Before the Central Army's tent, there was a plum tree full of heavy fruits. It was still a green fruit, but now it has turned purple and red, hanging one by one on the branches, making everyone coming and going swallow a mouthful of sour water, but no one dared to pick one.

Because this tree was specially left by Li Ze at that time. Someone once said that it was not auspicious to leave a tree in the camp. There was a tree in the box, which was just a word trapped? But Li Ze retorted it back.

"fart!"

Li Ze stood under the tree, reached out to pull off a branch that looked towards the sun, picked two fruits from it, wiped it on the clothes, took a bite, and the juice suddenly overflowed. Li Ke, who was watching, couldn't help swallowing his saliva.

"Well, it's not bad, it's ripe, it's sweet in the sour, and the aftertaste is long!" Li Ze nodded repeatedly and handed Li Ke another fruit in his hand, "Your Highness also tastes it."

"Thank you, Grand Tutor!" Li Ke took the fruit with both hands and sent it to his mouth and bit it. First, it made his face bitter, but then the sweet taste came out of the sour.

"There is sweetness in the sourness, and the sweetness is sour. This is the taste!" Li Ze finished eating the plums in a few bites, picked several more, and looked at Li Ke and said, "Your Highness, life is like this, life is like this."

Li Ke looked at Li Ze suddenly became a little ignorant, but he didn't know how to answer. With his life experience, how could he understand the meaning of Li Ze's words?

Pulling Li Ke, he sat down under the tree. Li Ze handed over two more fruits and said with a smile: "Do you Highness don't understand?"

Li Ke nodded.

"Your Highness is considered a person who has experienced the storm. In the past, in Chang'an, there was His Majesty and Empress blocking the storm. Days were sweet, but now, the Empress is gone and His Majesty is seriously ill. Does Your Highness think life is very hard?"

Li Ke straightened his back and looked at Li Ze with his eyes fixedly. After a while, he said, "The students didn't feel it was very hard. Isn't there any Taifu still supporting him? If the Taifu is sheltering the students from the wind and rain, the students think that life is also good."

Looking at Li Ke's reluctant expression and the tears that had not let him fall, Li Ze shook his head. It was obvious that these words were taught by Xue Ping.

Looking at Li Ke in front of him, Li Ze suddenly remembered himself when he was young. He was so trembling and worried day and night, afraid that when a life would be over. Compared to himself before, Li Ke is probably even more worried now!

"Your Highness, life is always bitter in sweetness, sweet in bitterness, and full of ups and downs, that is life! Remember what I said!" Li Ze smiled and said, "But since we are here, we must work hard to make our lives more exciting and live a happier life, and experience different happiness in different tastes, that is interesting."

"Students remember." Li Ke whispered.

Li Ze smiled and continued, "We took the first lesson that night. In the next few days, I was busy handling official duties and did not give lectures to Your Highness again. Today we will take the second lesson."

"Here?" Li Ke said in surprise.

"It's here!" Li Ze saw that Li Ke had eaten two plums, and then reached out to take the other two in his hand and said, "Your Highness, you can't eat too much of this fruit. If you eat too much, you will be afraid that your teeth will be sore that you can't bite anything. No matter what you do, you must be moderate and stop when you are in moderation. If you are greedy, you will often have problems."

"yes."

"Your Highness will be the emperor in the future and take charge of the world. Today I will teach you the second lesson, which is the way to be a king." Li Ze said: "To put it simply, if you want to become a qualified king, the first thing you need to learn is to compromise."

"Compromise?" Li Ke looked at Li Ze in surprise.

"Yes, compromise!" Li Ze nodded heavily: "Compromise with his ministers, compromise with his allies, and even compromise with his enemies."

"But Mr. Gongsun didn't tell me that!" Li Ke looked at Li Ze with some confusion.

"Well? Did Mr. Gongsun teach you when did you also teach? Then what did he say?" Li Ze asked curiously.

"Mr. Gongsun said that the way of being a king is domineering, then the way of being a king, and finally the way of being a benevolent." Li Ke straightened his body, looking a little excited.

"Ordinary, kingly, benevolent!" Li Ze stared at Li Ke and frowned: "How did you interpret it to you by sir?"

"Mr. Gongsun said that the first thing that is to be a king is to have the dignity of being a king. This is domineering. To put it bluntly, if anyone is not convinced, he will crush him."

Li Ze coughed, "What about the kingly way?"

"The kingly way is to tell the other party why I crushed me. The so-called killing of others is to make the other party convinced."

"Where is both domineering and kingly way, how can there be kindness?"

