Chapter 271 The Emperor and Dazai are in trouble(1/2)
Li Gang was silent. This official didn't like to listen, so he didn't listen? He had to find a way to let him listen.
"Officials, what I want to say is that the Yanjing Palace that the official family wants to build is too small?" Li Gang pointed to the drawing and said a little dissatisfied. At best, it was just a city that was 50 miles long, and it was a little smaller no matter how you look at it.
Zhao Huan was stunned when he heard this. Why did he build it according to Yanjing in the Ming and Qing dynasties?
"This city that is sixteen miles long and six miles wide is still small? Is this city that is forty-four miles wide still small? This is only six miles less than Bianjing City. It's not small."
Zhao Huan felt that Li Gang was making no choice but to have nothing to say, history was spiraling up, and the city should be getting bigger and bigger.
"Does the official family know about Suiye City? The former important town of Xique in the Tang Dynasty, the capital of Anxi Protectorate, was thousands of miles away." Li Gang asked.
He had to explain why he felt that Yanjing was built in small quantities.
"I know, didn't Li Bai be born in Suiye City?" Zhao Huan nodded.
He knew that this Sailye City was because of Li Bai, and the place where he was born was an important town in the western border of the Tang Dynasty.
However, Li Bai was a clean family in Guannei. His family was in Suye City and was the envoy of the ten surnames guarding the Western Regions.
"Since the official family knows that the Ruiye City is surrounded by 52 miles. The reason why the official family only surrounded by 50 miles is that it cannot be expanded because of the terrain. An imperial capital is surrounded by 52 miles, which is too petty."
"Wait a moment! Let me think about it." Zhao Huan felt a little dizzy. He always thought that the city surrounded by fifty-two miles was already huge. What's the result?
"The current Jiankang City is surrounded by sixty miles. Should the government expand it?" Li Gang felt that this city had great potential.
Zhao Huan nodded, and he thought of the comparison between Jinyang City and Taiyuan City.
Who said that history is spiraling up?
He beat him so hard that he didn't even know his biological mother!
Zhao Huan figured it out a little, and he underestimated the incompetence of Mi Qing.
The Song Dynasty was very petty and even thought it was small to build a Miqing imperial capital!
"I will plan the city construction matters. When the plan is almost done, let the officials see what? Let the civilians in Cangzhou go to Yanjing first, and then burn bricks, ash, tiles and other workshops, as well as the excavation of moats, are all troublesome." Li Gang said with a smile.
The official’s idea is good, but the specific practice cannot be allowed to make the official’s mud in person.
"Okay." Zhao Huan thought about it and just expand it. Anyway, the Song Dynasty was so poor that it was only money left.
Li Gang thought for a while and said, "There are also envoys from Goryeo, Dali, and Japan who came to Bianjing and wanted to pay tribute. According to past practice, the envoys of these three countries would offer a lot of their national characteristics. Then I went to Song Dynasty with great ties to demonstrate the virtues of my monarch of the Celestial Empire and achieve the goal of defending the four barbarians."
"With virtue and virtue, I'm guarding the four barbarians? This is familiar, where did it come from?" Zhao Huan recalled blankly. This seemed to be the national policy defined by Zhao Guangyi...
Cultivate virtue and embrace the distance.
"It's Emperor Taizong." Li Gang said in a low voice. He suddenly felt that he had said the wrong thing, and the government seemed to be particularly disgusted with Emperor Taizong.
"I understand." It was indeed the national policy set by the donkey cart emperor! It's a trick!
Li Gang continued: "Dali State began to want me to be the Emperor of the Song Dynasty when Emperor Taizu was alive, and to be named the king of Dali State. Dali was named my vassal state of the Song Dynasty."
"For these 160 years, almost every ten years, Emperor Taizong conferred the King of Dali as the capital of the Eight Kingdoms in Yunnan, and then the Emperor Taishang once the King of Dali, the Jinzi Guanglu Dafu Procuratorate, Xikong Yunnan Jiedushi. Was the official family enthroned this time?"
