After hearing the emperor's question, Shi Zhongchen was stunned and thought to himself: "Maybe! The prince has never known any military and national affairs, but now he has approved the memorial, and he can still get the praise of the emperor. What kind of progress is this? This is a step in place, and it is probably not what he thought of!"

Thinking of this in his heart, Shi Zhongchen said, "It's not because he listened to Wang Ping'an's advice. Your Majesty, Wang Ping'an is just a country child. He has never seen a large army in his life. How could he have an understanding of military and national affairs?"

Li Shimin nodded and said, "You have some truths. Wang Ping'an cannot have a deep understanding of military and national affairs." After hesitating for a moment, he said, "Kezhi'er is..."

The emperor's meaning is very obvious. The prince has never seen a large army fight. Apart from a few military books, he has never read it. It seems unlikely that he would write such a reply.

Shi Zhongchen blinked his eyes and felt that it might be counterproductive to just say good things for the prince, because military and national affairs are not within Li Zhi's ability after all, and they are too proud. If the emperor calls the prince over and takes the exam, the prince will be even more unable to come to Taiwan. In the end, under the emperor's questioning, he will still tell the truth.

Shi Zhongchen said: "The prince has read a lot of military books, but he is still studying and cannot write such a perfect reply. Could it be that Master Ma taught him to write it?"

The Master Ma he mentioned was the master of the Prince Li Zhi, and the Minister of the Central Secretariat Ma Zhou.

Li Shimin immediately felt relieved and said with a smile: "It makes sense that Ma Zhou Jiaozhi'er wrote this. Ma Zhou is an extraordinary person and has great skills. Of course I feel at ease when he Jiaozhi'er."

Shi Zhongchen hurriedly smiled and said, "Master Ma naturally reassures the emperor."

Li Shimin looked at the memorial again and said, "Go and send Ma Zhou. I want to ask him how Zhier reacted when he was a child, and whether he really understood what a military and national event was."

Shi Zhongchen agreed and left the hall, called a little eunuch, asking him to pass on the arrival of the Secretariat Ma Zhou.

Ma Zhou was in the Western Taiwan. A few days ago, due to the race meeting, he didn't come to the Secretariat Province much, and he had a lot of documents backlogged. Today, he stayed in the Secretariat Province and never went anywhere, focusing on handling official duties.

The little eunuch came to Xitai and told Ma Zhou to go to Ganlu Temple. Ma Zhou was puzzled, he hadn't seen him this morning. If there was something important, why didn't he say it at that time, but now he wanted to tell him?

Putting down his official duties, Ma Zhou rushed to Ganlu Hall. When he entered the hall, Li Shimin said nothing else, and smiled and asked Shi Zhongchen to give Ma Zhou a memorial with a chicken feather.

Ma Zhou has read this memorial and has some ideas in his heart. However, as a minister, if he has ideas, he must think carefully and not just open his mouth. Especially when he is the Minister of the Central Secretariat, his identity is already the pinnacle of his subjects, and he cannot speak nonsense.

After opening the memorial, Ma Zhou glanced at the contents, turned to the end, and went to see the comments. He first read the emperor's comments, nodded heavily, and thought to himself: "Yes, that's how it should be. Of course, the method used to deal with the golf herders and the regular Turkic army cannot be the same."

Looking further down, the handwriting became the prince Li Zhi. As the prince's master, how could he not see the handwriting? He nodded slightly and thought to himself: "The prince's approval is reasonable and well-founded..."

The Secretariat of the Central Secretariat was originally a place for planning, and Ma Zhou was the Secretariat of the Central Secretariat, and he could tell whether a plan was good or not. After reading Li Zhi's approval, he knew it in his mind. The prince's approval was actually a supplement to the emperor's approval. It can be said that it has the same roots and origins. The emperor will definitely agree very much. Moreover, the prince's approval is easy to implement. It only requires taking advantage of the situation to achieve the greatest effect. It is a very good military operation planning!

However, as the prince's mentor, Ma Zhou knew Li Zhi too well. Li Shimin was a father. There was no reason for his father to love his son. It was blind. However, the master was much more rational in his evaluation of his disciples. If he could do it, he would do it. If he didn't do it, he wouldn't do it!

The reply in the memorial was definitely not the prince’s own idea, it must be someone who taught him!

Ma Zhou returned the memorial to Shi Zhongchen, and he said, "Your Majesty, do you want me to tell you about the prince's reply. Did he make it himself?"

If you can be a minister and become a prime minister, you can be promoted to the point where you cannot be promoted, you must have outstanding advantages. Ma Zhou asked the key points in just one sentence!

