Valley Emperor

Vol 2 Chapter 2205: the fall of the saint

In the 61st year of Xuanping, the Son of Heaven transferred the command of the guards of the king's palaces from the army staff to the local provincial road garrison headquarters, but the vassal kings often had a great influence on the local garrison command. .

In other words, Li Xuan actually handed over the guards of the palaces to the princes indirectly!

In the earliest days, the kings of the Tang Dynasty also had the command of the palace guards, but later Li Xuan deprived the kings of the command of the palace guards and directly belonged to the army staff. Just an idea back then.

If you want to make the vassal kings from all over the world secure their positions and become the local rulers, and let the Li royal family control the ruling power on a global scale, how can it be done without soldiers.

On the one hand, Li Xuan is suppressing the independent tendencies of various overseas territories, and on the other hand, he supports the vassal kings. This may seem contradictory, but in fact it is not contradictory at all.

How should I put it, what Li Xuan did was that even if the overseas territories were going to be independent, they had to be independent under the leadership of the local Li clan lord, instead of throwing the Li clan aside and letting the local interest classes play by themselves... …

This idea is also the root cause of the swaying and contradictory attitude of the Holy Son of Heaven, Li Xuan, towards overseas territories and vassal kings over the past few decades.

When Li Xuan pushed it like this, it also led to the fact that the existing twenty-five vassal kings in the Tang Empire had become representatives of local interests to some extent.

It seems that there is no right now, but the prestige is generally very large.

Because now the vassal kings of the Tang Dynasty not only represent their own interests, but also represent the interests of the interest classes in each territory.

This is why, almost all of the current vassal kings have no idea of ​​rebelling and returning to their homeland to seize the throne, but most vassal kings will have the idea of ​​seeking independence.

The local interest class needs to obtain greater interests, and this interest is contrary to the interests of the local business class in East Asia.

The thoughts of the feudal lords themselves are not important. What is important is that the interests of overseas regions and local interests are inconsistent, and this conflict of interests can hardly be alleviated.

How should I put it, there is only so much money, and the local business community earns less than the business community in other people's overseas territories...

This conflict of interest is almost impossible to resolve. What the Tang Empire has done in the past few decades has only been to alleviate it. Even in the future, when Li Xuan died, the empire broke out and compromised after deciding the winner, but the contradiction remained. Existence, the compromise of war is still only to ease the contradiction.

After all, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and there are disputes. A few decades ago, most of the conflicts between the Tang Empire and the indigenous barbarian countries were conflicts, but after the globalization of the empire was completed, the main conflict of the empire has become the local and overseas territories, and this contradiction is almost impossible to reconcile.

Even when Li Xuan was still alive, overseas regions, especially the Americas, had already had numerous conflicts of interest with the mainland. The Americas had always wanted to engage in industrial development.

Their mineral resources are extremely rich, and the conditions are very good for industrial development, but now, the Americas can only rely on agriculture and basic mineral and oil mining as the economic pillar.

This economic model was not bad before the second industrial development, and the income of the people in the Americas relying on agriculture, livestock and basic mineral products was also good, but after the second industrial development, this economic model seems Good, but the gap with the local is getting bigger and bigger.

When many developed areas in the local area started to develop highways and cars gradually entered ordinary households, the vast number of farmers in the Americas, some of them were small farmers, but they were still farmers, and the price of food was more than ten years old. It has never risen, but prices are rising day by day!

In the forty or so years of Xuanping, a small farmer in the Americas cultivated 100 mu of land, and his family was able to live a decent life. If it doesn't rise, an American farmer needs to plant more than 500 acres of land in order to allow his family to live a good life.

As for now, as large-scale farms using large-scale mechanical farming in Eastern Europe, Europe, and India continue to increase grain production, the competitiveness of food in the Americas has further declined.

At this time, farmers in the Americas planted a thousand acres of land, and it was difficult for their family to live a decent life.

If you are hungry, you will definitely not go hungry. America is short of everything now, that is, there is no shortage of food.

However, it is difficult for them to support consumption in other fields!

In addition to food, the American people find it expensive to buy almost everything!

And this is not to say that things are really expensive, even if shipping is added, but in fact the industrial products retailed in the Americas and the industrial products retailed in the country are all about the same price.

The problem is that the local people in the Americas have no cash in their hands!

This grain can't be sold for a few dollars, and they have no other source of income. Unlike the local people, they can go to the city to work if they can't make money from farming.

