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Chapter 1263 The Golden Bowl is Indispensable

"Don't be angry, don't be angry."

Crown Prince Li Hong held his son Li Longji's hand and comforted the child in a low voice.

Li Longji is only five years old this year. As the crown prince, he has always been the object of everyone's praise. Unfortunately, when he arrived in Chang'an today, his sister Li Han was surrounded by a group of people, but no one cared about him, the crown prince. This made Li Longji, who had always been spoiled by the Pei family, unable to accept it for a while.

Of course, Li Hong was also the one who was left out, because Yu Xiurong and his gang burst into tears after seeing Naha. Even the usually stern master Yun Chu stood aside with red eyes and ignored him.

No one paid any attention to Li Hong and his son. Li Hong did not feel embarrassed at all. The father and son looked up together to study the bird's nest on the giant locust tree.

"Aye put some things in that bird's nest back then, and I don't know if they are still there now."

Seeing that her uncle and his son were in such a pitiful state, Yun Luan continued, "The golden egg is gone. When the Liushui sign exploded, my mother took it and sold it to fill the hole."

Li Hong laughed and said, "It must be there."

Yun Luan spread her hands and said, "I watched my elder brother take it down."

Li Hong shook his head and said, "If I say it's here, it must be here."

Yun Luan didn't know where Li Hong got his confidence from, so she tied the hem of her robe to her belt, took off her shoes, and started climbing the tree. As Li Hong and his son looked up at her, she climbed to the bird's nest in a few steps, took out some things from the nest, put them in her arms, and climbed down.

Li Hong looked at the four golden eggs that Yun Luan took out, picked one from the middle, and broke it hard. The originally tightly fitted golden egg was broken into two halves. There was a small jade pendant inside the golden egg. Li Hong looked at the words on it and smiled, then hung the jade pendant around Li Longji's neck.

Yun Luan said puzzledly: "It was obviously sold, and sold for a good price."

Li Hong rolled his eyes at Yun Luan and said, "You know nothing."

Yun Luan shook her head and said, "I don't know shit, I just wonder why the golden egg is still there."

Li Hong didn't plan to explain to Yun Luan, the idiot. He squatted down and looked at his son straight in the eye and said, "In the future, if you have something you want to hide, or something you don't want others to know, you can continue to put it in this bird's nest."

Li Longji was a pretty little boy. Even though his father had put a jade pendant around his neck, he still said unhappily, "Master likes my sister, not me."

Li Hong sighed and said, "Because you are not born by Naha's mother."

Li Longji raised his head and said, "Just like when my child and my sister went to Pei's, it was the same reason why Pei liked my child but not my sister?"

Li Hong nodded and said, "That's right, Pei's is your mother's home, and this is your mother Naha's home."

Li Longji asked, "Aren't we all Aye's children?"

Li Hong nodded and said, "So you can stand here without being chased out."

Lee Hong-ki angrily asked, "Who dares?"

Li Hong covered his son's mouth and said to Yun Chu with a smile: "This child needs discipline."

Yun Chu snorted coldly and said, "The Yun family's teachings have no connection with this child."

Li Hong said with a bitter face: "Master's distinction is too clear. In terms of qualifications, Han'er is not as good as Longji'er."

Yun Chu sneered and said, "With your talent, I can teach you to be a qualified emperor. There is no reason why Han'er can't do the same."

Li Hong smiled and said, "If Master wants to spread the Yun family's teachings, the identity of the Imperial Master is indispensable."

Yun Chu shook his head and said, "I have put the most effort into you, and as a result, you have learned it, but what's the use of it? The knowledge I taught you will conflict with your inherent ideas when you govern the world. The Yun family's family learning is to be applied, to integrate knowledge and practice. You have learned the best, but you don't use it, which is a waste of my efforts.

Longjier is your eldest son. Given your temper, you will certainly not be willing to abandon the system of primogeniture. If I continue to teach this child, he will learn with all his effort, but in the end it will just be a bunch of useless knowledge.

Even though Han'er has learned less, he can put his knowledge into practice because of his low status."

The master and the disciple walked to the back house while talking. Of course, there was Li Longji looking up at them between them.

This Li Longji is not the Li Longji that Yun Chu knows, simply because this Li Longji is born to Li Hong, while the one Yun Chu knows is not.

"The spread of knowledge requires an environment. The Yun family's family education is facing a bad environment. If I continue to be the next prince's teacher, I think you should understand the consequences I will face."

Li Hong smiled indifferently: "Just a bunch of corrupt scholars."

Yun Chu shook his head and said, "It is this group of corrupt scholars who have propped up the present-day Tang Dynasty. If you dare to touch these corrupt scholars, believe me, you will be cutting off the most important cornerstone of the Tang Dynasty.

When the Yun family's teachings were spread in a small range and were not accepted by the upper class, everyone would just laugh at the existence of the Yun family's teachings. When I was your master, I had no official status. At that time, people would regard me as a bodyguard to protect you, or a martial arts master who taught you some boxing and kicking. Even if you learned some knowledge from me, it would only be some miscellaneous knowledge to you and would not pose much threat.

Be a good prince, and later, be a good emperor. Be patient, don't be impatient, take your time, you are still young, and time is on your side. "

Li Hong looked at Li Longji and said, "Master, you think long-term. Don't you want to plant the seeds of Yun's family tradition in Longji as soon as possible?"

Yun Chu waved his hand and said, "It is not necessary. Although the spread of knowledge from top to bottom is very fast, it is not stable, because the knowledge spread by power will eventually die out when power disappears.

