Li Ru narrowed his eyes and pondered, if the young generation in the court is really as Li Qianmin said, only with a sense of crisis can they have motivation and study academics well, then this court has really begun to decay the second generation.

Li Qianmin let out a sigh of relief, "The scholar clan must be eliminated, if it is allowed to develop, those poor scholars who are rich and talented will be suppressed by high-ranking officials all day long, and they will never come out, then they will not only be from a poor family, but also cold-hearted." When the time comes, it is a small matter to join the corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and if you take refuge in the rebels of the enemy country, you will really lift a stone to shoot yourself in the foot, and you will raise a big trouble for yourself. ”

After listening to this, the Son of Heaven nodded, he had a deep feeling for what the prince said, the Shi clan had become the biggest tiger in the dynasty, and he couldn't get rid of it.

Li Rushi asked again: "Then when you ascend the throne in the future, is there a solution to the Shi clan?" ”

As soon as these words came out, Lu Dongshan knelt down directly, his body trembled like chaff, and Li Qianmin also got up quickly and ran to kneel opposite Li Ruyi.

The words of the Son of Heaven made the two of them tremble. It seems to be an understatement to ask questions, but in fact, there are words in the first half of the sentence.

Li Ru is only a few years old, but he is only in his early thirties and forty, and Li Qianmin is only fifteen years old, if Li Qianmin wants to ascend the throne, he will have to wait at least ten or twenty years to take the normal route, unless he ...... Unless the emperor dies halfway!

Li Qianmin knelt down and kowtowed and shouted: "Father's life and Tianqi, if the sons want to ascend the throne, I am afraid that they will not be able to wait for thirty or forty years, the scholars have been doing evil for a long time, and these problems still need to be solved by the father, and they cannot wait for decades, so that the scholars will develop more unscrupulously." ”

Lu Dongshan's lowered head breathed a sigh of relief, he was really afraid that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would say that the Shi clan was vulnerable, so he would wait for him to take it after he ascended the throne.

In fact, there are three strategies to answer this question: the lower policy is rude, outspoken, the middle policy is silent, kowtow to apologize, the upper policy is to excuse the crime, and the right is to retreat.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince actually has a superior strategy, kowtow bluntly, and advance by retreating! On the one hand, he apologized for his outspokenness, and on the other hand, he was frank and honest with His Majesty, telling His Majesty that he wanted to be the emperor, but by no means now.

Lu Dongshan raised his eyelids slightly, Li Qianmin knelt on the ground and did not dare to make one, but His Majesty the Emperor had a subtle smile on his face.

Li Ru laughed loudly, "What are you doing here, I just asked the people how to solve the Shi clan, Gonggong Lu, what are you doing kneeling?" I'm not a man-eating tiger, so get up. ”

Lu Dongshan got up, quietly wiped the beads of sweat from his cheeks, and slandered in his heart, accompanying the king like a tiger, this is not for fun.

Li Qianmin still didn't get up, he raised his head, "Father, the sons think that the scholars still need to be personally suppressed by the emperor, and with the hands of the sons, they can't control those old foxes who have been infecting the officialdom for decades." ”

"So you have to be more diligent."

Li Ru walked up to Li Qianmin and patted the latter's shoulder, "Get up, when you go to court in the future, you can sit beside me and listen." ”

Li Qianmin was ecstatic in his heart, the muscles on his face were struggling to suppress the corners of his mouth that wanted to grin, and he kept twitching, he gently rubbed his cheeks to relieve the soreness on his face.

Listen to the government!

This is something that only a real prince can do, although Li Qianmin has become the crown prince, but the prince is not a canonized will definitely be able to ascend the throne, the prince is the same as the queen, the emperor can appoint you, or he can abolish you, is there still less prince who has been deposed throughout the ages?

But this prince is different, almost announcing to the ministers that this young man is the future co-lord of the world, the son of the true dragon.

Auditing the government, there are only two kinds of people who can do it, one is the queen mother, if the emperor is still young, the queen mother can listen to the government and make decisions for the emperor, and the think tank behind the queen mother who listens to the government is no worse than the civil and military officials of the previous dynasty.

