"Don't you see that the water of the Yellow River comes from the sky and flows into the sea without returning? Haven't you seen the sad white hair in the bright mirror of the high hall? It's like the black hair in the morning and the snow in the evening."
Everyone in Chang 'an knew that the " Chang' an's number one silkpants ", Prince Jin, Li Zhi, had composed a poem at the King of Wei's Poetry Conference.
Originally, this was not surprising, but the key was that this poem was not a quatrain of the ages, so it could not be described.
However, at some point, a piece of news spread among the people. Suddenly, rumors spread everywhere. Someone released the news that Li Zhi's poem was written by someone else. It was not written by himself and could not be considered true. People often judged people by evil. In addition, Li Zhi's reputation was not related to scholars at all. For a time, not only did Li Zhi not become famous because of "Drinking General", but he also became notorious.
Prince Jin's residence, guest meeting hall.
Li Yexu, Xiao Ling, Fang Yizhi, and Li Jingye, the four core members of the Tang World Party, were anxiously looking at Li Zhi, who was sitting on the upper seat and sipping his tea calmly. They then looked at Wu Meiniang, who was embroidering flowers, or more accurately, gloves. For a moment, they looked at the two of them in confusion.
Li Jingye frowned and coughed." Party leader, rumors about you are in the limelight in Chang 'an. If this continues, your reputation will be ruined."
Fang Yizhi was even more straightforward: " Party leader, we must immediately take countermeasures. The current situation is becoming more and more disadvantageous to the party leader. If it is confirmed to be true, His Majesty will definitely not pass the throne to a person who deceives the world and gains fame."”
Li Zhi looked at everyone's anxious expressions calmly and smiled. Li Zhi naturally understood the thoughts of these brothers who had grown up with him. Not only did they have a friendship with him, but their interests were also related to their future. Li Zhi's matter was also their matter.
"Have you heard of the saying that the risk and the benefit are proportional?”Looking at everyone's puzzled gazes, Li Zhi smiled and said,""It means that the greater the risk, the greater the benefits. Now that the people of Chang 'an are more and more seriously injured, when they realize their mistakes, they will be more ashamed and sympathize with me. This king's reputation had not been prominent for ten years, but now, he could use this incident to become famous. This is also the reason why this king suddenly attended my fourth brother's poetry gathering.”
" Leader, you mean…" Xiao Ling was still confused.
As the saying goes, a husband sings along with his wife. At this moment, Wu Meiniang opened her mouth,"I'm sure everyone knows about Duke Zhuang of Zheng, the king of the State of Zheng during the Spring and Autumn Period.”Everyone nodded.
"That Zheng Zhuang Gong is extremely wise in politics, and he is the most tolerant when things happen."
'In ancient times, the so-called heroes must have extraordinary integrity.
When a common man is insulted, he draws his sword and stands up to fight. This is not brave enough.
There are great brave people in the world who are not surprised when they suddenly come to see them, and are not angry when they are added to them for no reason.
This is because the people he holds hostage are very big, and his ambition is very far-reaching.'
Without a doubt, Zhuang Gong Zheng was such a person.
When his mother, Madam Jiang, colluded with his younger brother, Ji Duan, to create trouble for him, he was able to endure it. If Ji Duan wanted to occupy a good place, he would enfeoffe her to the capital. Ji Duan wasn't greedy enough, so he repaired the city with evil intentions. He pretended to be indifferent and held back his anger.
Duke Zhuang of Zheng had brilliant political wisdom, and his second performance was his strong attacks. Duke Zhuang of Zheng's forbearance and concession on the issue of his brother's forced abdication was not simply forbearance or concession, but a kind of hiding one's strength and biding one's time. He did not immediately counterattack because he did not want to have a showdown with his opponent too early without preparation.
Therefore, while Zhuang Gong of Zheng was enduring silently, he had been making ample preparations in private in order to defeat the enemy in one move. His opponent was ignorant of this and mistook Duke Zhuang of Zheng's restraint, tolerance, and compromise for weakness, so he pressed forward step by step.
