Chapter 111: Literati
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(As for Li Bai, in fact, I didn't really want to write it out of personal wishes!) After all, no matter how brilliant and dazzling he is, there is no plot impetus for my book, and even if it is written, it is written for the sake of writing!) But too many people say, how can there be no Li Bai in the world of Tianbao Nian? And what I advertised at the beginning was to try to get as close to the so-called history as possible...... There's nothing to talk about digging a pit and burying yourself! Coupled with Wang Bo's cunning and laziness at the beginning, alas...... I won't mention much in the past, but this book is indeed very different! But it has its unique value, although everyone has not seen it at present...... But after this volume is finished, I promise that everyone will have a refreshing feeling! Okay, Li Bai! It's really hard to write...... )
The procession of welcoming relatives left the East Market, and Mrs. Qiuguo's carriage also drove out of the fangmen, and at about the same time, a villa in Changxingfang was knocked on the door......
Gao Shi, who had just been awarded the Zuo Xiao guard Cao to join the army, introduced Li Bai into the mansion for hospitality, and after entering the room, he saw the two of them get up to greet them, and the four of them saluted, Gao Shi smiled and said: "Brother Taibai, your name has already resounded all over the world, so there is no need to introduce it." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info these two are also like-minded people. What is a like-minded person? One is good wine, and the other is good poetry. ”
Before Li Bai met, the two of them showed joy on their faces, and they were full of admiration for themselves, so they arched their hands and asked, "Okay, dare to ask Brother Taifu?"
Gao Shi replied: "Brother Taibai, this person on the left, named Cen Shen, is a native of Nanyang, Jingzhou, a Jinshi in the third year of Tianbao, and was later awarded the secretary of the shogunate of the Anxi Festival. ”
Li Bai said happily: "Long admiration, long admiration, Li Bai has seen Cen Jun's poems, his poetry style is broad and magnificent, and it is really fate to meet today!"
Cen Shen said with a smile: "The immortal broke Chang'an, since Brother Taibai entered the capital, who in the world dares to say poetry again?"
"Where, where ......"
Everyone laughed, but for Li Bai, there was a little more depression in this laughter, so he laughed at himself: "I think that my Li Bai's poems are the best in the world, and when I enter the capital, I am just a group of idle companions. ”
Gao Shi smiled, interrupted Li Bai, pointed to the person on the right and said: "Brother Taibai, this person's surname is Du Mingfu, the character is beautiful, he now lives in Gong County, and he has been going back and forth between the two capitals recently......"
"Oh......" Li Bai smiled: "Although I haven't seen Zimei's face, I have seen Zimei's poems." I have also recited that poem "Wangyue" many times, and I guessed that Zimei Xu was inspired when she was raised, right?"
Du Fu was lean, his face dark and straight as a knife. Although the age is sixteen years younger than Li Bai, the two are now standing together, and they seem to be of the same age, but compared to Li Bai's flying temperament, Du Fu's face is full of sorrow, and he seems to be older than Li Bai.
Now Li Bai mentioned the poem "Wangyue", in which the sentence "will be the top of the mountain, a glance at the mountains" is widely spread in the world, which is really Du Fu's proud work.
Du Fu then thanked him and said: "It is really Du Fu's luck that humble poems can enter the eyes of poetry immortals." In that year, he should be the first to be promoted by Jinshi, and thus roamed between Qi and Zhao to relieve depression, so there is this poem. ”
Li Bai said with a smile: "Zimei Wangyue is not stopped, it seems that this desire to reach the top is difficult to extinguish after all." Hehe, it's just that the hope of you and me in this life is probably very slim. Zimei loves to roam, how about we have been together since then?"
"If the fairy is too white and blue-eyed, how fortunate is Du Fu!" Du Fu responded, but said with a slight hesitation: "It's just a few days before Enke, if you don't give up, can you wait for me to ...... after the exam?"
