Chapter Four Three Four Pick
After hearing his father's words, Li Zhaocheng couldn't help asking: "I still don't understand very well. You were so young at that time. How did you make such a decision? What motivated people to decide not to be an emperor?"
Li Junwei laughed: "No need to say that it is so noble, it is actually just two words, one is greed and the other is lazy.
When I was young, I was my favorite among my family. Your grandfather, your grandmothers and your uncle all liked me and pampered me. But if I wanted to be an emperor, your grandmother and uncle would alienate me. When I was a child, I found that being an emperor was really hard. Your grandfather was already very capable of delegating power, but it was still very hard, and preparing to be an emperor was even harder. Do you know that when I was running around and not studying hard, your second uncle had to study hard, from morning to night.
Even if he plays, he is also a fun-loving person, and my play is just to want to play."
"It's that simple. Have you ever regretted it when you grow up and have us brothers?" Li Zhaocheng asked.
Li Junwei said: "When you regret it, but that thought only appears for a while and then disappears quickly. In fact, nothing can change my original intention. You have seen the emperor's work, but I can't bear the intensity of work, and my spirit will collapse because of this...
Obviously, the empire was the right choice, but I needed to supplement and strengthen it, and that's all. As for my children, I was not as sentimental as your grandfather. When I saw you and your brother, I was very worried, afraid that you would be as naughty as me when you grow up, and that you would not be as comfortable as I am when you grow up.
I don't believe in the destiny. For you brothers, I just think that what you get should be what you get based on your own ability. And what I give you is at most is a way out, a worry-free life, and that's all.
Look at your younger brothers, as long as they are not ignorant, I will not care whether they want to participate in politics, nor what they choose to do. Choose their own path and then go to the end. If you enjoy your own glory, and if you wrongly bear your own price, what does it have to do with me? It has something to do with me?"
Li Junwei still looked indifferent, but Li Zhaocheng knew that his father seemed not very concerned about his children, but in fact it was not. At the critical moment of life, he often only had a few steps, and his father always played a role in those steps.
"I know what you said to me today. I will tell the emperor at the right time. You don't have to worry about the rest. Just continue to do your business." Finally, Li Junwei said to his son.
Li Zhaocheng asked: "Then how should I tell my elder brother?"
"Don't talk to him too much, just think that it has never changed." Li Junwei looked into his son's eyes and said bluntly.
Li Zhaocheng frowned: "Dad, do you want me to be my elder brother's whetstone, too?"
"Do you think your elder brother really wants to treat you as a whetstone?" Li Junwei asked back. Seeing that his son didn't say anything, he said again: "Do you think the empire's throne inheritance is decided by the emperor alone? Do you think the empire's choice of the next generation of monarchs is just about ability?
Do you think you quit and tell the emperor and your elder brother, and you really quit? No, child.”
Li Zhaocheng became even more confused and said, "Then I tell you, is it equivalent to not telling me?"
"Yes, the decision you made will not affect the final result." Li Junwei said bluntly.
Li Zhaocheng sighed: "I wouldn't have told you if I had known this. Goodbye, I'll go back to the West Courtyard first."
Li Zhaocheng stood up and walked out of Wanbao Building. Li Junwei shouted: "Boy, take your son and your wife with you within three days. Get out of my Prince Yu's Mansion. You have already got married. Don't stay at my house and don't leave. Don't think that I just came back from the capital and was in a bad mood. Staying in the Prince's Mansion will make me feel better."
"I understand." Li Zhaocheng nodded, waved his hand, and left Wanbao Tower.
Li Junwei looked at his son's back and thought for a while: "Maybe I should ask this child for a title and title..." He murmured to himself, and shook his head again: "Forget it, maybe he can become the emperor one day, or maybe the boss will become the emperor, let the boss give him away."
At this time, there was a sound of thumping on the wooden stairs. Li Zhaogui slapped the dust on his body and walked down from above, saying, "Uncle San, I'm suffocating me to death. If Zhao Cheng told you for another half an hour, I would have to wet my pants."
