The best idlers of the Tang Dynasty

After Du Rui finished writing, Li Chengqian was also excited, took the piece of paper, read it aloud, and couldn't help applauding: "Your brother is really brave!"

Du Rui sighed: "That's all you need to do if you have a good spirit. My younger brother is only a young man who only knows these excerpts from chapters and excerpts. He is a poor man, and a pedantic nerd's little way. What can he do in state affairs!"

When Li Chengqian saw that Du Rui said this, he knew that he was dissatisfied with the empty talk of those great Confucians in the court. proper solution."

Du Rui said: "The gentry in Zhongshan Mountain is very powerful, even if the Holy Spirit wants to do the king's business, there will be a lot of resistance. In the end, I'm afraid they will still compromise with those people!"

"It seems that you young man also has a lot of resentment towards me!" A mid-spirited voice suddenly sounded from outside the study.

Du Rui and Li Chengqian were shocked when they heard the words. They knew that Emperor Taizong had arrived. Before they could react, the door of the study was pushed open, and then Taizong in casual clothes walked in.

Li Chengqian and Du Rui hurriedly bowed down and said long live.

Taizong looked at the two, walked to the desk in the mirror, picked up the poem "Men's Walk" written by Du Rui just now, and recited it, but he was not very excited, and said: "I really should take this poem back. Let the people in the court who are full of benevolence and righteousness take a look, see if they are ashamed or not, and the Confucianism swarms up the strong men to die, well said, well said! Now these scholars, I am afraid that the teachings of the sages have long been forgotten. , only know benevolence, righteousness and morality!"

Taizong said and looked at Du Rui: "Du Chengming, when your father was alive, Fang Xuanling and Fang Xuanling were my right-hand men, and they were the best at making decisions on the fly. At that time, I didn't believe it at all. When others persuaded me, I was still hesitant. It was your father's words, which made me make up my mind. Now, Keming's mantle, I think it is also Only you can inherit it, so tell me, how should I treat the Turks?"

Du Rui didn't mix and match directly, but just looked at Taizong and said, "Your Majesty, in fact, you also want to put those Turkic people back in your heart? Isn't that right?"

"This~~~~" Taizong gave a wry smile and sighed, "I'm a big country, so I naturally have the demeanor of a big country!"

Taizong was in a very good mood these days. In the past two days, the ministers in the court kept suggesting to him that all Jieli and others should be released to the grassland to show the Tang Dynasty's tolerance and heart. Some ministers even impeached Li Jing, saying Regardless of his faith, during the peace talks with the Xiongnu, he did not get Taizong's edict, so he suddenly attacked, which lost the face of Datang.

Du Rui rolled his eyes in his heart disapprovingly, and slandered, his demeanor can't be eaten, but he said in his mouth: "Did the Holy One forget the Huns and Xiqiang in the Han Dynasty? You never know what loyalty is, and you surrender and rebel. Rebelling and surrendering again, it is relying on the fact that the Han Dynasty will not do anything to them, so they have this confidence! It is the same now, once those Turkic people are returned to the grassland, they can quickly recover. Once they have accumulated enough strength, When the Central Plains declines again, they will make a comeback, then how will the Holy One deal with them? Defeat them again, and then release them back to the grassland!"

"Then what do you say, hundreds of thousands of captives can't be kept for nothing!" Taizong now has no choice but to compromise with Jieli, which made him feel ashamed to this day. , They surrendered. In order to show the greatness of the Celestial Dynasty, they must be sent back. At most, a Protectorate will be set up to manage it. What else can we do.

"Your Majesty, although the war in the Central Plains has been calmed down now, after a long period of war, the atmosphere of the previous dynasty has not yet been restored. It can be said that there is a lot of waste waiting to be done. Although the Longshou Canal broke its embankment this year, it is man-made, but you must not be careless. Conscripting civilian men to clean up the river is an act that hurts the people. The Turks and other ethnic groups have always treated our Han people in the Central Plains as human beings. They either killed them or took them into slavery. Why can’t we treat them as they are? Use these prisoners of war as slaves to build bridges and roads, dig canals and even canals for our Tang Dynasty, and we only need to provide basic food! In the future, we will fight against alien races, so there will not be so many Problem!"

"The Turkic side?" Taizong couldn't help frowning when he heard the words, thought for a moment, and hesitated, "If this is the case, will they still accept the rule of my Great Tang?"

"So what, anyway, they will never surrender sincerely. Instead of raising a wolf that wants to bite its master back, it's better to bleed this wolf every year!" After saying these words, how many people will fall to the ground, and what he always remembers in his heart is that if he is not of my race, his heart must be different. We need a place to train soldiers for the Tang Dynasty, so let the grassland become a training ground for the Tang Dynasty! Now that the Turks have been pacified, people are probably thinking of putting their swords and guns into storage, and the horses are released in Nanshan, but if they stay at ease for too long, the fronts of the soldiers will rust It happens that we can add some foreign slaves to the Central Plains every year, so that we can control the number of foreign races, and even if the Central Plains changes, we will not have the tragic situation of "five random China" like the previous dynasty!"