The other is the crown prince who is about to ascend the throne, when the emperor is getting old, he will begin to guide the prince to transition to the son of heaven, and the only way to make the transition is to listen to the government to familiarize himself with how to manage the court in the future.

Li Rushi, who is less than 40 years old, gave 15-year-old Li Qianmin a huge right to observe the government affairs, which also symbolizes that as long as Li Qianmin himself does not do evil during the time when Li Ru is is in power, does not have a clear head, studies the affairs of the court well, and does not form a gang to contaminate the cause and effect in the palace, then he must be the next emperor of the Great Zhou.

Li Ru smiled and touched his son's head, and his heart was also amused, a child is a child, no matter how mature and knowledgeable he is, he is a child after all, although he endures ecstasy, but after all, he can't be happy and angry.

"How is the task I gave you a few days ago? Where are we? ”

Li Qianmin smiled confidently, he clapped his hands, and a person wearing a black python robe came from outside the door, this person was expressionless, and he didn't kneel when he saw the emperor and the crown prince, but just bowed his head slightly, and handed a palm-thick book to Li Qianmin.

Li Ru was not angry when he saw this, but was very pleased that the group of people in the Zhenfu Division could be so respectful to Li Qianmin in such a short period of time, and even didn't even pay attention to himself, he laughed, "Min'er, Min'er, it's terrible now, to be able to subdue the Zhenfu Division in such a short time, how is the Imperial City Division now?" ”

Li Qianmin saw that his father was just joking, and he also smiled: "The Imperial City Division and the Zhenfu Division are now in my hands." ”

"Not bad."

Li Qianmin presented the book in his hand to Li Rushi and said: "Father, this is an account book of collusion, corruption, and buying and selling of official positions between the fourteen families of all sizes, which records the evidence of transactions as small as hundreds of thousands of taels and up to hundreds of thousands of taels. ”

Li Ru squinted his eyes, opened the account book in his hand, and flipped through it quickly, a book of "incriminating evidence" that said more and less, and said less and not a lot, Li Ru flipped through it for half an hour, and the expression on his face was even more cloudy, and the kind of iron blue face that was holding back his anger was very familiar to Lu Dongshan.

Lu Dongshan secretly gave the prince a look, and the prince shook his head slightly.

"Smack!"

The ledger fell on the table, Li Ru's eyelids were beating hard, his fists were white in the dragon robe, his eyes looked at the ray of daylight hanging high outside the window, and after a long sigh of relief, he released his fist, and a smile appeared on his face.

Li Ru glanced at Li Qianmin on the opposite side, and said softly: "Min'er, these mountains and rivers that stand in front of the world's scholars will be left to you to solve, and you must beat all these big tigers before the autumn examination!" Let the world's poor scholars enter the office smoothly, you understand! ”

The corners of Li Qianmin's mouth were hooked, and he bowed his head and half-knelt down and said, "The son obeys the order!" ”

Just inside the Imperial Palace, when the dark tide was surging in the Gyeonggi Strongland, a horse-drawn carriage swayed from a small path straight into the capital.

Driving the carriage was a middle-aged man who looked a little vicissitudes, with thick eyebrows, big eyes, hair scattered randomly, and stubble above his lips, which was not as sloppy as it looked, but made the middle-aged man even more mature and charming.

The middle-aged man waved the whip in his hand, but it did not hit the horse's buttocks, but only made a hunting sound, which stimulated the horse to move forward.

