Traveling through the Gaowu Tang Dynasty, Li Kuan and Li Shimin became the second sons of the Prince

After one day of rest in the middle of the month, on the third day, when His Royal Highness the King of Chu, who had not skipped school for the first time, did not find Li Huairen in the palace academy, he understood that this brother had fallen.

"Brother Kuan, have you also heard about Huairen?" As the narcissist among the dandies, Fang Yiai couldn't wait to come over when he noticed that Li Kuan's eyes were resting on Li Huairen's position. .

"What's going on? He dares to imitate me and skip class?" Li Kuan put one foot on the table in front of him, put on a cynical attitude and asked knowingly.

"I heard that when this guy was wandering around the West Market a few days ago, he picked up a big cup from a group of Hu merchants. He used half a bag of gold to buy a pair of glass cups from the Hu merchants. They are rare. Treasure!" When Fang Yiai said this, he couldn't help but sigh: "But this guy is so good at seeking death, he even casually lost these pair of glass cups to the gambling house! The gambling house paid 30,000 yuan, and this guy actually That's it! It's really... it's really..." Fang Yiai shook his head while trying to find an appropriate word to describe Li Huairen's prodigality, but after "really" for a long time, he couldn't really come up with anything.

"It can only be said that he is a stupid man with stupid blessings." Li Kuan picked up a copy of "The Analects" on the table and turned to the "Xueer" chapter. Well, there is no trace of saliva on this page, so it's OK One sleep.

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In the sound of Master's lecture, Li Kuan slept until noon. When he returned to Ganlu Hall to accompany his mother and younger brothers and sisters for lunch, Chang Le couldn't help but see his second brother again for the first time. Cover your mouth and snicker.

"Second brother, you fell asleep in class again!"

"Ah?" Li Kuan was stunned at first, and then he realized why the palace servants he met on his way back lowered their heads lower than usual.

The relationship is not because he is now the King of Chu.

While Li Kuan was stunned, Chang Le had already gone to the inner hall, soaked the brocade handkerchief in a copper basin and wrung it out. Then he trotted up to Li Kuan and said, "Second brother, here, wipe it quickly." wipe!"

"Well, my sister is better." Li Kuan took the brocade handkerchief and wiped it on his face casually twice: "Where are the queen mother and Xiaotai?"

"Second brother! You are always so perfunctory! Give me the handkerchief!" Chang Le, who was dissatisfied with his second brother's slovenliness, snatched the handkerchief from Li Kuan's hand. The little girl stood on tiptoes and tried hard to remove the words on his second brother's face. "A friend has come from afar." He wiped it carefully and answered the other party's question: "The queen went to the prince's brother. The fourth brother was worried, so he followed her."

"What's so worrying about this?" Li Kuan asked curiously.

"Second brother, it's not like you made father angry before." The little girl pouted, and her little hand used to wipe her face with force. The originally gentle movements suddenly became suspicious of personal revenge.

"Um... um..." Li Kuan, who was "accidentally" covering his mouth and nose by his sister, had to snatch the brocade handkerchief from the opponent's hand and do it himself: "I said Changle, I am your second brother. Dear, why is it that this little girl didn’t act lightly or harshly..."

"Brother is grounded!" the little girl said angrily, folding her hands on her chest.

"Tch," Li Kuan continued wiping his face nonchalantly after hearing this: "Brother, is there any difference between daily life and grounding?"

Thinking of his eldest brother Li Chengqian staying in the East Palace all day long with the two old masters, no, including Li Gang, the imperial master who taught and deposed three princes in his life, thinking that he followed these three great scholars all day long to painstakingly study the Four Books and Five Classics, and take away politics. With strategy and a little bit of imperial scheming, Li Kuan felt that this child would have to be destroyed sooner or later.

Is this something that he can learn well at his age?

Li Kuan couldn't help but feel worried when he thought about his elder brother whose smile was getting less and less now.

No, after the locust plague was solved, he had to find an opportunity to kidnap his eldest brother out of the palace and play around. Even if he got slapped by his father later, he would still have to give his eldest brother a break.

Otherwise, if the eldest brother is deposed in the future, he will have to take over.

How can that work?

Li Kuan, who is determined to be a free prince in this life, will never allow this kind of thing to happen.

Besides, combined with the memories of future generations in my mind, it would be best for the Tang Dynasty to implement the system of inheriting the throne from the eldest brother to the eldest son.

Although a certain foolish emperor in his family had no choice but to take the throne, in any case, this has given a bad start to the inheritance of the Tang Dynasty throne. If it reaches the third generation of the Li family, the throne will still not be passed down. If you follow the rules, the fun will be great.

In fact, Li Kuan looked at the entire history of the Tang Dynasty in his original memory, and the bad impact brought about by the failure to strictly implement the principle of succession to the eldest son in the succession of the throne was undoubtedly huge.

There were a total of twenty-one emperors in the entire Tang Dynasty, and only six of them were truly the eldest sons who succeeded to the throne.

The reason behind this is actually very simple.

When the succession to the throne no longer follows the principle that the eldest son inherits the throne and cannot be influenced by external forces, then the various political forces that should surround the direct lineage of the royal family will return to their own positions and start to think of ways to influence the throne based on their own interests. inheritance.

And once these powerful people start to "think of ways", it will often be a life-and-death struggle, and it can even trigger domestic rebellions at every turn.

Moreover, in the future, if the descendants of the Li family fail to live up to expectations and accidentally become weak and the ministers are strong, then the situation where the emperor's power will be reduced to others is not a fantasy.

"I really dedicated my life to the Tang Dynasty..." His Royal Highness the King of Chu, who was worried about the country and the people, suddenly felt that he was almost becoming a saint.

"Second brother..." Changle looked at his brother who was stunned for a while and then continued to rant. There were some unpleasant words that the little girl really couldn't say.

But if I don't say it, I feel aggrieved.

"You really have a high opinion of yourself." The little girl pursed her lips and gave what she thought was a fair comment.

"Ha, isn't it bad to think too highly of yourself?" Li Kuan heard this and touched his sister's little head: "Come and help me see if the ink marks on my face have been wiped clean?"

Upon hearing this, Chang Le looked at his brother carefully for a long time, then took the brocade handkerchief from his brother's hand as if he was resigned to his fate, stood up on tiptoes again, and began to wipe his brother's face.