All nations come to court, in fact, there are quite a lot of right and wrong.

A certain country in the Western Regions sent a Hu monk to the Tang Dynasty to worship, this Hu monk thought that he was good at playing the pipa, very conceited, and wanted to break his wrist with the artists of the Tang Dynasty, a big country in the Celestial Empire, to try the technique, to say that this Hu monk does have superiority, not only good at playing the pipa, but also good at composing, and the pipa he plays is much thicker than the general pipa strings.

Hearing that Hu Seng of the Western Regions was going to challenge the artists of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin's competitiveness was stimulated, isn't his grandmother's a small border country? To dare to have such an unjust thought, this is not to take my heavenly kingdom in his eyes.

What a shrewd person Li Shimin is, not only shrewd but also very cunning, he readily promises challenges, and at the same time resolutely refrains from fighting unprepared battles; this is a major matter related to the diplomatic affairs of the two countries, and he will not be defeated if he wins.

Li Shimin thought about it again and again, and ordered the Tang Dynasty to select artists who were good at playing the pipa, and an artist named Luo Heihei stood out, Li Shimin at that time after the opportunity to teach, in the state guesthouse with the highest treatment banquet Hu Seng, and then let Luo Hei Hei hide in the tent hall, Hu Seng to the wine party although the reception was warm, but there was no music and wine as an excuse to provoke the Tang Dynasty, and then arrogantly and rudely played the ancient Western song, originally thought that no one in the Tang Dynasty knew this song, let alone play this song.

But after coming down again, Luo Heihei, who was hiding behind the tent, already knew it.

Lao Li saw the tent move slightly, and knew that Luo Heihei had mastered the playing technique. So he smiled and said to Hu Seng very disdainfully, is this song also a natural sound? I can play any one of them here.

Then ordered someone to take a thicker and larger pipa than the strings of the instrument played by Hu Seng, so that Luo Heihei played on the spot, Luo Heihei stroked the strings, the rhythm sounded, and the pipa music played, it turned out to be exactly the same as Hu Seng, Hu Seng was shocked, thinking that Luo Heihei was really an ordinary palace person in the palace, thinking that the Tang Dynasty was really a hidden dragon and crouching tiger, and a palace man could play such an esoteric ancient song, so I was better than a bird?

This Hu monk returned to the country with great awe of the Celestial Empire, and after its rendering, the unfathomable cultural soft power of the Tang Dynasty was blown to the sky.

And also in this year there is a monk also began his first eastward crossing, who is this monk, is Jianzhen, but what should be explained here is that Jianzhen's eastward crossing of the Wa Kingdom is a violation of the Tang Dynasty's ban on private behavior, the country does not dispatch a large ship to cross the sea for him to cross the east, so he had no choice but to use a small boat, before and after a total of 5 failures, Jianzhen himself also due to a long journey, summer heat infection, blindness. The sixth time was that he was able to arrive at the Japanese because he took the big ship of the Tang envoy of the Japanese State.

No matter what history says, Jianzhen's behavior of crossing to the east is undoubtedly illegal and very stupid, although it was the Tang Dynasty at that time, but I believe that there are definitely many more people in the land of China who want Jianzhen's help than Wukou, and he abandoned his compatriots to run to feed an animal with his own blood regardless of the laws of the state, which is undoubtedly a very stupid act, whether from the Tang Dynasty or from the present, Jianzhen's behavior directly or indirectly led to the suffering of the Chinese people hundreds of years later, (although his original intentions were good).

It wasn't until November that the envoys from all countries returned one by one, and this time Gao Changguo did not come, which really made Li Shimin angry.

In the court, Li Shimin also scolded a lot to control his temper, which also left a foreshadowing for the future attack on Gaochang.

However, when those foreign countries left this time, they left with depression, because this time Datang did not give back much gold and silver, and the feedback was books, poems and songs, Taoist scriptures, Buddhist scriptures and tea scriptures.

What's more, if you show a hint of disgust, you will immediately be besieged and have no thoughts, because books are priceless, so if you don't want books, you want gold and silver, that is vulgar.

If an envoy returns home with a tacky attitude, it is not to be squeezed to death.

So although I didn't want these books very much, I had to ask for them, and when I went back, the bitter faces of those envoys were really funny.

In this way, the early winter road came, the snowflakes fell down, and in the Lizheng Palace, coal and honeycomb coal were burned, and a big iron pipe led to the outside of the Lizheng Palace, and water was boiling on the stove, and the eldest grandson queen snuggled up to the bed by the stove and felt warm.

Outside the Lizheng Palace, one big and one small, a man and a woman, two little guys were playing in the snow, just playing and playing, and the girl suddenly sighed.

The boy immediately crouched down and asked the girl what was wrong?

The girl frowned and said that she wanted to go out of the palace to find the eldest brother, and the boy asked in surprise: "Isn't the eldest brother in the East Palace, if you want to find the eldest brother, you should go to the East Palace, why do you want to go out of the palace." ”

The girl looked around and found that she was following the palace maid in the distance, so she cautiously said to the boy: "Brother Slave only tells you this secret, in fact, the eldest brother is not our eldest brother, we have other eldest brothers!" ”

The girl's words surprised the boy and immediately asked, "Then who is our eldest brother?" ”

The girl blurted out: "Li Zhan! ”

"Li Zhan is our eldest brother?" The boy looked incredulous.

The boy here is seven-year-old Li Zhi, and the girl is five-year-old Li Mingda, sometimes, children are the most unable to keep secrets, because they don't know what secrets are, and when there is something as important as a child, secrets will come out casually.

It's just that this time Li Zhi's secret preservation really expired quickly, because just after Li Mingda finished speaking, Li Zhi showed strong disbelief, obviously the eldest brother is Li Chengqian, how can it be Li Zhan.

On the other side, Li Mingda also strongly stated that what he said was true, because the son is not a deceitful child, so the two argued.

With this dispute, Li Zhi and Li Mingda were ready to ask their queen mother, why Li Zhan was their eldest brother, and this question would be clear as long as they asked their mother.

"Let's go find the queen mother!"

The snowflakes were still drifting outside, and Li Zhi and Li Mingda walked into the Lizheng Hall hand in hand.

At the same time, outside the East Palace!

A large number of literati gathered here, and today is the last day of the East Palace Prince Li Chengqian's recruitment and accompaniment, and a large number of high-ranking officials and nobles brought their sons and nephews over.

It can be said that there are very few scholars from the poor family.

Seriously, at this time, Datang is really inseparable from these families, and if you want to get out of the woods, it is still a long, long road, at least this is something that Li Zhan needs to work hard for a lifetime.

That's what it is, and it's not exaggerated at all.

Because the imperial examination was already held when the Tang Dynasty was Zhenguan, but if you look at it, until the time of Wu Zetian, the number of officials in the Tang Dynasty was basically controlled by the big families.

If you want to quickly end the family, there is still a certain degree of difficulty, but there is no need to worry too much, because Li Zhan will soon come up with a killer feature, with Li Zhan's killer feature, Li Zhan believes that it will make the rise of the Hanmen partially.