The lively and vigorous nineteenth year of Xuanping, like previous years, ended with the end of the fiscal expenditure budget meeting, and ushered in the New Year state banquet on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve!

At this year's Spring Festival state banquet, Li Xuan hosted a banquet for military and political dignitaries, important scientists, and some outstanding entrepreneurs, workers' representatives, peasant representatives, and other non-governmental figures as usual.

However, unlike the previous year's Spring Festival state banquet, in this year's Spring Festival state banquet, the four older princes also accompanied the Holy Son Li Xuan to attend, and stood beside Li Xuan to meet many subjects.

And this situation has attracted a lot of attention!

Because in the past ten years, Li Xuan has never brought the prince to the Spring Festival state banquet, which seems to be just a banquet, but in fact has an extremely strong political atmosphere.

Even, the princes of the Holy Son of Heaven have never appeared in public, let alone on such an extremely political occasion.

In the past ten years, in order to avoid the princes being influenced by the outside world, Li Xuan has always strictly controlled the contact between the courtiers and the princes, of course, this control is only superficial, in public.

In private, these princes have more or less contact with the outside world, and they communicate with the outside world through teachers in the royal elementary school or even just ordinary palace maids or uncles.

This kind of contact Li Xuan has always known, but he can't stop it too much.

After all, it is impossible for Li Xuan to really isolate the princes and let them not ask about the world, in fact, Li Xuan is preparing to preliminarily let these princes come to the forefront, and deeply participate in military and political affairs, and investigate through practical exercises, and select the crown prince in Li Xuan's mind.

Now it is the last day of the nineteenth year of Xuanping, and Li Xuan's sons have already eight, well, in fact, there are eleven princes born in these years, but even if Li Xuan is a traverser, even if he is the emperor, and has vigorously promoted the development of modern medicine in these years, it is impossible to solve the risk of dystocia when the concubines in the harem give birth and the princes are attacked by diseases.

Over the years, one prince died in childbirth, and the other two died young.

So there are only eight surviving princes.

Among the eight princes, the youngest is still a baby, but the oldest is fifteen years old.

Li Jin, the eldest son of the emperor born to Concubine Ye Shu, is already fifteen years old this year.

Li Han, the second son of the emperor born to Concubine Wang De, is also fifteen years old this year.

Li Yu, the third son of the emperor born to Concubine Song Kang, is twelve years old this year.

The fourth son and eldest son born to Empress Dong are eleven years old this year.

The other four princes, the fifth son of the emperor is eight years old, the sixth son of the emperor is seven years old, the seventh son of the emperor is three years old, and the eighth son of the emperor was born last year and is only four months old.

And today, accompanying Li Xuan to attend the Spring Festival state banquet were the four older princes, these four people followed behind Li Xuan at the beginning to meet many subjects one by one, after the banquet began.

Li Xuan is naturally the same as before, sitting alone on the dragon platform!

The other courtiers sat separately below, but the seats of these four princes were not among the ministers, nor were they beside Li Xuan, but one on the left and right sides below Li Xuan.

Many of the subjects below, especially the military and political dignitaries, were always paying attention to these four princes when the four princes attended the banquet with Li Xuan, and they were also paying attention to the attitude of Li Xuan, the son of heaven, towards these four princes.

Why so much concern?

Because Li Xuan suddenly brought the four princes to the New Year state banquet, he almost directly told the ministers: "I am ready to establish a prince!" ”

On the issue of establishing a prince, the Son of Heaven has always been a force to exclude public opinion, and no courtier is allowed to express any opinions, and all the ministers who have made mistakes on the issue of establishing a prince, without exception, have all been expelled from the court, and the heavier ones have been dismissed and the lighter ones have been demoted.

The Son of Heaven's toughness on the issue of establishing a reserve, even the Empress Dowager Bai could not change, the Empress Dowager Bai also said a few times in her early years, but every time Li Xuan refused to discuss the relevant issues with words, and later the Empress Dowager Bai also knew that the issue of the establishment of the reserve was a matter of principle for her son, and it was not the kind that could be discussed at all, so she simply didn't say it.

Empress Dowager Bai didn't speak anymore, the other concubines, including Empress Dong, would not speak easily, the only one who died was the biological mother of the fifth son of the emperor, Concubine Xu Zhuang, who pampered her in the early years, and said coquettishly in front of Li Xuan, saying that her son was the best candidate to be the prince, Li Xuan was mad on the spot, and then Concubine Xu Zhuang was deprived of the concubine number for 'arguing about the country' and was demoted to a concubine, and then the fifth son of the emperor was also sent to the Empress Dowager Bai and raised by the Empress Dowager Bai.

There is Concubine Xu Zhuang, no, it is such an example of Concubine Xu Zhuang, many harem concubines have passed for so many years, and they dare not say a word about the question of establishing a prince in front of Li Xuan, including Empress Dong.

