"Although Prime Minister Qin is a little pedantic, he never loses his righteousness. If Qin Yu is alone, without the power of Qin's Mansion, we don't have to worry too much."
Looking at Li Xuan's seemingly reasonable analysis, Li Yi couldn't help but ask, "What about the king of Shu?"
"What about the king of Shu?" Li Xuan asked doubtfully.
"If the king of Shu becomes the emperor, what will you do?"
Li Xuan thought of the king of Shu and the current emperor at the same time. He hesitated for a while, shook his head and said, "I don't think the king of Shu can be the emperor."
Li Xuan's surname was Li, but his name was not Li Chunfeng. He didn't think that one thing would not affect the other thing at all.
Li Yi thought that he couldn't gamble with the future of the Li family and the Viscount's Mansion with the king of Shu's generosity. It was time to make some long-term plans.
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"Well, that's all for today. From tomorrow on, you don't have to come every day. I'll ask Princess Shouning to inform you of the specific time of the class."
Li Yi stood in front of them and clapped his hands. The princes and princesses immediately dispersed.
Two hours a day could teach a lot of content. Now, these princes and princesses only needed to attend the math class. It wouldn't take long for them to grow from first-graders to second-graders.
Li Yi felt that it was enough for them to learn up to this level. As for the deeper things, they would never need them for the rest of their lives anyway. The standard of not making mistakes when buying groceries was enough for them to use for the rest of their lives if they needed to buy their own groceries.
"My brother, what are you writing?"
Seeing that the teacher had left and Monarch Jin was still lying on the table biting the tip of his pen, a young prince ran over and asked in confusion.
"Shh, don't disturb me. I'm doing math." Monarch Jin waved his hand as if shooing away a fly and continued to frown.
"Oh …" The young prince nodded and looked at the paper on the table.
"My brother, you're a liar!" Suddenly, as if discovering something, the young prince frowned and pointed at Monarch Jin.
"How did I lie to you?" Monarch Jin glared at him and said, "Go away, don't make trouble for me. Go play somewhere else!"
"You're a liar!" The little prince pointed at the strange symbols on the paper and said, "You didn't even write a number. This is not mathematics!"
Hearing this, Prince Jin was stunned. He looked down at the A, B, X, and Y on the paper and sighed deeply. He touched the little prince's head and took out a booklet from under the table. He said, "Xiaowen, you are still too young to understand the horror of arithmetic. Come on, let me broaden your horizons …"
Not long after, a certain youth walked out of the Bowen Hall with a dumbfounded expression. He stood at the entrance in a daze, his face filled with deep bewilderment.
Just now, under the guidance of his imperial brother, Prince Jin, his life had undergone an inhumane subversion.
Why put chickens and rabbits in the same cage? Why count their heads and feet? Isn't it boring? Have you ever considered the feelings of the chicken and rabbit?
Also, why does Li Lei pursue Han Meimei? How long will it take for Li Lei to catch up with Han Meimei? How dare he molest an innocent woman? Li Lei, come out now. I'll ask the guards to break your legs!
What's more, why did he pour and scoop water for the Dragon-Phoenix Pond? Why did he ask how long it would take for the pond to be empty? Water is very precious. A few days ago, during the drought, his imperial father warned them to save water because there were still many people who didn't have water to drink. If anyone dared to scoop up the water in the Dragon-Phoenix Pond, his imperial father would definitely punish them!
The weather outside was a little hot, but the youth didn't feel hot at all. After shivering, he no longer felt that the mathematics he was learning was very difficult. He looked into the hall with some pity, then quickly ran away …
Just as Prince Jin was scratching his ears and cheeks and sweating because of a difficult problem, in the cool Morning Dew Hall, Princess Shouning grabbed the last piece of meat roll with her nimble hands. She proudly raised her chin at Li Yi, dipped it in the sauce that Li Yi had personally made in the jade bowl, and quickly stuffed it into her mouth.
Among all the palaces in the entire imperial palace, there were only three that were so cool, except for the old emperor's residence.
Princess Yong Ning's palace, Consort Yan's (Shouning's mother) palace, and the last one was Princess MIngzhu Royal's Morning Dew Hall.
After class, Li Yi was dragged here by Princess Shouning. The reason was that the hot pot base made by the imperial chefs in the palace was not as authentic as his.
"Is there anything new in the imperial court recently?" Li Yi put some vegetables into the pot and asked casually.
MIngzhu raised her head and looked at him in surprise. Didn't he always have no interest in these things?
She was only slightly surprised for a moment, then she said, "What do you mean?"
"Just say something."
MIngzhu thought for a while and said, "It's not a big deal. These days, the most discussed topic in the imperial court is that the Qi Kingdom has promised great benefits. They want to exchange a large amount of wealth for the two cities that we have occupied. The imperial court is divided into two factions. Some people think that the Qi Kingdom is too powerful. Although we had the upper hand last time, it's not appropriate for us to continue to be enemies. If the Qi Kingdom wants to exchange salt, iron, and warhorses, it's not impossible to consider it. The other faction thinks that the two cities are already part of our territory, so they don't agree to the exchange."
She looked up at Li Yi and asked, "What do you think?"
Li Yi didn't want to change his name to Li Yuan Fang. He quickly reached out and grabbed the last piece of tofu in the pot before Princess Shouning and put it in his own bowl. Then he said, "What else can I think? Let's eat and think!"
"How dare you eat my tofu!" Princess Shouning pretended to be angry and glared at Li Yi.
"What do you mean by 'your tofu'? It belongs to whoever got it."
"I put it in just now. It belongs to me!"
"But you ate the meat I put in just now …"
"I, I … I don't care. You ate my tofu just now, so the tofu you put in just now belongs to me!"
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MIngzhu looked at the two people arguing endlessly over a piece of tofu and suddenly felt a headache coming on. Only then did she realize that she had asked a useless question. Ever since the incident with Tian Fa, he had never said much about these things. It would be strange to hear any opinion from him.
Li Yi looked at her and asked again, "Let's not talk about these boring things. What else is there to talk about?"
MIngzhu knew that the 'boring things' he was talking about were all the affairs of the state. She shook her head and said helplessly, "When the envoy of the Qi Kingdom was negotiating with my father and the court officials about the two cities, several people who claimed to be scholars of the Qi Kingdom suddenly appeared in the capital. In the name of exchanging knowledge, they challenged the great scholars of the Jing Kingdom. They involved poetry, scripture, and all kinds of miscellaneous knowledge …"
"What happened in the end?" Li Yi was obviously much more interested in this matter.
"We've lost." Li Mingzhu shook her head and said, "We've lost. We've lost completely."
"Prime Minister Qin lost to a nameless old man in a debate about scripture. In a fit of anger, he fell ill for three days. These days, he didn't even bother my father with the matter of naming the crown prince. Great Scholar Wang Zhong, who is over 50 years old and is known as the poetry ghost, competed with a young man in poetry. He admitted on the spot that his poetry was inferior. Chess Saint Bai Yu played three games with that person and lost every game …"
Upon hearing this, Li Yi was a little stunned. He didn't even realize that his tofu had been eaten by Princess Shouning.
Only a few people from the Qi Kingdom had come, but they had defeated the most powerful people of the Jing Kingdom in their respective fields. This was a slap to the face!
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