Chapter 583 Whoever wins the hearts of the people wins the world?
"My son is stupid, please forgive me." Li Chengqian was startled and knelt down quickly.
"stand up."
"The so-called person who wins the hearts of the people wins the world is a joke. When the Tang Dynasty unified the world, how many troops and people died at the hands of the Tang army when they attacked cities and villages. Do their families not hate our Li family in their hearts?"
"Does Qin win the hearts of the people by unifying the six kingdoms? Does the five chaos of China win the hearts of the people?" Li Shimin asked.
At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Eighteenth Route Army rebelled against the king and attacked each other. Among the soldiers who died in battle and the common people who were accidentally injured, who did not have family members?
Can they not hate the Li family?
This is simply impossible.
You can't tell those people's families that I killed them to calm the world as quickly as possible and give you a stable life.
In fact, the birth of any dynasty in ancient China was not chosen by the common people out of tenderness, but was fought with fists, armies, swords, guns, swords and halberds.
The establishment of any dynasty was not full of bloodshed, and which "world" was not deterred by a powerful army.
Without corpses lying everywhere and rivers of blood flowing, there would be no establishment of a new regime. This is the cold but real fact. If Liu Bang, Cao Cao, Kublai Khan, Zhu Yuanzhang, and Huang Taiji were asked to answer this question, they would definitely say in unison
Said: There is no shortcut to winning the world, only hard power.
The Mongolian and Yuan armies and the Qing army were both foreign races. When they invaded the Central Plains, they did not regard the Han people as human beings. The vast majority of the Central Plains people were afraid of them and did not recognize them at all. Therefore, they could never really win the hearts of the people, but in the end they still
Won the world.
Even the so-called "peaceful handover" of the Wei Dynasty to the Han Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty to the Wei Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty to the Zhou Dynasty was simply a show.
Where does the real concession come from? It is nothing more than name manipulation under the power of force.
This illustrates the truth that the establishment of a feudal dynasty, especially a foreign dynasty, has nothing to do with the people's hearts. It is nothing more than conquest, massacre, conspiracy, and intimidation.
But are people's hearts and minds really irrelevant to the regime? Of course they are. Not only that, the rise and fall of the regime is inextricably and directly related to the people's hearts and minds.
The premise of all this is that you must first become my people.
In history, even those foolish kings often ordered disaster relief when natural disasters occurred.
For what?
It's not like your own world can be stable.
"Being kind to the people can make the world stable, but that doesn't mean that being kind to the people will make you sit back and relax. You also need to be intimidated. Do you understand?" Li Shimin said.
"My son, I understand." Li Chengqian said.
Li Chengqian was already smart, but he didn't understand it before because of his long-term concepts.
Now that Li Shimin has made it so clear, he would be a fool if he still doesn't understand.
"Go ahead and let Li Junxian go with you." Li Shimin said.
"Yes, I will retire."
As soon as Li Chengqian left the Manlu Palace, he met Li Mu.
"See His Highness the Crown Prince." Li Mu saluted.
"Eunuch Li, there is no need to be polite." Li Chengqian waved his hand and left directly.
Li Mu walked into the Ganlu Hall, came to Li Shimin and saluted: "Your Majesty, the old slave has passed the oral instruction to His Majesty the King of Wei."
"I have something to go to Da'an Palace, and you will stay here. If Qingque comes, tell him that I have something to do and don't have time to see him." Li Shimin said.
He was afraid that when he saw Li Tai, he wouldn't be able to be cruel anymore.
Not long after Li Shimin left, Li Tai came to Ganlu Hall.
"I would like to inform Eunuch Li that I have something to do and I want to see my father." Li Tai said to Li Mu who was standing at the door.
"His Royal Highness the King of Wei, Your Majesty has an explanation. He is very busy and does not have time to see you." Li Mu said.
Li Tai's heart skipped a beat and his face turned pale.
Li Mu said this without asking. It was obvious that Li Shimin had expected that he would come.
Now Li Shimin doesn't even see him, which shows that there is no possibility of changing his status as a vassal.
"No, I can't give up like this." Li Tai roared in his heart and walked away.
Li Tai did not leave the palace, but went directly to the Li Zheng Hall.
He knew that the only person who could change Li Shimin's mind at this time was Queen Changsun.
Empress Changsun did not refuse to see him. After being notified, Li Tai was brought in.
"My sons, please see your mother." Li Tai bowed and saluted.
Empress Changsun smiled and said: "Qingque went back not long ago, why did he come again? Is there something important?"
"Mother, why did my father suddenly pass down an order to ask his son to become a vassal? Did his son do something wrong and make his father angry?" Li Tai asked.
Empress Changsun sighed. Although she was not involved in politics, many things in the palace could not be hidden from her.
"When the prince comes of age, he should go to the fiefdom. Li Ke will go too. Logically speaking, you should have gone last year. Your father couldn't bear to leave you and kept you for one more year. But you can't stay in Chang'an forever."
Queen Changsun said.
Although she also wanted her son to stay in Chang'an, she knew that this was the best outcome.
"I can't bear to part with my father and mother. Can my queen tell my father that I can honor you in Chang'an for a few years?" Li Tai's eyes were slightly red, with a look of reluctance.
"It is an ancestral precept that the harem must not interfere with politics. It is also an ancestral precept that the prince becomes a vassal when he reaches adulthood. What do you want the queen to say?"
"Okay, Yangzhou is a prosperous place, and the climate is very nurturing. You can go there with peace of mind. When the New Year comes, the Queen Mother will ask Your Majesty to let you come back to celebrate the New Year."
Although Queen Changsun's voice was gentle, her tone was unquestionable.
Seeing this, Li Tai knew that there was no hope for Empress Changsun, so she had to find another way.
"Yes, I will go back and pack my things first, and then come back to say goodbye to my father, the emperor, and my queen when I leave." Li Tai bowed and left.
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Da'an Palace
Li Yuan was playing mahjong with several concubines. Xiao Luzi came in and said, "This is for your Majesty's Majesty to see you."
"Six cakes." Li Yuan played his cards and said without looking back: "Let him come in."
Not long after, Li Shimin walked in.
"My sons and ministers see my father."
Li Shimin only saluted Li Yuan, but did not even look at Li Yuan's concubines beside him.
When the concubines stood up and were about to salute, Li Yuan said displeasedly: "Sit down and play cards, why are they going to salute me without looking at them? I am the biggest here."
The three concubines glanced at Li Shimin and saw that he had no expression, so they sat down.
When Li Yuan was in power, neither Li Jiancheng nor Li Shimin had any respect for the concubines in the harem.
Not to mention that Li Yuan is now under house arrest, and these women were all brought by Li Shimin to serve Li Yuan.
Whether it was to show off or because he felt guilty towards Li Yuan, even if he was short of money these years, he did not reduce Li Yuan's expenses. On the contrary, he chose many women for Li Yuan.
"Father, I want to talk to my father about something," Li Shimin said.
"I'm a bad old man, what's the point of living in this cage?" Li Yuan said absently while playing mahjong.
Li Shimin didn't say anything, just stood there.
"It's really troublesome." Li Yuan pushed down the cards in front of him and said, "You all should get out."