"Uncle Li, civil servants govern the country, military generals command the army, Master Li, are you right?"

After leaving the lobby, the little emperor seemed to be unable to help but wonder, and looked up at Li Xiu and asked.

"There is never right or wrong in governing the country, only pros and cons!"

"Whether the benefits outweigh the disadvantages, or the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, you will be clear after seeing clearly, how to choose."

"oh……"

The little emperor nodded. He remembered that this should be the second time that Uncle Li said such a thing.

He used to be a little confused, but now, the little emperor feels that he seems to understand a little.

“Pros and cons!”

The little emperor recited silently in his heart, remembering these two words firmly in his heart.

At this moment, Li Xiu pushed open the door and walked into the study.

The table was as always filled with military and national affairs from all over the Ming Dynasty.

Li Xiu walked forward, picked up a chair, and placed it on the side of the desk. Then, he placed the little emperor on the chair, took out a memorial book and placed it in front of the little emperor.

The little emperor stared blankly at the memorial in front of him, full of confusion.

"After reading it, let me tell Uncle Li again, what is said and how to deal with it? Do you understand?"

"clear."

The little emperor nodded seriously, moved his body, then came forward, opened the memorial book, and started reading it carefully.

Li Xiu stared for a moment before slowly moving away from his eyes, looking at the memorials in front of him, and like the little emperor, he picked up and opened it...

As time passes by little by little, there are only the sound of flipping pages left in the room.

When writing a book, what is being written is naturally a matter of military and national affairs.

In this era, although the punctuation of sentences has its own prototype, it is far from perfect, let alone popular.

Therefore, in this era, literacy does not mean that one can understand books.

There is no point in the whole article, and from beginning to end, it is all obscure classical Chinese. Many ministers are accustomed to citing classics, sprinkling thousands of words of melody, and piling up words. In the end, there may be only one or two serious sentences.

In this way, to understand a memorial, it is not only a matter of ten things at a glance, but also extremely brain-consuming and requires a certain cultural heritage.

Li Xiu was optimistic if the little emperor could understand it.

Although he is only five or six years old, this five or six years old is obviously a completely different concept from the five or six years old of other people in the world.

"Uncle Li, I've finished reading it."

It took me some information to see how long it took for the little emperor to turn his head and look at Li Xiu.

Hearing this, Li Xiu slowly closed the memorial in his hand, then took the memorial in front of the little emperor, and said, "Brother Chun said, who presented this memorial, what is said, and how should we deal with it?"

"This is, this is...there is the presentation of the Left Minister of the Ministry of Revenue...Hong Chengchou,"

The little emperor frowned and said intermittently.

"The memorial said that Zhejiang...has seized six merchants who stocked up...the goods, the prefect of Huzhou Prefecture, the inspector...Hangzhou Prefecture...Jinhua Prefecture...a total of sixteen officials were involved..."

"Hong Chengchou asked for instructions, what should he do..."

Although it was a bumpy one, the little emperor finally told the matter clearly.

Li Xiu also closed the memorial from Hong Chengchou, then looked at the little emperor and asked, "What should Brother Chun thinks should be handled?"

The little emperor frowned and thought for a long time, but finally shook his head.

"Uncle Li, I don't know,"

"The business of merchants also has both pros and cons."

"Xunzi said: In the North Sea, there are horses and dogs bark, but China gets livestock and lets them. In the South Sea, there are feathers, teeth, green, and dried elixirs, but China gets wealth. In the East Sea, there are purple vegetation, fish, and salt, but China gets food and clothing. In the West Sea, there are leather and rituals, but China gets used. This is the role of merchants and the benefits of merchants."

"But if merchants fail to do what Xunzi said about normal transactions and contribute to the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, they would instead hoard goods, collude with officials, harm the people, and turmoil, then, is this a disadvantage?"

"Um."

The little emperor nodded, not understanding.

Li Xiu asked again: "Then, is it more beneficial than disadvantages to act like a merchant, or more harmful than advantages?"

The little emperor immediately spoke out: "The harm outweighs the benefits! These merchants and officials should be killed!"

"Yes, it's time to kill!"

Li Xiu nodded and said, "But the premise of killing is that we have to consider what impact will it have if we kill these merchant officials? What are the pros and cons of this impact?"

"If, as a decision maker, you cannot resist or face the impact of making decisions, then no matter how bad the disadvantages are, you must temporarily ease it and seek other methods to slowly."

Although he was so cautious, the pen tip did not pause at all in this memorial. In just a few words, he decided the fate of hundreds of people in Zhejiang.

"Uncle Li, I understand."

The little emperor nodded with a serious face.

"Just understand, remember it."

Li Xiu picked up the little emperor and smiled and said, "Eat something, Uncle Li will send Brother Chun back to the palace."

"All right……"

The little emperor was obviously a little disappointed, but he nodded obediently.

He also thought that he could have fun after leaving the palace this time!

The house in the mansion has been busy for a day, and with the instructions, delicious dishes are placed on the table one after another.

After filling his stomach a little, Li Xiu entered the palace again in his arms like a Tathagata.

When Li Xiu sent the little emperor back to the Qianqing Palace and came out again, dusk had already arrived, and the last afterglow of the sunset in the sky crossed the sky and disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Walking in the square outside the Qianqing Hall and staring at the setting sun in the sky, Li Xiu suddenly stopped, then turned around, took a step, and headed deep into the palace.

The afterglow of the setting sun disappeared very quickly, Li Xiu's steps were neither too fast nor too slow, and his figure slowly sank into the coming twilight.

Finally, when Li Xiu stopped and stopped, his face had changed from empty to silence, from solemn to cold.

The white gauze floats, and the candlelight flickers.

The mourning hall was empty and there was no sign of people. Chongzhen's coffin was still located in this mourning hall.

When Li Xiu's eyes came into his eyes, his eyes flashed. He stopped for a long time before he slowly took a step and walked to the coffin.

I gently caressed the coffin, and the cold texture spreads clearly to my heart through my fingertips.

Li Xiu felt very calm, never before.

All the illusions and fantasies have dissipated, and only the rest is the cold reality, just like the cold texture of this coffin.

"If the king treats his ministers as his hands and feet, then the ministers regard him as his confidant. If the king treats his ministers as dogs and horses, then the ministers regard him as a countryman. If the king treats his ministers as earth, then the ministers regard him as a enemy!"

In the silence, Li Xiu murmured softly that the sentence that came from Mencius and was personally ordered by the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was also a sentence that caused the shocking storm in the capital and directly led to the death of Chongzhen.
Chapter completed!