Chapter 005: Brotherly Friendship
The old man shook his head calmly.
Liu Ruyi couldn't help but burst into laughter. He shouted, "Chief, just study hard here. We, your brothers, will keep a close eye on you. If you act recklessly again, we will invite the crown prince over!"
"What does it have to do with you?!"
"Of course it is related. If you continue to be a king like this, the people under your rule will suffer. They are the people of the Han Dynasty. Each of us is qualified to make you a qualified vassal king!"
"Oh, don't worry, I'm definitely better than you!"
"What's so great about you? With your current status, I think you will definitely steal the oxen from the people's homes to eat after you are crowned king!"
"You want to fight, don't you??"
Liu Chang, who was at a disadvantage in the verbal confrontation, flew into a rage (naoxiuchengnu), stood up abruptly, and was about to talk to Liu Ruyi about "reason". "If I don't dare to hit the prince, can I hit you?" Fighting was Liu Chang's only advantage. Although he was young and small in stature, Liu Chang was very strong and ordinary children could not beat him at all.
In history, this Liu Chang was also a man of sturdy build, brave character, and strong enough to lift a tripod. He actually lifted the tripod, and a certain overlord who did not want to reveal his name called him an expert.
It was Liu Hui who hurriedly stepped forward and stopped Liu Chang. His fat face was full of helplessness. "Okay, Chang, stop messing around and sit down."
Liu Chang sat down reluctantly until the old teacher cleared his throat. The old teacher continued his lecture. Liu Ruyi looked at Liu Chang with a smile. He liked to see his younger brother wanting to beat him to death but unable to do it.
My stupid Ou Doudou.
When the class was over, in order to prevent Liu Chang from making trouble, the eunuchs surrounded Liu Chang and prepared to take him back. Liu Chang glared at Liu Ruyi fiercely and was helplessly carried away. Liu Ruyi laughed out loud again.
When Liu Chang walked into the Pepper Room with anger, it turned out that Empress Lu had guests here.
The person who could come to pay a visit to Empress Lu at this time naturally had a different identity. He was Lu Shizhi, Empress Lu's brother. He and his elder brother Lu Ze had made great contributions to Liu Bang's cause of unification, and had established many military merits, and were granted the title of Marquis Jiancheng.
He was whispering something to Empress Lu, but when he saw Liu Chang, he immediately stopped and said nothing.
Empress Lü looked Liu Chang up and down and said, "Yes, there was no fight."
Liu Chang stroked his round belly and cried, "Mom... I'm hungry."
"I have something to do here, go find the maid to get something to eat."
"Um."
After Liu Chang left, Lu Shizhi smiled and said, "This guy is living a comfortable life."
"He didn't take it?"
"Confiscated... He refused to see me anymore... It's my fault too. I offended him so badly last time that the sword was almost at his neck."
"It's okay, the goal has been achieved, and you don't need to look for him again in the future."
"What about the Prime Minister?"
"I have my own plans."
"Um."
When Liu Chang came back again, gnawing at the meat and humming, Lu Shizhi had already left, but the Pepper Room had become quite lively, with several palace maids surrounding a large machine. This thing clearly did not exist when Liu Chang came in just now, and was obviously carried in after he left.
Empress Lü was a strict person, so although the palace maids were curious, they did not dare to talk or discuss the matter.
"Wow!"
The moment Liu Chang saw the machine, the memory from Liu Chang quickly took over. He rushed to the machine and looked at it carefully. The appearance of this machine was actually a rope wheel placed on a fixed wooden board. It was obviously a hand-cranked spinning wheel.
At that moment, Liu Chang was a little confused. He had not been in this era for too long, and this was the first time he saw industrial machinery belonging to this era. Although it was very primitive and made entirely of wood, it was precisely such primitive machinery that made Liu Chang even more fascinating.
“Is this a loom?”
“Who made this??”
Liu Chang asked hurriedly.
Empress Lü was somewhat surprised. She had not expected that Liu Chang could actually recognize this thing. She said calmly, "I had it when I was very young."
"Then it must have been made by the Mohist school!"
Empress Lu could not deny this and remained very cool and did not express any opinion.
"Mother, why did you bring a loom here?"
"To kill time."