No matter how bad it is, if you work in a factory for a month, you can earn a monthly salary of more than ten Tang Yuan. After this year, people in the Americas and other overseas areas can earn more from farming.

This also makes many people realize that farming alone is not a good life. They want to change, and they also want to develop industry.

But the high-level empire does not allow such a thing to happen. The high-level empire has considered such a problem decades ago, and has always strictly guarded the industrial development of overseas areas.

Although later in order to alleviate the contradiction, some restrictions were continued to be released, such as allowing the development of minerals and oil resources in the Americas, but there were no corresponding steel plants and oil refineries.

The people in the Americas have a lot of opinions on this. It is obvious that they are rich in oil, but the price of gasoline and other refined oil products for daily use is still so high. It has long been said that oil refineries will be built in the Americas to reduce gasoline in the Americas. The price of refined oil.

But it has never been possible!

When the interests of ordinary people in overseas territories have already begun to conflict with local interests, then you can know how big the contradictions between overseas areas and local areas are!

Chengping three years, the Five Lakes Province of America, an iron ore directly belonging to the Central Mining Company, because the iron ore mining cost is high, and iron ore prices continue to decline, the competitiveness of the decline, and finally forced to reduce production.

Although the iron ore side has adopted the policy of not laying off employees as much as possible, the method of shortening the working hours has made the wages of the miners still greatly reduced, which has attracted great dissatisfaction among the miners.

And this is not an exception!

In the early years, with the empire's second industrial development plan, the empire's demand for various mineral resources soared, which in turn made the empire's iron ore, coal and other production capacity continue to increase around the world.

However, after the earliest explosive growth, although the demand for steel products in the empire continued to rise, the increase in iron ore in a short period of time was more, and with the large-scale iron ore in Australia and South America After mining, after a large amount of cheap and high-quality iron ore entered the market, the development of iron ore in other regions was hit to a certain extent.

Even many local iron ore mines are seeing sharp declines in profits, not to mention iron ore in the Americas and elsewhere.

Affected by the fact that iron ore prices did not rise but fell, many overseas territorial mines that have rashly expanded production in recent years have suffered from operational crises.

If this kind of thing happens in the local area, then many workers will have other options, and they can re-employ through the development of other industries, and it is basically impossible to cause much impact.

But for many overseas territories with a single economic model, this has a big impact.

The mainstay of the economy in the Americas is agriculture and animal husbandry, as well as mining and oil extraction. The life of the agricultural and animal husbandry industry is not very good. In the face of large-scale mechanized farms, the life of small farmers is becoming more and more difficult, forcing many regions in the Americas. The wealthy labor force of peasant families entered mining and other industries for employment.

Now that the mining industry has been hit and caused a certain wave of layoffs, there are not enough jobs in the local area to accommodate these laid-off workers, and the contradiction is detonated.

In the three years of Chengping, several large mining areas in the Five Lakes Province went on strike at the same time. They demanded to stop work and not reduce wages!

Although this strike did not last long, the top officials of the empire soon adopted a special policy to expand the purchase of iron ore in the Americas in a targeted manner, allowing the local mining industry to resume production.

But this still brought a great impact to the top of the empire!

It also gave hope to the feudal lords and local interest classes in the Americas, forcing the local side to make concessions, and then hope to develop industry locally!

In the fourth year of Chengping, England, the local coal industry also had a strike. This time it lasted for a long time, lasting three months before and after, but this still reflects a very important point. This is not only because the local coal industry is sluggish. The reason is that there is also the dissatisfaction of local ordinary people and even farmers.

In addition, the acquiescence and even the promotion of the local upper middle class are naturally indispensable!

But these turmoils, the Holy Emperor Li Xuan of the Tang Empire has been unable to pay attention!

In the three years since Chengping, Li Xuan, the aged saint, has been bedridden for a long time. Li Xuan defeated everyone, but in the end he lost to time!

In the four years of Chengping, the Son of Heaven fell into a coma many times!

Although this news was strictly kept secret by the Palace Affairs Office, Emperor Li Hongyi even revealed that the Son of Heaven was still healthy during many public inspections, but when the Son of Heaven was not seen in public for more than half a year, and at the same time among the top executives of the empire It was also the time when the gossip was circulating that the Son of Heaven was restless.

