The New Year of Chang'an is approaching, and the New Year of Datang is naturally very lively, and Li Zhan, who has spent a year in Datang, is used to such a lively.

During this time, Li Zhan has been taking care of the children at home, and instantly became a child slave.

Empress Changsun also lived in the Li family for a period of time, taking her little princess with her, and the family was really happy, but Li Zhan was happy, but Li Chengqian and Li Ke suffered a lot during this time.

Li Chengqian's Banking Regulatory Commission wants him to make up his mind for almost everything, although Li Chengqian has a group of Li Shimin's old ministers around him, and now these old ministers are not as picky about Li Chengqian's eggs as before.

Sometimes, it is clear that these old ministers have a good solution to a problem, but in order to train Li Chengqian, these old ministers just don't say anything, and expect Li Chengqian to solve it by himself.

You say how pitiful Li Chengqian is, but fortunately, Li Chengqian is not stupid, this time he brought his younger brothers with him, except for himself, Li Shen, Li Yun, and Li Zhen, all of whom became Li Chengqian's little think tank.

These princes collectively advanced and retreated together, and Li Shimin was really happy.

In addition to Li Chengqian, Li Ke was the most hard-working during this time, Li Ke took Li You and Li Su to spend half a month to help Li Zhan recruit 10,000 tiger soldiers.

followed by the 1,000 more army recruited by Li Zhan to train.

You must know that it is not so easy to train, which of these people does not have a prominent family background behind them, even if Li Kegui is the prince, he can't let the other party do anything, so it is very difficult to train these people.

Li You and Li Su were also angry, but unfortunately, these gentlemen were trained worse and worse, and Li Ke's tolerance was regarded as fear, which also made these gentlemen even more unscrupulous.

Li Ke, Li You, and Li Su have big heads.

"Oh, where is my little grandson!"

Qin Wangfu? The eldest grandson Wuji with a loving smile? As soon as he got out of the carriage, he shouted where is his little grandson? For Li Zhan's children? The eldest grandson Wuji also loves it in his bones.

Li Ping, Li An? As soon as Li Yuxi was born, the eldest grandson Wuji gave each of the three a manor? This favor is unique.

"Uncle!" Li Zhan smiled and helped forward, "The children are making a fuss? It just so happened that my uncle and grandfather were here, and I could help take care of it. ”

"Haha, then Uncle and Grandpa are here at a very good time!" The eldest grandson Wuji laughed happily.

followed Li Zhan and helped the eldest grandson Wuji into the Qin Palace, and soon, the two met Li Ping in a room? Ang lee? Li Yuxi, the three of them at this time are already full moon.

It's still small, but it's already up to it.

Seeing his three little grandchildren, the eldest grandson Wuji immediately hugged Li Ping in his arms, which is different from Li Zhan's rarest Li Yuxi? The eldest grandson Wuji still likes boys a little more.

Li Zhan's eldest son Li Ping is the eldest grandson Wuji's favorite, Li Zhan can't use himself to ask others? As long as the other person really likes it, that's fine.

Holding Li Ping in his arms? The eldest grandson Wuji teased and said to Li Zhan beside him, "How about it, I heard that you have already figured out how to deal with the ambassadors who came to marry this time?" About half a month? These people are coming? There is no problem. ”

"Someone in the court today said that this time there is a matter of courtship?" Li Zhan smiled.

"You too, you know that you are avoiding suspicion and not going to the court, but your father is still there, what is there to avoid suspicion, and your father is old, and your younger brother is still young, at this time, it is the time for you to go to the court to settle the situation.

Hiding at home every day, in that case, if something happens to the court, you are very passive. ”

After Li Zhan came back from Wadao, he didn't go to the court again, and he said that there was a problem with his identity, in fact, to put it bluntly, you just don't know that the Tang Dynasty really wants to play dead.

The Tang Dynasty had a "night ban", after sunset, the square gates, city gates, and palace gates were to be closed, and at about three o'clock in the morning (equivalent to three or four o'clock in the morning now), the drums on the main gate of the palace were used as a signal to open the gates.

No matter how early the officials get up, they can't get out of the square gate (residential gate) until the time, so everyone will pinch the time, get up at about five o'clock to freshen up, get dressed and prepare to go out to the court.

