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"The taro paste you made is still so delicious." After a heart-to-heart talk, Li Shimin finally remembered Li Chao's Babao taro paste. Although it was not the first time he ate the taro paste made by Li Chao, it was still so delicious every time he ate it.

"Your Majesty, I am actually a chef, but I was driven to the shelves by Your Majesty and did a lot of things I was not good at."

Li Shimin scooped a spoonful of taro paste and continued to eat it in big mouthfuls, "Governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh food. The prime minister governing the country and the chef's cooking are actually the same. You are good at both, so you are a prime minister who can govern the country and cook, and you are also an excellent chef."

"I want to be just a free and easy cook."

Li Shimin gave Li Chao a blank look, "You can be free and easy, because you are Duke Zhao, with a fiefdom of 600 miles, and a wealth that is as rich as a country. Without these, do you think a chef can be free and easy? Go and ask the imperial chefs in my palace, they are the ones who are the best among the chefs, but do you see if they are free and easy?"

Li Chao shouted, "Your Majesty, my family is not rich enough to rival a country."

"Li San, do you know there is a rumor in the market now, about how much wealth your family is. Do you know what everyone said? They said that your Li family's money was replaced with silk and then tied to the trees in Wudang Mountain. A tree is tied with silk, and tied all the trees on Wudang Mountain. Your family's silk has not been tied yet."

There is indeed a rumor, and Li Chao has also heard of it.

There are even more exaggerated things, saying that all the money from Li Chao's family is exchanged for copper coins, and then use the copper coins to pave the road, which can pave a road from Chang'an to Xiangyang.

It's too exaggerated, it's simply slander.

How much money does the Li family have? Li Chao himself doesn’t know.

There are so many industries at home, investment everywhere, and industries everywhere. Li Chao can’t figure out what it is. There is no specific number for this, but it is certain that he is very rich. The family’s wealth is worth tens of millions of pieces of silk, so there must be some.

But that is to add up all industries, it can exceed tens of millions of volts.

But when it comes to cash, there is definitely not as exaggerated as tens of millions of pieces of silk. Whoever has nothing to do to accumulate so much cash, especially the Li family also works as a money shop and pawn shop, and also works as a foreign trade and processing industry. Cash is very important. If you have money, you can make money. Who is stupid enough to keep it at home and rust?

However, the Li family also had a lot of expenses. This time, the Duke of Zhao alone would build three cities. The first phase of immigration planned was 3,000 households. In the later stage, it would be almost 10,000 households to immigrate. In the remote and desolate north of Langshan, 10,000 households would be immigrated, three cities would be built, so many people would take root and sprout there, and even raise troops. These expenses would be borne by the Li family, which would cost a lot of money.

What's more, the Li family has more than one territory, and there are several other territory, which are 300 miles in total. These territories must be built, otherwise, if they are taken away by barbarians and lost their territory, the territory will be gone. Not only will the land be taken away from the fiefdom, but even the princes who have lost their territory will also be reduced to their titles, so they cannot be careless.

At the same time, the construction of a fiefdom of 600 miles is not in the same place, so the cost is even greater.

Prince Chenggan stood behind the door and shouted, "Father, teacher, have tea."

Chenggan held the tray and brought in a pot of high-quality Dahongpao.

Li Shimin waved to Chenggan and asked the prince to sit next to him. Li Shimin had unlimited high hopes for Prince Chenggan and was also very satisfied with the prince's intelligence and maturity.

He patted the prince on the back.

"This child has more homework and exercise less recently, and his body is not as strong as before. Wenyuan, in the future, you will work under the Imperial City Zhongshu Sect, and I will let the prince learn more from you."

Li Shimin discovered that the prince studied with other ministers. Although he was very attentive, he was not as happy as when he was with Li Chao. Moreover, the prince learned faster and learned more when he was with Li Chao.

Li Chao picked up the teapot and poured a cup of tea for all three of them.

Li Chao welcomed the emperor's decision very much. He liked the prince very much. There were many shadows of Li Chao on the prince, and it was not in vain for more than a year. Although he had not been together for so much time before, his mark had been left on the prince. His way of thinking even carried his mark.

This is a good thing. The prince is still young and is more likely to accept his way of thinking and his own views.

This is His Royal Highness of the Tang Dynasty. He will be his son-in-law in the future and His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. As long as he can successfully sit on the throne, the wealth of the Li family can last for decades.

"Will the father exile the uncle?" Chenggan sat there and suddenly asked a question.

Li Shimin was silent for a moment.

Exiled Li Jiancheng? He thought about it, but he just thought about it. He was not worried about Jiancheng. He was not worried about Jiancheng being able to turn things around after leaving him, but he was not willing to be used by those who were interested. What he needs now is stability and does not want to cause trouble. Therefore, if nothing unexpected happens, Li Jiancheng will have to be hidden in this life as he is now, and will die.

