Datang: Let you supervise the country and become an emperor through the ages

Chapter 277
"On the battlefield, I have nothing to say, but I have always heard that the Tang Dynasty is a state of etiquette, but today, it seems that there is nothing to show!"

Yi Nan's words suddenly caused a commotion in the whole court, and Li Shimin's expression changed even more, "Yi Nan, if you dare to say this, you must have come prepared, just open the skylight and speak plainly. What can I do to let you Are you convinced?"

Li Shimin's words were just a joke. He didn't take Yi Nan seriously at all. He was a barbarian on the grassland and a defeated general. It was human nature to speak nonsense at this time.

But Yi Nan's next words were somewhat unexpected, "Your Majesty the Tang Dynasty, if I want to be convinced, it depends on whether the people in the Great Tang Palace can match my three couplets. I don't know if everyone present dare to fight! "

Li Shimin frowned slightly, Yi Nan's behavior was a little abnormal, but he had already let out his words, so Li Shimin could only continue to make up: "Then what should we do after winning or losing?"

Yi Nan raised his head and said: "If I lose, what will His Majesty Ren Datang do with me, even if I am a dog, I am willing!"

"But if I win, please ask His Majesty Tang to give me a horse and let me go back to the grassland."

Hum... All the courtiers in the hall were shocked by Yi Nan's words, including Li Shimin and Li Fu, no one thought that Yi Nan would use such a playful way to decide his future.

Li Shimin's eyes lit up when he heard that Yi Nan actually wanted to challenge the entire Tang Dynasty in this way. He didn't know that there were great Confucians in the dynasty today, but did almost all the top civil servants in the Tang Dynasty?
"This guy lost the war, did he lose his brain too?" Li Jing's eyes were full of ridicule, and he didn't bother to scold Yi Nan.

"If you don't die, you won't die. Since he wants to be a dog so much, let him be fulfilled." Li Ji thought so too.

The thoughts of the two Dukes of the Tang Dynasty were basically the same as those of the courtiers in the hall. Everyone believed that Yi Nan was overthinking his own abilities, and making such a bet was nothing more than humiliating himself.

After all, the people of the Tang Dynasty were good at pairing, especially the important officials in the court. Most of them came from proud families. people.

Ma Zhou calmly approached his master and whispered behind Li Fu: "Your Highness, there is something wrong with Yi Nan."

When Li Tai heard Ma Zhou's words beside Li Fu, he couldn't help looking back at Ma Zhou, and said casually, "What's wrong? Do you think this barbarian can win?"

Li Fu was also surprised and looked back at Ma Zhou. Seeing Ma Zhou's serious look, he signaled him to be calm, and then looked at Yi Nan not far away with a look of interest.

[This barbarian is a bit interesting. He is really brave for doing something like this. Isn’t he waiting to be tortured? 】

[No, he is still begging to be abused and asks to be a dog. How hard must he be to make such a decision? 】

Li Fu's heartfelt voice fell into Li Shimin's mind, which made Li Shimin feel more at ease. He waved his hand directly and said, "Okay, Yi Nan, I accept your bet, so let's start now."

Seeing what Li Shimin said, a sly smile appeared on the corner of Yi Nan's mouth, "Your Majesty has agreed, so you can't go back on your word..."

"I am the Son of Heaven!" Li Shimin directly interrupted Yi Nan, "He is the Khan of Heaven on the grasslands, he keeps his word, how can he go back on his word, just let him come here!"

Yi Nan was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately said the first couplet, "Then please listen carefully, the sky is the chessboard and the stars are the pieces, who dares to play?"

At the same time that Yi Nan said the first couplet, there was already a servant in front of the hall who wrote down Yi Nan's first couplet and hung it up for all the people in the hall to watch, and was ready to deal with the second couplet.

After Yi Nan confirmed that the words were correct, he stood aside and secretly observed the reactions of the officials in the hall.

Above the main hall, when all the courtiers heard the Shanglian for the first time, they were still eager to show off in front of Li Shimin. After all, how could such a good opportunity to show their faces be missed?

But after they read the first couplet carefully, their expressions became ugly, and they realized that their thinking was too simple.

Yi Nan's Shanglian is grand and grand, and it talks about using the sky as a chessboard and stars as chess pieces. Let me ask who can play this game of chess.

Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji looked at each other for a long time, and studied together with Xiao Yu for a long time, but they shook their heads helplessly.

Li Shimin was also a man of outstanding literary talent, but when he looked at this couplet, he was helpless. He didn't expect that when he looked at Fang Xuanling and others, he saw his Prime Minister, the Minister of Civil Affairs and others, and they all just shook their heads. Li Shimin suddenly looked at Kong Yingda again.

Kong Yingda is a great Confucian of the time and a descendant of Confucius. Now whether the couplet can be matched, Li Shimin can only point to this great Confucian. In Li Shimin's view, if Fang Xuanling and others cannot be right, Kong Yingda should not have a big problem.

But when Li Shimin looked towards Kong Yingda, he unexpectedly discovered that the old master was sweating and did not dare to look at Li Shimin.

Kong Yingda just stared at the Shanglian for a long time, but found that his mind was blank. He racked his brains to think of many sentences, but found that none of them were right, so naturally he didn't dare to show the limelight.

Seeing that Kong Yingda was scared, Li Shimin suddenly panicked, and quickly looked over to the other courtiers. As a result, everyone bowed their heads as far as they could see, and no one dared to look at Li Shimin.

"You..." He understood the reason why the ministers did not dare to look at him. He could never have imagined that a barbarian from the grassland, casually speaking a couplet, could actually bring so many people in the Tang Dynasty court to their knees. Stumped.

This face is really painful!Li Shimin only felt that his cheeks were hot, as if he had been slapped by Yi Nan, and a monstrous anger burst out of his chest.

But at this time, Yi Nan actually saw the clue, and deliberately provoked: "How is it? Your Majesty the Tang Dynasty, can this Shanglian match?"

"This is my first uplink, and the next two uplinks are even more difficult than this!"

Hearing Yi Nan's haughty words, Li Shimin raised his eyes and saw the domineering expression on the other side's face, and felt even more annoyed in his heart, but because he couldn't answer the other side's Shanglian, he could only hold his breath, not to mention how uncomfortable it was.

Yi Nan is extremely proud at the moment, his Shanglian is naturally not something he came up with.

He was a barbarian outside the Great Wall. Even if he had some knowledge of the culture of the Central Plains, he would not be able to achieve such high attainments in couplets.

What no one knew was that Yi Nan's Shanglian was actually written by the Li family of Longxi and the Cui family of Qinghe, among the five surnames and seven Wangs.

(End of this chapter)