Liu Li and Liu Xiang set off the whip there again.
‘Whoop’, ‘pop’!
Due to a launch error, one of Liu Xiang's firecrackers did not go up into the sky. Instead, it flew far along the street before exploding.
"Hey..." The sound of firecrackers startled a passing carriage.
"Whose unlucky kid!" the coachman yelled, "You don't have eyesight!"
"Sorry, sorry." Liu Xiang and Liu Li quickly apologized. "Are you okay?"
"Do you know who is sitting in the car? I won't let you adults come out to apologize!" The arrogant driver had no intention of letting them go.
"Shut up." An old man's calm voice sounded from the carriage.
"Yes." The coachman immediately shut up, quickly put down the pillar, and helped the tall old man get out of the car.
"I'm sorry, grandpa, did I scare you?" Liu Li suddenly flashed her big eyes and said apologetically on her small face.
That pitiful look made the coachman involuntarily reflect, am I too cruel, why are I showing off my teeth?
"It's okay, it's okay. This girl is really handsome. Are you Uncle Chengyi's granddaughter?"
"Yes, who is this?"
"I'm Li Shanchang, have you heard of it?" Li Shanchang smiled kindly, showing no trace of the panic he had last night.
"Of course, my grandpa often mentions you." Liu Li nodded and said with a sweet smile, "Grandpa Li has a great New Year."
"Okay, happy New Year to you too." Li Shanchang said, taking out two red envelopes from his sleeves, handing one to Liu Li and the other to Liu Xiang.
Liu Li happily took it, took out a candy wrapped in red paper from her purse, and said in return: "Grandpa, please have some candy."
"Thank you, thank you." Li Shanchang smiled and took the candy, put it into his sleeve, and said to Liu Xiang, who looked wary:
"Go and tell your grandpa that the old man is here to pay him New Year's greetings."
~~
After a while, Liu Lian got the message and came out. He bowed deeply to Li Shanchang and said: "It turns out that you are really the Grand Master. My father is ill in bed and has not stepped out of the door for a year. I can't welcome him from afar, so I still ask the Grand Master Haihan."
"Hey, I just came to see him." Li Shanchang waved his hand indifferently, and followed Liu Lian inside, smiling and saying: "I heard that your father closed the door to thank guests, so he didn't send a greeting card, so he just
I came to pay him New Year’s greetings.”
"Master, is this a weasel paying New Year's greetings to a rooster?" Liu Ji's teasing voice sounded at the door of the study.
"You old man, you are already so old, why are you still so venomous?" Li Shanchang laughed and cupped his hands at him.
"Brother Bowen, long time no see, I miss you very much."
"I never thought that I would see the Grand Master again in this life." Liu Ji also said with emotion.
They were old rivals who had fought for more than ten years, and they were also golden partners who had a tacit understanding of each other. They both cherished each other, but also disliked each other...
However, at this age, Liu Ji was quite happy to see each other less often, otherwise he would not have gone to the study door to greet him.
"I've always heard that Brother Bowen is seriously ill. He didn't even go to Fengyang under the order of superiors. I thought you couldn't even get out of bed." Li Shanchang looked at Liu Ji with a smile:
"You look good. You're younger than you were five years ago. It's going to be just around the corner for you to make a comeback."
This is not entirely a compliment. Liu Bowen's health has improved a lot this year. Especially after having a glimpse of the future, his fighting spirit was rekindled and his whole body was full of energy.
My mental state is renewed and I look naturally younger.
"The most important thing for a minister is to know how to advance and retreat." Liu Bowen invited him into the room and sat on the couch. "The emperor is tired of us old faces, so please stop being shy and annoying others."
After a pause, he asked narrowly: "Besides, does the Grand Master want me to go to Fengyang?"
"Of course I don't want to." Li Shanchang said with a bitter smile: "Han Yike is already too much for me to deal with. If it were his master who was in charge, why would I want to kill my foolish brother?"
Speaking of which, Liu Bowen was three years older than Li Shanchang. Moreover, they both took the imperial examination in the same year. But Li Shanchang could not call Liu Bowen "Brother Nian" because Liu Bowen failed in high school.
Therefore, facing Liu Bowen, Lao Li always felt inferior. Even if he became prime minister, became a duke, and became the first civil servant, he still did not completely turn over in front of Lao Liu.
It wasn't until he knew that that he could look at Liu Bowen as he does now.
If Liu Ji hadn't asked for something today, he would have made fun of Lao Liu about that incident.
~~
"I came to see you this time, brother, to tell you the truth and to ask for something." After reminiscing about the past, Li Shanchang got to the point and said in a deep voice, "But it's not for myself, but for the common people in the world."
"Do you want me to go out and slay demons?" Liu Bowen shook his head gently and said, "I am old, and I can no longer lift the peach wood sword."
"No, brother, have you heard about what happened last night?" Li Shanchang refused to follow him in circles, otherwise he would have to let Lao Liu take the lead.
"I've heard something." Liu Bowen nodded and said, "I heard that many officials who went to Beijing to file tax returns were arrested. But what does this have to do with the common people in the world?"
"Why doesn't it matter?" Li Shanchang said solemnly with a dark face: "Because of a trivial matter, without going to the judicial department, we directly sent troops to arrest more than 400 officials! If you are in charge, you must be an independent man!"
"Just be an independent man, as long as you are not a bandit." Liu Bowen shook his head indifferently.
"Why do you think so?" Li Shanchang immediately said anxiously: "The harm of an independent man is worse than that of thieves! Since ancient times, the king and the scholar-bureaucrats have ruled the world together! How can anyone be like the emperor, who treats the scholar-bureaucrats as nothing, and kills them whenever he wants?
Catch them if you want?!
"If you can't even punish a doctor, how can you talk about co-governance by monarchs and ministers?!"
"So I always say, brother, you should study more." Liu Bowen took the opposite attitude and said: "The Song Dynasty was the most successful in co-governing by monarchs and ministers, and it was also the Song Dynasty that treated scholar-officials the most favorably. Song Taizu also took 'Don't kill scholar-officials' as an ancestral motto
Engraved on the monument.
"But what did the Song Dynasty get? It was a shame that no other dynasty combined could compare with." Liu Bowen sneered and said:
"Among all the dynasties, only the Song Dynasty, which ruled jointly between emperor and ministers, never touched a single brick of the Great Wall from beginning to end; only they lost the Loop and never recaptured the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, and even the mere Annan could beat them.
"Not to mention the eternal crime of destroying the country and annihilating our species and severing our Chinese bloodline!" Liu Bowen suddenly raised his voice, his eyes were like lightning, and he glared at Li Shanchang and said:
"Do you also want the Ming Dynasty to repeat the mistakes of the weak Song Dynasty and suffer another subjugation of the country and the genocide?"
"Brother, what are you talking about? Don't be excited, don't be excited." Li Shanchang looked at Liu Bowen incomprehensibly. He clearly remembered that when he was a minister in the same court five or six years ago, Old Liu also advocated that the emperor and the scholar-bureaucrats should share the world.
How come after several years of not seeing each other, your thoughts have changed so much? Have you become so extreme?
ps. Post it first and then revise it. Then write another chapter and read it tomorrow morning.
