Chapter 42 Gambling Contract, Clan History

In the darkness, a ray of light rose from the east, and the morning star gradually came to an end, ushering in a new day.

The early winter morning was already quite chilly, but because of the ancient night curfew, ordinary people could not afford candles and oil lamps.

I fell asleep very early, and I got up early, even the cold of early winter did not stop the determination of the world.

Shu House

Shu An also got up early, if he didn't adapt to the ancient routine when he just crossed over, then he would have been used to it decades later.

Today, however, there is something different, for a young man sits on a stool in the center of the courtyard.

This person is not the teenager who passed the Ten Questions of Shu Mansion yesterday, but Li Shimin, who appeared in Shu Mansion early in the morning, the emperor of the entire Tang Dynasty.

The couple was sitting on one side at this time, with a charcoal basin in the middle and a shelf boiling water.

"Rifle, take out the wine from the ice cellar before."

Shu An's voice sounded, and it had become a custom for the ancients to cook wine, especially in winter.

"Sir, how many years do you take?"

Laifu said respectfully on the side, even he didn't expect that this emperor would arrive in Shufu early in the morning.

"Fifty years!"

Shu An's face was pale, and he said that after he crossed over, he began to store some wine, and he must know that in ancient times, because of the insufficient preservation and sealing, the wine was not of high age.

However, Shu'an directly hid the wine in the ice cellar by freezing the method, although the quality of the wine may be affected somewhat, but the aroma of the wine precipitated by time is enough to make up for it.

Fifty years is the highest year he has stored, after all, he was a teenager when he crossed the New Year, but even he didn't have much stored now.

Li Shimin's eyes on the other side lit up, he didn't expect that there was a way to store wine in the ice cellar, but his face was dark.

That is, even if you start to store wine yourself, you must not be able to reach the level of long, depending on how long you can live.

"Presumably you're here for yesterday's deck."

Shu An threw two eggs into the boiling water and said slowly, it was not so fast to cook the wine immediately, and he still needed to wait for thawing.

"The people of the world have a sleepless night, and they have many questions that they want to ask their father."

Li Shimin's eyes were bloodshot and said, obviously he must not have slept well last night.

"I know what you want to ask, but here I want to ask you what you think of the family and the Shu family?"

Shu An's voice sounded slowly, and he secretly sighed in his heart, this is Li Shimin, the famous monarch of the ages, even if the two of them had some disagreements before, but in order to seek the answer in their hearts, they still came.

You must know that in addition to some fixed festivals for the emperor in this era, there are also ministers who have died, and finally there is a temporary event or weather reasons that do not need to go to court.

Li Shimin, as an existence who had just ascended the throne, almost did not ask for leave, but this time in order to seek answers, he actually stopped the early dynasty.

Now one of the two is not a high-ranking emperor, and the other is not the world-famous An Xuangong, just like two ordinary friends.

Faced with Shu An's question, Li Shimin fell into thought, and Shu An on the side was also not in a hurry.

"Since Emperor Wei Wendi implemented the nine-product Zhongzheng system, hidden dangers have been buried."

"The Zhongzheng official is in the hands of the scholars, and the children of the scholars have passed through the Zhongzheng products to form nobles who have been passed down from generation to generation."

"Correspondingly, the Shu people have almost lost the opportunity to enter the office, and they have accumulated over time, and even formed a situation of co-governance of the gate valve."

.......

Li Shimin talked eloquently, starting from the origin, and Shu An nodded on the side.

Even Emperor Wen of Sui can see it, thus opening up the imperial examination system, and there is no reason why this ancient emperor can't see it.

"The power of the family is too strong, even if there is a imperial examination system, the family can still serve as an important member through recommendation."

"However, the people of the world feel that Ya Father's sentence is a little biased, is it that my Tang Dynasty merits are not as good as some big families."

In the end, Li Shimin concluded aloud, even if he was born in the Li family in Longxi, but now he is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

Shu An smiled slightly, it seems that this king is still obsessed with that sentence, but he wants to say that it is really not comparable, at least in the eyes of Shilin or the people of the world.

"Can the people of the world gamble on a game?"

Shu An's voice sounded slowly, he didn't go to defend anything with Li Shimin, as long as he let this king recognize the reality.

After the words fell, Li Shimin's eyes lit up, and he didn't have confidence even if he wanted to convince this father.

"I don't know how the gamble goes?"

Li Shimin still had patience, and did not agree at the first time, but asked how to gamble first.

"Rebuild the Chronicles of the Clan."

"But because it takes time, it's good to put out the first few first."

"Presumably this shouldn't be difficult, at most it will take a month to decide by ranking."

Shu An's eyes flashed and he said softly, and secretly said in his heart, no matter what he bet on, he won this game.

Historically, Li Shimin Zhenguan began to rebuild the clan chronicles in the sixth year, and the rebuilding was completed in the twelfth year of Zhenguan, and the Shandong Shi clan urged the clan to be the first-class, even above the royal family.

Not to mention that it is only the first year of Zhenguan now, and the influence of the Li Tang royal family is even worse, so this time he has the chance to win.

"If there is a bet, there is a bet, I don't know what the father bets?"

Li Shimin couldn't help but agree with the words of this cheap father-in-law, because when it came to the clan history, he couldn't help but be stunned, how could he forget this matter.

"Forget the bet, no matter what the final result is, I can give you some advice on the imperial examination."

Shu An's eyes flashed and he said softly, this game that must be won is a battle of will, as for the suggestion, he still wants to let Li Shimin take the blame.

For the first time, Li Shimin felt that looking at his cheap father-in-law was a little pleasing to the eye, but he nodded quickly, and agreed with the cheap father-in-law's statement, as if he was afraid of regretting.

At this time, Shu An fished out two eggs from the boiling water, and there were already two small plates next to them, and handed one directly to Li Shimin.

It just so happened that Rifle had already taken out the wine from the ice cellar, and had already removed the ice first, and then carefully removed the boiling water and replaced it with wine.

"It's been a long time since I've drunk, and the two of us drink even rarer."

Shu An's eyes reflected the wine and murmured softly, the two were not harmonious, and they sat down less often.

Li Shimin on the side also sighed, he has never seen through the thoughts of this father-in-law, which can be described as unfathomable.

However, even if he knew that after today, this cheap father-in-law would also not deal with him, but he also enjoyed this short-term harmony, but it was a pity that Guanyin didn't see this scene.