"See the Saint Grandson...See the Saint Grandson..."

Li Longji on the couch muttered to himself, looking at the roof with some distracted eyes. Although the sunlight shone directly on his bed through the glass cover specially left by the roof, he still couldn't feel any warmth.

This is inevitable. Five years have passed since the 15th year of Tianbao's coup. Now it is the 20th year of Tianbao. Li Longji is already an old man in his 80s. Over the past five years, his health has been bad. He gets sick from time to time. Until now, he has been exhausted.

By his age, death was already a long life, and life was rare in seventy years. Even fewer people could live to his age. In the past five years, he learned from previous lessons: He was very cautious in employed people. Although his luxurious life remained unchanged, he also paid attention to people's livelihood. Therefore, the national strength of the Tang Dynasty was revived and even surpassed the Kaiyuan period.

The population statistics were re-conducted last year. Despite the fourteenth and fifteen years of war in Tianbao, the total population of the Tang Dynasty increased instead of decreasing. Now the number of registered residents is as many as 60 million, and the hidden household registration should be about 30 million. The annual income of the national treasury has reached 97 million, and this year it will definitely exceed 10 million.

In this case, what he still remembers is the issue of the continuation of the country's destiny.

What echoed in his mind now was the three words that Ye Chang said when he returned to Chang'an City.

After An Lushan's butcher's knife, all the boys were not in a state of great success. This was something Li Longji knew very well, and Li Heng's affairs also made him completely disappointed with his sons. Ye Chang's three words reminded him and made him turn his attention to Zhusuns.

But what he regrets is that the two most outstanding grandsons are King Guangping and King Jianning. But they are both sons of Langheng, and Li Longji cannot let them inherit the throne. Those young and strong plastic grandsons were also excluded by him at the first time. In the end, his choice was Li Qiu, who was named King Qing.

Among the grandsons of the emperors, Li Qiu was older and much older than Ye Chang. His biological father was the deposed crown prince Li Ying and his adoptive father was Li Cong, the eldest son of Li Longji. Choosing him was also a little compensation for Li Ying to some extent.

At this moment, Li Qiu knelt in front of his couch and looked at him with a sad face.

"Triumang." Li Longji suddenly spoke.

"The grandson is here, what is the saint's order?"

"Is King Wei here?" Li Longji asked with difficulty.

This time he was very sick. Li Longji had a premonition that he was afraid he could not hold on anymore. He had many funeral arrangements, but all of them were inseparable from Ye Chang's support.

However, after the overall situation was decided three years ago, Ye Chang had already been sealed and returned to the fiefdom of Liaodong. Without Li Longji's Xuanzhao, he would not have taken the initiative to return to Chang'an. After this serious illness, although he was summoned to Beijing, the time was counted, the messenger now would have only arrived in Liaodong for a short time.

"Don't worry, the King of Wei will surely be coming from the night. It won't take long to see him." A strange thing flashed in Li Qi's eyes and he replied.

"Why can't you? I...I can't wait." Li Longji murmured.

Seeing that he was gradually falling asleep, Li Qiu sighed slightly, then got up from the couch and came outside the house.

Yuan Zai had been waiting outside the house for a long time. When he saw him coming out, he went forward to salute: "Your Highness, what about the saint?"

"It's almost impossible." Li Qiu said slowly.

When he said this, he did not feel much sadness or sadness, and it could even be said that he felt a little relieved.

Yuan Zai raised his eyes and looked at the expression on his face: "Wang Wang... don't you send an envoy?"

"What should I send an envoy to do? Could it be that the saint passes on his will to him?" Li Qi snorted.

After Li Longji made Li Qiu the grandson, he attached great importance to Li Qiu's subordinates. Wang Zhongsi was invited to be the crown prince's prefect and the minister of the Ministry of War. In fact, the crown prince led the government. Yuan Zai was transferred to the center and became the crown prince's middle-class servant, and Li Qiu's confidant.

Of course, Ye Chang also has the title of Taifu, and Li Qiu is also respectful to him. However, in the past three years, Ye Chang has been in Beijing for a short time and has been in the local area for a long time. Taisun has spent almost no energy on management.

Li Longji was old and lacked energy. He did not expect that Li Qiu was more afraid than respectful to this young master, and more afraid than closeness to him. Ye Chang made too great contributions. At this time, there were rumors among the people that if Ye Chang wanted to be the emperor, Li Longji had to abdicate, and Li Qiu... Who knows what ball was like?

Such comments naturally came to Li Qiu's ears.

