The strongest emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

Chapter 67 Li Tai's First Morning Courtship

"Since this king dares to say such a thing, it proves that this king has his own way. This is the way this king has been studying the sentence sentence for several days." After Li Tai finished speaking, he took a piece of paper marked with punctuation marks, He also ordered the eunuch to distribute it to the people.And the names and usages of these punctuation marks are clearly indicated below.

After Li Shimin took the paper from the eunuch Li Tai, he looked at it carefully.Then he stood up happily, laughed and said to everyone: "Wei Wang Li Tai's move is the blessing of the world's scholars. From now on, when the world reads, it will not be as troublesome as before."

At this time, Pei Ji, Wang Yushi and others who had prejudice against Li Tai also shut their mouths.After all, they knew, what did they say in front of the facts?It's all meaningless.On the contrary, he will belittle himself and make Li Tai even more famous.

"Father, although these punctuation marks are good, they can only make it easier for people to understand the meaning of the article. If the reader doesn't know how to read, no matter how good the punctuation marks are, it won't help." Li Tai continued.

"Adding these punctuation marks to books is indeed very helpful for reading and understanding the meaning of the text. But what can you do to make everyone in the world learn to recognize characters quickly?" Li Shimin looked at Li Tai and asked road.

"My son has studied a way of marking characters. Just mark this special symbol on the top of each character. Knowing characters will no longer be a troublesome thing." Li Tai said.

"Then this special symbol must be very troublesome to learn. If learning it is more difficult than learning characters, then Wei Wang's move is a bit superfluous." Pei Ji stood up again and questioned Li Tai.

Everyone agreed with Pei Ji's question, so they all nodded in agreement.After all, if these annotations require a lot of effort to learn, it is more convenient to learn Chinese characters directly.

"Excuse me, Prime Minister, how many Chinese characters are there in the world, and how many do you know, Prime Minister?" Li Tai walked up to Pei Ji slowly.Qian looked up at Pei Ji and asked.

This time Pei Ji felt a little embarrassed. If he wanted to say how many Chinese characters he knew, he probably knew it himself.But when asked how many Chinese characters there are, he really had no way to give an exact number.Even if it is approximate, it is also impossible to tell.

Seeing Pei Ji with an embarrassed expression on his face, Li Tai continued: "The "Jade Pian" written by King Gu Ye in the Southern Dynasties is recorded to have a total of [-] characters, and the Chinese characters we usually need , only about [-]. Because as long as you know [-] characters, you can read all the books in the world. I think Mr. Prime Minister knows no more than [-] characters."

Being confronted by a child made Pei Ji lose face, and he couldn't put it down.So he opened his mouth and said to Li Tai: "I don't know as many characters as three thousand. I don't know how many characters His Majesty King Wei knows."

"As the saying goes, if the mountain is no longer high, there will be immortals, and if the water is not deep, there will be dragons. This also shows that age does not distinguish between young and old, and knowledge is the key to truly reflecting the value of a person. Although this king Don't dare to say, I can recognize more than 900 characters. But knowing [-] or [-] characters is definitely not a problem." Li Tai said to Pei Ji with his head held high.

"Wei Wang's words are good. It's useless to live a hundred years in vain. Gan Luo can get the seal of the prime minister at the age of 12. From this, we can see that this knowledge has nothing to do with age." Xu Maogong said with a smile.

"King Wei's words are a little too big. I am afraid that there are very few people present who can read more than a few thousand characters. Even the current emperor is average. How dare you say here that you know [-] or [-] characters? .It's just nonsense." Wang Yushi couldn't believe that Li Tai could know so many characters.So he thought that the opportunity to suppress Li Tai had come, so he jumped out and said to Li Tai.

In fact, Wang Yushi also played Li Tai in the middle of the conversation, and set a trick for Li Tai.That is, if Li Tai really knows [-] characters, it means that he is more powerful than the current emperor.On the other hand, if Li Tai can't know so many characters, then he is bragging and deceiving the king.No matter which one is done, it will not be a good thing for Li Tai.

Seeing Wang Yushi's complacent expression, Li Tai said angrily: "Bold Wang Yushi, dare to slander the current emperor. My father is an emperor through the ages, and his martial arts and martial arts are unmatched. How can you only recognize a few thousand Chinese characters? You This is humiliating the reputation of the current emperor, what crime should be punished according to the laws of the Tang Dynasty."

This action frightened Wang Yushi. He didn't expect that he would not become a minister by stealing chickens, but lost a handful of rice instead.Let Li Tai find a clue in his painting, so he hurriedly knelt down on the ground and said to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, don't listen to Wei Wang's instigation, I have no such intention."

But at this time, Cheng Yaojin cooperated with Li Tai and said: "According to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, anyone who slanders the royal family should be sentenced to death. It is a person who blatantly slanders the current emperor in the court, and the future will see that he should be punished." The crime of the nine clans."

What scared Wang Yushi this time was that the three souls were separated from the body and the seven souls did not exist.He kept kowtowing to Li Shimin, saying that he had no such intention.Li Shimin came to be a wise king through the ages, so how could he really punish Wang Yushi for his crimes.So he opened his mouth and said to Wang Yushi: "Let's make a note this time, you should step aside first."

Seeing Wang Yushi stepping aside like a sieve, Li Tai said again: "Father, since someone questioned my knowledge, please ask him to come forward to test my minister. If my minister is passed by him. My son is willing to accept the crime of deceiving the king."

To say that Li Tai is not a random person, because of Li Tai's personal hobbies in the previous life.He has done a lot of research on traditional Chinese characters.Otherwise, it is impossible for people who are used to simplified characters to have such an understanding of the traditional characters used in Datang.

It can be said that Li Tai now has more than just these 900 words in his mind, but at least 2 words.That's why he was so confident and asked Wang Yushi to test him.

At this time, Wang Yushi was already scared out of his wits, so he still had the ability to deal with Li Tai.But it doesn't mean that if Wang Yushi doesn't show up, no one will consider him.After all, not only Wang Yushi didn't believe it, even the current emperor Li Shimin didn't believe that Li Tai could know so many characters.

"This matter will be done by me. I don't know what Wei Wang thinks." At this time, Pei Ji came out and said to Li Tai.

"Since Prime Minister Pei is so excited about this, it's not easy for me to shirk it. But I have a habit of not giving away knowledge for free. Why don't we make a bet?" Li Tai looked at it with a smile on his face. Pei Ji said word by word.

(End of this chapter)