the Void Chapter 502: Five years have passed by so quickly

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    "Guan Sheng Sun Guan Sheng Sun" Li Longji murmured to himself on the couch, looking at the roof with somewhat absent-minded eyes. Although through the glass cover specially left on the roof, the sun shone directly on his bed.  But he still couldn't feel any warmth.  This is inevitable. Five years have passed since the coup in Tianbao's fifteenth year. Now it is Tianbao's twentieth year. Li Longji is already an old man who is almost eighty years old.  In the past five years, his health has been poor, and he has fallen ill from time to time. Until now, he has been exhausted.  At his age, death is already long-lived, life is rare in the past seventy years, and even fewer emperors can live to his age.  In the past five years, he has learned the previous lessons and is very cautious in employing people. Although his luxurious life remains unchanged, he also pays attention to people's livelihood. Therefore, the national power of the Tang Dynasty has been restored, even better than that of the Kaiyuan Dynasty.  A new census was conducted last year. Despite the wars of the 14th and 15th years of Tianbao, the total population of the Tang Dynasty has not decreased but increased. Today, there are as many as 60 million registered people, and there should be 60 million people with hidden household registrations.  About thirty million.  The annual revenue of the national treasury has reached 97 million guan, and this year it will definitely exceed 100 million guan.  Under this situation, what still kept him thinking was the issue of Guo Zuo's continuation.  What echoed in his mind now were the three words Ye Chang said when he returned to Chang'an City.  After An Lushan's butcher's knife, all the sons were incompetent. This was something Li Longji knew very well, and Li Heng's incident also made him completely disappointed in his sons.  Ye Chang's three words reminded him and made him turn his attention to Zhusun.  But what makes him regretful is that the two most outstanding among the grandsons are King Guangping and King Jianning - they are both the sons of Langheng, and it is impossible for Li Longji to let them inherit the throne.  Those young and malleable emperors and grandchildren were also excluded by him at the first time. In the end, his choice was Li Qiu, who was named King Qing.  Among the emperors and grandsons, Li Qiu is older, much older than Ye Chang. His biological father is the deposed prince Li Ying, and his adoptive father is Li Longji's eldest son Li Cong. Choosing him is also to some extent  A little compensation for Li Ying.  At this moment, Li Qiu knelt in front of his couch and looked at him with a sad face.  "Great grandson." Li Longji suddenly said.  "My grandson is here, what are the saint's orders?" "Is King Wei here?" Li Longji asked with difficulty.  This time he was very seriously ill, and Li Longji had a hunch that he might not be able to hold on any longer.  He had many funeral arrangements to make, but these arrangements were inseparable from Ye Chang's support.  But after Ye Chang decided on the overall situation three years ago, he had already sealed the deal and returned to the Liaodong fiefdom. Without Li Longji's call, he would not have returned to Chang'an on his own initiative.  After this serious illness, although he was summoned to Beijing, considering the time, the current messenger has only arrived in Liaodong not long ago.  "Don't worry, saint, King Wei will definitely come at night, and it won't be long before you can see him." Li Qiu replied with a strange look in his eyes.  "Why not yet? II can't wait any longer." Li Longji murmured.  Seeing that he was gradually falling into sleep, Li Qiu sighed slightly, then got up from the bed and came outside the house.  Yuan Zai had been waiting outside the house for a long time. When he saw him coming out, he stepped forward and saluted: "Your Highness, how is the saint?" "I can't see it anymore." Li Qiu said slowly.  When he said this, he didn¡¯t feel too sad. It could even be said that he felt a little relieved.  Yuan Zai raised his eyes and looked at the expression on his face: "King Weireally don't want to send an envoy?" "What are you going to do with sending an envoy? Is it to ask a saint to pass on the edict to him?" Li Qiu snorted.  .  After Li Longji made Li Qiu his grandson, he attached great importance to the staff around Li Qiu. Wang Zhongsi was invited to serve as the crown prince's Taibao and Minister of the Ministry of War. He actually supervised the prince and led the government.  As a result, Yuan Zai was transferred to the central government, became the crown prince's minister, and became Li Qiu's confidant.  Of course, Ye Chang also has the title of Grand Tutor, and Li Qiu is very respectful to him. However, in the past three years, Ye Chang has spent a short time in Beijing and a long time in the local area. Taisun has spent almost no energy on running the business.  .  Li Longji was old and lacked energy. He did not expect that Li Qiu was more fearful than respectful, and more jealous than close to this tutor who was younger than him.  Ye Chang's contribution was too great. At this time, people said that if Ye Chang wanted to be the emperor, Li Longji had no choice but to abdicate, and Li Qiuwho knows where this ball rolled out of?  Such discussions naturally reached Li Qiu¡¯s ears.  Li Qiu originally had a bad feeling for Ye Chang. His father Li Ying died in Li Linfu's frame-up, and Ye Chang inherited Li Linfu's legacy to a certain extent.  