"I was wrong." Li Yuan sighed and said.

Li Shimin didn't speak, he just sat silently, he knew that Li Yuan at this time just wanted to speak.

“…… You are all my sons, and when Dade and Zhiquan died, do you know how painful I was? It's just that the world was undecided at that time, and I could only suppress this pain in my heart, I thought that if our Li family won the world, there would be no such thing. ”

"When I became the emperor, the world was still in turmoil, but as you and your brother continued to fight everywhere, what worried me finally happened, both of you are too good, so good that I don't know how to deal with it, if I weaken your military power, I am afraid that your brother will do something to you, because he is the crown prince, he naturally has an advantage."

"But if it's in your favor, you won't give up, I want to find a balance between the two of you, I think, when I die, maybe there will be a result." Li Yuan's tone was extremely gloomy, and Li Shimin just pursed his lips and didn't speak.

His own family knows his own business, and of course he knows that his brother is also not a fuel-efficient lamp.

"Do you know why I agreed to Chang He to serve as the Imperial Forest Army in charge of the Xuanwu Gate?" Li Yuan looked at Li Shimin and said.

"You think I don't know anything, your brother wrote to me hoping that your third brother would lead the army to the Turks, and mobilize the generals of your Qin Palace, I realized something at that time, but at that time, I had already given too much power to the two of you, and the situation was beyond my control."

There was no remorse or anything else in Li Yuan's tone, some were just lonely, as if he was narrating irrelevant things.

"I have your three good sons......" Li Yuan laughed when he said this, "I took your military power, but I was afraid that your brother would do something to you, so I acquiesced to you secretly buying people, you all think I don't know anything, the entire Taiji Palace Imperial Forest Army, how can he often buy how much?" ”

"When you decide to do it, I know that things are already like this, everything is wrong with me, I can't stop you, no matter what the result, I admit it, maybe this is God punishing me Li Yuan." Li Yuan's tone was extremely calm.

There was some shock on Li Shimin's face, Li Yuan had never said these words, or rather, even when Li Yuan abdicated at that time, he never told him these things.

Li Shimin didn't know whether it was true or not, so he could only be silent.

Li Yuan glanced at Li Shimin, and then smiled: "I know you don't believe it, but it doesn't matter if you believe it or not, but, Erlang, although your father and I are not as good as you and your brother, but your father and I have been the emperor for nine years, a full nine years!" ”

"All I could do was watch, because I knew very well at that time that no matter what I did, the end result would be the same. Because I stopped you, even if I don't do anything to you, but your brother can't let you go, you can fight, no matter who wins this world, it will always be our Li family. ”

"I tell you this today, I don't mean anything else, I just want to tell you that you have won this world, but you can't take the slightest risk in this world! Who did you go to the Western Regions to meet? Who is so important?! To be able to let you, the emperor, go and see you in person, you have been on this throne for a year, I don't believe you don't know what you should do the most? Li Yuan looked at Li Shimin and said.

"Recuperate, give Datang a recuperation, and give the people time to recuperate." Li Shimin looked at Li Yuan and said.

"You know, why are you taking such a big risk? Who in the Western Regions is worth meeting in person? You are not a reckless person. Li Yuan looked at Li Shimin in a calm tone.

"Father, today we are father and son, I will say some things directly, father, dare to ask, I let this world recuperate, is it to let the people recuperate, and also to give it back to the family gate valve to recuperate?"

"If you don't solve the family gate, will my Li family's world be the one who really calls the shots?" Li Shimin asked in a deep voice.

Li Yuan frowned and looked at Li Shimin: "What you said is very correct, but all the resources in the whole world are concentrated in the hands of the gate valve family, if our Li family was not funded by these gate valves at that time, we would not be able to take this country, I am not speaking for the gate valve, I just let you recognize a fact, this matter is not something that you can solve by meeting a person, unless that person is an immortal." ”

"I don't know if he's an immortal or not, but he can have something in his hand that can solve the family's door valve." Li Shimin looked at Li Yuan and said.

"What?" Li Yuan was stunned for a moment.

"Books, education." Li Shimin spit out two words, "He has printing technology, which can make the price of books fall and can be read by poor people, and when there are more people reading in the world, the things monopolized by the gate valve family will be gone." ”

"That's true." Li Yuan was a little stunned.

"Father, please see, this is what I sent Li Ji to the Western Regions to see and hear with my own eyes." Li Shimin took out the two books in his arms and handed them to Li Yuan.

Li Yuan took the book and looked through it directly.

