Chapter 27 Chapter Twenty-Seven

The two brothers are both highly valued by Li Chengqian, and they have made many troubles with the prince.Therefore, many people see them as bad guys.The two brothers came to Yu Zhining's house in Chang'an City with their daggers in hand. Just looking at it from a distance, they felt that the old man was interesting.Yu Zhining is a high-ranking official, but his house looks like an old house that has been abandoned for twenty years. The two walked into the seemingly empty mansion, hid behind the wall and looked at Yu Zhining's home. Although the courtyard was clean, a gloomy wind blew through, and the thatch smell on the roof still made people want to sneeze.

The old man's house was too poor, so the two of them took a knife to look closer, first looked in through the window, and found a few rooms with only a few shabby furniture, only broken tables, rice urns, and stacks of papers. people.Finally, they finally saw Yu Zhining sleeping soundly in a place that didn't look like a bedroom. The scene in front of them stunned the two warriors. They will never forget it for the rest of their lives. It is such a high-ranking court official who can be so shabby. Yu Zhining, with gray hair and a thin body, was lying on an old bed with a straw mattress under his body and a pillow made of soil clods!

Although the two were rude, the scene in front of them made their noses sour and their eyes moist.The old man is a filial son, and sleeping on a clod of dirt does not explain his character, but look at his home, is that a place where people live? !Why didn't he report it to the court?Why didn't he ask for credit?His old mother had just died, and he was anxious for the prince, but the prince wanted to kill him!Although many people live for profit, let's not do that wolf-hearted thing! Zhang Shizheng suddenly wanted to cry loudly, he grabbed Hegan Chengji who was looking through the window, and asked:

"To kill, or not to kill?" Hegan Chengji turned his face away, and Zhang Shizheng found that the grandson also had a sad face, and lost his voice: "What do you say?" So they turned their heads and left. The two reached a consensus and left crying. Yes, they have done many wrong things, but the sun is shining, whoever wants to kill Mr. Yu is a beast! With such thoughts in mind, the two returned to the East Palace and were severely criticized by the crown prince. Everyone inside and outside was extremely disappointed in Li Chengqian, only Li Shimin still had a glimmer of hope for this child.Among all the people, Wei Wang Li Tai lived the happiest life. His staff all hoped that Comrade Prince would continue to be an asshole. Once Li Chengqian was deposed, Li Tai would definitely be the first choice.It's not that Li Chengqian didn't know that Li Sipang coveted his crown prince, and he raised such a group of warriors to fight against Li Tai.

It's a pity that it came in handy in advance and was known by outsiders. Facing the elder brother's despotic power, the four fat comrades were calm and calm. In the spring of the sixteenth year of Zhenguan (542), a project that made Li Chengqian completely lost the hearts of the people was completed, and the host was Li Sipang.This is a huge project. The 24-year-old Wei Wang Li Tai edited and completed a book that has a profound impact on geography - "Kuo Di Zhi". This big book has been compiled since the twelfth year of Zhenguan (538), and all the scholars in the literature library of Si Fatty's classmates were mobilized.Today, the introduction to this book will look like this:

This book was completed by Li Tai, the king of Wei, who accepted the order of Emperor Taizong. From the 12th year of Zhenguan to the 16th year of Zhenguan, four years before and after, dozens of scholars from the Weiwang Literature Museum were carefully crafted.According to the zoning of the Chinese capital and the establishment of prefectures and counties, the book includes all the geographical information of the ten kingdoms and 385 prefectures of the Celestial Dynasty, and records in detail the history, mountains and rivers, products, historic sites, customs, characters, anecdotes, etc. of each prefecture and county. .

This book collects the descriptions of geography in various ancient books, and seeks the records of allusions in ancient chronicles, and finally takes shape.There are five hundred and fifty volumes in the book, and there are five volumes in a single sequence. Our slogan is: Buying a house is too expensive, let's buy "Kuo Di Zhi"! This book is indeed great, and it is mostly quoted in works of Tang and Song Dynasties. So someone asked, is it because the geographical names have changed, so no one used them after the Song Dynasty? The answer is no, if it still exists after the Song Dynasty, any dynasty will need it very much.The reason why the bullish "Kuo Di Zhi" has disappeared is because the number of words has reached tens of millions (some fragments have reached 130,000 words), and it belongs to the collection of the library. There are not many stocks, and it was lost in the Southern Song Dynasty.Until the Qing Dynasty, a literati named Sun Xingyan compiled and recorded the content from Kuo Di Zhi in the annals of Tang and Song Dynasties.