"Haha!" Li Bai pointed at Du Fu and laughed: "Zimei has this heart, how can I be so strong?"
Gao Shi knew the truth about Li Bai's abandonment of the official and left Beijing, and he expected that he would feel uncomfortable in his heart, and now he mentioned Du Fu's imperial examination, Du Fu also failed the examination repeatedly, which was really sad and depressed.
So he hurriedly beckoned everyone: "Don't sit down, just stand and talk." Let's take a seat, Brother Taibai, Brother Fool has prepared a good Shuzhong Shochu Spring Wine for you today, I don't know if it will be as you wish?"
"Shochu wine? Okay, this thing is not easy to come by, I don't know how to find it?" Li Bai looked surprised, and then sighed: "Hehe, when Li Shizhi won a hundred jars of shochu wine from Wei Jian, he was drunk by the 'Eight Immortals' before the tenth day. ”
"This thing is not easy to come by, and the price is expensive, so the quantity is small, I'm afraid Brother Taibai can't enjoy it today. How about we drink this wine first, and then drink Xingyang's 'Cave Spring'?" Although Gao Shi has quite a family background, he has only just been awarded to join the army, and the "liquor" that has only become popular in the upper class of Chang'an in the past two years has only been heard of by name, but not seen.
"Okay, okay, as long as it's wine, Li Bai can enjoy it. Li Bai smiled: "And 'Cave Spring' is as famous, so why do you distinguish each other?"
Du Fu and Cen Shen's eyes lit up when they saw Li Bai talking about wine, and the two looked at each other and smiled, Fang believed in the legend that Li Bai was addicted to alcohol before.
The four of them picked up the wine cup and wanted to drink, Li Bai suddenly put down the wine cup and said, "By the way, I have an appointment, and I can only understand it when I wash it before drinking." Otherwise, after drinking too much, the tongue will be hard and confused, and Xu will forget. ”
The other three had no choice but to put down the wine cup and listen to Li Bai's details.
Li Bai then said: "Duff said just now that we are all like-minded people, and in addition to poetry and wine, roaming is also indispensable. At this time, it is not far from the early spring, I heard that Luoyang flowers are blooming, Cen Jun will return to the northwest in a few days, if Zimei intends to travel far away after the exam, how about the three of us meet in Luoyang at that time?"
Gao Shi had no objection, and Du Fu was silent for a moment and responded.
Among the four people, Li Bai is the crown drinker, and the other three are not shallow. After that, they went back and forth, and drank very freely. Li Bai is actually the kind of person who gets drunk early, often a few glasses of wine into his stomach, and his drunken state appears, and no matter how much he drinks after that, this drunken state has always been maintained, and it is no different.
Li Bai was drinking six glasses of wine this day, and drunkenness had come to his face, he picked up the wine cup and drank it up, and said loudly: "I saw the holy face in the name of the poem, and finally hung up the crown and left, hehe, 'Look up to the sky and laugh and go out, how can I be a Penghao person?' Gentlemen, Li Bai is a Penghao person, I'm afraid it will be difficult to change in this life." ”
When the three of them saw Li Bai's wild appearance, they knew that there was endless pain in his heart. Cen Shen came to Li Bai and raised his lamp and said: "Brother Taibai, 'life must be happy, don't make the golden bottle empty to the moon', we are destined to get together, that is, it is a proud thing in life." Come, foolish brother respects brother, in the future, we will be separated from each other, and it may be difficult to get together. ”
Li Bai drank a cup with Cen Shen.
Li Bai was uneasy after all, and turned to Du Fu and said, "Zimei, you are born at the wrong time. Since Zhang Xiangye's resignation, most of the important ministers in the court are controlled by untalented people. Do you think that these people themselves have no talent, so they regard the sages of the world as a thorn in their side, can he let you pass the examination? Hmph, since Tianbao, the number of people who can win the test has been decreasing year by year, don't you know the mystery? If you want me to say, you should not take any more exams, and it is best to roam the world with me. ”
Du Fu disagrees in his heart, since ancient times, he has learned and excelled, although this road is difficult, there will be a time to come out.
