Chapter Sixty-Four: Fruit Like Me
(It's not well written, bear with me...) If you don't like it, apologize here, it's really tiring to write a novel! )
Early the next morning, Li Zhan's mother Yue Niang got up early, there was no way, there were suddenly more than 100 people in the house, Yue Niang had to get up early to cook, fortunately, there were more people, there were more people, and she was not particularly tired.
However, the morning in the Li family's courtyard began to become noisy, and there was no longer the feeling of tranquility in the past.
In addition, because there are more than 100 people, the people who work in the ice rink feel uneasy, worried that these people will share their share, just last night, someone has already come to Li Dafu and Zhang Damao.
Li Zhan knew that his salt farm had to hurry up, otherwise, it would cause panic, and you must know that panic was not what Li Zhan wanted.
The Li Zhan family has already risen here, and in Chang'an City, there is one that started earlier than the Li Zhan family, that is, the royal family.
Before dawn, Li Shimin, Li Chengqian, Li Tai, Li Ke... They already got up early, and with them were hundreds of civil and military officials, because the time to go to court every day was up.
The people of the Tang Dynasty did not bow down to the court... The so-called ritual of three kneeling and nine knocking appeared very late, and it is said that it was not recorded until the Qing Dynasty.
I feel that this is a very insulting etiquette made by the Qing Dynasty people in order to raise their own value and then enslave the Han people.
In the Tang Dynasty, there was basically no bowing between people, and one of the reasons was that even in the capital and palace in the Tang Dynasty, there were very few hardened roads, and most of the outdoor roads were loess facing the sky, and they were covered in soil on sunny days and mud on rainy days. In this case, if two acquaintances meet on the street and ask both parties to kneel and kowtow to say hello, it is really a destruction of clothes!
Therefore, from the perspective of actual needs, there are not many cases where scholars are required to kneel and worship outdoors.
If you are in a hurry to run errands and don't want to delay too much time, then you will be greeted by a fist and a hello on the horse. However, this is the easiest and most contemptuous courtesy, and if the other person is a very calculating person, then it is likely that he will be dissatisfied with you and think that you look down on him.
A well-educated and polite scholar, even in the face of juniors, should stop the horse, at least make a gesture to dismount (the other party will generally come up to support you at this time and not let you down), and then be polite and really get off the horse, stand and arch your hand with the other party, or hold his hand more affectionately, say a few kind words, and then get on the horse and walk away, which is a more secure etiquette.
Be a little more respectful, for example, if you meet an elder, then you must not only get off the horse quickly, but also "take a long time". Stand with your hands raised above your head and clasp your buttocks deeply, your hands as close to the ground as possible, bend your waist at least 90 degrees, look down at the ground, and then stand up straight when you hear the other person speak. "Changyi" is much heavier than "throwing hands and holding fists".
If you are indoors, you kneel and listen to your superiors, then it is easy to do, kneel on the ground, press your buttocks on your calves and "sit upright", put your hands on your thighs, and straighten your waist, this is a very standard and polite daily posture. If you are angry and scolding you, or if you want to express your trembling humility, then arch forward, put your hands on the ground, bend down and bow your head into a kneeling position, and then kowtow again to apologize.
There are also kneeling in the court of the Tang Dynasty, but it is once a year, or because of the New Year, and the Tang Dynasty didn't have to kneel to reply last time, and the Tang Dynasty had a place for you to sit last time.
However, for the sake of politeness, you have to get up and stand back to the emperor's words.
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"Your Majesty...,"
Eldest Sun Wuji stood up from his seat and bowed down and said, "This year, there is a big drought in my Guanzhong area... It was the summer planting of wheat, and many prefectures and counties had already put on the urgent list to ask the imperial court for help. ”
After Li Shimin listened, he frowned slightly and said: "Fellow ministers, the drought is coming again, I don't know what is right or wrong for all ministers." ”
"Father... The son has a plan...! ”
After Li Shimin finished speaking, Li Ke and Li Tai spoke out together, and then scrambled to stand up, and the discerning person saw that these two guys came out and sold them in front of Li Shimin.
