Back to Tang Dynasty to be Emperor

After the Lantern Festival, Tang Taizong Li Shimin issued the first imperial edict after the Yuan Dynasty "Zhenguan" was changed, ordering high-ranking officials to bring admonishment officials when discussing matters, and specially ordering that in the future, officials from Zhongshu Province, Menxia Province, and officials above the third rank will enter the cabinet to discuss national affairs. There must be an admonisher to follow, and if there is something inappropriate, the admonisher must immediately enter the admonition.Then he ordered Sun Wuji, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, to renegotiate the decree with the bachelors, judges and others.

Li Ke is very supportive of Li Shimin's ordering senior officials to discuss matters and bring an edict to admonish them.Li Shimin was able to create the "Government of Zhenguan", largely due to the high efficiency of officials in the Tang Dynasty and the clean and honest officialdom atmosphere.And Li Shimin's edict fundamentally solved the phenomenon of ministers speaking freely, and at the same time solved the problem of power ministers misgoverning the government.The abolition of corporal punishment marks the progress and perfection of ancient judicial punishment and prison. Li Ke is more in favor of it, so that in the future, the objectivity and fairness of the Tang Dynasty's justice can be continuously and better promoted.

After Li Shimin's edict was issued, the Tang administrative department began to take active actions, and the issue of the new army was also put on the agenda.However, Li Ke lived a very happy life. Apart from reading and studying "The Analects of Confucius" every day, he was practicing literature and martial arts and calligraphy.

Li Ke has his own thoughts on "The Analects of Confucius", and people's understanding of "The Analects of Confucius" in later generations is not true and can fully represent the thoughts of Confucius and Mencius.Because what they read is the version annotated by Mr. Zhu Xi, a great Confucianist in the Song Dynasty.And Zhu Xi's annotations are absolutely striving for it?After Li Ke himself read the annotations before the Tang Dynasty, he realized that he was not flattering about Zhu Xi's annotations.

Before the Southern Song Dynasty, the Four Books did not use his annotations, but had his own annotations, and were completely shrouded in his thoughts. That was after the Ming Dynasty.The emperor of the Zhu family respected Zhu Xi as his ancestor, so he naturally ordered that when the four books were used to test for merit, Zhu Xi's annotations must be used.Therefore, for six or seven hundred years, all the four books and five classics, Confucianism and Mencius thought were limited to his "Zhu Xi's Confucian thought".In other words, people after the Ming Dynasty played circles in his thoughts in order to gain fame.There are many problems in it. If you look at it from the perspective of Li Ke's Tang people, his annotations can only be used as a reference and cannot be fully believed.

Therefore, people in later generations always say that Confucius became the full-time accomplice of the king, and his thought of loyalty to the king has ruled the scholars of the Chinese nation for thousands of years.However, after Li Ke has read "The Analects of Confucius" carefully and he looks at it as a Tang person, this statement is wrong and worthy of deliberation.For example, if Confucius thought is regarded as three, three, etc. nine in arithmetic, then all the annotations of commentators, including their prejudice against Confucius, are not the fault of Confucius himself, but that they are not good at arithmetic and miscalculated the numbers. That's all.

Throughout the development of Chinese culture, it can be roughly divided into two stages.For example, when it comes to Chinese culture before the Qin and Han cultures, people use Confucius and Mencius to represent everything.In fact, the so-called Confucius and Mencius thought is only an important part of Chinese culture.There are also Taoism, Mohism, schools of thought... many, many, all of which are a system of Chinese culture.If the scope is narrowed down, there are three main schools of Confucianism, Mohism, and Taoism.In particular, Chinese culture has quoted Taoism and Confucianism in politics throughout the past dynasties.When a country is in turmoil, it is the contribution of Taoism to set things right; when the world is peaceful, Confucianism and Confucius and Mencius are used.

Therefore, Li Ke believes that Confucianism and Taoism are not separated, and this separation happened after the Qin and Han Dynasties.By the Tang Dynasty, Chinese culture was no longer Confucianism, Mohism, and Taoism, but Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism.It is self-evident in Taoism that the Tang Dynasty founded the country with the surname Li, and it is inevitable to respect Li Er's Taoism as the country.But Li Ke was extremely dissatisfied with the ignorant thinking of Buddhism.Therefore, working hard on "The Analects of Confucius" has become a goal in his heart.He wanted to see if he could re-annotate an "Analects of Confucius" according to some thoughts in his previous life, explaining that Confucius himself is a thought, so that future scholars will not be misled by various wrong annotations.Although he knew that he couldn't do his best, at least there would be no annotations like the later Zhu Xi's, in which Confucius' thoughts were distorted into the thoughts of loyalty to the emperor and used by the rulers to poison scholars.

Therefore, he spent most of his time studying and researching about "The Analects of Confucius", reading the versions annotated by different people, and at the same time asking great Confucians like Feng Deyi and Dong Boren for advice.

And in the back garden of a compound in Chang'an City, there were also people studying "The Analects" diligently.If Li Ke knew the person who read "The Analects of Confucius", he would definitely be surprised.Because, the one who watched "The Analects of Confucius" was none other than the woman in green he met at the Lantern Festival.

