Early the next morning, Gu Yuanbai low-key passed the morning meal in Xue Yuan's room. When Old General Xue heard about it, he thought about it and still felt that it was a great disrespect, so he walked towards Xue Yuan's compound early in the morning and waited in front to request a face-to-face meeting with the Holy Spirit.
A moment later, the boy was ordered to bring Old General Xue into the courtyard. Before Old General Xue took a few steps, he saw at a glance the Thousand Mile Horse that the servants in the mansion had spoken of yesterday.
The stallion was bound to the tree, without a single stray hair on its body. This was a good horse, but not the one that Xue Yuan had once bought, the horse that Xue Yuan had bought had a circle of dark colored hair on its four hooves, as if it was a black looped rope, striking and valiant to the core. Old General Xue looked at this horse twice more and walked to the door of the room.
The door to the room creaked, and the smell of rice followed. Gu Yuanbai was sitting behind the table and pointed to the seat in front of him, "Xue Qing, sit."
Old General Xue respectfully went up and sat down, and Xue Yuan handed his old father bowls and chopsticks. Old General Xue's heart and hands itched at the sight of him, but in front of His Holiness, he only slammed down his face.
Xue Yuan lightly glanced at his old man, and then he gave his full attention to the saint, his hand quietly propping up the saint's waist from behind, giving the saint the strength to sit up straight.
Gu Yuanbai relaxed slightly.
Breakfast should be eaten lighter, but the meal used by His Holiness was also too light. Elder General Xue tasted two bites and really couldn't eat it, worrying, "The servants in the residence are really slack, how can His Majesty eat these things?"
Gu Yuanbai took a bite of the flavorless broth and smiled, "Xue Qing, it's not bad to have a taste of congee by chance. Let's not talk about this, it just so happens that you came over this morning, so take a walk with me, I have some things I need to hand over to you to do."
Old General Xue immediately said, "I accept the decree."
*
After the meal, Xue Yuan carefully picked up His Holiness and headed outside.
The carriage of Xue Mansion was already prepared outside the mansion, Xue Yuan went up to take a look and frowned as he jumped down and ran towards the mansion, "Your Holiness wait for me."
In a few moments, however, he carried three cotton quilts and busily spread them in the middle of the carriage.
Gu Yuanbai stood beside the carriage without changing his face, his posture straight, but in reality, his waist was sore and weak, and his calves were somewhat unable to stand straight.
With Xue Yuan not around, no one dared to go up and approach the majestic and incomparable saint. Underneath the neat robes, all this powerlessness was firmly concealed.
General Xue stood by and murmured suspiciously, "Where is the need for three quilts?"
Gu Yuanbai's heart roiled with embarrassment, but fortunately before a moment passed, Xue Yuan spread the quilt and got off the bus to hold His Holiness's hand, "Your Holiness, I'll help you get on the bus."
He was careful, his steps were slow, and every now and then he asked, "Is my minister walking fast? You first see if it is comfortable. Is Your Holiness thirsty? Are your feet tired?"
The voice faded to a whisper, and His Holiness said, "Shut up."
Elder General Xue froze in place for a long time before he rode his horse to follow.
*
The place where Gu Yuanbai went was none other than the residence of his Crown Prince's Crown Prince, Li Bao.
Li's house.
Pavilion placed a side of the ancient qin, the people sat in the pavilion, warm tea was served by the maid, Li Bao trembling reached out his hand, wanting to personally pour a cup of warm tea for the saint.
The saint gently stopped him, "Tai Fu is old, how can you let Tai Fu do such a small thing?"
As soon as His Majesty's words fell, Xue Yuan rose in time and picked up the teapot and quickly poured four cups of tea.
The way he poured the tea was also like a cow chewing peonies, half knowing nothing about the way of tea drinking, Gu Yuanbai's eyelids jumped, still smiling as he took the tea bowl and took a shallow sip.
But no one at the table cared about Xue Yuan's action of pouring the tea.
Li Bao is a little uneasy, but also a little anxious. The saint, however, slowly and leisurely talked to him about the scenery in the courtyard, and read two lines of poetry, "This poetry has spread from Jiangnan to the north and south of the Yangtze River, and if I remember correctly, this talented man had worshipped a disciple of the great master."
Li Bao said, "Yes, this child is full of aura and does have some talent in poetry."
