Early in the morning, in the restaurant of the inner palace, Zhao Junsheng's family was having breakfast.

The eunuch walked in and reported: "Your Majesty, Niangniang, His Royal Highness the King of Shu has come down!" ”

When Mulan heard this, she hurriedly said, "Let him come in!" ”

"Auntie, I'm here!" Zhao Ping walked in as he spoke.

As if she felt sorry for the meat that fell off her body, Hua Mulan got up and walked over and asked, "You haven't had breakfast yet, go and sit down, Wei Dezi, quickly serve a bowl of millet porridge to the third child!" ”

"Thank you, Auntie, I'm here to have breakfast!" Zhao Ping said and walked next to Zhao Junsheng and saluted, "Grandpa, I've seen Grandpa!" ”

Zhao Junsheng pulled the millet porridge and pointed to the position next to him.

"Grandpa Xie!"

Several younger brothers and sisters also stood up together and said, "Third brother is early! ”

Zhao Ping smiled and nodded, "Sit down!" ”

The eunuch brought a bowl of millet porridge, Zhao Ping took it and picked up the chopsticks and drank a few sips, picked up a big meat bun on the plate and gnawed it, "Well, the buns in the palace are delicious!" Grandpa, give me one of the cooks in the imperial dining room, the food cooked by the chefs in my house is unpalatable! ”

Zhao Junsheng turned his head and asked, "Did I let you move out to enjoy it?" Compared to others, the chef in your house is good enough! I asked you to move out because I want you to learn more skills, accumulate more life experience, do more things, and be a useful talent to the world, so as not to let the people of the world think that you, the prince, are a moth attached to the country! ”

"What are you lacking now? Food, clothing, food, shelter and transportation, everything, gold, silver, jewelry, money, you enjoy inexhaustible, according to your conditions, you want a woman, what kind of woman does not have? Now that you are in power, what do you say you lack? What others can't earn in a lifetime, you have it all now, and others haven't started yet, you've reached the end, think about what you're missing? ”

Hua Mulan couldn't see it, "I said what's the matter with you, early in the morning, the third child finally came back for a trip, and you preached again!" ”

Zhao Junsheng put down his chopsticks: "I still want to ask you what's going on, I taught my son to help him talk next to you, how can this son teach?" I have done so much and said so much, haven't I done it all in vain? If there is no one in the world who can listen to what he says, what do you think he will become in the future? ”

Hua Mulan was a little unreasonable by Zhao Junsheng, and said to Zhao Ping: "Third child, although A-Niang is dissatisfied with your grandpa teaching people early in the morning, what he said is reasonable. You don't lack anything now, you should think about what you really want, so that you can have a goal! Otherwise, your life is at a loss, and people can't be at a loss, otherwise it's easy to lose yourself! ”

Zhao Ping fell into deep thought, and didn't speak for a long time, until everyone else's breakfast was finished, and he was still wondering what he wanted? Want the throne? He doubted whether he was capable of being a good emperor and thinking about anything else. What else did he not have?

The family sat at the table and watched Zhao Ping, and the dishes and chopsticks on the table were all taken away by the eunuchs and palace maids.

Zhao Junsheng stretched out his hand and patted Zhao Ping's shoulder, Zhao Ping came back to his senses, "Grandpa!" ”

"Son, the reason why you can have everything now is only because you were born in the royal family, if you were born in a commoner's family, you would be like all the ordinary people in the world who run around every day for a living, exposed to the sun and rain, wind and rain! There is never a pie in this world, and the pie you get is not from the sky, where do you think it came from? ”

Zhao Ping thought for a while, "It was given by Grandpa and Auntie!" ”

"That's right, if you can answer this question, it means that your mind is quite normal! So where did my pie with your aunt come from? ”

"You earned it!"

Zhao Junsheng nodded: "That's right, but in the final analysis, Grandpa's pie still comes from the subjects of the world!" Do you think it's the right thing to do, but you get a big pie without a big pie, and you can only ask for it, but you don't get anything in return? Is it supposed to be? ”

Zhao Ping's mind was a little confused: "What Grandpa gave me is mine, isn't it right for me to enjoy my own?" ”

Zhao Junsheng said patiently: "Yes, what Grandpa gave you is yours, but that's because you were underage before!" Grandpa and A-Niang can't keep you all the time, you grow up, the eagle needs to spread its wings and fly high, you need to find food by yourself, and you can't live under the wings of your parents all the time! Your current right is given to you by Grandpa, but do you think you have this talent to be competent? ”

"Son, it looks like you don't lack anything, but in fact you still lack two things, a sense of self-worth and a sense of accomplishment! You need to accumulate life experience, knowledge and talents by learning to be a person, do things, and be an official, and realize a sense of self-worth and a sense of accomplishment in the process! At the same time, you are also giving back to the world, being a useful person to the world, otherwise you are a person who only asks and does not pay, such a person will not be recognized by the subjects of the world! ”

"Now that you're grown up and a man, be responsible! Grandpa is the emperor, and all the subjects of the world must be loyal to me, but I am just a slave of all the people in the world, I have to work for the livelihood, personal safety, and rights and interests of the people in the world, I have to let them live a good life, and you are my son, and you are also burdened with such a responsibility, this is what makes you different from others, you don't have to worry about your own survival, you have to worry about other people's survival like Grandpa! ”

"Do you know what a sense of self-worth and fulfillment is?"

