There are no two things in history about the Eight Sage Kings, but Li Yan's son Li Ji is really known as the "Eight Sage Kings".

Li Ji's title is actually not "Virtuous King", but "King Ji".

But Li Ji is awe-inspiring, righteous and outspoken, smart and heroic, indescribable in joy and sorrow, and likes to help the poor the most, so the people call him the Eight Sages King.

So far, among Li Yan's sons, except for Li Cun, the most famous one is Li Ji, whether it is Li Yan, who is upright, or Li Wei, who is capable of fighting thousands of troops, or Li Maung, who is talented, is not as good as Li Ji.

Moreover, Li Ji's background is profound, his uncle Hua Rong is the head of the top ten generals of the founding of the country, holds heavy troops, and is deeply trusted and respected by Li Yan, the key is that Li Yan's old brothers like Li Ji very much, which is incomparable to Li Yan's other sons.

Therefore, Li Ji stood up and diluted the mud, and everyone got off the donkey.

Li Ang said: "I really don't know, when the little yellow door of the prince's mansion notified me, he only said that he had to get there today, and the little yellow door also won the prince's gold medal, and I saw that the matter was not small, so I came over with eighty-seven as soon as possible." ”

Li Wei said: "Even I, the wounded, have been notified that I must be present, the matter is naturally not trivial, and it should be related to us." ”

Li Maung analyzed: "Although this matter is not small, it should be a big deal, I didn't use the guards when I saw the prince." ”

At that moment, another man walked in.

This man seemed to want to keep a low profile, but as soon as he entered, all the princes looked at him.

Seeing this, he could only nod politely to the princes, and then found a less conspicuous position to sit down.

But even so, others still look at him from time to time.

It can be seen that he has a very important weight among the brothers.

This man's name was Li Xiu, and he was Li Yan's fourth son (Li Yan's third son died young, so he was only younger than Li Cun and Li Wei, and older than Li Yan's other sons. ）

Not to mention comparing with Li Cun, Li Ang, and Li Xu, even with Li Wei, Li Yan, Li Maung, Li Ji, Li Xiu's background is not comparable - Li Wei, Li Yan, Li Maung, Li Ji, Li Xiu's mother is Chen Liliao, Cheng Wan'er, Hua Baoyan, Liang Hongyu, although they are not Li Yan's queens, but they are all Li Yan's concubines, the key is that they are all Li Yan's beloved women, and Li Xiu's mother is Cheng Wan'er's handmaid Huan'er (because Cheng Wan'er was pregnant, Cheng Wanli specially sent it to Cheng Wan'er as a maid), now, Because he was relatively early with Li Yan, he gave birth to Li Xiu, and Li Xiu was very competitive, so he was promoted to Wanyi by Li Yan.

What's more critical is that because Huan'er's background is very low, and Huan'er has been sold to his family since he was a child and has no family, Li Xiu has no support behind him.

Compared with other brothers, Li Xiu's only advantage is that he is older.

It's a pity that when Li Xiu was young, Li Yan only devoted himself to cultivating Li Cun and did not give other sons a chance.

Therefore, Li Xiu did not have the opportunity to enter the office until the first year of Tietong.

At that time, Li Xiu was already sixteen years old.

But because of historical reasons, Li Xiu could only follow Li Yan to deal with state affairs and political affairs with those thirteen or fourteen-year-old brothers, and start with those thirteen or fourteen-year-old brothers.

But—

Li Xiu never complained about this, and he completed all the tasks given to him by Li Yan meticulously.

Moreover, as soon as he had time, Li Xiu went to the library to enrich himself.

In the two years that he followed Li Yan, Li Xiu's performance made Li Yan a little sideways.

In addition, Li Yan delayed Li Xiu for three years.

Therefore, out of appreciation and compensation, Li Yan threw Li Xiu to Beihai County to practice after careful consideration - when Li Yan chose a place for his sons to practice, there was an unwritten rule, that is, the more optimistic Li Yan was about his sons, the more he would throw them to remote and difficult areas to exercise, of course, Li Yan's sons could also tell Li Yan that they wanted to go to remote and difficult places to exercise, but there were still some differences between the two.

