"Oh, it's useless to be anxious." Li Changan sighed softly.
Cao Yenaji would listen to her, but Concubine Wu Hui would definitely not listen to the opinions of a five-year-old like her. Concubine Wu Hui had worked hard for so many years to depose the prince, and now that victory was close at hand, she could not give up the opportunity to depose the prince no matter what.
It would be better to find a way to treat Concubine Wu Hui's nightmare first, although Li Changan didn't think she could find a way to cure the disease that even the top doctors in the entire Tang Dynasty were unable to cure.
"The most important thing now is to run my own small force first." Li Changan looked at Shen Chu with a very innocent smile on his face.
The corner of Shen Chu's mouth twitched, knowing that this guy must be plotting against him again.
But what else could he do.
There is some truth in this saying that master and disciple work together and can cut through metal.
"But the teacher is not suitable to follow the path of Concubine Wu Hui." Li Changan touched his chin, touched a piece of white paper from the table, picked up an ink stick, took some water from the small bowl on the table, put it in the inkstone, and polished the ink , pick up the pen and write down the words.
Just when Shen Chu was about to remind Li Changan to be careful, he saw the line dripping from the tip of Li Changan's pen - English.
Come on, this girl is more cautious than anyone else.
Li Chang'an also spoke plausibly: "This matter must only come from our mouths to our ears, and no third party can hear it. There are traces of writing, so we should be more careful and communicate in English and Pinyin."
"Teacher, there are Persians and Kunlun slaves in Chang'an now. English is not very safe. In fact, I can also speak a little Japanese and Korean..." Li Changan is still a little worried. There will definitely be a need to write letters between her and Shen Chu in the future. When communicating, it is inevitable to mention some private matters. If the letter is leaked, it will be a big trouble.
Shen Chu sighed: "Simplified Chinese characters are enough."
"That's not possible. There's not much difference between simplified Chinese characters and traditional Chinese characters." Li Changan muttered.
Li Changan didn't give up until Shen Chu moved the charcoal pot in the living room and said that after he finished writing, he would burn the paper to destroy the body and eliminate traces.
The two continued to discuss.
Shen Chu folded his hands. He was wearing thin clothes. He was not wearing a brocade fur like Li Changan. He was only wearing ordinary thick cloth. The charcoal basin had just been moved in, and the study room was still very cold. In order to protect himself in front of the students, Shen Chu It's not easy to carry a stool and lie down in front of the charcoal pot, so you have to put your hands together to keep warm.
Li Changan was quite satisfied with Shen Chu's current appearance.
At first glance, he seems to be a man of noble moral character who does not care about fame and wealth, but is content with poverty.
"You said I can't follow Concubine Wu Hui's path, why?" Shen Chu tried his best to ignore Li Changan's admiring look on him.
Li Changan waved the brush in his hand and wrote two words on the paper.
Clear stream.
Since ancient times, the pen of the literati has been the sword of murderers. Although the concubine can be promoted quickly, it will inevitably lead to the reputation of being a sycophant. It would be fine if there was no other way to go, but now her teacher is not at the point of having no other way to go. Why should she have to follow the path of Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong if she can be a clear stream.
Li Changan had an excellent way to help Shen Chu rise to the top.
Just when Li Changan was waiting for Shen Chu to ask her questions so that she could stand up and take charge and become Shen Chu's teacher for a time, Shen Chu spoke.
"Why are your handwriting so ugly?"
Shen Chu looked at the ink characters on the white paper and couldn't help but turn his head away.
"I'm only five years old!" Li Changan became angry with embarrassment.
A five-year-old child is already very good at writing. Concubine Wu Hui even praised her for her natural intelligence. In future generations, when she was five years old and had just entered the middle class of kindergarten, there were not many people who could recognize all the characters.
Shen Chu scorned: "Are you really five years old?"
"I've never written with a brush before. It's normal for me to be ugly when I first start writing with a brush. I'll practice my calligraphy when I get back." Li Changan changed the subject, "Let's get down to business now."
"Let's talk about being an official first. Teacher, do you think you are a flatterer?" Li Changan asked Shen Chu.
