Chapter 248: Good Poetry
Li An does not know how to compose poetry, as a later generation, he has never learned to compose poetry, at most he recited some famous poems of the ancients, such as 300 Tang poems or something, let Li An write a poem by himself, which is too difficult for Li An, so, since a minister proposed to let the military generals compose poems, Li An had an ominous premonition in his heart, and he couldn't wait to pull the minister he just proposed over and beat him up to relieve the hatred in his heart. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
When Li Longji asked An Lushan to compose poems, Li An kept his head down, eager to make himself invisible, so as not to be discovered by Li Longji.
Although as a military general, it is not a big deal not to be able to compose poetry, and it is not much of a shame, but all the people sitting here are the most powerful people in the Tang Dynasty, admitting that they can't compose poetry in front of these people, will more or less lose some face, and it will make An Lushan, who has already composed a poem, proud.
Sure enough, whatever he was afraid of, Li Ang lowered his head to dodge, but he still couldn't escape Li Longji's eyes, and was named and asked to write a poem.
Watching a little eunuch deliver the four treasures of the study to him, Li An's heart was pounding, this is the rhythm of forcing people to death! If this can't really be written, won't everyone see it as a joke.
Of course, Li Longji did not just ask Li An to write poems alone, after naming Li An, he also named several military generals one after another, including An Lushan's subordinate Shi Cuigan.
Li An was helpless, took the brush, felt quite uneasy, and quickly recalled the Tang poems he had recited in his previous life to see if there was anything that could be plagiarized.
Of course, not all Tang poems can be plagiarized, at least the Tang poems before Tianbao cannot be plagiarized, otherwise they will be discovered, and they can only be plagiarized after Tianbao.
Recall, recall, recall, Ang Lee concentrated on recalling what suitable Tang poems he could use in his previous life.
'Yes, that's it, just change it a little. ā
Li An suddenly thought of a Tang poem that had been punished by the teacher to write 250 times, so he immediately wrote it on paper, wrote it and checked it carefully, which felt very good.
Looking back at the direction where Shi Cuigan was, Li An found that he didn't have a word, obviously he couldn't write, but this Shi Cuigan didn't seem to be in a hurry at all, and he didn't feel ashamed, he just kept pouring the wine in the pot into the big bowl, and after pouring it, he took the wine from An Qingzong's table next to him and continued to pour it. ā
"Everyone, General Li has already written a poem."
The little eunuch gently put away the paper on the table in front of Li An and reported in a low voice.
"Bring it and let me see it."
Li Longji took the poem written by Li An and read it lightly, his face was quite surprised at first, and then showed a look of appreciation.
"Good poem, good poem, General Li's poem is quite imposing, and it writes the pride of my Tang Erlang, okay, come, let you Aiqing take a look."
"Why don't you take Wu Hook and collect Anton Fifty Prefectures, please go to Lingyan Pavilion temporarily, if you are a scholar and a marquis."
One of the ministers read as he read it, an expression of appreciation on his face.
"Good poetry, good poetry! My Tang boy should be like this. ā
"Good poem, General Li's poem, writes the pride of my Tang Dynasty boy, good poem, really a good poem!"
The ministers praised the poem written by Ang Lee, and even more so Ang Lee himself.
This poem is actually a poem written by the Tang Dynasty poet Li He after the Anshi Rebellion, but Li An changed two words to change Guanshan to Anton.
After all, is the situation different? After the Anshi Rebellion, Datang urgently needed to recover Guanshan Fifty Prefectures, and at this moment, Datang did not lose these lands, only some land was lost in remote places such as Andong Duhufu.
Since the Tang Empire and the Silla coalition defeated Goguryeo, the Tang Dynasty established the Andong Protectorate in the land of Goguryeo, which is located in today's Pyongyang, and its ruling area includes the entire Liaodong Peninsula, the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, the northwest region of Jilin and the hometown of Baekje in the southwest of the Korean Peninsula, including the east of the present-day Ussuri River and the west bank of the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River, and Sakhalin Island to the sea, with a very vast area.
However, with the strong rise of the Bohai State and the Khitan people, the Andong Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty was threatened by a major threat, and continued to move the office, the third year of the Shangyuan Dynasty moved to Liaodong City, the third year of Yifeng moved to the new city, long live the first year of Tongtian, due to the Khitan anti-Tang Dynasty, the land transportation between the Tang Dynasty and the Andong Protectorate was interrupted for a time, and the second year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty moved to Yingzhou.
