The crown prince held everyone back, and then invited Lin Xiaojue to sit opposite him, and asked, "Why is my cousin pretending to be the concubine of the Han King when she comes?"

Lin Xiaojue smiled: "Because I'm bad." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

The prince, who has always been gentle and has few ups and downs in his mood: "......"

He laughed loudly: "My cousin must have something important to discuss with this palace. ”

Lin Xiaojue groaned and said, "Cousin, I want to discuss civilization and barbarism with you. ”

Discuss civilization and barbarism?

She pretended to be someone else and sneaked to the Prince's Mansion just to discuss civilization and barbarism with him?

The prince said, "What does my cousin know?"

Lin Xiaojue said: "Civilization and barbarism are two relative words, we don't say who is good and who is bad, but we must admit that civilization is progress, barbarism, and backwardness." ”

Seeing that she was really discussing civilization and barbarism, the prince couldn't help but straighten up and nodded: "Exactly." ”

Lin Xiaojue said: "I, the Chinese nation, have always regarded ourselves as a country of etiquette, and I think it is civilized. ”

Nature.

The prince said: "We have Confucianism, benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith, and there is no more civilized than this." ”

Lin Xiaojue said: "On the other hand, the Tatars, who live by herding, advocate force, have a rude personality, and drink blood, which is obviously barbaric. ”

The crown prince raised his head and looked at Lin Xiaojue seriously, with a questioning look in his eyes: "My cousin seems to have come not only to discuss civilization and barbarism with the palace, right?"

Lin Xiaojue said solemnly: "Tatar wrote a letter of peace, does His Highness know?"

The emperor only got the news about this matter.

The prince was slightly stunned: "Where did you get this news? Then he turned pale and his expression was not very good-looking.

Lin Xiaojue knew that he had misunderstood.

Said: "It was only eight hundred miles to be sent to the imperial study urgently, and it just so happened that I was here, and the Holy Lord should be convening the cabinet ministers to discuss this matter at this time." ”

In other words, the emperor did not hide the news and deliberately did not let the prince know.

Lin Xiaojue saw that the prince's eyebrows gradually relaxed, although it was a very subtle movement, she still caught it.

I thought to myself, it turned out that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also cared about the throne.

In the past, the crown prince did not quarrel or quarrel, and she thought that he did not want to be the emperor at all.

At this time, the crown prince said: "What does my cousin mean? My father first convened the cabinet ministers, and soon this matter will be discussed in the court, and my cousin means that peace should be made or fight." ”

Lin Xiaojue said: "I want to hear what my cousin means first." ”

The prince said: "It is the people who suffer from the reckless use of force, since the Tatars have the intention to seek peace and avoid a stop, which is beneficial to the people on both sides." ”

Lin Xiaojue said: "You mean to support peace." ”

The prince said: "As long as the Tatars do not think of anything wrong, but only ask for the opening of the horse market, it doesn't hurt to promise to make peace." He smiled and said, "I think my cousin has another opinion?"

Lin Xiaojue said: "This is why I told my cousin about civilization and barbarism, I said, civilization and barbarism, there is no way to distinguish between good and bad, especially on the battlefield, barbarians can conquer cities and conquer cities, and even more courageous than civilized people." If my cousin doesn't believe it, we can take history as a mirror, Qin's unification of the Six Kingdoms did not rely on the Qilu civilization, because he was a horse breeder, rude, and further on, the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons, the most frightening thing was not the land of Qilu, it was the Chu State from the land of the Southern Barbarians, Chu was a barbarian, what does this mean? During war, civilized etiquette is unreliable. Don't we have a saying that when a show meets a soldier, is it unreasonable? That's the truth. ”

The prince nodded and said, "What does the cousin mean?"

Lin Xiaojue said: "The Holy Lord asked, Your Highness, you should be the main station, because the Tatars are barbarians, even if they make peace, it is for a while, they are so poor, the Central Plains is rich, how can they honestly not rob?"

The prince frowned, after all, he had read the Confucian way of governing the country for many years, and he didn't worship force very much.

He said: "Can we use civilization to influence the Tatars? We have plenty of food and clothing, they only know how to loot, let them learn the culture of the Central Plains, and when they are rich, they will not rob, and they will naturally know the etiquette, and the saints taught us back then." ”

Lin Xiaojue said: "But the Tatars don't think that our civilization is so remarkable, their culture is to advocate force, some ethnic groups can be assimilated, some are simply impossible, when the Mongols occupied the Central Plains, their idea was to turn the Central Plains into a grassland, used to herd sheep, when the Han and Mongols mixed together, did not assimilate them, now they live in a corner, how can they learn our culture." ”

The prince said thoughtfully: "That's the reason. ”

Lin Xiaojue said: "So when we treat the Mongolian grassland, we should have only one attitude, that is, to fight, until they call grandma I am wrong, and I no longer have the strength to fight against the Central Plains, this is the solution." ”

Grandma I was wrong?!

The prince's eyes widened and he looked at his cousin, who was like a flower: "Cousin, you ...... No wonder my father likes you, you are more courageous than a man.

Lin Xiaojue said: "If you don't think about it again, Your Highness, anyway, my attitude is that the main battle is not the main peace, and I must fight, they will backtrack." ”

The prince really thought about it for a while, and he could have a quarter of an hour.

He bowed slightly: "What my cousin said is reasonable, but I don't know what my father thinks?"

Lin Xiaojue thought to himself that the Tatars said that they would come to congratulate him, and the emperor might agree to make peace as soon as he was happy, but the emperor's consent was the emperor's business, and the people in the prince's mansion were absolutely not allowed to propose peace.

Lin Xiaojue analyzed the current situation: "You are too insistent than Yong, but you must make it clear that you do not support peace, I assert that the Tatars will definitely go back on their word, and once war breaks out, those who have proposed peace will be implicated." ”

The prince heard that this cousin not only knew how to stop Qihuang, but also studied the metaphysics of the I Ching.

He asked, "Are you sure there will be a fight?"

Lin Xiaojue nodded: "Not at this time, but it's not far away." ”

Therefore it cannot be reconciled.

The prince's face suddenly sank, and he looked at Lin Xiaojue with some concern: "Since my father has summoned the cabinet ministers into the palace to discuss, he will ask Lord Han's attitude, if Lord Han expresses his peace, won't he be implicated in the future?"

The prince's ability to wait for the crown prince is not unrelated to the insistence of the Ministry of Rites, so he is very dependent on Han Gang.

Lin Xiaojue thought about it, the worry of the absolute prince is very necessary, Lord Han is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and he pays the most attention to Confucianism, Confucianism does not like war.

She also sank down and comforted the prince, as if comforting herself: "I hope Lord Han is dumb today." ”

How could Lord Han be dumb when he was so dignified?

The prince looked out the window, the northwest wind in the cold winter, and the sky was gray, could it be that Lord Han was just folded?

When the two of them were worried, the waiter knocked on the door: "Your Highness, Lord Han asks to see you." ”