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Chapter 32 Chapter 32 Bai Letian Wing Chun

With a big belly, Li Tai looked suspiciously at the guards driving away others. From his expression, people could see the embarrassment of a prince being regarded as air.At first, he was quite angry, but the people who drove away others came to worship him, saying that Li Shimin called him to see him, so he no longer felt uncomfortable, and walked in calmly. The meeting this time was a bit strange, it wasn't in the Tai Chi Hall, nor in the father's bedroom, but at the Suzhang Gate. What's even more strange is that a general held the reins for him. The most incredible thing is that when the Suzhangmen arrived, a group of people rushed over suddenly.

Li Tai was arrested. His big belly didn't help much, and he couldn't run or jump. After realizing that this was a conspiracy, it was too late.This was April in the seventeenth year of Zhenguan (643). Li Tai, who was proud of the spring breeze, was imprisoned at the age of twenty-four. On the seventh day of April, Li Shimin personally went to Chengtianmen Tower to issue an edict, announcing Li Zhi, the king of Jin, as the crown prince, amnesty for the world, and held a large-scale gathering for three consecutive days.Brotherly love, this is a matter of ordinary people, and has nothing to do with the royal family.Sima Guang commented on this matter, saying:

"(Tang) Taizong did not use the world's great weapons to privately love his loved ones, but used the source of disasters and chaos, so it can be said that he can plan far!" Playing tricks in front of Li Shimin, everyone looked too young. Let's talk about Comrade Li Chengqian first, he is not much older than Li Tai, but his temperament is quite different. Li Chengqian was used to living a life of luxury and debauchery, but now that he was imprisoned in that place where no shit, he felt that he was murdered by Hou Junji.He swore that he would be born in a Turkic family in his next life, and swore that the first thing he would do in hell would be to meet with Xinxin, and then to read a copy of Hou Junji in front of Mr. Han Qinhu.

Without rich clothes, good food, and no friends, in September of this year, he was exiled to Qianzhou (Qianjiang River Basin in Sichuan Province) from the place of confinement in Chang'an. Only the punished are exiled here. The depressed Li Chengqian fell into extreme pain and died in Qianzhou a year later. Li Shimin abolished the government for three days for him, but he didn't know if Xinxinquan knew that after meeting Li Chengqian who was demoted to a common man, would he still show courtesy to him.As for classmate Li Sipang, after he was demoted, his mood didn't fluctuate much, he just felt a little baffled.

A few months later, Li Sipang, who ate brown rice, gradually lost weight. Suddenly one day, an envoy came, Li Tai ignored it indifferently, he knew that when the envoy arrived, it was his time of death. However, Li Sipang thought too much, the envoy came with the emperor's order.Li Shimin said: "Li Zhi asked me for mercy, saying that the sanitation conditions in the place where the fourth brother was imprisoned were too poor, and it would be bad if he couldn't eat well. I beg you to give you a discount." It is Li Shimin himself who is under the condition of Thailand's confinement.

A few months later, the emaciated Li Sishou transformed into Li Sipang again. Eating whatever you can is Li Tai's unchanging belief. When he has the strength to lose weight, he will definitely lose weight, so don't worry about it anymore.Li Tai has nothing to worry about, except that he is a little unhappy, his daily task is to relax. Unlike Li Chengqian, Li Tai is talented, proficient in art, and has a lot of time-killing techniques.Comrade Si Fat's calligraphy is a must, and he is also an excellent connoisseur of calligraphy and painting.After being imprisoned in Junzhou (Danjiangkou, Hubei), Li Shimin still missed this child all the time.One day, he suddenly took out a letter written by Li Tai and said to his courtiers pitifully:

"Look at Taylor's diction, how good! I miss him every day now." The ministers didn't know what to say to comfort the emperor, but nothing worked.Everyone was preparing for a good mood and was about to sigh, but Li Shimin comforted himself: "However, for the sake of the community, it is a good thing for everyone to put him in another place." After Li Shimin comforted himself, he turned around and found someone else Cry somewhere (or maybe not cry, just dazed).He really loved Li Tai very much, and four years later (647), he made Li Tai the King of Pu. Although it is not as good as before, it is finally gratifying.

