Although Li Xuan, the son of heaven, is thirty-eight years old this year, his body is very healthy, Li Xuan, who pays attention to exercise and balanced nutrition all the year round, even though he is a concubine who often pampers the harem, but his body has always been relatively good, well, his fertility is not good.

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

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

Even if it is the royal family, it is impossible to avoid the invasion of diseases, and there are actually several concubines and princesses who have died of dystocia over the years, but they are not sorted because they did not survive, and these are all the princes and princesses after the full moon.

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

As for how many of them will reach adulthood, it is also unknown.

Even whether the crown prince Li Wei can survive to adulthood is also unknown, even if he is an adult, whether he can survive Li Xuan in the future is also an unknown.

Because although the body of the crown prince Li Wei is not weak and sickly, it is the physique of ordinary people, which is not very strong, and it is estimated that it was influenced by his mother, Queen Dong, after this hour, he was relatively thin, and then gradually grew up, although it improved, but it was not very good.

Such a person, even if he is well maintained, but how long he can live, it is worth drawing a big question mark.

At that time, if the crown prince dies in front of Li Xuan, no matter whether the crown 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 they were, they couldn't give these princes real seals, but Li Xuan chose to give his princes the power to partially seal them, allowing them to form a certain number of royal guards, and also have the power to divide taxes in the fiefdom.

This is also an idea for many princes, that is, once there is a change in the future, they have the hope of entering the imperial capital and becoming the new emperor of the empire.

The idea of Li Xuan, the Son of Heaven, was actually not as complicated as people outside had guessed, and his idea was actually quite simple.

In the future, even if there is a rebellion by the prince, it is far overseas, and the overseas territory is independent and a country of its own, but to say that it is to counterattack the empire itself, it is wishful thinking.

The Imperial Navy and Imperial Army are enough to discourage any vassal king from crossing the sea and attacking the mainland!

As for the Imperial Navy and the Imperial Army, they both chose to betray the crown prince and his heir, so what else is there to say, it means that this prince and his heir are not qualified, and Li Xuan does not have to let the prince inherit the throne, and when the time comes, he will directly introduce the vassal king into the imperial capital and become the second Zhu Di Li Xuan does not mind.

To put it bluntly, Li Xuan's measures seem to be a succession, but it gives other princes a certain hope, and in the end, in fact, the most capable prince can have the last laugh.

To some extent, this is an indirect meritocracy.

As for whether he rebelled against independence in a hundred or even hundreds of years, Li Xuan didn't care about it anymore, or that sentence, it's a big deal to be independent, anyway, whether it is America or Australia, all the people living on it will be the people of the empire, and the royal family will be his Li Xuan's descendants, and independence will be independent.

Perhaps the First World War on this earth in the future will be a war between his children and grandchildren.

That kind of scene is also very likely, and Li Xuan is not disgusted by the appearance of this kind of scene.

Li Xuan's mentality is actually quite a scoundrel mentality after Lao Tzu's death!

At most, he is interfering in the choice of the second generation of emperors and related policies after his death, but in the third or even fourth generation, he is too lazy to care.

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

Even if after his death, the empire that unified the world immediately split and collapsed, in fact, he didn't care much.

Li Xuan's attitude also left Li Jian with thoughts, and from now on he is preparing for it.

He took a lot of effort to recruit the subordinate officials of the palace, and at the same time, he also managed his own positive image in the government and the opposition, what kind of image, it is a role that is not good or bad, not noticeable, but not forgotten.

Attention dies quickly, and being forgotten represents marginalization, and only in the middle, not too noticeable, and not marginalized is the best position.

What Li Jin has done in the last two years is the product of this kind of thinking.

Now seeing the American fleet set sail, although he said that it was a pity, but if you want him to go to the Americas, he is not happy, why, although the Americas are very good, there is one bad one, and it is not as good as the Fuso Islands in any case, that is, the distance!

How far is Fuso from the imperial mainland?

It's just a Tsushima Strait, but it's only a few tens of kilometers!

After crossing the Tsushima Strait, you can return to the port of Busan on the Goryeo Peninsula on the empire's mainland, and according to the national railway plan of the empire, sooner or later, a railway will be built on the Goryeo Peninsula, and then connected to the Northeast railway network, and then you will be able to take a train all the way from the port of Busan to the imperial capital of Jinneongseong.

Even by land and sea, you can travel from Osumi Prefecture to the Ryukyu Islands and then to Shanghai, and the entire sea journey will take less than a few days.

As for the Americas, all the way east to thousands of miles away, even if you take a steam clipper, you have to bump around the sea for two or three months, and even if the technology develops again, it is estimated that it will take more than half a month or even a month to cross the Pacific Ocean.

Such a long distance is not only a military attempt to dispel the attempts of the American vassal kings on the empire, but it is estimated that when Li Yu knows that the Holy Son of Heaven Li Xuan has died, he Li Jian has already returned to the imperial capital early and sat on the throne of the dragon chair!

Therefore, in Li Jin's eyes, it doesn't matter whether the fief is rich or not, the important thing is to be close to the one that can quickly rush back to the imperial capital!

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

And the Fuso Islands are obviously such a great place!

Today's Li Jian is waiting for the empire to officially land and annex Fuso, but unfortunately, although the empire has successively annexed many areas of the Fuso archipelago, such as Ezo Island, such as the Osumi archipelago, and some other islands, but for the four major islands of the Fuso archipelago, it has never moved.

If it weren't for his identity, and also to avoid attracting the attention of others, he would have personally intervened to let the empire annex the Fuso 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!

Therefore, now he can only fantasize about becoming the queen of the Fuso Domain, and he doesn't even have the courage to think about how to develop the Fuso Islands.

Because, the vassal kings have no administrative power in the fiefdom, not at all, they only have the right to tax dividends, and this power is not explicitly stated, but embodied in the money.

The imperial vassal king's salary mainly comes from two aspects, on the one hand, he receives a fixed salary according to the title, and the king of Qi is the highest-ranking prince, and the annual prince's salary is 18,000 yuan.

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

For example, the current fief of the King of Qi is only one county, Osumi County, and the total annual tax revenue of the county is about 150,000 yuan, and the King of Qi can get one percent of the fief from it, that is, 1,500 yuan.

This ratio of one percent is also the highest proportion set by Li Xuan himself, and no nobleman, whether it is a clan or an ordinary nobleman, cannot exceed this proportion in the fief he receives.

Moreover, in Li Xuan's plan, when the follow-up actual operation, the fiefdom that the nobles can get will be even lower, because Li Xuan intends to adopt the 'overlapping and sub-feudal system'.

For example, a fief of an earl may be in the fief of the prince or the king of the county, in this case, the fief received by the earl is included in the prince's hundredth of the fief.

To put it bluntly, the prince and the earl share the one percent of the fiefdom together, and so on to other low-ranking nobles.

In addition, the fief of any nobleman and the proportion of the fief are all required to be specifically designated by the emperor himself, and no nobleman, including the prince, has the power to grant or deprive or change the title of the nobleman and the fief and the proportion of the fief.

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, but he also includes the nobles at all levels and dilutes these fiefs.

And you can divide the feud according to the emperor's will, for example, if the nobleman is not pleasing to the eye, he will seal out a large number of low-level nobles in his fief, and then dilute his fief.

If the king of Qi will conquer the Fusang Islands in the future, then there will be fiefs of dukes, marquises, earls, and viscounts in Fusang, and these fiefs actually coincide with the fiefs of the king of Qi, and the proportion of fiefs that each nobleman can obtain is determined by the emperor himself.