Chapter 83: A Woman Like Su Daji

  Li Yuanba returned home, and the sons, daughters-in-law, daughters, and sons-in-law in the mansion all came with their grandchildren. It was like a reunion after a long separation, and the Li Yuanba's mansion was bustling for a whole day!

  In the evening, Li Yuanba sat in the hall, muttering to himself: "I actually have a grandson, this is too unbelievable!" This exclamation actually came from his eldest son's three-year-old son's words: "Is this Grandpa? Why are you smaller than Dad?"

  Time seemed to have stopped for Li Yuanba, and he often forgot how old he was. However, this lamentation was interrupted the next day when Li Shimin came to the mansion with a bunch of questions!

  A huge amount of wealth poured into the Tang Dynasty, making the system and ideology of the Tang Dynasty basically enter the capitalist era. The feudal system itself is opposite to capitalism, and the system cannot keep up with people's needs now, so the current Tang Dynasty urgently needs a new system to balance it. The idea of family dominance has repeatedly suppressed social development and people's needs, making the Tang Dynasty secretly turbulent!

  This was a very troublesome problem for Li Shimin, mainly because the dissatisfied people inside included his own descendants! This made Li Shimin very depressed, saying that his sons wanted to rebel against their old man, and there was more than one of them!

  Being an emperor is ruthless and cruel, that's when internal problems arise for the throne can kill anyone who covets his position, including his own sons! But now the situation is that everyone in the world has this sense of discontent, should he kill his son again and then kill all the officials and even his own woman?

  The current Great Tang is now more complex than the era of a hundred schools of thought, people are rich and spiritual civilization has a fertile ground for growth! Take the current curriculum of the Great Tang, it's not much different from modern education, only without English... Moreover, there are also courses on ancient language and ancient martial arts, after all, those secret books require deep knowledge of ancient language!

  The consequence of the hundred flowers blooming is to open the eyes of the people all over the world, and those with great ambitions have more opportunities for development! Looking back on history, it can be seen that the emergence of this kind of speech in a dynasty is not a heavenly gift, but a political necessity. In fact, many people are aware of this, but they are afraid of being pointed at by thousands of people! But now it's different, the people's wisdom has opened up, and the speech of this dynasty has lost its soil for survival! Li Shimin was a wise king for all eternity, but his rule was not suitable for social development and his own interests, so...

  Li Yuanba listened to Li Shimin's grievances, and found it very interesting! What was interesting was not something else: "You said you all wanted to rebel? Who is the leader, tell me."

  "Ah! Third brother, you... Ah, it's not someone else! My brother isn't afraid of being laughed at either. It's that talented person who later had a falling out with your sister-in-law - Wu Zetian!" Li Shimin's mouth was full of bitterness. This Wu Zetian was about the same age as his sons, and at 14 years old, she was already very beautiful, with a radiant complexion that shone brightly. She entered the palace as one of Tang Taizong's concubines and was given the title Mei Niang. Unlike in historical records, Li Shimin still doted on this woman who practiced internal alchemy, always having her by his side when handling government affairs, and she even offered him many valuable opinions - a truly talented and extraordinary woman! His favoritism towards her made Empress Longsun very dissatisfied. However, in the end, it was she who brought up the idea of liberation, and surprisingly, she received support from Empress Longsun, leaving Li Shimin unable to find an excuse to take drastic action!

  "Which Wu Zetian? The one with the title of Meiniang?" Li Yuanba's limited historical knowledge was still useful!

  Li Shimin nodded silently, and didn't notice how Li Yuanba, who didn't care about these messy things, knew Wu Meiniang!

  "Alas! How can you be an emperor like this? Just kill him and be done with it! Why bother with such trouble?" Li Yuanba couldn't understand the political considerations.

  Li Shimin also knew that his three brothers were purely political fools. He said nothing and just lowered his head in silence!

  "Is she being supported by someone? Kill her together! If you still want to be the emperor, kill all those who are dissatisfied! I support you!" Li Yuanba came up with a wicked idea!

  "Third brother? Don't you understand what's going on here?" Li Shimin finally raised his head, very surprised at Li Yuanba's idea!

  "What's going on inside? You don't say and I won't know! Tell me clearly!" Li Yuanba blamed Li Shimin for not making it clear, with a tone of righteousness.

