I open a history tutorial class in Daming

Chapter 133: Li Tang and Zhu Ming Alliance
Just as Zhu Yuanzhang expected, Zhu Di during the Yongle period did not notice that there was such a loophole in the system.

What they saw through the system was that after Zhu Di returned, he immediately made Zhu Gaochi the crown prince, and then began to discuss national policies in full swing.

It can be said that they are indeed a family, and the first thing Zhu Di did was also related to the vassal system.

But after all, Jianwen had already reduced the power of the princes, and the descendants of the original princes were either dead or deposed. Due to four years of war, some of them even had no idea where their descendants had gone. Zhu Di did not force it, but simply found all the descendants of the princes he could find, and conferred titles of prince, general, etc. on them according to the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children.

Zhu Yuanzhang was quite satisfied with his actions.

Although Song Shen did not say much about the emperors of the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and only mentioned that they were all weird, it is actually possible to guess that, except for Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, it would be basically impossible for later emperors to make drastic changes.

Of these father and son, one was the founding emperor and had absolute say over state policy and could do whatever he wanted during his reign; the other came to power through a rebellion in the Jingnan Campaign. By that time, Zhu Yuanzhang had almost cleared out all the troublemakers among the founding heroes, and the stubborn ones had long since died with Jianwen. It was also a time when the turmoil had just settled, so it was best to reform.

Apart from the two of them, even if some powerful figure became emperor later, it would be difficult for him to have such good conditions to change national policies.

Zhu Di acted so quickly. Apart from anything else, his sensible and sensible character won Zhu Yuanzhang's heart.

"Look, the fourth brother over there is so focused on the reform that he has no time to think about this."

After watching the hectic scene over at Zhu Di's place, Zhu Yuanzhang turned to Zhu Biao and spread his hands:
"Let's take care of the exam first. It won't be too late to talk about it during the next class. It's only two days. What's the rush?"

Hearing this, Zhu Biao could only sigh helplessly.

That's true, he was just a little too anxious.

After all, Lu's incident happened in the East Palace. She might not only kill his wife and eldest son, but also implicate his mother. As a son, a husband, and a father, how could he not be anxious?
If he had some guilt and doubts about Zhu Yunwen's stillbirth before, now it was a foregone conclusion that Lu had secretly contacted her mother's family and that the Lu family was raising a smallpox patient. No matter how much he didn't want to believe it, he had to believe it.

Just when they were about to give up contacting Zhu Di.

Suddenly, a familiar voice came to the ears of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao.

"Hey, how come you two also discovered this loophole?"

"I thought only Old Cheng had the time to take advantage of loopholes, but I didn't expect that you, the Zhu family, also have the time to do so."

The father and son looked at each other and saw shock in each other's eyes.

This voice is clearly Li Shimin's!
He discovered it too!
Zhu Biao frowned and answered first:

"We want to contact Zhu Di during the Yongle reign. Li Shimin, why did you use this?"

The "this" he mentioned naturally refers to the loophole of exchanging test answers with each other.

Li Shimin's laughter sounded hearty:

"Didn't I just say that it was Old Cheng, Cheng Yaojin, who discovered it?"

"Originally, I was discussing with others how to manipulate the clan system. Old Cheng was not good at this, so he did not get involved. But he was bored and stayed up all night to come up with this thing."

"I thought you were as free as him, tsk... turns out you wanted to contact Zhu Di to discuss national policy."

There was a hint of regret in Emperor Li II's tone.

He was still thinking that if Old Zhu was as idle as Cheng Yaojin and went to see this, he could make fun of him, but it was obviously not feasible now. He wanted to contact his own son, and it was obvious that he wanted to discuss matters concerning the national policy of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang coughed with an unnatural look on his face.

Li Shimin really guessed wrong.

Old Zhu wanted to contact Zhu Di not to discuss national policies and examinations, but for his own family matters.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang naturally couldn't tell him this, and asked in return:

"Why, why did you contact me?"

another side.

In the ninth year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin looked at Zhu Yuanzhang in the picture who was facing him with a big face, and stepped back with disgust, but he did not expect that the picture was automatically followed by the system, and no matter where he stepped back, the picture was the same.

So he endured it again and again, and finally decided not to endure it anymore:

"...Zhu Yuanzhang, please stand back and don't try to show off in front of me. It's annoying to see."

Zhu Yuanzhang was a little annoyed at first, but then he thought about it and found it novel.

