Li Zhi, don't be a coward

Chapter 153

In the Tang Dynasty, the teacher-student relationship was comparable to that between father and son.

This is the rule that everyone in the world abides by. "The king of heaven and earth, relatives and teachers", the status of "parents" and "teachers" are the same.

After Concubine Xiao Shu died in the palace fight, Li Sujie had been in constant panic for the past few years. He was worried that Empress Wu, who was the winner, would attack him at any time. After all, the cruelty of the palace fight, he knew better than anyone else that cutting grass and roots would be in line with the victor's mind .

Empress Wu hadn't attacked him in the past few years, or because she had just been canonized as queen, Empress Wu couldn't find a suitable opportunity to attack him. After all, her position as empress was established amidst controversy. In the past few years, it is really inappropriate to give people a handle.

So Li Sujie hung a knife on his head, a knife that could fall down at any time. The length of his life depended on when Empress Wu's time came.

Until, he accidentally worshiped Li Qinzai as his teacher and became Li Qinzai's disciple.

The gold content of the words "disciple under the sect" is much stronger than the teacher-student relationship a thousand years later.

This is truly comparable to a father-son relationship.

Li Sujie suddenly found that he finally had a backer, and it was the backer his father found for him.

With Mr. Li Qinzai, Empress Wu would not attack him easily, and Li Qinzai, a teacher, would not allow others to attack his disciples for no reason.

This is also the rule.

In the eyes of the world, teachers and students are father and son. Empress Wu finally felt fearful. From then on, if she wanted to mobilize students, she must first consider the teacher's reaction.

And Li Qinzai's true nature is too deep and unfathomable, and he doesn't know how high he will go in the future.

A feud with Li Qinzai for the son of an enemy?

As an excellent political figure, Empress Wu would not do such a loss-making business.

This is also the reason why Empress Wu suddenly said those words to Li Sujie. One is to comfort Li Sujie's heart, and the other is to spread the goodwill of the current empress to Li Qinzai's ears and form a good relationship with him.

As for Li Zhi, he played chess earlier.

With so many princes, Li Sujie and Li Xian were the only ones who were assigned to be Li Qinzai's students. This was Li Zhi's move.

He couldn't openly protect the poor prince in the palace, so he found a powerful teacher as his backer.

Arranging the emperor's seventh son, Li Xian, to go there was also a move. Simply put, Li Xian was the first son, and at the same time, Prince Li Hong's backup.

If one day the abolition of the heir apparent happens, Li Xian, as a disciple of a famous teacher and talented person, will not be too abrupt if he replaces Li Hong as the prince of the Tang Dynasty.

As for why the prince Li Hong was not arranged to learn from Li Qinzai, because what the prince wanted to learn was not arithmetic, but the emperor's art of governing the world to check and balance the court.

People in the palace will never speak and do things too simply, they all have their own calculations.

Arranging Li Sujie and Li Xian to become Li Qinzai's disciples was not a random decision by Li Zhi, but there was deliberation behind it.

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Ganjingzhuang.

The servants at home began to pack Li Qinzai's luggage. In two days, Wu Shaolang would leave Zhuangzi and return to Chang'an.

Just like thousands of years later, New Year's Day is also a day for family reunion. If they are not far apart, of course it is best to reunite.

However, other members of the Li family who are officials abroad may find it difficult to return to Beijing this year.Thousands of miles away, the time cost of going back and forth is too high, even half a year on the road, the court will not agree.

The servants were packing their luggage, and Li Qinzai was grading the test papers in the study, sighing while grading.

The invigilator had a good time, marking the crematorium.

Everyone's test papers were terrible, these little bastards studied for two months, and learned to be lonely.

Li Qinzai summed it up. Their overall real level is probably just that they have just recognized and learned to use Arabic numerals, and they can recite nine nine songs.

There are not many double-digit addition questions that can be answered correctly, let alone double-digit subtraction and multiplication. Li Qinzai spent a lot of time teaching them the multiplication vertical cross operation method, and they didn't learn it at all.

Except for Qiao'er's answer sheet which was basically correct, only Li Sujie's score was slightly better.

After more than a dozen test papers, Li Qinzai endured his anger and read them through, as if he had spent half his life working hard.

Throwing away the pen in his hand, Li Qinzai sobbed up to the sky, and then rushed out the door without saying a word.

"Si, Si!" Li Qinzai shouted standing outside the door.

Liu Ahsi appeared in response.

"Give me your knife." Li Qinzai stretched out his hand.

Without saying a word, Liu Ah Si drew out the saber and held it to him with both hands.

Li Qinzai held the knife in one hand, looked up to the sky and lamented, the light of the knife turned and wiped his neck.