Everyone knows that the matter of the prince cannot be discussed, but it does not mean that they do not pay attention to the issue of the prince, on the contrary, as the princes grow up, whether it is the concubines or courtiers of the harem, they are also paying more and more attention to the issue of the prince.

However, Li Xuan has never revealed any tone on the issue of establishing a prince, so that now the courtiers don't even know whether Li Xuan plans to establish a virtuous or a long.

And today, Li Xuan kept the four princes by his side, which undoubtedly released a very key political signal, that is, after the Holy Son of Heaven suppressed the issue of the reserve for more than ten years, he finally took the initiative to put this issue on the table.

This kind of statement, without any words, just need to look at today to know.

After all, everyone is a smart person, and after a little thought, you can imagine the meaning of Li Xuan's move, which is undoubtedly to let these four princes meet with the courtiers in advance, and by the way, tell the courtiers that I plan to establish a prince, and the prince is very likely to be selected from these four princes.

Similarly, the four princes who were in their respective seats and were under the gaze of hundreds of their subjects also knew at this time that today's occasion was extremely important to them, so although they were not very old, they all tried their best to maintain the demeanor of the prince.

Every move is to try to make no one find fault.

Because this is their chance, probably the most important opportunity in their lives, they have to perform perfectly!

In fact, they were only temporarily notified this morning, and Li Xuan asked them to accompany them to the New Year state banquet, which means that they don't have much time to prepare in advance, and before attending the state banquet, their few hours are used to calm down.

And because these older princes live alone in a separate palace, they don't look at what to discuss with their concubines in an emergency, so they can only prepare in a hurry while calming down.

However, they are all royal descendants, and since they were sensible, they have been taught by countless people to do a good job and do better, so that they can have the opportunity to become the prince of a country.

The education received by the princes is also completely different from that of ordinary people, in addition to the ordinary cultural courses, they are more educated by various princes, and these princes' education is more about teaching them how to become a superior and a ruler.

Take the emperor's eldest son Li Jian as an example, he is fifteen years old this year, and is currently studying in the royal school, for the education of the prince and the princess, Li Xuan specially established the royal primary school in his early years, and a few years ago he set up a secondary school, and changed its name to the royal school, this royal school, divided into two parts, a boys' school and a girls' school, will provide a complete six-year primary education and three years of secondary education, three years of preparatory education for the prince and the princess and the selected nobles, the children of officials, and the outstanding children of commoners.

In addition, Li Xuan also set up a prince's education institute in the palace, selected all kinds of senior teachers, and taught all kinds of special courses, including psychology, administrative management, national defense economics and other messy courses.

Sometimes Li Xuan would personally run over to give them a small stove and teach them how to be a qualified superior.

Princes, no matter whether they can become princes or even emperors in the future, but since they were born, they are destined to have an ordinary life, and at the very least, they are also a prince, a proper superior.

The prince, who has received these special education since childhood, although it is the first time to participate in the Spring Festival state banquet, but his performance is perfect and impeccable, in terms of treating people and things and his own etiquette, and even when accepting the greetings of the courtiers, the smile on his face is a textbook standard smile.

Li Xuan looked at the four princes below him, and nodded slightly in his heart!

They were born in the royal family, although it is impossible to enjoy the childhood and youth of normal people, but as the so-called gains and losses, they have lost the happiness that these normal people should have, but they have also gained a noble status that others can't get.

According to Li Xuan's established plan, this year should be crowned king for the two older princes, after today's Chinese New Year's Eve, they will be sixteen years old from tomorrow, and it is time to crown the king.

Today, it is considered that they will take them to see the world before they become kings, and at the same time let the courtiers know what kind of people the two new princes of the empire are coming.

And since there is a prince crowned king, then this matter of establishing a prince should also be upgraded to the agenda, Li Xuan can't drag this matter all the time, this kind of thing is okay when the princes are still young, but now that the princes are gradually growing up, it's time to settle down, so as not to let the prince seize the throne and cause political turmoil.

After the end of the Spring Festival state banquet, it officially ushered in the 20th anniversary of Xuanping!

On the first day of the first lunar month, Li Xuan officially announced to the world that the emperor's eldest son, Li Jian, was the king of Qi, and the second son of the emperor was the king of Zhao!

The prince has reached the age of sixteen princes, this is an established policy, and the courtiers did not have much reaction to this, at this time they were more concerned about whether Li Xuan would directly establish a prince at this time.

And Li Xuan officially gave the ministers the answer half a month later, that is, on the fifteenth and nineteenth day of the first month!

Li Xuan officially announced to the world that Li Wei, the eldest son and the fourth son of the emperor, was appointed as the crown prince!

After more than ten years of hesitation between Lixian and Liyan, Li Xuan finally chose Liyan!

However, then on the issue of the vassal between King Qi and King Zhao, Li Xuan once again made a choice that everyone expected!