  "Alas! I'll just say it outright! Third brother, this isn't the main issue. Outside, things are almost at a boiling point! Since you concentrated all martial arts together, our Great Tang has developed too quickly in every aspect, even I didn't anticipate that the situation would exceed my control! In the beginning, you wanted to open free schools to enlighten the people, but now everyone is denying the theory of heavenly-mandated imperial power, making current policies unworkable! A massive influx of wealth into our Great Tang has also revealed its drawbacks, but I couldn't just stop it for fear of being criticized by the world. Moreover, at that time, I didn't think to stop it either! The abundance of labor and wealth has turned the ancient saying 'people regard food as heaven' into 'people regard wealth as heaven', and now they're all clamoring for freedom and human rights?! You say kill them all? Not to mention those far away! This includes your eldest son, your grandson's wife, your nephew, several of your brothers, and their entire families! And among the eight great pillars of Western Wei, there are our ancestors' families, who were known as the 'Eight Pillars of the State'. They were renowned for their honor and prestige back then. They're also involved in this!" Li Shimin said helplessly.

  "What? Isn't this a noble family? Didn't I order you to eliminate the noble families long ago? Why haven't you carried it out?" Li Yuanba was somewhat dissatisfied!

  "Alas, these aristocratic families are no longer within the borders of the present-day Tang Dynasty, but their influence is everywhere in the Tang! At least half of the civil and military officials in the imperial court are their people, with complex relationships among them. When they were exiled en masse, it was also something you allowed. Now, most of their power still lies in the vassal states outside, I don't dare to kill them all, let alone our own royal family is also one of these aristocratic families..." Li Shimin explained the situation clearly to Li Yuanba and stopped talking.

  "What the...! Damn it, you're dragging this out too long! You're saying Li Xing is also inside?! Get over here! Bring that little punk Li Xing to me!" Li Yuanba was furious. What kind of situation is this?!

  Li Yuanba let out a loud roar, and all the old and young people in the family rushed over!

  "How could you be so angry? What did Xing Er do to offend you?" Wang Ting and the others also hurried over, anxiously asking in a flurry.

  Li Yuanba sulked and didn't speak, waiting for Li Xing to arrive. When Li Xing came, Li Yuanba stepped forward and raised his right hand to give his son a slap, but he hesitated and didn't bring it down! He was afraid that his strength would accidentally cause some harm...

  "Get out!" Li Yuanba kicked Li Xing, who was covered in mist and water, out of the door with a clever move! Facing his own child, Li Yuanba was at a loss...

  Seeing a large crowd of people with astonished eyes at the door and Li Shimin's smiling expression, Li Yuanba got angry!

  "Vast Ocean! You immediately go to the palace and kill that Wu Cairen for me!" Transferring anger is a common nature of everyone, and Li Yuanba is now even more so!

  Li Shimin's smile suddenly froze, but a look of astonishment and regret flashed across his face! For stability, Li Shimin had long wanted to kill this concubine who stirred up trouble, but looking at her stunning beauty and those charming eyes, he hesitated and couldn't bear to do it. With Li Yuanba's intervention, out of sight, out of mind! It seems that the throne is indeed suitable for someone like Li Shimin, born to be in a high position!

  Xiong Kuai Hai led the charge into the imperial palace, and no one dared to stop him. Finally, he arrived at the palace and requested an audience with Empress Changsun. The empress also did not dare to say that she wanted to protect Wu Zetian, but instead, with a displeased expression, summoned Wu Zetian and allowed Xiong Kuai Hai to take her away!

  Even the mighty Hai was intimidated. This woman is truly a demon that one cannot bring oneself to harm. After taking her outside and raising his hand several times, he finally had no choice but to order his men to kill her.

  It's not just him who is a coward, more than ten of his subordinates took turns holding the knife and begged for forgiveness, what a disaster to the country and its people!

  Helplessly, the majestic sea had no choice but to bring this demon to the mansion and wait for Li Yuanba's orders!

  Li Shimin had a rare half-month of leisure, and he handed everything over to Li Yuanba. Anyway, it's like this now, I'm also powerless, the Great Tang has reached a point where it can't be helped!

  Li Yuanba was tormented, had it come to the point where reform was unavoidable? Socialism or capitalism? Was it at the point of democratic voting? Relying on his meager historical knowledge, Li Yuanba finally racked his brains and thought of a system suitable for the current situation!

  But he wasn't really clear about the details. As Li Shimin slowly spoke out vague concepts, Li Shimin fell into deep thought!

  At this time, the majestic sea who rushed to the imperial palace to kill people returned. Listening to the report of the lower officials, Li Yuanba heard that he couldn't figure it out: "What's going on? Is there really a woman like Su Daji?"

  (So, will this generation's queen be killed or not? Give me your opinion! I haven't had time to write these past two days, running back and forth between family business and the hospital, but I still managed to squeeze out some time to write.)