Beginning in August of the fourth year of Chengping, vassal kings from all over the world frequently submitted petitions to Anzhe. Li Bing, the king of Qin in the Spanish peninsula of Western Europe, submitted petitions twice within three months and requested to return to Beijing to visit the Holy Son of Heaven.

In October of the fourth year of Chengping, King Wei, the thirteenth son of the emperor in the Red Sea area of ​​the vassal, was ill and requested to return to Shanghai to be admitted to the hospital for treatment. After the operation, King Wei said that he had not seen his father for many years, and he missed him very much, and asked him to return to Jinling to visit Holy King!

The emperor Li Hongyu approved: Wei Wang is seriously ill and has just returned to the fief to recuperate as soon as possible.

The Son of Heaven has not appeared in public for a long time, and it is difficult to see the Son of Heaven whether it is a vassal king or a high-ranking official.

Many people have already more or less guessed what!

Amid the suspicions of many people, on November 6th in the fourth year of Chengping, Emperor Li Hongyi suddenly ordered troops stationed all over the world to enter without a special order and not to move without authorization!

On November 7th, the Tang Dynasty newspaper suddenly published that the emperor Li Hongyi was awarded the title of the new marshal and admiral of the army and navy, and he was awarded the title of nobleman.

On November 8, the Naval High Command issued a press conference announcing that the Navy will hold a global joint exercise, and will form and send a huge fleet to sail around the world!

The Global Fleet will have eight battleships, dozens of cruisers, destroyers, and auxiliary ships!

What is not known to outsiders is that when the Global Fleet arrived at Xinjinshan Port, the 3rd Division of the Guards also arrived with the fleet and was stationed at Xinjinshan.

When the 3rd Division of the Guards, fully armed, appeared in the Americas with hundreds of armored vehicles.

Everyone knows that the day has begun to change!

Because the military's actions are really weird!

The Navy just announced the circumnavigation of the world, the 3rd Guards Division appeared in the Americas, and the Army soon announced the overall change of defenses of multiple units stationed in Europe, West Asia, and the Americas!

Large-scale personnel adjustments have been made to the garrison headquarters in many places overseas!

When people saw this, everyone turned their attention to Jinling City!

But for many days, Jinling City was still calm,

Even on November 12, the Tang Dynasty Daily published a report that the Son of Heaven met with some scientists from the Royal Institute of Technology, and even put photos!

However, the world is still in a very strange state!

The feudal lords are no longer clamoring to see the Son of Heaven as before, but they frequently attend various public occasions in the fiefdom and inspect and visit the local area.

As for the emperor Li Hongyu, he also frequently appeared in public, and his speeches were more about the second industrial development, saying that the empire's efforts over the years had achieved initial success and so on.

At the same time, it also constantly emphasizes the consistency of the homeland and overseas territories, saying that the empire is a global empire, and the empire canceled the title of homeland and overseas territories many years ago, whether it is the provincial roads in the Central Plains, the provinces of the Americas, or the The provinces of Europe and India are all provincial roads that belong to the empire, and are consistent in all aspects.

Later, it was announced that the second industrial development has entered a new stage. In order to develop better and faster, the empire will consider establishing and developing new industrial bases in several places, such as the Five Lakes region of the Americas and the European part. coastal areas, etc.

A few days later, Li Hongyi presided over a meeting to formulate a national medical insurance plan~www.wuxiax.com~ It is clear that in the next five years, a nationwide medical insurance will be gradually established and popularized to ensure that people can be treated when they get sick.

On November 18, Emperor Li Hongyi decreed to further increase support for poor students, to ensure that every poor student admitted to middle school, preparatory school and even university will not be unable to continue their studies because of their poor family background.

On November 20, the emperor Li Hongyi visited the old ministers of the army and navy of the empire, and then emphasized in his speech that national defense is the cornerstone of the peace and stability of the empire, and it must be taken seriously.

But after this series of major news was announced one after another, at this time, in fact, everyone has already guessed something!

Sure enough, on November 23, the fourth year of Chengping, the emperor Li Hongyi announced to the world: The beloved, great, and greater than the sun, the eternal sage, the son of the sky, the emperor of the gods, the son of the emperor, and the emperor of the emperor Li Xuan have been in Chengping. Four years on the night of November 5th died!

At the same time, the decree entered into a state of national mourning for three months, and banned all entertainment activities worldwide, and prohibited the wearing of brightly colored clothing except black and white, and the dragon flag at half-mast.

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