Man Tanghong

Chapter 619 It is fair to govern people, but not to govern the country

Li Xiuning was not too polite, and after sitting on the couch generously, he washed in the copper basin held by Ma Sanbao and said, "Yes, you are majestic, you can not only scare people, but also scare animals."

Li Yuanji heard that Li Xiuning's tone was not right, he thought for a while and then smiled, "Did Chai Shao come to you to complain?"

Li Xiuning wiped her face with a sweat towel, put the sweat towel on the edge of the copper basin, slumped down comfortably on the couch, and said angrily: "I kindly asked him to help me share the pressure, and also help you share your worries." Well, it's fine if you don't thank them, but you still shout at them and sneer at them.

How do you tell me to face others in the future? "

Li Yuanji said with a smile: "So, he really came to complain to you?"

Li Xiuning glared at Li Yuanji and said, "He's not that boneless yet, Zhe Wei secretly told me when I returned home."

Li Yuanji smiled and said: "That's good. I thought he was so worthless. After I said a few words, I came to complain to you."

Li Xiuning stared, and said angrily: "No matter what you say, he is your brother-in-law, so can't you be more polite to him?"

Li Yuanji smiled and said with emotion: "I wanted to be polite to him, but what he did before really made me unable to be polite."

Li Xiuning sat up straight all of a sudden, and asked, "What's wrong with him? If I remember correctly, he never offended you."

Li Yuanji smiled and said: "If he offends you, he offends me. Whenever he helps you out once when father makes things difficult for you, I can give him a high regard.

But he didn't.

No matter when your father confiscated your military power and dispatched you to Weize Pass, or when you conquered Fu Gongyou and returned with a big victory, but was left in the cold by your father at the mansion, he never helped you out once, even Didn't stand up and say a word for you.

That alone makes it hard for me to think highly of him. "

Li Xiuning's face softened a little, and he said strangely: "Just because of this, you ridicule him? You just look at him everywhere? Isn't the matter of my father leaving me in the cold in the house already over?

You can't move him even now, isn't that enough? "

Li Yuanji was stunned for a moment, but was suddenly speechless.

It's not that he has nothing to say, but he found that his thinking has fallen into a misunderstanding.

Especially when it comes to Li Xiuning and Chai Shao.

He seemed to subconsciously demand Chai Shao according to the standards that future husbands would treat their wives, which made him disdain everything Chai Shao did to Li Xiuning.

This is not right.

He should not demand Chai Shao according to the standards that husbands treat their wives in later generations, because Chai Shao has never lived in later generations, and he does not know how husbands and wives get along with each other in later generations.

Using the standards of later generations to demand Chai Shao is tantamount to punishing the criminals of Tang Dynasty with the laws of later generations.

This is unfair and unjust, and there may even be situations where good people are entrapped.

After all, some crimes that need to be shot in later generations, or crimes that require huge consequences, may be innocent in Datang, or they may only be fined some money.

For example, burglary, in Datang, if you kill the thief on the spot, you don't need to bear any consequences, and maybe you will get some praise.

But in later generations, it depends on the situation. If the thief did not endanger the life of the homeowner, then the homeowner will face huge compensation if he kills the thief.

Another example is respecting the elderly. In the Tang Dynasty, unfilial piety was a felony, and beheading was considered a minor crime. If the circumstances were serious, it would harm the wife and children.

But in later generations, it also depends on the situation. If you treat the elderly badly, often abuse the elderly, or treat the elderly harshly, then you can only mediate, warn, and mediate.If you don't want to support the elderly, it is also mediation and let the children pay for it.If it is elder abuse, it will be held accountable.

But the vast majority of elderly people have selfless love for their children. Even if they are abused, when they learn that their children will be severely punished, they will intercede for them, and even simply say that all their experiences are theirs. It is caused by oneself and has nothing to do with the children, so that the children can escape legal sanctions.

This makes many unfilial children more rampant and unscrupulous.

This is impossible in Datang.

Don't say that you don't support the elderly, if you dare to scold the elderly, if the elderly goes to sue you for disobedience, you will lose your head.

As for elder abuse, I dare not even think about it.

But whenever this happens, and it becomes a big trouble, the village officials at the lowest level can be held accountable to the county magistrate in one go.

And all those who are held accountable will be dealt with strictly.

If the old man's life span exceeds seventy, the imperial court even has to send an angel to personally oversee it.

From the above examples, it can be seen that it is indeed unfair and unfair to use the standards of later generations to demand people of this era.

No wonder Li Xiuning felt weird.

Perhaps Li Xiuning still felt incomprehensible.

"If I were a pure ancient, I would probably feel that my behavior is a bit weird..."

Li Yuanji sighed in his heart, smiled and said to Li Xiuning: "Perhaps I, as a younger brother, care too much about you as a sister. So whoever wronged you, I want to repay you double."

Li Xiuning was stunned for a moment, then moved and said amusedly: "That can't be made worse. No matter how you say it, you have to think about your two nephews.

Do you want them to follow Chai Shao and live in your shadow for the rest of their lives? "

It was Li Yuanji's turn to be stunned.