If you are late, you will be scolded and fined, and you will be sentenced to prison.

Before five o'clock on the fifth day of the last day, the hundred officials must arrive at the Wangxian and Jianfu Gates in the south of the Daming Palace, and stand in shifts.

At that time, it was not yet dawn, and everyone stood like a fire dragon in the night fog with lanterns and torches.

If there is wind, frost, rain and snow, there is no way in the early stage, the middle and low-level officials are stiff, only the prime minister is well paid, and he is allowed to take shelter from the wind and rain in the "Taifu Temple Chefang" outside the palace gate.

In the Tang Dynasty, the retreat was called "Fang Zhan", which means "to remove the guard of honor". After the battle, the emperor still had to discuss politics with the prime ministers, and retreated from the place of the front hall to the back of the slightly smaller and more comfortable and private hall to work.

In addition to the prime minister, other officials can first eat a working meal under the corridor of the court, which is called "eating under the corridor".

Under normal circumstances, officials at all levels of the central government of the Tang Dynasty only work for half a day, and of course, every afternoon and evening, there must be people in each yamen office who take turns to work.

How to say it, Li Zhan's biggest hobby is to sleep lazy, he really can't get up, and more importantly, he has no interest in the affairs of the court, so Li Zhan used an excuse to avoid suspicion.

After being told by the eldest grandson Wuji, Li Zhan grinned and said, "Uncle, you really don't know, I don't even have to sleep now, I really can't get up in the morning, and my father is in the prime of the Spring and Autumn Period, I really don't need to go to the court."

But if it wasn't every day in the future, I could still make a cameo, I really can't stand it every day.

By the way, what other ideas do you have in the court about courtship? ”

Knowing that he couldn't persuade his nephew to go to court, the eldest grandson Wuji had no choice but to reply: "That's the case, didn't you say that you were going to ask for a question to test those people who came to the school to ask for relatives, but some people are worried about your topic, and you haven't taken out the question until now."

The Ministry of Rites is very unstable, and they want you to get the title quickly.

They will check the difficulty of the question, and if someone answers it, you say whether it is a knot or not. ”

"Haha!" Li Zhan laughed and said, "Yes-->>."

I forgot, I would send the question in the afternoon, and my uncle reassured the people in the Ministry of Rites that no one would answer it. ”

"So confident?" Eldest Sun Wuji asked with a smile.

"Hmm!" Li Zhan laughed noncommittally.

In the afternoon, Li Yi sent the topic proposed by Li Zhan to the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Rites also gathered many people to see Li Zhan's topics at this time, some of whom were talented people, and wanted to see what Li Zhan's topics were and how difficult they were.

It's just that if you don't look at it, you don't know, and you're all dumbfounded when you see it, Li Zhan's topic is too tricky.

The first question: Silk satin wears nine pearls

The second question is to identify the mother-child relationship between 100 horses and 100 foals, and to identify the mother-child relationship between 100 chicks and 100 hens.

The third question stipulates that 100 marriage messengers should drink 100 jars of wine and eat 100 sheep in one day, and knead the sheepskins.

The fourth question was given to the envoys a hundred pieces of pine wood, so that the envoys could distinguish between its roots and its tips.

Question 5: Don't get lost when you go in and out of the palace at night

One of the first questions is that the silk satin wears nine pearls is actually a string of beads, but the problem is that the silk satin is too soft, and the hole of the pearl is too small, you want to make the silk satin harder, it is impossible at all, no matter how to string, everyone present has tried, and it is completely impossible to string.

And it can't even pass through one, Li Zhan still wants these envoys to pass through nine, which is really too difficult.

This is followed by the second question, identifying the mother-child relationship between a hundred horses and a hundred foals, and the mother-child relationship between a hundred chicks and a hundred hens.

This is another difficult topic, the horse is the same, the foal is the same, and it is not a person, you can distinguish the relationship between mother and child according to the physiognomy, they are all exactly the same, and some are even about the same height, such a problem is simply unsolvable.

At this time, the people in the Ministry of Rites were finally relieved, Li Zhan's questions were simply unreasonable, and he didn't need to read the next few questions, wait for those marriage proposal messengers to come over, throw these questions out, and ensure that those marriage proposal messengers were dumbfounded.