He looked back at the carriage, knocked on the door with the whip in his hand and shouted, "Gongsun, are you awake, we are about to arrive in the capital." ”

A lazy voice came from inside the carriage, "General Yu, are you in the capital so soon?" ”

"Dongzhou is already below Pingjiang City, very close, but then again, didn't you kid say anything about waiting until the Holy Lord called you to enter the capital before entering the capital, why did you think about it this time? Want to come to the capital to have fun? ”

Gongsun Jian poked his head out of the carriage, bared two rows of big white teeth and said: "I want to open it, I want to open it, I have passed through the capital twice without entering, it is too bad to give the emperor Lao'er face, and I also want to see if this largest city in the world is as prosperous as rumored." ”

Yu Youjun didn't care about Gongsun Jian's disrespectful words, he sneered, "I think you are just because you were injured in Ji Xuefu, and you feel disheartened, and you are afraid that you will really die on the battlefield in the future, and you will not have a chance to come to the capital." ”

"What kind of injury, General Yu, don't talk so numbly, how can two big men have so many things, and besides, I'm not as fragile as you think, after this time, I must rely on military merits to make a name for myself, punch Li Zizhen, kick the Southern Dynasty Army, and then turn around and press Lu Ziyu to death, and finally let the emperor Lao'er personally summon me into Beijing and treat me as a guest!"

Yu Youjun laughed loudly and slapped the young man's head, "You kid brags about kung fu, if your martial arts also grow so powerful, you can't die if you want to die in the scene, even if you are defeated by thousands of troops, you can retreat." ”

Gongsun Jian sneered and said, "It's all good friends with General Yu." ”

"Stinky boy!"

Gongsun Jian had long expected that Yu Youjun would beat him again, so he hurriedly retracted his head again.

Yu Youjun didn't succeed and was not annoyed, he asked softly, "I really don't feel anything?" ”

When he and Gongsun Jian left Ji Xuefu early in the morning, this kid didn't inform his "strategist" Zhao Goutong, and only said goodbye to Sun Siyu.

Gongsun Jian leaned on the carriage and smiled helplessly, "What else do you feel, everyone has their own ambitions, I'm not such a stingy person, as soon as I hear that people have other ambitions, I curse him for not being able to get out in the future, that's impossible, see you in the future." ”

Yu Youjun smiled, "If you think so, I'll rest assured, you kid can also rest assured, wait until we go back, and then cultivate and practice for some time, after the beginning of spring, the army will go south or west, and there are still a lot of military merits waiting for you to fish, as long as your Gongsun Sword can destroy one of the three forces, there is no problem in sealing the general of the four towns and four flats." ”

Gongsun Jian crossed Erlang's legs, "The military generals are good, but I want to have a civil and military dual career, so that it is called majestic, hey his grandma, the military generals are civil officials, I can imagine how dark the faces of the civil officials are." ”

Yu Youjun laughed, "I'll just say that you kid must have feelings, the military general is a civil official, and you can't think of it." ”

After speaking, he shouted "drive" softly, and the horse instantly accelerated and ran, and he had faintly seen the largest city in the world in front of him.

The two left the carriage at the post station outside the city and walked into the world-famous Gyeonggi capital Pyonggang Fortress.

You can't see anything at the small side gate of Pingjiang City, and the appearance is similar to that of an ordinary state city, which is a small tea shop at the Locust Tree Post Station on the dirt road, for the people who have just entered the city to rest.

Yu Youjun and Gongsun Jian asked for a pot of cheap tea, the shopkeeper pursed his lips, collected the two copper plates, put a pot of steaming tea on the table, and muttered, "The person who wears it looks like a dog, but he is reluctant to spend money." ”

Gongsun Jian frowned, he slapped the table and just wanted to make a sound, but was stopped by Yu Youjun, "Gongsun, it's better to go out more than less, drink a few sips of tea to moisten your throat, and I'll take you to eat delicious food after entering the city." ”

The shopkeeper was frightened by Gongsun Jian's palm, and saw that the young strong man thundered loudly and the rain was small, and a disdainful smile appeared on his mouth, "Tsk, this foreigner is really delicate when he comes to the capital, and he can't stand it." ”

The owner of the tea shop is a little old man, boiling water next to the tea shop, hearing the words of the shopkeeper, he just smiled and did not stop.

"Yes, outsiders come to the capital, you have to shrink your head if you are a dragon or a worm, if you really want to be strong, don't lose your life."

"Brother Tai is right, the current outsiders don't give him a few colors, I really don't know why the flowers are so red, there was also an imposing outsider a few days ago, guess what? was directly crippled by the young man Liu who patrolled the street. ”