The Prodigal Son of Zhenguan

"I haven't seen your Majesty for a long time. I miss you. I came here to have breakfast with your Majesty today." Li Fu said with a smile.

"Oh, you came here early in the morning. You came to eat with me." Li Yuan said with a smile.

"How can you say you are eating with me? I brought all the food myself." Li Fu said, "If you want to eat with me, I will use your imperial kitchen."

"Hahaha, OK, I'll arrange it for you." Li Yuan said.

Li Fu handed the preserved eggs and lean meat he brought to the eunuchs and asked them to send them to the Shangshi Bureau to tell them how to make them.

Preserved eggs are different from transformed eggs. He brought a lot of them, which can be used by Li Yuan in the future.

There is also a food box, which is the breakfast he brought from home.

It is all made by Liu Niang early in the morning.

The pickled vegetables and fried dough sticks in the kitchen, coupled with the preserved egg and lean meat porridge in a while, are not even available in the palace.

"What are you making?" Li Yuan asked.

"Dough sticks." Li Fu said, "Fried with lard from my kitchen. Try it."

The eunuchs next to him served Li Yuan the food, but they had to eat a bite before Li Yuan ate it.

This was the palace rule. If it was not a delicacy made by the palace's Shangshi Bureau, they would test it for poison.

"Add some pickles to relieve the greasiness and make it refreshing." Li Fu said.

Li Yuan had a hard time last night. When he got up this morning, he actually had no appetite, but the new stuff Li Fu brought made him curious, so he ate it.

As he ate, his appetite opened up.

After the Shangshi Bureau cooked the porridge, they brought it to them.

"Why is the color of the egg in the porridge different today?" Li Yuan asked.

"The ones we had before are called changed eggs, which are made of eggs. What we eat today are called Songhua eggs, also called preserved eggs, which are made of duck eggs. They are different." Li Fu said, "At noon, I will ask the Shangshi Bureau to mix a cold dish for you with preserved eggs."

"Are you making something new again?" Li Yuan asked.

"Not really, it's all made in the same workshop." Li Fu said, "Now the people in the village, including the land you gave me before, and the tenants attached, I let them raise chickens and ducks at home. When the chickens and ducks lay eggs, they will be sold to the workshop. After the workshop processes them, they will be sold to Chang'an City. In this way, they make money and I make money too."

"Isn't this the realization of what I said at the beginning, that I would lead the farmers to live a good life?" Li Fu laughed and said, "This is called common prosperity."

Li Yuan laughed and felt much better when he heard this.

"What a great common prosperity! When the people get richer, the court can get more taxes, and the court will also get richer. Good, good."

Li Fu always tells him something new.

In the past, the Tang Guogong Mansion did business, but as a distinguished Tang Guogong, he would not interfere in the business. Everything was taken care of by the servants at home, and he only took care of official business and spending money.

"Your Majesty, are you bored in the palace?" Li Fu asked.

"It was the same in the past, there is no difference." Li Yuan said: "I am used to it. Even if I want to go out for a walk, I will consider it after the matter is over. Now is a time of trouble. Less movement will save trouble."

Li Yuan also saw it clearly. At this critical moment, why should he make himself unhappy and troubled?

There are so many people outside who want to see him, but Li Yuan doesn't want to see any of them now.

Li Fu is an exception.

Li Yuan also knew that Li Shimin would not embarrass Li Fu, so he was willing to see him.

After coming out of Liangyi Hall, Li Fu went to the East Palace. In addition to meeting Li Shimin, he had promised the children that he would take them out of the palace to play in half a month.

Two things at the same time.

He met Li Shimin smoothly, and Li Shimin also knew that Li Fu came from His Majesty.

"Every time you enter the palace, you see His Majesty and take the children out to play. You never come to see me mainly, and the others are just incidental." Li Shimin smiled and looked at Li Fu and said.

"The main thing is that you are busy with government affairs, so I don't want to cause trouble for you." Li Fu smiled embarrassedly: "I just came from His Majesty."

Li Shimin nodded.

"You also saw it from His Majesty. Do you also think that I have done too much?" Li Shimin asked.

"His Majesty said that in times of trouble, don't cause trouble."

Li Fu responded to Li Shimin with Li Yuan's words.

"People's hearts are different." Li Shimin said with emotion: "People hope for peace in the world, but some people have been waiting for the opportunity."

Li Shimin did this to cut off some people's delusions, still for the sake of stabilizing the court."I don't want to commit more murders." Li Shimin said, "Those who have ulterior motives..."

Also a member of the royal family.

"Now there are no outsiders, so I can only talk to you about some things." Li Shimin said.

Because Li Fu is not in the court, there is no interest involved, and he is also his brother. In Li Shimin's view, he is someone who can talk to him heart to heart.

Just like Pei Ji to Your Majesty.

"Recently, in the middle of the night, I often dream of the former crown prince and the King of Qi." Li Shimin said.

Li Fu nodded.

Killing his own brothers from the same mother, if there is no psychological burden, then he is not a human being.

If he doesn't even care about his brothers, how can he be expected to care about the people of the world?

"Every time I think of these, I always have trouble sleeping at night." Li Shimin said.

He said it tactfully, but Li Fu understood. Wasn't he awakened by a nightmare? Otherwise, how did the later generation of the door gods come from?

"It's not pleasant to be killed by your own flesh and blood. Who would want to do this if they had no choice?" Li Fu said, "Life is only a hundred years long, but we always worry about a thousand years. Especially when you are in your position, you will have more worries and more things to worry about. As for nightmares at night, it's normal."

He was about to ascend the throne and become the emperor. At this time, he was the one who was under the greatest pressure. The stability of the people in the world, the rumors outside, and the historical records that he killed his brothers and imprisoned his father.

One by one, if it were put on an ordinary person, I'm afraid it would be unbearable.

In this case, how could he not be uneasy and at ease?

"As for dreams, they are always just dreams." Li Fu said, "For a superior, the lives of millions of heroes are more important than those of his own brothers. Not to mention the royal family, there are not many ordinary people whose brothers have killed people for land and property?"

Li Shimin wondered in his heart whether his brother's soul had come back to find him.

But he couldn't say it clearly.

The Tang Dynasty does not need a cowardly emperor.