Young Master Liu stopped in the study room and was lost in thought for so long that he forgot.
It wasn't until Su An's soft voice that he came back to his senses. He glanced at the setting sun and Young Master Liu let out a soft breath. It turned out that he had been standing there for so long.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty wanted to take a nap before calling you in, but he didn't expect to fall asleep for more than an hour."
"Your Majesty is applying cold water to your face, please let us invite you in, Your Majesty."
"good!"
Following Su An into the imperial study room again, several lights had been lit in the hall, illuminating the slightly dim hall with bright lights.
Li Ye walked out from behind the screen with an apologetic look on his face, with traces of water on his face that had not been wiped clean.
"Uncle, I'm really sorry for keeping you waiting."
"Having morning breakfast for two days in a row, Ye'er is not used to it yet, so she slept for so long all of a sudden."
Liu Mingzhi chuckled and shook his head: "It doesn't matter, Your Majesty, you are still young, so it is understandable that you can't bear the fatigue caused by the morning court. I remember that I sat in the Qinzheng Hall for the first time in the morning and fell asleep soundly."
"If it weren't for that early morning sleep, Chen and Wan...well...that's all, let's not mention the past like smoke!"
"Your Majesty, I will now give you a detailed explanation of the essential contents of the state policy and the state policy. Some trivial issues need to be studied by your majesty yourself."
Li Ye nodded hurriedly and sat on the dragon chair, looking as serious as if he was monitoring the master's teaching.
"Okay, I'll bother uncle."
Liu Mingzhi thought for a moment and spoke softly.
"The first strategy to strengthen a country is to make it rich. If the country is rich and the people are strong, then the world will be safe."
"The most important thing is the wealth of the country, but also the wealth of the people. If the people are rich, the country will be strong! If the people are rich, the country's prestige will rise, and the people will support it wholeheartedly. If the world is safe, the temple will be stable."
"At the end of the day, the small ones will be wealthy and official. However, the number must be carefully controlled, and the person must be chosen with discernment."
"If a good official is rich, he will be loyal and sincere; if a weak official is rich, he will be greedy and mediocre."
"Rich country, rich people, rich officials, all in one word!"
“Everything has its limits, and excess is dangerous.”
"The words of the sage..."
"I have already explained the outline of the first volume to Your Majesty in detail. Your Majesty can study the short articles in it yourself."
Li Ye nodded while the ink pen in his hand kept waving on the clean rice paper, and his slightly vigorous handwriting recorded every obscure and difficult sentence Mr. Liu said.
Seeing this, Liu Mingzhi nodded with satisfaction and looked at Li Ye with pleased eyes.
Suddenly being elected to the throne, Li Ye's imperial power was completely blank. Liu Mingzhi had been worried that Li Ye was too young and would listen to slander and harm the country and the people.
Now that he saw Li Ye being so thoughtful, Liu Mingzhi finally let go of his worries.
Seeing Li Ye stop writing, Liu Mingzhi cleared his throat.
"Volume 2, the art of controlling your subordinates!"
"A person with power has authority."
"People go to higher places, and water flows to lower places. The reason why people seek talents through courtesy is because of power and wealth."
"Of course power has its pros and cons."
"If good people use it, it will benefit the people of the world; if evil people use it, it will harm the country and the people."
"The heart is separated from the belly, and the good and evil of people can't be seen with just one glance."
"An honest official is not necessarily good, and a corrupt official is not necessarily evil."
"Clean people compete for fame, while corrupt officials pursue profit."
"Those who strive for fame are likely to be mediocre, but those who are greedy for money may not necessarily be talented."
“When looking at good and evil, the first thing to focus on is the government, then the people, and then the governance.”
"The government is full of loopholes, the people are in dire straits, the public security is in shambles, and clean water may not necessarily be good; the government is clear and clear, the people live and work in peace and contentment, the public security is stable, and those who are greedy for money may not be evil!"
"A clear stream is not motivated by money, but only cares about fame. It usually talks about one's own character, but when faced with danger, one dies to avenge the king. This kind of pure stream is a great evil..."
"Therefore, the first thing for a Machiavellian person is to use people, and the second is to weigh things up."
