Daming: I became Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest son

At the beginning, Cao Bi just wanted to put on a show. He picked up the book of stones and flipped through a few pages, and was suddenly attracted by the content inside.

Then, he stared at the book intently and continued to read until the middle of the night, when a servant came to change the candles, he didn't even feel anything, and continued to read the book.

On the next morning, with a pair of panda eyes on my face, I was still reminiscing about the plot in The Story of Stone.

At this time, the group of envoys all came in, and looked at this His Highness as if he really wasn't pretending, as if he hadn't slept all night.

One of the envoys came up, looked at Cao Bi and asked.

"Your Highness, could it be that you have read the book all night? It's just a story book, not a classic. How could you be so fascinated by it?"

Regarding the question of his subordinates who don't care about things at all, Cao Bi said directly with a sneer.

"What do you know, no matter how powerful the classics are, they are not as good-looking as this book of stones. It contains a lot of life principles and ways of dealing with the world. I think you should take it and read it. This is the culture of Ming Dynasty. "

When these envoys saw him say this, they were a little strange, and they felt that they all meant to change their nature.

"Your Highness, you wanted to read a book yesterday, and we didn't bother you. Let's go to the Huahua Bar when we have nothing to do today. Although we don't have much money now, we can keep an account."

Cao Bi glanced at the envoy who made the suggestion, and he really didn't know how to despise him, why his subordinates were all like this, and they only wanted to drink flower wine all day long.

"Go and help me find out if the king of Dingyuan has any other books besides this book of stones. Bring them to me. I want to study them carefully."

The envoys were completely dumbfounded. Is this going to transform from a dandy into a scholar?

But such a corner overtaking came too fast, so that people have no room to accept it psychologically.

At this time, one of the envoys said.

"Your Highness, I think you should take a rest first. You can't survive a night without sleep. It's not too late to read a new book in the afternoon. I still have a Romance of the Three Kingdoms here. You can read it."

Unexpectedly, Cao Bi is a learning talent, he directly snatched the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and said.

"Retire all of you. I still have to study hard. Haven't you heard of it? Well, it's a joy to have friends coming from afar, which means that studying must be very happy."

Although these envoys hadn't read a few books and didn't know what the Analects of Confucius was, they were almost blown away by Cao Bi.

What Confucius said was about making friends, does it have anything to do with reading a dime?

But who let him be a prince, and he is just an ordinary mature, everyone has no way to persuade them any more, so they all have to retreat.

Cao Bi looked at the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. He did seem a little tired. He dozed off for a while, but decided to insist on finishing the book.

After flipping through a few pages, he really couldn't control his excitement. The writing was simply better than The Story of Stone.

The more I looked at it, the more excited I felt. This really expressed all the thoughts in his heart.

Especially Guan Erye's loyalty, protecting his sister-in-law to find his brother, and riding alone for thousands of miles, is simply a model for all ministers in the world.

Seeing that it was time to hold the lamp, the prince finally finished reading the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and finally couldn't stand it any longer, and fell asleep on the table.

At this time, a postman came over, helped him to lie down on the bed, and covered him with a quilt to let him rest.

He slept until daybreak, and these envoys came in and told him.

"Your Highness, the three days have come. We should go and see how this King Dingyuan is giving a lecture. The Imperial College has sent a car to pick him up. Let's hurry over there."

Regarding Dingyuan Wang Zhutao, I had never heard of it before and still had some doubts, but after reading these two books, Cao Bi admired it to a certain extent.

"Then what are you waiting for? Hurry up and get a good seat. We have to take a notebook and write it down. We will brag when we go back to Champa. We have also heard King Dingyuan of Ming Dynasty give us a lecture."

These envoys were already confused to a certain extent, thinking that if the prince had been so eager to learn back then, he would have become a learned person by now.

When I arrived at the gate of the Imperial College, I realized that there were already several envoys from small countries occupying seats here.

But Zhu Tao was also quite punctual, and he came over without much effort.

"Everyone has come from afar. Since His Majesty the Emperor asked me to give lectures to you, let's just say a few words. Everyone can sit down casually. Today we will talk about the Romance of the Three Kingdoms."

As soon as these words came out, all the envoys present were basically completely dumbfounded. They can talk about the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, so shouldn't they talk about some Confucian classics?
Zhu Tao looked at them with a smile, knowing that they had doubts in their hearts, so he asked.

"Everyone must want to ask, why did I use the book Romance of the Three Kingdoms as the content of the explanation, right? But I want to ask you a question, why can't your country write such a novel?"

The envoys present at the scene suddenly felt very shameless, and looked at each other, as if one person could answer this question.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Zhu Tao said with a smile.

"It's not surprising that your country can't write these things because of differences in cultural background. I want to ask, do your countries have their own languages?"

These envoys can't help but know something about their country's language even if they are not smart.

Therefore, Cao Bi first stood up and said.

"That's right, our country also has its own script. In the past, our Champa Kingdom also practiced the Ming Dynasty's Chinese characters. Later, because of the ravages of the Yuan Dynasty, it cut off contact with the Ming Dynasty for a while, so we have our own script."

Zhu Tao nodded and said to Cao Bi with a smile.

"However, how can your country's writing be as vivid and concise as Ming Dynasty's, and it has such a profound heritage? This is the difference between cultures. The writing of Ming Dynasty has been formed for thousands of years. This is the best cultural accumulation. .”

Cao Bi had already admired Zhu Tao's knowledge after reading the two books, The Story of the Stone and The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, so he naturally believed what Zhu Tao said.

"It turned out to be because of this reason. Since this is the case, after I return to the country, I will immediately report to my father to abolish the script of the Champa Kingdom and immediately replace it with the Chinese script of Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Tao nodded and said approvingly.

"This envoy seems to be very enlightened. I think everyone can generalize this approach."