In the northwest corner of Yebei City, in Xingsheng Temple where Santai is located, Emperor Li Li of Chu held a banquet in the courtyard.

He, his son, nephew, and several major military officers, invited the "literati and poets" who came from the south not long ago.

These literati and poets are all administrative officials or academic officials with positions.

The king and his subjects were drinking happily in this "famous scenic spots and historical sites", and there was also a piano player playing the piano aside. The scene was filled with a full artistic atmosphere.

With the background of the Three Platforms in Yecheng as the background, Li Li was wrapped in a literary atmosphere. In a trance, he felt as if he had become the literary emperor.

The three platforms in Yecheng, the main platform is the famous Tongquetai. It was built by Cao Cao during the Jian'an period of the Later Han Dynasty.

The Tongquetai is directly based on the wall of Yecheng City, ten feet high and has 101 houses.

Later, Cao Cao built the Golden Tiger Platform in Tongque Tainan, which was eight zhang high and had 190 houses;

An ice well platform was built in Tongque Taipei, which was eight feet high, with 148 houses and several deep wells, storing a large amount of grain and coal.

After the completion of the three platforms, together with Yecheng, they have experienced hundreds of years of ups and downs.

During the period, the dynasties changed, and the Santai was continuously repaired and expanded. During the Shi Zhao period, the name was also changed: the bronze bird was changed to Tongjue, and the golden tiger was changed to Jinbeast.

When Gao's Qi State arrived, during the Tianbao period when Gao Yang was in power, after a new round of renovation and expansion, the height of the three units reached 17 meters, and the two units were more than 200 feet apart.

The name also changes: Golden Phoenix (Bronze Bird), Shengying (Golden Tiger), Chongguang (Ice Well), and Santai is the Santai Palace, with Qianxiang Hall.

During Gao Zhan's reign, the palace where Santai was located was Xingsheng Temple.

The banquet was getting better and better, and the monarch and ministers were in high spirits. The civil servants took turns to write poems, and the scene was very lively.

Yu Xin, a literary master who is nearly 60 years old, looked at the magnificent Santai in front of him and recalled Cao Zhi's famous work "The Fu of the Bronze Bird Tower" and was very excited.

After reading Cao Zhi's "The Fu of the Tongquetai" when he was a teenager, he was fascinated by the Tongquetai at that time.

However, the north and south have been fighting for hundreds of years, and others are in the south of the Yangtze River. Unless they go on a mission to the north, they will not be able to see the majestic posture of the Tongquetai with their own eyes.

However, the opportunity finally came: in the eleventh year of Datong, Liang State, twenty-five years ago, Yu Xin was sent to the Wei State (Eastern Wei) to come to the capital of Wei Yecheng.

In Yecheng, he finally saw Santai with his own eyes.

However, I didn't expect that I could still visit the old place twenty-five years later, and at this time, Yecheng was already under the rule of the imperial court.

Of course, the current imperial court has no longer the name of "Liang", and the emperor's surname is Li but Xiao.

At this moment, the emperor sitting in the upper head, twenty-five years ago...

Twenty-five years ago, probably, Li Li was still fishing in Pengli Lake in Poyang...

Yu Xin thought so and looked at Li Li who was chatting and laughing with his ministers, and was filled with mixed feelings.

If the late emperor (Xiao Gang) had not been assassinated that year and was in good health, perhaps he would still be alive now...

Or, the Crown Prince (Xiao Daqi) died without any serious injury. Yu Xin felt that Li Li would be highly valued, and finally recovered Hebei for the court as a general of the Liang army.

If that were the case, Xiao Gang or Xiao Daqi would sit in front of the three platforms and improvise poetry...

As he thought about it, Yu Xin felt a little sad.

Compared with Emperor Wu of Liang and his son, the current emperor Li Li was basically not interested in literature. There were no frequent poetry gatherings in the palace, and the emperor rarely recited poems with officials.

As an individual, the emperor was not interested in literature, but as the emperor, he promoted education.

