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Chapter 671 Li Yan's Plan

These guards are usually stubborn, simple-minded, without any knowledge or culture, and have no ideas. They can do nothing but follow orders and do whatever they are told. No one will waste energy on them.

Li Yan took this opportunity to send Xue Rengui to the front line, firstly to gain some experience, and secondly to provide cover for these people, allowing the Jinyiwei to quietly enter the army, infiltrate the generals, and set up an information network.

Perhaps Cheng Yaojin thought that he sent Xue Rengui out to train a talented general, but he was overthinking it.

Li Yan was not in a hurry about this. Each of the first ten tutors was a talent, and their stage was in the future, not now. Instead, Li Yan had to suppress their growth to prevent them from being exposed too early and entering the court's sight, so that Old Li would take advantage of them.

Of course, there is another reason.

Among these people, Xue Rengui and Wang Xuance are the most dedicated and have the highest loyalty. People like Gao Kan, Liu Renyuan, and Xiao Siye, perhaps because of their better backgrounds, will not easily give their loyalty.

It's not mature yet. If I let him go now and he becomes famous, he will be out of my control. After all, he has only been in the East Palace for two or three months and has not experienced anything. How loyal can he be to me?
After experiencing three lifetimes, Li Yan has a deep understanding of human nature.

In the eyes of some of them, he was just a child who was reborn with a good fortune due to his father's influence, with a simple mind and a pure heart, who could be fooled by some rhetoric about going through fire and water, dying and serving the court. They would not take himself, the prince, seriously.

These people just used the Eastern Palace as a springboard to enter the imperial court, borrowing their names to develop their own power, but they might not be loyal to themselves in the end. The Eastern Palace spent time, energy and influence, but in the end it was just making wedding clothes for others?

How to identify, recruit, employ and control people are also essential skills for those in power, and are also tests that the prince must pass.

In the original drama, Li Chengqian couldn't even subdue Changsheng, but Li Shimin endured it; he killed Henglian out of suspicion, but Li Shimin endured it again; and he couldn't control the last one, Hou Junji, either. He was almost controlled by him and turned into a puppet. He was bewitched into rebelling, and Li Shimin really gave up on Li Chengqian.

Therefore, no matter how many tutors were recruited into the Eastern Palace, Li Shimin would not take them to heart. However, when one was really sent out to serve as an official in the name of the crown prince, he would be taken very seriously by people like Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling. This person represented the level and ability of the crown prince in controlling his ministers.

Therefore, Li Yan would attach great importance to it. Changsheng had been guarding Zhongshan County for many years and attacking Liangshidu in Yunzhong, and had made many contributions. After Li Yan mentioned it in front of Li Shimin, he was still hanging in the inner house of the Left Guard of the East Palace and had never been released to fight on his own. Li Shimin never asked about it.

Li Shimin would not review the paper as long as it was not submitted.

The father and son seemed to have a certain tacit understanding. Li Shimin allowed Li Yan to continue training and beating Chang Sheng in the East Palace, and even threw a fourth-rank military officer to Li Yan for testing, and never cared about it. Li Yan also took on the job of the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

Su Dingfang and Liang Jianfang were only two assistant commanders, but they seemed to be the ones in charge. No matter what they did, what regulations they issued, or the names of the chief flags of each hundred households, how could they be in charge?

They always ask for advice before executing, never taking the initiative. These two are mature and prudent, treating themselves as servants who can fetch keys, and can manage the house but not make the decisions. All the important matters of Jinyiwei are decided by Li Yan, and then they handle them on his behalf.

The original Jinyiwei commander, Chang Sheng, still doesn’t know that there is such a department under the Eastern Palace!
Li Yan was very cautious with every person he released. On the contrary, he attacked the people of Shu Wang Li Ke several times, and two of his three confidants were killed, which immediately made Li Shimin have some opinions about Li Ke's use of people. Now the third Chai Zhewei rushed to the front again. If Chai Zhewei had problems again, Li Ke would be completely finished.
It is not easy to appoint cronies to seize power. If done well, it will bring honor to oneself, but if something goes wrong, it will affect one's image and even damage one's popularity.

Therefore, those servants asked for battle several times in the name of serving the court during the Battle of Dingxiang, but were rejected by Li Yan. Instead, Xue Rengui, who had been protecting him diligently and never spoke, was released and placed in the core position of the Dingxiang front line in advance to get the best training opportunity.

Those tutors followed him in order to seek a future. Li Yan couldn't just suppress them all. He had to let them see some hope. Xue Rengui was a role model.

However, Xue Rengui's appointment gave a warning to those tutors who had always been treated with courtesy by the Eastern Palace. Those who took the initiative to ask for a fight were rejected, while those who had always been conscientious and responsible were promoted. The prince's strategy of employing people was revealed.