Soon, these topics were handed to Li Shimin by the Ministry of Rites.

After reading these questions, Li Shimin laughed out loud, and followed Li Shimin to invite the eldest grandson Wuji, Fang Xuanling and others to the Ganlu Palace, and then showed the five questions Li Zhan to his henchmen.

After reading it, the eldest grandson Wuji was the first to laugh out loud and said, "Oh my God, His Royal Highness King Qin is really too bad, what is the problem here, this is simply an unsolvable topic." ”

"Indeed!" Fang Xuanling touched his beard and said with a smile, "These topics are very tricky, at least the minister sees that now, a topic should not be completed." ”

After Fang Xuanling finished speaking with a smile, Wei Zheng on the side suddenly said, "No, Your Majesty, if these topics cannot be completed, those envoys who ask for marriage are angry, let us finish it and show them, what should we do?" ”

Wei Zheng's words made everyone present a little surprised.

Even Li Shimin nodded slightly, that's right, Li Zhan's questions are too difficult, it looks like there is no solution, if those marriage proposal messengers can't do it, let Datang do it.

If Li Zhan can't do it, then Datang will do it on purpose.

In this way, those envoys will think like this in their hearts, if you don't want to marry a princess, just say it, do these things that you can't even do yourself, humiliate others, it's really chilling.

Thinking of this, Li Shimin hurriedly issued an order to let Li Zhan enter the palace, he wanted to ask Li Zhan if there were any answers to these questions, if there were no answers, these questions would not be available.

After the order was given, in less than half an hour, Li Zhan hurried to the Ganlu Palace, and when Li Zhan entered the Ganlu Palace, he saw that today's people are really quite aligned.

Li Zhan came to Li Shimin, bowed down and said with a smile: "Father, why is the emperor in such a hurry to find me?" ”

Seeing Li Zhan, Li Shimin smiled and said, "It's not that I want to come to you, but these questions you came up with are too incredible, and we have been thinking about it here for a long time, but we don't have a way to solve it."

So Wei Aiqing, I questioned it, I don't know these questions, even you don't have an answer, if that's the case, then it's a little bad, because Zhan'er, you also know that if we don't have the answer ourselves, but let the other party do it, it's more or less a bit of a deception. ”

"Hah, that's it!" Li Zhan laughed, then looked at Li Shimin and said, "Father, don't worry, these questions have answers." ”

"Got an answer?" Wei Zheng got up and said, "Then can Your Highness tell us this, it also makes us have a bottom in our hearts, of course, it's not that I don't believe Your Highness, it's mainly that Your Highness's questions are too difficult." ”

Li Zhan laughed: "Okay, then I'll show you the first topic first." ”

The first topic is that the silk satin wears nine pearls very quickly, Li Shimin asked people to bring the silk satin and the nine pearls, at this time, when everyone was about to find Li Zhan to solve the problem, Li Zhan ran to the grass outside the Ganlu Hall to pull something.

In this way, everyone quietly waited for about a cup of tea, and Li Zhan ran back this time, and when he came back, Li Zhan was still holding a small ant in his hand.

Then Li Zhan asked, "Is there silk thread and honey?" ”

The chamberlain brought silk thread and honey, and then saw Li Zhan tie one end of the silk thread to the ant's waist, and the other end sewn on the silk satin. Smear honey on the end of the pearl eyelet and put the ants on the other side, and at this time, a wonderful scene appears.

After the ant was put down, it was immediately attracted by the fragrance of honey, and when the ant climbed next to the pearl eyelet, Li Zhan blew lightly and blew the ant directly into the pearl's eyelet, and then the ant slowly crawled out from the other side with a silk thread along the curved hole.

And so it goes, and the silk satin passes through the nine pearls with the silk thread.

After the success, everyone present applauded from the bottom of their hearts.

"My God, it's really amazing, if this makes us think, I may never think of it in my life anyway." Yu Wenshi and clapped his hands with exclamation.

Wei Zheng on the side was also really impressed, and echoed again and again, "Indeed, His Highness's mind is too ingenious, I might as well wait." ”

"I think that just such a topic can impress these foreign envoys." Cheng Biting Jin shouted grinningly.

Li Shimin looked at Li Zhan with unfinished thoughts and said, "How to solve the second question of Zhan'er?" ”

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