He concealed this bad feeling very well, because Li Heng's lesson was not far away.  But when he realized that Ye Chang's reputation threatened his throne, this feeling of disgust could no longer be suppressed.  What¡¯s more, in Li Longji¡¯s daily teachings, he always asked him to respect Ye Chang.?He handed over his legitimate son to Ye Chang for instruction, asking him to still be respectful to Ye Chang after he ascended the throne.  Li Qiu even felt that Li Longji wanted him to be a son-emperor. In terms of talent and wisdom, Li Qiu was only above average. Li Longji chose him as his grandson because after experiencing the hardships in his early years, he was better than the others.  Sun was more steady and composed.  Li Longji originally thought that he could handle the relationship with Ye Chang well, but he never thought that Li Qiu was the blood of his family, so how could he be willing to be an emperor in the shadow.  Therefore, Li Longji was seriously ill, and his grandson supervised the country and sent an envoy to summon Ye Chang back to the capital. As a result, Li Qiu agreed but stopped the matter behind his back.  Li Qiu was very worried about what would happen to Ye Chang when he returned to Beijing to accept the imperial edict, and in that case, his throne might be lost.  "I'm afraid Ye Gong already knows what happened in Beijing." Yuan Zai said in a low voice.  "It doesn't matter if he knows. The saint is old and sick. In the past few years, has he not been lying on the bed for several months? As long as he doesn't know that the saint has called him back to the capital, it doesn't matter if he knows about other things."  At this time, Li Qiu remembered something: "I heard that the imperial aunt gave birth to a second son for Ye Chang? "Yes, the good news was announced not long ago, saying that another young master was born.  " "Send someone to deliver a gift, saying it was given by Gu.  Li Qiu said: "Also, give him the name of a county king." Yuan Zai was surprised. To give a baby who was only two months old to a county king is a bit too much.  Li Qiu, however, disagreed: "If you give up, you will get something When I really inherit the treasure, it will be difficult to say anything, so why bother to fight for this moment?" These words are more like convincing himself.  Yuan Zai took a sneak peek and saw a murderous intent flashing across Taisun's slightly raised eyebrows, and his heart skipped a beat.  Looking back at Li Longji's bedroom, it seemed that a new storm was coming.  Following Li Qiu, he left Li Longji's palace and came to the main hall in front.  During the Anlu Mountain Rebellion, the palaces in Chang'an City were severely damaged, and the Xingqing Palace was also destroyed.  Although Ye Chang suggested rebuilding Xingqing Palace, Li Longji refused. According to rumors in the palace, it was because Li Longji always dreamed of Yang Yuhuan here, so he did not dare to live in Xingqing Palace anymore.  Li Heng and An Lushan once occupied the Daming Palace, so Li Longji was unwilling to live in the Daming Palace. Under such circumstances, Wei Jiansu suggested building another palace in the Furong Garden in Qujiang, southeast of Chang'an City, so  With the current Ziyun Palace.  However, compared with Daming Palace and Xingqing Palace, Ziyun Palace is smaller in scale. It uses the renovation or expansion of Ziyun Tower, Linshui Pavilion, Shuidianshan Tower and other buildings that were originally in Furong Garden.  In the main hall, Prime Minister Wei Jiansu led a group of ministers and were discussing in a low voice.  Seeing Li Qiu come out, everyone stood solemnly and entered the train. Yuan Zai also sneaked to his place quietly without anyone noticing.  Looking at Wei Jiansu standing at the front, Yuan Zai snorted secretly.  There are now two prime ministers in the Tang Dynasty, one is Ye Chang and the other is Wei Jiansu.  Ye Chang stayed in his fiefdom for a long time, and the prime minister in the center was actually Wei Jiansu.  However, this person had a past association with Yang Guozhong. Although Li Longji did not settle the matter after the Anlu Mountain Rebellion was settled, Wei Jiansu was somewhat embarrassed among the ministers, so he could not become strong.  To a certain extent, he is just Ye Chang's yes-man. When Ye Chang is silent, he can increase his presence, but if Ye Chang expresses his opinion, he will only be alone.  Next to Wei Jiansu, stood Dugu Ming. This consort with average talents had become Ye Chang's best friend very early on. Because of Ye Chang, he had made huge profits in the emerging factory industry. It is said that he  His family wealth has exceeded 5 million guan, and his annual income is more than 500,000 guan.  There are many people like Dugu Ming in the imperial court, and there are more and more people. Looking around, at least one-fifth of these nobles and dignitaries have a family property of more than one million guan, and an annual income of more than 100,000 guan.  This is not the crudely made bad money, but pure copper coins.  They mainly obtain income from four businesses. One is large estates, which are spread all over the country from the Central Plains to the south of the Yangtze River. The other is mining. Since the mining ban was lifted in the Tang Dynasty, coal, iron and other mines have sprung up.  General; the third is factories, including silk reeling, weaving, cement, ironware, shipbuilding, carmaking In the past, there were three hundred and sixty industries, but now there are more than 360 types of factories alone; the third is maritime trade, which is large.  