In the past, Li Chengqian was compared to these two people very badly, not because Li Chengqian was stupid, but because the staff of the two were too powerful.
Needless to say, Li Shimin allowed Li Tai to set up a literature museum in the mansion and let him recruit bachelors on his own, and his staff could be said to have gone to the sea.
Let's talk about another Li Ke, although he doesn't have a literature museum, he has the allegiance of one person, and this person is Cen Wenwen.
At this time, Cen Wenwen was Li Shimin's Chinese scholar, who was in charge of confidential documents. Such a person with a glorious future should not defect to any prince, because it is the best choice not to defect to Mingzhe to protect himself.
But Cen Wenwen is different, he not only defected to Li Ke, but also was loyal to Li Ke, many people will be surprised, why this Cen Wenwen is so loyal to Li Ke.
Then let's talk about Li Ke, Li Ke was a loser in history, and was unjustly killed by the eldest grandson Wuji in the end.
In fact, it is because Li Ke is also very favored by Li Shimin, in June of the third year of Wude, at the age of two, as the emperor's grandson, he was named the king of Changsha County; In the eighth year of Wude, he was renamed the king of Hanzhong County.
In the first year of Zhenguan, as a prince, he was promoted from the king of Hanzhong County (from Yipin) to the king of Han.
In the second year of Zhenguan, only ten years old, he was renamed the king of Shu, and was awarded the important position of the governor of Yizhou, and supervised the military of the eight states of Yimian Jianjialing Yamei Mengqianqiong (now Chengdu, Sichuan), and all of them were combined with the governors of Wei, Nanning, and Huidu Governor's Mansion a total of 36 states. On the grounds of young age, he did not go to work.
In the fifth year of Zhenguan, he visited the military of the four states of Qin Chengwei and Wu, and the history of Qinzhou (now Tianshui, Gansu), but did not go; In the seventh year of Zhenguan, he was awarded the military of Qi Ziqing, Ju Laimi, and the military of Qizhou (now Jinan, Shandong), and went to office for one year; In the eighth year of Zhenguan, he worshiped the governor of Yizhou and set a precedent for the prince to lead the governor from afar.
Li Shimin's evaluation of Li Ke is: "Wu Wang Ke is like me." ”
This is a very high evaluation, an emperor is his own son like himself, that is a terrible evaluation, and there is another person who gave Li Ke an evaluation, that is: "Li Ke is a hero, Li is a corrupt thing, and he knows his son Mo Ruo's father." Listening to the words of the eldest grandson Wuji, he can be described as a smart man and ignorant for a while. ”
This person is a great man, a person recognized by a great man, that is absolutely reasonable, so it is very likely that Cen Wenwen saw what was inside Li Ke, so he was so loyal to Cen Wenwen.
Another reason is that Cen Wenwen is likely to be subjugated by Li Ke's noble bloodline.
Li Ke's paternal line: great-great-grandfather is the founding of the Western Wei Dynasty, one of the eight pillars of the Taiwei, Tang Guogong Li Hu, great-grandfather is the Northern Zhou Dynasty Imperial Shi Dafu, Anzhou Governor, Zhu Guo General, Tang Guogong Li Xun, his grandfather is the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, and his father is a generation of holy lord Tang Taizong Emperor Li Shimin.
Matrilineal: maternal great-great-grandfather is Li Yangzhong, the Duke of Suiguo, who was the founding meritorious of the Western Wei Dynasty and one of the twelve great generals, and his maternal great-grandfather is Yang Jian, the founding emperor of the Sui Dynasty, and his maternal grandfather is Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty;
His great-grandmother and maternal great-grandmother are the daughters of Dugu Xin, one of the Eight Great Pillars of the Western Wei Dynasty, the Great Sima, the Duke of Weiguo, and the Emperor of the Three Dynasties, the fourth daughter of Dugu Xin, and the seventh daughter of Dugu Xin, the seventh daughter of Dugu Xin, the queen of Sui Dynasty literature;
Therefore, Li Ke and his brother Li Su are the bloodlines of the three wealthy families of Yang Sui, Li Tang and Dugu, and they are the imperial families of two great unified dynasties and close blood and deep roots, which is rare in Chinese history.
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