Li Shimin was slightly stunned. Ma Zhou's question proved that it was not what he taught. Otherwise, he would nod directly, say that the approval was very good, and praise Li Zhi again and again, saying how smart and how studious he was, which made him, the old man who was a master, comforted him!

After sighing, Li Shimin slowly leaned towards the back of the chair and said, "If it weren't for Ma Aiqing teaching him, then who would it be?" After saying that, he sighed again. Could it be Wang Ping'an again, right?

Ma Zhou did not think about Wang Ping'an.

He did not have such a high opinion of Wang Ping'an. Wang Sheren was in Zhongpiao's astronomy style, or simply said that he was a person who was too lazy to show off the Internet, let alone fishing. He admired Wang Ping'an very much, but he could not appreciate Wang Ping'an as his subordinate. He had never met several times in total, so how could he appreciate it?

Ma Zhou thought for a while and said, "The old minister really doesn't know much about this. You have to send someone to ask the prince."

Li Shimin was a little disappointed, and Ma Zhou spoke tactfully. In fact, his answer was already hinting that Li Zhi could not write such a reply by himself. Someone must have taught him, but the person who taught him was not Ma Zhou himself.

Shi Zhongchen whispered, "Your Majesty, do you want me to ask Shi Aiguo?" His younger brother is the chief supervisor of the Eastern Palace. Shi Aiguo is the clearest thing about what Li Zhi usually does.

Li Shimin frowned and said, "Then...good, go and ask, who has been going to the East Palace frequently recently."

Shi Zhongchen agreed and turned around and slowly retreated. Suddenly, he heard Ma Zhou ask, "Your Majesty, the old minister thinks it doesn't matter who teaches the prince, so don't ask. It's better to wait until the prince wants to say it and let him say it himself, that's the best."

This is a very pertinent suggestion. When the prince is old, the father should not be too strict and should take care of everything. Instead, the prince cannot do without his father's crutch.

Li Shimin uttered, but he was not the father of an ordinary family, and Li Zhi was not the son of an ordinary family, so he was worried!

Li Shimin said: "Actually, it is of course the best to let Zhier say it himself, but I think the reply in the memorial is so good. Which minister's idea is... Well, that's it, if this minister is asked to execute this matter, wouldn't it be twice the result with half the effort?"

Ma Zhou said oh, nodded and said, "It's still the emperor who thinks everything carefully, the old minister has a misunderstanding for a moment!"

Before Shi Zhongchen left, he suddenly heard the emperor's answer to Ma Zhou. He was stunned. It turned out that the emperor was going to send someone to the border with the advice!

He suddenly remembered what he asked Wang Ping'an, who was full at night and asked around for nothing? Xu Jingzong!

Very good. Since you are so fond of meddling in other people's business, let's take care of yourself and go outside the customs to take care of them. Look at the group of hungry Turkic herdsmen, whether they listen to your minister of the Secretariat!

After leaving the Ganlu Palace, Shi Zhongchen went straight to the East Palace. When he arrived at the East Palace, he called Shi Aiguo to come, asked him about some trivial matters about the prince, and then ordered Shi Aiguo to say, "Listen, if someone wants to ask, for example, the emperor wants to tell you who is the prince getting close to recently, how do you answer?"

Shi Aiguo said without thinking: "Of course he is close to Wang Ping'an. His Royal Highness, except Wang Ping'an, is not close to anyone. This is not a matter of one day or two!"

Shi Zhongchen shook his head and said, "You are wrong. If you answer this way, you will be very wrong! His Royal Highness's handling of the government has become more and more calm and wise and decisive recently. Can this be influenced by Wang Ping'an, a young boy?"

The two brothers, as soon as the elder brother spoke, Shi Aiguo immediately understood what he meant. He asked, "Brother, who should I say the prince is closer to?" He understood in his heart that he was going to choose someone to make contributions!

Shi Zhongchen said: "Xu Jingzong, the Minister of the Secretariat, is a capable person. Please pay more attention to him in the future!"

Shi Aiguo said with a voice and said, "I have seen it long ago that Xu Jingzong is not a man who can live in loneliness!"

Shi Zhongchen snorted twice and said, "Where is the prince, why isn't he in the East Palace?"

Shi Aiguo Road: "Go to Furong Garden to experience the sufferings of the people." After a pause, he said: "I went with Wang Ping'an."

Shi Zhongchen said: "You, go to the prince personally to hint at Xu Jingzong's ability, and then tell Wang Ping'an, if there is any good thing, please take care of Lord Xu!" He bit the three words "Lord Xu" very seriously.