"Du Rui, you really don't look like a child in his early ten years old!" Taizong not only looked at Du Rui like lightning, but suddenly shook his head and said, "But you are right, we Han people are too kind to foreigners, so they have You have the guts to provoke us again and again! Since the Han Dynasty, every dynasty has governed the country according to Confucianism, and what Confucianism teaches is the way of loyalty, forgiveness, benevolence and righteousness. Which emperor would like to be described in history books as cruel and inhumane?"

"Confucianism has never talked about benevolence and righteousness in its internal struggle!" Du Rui said, "If benevolence and righteousness can make Turks dismount and be comforted, whoever says to be kind to those alien races next time, let him go to educate them and see if he can do it! "

"Good idea!" Taizong also smiled when he heard the words, "Those great Confucian scholars know how to play tricks. In the words of the auxiliary machine, even if they are the masters of the king, they must fight with real swords and guns, not spitting stars! In ancient times, benevolence and virtue only harm people, and morality has never been true. Although your words are biased, they are also true!"

"This is the way things are in the world. Power is the truth! Today's Confucianism has almost worn out the blood of people. It only pays attention to the kingly way, and it depends on whether people buy it. People regard benevolence and righteousness as weakness. They think they can educate the world. , all peoples praise! King, conquer people with virtue, dominate, conquer people with power, lose virtue as violence, lose power as weak, the combination of the two should be the emperor. The emperor, the lord of the world, governs the country In the king, resist the enemy and be the overlord. The king’s way is turbulent, overbearing and fierce, and the two should be used together, and the world should be the only one. The Holy One governs the country, as the inner king and the outer hegemony, and the king and the hegemony are both, that is the right way.”

"The king is the bully outside, and the king and the bully will do it!" Taizong recited this sentence silently, and suddenly laughed, "You young man, you are also a teacher of the emperor!"

Du Rui hurriedly said: "The grassroots dare not!"

But now that the words have been said, Du Rui simply said it happily: "My lord, the core of the so-called kingly way is to use reason to convince people, so that people can understand what he is doing is wrong, in other words, let him know from the root. It is good to realize your own mistakes and then correct them, but here comes the question, what is the standard to use to measure the right and wrong of things? The Mohists proposed that officials should learn from the practices of "ancient sages". It is easy to say, but it is impossible to make people in the world feel what is bad and what is good. The Confucianism that is practiced in the world is to influence the people by enlightenment, so that they are in line with Wang Dao, this has achieved certain results, but it is not very ideal. On the contrary, it has changed the original intention of Wang Dao, imposed all kinds of inappropriate constraints on the people, and turned them into bloodless "foolish people". It has become a kind of weak policy in communication, and it is called "Kingdom Enlightenment", letting those barbarians know about my etiquette in the Central Plains, and they don't know what it means! The grassroots are not very satisfied with these two ideas, thinking that this is fundamentally wrong The country is useless. In contrast, the Mohists make grassroots feel more comfortable. After all, they also advocate that practical methods should be used to make foreign enemies feel the power of the king. Although the use is not very great, it is still enough to protect the family. And Confucianism, if you really follow what he said, it will really be near the end of the country. The merits of enlightenment are not useless, but it takes time, and the enemy will not give you this time. Any theory Only by being able to make achievements in ensuring the survival of the nation can the world truly benefit. However, the resilience of Confucianism is also worth mentioning. Often the curve can make great contributions to saving the country, but this is also due to the people of the Chinese nation. It is not the merit of its academics. On the contrary, it is this academics that has made many literati and officials of the Chinese nation spineless. People who believe in this kind of learning will not perish the country, what else can they do? As for domineering, the grassroots feel that it is quite appropriate, but they can't be too extreme. I fell into boundless pain for the king's selfish desires. But if it is used well, domineering is the most effective. Foreign enemies are already eyeing them, and there is not so much time to be wordy. If he refuses to accept, then he will be destroyed. It is destroyed by him. Only in this way can the country's war machine be operated to cope with the cruel war in the future. But in this way, the people's livelihood will always be withered and the country will become weak, so the grassroots think that the only way to combine the true meaning of the two , is the emperor, that is, the real king of the world. This policy is explained as carrying out various reforms internally, improving the status of the people, and making him have a strong sense of attachment to the country. Eliminating all possible enemies externally, the The foreign policy is to use a very vivid saying that he does not want him to respect me, Datang, as long as he is afraid of me! This so-called king is bullying outside, and the king and bully will do everything."