Li Er of the Tang Dynasty: Ancestor Xie is here!

Chapter 160 Fourth child? That's a man who can control the word "乐"

Throughout the entire history of China after the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin was the kind of person who loved seeing flowers and seeing flowers while driving and seeing flat tires when driving - except for the Song Dynasty.

Why people in the Song Dynasty didn't want to see Li Shimin? This can be compared to the Little Red Book. Regarding the Jin Dynasty, Song, Qi, Liang, Chen, and other dynasties, the Song Dynasty would naturally praise, "Sisters have really good foundation, they will look good when they lose weight." But for the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, two dynasties full of paternalism, people in the Song Dynasty knew that no matter how much they put on makeup, they couldn't compare to others, so they became hysterical and used all their sarcasm.

But in fact, even they secretly hope that they can have a sage king like Emperor Wen of Han or Li Shimin.

... As for why Liu Xiaozhu was not the one in the Han Dynasty, everyone knows it. Ya changed the position of the prime minister more diligently than Lu Bu changed the adoptive father.

In addition to the ministers, the emperors also praised Li Shimin. Even the emperor of a certain dynasty had to hold his nose and praise Lao Li as a ringing ring.

Everyone loves Li Shimin. It belongs.

"Uncle, tell me about your story of capturing two kings in one battle?" Zhu Di immediately came forward and looked at Lao Li with admiration on his face.

It should be noted that the first two emperors of the Ming Dynasty called themselves more individual. Zhu Yuanzhang called himself "We" and Zhu Di called himself "I". The imperial edict also clearly stated, "I, the Han people, are from the west of the land... My father, Taizu, Emperor Gao, won the west... Now I have assumed the great position... I will not forget the kindness of my Taizu, Emperor Gao... I saw this good intention... Zhongshu Sheren will take my words..."

It's a bit earthy, but people do call themselves me.

But then again, this thing is like etiquette. Once you have a certain status, you don't need to care too much. Just like how to hold a goblet for Western food every day, but the old lady of the Queen of England just grabs it and drinks it.

Li Shimin saw that this black boy had bright eyes and looked like he had served as a soldier and practiced martial arts, so he couldn't help but feel a lot of affection for him.

"What's there to say? Hey, it's not worth mentioning." Lao Li said so modestly, but he still started to review the battle of Wulao Pass for four brothers Zhu Di.

Zhu Biao looked at his brothers fondly from the side and did not stop them from surrounding Lao Li.

In his opinion, it's better for the younger brothers to listen to Lao Li's lectures and get a good taste of Lao Li's aura of a famous general, and don't go to the Great Wall to catch people blind when the time comes.

As for whether he was afraid of learning from Lao Li about father's kindness and son's filial piety, Zhu Biao was too worried about these younger brothers - I can't say that, mainly because he didn't think about it at all.

Lao Zhu, who was at the head, couldn't help but feel a little disgusted when he saw his children surrounding Li Shimin.

Good guy, I'm so stupid, really, I only knew that the ministers would be interested in Tang Taizong, but I forgot that the children would also be interested.

Lao Zhu sat there, as lonely as an empty nester.

"Brother Zhu, stop being so grim and come and have a drink." Li Qing advised him, holding a wine glass next to him.

Of course he knew that the petty old Zhu was jealous.

"Master Immortal, I'd like to give you a drink, Chongba." Lao Zhu's attitude towards Li Qing was nonchalant, and he just took the wine glass and drank it down in one gulp.

"Hey, Brother Zhu, this is a revelation." Li Qing said with a smile: "Brother Li and I are like brothers."

Lao Zhu is also a human being, and he understands instantly. He laughed and said: "If you don't dislike it, Master Immortal, from now on we will treat each other as brothers, I will call you brother... Well, don't call me Brother Zhu, it sounds weird, let's call you Brother Chongba Bar."

Li Qing:  …

Good guy, if I remember correctly, Brother Chongba is limited to Xu Da’s combo moves...

Brother Chongba, is your father dead?

"No problem, Chong Ba Ge." Li Qing has a relatively easy-going personality, and a bearded guy like Lao Zhu would be embarrassed to death if he was told something.

After drinking two more drinks, Zhu Yuanzhang looked a little drunk. He pointed at Zhu Biao and the others with a smile, and said to Li Qing: "Brother, look at our children, are they all doing well?"

"Okay, of course." Li Qing picked up an orange and said to Lao Zhu, "Among your sons, my favorite is the eldest, followed by the fourth."

Hearing that the great boy was so praised by the immortal master, Lao Zhu looked extremely proud.

