Chapter 75 Li Shimin’s defense is broken: Isn’t the psychological quality of this kid too low?
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After listening to Tianmu's story, Li Shimin became even more depressed.

That's right. In order to train this good son and let him grow into a qualified successor, I have put a lot of effort into it. I really can't understand why this rebellious son Li Chengqian would rebel.

"Rebellious son..." Ying Zheng murmured, and couldn't help but think of Hu Hai. He loved this kid the most, but after his death, the brat conspired with Zhao Gao to rebel and usurp the throne. Combined with the scene before him, he felt a sense of sympathy.

"The prince is plotting a rebellion." Father and son turned against each other for the throne. The young Liu Che could not help but sigh in his heart. The world is so big that there are all kinds of strange things.

"I must train the prince well in the future to prevent this kind of thing from happening." Liu Che thought secretly.

During the Hongwu period, in Yingtian City, Zhu Yuanzhang and his wife were also looking at the sky curtain.

After all, it was previous history. Old Zhu had read a lot of books over the years and had some knowledge of the history of all dynasties. He was not surprised to see Li Shimin's son rebelling. Instead, he said nonchalantly, "If our Biao'er dares to rebel, we will just give him the throne!"

"In my opinion, the fault of this root lies with the Sima family."

During the Yongle reign, Zhu Di and an old monk were drinking tea at Jiming Temple. "Sima Yi was treacherous, and Sima Zhao murdered the emperor in the street without any reverence!"

"Later, Liu Yu killed all the Sima family members. Almost all the emperors of the previous dynasties, including Song, Qi, Liang and Chen, were executed. Compared with the Tang emperor, the Sima family is a scourge that will last for thousands of years!"

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[In order to educate Li Chengqian well, Li Shimin sent the famous remonstrant Zhang Xuansu to be Li Chengqian's private tutor, teaching him by words and deeds every day.]

[This Zhang Xuansu dared to say that Li Shimin was not as good as Emperor Yang of Sui and King Zhou of Shang.]

[I guess Li Chengqian got scolded a lot at school.]

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"Emperor Yang of Sui and King Zhou of Shang are also worthy of being compared with Emperor Tang?" Zhu Zhanji was speechless. Could this Zhang Xuansu be a professional troll? How many emperors in the world could compare with Emperor Tang?

He even compared Emperor Yang of Sui and King Zhou of Shang with Emperor Tang... Zhu Zhanji couldn't help but mourn for Li Chengqian. With such a person staying by his side every day, wouldn't he be driven into autism?
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[Li Shimin also often took Li Chengqian to the Shangshu Province to experience the governance of the country. ]

[When I was away on business, I asked Li Chengqian to take charge of government affairs, which was considered as a practical start of my work. 】

[According to the script designed by Li Shimin, Li Chengqian would become a wise ruler, but God often has other plans, and Li Chengqian became lame. ]

[This incident dealt a heavy blow to Li Chengqian.]

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"Qian'er accidentally fell off his horse and suffered a leg injury. His will is a little depressed, but this is not enough to cause rebellion, right?"

Ever since he suffered from a leg disease, Qian'er has indeed been rather depressed and unhappy all day long, but he can't possibly rebel because of this, right?

Li Shimin couldn't figure out how to ride his sister.

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[Li Chengqian searched all the history books but could not find another lame emperor. He began to become inferior, sensitive, and eccentric. At first, he was desperate, but later he gradually let himself go.]

[First, a very good-looking little boy was raised in the palace. He was named Xin, which means "Ruyi" in "Chengxin Ruyi".]

[The two had such a good relationship that they slept together, and Li Shimin got angry and killed Chengxin. ]

[Li Chengqian started cosplaying again, often wearing pigtails to act as a Turk, herding sheep on the prairie of the East Palace, and saying that one day he would go to the prairie to be a Turkic general.]

[Don’t you think this is out of line? Doesn’t he know that a cripple can’t be a general?]

[It can be seen that Li Chengqian really longs for freedom. ]

[What’s even more outrageous is that Li Chengqian actually sent someone to hit his teacher Zhang Xuansu with a horse hammer on his way to the morning court, almost killing him.]

[I even said that if I become an emperor one day, I can do whatever I want. I will kill anyone who sees me. I will kill 500 people and see if anyone will still complain.]

[It can be seen that Li Chengqian seems to be really angry about the remonstrance. ]

... "Asshole, rebellious son!"

Li Shimin was extremely angry.

He never expected that his eldest son had such poor psychological endurance.

Just because you're lame, you can't bear it?
What does it mean that even after searching through all the history books, there is still no trace of a second lame emperor?
Do you have so little trust in him as your father?
Look at what he did later! He almost killed the teacher. He dared to kill the teacher, no wonder he dared to rebel later!

However, after his anger, Li Shimin always felt empty in his heart.

After all, he is your own flesh and blood. Even if you raise a wolf for more than ten years, you will still have feelings for him, let alone your own son.

As a father, Li Shimin felt more regret after his anger.

"It seems that I underestimated the impact of the fall from the horse on this child. If I had discovered this problem earlier and enlightened him, perhaps there wouldn't be so many problems."

"Perhaps I should remove Zhang Xuansu from Qian'er's side to avoid irritating him again."

Li Shimin sighed and vaguely understood the reason why his eldest son rebelled.

He must have been greatly disappointed by the other party's absurd behavior and was planning to depose the prince, which eventually forced the other party to take the risk.

As Tianmu continued to tell the story, Li Shimin discovered that things were exactly as he thought.

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[Li Shimin was furious and gradually began to shift his focus to his other son, Li Tai.]

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"I see."

Seeing this, many emperors throughout the dynasties showed expressions of understanding.

Under the successive blows, it is not surprising that Li Chengqian was eventually forced to rebel.

But then again, who can stand being criticized every day?

It seems that when educating the prince in the future, we must be careful and pay attention to the child's psychological problems, otherwise it will be counterproductive...

Many emperors thought deeply about it and learned this lesson from Li Chengqian's rebellion.

At the same time, he also expressed regret for Li Chengqian.

What's wrong with having a leg disease? Given Li Shimin's favor towards him, even if he did nothing, his throne was basically secure.

As a result, he had to do something weird to make Li Shimin angry. It was fate and timing. We can only say that it was Li Chengqian's own fault.

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[Let’s put Li Chengqian aside for a moment and follow Li Shimin to pay attention to Li Tai. ]

[Li Tai was the second son of Li Shimin and Empress Zhangsun, and the second legitimate son.]

【He is Li Chengqian's younger brother with the same father and mother.】

[Li Tai was very smart since he was young. Apart from the crown prince, he was the most favored.]

[How favored was he? Let's look at his official positions. He became the Grand Commander of Yangzhou and the Commander of Yuezhou at the age of 9.]

[He then took over as the Mu of Yongzhou, the General of Zuo Wuhou, the General of Fuzhou, and the Grand Commander of Xiangzhou, and was granted 22 states.]

[Also, Li Shimin was reluctant to let Li Tai leave his side, so these official positions were just nominal ones, meaning they only received salaries without any work.]

[Compared to Li Chengqian's idleness, Li Tai is much more proactive. ]

(End of this chapter)