What's more, now his family is surrounded by walls, and his pocket is shy, if he doesn't follow the road of the imperial examination and persevere, so as to get an official and a half-job, he really doesn't know what else he can rely on in this life.
Gao Shi could only sigh, and he knew a little about the current situation of the imperial court.
Since Li Linfu became the prime minister, the situation of the literati has become increasingly difficult, especially for the scholars of the poor families, not to mention that the road to the imperial examination has become increasingly narrow due to the gradual reduction of recruitment, and even the selected people have a difficult position when they are appointed.
Li Bai took advantage of the wine, and wanted to spit out all the bitterness in his chest......
I thought that the Yue girl Liu thought that she was poor and said goodbye, and she got Zhang Jiuling's recommendation in her grief and anger, and entered Beijing under great joy, and was introduced to Princess Yuzhen by He Zhizhang, so that she was able to dedicate the poem to the emperor.
How do you know that the emperor only regards himself as a prepositional minister, and every time he uses the time to compose a poem, he laughs at the Pomeranians.
It's hard to express your ambition, so it's better to go back!
Since then, Li Bai has roamed between the two capitals, and it is really difficult to eliminate the idea of being an official, and he only hopes to let more powerful people know his talent, maybe there is still hope for the eunuch journey.
It's just that after so long, although the poetry is becoming more and more famous, no one is willing to recommend themselves anymore!
How depressed I feel in my heart, and now I finally meet someone who can talk to me, I just want to talk about it!
Li Bai drank another glass of wine and continued: "When I didn't enter Beijing, I saw that the world was healthy and prosperous, and I thought that the saint had worked hard to create a prosperous Tang Dynasty, so I was full of admiration for the saint. ”
"Alas...... Who knew that after staying in Beijing for a short time, his mood was very different. ”
Du Fu hurriedly asked, "What's the difference?"
"The saint favored the concubine, and even abandoned the daily morning court, and handed over the affairs of the court to several prime ministers, and he and the concubine played games all day long, and the day was very comfortable. My name is Hanlin Worship, and it is difficult to see the official documents of the imperial court, but I have become the emperor's helper. ”
Gao Shi didn't want Li Bai to do more about the government, for the current situation in Chang'an, Li Bai may not know when he first entered Beijing, but he was faintly aware of it, so he quickly smiled and diverted the topic: "Brother Taibai's "Qingping Tune" is sung all over the world, isn't it a work for help?"
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but laugh, "Qingping Tune" praised Yang Guifei as beautiful as a fairy, and her poems were very beautiful, Li Bai wrote this poem, and Yang Guifei was clearly written, in fact, he wanted to please Li Longji with his own poetic talent, and he also had the heart to invite favor.
When Li Bai heard this, he couldn't help but blush, and could only sigh: "You have never seen the concubine, alas, her beauty, her demeanor, and her singing and dancing skills are really the best in the world." At first, I didn't agree with the saint's daughter-in-law as a concubine, but when I saw the face of the concubine, I knew the reason!"
Gao Shi, a newcomer who had just become an official, naturally had never seen Yang Yuhuan, so he asked curiously, "What is the reason?"
Li Bai recalled with a face: "It is still difficult for ordinary people to control the concubine when they see it, let alone the saint?"
The other three all laughed when they heard this, only saying that Li Bai had drunk too much, so that he spoke upside down.
Li Bai widened his eyes and said loudly: "How can I turn things upside down? When ordinary people see a beautiful woman, although they have love in their hearts, can they snatch each other with a knife? Hehe, is it wrong for me to talk like this?"
Everyone felt that although what Li Bai said was crooked, it also made some sense, so they were silent. Although the four of them are like-minded people, only Li Bai has been close to the emperor, and he has a lot of contacts with dignitaries in Beijing, so only Li Bai is qualified to say such things.