Zhao Ping shook his head.

"Okay, for example, you are now the supervisor of the Imperial City Division, responsible for investigating and handling the detailed work, the enemy's espionage and sabotage activities in my big Qian, you led the officials and soldiers under the Imperial City Department to go through a lot of hardships to find a big fine work hidden in the territory of our Qianguo, and prevented him from a major sabotage activity, thus avoiding thousands of people from being hurt and lost, and you played a leading and commanding role in this operation, this is the value of your position in this position! After completing this case, will you feel very happy and accomplished? Do you think that I, Zhao Ping, have finally done something? That's a sense of self-worth and fulfillment! ”

Zhao Ping remembered that after investigating the case of A Luogan, he avoided the panic caused by this guy's continued killing, and he was very happy in his heart, and now that he thinks about it, he does look very satisfied.

"Is that a sense of self-worth and fulfillment?"

"Son, you have to understand that your sense of self-worth matches your life experience, knowledge and talents, the richer your life experience, the deeper your knowledge, and the stronger your talent, the stronger your sense of self-worth, the more valuable what you do, and the greater your sense of achievement!"

Zhao Ping is a very smart person, through Zhao Junsheng's little dial, he suddenly became enlightened, and said to Zhao Junsheng: "Grandpa, I think I understand!" ”

Zhao Junsheng nodded and said, "Okay, I'm very happy that you can figure out Grandpa!" Say, you didn't come here today to have breakfast, did you? ”

Zhao Ping smiled: "Grandpa can see it? Last night, the Persian prince Belus and the prince of Hinda, Wenhe, visited me one after another, Belus gave me a peerless horse, and Wenhe gave me a precious gem! They all asked me to inquire about the purpose of each other's coming to Chang'an, so that they could respond in advance! ”

Zhao Junsheng said to the other children, "Let's go, it's time to go to school!" ”

"Retire the child! Third brother, goodbye! Several other children said goodbye to Zhao Junsheng and Zhao Parallel, and Mulan took them away.

Zhao Junsheng got up and walked outside, and Zhao Ping followed behind.

"Just to inquire about a piece of news, these two princes are really generous!"

Zhao Ping said: "I heard that Tocharistan and Persia are very rich, and I don't know how they can be so rich!" ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "In fact, most of the land in Tocharustan and Persia is desert and desert and barren mountainous land, there is very little land suitable for farming, there are few forests and lakes, and the natural resources are far less than those in other regions, and they are rich because of the prosperity of commerce and trade there!" They are at the halfway point between East and West, and caravans going between East and West must pass through them for supplies! There is little land and many people, so the surplus people can only do business to support themselves, you go to Chang'an City to see, most of the merchants from the West are Sogdians and Persians! ”

"I see, the child is still a little shallow!"

Zhao Junsheng thought for a while and said to Zhao Ping: "The purpose of the people has been clarified, that is, they want to take back the jurisdiction over the Green Ridge States from us!" At that time, we didn't know that the Bada people were the suzerainty of the Green Ridge Kingdoms, so we accepted their tribute, and now it is natural for the Bada people to want to return to jurisdiction, if it is for a few small village-like countries to start a war with the Bada people, it will be a bit more than worth the loss, but you can't reveal our attitude in this matter! ”

"As for the purpose of the Persians, the Persian prince has not mentioned it to me, but I guess that the main purpose of his visit to Chang'an this time should not be to strengthen political and commercial exchanges, but to unite us to deal with the Bada people, this is just speculation, everything will not be known until I talk to Belus!"

Zhao Ping asked, "Grandpa, should I reveal their purpose to each of them?" ”

"What do you think of it yourself?"

Zhao Ping thought for a moment and said, "The child thinks that it is beneficial for me to disclose the news to both of them!" ”

Zhao Junsheng stopped and looked at Zhao Ping: "Oh, tell me your reason!" ”

"Grandpa, you think, if the Persians knew that the purpose of the Bada people coming to Chang'an was to return to the jurisdiction of the Lingling States, they must have thought that this was an opportunity to strengthen ties with us, as the so-called enemy of the enemy is a friend, they tried their best to persuade us to join forces with them to deal with the Bada people, maybe they would pay some price for it!"

"If the Persians knew that the Persians had come to contact us to deal with them together, they would definitely panic, because once we unite with the Persians, it will be tantamount to sandwiching the Persians in the middle! Is the problem of the Green Mountains still a problem? Maybe not only will they not want the Green Ridge Kingdoms, but they will give us some other benefits! ”

Zhao Junsheng laughed: "Hahaha······ Well, well said! ”