Since the implementation of the examination and selection system in the new dynasty, state and county schools have been established in various places, and the imperial court has invested more and more funds in education.

In places such as Jiankang, Huaiyin, Hanshan, Poyang, Jiangling, Gongcheng, Guangling and other places, there were also "newspapers" and a large number of printing workshops to print a large number of literary works.

This is another form of "great literary style". Yu Xin, who witnessed the drastic changes in the times, did not know how to describe his mood.

He entered the Eastern Palace at the age of fifteen and was the lecturer of the Eastern Palace of Crown Prince Xiao Tong.

Later, Xiao Tong died and Xiao Gang was the crown prince. Yu Xin continued to stay in the Eastern Palace. It can be said that he was Xiao Gang's old friend.

Time flies, and the country has changed its master. He has experienced the glorious years of Liang State, experienced the afterglow of the sunset of Liang State, and witnessed the rising sun of the new dynasty. Now he looks at Santai, and is filled with mixed feelings.

At least, Li Li did not kill Xiao Gang's descendants because of his grace of knowing Xiao Gang.

Emperor Xun was still alive, and the royal families of the previous dynasty lived a peaceful life in Poyang.

The emperors of the New Dynasties were hostile to the gentry, abolished all privileges, the land had to pay taxes, people had to serve labor or pay money to exempt them from labor, which made the gentry's dissatisfaction with the New Dynasties surge.

However, the emperor also increased the treatment of officials, so that the normal daily living expenses of officials whose income has dropped sharply due to the local area and household registration inspection have increased dramatically.

Faced with the emperor who held strong soldiers and used both soft and hard skills, and the fair and just (relatively speaking) examination and selection system, both the gentry, the cold, and the powerful people from all over the country bowed their heads.

Now, Li Li personally led the army to take over Yecheng, and Hebei has become a treasure, with reputation as high as the peak. No one in Chu dares to complain openly.

Because everyone sees that the unity of the world is just around the corner.

In my lifetime, I can see the end of a chaotic world that lasted for nearly three hundred years. What an exciting thing is it to see?

Soon, it was Yu Xin's turn to write poetry. He went north and what he saw and heard had already condensed into words in his heart. Now he can use the alcohol to pick it up at will.

The style of the poem is Yuefu poem, the name of the poem: Yan Song Xing.

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In the temporary palace, Li Li, who was drunk, was carried into the dormitory by Xue Yuechang and Duan Yuying, and headed towards the bed, while Zhao Mengniang was tidying up beside the bed.

Xue Yuechang and Duan Yuying finally sent Li Li to the bed. Just as they wanted him to lie down, they were hugged by Li Li and fell on the bed together.

Next to him, Zhao Mengniang was stunned for a moment when she saw this, then turned around and waved to the maids who were trying to help: avoid it, avoid it quickly.

Zhang Lihua was also among them. Seeing the emperor hugging the two concubines, the atmosphere became strange and felt something was going to happen. So he blushed, but the emperor started to hum:

"The broken halberd is sandy and iron has not been removed, and it will be washed and recognized by the previous dynasty."

"The east wind does not go with Zhou Lang, and the bronze bird spring locks the two Qiaos."

Then I saw the emperor put away his arms, lying on the bed with his head in his arms, and praised himself: "Good poems, good poems!"

Duan Yuying felt funny when she saw this. Seeing that Li Li had nothing to do, Zhao Mengniang asked the maids to retreat.

Li Li has a characteristic, which is that she talks a lot after drinking. She is worried that Li Li will make a mistake after drinking, and accidentally says something important, but the servants listen to it.

"Don't leave, talk with me..." Li Li asked the three concubines to stay and share today's experience.

"Sanlang's poem is good. Is it written at today's banquet?" Xue Yuechang asked, and Li Li shook his head: "No, no, it seems to be something else."

Duan Yuying asked: "Sanlang is very interested today. He rarely listened to Sanlang's poems in the past."

"Of course I'm happy..." Li Li suddenly stood up and wanted to sit up, so Duan Yuying quickly went to help him.

