"Your Majesty, I want to give you a story!" Li Xiu did not directly say anything about the relationship, but smiled and said to Li Shimin. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"The story? What's the story? Li Shimin couldn't help but be stunned when he heard Li Xiu's words, he didn't expect Li Xiu to call him out to tell him a story?

"Your Majesty, this story told by the minister is a bit special, I don't know what year and where, there is a beggar born the leader of the rebel army, and finally defeated the barbarians who occupied his homeland, and established an empire called the Ming Dynasty, the territory of this empire is wider than my Tang Dynasty, and this beggar is the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty......"

"Haha~, throughout the ages, most of the people who can become the founding monarch of the country are from extraordinary backgrounds, and only Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty has a lower background, but no matter how low his background is, he is also a pavilion chief, which is much higher than the status of a beggar, as for a beggar who can also become the founding king of a great empire, I have never heard of it!" Before Li Xiu finished telling the story, he was interrupted by Li Shimin.

"It's just a story, Your Majesty doesn't have to care too much about these details!" Li Xiu said with a smile, he did not explain the establishment of the Ming dynasty, nor did he justify the fact that this dynasty once existed, but it was after the Tang Dynasty, of course, there is no way to explain this matter.

I saw Li Xiu pause for a moment, and then continued: "This beggar emperor drove away the barbarians who occupied his homeland, established such a vast country as the Ming Dynasty, and did not let go of the barbarians who fled to the grassland, and beat the barbarians to almost extinction several times in a row, and this beggar emperor is also very backbone, he set up a testament for his descendants before he died, Your Majesty wants to know what this testament is?" ”

Li Shimin didn't care about it at first, but when he heard Li Xiu say that the beggar emperor actually took the initiative to go on a northern expedition and killed the fleeing barbarians and almost wiped out, he couldn't help but be shocked by the merits of the beggar emperor.

"What is his legacy?" I saw Li Shimin ponder for a moment, and finally asked.

"No harmony, no compensation, no land, no tribute, the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies!" Li Xiu said with a solemn expression, regardless of Zhu Yuanzhang's merits and demerits, but the legacy he left behind made his blood boil, this may be the backbone and backbone of a nation.

"Humph! To put it lightly, a country will always have some ups and downs, and when it encounters a strong enemy, make some expedient measures, this is the way to protect yourself! Li Shimin snorted coldly when he heard this, because he couldn't do this testament that Li Xiu said, not to mention anything else, when the Turkic army pressed the border before, he lost a lot of money to let the Turks retreat, and even when his father Li Yuan first raised his army, he also called himself a vassal to the Turks in exchange for the support of the Turks.

"Your Majesty, the founder of the Ming Dynasty is not just talking, and his descendants have been following this testament, after his death, his son moved the capital to the northern border, and began to clean up the grassland barbarians again, and in the next few hundred years, the Ming Dynasty went through several ups and downs, there was an emperor of the Ming Dynasty who was accidentally captured by the barbarians, but he would rather die than surrender, and the Ming Dynasty also set up another emperor to continue to fight with the barbarians, until the barbarians released the emperor back."

"In addition, there was a faint monarch in the Ming Dynasty later, who went out to play regardless of the government, and was dissuaded by the ministers, and was killed by this faint monarch's staff, but the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty did not flinch, and more than a dozen ministers died one after another, and finally forced this faint monarch to compromise, and the Ming Dynasty has been established for hundreds of years, and has never yielded to any foreign enemy, has not cut an inch of land, has not paid a penny, and has not used women in exchange for peace!" When Li Xiu said the end, he couldn't help but show a look of admiration on his face, the Ming Dynasty is probably the hardest dynasty in the history of the Central Plains.

"So what, you said that this Ming Dynasty has been established for hundreds of years, so it must have perished in the end, right?" Li Shimin was not moved by Li Xiu's words, but spoke with some disdain again, but when he said these words, his eyes did not look directly at Li Xiu, which is not like Li Shimin's usual performance.

"Yes, Your Majesty is right, the Ming Dynasty died in the end, and it was also at the hands of the barbarians, but that was only the external cause, the real internal cause was the death of the party strife, the death of the civil strife, the death of natural disasters and man-made disasters, and when the enemy army invaded the capital, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty did not escape, but hanged himself on the mountain outside the city, and then several exiled emperors also committed suicide and martyrdom, and the remnants of the Ming Dynasty have been resisting for nearly forty years, this is the backbone of the Ming Dynasty!" Li Xiu said again with a solemn face.

