In the face of this old man's questioning, all the officials in the city tower did not dare to stand up and say that they should not be involved in state affairs.

But Li Shimin's words had already been said just now, and all the ministers remained silent, waiting for Li Shimin to admit his mistake.

Li Shimin also knew that he should admit his mistakes, but he had not admitted his mistakes in public for many years, and Li Shimin still thinks that the following soldiers were just instigated by villains, and there is no big reason.

In recent years, it has been the ministers who have mentioned to him what the imperial court has misgoverned or that he himself has made mistakes.

Li Shimin had to repeatedly interrogate the other party in public, so that in recent years, there have been fewer and fewer ministers who dare to tell the truth in front of him, and now a group of big-headed soldiers have suddenly appeared not only to admonish him, but also to force him to admit his mistakes in public.

How is this possible?

Li Chengqian saw that Li Shimin couldn't let go of his son for a while, so he stepped forward and solemnly saluted Li Shimin and said, "Father, tens of thousands of soldiers must not listen to your advice!"

Hearing this, Li Shimin turned his head to look at Li Chengqian and asked angrily: "They are just provoked by villains, what clever insights can they have." ”

Li Chengqian was stunned when he heard this, and it seemed that he still overestimated Li Shimin's mind, so he could only explain patiently with a wry smile: "The Book of Rites. The Mean said that "Shun is also knowledgeable, Shun is good to ask and good to observe, conceal evil and promote good, adhere to its two ends, and use it in the people, and think Shun"

The father thought that with the sage of Emperor Shun, he had to listen to the words of the common people more, hide the bad content, and leave the good ones for the common people, so he could achieve the cause of the holy king.

When summoning the public to admonish the slander, he also said, 'Offering songs, offering books, teaching proverbs, dedicating books, reciting misty, admonishing a hundred workers, and passing on the words of the people......

What blind and deaf witch doctors can admonish, not to mention that the father is admonished by tens of thousands of soldiers of the Tang Dynasty in front of him, can the father not listen to it?

The Son of Heaven can't just listen to the words of the scholar's family, some scholars are not diligent and do not distinguish between grains and grains, and after reading two sentences of books in their stomachs, they think that no one in the world is as good as him, and they play nonsense all day long, so they should listen to the words of such people.

These tens of thousands of soldiers don't look like ignorant people who have been blinded, and they take 10,000 steps back and say that if someone can deceive them to this point, the father should listen to what they have to say, so that he can know the purpose of the other party. ”

In ancient China, tribal leaders were pragmatists, and they had to listen to the lessons of many people before making decisions, so the rules they made were proven correct by practice at the time.

In the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was a Zhou Gong, and with his super ability, he made a summary of the experience of the previous sages and his own experience, so he formulated the "Zhou Li".

One of the most important points in "Zhou Li" is to listen to the voice of the people, and the setting of the Zhou Dynasty poet collector is so that the ruler can listen to the voice of the people.

Later, when the Western Zhou Dynasty collapsed, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty weakened and was unable to maintain this set of mechanisms, so dogmatists like Confucius appeared, who took it as their mission to study and maintain the "Zhou Rites" that had been finalized.

And to give up continuing to absorb wisdom from the people to form a new etiquette, so he is a dogmatist. Later, Mencius was not even as good as Confucius, Mencius only knew how to practice benevolent government, but he didn't know how to do benevolent government at all. Therefore, after reading "Mencius", you will know that every time he goes to a country, he whispers a lot of his own words, but he can't say any specific methods of governance, mainly because he has not seriously examined the local situation.

After listening to this, the king could only tell him that what you said was very good, but I had no way to put it into practice.

Mencius was a troll, but there was no Internet to spray people all over the country at that time.

But trolls were not respected in ancient times, and they were called "Suo", and later they were shameless to explain that "Suo" was an honorific title.

Later generations all said that Confucius and Mencius were different, but in fact, Confucius and Mencius had differences, and I think Confucius would really see Mencius's words, and he would definitely turn his back and not say a word to him.

Later Legalists did detailed investigation and research, but they did research and analysis from the standpoint of the ruler, so it was easy for Legalist things to be issued in the form of government decrees.

Before the pre-Qin period, when those Legalists went to lobby for a country, as soon as he opened his mouth, he could cut to the heart of the country and come up with feasible terms.

This is also the reason why the Qin Dynasty was founded by the Legalists.

However, the Legalists will inevitably have harsh governance just by looking at the problem from above, and at this time, people like Mencius are needed to correct the deviation.

Since the late Western Zhou Dynasty, China's political elite no longer learned good experience from the people, although occasionally there are some people from the bottom, but they also read the Confucian classics.

Moreover, these people only have their own experience, and cannot absorb more underlying experience to form new ideas and theories.

This situation continued until the Republic of China, although the political elite of the Republic of China no longer regarded Confucius and Mencius as a dogma, but they took foreigners' things as a dogma.

It was not until he personally went to the grassroots level to do research (wrote the "Hunan Peasant Survey Report") and formed the theory of 'coming from the masses and going to the masses', which changed the atmosphere of more than 2,000 years and re-inherited the method of obtaining basic reference information for political theory and policy formulation by saints such as Shun and Zhou Gong.

Li Chengqian casually wants to change Li Shimin's way of obtaining information, which is simply like a mantis arm as a car.

Li Shimin's admonition was selective, because he was afraid that the ministers above would deceive him, so he wanted to listen to what the low-level officials had to say.

Therefore, although Li Chengqian changed his normal way to persuade Li Shimin, Li Shimin still disliked him, and only when he looked at the soldiers under the city wall did he reluctantly show a gentle smile and said: "It is rare that you are loyal to the country, and I should really listen to your words."

Since you said that you shouldn't let the soldiers of the Mobei tribes back to Mobei, then what do you want to keep them for, do you want me to kill them all?"

"Your Majesty, the ministers thought that they were also raised by their fathers and mothers to be able to fight and work in their teens and twenties, so it was a pity to kill the monster like this. I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince intends to send them to dig gold mountains for our Datang, so let them dig gold mountains. ”

As soon as these words came out, Fang Xuanling couldn't hold back any longer, and immediately stood on the edge of the battlements and shouted loudly below: "When the Turks were strong, every time they went south to plunder, they had to coerce my Tang people to go back to the grassland to be slaves and maids. His Majesty has always been very disgusted by this, and has repeatedly asked the Turks to return our Tang people, and later the army captured Jieli Khan to rescue all my Tang people.

As the saying goes, don't do to others if you don't want to do to yourself, how can I, Datang, be a state of etiquette, and do such a barbaric thing?"

Originally, Fang Xuanling didn't want to jump out, but he had already seen that this matter was coming at him, and if he didn't fight back, the things that would definitely be more difficult to do.

"Liang Guogong, don't talk nonsense anymore and mislead the country and the people." Li Chengqian unceremoniously reprimanded Fang Xuanling.

Since Li Chengqian no longer pinned his hopes on Li Shimin, he could only stand up on his own.

Li Shimin and the ministers on the city tower all looked at Li Chengqian in shock.

Isn't this something that has nothing to do with you?