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Chapter 25 Chapter 25 Li Qingque learns essays from Zhang Xuansu

Classmate Li Sipang, recite "University" and write an article about his experience.Li Sipang's teacher was carefully selected by Li Shimin from among the highly respected ministers - Wang Gui.Among all the ministers, Wang Gui has the most chivalrous spirit and the most jealous hatred in the world. In order to let Li Tai go on the road of prosperity, Li Shimin took great pains. He told Si Fatty, "Be a teacher for a day and a father for life. Treat your master." Simply put, Li Tai treats Wang Gui with the same dedication as he treats his father. Four fat, one promise, every time he meets Wang Gui, he spends a long time with Li Duo, one master and one teacher.According to the rules of worshiping a teacher, when a student encounters a mentor on the road, he must bow his head and move quickly to greet the teacher.Such a simple movement is quite difficult for Li Sipang.

It's all about the shape! Si Fatty has a very big belly (just think about it), and even walking is very difficult. According to the book, he has to use a wheelchair to go to court, otherwise he can't walk.For him, chasing the carp pair is undoubtedly the same effort.But Li Sipang is a person with moral standards. He overcame difficulties, respected his teacher, greeted him, asked for advice with an open mind, and became a good student. Wang Gui didn't smile at all. Judging from his performance, he naturally thought that Li Tai should do all of this. The story happened to Wang Jingzhi, Wang Gui's son.

When Wang Jingzhi married Princess Nanping, the daughter of Tang Taizong Li Shimin, there were many troubles. First of all, when the princess got married, she never paid homage to her aunt since the Southern and Northern Dynasties, mainly because the emperor's daughter had a noble status, and kowtowing to a person whose status was not as good as that of the royal family was insulting to her dignity; If there is no need to do it, everyone must not do it. Wang Gui thought this was pure nonsense, and in order to get his daughter-in-law to kowtow to him, he advised Li Shimin, "Your Majesty, I believe that the princess should meet her in-laws when she gets married. I did this not for my own face, but for national etiquette. In order to give Li Shimin some tear gas, Wang Gui continued: "Children all over the country don't have the slightest respect for their parents. How can we enjoy family happiness in the future?"

Li Shimin was stunned, Wang Gui wanted to restore the etiquette that had been abandoned for a hundred years? Finally, Wang Gui asked: "Your Majesty, is it good or not?" Li Shimin smiled, "Okay." On the day of Wang Jingzhi's wedding, a Tang Dynasty wedding ceremony began surrounded by everyone. The daughter-in-law has to complete a series of difficult movements under the attention of everyone. The first thing to do is to take a small round basket and give the gift she carefully prepared to her parents-in-law. Don't underestimate this gift, although it is not much, it must be carefully prepared.

In ancient times, round containers were called ji (pronunciation: rice), square ones were called baskets, and zhi ji (holding a round basket) to give gifts to parents-in-law was a necessary process of "Zhili". . Then, the daughter-in-law has to feed the father-in-law and mother-in-law. This is difficult to happen in modern times, but it was too common in ancient times, and it was called "washing feeding". The new daughter-in-law holds a washbasin and asks her parents-in-law to wash their hands, and after washing their hands, they start feeding (it’s all about meaning).In the end, it is the couple's business. Everyone first salutes and then guests. After playing and singing, they are about to be sent to the bridal chamber, and the two parties can be casual.At that time, the children's favorite thing to do was to go to the window and listen to the sound. It was a lot of fun, and when they were reprimanded, they dispersed.

In short, Wang Gui won. But he felt that the victory was not complete, and he still had to challenge the powerful. One day, he suddenly asked Li Shimin: "Should officials above the third rank get off the car when they meet the prince on the way?" Li Shimin said: "That's right!" Wang Gui said: "I think it's unethical." Li Shimin was a little puzzled, "You fellow prime ministers, do you feel that you have done so much that you can despise my son?" Do not pray at all, just get off and signal.Comrade Wang Gui is obviously not used to it now, and he thinks that Sangong doesn't even need to get off the car.The meeting was in trouble, but Wei Zheng was the best, he broke the calm:

"The status of the kings is not as good as the Sangong. Let the Sangong get off the carriage for the prince, it shouldn't be!" Li Shimin was very dissatisfied, "No one can say for sure what will happen in the future. If the prince changes one day, do you know if the prince you look down upon today will be the emperor? How can you do this!" Wang Gui immediately took advantage of the situation to fight back, "Since the Zhou Dynasty, the throne has been succeeded by descendants and no brothers. Only in this way can we cut off the illusions of other princes. Your Majesty needs to be cautious when he says such words."

