The rise of the prince

Chapter 131
"You are not ashamed, you old man is ignorant, I will show you." Li Ye said and beckoned Yan Shen to come over: "Go to the wine cellar and get a jar of today's wine, I want it."

"Will the prince still make wine?" Gillian asked curiously.

"Of course, I am versatile." Li Ye told Yue'er Qiu'er to get a new set of cups while talking.

"Smelly!" He Qian mocked.

"Xiaoqian is here too, when did you come over?" Gillian asked with a smile.

The little girl felt guilty all of a sudden, and said falteringly: "I haven't been here for a long time, it's just that the house is boring, and my father ignores me, so...so."

"Heh, you girl, I'm not afraid that your father will scold you to death." Degong smiled to smooth things over, the little girl stuck out her tongue and stopped talking, and hurriedly sat beside A-Jiao, far away from Li Ye, quietly talking to A-Jiao say something.

After a while, Qiu'er and Yue'er brought a cup, which was an ox horn cup. This kind of cup is very common in later generations. Its diameter is only a few centimeters, and it can only hold a few mouthfuls of wine. But now there are not many, and most of the time it is only used for sacrifices.

Because wine with a low alcohol concentration will feel sour if you drink it in a small sip. The distribution of human taste buds is regular. The taste buds that feel bitterness are at the root of the tongue, while the taste buds that feel sour are distributed on both sides of the tongue, and the taste buds that feel sweet are in the middle of the tongue. , If the alcohol content is not high enough, the wine will reach both sides of the tongue as soon as you take a small sip, and the sour feeling will be very strong.

So this era does not use such a small cup for drinking, and this problem does not exist for high-alcohol wine, but it is unbearable to drink it in large gulps.

"Drinking in this kind of cup?" Degong picked up the small horn cup and looked at it with a smile: "You are looking down on the old man, and the old man was also a heavy drinker at that time." The old man is showing off his drinking capacity.

Before Yan Shen came back, De Gong seemed to be thinking of something, and looked at him with a half-smile: "I think you're going to be in trouble again recently."

"What trouble?" Li Ye felt puzzled.

"On the way here, old man, I heard people say that you copied poems. Many Goulan wine shops spread the word, and the story is told very vividly. Would you like me to tell you again?" Degong gloated and said to him.

Li Ye was taken aback. He has been busy at home these past few days, and he really didn't go out to hear any rumors: "Let's hear it."

So Degong briefly told the story about "Lu Ming, a student of Gao Fengliang Jie Guozijian angrily denounced Li Xingzhou, a bully in Kyoto" that he had heard on the road, and after he finished speaking, He Qian blushed and shouted angrily: "Nonsense! They were obviously the ones who came to make trouble that day." " I added another sentence in my heart, the ghost is that bastard's concubine!

"These people are really shameless!" Yue'er was also indignant.

"Should I come to them to make a theory? Those people are the most full of nonsense. They must have made this rumor." Gillian worriedly gave him advice.

Li Ye shook his head: "Forget it, don't worry, I have my own way. I probably thought about what would happen the day he came." He said indifferently. He did think that people like Lu Ming would make some moths come out, but he didn't expect them It is also a bit professional, knowing how to use the public to create a large-scale public opinion attack.

It's interesting, but it's a pity that at most they spread public opinion, but in terms of playing with their minds and controlling public opinion, they are not even qualified to carry Li Ye's shoes, and there are various cases of public opinion wars in later generations for reference, ranging from small companies to competition , so big that the land is lost.

"It's just a few imperial supervisors. As long as the old man opens his mouth, they don't dare to say a word, but after hearing what you say, are you going to solve it by yourself?" De Gong stroked his beard and said, this is actually for Li Ye to choose. De Gong means that He can help, and it is indeed a matter of court affairs. How could a few small Guozijian students dare not shut up.

After all, Guo Jiansheng said that they are disciples of the Son of Heaven. In fact, most of them are just people who use their fame and fame without official status.

Li Ye waved his hand: "I accept it with good intentions, but some things cannot be changed with power. They hurt me with words, and I will fight back with words. This is reasonable." What Li Ye admires most about Jing Dynasty is that it is the same as the Song Dynasty , has been emphasizing that "do not sin with words", which is very important.

Just like Confucianism, Li Ye admired Confucius from the beginning to the end. He is a truly great man, but after the Han Dynasty, all kinds of Confucianists came out. If it is established as orthodoxy by strong means, then it is dead, there will be no substantive breakthroughs, and there will be no progress without competition and debate.

He couldn't break Jing Chao's hard-won atmosphere. Degong represented tough methods. Li Ye didn't want to do this kind of thing. He had his own way to defeat them.

De Gong nodded, then shook his head and said: "Oh, every time I see this old man, I think highly of you. I really don't know how you have such vision and knowledge at such a young age. You can't say that the sinner is indeed my emperor Taizong's apostle, so The country is the most important thing for the people, but the old man sometimes forgets."

Ah Jiao stared fixedly at this side and was stunned unconsciously, only to turn around in a panic when He Qian shook her arm.

After waiting for a while, Yan Shen finally came holding the wine jar.

Degong laughed: "I'd like to see how good your so-called fine wine is, how it can compare to my plum garden wine."

When Yan Shen poured the wine into the jug and then poured it into the horn cup, De Gong let out a "hey" and stared at it with staring eyes, pointing at the clear water and said, "Is this wine?"

"You will understand if you try it first." Li Ye said with a smile.

Degong picked up the ox horn cup with only a big mouth and sniffed it, then drank it down, his eyes widened immediately, he couldn't help exhaling hot air, his old face turned red: "Good wine, very strong wine!"

Then he looked at him in disbelief: "I didn't expect you to really know how to make wine!"

"How, how does my wine compare with your plum garden wine?"

De Gong glared at him, but just snorted without answering, and ordered: "Refill the old man."

Li Ye hilariously didn't poke his old face, poured him another half a cup, and said: "This wine has a strong aftertaste, so don't drink it in a hurry."

Degong didn't answer, but this time he didn't drink it all at once, but took a sip carefully from the horn cup, and then praised: "I have traveled all over the country in my life, and I have drunk countless fine wines, but today I drink this cup of wine from you. Other than that, how did you make such a good wine."

"The principle is actually very simple. The wine we usually drink contains wine, water, and food residues. My wine just removes all those, and most of the rest is wine, which can be regarded as the essence of wine, so it is like this .” Li Ye roughly explained.

"It's unbelievable, I don't know how you thought of it." De Gong shook his head, and then asked Yan Shen to pour him another drink.

Degong and Ajiao had dinner in the palace before leaving. When they left, Li Ye also gave him the wine from the altar.

(End of this chapter)