"What do you think about the Turks?" Chatting and chatting, it is inevitable to talk about the pattern of the world, although he has retired, it does not necessarily mean that Li Yuan does not care about current affairs, just because when he was in power, the Turks gave him too much humiliation, so he will never forget the Turks. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Datang is a stepping stone to deter the world."

Li Yuan said: "This is true, but in a war with the Turks, the Tang Dynasty can only win but not lose, and it is still a big victory, and if the country is not destroyed, it is a failure." Only in this way can we deter Xiaoxiao and keep the Silk Road open. At the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, we were not qualified to compete with the Turks, so I could only endure it. Now, we have the strength to fight, but the situation is still grim, because we can't fail, once we fail, we will never recover, to blame only Yang Guang for defeating the great country too thoroughly, population is the fatal shortcoming of the Tang Dynasty, without population, there will be no economic benefits, and a strong army will not be formed. At the beginning, our Tang army was a good hand in the civil war, and it killed all the princes of all walks of life, but why did it collapse when it encountered the Turks? Very simply, our army is a group of ordinary people who have put down their hoes, and with the help of the power of the fierce generals, it is naturally smooth sailing to fight with the same army, but in the face of such a strong army as the Turks, there is no way at all. So, you can only endure. Can only be a grandchild. How did the strong man come about? It was obtained after three or four generations of being grandchildren. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is powerful, but if there is no accumulation of Han Gaozu, Emperor Wen of Han, and Emperor Jing of Han, can he beat the powerful Xiongnu? ”

"Father's ......"

Li Yuan's words moved Li Shimin's expression, and he bowed his head and said, "Erchen......." ”

"Father knows!" Li Yuan's expression was complicated, and he sighed lightly: "Knowing the son is Mo Ruo's father...... Ha, I'm a bit ashamed to say that...... I always called myself a loving father, but in the end I realized that I was just a confused father. Over the years, I have lived in the Taiji Palace, and I finally realized that I was the culprit in the situation that caused the situation that day. I raised troops in Taiyuan, and within a few years, I unified the rivers and mountains and the Tang Dynasty. Ordinary people think that I was born in the boiling to save the world, and I was born out of public heart, so the destiny is in my body, and I have to be blessed by heaven and get the world. But who knows what I have lost for the sake of this world? Taiyuan caused the hometown of Hedong to be implicated, except for Jiancheng and Yuanji, all the children and grandchildren's servants and concubines were killed. I lost my father and brother when I was a child, and I succeeded him at the age of nine. This midnight dream is full of sadness. I have been running around all the year round, so that my children and grandchildren have fathers as if they don't have fathers, and even they are so tired that they die tragically, and my heart is uneasy, but I also cherish you very much. So much so that he made a terrible mistake...... When I was the emperor, I owed you too much, so I really indulged you. If what Yuan Ji did is dealt with according to law, it will be difficult to escape the blame for a hundred deaths, my heart is like a mirror, but I still cover up and connive, and take care of it patiently. Throughout the ages, there is no emperor like me, because of his deep love for his son, he despises the etiquette of the monarch and the minister, and ignores the laws of the country."

Li Shimin bowed his head and said nothing, but he agreed with Li Yuan's words in his heart.

Li Yuan's pampering and indulgence of their sons is truly unprecedented.

Just ask the emperor who connived at his son to open the palace by himself, divide power and cede land, and even affect the authority of the holy decree, and he did not care.

Li Yuan continued: "As the saying goes, there are no two heavens and no two people. But my indulgence of you has led to the issuance of the Prince's Decree and the Decree of the Two Kings, and the officials have undertaken it like a holy decree, and if there is a conflict, it will only be in the order of arrival, and there is no difference between the big and the small. Although you, Da Lang, and Shiro do not have the name of the emperor, they hold the same power as the emperor. You've been competitive since you were a child. With this power, how can you not move his heart? It's my self-righteousness, and I unilaterally think that you brothers are united...... I really never thought that because of my connivance and laziness, I created a human tragedy. ”

"Erchen ......" Li Shimin's throat was hoarse. In front of his father, it was undeniable that the position of emperor was indeed unjustified.

