People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 1214 The Emperor’s First Lesson, Five Steps Splattered with Blood

In the inner hall of the East Palace, Li Xuan entered the Mingde Hall holding a volume of "Book of Song".

In the hall, Li Xian was already sitting behind the table, waiting for Li Xuan to teach.

"Your Highness!" Li Xuan raised his hands with a serious expression, placed the "Song Book" on the table, and then said in a deep voice: "I will leave Chang'an soon, and today is the last lesson for Your Highness. It is also a very important lesson, it can even be said to be the first lesson for an emperor, please bear it in mind, Your Highness.”

Li Xian suddenly became extremely solemn, bowed to Li Xuan and said, "Please teach me, Uncle Wang."

Li Xuan looked around and said coldly: "Except one person to record what happened today, everyone else will leave immediately."

The maids and guards standing in the corner of the hall, as well as the recorder behind the curtain on one side, all stood up and looked at Li Xian.

"Stay one person and leave the others." Li Xian waved his hand directly, asking them to follow Li Xuan's order without any hesitation.

In the past, every year before Li Xuan left Chang'an, she would give him and Li Xian very useful suggestions.

Li Xian was just perfunctory at first, but after suffering a big loss, he got serious about it. Once he executed it, he immediately received excellent results.

The same goes for Li Xian, but he listens to Li Xuan more often.

Li Xuan raised her hand to Li Xian again, then looked at him and asked, "Has Your Highness ever heard of the saying that when a man is angry, blood will be splashed five steps away?"

Li Xian nodded and said: "During the Qin Dynasty, the King of Qin sent people to use a land of five hundred miles to ease An Lingjun's country.

Lord Anling accepted the land from the previous king and rejected it.

Fearing Qin's anger, he sent Tang Ju to Qin.

The King of Qin angrily said: The emperor's wrath has caused millions of corpses to be laid down and blood to be shed for thousands of miles.

Tang Ju said: When Zhuan Zhu stabs the king's officials, a comet strikes the moon; when Nie Zheng stabs the Han puppet, a white rainbow pierces the sun; when Yao Li stabs Qing Ji, the warehouse eagle strikes the palace. Therefore, if a soldier is angry, he will lay down two corpses and bleed for five steps, and the world will be pure.

So he stood up with his sword drawn. King Qin looked at him and knelt down to thank him. "

Li Xuan smiled and said, "Your Highness must have guessed by now what I am going to say today?"

Li Xian slowly lowered his head and said: "The matter of guarding and assassination is the king's own priority."

"Half of the answer is correct." Li Xuan opened the "Song Book" in his hand, pointed to a folded page and said, "Does Your Highness know Liu Yifu?"

Li Xian took a look, nodded, and said: "Liu Yifu, the eldest son of Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty Liu Yu, ascended the throne in the third year of Song Yongchu and was deposed in the second year of Jingping."

Li Xuan nodded and said: "I am reading history, and I am most surprised when I read this. How can Liu Yifu, the king of a country, be led directly into the palace by his ministers and forcibly dethroned? Are all the imperial guards and attendants in the palace dead?"

Li Xian was stunned, he was really stunned. He thought that if one day in the future, he succeeded to the throne as emperor, and someone walked directly into the palace gate, broke into the harem, and directly deposed him, what would he do?

However, just thinking about that scene, Li Xian felt a chill rising from his back, and his whole face turned horribly pale.

……

"Back to the previous time." Li Xuan closed the "Song Book", looked up at Li Xian, and asked, "What do you think, Your Highness, when a common man gets angry and blood splashes five steps forward?"

"Good, extremely good." There was a hint of coldness on Li Xian's face.

"Yes, please take a look, Your Highness." After Li Xuan finished speaking, Li Xian subconsciously raised his head. The next moment, he saw a writing brush, like a sword, stabbing towards his brother-in-law.

The white hairs of the brush are vertical and can even emit blade light.

The next moment, the brush had stopped in front of his throat.

But at this moment, Li Xian felt a cold feeling in his throat.

Looking down, he saw a drop of black ink splashed on his throat.

"Your Highness, this is the five steps of blood splattering." Li Xuan slowly put the brush back, then looked at Li Xian and said: "This is the first lesson that your Highness should learn, within five steps."

"Within five steps." Li Xian murmured, lowering his head and trying to wipe the ink off his throat, but his hand never moved.

"Your Highness needs to control everything within five steps." Li Xuan looked at the long sword hanging on the side wall, then placed it next to Li Xian, and said in a deep voice: "This sword is your Highness's ability to control five steps." The biggest support... Of course, this sword can be a sword, a crossbow, or a human."

"Human?" Li Xian suddenly raised his head and had already reacted.

Li Xuan nodded and said: "His Highness needs to select personal guards. Select personal guards who only listen to his orders. Even if His Highness asks them to kill ministers, they will draw their swords without any scruples."

Li Xian's eyes couldn't help but twitch, and then he forced a smile in embarrassment and said, "How could I send someone to kill Uncle Wang?"

"This is just a metaphor. Your Highness should not have such thoughts in your mind. I am extremely loyal to Your Highness." Li Xuan rolled her eyes at Li Xian angrily.

Li Xian smiled coquettishly. At that moment, he did have this idea in his mind.

"When an ordinary man is angry, His Highness can control everything within five steps. After this step, His Highness can expand it. At present, the entire inner hall, even the entire Mingde Hall, and even the entire East Palace, are completely under your control; when you wait until In the future... it will be a matter of the emperor being angry and laying down millions of corpses." Li Xuan's voice was so soft that only Li Xian could hear it.

Li Xian's expression suddenly became gloomy.