Li Bai looked at Du Fu again and said, "Zimei, it's still the same sentence just now, what kind of student is Lao Shizi? If you pass the exam, you will definitely have endless idleness." The emperor is sluggish and likes to travel, extravagant, that Li Linfu is jealous of the virtuous and powerful, and the power is all over the world, and recently he has used cool officials to make the 'auspicious snare and tongs' rampant in the world. Hehe, what kind of prosperity? What kind of wealth? I don't think it's just a matter of gold and jade, and it's just ruined. Zimei, we roam the world from now on, happy landscapes, isn't it better to live like the walking dead in officialdom?"
Du Fu did not agree with Li Bai's words in his heart, but Li Bai is now the world's most famous poetry, and his reputation is slight, and he has been greatly moved by his blue eyes. When he heard this, he stepped forward and drank with Li Bai again, and said, "If it is as true as the king said, Du Fu dares to disobey his fate?"
Li Bai laughed, and leaned over to pour the wine himself. Gao Shi's pre-prepared shochu wine has already been drunk, at this time the drink is Xingyang "Cave Spring" wine, Li Bai after drinking a few glasses, he no longer distinguishes the taste of wine, it can be seen that he can have wine, how the quality of the wine is still secondary.
After drinking a few more glasses of wine, Gao Shi turned to Cen Shen to prevent Li Bai from discussing the government again: "I heard that General Gao conquered Xiaoboluguo, Brother Cen must have come to Beijing to report his merits this time and ask for a reward, right?"
"Alas......" Cen Shen didn't want to talk about it, but when he saw Gao Shi asking, he heard Li Bai complain again, and the sorrow in his heart was also hooked up with the wine: "How can there be such a good thing!"
"What? Could it be that things have changed?" Gao Shi's face was full of concern, and the other two also turned their gazes.
"Let's go, let's go, so that the brothers can talk about it......"
However, it was said that after General Gao was awarded the deputy envoy of Anxi Jiedu, Meng Lingjing, the envoy of Anxi Jiedu, ordered him to lead troops to attack the small Bolu country.
The little kingdom of Bolu was located in the west of the Green Mountains, and its capital was located in the city of Sindor (now the city of Gilgit in Kashmir). The little Bolu country was originally also a subject country of the Tang Dynasty, and later Tubo was strong, and had a bad relationship with the Tang Dynasty, so Tubo won over the little Bolu country and married the princess to the little Bolu Wang Su as his wife, and the little Bolu country was attached to Tubo and broke off relations with the Tang Dynasty. After that, Tubo took the small Bolu Kingdom as its foothold, and then controlled more than 20 countries in the northwest, so that the road to the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty was cut off. Since then, several Anxi Jiedu envoys have made the position of Xiao Boluguo important, and he has led his troops to attack many times, but he has returned in vain.
General Gao Xianzhi led 10,000 soldiers and horses to kill Xiao Bolu Kingdom this time, and Lord Feng Changqing was the judge of Jiedu, and General Guo Ziyi accompanied the expedition as the envoy of Zhenyuan. They passed through the city, entered the Sede, passed through Shule, climbed the Green Ridge, and waded through the Michuan River, and the road was full of hardships, and they arrived at the Telman River after a hundred days.
At the southwest end of the Teleman River, there is a Lianyun Fort, which is the northern fortress of the small Bolu Kingdom. There are more than 1,000 troops stationed in its fort, and the south of the fort is fenced by the mountain, and 9,000 troops are stationed to echo. If you take this fort, you can wave your troops and go straight to the capital of the small Bolu Kingdom.
At that time, between summer and autumn, there was water in the Manchuan River, and floods came again at night, and the Manchuan River became an ocean. After the general Gao finished talking to the local natives, he killed the cattle and sacrificed to the river on the second day, and then ordered the soldiers to take dry food for three days and start wading. When they arrived at Lianyunbao, the little Bolu people were not guarded, and when they saw the Tang army in the water, they were immediately shocked, and they were captured by a drum. After that, General Gao led the army like a bamboo, and soon invaded the capital of Xiaobolu, captured the king and the Tubo princess, and ordered Feng Changqing to send them to Chang'an.