"Mr. said that Rendao is to crush the other party and if he dies, he will be buried well and give the grief behind him. If he is not dead, he will be treated. If he is cured, he can still be used."

Li Ze was silent. It goes without saying that Gongsun Changming was hiding evil intentions. He was leading Li Ke to the evil path. Looking at Li Ke's expression, it was obvious that he liked Gongsun Changming's rhetoric.

I think so, for such a young child, they are afraid of revenge, which is what they want and want to see the most. In their eyes, what is compromise?

Li Ze even felt that if Li Ke had the strength that was stronger than him, he might have really given him a domineering and kingly way. As for benevolent way, it is very likely that he would not be able to display it on him.

"Your Highness, can you tell me how many soldiers and horses we have mobilized in Wuwei this time?" Li Ze asked.

Li Ke shook his head.

"So far, we have mobilized a total of 150,000 troops. This is not counting the civil servants. If the civil servants are included, the number will be doubled." Li Ze said: "But can your highness know that we still have a great enemy in the north?"

"I know this. It's Zhang Zhongwu, the traitor. The father said that Zhang Zhongwu was messing around in the world." Li Ke gritted his teeth.

"Not necessarily, this person is just an introduction." Li Ze said: "Can you know that this time I can take out so many soldiers and horses, which is the result of compromising with Zhang Zhongwu? If I don't compromise with Zhang Zhongwu, then he can restrain most of my soldiers and horses in the north, so that I can't fight this battle at all."

"Hasn't Zhang Zhongwu been beaten by the Grand Tutor to escape in a panic?" Li Ke was a little disbelief.

Li Ze picked up a branch on the ground, and drew a few strokes on the ground, then drew a map of the north: "Please look at your highness. This is our Wuwei, and that is the territory controlled by Zhang Zhongwu."

Li Ke widened his eyes: "Why does it seem that his territory is bigger than the power of the Taifu?"

"It's really big!" Li Ze said: "It's just that the place is vast and sparsely populated. Zhang Zhongwu was indeed defeated by us earlier, but this man is indeed a hero of a generation. Seeing that the situation is not good, he immediately took the initiative to retreat, gave up a large area of ​​territory and retreated to Yingzhou. He still has strong strength, vast territory, fertile land, and more importantly, he now controls Goguryeo, which has greatly increased his strength."

"Since that's the case, why didn't he seek revenge on the Grand Tutor?"

"This is the art of compromise!" Li Ze smiled and said, "Because Zhang Zhongwu knew very well that if Zhu Wen had a firm foothold in Chang'an and controlled Zhaoyi, Wei Bo and other places, then our Wuwei would be in trouble."

"The Taifu is his enemy. The Taifu is in trouble. Shouldn't he be happier?" Li Ke was completely confused by Li Ze's words.

"Your Highness, this is the mystery." Li Ze said slowly: "If I fall into a dilemma and cannot compete with Zhu Wen, then I can only defend myself and fight Zhu Wen. It seems that I can't beat him, because without Zhaoyi and Wei Bo, I will be in a passive state in terms of strategy. Maybe I will negotiate peace with Zhu Wen."

Li Ke suddenly changed his color.

Li Ze continued on his own: "But I still have more than 100,000 troops under my command. I want to find a way for these soldiers to make contributions. At the same time, I want to open up the living space of Wuwei. Since Zhu Wen has no way to fight, he can only go to him. Although he still has a certain amount of strength, he can't resist my full attack."

Li Ke took a deep breath.

"So he compromised with me. I didn't attack him, nor did he come to cause trouble for me. If I parted with him, I could draw troops to compete with Zhu Wen for Zhaoyi and Wei Bo. And he would take this time to consolidate his foundation there, vigorously develop people's livelihood, accumulate strength, and prepare for a comeback."

"Then it will still be an enemy from now on!"

"Yes, it will be the enemy in the future, but at least now, I and him are tacit." Li Ze smiled and said, "Your Highness, let's talk about Han Qi again? He has always been dissatisfied with me, and I have a lot of opinions about him, but now we are fighting side by side."

"Again compromise?"

"Of course, it's also a compromise, because Han Qi and I have a common goal, which is to defend the Tang Dynasty! So no matter how many conflicts we have, we have to put aside at this time and clean up the traitors first. Let's watch it in the future. After our war is over, Han Qi may not argue with me again."

"Is this what the tutor said that we should learn to compromise?"

"Yes, Your Highness think about it. If you follow the domineering and kingly way that Mr. Gongsun said, just crush them and do whatever you don't accept, then will these things be done?" Li Ze asked with a smile.

"It seems that it can't be done!" Li Ke said stutteringly.
Chapter completed!