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Chapter 92 Li Er Beats Li Sanlang

Li Longji was almost dumbfounded.

He was just drinking when he came here. Not only did this group of people start to criticize him, but he was suddenly lifted off the ground by his toes by a burly man in his thirties and was about to be beaten on the spot.

When had Li Sanlang ever suffered such inexplicable injustice!

Li Longji closed his eyes tightly, gritted his teeth and roared:

"Who are you? How dare you offend me?!"

"Also, what are those nonsense you just talked about? How dare An Lushan start a rebellion? Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

Li Shimin's fist stopped half an inch away from his face.

On the podium, Song Shen spread his hands:

"You see, even if I tell him now, he still won't believe it."

"How about you ask Mr. Li Shimin, which year of Tianbao did he come from?"

Li Shimin tightened his grip on Li Longji's collar, his voice filled with uncontrollable anger:

"Didn't you hear the gentleman ask you a question?"

Only then did Li Longji realize that something was wrong.

When he first came in, he was far away from what the group was saying and didn't hear clearly; and when the young man on the podium was speaking just now, he was so angry at the other party's unscrupulous pointing and talking that he didn't pay any attention to the address at all.

But now, he heard the young man on the stage calling the man in front of him Li Shimin...

Li Longji's scalp was not only tingling, but his skin was also tense.

Could it be that I really met my great-grandfather Li Shimin... ?
"No, I say, I say."

He slowly raised his hands over his shoulders to show that he had no intention of taking action:
"It is now the second year of Tianbao. The An-Shi Rebellion and so on that you are talking about are all untrue, really!"

The second year of Tianbao?

Song Shen scratched his eyebrows.

In fact, his historical knowledge is only at the level of a keyboard warrior. He can remember some important time nodes that are repeatedly mentioned in novels and forums, but it is impossible for him to remember all of them. He is a half-baked gentleman. Now his lectures all rely on the lesson plans he compiled and the materials attached to the lesson plans.

In fact, to put it bluntly, unless you are a scholar or enthusiast who specializes in historical research, who can really remember all the emperors and historical nodes in the past five thousand years?

Song Shen secretly typed the four words "the second year of Tianbao" on the computer and glanced at the search results. Apart from "An Lushan entered the court", it seemed that not many important things happened.

He searched further and felt a little more at ease after reading it.

"Oh, in the second year of Tianbao, did you allow An Lushan to come to the court to make a report and discuss matters?"

"In two years, you will make Yang Yuhuan a noble concubine, and then the concubine will smile as she rides in the red dust, and no one will know that it is Litchi who is coming."

Song Shen laughed:

"What a romantic emperor... But I'm confused. You can push your beloved concubine out to take the blame, and your son can kill three people a day. So what do you care about? The throne? The problem is that you don't even have a secure seat on the throne."

Except for the old Zhu family, most of the other students lived before the era of Li Longji, and most of them were educated people, so they were a little surprised to hear the last poem recited by Song Shen.

Li Shimin forgot to continue beating people and asked curiously:
"It's a good poem. Is there a complete version of this poem? What is it about?"

Song Shen pointed at Zhu Biao——

He felt that he had become the most annoying teacher in his school days. When he encountered a question that he was too lazy to ask, he would just assign a student with good grades to answer it. Back then, he thought it was annoying to always be picked, but now he knows that being a teacher like this is really fucking cool!
Zhu Biao understood what he meant and stood up and explained honestly:
"Looking back at Chang'an, there are piles of embroidery. Thousands of gates are opened on the top of the mountain. A red concubine riding on a horse laughs, but no one knows that it is a lychee."

"This is a poem written by Du Mu, "Three Quatrains on Passing by Huaqing Palace, No. 1". It describes how Concubine Yang liked to eat lychees, so Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty wasted a lot of manpower and resources to have fresh lychees sent from the south to Chang'an."

Li Shimin's face twitched and even his eyelids were twitching wildly.

It's hard, and the fist is hard again.

He is the emperor, rich and in power, so naturally he has more knowledge than ordinary people.

Litchi is originally called Lizhi. Why is it called this? Because if it is separated from the branch, its color will change in one day and its taste will change in three days. Once it is picked from the tree, it will basically be inedible after three days.

Emperor Li II had heard that this fruit, which only grew in the south, was juicy and sweet. He loved sweet things and was tempted for a while, but because the journey was too long and Empress Zhangsun had advised him not to indulge in his momentary appetite and waste money and manpower, he gave up.

He himself was reluctant to give up the fruit, and now Li Longji traveled thousands of miles to get it just for the favor of a favorite concubine. If he wanted to get to Chang'an from the south within three days, it would probably take an urgent military report of 800 miles to get there.

Who can bear it?

Anyway, Li Shimin absolutely couldn't tolerate it!

No matter how great Emperor Xuanzong of Tang was in the first half of his life, how hard he worked to govern the country, and how great his contribution was to the Kaiyuan Prosperity, no matter how big and good the empire is, if the emperor starts to become foolish and indulge in pleasure, there will not be many more years of good days for him.

Everything that goes up must come down, that's the truth.

