"Father's ......"

Li Yuan's words moved Li Shimin's expression, and he bowed his head and said: "Erchen doesn't care about the name of the Khan on this day, the glory of the Tang Dynasty is the glory of 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...... My father has always prided himself on being a loving father, but in the last two years, he has found out that he is just a confused father. The father's self-reflection finally realized that the father's own sins that caused today's situation are unforgivable. His father, Emperor Taiyuan, raised troops and ruled the Tang Dynasty in a few years. Ordinary people think that the father and the emperor were born in the boiling ding to save the world, and he was purely out of public heart, so the destiny of heaven is in his body, and he has the blessing of heaven and the world. But who knows what his father has lost for the sake of this world? Taiyuan was implicated, and all the children and grandchildren's servants and concubines were killed, except for Jiancheng and Yuanji. His father lost his father and brother when he was a child, and he succeeded him as the prince at the age of nine, but he failed to experience the feeling of family affection. This midnight dream is full of sadness. My father and emperor have been running around all the year round, so that children and grandchildren have fathers as if they have no fathers, and even tired them die tragically, and their hearts are uneasy, but they also cherish you very much. So much so that he made a terrible mistake...... I have been on the throne for many years, and I have indeed overindulged you. Throughout the ages, there is no emperor like his father, who looks down on the etiquette of monarchs and ministers because of his deep love for his son. ”

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.

Let's ask if there is an emperor who connived at his son to open a government by himself, divide power and cede land, and even affect the authority of the holy decree. Ignore it either.

Li Yuan continued: "As the saying goes, there are no two heavens and no two people, but the father's indulgence of you has led the prince to order and the two kings. If there is a conflict, it will only be based on 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 have been strong and competitive since you were a child, and with this power, how can you not move his heart. It was my father's self-righteousness that unilaterally thought that your brothers were united...... I really didn't expect it. He almost created a human tragedy. Fortunately, the big mistake didn't happen. The result is not good, but it is not bad. ”

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

Li Yuan motioned for him not to continue, "Although this is said to be an ancestral precept from ancient times. But how many emperors have strictly followed it throughout the ages? Your father was not pedantic. I also want the Tang Dynasty to be eternal. Erlang 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 mentioned yì 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 is by no means because of the ancient precepts or because of the partiality of the father, but because the father thinks that Dalang is more suitable. At least in the eyes of my father at the time. Dalang: Indeed, you are more ...... than suitable."

Li Shimin was unconvinced.

Li Yuan said: "The proudest thing in your father's life is to have three children, Dalang, you and Pingyang. You are all dragons and phoenixes among people, and you have the ability to do things far beyond others. If you have children like you, how can your father not be proud. But you all have different temperaments, and Da Lang is gentle, comprehensive, and reasonable. And you have a strong temperament, although you are both wise and courageous, but you like to be competitive and ambitious. As for Pingyang, she is upright, full of love and righteousness, and she 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 prince of the Tang Dynasty, the future emperor of the Tang Dynasty is undoubtedly among your brothers. You all have that talent, but my father thinks that the world is in turmoil at the beginning, and what is needed is governance, what is needed is consolidation, not excessive ambition. Your eldest brother has the ability to write and see, but you have the ambition of Han Wu. Father is afraid that you will become the second Yang Guang. ”

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." ”

Li Yuan nodded and said, "Now the world is insulting Yang Guang and degrading Yang Guang as worthless. But in fact, those of us who have the opportunity to know him should 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, it continued to squeeze the people's power, which directly led to the demise of the Great Sui Dynasty. ”

Li Shimin listened carefully and agreed with Li Yuan's words.

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.

Later historians recorded that in the eight years before the crusade against Goguryeo, Yang Guang set a total of 22 grand projects and requisitioned more than 30 million manpower.

30 million manpower, what a terrible number, you must know that the number of people at the peak of the Sui Dynasty was only 46 million.

Luoyang, the eastern capital, was completed in ten months, and the Yongji Canal was opened, and the canals of thousands of miles from the north and south of the Grand Canal were opened in a few months.

This era is not the 21st century, there are not so many advanced technologies, and all large-scale projects have to be completed by manpower and the weak bodies of ordinary people.

The faster the progress of the project, the greater the consumption of manpower: when the Eastern Capital was built, two million people were commissioned every month, and four or five out of ten of the dead were killed, and the Great Cause made one million people to repair the Great Wall in three years, and the result was also five or six out of ten. Digging canals, migrant workers work underwater for a long time, and maggots grow out of the blisters around their waists and burrow into their bodies.

Yang Guang only has his own great achievements in his eyes, and he can understand the suffering of the people!

This can also explain why the people of the Sui Dynasty cut off their hands and feet in order to escape the terrible service, and happily called their severed hands and feet Fushou Fuzu. What a miserable thing it was, and in the face of such a miserable situation, the people laughed so much that they would not have to serve in conscription if they were crippled.

Whether it is the construction of the Great Wall, the construction of the eastern capital, or the excavation of the canal, it is a virtuous government that is beneficial to the great cause of the millennium, but these virtuous policies are forcibly completed by officials who use whips and knives to force the people to work regardless of life and death, and step on the corpses that are strewn all over the field.

This so-called "political virtue" is really tyranny.

The world died in service.

This was a crucial point in the fall of the Sui Dynasty, and there was no doubt about the conquest of Goguryeo.

The people were already struggling to make a living, and Yang Guang set his sights on expanding the territory to fight Goguryeo......

In the face of Yang Guang's toss, the Sui Dynasty was haunted.

In fact, in terms of the legacy left by Yang Jian to Yang Guang, even if he is a mediocre master, he can maintain the national fortune of the Sui Dynasty by virtue of his inheritance. But Yang Guang is not a mediocre master, and if the mediocre lord dies, he will do nothing, but the tyrant can unrealistically use the people's power for his own ambitions. So much so that the rich second generation, who has the most abundant wealth, has completely failed him in just a few decades.

The gigantic empire II died.

Li Shimin suddenly came to his senses, and he understood why Li Yuan valued his eldest brother Li Jiancheng so much, rather than him with more outstanding credit. He always thought that Li Yuan was partial to Li Yuan's old-fashionedness, but he didn't know that he was afraid that he would become the second Yang Guang, he knew him, knew his courage, and his ambition was only better than Yang Guang.

The foundation of the Tang Dynasty is far inferior to that of the Sui Dynasty, beware that if he becomes the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, a talent will not only not bring prosperity to the Tang Dynasty, but will push the Tang Dynasty to the end of destruction and follow in the footsteps of Yang Guang.

"Father, the son is not Yang Guang, Yang Guang thinks that his own ideas are higher than a qiē, for his own ambition, he regards the lives of the people as grass mustard, and the people of the world as tools for his great achievements, and enslaves them infinitely. Erchen can't do it...... It's not that the sons are kinder than him and nobler than him, but that the sons understand a truth. Li Shimin looked at Li Yuan and said cautiously: "The boat is also the king, the people are also water, the water can carry the boat, and it can also capsize the boat." As the emperor, Yang Guang stood above tens of thousands of people, thinking that he could dominate a country, but he didn't know that it was precisely because of thousands of people that he could become the king of a country. If you don't get the support of the people, you will eventually be overthrown by the people. (To be continued......)

PS: Chapter one, one more chapter before twelve o'clock!