There are eight volumes of these fragments alone. Sun Xingyan engraved these contents in "Dainan Pavilion Series", forming the original edition.Later, some scholars supplemented it from the posthumous text, and added five or six items to it. Thanks to Su Wei, who died of starvation at home, he had a good son, and his good son had a good son named Su Xu. Su Xu was a scholar who had worked in Li Shimin's literature museum, and it was he who suggested that Li Tai recruit scholars.Celebrities from all over the world gather in Wei Wangfu, where Li Tai's fame belongs.Of course, brother, I don’t object to you hanging out with Comrade Prince, but what needs to be reminded is that to hang out with him, you must first practice fluent Turkic, so that you can be favored by him smoothly; then you must have muscle mass, because he doesn’t Study, only fight, drink heavily, and eat meat in large chunks.

That's the difference. Si Fat obviously overwhelmed Li Chengqian, it was well known. One thing made the ministers puzzled: for some reason, Li Shimin actually raised Wei Wang's salary, mansion, service and other custom-made things higher than the crown prince. Is this a password? If not, it would be counterintuitive. In fact, the amount of salary is a matter of no pain to the prince, but from the perspective of property, if it is considered from the perspective of politics, the matter is a bit serious.If Li Chengqian didn't know the story of Bayi Wu Yuting in the court, Li Tai must know it. Now that something happened to him, he had fantasies.

Li Shimin was already smart enough and restrained enough, but when he was confused about this matter, the ministers in the court also became confused. Seeing that the situation was wrong, Chu Suiliang, the admonishing doctor, wrote a letter saying: "The sage makes rituals, respects his sons and humbles his concubines, the sons of the world do not know how to use things, and share them with the king. Although the sons of the sons love, they must not exceed the sons, so the suspicion is gradually eliminated, and the source of disaster is eliminated. If the relatives are sparse, be the venerable If you are humble, you will be a sycophantic traitor who takes advantage of the opportunity to move. In the past, the Empress Dowager Dou of the Han Dynasty favored King Xiao Xiao of Liang, and died because of fear of death; Modesty and frugality are a good weapon, and this is the so-called "sage's teachings are made without being strict."

