Chapter 28: The Contest (2)

"Then Xue Li is better to obey his orders than to be respectful, and offend His Royal Highness King Wu." Xue Rengui smiled confidently.

Learn the art of literature and martial arts, and the goods are with the emperor's family.

Xue Rengui knew very well that his future fate was closely linked to Li Ke, the king of Wu. Emperor Taishang proposed the competition, and Li Ke, the king of Wu, gladly agreed, not only to satisfy Princess Changle's interest, but also to try his true skills. He understands that the world is cold and that no one chooses to help others without a reason.

If there is, then it is bad and transparent, or good whitish.

"Then Ke'er, you and Xue Li will go to a certain residence together, change into military uniforms, and go to the school field to compete together." Li Yuan said with a smile.

The two of them are now wearing regular clothes, wide-sleeved robes, which are a little inconvenient for archery.

"Ke'er thanked Grandpa Huang." Li Ke smiled slightly, and naturally walked over to talk to the Emperor Taishang, and Xue Rengui was also led by Mingyan to get the bamboo pavilion to change clothes.

When he walked to the corner of the corridor of the Bamboo Pavilion, the Emperor Taishang let the accompanying palace people stay away for dozens of steps, and also asked Li Lizhen to leave first, and went to find the picture screen and asked her to watch it together.

In the end, only Li Ke and Emperor Taishang were left.

"Ke'er, tomorrow is the great ceremony of the Turkic sacrifice of prisoners. A few days ago, your father had already persuaded him, otherwise Ma Zhou, who was known as the 'Eight Bucket Talent' in the capital, would not be your long history, and it would be impossible for you to go to Longmen County, Jiangzhou to find Xue Li's helper. Li Yuan paced a few steps and said slowly.

The corners of Li Ke's mouth were slightly hooked, he smiled knowingly, and said respectfully to the Emperor: "Ke'er, thank you for the emperor's great help, but the emperor's grandfather has orders, Ke ...... I will swear to death and obey. ”

"Swearing?" Li Yuan glanced at the young eagle in front of him in surprise, although he was still a young man, but after returning to Chang'an, there was less innocence and more falsehood.

And he also understands more in his heart.

He smiled slightly, looked at Li Ke's eyes and was silent for a while, before he spoke: "Xue Li and Ma Zhou, you follow the instructions of a certain person, and all of them are recovered, one is the teacher, and the other chooses to be considered brothers." Although you are doing well, you are too impatient, but this is a common problem of young people, and you cannot be blamed.

Tomorrow's festival is the only time you have the opportunity to lead your troops out, and when the time comes, you will make a proposal to release the kings to guard the frontier. ”

"Exile kings? That means that he will not be able to take the throne from now on, and the emperor's grandfather means to use this as a condition to let Ke'er go out of Beijing to guard the border pass, and finally ......" Li Ke frowned, very unwilling in his heart.

Letting out the kings sounds like a good thing for the prince, but in fact it is a bee sting hidden under the honey, delicious but ...... Stinging.

When the prince went out to become a vassal, the political signal released was from then on....... Insulated from the throne.

Of course, Wu Wang Li Ke was unwilling.

Historically, during the Zhenguan period, the courtiers repeatedly proposed to ask the prince to go out to the domain, but Li Shimin felt sorry for his son, today is not a cold, then it is a stomachache, anyway, he is reluctant to go out of Chang'an City. If you stay in Chang'an City, you will have a hope of getting on the throne, and if you go out, there will really be no more.

"No!" Li Yuan smiled deeply, he leaned on the carved red railing, folded a white moon flower casually, and said lightly: "Tomorrow, not only can you not mention the slightest thought of wanting to go out to Chang'an, but you will cry, you will cry thrillingly, and you will never give up if you don't stay by your father's side." ”

"This ...... Why? Li Ke's face froze, and he took the snow-white moon season handed over by the Emperor Taishang, and his heart was suddenly numb.