Li Junwei knew that his eldest nephew had been listening to the wall for a long time, but he didn't care at all. After seeing this guy running into the bathroom and seriously dealing with it, he said, "What have you heard?"
"I heard everything." Li Zhaogui said, and he walked to the door, closed the door, and said, "This time I came back, I found that Zhaoyu looked like the second uncle in terms of temperament and style. Zhaocheng's temperament is more like the third uncle. Now I see that Zhaocheng is so open-minded that he has obtained the true teachings of the third uncle."
"Is it called open-mindedness to give up what I can't get?" Li Junwei quipped.
Lee Zhaogui laughed: "Uncle San, that's the throne." As he said that, he patted Li Junwei on the shoulder and gave a serious education, just like when Li Junwei joked with him when he was a child. Lee Zhaogui said: "Uncle San, you have never been an emperor, and you don't know how tempting it is to be an emperor."
Li Junwei spread his hands: "Yes, I have never been an emperor, but in the two most populous countries in the world, the emperor of one country is already my son, and the emperor of another country is almost my son. Boy, I am the winner of your third uncle."
Li Zhaogui shook his head helplessly. In his life, the third uncle trusted the most, the third uncle admired the most, and the third uncle was the most. He didn't want to talk more about this topic. After all, Li Junwei's life in this life really made him envious and jealous.
Lee Zhaogui said: "Uncle San, I'm not kidding anymore. Let's be honest. If Zhao Yu really ascends the throne and becomes emperor one day, it's better to let Zhao Cheng be my king of the Xinhua Kingdom, so that your three sons will become kings."
"My father, my elder brother, my second brother, my nephew, my eldest son, and my second son, are all emperors. Then am I Liuwei Dihuang Wan?" Li Junwei laughed.
"Did you agree?" Li Zhaogui asked. He is now focused on finding a king for the Xinhua Kingdom, and quickly throw this bag out and be his own Supreme Emperor happily.
Li Junwei waved his hand: "I agree. I'll tell you again, any child who has been involved in the imperial throne or the Indian throne cannot be the kingdom of the Xinhua Kingdom. I need to have the sovereignty of the Xinhua Kingdom in the future, whether in terms of legality or ethics.
Didn’t I tell you that you would choose a child in your family, why don’t you go to the Ying Prince’s Mansion to find one?”
Li Zhaogui sighed: "I am not familiar with Zhao Yan, and I have told him that this guy is too influenced by you. He does not object to his children as kings, but he needs to wait for them at least sixteen years old, preferably eighteen years old, and after they have the ability to judge independently, they choose to be or not. How can I have so much time to wait for him?"
Li Junwei was helpless and said, "I can only support him in this matter. After all, that is someone else's son. Even if I am an elder, I cannot arrange my son at will. Then you can stay in the palace for a few more days and see your unemployed younger brothers. Choose which one you like."
"Uncle San, you won't say at the end that you need your child to make a decision after he becomes an adult." Li Zhaogui was afraid that he would fall into this plan again.
Li Junwei shook his head: "Of course not."
"But how to do this? I'm worried that the child would disagree with one. But if I say publicly, if someone agrees and I don't like it, wouldn't it be quite embarrassing?" Li Zhaogui expressed his uneasiness.
Li Junwei said: "Don't worry about this. Except for the Zhaoyu brothers and Zhaoming, the other children, as long as you like it, he will definitely agree. Needless to say, his mother will also make decisions for her son."
"Are you sure how many ladies will agree?" Li Zhaogui asked.
Li Junwei nodded: "I'm pretty sure that if I didn't even do this, they wouldn't have been able to marry into my Prince Yu's Mansion. In the Prince's Mansion, among my women, except for the princess, the rest of them are vain. Being a queen mother is really attractive to them.
If you stay in the palace for a while, as long as you reveal a little bit of whine, they will even come to the door on their own initiative.”