Hum? Zhao Huan was stunned. Dali was in a hurry to become a vassal state of the Song Dynasty. Why wasn’t this enthronement?
And what the hell is Zhao Ji enthroned?
What's wrong with this name? It's smelly and long!
"Tell me why? I didn't enthrone the previous one, and the Supreme Emperor enthrone the enthrone again?" Zhao Huan asked.
"Dali and the Song Dynasty bordered by the Tubo tribes, bordered by the Li Dynasty, the governor of the Jinghai Army, and also bordered by the Angkor Dynasty. Dali could not defeat them, so he wanted to be a vassal state of our Song Dynasty." Li Gang said carefully, while speaking, looking at the face of the official family.
The Song Dynasty protected Dali? Is this fun?
The army of the Song Dynasty is now fighting with the Jin people in the north, and there is still Zhao Gou in the south. He wants to steal taxes for several years with natural dangers.
He had already delegated power to the warriors and was in charge of the army, so he barely recovered his decline against the Jin people.
Could it be that when Song Huizong Zhao Ji was reigned, he could protect Dali?
What a joke, Zhao Huan was very angry when he remembered those twenty-six years, more than a hundred peasant uprisings.
Do something nonsense.
However, Zhao Huan savored Zhao Ji's words for a little before he figured it out.
Zhao Guangyi and Zhao Ji both have one preference, that is, they love face.
The king is enthroned, how long the face is!
Other emperors of the Song Dynasty were not so shameless. They knew they could not protect them, so they simply ignored them.
To put it nicely, it means that the political value of enthroning vassal states is huge.
But Zhao Huan knew how much he had, so he would first figure out his own affairs.
Li Gang continued: "The Gao clan period in Dali Kingdom was prime minister and the Duan clan period was king, but the Duan clan did not take power. Even if our Song Dynasty enthroned the King of Dali, there would be no substantial progress between the two countries."
"And if Dali wants to become a vassal state, there is still this time when Yi matters, Dali can take a lot of advantages. In the past, he was unwilling to let the vassal state take advantage, so he ignored it. Do we pay attention to Dali this time?"
[Historical Event Reminder: Duan Zhengyan, the name Heyu. He worked hard to govern for 40 years, but it could not be restored. If the situation is the momentum, it is like water falling down, and the return of the crazy obstacle will never be obtained.]
[After he was enthroned by Emperor Huizong of Song, he slightly changed the situation of some Gao's country and managed the country diligently. Because of his improvement of his relationship with the Song Dynasty, he was named the first wise ruler in Dali.]
I can't even control a prime minister, and I'm so embarrassed to say that I'm the top wise king?
According to this standard, Zhao Huan felt that he could lie down safely. In the future, he would definitely be praised by historians of the Song Dynasty for thousands of years.
Zhao Huan thought about it for a moment and said, "How is Dazai thought it's appropriate?"
Li Gang obviously had some answers in his mind, and he immediately said: "I think it's better not to enthrone the title. The current King of Dali is the Shangzhu Kingdom enthroned by the Supreme Emperor. The official family rashly enthroned him and he had to add a level. There is no way to add it, just leave it alone."
"This time, the Dali envoy brought tens of thousands of gold, silver, silk, treasures, rhino and elephants, and cattle and horses everywhere. According to the system, it would be ten times more rewarding."
"I think since I don't enthrone the title, I'll forget it this time. I'll give it up. I'll give it back ten times, and our Song Dynasty treasury will take half of the gift, which is not cost-effective." Li Gang knew that he had said the wrong thing before, so he quickly changed his words.
Zhao Huan thought for a while and said, "No, no, no, you are wrong, Dazai Li. How can you not return the gift? If you don't return the gift, is it still my great heavenly dynasty? It's also a joke to say that I, Dasong, have the little money he has in Dali? No, no."
"You cannot lose your favor with respect."
Li Gang had hesitation on his face. This is the new emperor he knew. He is pragmatic, how can he save face now?