Li Chao ignored Chengdian's words.

He just thought it was not heard, and lowered his head and tasted the precious red robes produced by the tea king trees on the cliffs in Wuyi Mountain.

The Supreme Emperor and the deposed prince are considered a taboo.

No matter which minister, they would not mention these two people easily. Everyone seemed to have amnesia in unity, and they didn't remember these two people. They even saw them during the dynasty meeting, and they just pretended that they didn't see them.

This is the imperial family affairs, or the most untouchable imperial family affairs.

This is like a crown prince being appointed and replaced by a crown prince. It is something that ministers cannot interfere in randomly.

Li Chao was the planner of Xuanwu Sect and the most meritorious minister, but he would not say a word about the affairs of the Supreme Emperor and Li Jiancheng.

Some words can be said, but some words are best not to say.

"Father?" Prince Chenggan did not intend to stop there. Today he wanted to ask the whole question.

Li Chao stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I'll go and pass the meal to Your Majesty." After that, he went out directly. Li Chao knew that Chenggan asked about Jiancheng's exile, but in fact, he was not about exile, but about the incident of the Xuanwu Gate Incident and wanted to know the most secret passage of Li Tang.

After all, the truth of the Xuanwu Gate Incident is actually completely different from the statements that the imperial court has been promoting today.

The imperial court publicly promoted that the Xuanwu Gate Incident was that the prince was Jiancheng and prepared for the usurpation of the throne, and King Yuanji of Qi was a gang member. At the critical moment, Prince Xian Ma and Li Chao of the East Palace discovered this conspiracy and refused to abdicate. Instead, he secretly contacted the King of Qin. At the critical moment, he contacted the loyal ministers in the capital and led his servants and others to serve the king.

In the end, there was a big battle between Xuanwu Gate.

The King of Qin and Li Chao, with many loyal civil and military officials, shattered the prince's conspiracy and stopped the palace transformation.

However, the emperor was frightened in the palace transformation and was deeply hurt by his prince's attempt to usurp the throne. He was disheartened for a moment. Not long after the destruction and establishment of Jiancheng and the establishment of Qin as the crown prince, he took the initiative to abdicate and became the Supreme Emperor, and allowed the prince to ascend the throne to the throne and become the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

Well, the people outside listen to this version. Although many nobles and relatives know the truth, the truth is still only circulated in the upper class.

During the rebellion of the palace, Chenggan was still young and was not very clear about the real process of the matter. Now he certainly knew the truth. But today he asked Li Shimin not to know the process, nor did he want to know the truth. What he asked was actually about the royal family and even about power.

Power and family affection.

For the young Prince, this is still a problem, a very important issue.

"Chenggan, do you think your father is a bad person?"

Li Shimin took a sip of tea and asked the prince.

The prince didn't know how to answer, but he knew the truth about Xuanwu Gate. His father fought for the throne and launched a palace change, controlled the Supreme Emperor, captured the crown prince, and then controlled the center of the court, seizing the power throne of the Tang Dynasty. As far as facts are concerned, the father is a coup, a usurper, a rebel minister, and a thief.

But the emperor is his father.

"Chenggan, do you think Li Chao is a bad guy?"

Chenggan was a little confused. In his eyes, teacher Li Chao was the smartest person in the world. But in the Xuanwu Gate Incident, the teacher was the planner who was a ruthless minister. Moreover, the teacher was originally an official from the Eastern Palace at that time, but he secretly kept in contact with the Qin Palace and was a member of the Qin King.

The prince was very confused.

He felt that the truth of history was sometimes too cruel. The emperor's father, who was diligent and loving the people, turned out to be a usurper who seized the throne in the palace and imprisoned his father and brother You. The teacher who was omnipotent in his eyes was a mastermind of the palace and a chaotic minister who was tragic.

It is difficult for him to overlap his father and teacher in his heart with his father and teacher in his palace.

"Prince, you are still young. In your eyes, the world is clearly black and white, either black or white. But in fact, the world is not only black and white, he also has a gray area. There is not only right or wrong in the world! I can only tell you the change of Xuanwu Gate, and I have no choice but to do so. If it were not forbidden, I would not want to go that step."

"The past has passed. We cannot just look at the past, but should look at the future more. I have been wrong before, and your teacher Li Chao is wrong, so we want to do better. This world should not be my world, but now it is my world, and I will make it better."

"I will do better than your grandfather and better than your uncle. For your grandfather and uncle, I feel ashamed, but I will not be ashamed of the people in the world."

"Do you understand this?"

Chenggan didn't understand it. This was the first time that their father and son talked about Xuanwu Sect in person, usurping the throne and seizing power.

When Li Chao came back with food, the father and son were sitting quietly in the study.
Chapter completed!