The relocation from Pyongyang to Yingzhou is not only reflected in the location of the administrative office closer to the mainland, but also reflects the increasingly weak control of the Tang Dynasty over the former place of the Andong Protectorate.
Li An's poem proposes to recover the fifty states of Andong, and the meaning is to send troops to attack the Bohai State and the Khitan people, so as to completely remove this threat, so that the area around Andong Duhufu can no longer provoke the powerful Tang Empire.
As for the states and counties in the Andong area that are out of the control of the Tang Dynasty, there are far more than 50 states.
Li An's pride has been revealed, which makes An Lushan, who is the envoy of the Pinglu Festival, a little unable to sit still, Li An's poem expresses the recovery of the states and counties that the Andong Protectorate has lost control, and the seat of the Anton Protectorate is in Yingzhou, which is the area he is responsible for.
In other words, Ang Lee's poem expresses the heroic temperament of an ambitious Tang boy, but in An Lushan's ears, it has a great sense of urging and accusation.
After all, An Lushan has been in Yingzhou for many years, but he has not solved the problem of the Bohai State and the Khitan people, and even, he has been defeated by the Xi and Khitan people many times and fled, let alone effectively control this area.
Of course, the current situation of the Andong Protectorate cannot be blamed entirely on An Lushan, after all, there are not many soldiers and horses under the command of An Lushan, and the forces such as the Bohai State and the Khitan are quite powerful, they are far away from the administrative center of the Tang Dynasty to establish a strong power in the northeast, although the Tang Dynasty is strong, but there are more neighbors who need to deal with it, naturally there is not much energy to deal with the northeast direction, so they can only take a defensive posture and set up the Pinglu Jiedu envoy in Yingzhou to defend against the invasion of the Northeast people.
"Anhu'er, what do you think of General Li's poems?"
Li Longji saw An Lushan's sluggish expression and asked in a low voice.
"Your Majesty, this is a good poem, Anhuer has been guarding Yingzhou for many years, and he has long had the idea of recovering Andong's hometown, but he only hates the lack of soldiers under his command, and he can't share his worries for His Majesty."
An Lushan reacted very quickly and knew how to obey Li Longji's wishes, and at the same time, he also euphemistically expressed that he did not recover Anton's hometown because he had too few troops, and there was a hint that Li Longji had the intention of giving more military power.
Li Longji nodded with satisfaction, looked at the poems written by several other generals, and always felt that they were not as imposing as Li An's writing, and even could not compare with Li An.
"Your Majesty, the poems written by General Li are currently the first, but General Shi has not yet started writing, perhaps, General Shi can write better poems."
"Yes, yes, if General Shi can write more bold poems, General Li can only take a back seat."
Several ministers laughed excitedly, but anyone could see that Shi Cuigan had no intention of writing poetry at all, and he didn't even touch the brush, just poured the wine into the big bowl.
"General Shi?"
Li Longji couldn't help it and looked at Shi Cuigan.
Shi Cuigan hurriedly got up with a large bowl of wine, and said with a straight face: "Your Majesty, Weichen will only lead the army to kill the enemy, and he is not good at composing poems, and he is willing to make amends with wine." ā
After saying that, he took a big gulp of wine and drank a large bowl of wine into his stomach, without missing a drop.
"Avoiding poetry with wine, General Shi is arrogant."
"General Shi is massive."
Looking at Shi Cuigan's slightly red face, all the Wenchen did not laugh, and all affirmed Shi Cuigan, although this person did not write a single poem, but drank such a big bowl of wine, it really made people admire his amount of wine, at least, among the ministers present, no one really dared to drink like Shi Cuigan, let the poet immortal Li Bai come over, maybe he would have a comparison with Shi Cuigan, but Li Bai was not qualified to come to the banquet.
Li Longji saw Shi Cuigan's majestic figure, and he liked it very much, paused, and asked with a smile: "General Shi, what is your name." ā
"Back to Your Majesty, Weichen Shi Cuigan."
"Shi Cuigan? How old is it? ā
"Back to Your Majesty, Weichen is already forty years old."
Li Longji thought for a moment and said softly: "Forty years old is not old, but your glory and wealth are still behind?" However, the name Shi Rangan is not good, I will give you a name! It's called Shi Siming. ā
"Your Majesty, Weichen will be called Shi Siming in the future."
Shi Kui was overjoyed and hurriedly thanked him.