Is this all a shadow?
Am I that scary?

"Be nicer to Chai Shao in the future, and better to your two nephews. They are your own nephews. If you don't look at Chai Shao's face, you have to look at mine."

When Li Yuanji was in a daze, Li Xiuning said something angrily.

When Li Yuanji came back to his senses and was about to agree, Li Xiuning said again: "Tell me, what do you come to see me for, won't there be any troubles for me to solve?"

Li Yuanji smiled and nodded, "It's really..."

Li Xiuning sat up straight, got up seriously, and said, "Is it the Turkic crime?"

Although Li Xiuning has been staying in Chang'an Xinglu since the coup in the palace, most of the affairs of the Tang Dynasty, especially military affairs, cannot be hidden from her.

As long as she wants to know, she can easily understand everything she wants to know.

She is very clear about the situation Datang is facing now.

It's just that Li Yuanji didn't look for her, and she couldn't take the initiative to come forward and ask for help.

After all, the previous few times when she took the initiative to come forward to help, she didn't end well. With the lessons from the previous few times, she became more cautious.

Li Yuanji nodded, then shook his head and said, "It's the Turkic people who committed the crime, but the matter I want to ask you to help has nothing to do with the Turkic people."

Li Xiuning raised her brows and said, "You already have a strategy to deal with the Turkic invasion?"

Li Yuanji nodded and said, "That's right, I've made a lot of arrangements, and I'm just waiting for the Turks to deliver them to my door."

Li Xiuning nodded thoughtfully and asked, "Then you come to me..."

Li Yuanji didn't wait for Li Xiuning to finish speaking and said, "I want you to come forward and ask Chai Shao to go to Hebei Road."

Li Xiuning stared subconsciously, and sat on the couch in a daze.

She couldn't believe her ears.

Li Yuanji came here to ask her to help invite Chai Shao out of the mountain, not to ask her to come out of the mountain?

After Li Xiuning was in a daze for a moment, his eyes fell on Li Yuanji.

Good brother, say what you just said again.

I'm not as good as Chai Shao, you actually asked him not to invite me?

"you are not willing?"

Li Yuanji didn't know what Li Xiuning was thinking, seeing Li Xiuning staring fixedly at him, he couldn't help asking.

"You wait!"

Li Xiuning slowly raised her hand, and while smoothing her thoughts, she said: "I'm not as good as him, why did you ask me to invite him, but not me?
And if you invite him, why don't you go to him directly, instead come to me? "

Li Yuanji didn't expect Li Xiuning to think so, and he said dumbfoundedly: "I wanted you to go to hell, but you went to Hebei Road, and Xie Shufang was left alone in Chang'an City.

I'm afraid that Xie Shufang will be too lonely to support.

As for why I didn't go directly to Chai Shao, but ran over to you, it was also caused by my cynicism and ridicule of Chai Shao.

He is avoiding me now and refuses to see me. If I go to him directly, he will probably find various excuses to avoid seeing me.

But now that the situation in Hebei Road is critical, I don't have so much time to go back and forth with him. "

After listening to Li Yuanji's words, Li Xiuning couldn't turn his head around for a while. After a long silence, he thought through what Li Yuanji said, and then said with a serious expression: "You let Xie Shufang and I sit in Chang'an City, is that right?" Are you guarding against the Turks?"

Li Yuanji nodded without hesitation.

Li Xiuning stared and said: "You mean that the Turkic people are likely to split into two groups, going to the line from Youzhou to Shizhou, and going down from Xiaoguan?"

Li Yuanji nodded again and said, "Not bad!"

Li Xiuning said in a deep voice: "Then you should shrink your troops as soon as possible to defend Chang'an City, instead of sending out the soldiers and horses in Chang'an City. If the Turkic people really break through Xiaoguan, they will definitely invade in a large scale, and the number of soldiers and horses will definitely not be small. .

If you don't prepare enough troops to deal with it, Chang'an City will be in danger.

So not only can you not send out the soldiers and horses in Chang'an City, but you have to find ways to bring back some soldiers and horses outside Chang'an City. "

In the eyes of Li Xiuning, and even everyone in Datang, Chang'an City is the face of Datang, which must be preserved, and some border cities can be sacrificed for this.

But in Li Yuanji's eyes, although Chang'an City is important, it is not as important as the people of Datang.

It's okay for the Turkic people to come down from Xiaoguan, and the only ones who can poison them are the line from Xiaoguan to Chang'an City.

But if the Turkic people are allowed to come down from Shizhou to Youzhou, then the Turkic people will poison a quarter of the country in the Tang Dynasty, harm a quarter of the people in the Tang Dynasty, or even more.

Therefore, for the safety of a quarter of the people in the Tang Dynasty, it is worthwhile to let Chang'an City, and all the people in Chang'an City, take some risks.

Although such a decision is unfair to Chang'an City and even some people in Guanzhong, it is the lesser of two evils.

In this kind of matter, there is no fairness or unfairness at all, only pros and cons.

If it is fair, then there is no way to fight this battle, and there is no way to govern this country.

(End of this chapter)