Who would have thought that their actions of forgetting themselves would coincidentally provide an opportunity for Zhuang Gong Zheng to make up his mind to launch a full-scale counterattack. It would be fine if he did not make a move, but once he made a move, it would be like a thunderbolt, destroying everything like dried weeds and rotten wood, giving his opponent a destructive blow.
This time, her husband wanted to be the Zhuang Gong of Zheng, playing hard to get.
From the initial appearance at the King of Wei's poetry gathering to the final purpose of ruthlessly humiliating the King of Wei, this was in itself a series of schemes between me and my husband. Hehe, and now the King of Wei took the initiative to spread rumors and slander my husband, which is exactly what my husband hoped for.
When more and more people started to speak ill of her husband, her husband would produce evidence to turn the situation around. At that time, just as her husband had said, the commoners and scholars would feel guilty for slandering her husband. In private, they could even tell the Emperor that the King of Wei was the mastermind of this storm. Her husband would be forced to become famous and gain great popularity. Not only would it not arouse the Emperor's suspicion, but it would also make the Emperor who had always loved her husband feel relieved.
The Crown Prince was struggling on his deathbed. The throne would either belong to the King of Wei or his husband. When His Majesty found out that the King of Wei had injured his husband for no reason, hehe, when the Crown Prince was deposed and His Majesty appointed him as the Crown Prince, coupled with the remonstrance of all the fathers and grandfathers, as well as the current storm, it would further prove that the King of Wei was narrow-minded and schemed against his brothers. I didn't believe it. I knew that if the King of Wei succeeded to the throne, my husband would be executed and his flesh would be destroyed. Would His Majesty still pass the throne to the King of Wei?
She had used this incident to make her husband, who had been silent for ten years, famous. She had also attacked and schemed against the King of Wei without making the Emperor suspicious. In the end, she had even become a reason to attack the King of Wei in the future. She had killed four birds with one stone. Why not?”Wu Meiniang forced herself to be calm when she spoke, but she could not hide the trace of pride and excitement in her words.
It seemed that this girl had a natural hobby of scheming against others.
When these words were said, the hearts of Li Zhi's childhood friends were filled with the howling of the north wind and the cold wind. These two husband and wife were really a pair, born schemers.
Inadvertently, everyone's respect for Li Zhi and Wu Meiniang increased.
Xiao Ling gulped and gave the two of them a thumbs up."Impressive, truly impressive. From the time we went to the poetry festival, we had already calculated it well. When Cui Shanyou, the eldest son of the Cui family of Qinghe, proposed to let the party leader recite poetry, his intention was to make things difficult for you, but he did not expect it to be what you wanted. If he knew about the situation, he would probably be thinking about something.”
Li Yexu listened carefully and suddenly asked,""Are you sure you can turn the situation around, Party Leader? I'm afraid of what if "
Li Zhi waved his hand to stop Li Yexu's words. He looked at everyone confidently and said,""Don't worry, this is the key. This King naturally understands. Let's not talk about it first, when the time comes, all of you will know. As the saying goes, a mountain man has his own tricks, hahaha."
Everyone was relieved. Li Zhi and Wu Meiniang looked at each other and smiled. The feeling of telepathy between the husband and wife of No.1 Middle School arose spontaneously. Their eyes were filled with splendor. It was an excitement that everything was under their control.
The lovely dividing line.
Just as Li Zhi and Wu Meiniang had expected, in order to strike down this potential competitor for the throne, Li Tai had put in a lot of effort to get people to spread rumors in the marketplace.
The news of Chang 'an became more and more popular. In the end, even Li Shimin got the news and flew into a rage in the palace. He immediately summoned Prince Jin into the palace for questioning. However, just as many people guessed that Li Zhi might be completely tragic this time, who knew that he would return unscathed.
The next day, a shocking news came to Chang 'an, even to the entire intellectual community. In order to restore his reputation, Prince Jin had compiled his manuscripts and poems for the past ten years into a book and spread them throughout the Tang Empire.
