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Chapter 1192 Li Yan's Enlightenment (V)
Historically, Zhao Guangyi did not take action against his brother's descendants, which shows that he was open-minded and had a clear conscience.

Even so, few emperors in ancient times could leave behind these hidden dangers.

Although Zhao Guangyi was not worried about these nephews, they were suspected of being in a tangle of interests. The high status of Zhao Kuangyin's descendants could only arouse their resentment. Being in the position of emperor, Zhao Guangyi could easily plot against them.

Let them get involved in treason, and then kill them with just cause, and no one will say anything.

But Zhao Guangyi did not do that. He suppressed the status of his nephews not out of resentment or precaution. As an emperor, as long as he felt a little uneasy and thought that his nephews were hidden dangers, Zhao Guangyi would find a way to get rid of them.

This is too easy for an emperor. Just frown a little and countless flatterers will help you get things done.

Keeping them is more difficult and more difficult than killing them.

Only in this way can we see that Zhao Guangyi is an upright person with a broad mind and is a man of integrity.

Li Yan is now also an emperor of a great country. He can see things from Zhao Guangyi's perspective and naturally see Zhao Guangyi's good intentions in protecting his nephews. Of course, this tolerance and compassion were not in vain.

As fate would have it, after the Jingkang Incident, Zhao Guangyi's descendants were wiped out by the Jin Kingdom.

Zhao Kuangyin's descendants rebuilt the Song Dynasty and established the Zhao Song ancestral temple, which made the Song Dynasty last for another 150 years. If the Mongols were not too strong and the North was in chaos, the Song family could have rebuilt the country.

Every sip and every bite has its own cause and effect!
By following this thread, we can understand the difference between the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, and why the two countries had completely different endings when they were destroyed. In the early days of the two countries, the two leaders took completely different approaches.

If Emperor Renzong Zhu Gaochi had lived longer, perhaps this could have been corrected a little. Unfortunately, Dapang's early death was the greatest loss to the Ming Dynasty.

There is no chance to change the corrupt atmosphere.

Kindness, mercy and tolerance can play a subtle role, engraved on the soul and mind, invisible and intangible, but can play a big role at the critical moment, and are definitely not pedantic and useless. Without a certain perspective, you can't understand these at all.

Although killing, cruelty and viciousness produce results very quickly, they also have endless negative effects. Sooner or later, they will backfire on oneself and cause dire consequences.

Old Zhu himself used cruel methods, but he hoped that with his death, these cruel methods would disappear from the world, and his descendants would be able to rule the world with benevolence, win the hearts of officials and the people, and achieve world peace. How is this possible?

How can you expect your children and grandchildren to do something that you yourself cannot do?

Corrupt officials are more cunning, and honest officials are even more cunning!

It is countless times harder for a king to rule the world with kindness than to rule the world with killing.

Without drastic measures, it is difficult to have a kind heart like a bodhisattva.

Without extraordinary wisdom and the ability to rule the world, how can one have the opportunity to save all living beings with kindness?
Kindness based on killing is solid; kindness without killing is unsustainable. An emperor who is not kind but only kills is incompetent, and an emperor who has killing and kindness is great.

Only an absolutely strong person can be tolerant and kind, and govern the world well.

In the final analysis, it is because of their different backgrounds and different ideas; their perspectives on governing the world and maintaining the country are different, and their final handling methods are also diametrically opposed.

Li Shimin was born into an aristocratic family, and the Zhao brothers were also born into a high-class family. They were all well-educated, intelligent, magnanimous, broad-minded, and far-sighted. They were confident enough to control the world and were willing to share the world with the literati.

Old Zhu often said that he would share the world with the people, which sounded nice.

It is also easy to resonate with the people and make them recognize him. But in fact, if you really think about it, you will know that it is all nonsense.

The so-called sharing the world with the people means that the Zhu family alone controls the world.

Since ancient times, no dynasty can be separated from the people. Without the people's peace and prosperity, how can the dynasty be stable? However, the people are too far away from the imperial power and too scattered. No matter their knowledge or strength, it is difficult for them to "share the world" with the emperor.

If they are unable to participate in the governance of the country, how can they share the world?
In the end it's just empty talk.

Ordinary people are the cornerstone of the dynasty. They do not need to share the world with the emperor. They only need the court to provide a peaceful and stable environment for them to live in peace. They would be content with a family, guarding a small piece of land, and living a life without worries about food and clothing.

If the court could take care of them from time to time, not let the enemy countries outside and the powerful inside bully them wantonly. If they could reduce taxes and labor service, and not squeeze them to death, they would have lived in a prosperous era. And the scholars are the cream of the people; the aristocratic families are the cream of the scholars. Sharing the world with the scholars is actually sharing the world with the people. Zhu changed the concept secretly, and it seemed particularly great and glorious.

He looked down on the world and respected one family and one surname, and monopolized the entire Ming Dynasty.

If the Ming Dynasty really shared the world with the people, then when the Ming Dynasty fell, why didn't the people stand up to defend it, and the literati and officials abandoned it?