Li Li sat up, burping, and said, "My Wendou Group is here. Now, there is a good show."

"Wen Dou Tian Group?" The three concubines were a little surprised by this word.

"Writing Fight" is easy to understand, what is "Tiantuan"?

Li Li replied: "There are many gentry and literati in Hebei. These people cannot convince them by relying solely on force, so I have to use literary fights to slash the spirit of these people."

"Especially those high-ranking families, such as Boling Cui, Qinghe Cui, Fanyang Lu, Xingyang Zheng, Zhaojun Li... hiccup!"

He burped again, slowed down and continued:

"It was all used to Cao Wei. He used family status and family reading to divide people into different levels. If you don't talk about literature or mystery, it's not enough to deal with such birds. Just rely on knowledge. The players on our side cannot be bad either."

Li Li specially transferred a group of writers, scholars and various well-known scholars from China to Yecheng, in order to use literary battles to give the gentry and scholars in Hebei region a "meeting gift".

Since we need to fight literature, the main "fields of fighting" are in two aspects: one is knowledge, and the other is family.

However, in this era, only the children of the gentry could obtain good education and have family knowledge, so the "competitors" on the two battlefields of knowledge and family traditions actually have dual identities.

In the field of knowledge (primarily literature), the leader of the Southern Tiantuan Group is naturally the famous "Xu and Yu", namely Yu Xin and Xu Ling.

The two of them were famous in the north twenty or thirty years ago.

There is also Zhou Hongzheng, a great scholar who is nearly 80 years old, and his younger brother, Zhou Hongzhi, who is also knowledgeable, who has been famous for a long time and is born in the Zhou family of Runan.

The generals under these "masters" include: Gaoyang Xu Heng, Yangzhai Chu Jie, Nanyang Cen Zhijing, Donghai Xu Boyang, Lujiang He Zhiyuan, Qinghe Zhang Zhengjian, Zhang Jian.

As well as Yang Ji Cai Ning, Chen Liu Ruan Zhuo, Dongyang Gong Mengshu, Jiyang Jiang Zong, Wu Jun Quanshang, etc.

Of course, there are also officials from southern overseas gentry who hold important positions, including Yan Zhitui of Langya, Ming Kerang, a scholar in Wenyuan Pavilion.

As for the first part of the clan, in order to deal with the Cui family of Boling, Cui family of Qinghe, Li family of Zhaojun, Li family of Longxi, Lu family of Fanyang and Zheng family of Xingyang, Li Li of course wanted to invite the "national treasure" of the Southern Dynasty to attack.

That is the first-class family in the Southern Dynasty, the "Two Walls of the Empire": the Wang family of Langya and the Xie family of Chenjun.

Representative of the Wang family of Langya: Wang Tong, who was gray-haired and beautiful. Wang Tong was the nephew of Emperor Wu of Liang and is currently the Dazhongzheng of Yangzhou.

Representative of the Xie family of Chen County: Xie Yan, who knows the destiny of heaven, is currently the Chief Censor.

The Taiyuan Wang family, which is regarded as a first-class family in the north, also has a branch in the south: Wang Yuangui, who was born in the Taiyuan Wang family, is now a scholar and serves as a doctor of the Imperial College.

These three surnames are foreign surnames, and the corresponding Wu surnames are indispensable for the four surnames of Wu: Gu, Lu, Zhu, and Zhang.

Among them, Gu Yewang, who is proficient in phonology, is currently studying the "Pinyin method" of pronunciation of characters, and uses the "Pinyin method" as the topic to lead the war, and is afraid it will be a big fuss.

Zhang Zhong, who is knowledgeable and outstanding, is nearly 70 years old.

There are also thirty-year-old descendants Lu Yan and Lu Yu brothers.

The Zhu family has declined, but Shen Dewei from the Shen family of Wuxing, Shen Buhe.

Although Li Li has used a series of means such as procuring the nationality, local area, and abolishing privileges to constantly "train" the southern gentry and powerful people in recent years, he is not blindly tough.
To be continued...