Many people don't like Li Tai in politics, but they like Li Tai in life very much. The grace that Li Tai encountered is still vivid in my mind to this day. In Luoyang City, in the year when Empress Changsun passed away, Li Tai planned to build Binyang South Cave in memory of his mother.This is a grotto, the full name is "Binyang Cave of Longmen Grottoes". There are three caves in the south, middle and north. Monument of the Buddhist Shrine".This is an amazing stele, look at the luxurious lineup of people related to the stele: author, Cen text; Calligraphy, Chu Suiliang;

story, li tai; In memory, Empress Changsun. This is the first one, and the second one is the famous Wei Wangdi. Li Shimin liked Li Tai, and once granted him a piece of geomantic land. This treasure land is located in Luoyang, the eastern capital. In April, peonies, peonies, and roses... flowers bloom all over the city of Luoyang. Men and women ride horses and play, and various costumes dye the city. There are girls selling flowers holding peonies, and some walking hand in hand. Lovers on the street, this is the most beautiful scenery in the Tang Dynasty.When the fireworks were in March, the woman smiled secretly at the bridgehead, and the man had a feather fan and a scarf. They thought it was the residence of the gods, but they didn't know that King Wei had gone.

Many people miss Lee Tae, it's true. Wei Zhuang (the fourth grandson of Wei Yingwu), a poet of the Huajian School in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in the poem "Bodhisattva Man·Wei Wangdi": There is a good spring in Luoyang city, and Luoyang talented people are old from other places. Liu An Wei Wangdi, at this moment his heart has changed. Peach blossoms are in spring and water is green, mandarin ducks bathe on the water. Concentrating on resentment towards Canhui, Yijun doesn't know. People say that literati have been contemptuous of each other since ancient times, but everyone doesn't know that talented people have loved each other since ancient times.Anyway, to put it bluntly, it is still not worth a like.