Li Jing was right when he said that when the whole grassland became Jie Li's grassland, the war became Jie Li's war. The Ming Dynasty regarded the world as the world of the Zhu family, so the Qing Dynasty replaced the Ming Dynasty, which had nothing to do with outsiders.

Since it has nothing to do with it, who would risk his life to come out and protect it? It's no use being an official, no use being a citizen, no use living.

The people's hearts were not with the Ming Dynasty, which was the fundamental reason why the Ming Dynasty did not survive like the Han, Jin, Tang and Song dynasties.

From the perspective of the long history, the Ming Dynasty was a historical reversal, and its governance style was particularly primitive and backward, revealing a sense of pettiness. By the Han and Tang dynasties, rulers had begun to notice the important role of integrity and benevolence in maintaining rule and governing the world.

During the Ming Dynasty, he began to act tyrannically again and used harsh laws and punishments to maintain his rule.

Compared with Li Shimin and Zhao Kuangyin, Zhu Yuanzhang and his son were of low birth and limited knowledge. They did not regard scholars as human beings, and naturally did not care about the construction of spiritual civilization. They did not understand how important these intangible things, like a person's soul, were to the dynasty.
Once the spirit, faith and soul are gone, no matter how small it is for an individual or how big it is for a country, no matter how vast the territory, how strong the national strength, or how strong the body is, it is nothing but a tower on the sand, a castle in the air, and it will be difficult to last.

After all, due to insufficient knowledge, Zhu Di always regarded the foreign races on the grassland as a major threat. Little did he know that the real hidden dangers were within, not outside. The real enemy of a person or a country is always oneself, not others.

If the Jin Dynasty had not been in internal turmoil, how could the Five Barbarians have had the opportunity to take advantage of the situation; if the Tang Dynasty had not had hidden dangers, how could the history of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms have repeated itself; if the Song Dynasty had not been so focused on strengthening the trunk and weakening the branches, and its own generals were far more powerful than its external enemies, how could there have been the shame of Jingkang?
If the Ming Dynasty had not been so corrupt, how could the small Jurchens have been able to dominate the vast nation?

There is no such thing as an external enemy. The real enemy is always oneself. It is the selfishness, fear, desire and greed in one's heart that restrict one's steps. It is better to guard against one's own people than against external enemies. It is better to destroy the Great Wall and benefit the outsiders.

As long as the monarch and his subjects are of one mind, the monarch loves the people and the people support the army, no matter how strong the foreign enemies are, they can only worry but dare not cross the line. The real strategy to control the external enemies is to keep oneself at peace.

In later generations, the Central Plains, relying on its backward and weak basic industries, still defeated the coalition forces led by the world's number one superpower, making the whole world dare not underestimate China. What it relied on was the unity of the military and the people.

The victory lies in the fact that more than one billion people work together, with one mind and one heart, which makes the most powerful industrial countries afraid and finally choose to compromise. If it is only based on weapons and comprehensive national strength, it will not be able to scare the Eagle Sauce away.

What really scares the Eagle Sauce is the billions of hot, unyielding hearts tightly clasped together.

A country with strong spiritual beliefs and proud character is different from a country that is big but has no core and relies on hegemony.

Li Yan wanted to restore the righteousness and awe-inspiring character of the Tang Dynasty, catch up with the powerful Han Dynasty, inject a strong spiritual soul into the country, and let the Tang Dynasty stand tall in the long river of history like the Han Dynasty. Not only did he have to properly solve the problems of the aristocratic families.

The most important hurdle is to face the Xuanwu Gate Incident.

During Li Shimin's lifetime, Li Yan would reverse the verdict on Li Jiancheng and force Li Shimin to issue an edict of guilt, admitting his wrongdoings in killing his brother, in order to change the bloody, tyrannical and murderous atmosphere brought about by the Xuanwu Gate Incident.

Heaven and earth have their own righteousness. Right is right, wrong is wrong, merit is merit, and fault is fault.

Although this is very difficult for Li Shimin to face, but since you have done such a dirty thing that is worse than that of an animal, you must face the embarrassment brought by old scars. The hidden Crown Prince Li Jiancheng needs an explanation.

The people of the world need an explanation. This is also a necessary step for Li Yan to correct the atmosphere and rebuild the soul of the Tang Dynasty.

This was the thought that Li Yan had vaguely had when he pretended to be the son of Li Jiancheng more than ten years ago. He knew that doing this kind of correction was more difficult than rebuilding a kingdom, but it was the only way to become a high-dimensional country.

Now, he has the ability to do all this.

Now, Li Yan often takes care of Li Shimin's health, just to make him have a good body to face these things. Li Yan thinks that if Li Shimin is still alive, he will issue an imperial edict to vindicate his brother.

Not only will it not damage the majesty of the Khan, but it will make his image even taller and more sublime, and he may become the greatest emperor of all time. Under such an emperor's suppression, the life span of the Tang Dynasty will inevitably be extended.

One must know that the Han Dynasty rose again after its fall, and even during the chaos of the Three Kingdoms period, it lasted for a full sixty years. This is what it means to be able to survive even after death.

Only an empire that is deeply rooted in people's hearts will make people always miss it and be reluctant to lose it.

(End of this chapter)