Liu Ada turned pale in shock, grabbed the handle of the knife with his hands, and said in horror, "Fifth Shaolang, why is this so!"

After being stopped, Li Qinzai's expression was very calm, and he returned the knife very happily, saying: "Don't worry, I won't die, I just put on a show to express that I don't want to live anymore."

Liu Ahsi was still in a state of shock. What this young gentleman was thinking was really an antelope hanging horns, which made people unpredictable. He really didn't know what shocking thing he would do next moment.

Li Qinzai grinned at him: "I'm fine, and I'm not crazy. Now that I've figured it out, why should I kill myself? Those bastards should draw their swords and kill themselves."

After clapping his hands, Li Qinzai said with a smile, "Oh, on second thought, I'm clear!"

Speaking of which, Li Qinzai said: "I have more than a dozen letters here, and I will send them to the houses of the rich and powerful in Chang'an City, and their patriarchs must receive them face to face, and convey my words to the patriarchs by the way..."

"The child's grades in school are a mess. Obviously he is not serious enough. Please be strict with the heads of the families."

After waving his hand, Li Qinzai said, "Go."

Liu Ah Si looked at the envelope, and said in a low voice, "Five Shaolang, there are still two letters sent to the palace, I'm afraid it will not be easy to hand them over to the Patriarch."

"What's wrong with the people in the palace? When they come to study with me, their elders treat them equally as parents. Give the letter to the guards at the palace gate, and say that it's the memorial presented by me, Li Qinzai. Your Majesty, please read it yourself."

Just as he was speaking, Guanshi Song ran over staggering in panic.

"Wu Shaolang, the emperor has arrived in person, and he is already outside the gate of our other courtyard!"

Li Qinzai was taken aback, and blurted out, "The one who celebrates Chinese New Year, why is he here again?"

Song Guanshi was startled and said: "Fifth Shaolang, be careful with your words! Don't cause trouble with your tongue!"

Li Qinzai smiled, picked out two envelopes from more than a dozen envelopes, and said, "Just to save trouble, I'll hand them to him face to face."

The gate of the other courtyard was opened, and the stewards and servants of the mansion knelt down on the ground.

Li Qinzai greeted him out the door, and saw Li Zhi wearing a black robe and a fox fur cloak on his shoulders, standing in the snow looking at him with a smile.

There were only a dozen or so followers around Li Zhi, but no one would naively think that there were really only a dozen or so followers when the emperor went out in micro-clothes, maybe there were a few old sixths lying on the roof of Li's other courtyard at this moment.

Li Qinzai hurriedly walked down the stone steps, bowed and saluted: "I pay homage to His Majesty the Son of Heaven. If there is a long way to go, Your Majesty forgives me."

Li Zhi smiled heartily: "Jing Chu, don't talk nonsense, go to the front hall and start a stove, I'm so cold!"

Speaking of which, Li Zhi raised his legs and entered the door, looking familiar and eager, like a benefactor who had been abstinent for a long time and finally re-entered the brothel.

After entering the front hall and sitting down, the servants held up the copper stove and placed it in front of Li Zhi.

Li Zhi opened his hands and approached the copper stove, sighed contentedly: "I ran a hundred miles in the cold weather, it was really hard work..."

Li Qinzai wanted to roll his eyes.

Did I invite you here?

Since Li Zhi came in person, of course Li Qinzai would not be polite, so he cut to the chase and handed two envelopes to Li Zhi.

"Your Majesty, the minister neglected his duty and failed to teach the two princes well." Li Qinzai said with a face of shame.

Li Zhi was startled: "What is this?"

"The results of the two princes' final exams are really...unsatisfactory." Li Qinzai shook his head and sighed.

Li Zhi opened the envelope, quickly read the report card, pointed to the words on it and asked curiously: "Jingchu, one of them says 29, and the other says 45, what do you mean?"

"It's grades. The full score is 29 points, and the passing score is 45. One of the two princes is [-] and the other is [-]. The passing marks are far apart." Li Qinzai sighed.

Li Zhi was stunned for a long time, and his face gradually became difficult to look.

"These two sons...he, what have they learned in Zhuangzi these two months?"

Li Qinzai comforted him softly: "Your Majesty calm down, they still have merits..."

"What advantages?"

"For example, they are good at attacking with fire, and they are very skilled in setting fire. They burned all the wheat stalks of farmers for the winter."

Li Zhi was stunned for a long time, and then flew into a rage: "How dare you harm the farmer, Nizi! They will turn the world upside down!"

Li Qinzai fanned the flames with a sinister face: "Your Majesty, if jade is not polished, it is useless..."

(End of this chapter)