Chapter 274: Staying Up Late......
Wuzhuang Temple, Ersheng Palace, Shengji Palace, Imperial Study.
At this time, it is already two o'clock in the morning, that is, half past two in the morning, that is, the fourth watch, at this time, ordinary people have already gone to sleep, and even those who get up early may have gotten up, but the lights in the Holy Pole Hall are still flickering, Li Shimin is still sitting behind the bookcase and correcting the recital, looking at the burning lamp oil that has almost bottomed out, it is obvious that Li Shimin did not get up early, but stayed up all night.
"Your Majesty, it's already late at night, so you might as well rest for a while."
Wang Tingchu listened to the sound of beating outside, and a trace of unbearability flashed in his heart - of course, his unbearable was not aimed at Li Shimin, Li Shimin staying up all night is already commonplace, Wang Tingchu has even seen Li Shimin not rest for two days and two nights in a row, what is it to stay up one night?
What really made Wang Tingchu unbearable was another person - on the right side of the bookcase, there was a small table a little lower than Li Shimin's bookcase, and there was also a person sitting behind the desk, this person was Li Zhen, Li Zhen's table was also full of folds, and every time he finished correcting a copy, he would be presented to Li Shimin by the little fuzi next to him.
At this time, Li Zhen was already yawning, crumbling, and the whole person was already sleepy and almost lying on the table, but unfortunately he didn't dare to lie down, and he couldn't lie down - first of all, he was lying on the table in front of Li Shimin, which belonged to the loss of honor in front of the king, and he would definitely be reprimanded by Li Shimin, and the other point was ......
There is a nail board on the back of Li Zhen's chair and on the table in front of him, ensuring that as long as Li Zhen dares to lie down or lie down, the sharp nails can teach him to be a new person in minutes.
"Ah~ha~(__)(-.-)(~o~)...... (-.-) ......" let out a long yawn, and Li Zhen also followed: "Yes, father, it's already four watches, you better squint, you should go to court in a while." ” It's just that Li Zhen's pretending to be concerned was immediately recognized by Li Shimin: "What?
Sleepy?
” Looking at Li Shimin's smiling eyes, Li Zhen immediately became a lot more energetic, and denied it again and again: "Sleepy must be a little sleepy, but Erchen is still young, and it is nothing if you don't sleep all night, but father, you are different, not only have you been busy with the things of returning to Chang'an in the north during this time, but you have to stay up late at night to correct the twists, which is not good for your body." ” "Okay, just say it when you're sleepy, where is all that nonsense?
I am about to return to Chang'an, and these twists and turns will definitely be difficult to correct on the road, so I can only deal with them in Lingnan first, and only in this way can I rest assured that I can go on the road.
Li Shimin explained with a chuckle, and suddenly his voice changed: "Zhen'er, you should know the intention of your father to let you do this today, right?"
” "Hey, this emperor is really not easy to be, I knew that my son would not fight for the position of this prince."
Li Zhen sighed, of course he knew the reason why Li Shimin called him to stay up late with him - wasn't it that he was about to return to Chang'an, and he was not at ease about leaving himself here, so he planned to set an example and educate himself well, what should a qualified emperor do.
It's just that......
It seems that the excitement is a little too much, seeing Li Shimin staying up all night like crazy, Li Zhen is afraid in his heart - everyone says that the emperor is good, but in fact, the emperor is also distressed, it is difficult to distinguish between loyal ministers and traitors, and the harem can't bear to compete for favor, light the lamp and boil oil all night, and he has to go to court when he is seriously ill......
No wonder there were few emperors in ancient times who lived long, not that they didn't want to live long, but the environment as emperors was destined to make them live long, especially good emperors, who were a little short-lived.
"Father, what is the point of the sons and daughters fighting desperately for this prince?"
Thinking of her future hard life, Li Zhen felt that the future was dark: "I worry about national affairs every day, fight against hundreds of officials, and have to educate my children after I have children, and the competition for favor in the harem is even more dizzy......
Father, you say, what is good about this emperor?
I knew that Erchen would go directly to my free prince. ” Li Shimin's face sank, and he said: "What I said, the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, this was said by yourself and me, don't you plan to abide by it?"
Since you have the ability to be a good emperor, of course the prince can only fall on your head, otherwise why is Gao Ming still excellent, but I removed his crown prince against my will?
Isn't it just that compared to Gao Ming, you are more suitable?