Zhu Biao, that was the pride of his life, second only to Queen Ma and Daming in his heart.

"Hahaha, what I said is right. We like this boss very much." Lao Zhu's face almost turned into a lotus flower with laughter. "We have hired the best gentleman for him since he was young. He is a great scholar in the world... Hey, this guy always has his own ideas and always contradicts us."

That's what he said, but the pride in his eyes couldn't be concealed.

"Throughout the ages, there have been almost no emperors or princes who can be like your father and son." Li Qing peeled the orange, broke off a piece and stuffed it into his mouth: "I don't feel that you two are like the father and son of the Tian family. They have a harmonious relationship just like an ordinary father and son."

"Hey, I'm really worthy of being an immortal master. I see things clearly!" Lao Zhu said happily when he heard this: "We don't have much education, and I won't be afraid of your jokes if we say it. We are just born with muddy legs."

"Let's treat this as farm work; our daughter-in-law, your sister-in-law, is the mother-in-law who cooks for us at home when we go to the fields; the eldest son of our family is the one who accompanies us to work in the fields. Live a good son."

"So, we have never thought about being suspicious of the prince. Is there anything we can't talk about between father and son?" When Lao Zhu said this, he seemed to be worried about his sons surrounding Lao Li, so he added a private sentence. Huo: "Do we have to be like the old Li family who are suspicious of father and son? If we were that Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty, things like Xuanwu Sect would never happen!"

"You are right. In fact, Brother Li didn't mean to fight for the world at first." Li Qing smiled: "If possible, he has the same idea as your fourth son, and he will become a general in the Northern Conquest for his eldest brother. .”

Upon hearing this, Lao Zhu was even more happy.

"You really think so?" He thought that as an immortal master, Li Qing would be able to know the world for thousands of years, and he would definitely know all about the future.

"Indeed," Li Qing glanced at Zhu Di, whose eyes were shining. "There is no doubt that the fourth child is loyal to the boss. Besides, what is the status of your boss in the Hongwu Dynasty? Later generations even said, you The boss of the family is the 'executive deputy emperor' of your Hongwu Dynasty!"

"Hey, what a good name! Vice Emperor!" Lao Zhu laughed. This title really touched his heart. Lao Zhu really wanted to praise his eldest son, who was sensible and... (omitting ten thousand words of praise), to the sky.

"I think I also like the fourth child very much?" Lao Zhu suddenly asked again.

In his opinion, since the immortal master admired the fourth child so much, the fourth child must also be famous in the history books. Perhaps he was his eldest brother, the general who conquered the north, and was sealed as a wolf?
  Li Qing misses your fourth child? That is a man who can control the word "fun". Do you think there are any good ones with the word "乐" in them? A Mei Le Zong has an open mind, a Wa Le Gong is elated...

"Fourth Brother, your fourth child will conquer Mobei for the next five years, and he will make the children of Beiyuan cry like wolves and howl like ghosts." Li Qing praised: "It's a pity that when he was sixty-five years old, he conquered for the fifth time. In Mobei, he died of illness on his way back to the court."

"What?!" Lao Zhu immediately became dissatisfied: "How could the boss do this! The fourth child is already so old, and you still let him go to conquer Mobei?!"

"Hey, no wonder your boss, Zhu Di, wants to go by himself." Li Qing said with a smile: "Let's not talk about this first, let's drink first!"

Seeing that Li Qing had no desire to continue the conversation, Lao Zhu suppressed his curiosity and raised his glass with a smile: "Yes, yes, let's drink."

After the banquet was over, Zhu Yuanzhang stopped Li Qing and Li Shimin.

"Brother, you have to tell me what happened after the Ming Dynasty." Zhu Yuanzhang pulled Li Qing's sleeve, his eyes shining with desire.

He really wants to know what's going to happen in the future, so that if there are any mistakes, he can remedy them in time, or learn from certain policies in advance, right?

The corner of Li Shimin's mouth suddenly raised. He almost went through all the sad things he had experienced in his life in his mind before suppressing the corner of his mouth. When he heard this, he knew that Zhu Yuanzhang's blood pressure was about to rise.

It's not that he also knew what happened after Zhu Yuanzhang, just based on intuition, Li Shimin could know that Li Qing would definitely lower Lao Zhu's blood pressure.

Don't ask him why he knows, it hurts, it hurts too much...

These are all conclusions I came to after experiencing it myself!
  "Then let's talk?" Li Qing didn't refuse. Since you, Old Zhu, are rushing to raise your blood pressure, I can't refuse you anything, right?
  This is what you need to hear! Don't blame me!