Shen Chu shook his head.
As long as he has some ability to work, he will not be over forty and still be an associate professor who has endured qualifications. He was so worried that his old friend tried his best to get him a troublesome student like Li Chang'an and let him see if there was a lubricant between him and the leader to help him rise further.
The teachers who entered the school in the same year with lower academic qualifications than him were already professors, but he stayed in the position of associate professor for twelve years. It's just that he didn't care about these things before. He just had a job to make ends meet, and it didn't matter what the salary or professional title was. But now if he wants to serve as an official and serve the people, he has to consider working in a business.
"No one who follows Concubine Wu Hui's path is not good at flattery. The teacher is not the same type of person as them." Li Changan also knew what kind of character his teacher was.
"Teachers should follow the path of a pure minister, be honest and upright."
As he spoke, Li Changan wrote a few lines on the white paper.
【Qingchen development plan
Student name: Shen Chu
Instructor: Li Changan]
Shen Chu looked at Li Changan, who looked serious, and then looked down at the black and white writing on the table.
In the end, Li Changan could not withstand Shen Chu's threatening gaze that wanted to beat her up. She complained softly: "That's why there is no high or low, no long and no young. Where the Tao exists, the teacher exists..."
In his hand, he honestly put the names of the teacher and students back where they should have been.
Li Changan's plan is not complicated.
The first step is two words, marketing. Give Shen Chu a marketing reputation and give him a resounding reputation. How important is a good reputation in Datang? Chen Zi'ang bought a piano for a thousand gold and then broke it in the market. Bai Juyi's poems made paper expensive in Luoyang. Li Bai was relegated to heaven as an immortal. Even if they were talented enough to sell fame, Du Fu, who couldn't sell fame, failed to leave anything in the Tang Dynasty. Name, he had to wait until the Song Dynasty before his talent was discovered by future generations.
There were two ways to become an official in the Tang Dynasty: to have someone behind you and to be famous enough. Only these two types of people can pass the imperial examination. Maybe when Zhang Jiuling was the prime minister, there were still a few people who had no backers who could pass the Jinshi. But now that Li Linfu has become the prime minister, people without backers can't pass the Jinshi. Not big enough, and of course, talent is the least important thing.
After all, Li Linfu is a real villain who excludes talents to the point where he can say such words as "There are no wise men left in the wild". Li Changan knew about this because she had written a paper about Du Fu - Du Fu also took the exam and failed because "there are no wise men left in the wild".
How ironic, the poet sage is not considered a virtuous person.
Li Chang'an also learned a little more about Li Linfu's "talent" and discovered that this prime minister had a nickname called "Nongzhang Prime Minister". The source was that when Li Linfu wrote a congratulatory message to someone, he wrote "Nongzhang's Celebration" as "Nongzhang's Day". "Qing", zhang is a precious jade, deer is a wild animal, and Li Linfu has done this kind of typos and misunderstandings more than once. This prime minister, whose talent "far surpasses" Du Fu, can't even recognize all the characters.
But fame can hide some things. For example, Li Changan actually planned to sneak Shen Chu in through the back door, but she couldn't let others see that Shen Chu passed the imperial examination through the back door, so fame was the best way to cover it up.
She knew that Li Linfu didn't care about his fame, but others didn't know that. If Shen Chu was so famous that he passed the imperial examination, others would only think that he passed the exam because of his talent. If Shen Chu had a smooth journey and rose to great heights, others would only think that Shen Chu was so famous that he was appreciated by his superiors.
In the final analysis, Li Changan and Shen Chu are no different from Wu Huifei and Li Linfu. They both rely on nepotism to support each other in high positions, and then use this to support other party members.
It's just that Li Changan planned to cover up this unjust matter with a layer of glorious justice.
"Teacher, just spend a lot of money to help the weak. You don't have to worry about money. You just need to show your name as 'Jade Face Mengchang'." Li Changan said with a smile.
Jade-faced Mengchang? Shen Chu's eyelids twitched. His painting style suddenly jumped from Three Hundred Tang Poems to Water Margin?