The merchant ships of the Tang Dynasty reached Silla and Japan in the east, crossed the Bohai Sea in the north, and even reached Tianzhu and Dashi in the south and west. The Persian merchants who were originally active in the southeastern area of ??the Tang Dynasty could no longer compete with the maritime merchants of the Tang Dynasty.  Discussed.  Yuan Zai once heard Li Qiu complain, criticizing these officials who followed Ye Chang for harming the public and enriching themselves.  The imperial treasury was everywhere empty, and even according to the theory of Ye Chang and Liu Yan, they had to create a loan deficit to build bridges and roads, build academies and hospitals, and train skilled craftsmen and doctors, but all these officials made a lot of money.  "There is nothing in the world but the royal land. All these wealth are obtained from the royal land, and they should belong to the emperor.", even if they do not enter the inner treasury, they should enter the household department, but they keep these wealth as their own, and they are extravagant and lustful, which is really not the way to be a minister.  After I ascend the throne, I must go to Zhuoyangqing" Li Qiu's words seemed to be in his ears, and Yuan Zai curled his lips secretly. Because of Wang Zhongsi, he was trusted by Li Qiu, but for the same reason, he had nothing to do with Ye  Chang completely parted ways. Therefore, he did not get any benefits from the wave of building mining factories led by Ye Chang. This made him, who likes luxury by nature, jealous of those people. "I wonder if the emperor is safe?  " After the short ceremony, the court meeting officially began. Li Qiu could not sit on the throne, but stood in front of the throne. When Wei Jiansu asked this question eagerly, he glanced at Wei Jiansu, and then  He said calmly: "It's still the sameyou can call the imperial doctor to ask.  " Wei Jiansu was a little confused. During these days, he was unable to visit the palace. In fact, apart from Li Qiu and the imperial physician, only the eunuchs serving Li Longji could still come in and out. It is said that this is in accordance with the medical theory proposed by Ye Chang.  In fact, this prevented the disease from spreading to Li Longji. Years of ups and downs in the political arena made Wei Jiansu realize that there might be some problems, but he was a lame prime minister.  Although he smelled something wrong, he did not dare to say anything. After all, Li Longji's aging is inevitable. Judging from the current situation, Li Qiu's inheritance is a foregone conclusion. "The emperor's body is uneasy, and King Wei is an important minister in the court.  If you don't stay at home, why doesn't His Highness call King Ye Wei back to the capital?  "Wang Jin stood up and asked. "He is now completely on Ye Chang's side. Yuan Zai is also envious, jealous and hateful of him. He also had enmity with Ye Chang before, but Wang Jin's current wealth is also in the millions.  "King Wei is in charge of Liaodong, and he also knows what is going on in the capital. The letter I gave him said that it is up to him to decide whether he will come or not.  Li Qiu said calmly: "In the past three years, King Wei has spent a lot of time in Liaodong, so he must have something important to do."  " Wang Jin was a little suspicious. He looked at Dugu Ming. Dugu Ming shook his head slightly, and Wang Jin became silent. "Ye Chang has always been honest about Silla and Bohai. This is a well-known thing. There is a consensus in the court that it is Ye Chang.  They are preparing to take action against Silla and Bohai, but there are differences within the imperial court. Some people think that the conquest of small barbaric countries is in vain and their troops are useless. What's more, these two countries will attack the Tang Dynasty after the fifteenth year of Tianbao.  Ye Chang was always respectful, and Ye Chang was reporting his personal grievances; others believed that these two countries seemed to be respectful, but in fact they were not inferior. They had colluded with Anlu Mountain for a long time, and their king was unjust and should be punished by an expedition. Yuan Zai.  For Li Qiu, this kind of disagreement will not escape his eyes. He even knows that there is something else hidden under the righteous reasons for supporting the conquest: trade. Nowadays, factories are blooming everywhere in the Tang Dynasty, and there are many factories.  Naturally, there are mixed goods, and some shoddy products have no domestic market. Therefore, they want to sell them overseas. Silla and Bohai, which are close to the Tang Dynasty and have extremely convenient shipping, are naturally their targets.  The combined population of these two countries is in the millions. It should not be a problem to make millions of dollars in these two countries every year. However, these two countries find themselves losing wealth, and they inevitably have to restrict the circulation of Datang goods in their countries.  Therefore, supporting the conquest does not mean to destroy these two countries - even Ye Chang himself does not agree to destroy these two countries immediately, but to oust the current disobedient king and replace him with an obedient one so that he can control the country more easily.  Seeing that all the ministers did not speak, Li Qiu was about to announce the disbandment of the dynasty. At this moment, he suddenly heard the sound of a bell ringing from behind, and everyone changed their colors. Then, a eunuch ran away crying.  Come: "Your Highness, Your Highness, the saint has ascended to heaven"
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