Gu Yuanbai smiled, "Tai Fu has been teaching and educating people for decades, and his peaches and plums are all over the world, each with extraordinary knowledge. The person who is praised by Tai Fu, I am sure that he or she must be a talented person."
"Your holiness," Li Bao was moved by the words of the saint, "I am ashamed, I am ashamed of my young son ...... Your holiness, you trust in me so much, I am really ashamed of it."
"Tai Fu do not want to be too modest," the saint smiled, "your young son is young and ignorant made a mistake, as long as he knows the mistake, I can not care."
Xue Yuan thoughtfully looked at the saint and the Crown Prince Prince deeply in his eyes.
The youngest son of the Crown Prince Taifu once offended His Majesty?
Li Bao was overjoyed and immediately wanted to kneel down to thank him. Gu Yuanbai stopped him and pulled out an envelope from his sleeve, smilingly saying, "Taifu, you come to see this first."
On the letter paper, it is a "Cao Jun discussing the war" with punctuation to break the sentences.
Li Po read the first sentence and noticed the tiny things interspersed between the words, and he looked up in surprise at the saint, who nodded and said, "Read on."
This great scholar of the current dynasty then collected his mind and proceeded to read on.
When Li Bao finished reading it, he was silent for a long time without saying anything, and Gu Yuanbai took a sip of tea unhurriedly before asking, "What does Taifu think of this article?"
Li Bao is difficult to say, complicated, "This ......"
"This is called punctuation," Gu Yuanbai said slowly, "After reading this one, Tai Fu should know its function."
After Gu Yuanbai finished writing this article last night, when he showed it to Xue Yuan, Xue Yuan, a "man of culture," was able to see the general purpose of these punctuation marks, not to mention the world-famous Imperial Teacher Li Baobao.
Li Bao's mouth opened and closed several times, "Your Majesty, I--"
Gu Yuanbai shook his head and only smiled as he asked, "Tai Fu, you only need to speak with me, is this a good thing?"
Li Po's face trembled, and after a long time, he said with difficulty, "This is a good thing."
Gu Yuanbai took the article over, "I'm afraid that Tai Fu has not read it, and then give Tai Fu a good lecture. This curved symbol is called a 'comma' and is used to divide short sentences that have not ended in the middle of the sentence ......"
Speaking down, Li Bao's hand holding the walking stick are shaking, Gu Yuanbai pretended not to see, after speaking with Li Bao said with a smile: "Tai Fu with me, think this is a good thing. Since it is a good thing, I have to implement the world, benefit the people, too Fu said is not it?"
Lippo: "......"
His eyes snapped open.
In this world, people who have got power and money are most afraid of someone coming up to share the money and someone coming up to share the power.
The imperial examination, is a real path to the upper level to change the origin of the road to heaven. This road, the people who are already officials can not cut it off, can not prevent it from coming up to decentralize their own power, can only find another way to use the most basic thing of the imperial examination - sentence reading, to cut off the road to heaven of some people.
Sentence reading is the key to reading, and if you don't know how to read, you can't read. Sect, school, is to use a variety of sentence reading of the difference to strengthen themselves. Readers into which to learn the sentence reading to become an official, and then in the court with their own school of people to form a faction. Like Li Bao, such a great scholar and emperor teacher, behind is the famous "Shangxue" school.
These punctuation marks used by His Holiness basically touched the cake of all those who were already officials, the upper echelons of the various schools of thought.
Who are following this unspoken rule, how the power is divided are growing among the schools, I am willing to share your power, because you are my people. When the officials no longer reject the imperial examinations, the rich money will eventually return to their own hands, but this result, in the long run will only make the emperor dangerous.
Party camping and group hugging, such things are endless even in modern times. From the smallest student class to the largest international world, nowhere can such things be avoided.
When Li Bao couldn't answer, Gu Yuanbai turned his gaze to Old General Xue and asked with a smile, "Secretary Xue, do you think I should promote the world for what is useful to the country and the people?"
Elder General Xue was uncertain, but still nodded his head forcefully, "I think it's right that it should be so!"
On Li Po's aged forehead, there was a drop of cold sweat that followed the wrinkles deep into his temples.
"Your Holiness, this is a good thing," he wanted to say, implicitly, "but I am just afraid that talented people ...... will not be able to accept this kind of new and strange things."
