Chapter 44: Concubine Xiao

"Wife, how do you calculate this question" Li Zhi scratched his scalp and asked with a frown.

During this time, because it was determined that Li Zhi had the possibility of becoming the prince, Zhang Wenyi began to train her intensively. Anyway, during this time, Li Shimin was clearly ordered to reflect at home, and there were not many twists and turns sent every day, and he was idle and idle, so it was better to cheer him up.

Anyway, we are also traversers, and if our husband is not brilliant, he will be blind to the advantage of traversing, Zhang Wenyi thought so.

Li Zhi didn't want to buy it. Originally, how comfortable it is to be easy to hug your daughter-in-law and make people, and you still have to learn? It's too much trouble! But there are many reasons that can't stand Zhang Wenyi.

"The husband is the victor without a fight, and the temple is counted as a lot; The temple is not victorious without a fight, and it is considered to be less. More wins, less wins, and nothing counts! Zhang Wenyi is carrying "The Art of War", which she is now learning and selling.

Some time ago, when I was bored, I smoked a book in the study to read, and I ended up drawing "The Art of War". Zhang Wenyi wanted to exercise her memory, so she took the book and memorized it.

Today, Li Zhi didn't want to do the question, and this "Calculation Chapter" was taken out by Zhang Wenyi to persuade Li Zhi: "You see that the ancestors have said that only if you calculate more can you be sure of victory, you won't be able to win!" ”

Li Zhi was made lose his temper by Zhang Wenyi's misinterpretation of "The Art of War", and secretly regretted reasoning with this little wife. It is said that men and wives are reasonable, since ancient times, it has been similar to Xiucai meeting soldiers, and giving up resistance is the fundamental way out.

So now Li Zhi calls his wife, but he doesn't mean anything else, he just wants to call Zhang Wenyi old to see what this woman looks like when she is old.

Zhang Wenyi, who didn't know what Li Zhi was thinking, picked up the question and looked at it, and found that he had already made it. Feeling deceived, Zhang Wenyi was terrible, but looking at Li Zhi's handsome face with a hint of a bad smile, this fire couldn't be released.

After thinking about it for a while, she finally straightened her face, and before she could speak, she was hugged by Li Zhi. After a period of intimacy, Zhang Wenyi didn't even have the strength to move her fingers.

Zhang Wenyi, who was really angry, got dressed hatefully, grabbed Li Zhi's hand and bit it hard. Li Zhideng, who was still satisfied just now, grinned with a wicked smile and shook his hands again and again.

Zhang Wenyi was about to leave angrily, but was pulled back by Li Zhi in pain. After a burst of soft words, Zhang Wenyi was still struggling to leave, and Li Zhi was a little anxious when he saw this: "Wife, it's okay not to be angry, my husband has made amends for you." ”

Zhang Wenyi helplessly pointed to the hourglass on the table and said, "I'm going to cook!" ”

After living in ancient times for so many years, Zhang Wenyi has felt that the ancients were not stupid, and IQ can crush modern people many times, and the gap between ancient and modern people is in the systematization and theorization of learning, so Zhang Wenyi focused on strengthening Li Zhi's views on problems.

For example, the opinion of Song Xianggong, Qin Shi Huang and Zhuge Liang, in ancient times, Song Xianggong and Zhuge Liang were highly evaluated, and Qin Shi Huang was very poor.

So Zhang Wenyi talked about whether Song Xianggong was a qualified monarch from Song Xianggong's refusal to cross the river halfway; Zhuge Liang himself failed to achieve the great cause of unification, and after his death, the talents of Shu withered, and the queen was mediocre, so is he still a successful prime minister? Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms, unified writing, weights and measures, established counties, built the Great Wall, and attacked the Xiongnu in the north and Shanyue in the south, laying the boundaries of China. Did these promote the Central Plains Dynasty?

Of course, Zhang Wenyi did not veto Qin Shi Huang's biggest black spot - book burning and Confucianism, she felt that there was no need to dwell on this matter, her purpose was just to need Li Zhi to know how to look at the problem from two aspects.

At the same time, Zhang Wenyi also asked what a country needs to stay afloat. Li Zhi replied that he needed civil and military officials, Confucianism, and scientific research.

Zhang Wenyi asked him: Was there no country before Confucius?

Li Zhi replied: Without the guidance of Confucianism, the Zhou Dynasty perished.

Zhang Wenyi asked Li Zhi again: The Zhou Dynasty has a history of 800 years, and the later dynasty is more than 800 years?

Through a series of questions and answers, Li Zhi gradually understood that the most basic thing in a country is the government, the army, and wealth. Confucianism, poetry, painting, and architecture are all means to promote the prosperity and strength of the country, not the first necessity.

This is Li Zhi began to be surprised by Zhang Wenyi's knowledge, and he wanted to know how Zhang Wenyi could do this.

Zhang Wenyi smiled and told him: I am the daughter of a businessman, one can't recite poetry, and the other can't write. In addition to being able to preside over a little bit of feeding, it is sewing clothes and cooking, these are all problems that I usually think about and can't figure out.

Li Zhi was skeptical about this, so he wrote a commentary on the merits and demerits of the ancients, and wrote Zhang Wenyi's questions into it. And talked about his own views.

He believed that Song Xianggong, Qin Shi Huang, and Zhuge Liang should all recognize their merits and mistakes, and also see their strengths and defects. The literati's Spring and Autumn penmanship is not worth advocating, and at the same time, they questioned the practice of the imperial examination only by using the Ming classics to select scholars.

