No matter how wise and powerful a person is, his IQ after being drunk is equivalent to being mentally retarded.
Li Qinzai was not targeting Li Zhi, but all the drunk people here.
Li Qinzai just wants to think about one thing now. If he proposes to Li Zhi at this moment that the keys to the Tang Dynasty treasury be handed over to him for safekeeping, the success rate should be as high as over 90%.
I was just worried that Li Zhi would not admit his fault when he sobered up the next day. No need to doubt that the scumbag behaved like this after he put on his pants the next day. Li Qinzai understood it all too well.
After being drunk, Li Zhi was very emotionally unstable, crying sometimes and laughing sometimes.
Li Qinzai couldn't help but wonder if Wu Minzhi had taught Li Zhi all his crazy criticism skills, so how could he be so charming?
Li Qinzai actually understood Li Zhi's inner pain.
An emperor is not a mortal who has a harem with three thousand beauties. He does nothing every day and only cares about breeding in the harem. He ignores all state affairs and leaves them all to the officials below.
It is undeniable that there were such emperors in history, but Li Zhi was definitely not one.
In fact, both in his love life and in his daily life, Li Zhi is much more indifferent than ordinary powerful people. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is "pure-hearted and stoic."
With a mother-in-law like Empress Wu, how can there be three thousand beauties? With Empress Wu's ability, three thousand innocent souls in the harem are just about the same.
After Li Zhi ascended the throne, he suffered from doubts, contempt, and negative comments from his subjects: "If you are not like your father, you are brave."
Over the years, Li Zhi worked hard to govern, but with little success. Li Shimin launched too many campaigns during his lifetime, and the treasury and the people were poor. After Li Zhi came to the throne, the Tang Dynasty was actually on the defensive most of the time militarily. It was not that the soldiers were not brave.
It's because we can't afford to fight anymore.
Since taking the throne in the year of Yonghui, the subjects found that the Tang Dynasty conquered less land every year, destroyed fewer countries, the generals were idle in the capital, and there were fewer opportunities for meritorious service and promotion.
Everything is inferior to that of the Zhenguan period. When the subjects compared Li Zhi with Li Shimin, who would give Li Zhi a positive evaluation?
This situation did not slowly change until the emergence of Li Qinzai.
Regardless of whether others recognize Li Qinzai's contribution to the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty cannot escape Li Qinzai's shadow in terms of military affairs, people's livelihood, food production, and strategy for the next hundred years.
Yes, Li Qinzai was involved in everything, especially in the military. The emergence of firearms allowed the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty to regain their glory during the Zhenguan period, and even made a qualitative leap, forming a crushing advantage over neighboring countries.
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As a result, the Japanese state was destroyed, Goguryeo was destroyed, Silla was about to be destroyed, and Tuyuhun was captured. Tubo in the west was frightened and had to switch from offense to defense militarily. It no longer had the courage to fight against the Tang Dynasty.
In order to eliminate the war disaster, the Tibetan Prime Minister was even willing to sign a treaty that would cost the country and humiliate the country.
Broken down, these achievements are directly related to Li Qinzai.
Where is Li Zhi?
Of course, these achievements must also be attributed to Li Zhi.
With Li Qinzai's assistance, Li Zhi, the emperor's cowardly image, had begun to slowly change when the Japanese were destroyed and Tuyuhun was conquered.
Nowadays, when people evaluate the current emperor, they will no longer say "If you are not like your father, you are your father". Instead, they will use a arrogant attitude and lightly comment, "Well, this emperor is not bad, and he has not disgraced Taizong."
Then what?
The Silla Kingdom is about to be destroyed, and the southern door of Tubo has been forcefully knocked open by the Tang Dynasty. People may have a new evaluation.
"Well, this emperor is really good, even better than the late Emperor Taizong."
Military and national affairs are too far away from the people, so maybe we will change the topic again.
"How many pounds of sweet potatoes did your family harvest this year?"
"If you store one or two thousand kilograms of sweet potatoes at home, after excluding the grain tax given to the government, you can still have a thousand kilograms left over. Even if there is a disaster, the family will not die of hunger."
"This emperor is much better than the late Emperor Taizong. Starting from the Linde period of the Tang Dynasty, people will no longer starve to death, and they will not panic no matter how unlucky the years are."
Public opinion and evaluation have slowly and unconsciously changed over the past few years.
Everyone is living their lives normally. Today is no different from yesterday and the day before yesterday, but it does seem to be a little different.
A few years have passed, and the world has quietly changed a lot, like a silent spring rain that moistens everything.
Li Qinzai was the one who silently called for rain, and Li Zhi did nothing, but he knew what the right choice was. He chose to unconditionally believe and support Li Qinzai, and Li Qinzai rewarded him with rising national destiny.
After years of accumulated pressure and years of criticism, as Datang took over the Golden Teeth Division, the reputation suddenly changed overnight.
People finally discovered that this emperor seemed to be really good. He destroyed one country after another militarily, which made the people of the Tang Dynasty proud. In terms of people's livelihood, sweet potatoes were promoted, and the people no longer worried about starving to death in disaster years.
Not bad, really good, no worse than the late Emperor Taizong, even better than the late Emperor.
Li Zhi has been waiting for this sentence for many years.
Tonight, all the grievances and all the joys are swallowed up with the wine, I raise my head and exhale, and watch the clouds break through the sky with tears in my eyes.
Looking at Li Zhi who was crying and laughing, Li Qinzai could not help but think of a poem.
"The light boat has passed the Ten Thousand Mountains".
People who have never experienced suffering will never understand how much sadness and relief this poem carries.
Looking back at those dangerous shoals that I have crossed, I don’t need to be grateful, I can only feel full of heartache for myself.
How did I bear this in the past?
Being extremely drunk, Li Zhi was helped back to the harem by the palace servants, while Li Qinzai was also half drunk and was arranged to sleep in a side hall of the palace.
Fortunately, Li Qinzai wasn't drunk enough, so he didn't do anything extraordinary this time.
Early the next morning, Li Qinzai woke up, left the palace and returned to the house.
After returning home, without saying a word, I continued to catch up on my sleep, and finally woke up naturally in the afternoon.
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Haedong Peninsula, Silla Kingdom.
Wang Shi advanced step by step, with overwhelming momentum.
Firearms appeared in this era when they should not have appeared. It must be said that it has completely changed the mode of war.
Goguryeo, once the most powerful enemy of the Tang Dynasty, was unable to conquer the land after three generations of emperors spent their lives. However, it was vulnerable to firearms and was completely crushed.
The powerful Goguryeo was destroyed, and Silla was even more vulnerable.
When the Tang Dynasty suddenly went to war against the Silla Kingdom, the leader of the country, Jin Famin, was still trying to save the situation.
The kings and ministers of Silla still couldn't believe how the Tang Dynasty, which had always been a good neighbor, could suddenly turn its sword on its former ally.
So after the war between the two countries, Jin Famin tried his best to deliver letters of credence, letters, and self-criticism to Li Zhi, crying and apologizing for his mistake.
Silla should not be a slave to the enemy, Silla should not harbor the remnants of Goguryeo, and Silla should not backstab its allies...
However, Li Ji, the commander-in-chief of the march in Liaodong Road, ignored it completely. The army advanced the battle line to the hinterland of Silla in an orderly manner according to the established plan.
Within three months, most of Silla's territory had fallen into the hands of Tang Dynasty.