Chapter 0449 A certain amount of respect must be given to capable people
Xue Wanshu savored these words carefully. After savoring them for a long time, he felt that they made sense. He immediately nodded and said, "That's true."
However, he didn't say much on this topic, because if the wealthy family knew about it, he would be easily targeted, and criticizing the prince would be a serious crime.
Li Yuanji had no scruples in this regard, because he himself came from a wealthy family and was the prince's brother. Occasionally, he said something bad about the wealthy family and the prince. When the wealthy family and the prince knew about it, they could only stare.
This is the privilege given to Li Yuanji by status, because in terms of origin and status, Li Yuanji is relatively equal to them.
Therefore, Li Yuanji is qualified to criticize them, to speak ill of them, and even to point their noses in curses.
Others can't.
Because no matter whether they are a wealthy family or a prince, they only accept criticism from people whose status is relatively equal to them, and they only allow people who are relatively equal to them to say bad things about them.
If someone whose status is inferior to them dares to speak ill of them, it means provocation in their eyes.
They will not hesitate to use the power and strength in their hands to give the provocateur a thunderous blow to maintain their majesty.
This is why aristocratic families cannot be offended and imperial power cannot be provoked.
Although the Xue family from which Xue Wanshu was born is not a weak clan, it is far inferior to the Five Surnames Qiwang, and even Henan San Dou, and the Yang family in Guanzhong.
So he didn't dare to criticize those wealthy families like Li Yuanji.
Xue Wanshu is also a minister and servant of the Li family. He can only maintain respect for the young patriarch of the Li family and cannot criticize him.
Today I expressed my feelings and criticized him. Li Yuanji did not shout and kill him because he wanted to maintain the dignity of the Li family. For him, it was a blessing and a rare act of arrogance.
You must know that in this era where clan is more important than anything else, any clan member has the responsibility to maintain the reputation and dignity of the clan when he is away from home.
As a descendant of the Li family, Li Yuanji should work hard to defend the young patriarch of the Li family and use fists and kicks when he hears someone criticizing him.
As a direct descendant of the Li family, Li Yuanji not only failed to defend the young patriarch of the Li family, but also joined in the criticism. This was actually rare in the Tang Dynasty.
Li Yuanji may not care whether the young patriarch of the Li family is criticized, or he may not care about the clan responsibilities imposed on him by the Li family, but Xue Wanshu cannot care.
So he didn't discuss this topic too much, but talked about other things.
He kept talking until Li Yuanji's interest waned and he didn't want to listen any more, so he found an excuse to leave.
Li Yuanji felt that the scenery of Jiulongtan Mountain today was particularly eye-catching, and wanted to see it for a while longer, so he sent someone to call Li Chengqian and Li Chengye to see Xue Wanshu off together.
Xue Wanshu was a little flattered. In order to prevent the affairs of a prince and two princes from being spread out and criticized by others, he resolutely wanted to ride for Li Chengqian and Li Chengye.
Then Li Chengqian and Li Chengye rode on Xue Wanshu's shoulders, one on the left and the other on the right. Sometimes they opened their mouths and screamed into the wind, like two idiots. At the next moment, they stood on Xue Wanshu's shoulders, letting Xue Wanshu hold them firmly.
feet, then stretched out his neck and hands to pick wild apricots on the roadside to eat.
Wild green apricots are very sour, which can cause toothaches and headaches.
But it is appetizing and can stimulate people's taste buds, making people want to eat more.
Li Chengqian and Li Chengye only stayed under the wild apricot tree for a quarter of an hour, and they managed to revive half of the wild apricot branches.
The two of them ate sloppily and sluggishly, but kept stuffing stuff into their mouths.
He didn't eat much of the apricot head and tail, but only the ring of pulp in the middle of the apricot, and then stuffed the remaining apricot head and tail with the apricot pit into Xue Wanshu's mouth.
Xue Wanshu grinned with pain, but he kept saying thank you.
At one moment, I thank this county king for the reward, and at another time, I thank that county king for the reward.
When the two princes heard Xue Wanshu's thanks, they seemed to be encouraged and fed even more energetically.
The expression on Xue Wanshu's face gradually became more distorted.
Li Yuanji felt that Xue Wanshu was very useless, and he also felt that Li Chengqian and Li Chengye were a bit disrespectful.
But considering that Xue Wanshu was suffering on his behalf, if he had prevented Xue Wanshu from being fed, and prevented Li Chengqian and Li Chengye from continuing to be fed, then the person who was fed would most likely become him.
So he decisively pretended that he saw nothing and could not see anything.
Li Yuanji used to like eating green apricots, especially those after the white layer of down on the apricots had dissipated, but he didn't eat them much later.
Because I was injured from eating.
Li Yuanji still remembers that when he was fourteen years old, the green apricots planted by his neighbor next door in the private plot behind the homestead were bearing fruit. The down had just faded, and the round, bare green apricots appeared after a light rain.
