"The so-called debating the classics is to use the scriptures and sentences as the topic. The two people ask and answer. The questions are all from the Confucian classics. The person who is asked needs to clarify the meaning. These classics include but are not limited to the Thirteen Classics. At that time, the capital was famous for its debating classics, but it was not as good as that great Wenzong of Qi State. If you want to win, you not only need to be familiar with these classic principles, but also have your own opinions, which is extremely difficult." Emperor Jing Looking at Li Yi, his eyes were a little weird.
"Really two months?" Li Yi asked again with some uncertainty.
"You are not joking." Emperor Jing nodded, with a smile that was not a smile.
Li Yi rubbed his nose and acted suddenly, "Your Majesty, I suddenly remembered that I seem to... also understand a little bit of scriptures."
"You have to think about it, those scriptures add up to fill up half a room, and the Great Wenzong of Qi State has been studying scriptures all his life, even if he is a scholar of Hongwenguan, he may not be able to master the scriptures. If you beat him, if you lose, I will not punish you, and I will allow you to take Yongning out of the palace, just pretend that I never said anything about it."
Li Yi secretly despised him from the bottom of his heart. What he said just now was a joke, and he wanted to regret it in a blink of an eye. If he hadn't taken into account his identity, he would have spit it out with contempt.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, it just so happens that I have some confidence in the scriptures and righteousness." Li Yi looked at Emperor Jing and said with a smile.
A stern look finally appeared on Emperor Jing's face, "Are you serious?"
"Two months, is Your Majesty serious?" Li Yi said again.
Since it is a transaction, you have to confirm the bargaining chip again and again in advance.
Emperor Jing thought for a while, nodded and said: "Tomorrow morning, I will send someone to pick you up. If you can win another city for me, I will raise your title to another level. The county magistrate at the age of weak crown, I am afraid Even Kyoto will be shaken by this, what do you think?"
"Minister, go back and prepare first." The title is not important, and if you go up to another level, you are only a county magistrate, which is far behind the Duke of the country. Li Yi cupped his hands and was about to leave. He took two steps, as if thinking of something, and then walked back.
"What else do you want?" Emperor Jing looked at him and asked.
"There is no request..." Li Yi had a puzzled expression on his face, looked at Emperor Jing and asked, "I just want to ask Your Majesty, what are the Thirteen Classics...?"
"..."
"Did I really be too hasty this time?" Li Yi had been walking for a while, and Emperor Jing rubbed his brows and asked suspiciously.
"Your Majesty, can you allow me to say something." Chang De, who was usually silent in front of Emperor Jing, suddenly said.
Emperor Jing waved his hand and said, "There is no need to be polite between you and me."
Chang De thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty thinks, Li Xianzi will agree to something he is not sure about?"
Emperor Jing froze for a moment, shook his head and said: "From the time I started to pay attention to him, until now, except for beating the king of Shu, which surprised me, he has always done things calmly, and he is not 100% sure, so he will not easily take risks."
"In that case, Your Majesty need not worry." Chang De said with a smile.
Emperor Jing thought for a while, smiled on his face, nodded and said: "I'm just being paranoid, let's see what kind of surprise he will give me, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, and the people of Jingguo..."
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When they came back from Qinzheng Hall, they kept a little of every rare meal for themselves. Li Yi asked Li Mingzhu while eating, "How can I get to Hongwen Hall?"
"What are you going to Hongwen Museum for?" Li Mingzhu asked with raised eyebrows.
The Hongwen Library is the national library, and most of the library is old scholars who manage and revise books. In her opinion, Li Yi doesn't seem like a person who likes to read.
Li Yi glanced at him and said, "Your Majesty asked me to debate the classics with that great Wenzong tomorrow. I have to go and see what I want to argue..."
Li Mingzhu's beautiful eyes widened: "Debating scriptures, you?"
"What's wrong with me?" Li Yi looked at him dissatisfied, "Don't look down on people, who said that old age is powerful, this era belongs to young people after all, the reason why the back waves of the Yangtze River beat the front waves, and the front waves die on the beach you understand?"
