There are two different opinions about the Eight Virtue Kings in history, but Li Yan's son Li Ji is really known as the "Eight Virtue Kings".

Li Ji's title of king is actually not "King of Wise", but "King of Ji".

But Li Ji was righteous, spoke with justice, smart and wise, and did not show his joy and anger. He also liked to help poor people the most, so the people called him the Eight Wise Kings.

So far, among Li Yan's sons, besides Li Cun, the most famous one is Li Ji. Whether it is the upright Li Yan, Li Wei, who is capable of fighting thousands of troops, or Li Mao, who is very talented, is not as good as Li Ji.

Moreover, Li Ji has a deep background. His uncle Hua Rong is the leader of the top ten founding generals. He holds heavy troops and is deeply trusted and valued by Li Yan. The key is that Li Yan's old brothers like Li Ji very much, which is something that Li Yan's other sons cannot compare with.

So, Li Ji stood up and mixed with the mud, and everyone was going to do something.

Li Ang said: "I really don't know. When the little yellow gate of the Prince's Mansion notified me, he only said that he had to get the game today. The little yellow gate also won the prince's gold medal. I saw that it was a big deal and came with 87 at the first time."

Li Wei said: "Even the wounded, I must get the scene. The matter is of course small, and it should be related to us."

Li Mao analyzed: "Although this matter is not small, it should be a big deal. Even if the prince is not seen, he didn't use the guards."

At this time, another person came in.

This man seemed to want to be low-key, but as soon as he came in, all the princes looked at him.

Seeing this, he could only noddle to the princes politely, and then find a not-so-conspicuous position to sit down.

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

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

This person's name is Li Xiu, and he is Li Yan's fourth son (Li Yan's third son died prematurely, so he is 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 Mao, Li Ji, Li Xiu's origins are not comparable to Li Wei, Li Yan, Li Mao, Li Ji, Li Xiu's mother is Chen Lijie, Cheng Wan'er, Hua Baoyan, Liang Hongyu. Although they are not Li Yan's queens, they are all Li Yan's concubines. The key is that they are all Li Yan's beloved women, while Li Xiu's mother is Cheng Wan'er's daughter Huan'er (because Cheng Wan'er was pregnant, Cheng Wanli specially sent her to Cheng Wan'er as a servant of a maid). Now, because she was older with Li Yan, she gave birth to Li Xiu again, and Li Xiu was very successful, so she was promoted to Wanyi by Li Yan.

More importantly, because Huan'er's background is very low, and Huan'er was sold to the Cheng Cheng family since childhood, there was no family, so Li Xiu had no support behind him.

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

Unfortunately, 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 officialdom until the first year of Tietong.

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

But due to historical reasons, Li Xiu could only follow Li Yan to handle state affairs and political affairs with his thirteen or fourteen year old brothers, and start with his thirteen or fourteen year old brothers.

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

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

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

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

Therefore, out of appreciation and compensation, after careful consideration, Li Yan threw Li Xiu to Beihai County for training. When Li Yan chose a place to train for his sons, there was an unwritten rule, that is, the more likely Li Yan is to throw his sons, the more he will throw them into remote and difficult areas for training. Of course, Li Yan's sons can also tell Li Yan themselves that they want to train in remote and difficult places, but there are still some differences between the two.

In Beihai County, Li Xiu first served as the chief clerk in a small county in the remotest and closest to Beihai.

During the period in Jibei County, Li Xiu advocated the development of fishery in Jibei County and transported the specialty Hokkaido crabs to the mainland for sale. In addition, Li Xiu also advocated increasing the scale of trade with Liuguiren not far away, doing transportation business between Liuguiren and the inland, and selling the sockeye salmon caviar made by Liuguiren to the mainland.

Li Xiu's two claims have greatly changed the economic situation of the people in the far north county and have also increased the population of this remote small county.

And this is just Li Xiu's attempt.

Because of his achievements in the Far North County, Li Xiu was quickly transferred to Beihai County by Li Yan to serve as the county lieutenant.

During his tenure as the county magistrate 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, etc.

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

Later, all mining areas followed Li Xiu's reforms and increased the collection volume with advanced technology, resulting in a surge in the gold and silver reserves of Dazhong, the risk resistance of Dazhong's money house system became stronger and stronger, and Dazhong was also becoming richer.

In view of Li Xiu's series of achievements in Beihai County, Li Yan personally arranged for Li Xiu to go to Angkor County to experience and asked him to help Wang Lun and Shi Bao solve the ethnic issues of 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 the Indochina Peninsula, that is, if there is resistance, they will be killed without any slightest refusal.

After Li Xiu arrived in Angkor County, he visited various regions and had profound contact with people from all ethnic groups.

After walking around, Li Xiu proposed a lot of relatively gentle ethnic policies such as ethnic migration, joint struggle, friendly exchanges, marriage, alliances, trade manipulation, canonization, administrative jurisdiction, freedom of religious belief within the limits, etc.

Wang Lun and Shi Bao have been killed in Zhongnan for several years at this time. It can be said that Zhongnan has been shrouded in blood.

But most people here in the Indochina Peninsula have strong religious beliefs, so killing alone cannot completely solve the ethnic problems in the Central and Southern areas.

Therefore, the relatively gentle ethnic policy proposed by Li Xiu made Wang Lun and Shi Bao’s eyes lit up.

The key is that after killing for so many years, it is indeed time to seal the sword.

Therefore, Wang Lun and Shi Bao began to support Li Xiu in dealing with ethnic issues 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 issues here on the Indochina Peninsula were greatly alleviated.

Of course, this is also due to the previous killings of Wang Lun and Shi Bao. Otherwise, Li Xiu's policies would not have been accepted by the indigenous people of the Indochina Peninsula so easily.

Many people even assert that if Dazhong can always occupy the Indochina Peninsula, at most one or two hundred years, the ethnic issues here in the Indochina Peninsula can be completely solved.

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

The reason why Li Xiu was now in Yanjing was called back by Li Yan, so that after the Northeast was recovered to a certain level, he would go to the Northeast to deal with the Jin and Mongols.

In other words, it won’t take long to Li Xiu to go north to bear heavier burdens.

In addition, because Li Xiu made great contributions to the Indochina Peninsula, he became one of the few princes among his brothers to win the title of prince.

From Li Xiu's experience and Li Yan's arrangements for Li Xiu, no one can tell that Li Xiu has already been named in Li Yan's mind, and his future will definitely be limitless.

In this case, naturally, Li Xiu could not be as low-key as he wanted, because the princes had already begun to cling to him or even fear him!

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