Li Shimin was really depressed, but after thinking about it carefully, what Wang Gui said was not unreasonable.Is it bad for the political situation to bring down the prince and princess?He followed Wang Gui's advice without hesitation.We must always remember that when Wang Gui and Wei Zheng were hanging out with Li Jiancheng, they were thinking about how to kill Li Shimin every day. The words of Comrade Wang Gui, the master of Wei Wang, made Li Shimin depressed again: "Since the Zhou Dynasty, the throne has been succeeded by descendants, not brothers." Li Shimin knew what Wang Gui meant, and he thought of the current crown prince Li Chengqian, the first child he had with Empress Changsun.Li Chengqian was very smart when he was a child, especially good at making government decisions.

When he was eight years old, because he was assigned to a judge to try a case, others never stopped admiring him.Li Chengqian listened to his mother very much, but he always felt that his mother didn't treat him as his own son, and was almost harsh on him.After the death of Empress Changsun, the good boy Li Chengqian suddenly made a gorgeous 180-degree turn, and quickly developed towards the direction of scum. Li Chengqian is crippled, that's okay, everyone liked him when he was a child, but when he grows up, if someone doesn't pay attention to him, he feels very suffocated.He felt that normal people looked down on the cripples, and became more and more surly, hanging around with a bunch of bastards all day long.Li Chengqian never considered himself a Han because he was crazy about Turkic customs, and he didn't want to be a prince anymore, so he wanted to be a khan.

We often see him grabbing his bun with a painful expression and saying: "I will be a khan in this life, if I fail in this life, I will do it in the next life!" When someone asked him why he insisted on being a khan, Li Chengqian must have been at a loss for a while, and then said nonchalantly: "I would rather be a Turkic dog than a Tang person." It really blinded everyone's dog's eyes. If Empress Changsun knew what happened next, she would definitely be able to live out of anger. Since Dajieli Khan was captured, countless Turkic tents have settled in the open space of Chang'an. I don't know why Li Chengqian is interested in all Turkic objects. In short, he can't help but fall in love with Turkic style.Li Shimin once appeased Jieli and made Jieli Khan an official in Chang'an, but Jieli was not used to the house in the Central Plains, so he set up countless tents in the open area and looked up at 45° all day long. Sky, very depressed.

