Time Travel: I am the idle king Li Shen and Li Shimin in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1521 Li Tai understands Li Shen

It was snowing heavily, and the world was covered in white. Li Tai sat by the window admiring the snowy scene.

Next to him was a stove with hot water boiling on it.

In the garden, Li Tai's children were playing in the snow, and his princess consort Yan Wan was sitting beside them.

The picture is warm and beautiful.

“Look how happy they are, carefree.

Sometimes I think that this kind of life is not bad.

Seeing how happy they are, I really don't want anyone or anything to disturb them."

Li Tai sat there looking at his wife and children outside and couldn't help but sigh.

The man standing behind him was Du Chuke, the chief secretary of the Prince of Wei's palace and Li Tai's adviser.

“Your Majesty, a good life requires sufficient strength to be maintained for a long time.

This is what King Ji said. "

Du Chuke said softly after hearing what Li Tai said.

Li Tai turned around and wanted to pour tea, and Du Chuke hurried forward to pour a cup for Li Tai.

Li Tai picked up the tea, took a sip, and nodded.

"Haha, you are worthy of being the tenth master. Every word you say can reveal the truth, awaken the deaf and make people think deeply.

It seems simple, but it has a deeper meaning.

In fact, the tenth brother was already rich enough to rival a country, but he just wanted to spend all his money.

I heard that he borrowed 1.5 million strings of cash from Meng Jiang this year to pay the laborers. "

“Yes, Your Majesty, someone saw Prince Ji’s Mansion taking a day’s money from Princess Linchuan’s Mansion.

I sent someone to inquire, and they said that the Prince Ji's Mansion built cement roads last year and this year, especially the cement road to the important city in Qinghai, which almost emptied the Prince Ji's Mansion.

I also found out that the main reason was that King Ji did not require corvée labor, hired hundreds of thousands of people to build roads, and paid them too high a salary.

The wages alone amount to millions of guan.”

Du Chuke explained.

Li Tai laughed after hearing this:

"Haha, Lao Shi is indeed a wonderful person sometimes, and it is hard to figure him out.

People all say that Lao Shi is eccentric, domineering, bullies the weak, and is treacherous.

But over the years, Lao Shi has built bridges and roads, donated grain for disaster relief, and every year he opens a porridge shop outside the city of Chang'an to provide porridge to the victims.

If you think about it carefully over the years, Lao Shi has never persecuted ordinary people, even when he went out hunting and trampled on crops,

He will also pay a hundred times the compensation.

But even so, the common people still spread the bad reputation of King Ji, regarded him as a tiger and a wild beast, and kept their distance from him.

Do you know why this is so? "

Du Chuke thought for a moment and replied:

"This...I don't know. Although Prince Ji seems eccentric, he always has a purpose in his actions.

I think Prince Ji may have done this on purpose to destroy his own reputation."

Li Tai smiled slightly and shook his head gently:

"Shanbin, it seems that after all these years, you still don't understand Lao Shi."

"I hope Your Majesty can give me some advice." Du Chuke bowed.

"It's very simple actually. The tenth brother is timid and afraid of death." Li Tai expressed his thoughts with a smile.

"Your Highness, what you mean is that Prince Ji is deliberately trying to discredit me because he is afraid that I will be coveted by Your Majesty?"

Du Chuke immediately thought of this key point: if Prince Ji had a good reputation, money, and talent.

The public support rate is high, so where does that put the prince?

Your Majesty will not allow Prince Ji, a bastard, to compete for the throne.

Just when Du Chuke thought he was right, Li Tai shook his head again:

"No, you're wrong. What Old Ten is afraid of is not that his reputation is too high, but that he has too much money.

He has been spending money desperately over the years because he doesn't want his money to stay in Prince Ji's Mansion.

He wanted to let others know that he had no money.

You don't think that just because the Tenth Prince borrowed money from Meng Jiang, that the Prince Ji's mansion has no money, right?

I can tell you for sure that Lao Shi is rich, with a lot of money.

There are mountains of gold and silver, as well as countless rare treasures in Prince Ji’s mansion.

There were millions of gold coins alone, and each of those rare treasures was unique and priceless.

Adding it all up, the wealth in Old Ten's hands is worth at least tens of millions of taels."

Li Tai finally said to Du Chuke very confidently, his eyes full of envy and jealousy.

"Tens of millions of guan, so much?"

Du Chuke was shocked. He thought Prince Ji was rich, but he didn't expect him to be so rich.

He thought that the Ji Wang Mansion had fallen to the point where they had to borrow money to survive, and even if they had money, it would not be much.

"A lot? Humph, this is still an underestimation by the king.

This does not include the value of the properties in Prince Ji’s Mansion.

Each of the manors in Prince Ji's mansion is worth hundreds of thousands of strings of cash.

Shanbin, don't be fooled by Lao Shi."

Li Tai snorted twice, with an expression that showed that I saw through him.

Du Chuke pondered for a moment and asked again:

"But Your Majesty, if that's the case, Prince Ji can just spend the money, why does he have to make himself infamous?"

This is what Du Chuke doesn't understand. If you are afraid of having too much money, just spend it. There is no need to make yourself look bad.

Reputation is important.

Li Tai smiled mysteriously:

"Do you think that Old Ten wanted to do this? I have been following him for so many years, and finally found that he didn't want to discredit himself.

That's just his nature.

He is a person who is arrogant, domineering, insidious and cunning.

In his eyes, he is not afraid of anyone except His Majesty, not even the current Crown Prince, the Tenth Prince.

He is the one who bullies the weak and takes advantage of the weak. "

"My Lord, why doesn't Prince Ji bully the people, but build bridges and roads?"

Although Du Chuke was a counselor, he was not as good as his brother Li Tai when it came to Prince Ji.

Because Li Tai believed that they had the same blood and the same ideas in their bones.

"This is very simple, haven't you heard what he said to those playboys?

What sense of accomplishment can be gained from bullying the common people? It makes people look down on you. A playboy should not be afraid of the powerful and wealthy. If you want to bully others, bully the children of other playboys.

Even a playboy with greater power than himself.

This is why the Tenth Brother has always bullied the dudes in Chang'an City, because he feels accomplished. "

Li Tai thought he had a thorough understanding of Li Shen.

He has done nothing else over the years but keep an eye on Li Shen, study Li Shen, and learn from Li Shen.

He found that Li Shen's character was quite complicated, somewhere between good and bad.

"I understand."

After hearing this, Du Chuke bowed.

"Well, is it done?"

Suddenly Li Tai changed the subject.

"Your Highness, it's done." Du Chuke nodded.

"Don't arouse anyone's suspicion," Li Tai said solemnly.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. No one will know. But recently I found that someone seems to be watching us around the palace."