Chapter 141: The Show Begins (First Update)
As a ruler, private morality is secondary, and the only criterion for judging whether a ruler is qualified or not is his ability to govern the country. According to the history books of the www.biquge.info of the pen, Li Shimin's private morality is extremely poor, he kills his brother and forces his father, adulterous aunt and sister-in-law, and even his descendants are not well educated.
Although Li Er was not the founding emperor, many founding emperors were emperors immediately, and few surpassed him in military affairs.
Since ancient times, there has been no one on the right side of Li Shimin, followed by Zhu Yuanzhang. This is the evaluation of a generation of great people, and Zhu Houlie also agrees with this, in terms of the emperor's military attainments, even the Qin Emperor and Han Wu are not as good as Li Shimin.
Li Shimin was a general in his life, and his strength never exceeded 100,000, and he destroyed more than one million enemy troops before and after. Externally, the Eastern ~ Turkic, Xue Yantuo, Gaochang and other states all perished during his reign, Tubo was defeated, and Goryeo also lost Liaodong because of him.
And even in this world, compared to military ability, Kou Zhong and Song Que can only suppress Li Shimin by joining forces, and it is only suppressed, and it is difficult to defeat.
Of course, if you want to become a generation of heroes, the most important thing is to govern the country, the emperor can not fight, he only needs to control the generals who can fight and can fight. According to the "General Dictionary", the first year of Zhenguan in the ninth year of Wude, the population of the whole world is only more than 2 million households. That is to say, when Li Er took over the country, the population of the entire world was only more than 10 million, less than 20 million, and by the time Li Zhi ascended the throne, there were nearly 4 million households, and the population had about doubled in Li Shimin's hands.
In addition to the population, the culture is also good, at least the imperial examination system has really become the imperial examination system in his hands, rather than being dispensable like Yang Jian and Yang Guang. At least Zhu Houlie believes that compared with the Grand Canal, the imperial examination system is the real blessing for thousands of years.
During the Sui Dynasty and Zhou, the population of Jiabashu in the north was at least 6.9 million households, and when Chen Guoda was unified, the national population of Kaihuang Zhongye was 8.7 million. It can be said that when Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, the population of the Great Sui was 8.9 million, more than 50 million. And because of Emperor Wen of Sui's diligence and thrift, the treasury was full of money and grain, and there were more than one million elite soldiers that could be mobilized, and even the biggest threat from the outside, the Turks, had been split into two khanates in the east and west by Yang Jian, Changsun Sheng, Pei Ju and others.
Yang Guang's family background when he took the throne was not rich, and the external environment did not have much crisis. When Li Shimin ascended the throne, the situation he faced was many times more dangerous than Yang Guang, after all, he was facing the curse of being in the wrong position at that time, and Yang Guang did not.
And the situation that Li Yuan and Li Shimin faced after gaining the world was very different. At that time, the population of the Central Plains was empty, and the great enemy in the north, the Western Turks, controlled hundreds of thousands, and if Li Yuan and Li Shimin could not cope with it a little. The Turks are about to enter the Central Plains, causing a great crisis, but fortunately, Li Shimin's answer sheet is dozens of times better than Yang Guang's.
After tearing off the packaging of Li Shimin's dress on the surface, although he still has various problems and defects, this hidden dragon who has not yet become an emperor has shown his unique ability and personal charm in front of Zhu Houlie.
This made Zhu Houlie have to admit that Kou Zhong, an unreliable leader, was indeed unsuitable to be an emperor compared to Li Shimin. Although Kou Zhong didn't have anything to say to his brother, he was irresponsible to his allies in the army, and ignored the territory he had just conquered for the sake of Zhai Jiao's foreign business, and even proposed not to levy it because Fu Junwu was friendly to Goryeo.
"Where is Shangguan Long! Zhu Yuyan has chosen you to be the undercover agent of the Yin Sect in Luoyang, there should be two hits, and you dare to come up immediately to fight to the death!"
A shout immediately spread to every corner of the four triple buildings of the "Listening Pavilion". Even the private room where Zhu Houlie and Li Shimin were heard this shout.
"It's really a disappointment!" Zhu Houlie said with interest. When the conversation was in full swing, he was disturbed loudly by people, and Zhu Houlie no longer had the leisure to talk to Li Shimin.
"I didn't expect Brother Kou to also come to Manqing Courtyard, it seems that he is in trouble with Yin Kui. Li Shimin thought that Zhu Houlie didn't know the person who spoke out, so he explained.
"Kou Zhong, Xu Ziling?" Zhu Houlie's eyes flickered, his interest came again, and the two of them did not die in Wan Wan's hands as he thought before.
"It turns out that Brother Zhu has also heard of the two of them. Li Shimin said with a smile.
"I've heard a little. Zhu Houlie snorted.
The two of them focused their attention on the door, and after a suffocating silence, a majestic but extremely feminine male voice came up from the ground floor of Beizhong Building: "It's just that you are so bloody, I, Shangguan Long, will never let you go." ”
Xu Ziling said coldly: "There are three of us here, you can choose which one." But this kind of special treatment will only be given to the demons of the Yin Sect, and everyone will be punished because they are all punished. ”
Then there was a burst of deafening laughter, and then someone shouted: "This is called stepping on iron shoes and finding nowhere to go, and it takes no effort to get it." Kou boy and Xu boy, you two can come down together! It can save me two hands, and it can also be used as a warm-up before the big battle. ”
Ba Fenghan smiled dumbly: "Qu Ao, you are already my Ba Fenghan." But I want to have preferential treatment like Shangguan's helper, so how can it be?"
These few sentences were extremely mean, and a burst of laughter broke out when the heavy buildings on all sides landed, which greatly diluted the tense atmosphere. With Qu Ao's cultivation, he still couldn't help but shout angrily: "Ba Fenghan, if you have the life to leave Manqing Courtyard tonight, I will reverse the word Qu Ao and write it backwards." ”
"Before Miss Shang's show starts, is Shangguan Gang Leader interested in playing with the younger brother first to relieve the boredom of the Quartet Gentlemen?" Kou Zhong shouted again.
"Kou Zhong, you are the most pleasing to me!" A coquettish smile sounded immediately, and I saw a beautiful bearded girl on the terrace of a wing room.
"Ba Fenghan, we have found you, you don't want to run away this time!" And beside this bearded girl, there stood a boy and brother who looked thin on the outside, as if he was infected with a disease, and had a fair face. His voice is soft and tactful, neither male nor female, although he speaks the Central Plains Chinese, his tone is strange.
This pair of brothers and sisters are named Tuoba Yu and Chun Yuwei, and they are the two major disciples of Bi Xuan, one of the three great masters in the world.
"It's really a bull, a ghost, a snake, and a god who has run out. Zhu Houlie frowned and said, "Brother Li, you and I will talk about it another day, I suddenly want to pinch a few little bugs to death now!"
"Brother Zhu......"
"It's really noisy, really when no one cares about me in the Central Plains? Several clowns from outside the region also dare to shout in the Central Plains, and they all come out to send me to death!"
As soon as Li Shimin's words of persuasion were in his mouth, Zhu Houlie's people left the private room, and he hurriedly followed, only to find that Zhu Houlie had already stood in the stands below and issued this declaration.