Li Qiu had an original disgust towards Ye Chang. His father Li Ying died in the frame-up of Li Linfu, and Ye Chang inherited Li Linfu's legacy to some extent. He concealed this disgust well because Li Heng's lesson is not far away. But when he realized that Ye Chang's reputation threatened his throne, this disgust could no longer be suppressed.

What's more, in Li Longji's daily teachings, he always asked him to serve Ye Chang, and asked him to hand over his legitimate son to Ye Chang for teaching, and asked 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 is only a middle-class and superior. Li Longji chose him as his grandson because after experiencing the difficulties in his early years, he was more steady and calm than the other grandsons. Li Longji originally thought that he could handle a good relationship with Ye Chang, but he never thought that Li Qiu was finally shedding the blood of his Li family, how could he be an emperor under the shadow?

Therefore, Li Longji was seriously ill and the grandson of the country sent an envoy to summon Ye Chang back to Beijing. However, Li Qiu agreed, but the matter was stopped behind the scenes.

Li Qiu was very worried that there would be any changes in Ye Chang's return to Beijing to receive the will, and that would have been possible for his throne to fly away.

"I'm afraid Mr. Ye already knows what happened in the capital." Yuan Zai whispered.

"It doesn't matter if he knows it. The saint is old and sick. In those years, which year hasn't been lying on the couch for a few months? As long as he doesn't know the saint summoned him back to Beijing, it doesn't matter if he lets him know the rest."

Speaking of this, Li Qiu remembered something: "I heard that the princess of Gu gave birth to a second son for Ye Chang?

"Yes, I reported the good news not long ago and said that there was another young master."

"Send someone to send a gift, saying it was given by the orphan." Li Qiu said: "In addition, give it to the name of a prince.

Yuan Zai was shocked. He was only two months old and gave him a prince. This reward was a bit over.

Li Qiu disagreed: "If you want to give up, you will gain only if you give up... When the orphan truly inherits the great treasure, what's hard to say, why fight for this moment?"

This was more like convincing himself. Yuan Zai took a secret glance and saw the murderous intent flashing across Taisun's slightly raised eyebrows. His heart suddenly jumped.

I looked back at Li Longji's bedroom and it seemed that a new storm was coming.

Following Li Qiu, he left Li Longji's bedroom and came to the main hall in front.

During the Anlushan Rebellion, the palace in Chang'an City was tortured and Xingqing Palace was also tortured. Although Ye Chang suggested rebuilding Xingqing Palace, Li Longji refused the matter. 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 again.

Li Heng and An Lushan once occupied the Daming Palace one after another, so Li Longji was unwilling to live in the Daming Palace. In this case, Wei Jiansu suggested to build another palace in Furong Garden, Qujiang, southeast of Chang'an City, so the current Ziyun Palace was found. However, compared with Daming Palace and Xingqing Palace, Ziyun Palace is smaller in scale, and it uses the original Ziyun Tower, Linshui Pavilion, Shuidian Mountain Tower and other buildings that were originally in Furong Garden were renovated or expanded.

In the main hall, Prime Minister Wei Jiansu led a group of ministers and was talking in a low voice. Seeing Li Qiu coming out, everyone stood solemnly and entered the train. Yuan Zai also sneaked to his position without anyone paying attention.

Looking at Wei Jiansu standing in front, Yuanzai snorted in his heart.

There are 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, but in fact, the prime minister in the center was Wei Jiansu. However, this person has a relationship with Yang Guozhong's past. Although Li Longji did not settle the matter after the An Lushan Rebellion was quelled, Wei Jiansu could not raise his head among the ministers, so he could not become strong.

To a certain extent, he is just Ye Chang's vocal worm. When Ye Chang doesn't make a sound, he can show his presence, but if Ye Chang expresses his opinion, he will only be timid.

Next to Wei Jiansu, Dugu Ming was standing. This talented prince consort had become Ye Chang's best friend very early. Because of Ye Chang, he made huge profits in the emerging factory industry. It is said that his family fortune has exceeded 5 million guan, and his annual income is more than 500,000 guan.

There were many people like Dugu Ming in the court, and there were more and more people. Looking around, at least one-fifth of these purplish and purple wealthy families had a property of more than one million guan, with an annual income of more than 100,000 guan. This was not those bad money made in shoddy money, but a lot of copper coins. They mainly obtained profits from four industries, one was the big manor, from the Central Plains to the Jiangnan, where their big manors were spread all over the place; the other was mining. Since the Tang Dynasty opened the mine ban,

Coal and iron mines sprout like mushrooms after a rain; thirdly, factories, silk reels, textiles, cement, ironware, shipbuilding, and car making... In the past, there were more than 360 types of factories alone; thirdly, sea trade. The Tang Dynasty merchant ships arrived eastward to Silla, Japan, northward to the Bohai Sea, southward to the westward to the West, and Persian maritime merchants, which were originally active in the southeast of the Tang Dynasty, can no longer compete with the Tang Dynasty maritime merchants.