Li Yuan motioned for him not to continue, "Although it is said that this is the ancestral precept of ancient times, how many emperors have strictly followed it throughout the ages?" I'm not pedantic. I also want the Tang Dynasty to be eternal. You have laid half of the country for the Tang Dynasty, and I don't know how to give you your credit. It's not that no one proposed to me, saying that King Qin's merits are high and he should be made the crown prince. I have not thought about this aspect, but I have thought about it carefully. Choose your big brother. It's definitely not because of the ancient precepts or because of the partiality of my father, but I think Dalang is more suitable. At least at the time, it seemed that Da Lang was indeed more suitable than you were ......."

Li Shimin was unconvinced.

Li Yuan still shook his head with a smile and looked at him deeply: "The proudest thing in my life is to have three children, Dalang, you and Pingyang. You are all dragons and phoenixes among men. He has the ability to intervene far beyond others. I have children like you, how can I not be proud as a father. But you all have different temperaments, and Da Lang is gentle, comprehensive, and reasonable. And you have a strong temperament, although you have both wisdom and courage. But he likes to be competitive and ambitious. As for Binh Duong. Upright, full of love and righteousness. is also a strange woman who does not let her eyebrows go. The world is proud of having a unicorn, and I have three fathers and emperors, and I have long been content. As a daughter's family, Pingyang doesn't care. The second emperor of the Tang Dynasty is undoubtedly among your brothers. You all have that talent, but I think what is needed in the early turmoil of the world is governance, consolidation, not excessive ambition. Your eldest brother has the ability to write and see, but you have the ambition of Han Wu. After careful consideration and combined with the historical facts of the past dynasties, I have come to a conclusion that your eldest brother is more suitable to be the crown prince and emperor, because the people of this world need to recuperate, not continuous wars. Your temperament is too strong, I am worried that you will not be able to bear the humiliation of the Turks to give me the Tang Dynasty, and choose to fight angrily, just like Yang Guang at the beginning. ”

Li Shimin felt in his heart, he couldn't imagine that his father would see him so thoroughly, and hurriedly said: "Erchen will never follow in the footsteps of Yang Guang." ”

"Well, shouldn't I avoid this?" Qin Feng on the side only heard it in horror and sweating, this kind of royal secret really wanted his life as an outsider. It's not listening, it's not listening, it's like sitting on pins and needles.

"Not necessarily." Li Yuan, Li Shimin, father and son said in unison, and then smiled at each other.

Li Yuan said to Qin Feng: "This is a little experience that I have been thinking about for many years, and it is also useful to you, it is a major matter of the country in the country, and it is also the way to govern the family in a small family." One tragedy is enough to be remembered forever, and I don't want future generations to repeat the tragedy of that day. This kind of thing, people don't say, don't say they don't know, don't say it's because they're afraid, since it happens, they're not afraid of people talking, they're not afraid of people reading, and people read it so that we can remember it more deeply, so that we can take it as a warning and never forget it. ”

Qin Feng knew in his heart that Li Yuan regarded him as his own family, so he was not afraid of losing face by making a fool of himself, so he didn't care about anything. Of course, he also knows Li Shimin's personality, so naturally he will not blame himself or anything for this.

"Boy, they all say that you are smart, so you can tell your conscience whether this Yang Guang is a good person or a bad person." Li Yuan pointed the finger at Qin Feng.

Qin Feng knew that Li Yuan and Li Shimin didn't need to listen to lies, so after thinking for a while, he said: "The disadvantages are in the present generation, and the merits are in the future." ”

