I am Li Shen and Li Shimin, the free kings of the Tang Dynasty

While everyone in Prince Ji's Mansion was busy as hell, there was one place in the Mansion that was extremely quiet.

The atmosphere in the study of Prince Ji's mansion was tense at the moment.

Li Shen had a solemn expression, his brows were furrowed, his eyes were sharp, and he looked ahead with a serious face.

Shi Tou and Wang Xuance were standing beside him, also with stern expressions on their faces, staring at Li Shen with bated breath.

Li Shen found that his hands were shaking unconsciously.

Hiss~~~~

Li Shen took a deep breath and his expression became even more stern. He wanted to calm himself down.

After holding his breath for a moment, he looked at Wang Xuance and nodded heavily.

Wang Xuance also nodded seriously.

Li Shen turned his head and stared ahead like a general about to go to the battlefield.

Slowly stretch out your right hand...

"Shit! I made a mistake again."

"Oh!"

"Snapped!"

A teacup fell to the ground and a pen was also thrown on the ground by him.

"I won't write anymore. I won't write anymore. You can kill me or chop me up, it's all up to you."

Li Shen lay down on the couch like a spoiled child, his whole body spread out in a big letter shape, and kept shouting.

This was the umpteenth time he had made a typo today.

His father asked him to write a eulogy, and to write a thousand words neatly.

The Tianzi grid design by Li Shen was sent over after it was printed, and several types of pens were also made.

Li Shen was very satisfied with everything, except for one thing: he often made spelling mistakes.

This piece of paper can hold a hundred words, but Li Shen wrote the punctuation marks himself, so only sixty or seventy words can be written on one piece of paper.

There are few words written, mainly because the sacrificial text contains too many flattering short sentences and idioms.

Li Shen estimated that if it were written in vernacular Chinese, it could be expanded to 10,000 words.

He has been staying in his study for the past two days and has not gone out. He has been writing each character carefully, stroke by stroke, according to the size of the grid.

But there are always mistakes when writing, and we can't erase them, otherwise it will look very messy.

So Li Shen had to rewrite it.

There are more than ten sheets to be written in total, but Li Shen has only written three so far.

Anyone who has written knows that if you want to write well, you will unconsciously increase the strength of holding the pen.

It's like I'm afraid that if I press too lightly, the pen will become out of control.

Li Shen is just like this. He is afraid that he will make mistakes or that he will not write well, so he reminds himself all the time in his heart.

But the more he did this, the more mistakes he made.

After writing for a whole day, my hands and wrists hurt.

"Your Highness, time is running out. There are still more than a dozen pages left to write. If you can't finish them, His Majesty will blame you and you will be punished again."

Wang Xuance advised softly, just like coaxing a child to do homework.

He now admired His Majesty very much. Just this one trick was enough to torture Prince Ji to death.

"Punishment is punishment, it's just a beating, it's much better than this."

Li Shen didn't move at all, a dead pig that is not afraid of boiling water.

Seeing Li Shen like this, Wang Xuance knew that he could not persuade him, so he looked at the stone beside him.

Shitou understood and came to Li Shen's side:

"Your Highness is right. This is too torturous. It's better to be beaten with a stick. The pain will go away after a while.

At most, I will be fined one or two years' salary, which is just a small amount of money, not a big deal."

"fart."

Li Shen sat up as soon as he heard the punishment.

"You are so arrogant. You actually call a salary of over ten thousand taels a year a small amount of money?

You are so arrogant, I will punish you by not allowing you to eat tonight."

After cursing, Li Shen quickly came to the desk and sat down again. He stretched his right hand, picked up the pen, took a deep breath, and started writing.

Wang Xuance looked at Shi Tou with admiration, and the two smiled at each other.

Shitou really understood King Ji and grasped the key points of King Ji with just a few words.

Li Shen continued to write the eulogy stroke by stroke in the grid with a pen like a kindergarten kid.

~~~~~~~~~

"What did you say? Prince Ji's Mansion went to the temples and Taoist temples to fetch water?"

The study room of Prince Jin's Mansion.

Li Zhi was reported on everything that happened in Prince Ji's mansion in the past few days.

"Yes, Your Majesty. I heard that they pulled dozens of carts."

Li Yifu replied.

"Pouring clean water on the street, is he crazy? Is it necessary to make such a big fuss for a coming-of-age ceremony?

Does he think he is His Majesty? When the prince left the palace, there was no clean water to sprinkle on the streets.

Isn't he afraid of violating a taboo and being impeached by the officials for exceeding the rules?"

Li Zhi was also confused. Did Li Shen really not understand? Or did Li Shen have a brain disease and was ill?

"I am not sure about this either. Prince Ji has always been extravagant, so it is reasonable for him to put on such a grand display.

When he didn’t have so much wealth, his wedding was unprecedented.”

Li Yifu shook his head. He couldn't understand it either.

"Every household sent lanterns, candles and red silk as gifts, to decorate the house and share the joy with the people.

He has already completed three things: pouring clean water on the street, paving the road with red carpet, and hanging up lights and decorations.

What on earth is he going to do?

This king does not believe that he is doing this just for his coronation ceremony."

Li Zhi shook his head. Three of the things that Shitou told him that day had now been realized.

He didn't expect that Li Shen was not just talking, but serious about it.

“The prince said yes, and these preparations cost a lot of money. Just distributing two candles to every household is a considerable expense.

And those cloths, silks, satins, etc. "

Li Yifu agreed. He also felt that it shouldn't be that simple. How could a ceremony of coming of age cost so much? Prince Ji must have other purposes.

“Humph, he told me that he wanted to spend thirty thousand strings of cash, but now it seems that thirty thousand strings of cash is not enough.

It's not that easy for him to cheat me out of my money."

Whenever Li Zhi thought about the day when he asked him for ten thousand strings of cash, he felt that he was very wise.

If you have taken it and now it is asking you for money, should you give it or not? If you don’t give it, all your initial investment will be wasted.

Give it to me. This is a bottomless pit. You don’t know how much money Li Shen will ask for.

"Your Highness is wise. He saw through Prince Ji's scheme at a glance. I didn't expect Prince Ji to make such a big deal."

Of course Li Yifu had to flatter him.

"Well, tomorrow you arrange for someone to impeach Li Shen, saying that he violated etiquette, was extravagant, and squandered money.

Others say he has evil intentions, is buying people's hearts, wants to celebrate with the whole country and share the joy with the people, and has a rebellious heart. "

Li Zhi smiled slightly, "Don't you want to celebrate for the whole world? Who do you think you are?"

Don’t you know that only the emperor can issue an edict for universal celebration?

It’s not an exaggeration to say that you want to be the emperor.

After hearing this, Li Yifu immediately praised:

“Your Majesty, this is a brilliant move. Even if you can’t punish him, Your Majesty will make him stop all preparations.

By then, all the preparations made by Prince Ji’s Mansion in these days will be wasted, and all the money will be wasted.

Prince Ji’s Mansion will lose a huge sum of money.”

(I have a lot to say about calligraphy, as I have practiced calligraphy.

When practicing, I really held the pen very tightly, and my fingers started to hurt after a while.

I personally experienced typos. Anyone who has done business at a service hall should know this.

There is a big piece of paper for you to fill in the information. You cannot make a single mistake in any word and you cannot make any corrections. You have to rewrite it if you make a mistake.

I made mistakes in at most six pages, and the more nervous I was the more mistakes I made.

The same goes for checks. If you make a mistake, they are invalid. I made eight mistakes.)