"You can control them and keep them. Those who cannot be controlled are either driven away or killed."
Li Ye was stunned as he recorded the movements, and looked at Young Master Liu with a solemn expression in surprise.
"Uncle, kill him? Is this too serious?"
Liu Mingzhi shook his head gently: "This is the next volume I want to tell His Majesty!"
"Imperial power!"
Li Ye looked at Young Master Liu blankly and murmured.
"Imperial power!"
"The emperor is revered, his face cannot be invaded, and his majesty cannot be violated."
"Dragon has reverse scales, if you touch it you will die."
"Your Majesty's reverse scale is the imperial power."
"If the imperial power falls aside, the country will decline and eventually perish."
"Imperial power is supreme, and the emperor is revered."
"In troubled times, you should use heavy rules. If you have no choice, killing can only solve all worries."
"but!"
"There are three kinds of killing."
"Kill them with your own hands, force them to death, and kill people with borrowed knives."
"Kill them with your own hands and force them to death. Not like an emperor, your Majesty will focus on the art of killing with a borrowed sword."
"What is meant by borrowing a knife to kill someone? Killing the right with the left and cutting the left with the right is the simplest technique of killing with a borrowed knife."
"How you use a sword to kill people in the court depends on whether your majesty can understand the trade-off technique mentioned in the previous volume."
"The simplest and clearest thing is the struggle between civil and military forces."
"A writer values wind, a warrior values wrist, both..."
The lights in the royal study were dim, Young Master Liu was explaining endlessly about the two books he had compiled, while Li Ye was bowing his head and swiping his pen. The rice paper on one side of the table had been stacked up to four fingers high.
Su An led four or five young eunuchs and stood not far from the two of them, holding several candles in their hands.
Once Su An saw that the candles around the table were burning lower and lower and the light was less conspicuous, she asked a few eunuchs to gently replace the candles next to them.
Liu Mingzhi seemed to be in a good state, his eloquence was like a river, his tongue was like a lotus flower, and he kept blurting out good words of gold and jade.
When his mouth was dry, Liu Mingzhi subconsciously picked up the teapot beside him and took a sip to moisten his dry throat, and then started talking again.
Whenever Young Master Liu drinks water, Li Ye always takes a moment to wipe the sweat from his forehead, hurriedly moves his sore wrist, and then starts writing again as Young Master Liu opens his mouth.
"The most important thing in governing a country is governing the people."
"When the people support the imperial court, the country will be stable. These contents are very similar to the descriptions in the first volume of the Zhen Guo Shu."
"But the volume on state policy lists the essential techniques for governing the people in more detail."
"The people can carry the boat, or they can capsize it."
"Your Majesty must control the scale well and never let the giant ship Dalong become unstable in the sea of people."
"The people's minds are at peace, and the stability of the people lies in food and clothing."
"If the people have no worries about food and clothing, then the world will be safe and sound, and the imperial court will be as solid as gold."
"This is the next strategy, the strategy to control the people."
"Controlling the people............"
Liu Mingzhi seemed to have forgotten the time. It was not until the sound of drums in the palace came that Young Master Liu came back to his senses and subconsciously glanced at the palace door.
Looking at the sky full of golden light, Mr. Liu exhaled slowly and wondered why the sun hadn't set yet.
Young Master Liu's eyes flashed past the few young eunuchs who were dozing off against the pillars of the palace. He looked startled and leaned towards the outside of the palace.
When he saw the rising sun in the east, Liu Dashao was slightly startled.
Realizing that the golden brilliance was not the afterglow of the setting sun, but the morning glow of the rising sun, Mr. Liu finally came to his senses.
He and Li Ye had been fighting each other for a whole night.
Why didn't I notice it at all?
"Uncle, go on, is it gone?"
Liu Mingzhi shook his head silently.
"Your Majesty, it's dawn, we've been talking all night."
Li Ye looked stunned and hurriedly walked out of the dragon case and ran towards the palace door.
Looking at the rays of the rising sun in the east, Li Ye began to murmur absently.
"How come it goes by so fast!"
Liu Mingzhi walked towards the palace door and stopped half a foot behind Li Ye to look at the morning glow.