The drops of water are really adorable.
He couldn't help but stretched out his claws and stole more than twenty of them in one go. He didn't even wash them. He just wiped the water droplets on them and put them all into his stomach. Then he suffered from unbearable abdominal pain in the middle of the night and was taken away.
He was sent to the hospital overnight and almost lost half his life.
After he was cured, he was beaten twice by his parents again, which taught him a lot.
And while being beaten by mixed doubles, he learned one thing, that is, the water droplets on the neighbor's apricots were not the residue after light rain, but freshly sprayed pesticides.
Fortunately, the pesticide was not a violent one, otherwise he would have lost not only half his life, but his entire life.
From then on, he never ate green apricots again.
And he has engraved this lesson learned through life into the depths of his soul. Even if he traveled through time, even if he knew that the green apricots of the Tang Dynasty, especially the wild green apricots, were non-toxic, non-polluting, and had no pesticide residues, he would not
Willing to eat.
Therefore, he could only let Xue Wanshu eat it, and he could only let Xue Wanshu suffer it on his behalf.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After Li Chengqian and Li Chengye harmed two branches of wild green apricots, they finally stopped, and Xue Wanshu also escaped from the clutches of the clutches.
Because Ye Qingxing ate too much, Xue Wanshu could no longer speak a complete sentence. He could only drool, grin his teeth, and speak stumblingly.
Li Chengqian and Li Chengye showed extreme dislike for this, saying that they were unwilling to stay on Xue Wanshu's shoulders and could only transfer to the guards' shoulders.
As for Li Yuanji...
That is impossible.
One is someone else’s child, and the other is someone else’s child in terms of soul. Why should he be used as a horse for them to ride on?
Besides, they had just bullied Xue Wanshu due to their youth and ignorance, so why should they be treated like a prince's car?
Impossible, absolutely impossible.
Not only cannot they be given a better salary, but they must also be educated and reasoned with after returning to Jiudao Palace.
Although the elderly will not object when eating food stained by children's saliva, this is limited to their own children, and other people's children will only make people feel diaphragmatic and disgusting.
The reason why Xue Wanshu gratefully ate the remaining wild green apricots they gave him was not because he treated them as his own children, but because their status meant that Xue Wanshu had to smile in front of them.
If he had a different identity, do you think Xue Wanshu would still pay attention to them?
It is precisely because of this that we must reason with them and make them understand that they cannot treat the meritorious ministers of the Tang Dynasty in the same manner as they treat palaces and servants.
Xue Wanshu is undoubtedly a capable person, and the Xue brothers are undoubtedly a group of capable brothers.
To treat such capable people and those who have a group of capable brothers, we must give a certain amount of respect, and we must try our best to maintain their dignity and prevent them from inadvertently becoming sycophants in the mouths of others.
In the Tang Dynasty, especially in this period when great people were everywhere, sycophants would not be respected by anyone.
No one would regard them as colleagues after leaving Tai Chi Palace.
It's like the incident where Li Yuanji encountered Yin Ashu violently beating Du Ruhui at the beginning of his time travel.
The reason why Du Ruhui didn't dismount when he passed by the Yin Mansion was not that he didn't know the etiquette and rules of the court, nor that he didn't know that Yin Ah Shu was higher than him in official position and title.
But he thinks he is a capable person, and looks down on people like Yin Ashu who relied on nepotism to get up, and he also looks down on the title that Yin Ashu got through nepotism.
In fact, it's not just Du Ruhui, most people who feel they are somewhat capable behave like this when they pass by the mansion of people like Yin Asu.
The reason why only Du Ruhui was beaten was because Du Ruhui was easy to bully. If he beat Du Ruhui, he could get rewards from the East Palace and Prince Qi's Mansion. Moreover, when Li Shimin raised an army to investigate the crime, he could also invite the crown prince and Prince Qi to support him.
People like Yin Ah Shu rely on this way of hugging their thighs to survive in both the government and the public.
Once they lose their thighs, they will die immediately, so fast that you won't be able to react.
Li Yuanji did not want Xue Wanshu to become such a person just to accommodate Li Chengqian and Li Chengye, so this problem must be solved fundamentally.
After sending Xue Wanshu down the mountain, after visiting the scenery halfway up the mountain and playing in one of the shallow pools of Jiulong Pond, Li Yuanji asked the guards to carry Li Chengqian and Li Chengye back to Jiudao Palace.
After sending the guards down to rest, they began to give Li Chengqian and Li Chengye 'classes'.
Since Li Chengye was still too young to understand the general principles, Li Yuanji could only explain the general principles to Li Chengqian, and then Li Chengqian would teach Li Chengye by words and deeds when encountering similar situations.
This is actually a very good way to educate children. It doesn’t require too much worry and effort. It just has a rigid prerequisite.