Yang Guang was an emperor who tried to continue his glory and maintain the prestige of the country, and he always governed the country with idealism, but his conceit and official background seriously affected his philosophy and methods of governing the country, which eventually led to the failure of his rule and the demise of the country. Although we cannot deny the good intentions of Emperor Yang of Sui, the practice of abusing people's power, extravagance and waste, superstitious belief in force, and showing off national prestige must be criticized. There are very few materials about Emperor Yang of Sui left in history, and many false elements have been added to it, making Emperor Yang of Sui a synonym for Emperor Yang of Sui for thousands of years. However, it cannot be simply concluded that Emperor Yang of Sui was a faint monarch and a tyrant. On the contrary, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty dug the world-famous Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and a series of reforms during his reign made the necessary preparations for the arrival of the Tang Dynasty. Emperor Yang of Sui is a character who can never be finished. Various historical versions are saying that Yang Guang is extremely bad, not only killing his father, prostituting his sister, but also having three thousand beauties, but in fact, Yang Guang is not a womanizer at all, and there are only a few of his women, which can be seen from his heirs alone, his dignified generation of emperors, only Yang Zhao, Yang Xuan, Yang Gao, and a Yang Ming who died early, and they were all born to Queen Xiao. As for the daughter, it is just Princess Nanyang and Concubine Yang who married Li Shimin. For this alone, it is unreasonable to say that he is a sexual prostitution.

"'The disadvantages are in the contemporary, and the merits are in the future'? That's a good thing to say. It would be unfair to him to only say it without taking credit. ”

Li Yuan nodded and said, "Now the world is insulting Yang Guang and degrading Yang Guang as worthless. The main thing is that in troubled times, in order to consolidate his reputation and get the support of the people, the princes maliciously spread some rumors that do not belong to him at all, of course, this is also indispensable to our credit. Li Yuan said very calmly.

"I believe that if I fail, or Datang fails. Like Yang Guang, we are also burdened with a notoriety that does not belong to us. ”

"Erlang, what kind of person do you think Yang Guang is?"

Li Shimin listened carefully, and agreed with Li Yuan's words very much, and when Li Yuan asked himself, he said without thinking: "Feng'er is young, you don't know Yang Guang, you are willing." In fact, those of us who have the opportunity to know him know that Yang Guang is not useless. He is not bad, but he has not seen the essence of the world. After the great turmoil of the previous dynasty, the people were determined. Emperor Wen Yang Jian was extremely good at accumulating money, and although the treasury was abundant, it was a typical example of the country's wealth and the weakness of the people. In the face of such a situation, as the king of a country, the first thing to do is to make the people rich. But Yang Guang was too ambitious and ambitious, so he directly named his year 'Great Cause', intending to achieve a great cause. It's a pity that they are so ambitious, not only do they not govern the country well, but also make the people rich. On the contrary, the continuous squeezing of the people's power directly led to the demise of the Great Sui Dynasty. ”

In all fairness, Yang Guang does have extraordinary intelligence and courage, and everything he does is impeccable in terms of morality.

In order to better control North China, he built the eastern capital of Luoyang; In order to make the connection between Jiangnan and China closer, the North-South Grand Canal was dug and the Jiangdu was toured several times; In the construction of national infrastructure, he dug long trenches, built gallop roads, and built the Great Wall; In terms of military strategy, he went out to the north to tour the Turks, fought to Linyi in the south, and passed through the Western Regions to the west, reopened the Silk Road, broke through Tuyuhun, and reincorporated Qinghai Province into the Chinese territory. He also sent envoys to Persia, and also crossed the sea to the South Seas to contact Fuso.

To elaborate on this achievement, Emperor Qin and Han Wu are nothing more than that.

But there is a detail that must be understood: Qin has a century-old foundation, since the Shang Dynasty changed the law, most of the Qin kings of the past dynasties are eloquent and strategic, and the only inferior and incompetent one is that there is a Xiangguo like Lü Buwei to control the government, and the national strength is far stronger than that of the Six Kingdoms. Even so, it took Qin Shi Huang a full decade to dominate the world. And Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty has the savings left by Wenjing, he began to lure the Xiongnu in Mayi in the second year of Yuanguang until Wei Qing went out of the fortress to kill Zhao Xincheng, Huo Quai, sealed the wolf Juxu Mountain, a total of 14 years.

And what about Yang Guang? It only took eight years for Renshou to show his strength in the fourth year of Renshou and to complete all these great undertakings. (To be continued.) )