Tang's dining table

After coming back from Su Dingfang's mansion, Li Hong had been thinking a lot. Just as he was sitting in front of the window with his chin on his face, thinking about what Su Dingfang said to him, he suddenly felt very hot on his back.

When he turned around, he saw Li Si's big head. Only now did he realize that Li Si had been sticking to his back. No wonder it was so hot.

He grabbed Li Si's neck collar with one hand and lifted her up, lifted her to the door, and kicked her out. After listening to Li Si's cries, Li Hong suddenly felt that his thoughts were not so heavy.

Does the father really take great precautions against the master and the three of them?

Li Hong couldn't figure out this question. These three people were obviously the pillars of the Tang Dynasty. Why was his father so jealous?

It shouldn't be suspicion, but keeping it safe around him, the royal family can be safer. Su Dingfang is a general, which means that his eyes can only see a corner of the country, unlike his father who considers the safety of the entire Tang Dynasty.

In Li Hong's view, nowhere is as important as the three capitals of the Tang Dynasty. Thinking this way, it is understandable to understand his father's behavior.

There were disloyal ministers in the Western Regions, so Xue Rengui was sent to fight against them.

There was a traitor in Mobei, so he sent Pei Xingjian to fight against it.

There was a disloyal minister in Yuyang, so he sent Yunchu to investigate.

In this way, there is no uncertainty in the world.

In the past, these three people could kill a lot of people in Liaodong, but now, they can do the same.

Li Hong's confidence mainly came from Xue Rengui, who had worked hard to train the army in Chang'an, and Yun Chu, who had never slacked off for a day. As for Pei Xingjian, although he devoted himself to studying the position of Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, he was equally unambiguous in fighting.

Sitting around a big table to eat with the master and his family is the most enjoyable time of Li Hong's day.

The main reason is that the atmosphere at the dinner table at Yun's is so good. Although the meals are divided and each person has a red lacquer plate, the food is the same. Everyone is working hard to eat, which leads to Li Hong eating more every time. a little.

There are not many rules at the dinner table, and even Wen Huan, a child who never likes to eat, has gained a lot of weight recently.

The Yun family is good at raising children. Li Hong knows this. One or two other people's children often die young. The Yun family even has children like Li Si who have a high probability of dying now being raised as pigs.

Li Hong kept threatening Li Si who was chewing chicken legs with his eyes. It was not that he refused to let her eat, but the child had already chewed two chicken drumsticks and was now chewing on the chicken drumstick that was taken from Yun Jin's plate.

Li Hong wanted to return his chicken legs to Yun Jin, but Yun Jin interrupted, claiming that he would not eat from other people's plates.

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Si poured all the celery from his plate into Yun Jin's dinner plate without seeing any resistance from Yun Jin.

Seeing Yun Jin eating celery, Li Hong thought of Naha for no reason... In the past, Naha didn't like to eat celery, so she dealt with it this way. However, the target was not the young Yun Jin, but He Li Hong.

Thinking of Naha, Li Hong felt his heart aching. He raised his head and looked at Yun Chu and said, "Master, should Naha go to the Buddhist Kingdom now?"

Yun Chu said: "When her next letter comes, it will be time to talk about the Buddhist country. I will send it to you then."

Li Hong remained silent and continued to eat in silence. After saying goodbye to Naha, he did not receive a single word from Naha.

"I'm going to see Xue Rengui today, master?" Li Hong shook his head to shake away the painful thoughts and asked with a smile.

Yun Chu shook his head and said, "I won't go. The next time I see Xue Rengui will be when I am determined to hone my martial arts skills."

"Master, what do you think of today's generals?"

"It was supposed to be a general from the Tang Dynasty guarding the border, but he became a foreign general leading the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty to guard the border. It was supposed to be a general from the Tang Dynasty who was going to open up the territory and expand the territory, but he became a general from a foreign race and led the soldiers from the Tang Dynasty to open up the territory and expand the territory. .

They hid in all the beautiful places in Chang'an, Luoyang, Yizhou, and Yangzhou and enjoyed the blood food brought by the foreign generals at the expense of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.

In a few years, their buttocks will become so fat that they will be unable to sit on a saddle, their arms will become too weak to lift a horse, their courage will become even smaller, and they will no longer dare to come to the front of the two armies to show off their martial arts. . "

"If they are forcibly recruited and sent to the ends of the earth, will they be able to regain their former bravery?"

Yun Chu looked up at Li Hong and said with a smile: "Stop saying such silly things. If you make such a suggestion, you will be attacked by a group of people, and you will be scolded by your father, and your mother will not wait for you." meet you."

"Why, isn't this a good thing when our people become stronger?"

"It sounds like a good thing, but because of different statuses, opinions are different. Your father believes that no matter how powerful the foreign general is, he has no basis to replace you, Li, as the new master of the Tang Dynasty.

If the generals of our clan become stronger, something bad like a change of dynasty may happen.

Now, if the foreign generals are opening up territory for the Tang Dynasty and are still invincible, there is no need to use their own generals.

The only role of the native generals in the Tang Dynasty is to monitor and intimidate the foreign generals so that they do not dare to have second thoughts.

