manynovel Chapter 2082: Being Trained by Li Shimin
Chapter 2082: Being Trained by Li Shimin
Di Renjie stopped in front of a fishing boat and saw a cross wooden pole on the boat with a vest hanging on it and a straw hat on the top.
“Is there anyone selling firecrackers?”
Di Renjie asked the fisherman from a high position.
"Why are you buying firecrackers?" The fisherman looked up. He was also wearing a straw hat.
"Light the firecrackers." Di Renjie replied.
"What do you use to light it?" The fisherman stood up.
"A pair of loyal courage and three longevity incense sticks." Di Renjie was calm and composed.
"Which one do you want to click first?" the fisherman continued to ask.
"Three cannons fired simultaneously, and the world is at peace." Di Renjie squatted down and smiled slightly.
The fisherman nodded, jumped onto the dock and came to Di Renjie's side, lowering his voice and saying:
"Token."
Di Renjie was prepared and took out a glass ball the size of mother and child from his sleeve and handed it over.
The fisherman took it and looked around. Finding no one was paying attention, he put the glass ball in front of his eyes and rotated it to check. He soon found the secret mark on the glass ball.
There was an inconspicuous pattern on it, like a half circle. They only knew it was a secret code, but they didn't know what it meant.
Di Renjie also admired Prince Ji. Who would have thought that the token would be a bead? Not everyone can have a glass bead. It is very difficult to imitate, almost impossible.
If you want to imitate it, you must first know how to make colored glaze. In the Tang Dynasty, only Prince Ji’s Mansion knew how to make colored glaze.
And this secret code is also amazing. The Japanese have no idea what firecrackers are and have never seen them.
After verification, the fisherman returned the glass ball to Di Renjie.
"What's the matter?" the fisherman asked directly. He didn't need to ask for the other person's name, nor did he need to know the other person's identity.
"Here are two letters. One is for you to send back to Prince Ji's Mansion, and the other is for your deputy leader. Tell him that this is an order from His Royal Highness Prince Ji."
As he spoke, Di Renjie took out two sealed letters from his bosom and handed them over. The man quickly took them and put them in his bosom, and looked around vigilantly.
"Okay, got it." The fisherman nodded, then went back to the boat, got a few fish and handed them to Di Renjie. Di Renjie threw a few copper coins over and turned away.
"Where are we going, young man?"
Seeing Di Renjie coming back, Chen Tai stepped forward and asked.
“Go to the Saga family, Di will go to meet the local daimyo, which can be regarded as giving him a chance.
Alas, I don't know when His Royal Highness Prince Ji will come?"
After sighing, Di Renjie jumped on his horse and galloped away with his guards.
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At this moment, Ji Wang Li Shen, whom Di Renjie had been thinking about, was being punished in Cuiwei Palace.
"Snapped!"
"Stand up!"
In front of Li Shimin's bedroom in Hanfeng Palace, Li Shen held a spear in his hand, bent his horse stance, and stabbed forward again and again.
Li Shimin held the ruler in his hand, put his hands behind his back, and walked around Li Shen.
Shouldn't you come and point out Li Shen's mistakes?
"Legs, legs, I've told you several times."
"Snapped!"
"Stretch out your arm! Are you a useless person? Why can't you straighten it?"
"Snapped!"
"Push harder, push harder, how come you are not even as good as a woman? You can't kill the weak enemy even if you stab him. Try again! Try again a hundred times."
"Clap!"
"Ah~~~~ I don't want to practice anymore!"
"Clang!" Li Shen roared and threw the spear in his hand to the ground.
His whole body was soaked with sweat. He had been practicing for half an hour in such a hot day. Not only was he sweating profusely, but he also had backaches and hand cramps.
He is a man of letters, how can he be like a warrior? Not to mention that he is beaten from time to time. He has had enough and he wants to resist.
"Snapped!"
"what!"
Before he could resist, he felt a sharp pain in his body and heard his old father's angry curse in his ears:
"You bastard, hurry up and continue practicing for me."
Li Shen raised his neck and said very firmly:
"I do not!"
"Come here, Prince Ji, you are committing treason, you shall be punished with 100 strokes of the cane!"
"No, no, no, I'll practice. I'll practice."
Li Shen was conquered in less than three seconds and quickly picked up his spear.
"Father, I'm not going to the battlefield, so why should I learn martial arts?" Li Shen rubbed the place where he was beaten and looked at Li Shimin pitifully.
"What does practicing martial arts have to do with whether or not to go to the battlefield? Your eldest brother didn't go to the battlefield either. He started practicing martial arts when he was five years old.
As a prince, you should have received the lessons of a prince, but you left the palace at the age of nine and never learned anything.
Martial arts, horse riding and archery are all things that a prince should learn. Since you haven't learned them, I will make them up to you."
Li Shimin had no sympathy for Li Shen at all and spoke to him very sternly.
The studies of the princes of the Tang Dynasty were rather complicated. In addition to the main literature courses, they also had to learn etiquette, musical instruments, dancing, horse riding, archery, martial arts, military affairs, foreign languages, etc.
Li Shen had been struggling to make a living since he was nine years old, and had learned nothing. After leaving the palace, he learned some fancy moves, but he was also inconsistent.
"Father, no, no, my son still has to go to Anxi Protectorate." Li Shen felt a little regretful now, or should I say, very regretful.
Today is the fourth day since Li Shen came back. Having nothing to do in the morning, Li Shen planned to come and check on his father's condition.
Li Shimin's condition has actually stabilized in the past few days. He no longer has diarrhea, but he is a little weak. After taking conditioning medicine and Li Shen's ginseng, he is obviously more energetic.
After Li Shen arrived, he didn't know what was wrong with his father and insisted on asking him to teach him martial arts.
Li Shen had no choice but to surrender under coercion, but he practiced for half an hour. Li Shimin said that he was practicing incorrectly and was weak, and insisted on teaching him a lesson.
Li Shen is now thinking that if he had known this would happen, he would not have come.
"Look at yourself, you bastard. Your steps are unsteady and your limbs are weak. How can a prince behave like this?" Li Shimin looked Li Shen up and down with a look of disappointment.
"How am I weak? I'm not a military commander. I've always been a scholar. I don't need to do the rough work on the battlefield."
Li Shen argued cunningly.
"Rough work?" Li Shimin's eyes widened when he heard it, and he swung the ruler and hit him again.
"Ah!" Li Shen screamed.
"If the Tang Dynasty did not have military commanders, how could it awe the world? How could it expand its territory? How could it attract all nations to pay tribute?
Keep practicing."
Li Shimin was a military general, and he immediately got angry when he heard what Li Shen said.
"Practice, practice, practice, ha! Ha!" Li Shen was almost crying. Why was his life so miserable?
With an erratic father, a strict mother, and a tragic fate, he suffers and doesn't know who can come to save him.
Li Shimin was a little tired, so he came under the eaves, sat in a rocking chair, and drank tea, with a maid fanning him.
Li Shen gritted his teeth and stabbed forward again and again, intentionally or unintentionally glancing at his father with a look of gritted teeth on his face.
Suddenly a classic old song rang in my mind, one wrong step will lead to life-long mistakes~~~~I became a dancer to make a living~~~~I am destined to live in that world for the rest of my life.
"Hey~~ Lao Shi, are you practicing?~"
(The inspiration for this paragraph came from when I was mowing the lawn at home yesterday. It was sunny, and my dad asked me to mow the lawn. If I didn’t, he would scold me.
I almost got heat stroke.)