If you are smart, you will know that the prince is unhappy.

You've only been here for two or three months, and you haven't even gotten to know the people well yet, but you're already clamoring to be sent out. Do you really think the Eastern Palace is a shortcut to becoming an official in the imperial court? You can come in and go out as you please, and you're treating the Crown Prince like an ignorant child?

Loyalty comes first, talent comes second!

There are few people now, and when there are more people in the future, Li Yan will add a dismissal procedure. Those who have not made obvious progress can be kept to muddle through, and those who have ulterior motives or who resent him because their plans cannot be realized will be fired. Any system has both inflows and outflows, and both rises and falls, which is a perfect ecological chain.

Anyway, Li Yan did not offer any cross-era knowledge or courses at the Donggong Academy. Both the civil and military categories were knowledge that already existed in this era. He only created an environment and built a system by relying on the special influence of the Donggong.

The core competitiveness is his identity as the crown prince. Once he leaves it, it cannot be replicated!

And I have added a more core layer to this special thing that only I possess.

It was the eye of truth that no one could imagine. Li Yan could see their true attitude towards him at any time. No matter how well they disguised their words and emotions, it was useless. The light above their heads could not deceive people. Whether it was loyalty or rebellion, kindness or hatred, it could be identified at a glance.

If someone's loyalty does not meet the requirements, Li Yan will not let him go no matter how talented he is.

If these people voluntarily leave the Eastern Palace, they will lose the opportunity to enter the court. First, others will not believe them. Who knows if you are playing Infernal Affairs? Second, if you come from the Eastern Palace, but even the prince doesn't want you, who would dare to use you? Aren't you afraid of offending the prince?

Thirdly, those who have experienced it personally know that the prince's servants will form a huge system in the future. Leaving them without permission would be tantamount to betrayal. Even if they can ignore the prince, who can afford to offend a group with unlimited potential?
These people have formed an interest group with the prince as the core. Naturally, they will unite to exclude you, and then you will not be able to take advantage of your power.

They will also be suppressed by this group, which is something no one can bear.

Among them are Cen Wenben's nephew and Du Chuke's nephew. They would not attach too much importance to these connections that could be abandoned at any time. They sent these people to serve the family's main line.

But these people will not be willing to be abandoned. They will fight for their own destiny and future.

As long as Li Yan gives them a chance to come forward, they will desperately be loyal to the prince, work hard to expand their influence in the original family, gather a group of their own people, devour the original main line, and finally pull their own family into the prince's camp.

Don't underestimate the prince's appeal. He is the future emperor. These people are valued by the future emperor, so naturally they have the idea and opportunity to seize power.

Every family that sends their children to the Eastern Palace is equivalent to Li Yan creating a rift within their family and starting a chess game within their family. They themselves probably cannot imagine how the game will develop in the end.

Li Yan stood at the door of Chongren Hall. His eyes seemed to be looking at Xue Rengui who was walking away, but it also seemed like he was looking into nothingness. He was lost in thought, and finally his face smiled slightly.

After Xue Rengui walked away, Wang Xuance, who had just been standing aside and watching the scene silently, sighed that it was just as he expected. Xue Rengui stepped to the front faster than he thought.

No, it could be said that he was the first person who was truly entrusted with an important task by the prince. It was just that his job was special and the nature of it required him not to show up in public. However, he was more important than Xue Rengui. He was the prince's eyes and ears, and even more so, his shadow in the dark, guarding his safety.

Wang Xuance quietly came to Li Yan and whispered, "Your Highness, I will pick out four of the smartest ones from the Jinyiwei. Two of them will follow Rengui and be active in the general's tent, and the other two will be sent to the grassroots."

"There is a 100-household unit in Ningshuo City, Dingxiang. These four Jinyiwei members will come into contact with the 100-household unit, and then a group of people will enter the army through them."

Li Yan nodded silently without even turning his head, and instructed: "Well, well done, tell the two people who go down, one to get close to Zhang Baoxiang, and the other to get close to Li Ji. The one who goes to Zhang Baoxiang's side is short-term, and the one who goes to Li Ji's side must be the best. There is no rush, three to five years, ten to eight years will do."

"Yes, Your Highness, I will remember it." Wang Xuance was stunned and memorized the names of the two generals firmly in his mind. He would check their resumes carefully when he got down to it.

Then he seemed to realize something and felt happy. His Highness's expression just now was very casual, which meant that His Highness was no longer urging or encouraging himself.

His expression was normal, which showed that His Highness had initially recognized his abilities, and that there was no need for any extra emotional lubrication or transition between the two of them. He was the first person in the Eastern Palace tutors to receive such treatment.

(End of this chapter)