Li Er didn't know what Li Chengqian was thinking, but he could feel the warmth of the atmosphere, stretched out his finger and pointed to the position next to him and said, "Sit down, I have something to say to you." ”

"Yes!" Li Chengqian agreed, and sat down beside the old man honestly.

"Do you know what you're lacking compared to me?" After Li Shimin waited for his son to lie down beside him, he opened his eyes and looked at the ceiling above his head, and asked in a casual voice.

"The sons are not as much as their fathers, and they have too many minds and visions." Li Chengqian replied with a wry smile.

"Emperor Mind, I haven't said it all these years, I thought you could see something, but now...... Alas. The old man seemed a little disappointed, and there was some hatred in his tone.

"Please teach my father." Li Chengqian also did not argue with the old man this time, but just sat up straight from the water, looking like he was listening to the teachings.

"The most basic point of the emperor's mind is actually to borrow strength, borrow strength, the power in the court is actually a little bit in total, you have more right to speak, and the courtiers have less right to speak; And the more the courtiers have the right to speak, the less power you have to speak. Therefore, those courtiers in the court are almost all your invisible 'enemies', you need to constantly compete with them for the right to speak, don't let the power fall, otherwise if their power is greater than yours, you, the emperor, will be hollowed out by them. ”

It was rare for Li Shimin to say so many words at one time, Li Chengqian listened very seriously, and when the old man finished speaking, he asked, "How exactly is the minister going to do it?" ”

Li Chengqian's question is absolutely sincere, he has only inherited the throne for a long time now, and the old man's mapping power is still there, if it is a few years later, the old man's influence will not be there, and when he faces those courtiers alone, he is afraid that if one is not good, there will be the kind of situation that the old man said.

I don't want the old man to answer his question, but instead asks him, "Do you want to know your biggest weakness?" ”

Although Li Chengqian didn't know what the old man meant, he still nodded, wanting to hear what the old man said about himself.

Lao Li did not disappoint him this time, and said directly: "Your weakness is that you are too confident, always thinking that you can handle everything, and you are not ruthless enough." Speaking of this, Li Er paused, stretched out a finger and shook it: "Don't tell me anything about how many people you ordered to kill back then, that's treating foreign races, and everyone in my Datang is actually the same." ”

"And what I said about your heart is not ruthless enough is because of your indecision, Li Jingxian's matter, I didn't expect you to deal with him alone, if it was me, I would kill all the people who have a relationship with him."

"I know that you don't agree with my point of view, and I don't want to influence your will, but I hope you can think about it, whether your feelings are important, or the Tang Dynasty's country is important."

"I can tell you clearly, in fact, for the Tang Dynasty, it doesn't matter who is the emperor, and the people don't care who the emperor is, nor do they care about the emperor's morality, what the people really care about is how their lives are, whether they can live a better life, as long as they meet this, they won't rebel, and as long as the people don't rebel, it doesn't matter what other people's attitudes are, you, understand?"

It's another longer teaching, if you ask Li Chengqianming if he doesn't understand, to be honest, even if the old man doesn't say it, he understands the truth, but it's one thing to understand, and it's another thing to be able to do it.

So after hesitating for a long time, Li Chengqian smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Father, the sons and daughters have actually understood for a long time, but the sons and daughters ......." ”

"Can't do it, can it?" Li Er glanced at him with a smile: "That's why I said you were indecisive." ”

"Father, I ......" Li Chengqian wanted to explain something more, but when the words came to his lips, he found that all explanations were in vain.

"Why didn't you say it?" Li Er took a deep look at his son, stretched out his hand and nodded at him: "It seems that your kid has only changed his previous problems on the surface, but in fact, he is still the same as before." ”

Speaking of this, the old man paused, sighed deeply and said: "Speaking of which, you may think that my heart is too spicy, and when I was in Xuanwumen, I ...... all your uncle and fourth uncle, but you don't know, I didn't want to do this at that time, I have been brothers with them for many years, how can I do it?" ”

"But I have to kill them, because if I don't kill them, after that time, the Tang Dynasty will be completely plunged into a turmoil, and the entire Tang Dynasty will be torn apart.

"So they all say that my heart is ruthless, but I have a clear conscience, because I am for the world, for the people, and for the great rivers and mountains of the Central Plains."

Hearing the old man mention the Xuanwu Gate back then, Li Chengqian closed his mouth tightly, the old man could say it, but he didn't have any right to comment, Xuanwu Gate was a taboo for anyone, don't look at him Li Chengqian is now the emperor, but once it comes to that place, he also doesn't dare to make any comments.

But fortunately, the old man didn't mean to let him comment, and after saying this, he got up and stood up from the pool, pressed him on the shoulder and said: "You should think about what I said, whether it is important to govern the country with benevolence or means, everything is up to you." ”

"Also, you have to remember that you must not let your courtiers twist into a rope, as soon as they are 'all together', your trouble is coming, and in the future, you will know for yourself!"

After the old man finished speaking, he smiled and got up and walked out of the room, as if he was about to go out to find those old guys.

Li Chengqian looked at the old man's back and smiled bitterly, as the so-called listening to the gentleman's words is better than reading for ten years, the old man said for a long time, in fact, it is the last two sentences that are the key.

One is about the heart, and the other is about the means.

Heart, a few simple strokes, but in fact it is a very complicated matter, whether to govern the country by a benevolent heart, or by very hot means, this is a difficult thing to choose.

Li Chengqian must be just an otaku in the next generation, so he will make a big fight because of a little thing, and it is really not easy to kill the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood.

Thinking that those courtiers who often sat together would never come back and appear in front of him overnight, even if they were at fault, Li Chengqian still couldn't kill them with that ruthless heart.

But the old man is right, if you don't kill them, what if one day they come and kill themselves? Now Li Chengqian has a wife and a baby, if someone kills him, what will his family do? What about Datang?