northernbook Chapter 518 The old cow eats the tender grass
Chapter 518 The old cow eats the tender grass
Chapter 518 The old cow eats the tender grass
The next day, it was rare for Lin Xuan to sleep late, and he didn't get up until it was bright.
After breakfast, Lin Xuan reckoned that the court reform was almost over, so he went out to the palace.
After a briefing, Lin Xuan was taken to Ganlu Hall.
"Sir, see Your Majesty."
Li Shimin waved his hand and said, "Excuse me."
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Lin Xuan took out a piece of silk cloth from his bosom, held it in both hands, and said, "Chen Te came to return the imperial decree to Your Majesty."
This imperial decree was given to him by Li Shimin to dispatch troops, and he would naturally have to return it when he returned.
Li Mu stepped forward and took the imperial decree from Lin Xuan.
"I heard that you were assassinated this time?" Li Shimin said.
"Your Majesty, thank you for your trouble, the matter has been resolved." Lin Xuan said.
Lin Xuan was not surprised that Li Shimin knew that he was assassinated.
How could Li Shimin not arrange spies to Lingnan.
"It's solved? Is it really solved?" Li Shimin said pointedly.
Lin Xuan asked with some doubts: "Why does Your Majesty say that?"
Li Shimin's words obviously had other meanings, but Lin Xuan couldn't figure it out for a while.
"As far as I know, Feng Zhichen is still alive, how can we solve it?" Li Shimin said lightly.
Lin Xuan was taken aback for a moment, and quickly understood what Li Shimin meant.
The person behind Feng Zhidai's instigation is Feng Zhichen.
That being said, everything makes sense.
But Li Shimin didn't have any good intentions when he told him this.
What Li Shimin said was nothing more than to make him and the Feng family quarrel.
The method of combining vertical and horizontal is very clever, and it is worthy of being an emperor through the ages.
"By the way, how did your talk with Geng Guogong go?" Li Shimin asked.
"It's been negotiated, and I will give Geng Guogong [-]% of the benefits." Lin Xuan said.
Li Shimin said a little strangely: "[-]%? I'm curious, how did you convince him."
No matter why Feng Ang agreed to cooperate, he must strive for more profits.
Li Shimin's bottom line is to give Feng An two tiers of profits. Unexpectedly, Lin Xuan promised [-]% of the profits, and Feng An agreed.
Lin Xuan told Li Shimin what he had persuaded Feng An.
After Li Shimin heard this, a gloomy look flashed in his eyes, and he said, "Is what you said true? Can Guangzhou really compete with Suzhou and Hangzhou?"
The prosperity of Suzhou and Hangzhou is not just talk, it represents wealth.
Feng An's control of Lingnan has already made him feel uneasy. If the prosperity of Guangzhou can match that of Suzhou and Hangzhou, it will undoubtedly be even more powerful.
Lin Xuan didn't notice Li Shimin's expression, and said indifferently: "Don't talk about being comparable to Suzhou and Hangzhou, it is also possible to surpass. It's just a possibility, and this time is very long."
Until the Qing Dynasty, the wealth in the south of the Yangtze River was one of the best among all the cities.
How could the Tang Dynasty manage Guangzhou better than Suzhou and Hangzhou.
Unless Lin Xuan runs it himself, it's almost the same.
Even so, it will take a lot of time and it will not be done overnight.
Li Shimin breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.
"I heard that you brought a woman from the Lu family with you when you came back?" Li Shimin said seemingly unintentionally.
"Speaking of this, Your Majesty, I have a secret matter to report to Your Majesty." Lin Xuan said.
Li Shimin pondered for a while, then waved his hands: "You all go down, no one is allowed to come in without my order."
After everyone retreated, Li Shimin said, "Tell me, what's the matter?"
"Your Majesty, the woman who came back with me is called Lu Yuxuan. She told me that the Lu family wants to surrender to Your Majesty." Lin Xuan said.
"what?"
Li Shimin stood up in surprise, looked at Lin Xuan in shock, and asked, "Is what you said true?"