"Wait until tomorrow and you'll understand. This person, if you want to do something, it's useless to rush to the death, and sometimes you need to take a step back......

And sometimes, the more you retreat...... Some people will push you forward. Li Yuan said.

"Is this a court game?" Li Ke frowned.

"No, it's art!" Li Yuan got up, patted the dust on his buttocks, he took the hand of Li Ke, the king of Wu, walked to the corner of the corridor, beckoned the palace people over, and said with a smile: "Ke'er, if you want to become this eagle soaring in the sky, it is not enough to have hard wings, but also to have a ravine in the belly of the eagle!" ”

"Ke'er...... I see. Li Ke seemed to be thoughtful and said in a low voice.

Speaking of which, the Emperor Taishang changed the topic again, talking about what Li Ke did when he went to Longmen County in Jiangzhou for most of the month, and how he got acquainted with Xue Rengui. The Emperor Taishang had only roughly learned about the two of them at the entrance of the medical school before, but he had never known what was happening.

After the Emperor Taishang left, Li Ke glanced at the palace in the northwest direction with self-deprecation, and already had an answer in his heart. He looked at the back of the Emperor Taishang and bowed deeply: "Grandpa Huang only knows that the young man is young and does not measure his own strength, but he doesn't know that the young man has his own arrogance, and this arrogance is that Brother Xue spits on Xiaoli, and is not affected by the beauty of the clothes, and still insists on intersecting cloth and clothes......

This arrogance is that Lone is unwilling to submit to others, and Lone is the most noble blood in the world. ”

He touched his angular face and smiled lightly: "Grandpa Huang, what the hell are you...... Still old. ”

The Emperor Taishang is old, and he was a sharpshooter who could be selected in the screen back then, but as the years passed, the bow had not been picked up for many years.

A snow-white moon flower withered out of thin air, crushed into mud and returned to the earth......

.......

The sun hangs high.

The hot sun hung in the cloudless sky, and the air was dry and did not seem to contain any moisture.

However, the audience who stopped at the medical school did not feel uncomfortable at all, but looked at the two heroic young men riding horses in the middle of the school field with high interest.

"Change the grass target, the distance of 100 steps is too short, you can't tell the winner from the loser, and you need 200 steps alone!" Li Ke tightened the reins, grabbed the horse and ran backwards a few times, shouting with a Zhemu bow in his left hand.

Xun Zi said: No accumulation of steps, no thousands of miles.

A step is half a step, and one step is about 1.3 meters. Two hundred steps is a distance of about two hundred meters, which is no longer the effective range of the bow and arrow, and can only rely on experience to shoot the bull's-eye.

Normally, a qualified military shooter requires 70 steps to hit the bull's-eye, while the requirements for generals are even more demanding, and 100 steps cannot show their bravery.

A hundred steps through the sun is the greatest praise for the shooter.

"King Wu is still too anxious, can he be compared with that Xue Li, a dignified highness?"

In the high stands, the painting screen shook his head and said with a smile.

The Bamboo Pavilion is just a separate courtyard of the Emperor Taishang, and they have lived here for a short time, if they are in a few days, they will return to Cuihua Mountain, after all, the Emperor Taishang is not a teacher in the first place.

As he was talking, Hui Ri took a group of Japanese people to bow to the Emperor Taishang cautiously, and said: "Teacher, Hui Ri heard that there are people here who are trying martial arts, so he came to take a look, but he didn't expect to meet the teacher." ”

But before he finished speaking, he walked past the foreign minister of Tubo, as well as the envoys of Tuyuhun and other countries, and they each stepped forward to salute the emperor.

Hui Ri quietly walked to the side of the Emperor Taishang and said in a low voice: "Teacher, I heard that tomorrow my Datang will hold a grand ceremony for the sacrifice of Turkic prisoners, and these people of different races in Honglu Temple will not be able to sit still, thinking that Datang's move is to deter the frontier.

They want to make evil secretly, our country has always been loyal to the Tang Dynasty, and will never be in the same league with them. ”