"Spend a lot of money? How did you get so much money?" Jade-faced Meng Chang and Shen Chu rubbed his forehead, forcing himself to ignore the title of second grader.
Li Changan looked at Shen Chu with a smile: "I remember the teacher knows how to fry tea?"
Shen Chu did know how to fry tea. His teaching and scientific research tasks were not heavy. He had no family, no parents and no children. He had a lot of free time, so naturally he had many arty hobbies.
Every year from the end of February to the beginning of March, Shen Chu and three or five old friends would go to Yunnan and Sichuan to personally pick and fry tea and taste the tea. Not to mention how good the tea leaves are in appearance, the best thing is to knead and fry them by hand, which is not only fun. Humane.
Li Changan still received a jar of Qingcheng Snow Bud from Shen Chu, and then he realized that his teacher had such a skill.
Making tea has become popular in the Tang Dynasty, but the tea soup at this time has a more wonderful taste. In the Tang Dynasty, there was no tea, only tea. This tea-eating was literally eaten. The tea leaves were ground into powder and steamed in a furnace. Salt, Sichuan peppercorns, goat milk and other ingredients were added to it, and the tea was boiled until Once it's mushy, you can scoop it out and start drinking tea.
Li Changan had it once and almost vomited it out on the spot after taking one sip. He didn't know how those literati, monks and Taoists managed to enjoy tea with gusto.
"You want to sell tea?" Shen Chu guessed what Li Changan was thinking.
"Tea and tea are different."
Li Changan was confident: "Teacher, we have to believe in the strict selection of our ancestors. It took thirteen hundred years of thinking for our ancestors to improve tea soup into tea. People in the Tang Dynasty also have tongues. I believe they can drink tea and tea soup." Which one tastes better?"
After all, the tea culture of the Tang Dynasty has just begun, and tea soup is only a primary product. It will take countless generations of exploration and improvement to form a complete and mature final form for later generations. Just like the barbecue and barbecue in the wood-burning period, people who have never eaten cooked meat will definitely be shocked when they first eat the meat roasted by fire, but after they eat it, it is full of barbecue ingredients. After roasting the mutton over charcoal fire with the soup, if you let him eat the smelly mutton that was roasted in the outer batter at the beginning, he will only find it difficult to swallow.
You have to believe in the wisdom of our ancestors. The tea that our ancestors have improved for thirteen hundred years cannot make it worse.
Children with teachers are still a treasure. Li Changan was originally worried about how to make money by making new things. After all, she could neither make soap nor burn glass. She thought that if she couldn't do it, she could only do something that violated her conscience but did not violate Tang law. I have made money, but fortunately I still have Shen Chu. She is too young to do new things, but Shen Chu will definitely have dozens of hobbies when he is old.
Shen Chu was quite proud to be bathed in Li Changan's admiring eyes. He cleared his throat and said reservedly: "Actually, being a teacher is not only good at making tea."
Li Changan's eyes were filled with surprise, and he looked up at Shen Chu with even more admiration.
"I often make wine with my friends and make good wine." Shen Chu has a wide range of interests, especially things that traditional literati like to play, such as tea and wine, chess, calligraphy and painting.
These things are just like fishing, easy to get started but difficult to get into. Shen Chu only drank tea and wine at first. Later, he was led by several friends to start studying tea culture and wine culture. Later, several old friends dragged him to experience making tea and wine, and he was inexplicably pulled into it. I joined a few fan groups... and got out of hand.
"Teacher, do you have a hobby of blowing things up?" Li Changan looked forward to it, "I want gunpowder, the kind of stable and controllable gunpowder that can make bombs!"
Shen Chu: "..."
Who in a normal person would develop the weird hobby of "explosion is art"?
"Alas." Li Changan sighed softly and said to himself, "Professor Chen from the school next door to us will definitely make explosives. Of course, teacher, you are the best teacher in Datang in my heart."
That's because the school next door is the Polytechnic University, and Professor Chen teaches ammunition engineering! Shen Chu grinded his teeth and prepared to stuff Li Changan into the stove as firewood before making tea.
