When Suning came to the palace, it was already the next afternoon. The day before, because it was getting late, Suning left Li Chengqian in the Su Mansion for dinner. He personally cooked a few dishes and a pot of wine. The two of them talked about some big and small things in the past three years. Of course, once they drank too much, they could tell anything.

Suning’s certain difficulties in educating children and Li Chengqian’s certain difficulties in educating his son. For him, the pressure on educating children will be greater. For example, as the eldest son of the crown prince, Li Xiang is the eldest son of the next emperor. As the eldest son, Li Xiang’s identity and status are self-evident. Li Chengqian himself has not become an emperor, but the education of Li Xiang cannot be relaxed.

Suning also faces great pressure, which comes from the pressure of the eldest son Su Qingren. For the eldest son, who inherited the family business, his talent and action ability may not be more powerful than his father, but what he needs may be more calm and calm. As the saying goes, it is easy to conquer the country and difficult to defend the country. If this person cannot defend the country and his father's generation, then he is not worthy of becoming the heir to the position of head of the family.

However, it is obviously a bit too early to talk about these issues now. After all, Suning is only twenty-four years old, and Li Chengqian is a little younger than Suning. However, both of them are already fathers of children. From when he was a child to becoming a father of children, ten years have passed like this. When they talk about their first meeting and their interactions afterwards, they always feel infinitely sad.

It was another glass of wine. Li Chengqian sighed: "My father is getting older and older, and his energy is a little worse than before. Since Mr. Yi passed away, there are always days every month that his father will hand over all the government affairs to me to deal with. For me, this is indeed a rare experience, but the difficulty is not ordinary. I am always trembling. I dare not make any mistakes. I am afraid that doing something wrong will cause serious problems.

Now no one is competing for the throne with me, Qingque is unwilling to come to the East Palace to see me. As soon as I see me, I see that I am dealing with government affairs. Then he turns around and runs away. He said he is afraid of seeing the mountain of official documents. In fact, I am also afraid? The burden on my father's shoulders is too heavy, and I have almost no way to bear it, but I have to bear it even if I don't bear it. I am the prince and the heir of my father. What my father can do, I must do it.

Moreover, the goal my father set for me was not to expand the territory, but to firmly grasp the territory that my father had built. It is easy to defend the country and difficult to defend the country. We all know that it is easier to defeat the country and to defend the country. However, it is indeed extremely difficult to defend the country. In the past three years, there have been three rebellions on the grassland, once on the peninsula, once on the Wozhou, and two or three times in the Western Regions. It only took us a few months to attack these lands, an army, but it took us more time to defend these lands.

My father is a great king, and no one can deny that Grandpa Huang was the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, but half of the earliest territory of the Tang Dynasty was captured by his father. Now the territory of the Tang Dynasty is more than three times that of the original. These territories were all captured under the leadership of his father, and the greatest contribution was also his father. Really, Sanming, you really don’t have to worry about the problem of the great achievements that shocked the Lord. You can’t shake your father at all. My father is only one step away from being a saint, really!

Sanming, come back, come back to help me, don't forget that my father has a title that the prince's companion reads to you but has not been taken back. You can come to my East Palace and help me handle government affairs anytime and anywhere. Really, Sanming, I am so tired by myself. These government affairs are so hard that I am almost crazy. Xiang'er is not a good boy, so naughty, Sanming, I am really too tired..."

Li Chengqian talked a lot, almost talking about the hardships and grievances he had suffered in the past three years. He usually couldn't find anyone to talk about. Now he finally found Suning, and he could tell his suffering without reservation... In fact, if he didn't say it, Suning also knew how he was doing. Every month when he was unemployed, Zhao Chen would bring him a piece of administrative measures and daily situations of the court over the past month to him. This was instructed by His Majesty Li Er, and Suning knew it.

This time, Li Chengqian came, which was a signal. The sensation of Qin Qiong's death and the Confucian and Legal disputes that had been stolen three years ago have gradually subsided, and the increasingly fierce political struggles have gradually turned into academic struggles. His Majesty Li Er would not allow these people to involve academic struggles in political struggles, thus threatening the stability of his rule. Confucianism and Taoism are ubiquitous. Now the three major academic sects of the Tang Dynasty are as strong as the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu, with equal strength and difficulty in distinguishing themselves. They are in charge of several departments, fighting each other, but they are also collaborating with each other.

Avoiding harmony in the court is the emperor's power and tricks, but avoiding the division of ministers is also the emperor's power and tricks. How to grasp this degree is now His Majesty Li Er, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, has mastered it very well. However, for Li Chengqian, this is just an entry-level difficulty. The dispute between Confucianism and Law seems to be an academic dispute. In fact, Suning has long seen that the society ruled by man and the society ruled by law will not coexist for too long. This is the main reason why he insisted on supporting the Legalists in charge of the Ministry of Justice.

There were political factions in ancient China that advocated governing the country according to law rather than governing the country by people. However, they were suppressed by the power of Confucianism. However, the Legalist thought has never been completely eliminated. Instead, it has been passed down to this day. The power of the Legalist will inevitably have irreconcilable contradictions with Confucianism, which takes "benevolence and righteousness" as its fundamental foothold. The supreme emperor, His Majesty Li Shimin, can use his own authority to force the two academic sects to make peace for the time being. Not every emperor has the deterrent power of His Majesty Li Er, at least Li Chengqian does not.