The most beautiful time of Weiwangdi is the night in March. Liu Yuxi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, once said: "The only companion I have for outings is the moon Weiwangdi." Weiwangdi is a place where talented men and beautiful women date. consensus.In contrast, Bai Juyi knows better that before spring is laziness and before dawn is always darkness. His "Wei Wangdi" described the scenery at that time as follows: The flowers are cold and the birds are singing lazily, and Xinma travels leisurely to the west of Japan. Where can I think before spring?The wicker is weak and Wei Wangdi. Li Tai is a three-point wrong, seven-point cute person, I don't wonder why Li Shimin likes him so much. I often see people commenting that Li Tai was too clever in his calculations, and he missed Qingqing's life.Li Tai would almost die laughing with a big belly. He retorted, "People are not dead, but they are still alive. What are you doing? Besides, your words sound very novel. I will write them down. Are you the original author? By the way, our literature museum is recruiting unreliable literati, various styles, such as lamb style, roar style, free fall style, as long as you have it, you can come! Will you come or not?" The matter about Li Tai should stop here. Many people are puzzled. People know Su Causeway and Bai Causeway, but they don’t know Weiwang Causeway. There is also a beautiful spring, pink willows and green, so beautiful that people will forget to return. Where exactly is Wei Wangdi, I can't tell. A thousand years ago, everything that should have disappeared disappeared, taking away the memories of an era.Both Wei Wangdi and Wei Wang are gone, neither are the things, nor are the people.Maybe one day, we can really travel back to the embankment of Wei Wang in the Tang Dynasty, and listen to the horseshoes of Letian Xunchun.After the incident was over, the interior of Datang finally returned to calm.They're all gone, and it's quiet. I was once very surprised by the comments in the blockbuster film, treating "the use of etiquette and harmony as the most precious" as dross, scolding the Confucian dog bloody, just like discovering Xiaoqian's original form in front of Yan Chixia. Whose quote is this? What does it mean? I think many people will answer wrong, because they dare to make assertions without reading the original text. So I admire some students who can take ignorance as personality without blushing and heartbeat, come up with wrong analysis, and make judgments that they think are extremely rational.This sentence was not said by Confucius. His author was Youzi, one of the seventy-two sages.This sentence means: When doing things, be kind if you can. This is commendable. But there was still something to say in the back of the family, and it was chopped off by the wise man.The full text is as follows: Youzi said: "For the purpose of etiquette, harmony is the most important thing. The way of the ancient kings is the most beautiful. It is not possible to do things according to the small and big. Knowing harmony and making peace without etiquette is not feasible." Youzi said: "Etiquette is the most important thing. The ancient way of governing the country is valuable. However, if you follow the way of harmony no matter how big or small, it will not work in many cases." .If you have to do this, you are being kind for the sake of being kind, which is not the function of etiquette, so it is not feasible to pay attention to being kind in everything. Well, that’s right, that’s it!" Okay, I know you were shocked, and I don't know what the sudden statement from the Sajia meant. Please calm down for five minutes before we move on. ... During this period, generally speaking, the situation was very good, but there were many problems.Of course, the problem is not only in the Tang Dynasty, Tubo is no exception. The territory of Tubo is in the south of Tuyuhun, which is vast and thousands of miles, and it has become more and more powerful recently.Tubo is the ancestor of Tibet. Zanpu has always been the capital of Yalong (now Qiongjie, Tibet), and the king of Tubo (King of Tibet) also lives here. In the third year of Zhenguan (629), the Tubo king Langri Songtsan was poisoned to death, and his ministers and relatives rebelled.For a time, the Tubo Kingdom was dominated by rebels, and the conquests continued. As luck would have it, Tubo at this time was in chaos like an ant's nest that had just been dug up. The Yangtong tribe in the west came to the door and announced that they would take advantage of the fire to loot and invade on a large scale.Seeing that there was no one to rescue Tubo, a man of God was born, who turned the tide and helped the building to collapse, and made a great contribution to the continuation of Tubo, making sheep as cowardly as sheep.It is better to save oneself than to save others, these words came from a child. This is a child prodigy. When the turmoil broke out, he was just thirteen years old, and there were not a few people who took advantage of the chaos to rob. Seeing his father being poisoned to death and the country in chaos, he resolutely took on the burden of saving people from danger. Young but not frivolous, cheerful yet calm, he relied on the emerging power of Tubo to quickly recruit an army of more than 10,000 people and formed an iron-like elite. After three years of bloody battles, he quelled civil strife, stabilized the court, and settled in Lhasa. , restored the unity of the kingdom. We have to say, it's a miracle. Later, we called this child prodigy "Songtsen Gampo". There is a different set of titles in Tubo. They call the king "Zanpu", the ministers "Shang", and the royal family "Lun". They never call people by their surnames.Under the leadership of Songtsan Gampo, Tubo has a vast territory and hundreds of thousands of troops, but it has not yet formed an alliance with the Tang Dynasty.In the history of Tang Dynasty, Songtsen Gampo has many titles, the most important one is "Qizong Nongzan".For convenience, let's call it Songtsen Gampo. The Tubo Kingdom is growing stronger and stronger, and the miscellaneous tribes around it are full of fear. Songtsan Gampo's bravery was quickly learned by Li Shimin, who was already twenty-five years old this year. Li Shimin sent an envoy named Feng Dexia to Tubo, Feng Dexia heard the order, and went with a group of condolences.I don't know what kind of etiquette Songtsan Gampo used to entertain him, whether he was given highland barley wine, buttered tea, or hada.Anyway, in the eyes of the envoys, Songtsan Gampo was still very friendly, and he admired Li Shimin, who was called "Heavenly Khan" by all nations. Everyone talked about eating and drinking well, and then we started talking about business. Feng Dexia introduced Li Shimin's ethnic policy in detail, and then played up the fact that other tribes and kingdoms surrendered to the Tang Dynasty without exaggeration. Speaking of the joy, Lao Feng was very emotional. He answered and asked questions, negotiated friendly, and revealed to Zanpu about the Tang Dynasty's intermarriage with Turkic and Tuyuhun. After hearing this, Songtsan Gampo asked in great surprise, "The poor man brought his grandma?" So he gave gold and silver, proposed marriage, and then sent an envoy to return to Chang'an with Lao Feng.The emissary who made the marriage proposal was waiting for Li Shimin's reply. Li Shimin was very hardworking, and quickly gave a concise, clean and unsatisfactory reply: no. Feng Dexia: Your Majesty asked for marriage, do you have any reflections? Songtsan Gampo: My declaration is, I would rather fall in love with a thousand people than miss one!
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