freenovelworld Chapter 590: Governing a Big Country Like Cooking Small Fresh Food
Chapter 590: Governing a Big Country Like Cooking Small Fresh Food
Chapter 590: Governing a Big Country Like Cooking Small Fresh Food
"You are the prince and the elder brother. As the saying goes, an elder brother is like a father. I let you go so that you can establish the majesty of an elder brother." Li Shimin said.
After the Xuanwumen Incident, most of Li Jiancheng's subordinates were liquidated.
With this lesson learned from the past, no one dares to stand right now.
As the crown prince, Li Chengqian is very misnamed.
Of course, this has something to do with Li Shimin's deliberate suppression.
But now that Li Shimin has figured it out, it is natural to strengthen Li Chengqian's power.
"I understand." Li Chengqian said.
Li Shimin didn't say much about it. After all, Li You was also his son, and he still had feelings in his heart.
"The teachers in the East Palace are all carefully selected talents. When dealing with memorials, if you don't understand anything, you can ask them more." Li Shimin paused, and said: "You can also ask me."
Li Chengqian was slightly taken aback. Ever since he became the crown prince, Li Shimin praised him a lot at first.
As he got older, Li Shimin reprimanded him more and more.
There are even rumors that Li Shimin has the idea of Yi Chu.
In addition, Li Shimin loved Li Tai too much, so Li Chengqian gradually regarded Li Tai as an enemy.
It was the first time that Li Shimin talked to him so calmly.
"What's wrong?" Seeing Li Chengqian in a daze, Li Shimin asked a little strangely.
"Go back...Go back to Emperor Father, my son is fine." Li Chengqian said.
"Then let's go back first." Li Shimin didn't think much about it.
Li Chengqian hesitated for a moment, and said cautiously: "Can I ask my father a question?"
Li Shimin met Li Chengqian's gaze, saw the cautiousness in his eyes, and was a little lost in thought.
When Li Chengqian was born, he led the army abroad. After receiving the letter, Li Shimin was overjoyed, quickly won the war, and returned to Chang'an.
It is said that the people love the eldest son, and the emperor loves the youngest son.
In fact, this sentence is not true, most people are very fond of the first son.
After all, it is the first son, and one can imagine the feeling of being a father for the first time.
When Li Chengqian was young, he was very attached to him, but since when did Li Chengqian only have fear in his eyes.
Now even ask him a question to be so cautious.
Li Shimin asked himself if he was being too harsh on Li Chengqian.
"Come on, what's the problem?" Li Shimin said softly.
Li Chengqian didn't notice the change in Li Shimin's tone, and said: "Father, my son has been dealing with memorials for more than two years, but those memorials are trivial matters, my son is very strange, are all the officials in the world so idle? Focus on the little things every day."
"You don't think those are important?" Li Shimin asked blankly.
Li Chengqian looked at Li Shimin's face, didn't get any useful information, and said with some lack of confidence: "Returning to the father and emperor, it's not that the sons and ministers are not important, but some of them don't need to be played at all."
"Then tell me, which ones do you think are unnecessary to play, and why?" Li Shimin asked.
"Father, a few days ago, there was a memorial in Tongzhou. It said that there was a woman in the local area. Her husband died and left no children. Her natal family wanted her to remarry, but her husband's family disagreed. In the end, it was decided that women were allowed to remarry. Is it necessary to play at such an hour?" Li Chengqian said.
"At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in turmoil and the population dropped sharply. I decreed that if a woman's husband dies, if she leaves no children, she can remarry without stopping her. The local government's doing so proves that the court's regulations have been strictly implemented, and that she is a usable person." Li Shimin said.
Many people in later generations have heard of the chastity archway. If a woman does not remarry, the court will not only reward her, but also set up an archway for her.
Many places are proud to have chastity archways.
For the chaste archway, many people think that it was created in the Ming Dynasty.
In fact, the chaste archway first appeared in the Qin Dynasty, but it was not paid attention to in the past dynasties.
As we all know, the atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty was very open and did not exclude remarriage.
According to records in the Tang Dynasty, there were as many as 20 princesses who remarried, and some of them married three times.
Everything must be reversed. In the mid-Song Dynasty, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism represented by Cheng Yi and Zhu Xi changed China's academic thinking and customs and systems, and proposed "preserving the principles of nature and destroying human desires" against endless selfish desires. Someone asked Cheng Yi, "Widows are lonely and lonely." Can you remarry if you have no one to rely on?" Cheng Yi replied, "Starving to death is a small matter, but infidelity is a major matter." This made women's concept of chastity intensify on the basis of reverence for ancient times.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, women's concept of chastity was further strengthened, and this period was also the period when the chastity archway really flourished.
Zhu Yuanzhang promulgated a decree exempting widows who observe the festival from official duties.In that environment, keeping chastity is not just as simple as the ruler's advocacy. If you violate the three cardinal principles and five constant rules, you will be expelled from the clan at the least, and you will be soaked in a pig cage or even tortured.According to the "Gu Ling Shu Ji Ji", there were only 51 martyrs in the Tang Dynasty, 267 in the Song Dynasty, and more than 36000 in the Ming Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, there were as many as 2200 in Xiuning County, Anhui Province.
The war at the end of the Sui Dynasty caused the population to drop sharply. In order to prosper the population, although Li Shimin could not issue a decree to encourage remarriage, he also stipulated that if a woman had no heirs and wanted to remarry, her husband's family could not stop her.
Li Chengqian opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything.
He naturally knew the decree promulgated by Li Shimin.
But what he said was that there is no need to play such a small matter.
But asking Li Shimin just now has exhausted all his courage.
Seeing Li Chengqian's appearance, Li Shimin knew what he was thinking, and said, "Do you think the Tang Dynasty is great?"
"The Tang Dynasty is naturally great, far surpassing the Qin and Han Dynasties." Li Chengqian said without thinking.
As a prince, he is naturally proud of Datang.
Li Shimin said: "The Tang Dynasty is very big, but I can only live in this small palace. If I want to understand the world, I can only go through memorials."
"Through the memorial, you can see many things. If you understand the trend of the world, you will not be kept in the dark."
"If the memorials in various places were natural disasters and man-made disasters, then the Tang Dynasty would have been in chaos long ago. Although it is boring to deal with trivial matters, it can show that the Tang Dynasty is very stable."
"Governing a big country is like cooking small fish. You have to be patient in governing the country. You can't just ignore trivial matters, understand?"
"My son understands." Li Chengqian said respectfully.
"What I say, you go back and think about it carefully." Li Shimin said.
Although Li Chengqian is still a little impetuous now, he is still young and can be shaped slowly.
In the past, Li Shimin would have reprimanded him if he failed.
I have to say that Li Shimin has changed a lot today.
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Ever since Li Tai went to the palace, Han Wen has been waiting anxiously in the main hall.
Once he went to the fiefdom, the throne and Li Tai would be lost, and all the painstaking efforts of the family on Li Tai would be in vain.
In history, there has been no successful rebellion by vassal kings so far.
Although Li Shimin was a prince, he did not become a vassal.
Li Shimin's success is also because he stayed in Chang'an.
(End of this chapter)