Since Li Shimin can see what is happening here, if I go to see Li Shimin, wouldn't I be able to see Li Er across hundreds of years of time and space?

This is very different from being in a tutoring class.

In the tutoring class, except for Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao, and maybe Song Shen, everyone else only entered with their consciousness, and they were in the same space, so people couldn't feel any difference. But now, one of them is in the Tang Dynasty and the other is in the Ming Dynasty. If they can use the system to talk face to face, it would be amazing!
"Biao'er, Biao'er, see how you can get this thing to Datang."

Zhu Yuanzhang nudged his son with his elbow. Zhu Biao could do nothing about his father and could only obediently begin to figure out how to use the screen switching function.

Beside them, Empress Ma and Zhu Di looked confused.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao could see it, but they were completely deaf and blind, and had never even seen the system with their own eyes!
The young and impatient Zhu Di was about to ask his elder brother, but was quickly pulled back by Empress Ma.

She whispered:

"Your father is thinking about that thing right now, and your eldest brother is helping him. If you go over there now, wouldn't that just be asking for trouble?"

"Wait until they figure it out!"

Zhu Di's heart tightened, and the wound that had been beaten a few days ago began to ache again. He dared not think about it again.

When Zhu Biao finished fiddling with it, Zhu Yuanzhang successfully saw Li Shimin from the picture...

And the three faces around Li Shimin.

Naturally, he knew all of them, namely Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and Cheng Yaojin.

Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile:
"Hey, you guys are all here? How long have you been watching?"

Li Shimin also laughed:
"I haven't watched it for long. I just saw you two writing and communicating behind the screen like thieves. I thought it was novel, but not long after, the system reminded me that you also discovered this usage and can now talk."

"What were you doing earlier?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's heart sank immediately, and he immediately turned to look at Zhu Biao, whose eyes also flickered.

Both father and son realized a problem -

The reason why they hid behind the screen was because they wanted to use Empress Ma's mouth to trick Song Shen into saying something.

If Li Shimin and others saw the scene just now, is it possible that the other party had heard or seen the existence of Song Shen and knew that this "immortal master" was in their Hongwu Dynasty?
The fact that the real Song Shen is in the Ming Dynasty, although at present, there will be no bad impact even if these classmates are told, but the Zhu family is different from others after all.

Firstly, both the father and the son entered the tutoring class with their physical bodies, while the others entered with their consciousness. If anything happened to the two of them in the classroom, they would really die, with no trace of their bodies left. Secondly, Song Shen, this blind and popular guy, was completely unaware that the people he was teaching were real people.

The system has warned that if Song Shen knew that they were all real emperors and generals, the direction of things would become extremely uncontrollable, so Zhu Yuanzhang had been cautious to avoid being exposed, and even sent out the Yiluansi to monitor them, and anyone could be killed if necessary.

The more people know about Song Shen’s affairs, the greater the risk.

In the picture, apart from Li Jing who was fighting outside, there were four people during the Zhenguan period.

Did they... discover Song Shen?
Zhu Yuanzhang secretly patted Zhu Biao on the back, signaling him not to speak first, and then he spoke himself.

"There's a test paper, isn't there? Biaoer and I are discussing what to do in the next two days. My memory has deteriorated as I get older, so I have to write it down on paper. There's nothing we can do about it."

"By the way - how are you going to deal with the clan?"

When Li Shimin heard Zhu Yuanzhang admit that he was old and frail, and thought of his own plan, his eyebrows raised with excitement.

He laughed even more happily:
"Hey, I think the movable type printing mentioned in the previous class is very good, so I plan to use it!"

"This is what I thought..."

After giving a brief account of Empress Changsun's suggestions and the current situation in the court, Li Shimin concluded:
"This is like driving a tiger to devour a wolf. However, there are so many new nobles and branches of aristocratic families in this world. If they can all use movable type printing, then in just a dozen years, instead of a hundred or fifty years, a large number of poor scholars will be able to make a name for themselves!"

"What do you think of my idea?"

Although Li Shimin did not show any abnormality, Zhu Yuanzhang was still worried and did not completely eliminate his doubts.

What kind of person was Emperor Taizong of Tang?

He first made great achievements in the battlefield and was awarded the title of General Tiance. The prestige of the King of Qin far exceeded that of the Crown Prince. Then he killed his brother and forced his father to seize the throne at Xuanwu Gate. Such a brave, resourceful, shrewd and decisive man, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuan tied together at that time but could not find a way to suppress him in advance. Are his words and performance really so credible?