For a time, the streets of the Tang Empire were filled with servants of Prince Jin's Mansion who were distributing Prince Jin's poems. They were short of manpower, and even the cooks and coachmen were dispatched.
However, this was not the most shocking thing. The most shocking thing was that the poems recorded in this collection of poems named "The World" were all masterpieces and quatrains that had been passed down through the ages.
There were too many famous quatrains such as Drinking Alone Under the Moon, Guan Shan Yue, Climbing the Phoenix Terrace in Jinling, Song of Autumn Pu, and Going to Drink. Even the occasional elegant poems such as Nian Nujiao, Recalling the Ancient Chang 'an, Shuidiao Ge Tou, and Linjiang Xian made these scholars and poets know for the first time that poetry could be written in this way.
Whether it was 'The rolling Yangtze River flows eastward, the waves wash away all the heroes. Whether it was right or wrong, success or failure, everything was gone. The green mountains were still there, and the sunset was red. White-haired fishermen and woodsmen on the river isles, used to watching the autumn moon and spring breeze. A pot of turbid wine happy to meet, ancient and modern many things, all put in a joke.”
Whether it was 'When Will the Bright Moon Appear, Drinking Wine Asks the Blue Skies,' or 'When Will the Bright Moon Appear, When Will the Wine Appear, The Blue Skies,' they had all shocked the world, and no one doubted Li Zhi's deception. Although the styles of his poems were different, the appearance of so many famous quatrains at once was something that even a three-year-old child would not believe. In the entire Great Tang, there were probably not many people who could write each poem and each word in the 'The World', or even a single one.
At this time, Li Zhi also started his fishing machine.
In the past ten years, Li Zhi had been engaged in commerce. Relying on his status as a prince and vassal king, he had been ahead of the Tang Empire in commercial and scientific knowledge for thousands of years. Glass, clothing, chain restaurants, double-distilled spirits, silk, new tea leaves that were different from the Tang Empire, thumb rings, snuff bottles, Li Zhi had made everything that he could think of and could do in this era. Not only did it enrich the material life of the people of the Tang Empire, but it also brought Li Zhi an astounding wealth.
Among them, the liquor was sold to Persia and Rome through merchants, and 10% of the income was given to Li Zhi's father, Li Shiming. Li Shiming, who didn't care at first, was jealous when he first received the dividends. If it wasn't for his son's business, Li Shiming couldn't help but have designs on him.
It was the same for the other industries. Other than Wu Meiniang, even Li Zhi was not particularly clear about his annual income. However, Wu Meiniang's words made Li Zhi completely laugh. Li Zhi's annual income was more than 20 times the tax revenue of the entire country. Although this was related to the low taxes in the early Tang Dynasty, it also showed the horror of Li Zhi's wealth increase.
Moreover, as the Silk Road became more and more prosperous, this multiple was still widening. It could be said that the goal set by Li Zhi ten years ago had been achieved halfway.
At this moment, the shops in the Great Tang began to operate, and Li Zhi's injustice was immediately known to the world. The people's sympathy for Li Zhi was even greater than before because of the previous misunderstanding and slander. At the same time, Li Zhi's reputation in the scholarly community was raised to an extremely high level, known as the "God of Poetry". It should be known that this was an era where one could become an official by relying on poetry and songs. It was equivalent to the title of the national top scholar in the arts and sciences in the future.
The rest of the matter was similar to what Li Zhi and Wu Meiniang had planned. The news that was inadvertently revealed to Li Shiming made Li Shiming lose his temper at Li Tai. He directly made Li Tai reflect on his mistakes in the Wei King's residence. He doted on Li Zhi even more.
But before Li Zhi's name could spread throughout the Great Tang, an unexpected event interrupted his plans and attracted the attention of the entire Great Tang.
To put it simply, it was Little Li's fifth brother, King of Qi Li You, who had rebelled. This year was the 16th year of Zhenguan, which was several months earlier than the past.
The lovely dividing line.
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