Why is Liu Wenjing important?
You can see why from the fact that Li Shimin's expression became solemn after hearing Chu Zhen's words, and he thought for a while before answering him.
"Mr. Liu followed the prince back to Chang'an. A letter came from Chang'an a month ago. The letter said that after hearing about the incident in Jingguan, the father was furious and had the Yin Shishi, Mr. Liu and others removed from their posts and beheaded. The prince was temporarily kept in Yin. The Master’s life is at stake, but Mr. Liu’s death was spared because of his meritorious service in raising troops in Taiyuan.”
After Li Shimin finished speaking, he looked at Chu Zhen: "Mr. Chu specifically mentioned him because...?"
"In the second year of Wude, Liu Wenjing was falsely accused of treason due to her words. Li Yuan believed Pei Ji and ordered his beheading."
Chu Zhen's words made Li Shimin frown deeply.
Mr. Liu has great talent.
He can send envoys to the Turks, lead troops in battle, and handle government affairs.
The only thing he said was that he was a little unprotected. Pei Ji was his good friend, but now he is drifting away from him, and he will be killed by Pei Ji's slander in the future?
"The Tang army was defeated, with tens of thousands of casualties and dead bodies, and their corpses were built into the Jingguan."
Zhu Yuanzhang expressed his opinion: "If this matter is reported back to Chang'an, it will definitely cause people's hearts to fluctuate and the people to be frightened. Someone must come out and die to apologize. The leading marshal should have been the first to commit the crime, but as the prince is the marshal, he can only punish the generals under his account. "
Therefore, Yin Shishi and Liu Wenjing, who followed Li Jiancheng back to Chang'an, became the scapegoats for the defeat.
On the contrary, Qu Tutong, Yin Kaishan and others, who continued to fight with Li Shimin, made meritorious service and escaped disaster.
"I'm afraid he regrets it now."
Chu Zhen smiled. Liu Wenjing would never have thought that Li Shimin was so brave. He not only defended Gao'an, but also survived Xue Ju to death, captured Xue Rengao, and was about to send him to Chang'an. Xue Qin's army collapsed and Longxi was pacified.
"Why did Liu Nayan return to Chang'an?" Li Qingzhao asked curiously.
"My marching commander is Du Ruhui."
Li Shimin explained.
There is no room for two tigers in one mountain, and Mr. Liu is not a general who can charge into battle, so he returned to Chang'an, unwilling to succumb to Du Ruhui.
"Can Liu Wenjing avoid death?"
Chu Zhen vaguely remembered this incident, but he didn't know whether it was true or not.
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said, "Rebellion is inevitable."
Lin Daiyu glanced at him quietly. Indeed, any minister that Emperor Hongwu wanted to kill was guilty of treason. Most of the iron scrolls given to him to avoid death were ineffective. He should be killed anyway.
Li Shimin said: "My father issued the "Edict in Praise of Honored Ministers" in May. I, Prime Minister Pei, and Mr. Liu all have the grace to forgive two deaths, and the remaining fourteen people will be forgiven one death."
"Where is your brother?" Chu Zhen saw that he was on the list, but did not hear Li Jiancheng.
"My brother is a prince, so he is different from us."
"Prince..."
Chu Zhen looked at Li Shimin and saw that his expression was calm, so he smiled and asked: "Who are the other fourteen people? I remember calling the Seventeen Heroes of the Taiyuan Revolt?"
The last sentence was said to Li Qingzhao and Lin Daiyu. Li Qingzhao smiled and said: "They are called Taiyuan Yuanmou heroes."
"Sister, you have a really good memory." Lin Daiyu said with a smile.
After they finished speaking, Li Shimin answered Chu Zhen: "Except for the three heroes of Taiyuan's rebellion, the other fourteen people are: General Sun Shunde, Liu Hongji, Dou Cong, Chai Shao..."
He lists fourteen people.
After a cursory listen, Chu Zhen heard about several Lingyan Pavilion heroes, plus at least two people who participated in the Xuanwu Gate Incident.
There is one name among them that has a far-reaching influence:
Samurai 彟.
There is debate in historians about how to pronounce the word "彟". Some people support reading "Yue" or "Huo".
But now that Li Shimin is thinking about Huo, there is no controversy.
Of course, the key was not the warrior Yi, but his daughter, who almost lost the country Li Shimin had conquered.
"cough!"
Chu Zhen coughed slightly, which stopped the weird expressions of Li Qingzhao and the others.
Li Shimin looked at them doubtfully.
Zhu Yuanzhang drank tea to cover up. After putting down the disposable cup, he said: "The harem still cannot interfere in politics!"
But now is not the time to talk about the warrior's daughter.
"The rest will be discussed after Erlang returns to Chang'an."
Chu Zhen smiled and said to Li Shimin, then looked at Zhu Yuanzhang: "Has the corn been planted?"
"How can we plant before the first month of the year?"
"The Hu Weiyong case is not over yet?"
"I didn't let him die."
Zhu Yuanzhang took out the stacks of paper he had brought and put them on the table, "These are the three strategies for governing the country that I asked him to write. Come and take a look and see if there is any difference between what he wrote and what you know."
"I don't understand, just say it."