Ever since the woman in green met Li Ke at the Lantern Festival, he had been engraved in her heart, and she would think of him from time to time, with his sharp-edged face, gentle smile, and his erudition.That's why she read "The Analects of Confucius" and read it so seriously.I just hope to have the opportunity to see him again and talk about poetry and songs with him.

The woman in green was watching seriously, when she heard the maid Xiang'er nervously say, "Miss, why are you here? Master is looking for you, he is in your study."

The woman in green was shocked when she heard this, and asked, "Xiang'er, did I tell you to put away the paintings on the table?"

"Oops." Xiang'er's face changed slightly, and she said nervously but admitted her mistake, "Miss, I haven't had time to accept it yet." Then she said, "Maybe the master has seen it."

When the woman in green clothes heard what Xiang'er said, she felt anxious, and stomped her foot and said, "You girl, you know how to be careless, and you can do well what you are asked to do? Can my father see that painting?" She said The painting I drew was the only one I had painted in the past few days. It showed a man with sharp eyebrows and a heart, dressed in black. Who else could it be if it wasn't Li Ke?Because Li Ke was in her heart, she drew him unconsciously.She spoke with great care, spending several hours every day revising before finally finalizing the draft, wanting to dry the ink and put it away, she did not expect Xiang'er to be so careless.

Seeing that her young lady was so anxious, Xiang'er comforted her, "Miss, it's actually no big deal to let the master know, he also cares about you. You see, since you came back from the Lantern Festival, you seem to be a different person." , keep yourself in the room either reading a book or drawing him, can the master and madam not worry?"

"Okay, okay," the woman in green said in an air, "You don't need to say anything, let's go see dad!" Then she sighed and ignored Xiang'er, and walked away.But I kept thinking in my heart, if my father asked about the characters in the painting, how should I explain it?Everyone knows that she never likes to draw figures, she likes green mountains and green waters, and the beauty of lotus ponds.Now, a portrait of a man suddenly appeared, how could I hide it from this shrewd father?

Thinking of this, the woman in green involuntarily slowed down her pace.However, no matter how slow you walk, the road from the back garden to your own boudoir in the front yard is not far.So, he walked to the door in a moment.

Hou Junji's life has not been very good recently. Since Li Shimin ascended the throne, he has distributed ministers, and those who follow him have been given the title of Duke. This Hou Junji has no objections.After all, his thousand households in the food city are second only to Yuchi, Fang, Du, and Changsun, and are above all generals. (Li Jing had five hundred households at the time).However, when it came to specific positions, among the old men who followed Li Shimin to conquer the world, he had the lowest position, and he was only given the position of general of the left guard, only a deputy leader of the left guard.

Hou Junji was thinking that he had always been a loyal follower of Li Shimin, and he had fought with him in all directions, and made no less contributions than Qin Shubao and Yuchi Gong.And it's not because of his bravery that Li Shimin regards him highly, but because he is quite strategic.Besides, he was a member of Li Shimin's Qin family from the beginning to the end. During the Xuanwumen Incident, he also prompted Li Shimin to make the final decision, and he was one of the nine accompanying Li Shimin to enter the Xuanwumen.However, why was he given the post of General Zuowei, just a deputy, and he became the subordinate of Zhang Liang, the governor of Luozhou, the general of Zuowei?Look at it again, the one who followed Li Shimin in the court is no longer a member of one side, the chief general of the guard, how does it look like he is still beating others?

Hou Junji became upset when he thought of this, and he began to complain about Li Shimin in his heart.However, when he returned to the mansion, he heard that his wife, Zheng, said that his precious daughter Ruoyi had been shutting herself in the house for the past two days, wondering what she was doing?She asked her daughter several times, but she refused to tell the truth.Blame yourself for not going home all day, and not caring about women when you come back.So, Zuo Wei is fine today, so he went back to the house earlier to see his daughter.

When he came to the study and saw the portrait painted by the woman, he understood what she was doing these days and what she was thinking in her heart.However, he didn't expect, really didn't expect, that the person his daughter would like would be Li Ke, the emperor's third son, King Li Ke of Han.He wondered how Ruoyi knew Li Ke?How did you fall in love with him?

Among his many children, his favorite is this Zoyi.Not only is she well-behaved and obedient, but she knows everything about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, especially in painting.Therefore, when Ruoyi was very young, he invited a famous painting master to be her teacher and teach her painting.

He still remembers asking his daughter once, why do you only paint landscapes but not figures?At that time, my daughter was still young, and she told him coquettishly that the first person she drew was the man she needed, and he was the man she liked and would marry in the future.

Therefore, he understood his daughter's heart when he saw the portrait of Li Ke drawn by her on her desk.

Indeed, my daughter is already fifteen today, and she will be married next year. It is time for me to think about her marriage.However, if he let his daughter marry the current prince, especially a prince who has no relationship with the throne, he really never thought about such a thing.In his opinion, marrying a powerless prince is not as good as marrying a son of a wealthy family.After all, he himself is a descendant of a powerful family, and his ancestors were members of the Guanlong military aristocratic group.However, the political situation that affects the current imperial court is still aristocratic families, and the disciples of the aristocratic families must have much stronger words in the court than a prince who has no power or influence.

Thinking of this, Hou Junji pondered for a long time, and said to himself, "I'd better ask Ruoyi, I hope it's not what I think."

Hou Junji sighed slightly, in his heart he still hoped that his daughter would just