Long live Emperor Wu!

Chapter 244 You don’t want to believe that I understand

This time happens to be the beginning of spring, the weather is getting warmer, and the wind under the sun seems to bring the vitality of revival of all things.

Changsun Wuji has a thin figure, thin clothes, and shackles on his hands, but he has a proud demeanor and still has a fairy-like temperament.

He shook the shackles on his hands, took two steps to the side, avoided Li Shan's eyes, and said slowly:

"You still don't have a sense of the overall situation. Even after becoming the emperor, you always narrow your horizons to the small family affairs.

If I were you, even if I had doubts in my heart at this moment and thought he died a misfortune, I would not angrily run to question him.

Instead, I will secretly rejoice in my heart that the only person in this world who has a legitimate status and may threaten my imperial rule has finally died silently, without me having to bear the infamy. What a good thing . "

Li Shan was frightened by his uncle's cold-bloodedness and said calmly:

"Didn't my uncle just say that we don't care about rulers and ministers, we only care about family ties?"

Changsun Wuji was silent for a moment and said with a sigh:

"There is no pure family affection in the royal family."

Li Shan looked at his side face, his pupils shining with an incomprehensible light, and said:

"In my impression, you are not such a cold-blooded person.

When my father was here, you were humorous, kind, and always secretly protective of us children...

Is it my fault? Is it because I am not qualified enough to command your loyal support like my father, and that is why you are becoming more and more arrogant and disgusting? "

Changsun Wuji felt guilty for a moment. He paused, lowered his eyes, and suddenly said coldly:

"You didn't listen to a word of what I just said. If you hadn't always had no ambitions and never focused on the overall situation, how could I have done this?

Do you know that the Tang Dynasty today is the result of a lifetime of hard work by your father and I? What about you?

What have you done? They want to abolish the queen, recruit Wu Zhaoyi into the palace, drive out experienced veterans from the court, and use those young people who don't know the heights of the world! "

Li Shan sneered, raised his face and said:

"If I want to be deposed, there is naturally a reason why I don't like the Wang family. But in the final analysis, it is because you and Liu Shi are on the same page and have become the Wang family's backer for disobeying me and trying to control me.

Let Wu Zhaoyi enter the palace because I want to depose the queen and get rid of your control over me and the choice of the crown prince.

And she, who has nothing but honors me, has the ability and courage to replace Queen Wang, and will not stab me in the back just because of her power. "

Li Shan paused, looked at the mountains and roads in the distance, took a breath, and said self-deprecatingly:

"I once thought about taking advantage of Concubine Xiao Shu, who has no background and was born as a sin slave palace maid. But she is too stupid and her vision is too narrow. She can only compete for the few points of profit in front of her and the few points of words and anger. Her strength is with me. You can’t go anywhere.”

He looked at Changsun Wuji and said with contempt for the first time:

"In my uncle's mind, am I just a loser who has been blinded by love? I let Wu Zhaoyi enter the palace just for the sake of beauty, regardless of the overall situation?

But love is also one of the cornerstones of trust. My uncle was once willing to follow my father through life and death. After so many years of ups and downs, in addition to trusting his abilities, there was naturally a sense of friendship involved. Am I right? "

Changsun Wuji had been friends with Emperor Taizong since he was young and had a brother-in-law relationship, so the friendship was unusual.

He didn't speak, with some surprise in his eyes. He glanced slightly and looked at his nephew.

Li Shan continued:

"As for how to employ people, that's the crux of the disagreement between you and me. Isn't everything my uncle has done just to make me listen to you? But I don't agree."

Changsun Wuji immediately said:

"That was the strategy formulated by the late emperor during his time. He united all the forces that could be united, and in this way he conquered and governed the world. If you don't agree with it, who have you to question him?" Li Shan turned his face slightly, calmly and calmly. On his face, he said with a matter-of-fact expression:

"Why can't I? My father said when he was still alive that he has his mission and I have mine. The general trend of the world is different, so naturally there will be changes.

Now, we have reached a new threshold. How to employ people determines whether the imperial power is hereditary and the officials of aristocratic families are like flowing water, or whether the officials of aristocratic families are hereditary and the imperial power changes like flowing water. "

He stared into Changsun Wuji's eyes with clear eyes, as if he could see through people's hearts, and asked:

"Does uncle not understand this? Or does he think I don't understand?"

Changsun Wuji's lips moved but he didn't speak yet.

Li Shan then affirmatively continued:

"I think my uncle understands this very well. Moreover, you also know that I can understand it, but you don't want to believe that I understand it.

If I understood, how could you be so righteous as to think that I, for the sake of the Tang Dynasty, could find a way out for the hereditary inheritance of the eldest son's family? "

Changsun Wuji's eyes swayed, and he suddenly looked at Li Shan. His eyes were deep, as if he didn't want to admit it, and he said coldly:

"The second emperor of the Sui Dynasty died because he held the imperial examination and offended everyone. Do you also want to imitate Emperor Sui Yang?

You said I did it for myself? No, the late emperor had noticed it a long time ago, so he once proposed that the imperial power and the governor should be hereditary, so that the Li family and the meritorious veterans could share the glory.

Guaranteeing the interests of meritorious veterans means ensuring the interests of Li Tang, don’t you understand? ! "

Li Shan asked directly:

"Then why did uncle object so strongly in the first place?"

Changsun Wuji choked for a moment and stared at Li Shan, speechless.

"I answered for my uncle that the governorship was hereditary, which brought us back to the period of the Emperor of Zhou. The emperor sat in the court, the heroes divided the country, and the world was in constant disputes.

Although it can ensure the immortality of the Li family name to a certain extent, it is particularly detrimental to the world, the people, and especially the civil servants.

What you need is a unified governance, under which future generations can enjoy wealth and prosperity, instead of fighting against the bloody blade of power with the legacy of poems and books in troubled times.

If the governorship is hereditary, so many Wang uncles in our Li family, as well as my concubine brothers, all hold the land of a state, and with the family background of abundant martial arts, no matter how you calculate, the eldest grandson family will not be able to benefit. "

Changsun Wuji's face turned darker as he listened, and said:

"Your Majesty, with the heart of a villain, is trying to save the heart of a gentleman. The reason why I objected was to ask for life for the people of the world, not for myself. The reason why the late emperor gave up the idea was also for the sake of the people of the world."

"Oh?... Then why does my uncle oppose my development of the imperial examination and the recruitment of new people? I must insist on recommending people from among the officials' children first?"

Changsun Wuji rolled his eyes, crossed his hands haughtily and said:

"Your Majesty naturally doesn't believe it, but the people we recommend are all talented people and there is no favoritism.

If other people are talented, we will naturally recommend them. However, since we don’t know them and don’t know them, we can only recommend people we know well in order to be responsible. "

(End of this chapter)