Chu Zhen refused simply.
It was difficult for him to read the travel notes written by Li Qingzhao, and it was even more difficult to understand the long treatises on state governance - policy treatises were different from travel notes. If he didn't know the meaning of a word, the content he understood would be thousands of miles away.
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "You kid, how could I not have thought of this? The edicts I gave to Xifan, Handong, and Bili were all written in plain English. When I issued the imperial edict to the people who were resisting the Japanese, I also directly told them to prepare their knives. The Japanese pirates are here, let’s kill them first…you can come and see them!”
Only then did Chu Zhen remember that not all ancient written texts were in classical Chinese. Especially Zhu Yuanzhang, many of his imperial edicts were in vernacular, and he used the name "I" to refer to himself many times.
Be more grounded.
"Okay, let me take a look."
Chu Zhen stood up and went to Zhu Yuanzhang to get the three strategies for governing the country written by Hu Weiyong, the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty.
Sitting back on the chair, Chu Zhen glanced at Li Qingzhao and the others. Mrs. Li was looking at this side eagerly and couldn't help but laugh:
"You guys want to read it? Come over and look at the literary talent of the Prime Minister of the Ming Dynasty and compare it with the articles you wrote."
The literary talent of the Ming Dynasty Prime Minister?
Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while, and if what Hu Weiyong wrote could not compare with what the two little girls wrote, he would kill Hu Weiyong later.
So as not to embarrass Ming Dynasty!
"How can my superficial articles compare to the literary talent of the former prime minister? Sister, go read it."
Lin Daiyu pushed Li Qingzhao.
Don't you know that her "former court" sentence made Zhu Yuanzhang stunned on the spot, and he felt uncomfortable in his heart.
The Ming Dynasty died.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Li Qingzhao, who was walking next to Chu Zhen, and asked, "Has this young lady also written policy articles?"
Whether Hu Weiyong dies or not depends on whether his literary talent is comparable to that of Miss Li from the Song Dynasty.
"The Nu family has only briefly read a few articles by Su Weng and Bansangong."
Li Qingzhao is extremely humble, she only dares to be proud of writing lyrics.
Plus horse hunting.
Chu Zhen smiled and said, "She has a special name in the history books, called Yi An Jushi."
Li Qingzhao glared at him angrily, blaming him for mentioning this again.
Lin Daiyu covered her mouth with a handkerchief and smiled.
"Jushi Yi An... never heard of her, she was a talented woman from the Song Dynasty?"
Zhu Yuanzhang said casually.
Li Qingzhao: "..."
She doesn't seem to be that famous either.
Chu Zhen saw her expression and thought that it was right. Although Zhu Yuanzhang could also write poetry, his hobbies definitely did not focus on it. Usually when he was studying, a Hanlin bachelor would read history books to him.
"I have a poem written by her and Miss Lin, about the Ming Dynasty's recovery of the Sixteenth Prefecture of Youyun."
He said and took out the paper kept in the drawer.
"The Ming Dynasty collected poems from the sixteen states of Youyun?"
Zhu Yuanzhang became interested and came over to take a look.
Li Qingzhao was quite confident in his poems. Regardless of Emperor Hongwu, he only went over to read with Chu Langjun the three strategies for governing the country written by the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty.
Lin Daiyu glanced at Chu Zhen, but he didn't ask her this time.
She was not angry, but felt relieved, feeling that Chu Zhen understood her feelings.
He said that there are no taboos here, and Lin Daiyu doesn't need Chu Zhen to always take care of her feelings. Don't explain so much to her every time, it's too harsh.
Three minutes later.
Chu Zhen finished reading a volume. Seeing that Li Qingzhao hadn't finished it, he raised his head and glanced at the others.
Sister Lin took a book from the bookshelf and read it.
Zhu Yuanzhang had already read the two poems and looked a little surprised.
Li Shimin sat there silently, seemingly still thinking about his brother and Liu Wenjing.
"You watch first, you can sit down, it's up to you."
Chu Zhen stood up and smiled at Li Shimin: "I bought a lot of good things yesterday. They are all small gadgets. They are not as good as the authentic Wang Xizhi that Erlang gave me last time."
"What are you talking about, Mr. Chu? If you like it, I will give you a few more!"
Li Shimin stood up immediately. He had already noticed the armor and weapons in the dozen boxes on the ground.
"Wang Xizhi's authentic work?" Zhu Yuanzhang looked surprised. He was not good at calligraphy, but he also knew Wang Xizhi's name. He didn't expect that King Qin gave Chu Zhen such a great gift.
On the contrary, it seemed that the gold and jade he gave last time was too vulgar.
"There's no need to give it as a gift. You can just bring it over and I'll take a photo and keep it... Without talking about that, let me first introduce to you what I bought!"
Chu Zhen bent down, picked up a long sword, handed it to Li Shimin, and said with a smile: "Let's take a look. This sword is made of T10 high-carbon steel. It is produced on an assembly line, but the quality should be okay."
Li Shimin took it and pulled out the sword neatly. With the sound of the sword, he had already thrust out a few swords in the air to test the feel of the sword. He then held it horizontally in front of him and took a closer look.
"What a sword!"
he praised.
