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Chapter 114: Confessions

Li Yuan’s life is happy, painful and tormented.

If Li Yuan's two sons can live in harmony and not fight for the sake of a surrogate, then Li Yuan will undoubtedly be the biggest winner in life in history.

Li Yuan raised the latest among the many anti-kings at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and his troops were also at the last level, but Li Yuan succeeded and established the Tang Dynasty.

Among Li Yuan's many children, the eldest son Li Jiancheng and Shanwen were very good at handling government affairs and were trusted by many ministers.

The second son Li Shimin was good at martial arts. He started to fight south and north since Li Yuan started his army and made Shuoshuo's military achievements. Finally, he reached the point where Li Yuan didn't know how to reward him. However, in dealing with government affairs, Li Shimin was obviously not as good as Li Jiancheng, which was Li Shimin's biggest disadvantage.

Compared with the first two, Li Yuanji, Li Yuanji's ability to handle government affairs is not as good as Li Jiancheng, and his military achievements are not as good as Li Shimin. In addition, he is young, so when he established the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuanji did not make any efforts. However, after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, when he fought against those anti-Wang Zheng at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Li Yuanji also followed his two brothers to fight south and north, making considerable military achievements.

But Li Yuanji was spoiled. Anyway, Qin Chao always felt that Li Yuanji was destroyed by Li Jiancheng.

Many historical books have recorded that Li Yuanji is crazy and after committing an incident, the prince Li Jiancheng always helps to wipe his butt. Every time he commits an incident, he will help deal with it. Over time, he develops this kind of character and habit of Li Yuanji.

On the surface, this is Li Jiancheng's spoiling for Li Yuanji, but in fact he doesn't agree with it.

Unofficial history records that Li Yuanjiwen is not as good as Li Jiancheng and that Wu can surpass Li Shimin.

It is not difficult to see from this record that Li Yuanji is actually a prince who is both literary and martial, but his personality is his biggest shortcoming.

Qin Chao always felt that Li Jiancheng was deliberately spoiling Li Yuanji, and such a potential stock that could compete for the throne was indirectly abolished by him, and his only opponent was Li Shimin.

But Li Shimin reversed the throne, which was a historical trend. Qin Chao came a little late and could not catch up with this opportunity, and he did not want to get involved in the royal affairs.

Before ascending the throne, Li Shimin always felt that he should be the crown prince and the emperor, and only he had the ability and qualifications.

However, after becoming emperor for more than two months, Li Shimin completely denied his previous judgment, and Li Shimin's shortcomings in handling government affairs were completely revealed.

But what made the ministers more pleased was that more than a month after Li Shimin ascended the throne, he clearly realized his shortcomings, so he began to be more willing to accept advice from his ministers.

"In the eyes of my ministers, Your Majesty should issue an edict to tell the world that he would be able to calm the world." Wei Zheng stood up and said without hesitation.

"Hmph, what's the intention of Wei Zuocheng? What's wrong with Your Majesty? Could it be that because the Turks went south, Your Majesty should have issued an edict to blame himself? It's simply a big deal in the world." Changsun Wuji retorted frankly.

Countless old generals and advisers of the Tiance Prefecture had suggested that Li Shimin kill Wei Zheng. This guy was simply too bad. He had advised Li Jiancheng to kill Li Shimin several times. Fortunately, Li Jiancheng did not follow his advice, otherwise the consequences would be really terrible.

But Li Shimin did not accept the advice of the veteran general of the Tiance Prefecture because Li Shimin summoned Wei Zheng after killing Li Jiancheng and asked him why he wanted to sow discord between their brothers?

As a result, Wei Zheng only replied one sentence: If the prince accepted his advice, there would be no disaster today.

Li Shimin deeply agreed with this and immediately relieved Wei Zheng of his crime and appointed him as Zhan Shizhubo. Later, after the Weishui Alliance, he appointed him as the fourth-rank Shangshu Zuocheng.

Li Shimin admired Wei Zheng very much. He thought that Wei Zheng was a talent. It was not easy to pull Wei Zheng into his own camp before, but now there is no problem. Li Shimin is not a fool. He can't hear what suggestions are good and what suggestions are bad.

As for talents, Li Shimin is still very broad-minded.

However, no matter how broad his mind is, it does not mean that he does not have his own temper. Although Wei Zheng is just talking about the matter, what is behind this suggestion? Who doesn’t know about the entire court?

Yang Guang was so angry that he did not issue an edict for his crime. Why did Li Shimin issue this edict for his crime? Once this edict was released, he almost announced to the people of the world that the Xuanwu Gate Incident was initiated by him. However, in fact, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji had already become murderous. In order to survive, Li Shimin had to take the lead in launching a coup.

Li Shimin was very angry and wanted to kill Wei Zheng. It was now at this time, and he was still thinking about speaking out for Li Jiancheng.

But after thinking about it carefully, my throne was originally from a bad origin. If Wei Zheng was killed, wouldn’t it be confirmed from another perspective?

Wei Zheng sighed in his heart. Although he had the intention of saying unfairness to Li Jiancheng at this moment, this was actually just a by-password. Li Jiancheng was already dead, and Wei Zheng was not the kind of person who could not see the situation clearly. But this was what he said, in the eyes of others, but he still had to say these words.

"Your Majesty, the best way to deal with a topic is to create another bigger topic, divert the attention of the people, and make them forget the previous incident." Wei Zheng shook his head and said.

"There is no need to issue a self-criticism to change the topic. There is no dislocation of the monarch and ministers, no natural disasters cause disasters, and no political crisis, and no political crisis. This is inappropriate." Fang Xuanling immediately said.

The edict of sins of oneself cannot be issued casually. Generally speaking, the time when emperors issue edicts of sins of oneself is the most frequent, but they can bring prestige to themselves is the time of natural disasters. The first is the second, and the third is only considered a remedy for the loss. Except for these three situations, the edict of sins of oneself will never be issued.

Li Shimin's current situation is not enough to issue a self-criticism edict.

The civil officials were quarreling, but the military officials seized the opportunity. It was not the military officials' business to govern the government, so at this time, the military officials usually closed their eyes and rested or listened to the excitement.

But today's situation is different. The military officials were all worried and couldn't calm down and closed their eyes and rested.

When Cheng Yaojin heard the civil officials say he wanted to change the topic, a bigger topic than the Turkic going south, he lit up instantly. He seemed to have seen something, and hurriedly stood up and said before all the military officials: "Your Majesty, I have something to beat me."

"What's the matter with Yizhen?" Li Shimin was slightly happy. Although Cheng Yaojin couldn't say anything more constructive, he still helped him at this time.

"When I returned home a few days ago, the housekeeper told me that all the money in my family was taken out by my child. When I heard this, I was furious and chased me to my own village. I found that the child was leading someone to dig a well. It only takes seven people to dig a well, which cost five jin of a well. I can dig a well in one day. I saw it with my own eyes and kept talking to Qin Chao..." Cheng Yaojin told the story in succession. Except for what he said before, everything else was made up, but this was a fact.

Cheng Yaojin's words made the whole court lit up in an instant. It was so easy to dig a well? If the court released this news, wouldn't it be a good way to change the topic?
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