Although Li Shimin's military achievements and political achievements are recorded in history, Zhu Yuanzhang did not think that Li Yuan, who was able to cultivate him, and Li Jiancheng, who was responsible for logistics during the war, were mediocre people.

Li Er is as scheming as anyone else, but most of the time he would just flip the table.

So Zhu Yuanzhang paused and said:
"I don't think it's good."

The smile on Li Shimin's face froze. After a while, he asked:
"What's wrong?"

Zhu Yuanzhang did not say it directly, but stared at Li Er in the picture and asked:
"Why should we tell you?"

"Li Shimin, you are indeed a great emperor, but I can't just tell you about your vision that is hundreds of years ahead of your time. What do you think?"

"If I really want to tell you, I can make a proposal. From today on, you and our two gangs will form an alliance. If there is anything in the future, we can share what we have. How about that?"

Li Shimin is really getting anxious and angry now.

Of course he knew that what Zhu Yuanzhang said was all legitimate and reasonable. Even if he were to talk to Emperor Wu of Han or Qin Shihuang now, no matter how thorough the other party's considerations were, he would be able to easily find faults in them, because those were the result of the accumulation and practice of their predecessors step by step. The gap in vision brought about by thousands of years could even make up for intellectual deficiencies.

But Li Shimin always felt something was wrong.

Speaking of alliances, what benefits would it bring for Zhu Yuanzhang to form an alliance with himself?

The Zhu family had a broader vision than himself. More emperors had attended tutoring classes than in the Tang Dynasty, and even Zhu Yuanzhang’s two own sons were among them. If he wanted to know something, why didn’t he just ask Zhu Di directly? What does it have to do with the Li Tang Dynasty?

"I don't know the history of your Ming Dynasty, and I don't have any powerful technology to give you. What do you want from me?"

Li Shimin frowned and stared at Zhu Yuanzhang:
"Don't ask for an exorbitant price like the First Emperor said last time. This is an important matter and I don't have time to argue with you."

No matter how he answered, Zhu Yuanzhang had already found a reason in his heart.

He grinned and pointed at the two people beside Li Er:
"Changsun Wuji, the first meritorious minister of Lingyan Pavilion, and Fang Xuanling, one of the most important figures in Fangmou Duduan, these two are enough."

"Although we have Biao'er and Lao Si here, and there is a useless idiot Zhu Qizhen behind us, but they are not counselors or ministers, they are all emperors."

"For many things, counselors and ministers can think more carefully than the emperor, but we can't tell our ministers about the tutoring class, right? We are forming an alliance with you, and you can just lend them to us when we need them in the future."

Li Shimin thought about it and felt that this was indeed the case.

If the system hadn't pulled Changsun Wuji and the others into the tutoring class, as the emperor, he would never have told them the truth, no matter how close their relationship was. Except for Guanyinbi, who was a family member to him, he couldn't trust the rest of the people completely.

The Zhu family really has no ministers available, especially among the civil officials. It is estimated that there are only a handful of people in the Zhu family who can compare with Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling.

So he nodded and said:

"Okay, let's form an alliance!"

"Now, can you tell me what was wrong with what I just said?"

Zhu Yuanzhang raised his eyebrows:
"It's very simple, Biao'er, you tell me about it."

In fact, when the father and son had nothing to do after class, they had already discussed things related to movable type printing and analyzed the pros and cons, so Zhu Yuanzhang was not at all wrong.

Zhu Biao, who was forced to act as a spokesperson, could only stand up and explain:
"In fact, there are two types of printing: woodblock printing and movable type printing. Woodblock printing appeared in the Tang Dynasty and was first used for Buddhist scriptures, etc."

"So-called woodblock printing is actually the same as engraving a stele, except that it uses positive engraving and the font is reversed."

"Although movable type is more flexible than woodblock printing, since your goal is just to allow more people to own the Four Books and Five Classics, etc., fixed books, woodblock printing is definitely more suitable than movable type. You are not going to sell a large number of various poetry and prose collections. As for the books used in the imperial examination, woodblock printing is more than enough."

"What's more, you gave the engraving method to those people, and you also said that it was a method of driving away the tiger and swallowing the wolf. Once those people have evil intentions, you can take out the movable type printing and suppress this group of people again. Isn't it a method of killing two birds with one stone?"

Li Shimin's eyes widened when he heard this.

He was stunned for a long time before he gave Zhu Biao a fake bow:
"The squad leader is indeed the squad leader! I am convinced!"

(End of this chapter)