The Prodigal Son of Zhenguan

Li Yuan listened to Li Fu's words and shook his head helplessly.

He agreed with Li Fu's point of view, but he felt that Li Fu should become an official...

"You really don't want to be an official? With your talent, you can benefit the people." Li Yuan said.

"Then your majesty wants me to go to a place and be a local official?" Li Fu asked.

Li Yuan thought about it and shook his head.

As the only son of his third brother, he still wanted Li Fu to stay in Chang'an and stay in the court of Chang'an.

"To benefit the people, you don't have to go to the local government. Being an official in the court can do more." Li Yuan said: "The more power you have in the court, the more you can propose some court policies that are beneficial to the people, and you can do more than local officials."

"Uncle, it's not that my nephew doesn't want to be an official, but it's difficult to be an official." Li Fu smiled and said: "My nephew's current ability is only enough to mess with his own farm. It's not good for my nephew to mess with the people of the world."

Suggestions are suggestions. Not all good suggestions are put forward and adopted. After being implemented, they can get good results. In other words, the results that are truly implemented are not what the court wants.

Going down layer by layer, some things will deteriorate.

Li Fu never thought that he was smarter than Zhangsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others, nor did he think that he understood the people of the Tang Dynasty and the situation of the Tang Dynasty better than them.

If you don't understand anything and blindly rely on your ideal things to do things, it's all empty and you can't be down-to-earth.

"When Shang Yang carried out the reform, he measured the land of Qin and understood the situation of the people of Qin by his own steps. After he came back, he worked with Qin County to formulate the reform policy. Because he had enough understanding, even if there was turmoil in Shang Yang's reform, it was controllable by human power and accepted by the people.

And my nephew, who only lives in Jingyang County, has no qualifications to say that he understands the people of the Tang Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty." Li Fu said: "To put it bluntly, my nephew's knowledge is not enough, and he has no mountains and valleys in his mind. He has read books, but he has not read thousands of books. He has never traveled thousands of miles and has never seen the lives of the people outside Jingyang and Chang'an."

"And the world is changing every day. From the Sui Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty today, it has been less than ten years, and the world has completely changed, isn't it?"

In addition to admiration, Li Yuan looked at Li Fu with a bit of complexity.

This nephew of his is steady and doesn't look like a young man.

Li Fu believes that his so-called understanding is nothing more than what he has learned from history books and various literary works. Are the records in them real people of the Tang Dynasty? They are all cold words.

But now he is facing people with names, flesh and blood, and warmth. This is different.

Taking a Zhuangzi as an experiment, tossing here, no matter what the consequences are, Li Fu himself can bear it. Even if there is no harvest for a year, Li Fu can pay out of his own pocket to support the people in the Zhuangzi.

But after becoming an official, he stood in a high position, did not understand the actual situation at the bottom, and once a decision was made, once it was wrong, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Just like the previous discussion of moving the capital.

This was a wrong decision. If it was really done, the Tang Dynasty might be gone.

Li Yuan was not a down-to-earth person. His experience made him unable to be down-to-earth and unable to understand how the people below lived.

Otherwise, he would not say "Why don't you eat mutton?"

Does that mean not to eat?

Yes, Li Fu can afford it now, but what about ordinary people?

How many people are willing to eat it?

Li Yuan looked at Li Fu and said, "You have such knowledge and ideas, which is better than many officials. Most officials studied at home and in their clans before they became officials. Then they were recommended by their clan elders to serve as officials in the court. If you really compare them, your knowledge is no less than theirs."

Although Li Fu felt that this kind of monopoly of official positions by the aristocratic families was flawed, after all, the accumulation and profound foundation of the aristocratic families were not comparable to ordinary people.

Some people yearn for Chang'an all their lives, while others were born in Chang'an.

"Now that my second brother has become the crown prince, he will inherit your majesty in the future and work for the well-being of the people of the Tang Dynasty." Li Fu said: "If my nephew can find something beneficial to the people of the Tang Dynasty in the future when running this farm, I will also mention it to your majesty and my second brother. This is not much different from being an official in the court. It will not be inconvenient for relatives to meet. After all, my nephew is in Chang'an, has a title and an official position."

Although he is a casual official.

"Practice makes perfect, and doing a good job in this small farm"I think it is more reliable to implement it and benefit the people after having experience. "Li Fu said.

"You are so thoughtful." Li Yuan praised.

Li Fu lowered his head, raised the corner of his mouth and smiled slightly.

Don't stop me from making money on the farm.......

What kind of official is it to go out early and come back late, and be scheming.

Isn't it good to think about making money when you are idle on the farm?

There are still many things to do, and being an official will waste time.

When you become an official, you will be criticized for doing some business in the court, and you will be blamed by the censors.

You should hold this shit pot in your own hands.

"Li Fu." Li Yuan turned around and looked at the scenery in the distance.

"My nephew is here." Li Fu bowed.

"You don't look like a young man. "Li Yuan said this.

Li Fu was stunned.

Is it not like that?

It should be not like that.

No matter where you are, you are busy for a living and racking your brains to make money.

It's just that Li Yuan came to recognize his relatives, which made him turn over and feel much more relaxed.

Li Yuan's words were like a key, opening the rusty iron chains in Li Fu's heart.

Li Yuan was still talking to himself.

"When I was your age, I was a young man with high spirits. Oh, now I think back to that time, it seems like yesterday." Li Yuan sighed.

How come I am old in the blink of an eye?

When people get older, they will think back to the past, and the emperor is no exception. When they get older, their physical functions decline, and occasionally they will be unable to do things. When they are unable to do things, they will remember how majestic they were when they were young. That was a good time that no matter how much glory they gave, they would not change it.

"And you are now in your teens, more like when I was in my thirties. "Li Yuan said.

Although sometimes some of Li Fu's behaviors seemed absurd to him, such as setting up this workshop and spending so much money, but once he talked about serious matters, he didn't look like a teenager at all.