Empress Lu knew how to operate this machine. While she was operating the machine, Liu Chang sat motionless beside her, looking at this ancient machine very seriously. He thought that after traveling to this era, he was basically isolated from the profession and would never have the opportunity to display any talents.
However, the machine in front of him told him that this was not a barbaric era without machinery.
A few drops of sweat appeared on Empress Lu's forehead. This machine was indeed much more convenient than manual labor, but after all, it still had to be operated by hand, which must have been very tiring.
Liu Chang tried to help several times, but was grabbed by the head and pushed away ruthlessly by Empress Lu.
Therefore, Liu Chang could only help wipe the sweat off his face.
Liu Chang knew very well what Empress Lu was using this machine for. Every piece of clothing he wore was knitted for him by Empress Lu herself... As the weather was getting colder, his mother was going to make him clothes for the winter. At his age, he was growing taller every year, and most of his original clothes no longer fit him.
Liu Chang smiled foolishly, sat next to Lu Hou, rubbed his head against her arm, just wanting to operate the machine.
Finally, Empress Lu agreed to lend him the spinning wheel as long as Liu Chang did not cause any trouble in the next month.
As an enlightenment textbook, "Cangjie Pian" is indeed a bit difficult.
Perhaps Li Si overestimated the level of his future teachers and students when he was creating his work, or perhaps he underestimated his own talent.
Anyway, in the early Han Dynasty, "Cangjie Chapter", as an enlightenment textbook, caused countless confusions in the Han Dynasty. The main confusion was the problem of explanation. Different teachers explained "Cangjie Chapter", and everyone could get different answers. It was okay in the palace, but in the local areas, those teachers with insufficient ability would easily talk nonsense and mislead the students.
Li Si did not write "Cangjie" in the way of writing enlightenment textbooks. Instead, he used a lot of his own ideological essence in "Cangjie". This is simply a lifelong psychological shadow for the enlightenment children. The children, who were originally happy because they could recognize words, were exposed to a masterpiece of thought written by a figure of Li Si's level when they read for the first time.
How devastating would this be?
Therefore, the Cangjie chapter was lost...
This was also something that made Liu Chang feel painful. Knowing how to read and write was no problem, but explaining Li Si's Legalist spirit was a bit too hard-core. The literati in ancient my country had a bad habit, which was that they liked to complicate simple things.
A simple Spring and Autumn Annals was made into countless versions, countless meanings, and countless annotations in later generations. It became thicker and thicker, more and more profound, and more and more difficult to understand. In the end, families of the same faction could not understand each other's family Spring and Autumn Annals, and they fought to the death...
In his previous life, Liu Chang hated reading comprehension very much, let alone now he was learning reading comprehension of hellish difficulty.
Liu Chang has been taking classes here for some time. During this time, his elder brother Liu Ying came to visit him twice. Each time he came, he talked for more than an hour . Liu Chang resisted the urge to take action. He had promised his mother that he would not cause trouble again, otherwise, the spinning wheel would be gone.
As for Liu Ruyi, she never stopped provoking him. She looked at him with a smile every day, as if asking him: Why are you so scared? Why don't you dare to take action?
Liu Hui was as friendly as ever and even offered to give Liu Chang extra lessons, but was rejected by Liu Chang.
As for Liu Heng... He always had a stern face, just like Empress Lü, so Liu Chang didn't like to talk to him. You are not the crown prince, so why are you so arrogant?
Did I miss one person?
Sitting in Tianlu Pavilion, having endured another painful class, while the teacher was taking a break, Liu Chang finally came to Liu Hui's side and asked, "Brother, I heard that my father is going to hold a banquet? Is it true?"
"I do not know……"
"The banquet is about to begin. Why, do you want to steal some meat again?"
Liu Ruyi asked in a mean way.
Liu Chang ignored him and continued to say to Liu Hui: "Brother... I need your help with something. Can you wait for me later?"
Liu Hui was a little surprised. He had never seen Liu Chang so respectful. He nodded and agreed.
Liu Ruyi, who was standing by, came closer and asked curiously, "What's the matter? Call me brother, and I can help you."
"hehe."
Liu Chang rolled his eyes at him.
"You call them all brothers, why do you call them Ruyi when it comes to me?"
Seeing that Liu Chang still ignored him, Liu Ruyi became indignant and self-blaming, muttering some difficult-to-understand words like "I am disrespectful to my brother".