Li Shimin was not in a hurry, he was waiting silently beside him, he had already decided on this matter, but he left, someone in Chang'an must stabilize the situation, and this person except Li Yuan, Li Shimin couldn't think of anyone else.

To be precise, when Li Yuan comes out, he can stabilize the situation, and he, Li Shimin, can still control Li Yuan, but if he changes someone, it really may not be.

And judging from the situation analyzed by Li Ji, there is a method of smelting steel in Huo Gang's territory, and it is estimated that it is more powerful than Datang, because Huo Gang's Mingguang armor cannot flow out of Datang.

If the number is small, it is still possible, but if you add up to six thousand pairs of Mingguang armor, you can't find so many of the Mingguang armor of the entire Tang Dynasty!

Until Li Yuan finished reading these two books, Li Shimin was thinking about this problem, the negotiation with Huo Gang is not only a matter of books, but also a lot of profits, such as the wool, and what Huo Gang said, the issue of commercial tax.

What Huo Gang talked about with Li Ji was just scratching the surface, but Li Shimin wanted to communicate with him personally, because what Huo Gang said, he had been thinking about it after reading it, these things ...... Li Shimin can't judge whether it's true or not, but how much is the commercial tax trade in the entire Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin only needs to let people check it a little to know.

If the commercial tax starts to be taxed, it will undoubtedly be a huge benefit to the treasury, and the most important thing is that Huo Gang's words have a very clear sentence, the commercial tax ...... It is all collected from those gate valve families and various wealthy families, since they absorb the blood of this country to grow, then it is also appropriate to collect more taxes from them!

With money in the treasury, he can continue to reduce or reduce agricultural taxes and give the people more time to recuperate.

"I didn't expect that in just over a year, there would be such a big change in the Western Regions. I know why you're going to see him. Li Yuan took a deep breath, the content of this book made Li Yuan a little unbelievable, has there been such a big force in the Western Regions in just one year?

"Can't you put off for a year? After next year, I believe that Datang will be more stable, and you should have more of me, you are just in the prime of life, and you are not in a hurry. Li Yuan looked at Li Shimin and said.

"Father, now I go to see Huo Gang, using the advantages of our Datang, the transaction between us can still be in an advantageous position, but if we wait another year, Datang is indeed strong, but why won't Huo Gang be stronger? Now that he only has a population of more than 200,000, he can absorb Xue Yantuo and completely integrate into his big Han. ”

This means that this winter, his population will exceed 400,000 people, and almost all of them are Turks who can be pulled out at any time to serve as soldiers. At the rate of his expansion, in a year's time, Gaochang in his west, and other small tribes are expected to be completely incorporated into his rule by then. ”

"And at that time, even if I stabilized the situation in Datang, but the transaction between me and him may be at a disadvantage, Father Emperor, you know our problem, Liangzhou cannot grow a large amount of grain, which means that if there is a conflict between us and Huo Gang, we will always be at a disadvantage."

"In other words, I can't do anything about him, but he can do it to us at any time, don't forget, we don't have much to do with Tuyuhun for the time being, but he can!" Li Shimin's expression was serious.

"If Tuyuhun also throws himself at Huo Gang, it means that the entire Hexi Corridor, he can attack from the north and south at any time, and completely control the entire Hexi Corridor, and then the Guanzhong will be flat, all under the impact of his cavalry."

"The key thing is that after Tuyuhun throws himself at Huo Gang, we Datang can't do anything there! So what I think is that if I negotiate a deal with Huo Gang this time, I will directly do it to Tuyuhun! Li Shimin said decisively.

"Tuyuhun? Don't you want to make a move on Jieli? Li Yuan was stunned for a moment.

"No, Jieli is indeed a great shame for me, but Jieli is timid, the most important thing is that we can't completely eliminate Jieli now, even if Jieli is destroyed, the Eastern Turks are still the Eastern Turks, but Tuyuhun's position is too important! The most important thing is that I can't wait for Tuyuhun to throw himself at Huo Gang! We can't afford that! ”

"And Tuyuhun's strength is actually very weak, plus he has Huo Gang in the west, the Hexi Corridor in the north, and the plateau with poor conditions in the south, so they have nowhere to escape. As long as we completely control the current territory of Tuyuhun and connect it with the Hexi Corridor, even if we have a bad relationship with Huo Gang in the future, we will have enough strategic space. ”

"In addition, the most important thing is that in the Qilian Mountains that Tuyuhun now controls, there is the Shandan Military Horse Farm set up by Hou Huo, the champion of the year, which is an excellent production area for military horses, and the source of our war horses cannot all be in Huo Gang's hands." Li Shimin said with a serious face.