"Okay, let's talk!" Lao Zhu said, turning around and shouting: "Boss, boss?"

Zhu Biao came over immediately and asked, "Dad, do you have anything to do with me?"

"Let's talk to your uncle about the future of our Ming Dynasty. As the prince, you have to listen carefully." Lao Zhu said, and said to the two tigers beside him: "Two tigers, let's go to the Qing Palace. .”

……

In Lao Zhu's era, Qianqing Palace was his bedroom and the place where he usually handled government affairs, so he chose this place to listen to Li Qing's talk about the future.

After everyone sat down, Lao Zhu said very formally: "I will ask the immortal master to explain my future affairs!"

"Then let's talk about the recent events first." Li Qing planned to say in order: "Let's talk about the two issues between the vassal king and the prime minister first."

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao immediately sat upright and listened to the immortal master's advice.

"First of all, there is the vassal system. From the prince, the prince, to the county king, the general who governs the country... all the way to the lieutenant of Fengguo, it is indeed quite complete." When Li Qing said this, he changed the subject: "But there is a problem, you The standard of treatment given was exceptionally high.”

"Hey..." Lao Zhu sighed: "Our family has been poor farmers for generations. We are afraid of poverty. Aren't we worried that future generations will be as poor as us?"

"That's true, but I don't need to say more about this issue. Even if I don't say it, you will wake up after doing the calculations yourself in the [-]th year of Hongwu." Li Qing said with a smile: "At that time, you were already born. He gave birth to twenty-three sons, which is not a small number."

"So you cut off the prince's treatment, leaving only fifty thousand dan per year; in the [-]th year of Hongwu, you felt that this salary was really unbearable, so you further cut off the royal family's treatment, and changed it to [-] dan for the prince."

At this point, Lao Zhu himself understood what was going on. He has given birth to more than twenty sons. If others are as fertile as him, how can the Ming Dynasty be overwhelmed by the clan?
  "In fact, not every prince can get an annual salary of [-] dan. Some even only have [-], [-] or even [-] dan. After [-] or [-] years, some clans can no longer hold back and want to ask for help. The imperial court asks for help and gives myself a little more salary."

"But the court is also in a difficult situation. It has no money, so it can only tighten its belt."

"However, the clan, which is short of money, can only ask helplessly, 'Please give me the belt.'"

Having said this, Li Shimin on the side couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Isn’t this familiar smell here? Dear brother, where is the funniest joke? Of course it’s someone else!
  Lao Zhu and Zhu Biao looked at each other. They didn't expect that future generations of the clan would be so difficult.

"Then the clan members also felt uncomfortable. If you refused to increase the money, we would have to have children... During the Hongzhi period, the third descendant of your family, King Qingcheng, gave birth to more than ninety children in total. He was almost catching up with the great Han Zhongshan Jing. King."

"Of course the imperial court refused to be taken advantage of, so they sent people over to check and believed that King Qingcheng was defrauding the imperial court of his salary - but after an investigation, hey, they are really his biological children..."

"So, King Qingcheng became famous in the first battle, which gave the court a little baby shock." Li Qing almost couldn't stand it when he said this: "So after the court realized this problem, it immediately repaired the system. Loophole, limiting the number of wives and concubines in the clan.”

"That's indeed the case. The imperial court's system cannot be a shield for them to live in vain!" Lao Zhu slapped the table, blew his beard and said with a glare.

If Li Qing hadn't given him a little shock of the Jin Dynasty, he might not have thought that someone would actually take advantage of this kind of bug.

asshole! With such an IQ, why don’t you stay in the right place?
  Li Qing spread his hands and said to Lao Zhu: "This is the system you made yourself. The clan members are not engaged in production, cannot do business, and have no way to make a living. If you just rely on the salary, the court will not be able to open the pot!"

"The worst thing is the clan members at the bottom. More than a hundred years later, some are still unmarried in their thirties, some have been dead for more than ten years and have not been buried, some are begging in the market, and some are still alive. They lived in a foreign land and died violently on the streets. Although they were members of a clan in name, their lives were not as good as those of the poor. They didn't even have a place to appeal."

*Shock value from Zhu Yuanzhang +10000
  "What?!" Lao Zhu, who has always valued future generations, finally couldn't stand it anymore. When he heard that his children and grandchildren were living such a life, he felt that his heart was going to be broken.

"Our children!" Lao Zhu yelled, frightening Li Shimin who was watching the excitement.

(End of this chapter)