"Remember, do it bit by bit, start within five steps from yourself, then go to the Mingde Hall, and then to the entire East Palace." Li Xuan lowered her voice again and said very softly: "In the future, it will also be within five steps from yourself. , to the entire dynasty, then to the entire palace, and finally to the entire world."

Li Xian nodded heavily, his expression gradually becoming fierce. Li Xuan took two steps back, then looked at Li Xian and said, "So, let's read this biography of Liu Yifu again. On April 25th, the second year of Song Jingping, minister Tan Daoji led the troops to clear the way. Xu Xianzhi and others followed. Entering the palace, the guards were persuaded in advance and did not stop them.

Liu Yifu was deposed before he even got up, and was then sent back to his former residence, the Taiwong Palace, under the bows of civil and military officials.

Later, Tan Daoji, Xu Xianzhi and others supported the establishment of the governor of Southern Yuzhou, and Liu Yilong became emperor, who was Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty. "

……

Li Xian sat there in silence, reading Liu Yifu's biography again, and everything between the lines was bloody and cruel.

The intrigues among people and the rampant greed of power can all be seen clearly.

After a long time, Li Xian slowly raised his head and said with a complicated expression: "Uncle Wang."

Li Xuan nodded and said, "It seems that His Highness understands."

"Yes!" Li Xian nodded heavily and looked at Li Xuan with complicated eyes.

"Very good." Li Xuan nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "Although His Highness's goal is the world, he first starts with the entire palace, because hundreds of officials in the court have to enter this palace every day to conduct affairs. Even entering the palace to meet the saint... If you want to start with the entire palace, His Highness needs to start from the East Palace, start from the Mingde Hall, and start within five steps of yourself."

"Cultivate confidants." Li Xian nodded heavily.

"I am out of bounds, but I dare to ask Your Highness, who does Your Highness want to hire?" Li Xuan cupped her hands and bowed solemnly.

Li Xian was stunned for a moment, and then said: "A descendant of the clan, or maybe a family member of the Crown Princess."

"I'm going to say something outrageous. When something happens to the Crown Princess's family, they should listen to Your Highness or the Crown Princess. The children of the clan also have parents, wives and children. When something happens, who should they listen to?" Li Xuan raised her eyes slightly. .

Li Xian immediately understood that Li Xuan was not talking about their parents, but his parents.

"Uncle Wang, what's the explanation?" Li Xian handed over his hand again.

"Your Highness is the Crown Prince now. There is a charity hospital in the East Palace. The Prince's Medicine Store Master Lu Zhaolin is usually in charge of it. There is an orphanage near the charity hospital... If your highness is free, you might as well go to the charity hospital." Li Xuan handed over his hand. Then he said: "When Emperor Gaozu established the North Gate Guards, he selected his personal guards from Taiyuan Yi. This is the reason."

Li Xian's pupils dilated instantly, and then he nodded solemnly.

Li Xuan continued to speak: "In addition, after finding a good person for Your Highness's matter, tell Your Majesty that you don't need too many people, just four people. Let Su Liangsi train in the East Palace, and Your Highness can just watch. In the future, within five steps of him, Everything is under the control of His Highness."

Li Xian immediately clenched his fists and pursed his lips tightly.

"The Taoist Scriptures say: Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to infinity. Within five steps, between the palaces, the entire East Palace, the entire palace, and the entire world." Li Xuan bowed deeply, and then solemnly He said: "This is all within the control of His Highness."

Li Xian couldn't help but closed his eyes, then raised his hands to Li Xuan and said, "Well, thank you very much, Uncle Wang."

"Your Highness, please take a seat." Li Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, and then said: "Today's teaching ends here. Next, before I leave, I need to explain some things to Your Highness."

"Uncle Wang, please speak." Li Xian just sat down and looked up at Li Xuan.

Li Xuan nodded and said: "First of all, it is the matter of the good hospital. Now it has begun. There is no problem for Lu Zhaolin, a disciple of the medical saint, to be here. After a few months, other patients, such as wind diseases, can be properly treated. Your Majesty If his condition can be improved, it will be the greatest good thing in the world."

Li Xian has now learned to listen to people's subtext.

What Li Xuan said was that it would be the greatest good thing if the emperor's condition could improve.

The implication is that the emperor's condition may not even get better, so he must be dedicated to this matter.

"I understand, thank you Uncle Wang for your guidance." Li Xian handed over his hand again.

Li Xuan continued: "This year, His Majesty will inevitably ask His Highness to act in state affairs. Xiao Guicao can do whatever he wants."

"Yes!" Li Xian handed over his hand.

"I just watched the rest." Li Xuan's eyes jumped, and Li Xian suddenly became solemn.

"In the war on the grassland, how to mobilize the army, how to allocate military rations, and how much to transport to where. Duke Wenxi is the strongest master of war in the world. As long as His Highness can understand one or two, it will be enough in the future."

After a slight pause, Li Xuan smiled bitterly and said: "Your Highness can also use the minister's logic as a comparison. How many troops are deployed and how much food is used? Your Highness can compare it with the Duke of Wenxi County, but I am far inferior to the Duke of Wenxi County." That’s it.”

"Sanlang understands." Li Xian nodded seriously and said, "Uncle Wang, can you please explain?"

"Even if there is no great victory, there will definitely be no great defeat. When using troops, I must be cautious." Li Xuan stood upright with a serious look in his eyes.

When it comes to the actual use of troops, although he is not as insightful and sophisticated as Pei Xingjian, he is not as good as Pei Xingjian in terms of people's hearts.

"In this way, I can rest assured." Li Xian breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Xuan bowed, looked at the "Song Book" on the table and said: "Your Highness, please continue, I will leave first."

Li Xian nodded, his eyes falling on "Song Book".

Today he finally understood how many conspiracies, bloody and cruel things were recorded in the history books.

　This is where I started to understand history books.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)