"Hoo ......"

Li Shimin, Kong Yingda, Fang Xuanling, Chu Suiliang, and Cui Xianwen, who was kneeling on the ground, all breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing that the things were not only there, but also printed out in advance, Li Shimin, as an emperor, how could he not see through Zong Xiu's careful thoughts, and said in a deep voice: "Zong Aiqing!" ”

"The minister is here!"

"Cui Xianwen has already explained everything about your pen and ink, and now that he has come to the palace to confess his guilt, how to deal with me will be handed over to you."

When Cui Xianwen heard that he was going to hand himself over to Zong Xiu to deal with, he hurriedly said, "Your Majesty...... Since Zong Xiu has already backed up, the minister, the minister ......"

Li Shimin's eyes widened: "Even if he prepares a thousand points, ten thousand points, are you innocent?" ”

"The minister is guilty, admit punishment!"

Cui Xianwen shrugged his head decadently, his face like ashes.

"Humph!"

Li Shimin snorted coldly.

"Zong Aiqing, Cui Xianwen has handed it over to you, and it is up to you how to deal with it."

Li Shimin pointed to Cui Xianwen, who was still kneeling on the ground, and said coldly.

As an old pedant, Kong Yingda now hates Cui Xianwen and grits his teeth with hatred: "Since Your Majesty has handed it over to you to dispose of, even if you kill him." ”

Cui Xianwen saw that Kong Yingda instigated Zong Xiu to kill him, he panicked directly, looked at Zong Xiu with a pleading face, and pleaded tremblingly: "Master Zong, I was wrong before, and I asked you to have a lot, so spare me this time." ”

Before Zong Xiu could speak, Kong Yingda had already shouted: "Spare you?" How to spare you! You secretly changed your pen and ink, and you did such a pickled thing, and now you dare to beg for mercy, and you are a scholar in vain! What about your integrity? Where is your integrity? ”

"Hehe, don't worry about Kong sacrificial wine, isn't it nothing."

Zong Xiu said as he walked up to Cui Xianwen and stretched out his hand to help the frightened Cui Xianwen Dao.

"It's just a trivial matter, Cui Gongzi took the initiative to confess his guilt, doesn't it mean that he has remorse. The ancients said: Knowing mistakes can improve the great. Cui Gongzi has admitted his mistakes, we must give him a chance to mend his ways. ”

Li Shimin, who was sitting on the dragon chair, had a strange look in his eyes, the reason why he handed over Cui Xianwen to Zong Xiu was actually a tentative mentality, wanting to see what kind of heart Zong Xiu was.

But what is the situation now? Obviously, he gave him all the power to dispose of Cui Xianwen, so it doesn't matter if Zong Xiu doesn't beat or scold, and he still helps Cui Xianwen speak, is he crazy?

"Cui Gongzi, how long have you been kneeling? Hey, you're really, you don't come to me first if something happens. ”

Zong Xiu shook his head and sighed.

Cui Xianwen trembled slightly, half of him was frightened, and the other half was kneeling for too long.

He knelt in the Hall of Virtue for three hours, and it was good to be able to stand up.

"Zong...... Master Zong, it turned out that it was wrong, please forgive me for the offense. If you can let go of the next today, from now on in the next place, you will definitely be the only one who looks ahead, and you dare not complain. ”

"Haha, it's not a joke. Cui Gongzi, this official has never been a person who holds grudges. ”

Zong Xiu smiled, revealing weirdness.

"Tsk, Cui Gongzi, maybe you don't know what I wrote, right? Come, come, come here, I'll write to you myself. ”

Zong Xiu helped Cui Xianwen to the side of the flower stand, on which was still hung white paper with disappeared handwriting.

"Bring a pen."

Zong Xiu shouted, and the little eunuch who was waiting beside him hurriedly brought pen and ink.

Zong Xiu picked up the pen and splashed ink and wrote three strange letters.

"Cui Gongzi, do you recognize you?"

Cui Xianwen shook his head.

"It's okay, I'll teach you. Come, read with me: Brother Wooen. ”

"Goun."

"Well, yes, this is the spelling, let's read it together: Brother Wu En!"

"Go, go."

As soon as Cui Xianwen finished reading, he reacted instantly, and looked at Zong Xiu with anger in his eyes.

Zong Xiu was not stunned, and laughed wildly: "Just get out!" Cui Gongzi, now you can get out. ”

"Zong Xiu!"

"What, do you have to kill you?"

Zong Xiu looked at Cui Xianwen provocatively, and the latter came back to his senses: Yes, although he was humiliated, it was better than death.

Cui Xianwen pretended to be grateful, casually thanked him, and walked out tremblingly.

When Li Shimin saw Cui Xianwen leaving, he couldn't help but sigh: "Zong Aiqing, why didn't you kill him?" ”

"Yes, you humiliated him so much, you might as well kill him directly. Aren't you exacerbating the contradictions? If you don't die if you fight a snake, there will be endless troubles, and when he recovers, he won't want to seek revenge on you? ”

Kong Yingda said worriedly.

Zong Xiu smiled and didn't explain, of course he had his own plans.

What he wants is to intensify the contradictions, and the bigger the better.

If he wanted to kill Cui Xianwen, just now with a word, Jin Wuwei outside would rush in and cut off Cui Xianwen's head.

Because Lao Li gave him the power to dispose of Cui Xianwen.

But so what?

It was he who wanted Cui Xianwen to die, and the news leaked out sooner or later, and the Boling Cui clan would definitely take revenge on him.

As the saying goes, open guns are easy to dodge and dark arrows are difficult to prevent, not to mention that he is fledgling, even if he is really a great minister, even if he is in the position of Lao Li, he can't stop the assassination of a thousand-year-old family all day and night.

But the intensification of contradictions is different.