Before Lin Xuan could answer, Li Shimin quickly shook his head and murmured: "Impossible, the world's aristocratic families care most about power, how could they give up."
"I also found it strange, but Lu Yu's declaration was very precise, saying that it was for family inheritance. After thinking about it carefully, there are nothing more than two possibilities."
"Oh? Tell me about your guess."
"I think the first possibility is that the Lu family deliberately surrendered. The other possibility is that they surrendered to His Majesty because they felt that the family would eventually come to an end, and wanted to preserve the inheritance of the Lu family."
Lin Xuan thought about it carefully, and there were only two possibilities.
Although the Tang Dynasty had paper and woodblock printing, books were still very expensive, and ordinary people could not afford them.
In addition, although the imperial court has an imperial examination, the imperial court does not rely entirely on the imperial examination to select scholars, so the aristocratic family still has the capital to fight against the imperial court.
Now Lin Xuan has improved papermaking and developed movable type printing, which is still a very advanced signature printing technology, which has improved the printing technology for hundreds of years.
Anyone with a vision can see that in 20 years, the family will eventually come to an end.
The aristocratic family is unwilling to give up their power, and what they are doing now is just dying.
Li Shimin nodded and said, "You are right."
"It's up to His Majesty to judge what the Lu family is up to," Lin Xuan said.
Li Shimin said with a sneer, "What kind of idea is this, you can find out after testing it out."
"Your Majesty, is this someone who wants to see the Lu family?" Lin Xuan asked.
Li Shimin shook his head and said, "It's very sensitive now, and the imperial palace has countless eyes and ears. Why do you think Lu Yuxuan followed you from Lingnan to Chang'an?"
"Could it be that His Majesty knows?" Lin Xuan asked curiously.
He never understood that when Lu Yuxuan met him, he was so cautious, but when he came back, he followed him back with great fanfare.
"If the Lu family doesn't do this, I can still find an opportunity to meet the Lu family in private, but Lu Yuxuan has aroused the suspicion of several other families when he came back with you all the way. People from the Lu family. The Lu family did this because they didn't want to talk to me." Li Shimin sneered.
Lin Xuan was even more puzzled, and asked, "Your Majesty, since the Lu family doesn't want to talk to you, why do you want to talk to me about this?"
"This is where the Lu family is brilliant. It's just a few words, nothing practical at all. If the aristocratic family has the upper hand, they are still the aristocratic family. If I win the upper hand, they will naturally stand on my side. It is the idea of being able to do both. " said Li Shimin.
Lin Xuan thought about it carefully, and felt that what Li Shimin said made sense.
Although these are just Li Shimin's guesses, Li Shimin's guesses can best explain the context of the whole thing.
"Then how does His Majesty plan to test the Lu family?"
"Nafei!"
Li Shimin looked at Li Shimin with strange eyes.
Is this a test?Obviously taking advantage of it, okay?
However, the five surnames and Qiwang once rejected Li Shimin's marriage.
If the Lu family agreed to send their daughter to the palace to become a concubine, they would definitely offend the other families.
If the Lu family refuses, they will offend Li Shimin.
It has to be said that Li Shimin's calculation was very good, and it directly defeated the calculation of the Lu family's success.
Li Shimin was a little furious when Lin Xuan looked at him, and said angrily: "What kind of eyes are you looking at? The concubine I'm talking about is to let the Gaoming Nalu family's daughter be the concubine."
"But has the candidate for the crown princess been decided?"
"Who said that a girl from the Lu family is going to be the main concubine? It would be nice to give the Lu family a side concubine."
Well, Lin Xuan thought that Li Shimin wanted an old cow to eat tender grass.
It seems that this melon is not edible.
"Your Majesty, can the Lu family agree?"
It is said that after Li Shimin ascended the throne, he wanted to win over Qiwang of the five surnames and accept women of the five surnames as concubines, but he was rejected.
Li Shimin asked for the next best thing and asked for his son's marriage, but he was still rejected.
Now let the Lu family's daughter be Li Chengqian's side concubine, can the Lu family agree?
(End of this chapter)