After listening to Li Xiu's last words, Li Shimin finally fell silent, maybe he could still be hard-mouthed just now, but when he heard that in the Ming Dynasty after that, even if the emperor was captured and the capital was breached, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty did not flinch at all, and truly achieved the sentence "No harmony, no compensation, no land, no tribute, the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies", which also brought him a lot of shock, at least he and his father Li Yuan failed to do this.

"Li Xiu, the story is over, what do you want to say?" I saw that Li Shimin was silent for a while, and then he slowly raised his head and stared at him, after all, Li Xiu did not specifically point out the harmony in his words, and he didn't know that Li Xiu knew the news that the Western Turks and the pro-envoy had arrived, so he really couldn't guess Li Xiu's true intentions for a while.

"In fact, for this ancestral motto of the Ming Dynasty, the minister also knows that sometimes it is not applicable, after all, it is too rigid and easy to break, and sometimes the appropriate weakness can also better preserve itself, but for the backbone of the Ming Dynasty, the minister is still very admired, and Your Majesty, please see, the beggar of the Ming Dynasty will list the article 'discord' as the first sentence of the testament, in other words, he never wants to exchange the women in his descendants for a while!" Li Xiu finally told his purpose at this time.

"I see, you're going around all the time, it's for the sake of harmony." Li Shimin couldn't help but show a sudden expression when he heard this, and finally understood what Li Xiu meant, and it was hard for Li Xiu to put so much effort into it.

"Yes, when the minister went out of the city before, he found that the new county town was also under martial law, and after inquiring, he learned that the Western Turks came to make peace, and the minister has always thought that it was a shame for the country, after all, the safety of a country is in danger, how can it be tied to a little woman?" Li Xiu asked Li Shimin with a solemn face.

If someone else said the above, Li Shimin would probably reprimand him angrily, but Li Xiu was the most important friend in his heart, so he was not angry at this time, but pondered for a moment before speaking again: "I understand what Li Xiu means, using a woman in exchange for the interests of the Tang Dynasty is indeed a little disgraceful, but you must also know that the strength of the Western Turks is not weaker than that of the Eastern Turks, if we can unite with the Western Turks, then we will have a greater certainty of destroying the Eastern Turks!" ”

"Your Majesty is a little too proud of the Western Turks, if my guess is right, the Western Turks are afraid that they will soon face a civil strife!" Li Xiu smiled disdainfully when he heard this.

In contrast, Li Xiu doesn't know much about the history of the Western Turks, but he knows one thing, that is, before the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Eastern Turks, the strength of the Western Turks had been greatly weakened, which also led to the fact that when the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Eastern Turks, the Western Turks did not help at all, and with the analysis of the current situation, the only explanation for the powerful Western Turks to that extent in just a few years is civil strife.

"Oh? Why do you say that? Li Shimin couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this, although the strength of the Tang Dynasty was already much stronger, but in the face of the Eastern and Western Turks, he still didn't dare to take it lightly.

"Your Majesty, the minister heard that the Western Turk commander Ye Khan is very conceited, bullying the tribes in the Western Regions, causing his tribes to deviate from morality, from this point of view, his personality is very similar to Jieli, but he is more excessive than Jieli, these news can be easily heard from the mouth of Hu Shang in the Western Regions, and there are many tribes in the Western Regions, but the number of their own people in the Western Turks is not large, and the rule is not stable, so as long as there is a little spark, the Western Turks may break out in the rebellion!"

In the past few days, because of the Western Turkic peace affair, Li Xiu also collected some information on the Western Turks, but he didn't expect that the collected materials showed that there were big problems within the Western Turks, so he also took the opportunity to talk about it.

"Based on these alone, you dare to conclude that civil strife will break out in the Western Turks?" Li Shimin couldn't help but be a little skeptical when he heard this, he had more information related to the Western Turks than Li Xiu, but in his opinion, although there were problems with the rule of Ye Khan, there was no certainty that there would be civil strife.

"Your Majesty, if you don't believe in the minister, there is no way, but the minister dares to guarantee that the civil strife in the Western Turks will definitely break out in the next few years!" Li Xiu was very sure at this time, anyway, it was not the first time he had done this kind of thing, he had warned Li Shimin of what might happen at the beginning, and it came true every time, which was also one of the main reasons why Li Shimin valued him.

"Are you really that sure?" Li Shimin saw that Li Xiu didn't seem to be lying to himself, and said with a solemn expression at the moment, after all, Li Xiu had proven his ability many times, so he couldn't help but pay attention to it.

"The minister dares to guarantee with his life!" Li Xiu said firmly again, in fact, he most hoped to be able to completely dispel Li Shimin's idea of making peace with any alien race, but through the conversation just now, he found that this was not an easy task, so he could only retreat and stop this time to make peace before making plans.