It is different from the bottom up. The Yun family tradition is now gradually entering into people's daily lives. In time, when the Yun family tradition becomes as indispensable to people as air, water and food, the Yun family tradition can be said to have truly established itself.

We don't have to tell everyone that the Yun family studies are good. The people are not fools. As long as the Yun family studies are truly helpful to their lives, the Yun family studies will still exist even if struck by lightning or chopped by knives and axes.

After all, good things are good things and they stand the test of time.”

Li Hong nodded and said, "Master, what you said makes sense. We can see it from the artillery alone."

Yun Chu said with some disappointment: "Are all your attention focused on the artillery?"

Li Hong laughed and said, "Master deliberately showed the cannon to everyone, so I had no choice but to focus on the cannon."

Yun Chu smiled and said, "Finally, there is someone who is smart and clear-headed. The cheapest and most useless thing in the second workshop is the cannon."

Li Hong smiled and said, "I have seen the musket. Although it is not mature yet, the effect is already evident. Once it continues to be improved, one day, this thing will become the standard equipment for all soldiers in the Tang Dynasty."

Yun Chu looked at Li Hong with some disappointment and said, "I thought you were going to talk about the steam boiler."

Li Hong frowned and asked in confusion: "Master, are you talking about the copper kettle that can spray air?"

Yun Chu smiled and said, "If you want to grow wings on your ribs, it's best to start by boiling water."

Li Hong saw that although the master was speaking in a joking manner, there was no trace of teasing in his eyes. He thought to himself and decided that he must pay attention to the big copper kettle that was boiling water and emitting steam in the future.

In the past, Crown Prince Li Hong could live in Yun's house and not return to the Eastern Palace. But now the Crown Prince must never stay overnight in Yun's house again, because such a favor is not a good thing for either the Crown Prince or Yun's house.

You must know that the prince is the prince of all Tang people, not the Yun family. The prince can have personal preferences, but their personal preferences cannot be too biased.

In the evening, when Crown Prince Li Hong was about to return to the East Palace in Chang'an, he said to Yun Chu, "Since Xu Jingzong's death, I haven't been able to speak my mind as I did today for a long time."

Yun Chu waved his hand and said, "Don't be so casual with me in the future. Neither you nor I can afford to be casual now."

Li Hong sighed and got on the carriage. The carriage started moving. This time, Li Hong did not open the window to check what was different about Jinchangfang as he did in the past.

Back in the East Palace, Lou Shide and Zhang Jianzhi had been waiting for a long time. When they saw the crown prince coming back with the prince and the eldest son, Zhang Jianzhi could not hide the disappointment in his eyes.

After the prince sat down, Lou Shide took the lead and bowed, "Can't the position of Imperial Master make Yun Chu give up Chang'an?"

Li Hong nodded and said, "No."

Zhang Jianzhi cupped his hands and said, "Your Highness can only obtain Guanzhong, Longyou, and even the Western Regions if you obtain Chang'an. I think Your Highness should stop harboring good thoughts and take action when it is time. At most, you can compensate the Yun family in the future."

Li Hong shook his head and said, "You are wrong."

Zhang Jianzhi said: "I am sorry for my mistake, Your Highness, please enlighten me."

Li Hong smiled and said, "Master doesn't give me Chang'an, not because he wants to occupy Chang'an, but because it is not the right time to hand Chang'an over to me yet."

Zhang Jianzhi said: "Your Highness was defeated by the Queen in Shandong and Hebei. If you lose Guanzhong and Longyou, I am afraid something unbearable will happen."

Li Hong seemed to be a good-tempered person. Even though Zhang Jianzhi had said so much, he still smiled and didn't get angry. He pointed at Zhang Jianzhi and said, "It's you who failed, not me."

Lou Shide sighed and said, "The people of Shandong and Hebei would rather follow the queen than the prince. This is a very big hidden danger."

Li Hong smiled and said, "Since you have seen the crisis, why don't you solve it quickly? Why are you always trying to snatch Chang'an from my master?

Could it be that, with your abilities, you can only watch Shandong and Hebei being lost in vain?"

Zhang Jianzhi sighed and said, "From Emperor Taizong to Your Majesty, and then to the Crown Prince, our strategy towards Shandong and Hebei has been to suppress them forcefully, even though Your Majesty ordered the relocation of the wealthy families from these two places to Beijing in the hope of weakening the areas.

Unexpectedly, in just a few years, those small families that were no longer oppressed by the powerful families took advantage of the situation to rise up. The speed of their rise was astonishing, and they even reached the point where there were talented people everywhere.

Therefore, the situation in Shandong and Hebei is now so complicated that it is difficult to understand. "

Li Hong laughed and said, "If there were no Cao Mengde in the world, I wonder how many people would have claimed to be emperors and kings in Shandong and Hebei?"

Lou Shide cupped his hands and said, "That's right."

Li Hong smiled and said, "Then go rob, seize, kill, and if you can't get it, just destroy it. This is such a simple truth, do I need to explain it to you?"

After hearing what the prince said, even the usually daring Zhang Jianzhi was shocked and was about to speak, but Li Hong slowly stood up from his chair, pacing and saying, "What I want is a golden bowl that is intact. Even if it is a clay pot, I want a neat one. Under this premise, even if it is a gold bowl or a jade bowl, as long as it is not neat, I will not want it. Even if I smash those broken gold bowls and jade bowls into powder, I will use the powder to stick out a complete golden bowl!"

(End of this chapter)