Depressed and frustrated, Xieli often cried with his family in the tent. After a long time, Li Shimin knew about this and couldn't stand it anymore, so he sent him to Guozhou as the governor. Li Shimin worked hard, but still failed to cure Comrade Xieli's depression.Guozhou is a large area of ​​forest land with many elk, which is a good place for hunting.Let Xieli go out to serve as the governor of the place, just to solve his psychological problems.It's a pity that Jieli seemed very unwilling to go, so he came to Li Shimin to refuse. Li Shimin summed it up and canonized him as a general of the right guard to show his comfort. In short, Jieli, you can pitch tents as you like, and be a general as you like. However, everyone knows a truth, Jieli can never go back, he can't go back to the grassland. General Youwei didn't enjoy his good life for a few days. Xieli couldn't think of any good results for him, so he was overly sad and let go.It was the spring of the eighth year of Zhenguan. According to the Turkic custom, Li Shimin arranged for him to be cremated, and let his soul fly into the sky.Everyone present was unhappy, except Li Chengqian. Although it was really not happy on this occasion, there was one thing that made Li Chengqian uncontrollably happy and excited. Yes, in the face of Jieli Khan's death, Li Chengqian showed unprecedented interest, "If after I die, there are so many people dressed like this to pay my funeral, the life of the Sa family will be worth it!" But the reality told him that this was completely impossible. Li Shimin's discipline on children is very strict. It is well known that Li Chengqian is afraid of his father, and the whole East Palace also knows about his obedience and injustice.Li Chengqian played all night and looked tired. If Li Shimin asked him, he would say that he was tired of handling official documents.If Li Shimin asked for his opinion on government affairs again, Li Chengqian would bring out the words he had thought up and pick out some pleasant words.The selection of talents is the top priority of our country. It is urgent to solve the salary problem of high-end talents. The common people must not stop studying for a day. They have shown extremely high quality of governing the country and sentiments of worrying about the country and the people, which makes Li Shimin very happy . In order to let Li Chengqian learn better, Li Shimin simply arranged Fang Xuanling as the prince's junior teacher, and arranged Zhang Xuansu for him. Prime Minister Fang Xuanling has a lot of affairs, so almost all the tasks are placed on Comrade Zhang Xuansu, the right concubine. Zhang Xuansu was born in Yuxiang, Puzhou (Yongji, Shanxi). The exact date of birth is unknown, but it must have been around 600 AD.Comrade Xuan Su first served as an official in the Sui Dynasty, and the official was not a big one. He was the county magistrate in Cangzhou, Hebei.At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and the place where Zhang Xuansu was located happened to be on the territory of a generation of hero Dou Jiande. Zhang Xuansu, who had always regarded himself as an official of the Sui Dynasty, met Dou Jiande, who had always regarded himself as an official of the Sui Dynasty. Just like that, the two fierce men began to clash, and a lot of people were watching. Zhang Xuansu showed Dou Jiande a beating expression. The hero Dou Jiande didn't want to suffer the immediate loss, so he was pulled out (to the vegetable market) and beheaded. When the elders in Cangzhou heard that the county magistrate Zhang was about to be killed, they dispatched one after another regardless of the danger.Men and women, helping the old and the young, crying loudly, they stopped the prison car and let Zhang Xuansu get down.The soldiers asked: "Why do the elders feel wronged, insisting that the surname Zhang come down and smash his body into thousands of pieces?" Everyone shouted: "Master Zhang is going to die, we will die together!" Everyone blocked the way of the officers and soldiers, Xia Bing thought it was the turmoil in the robbery field, but unexpectedly these thousands of people blocked all the intersections, knelt down one after another, begging for Zhang Xuansu's death. Dou Jiande was the most righteous. He was shocked when he heard the news and rushed to the scene to check the situation. But seeing the stalemate among the crowd and the officers and soldiers, one of the crowd spoke for a while and said with tears: "Ms. Zhang is an extremely clean official. If the king kills him today, he can kill us all!" Wail again. Cries, deafening cries! Dou Jiande admired this kind of hero the most on weekdays. Hearing this, a feeling of tingling in the scalp spontaneously arose, and he immediately untied Zhang Xuansu himself, and now appointed him as a curator and servant censor.Amidst the cheers of the crowd, Zhang Xuansu had a bloody expression on his face. He calmly refused to accept the title, and said something that made Dou Jiande dumbfounded: "I, Sui Chen also. The emperor is in Jiangdu, so I can't do anything." Second Lord!" Dou Jiande suddenly understood. Hehe, this guy has such a hard mouth and is loyal to the Sui Dynasty, but he doesn't know that the emperor of the Sui Dynasty has been killed by the ministers of the Sui Dynasty. So, he sighed, and said to Zhang Xuansu, who had a resolute expression: "The emperor is dead." Zhang Xuansu was taken aback and didn't trust Dou Jiande, but the truth could not be fake. When he learned that it was true, Zhang Xuansu accepted Dou Jiande's appointment and took up the post of Xia Guohuangmen's servant.Everyone knows the later story. Dou Jiande lost to Li Shimin. Li Shimin heard about Zhang Xuansu's name, met him personally, and asked him about the way of governing. When Li Chengqian grew up, Zhang Xuansu became the prince's teacher. When the conscientious Zhang Xuansu encounters a guy like Li Chengqian, a violent incident is about to erupt. Everyone has a lot of friends, and it's not wrong to have one or two asshole friends, the wrong thing is that all friends are assholes.If so, this person must be the most asshole. Li Chengqian deservedly became the best of the bastards, and he could still pretend to study in front of Li Shimin and his master. Once the elders left, the East Palace fell apart.Li Chengqian hated the teacher's discipline the most. Later, when he went too far, Lao Zhang scolded him, and he held a grudge. Li Chengqian is a reliable young man who seeks revenge without revenge. Kong Yingda, Linghu Defen, Yu Zhining, Zhao Hongzhi, Wang Renbiao, Cui Zhiji, Zhang Xuansu, how you criticized me in front of my father, I will remember it all. , I, Li Chengqian, will kill you all! The nonchalant Li Chengqian felt the contempt of everyone. The older he grew up, the more lonely he became, and the more disturbed he became. In the end, the motherless child decided to kill Zhang Xuansu first. The story begins with Zhang Xuansu’s admonition to the prince. He originally planned to be angry and indifferent, but unexpectedly, Li Chengqian knew his mistakes and could correct them. Change your past.Fearing that the teacher would not believe it, he simply did it himself, picked up a hammer, and smashed his favorite drum.Zhang Xuansu almost burst into tears, his efforts were not in vain, the crown prince, after all, is still the emperor's child, he is always admonishing. Li Chengqian could lie to Zhang Xuansu for a day or two, and if it took more than three days, it would be easy to reveal his secrets. Recently, Zhang Xuansu discovered that the prince hadn't received any officials, hadn't done his homework, and didn't manage politics. He didn't know what he was doing, so he decided to admonish Li Chengqian.
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