Gu Qing smiled and said to his son, "Even if I don't become an official, the turbulence in the court will not escape my eyes."

"I know that because of Xu Jingzong, Li Yifu, Chu Suiliang and others, they are good friends of their father." Gu Xiao replied.

"Being an official has the disadvantages of being an official, and not being an official also has the advantages of not being an official. In fact, the royal family doesn't care who we are dating with. They just hope that we don't have power in our hands." Gu Qing said patiently.

"I don't understand very much." Gu Xiao shook his head vigorously.

Gu Qing took a sip of tea and said, "Simply put, the emperor ruled the world, but why did the people in the world accept this kind of rule?"

Gu Xiao still shook his head.

Gu Qing also said: "Because you need to maintain your life, that is, you need to live a life, why don't you rebel until you have to? Because there will be a large army to suppress it, but you can calculate carefully. The so-called army is actually calculated based on the current population of the Tang Dynasty. Now some large army in the Tang Dynasty are only one-tenth of the population of the Tang Dynasty, and the military system is even more than a small number of them."

"Isn't that very dangerous? What should I do if I can't suppress it?"

Gu Xiao asked very well. Gu Qing didn't plan to tell Gu Xiao about these principles to future Gu Xiao. It would be better for the child to understand earlier. Even if he doesn't understand now, throw this concept to him first.

"Why is such a huge population suppressed by less than one-tenth of the army? This is because the army is an organized and managed group, and their dispatch and distribution are all assigned by superiors to subordinates. This ability to obey orders and govern is far higher than that of ordinary people who are idle. The army can work together and work together, but the power of civilians is indeed scattered and cannot be like generals."

"Faced with generals who are organized, organized, and able to command the entire army, civilians must rebel in the eyes of these generals, they are mobs, and the army can quickly defeat these idle forces."

Gu Xiao listened very seriously.

Gu Qing continued, "Let's see why soldiers obey the general's command, because the soldiers' survival resources are all in the hands of the general. Of course, there are emperors on the general, that is, they are controlled by the emperor. Therefore, the army is stronger than a loose plate of civilians."

"It doesn't mean that the army is strong enough. There are exceptions. When civilians are harmed, when their interests are damaged, when everyone is just for a survival goal and to survive, they have a shared hatred of the enemy. There is something called cohesion that will surge wildly in a special period and burst out very powerful forces, just like the third generation of Qin is a living example."

"The boy understands a little." Gu Xiao nodded thoughtfully.

"So for the king, scheduling, centralizing, coordinating, managing, and weighing are what the emperor has been pursuing, and this is also the strongest follower of a dynasty." Gu Qing said again.

Li Zhi was listening to the conversation between Gu Qing and his son outside the study, and the more he heard, he felt cold all over his body. What was Gu Qing talking about! This is the art of emperors?! His eyes were shocking and listening to Gu Qing's analysis one by one. When did Gu Qing analyze the power of emperors so thoroughly?

Gu Qing's words continued to be heard.

"So in the eyes of many emperors, there is not much righteousness. In their eyes, there is only balance. They find common balance points among different interest groups, and use different interests to check and balance each other. Many times, the collapse of a dynasty begins from the inside. Compared with the Warring States Period, when countries begin to collide, sometimes it is ironic that it is more corrupt than which country is more corrupt. Of course, emperors are also a risk. If the emperor's ruling ability is unstable, it will also cause instability in the court, and thus spread from superiors to subordinates."

"The interests of the prime minister are different from those of the emperor. The power of the prime minister is too great to have conflicts with the emperor. Under this rule of imperial power, if the prime minister is not careful, a huge conflict will be formed, which will cause the emperor's checks and balances to fail. We can see many, many scenery on a high place, and we can take all the scenery under our feet into our eyes. The emperor just looks at the scenery in front of us, but when a torch appears and starts to burn, it will cause problems in the ecology of the entire scenery, and in the end it will burn into a prairie fire."

Gu Xiao said, "Then according to my father, the emperor's power has so many disadvantages, why should we continue?"

"Because this is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, this is a kind of thinking qualitativeness. If we want to break this situation, we must break this thinking qualitativeness. Human civilization has developed for thousands of years. The power of emperors is a very important stage and a stage that must be passed through." Gu Qing continued, "Emperors need stability in the court, so they must find a dynamic balance point in all centralization of interests."

Gu Xiao had a lot of information in his mind, and he couldn't digest it for a while.

"Go to bed early." Gu Qing said, looking at his son's expression, "It doesn't matter if you don't understand. I'll tell you slowly in the future."

Late at night, Li Zhi was lying on the bed and tossing and unable to sleep. After listening to the conversation between Gu Qing and his son, he had always known Gu Qing. Gu Qing was not a person who could study imperial skills, but why such a person had such an understanding of imperial skills, even said it more clearly than his father. He had to understand that if Gu Qing recorded these words and found someone to be the emperor, he might be able to be the emperor. Li Zhi felt that he had been disciplined in the palace as a prince since childhood, and it was not as good as Gu Qing said tonight.

Thinking about it now, his father is Li Chengqian now. Do they have the power to resist Gu Qing in the face of such a person? If a person like Gu Qing can become Li Chengqian's right-hand man, the stability of the Tang Dynasty can reduce the hidden dangers. For such a person, Li Chengqian has to find ways to make Gu Qing leave the court.

Japan

Xue Ji was about to return to the Tang Dynasty and ordered all the crew members to shout, "For half a month, clean all the cabins, even if there is a mouse! Everyone washes and wears clean clothes."

After giving the order, someone asked in confusion, "Will this be too time-consuming to do this?"

"This is the iron rule of the Maritime Trade Department." Xue Ji said, "No one can avoid it. If someone doesn't want to be aware of it, then don't dock the Tang Dynasty! Do you know?"
Chapter completed!