Li Gang said puzzledly: "The policy of not enthroning the King of Dali and ignoring it is the best way to control the army. For 160 years, the three fronts have been feasted and remained motionless. The barbarians are shocked to the power of heaven and will not violate it for a hundred years. The government, rashly enthroning the king and rashly returning gifts will always break this situation."
The best strategy to control the army was that Zhao Huan knew who was the one who thought it was when he heard these words, and it lasted for so long.
As the donkey cart emperor, I won’t talk about it, he’s too fucked.
"No, no, no, Dazai Li misunderstood what I mean. I didn't say I wanted to enthrone." Zhao Huan kept a secret and said, "Don't he, Duan Zhengyan, wants to get rid of Gao's control and get rid of the puppet king?"
"I gave him a hundred pieces of archer armor and a hundred pieces of strong bows and crossbows. If he was willing, he would take my strong bows and crossbows and kill all the people of Gao's family."
According to the price of the Buren armor and the value of the bow and crossbow in the Song Dynasty, it is definitely not as good as the tens of thousands of treasures, as well as cattle and sheep.
However, the significance of these hundred pieces of armor and crossbows is simply not too important to Duan Zhengyan!
Li Gang thought for a while, nodded and said yes: "Does the official want them to fight?"
"That's true!" Zhao Huan nodded.
Their fight and chaos are the most in line with their own interests. Now their strong soldiers are in the north, and they can't even go down to Yangzhou and Lin'an, let alone Dali.
They will not cause trouble for the Song Dynasty when they get in chaos.
To provoke their internal strife, the cost is very small, just like fighting crickets. A blade of grass can make them beaten into dogs.
Li Gang nodded and said, "So that's it. The officials, I thought, could give Duan Zhengyan more help to the king of Dali. For example, what if I send a relative to the officials? It just so happened that the Imperial City Office took root in Dali, and the province knew nothing about Dali."
"I am also helping Duan Zhengyan. Anyway, no one has used this step of human armor and strong bows and crossbows. I will help people to the end."
Li Gang! So you are like Li Gang!
I thought you were a righteous minister, but I didn’t expect you to be a stolen person!
"Okay, that's it." Zhao Huan nodded, and he suddenly thought of the word "collusion"...
"What about the messengers of Goryeo? What's the point?" A job was arranged, but it was not finished. There were also envoys of Goryeo, which were also rare this year, and they gathered together to join in the fun.
Li Gang flipped Zhazi and said, "Since Su Shi and Grand Tutor Su found confidential matters involving the Song Dynasty from the box of the envoy of Goryeo, the court of the Song Dynasty knew about Goryeo's wolf ambitions."
"They are a dog in the hands of the Liao people, and now they are a dog in the hands of the Jin people. I think they are willing to be a dog for the Jin people, but I don't know if they are willing to be a dog for the Song people?"
"So, I arranged for the Goryeo people to enter the Honglu Temple."
"Oh, what's the point of Dazai? How did you turn Goryeo into a dog of the Song Dynasty?" Zhao Huan asked curiously.
Li Gang replied: "Coercion and temptation. The methods are not glorious, but the Goryeo people are dogs for the Liao people and the Jin people are dogs, both of which are the same. For their own safety and for their own profits."
"The official family has now taken Pingzhou and Yuguan, which is very close to him."
Zhao Huan nodded. This is what a prime minister should look like!
Zhao Huan was very satisfied with the prime minister he chose. It was very interesting and talented. He did not stick to etiquette and rules in his work. It was much better than Li Bangyan.
"The Goryeo people did not come to my Song Dynasty empty-handed, and brought a hundred Goryeo secrets to the government." Li Gang said with a smile. This is a good thing. Now the only prince in the government is Zhao Chen, who is still the deposed prince.
Although the official family was kind and did not abolish his position as the prefect of Kaifeng, in theory, Zhao Chen was also the crown prince of the Song Dynasty.
But everyone knows that after the new prince, the position of Kaifeng prefect is probably given up, and if Zhao Chen does not have excellent performance.
Then the throne went away from Zhao Chen.
To be continued...