When Shi Aiguo heard his elder brother's tone, he immediately nodded and said, "I'll go now." He understood in his heart again, "I'm not going to choose who is meritorious, but who is unlucky!"

Shi Zhongchen left the Eastern Palace and returned to Ganlu Palace, while Shi Aiguo left the palace and went to Furong Garden to find Li Zhi and Wang Ping'an.

Wang Ping'an and Li Zhi came to Furong Garden. As soon as they entered the garden, they saw crowds of people inside, and there were cheers bursting out from time to time, applause was everywhere, which was extremely lively.

They carried more than a dozen servants with them, the leader of the imperial guards, the Montessori brothers who were recently popular. They all changed into casual clothes on the carriage and dressed up as ordinary people. Under the protection of the imperial guards, Wang Ping'an and Li Zhi squeezed into the garden.

At this time, a high wooden platform was set up in Furong Garden, with colorful flags floating on it, and the banners of several businesses were standing. In Chang'an City, no matter what you want to do, as long as you can attract people to see it, there will be sponsorship of the business, and you will take the opportunity to advertise and do business big, and even the businessmen will not let go of such a thing as a stadium!

I saw that there were couplets on both sides of the wooden platform. The upper couplet was: The feet shook the banks of the Yellow River, the lower couplet: The palm splits the north and south of the Yangtze River, and the horizontal couplet was: the skills were the best in the world! Although the tone was a little swift, it was finally a pair of neat couplets. However, on both sides of this couplet, there were couplets. The upper couplets were: The mountains, rivers, Du Kang wine, and the lower couplet was: The flowers, beautiful women, beautiful Hetian jade, beautiful horizontal couplets: Beautiful, beautiful beautiful!

After reading two couplets, Li Zhi smiled and said, "If I had expected it was good, this battle must be jointly sponsored by the merchants who operate Du Kang wine and the merchants who operate Hetian jade!"

Meng Datian said: "How come this is six words? It should be four words, right?"

Wang Ping'an smiled and said, "This is called winning with a new victory. As long as it can attract the attention of the people, it would be even better if it can cause controversy!"

Everyone was joking and looking at the stage, they saw a man over tepid and as strong as a cow, wearing royal blue short straps, fiery red belts, and thin-soled floor boots on his feet. He was dressed in gorgeous clothes and bowing to the people proudly. It seemed that he had just won, and he didn't know who he had defeated.

The strong man gave a round of greetings, straightened his waist and said, "I, Niu Dali, I won three games in a row today, and I'm not tired at all..."

The people laughed and clapped their hands and stamped their feet below and said, "You are not tired. Judging from your appearance, you don't even sweat!"

Niu Dali was even more proud. He said, "I dare not take this title as the number one martial arts in Chang'an, but I can bear the title as the number one martial arts in Chang'an. But who is the number one martial arts in Chang'an? Come on, whoever can beat me off the arena will be the first!"

Some people below shouted: "Niu Dali, you are so bragging about this kind of coquettishness. You are just stronger, how can you become the second best martial arts?"

Niu Dali looked at the direction of the call with disdain and said, "Don't accept it? Come and talk!" He spread his legs apart, hugged his shoulders with both hands, raised his head high, and looked at the sky proudly.

I heard someone below shouting, "Is there any benefit if I beat you?" This man had an accent outside the gate, but he couldn't be sure where the accent was.

After hearing someone's question below, someone shouted next to the wooden platform: "Who can defeat Niu Zhuangshi, you can get the first prize of thirty cents!"

The person with an accent outside the pass shouted, "Not many! Then let me try it and win the first prize."

After the voice was finished, he rushed to the stage alone. He was a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old. His clothes were a bit worn, but his body was quite strong. Even if he was not as good as Niu Dali, he was not much worse.

Li Zhi smiled and said, "I'm going to fight, I'm going to fight!"

Wang Ping'an said: "It seems that these two people are similar. Although Niu Dali is stronger, he has competed three times after all, and his physical strength may not be as good as when he first appeared on stage. They are evenly matched, and the outcome is unpredictable." He was not very interested in watching people fight, but just accompanied Li Zhi to make a fuss.

Suddenly, someone pulled his sleeve. Wang Ping'an turned his head and saw that it was Ouyang Ba. Ouyang Ba laughed in a low voice: "Master, you are also here to watch the fun. Brothers are all here and are picking people. See who can fight, and you will be included in our subordinates."

Wang Ping'an said oh. He had earlier instructed the Ouyang brothers to choose their subordinates from those who were good at running. It seemed that they had almost done so they ran to the ring to continue to choose. Naturally, the more subordinates, the better, and the greater the ability, the better.
Chapter completed!