Li Zhaogui did not expect that King Yu would comment on his concubines like this, but the fact is as King Yu said, when the woman in Prince Yu's mansion knew that the Indian emperor, his nephew, lived in the palace to investigate a boy who went overseas to be a king, everyone immediately became interested and came to please him, wanting to push his son to that position.
Li Zhaogui didn't expect that Li Junwei was a member of the Qing Dynasty, because he was overseas and had never shortage of women around him. His favorite was the kind of vain woman. He didn't have to talk about feelings, and the money was enough. He was greedy for other people's beauty, and he was greedy for his status and wealth, and he took what he needed, which was the most fair.
These women marry into the royal palace, without exception, because of pregnancy. However, for Li Junwei, beauty is just a kind of enjoyment and never dominates anything. In the royal palace, the status of the princess cannot be shaken. Any woman who dares to be disrespectful to the princess will not have good results even if she is pregnant.
Shenjing, No. 73 Changning Road.
A luxurious carriage parked in front of this tall building. Not far away is the Shinkyung Municipal Government. This building, both in size and style, is much more luxurious than the Shinkyung Municipal Government. This tall building is the headquarters of the Imperial Tobacco Corporation.
"Welcome to the eldest son."
The carriage was just as steady as it was before the door was opened, and there was a sound of applause outside. The person in charge of the reception came forward and opened the carriage door. Li Zhaoyu smiled slightly and walked down. Just as the officials here invited Li Zhaoyu in, Li Zhaoyu raised his hand and signaled, saying, "Dear colleagues, I came this time and brought you a distinguished guest."
As he said that, Li Zhaoyu walked to the car door and watched the person inside walk out. The man's skin was a little dark, but he could not hide his nobleness. It was the prince of the Nanzhang Kingdom, Wen Luo, Li Zhaoyu's friend, who helped him a lot at the Eastern Alliance Conference.
Wen Luo returned to China for two years, but this time he came back, but his identity has changed. In the past, he was just a prince of Nanzhang who studied in the empire, the heir of a king, responsible for diplomatic affairs between the two countries, but now, he has obtained all the authorization from his father to be responsible for all Nanzhang affairs related to the empire.
When several officials saw Wen Luo, their faces were even more smiling. If Li Zhaoyu's arrival made them happy, it was because they respected the royal power represented by the eldest son. Then Wen Luo's arrival was the arrival of the God of Wealth.
In Nanyang, as Thailand followed the imitation of the empire and developed a tobacco monopoly and cooperated with the Imperial Tobacco Corporation, it achieved success in taxation. Other countries were also moved and followed suit. The same was true for the Nanzhang Kingdom represented by Wen Luo.
Unlike other countries, the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Tobacco Corporation need to deal with it together. Whether Nanzhang wants to engage in tobacco monopoly and in what form it is done? Wen Luo determined it in one sentence.
Entering the Tobacco Corporation building, Li Zhaoyu said to everyone in the hall: "This time, His Highness Wen Luo came to negotiate the tobacco monopoly system of the Nanzhang Kingdom. Dear colleagues, we must help all our efforts."
"Yes, the eldest son." The officials and staff of the Tobacco Corporation nodded one after another.
Li Zhaoyu said again: "But there is no need to rush this matter. His Highness Wen Luo, like me, wants to visit this place. To be honest, we two know very little about tobacco, so we should know it well."
"Young Master, we have everything arranged. How did you arrange the specific visit process?" someone asked.
Li Zhaoyu said: "First go to the commodity display and see what products can be provided. Especially what flavors of cigarettes can be provided, Your Highness Wen Luo needs to try it. After all, the customs and customs of different places are different and the tastes are different. You can't let the people in Nanzhang smoke the same tobacco as us.
I will do this in the morning. Lord, you have to properly place lunch."
The Lord Qu, who was named, nodded repeatedly, saying that he would make arrangements.
The two walked side by side in front, and Wen Luo whispered: "Young Master, what are you doing with me? You brought me here in a daze, and you asked me to visit me in a daze. What are you going to do?"
"I'm just helping you. Wen Luo, now is not the time to retreat."
Chapter completed!