Yuan Zai once heard Li Qiu complain and criticized these officials who followed Ye Chang for losing public and private benefits. The imperial treasury was empty everywhere, and even according to Ye Chang and Liu Yan's theories, they had to make loan deficits, build bridges, roads, and build colleges and hospitals, and cultivate skilled craftsmen and doctors. However, these officials all made a lot of money.

"All the king's lands under the heavens are the king's lands. These wealth are obtained from the king's lands. They should belong to the emperor. Even if they do not enter the inner treasury, they should enter the Ministry of Revenue. However, they will take these wealth to their own possessions. They are extravagant and extremely desires, which is not the way of a minister. After I ascend the throne, I must get rid of the turbidity and promote the good..."

Li Qiu's words seemed to be right in his ears, and Yuan Zai secretly curled his lips.

Because of Wang Zhongsi, he was trusted by Li Qiu, but for this reason, he completely parted ways with Ye Chang. Therefore, he did not gain any benefits in the wave of setting up a mining factory led by Ye Chang. This made him, who was naturally extravagant, jealous of those people.

"I wonder if the Emperor's Holy Lord is safe?"

After a brief ceremony, the meeting officially began. Li Qiu could not sit on the top imperial throne, but just stood in front of the imperial throne. When Wei Jiansu asked this question urgently, he looked at Wei Jiansu and said lightly: "It's still the same... you can call the imperial physician to ask."

Wei Jiansu was a little confused. During these days, he could not enter the palace to visit. In fact, besides Li Qiu and the imperial physician, only the eunuch Li Longji could be served in and out. It is said that according to the medical principles proposed by Ye Chang, it is necessary to prevent the disease from spreading to Li Longji. In fact, this separates Li Longji from the foreign ministers.

After years of ups and downs in the political arena, Wei Jiansu realized that there might be some problems, but he was a lame prime minister. Although he smelled something wrong, he did not dare to speak out.

After all, Li Longji's aging is inevitable. Judging from the current situation, it is a foregone conclusion that Li Qiu inherits Dabao.

"The emperor's holy body is uneasy. King Wei is an important official in the court. He must be in charge. Why don't your highness summon 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 and jealous of him. He also had hatred with Ye Chang before, but Wang Jin's current family is more than one million.

"He also knew about the matter of King Wei's long-term settlement in Liaodong. He said in his letter to him that he would decide whether to come or not." Li Qiu said calmly: "In the past three years, King Wei has been in Liaodong for a long time, and I think there is something important."

Wang Jin was a little suspicious and looked at Dugu Ming. Dugu Ming shook his head slightly, and Wang Jin stopped talking.

Ye Chang has always been indifferent to Silla and the Bohai Sea. This is well-known. There is a consensus in the court that Ye Chang is preparing to take action against Silla and Bohai. There are differences within the court about this. Some people believe that the barbaric small country is in vain and the people are working hard, and the army is useless. What's more, these two countries have always been respectful to the Tang Dynasty after fifteen years of Tianbao. Ye Chang is communisting his personal grievances. Another group of people think that these two countries seem to be respectful, but in fact they are not inferior. They have long colluded with An Lushan, and their king is unrighteous, so they should conquer and conquer them to show punishment.

Yuan Zai was the leader of Li Qiu, so this kind of disagreement naturally would not escape his eyes. He even knew that under the reason of supporting the conquest of one side, there was actually something else hidden: business.

Nowadays, the Tang Dynasty's workshops are everywhere, and when there are too many, there will naturally be a variety of quality. Some shoddy products have no market in China. Therefore, they want to sell them overseas. Silla and Bohai countries, which are close to the Tang Dynasty and have extremely convenient shipping, are naturally the targets they are targeting. The population of these two countries is millions, and it should not be a problem to make millions of chunks of money in these two countries every year. However, these two countries find that their wealth is lost, and they will inevitably restrict the circulation of Tang Dynasty goods in their country. Therefore, supporting the conquest does not mean that they want to destroy these two countries - even Ye Chang himself does not agree to destroy these two countries immediately. Instead, they oust the disobedient king of the country, and change to a perceived person to control the wealth of these two countries and further erode them.
Chapter completed!