Li Chen's matter soon spread throughout the Tang Dynasty.

All parties have received the news.

They were shocked, terrified, and puzzled.

They don't know why things have come to this point.

The main thing is that it is more than they expected.

There were many people who once wanted to secretly give Li Chen some means.

They all gave Li Chen a means according to Wu Meibu's bureau.

As long as Li Chen follows the path arranged by Wu Mei, he will definitely bump into their arrangement.

They either wanted to kill Li Chen, or simply wanted Li Chen to step down from the position of the crown prince.

The emperor's son is the crown prince, especially the only son, and everyone can't say anything.

Competition is competition, but the position of the prince should still be established.

What everyone didn't expect was that Li Chen didn't follow the path arranged by Wu Mei.

This made everyone more depressed, so they had to say in a muffled voice, worthy of Li Kuan, the winner of the previous era, who easily found a stable path for his ordinary son.

It's a bit of a dangerous road, though.

But who hasn't survived the danger?

And on the road that Li Chen took, they had no way to interfere.

There are only a few places that can intervene in total, strengthen the barbarian tribe and restrain Li Chen's play.

The former is called treason, and the latter is called tight at the front and tight at the rear.

On the whole, what is not done is right, it is all found out, and it needs to be punished.

Therefore, the road Li Chen is taking now, although it is dangerous, is indeed safe.

Wu Mei figured it out afterwards, and hurriedly took a group of little sisters to apologize to Li Kuan, and said with tears in her eyes that she had long hair and short knowledge, and she didn't understand Li Kuan's thoughts.

On the day Li Chen left, Li Kuo took Wu Mei and others to deliver it in person.

Li Chen's materials did not exceed the standard, and they all came in accordance with the rules.

It's not that Li Kuan doesn't want to do more for him, it's that he refuses to do it himself, the reason is that he leads by example and doesn't want these things to become the point of targeting him in the future.

A team of 200 people pulled supplies and hit the road.

Li Chen's departure Li Kuan was sad.

He didn't know if Li Shimin was sad when he left Chang'an.

However, he felt that Li Shimin was most likely not sad.

At that time, the two of them didn't have such a deep relationship.

Li Kuan, who was not in a good mood, asked Li Chengqian out for a drink.

Looking at Li Kuan, who was drinking alone, Li Chengqian said very speechlessly: "If you are worried about your children, you should care more about them." ”

"Also, I've always been curious about a question, don't you want to have a few more children?"

Li Chengqian asked the doubts in his heart for many years.

Li Kuan raised his eyebrows and said flatly: "I don't want to give birth at all." ”

"It's still annoying after giving birth."

"Anyway, everyone doesn't have the problem of providing for the elderly, and Xiao Chen and they don't care about their children."

The fact that there have been no children for many years is the result of discussions between Li Kuan and Xiao Chen and others.

Xiao Chen and the others didn't want to continue to live.

They have money and status, and they don't care about pension at all.

They don't have the worries of providing for the elderly, and they don't really want children, so it's good to be beautiful by themselves.

They can live a lot of the life they want and experience the pain of childbirth.

The twelfth level of pain is not something that ordinary people can bear.

Li Chengqian was stunned.

You must know that because Li Kuan only has one son and three daughters Li Chen, the gossip outside is very excessive.

It is said that Li Kuan is obsessed with Fang Yu's true love and is unwilling to give birth.

It is also said that Wu Mei was cautious and forced other women to take medicine and not let them give birth.

Some people even said that the harem concubines were dissatisfied with Li Kuan and were ready to resist him with this silent protest.

Li Chengqian felt that those rumors were outrageous enough.

But he never expected that the reality would be even more outrageous than this.

It turned out that the emperor and the concubine didn't want to give birth.

"Why?"

"Isn't it good to have more children?"

Li Chengqian was a little confused.

The Tang Dynasty itself, plus various feudal states, is now vigorously promoting.

Everyone has an attitude of encouragement towards childbirth.

The reason is that the population is too small and the area is too large.

Think about it, the rabbits and white elephants in later generations raised nearly three billion people, and now they only raise less than 100 million.

In addition, this is not counting the part of Eastern Europe that can support a billion people alone and the part of Central Asia that can also support a billion people and a large number of islands.

This huge population gap has to be bridged.

How to make up for it?

Give birth to children, keep moving the population.

Every time a city is built, there is an additional piece of land where officials can be arranged.

For every city built, there is an additional piece of land that can be taxed.

For every city built, there is an additional amount of imperial potential.

Having children in this day and age is also a contribution to empire-building.

But Li Kuan actually refused, which is really unimaginable.

"It's good to have more children, but I don't want to have children?"

"I'm an emperor, how can I not have any privileges."

"I think it's a lot of trouble to have children, raise children, and educate children."

Li Kuan shrugged his shoulders and chuckled softly.

Li Chengqian was speechless, you are really a willful group.

But

"And what if your eldest son is useless?"

"If the eldest son is useless, then what are you going to do?"

"According to the current rules, it is very likely that your throne will disappear, no, it will definitely disappear from the hands of your lineage."

Li Chengqian said very seriously.

As a courtier and Li Kuan's confidant, he has to remind Li Kuan,

His son competed with Li Kuan's son, that was their business, and it had nothing to do with his relationship with Li Kuan.

Not affecting.

So as a friend, he has to remind Li Kuan that your idea will bring many wrong choices.

"If you disappear, you'll disappear, anyway, I'll just be happy."

"Otherwise, my son would not be very grateful to me if he became the emperor."

"Also, my idea of letting go of the imperial succession is to hand over the Tang Dynasty to a promising emperor, just to be worthy of my ancestors."

"And I am worthy of my ancestors, naturally I have to be worthy of myself, and I have to do whatever I want, as for the juniors, I'm sorry, you still have to rely on yourself, you have time to learn to be right to your ancestor Li Kuan."

Li Kuan said indifferently.

Li Chengqian's three views were shattered,

He felt that it was an honor for Li Kuan's descendants to have an ancestor like Li Kuan.

"You are not qualified to be sad here, if I were Li Chen, I would really feel that it would be my honor to have a father like you."

The ironic words came out of Li Chengqian's mouth, and Li Kuan didn't care.

As long as I'm thick-skinned enough, nothing can affect me.

The wine ended with Li Kuan and Li Chengqian's unhappy parting.

The main reason is that Li Chengqian can't stand Li Kuan's thoughts about having children.

He felt that Li Kuan was heretical.

And Li Kuan felt that he was not an evil way.

On the contrary, he felt that he was doing the right thing.

Li Chen embarked on the journey alone.

Although it was bumpy, there was no advance layout for others.

My aunt is married, and my uncle has a very strong relationship.

I've been busy picking up relatives for the past two days, and I guess it'll be over tomorrow.

(End of chapter)