Translation: The prince cannot be made to feel inferior. Low self-esteem will lead to abnormality, and abnormality will cause disaster. He is the future emperor.Now the king of Wei loves too much, and he can't do this anymore. Li Shimin realized the source of the dispute and nodded in agreement. Li Shimin couldn't help it, he wanted to treat Si Pang well, and he was allowed to stay in Wude Hall not long after.This is good, Li Chengqian is in the East Palace, and Li Tai is in the main hall, either the east wind overwhelms the west wind, or the west wind overwhelms the east wind.Wei Zheng saw that things were changing, so he wrote a letter to warn Li Shimin, saying: "Your actions will make the king of Wei have unreasonable thoughts." Li Shimin was frightened and sent Li Tai back to his house. In order to make it look like that, and to express his firm support for the bastard system that establishes the superior but not the virtuous, Li Shimin issued an edict: "There is no limit to what the prince uses in the warehouse." This time, the shrewd and decisive Comrade Li Shimin completely miscalculated. Li Chengqian didn't understand his father's good intentions at all. The day after receiving the edict, he began to withdraw items from the treasury like swiping a free card.The government treasury originally had a lot of storage, but after two months, Li Chengqian took out most of the inventory like drinking blood.His teacher, Zhang Xuansu, the concubine of the left, thought that he could not sit idly by. He wrote to Li Chengqian: "You spent 70,000 taels of gold in two months. You are about the same as Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty. Now I see that there are no good people around His Highness. They are all gangsters. Please respect yourself, Your Highness!" After seeing it, Li Chengqian was furious and tore it to pieces. He didn't know what Zhang Xuansu was messing about, he thought it was because Li Shimin looked up to Zhang Xuansu that Zhang Xuansu dared to be so presumptuous. One morning, Zhang Xuansu went out.As soon as he reached the corner, several tall horses suddenly rushed out from the alley.There were a few vicious guys sitting on the big horse, each holding some weapons such as whips, hammers, and horizontal knives.They rushed towards Zhang Xuansu and surrounded him, probably knowing that they could not use knives, so they whipped violently with whips. In the end, Zhang Xuansu was beaten to pieces and almost died. This incident should have been concealed by Zhang Xuansu, because he did not see any decision on the punishment of Prince Li Chengqian.Everyone knew about it, if Zhang Xuansu didn't mention it himself, let alone others. For everyone, the abolition of the prince is really out of the question. No one wants to launch another palace coup, and they will not know how to die when the time comes.But things have come to this point, if you don't say it, I don't say it, someone still has to provoke it, right?In August of the sixteenth year of Zhenguan (642), Li Shimin listened to the court.Asked: "What is the most urgent matter in the country today?" The advisor Chu Suiliang felt that it was his duty to do so, so he stood up and said in a solemn tone: "There is no danger in all directions, only the crown prince and the titles of the kings are the most urgent matters." Li Shimin said: "That's what I've been waiting for." In this way, a heated discussion was launched within the court, and they exchanged opinions with Li Shimin on the matter of the prince and King Wei.At the end of the discussion, such a conclusion emerged: Need to find a good person to assist the prince. When Li Shimin scanned the audience, everyone suddenly became humble, saying that the work of the prince master is not something ordinary people can do.Li Shimin decided to find a respected and trusted master figure to be his child's teacher. Soon, he set his goal. Especially into Wei Zheng. In September, Wei Zheng accepted Li Shimin's imperial edict with a whole body of illness, and the veteran came out, wondering what he could bring to Li Chengqian.Not long ago, Wei Zheng accepted Li Shimin's appointment as a right servant, but because of his poor health, he kept declining, so the matter was dropped.Now, since he has accepted the important task of educating Li Chengqian, Wei Zheng has to reluctantly go into battle.Wei Zheng, who was sixty-three years old at the time, was in deteriorating health and still insisted on giving advice to Li Shimin. Will Li Chengqian follow his set? Wei Zheng never took life seriously, so he was never afraid of Li Shimin, let alone Li Chengqian. There is an interesting story in the book, which is about Wei Zheng's dream of killing the Dragon King.In the eyes of the ancients, Wei Zheng was fearless.The Dragon King is the lord of the real dragon, a man who is not even afraid of gods, why is he afraid that you, a mischievous child, will fail?Wei Zheng, who is not afraid of death, carefully considered Li Shimin's opinion. Life is impermanent, and he was almost killed by angry Li Shimin several times.Now he is going to serve the prince, he feels that as long as he has breath, he has to put on armor and go into battle. Speaking of which, Wei Zheng can live till now, thanks to Empress Changsun. Sometimes, Wei Zheng bullied Li Shimin too much. Once, he fought Li Shimin in court.This dead old man has a tough bone, and he dared to publicly satirize, sarcasm, and laugh at Li Shimin, making Li Shimin so angry.Li Shimin returned to the residence with anger, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and because he was the emperor, he couldn't cry just because he was bullied by Wei Zheng, so he wailed and slammed the table, "You bumpkin, I will kill him!" Weng.)” Empress Changsun came over, and seeing Li Shimin was so angry, she asked, "Who is Your Majesty angry with? Who are you trying to kill?" Li Shimin gritted his teeth and said, "Wei Zheng, he scolded me today!" This shout, which gathered the essence of Li Shimin's decades of military career, was the most angry roar of a fierce man, and almost broke the window paper.Empress Changsun didn't say much, so she obediently dismissed her. A quarter of an hour later, she was dressed gorgeously, dressed up like a church, and led a group of maids to stand in front of Li Shimin. Li Shimin said in surprise: "You are..." Empress Changsun smiled and replied with some joy: "The concubine has heard that the lord is upright. Isn't Wei Zheng's uprightness because of your majesty's innocence? The concubine is the wife of the emperor, and the husband is the emperor. The concubine dare not be congratulatory. do you think so?!" After saying that, he stared at Li Shimin affectionately, and saluted happily. Li Shimin was enlightened, seeing his wife's words, suddenly turned from fury to joy, and stood there cheerfully. Zhang Xuansu: Why is Your Highness unwilling to learn something better?Are you unwilling to make any changes for Mr. Yu's painstaking efforts? Li Chengqian: Don't try to change anyone, because no one can change anyone, only if he is willing to change for you.