After this article was taken out, he was scolded by his son Li Shimin, and was punished and grounded for another three months.

Li Zhi, who thought he would be praised, returned to his dormitory dejectedly, and Zhang Wenyi felt strange when he learned what happened: It's obviously a good thing.

When the young couple was entangled, Li Shimin climbed the lookout platform to look at Zhaoling and prayed secretly: "Guanyin, I have found an heir for Datang." At a young age, the concept of governing the country has surpassed me, and if time passes, it will be a generation of famous kings through the ages. ”

That night, Li Shimin put a large stack of folds, and at the same time sent an edict: Since you have so much time to think about it, then do a little more practical things, and you are not allowed to sleep if you can't finish these folds tonight.

Looking at the tall stack of folds, Zhang Wenyi, who felt that she couldn't get away, put away her little temper and became extraordinarily attentive. Fan Li Zhi and burn supper.

It's just that there are too many twists and turns, and Zhang Wenyi rolled up her sleeves and helped watch from the sidelines. She cut the paper into slips of paper and wrote her views on the issues on the slips.

Li Zhi praised her greatly when he saw it, Zhang Wenyi smiled bitterly and agreed, can she say that this is the basis for making cheat sheets in the previous life exam?

The two husbands and wives stayed up for most of the night, and finally worked together to finish the recital. They rubbed each other's sour shoulders and hurried back to the room to wash and rest.

What the couple didn't expect was that since then, the two have entered a mode of mutual cooperation and review of the chapters, and Li Shimin continued to add and finally handed over ninety percent of the pieces to Li Zhi for review, and he was idle for several months.

I have to say that Zhang Wenyi has no talent for politics, and the pieces she reviewed can only be said to be pertinent, and there are few amazing works, which also makes Li Zhi's heart feel better.

However, Zhang Wenyi is a spy, and collecting and analyzing intelligence is his specialty. The cooperation model of the two husbands and wives gradually changed from Zhang Wenyi searching for information on the chapter, and Li Zhi made judgments. In this way, not only is the progress much faster, but the quality of the review is also improving.

This made Li Shimin dispel the last bit of scruples, he used to worry that Li Zhi would not be able to do Li Chengqian's proficiency in handling state affairs, but now he can see that he can not only do it, but also surpass Li Chengqian's existing ability.

Li Zhi's wedding date is coming soon. In the past few days, he wanted to marry the daughter of the Xiao family, and the emperor specially arranged another bedroom for Li Zhi. Li Zhi was going to move in for a few days temporarily, and Mama Yang knew that Zhang Wenyi was in a bad mood, so she volunteered to take someone to arrange it there.

Zhang Wenyi had nothing to do in the palace, so she took out the note she wrote when reviewing the chapter and re-analyzed it. After her analysis, she found an interesting phenomenon, although the officials in the north and south either complained about their grievances, giving people the feeling of bitterness and hatred; Either it's the kind that sings praises and praises virtue, and the kind of sycophants that are shameless.

There is still a difference between the north and the south of the grievance category, and the southern grievance never involves grain production, they mainly lack population. Most of the North talks about production cuts, but never about population.

However, in the recent imperial examinations, less than 60 percent of the scholars in the north have been obtained, and although the number of scholars in the south is only more than 40 percent, according to the number of registered people, the north is more than twice that of the south.

At the same time, the top three are all included by northerners, but the top ten southerners account for six.

This shows that the per capita economic aggregate of the south exceeds that of the north, and because of the affluence, more people can enter the school, and the proportion and quality of scholars in the south of the population have surpassed that of the north.

Although the south is far behind the north in terms of officials and scholars, they will become a force to be reckoned with in the Tang Dynasty.

When Zhang Wenyi was concentrating on collecting and analyzing intelligence, Li Zhi and Concubine Xiao got married, and Concubine Xiao's beauty shocked the audience. At the same time, most of the people are not without jealousy: King Jin is not shallow.

Li Zhi was also very proud of this, and after getting Li Shimin's permission, Concubine Xiao did not serve tea to King Jin's main room the next day as usual.

This move aroused Li Zhi's strong dissatisfaction, and he immediately wrote to Li Shimin, saying: The emperor's move is extremely inappropriate, and the rules are to be followed. If your father breaks the rules at will, then how can you expect your courtiers to follow them?

Princess Jin is not from a high background, but she is also dignified and virtuous, and she has not made a mistake after being the princess of Jin for so long. However, the father allowed the concubine not to perform the ceremony of offering tea to the main room, even if it was not allowed by the people. I implore my father to retract his order.

After receiving Li Zhi's letter, Li Shimin was deeply grateful. The reason why he promised the Xiao family not to give tea to Princess Jin was actually to test Li Zhi's ability to deal with things.

Li Zhi's book is well-organized, concise and concise, showing that he has made great progress during this period of time and is fully qualified to become a qualified prince.

Concubine Xiao held her beauty and tried to escape this hurdle in front of Li Zhi. Li Zhi just said to her calmly: "You can go and give tea to the princess." ”

Concubine Xiao had no choice but to come to serve tea, and Concubine Xiao glanced at Zhang Wenyi with an unconvinced face. When the concubine serves tea to the main room, she must bow her head to show respect, and it is very rude to look up at each other without the permission of the other party.