Although Li Ke's voice was very soft, it was still heard by Concubine Yang.
Concubine Yang's face changed and she asked: "Ke'er, do you still have illusions about the emperor? Didn't you promise me that you would be an idle prince with peace of mind? Did you listen to someone's instigation?"
Of course she knew about Li Ke's ambition. After her persuasion, Li Ke promised that he would not compete for the throne. But what Li Ke just said made her know that Li Ke's ambition had not subsided.
When she married Li Shimin, Li Shimin was just the king of Qin. She did not know that Li Shimin would become emperor in the future. For the sake of Li Ke's future, she taught Li Ke very carefully.
As for her other son Li Min, Li Shimin was already the emperor when he was enlightened. In order to protect him, Concubine Yang neglected to teach and indulged in everything.
Li Min is not old now, but he often causes trouble. Even so, Concubine Yang does not think there is anything wrong with it. Instead, it is the sensible Li Ke who gives her a lot of headaches.
As a princess of the former dynasty, I can best understand the bloody road to power. Once you fail, your head will be gone.
She has no ambitions, she just wants her two sons to live safely.
Over the years, former Sui ministers secretly sent her many messages to support Li Ke in his bid for the throne, but she never paid attention to them.
Seeing that Li Ke had such thoughts now, Concubine Yang felt that it was probably those former Sui ministers who had secretly contacted Li Ke.
"Mother, since you know the dangers of fighting for the throne, you should understand that the child will not be safe if he does not fight for the throne." Li Ke looked at Concubine Yang and said.
He doesn't value that position very much, but as he said, even if he doesn't fight for it, will others believe it?
So many lessons learned from the past forced him to fight.
Destiny is only in your own hands. If you continue to endure it, you will be punished in the end, and it will be too late to regret it.
"You are arguing, what are you arguing about? The Queen is kind and generous, allowing you and Min'er to be raised under my knees, and she has never done any harm to the concubines in the harem, so she is harmless to humans and animals? The more such a person uses tricks,
The more terrifying it is. Once you show signs of wanting to fight for the throne, do you think she will let you go?" Concubine Yang said.
We all know that polygamy was practiced in ancient times. In fact, monogamy was also practiced in ancient times. Although some people married equal wives, there was always only one legal wife.
Normally, even if a concubine gives birth to a child, she is not qualified to support it. The concubine will be raised by the legal wife. This is the legal wife's rights and obligations.
Ordinary people are like this, so of course it goes without saying that the royal family is like this.
But Changsun Wuji did not make such a request, and instead asked their respective biological mothers to raise them by themselves.
Only those whose biological mothers died early will be raised by the eldest grandson Queen and treated as her own children.
But Concubine Yang knew that Queen Changsun was not as harmless as she usually saw.
Not to mention that if someone competes with her son for the throne, Empress Changsun will definitely use thunderous means to eliminate this risk.
"Mother, there are many former Sui ministers in the court. For mother's sake, they will naturally support their sons. Why can't we fight?" Li Ke said unconvinced.
"Shut up." Concubine Yang scolded: "Don't mention such words again."
It was the first time that Li Ke saw Concubine Yang so angry, so he quickly said: "Yes."
Concubine Yang looked at Li Ke and asked, "Have you contacted them?"
Li Ke was silent. He wanted to fight for the throne, so he naturally needed someone to support him. If those people came forward, he would naturally accept them.
Concubine Yang said earnestly: "Ke'er, do you think those people support you because they care about Sui? They support you for their own interests. Don't be fooled by them."
If those former Sui ministers were really so obsessed with the Sui Dynasty and so loyal.
Why did you defect to Datang in the first place?
When the Sui Dynasty fell, there were many people who died for the country. Those people were loyal to the Sui Dynasty.
Now they express their attitude to support Li Ke, just because they have lost power in the court and want to wait for Li Ke to take over and regain power.
Li Ke disagreed. What was the purpose of those people? Is it important?
He needs someone to support him now, no matter what the purpose of those people, as long as they can help him.
Seeing Li Ke's expression, Concubine Yang knew that he hadn't listened, and said angrily: "If nothing else, your father is in his prime, but those former Sui ministers are getting old, and they will have turned into corpses by then.
It's rotten. Those people already have no power. How much power will they have when the older generation dies? What do you think they can do to help you?"
"Mother, these sons and ministers naturally know that they just want to use them to cultivate their own power." Li Ke said.
Concubine Yang frowned and scolded: "Why are you so obsessed with ghosts? Do you think your father doesn't pay attention to those people? I'm afraid your father already knows about your dealings with them. Your father doesn't
When you have an attack, you just think it’s a trivial matter. If you don’t repent and only think about going down this road until it’s dark, you should understand what will happen when the time comes.”
"Mother, I understand. I will cut off contact with them when I return." Li Ke quickly assured.
When Concubine Yang saw what Li Ke said, her expression softened a lot, and she said, "I hope you won't lie to me. You have a prince, and you will have endless glory and wealth in this life. I only hope that you can live in peace."
In Concubine Yang's view, as long as Li Ke and Li Min have no intention of competing for the throne, even if Li Chengqian wants to purge brothers who threaten him after he succeeds to the throne, he will only purge his direct brothers.
In order to show his ambition for the throne, Li Chengqian not only would not take action against Li Ke and his half-brothers, but would treat them favorably.
Isn't that the case with Li Shimin? Of his four direct brothers, except for Li Xuanba who died young, he killed the other two.
But Li Shimin didn't do anything to Li Yuan's other sons.
Some of Li Yuan's remaining sons were naughty, often bullying men and dominating women, and causing trouble, but Li Shimin was very tolerant to them.
Concubine Yang was right to have this idea, but she looked at Changsun Wuji.
Historically, except for Li Zhi who became emperor, none of Li Shimin's sons had a good ending.
Except for a few who died young, Li Chengqian and Li Tai were demoted, the rest of the sons, after Li Zhi succeeded to the throne, either rebelled or were implicated, and were either demoted to commoners or executed.
Although these were all done by Changsun Wuji, Changsun Wuji dared to do this without Li Zhi’s permission?
Not every emperor cares about his reputation in history books as much as Li Shimin.
"Mom, I understand." Although Li Ke did not agree with Concubine Yang's point of view, Concubine Yang's birthday would be in a few days, and he did not want to make Concubine Yang angry.
Concubine Yang's words also aroused Li Ke's vigilance. He planned to turn around and cut off contact with those former Sui ministers on the surface, and his future contacts would be very covert.
Seeing that Li Ke had finally changed his mind, Concubine Yang said, "I see you have lost weight. Did you suffer a lot in Shu?"
"Back to my mother, the weather in Shu is smooth, there are few natural disasters, the people are rich, and my children and ministers have not suffered much." Li Ke said with a smile.
"It's good that you don't have to endure hardship. This time, your father has given me permission to return to the fiefdom after the new year. During this period, you have nothing to do. Please help me teach your brother. As Min'er grows older, he becomes more and more unruly.
Your father is very unhappy, and I'm afraid that if this continues, he will cause big trouble." Concubine Yang said.
Although she hoped that Li Min would do nothing, she was afraid that Li Min would be too naughty and cause trouble. She really pitied the hearts of parents in the world.