My name is Chang An, your name is Gu Li

Wu Qinghui became more and more excited as he spoke, and finally he was so angry that he cursed: "Who the hell is this Chang An! He is a beast worse than pigs and dogs!"

"Isn't my sedan chair ready yet?"

Another palace maid ran in at this moment and said, "Your Highness Huifei, the sedan chair is ready."

"Let's go now. I want to have a good talk with His Majesty!"

Wu Qinghui walked out of her palace angrily, sat on the sedan chair, and began to think about how to curse in front of His Majesty!

She came to the palace where Li Longji usually worked, but at this time, there was no one in the palace except a few eunuchs who were taking care of it. Wu Qinghui frowned slightly, then she pulled a eunuch over and asked:

"What about Your Majesty?"

"Your Highness Huifei, His Majesty is in the Prince's Palace." The eunuch replied, "If Your Highness Huifei wants to see His Majesty, you can move to the Prince's Palace."

Wu Qinghui knew without even thinking who Li Longji wanted to see. She let go of the eunuch and said, "No, I'll wait for Your Majesty here."

......

In the Prince's Palace, Chang An was holding a ruler and Li Ying's "test paper" in his hand, reading it and drawing circles on it from time to time. There was no problem at the beginning, but when he got to the end, he sighed for the first time today.

Then he picked up the ruler and hit Li Ying on the head. He said, "Your Highness, you shouldn't have made a mistake on this question."

Li Ying scratched his head and didn't dare to speak. After all, the good brother who was usually kind and amiable seemed to have turned into Shura at this time, and was very strict. Moreover, this was arranged by Li Longji himself. It was better to be scolded by Chang An than by his own father for the exams twice a month.

After a while, Li Longji came in. Chang'an was so absorbed in reviewing the test papers that he naturally didn't notice the emperor's arrival. Li Longji, seeing Chang'an so serious, couldn't help but approach him with some curiosity and quietly read through the papers.

After reading the test paper, Chang An said, "Okay, Your Highness, the whole test paper is well done. I just circled the mistakes. Your Highness's homework today is to study the mistakes carefully and report to me tomorrow."

"If there is still something you don't understand, I will take some time to explain it tomorrow."

But soon, Chang An noticed that Li Ying's gaze was a little strange, and he subconsciously looked back - Li Longji was standing behind him.

"Your Majesty." Chang An bowed slightly and greeted him.

"Marquis Dingkang was talking about the test paper just now, right? Can I take a look at it?" Li Longji said when he saw many places on the test paper were circled.

Li Ying swallowed his saliva at this time, but Chang An did not refuse and said, "Your Majesty is the father of His Highness, so he naturally has the right to see this test paper."

After saying that, Li Longji took the test paper. After seeing the circles on it, he counted them - there were probably more than a dozen mistakes.

Li Longji put down the test paper, nodded and said, "You still need to work hard, but it's an improvement over last month."

Li Ying was relieved, but he didn't know that Li Longji didn't come here for his exam. The main purpose was to find Chang An. After he put down the test paper, he asked Chang An:

"Marquis Dingkang, I have something I want to ask you."

"Your Majesty, please speak."

Li Longji felt a little uncomfortable at this time and asked, "Did you beat my son in Zuiyun Tower yesterday?"

Chang An nodded, and then said: "Please forgive me, Your Majesty."

"Forget it. The child is young and ignorant. He made the mistake first, and you have given him the punishment he deserves." Li Longji sighed and said, "I will allow you this time, but next time, you must report to me and I will give you an explanation."

Li Ying raised her eyebrows - which brother of hers was he slapped? Why was her father so magnanimous and forgave him directly?

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"But you said yesterday that it is time for the prince to be enlightened." Li Longji seemed to have thought of something and said so.

Chang An was stunned for a moment, then nodded slightly. Li Longji said, "In this case, it would save the trouble of looking for another enlightenment teacher. Why don't you be the enlightenment teacher?"

"Your Majesty, this is not possible." Chang An shook his head and refused.

"Why not? I have seen your knowledge. Aren't you more than qualified to be an enlightenment teacher?" Li Longji asked at this time.

"Your Majesty, the reason why I am unwilling to do so is actually very simple. Because I do not know how to enlighten others, and I can only teach things that only someone of Your Highness' age can understand." Chang An said.

"What do you mean?"

Chang An smiled and explained, "Every profession has its own expertise. I am just a teacher and do not know how to teach. If you want to teach His Royal Highness the Prince, you still need a real teacher to teach him."

“Let a teacher who teaches the six arts teach an unenlightened child. The two have completely different ideas. If the teacher can’t teach well, the child won’t learn well either.”

