Li Junwei did not hesitate at all, and a relaxed smile appeared on his face: "Is this a test or a joke? Maybe it's not, or maybe you are a little confused because of your excessive sadness?"

"I asked you very seriously, but I will only ask this once." Li Junhua said calmly, obviously he had thought about this matter carefully.

Li Junwei said bluntly: "Then I will answer you solemnly. I am not interested in being a crown prince. If I wanted to be an emperor, I would have acted twenty-five years ago. Since I was fifteen years old, the throne has no meaning to me, and now, power has no meaning to me.

Second brother, what I want to do has basically been done. Even if there is no accident, some things will only be a few years later."

"Don't worry too much, it's really not a temptation. You can still do what you want." Li Junhua held his younger brother's hand.

Li Junwei pulled his hand back and said, "Of course I believe in you."

As he said that, he was looking for the tribute platform, took two apples, threw one to his brother, and wiped the other and started chewing it, asking, "How could the second brother ask such a question? You are only forty-five years old, and you can marry another woman and have a few more princes.

To be honest, I really don’t understand you in this regard. If you are an ordinary person, being dedicated is a valuable quality, but you are the emperor. You should not put the country in danger because of your emotions, at least not provide people with the possibility of chaos.”

"I have already decided, don't mention it again. I'm sorry to Concubine Rong in this life and can't hurt the queen anymore." Li Junhua said.

Li Junwei shook his head slightly, but still didn't understand. When he urged the emperor to marry Concubine Rong, he just gave a solution and pushed him. The real decisive role was the empress dowager. It was precisely because of the empress dowager's continuous supervision and even forced him to do so that the emperor took that step.

Back then, Li Junwei and the Queen Mother thought that there were one or two things like this. No one expected that with Concubine Rong, there would be no other one. Even after giving birth to a prince, Concubine Rong had nothing to do.

"You don't want to pass the throne to my son, right? Or, which brat do you like, Zhaoyu?" Li Junwei asked when he thought of a possibility. Although his eldest son, Li Zhaoyu, was twins from his second son, Li Zhaocheng, had completely different personalities. Li Zhaocheng was just a naughty guy, exactly the same as Li Junwei when he was a child, while Li Zhaoyu was a copy of the emperor. He was calm, experienced in doing things, smart and studious.

Because Li Junwei has been away for many years, children from the King Yu lineage grew up in the palace. Among all the children in the King Yu’s mansion, Li Junhua’s favorite is Li Zhaoyu.

"I do like Zhaoyu, but it's not that level. I just don't want to get entangled in things like women anymore."

"I didn't let you get entangled. Find a woman who is very similar, choose a day to enter the palace, drink some wine and take some medicine, and you'll be covered with eyes, and you'll get a shot in twenty minutes. The next year, the child screams. You don't have to feel sorry for that woman. In this world, there are as many vain women as lustful men. Let's find a vain person. She is asking for a concubine position, and what we want is a prince, so let her take care of her child and not care about her upbringing.

Just like me, I used to be a mess outside, so I looked for the kind of clichéd vain woman. She was good at my money and status, so I just greedy for her body and get what she needed." Li Junwei said casually.

Li Junhua shook his head slightly, but his attitude was very firm. Li Junwei grinned and pointed to his crotch and said, "Second brother, you won't have any hidden secrets."

"It's getting more and more shaped." Li Junhua glared at Li Junwei.

"Then what are you worried about?"

"Because it doesn't make sense, even if I have a child in my hand now, when he is twenty years old, I am already sixty-five. Not everyone is sure to live to sixty-five. Instead of spending that, it's better to raise your child directly."

Li Junwei pointed at Gongtai and said, "Don't make trouble. This is not just inheriting the family property. Just adopt a nephew. That's the throne. I won't say anything else. If my son really becomes the emperor in the future, who will be the two of us? "

Li Junhua shook his head and said, "I am a little tired. I have been the emperor for almost thirty years. Maybe I should abdicate. If you are willing to be the crown prince, maybe in two years, I can go back to the countryside like my father."

