How can these guys have any arrogance in front of Li Chengqian?
Than fighting?
Li Chengqian can fight better than them.
Than relationship?
Needless to say how hard Li Chengqian’s relationship is, right?
The most powerful person in the world is his own father.
"That's it for today."
"I might as well tell you a few words of truth."
"Really, I never planned to be this prince from the beginning."
Li Chengqian looked at Zhang Naikuan and said, "Even now, I still hold this idea."
Zhang Naikuan laughed when he heard this.
"Your Highness, what you said is not the truth at all."
In this world, who doesn't want to be a prince, and who doesn't want to be an emperor?
"Don't talk about me, the prince."
"I will talk to you about my father today."
Li Chengqian's eyes were deep and he said: "Every morning, before dawn, you have to get up and put on your clothes."
"Then go to the palace and wait for the civil and military officials to come to see you, and listen to their endless chatter."
"You can't be idle after the court is over. You have to read the memorial sent by the memorial office in the Ganlu Hall."
"It's fine if nothing goes wrong. If something happens, you have to find someone to come over and discuss how to solve those piecemeal things."
"When the work is done, it's time to go to bed."
Li Chengqian looked at Zhang Naikuan and said, "In your eyes, my father has three palaces, six courtyards, and thousands of concubines."
"But do you know those people can be touched and those people cannot be touched?"
"If you touch a woman from the Wang family today, the Zhang family will be dissatisfied tomorrow."
"If I touch a woman from the Luo family tomorrow, the Hu family will be dissatisfied again."
"Just thinking about who to sleep with every day is enough to worry me."
In the eyes of outsiders.
The emperor is extremely beautiful.
The power of the world is in his hands, and there are countless beauties in the three palaces and six courtyards.
You can eat whatever you want with delicacies from mountains and seas.
Li Chengqian thought the same way once upon a time.
But is this really the case? > Li Shimin is considered one of the most outstanding emperors in ancient and modern times.
But is he really that beautiful?
If you want to go to war, you have to ask the Ministry of War and the ministers.
If you want to travel, you have to look at the current situation in the world and ask the ministers if they agree.
If you want to eat something, you have to consider whether the people in the world will say that you are extravagant.
If you want to pamper a woman, you have to consider whether she will attract the envy of others.
Especially the last point made Li Chengqian feel very sad.
As a man, as a human being.
Whether you love someone or not, you have to look at other people's faces.
What's the point of living then?
But there is no way.
Who is called, he is the emperor?
From the moment he sat on the throne, he completely lost his freedom.
Before you do anything, you must first think about the world, the people, and the current situation within the court.
Li Chengqian shook his head and sighed: "This is not the life I want. This is the truth."
"I can even tell you something clearly."
"I don't value power. As long as my father has a candidate, I can give up the throne at any time."
Zhang Naikuan pursed his lips: "Does it make sense for Your Highness to tell me these things?"
"It makes no sense."
"I'm not telling you this to complain."
Li Chengqian patted Zhang Naikuan on the shoulder and said, "I just want to tell you that my father is very tired, and my father is also very tired."
"You people have suffered through the same experiences as my father."
"He wants to do well for you, and I also want to do well for you."
"As long as you are willing to calm down, I will definitely guarantee that you will be prosperous and wealthy for the rest of your life."
Li Chengqian paused and said, "But it's not because I'm afraid of you, but because you have merit."
"So, don't think that you can do whatever you want with this merit."
"Because there are many people who have greater achievements than you. Whether it's Uncle Cheng or I, the emperor, who doesn't have greater achievements than you?"
"But have you seen them oppressing the people? Have you seen them dragging down as many as 2,500,000 to 80,000 people a day?"
Zhang Naikuan was stunned and did not answer.
He also had nothing to say.
"okay."
"I came here to see if you were dead."
"I didn't expect you to be so excited that you said so much at once."
Li Chengqian pressed Zhang Naikuan's shoulder: "Nothing else, don't think too much, just have a good rest."
"At least until I find out these things, you are still my official in the Tang Dynasty."
After saying this.
Li Chengqian stepped out of the courtyard.
Zhang Naikuan was stunned and did not move for a long time.
…
Out the door.
Wang Fang greeted him.
Facing Li Chengqian, Wang Fang's lips wriggled, looking like he was hesitant to speak.
Obviously, he heard what Li Chengqian and Zhang Naikuan just said.
Li Chengqian chuckled and said, "If you have anything to say, just say it."
"My subordinates just don't understand."
Wang Fang cupped her hands and said, "Why would your Highness waste your time with someone like Zhang Naikuan?"
Li Chengqian smiled slightly when he heard this.
"in your opinion."
"I should just kill people like Zhang Naikuan, right?"
Wang Fang said nothing.
But his expression said it all.
He is a charlatan.
Doing things straightforwardly depends on your heart and preferences.
He really couldn't understand why Li Chengqian said those words to a guy like that.
Wouldn't it be better to just cut down this thing that oppresses the people?
"Before I answer your question."
"Let me ask you a question first." Li Chengqian and Wang Fang walked forward and asked with a smile: "Do you know how many people my father brought out from Liangzhou?"
Wang Fang was startled, shook his head and said, "I don't know, please let Your Highness know."
Li Chengqian raised his head slightly and said: "A total of 118,000 people."
"They traveled all the way to the south and to the north."
"We fought against the princes in the late Sui Dynasty and even resisted the invasion of the Northern Desert Turks."
"In the end, fewer than 12,000 people survived."
"The remaining 100,000 men died on the way to war."
Don’t you see, Qinghai Tou has no one to collect the bones from ancient times.
War is not a good thing.
This is true for the country, and it is even more true for the people.
"These twelve thousand people."
"Except for those who go home."
"All of them have been assigned to serve as local officials in various places."
"In the past ten years or so, many people have branched out."
Li Chengqian looked at Wang Fang and said, "Can you clearly calculate how many people can be tied up in 12,000 families?"
Wang Fang pursed her lips: "At least tens of thousands..."
"That's at least."
"Marrying wives, marrying off daughters, dividing families and settling down, all kinds of things, together they number at least hundreds of thousands of people."
"As time goes by, these hundreds of thousands will become even more."
"Hundreds of thousands, nearly a million, or even more than a million."
"In the end, perhaps the entire Qinzhou, and even the entire Longyou, will become close relatives of these people."
Li Chengqian tilted his head and said, "So, do you think it's okay if I don't talk nonsense?"
What happened in Qinzhou does not represent a single person, but a huge interest group.
The heroes who fought with Li Shimin at the beginning are all watching.
They all wanted to see how Li Chengqian would deal with these heroes.
After all, even though Li Chengqian didn't want to, he was the future leader of the world.
His attitude also represents the future political policy after he succeeds to the throne.