NOVEL WEB Chapter 488
"Hahaha!" Li Shimin laughed heartily.
Li Yuan and others also came out, wanting to see the visual feast of the evening!
"Good!" Yuchi Jingde shouted.
The little princess hugged Xiao Ran's legs, and Xiao Ran picked up the little princess, liking this atmosphere very much.
It really felt that 'the king is wise and the ministers are upright'. This is indeed an amazing era, no wonder people in later generations miss it.
"Long live the Tang Dynasty!"
"Happy family!"
"Long live your majesty!"
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Many good words appeared in the night sky, and the people of Chang'an City could see them.
I saw it once before during the Chinese New Year, but I still felt shocked.
"Sizi is beautiful!"
Xiao Ran added some private words in the last sentence.
"Sizi, this sentence means that you are beautiful." Princess Yuzhang said quickly, otherwise the little princess would not know.
"Hehe~ Beautiful~"
Li Shimin had no objection, the little princess was just likable and favored.
They all felt Xiao Ran's unique love for the little princess.
Many people couldn't help but look at Xiao Ran and the little princess.
Li Lizhi was next to Xiao Ran, looking at the fireworks in the sky.
"Light up the others too!" Xiao Ran pointed.
"I'll do it!" Princess Gaoyang couldn't wait any longer.
Li Tai and Li Chengqian knew about it before, and they were all familiar with it.
Others were also familiar with it, and they all wanted to order one themselves.
Li Shimin took Empress Changsun to light one himself.
It was more lively than before.
The two little princesses held the big fireworks and kept waving their hands.
There were quite a few princesses playing with the big fireworks.
It was not until very late that the people slowly dispersed.
The little princess fell asleep in Xiao Ran's arms.
Li Lizhi also had Princess Chengyang in her arms.
"Uncle, we have to go back." Xiao Ran said something to Li Shimin, and left the Taiji Hall with several princesses.
The others had almost left, and Li Shimin and Empress Changsun also returned to the Taiji Hall.
Next to Li Shimin was a pile of gifts, and he leaned comfortably on the massage chair prepared by Li Lizhi, "This is good, Lizhi girl, it's very comfortable."
"I also felt it, the child is attentive."
"Sizi Erniang prepared more than 10,000 strings of money..." Li Shimin also roughly calculated it.
"The two little girls now have a lot of money, more than Lizhi Liuniang."
"Xiao Ran, this little bastard, also returned the Lanting Preface to me!" Li Shimin felt much more pleasing to Xiao Ran.
"I didn't expect this to happen. Xiao Ran obviously liked the Lanting Preface before, and I always wanted to see it."
Li Shimin was very satisfied with this birthday and was so excited that he couldn't sleep all night.
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The next day, the princesses all got up late.
The little princess was still a little dazed when it came time to eat.
When the doorbell rang, the little princess ran over happily. She was used to it and reacted instinctively.
But this time, it was not Empress Changsun or Li Shimin who brought her, but Zhang Ananda.
"Uncle Zhang!" Xiao Ran was a little surprised, and so was Li Lizhi.
"Your Highness, Young Master, His Majesty wants to see Young Master..."
"Okay, wait for me, will Second Sister Mingda go?"
"Yes, yes, yes~" The little princess answered without hesitation.
Xiao Ran drove Li Lizhi's mini, "Wu Niang, the car will be delivered later, Your Highness, you pay first."
"Yes, I know, Young Master!" Li Lizhi now has a lot of savings, so there is no problem buying a car.
Xiao Ran drove Zhang Ananda and the two little princesses to the Taiji Hall.
People are refreshed when they are happy, and Li Shimin is in this state.
"Uncle!"
"Grandpa~ I'm here~"
"Yes, come sit down and talk!" Li Shimin put down the memorial in his hand.
"Uncle, what's the matter that called me here so early in the morning?"
"Before you talked about the Duke of Yansheng, but I thought about it carefully and it's not right. The Duke of Yansheng was because of Confucius, and the emperor won over scholars, but you said that the later dynasties all recognized it."
"If that's the case, then there must be a problem. They must be fearless, plus the influence of the Kong family, wouldn't they do whatever they want? Confucius is a noble person, and he can definitely restrain himself, but I don't want to say anything about his descendants. There are people of high moral character, but there are also many who are ignorant and bully others."
"There have been such things before. If another Duke of Yansheng is given, wouldn't it be even worse?"
"So I haven't given it to you until now. I want to ask what happened to Duke of Yansheng later."
"Uncle, you have considered it very carefully. You have all the problems you are worried about. People later said that the Kong family 'taught people to be loyal, and the world has been repaired to submit to Duke of Yansheng'."
Li Shimin frowned, "Submission?"
"Well, Confucian scholarsPeople should be upright and have integrity, but the story behind the Kong family is hard to describe. I only told you about the Yansheng Duke before, but I didn't promote him. In the Tang Dynasty, scholars were actually okay. The Tang Dynasty valued civil and martial arts, and even those who entered the court were admired as generals and ministers. Starting from the Song Dynasty, civil and martial arts were separated, with clear boundaries, and there was a saying that "everything is inferior except for reading... scholars must have a high status!" "Of course..." Xiao Ran looked around, and there was no one else around. What Li Shimin and Xiao Ran talked about was important, so Zhang Ananda didn't let anyone get close. "After the Tang Dynasty, there were no aristocratic families." Li Shimin's eyes lit up, "Huh? Who did this? How did they do it? ”
This is what Li Shimin had always dreamed of.
“Uncle, this is getting off topic. I’ll tell you later. Without the aristocratic families, another group emerged. The scholar-bureaucrat group that emerged from the imperial examination system replaced the previous aristocratic families. They competed with the imperial power. Scholars had a very high status, and military generals were always suppressed, especially in the Song Dynasty. The Duke of Yansheng also existed in the Song Dynasty. ”
“This won’t work. If the military generals have a low status, who will lead the troops to fight?” Li Shimin could imagine the disadvantages of the high status of literati.
“The Duke of Yansheng is unacceptable!”