The so-called glimpse of the leopard can reveal a part of it. Just from Li Longji's romantic story of "riding a horse through the dust and making the concubines smile", it can be seen that this guy is already on the verge of stupidity and indulgence. It is only natural that the Tang Dynasty fell into the abyss of decline under his leadership. "Did you kill the three sons and force your daughter-in-law into the palace that day?"

Li Shimin stared at Li Longji, who was so close to him, and sparks were almost coming out of his eyes.

Li Longji nodded tremblingly:

"I did... I did, but, but..."

He really wanted to find a suitable reason for himself, but unfortunately, after being emperor for so many years, Li Longji had almost lost the ability to make excuses.

If he had an annoying minister like Wei Zheng around him, he would probably need to find some excuses for his extravagance, but he was surrounded by people like Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong. The emperor could do whatever he wanted, and not only would they not stop him, they would even applaud.

Therefore, Li Sanlang, who was sharp enough to launch two coups at the right time, has long lost the spirit of competing wits and courage with his father, aunt, and ministers. He is being held like a coward by Li Shimin, and cannot make up a single word.

"but what?"

Li Shimin lifted him up with his amazing arm strength, causing Li Longji's dragon robe to tear under the weight.

He gritted his teeth, grinned, and stretched out his fist again, hitting Li Longji hard on the cheekbone.

"This punch will let you know that our Li family can't afford to support a bastard like you who is addicted to alcohol and sex."

Then came another uppercut that almost knocked out his teeth.

"I threw this punch on behalf of your three sons. They didn't rebel or usurp the throne. They were killed innocently just because your favorite concubine whispered something in their ear. Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs. You are worse than a beast!"

Then he threw a straight punch accurately on the bridge of Li Longji's nose, almost breaking his nose.

"I will fight this last punch on behalf of the people of the world."

"Appointing Hu generals and trusting flatterers is one sin; being carried away by success and indulging in the vanity of the prosperous times is the second sin; forcing your daughter-in-law and killing your son for fun is the third sin. For a foolish ruler like you, not dying when the prosperous times are rising is your greatest sin!"

"——Li Sanlang, huh?"

Li Shimin lifted Li Longji high up with one hand, and then threw him hard onto the tables and chairs welded to the ground in the classroom, making a loud bang.

He looked coldly at the young man of the Li family who was still screaming and wailing, his face was as stern as if he was on a battlefield:
"You should be thankful that you cannot kill anyone here, otherwise, I will definitely clean up the Li family and make you die a worthy death."

"I warn you again, be respectful to everyone here, especially the gentleman. If I hear you yelling at the gentleman again, I will beat you harder than Zhu Yuanzhang did when he beat Zhu Qizhen!"

When Li Shimin lifted the guy up, everyone in the classroom stood up from their seats and gathered on one side of the aisle to avoid getting blood splattered on themselves.

No one tried to persuade Li Shimin, and no one tried to stop him.

After Song Shen and Zhu Biao's explanations, everyone almost understood what Li Longji had done.

Similarly, they certainly understood why Li Shimin was so furious and even used such a vicious analogy as Zhu Qizhen to describe Li Longji.

In the first few decades after he ascended the throne, he was indeed an emperor who worked hard to govern the country. Even Song Shen admitted this. At least he made the Tang Dynasty prosperous. But the prosperity was followed by decline. The national strength of the Tang Dynasty expanded rapidly and became stronger in his hands, but then it took a sharp turn for the worse. The gap was too big.

To put it bluntly, even if he was an ordinary emperor or a mediocre ruler, Li Shimin would not be so angry.

No matter how many talented people the Li family had, it was impossible for every emperor to start a rebellion in his teens like himself, lead troops to war, and finally snatch the throne from his father and brother. His talent was innate, but life experience was also of great help to his growth, so Li Shimin was not that harsh.

What really made him angry was that Li Longji was clearly a genius who was so smart that he could launch two coups in succession, work hard for so many years, and personally create a prosperous Tang Dynasty. However, he became more and more intoxicated with that crumbling prosperity and could not extricate himself, which led to such a great disaster as the Anshi Rebellion.

Even though he did not know the course of the Anshi Rebellion, Li Shimin firmly believed that if he were in power, he would be able to quell the disaster in just one year and restore the Tang Dynasty to its original state. However, Li Longji dragged it out for eight years.

No matter how powerful an empire is, it will still be dragged down if it is dragged into the quagmire of war for eight years, so the decline of the prosperous Tang Dynasty is really normal.

Li Longji was beaten black and blue. His face, which was already swollen from his indulgence in alcohol and sex, was now even more swollen.

He shrank into a shrimp, turning over and over to try to relieve the pain, muttering to himself:
"Then who are you... You can't really be my ancestor..."

Li Shimin sneered and pointed at himself.

"I am Li Shimin."

He then pointed at Emperor Ying Zheng and his ministers who were standing in the aisle with their hands behind their backs watching the show.

"That's the First Emperor and Meng Tian."

Then his finger turned to Liu Che, who was eager to find some melon seeds to eat, and Zhang Liang, who had a calm expression.

"That's Emperor Wu of Han and Marquis Liu."

Finally, he pointed at the fourth of the Zhenguan Five behind him.

"They are Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Cheng Zhijie and Li Jing."

Li Shimin had a kind face, staring at Li Longji's pig-like face and smiling:

"How about you shout again and see if they can kill you?"

(End of this chapter)