Li Longji took out a dragon-patterned jade from his body, and said: "Ang Li, your poem is well written, and the bean sprouts are also very delicious, this jade will be rewarded to you." ā
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Yu Chaoen picked up the jade bi, walked a few steps, and handed it into Li An's hands.
Seeing that Li Longji rewarded Li An with a dragon pattern jade, An Lushan was quite unhappy, he spent so much energy to hunt and kill nearly a thousand black bears, and he actually fell behind Li An, which made him very faceless.
"Your Majesty, composing poetry is not my general's specialty, if it is better than archery, it can reflect our strength."
An Lushan opened his mouth to suggest.
His archery skills are good, and he knows that Shi Siming's archery skills are rare opponents, if they are compared to archery, they will definitely win, at least, he is confident that he will not let Li Ang win the first place again.
"Your Majesty, there may be danger in archery in the main hall, just throw the pot, so that we, the civil officials, can also participate."
Li Longji nodded and said: "Okay, then Bibi pitched the pot, a few days ago, the envoy from the Western Regions sent two bottles of aged wine, and I took out one of them as a reward for the winner, come on, go and get it." ā
Every word the emperor said was a holy decree that must be followed, and soon, the quiver was ready, a row of six copper kettles was placed in the original dancing venue, and a bottle of well-packaged aged wine was also placed on the table in front of Li Longji.
The civil and military officials were more interested in throwing pots, and the emperor took out a reward, for a while, almost all the officials participated, even Li Linfu couldn't help but compete, of course, the level of these civil servants is very limited, and the distance of three steps can not be all shot.
Three steps and ten arrows, all put into the pot are not many, only more than 20 people.
Since more than 20 people all hit, the next step was naturally to increase the difficulty, and the copper kettle was moved six steps away.
The distance of six steps is very far, one step in the Tang Dynasty is about one meter five five, six steps is the distance of nine meters three, so far away even the mouth of the copper kettle can not be seen clearly, if you want to throw it, it is obviously not easy.
Sure enough, after this round, there were only a few people who could accurately hit all ten arrows. However, An Lushan, Shi Siming and Li An are still there.
Next, the copper kettle was moved nine steps away, that is, a distance of nearly fourteen meters, and the spout of the pot looked smaller, and the difficulty of throwing the arrow was greatly increased.
At this time, everyone, including Li Longji, was nervously watching the game in front of them, and many ministers were secretly betting.
With the throwing of arrows one by one, the gap soon widened, An Lushan and several generals made mistakes one after another, only Li An and Shi Siming did not make mistakes, and all of them hit the quiver steadily.
However, things are developing in the direction of Ang Lee, and the willingness is very simple, that is, when he was composing the poem just now, Shi Siming drank a big bowl of wine, at this time, the strength of the wine has begun to attack slowly, just look at Shi Siming's shaking hands, and Ang Lee doesn't drink much, so naturally there is no such drunken state.
Of course, Shi Siming's ability to fight with himself for so long in a half-drunk state is already very remarkable, at least, Ang Lee admires him very much.
The last two arrows, Ang Lee threw in succession, all of them were ready to be thrown into the quiver, and Shi Siming still had two arrows that he didn't throw, and even if he hit, he could only have a tie with Ang Lee at most.
The continuous rise in the strength of the wine made Shi Siming's forehead beads of sweat, and his hands were shaking slightly, he could clearly feel that Ang Lee's level was very high, but his state was very bad, so it would be difficult for him to win.
Once a person's psychology is tense, it is more difficult to play the normal level, when Shi Siming threw the ninth arrow, he rubbed it on the edge of the quiver and fell into the quiver with difficulty, which further aggravated the tension in his heart.
"There is only one last arrow left, and if General Shi misses, General Li will win."
"Yes! General Shi's one just now was almost off, this last arrow is really mysterious! ā
All the ministers looked at Shi Siming nervously, and An Lushan cheered Shi Siming in his heart, Li An had already received Li Longji's reward just now, and if Li An won again this time, he would be even more depressed.
"Shi Siming, you can't embarrass the Lu Army for me! Be sure to hit the shot. ā
An Lushan whispered pressure on Shi Siming.
Of course, An Lushan's eagerness to win is not wrong, but at this time, the more pressure he exerts, the more nervous Shi Siming will become, so that his mind will be even more dizzy.
"Bang dang."
Sure enough, because he was too nervous, Shi Siming's tenth arrow fell outside the quiver, and he lost. (To be continued.) )