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Chapter 58 Li Shimin's Stain

(Thanks to Dreams for 1500 of Feixiang 119... Saturday... Time flies so fast. I'm going to eat hot pot. The second time I'm eating hot pot. The first time I went to Zhongshan Pedestrian Street to eat Dai Mei. I remember eating it for 229 yuan. Dai Mei's lemonade is so delicious, but unfortunately I can't drink too much...hehehe...!)

"snort...!"

Seeing Shao Qing and others leaving like running away, our little princess here snorted coldly.

Li You walked over with a smile: "Okay...Okay... Everyone has eaten and fought, and the money is easy to make. Let's go to work now... As for the five hundred documents...!"

"I'll give it to the five hundred documents..." Li Mingda waved his hand very proudly.

Li You smiled and said nothing. More than 300 craftsmen hurriedly bowed to Li Mingda to thank him and followed Huan to work happily. However, Li Mingda came to Li You with a little depressed feeling.

"What's wrong..." Li You asked Chunniang, Xiao Yan, and Xiao Baoer to leave first, followed him to Li Mingda, squatted beside the little guy and asked.

"Fifth brother... do you think the fourth brother and the eldest brother can live in peace?"

Li Mingda's question made Li You stunned. To be honest, Li You really didn't know how to answer Li Mingda, because Li You, as a modern person, is very clear about Li Chengqian and Li Tai, and these two people have no way to live in peace.

The root of all this is actually Li Shimin.

Li Chengqian was very smart when he was young. At that time, Li Shimin arranged for Li Gang to give lectures to Li Chengqian. Li Chengqian respected his teachers and was deeply appreciated by Li Shimin. When Li Chengqian was 12 years old, Li Shimin asked him to handle government affairs. Every time Li Shimin toured, Li Chengqian was supervising the country.

However, when Li Chengqian grew up, his temperament changed drastically. He was addicted to the enjoyment of sensuality and sex and was very rebellious, as if he had changed his own person. This change was related to Li Shimin's strict requirements.

Li Shimin was a monarch with a sense of crisis, which was related to the historical environment at that time. Since the Han Dynasty, China's history has been in a state of division. Only the Western Jin and Sui Dynasty had a brief unification of the world, but the lifespan of these two dynasties was very short. The Western Jin Dynasty collapsed after only 37 years of unification of the world. The Sui Dynasty only went through 31 years to unification of the world. Will the Tang Dynasty become the next fallen dynasty?

In fact, Li Shimin had no idea, so he sighed that "water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn the boat." This also prompted Li Shimin to work hard to govern, hoping to build a long-term dynasty regime.

Li Shimin's sense of crisis also made him strictly demand the Crown Prince Li Chengqian. He placed his hope of continuing the dynasty on Li Chengqian, but this put great pressure on Li Chengqian.

As he grew older, Li Chengqian became a "two-faced man". According to the records of "Old Book of Tang", when he was in court, he promoted the way of loyalty and filial piety in front of Li Shimin. When he returned to the Eastern Palace, he began to play with his favorite ministers and concubines.

Whenever the ministers of the Eastern Palace advised him, Li Chengqian sat upright and looked painful to blame himself. In order to prevent Li Shimin from knowing his own affairs, he only secretly sought pleasure in secret.

However, this style of doing things that disobey and disobey also made Li Chengqian feel fear and nervous when facing Li Shimin. He also hated his father's expectations more and more, and became very painful.

If Li Shimin knew his mistake at this time, he might have saved it. Unfortunately, Li Shimin did something even more wrong, and that was because of Li Chengqian's style of conduct, Li Shimin gradually gave up on Li Chengqian and instead wanted to make his second son, King Wei, Li Tai, the crown prince.

In fact, Li Shimin's dissatisfaction with Li Chengqian was reflected in the tenth year of Zhenguan. This year, Li Shimin conferred 17 children as kings. In addition to the five people who were left behind because of their young age, Li Tai was also left in Chang'an at that time. Since then, Li Tai and Li Chengqian each developed their own power.

Although during the ten-year feudal period of Zhenguan, 17-year-old Li Tai was older, but Li Shimin insisted on staying in Chang'an. This behavior is a manifestation of Li Shimin's inner thoughts.

After that, Li Shimin issued another order, asking Li Tai to open a literature museum to recruit bachelor's degree. In fact, it has a deep meaning. Li Shimin himself set up a literature museum during the reign of Emperor Gaozu of Tang and won over a group of literati as his advisers, such as Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others. These people later participated in the Xuanwu Gate Incident and made great contributions to Li Shimin's ascension to the throne. The opening of the literature museum undoubtedly encouraged Li Tai's desire to fight for the throne.

In the 14th year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin personally visited Li Tai's residence in Yankangfang, exempted the people of Yankangfang from renting for one year, and rewarded officials and elderly people from the Wei Palace. He pardoned the death row prisoners in Chang'an County where Yankangfang was located.

In the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, the "Kuodizhi" edited by Li Tai was completed. Li Shimin was very happy and rewarded Li Tai with more wealth than Li Chengqian, which caused the advice of the court ministers.

Li Shimin continued to support Li Tai, which made Li Tai's ambitions expand. He gathered the descendants of heroes in the early Tang Dynasty, thus forming a party, mainly composed of more than 20 people including Chai Lingwu, Chai Shao's son, Fang Xuanling's son Fang Yiai, Du Ruhui's brother Du Chuke, etc. These people made suggestions for Li Tai's battle for the throne.

It gradually made Li Tai's behavior known to everyone, but there was only one person who didn't know it, that was Li Shimin. He always trusted Li Tai very much and naively thought that Li Tai would be his King of Wei.

It can be said that... Li Shimin's biggest stain should be that he dealt with his son's throne. A man who stepped onto the throne with ten thousand people actually naively thought that fish and bear's paw could have both, which was simply a big deal.

Li You looked at Li Mingda's frowns, squatted down gently, and then let Li Mingda sit on his lap, then smiled and looked at Li Mingda: "Shizi...What are you saying... Of course, the eldest brother and the fourth brother can live in peace, so don't you worry. Your Majesty is already doing it, right? Don't you believe Your Majesty... As long as your Majesty takes action, there is nothing that cannot be done. Soon, the eldest brother and the fourth brother will become the same as before.

In this way... when the next time Ishizi celebrates her birthday, my fifth brother will help you get your eldest brother and fourth brother together to celebrate your birthday. Do you think you are good..."

"Really..." Li Mingda looked at Li You's little eyes widened a little.

"Of course it's true...you don't worry... by the way...why don't we go back now and eat cherries." Li You quickly changed the topic.

Fortunately, Li Mingda also smiled at this time: "Well... go eat cherries."

Li You thought he had successfully shifted the topic, but what Li You didn't know was that after Li You stood up with a smile, Li Mingda sighed slightly above the corner of his mouth.

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I just returned to my home in Xishi, and after a while, a carriage stopped in front of the door.

Then he walked out of the carriage, with a big waist and a round waist, a burly figure, but he was dressed as a scholar, and his burly body was about to squeeze out the scholar's uniform on his body.

This visitor is nothing else, but Li Tai's right-hand Fang Yiai.

He was very familiar with Yizi. Because Fang Yiai was not only Fang Xuanling's son, but also Princess Gaoyang's son-in-law, so Fang Yiai, Li Mingda and Li You all knew each other. Li You watched Fang Yiai get off the car and probably knew that Shao Qing should have turned into a corpse now.
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