Judging from the current situation, the use of foreigners to fight for us has basically formed a unanimous opinion in the court.

During the Taizong period, officials in the Tang Dynasty were often divided into civil and military families. Even civilian officials could wear armor and go into battle to kill the enemy. Therefore, the power of military men was relatively rampant at that time, resulting in civil servants having no status at all. Go back and ask Xu Jingzong You know what the civil servants of that period were like.

Now, the world is peaceful and there is no place for military men to use their skills. Even if there is a slight trouble on the border, it can be easily quelled by sending a surrender general.

The civil servants had no way to deal with the generals of the Tang Dynasty, so they chose not to use them and began to use a large number of those useful and obedient generals.

I also heard that starting from next year, the Tang Dynasty will allow foreigners to participate in the scientific research of the Tang Dynasty. It sounds like this is a manifestation of the Tang Dynasty's ambition to encompass the world and a manifestation of the Tang Dynasty's power over the world.

But, I'm not optimistic about it.

I never believed that a Japanese would swear allegiance to the Tang Dynasty, nor did I believe that the foreigners in the Western Regions and Mobei would love and protect the Tang Dynasty as much as we do.

How should I put it? The bones of our ancestors are buried in this land. We rely on the nutrients left by the bones of our ancestors to the earth to farm and survive from generation to generation. In other words, we are dependent on this land for life and death.

They don't think so, because once this land cannot bring them enough glory and benefits, they can leave. "

Li Hong was stunned when he heard this. Even if a piece of beef dropped from his chopsticks, he didn't notice.

He simply put down his chopsticks and said, "How to break the situation?"

Yun Chu smiled and pointed at Li Hong with his chopsticks: "You can solve it when you become emperor."

Li Hong stood up and turned around twice on the ground and said: "If this matter becomes a trend, even if I become the emperor, I won't be able to act against heaven. Besides, don't you think it will be too late by then?

The seats in the court are limited, and if others are already occupying them, it will be difficult for those behind you to squeeze in. "

Yun Chu put a piece of lotus root in his mouth and chewed it. After a moment, he said, "This is why I don't agree with you to immediately form the Prince's Six Rates."

Li Hong asked in confusion: "What does this have to do with my prince's six rates?"

Yun Chu put down his chopsticks and raised his hand to slap him. Suddenly he remembered that this guy had grown up, so he put down his hand and said, "The old one is hopeless. Young people can still try it."

"Young man, how young?"

Yun Chu pointed at Yun Jin, Wen Huan, Di Guangsi and others said: "They are still here."

Li Hong exclaimed: "You want to recruit children of their age into the Prince's Sixth Rate? When the time comes, will I protect them, or will they protect me?"

Yun Chu looked into Li Hong's eyes and said, "I was just talking casually."

"No, master, you definitely didn't say it casually. You had the urge to slap me just now. This shows that what you just said is very important."

Yun Chu sighed and said: "Back then, Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong conquered the country. Now, your father has reduced or reduced money and food for each Tao one by one. This is obviously to buy the country of the Tang Dynasty again.

The things your fathers and grandfathers did were all good things. When your generation comes, it will be time to discard the old and adopt the new. If you cannot complete the discarding of the old and adopt the new in your generation, come up with some new things to make the people's lives better. He can live a better life, but this Tang Dynasty is just another big man at best.

If a person throws a stone into the air with all his strength, no matter how strong the person is, the stone will always fly to the highest point and then start to fall.

Emperor Taizu was the one who threw the stone. Your grandfather, Emperor Taizong, whipped the stone with a stick to make it fly higher. Your father, based on your grandfather's example, also whipped the stone hard to make the stone fly. of higher.

So, when you ascend the throne and take power, what should you do to make the stone of Datang fly higher or never wither? "

Li Hong grabbed the master's hands and said, "What should I do? You tell me."

Yun Chu shook his head and looked regretfully at Li Hong, who was getting more and more stupid. Then he looked at Li Si's sparkling eyes next to him. He couldn't help but sigh and said, "What is the thing I asked you to do the most when you were a child?" ?”

Li Hong immediately said: "Study, practice martial arts..." Seeing that Yun Chu's expression was not right, he suddenly woke up and said: "Farming."

Yun Chu smiled and patted the head of this disciple who was not extremely stupid and said: "Yes, farming, our ethnic group is born to farm, farming is our foundation.

As long as the ground can grow more, better, and sweeter food, the ethnic group can live a better life, and they can feed no matter how many descendants they have in the future.

If you really get to this point, everything else is actually trivial. "

"Farming?"

"That's right, cultivating the land well is better than anything else. If you can make one acre of land in the world produce six hundred catties of wheat, you will have no problem doing whatever you want with the affairs of the Tang Dynasty.

Even if they screw up, it doesn't matter. At most, there are just a few more unlucky people, which will have no impact on the world.

As for the general trend you just mentioned, there is no general trend as powerful as the one built by one acre of real estate and six hundred pounds of wheat.

If you grasp this general trend, you will find that the rest of the general trends are just ripples in the pond. "