In Beihai County, Li Xiu first served as the chief secretary of the "Far North County", a small county in the most remote and closest to Beihai.

During that period in Extreme North County, Li Xiu advocated the development of fisheries in Extreme North County, and shipped the specialty Hokkaido crab to the mainland for sale, in addition, Li Xiu also advocated increasing the scale of trade with the wandering ghosts not far away, doing transshipment business between the wandering ghosts and the inland, and selling the sockeye salmon caviar made by the wandering ghosts to the mainland.

Li Xiu's two ideas changed the economic situation of the people in Jibei County to a great extent, and also increased the population of this small remote county.

And this is just Li Xiu's small test.

Because of his achievements in Jibei County, Li Xiu was soon transferred by Li Yan to Beihai County as a county lieutenant.

During his tenure as the lieutenant of Beihai County, Li Xiu advocated the development of machinery to replace manpower to collect gold and silver mines, and introduced a series of advanced technologies from Yanjing, such as trains, searchlights, advanced blasting technology, and so on.

As a result, Li Xiu's series of reforms made Beihai County's gold and silver mining become the first, and the increase was more than seven times that of the past, and more importantly, there is still a lot of room for growth.

Later, all mining areas followed Li Xiu's reform and increased the amount of collection with advanced technology, which led to a sharp increase in Dazhong's gold and silver reserves, and the Dazhong Qianzhuang system became more and more risk-resistant, and Dazhong became more and more rich.

In view of Li Xiu's series of achievements in Beihai County, Li Yan personally arranged for Li Xiu to go to Angkor County for training, and asked him to help Wang Lun and Shi Bao solve the ethnic problems in the Indochina Peninsula.

Before Li Xiu arrived in Angkor County, Wang Lun and Shi Bao mainly used killing to stop the rebellion of the people of all ethnic groups in Indochina, that is, if there was resistance, they would be killed.

After arriving in Angkor County, Lee Xiu visited various regions and had deep contact with people of all nationalities.

After walking around for a while, Li Xiu proposed a large number of relatively softer ethnic policies, such as ethnic migration, joint struggle, friendly exchanges, peace and affinity, alliances, trade manipulation, canonization, administrative jurisdiction, and freedom of religious belief within the scope of restrictions.

Wang Lun and Shi Bao have been killing here in Zhongnan for several years at this time, and it can be said that Zhongnan has been shrouded in blood.

However, most of the people here in the Indochina Peninsula have strong religious beliefs, so killing alone cannot completely solve the ethnic problem here in Central and South China.

Therefore, the relatively soft ethnic policy proposed by Li Xiu made Wang Lun and Shi Bao's eyes shine.

The point is, after so many years of killing, it is indeed time to seal the knife.

Therefore, Wang Lun and Shi Bao began to support Li Xiu in dealing with the national issue in Li Xiu's way.

What is surprising is that Li Xiu's series of methods are quite effective.

After the introduction of this series of new policies, the ethnic problem here in the Indochina Peninsula has been alleviated to a large extent.

Of course, this is also thanks to the previous killings of Wang Lun and Shi Bao, otherwise, Li Xiu's policy would not have been so easily accepted by the aborigines of Indochina.

Many people even assert that if Dazhong can continue to occupy this part of the Indochina Peninsula, at most one or two hundred years, the ethnic problem here in the Indochina Peninsula will be completely resolved.

Li Xiu also became famous because of this, and the world knew that he was the fourth prince with extraordinary ability.

The reason why Li Xiu is now in Yanjing is because he was called back by Li Yan, so that after the Northeast has recovered to a certain extent, he will let him go to the Northeast to deal with the Jin and Mongols.

In other words, it won't be long before Li Xiu will go north to bear a heavier burden.

In addition, because of Li Xiu's great achievements in the Indochina Peninsula, he also became one of the few princes among his brothers to obtain the title of prince.

From Li Xiu's experience and Li Yan's arrangement of Li Xiu, none of the princes could see that Li Xiu had been put on the list in Li Yan's heart, and the future would be limitless.

In this case, it is naturally not that Li Xiu can be low-key if he wants to be low-key, because the princes have begun to cling to him and even be afraid of him!

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