Valley Emperor

Although Li Xuan, the Holy Son of Heaven, is thirty-eight years old this year, his body is very healthy. Li Xuan, who has been focusing on exercise and balanced nutrition all the year round, is always in good health even though he is a concubine who often favors the harem. Well, the fertility is not good.

If it was an ordinary person like Li Xuan who frequently interacted with concubines, and there were more than 200 concubines in the entire harem, after more than 20 years of hard work, it is estimated that their children would have grown by dozens or even hundreds, but Li Xuan worked so hard, but now there are only eight sons in total. In the past two years, only one prince was born, that is, the ninth prince, but the eighth prince died of cold last year.

There were only twelve princesses in total, and two of them died one after another.

Even the royal family cannot avoid the invasion of diseases. There are actually several concubines and princes and princesses who died due to dystocia in these years, but they have not been sorted because they have not survived. The sorted ones are all after the full moon. Prince and Queen.

In this way, Li Xuan now has eight princes and ten princesses.

As for how many of them will become adults, it is also unknown.

It is still unknown whether the crown prince Li Hao can survive until he reaches adulthood.

Because Prince Li Hao's body can't be said to be frail or sickly, but it is the physique of an ordinary person, and it is not that strong. It is estimated that he was influenced by his mother Empress Dong. Improved, but not by much.

Such people, even if they are well maintained, how long they can live is worth drawing a big question mark.

By that time, if the prince dies before Li Xuan, no matter whether the prince has left an heir or not, I am afraid that the empire will fall into turmoil.

Zhu Di of the former Ming Dynasty seized the throne, which is an example that everyone knows.

Taking a step back, in order to prevent this situation, Li Xuan should have raised many princes as pigs, and no matter how bad it is, he can't give these princes real seals, but Li Xuan chose to give his own princes part of the real seal power, allowing They formed a certain number of royal guards, and they also had the power to divide taxes in the fiefs.

This also gave many princes an idea, that if something changes in the future, he has the hope of entering the imperial capital and becoming the new emperor of the empire.

The idea of ​​the Holy Son of Heaven, Li Xuan, is actually not as complicated as people outside guessed. His idea is actually quite simple.

In the future, even if there are princes who rebel, they will be far away overseas. In the sky, the overseas territories will become independent and self-contained, but it is wishful thinking to talk about counterattacking the mainland of the empire.

The imperial navy and the imperial army are enough to dispel any vassal king's idea of ​​crossing the sea to attack the mainland!

As for both the imperial navy and the imperial army who chose to betray the prince and his heir, what else is there to say? It means that the prince and his heir are unqualified, and Li Xuan does not have to let the prince inherit the throne. It doesn't matter if the king introduces the imperial capital and becomes the second Zhu Di and Li Xuan.

To put it bluntly, Li Xuan's measure looks like he is a heir, but it is also a hope for other princes. In the end, in fact, the most capable prince can have the last laugh.

To some extent, this is an indirect virtue.

As for whether to rebel against independence in a hundred or even hundreds of years, Li Xuan doesn't care. It's still the same sentence. Independence is a big deal. Anyway, whether it's America or Australia, the people living there will be imperial sons. The people and the royal family are also his descendants of Li Xuan, so if you are independent, you will be independent.

Maybe the first world war on this earth in the future will be his descendants fighting each other.

That kind of scene is also very likely to occur, and Li Xuan is not disgusted with the appearance of such a scene.

Li Xuan's mentality is actually quite the rogue mentality of Lao Tzu's monstrous flood after his death!

At most, he is interfering in the choice of the second generation emperor after his death and related policies, but when it comes to the third generation or even the fourth generation, he can do whatever he wants, and he is too lazy to care.

What he wants to build is a huge empire that unifies the world, but Li Xuan has never pursued a thousand-year-old empire!

Even if after his death, the empire that unified the whole world would break apart immediately, but he didn't really care.

Li Xuan's attitude also left a memory for Li Yan, and he is preparing for it from now on.

He put a lot of thought into recruiting the officials of the palace, and at the same time, he was also managing his own positive image in the court and the opposition. What image is a good or bad character, not attracting attention, but not forgetting.

Being noticed and dying quickly, being forgotten represents marginalization, and only in the middle, less noticeable, and not marginalized is the best position.

What Li Yan has done in the past two years is the product of this kind of thinking.