Gu Yuanbai gave him a deep look and put down his teacup, "Taifu thought right, in that case, let's call in a few talented people, and I'll personally ask them to see if they find it acceptable or unacceptable."
"Someone come," without waiting for Li Bao to stop him, Gu Yuanbai said, "Call Chu Wei and Chang Yuyan to come."
*
Chu Wei and Chang Yuyan two people, one is relying on their own talent to really hit the fame, one is held up by the saint, talent name in the Western Xia are times as loud. When they both stood in front of Li Bao, Li Bao is not good, constantly wiping the cold sweat on the head.
The two long-bodied, jade-like young talents passed this article back and forth, looking either puzzled or suddenly enlightened before falling into contemplation.
These two, as talents valued by Gu Yuanbai, are naturally clean behind them. When Gu Yuanbai asked the two of them what they thought about punctuation, Chu Wei took the lead and said bluntly, "For the world's humble people, it is the heavenly moat that has changed."
When he finished, he couldn't help but say, "It is a good thing that the sentence reading is so recognizable."
Chang Yuyan put down the article, also rare and Chu Wei stood on a line, hastily picked up, "Your Majesty, I also think so."
Gu Yuanbai turned his head to look at Li Bao, although he was smiling, it was as if there were swords hidden in his eyes, "Taifu, the talented people of our Daheng all think that this is a good thing."
Li Bao sighed disheveledly and said in a low voice, "Your Holiness, I am not afraid to be frank with you, this is indeed a good thing, but it cannot be used."
"I say can be used can be used," Gu Yuanbai said, "Tai Fu peaches and plums all over the world, as long as Tai Fu feel good, this is really good."
Li Bao instantly understood that this is the meaning of the Holy Spirit wanting to push him out to be the head of the crowd.
His face went white and he subconsciously wanted to push back. But just as his hand reached out, he met the eyes of His Holiness.
The saint's eyes were dark and silent as he watched him.
Li Bao's mind flickered, and he abruptly thought of what His Holiness had said earlier, and of his young son.
The youngest son trespassed into the palace, this is a capital offense, and it is not too much to copy the family. But the saint but the fanfare of the young son sent back, the world knows the saint to his benevolence and tolerance, he really think he can refuse the saint?
Or did His Holiness already calculate today at that time.
The more Li Bao thought about it, the more dizzy and fearful he felt. His Holiness asked with concern, "What's wrong with Tai Fu?"
"Nothing," Li Po shook his head with a pale face, his lips trembling, "I have nothing to do."
Those young men, including Old General Xue, had been sidetracked by Gu Yuanbai, and they were talking underneath the pavilion, and in the middle of the pavilion, there were only two people, Gu Yuanbai and Li Bao.
Gu Yuanbai laughed lightly, "What is Tai Fu afraid of? This thing is a good thing to facilitate the ten thousand people and future generations, and with your Qiankun discipleship, your achievements are destined to remain in history and be highly admired."
"Li Qing, you are known to everyone in the world as a great scholar," Gu Yuanbai's voice lowered, "you learned the words of Confucius, the words of the sages, but have you done what the sages said? You are known as a great scholar, you are my Tai Fu, are you worthy of the title of Imperial Master?"
Li Po leaned on his crutches and was about to kneel.
Gu Yuanbai said, "Sit properly."
Lippo could only stop.
Gu Yuanbai snorted coldly, ''The world's humble people want to read but don't know sentence reading, they want to learn the method of sentence reading, do you know how difficult it is? Once this punctuation method is popularized, the humble scholar can no longer exhaust the means to learn sentence reading, the world will have more talented people, and Daheng will be better off. I know where you are afraid of the point, I will tell you this, if you have the people of the world in your heart, I will be behind you to protect you, your several bumbling sons, I can allow you to Li House for three generations will not be scattered. If you only take the words of the saints as a means to gain fame and fortune ......"
Coercion, enticement.
Li Bao's brain hurriedly turned, in fact for him to choose only one result. Li House in the hearts of the world, is that they owe the saint, is the saint because Li Bao and around the Li House, because of this, death are dead without words.
The court officials, the various university schools ...... Li Bao finally lowered his head, "What the saint said, I understand. I have learned the words of the saints for most of my life, and naturally I should ...... should use them for the people."
Gu Yuanbai smiled, "Good, this is my good Tai Fu."