Suning has reason to believe that once His Majesty Li Er leaves and once Li Chengqian ascends the throne, the first thing he has to face is the Confucian and Legal dispute. Li Chengqian hopes that Suning will return to the court as soon as possible, and also hopes that he can rely on the throne and straitors who have no clear political tendencies and tend to work hard, and then become an important bargaining chip to balance the Confucian and Legal schools.

Li Chengqian is already a qualified prince, a qualified prince of the state.

His Majesty Li Er pays more attention to cultivating Li Chengqian's ability than he imagined. He pays more attention to whether Li Chengqian can become his qualified successor. However, what Suning hopes more is that His Majesty Li Er can take the initiative to abdicate to Li Chengqian, rather than waiting for His Majesty Li Er to ascend the throne after His Majesty Li Er's death. Under the hereditary system, there is a situation that can avoid bloody struggles on the throne, that is, the old emperor takes the initiative to abdicate to the new emperor and supports him through the most difficult period.

Suning didn't know whether His Majesty Li Er had considered whether his own throne or the inheritance of the Tang Dynasty was more important, but now, Suning knew that His Majesty Li Er would never give up the throne. He was only in his forties. In modern times, he was still a young man, in his prime, and was suitable for great things.

Suning decided to present the revised version of the Su version of "Zizhi Tongjian" to His Majesty Li Er for eight years. It took a full eight years. Suning delayed the real complete version was completed four years ago, but Suning was unwilling to release this very meaningful historical book so early. In the past three years, he personally wrote it and studied it word by word with Cui Xiaoyi, thinking it word by word, and modifying it word by word.

Some chapters are gone through once, and some chapters are changed dozens of times, and the magic machine is no longer available. It is difficult for Suning to copy the original Sima Guang's opinions, but this also brought a lot of his own ideas. He has been an official for ten years. After ten years of hardship in the official battlefield of the Tang Dynasty, Suning's experience will not be inferior to Sima Guang.

Moreover, Suning also did a bold thing. In the past, writing historical books were recorded in the old dynasties. Suning not only wrote about the former Sui Dynasty, but also wrote about the second generation of Wude and Zhenguan. From the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, to the establishment of the Tang Dynasty by Your Excellency Li Yuan, to the ascension of His Majesty Li Er, and then to the era of great expansion in the past ten years. Every battle and every life-and-death battle were experienced by him personally, so he wrote very carefully.

Even the Xuanwu Gate Incident, he did not avoid it. Of course, he did not decide to present that chapter to His Majesty Li Er now, but to wait for the right opportunity. Suning had a premonition that when His Majesty Li Er could face his former ambition, cruelty and selfishness, he could calmly give up the throne and let the young and energetic Li Chengqian ascend to the throne. He watched Li Chengqian hold the throne firmly and hold the Tang Dynasty with a smile, and closed his eyes with confidence.

When Suning went to the palace, he brought more than a dozen big carts into the palace. Li Chengqian's face was extremely complicated. He looked at the manuscript in his hand, bit his lips without saying a word, and sometimes looked at the dozen big carts behind him, imagining the books written by Suning and his assistants, and he felt a little dizzy and incredible...

This is indeed a bit incredible. Eight years, eight years, didn’t it mean that Suning started preparing this magnificent masterpiece since he was sixteen years old? From King Weilie of Zhou to Emperor Yang of Sui’s loss of the country, to more than a thousand years of history, after "The Three Kingdoms", this true historical book and a true literary masterpiece, a work that was enough to establish the status of Suning as a master of his generation, was actually in front of him.

He opened the Han volume. The chapters about Emperor Wu of Han included praises and praises for great merits and vigor, as well as harsh criticisms and sarcasm for many ridiculous things that Emperor Wu of Han made in his later years, as well as beautiful hymns for Huo Qubing's achievements in sealing the wolf's home, as well as criticisms for Huo Qubing's perverse nature, not compassionate with the soldiers, and oppressing goodness. He mercilessly exposed the truest side of these people. Some of the remarks made Li Chengqian himself feel frightened.

But when he looked at Suning, Suning looked indifferent, not like a proud scholar who could write such spicy words. According to the ancients, the stronger his talent, the bigger his temper. Suning could not tell his temper at all from his daily relationship on the surface, but he revealed his temper in the article.

He denounced Liu Bang as a villain, despicable and shameless, and only when he became an emperor was successful. The so-called "Feng Ge" was just a whim. He fabricated a broad-minded lie for himself, and soon exposed himself, killed the heroes and set a very bad precedent. He was not hypocritical. He also said that Xiang Yu was reckless, short-sighted, brutal, bloodthirsty, stubborn, and arrogant. He said that Liu Bang succeeded because he was more suitable to be an emperor than Xiang Yu, and neither of them was a good person.

Li Chengqian quickly covered the chapter he saw and said to Suning with great concern: "Sanming, although this is about Xiang Yu and Liu Bang, the most in the world is people who are good at confusing black and white. Your words are too sharp. What if someone with intention tampered with the original intention, what should you do?"

Suning took the Han script from Li Chengqian's hand and smiled: "I just wrote out my thoughts, my opinions, and my words. Your Majesty has heard too much. If you can't accept such words, how can you talk about the Holy Lord? The Tang Dynasty punished the crime for words? I want to learn from the First Emperor to burn books and trick Suning? Hahaha! If so, just think I am an arrogant idiot!" (To be continued...)

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