Li Mingzhu frowned and said: "Are you serious? You have already won the poetry and prose competition, so why bother to be brave? In terms of scriptures and righteousness, you are better than Qin Xiang and Zhou Dashi?"
Li Yi snorted softly, "You will know how good I am in the future."
Li Mingzhu looked at him, with a look of suspicion on his face. It was definitely not his character to compare the scriptures with Da Wenzong for no reason. She looked at Li Yi and asked, "What benefits did the emperor give you?"
Li Yi put down his chopsticks, sighed, looked at her, and said earnestly: "What benefits can there be? As a citizen of Jingguo, you must always take revitalizing the country as your own responsibility. How can you ignore the honor and disgrace of the country? Stand up at the critical moment, even sacrifice yourself for the sake of the country... "
"Father promised to add an official to you?" Li Mingzhu asked again.
"There is no promotion, just a promotion..."
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Hongwen Hall, as a place for the officials of the court to retire, has always been relatively leisurely. Apart from a few old scholars, there are some servants doing chores, and occasionally unpopular young officials are transferred here , Not long after, he either resigned or found a way to be transferred elsewhere, which shows how boring it is to work here.
Today's Hongwen Library is not as peaceful as it used to be. Several scholars looked at the young people walking around in the library from a distance, not reading books, just fumbling around on the bookshelves, confused.
"What's wrong with Li Xianzi?"
"Why did he come to our Hongwen Museum, and His Highness the Princess is also by his side?"
"What is he doing? There are all classics and articles stored there. If you look up books, why don't you see him flipping through them? Could it be that he can memorize all the contents of the book by touching it like this?"
"I don't know. I heard that Li Xianzi is suffering from some kind of hysteria. It seems that the rumors are true, but don't provoke him, otherwise..."
Thinking of the miserable end of the King of Shu, the bachelors immediately took more than ten steps back.
"What are you doing?" Li Mingzhu stood beside Li Yi, also looking strange, and finally couldn't help asking.
"You don't understand. We'll have a competition tomorrow. We need to get familiar with it today..." Li Yi picked up another book while speaking, and at the same time, there was also a book on the cleared bookshelf in his mind. Appearing out of thin air, Li Yi put down the book and picked up another one...
"Familiar with familiar..."
Li Mingzhu looked at him and shook his head helplessly. No matter when and where, he always does things so unexpectedly that people can't guess at all.
However, judging by his appearance, I am afraid that he is already sure of winning tomorrow.
Li Mingzhu shook his head, no longer thinking about it, thinking whether his meeting would end in a while, so he simply walked outside the hall and waited...
The Hongwen Hall was unusually quiet, with only a few footsteps that could be heard from time to time, but outside the imperial palace, in the capital city, there was already excitement over a certain news.
Li Xianzi defeated Qi State in today's poetry competition, and brought back a city for Jing State, which also made the people of Kyoto breathe a sigh of relief.
The two poems he wrote on the Golden Palace have already been posted. The palindromic poems that can be read both forwards and backwards not only blinded the eyes of countless people, but also amazed countless literati , It turns out that poetry can do this!
In addition, some gossip news that people talked about was also spread from various places in Kyoto.
For example, Zhao Xiuwen, who is known as "the most talented poet in the millennium" in Qi State, didn't even write a poem today. Just seeing Li Xianzi's poems, he immediately gave up and admitted that he was "ashamed of himself", And asked for the original manuscript of Li Xianzi's poems...
Of course, some people reported that Zhao Xiuwen was actually one of the admirers of Li Xianzi's poems. He carried Li Xianzi's collection of poems with him, and he could only fall asleep after reading Li Xianzi's poems a few times at night...
For the people of Kyoto, what could be more depressing than winning today's competition
Of course there is.
That is, they not only want to win, but also win beautifully, winning to convince the people of Qi, and Li Xianzi has achieved this.
On this day, the gloom and sorrow on the faces of the people in Kyoto were wiped away, and there was no more depression in their hearts. One day, countless women in boudoirs took a copy of "Mingyue Collection" and copied the latest song "Huanxisha Dragon Boat Festival" into it. They read "beauties meet each other for a thousand years", their faces flushed...
On this day, Li Yi, the son of Chang'an County, was all over the capital!