What's more, the emperor also has a lot of benefits, and I won't tell you all about them, anyway, you have been by my side all the year round, and you know very well what the benefits are. ” "Hehe......"
In the face of Li Shimin's tasteless temptation, Li Zhen can only repay two hehe, of course he knows the benefits of the emperor, but those are not what he wants, although he has changed a lot after coming to the Tang Dynasty, but he is essentially the second generation of the little rich, the little rich is safe, and he doesn't have much ambition.
Seeing that Li Zhen didn't enter, Li Shimin's heart was crossed, and he said angrily: "In short, now that the position of the prince has fallen to your head, you should be the prince inappropriately." ” "That's a fact, forget it, let's continue to correct it."
Li Zhen shook her head and threw out her original idea, dreams are dreams, reality is reality, and in the face of reality, the so-called dream has to be compromised after all.
Not to mention that the current situation in Datang does not allow him to give up, otherwise it will be useless, I am afraid that this halfway through the construction of the idea will suddenly collapse, which will cause unparalleled damage to the foundation of Datang.
Not to mention that he is now the crown prince, he has already stood on the cusp, although there are many crises ahead, but behind him has already become an abyss, and there is no possibility of taking a step back.
Now the identity of this prince is not only a burden for him, but also his umbrella, otherwise if he dares to take a step back, those enemies who have already regarded him as a thorn in the flesh will definitely pounce on him and swallow him up completely, and will never give him a chance to start over.
Let's just say that Li Zhen's subordinates have countless supporters, and countless people expect him to ascend to the throne one day, and they can also soar from the dragon's strength, how can they allow Li Zhen to give up at this time?
"The emperor is not so easy to be, not only tired, but more importantly, you must always maintain absolute sobriety, as the emperor, you can be indifferent to everything, but you don't know that it may be because of an unintentional word, the people below will run and break their legs.
This is still light, the emperor made a decision, this is definitely not a joke, sometimes you may just say a word, and there will be countless heads falling to the ground below......"
"Thank you, father, my son has been taught."
Li Zhen knew that Li Shimin was reminding herself, and immediately bowed down to thank her.
"In addition, not only should we pay attention to our words and deeds, but also pay attention to our own folk image, Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Yang of Sui are obviously doing well, why are they discussed by the world, not because they are really bastard and cruel, more importantly, there are a bunch of people who secretly smear them, the emperor is high, and the people at the bottom can't reach it at all, their impression of the emperor is derived from these people, plus some emperors have indeed done a lot of wrong things, so the people's grievances accumulate, and when they erupt, that is, when the dynasty falls.
Fortunately, now that there is a newspaper in the mouthpiece of this emperor, the biggest taboo in my heart has finally been removed, at least with the newspaper, we can fight against them, even if those people want to discredit the court, with the newspaper to help me defend and want to black my image, it is not so easy for them. ” "Thank you father, my son understands."
Of course Li Zhen understands this, he is from the next generation, and he understands too well how important a good image is to himself, even those little stars know these truths very well, Li Zhen is now the prince of a country, of course he understands the truth better.
"Okay, since you're sleepy, go back and rest."
Li Shimin waved his hand and began to pick people up: "I called you over this time to let you experience the suffering of the emperor, since you understand these truths, then you can go back and rest." ” "No, the son should accompany his father."
Of course, Li Zhen couldn't just go back like this: "But your father, you are not younger than your son, it is better to rest for a while, and these twists and turns will be handed over to your son, and when the son's correction is completed, it will be handed over to your father and emperor to decide." ” "That's even worse, I'd better watch it with my own eyes, these twists and turns are all state affairs that need to be dealt with urgently, and they can't be sloppy at all."
Li Shimin said very solemnly: "Zhen'er, you have to remember that as an emperor, you don't have to bow down to everything, but there are some things you must know in your heart, especially like these state affairs, you must do it personally."
You must know that these things seem to be small things, very inconsequential, but in fact, these small things are placed at the national level to seem relatively small, in fact, everything may be related to the livelihood of tens of thousands of Li people, once the wrong decision is made, it is very likely to cause major disasters - it is with this conscientiousness that my father has reluctantly brought Datang to this point today. ” "What my father said is that my son understands."
Li Zhen said with a little admiration, although she does not recognize Li Shimin's concept, it does not mean that Li Zhen does not admire such a person - it is precisely because she can't do it, so she admires people who can do it.
