Chapter 9: Coming to Medical School
Who is the mother of the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan?
Dugu Xin, the daughter of Dugu Xin, the eight major pillar states of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, was respected as Empress Yuanzhen in history and was a serious Xianbei person. Dugu Jialuo, the sister of Dugu, was the empress of Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian. (History books say that Dugu Xin is handsome and beautiful, and his three daughters are the empress of the Northern Zhou, Sui Dynasty and Tang Dynasty. Of course, the empress of Dugu is posthumously conferred.)
It is conceivable how shocked Li Shimin was when he saw this letter.
Since the Eight Kings Rebellion in the late Western Jin Dynasty, the Hu people went south to herd their horses. The once prosperous northern land has also turned into ruins. Only when Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty was completely sinicized, the Han people have a chance to breathe.
At this time, there was no difference between the Xianbei people and the Han people. Some Han people even looked even more Hu than Hu people, while some Xianbei people understood Confucian etiquette even more than the gentry of the Southern Dynasty.
Although such a fusion is extremely tragic,...it will stop killing.
Because of his Xianbei blood, Emperor Taizong of Tang and Guanlong Group hated the Hu people far less than the Shandong gentry, and they felt that they were sick!
Instead, I am more willing to be tolerant with a broad mind.
"Transfer some decree to let the Supreme Emperor come and meet..."
As he was speaking, Li Shimin stopped talking and shook his head with a bitter smile. What a status of the Supreme Emperor? He was his father, so he could not let him call him around.
But this matter... is ultimately a knot in my heart.
He was more inclined to gradually transform the Turks into Tang people, rather than adopting such a desperate strategy. Why can't those Turks be loyal to the stupid Jie Li Khan, so why can't they do their best to the wise and powerful emperor?
Is the true emperor still not as good as a sick wolf with no way to return?
"Where did the Supreme Emperor go after the celebration banquet today?" Li Shimin turned around and asked softly, his eyebrows tightened like mountains.
Wang Zhen was stunned and said slowly: "After the banquet of the Supreme Emperor, he first returned to Da'an Palace for a drink of tea, then lay in the courtyard and took a nap. Then he sat in the small pavilion in the Forbidden Garden and read a book for an hour. However... According to Su Meng, the cover of the book was exquisite and was probably not an ordinary thing. At the end of the evening drum, he rode the frame and returned to the medical school in Qujiangfang...
Until now, it only takes three quarters of a minute.”
He stretched out his three thin fingers.
Although the Supreme Emperor could enter and exit the palace without any obstacles, Li Shimin's confidants had long been set up around him. Su Meng was one of them. He had always reported to Li Yuan's entry and exit from him. It was so detailed that even when the Supreme Emperor went to the toilet, he had to record clearly.
Only in this way can Li Shimin be at ease. Giving the Supreme Emperor the unimpeded right is his filial piety, and using the imperial guards to monitor it is a power trick.
At the twilight drum moment, it is just dark now, and the sky in the first lunar month has always been dark early.
"The father should not have fallen asleep yet, so we must ask this matter clearly..."
After saying that, Li Shimin called the eunuch to bring his white-hoofed black, rode on the war horses he had fought in the past, rode straight from Zhuque Gate, and ran directly to the Medical College in Qujiangfang.
"Well~"
At this moment, he was like a paranoid eagle, watching the scene and objects in front of him coldly. Since the establishment of the Medical School, he has been busy with political affairs and has only been there once or twice in three years.
But when this place was still a royal garden - Furong Garden, he visited a lot, so he felt familiar and unfamiliar. When he first stepped on this place, he felt a sudden joy of revisiting the old place.
The Royal Medical College is located in the northwest corner of Qujiangfang. Although it is late at night, unlike the dark curfew Chang'an City, it seems to be a city that never sleeps. Lighted candles can be seen everywhere in corridors, pavilions, etc., and under the fluorescent lights are medical students studying hard with books.
Seeing this scene, Li Shimin made a gesture, allowing only a few close guards who were accompanying him to move forward. Facing the hard-study scholars, it was always admirable that he tightened his clothes and tied his hair up again before entering the medical school.
"This little brother, why do Qujiangfang Medical College light so many candles? More than 20 days have passed on New Year's Day." Li Shimin asked a student about twelve, thirty or fourteen years old.
He sat on the corridor railing, leaning against the red pillar, holding the book in his hand, raised his head and glanced at Li Shimin lightly, then moved his eyes to the book, and whispered: "Not only New Year's Day, but also as early as October last year, the medical school implemented the rule that the lights were turned off at the Xu hour. According to the gentlemen, the dean did not want us to wait for the poor scholars to sniff the snow in the middle of the night, and chiseled fireflies to steal the lights, so he specially added candles to the corridors and classrooms..."
Li Shimin sighed lightly, bowed to the student, and walked to the corner and sighed: "In terms of education, it is actually not as good as the Supreme Emperor."
But Tian Khan was much more surprised. He thought that the most magnificent building in the Medical College was the Emperor's bedroom, but when he entered, he found that this was not only not the bedroom, but a library filled with thousands of books. It was not much better than the secret palace and the Guanwen Hall of the imperial palace.
Seeing this, he remembered that there was a memorial about the Emperor borrowing books from the palace, but he thought it was a trivial matter, so he didn't take it to heart.
But after seeing this magnificent library, I realized that I was really a frog in the well before.
If this library was built by other imperial officials, he would inevitably be afraid, but if he was placed in the Supreme Emperor, he would only be happy. The academy trained all the young seedlings. Perhaps after Li Yuan died, they did not grow up. Isn’t that just leaving him the invisible talent reserves for His Majesty, the emperor?
Even though labor is glorious, no one can show off the pride of others making wedding dresses for themselves!
After a long time, I went to the bamboo pavilion.
"This place...is the residence of the Supreme Emperor?" Li Shimin couldn't say confidently.
There was a bamboo forest dozens of steps in front of him, and a small courtyard was towering on it. In front of the Mingtang, there was another cold plum standing on the snow, and orchids were spreading on the stone steps...
This is like a place where Fangwai's scholars lived in the world, but there is a jade zither under the straw hut.
He was shocked and shocked all the way from medical school!
The atmosphere of studying at the Royal Medical College is not much better than that of the Imperial College, and it is even better in his heart. Those aristocratic families would rather spend their extravagant money on the belt of the Yaojie in Pingkangfang than light a candle in the quiet room. However, for the poor scholars, learning is the way out, and they cherish every moment of time.
There is also a magnificent library standing in the medical school...
All the things made Li Shimin feel that it would be like to see the Supreme Emperor in the end.
But I didn't expect this to be the case?
Is the Supreme Emperor so poor? In order to educate students, he is even willing to live in such a humble room. This is simply incredible for the most noble person in the Tang Dynasty.
Humph! Humph!
"What's this?"
Hearing a few strange screams from afar, Li Shimin couldn't help but ask.
Chapter completed!