Now that he saw the American fleet set sail, although he said it was a pity, he was not happy if you wanted him to go to the Americas. They are not comparable to the Fusang Islands, that is distance!

How far is Fusang from the mainland?

There is only one Tsushima Strait, but only tens of kilometers!

After crossing the Tsushima Strait, you can return to the Korean Peninsula Busan Port of the empire. According to the empire's national railway plan, sooner or later, a railway will be built on the Korean Peninsula, and then connected to the Northeast Railway Network, and then you will be able to go all the way. Take the train from Busan Port to Jinling City, the imperial capital.

Even by sea and land, you can start from Dayu County, pass through the Ryukyu Islands, and then go straight to Shanghai. The entire sea journey will not take a few days.

As for the Americas, all the way to the east is thousands of miles away. Now even if you take a steamboat, you have to bump into the sea for two or three months. Even if the technology develops in the future, it is estimated that it will take more than half a month or even a month. Only time can cross the Pacific Ocean.

Such a long distance is not only militarily able to dispel the attempts of the American feudal lords to the territory of the empire. It is estimated that when Li Yan knows that the Holy Son of Heaven, Li Xuan, has passed away, he will have already returned to the imperial capital early, sitting in the seat. On the throne of the dragon chair!

Therefore, in Li Yan's eyes, it doesn't matter whether the fief is rich or not, the important thing is to be close enough to quickly return to the imperial capital!

It would be better if there were not too many savages, not so many dysentery, the climate was slightly suitable for people to live in, a certain economy could be developed, and there were financial resources to support a certain number of troops.

And the Fusang Islands is obviously such a good place!

Today's Li Yan is eagerly waiting for the Empire to officially land and annex Fusang. Unfortunately, although the Empire has already annexed many areas of the Fusang Islands, such as Ezo Island, Dayu County Islands, and other islands , but for the four major islands of the Fusang Islands, it has never been done.

If it wasn't for his identity, but also to avoid attracting the attention of others, he would have intervened in person and let the empire annex the Fusang Islands as much as possible.

It's a pity that he can't intervene in this kind of thing, and he doesn't have the courage to intervene!

So now, he can only imagine the scene of becoming the queen of the Fusang Domain in his mind, and he doesn't even have the courage to think about how to develop the Fusang Islands.

Because the vassal kings are on the fief and have no administrative power, nothing at all. What they have is only the right to tax dividends, and this power is not stated in plain text, but is reflected in the salary.

The salaries of imperial vassal kings mainly come from two aspects. On the one hand, they receive a fixed salary according to their titles. King Qi is the highest-ranking prince, and the annual salary of the prince is 18,000 yuan.

In addition, a part of King Qi's salary is fiefdom salary, the so-called fiefdom salary, that is, a part is extracted from the fief's tax revenue as fiefdom salary.

For example, the current fief of King Qi is only Dayu County. The county's total annual tax revenue is about 150,000 yuan, and King Qi can get 1% of the fief's salary from it, which is 1,500 yuan.

This 1% ratio is also the highest ratio set by Li Xuan himself. No nobleman, whether it is a royal family or an ordinary nobleman, can receive a fief salary that exceeds this ratio.

Moreover, in Li Xuan's plan, in the subsequent actual operation, the fiefdoms that the nobles can get will be even lower, because Li Xuan intends to adopt the 'overlapping and dividing system'.

For example, the fief of an earl may be in the fief of the prince or the county king~www.wuxiaspot.com~ In this case, the fief salary received by the earl is included in the prince's 1% of the land salary.

To put it bluntly, the prince and the earl share this one percent of the fief's salary, and it can be deduced to other low-level nobles in turn.

In addition, any aristocratic fief and the proportion of fiefs and fiefs need to be specially designated by the emperor of the empire. No nobility, including princes, has the right to grant or deprive or change other people's nobility titles, fiefs and proportions.

This is also a way for Li Xuan to give the nobles who control the overseas territories. Although he gives them a part of the fief tax, he also includes the nobles of all levels together and dilutes the salary of these fiefs.

And it can be divided according to the emperor's will. For example, if the noble is not pleasing to the eye, he will seal a lot of low-level nobles in his fief, and then dilute his fief salary.

If King Qi vassalizes the Fusang Islands in the future, then Fusang will have fiefs of dukes, marquis, earls, and viscounts, and these fiefs actually overlap with the fiefs of King Qi, and the fiefs that every noble can get. The proportions are all decided by the emperor himself.