"Didn't the second brother do a good job as an emperor? Why are you tired?"

Li Junhua asked: "Is it really good? Third brother, I can no longer remember when the last time my father and I discussed government affairs with me."

Li Junwei was stunned at first, and then quickly understood that for an emperor like Li Junhua who was promoted to the throne, the satisfaction of life came largely from his father's praise and recognition, but Li Mingxun had never given him this.

"That's because what you do is beyond the father's imagination. He thinks that he can't do better than you in power, so he will naturally not give you any advice. For an emperor, if he can't give advice to his heirs, then he will be pointing fingers. From the father's perspective, if he can't give advice to his children, he will be guided by his children. Wouldn't it be embarrassing?" Li Junwei said with a smile.

"You are still so comfortable." Li Junhua smiled.

Li Junwei shook his head and said firmly: "I'm telling the truth. My father once said that if the elder brother inherited the throne, you would be banned in a yard to plant flowers and grow grass, and I would make the court so messy. If I had inherited the throne at the beginning, by this time of the thirty-nine years of the empire, maybe you and I would be like the current Queen Anne of England, dragging their fat body, just looking for some confidants to play cards and chat every day.

Only you, the second brother, created a prosperous era on the foundation left by his father, but he still held the authority of this empire. The helmsman of this giant ship is still the emperor."

The reasons for Li Junwei's competition for the throne were complicated, including but not limited to his love for his father and brother. His personality was due to his own personality, but another important reason was his dissatisfaction with the future emperor's life. Of course, the last point was mainly influenced by Li Mingxun.

When Li Mingxun was elected as emperor but failed to implement the feudal monarchy, the emerging bourgeoisie quickly entered the center of power and occupied a dominant position in the economic and legal fields of the empire. At that time, Li Mingxun's judgment on the future was that the dominance of the royal family over the empire would slowly be lost, from at least thirty years to fifty years, the emperor would become a void king, the nominal head of state.

Li Junwei felt that if it was thirty years, he might have to be seized during his reign. If it was fifty years, he would probably have to look at which capitalists play with his descendants in his later years. This would be so painful for him who could only take advantage but not suffer losses.

But now, the Supreme Emperor Li Mingxun's judgment on the situation was completely wrong. At least by the 39th year of the empire, Li Junhua had succeeded to the throne for nearly 30 years, and imperial power was still the supreme authority of the empire.

As the second emperor, Li Junhua maintained a rather delicate balance between concentrating his efforts on feudal imperial power and developing the productivity of the bourgeoisie. This requires superb political wisdom, strong patience and precise operating methods. Li Mingxun and Li Junwei are not lacking in political wisdom and means. What the father and son lack is patience.

Li Junhua can engage in long-term dealings with bourgeois upstarts in the court, compromise within the bottom line and principle, and launch a counterattack with legitimate and legal means to maintain the influence of imperial power on the empire, and not harm the legal system and civil rights established in the empire for decades.

Li Mingxun obviously did not have this patience. During his ten years as emperor, almost all internal affairs were handed over to his adopted son Li Hai. He was not concerned at all. In the face of the bourgeois seizing power, Li Mingxun would directly use violent means such as the Security Bureau.

In order to clear the remnants of the literati and officials, Li Mingxun instructed the ministers to engage in literary inquisitions and to deal with the bourgeoisie's seizure of power, he also mobilized various departments to check tax bills. In short, if you can reason, you can reason, and if you can't speak, you can use means.

If Li Junwei was the emperor, he would probably go on this path. Even Li Junwei would be more extreme because he lacked patience and always maintained a flexible moral bottom line in his work, that is, there was no bottom line. At the same time, his mind was somewhat insufficient compared to his father and brother. Li Mingxun felt that if his youngest son became emperor, he would either be seized by capitalists in his long-term rule and become a country like Britain in later generations, or he would establish a **** political system with military honors as the main body, and become Japan in later generations.

