Zhou Yu: ...

All right!

I thought Li Er hadn't thought of this.

Now it seems that he had not thought of it, but had probably already figured out the key point.

As for why we still insist on doing this?

As he said, those who have accomplished great things since ancient times have indeed had to make choices.

If Li Er wants to achieve unprecedented success, he cannot have too much sentimentality.

It’s just like the princes appointed by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Although Old Zhu was born a beggar, how could he not know about the dispute over family property between his brothers?

Children from ordinary families would fight for the family property, let alone the throne.

He knew there would be disputes, but he still chose to enfeoff vassal kings. On the one hand, he was confident that the prince could suppress it. On the other hand, he had the same idea as Li Er did now.

If it weren't for Zhu Di's campaign to quell the rebellion in the Ming Dynasty, it's hard to say how long Zhu Yunwen's descendants could have lasted.

Do you really think that Zhu Di led the army in person just to prove himself?

If he had not led the army in person, how could the Ming Dynasty have continued to exist peacefully?

Without his diligence, how could the Ming Dynasty, with so many eccentric emperors, have lasted for more than 270 years?

The foundation of the Ming Dynasty was laid through two entrepreneurial ventures.

First, Zhu Yuanzhang drove out the Yuan Dynasty to settle the Central Plains, forming a military protection circle for the Han people. In terms of political ideology, he armed the people of the whole country with Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, and the cohesion of the Han people was formed.

Zhu Di's subsequent campaign to quell the rebellion was considered his second venture.

Zhu Di mainly used unusual advisers and eunuchs from ethnic minorities as his main confidants, and used the spirit of Kublai Khan to whip himself. In military affairs, he launched expeditions to the north and the south, and even reached out to the West, recreating the image of the Celestial Empire.

Therefore, the internal and external political structures in the early Ming Dynasty were solid, and the morale of the upper and lower classes was strong. The two dynasties of great prosperity after the great chaos made the country's power highly tilted towards the imperial power.

Although Li Er and Zhu Di had similar experiences and their approaches were also the same, they were both trying hard to prove themselves.

But today's Tang Dynasty is fundamentally different from the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty had Zhu Yuanzhang to lay a solid foundation, but Li Yuan of the Tang Dynasty did not make any major achievements at all.

Now that Li Er wants to start a "second business", Zhou Yu can actually understand.