Chapter Seventy-Three: Copper Peas

However, the previous words are not necessarily absolute, and some eloquent emperors may not really want to let go of those who offend.

For example, Li Shimin, more than ten years ago, when Li Zhen presented "Five Strategies for Dingbian", he had already realized that the final foreign enemy of the Tang Dynasty would be Tubo, which shows that he has already seen the threat of Tubo, which shows that deep in his heart, he wants to defeat Tubo in one fell swoop.

However, although it has been seen, he still spared Tibet in history, why?

In the end, it's for the sake of his own reputation.

He is an emperor, and he is destined to be famous in history, and since he is destined to leave a name in history, he naturally hopes to leave a good name, not infamy through the ages.

But history is in the hands of Confucianism, if you don't follow their will, they will write you as a tyrant through the ages in minutes, do you believe it?

Don't doubt that this situation is possible, such as the unlucky guy Emperor Yang of Sui......

Although he couldn't do something in some places, I have to say that he was really a wise king, but he was a little anxious, and then he offended the interests of Confucianism and the family, and then the Sui Dynasty was destroyed.

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty died, and Confucianism began to desperately smear him, just as the Tang Dynasty needed to make its seizure of power more legitimate, so it acquiesced to Confucianism's tricks. The supported Confucianism finally found that he still had such a skill, and suddenly felt that he was awesome, and after smearing Emperor Yang of Sui, he turned the gun and aimed at Li Shimin, and then Li Shimin was stunned, he didn't expect Confucianism to bite him back, but looking at Confucianism who threatened him, Li Shimin was silent......

Because he saw with his own eyes how bad the fate of the wise Emperor Yang of Sui was, for the sake of his reputation, Li Shimin had to start compromising with Confucianism and govern according to Confucianism.

Even if he knew that doing so would bring a lot of potential troubles to the Tang Dynasty, he cared more about his reputation, and he believed in his descendants more, believing that they could easily solve the small troubles left by him, but he forgot that without a thousand-year-old dynasty, who would dare to guarantee that his descendants would be as wise as himself?

The Qin Dynasty is the best proof of this......

In the final analysis, Li Shimin is more concerned about his reputation, after all, this is an emperor who can modify his living notes for the sake of fame. For the sake of the name of a heavenly khan, you can throw a lot of money and send a lot of technology, regardless of whether these countries that got technology in Datang will bite Datang in turn.

However, Li Zhen is different, he came from the later generations, in that era of rampant materialism and the supremacy of money, for some people, as long as they can get money, let alone fame, even the festival can be thrown away.

Although Li Zhen is not so ruthless, he has lived in that era for more than 20 years, and his family runs a factory, and he has long been infected by the atmosphere of later generations.

However, no matter whether it is realistic or pragmatic, one thing remains the same, that is, he often proceeds from reality and looks at problems from the perspective of interests.

Whichever option is more beneficial to you chooses, choose whichever method has an impact on your reputation......

This is nothing, it is best to have a good reputation, but if you have to leave a reputation through the ages, it doesn't matter, as long as the actual benefits are reaped - this attitude is also one of the reasons why Confucianism is unhappy with him.

Li Zhen's performance is like a copper pea, steamed, boiled, hammered, fried, frozen, flawed, flawless, and without dead ends.

Why is Confucianism so awesome? Because they have the most important thing in governing the world, and that is talent. If you don't get the support of Confucianism, even if you can sit on the throne, they can rely on the non-violent non-cooperation movement to force you off the throne, do you believe it?

But Li Zhen is different, he has Wentian Shuyuan, and all the students he has cultivated are elites, according to the unique quota of 10,000 Wentian Shuyuan students every year, he can have 50,000 talents in five years.

With so many talents, there are 360 states in the world, and on average, there will be more than 140 talents in one state, so many people, which is enough to support the operation of the entire state capital.

In other words, Li Zhen only needs to rely on Wentian Shuyuan to maintain the operation of the Tang Dynasty, for him, whether there is Confucianism or not is the same, and he doesn't need to curry favor with Confucianism.

And without the greatest talent support, what else can Confucianism threaten Li Zhen?

Money, with Li Zhen's current money, is more than all of their Confucians combined.

Power, Li Zhen is the prince of the Tang Dynasty, and he will be the crown prince in the future, the future legal heir of the Tang Dynasty, can Confucianism give Li Zhen an empire?

Prestige, behind Li Zhen stood most of the supporters of the imperial court, so many people were willing to support him, how could the prestige be small?

In the end, it's reputation, but what Li Zhen cares about the most is reputation......

All the usual methods of Confucianism have no effect on Li Zhen, and they treat Li Zhen like a dog biting a hedgehog, and they have no way to put their mouths.

In other words, Li Zhen is a person who is out of their control, but he is a strong successor to the next throne, how can they allow such a person to ascend to the throne?

But Li Zhencai doesn't care, what can Confucianism do to him? Now that the whole world has been led to Silver Island by himself, for this matter, almost all the dog's brains have been knocked out, where is the energy to deal with himself? At most, it's just to find fault with yourself in the court. But his power in the court is enough to settle this trouble for himself, and he doesn't have to worry about it at all.

These are later words, and I will talk about them later, but now let's talk about Li Shimin.

It is gratifying that under the influence of Li Zhen, Li Shimin seems to have changed his mind a little, when Songtsen Gampo invaded Songzhou, but was beaten by the Tang Dynasty, and all kinds of artillery and thunder weapons almost wiped out the Tubo army.

Songtsen Gampo was frightened, and after finally escaping his life, he immediately went to the court to ask for guilt, hoping that Datang would forgive him for his sins, and at the same time hoped to marry the princess of Datang, and from then on, he was willing to treat Datang as a son-in-law.

It is said that after getting the news, Li Zhen almost burst out laughing, you lost the war, and you even wanted to marry the princess of the Tang Dynasty, what you think is too beautiful, right?

Or do you think everyone is stupid and can't see what you're trying to do?

(End of chapter)