It can be said that among the four sons of the Li family, only Li Junhua is the best emperor.

In the era of the Supreme Emperor, in order to balance the growing bourgeois power, Li Mingxun used the balance with nobles, but it was inevitable that after the military aristocrats such as nobles gradually took the opportunity to develop from the assets and class aristocrats.

In Li Junhua's era, he took many measures, such as opening up the jurisdiction of the Lifanyuan, the imperial state-owned enterprises, and the state-owned assets management departments to the noble class, which gradually became the private lands of the nobles. Although the nobles could not be completely organized to become the new bourgeois aristocracy, it could create a gap between them and the capitalists.

Another thing is to deepen the concept of the independence of the three powers of the judicial and administrative powers. The empire does not separate the three powers, but must be independent of the three powers. Capitalists have an absolute advantage in the legislative system because they can always easily become local councillors, but the other two power systems are strictly controlled. For example, all immediate relatives and in-laws of the parliamentarians are not allowed to serve in the administration and military system, and the appointments of several judges of the Supreme Court of the Empire are controlled by the emperor.

These people cannot be born into nobles, but must keep a distance from capitalists. For example, if you want to enter the Supreme Court, you must have a case of "please for the people" in your past resume. This pleading for the people is targeted both the nobles and capitalists.

Both Li Mingxun and Li Junwei admire Li Junhua's political skills very much, but the two agreed that this balance would not last long.

Because military nobles took charge of the vassal states, the rule of law in the vassal states has not been completely implemented. Because the large number of nobles flocked to state-owned enterprises, the already rigid system and inefficient state-owned enterprises became even worse. Except for some state-owned enterprises of monopoly nature, most enterprises actually had very low profit margins and could not even achieve balance of income and expenditure.

The most representative one is the imperial steel enterprises. At the same scale, the profits are only 20% to 30% of the private steel enterprises, and there is almost no innovation ability. Every year, a lot of profits have to be spent on private steel plants to purchase new patents to maintain production efficiency.

However, after the reform of the foreign vassal states, Li Junhua found another kind of power to balance capitalists and played a huge role in the past decade. This is - the capitalist's worker grandfather!

The industrialization of the empire has created a huge group of workers. For example, the empire had as many as 750,000 textile workers, and it is difficult to count workers from all walks of life. Although the working class is still pitiful compared to the empire's huge population, it is much larger than the capitalist group.

Li Junhua directly authorized all state-owned enterprises in the empire to establish trade unions to safeguard workers' rights and interests. Then the trade unions absorbed workers from private enterprises on a large scale. Industry trade unions gradually emerged, such as the Imperial Textile Industry Trade Union. With the support of the emperor, the trade unions dared to put forward various conditions to the capitalists. Compared with the power struggle between nobles and capitalists, the proletariat and capitalists are fundamentally opposed, and there is no need to find a way, and it is impossible for them to integrate, except for workers. Of course, the exception is the thief.

Therefore, in recent years, the treatment of imperial workers has steadily increased, and political voices have become increasingly louder. Even the profit rates of state-owned enterprises have improved due to the improvement of workers' status. Just last year, Li Junhua also cleared out some bad apples and people who are indifferent to the situation. These nobles no longer hold management positions and instead invest in shares to become shareholders.

Of course, Lee Myung-hoon also knew that his son was not seeking benefits for the working class at all, but just using the working class. But this change still makes people feel happy, at least the power of the working class is increasing.

So by this time, Li Mingxun didn't know what path the empire would go. After careful deduction, he really couldn't think of a similar template in the original world.

However, both Li Junwei and Li Mingxun knew that His Majesty the Emperor had changed from dancing on two eggs to dancing on three eggs, and the skills required were even more difficult. Li Junwei felt that he could not be the emperor.

"Second brother, for the sake of the empire and for our nation, you should indeed find an excellent heir. But certainly it won't be. I can't do anything like you. As for your offspring, I still suggest you marry another newborn. Of course, I can't force you.
Chapter completed!