"You don't plan to inherit your father's position?"
Li Shimin asked in disbelief.
Li Yuanji laughed and said: "Why do you want to inherit? You care about that position, but I don't care about it."
Li Shimin's eyes flickered and he said: "But if you don't inherit, my father will give it to the eldest brother. Once the eldest brother takes over, neither you nor I can survive."
Li Yuanji smiled and said: "Since I don't intend to inherit, how can I let my eldest brother inherit?"
Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, and a trace of fire rose in his eyes, but it quickly disappeared.
Li Yuanji said with a half-smile: "Including you!"
Li Shimin murmured to himself: "I knew..."
After saying this, Li Shimin took a deep breath, sat down again, regained his composure and said: "Then what are you going to do with your father's position? You can't give it to other brothers, right?
I can tell you, this is a recipe for disaster.
Once the power of my Li family falls into the hands of the common people, the fight within my Li family will become even more fierce in the future."
Li Yuanji said amusingly: "It seems as if the power lies in the hands of our direct descendants, so the fight within our Li family will not be tragic..."
Li Shimin stared and shouted: "You know that's not the point of what I'm talking about!"
Li Yuanji nodded calmly and said: "I know, that's not the point of me taking it off. You want to know how I will deal with my father's position."
Li Shimin stared and said nothing, as if waiting for the next sentence.
Li Yuanji said bluntly: "Actually, I have thought about this issue as early as when I was in Xuanwu Sect. I planned to ask my father to pass the position to my eldest brother, and then support my eldest brother to be a puppet.
Wait until your elder brother has sat in meditation for ten years, and then let him give you the Zen position.
After you sit for ten years, give me the Zen position.
After I finish my tenure of ten years, I will abdicate it to my eldest brother’s eldest son.
In this way, everyone has a share, which will not only reduce the internal fighting within the Li family, but also prevent the loss of power from happening.
Every emperor who reigns will be in his prime, and every emperor who holds the Zen throne will be at the peak of his political career.
Emperors with Zen status jointly assist the reigning emperor on the left.
Our Tang Dynasty will never go through a period of decline when the throne changes, let alone a young ruler, and no one will be able to peek into the power of my Li family.
But these were all ruined by the third sister's selfishness.
It was because she failed to follow my plan that my plan failed.
Now several years have passed since the Xuanwu Sect incident. I have seen more, experienced more, and my thoughts have matured.
I found that if I carried out my previous plan, the internal fighting within my Li family would still not stop.
The Li family will be divided into three, and the power of the Tang Dynasty will also be easily divided into three.
When the time comes, everyone will plot against each other, attack each other, and even attract outside forces to join.
The consequence of this is that the Li family will be weakened to the extreme through constant internal fighting, and external forces will become stronger because of the Li family's struggles, and eventually replace the Li family.
So now I have new ideas."
After hearing these words, Li Shimin was shocked and a little dizzy.
It was hard for him to believe that a person had no idea about the throne.
Especially this person who has the throne within his reach.
It was even harder for him to believe that Li Yuanji had the idea of handing over the throne as early as when he was in Xuanwu Sect.
This is really crazy, so crazy that people can’t even believe it.
He doesn't know now whether Li Yuanji is telling the truth or whether he is deceiving him.
He prefers the latter.
Because if Li Yuanji had no idea about the throne, then he would be a saint.
But judging from Li Yuanji's daily behavior, Li Yuanji doesn't look like a saint at all.
"I plan to let my father directly pass the throne to Chengde, and then I will take my eldest brother, you, and all the nobles of the Tang Dynasty to create a new world outside the territory.
As far as I know, the size of the outside world is far greater than that of our country, the Tang Dynasty.
There are so many things that our Tang Dynasty can do outside the territory, and the territory that we can expand outside the territory is also too large.
We cannot keep our sights on the Central Plains, we should look further afield.
No matter how good the national policies we formulate are, they will sometimes be eliminated by the times.
I, Datang, may also be replaced by others.
I, the Li family, will one day be liquidated.
So we should go out and spread my Li family's seeds over every inch of land we can see.
In the future, even if the mountains and rivers fall and the kingdoms change, as long as the people of my Li family can hold on to one area, my Li family will still shine brightly."
Li Yuanji said seriously.
This idea is neither crazy nor bold.
But one day, the seeds of the Li family were spread all over the earth, and when the Han people took root all over the world, even though there was turmoil in the Central Plains, and dynasties changed.
If the Li family is exterminated, the possibility of being completely wiped out of the country will become extremely low.
Because the descendants of the Li family can still gain a foothold in other parts of the world no matter how hard they pull.
In some places where lineage is valued, as long as the Li family holds their lineage high, it will continue to be enshrined.
When the Han people took root in various parts of the world, they could continue to rely on the Central Plains as a rear area to strengthen themselves, and they could also feed part of their own strength and resources back to the Central Plains.
