My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 61 Symphony of Destiny

Li Si has had ups and downs this year.As for the second half of the year, it was quite depressing.

In spring, he dressed in fine clothes and worked as a secretary in the palace, arranging documents for the king; in summer, he suddenly got important, and was summoned by the king one after another.At that time, the ministers were really polite to him when they saw him.

The chirping of cicadas and frogs in the trees applauded him for taking another step forward in his life.

But within a very short period of time, he was ignored by the king again.

When winter came, he was like the withered vegetation in the palace, he could only silently wait for the arrival of spring.

Although he became a doctor and was also responsible for helping the prince preside over the task of streamlining and unifying the text, he lost Ying Zheng's trust.

Li Si quickly found the reason in the difference in the king's attitude towards him before and after.

Because he was recommended by Lord Changping.

And everyone recommended by Lord Changping must obey Lord Changping's orders.

He is a courtier of the king in name, but in essence he is a vassal of Lord Changping.At least in the King's opinion, that's how it happened.

As a result, he gained the king's favor overnight, and then became a wall between the king and Lord Changping overnight.

Now the king still asks him to deal with the streamlining and sorting of these texts, which is not a good thing.

I have been in and out of the palace for a long time, and I have been fascinated by it.Li Si understood the king's intentions more and more.

His Majesty deliberately entrusted this nationally-focused event to himself.The king wanted to use himself to see if Mr. Changping had any intention of getting close to the prince.

As time passed, Li Si had a feeling.No matter where he goes, he is a rat living in the cracks.

Today the sky is dark, the goose feathers are snowing, and the humidity is heavy.That feeling came again.

He hopes to live upright and without scruples, instead of being cautious all the time.

Li Sihou was outside Yuyang Palace, just about to meet the young prince as usual, but he didn't expect to hear such words.

Li Si only felt that today's day was extremely cold.

When Li Si entered the palace, he saw that Fusu was already sitting on the throne.

The prince lost weight and became more agile.Just now, the prince seemed to be roaring and stamping his feet in the middle of the hall. Now he sat upright on the throne, and looking at the prince's expression, nothing happened just now.

"Doctor, what's the important thing here today?"

Fu Su asked angrily.

Xin has become accustomed to the way Fusu treats his courtiers after becoming the prince.Although the prince is free and easy by nature and loves freedom, it is not as brilliant as his other advantage.

Will pretend.

When Li Si came in, the atmosphere in the hall immediately returned to seriousness.

"Back to the Crown Prince. The characters that the Crown Prince gave me before have been completely collated. However, there are still some characters that are out of place. For example, this 'Ye', why did the Crown Prince write '口' '十'."

When Fu Su heard this, he suddenly remembered.

He didn't pay attention when he was writing and forgot that during the development and change of Chinese characters, many common characters were changed because the emperor avoided taboos.

"Ye" refers to "leaf", originally "shi", which refers to the period of life.

Ye and Shi originally have the same meaning, and their pronunciation is the same.

But later, because Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, had the character "世" in his name, many of the characters for "世" were changed to avoid taboos.Therefore, the word "世" was removed from the leaves of the leaves, and slowly evolved directly into "口", "十" and "叶".Even Guanyin Bodhisattva removed the world and wrote it as Guanyin Bodhisattva.

Not only in terms of form, it was changed to "Ye"; even in terms of pronunciation, Ye also has a new pronunciation.

'Ye' was originally pronounced as '世', but in order to avoid taboos in pronunciation, the pronunciation of '叶' was changed.

"Doctor Si is right. There is indeed a problem with this character, so just write it according to the original character 'Ye'."

Li Si nodded.Then Xu Xu said, "There is another word. Why did the prince directly write the word 'Heng' as 'Chang'."

Heng wrote Chang, which is naturally to avoid the Hanwen Emperor Liu Heng.

Li Si pointed out the overly modern characters they found to Fusu one by one.

"On behalf of all the students, please ask the prince. Which form of these characters is better."

The biggest feature of ancient Chinese language and writing is the combination of sound, form and meaning.

Every part of the ancient Chinese character structure represents a syllable.That's why ancient writing is difficult to understand, because it is a combination of phonetic notation, visual writing, and exegetical writing.

Hearing this, Fusu became a little annoyed.

Li Si comes to him every time for these problems.

In the eyes of these ancients, Fusu's modern characters not only cannot be pronounced according to the font, but also cannot be seen from the shape to express the meaning.Blindly putting modern simplified characters into ancient characters is to create uncommon characters for the people and create inconvenience for them.

"The characters are simplified for the people of the country, so they are naturally easy to use by the people of the country. It is decided to use the font that is the most common and widely circulated by everyone today."

Fusu's answer was still the same as usual, with a lot of impatience in his tone.

But even though Li Si knew that Fusu put the overall situation first and judged by everyone's habits, he dared not stop asking the prince.

If one day, the prince suddenly finds that a word he wrote has been deleted without his personal consent.

If the prince suddenly gets angry one day, those of them who are revising things will be in trouble.Li Si is now followed by the lives of hundreds of scholars.

"only."

"How is the prince?" Li Si couldn't see the prince all the time, he only came to see him if he had a problem.After seeing it, naturally I have to say hello.

"good very good."

"Then Wei Chen retire."

"The text simplification and all the affairs are all in charge of you. I know that you all have worked hard. Especially the doctor. Today I specially reward you, and I will also give a hundred dollars to each of the scholars in the academy who are in charge of the text proofreading."

When Li Si heard this, he naturally thanked him.

"Si dare not say credit, it's all a matter of the minister's duty."

Fusu looked at Liu Chang, who came over with a plate of 'golden pancake' and handed it to Li Si.

Although the top is covered with red gauze, the golden light is faintly floating underneath.

This is real gold.

The value is naturally high.

Fusu has always regarded Li Si as a time bomb and has never let down his guard against him.To this day, Fusu is still observing Li Si.

If you can use it, keep it longer, if you can't use it, find a chance to advance.

Avoid long nights of dreams.

Li Si received the reward, which was somewhat of a comfort in the cold weather.Of course he went home happily.

But when he was leaving, he saw Han Fei walking on the snow in Yuyang Palace.

The two looked at each other from a distance in the ice and snow.

Li Si was wearing the robes of the Qin State and the official crown specially set up by the Qin State Hall, and he looked completely different from the dusty scholar who had come to study from the Chu State.

As for Han Fei, he was wearing the clothes of a Qin minister, with white lips and deep eyes.Qin's black coat matched his appearance very well. Wearing it on Han Fei made Han Fei look more serious and noble.

Han Fei's beard looked like it hadn't been taken care of for several days, it was very messy, and his whole temperament was also very vicissitudes, as if he had experienced a cruel death.It's no different from those dead soldiers and knights who are desperate.

The snow from the roof slid off and hit the ground, smashing it to pieces.

(End of this chapter)