With Yun Yao's support, the prince said that any test is not a problem, even if he is a prince in the backwoods.

Li Shimin naturally knew that his most promising daughter was taken to the mansion by the prince as soon as she returned to Chang'an, and she didn't even return to the Horse Mansion, so she knew that it was the prince who came up with her daughter's idea. Now I have to see if my daughter is facing her father or her brother, and Li Shimin will summon her daughter tomorrow, and then she will let Yunyao make a choice.

Although the night is already very deep, the Horse Mansion is still brightly lit, because Yun Yao has to prepare the gifts for tomorrow's face saint, in addition to the map from Chang'an to Jiannan Road, there are also some books collected along the way, as well as some small gifts, which are not very valuable, just a heart. Anyway, Li Shimin has no shortage of expensive gifts, so it is more sincere to prepare more geographical content.

Not only geography, but also climate records, as well as the completion of some astrological signs, all of which were completed by Yun Yao and the three of them along the way.

After two years of walking, Yun Yao said that it was near Jiannan Road that he spent so much time making these records. Although it is a deception, it is more convincing to say that he is to draw a map than to say that he went up to Lingshan and came back.

It is still very meaningful to spend two years drawing a map of Jiannan Road with a very small scale, and you can draw maps of other places in the future, and finally the entire map of Datang can be presented.

Li Shimin naturally would not suspect that his daughter went to Lingshan, and the reason for drawing a map is still very sufficient.

When Yun Yao dedicated the prepared map to Li Shimin, he was very happy, after all, his daughter had done a serious thing.

"I haven't seen you for two years, Yun'er is getting more and more peugeot, come and sit with me." Empress Changsun has loved Yun Yao since she was a child, and has always regarded her as her daughter. Grabbing Yun Yao's hand, a pair of Danfeng eyes looked at Yun Yao carefully, and found that the wind and sun did not leave any traces on Yun Yao's face, and it can only be said that Yun Yao is naturally beautiful and cannot be envious.

Although the emperor has the heart to ask about the prince, he has to talk about the old days first, and the queen has been thinking about when Yunyao will come back for two years.

"Will this trip go well, colt?" The Emperor spoke to the horse.

Huang Bixia thought that Yun Yao deceived the emperor by opening her mouth, but she had a lot of pressure. She was afraid that she would expose herself, and if she was discovered by the emperor, it would be a capital crime, so she could only bite the bullet and she would answer if the emperor asked, and never said a word more: "Your Majesty, everything is going well." ”

"Don't be nervous, it's a family dinner." The emperor told the horses not to be so restrained. He didn't know that it wasn't the horses that were restrained, but that the heart was weak.

The emperor felt that this horse was not worthy of his daughter, but the daughter chose it herself, and as a father, it was not good to say anything, as long as they were happy. He thinks that the horse is too dull, although the knowledge is good, but it is too dull, it can only be said that everyone has good, maybe the daughter is too smart, so he likes honest people.

It's not that I like honest people, but I like women.

talked about what I had seen and heard on the road, and talked about the shortcomings of my parents. Li Shimin felt that the atmosphere was almost over, so he asked, "The prince also held a banquet yesterday, right?" ”

Empress Changsun's secret path has finally begun, how much she hopes that the father and son will not go against each other, but she also knows that as the princelings become more and more powerful, as the emperor cannot sit idly by. As a wife and mother, Empress Eldest Sun is the most passive one, even if she has the wisdom of heaven, she can't solve this eternal problem.

Since ancient times, inheritance has been a problem, in ancient times, there were two ways of inheritance: brother died brother and father died son, so there were many cases of younger brothers killing elder brothers and sons killing fathers. Although more than ten years have passed since the Xuanwumen Change, the dark clouds have never dispersed. Because the inheritance issue represented by the Xuanwumen Revolution has never been resolved, the crown prince has grown from a child to the age of a weak crown in more than ten years, and it has reached the point of threat.

The horse immediately felt that the atmosphere of the banquet had plummeted, and the secret path was the most ruthless emperor's family, the emperor's father and son brothers were maintained by interests, and once there was a conflict of interests, it would be a battlefield without father and son.

On the contrary, ordinary families can live in harmony, because ordinary people use moral alliances, so as long as they conform to moral norms. And the so-called false benevolence and false righteousness are actually moral alliances on the surface, but behind the scenes they are collusion of interests. Using moral alliances to cover up alliances of interests was what Confucius hated the most, and he called it a homesickness. Confucius hated the countryman more than the villain, and the opposition between the villain and the gentleman can only be said to be different interests. But the hometown is good at hiding among the people and is good at backstabbing.

The villain is the enemy on the surface, and the hometown is the enemy in the dark. Even Confucius knew that open guns are easy to dodge, and dark arrows are difficult to defend against.

The interests of the emperor's family are better than morality, so just now it was still the filial piety of the father and daughter, and in a blink of an eye, there was an undercurrent.

Yun Yao admitted very directly: "The imperial brother asked me for advice, recently the princeling's power has grown and has become a faint target, the imperial brother sensed the crisis, so he asked me how to protect myself, but at the same time I can keep the crown prince." ”

Li Shimin saw Yun Yao confessing so frankly, a smile appeared on his face, and sure enough, his daughter was still her father's little padded jacket, and he didn't hurt her in vain. Since he was willing to confess one by one, Li Shimin thought that his daughter was on his side, and he was happy, drank a glass of wine and continued to ask: "He is greedy, how did you answer?" ”

"I said that he is either a prince or not a prince, if you want to protect yourself, don't be a prince, if you want to be a prince, don't think about retreating, and then ask him how he thinks about it. The royal brother still wanted to have the best of both worlds, so I gave him an idea to make him both the prince and not the prince. ”

Li Shimin is curious, how can he be considered both a prince and not a prince? What is this statement? "Tell me what you have come up with."

"In the past, the position of the prince was based on the order of birth, if the position of the prince can be determined through assessment, wouldn't he be both a prince and not a prince. It is as if the imperial examination selects talents, and the crown prince is determined through the results of the governance of counties, counties, and provinces. Yun Yao said: "In this way, the standard of whether to pass the assessment is determined by the father, and the father and the emperor are not opposed." ”

The Emperor frowned, obviously thinking that the idea was too bold and had a lot of problems. Of course, it would be a good thing if he could justifiably control the decision on the crown prince, but would it cause chaos if he let the prince join the assessment? Or even lead to betrayal everywhere? caused the prince to become a fief lord, after all, the prince went to the place, and the emperor couldn't control them.

However, if the military, government and finance are separated, the prince will not be able to set off strong winds and waves, and letting them manage a government affairs at the local level can indeed exercise their talents.

But there is still no guarantee that the prince will not become bigger. It's still the same old problem, that is, the emperor can't prevent others from becoming bigger and surpassing themselves. This problem began in the Western Zhou Dynasty, when the Son of Heaven could dictate the position of the princes in the sacrifice, but could not limit the growth of their strength. When the princes grew up to surpass the Son of Heaven, the rites and music collapsed.

If the prince goes to the county as an official, will he also create a system that surpasses the emperor? Will it collude with the nobles and powerful people everywhere? In the final analysis, the time of the imperial examination is too short, and there is no group of scholars who have not yet confronted the nobles, and the prince is decentralized, which can easily become a situation of dividing the territory.