It's like the sun never sets.
But it’s different from the fact that the sun never sets.
The Han people do not need to plunder everything from the local area and feed it back to the Central Plains. The Han people can take root in the local area and become the local ruling class. They can also become a new local ethnic group, integrate with the local people, and finally take root firmly in the local area.
Wait until the number of Han people becomes mainstream everywhere.
Who has the final say about this land, this world, and this vast starry sky?
At that time, the gains and losses of a family will no longer matter.
This is a grand goal, but also a crazy goal. It may fail halfway, it may fail, or it may only be short-lived.
But doing it is better than doing nothing.
Doing some of it is better than doing nothing at all.
As long as he does part of it, Li Tang's empire will be more glorious than any other period in history.
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When you have the conditions to run the world, if you don't run it, do you have to wait until others have finished running it and come over to run you?
"Gudu..."
Although Li Shimin was well-informed and had great ambitions, when he heard this, he was shocked and speechless, and subconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
Li Yuan's ambition is probably to see more beauties in the world. His ambition is to unify the Central Plains and establish a supreme dynasty.
But Li Yuanji's ambitions have obviously surpassed them.
Li Yuanji wanted to brand every place in the world with Li Tang's brand, and he also wanted to brand everyone in the world with Li Tang's brand.
Emperors of all dynasties in history have never thought about it this way, and they probably didn't dare to think so.
This is no longer crazy, it is simply impossible to do.
"I'm afraid I can't do it in this life with the help of you and me, right?"
After being silent for a long time, Li Shimin spoke with difficulty.
Although his knowledge is limited, it does not mean that he does not know that there are many other places outside the Tang Dynasty.
Maybe in his eyes, those places are not as rich and powerful as the Tang Dynasty, but that doesn't mean that he can deceive himself and pretend that he doesn't know those places or that they don't exist like other people.
The Hu merchants in Chang'an City have proved that there is still a large area of hot land to the west of the Western Regions.
Many snoops in history have proven that this land is not empty.
Ignorant people can be arrogant and think that there is nothing worth exploring outside the Central Plains, and there is nothing comparable to the Central Plains.
But how can a knowledgeable person deceive himself or others?
But just running the Central Plains is enough for a person to spend his whole life, let alone running other places.
He didn't think he could do such a thing in his lifetime.
In his opinion, both he and Li Yuanji would end their lives after conquering the Turks, Tuyuhun, Tubo, Goguryeo, Silla, and Baekje.
There is simply no time to conquer other places.
Li Yuanji said firmly: "Qin can fight for the rest of the sixth generation, but we, the Tang Dynasty, can't do it?"
Li Shimin opened his mouth, but made no sound.
Qin's ability to survive the sixth generation is definitely an anomaly among the oddities. Looking at other dynasties, let alone the survivors of the sixth generation, it is a miracle that he can survive the third or fourth generation.
So he didn't think that Li Tang's descendants could do one thing unswervingly.
But deep down in his heart, he hoped that Li Tang's descendants would do this unswervingly.
If the descendants of Li Tang can fight for six generations and spread the glory of Li Tang to every land that the sun shines on.
So what about the First Emperor of Qin and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, they all had to follow Li Tang and eat dust.
Although he thought Li Yuanji's plan was crazy and unreliable, not only did he not have much resistance in his heart, but he was actually a little eager to try it.
He knew that it was the warlike nature deep in his blood that was at work.
He likes to strategize on the battlefield,
The thrill of winning a thousand-mile battle, and the thrill of life and death on the battlefield.
This has been integrated into his blood and will not change no matter who he becomes.
"But resorting to force is not a long-term strategy."
Rationally, Li Shimin still hoped that Li Yuanji wouldn't be so crazy.
With Datang's current financial situation, he couldn't do such crazy things.
Li Yuanji looked at Li Shimin curiously and said: "Why are you resorting to military violence? The enemies we need are all there, we just go and get them."
Liu Che defeated the Xiongnu and the people were in dire straits. Genghis Khan conquered most of Eurasia, but he did not see the Mongolian people in dire straits.
Although other ethnic groups and races helped Genghis Khan bear the cost of the war, there was no need to bear all the costs when the Tang soldiers left the Central Plains.
As for the experiences of other ethnic groups and races, that is not what Datang needs to consider.
That is what their respective monarchs need to consider. Datang only needs to consider its own citizens.
"It's not as easy as you think to feed the enemy. My soldiers in the Central Plains are not used to eating food from other places."
Li Shimin couldn't help but said.
Li Yuanji looked at Li Shimin in astonishment.
If you say this, the Anxi Army will not agree.
They have been guarding the Western Regions for decades, and they have grown from a group of young men to gray-haired old men. They have not lost the prestige of the Tang Dynasty. On the contrary, it is the descendants of the Li family who have failed them.
Not only did they fail to take them home, they also ignored them.