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But worship is certainly worship, but this set of concepts is not what Li Zhen is willing to pursue, on the contrary, what he pursues is not to do it if he can, to do less if he can, and to do less if he can, only by delegating power can he live longer - you don't see Zhuge Liang during the Three Kingdoms period, you must bow down to everything, but you are tired to death, and Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty has not been in court for 20 years, but there is no chaos in the world.
Li Zhen can't be such a bastard as Emperor Jiajing, but if he wants him to be as diligent as Zhuge Liang, he doesn't even think about it, the court must be in his hands, this is certain, but he will never personally deal with the things that his subordinates can do.
"Wang Tingchu, remove the nail board from Zhen'er, let him rest for a while."
Knowing that Li Zhen didn't listen to his words, Li Shimin didn't mind, he knew that Li Zhen in the future would definitely be a peerless emperor, and the territory of the Tang Dynasty would be expanded to the largest in his hands, and the larger the territory, the more things to manage, especially the territory of new income, the ethnicity, religion and culture are different from the Tang Dynasty, and it is even more laborious to assimilate it.
In such a situation, a certain degree of decentralization is understandable, otherwise Li Zhen will not be able to serve as the emperor for a few days, and he may die of overwork.
"Thank you, Father."
Although Li Zhen didn't plan to sleep anymore, it still felt very uncomfortable to put something like a nail board in front of her, and now that it was removed, it looked much more pleasing to the eye.
"By the way, Father, what are you going to do with Hou Junji?"
Li Zhen casually opened a notebook, this is a memo to impeach Hou Junji, which lists the ten major crimes of Hou Junji, what corruption, what great rebellion, etc., and even the last one may be that he really can't find Hou Junji's crime, so he casually gave him a lascivious name - the reason is that Hou Junji's family has twelve beautiful concubines......
This is a bit excessive, except for some forced 'good men (such as Fang Xuanling)' these days, who doesn't have a few concubines?
Even Du Ruhui has more than one wife, there are more than 20 beautiful kings around Li Zhen, Li Shimin is known as the seventy-two concubines of the three palaces and six courtyards, and there are 3,000 beauties in the harem, if Hou Junji is considered lustful, then what are Li Zhen and Li Shimin?
Is it erotic?
Or a big breeder*?
casually flipped the fold to the end, and the person who saw the fold on the signature was called Qin Shousheng (really a good name)......
After putting forward Hou Junji's ten major crimes, he asked the imperial court to punish Hou Junji and raze the nine clans......
This request is very normal, Hou Junji is guilty of rebellion, even if Li Shimin remembers the old love, the people of the world will not agree.
It's just that these people's attitudes have changed too quickly, right?
Li Zhen clearly remembered that when Hou Junji went back to participate in the prisoner sacrifice ceremony last year, it could be said that there were many guests, and the guests who visited almost broke the threshold of his house.
As a result, now that Hou Junji has lost power, countless people have frantically pounced on him and trampled on him, eager to step him into the eighteenth layer of hell, especially those who are good friends with him on weekdays, and even call him brothers, they are the main force that tramples on him, and they are also the most resolute opponents of Hou Junji from Li Shimin's light departure - although Li Shimin has never thought about it this way.
I can understand that you want to break away from your relationship with Hou Junji at this time, but there are many ways to break out of the relationship, so why do you use this most vicious method?
Originally, Hou Junji was already a betrayal of his relatives, and now you have to step on it fiercely, hoping that he will never turn over - what about your discipline?
No wonder some people say that 'every time you slaughter more dogs, you always have a negative heart', although this is not absolute, but there is still a certain amount of truth.
Of course, Li Zhen can also understand, after all, Cai Yong's example is in that place - Dong Zhuo was killed by Wang Yun, because Dong Zhuo was kind to Cai Yong, so when everyone avoided Dong Zhuo, he went up alone and cried, and then Wang Yun grabbed the handle and killed him.
Not to mention whether Cai Yong cried Dong Zhuo or not a political show, and then Wang Yun saw through it, but there is no doubt that this incident has taught future generations a truth - that is, if the person you once relied on loses power, then you must not continue to keep in touch with him, otherwise, even if others verbally praise you for benevolence, they will definitely isolate you secretly.
Although he understands the actions of these people very well, Li Zhen really doesn't look down on their character, no matter what Li Shimin will do with Hou Junji, he has already written down the names of these people, this kind of unrighteous villain can be used, but it must not be reused......