Chapter Eighty-Eight: Betting Competition
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Li Yuanba's laughter was very loud, and the palace hall, which was originally a little noisy, instantly became silent, and more than sixty scribes turned their heads in unison, looking at this strange prince with a surprised face, I don't know what happened to him?
"Who am I?" Li Yuanba chuckled lightly and said, "It doesn't matter who I am, the important thing is that you can know where you are at the moment, and what is your identity here?" â
It seemed that Li Yuanba's tone made Wang Zihao a little uncomfortable, he frowned and looked at Li Yuanba, and said, "Where am I, what is my identity, and what does it have to do with you?" â
"Why, don't you dare to answer?" Li Yuanba's eyebrows raised, he drained the wine in the cup in one gulp, and said, "You dare to come here to make trouble without even thinking about this problem clearly?" â
"Joke, what's the reason you don't dare to answer this?" Provoked by Li Yuanba's words, a trace of anger flashed on Lu Chaolin's face, and he said with a sneer: "This place is the palace of Zhaojun Wang, and we are all from five surnames and seven families!" â
"Hahaha, since you know that this is the Zhaojun Palace, why do you put on a lofty posture? Who is it for? Li Yuanba laughed and said:
"As the saying goes, 'the gentleman is virtuous, and the villain is virtuous. The gentleman is punished, and the villain is favored'. Now, you are waiting for the momentum to come, and you are arrogant and asking the king of the county, but where have you thrown away the gentleman's virtue and deeds? â
"You rude! Since the king of Zhao Jun abandoned my five surnames and seven families first, if it weren't for this, how could I personally come to the door to beg for fun? Lu Chaolin waited for Li Yuanba, and his eyes seemed to be a little bulging.
"Wrong! Miss by a mile! Li Yuanba stretched out his finger and made a big cross in mid-air, and said, "How do you know that the county king did not recruit scribes from five surnames and seven families?" It's just that your own family members are not angry, and you don't have that talent, so you fell off the list! â
"Whew!"
Wang Zihao, who was standing beside Lu Chaolin, sneered when he heard this, and said: "My five surnames and seven families are big families, and there are more than 10,000 books in the clan, all kinds of famous classics, single volumes of ancient books, and more than 1,000 books. â
A faint brilliance flashed in Li Yuanba's eyes, he looked at Wang Zihao and said, "You don't believe it? Do you want to take a gamble with me? â
"Bet on what?" Wang Zihao asked directly.
"Since you said that all of you people with five surnames and seven families are amazingly talented, then you must be very familiar with the 'Six Arts of Gentlemen'!" Li Yuanba flicked his wine glass and continued: "Just bet, what do you think of these six arts?" â
The six arts of the gentleman refer to the rites, music, archery, royalty, calligraphy, and mathematics, of which the rites, music, calligraphy, and numbers are the literature, and the archery is the martial arts.
In the Tang Dynasty, scribes paid more attention to the four arts of literature, and often had a little contact with the two arts of martial arts, and then they would abandon one side. At best, the latter two arts of the scribe are a little bit stronger than the begging sharp brother.
"Can you call the shots?" Wang Zihao looked Li Yuanba up and down for a long time and said.
Li Yuanba did not speak, but glanced at Li Xiaogong.
Li Xiaogong had already been shocked by Li Yuanba's sudden rise, and at this moment, seeing Li Yuanba looking at him, he nodded hurriedly and said, "Yes, he can naturally represent our Zhaojun Palace!" â
Wang Zihao didn't expect Li Xiaogong to agree so quickly, he glanced at Li Yuanba, turned his head and glanced at the people who came with him, and when he saw everyone nodding in unison, he said, "Okay, I'm betting with you!" How to compare? And what is the stake? â
"You and I are each out of our own people, and we will compete in the six arts of a gentleman. If either side wins, the lantern riddles, pairs and poems of the Shangyuan Festival will all be handed over to the winner to complete, and the agreed bet is 100,000 taels of gold, 500,000 taels of silver, and 50,000 horses of cloth. â
Li Yuanba's words are not shocking, and the bet is even more life-threatening.
"Four...... Great virtue! You ......"
When Li Yuanba's voice landed, Li Xiaogong's eyelids jumped and he pulled Li Yuanba. Who knew that Li Yuanba didn't bird him at all, but just stared at Wang Zihao with a pair of eyes.
Li Xiaogong's face suddenly became bitter, it's not that he can't take out these money and cloth, the key is that this can be said to be the first time that the Li royal family has confronted the five surnames and Qiwang head-on.
Just like Wang Zihao just said, the five surnames and Qiwang are the most famous and powerful seven scholars in the Tang Dynasty, in addition to being wealthy, they almost monopolized the cultivation of literati.
In fact, the reason why Li Xiaogong only chose those scribes cultivated by small families to participate in the Shangyuan Festival Lantern Festival this time was Li Shimin's instructions.
Li Shimin used this Shangyuan Festival Lantern Festival as a tool to test the bottom line of the five surnames and seven hopes.
Don't underestimate the Shangyuan Festival Lantern Festival, the Shangyuan Festival Lantern Festival in Chang'an, Datang will gather all the members of the big families in Datang, and even those Fanbang outsiders will send ministers to Chang'an City to participate in the grand event.
At that time, the lantern riddles, pairs and poems written on the lanterns will be concerned by thousands of people, as long as the five surnames and seven hopes have obtained the right to create zĂ o and write poems, then the prestige of the five surnames and seven hopes will be higher and higher, and the influence of the Li royal family on the people of the Tang Dynasty and even the foreign people of Fanbang will be reduced.
When the time comes, it will go viral all over the world: the Li royal family and the five surnamed Qiwang lost the bet, and the culprit is Li Xiaogong, the king of Zhao County.
This is what Li Shimin does not want to see!
And when the time comes, once the saint gets angry and meows, do you want people to live?
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Compared with Li Xiaogong's anxiety, Wang Zihao quickly calmed down after the initial shock.
The five surnames and seven wangs are wealthy, and they don't care about money, cloth or anything at all, but he obviously thought of what Li Xiaogong thought of just now, but winning is a million profits, and losing seems to be losing some property.
So after thinking about it for a while, Wang Zihao nodded and said, "Okay, I'll bet with you!" â
"Wait a minute! I have one more string attached! Li Yuan said domineeringly: "If you lose, I want the seven of you to make up a thousand famous classics and unique ancient books and send them to the Zhaojun Palace!" â
"This ......"
Wang Zihao hesitated, the classics and the solitary book are the lifeblood of their seven families, and a large part of the reason why the five surnames and seven hopes can arrange such a force in the Tang Dynasty is because at least sixty percent of the literati in the world are from these seven families.
Li Yuanba's move is really ruthless, and he directly began to extract the foundation of others.
"Hahaha, I'll just say, how can you be a hairy kid? In my opinion, you should hurry home and find someone who can do the master to talk to me!" Li Yuanba said with a playful face.
"Brother Zihao, what else are you considering? Have you forgotten that before you came, Shi Bo said that this matter can be entrusted to you with carte blanche to represent? Could it be that you, the young patriarch of the Taiyuan royal family, can't even do this? â
Lu Chaolin's voice was full of anxiety.
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