"Besides, the prince's enlightenment is to learn etiquette. Nowadays, many people in the court and the country say that I do not respect Confucianism? Many people say that I violate the harmony of heaven and go against common sense, and that I am just like a country bumpkin who does not know etiquette. How can I teach him well?"

After listening to this, Li Longji felt that it made sense, so he waved his hand and said, "If that's the case, then forget it."

After checking Li Ying's recent homework, Li Longji asked Chang An to leave. There was still a lot of time before lunch, so she wanted to go back to the hall to deal with some memorials first.

But when he returned to the hall, he unexpectedly found Wu Qinghui already sitting there.

"Empress Hui? Why are you here?"

Li Longji walked forward and asked in confusion.

"Why else?" Wu Qinghui said unhappily, "Could it be that Your Majesty has forgotten that he has a little son?"

Li Longji was stunned for a moment, then asked, "Could it be Qing'er that Concubine Hui is talking about?"

"It seems that His Majesty also knows about this." Wu Qinghui's eyes were filled with tears at this time: "Then why does His Majesty ignore Qing'er?"

"Don't care? Concubine Hui misunderstood. How could I just ignore my own child?" Li Longji explained hurriedly.

"Then your majesty, do you know that Qing'er was beaten up yesterday in Zuiyun Tower?" Wu Qinghui said this while shouting.

"Of course I know this." Li Longji nodded and replied.

"That's the prince, the child of His Majesty and me. How could he be bullied by a minister?" Wu Qinghui shed tears. "That's Zuiyun Tower, where so many dignitaries gather. Qing'er was beaten in front of all these dignitaries."

"And the person who beat Qing'er was the prince's tutor appointed by His Majesty."

Li Longji was speechless, scratched his brow helplessly, and said: "Concubine Hui, you don't know, in fact, Qing'er was the first to offend the Lady of Zichuan County."

"So what?" Wu Qinghui now looked like she didn't want to listen and started crying in Li Longji's arms.

"He is still a child. What bad things can a child do? How old is Duke Kangguo? Is he going to get angry with a child just because he was offended? How can he be called a scholar?"

Li Longji was speechless, and didn't know what to say in reply. But after thinking for a while, he still spoke: "Concubine Hui, don't forget that among the ladies in the entire Tang Dynasty, the one who should not be offended the most is the county lady."

"The person you should never offend? She is just a lady! Qing'er is a prince! So what if the prince offends a lady like her?" Wu Qinghui was immediately dissatisfied, feeling that this lady was even more noble than herself, a concubine.

"It's okay that you offended the Lady of Zibo County, but if Marquis Dingkang gets angry, who knows what will happen." Li Longji said.

Wu Qinghui was even more puzzled: "He is just a minister! Even if His Highness wants to kill his wife, is he really going to rebel?"

Li Longji sighed and said, "Concubine Hui, you know that Quan Chubi is plotting a rebellion, but do you know the truth?"

"What's the truth?"

"Marquis Dingkang suppressed the rebellion without spending a single soldier. He took less than ten people and sneaked into Quan Chubi's camp. He burned everyone inside alive. Even Quan Chubi was hung upside down on the city wall and burned to death bit by bit."

The reason why he was burned to death bit by bit was that when he was halfway through burning, he poured water on the fire to put it out, and then lit it again after a while, and repeated it over and over again. In the end, it burned until dawn, and Quan Chubi was tortured to death. After Quan Chubi was burned to death, he went to teach Li Ying the next day as if nothing had happened.

"He did this because Quan Chubi said at the time that he wanted to kidnap the Lady of the County and make her his concubine." Li Longji said, "If I order the execution of the Lady of the County, I really won't be able to sleep peacefully."

Wu Qinghui was stunned, and Li Longji said again: "Concubine Hui, Qing'er is a prince, don't forget it."

"He's a prince, so what?"

"Look at Qing'er, she is five years old now. Look at Ying'er, or Yao'er and Ju'er, they had already started to learn to read when they were five years old. But Qing'er has not started yet, and thus offended the Lady of Zibo County." Li Longji said.

"Qi..." Now it was Wu Qinghui's turn to be speechless, because every prince of the Tang Dynasty should start learning royal etiquette at the age of five.

"But wasn't Qing'er with Prince Ning before? We can't control him, so how can we arrange for him to go find the master?" Wu Qinghui said with a frown.

"I can't control it, so naturally someone else has to take care of him." Li Longji said, "And this matter is indeed Qing'er's fault. Huifei, please don't say anything more. Qing'er should be much more obedient after suffering a loss this time."

"Besides, Chang An is a meritorious official of the Tang Dynasty. Even if we were to discuss this matter, his merits and demerits would have offset each other. Let's just let it go."