The more he offends Cui Xianwen, the more Cui Xianwen will find ways to oppose him.

In the eyes of outsiders, he is innocent.

Wait until the hatred is infinitely magnified, and then use that knife, Cui Xianwen will definitely die in a mess, who will believe that he did this?

After all, he once had the opportunity to kill Cui Xianwen openly, but he didn't do anything, who dares to doubt that Cui Xianwen's death has something to do with him?

"Hey, you're still too soft-hearted."

Kong Yingda sighed, and looked at Zong Xiu's eyes even hotter. The more I look at it, the more I feel that Zong Xiu is not only a talent, but also a kind-hearted talent, so that this talent should be an example for the literati of the Tang Dynasty.

Zong Xiu arched his hand and said: "Thank you for the praise of Kong Sacrifice Wine, but this official doesn't want the blood of thieves to stain this hall." A Cui Xianwen, the official asked himself if he was sitting upright, why was he afraid of him. ”

The more he said this, the more Kong Yingda felt that Zong Xiu was being modest and a gentleman who was as gentle as jade.

Li Shimin knocked on the dragon case and said, "Okay, since you don't want Cui Xianwen to die, then it's up to you." Zong Aiqing, you can bring the backup of the text pinyin. ”

"Brought, it's in the hands of Gong Chen."

Chai Shao hurriedly held the dictionary in both hands and sent it to the dragon case: "Your Majesty, please see, this is the dictionary written by Zong Xiu, which not only has 'detailed description of the character pinyin', but also 'radical search theory', and also annotates the words and words of the world, which is wonderful." ”

"Really?"

Li Shimin hurriedly opened the dictionary.

When Kong Yingda, Fang Xuanling, and Chu Suiliang heard this, they didn't care about the etiquette of the monarch and the minister, and walked over excitedly, and the four of them looked over.

At first glance, it's truly remarkable.

When everyone had seen it, Chai Shao released another explosive news.

"Your Majesty, Zong Xiu went to the minister's mansion earlier to discuss with the minister, and the two of us decided to jointly print five million dictionaries and distribute them to the people of the Tang Dynasty for free, and strive to achieve one copy per household, so that the people of Datang can read and write."

"Shhh...... The two of you jointly give it out for free? ”

Chu Suiliang and Fang Xuanling were shocked: Not to mention a dictionary containing pinyin, even if a newspaper distributes five million copies for free, the cost is astronomical.

Li Shimin's eyes narrowed slightly, as if he was thinking about something.

Kong Yingda shouted hysterically: "Okay, since then, why worry that everyone in my Tang Dynasty can't be literate." Your Majesty, Zong Xiu's move is very good, and he deserves the title of 'Tianxia Sect'. ”

"Tianxia Sect? What does it mean? ”

Zong Xiu was confused.

Kong Yingda walked over excitedly, holding Zong Xiu's arm, tears in her eyes.

"The old man devoted his whole life to promoting culture and education, but he did not make a big move. As soon as your 'text pinyin' came out, it was comparable to the word saint, and now it will be distributed to every household in the Tang Dynasty for free. ”

Saying that, Kong Yingda really wanted to kneel down and thank you.

Obediently, at this age, how dare Zong Xiu let him kneel, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to support him: "I can't help it, I can't help it, Kong sacrifice wine, aren't you old people who are breaking my life?" ”

"How can you not do it? Not only did you create the 'Character Pinyin Method', but now as soon as the dictionary comes out, even the previous doubts of the old decay have been solved, and you have to distribute it to the people of the Tang Dynasty for free. ”

"I can't worship, I can't worship it. Kong sacrifice wine, I just want to do something for the people of our Tang Dynasty, I really don't deserve to worship you. ”

Zong Xiu said beautifully, and pulled and pulled with Kong Yingdala, one was not allowed to kneel, and the other had to worship.

While he was pulling, Li Shimin suddenly asked, "Zong Aiqing, do you really plan to distribute this dictionary for free?" ”

Zong Xiu took the opportunity to pull up Kong Yingda and responded: "Your Majesty, this is the result of the discussion between the minister and the Duke of Chen, and this time we plan to make a loss-making deal." As long as everyone in my Datang can read and write, a little money is nothing. ”

"You have that much money?" Li Shimin sighed: "Five million copies is not a small number. ”

Zong Xiu grinned: "The minister's belongings must not be able to afford to lose, so I asked the prince to join forces." He used more than 3,000 shops in Kannai Road to take 5 million dictionaries from his ministers, and then transported them to the ten provinces of the world by the Chai family's firm, so that although both of them suffered losses, they were still within the range they could bear. ”

Chai Shao echoed: "Your Majesty, this is all Zong Xiu's idea, and the minister is just selling a favor to push the boat along the water." ”

Li Shimin looked at the thick dictionary and said nothing.

He understood. Five million printed dictionaries were brushed out, and the paper, ink, and labor were all money, even if Chai Shao gave 3,000 shops as compensation, Zong Xiu would also lose money.

Moreover, all the dictionaries had to be shipped to all parts of the country, and the Chai family not only lost 3,000 shops, but also lost the cost of carriage and horses, and labor.

These two people are really bold enough.

Although Li Shimin knew that Zong Xiu and Chai Shao's move was also to sell him well, and by the way, to gain some people's hearts and facilitate business in the future, the actions of the two of them were indeed beneficial to the Tang Dynasty culture and education.

And this kind of thing should have been done by him, the emperor, but at the moment the treasury is not rich, and he has to prepare for the attack on Tuyuhun next year, and the treasury cannot be moved.

Now that the two of them are interested in investing, Li Shimin is also enjoying the success, and he still has to say beautiful words: "Zong Aiqing, do you have a name in this dictionary?" You can't keep calling it a 'dictionary', or how about giving it a name? ”