After this battle, the countries of the Western Regions knew that Tubo was falling, and seventy-two countries surrendered to our Tang Dynasty.
When General Gao's squad returned to the four towns of Anxi, Nafumeng Lingjing learned that the king of the little Bolu Kingdom had been dismissed to Chang'an without his own approval, so he thought that General Gao had robbed him of merit, and he was immediately furious. Because General Gao was a Goryeo, Fu Meng Lingjing opened his mouth and closed his mouth to call him 'Goryeo Nu', where he scolded and ordered General Gao to send someone to recover the king of the little Bolu Kingdom, and he actually wanted to send another person to deliver the victory.
General Gao was frightened and hurriedly sent someone to chase Changqing. At that time, Lord Feng Changqing had already arrived in Shuofang, and after hearing the order, he did not want to turn back, but went straight into the capital. ”
"How can this be reasonable!" Li Bai couldn't help but be furious after hearing this: "This husband is greedy for life and afraid of death! For the sake of greed, he does not hesitate to angrily scold the meritorious general!"
"Look, look! Corruption is all connived at by the emperor and the prime minister!"
Gao Shi couldn't answer, and still asked Cen Shen: "Then Brother Cen and Lord Feng entered the Beijing Sanctuary this time to ......."
"Alas......" Cen Shen shook his head, and then said: "Shangyuan entered Beijing on the same day, and Lord Feng wanted to tell the Holy Lord truthfully at the great court meeting on the second day, but there seemed to be a change in the court that day, so Lord Feng decided to postpone it for a few days and then report to the Holy Lord. ”
"Yes!" Gao Shi nodded and said: "I also heard that the day of the Great Court Meeting was not peaceful, and many officials were punished in the past two days, and some even dismissed their officials and searched their homes......
"It must be the court again!" Li Bai said indignantly: "These high-ranking officials and officials don't think about doing things for the people all day long, and they only know how to fight for power and profit all day long, today you play me, tomorrow I will stop him......"
"There are no people in the court to do things! Sooner or later, there will be chaos in this world!"
"Brother Taibai is cautious!" Gao Shi finally couldn't help but mention Li Bai.
However, Li Bai was already drunk, and he was even more indignant in his heart, and said angrily when he heard this: "And you! It is your silence that connived at them! If no one stands up and scolds them, I am afraid that this prosperous world will soon be ruined!"
"No, if you don't come, I'll come!"
"Brother Taibai!"
Gao Shi stepped forward to pull Li Bai who stood up, but unexpectedly, Li Bai got up violently, his head shook, and his eyes were black, and he fainted.
"Brother Taibai!" Gao Shi hurriedly stepped forward to check.
Cen Shen stepped forward to check the pulse, and said after a while: "It's okay, Brother Taibai is just drunk!"
"Alas......" Gao Shi looked at Li Bai, who fell to the ground and fell asleep, and sighed: "Brother Taibai has never been really happy since he resigned!"
As a friend, it's not easy to comment on gains and losses, right and wrong, only sigh.
"That's right!" Gao Shi turned to ask Cen Shen again: "When is Lord Feng going to face the saint? Is there anything that needs to be done?" The younger brother has been in Chang'an for a long time, if there is a need, he must open his mouth!"
"It's not decided yet!" Cen Shen shook his head: "Lord Feng has been handing over the fold to the military department for the past two days, but the military department has no response, and I don't know when the saint will have time to summon him." ”
"Now the secretary of the military department is Chen Xilie, the left minister, but in fact, the whole military department is controlled by the right minister Li Linfu, and the excerpt of Lord Feng wants to reach the heavens, but I am afraid that it will be difficult......"