Chapter 68 Before leaving, I sneak a kiss on Erfeng's face (I'm a man, I'm proud!)
Modern workers are also reluctant to leave the Tang Dynasty, and even more reluctant to leave Li Shimin.
After all, it is hard to find a boss like Long Aotian who is like Mary Sue and is willing to pay high salaries and rewards and praise him all the time in modern times!
"Wow, wow, if I leave Er Feng, where can I find another good boss who takes advantage of me like this? Wow!"
"That's right, without Erfeng, who will send me a panda? Woohoo!"
This made Li Shimin both laugh and cry.
"So you modern people are treating me like a sheep to be plundered?"
"Of course not. Erfeng, you're so generous! Those who work for you have already earned enough money for their entire lives!"
We all really like you!
There are so many people in history, and apart from the most special and dazzling ones like you, if it were someone else, we wouldn't bother to grab him.
When Li Shimin heard this, he finally felt relieved.
After all these years, I haven't heard a single good word from these modern people. They're either pissing them off to death or on their way to pissing them off to death...
Although these modern people were reluctant to leave the Tang Dynasty, they finally decided to leave.
Li Shimin was very sad about this:
"Are you all going to abandon me?"
"Erfeng, please don't cry. If you cry, I will cry too."
Workers No. 1, 2 and 3 have been working as secretaries at the Tang Dynasty court for decades. Over the years, they have long regarded this place as their second home.
"But even though the Tang Dynasty is great, we still have family and friends in the modern world. The modern world is our home, our belonging and our hometown."
Li Shimin could not accept it, but he could understand the desire of modern people to return home.
He was sad for a while, then looked at the three silent people next to him.
Shen Yue, Lu Shuyuan, and Wen Yuping. These three had been with him the longest, and the latter two held the highest official positions.
"Are you also going to leave the Tang Dynasty and leave me?"
All three of them showed hesitation on their faces.
Shen Yue was the first to make a decision. She finally shook her head firmly and said:
"I've decided, I'm staying!"
These words immediately shocked Li Shimin and all modern people.
[You should think carefully. When you are old and dying of illness and there is no cure in ancient times, you may regret it.]
[Yes, do you have no relatives or friends in modern times?
Datang is a place to work. No matter how good the company is or how close the boss is, it cannot replace family and home!
"I don't regret it. I've made up my mind. I don't have many relatives in the modern world anyway."
Shen Yue was born in a remote rural family that typically favors boys over girls. Her current name was chosen by herself, and her ties with her parents and younger brother had long been severed.
Later, she worked hard alone in a big city. Although she had friends and colleagues, her relationship with them was not that close.
At first she came to the Tang Dynasty just out of curiosity, but over the past few decades, she has met many people here.
She has many disciples here, and many people respect her.
Perhaps in modern times, she would just be one of the countless doctors performing ordinary surgeries, but here, she can play her greatest value.
Staying in the Tang Dynasty, continuing to cure diseases and save lives, and teaching medical skills, this is what she has been looking for, the meaning of life.
[A small doctor saves lives, a great doctor governs a nation. Our modern daughters also have strong character!]
[Wow, sister, you are so awesome! You are our modern heroine!]
Li Shimin was both moved and happy after hearing this. He then looked at Wen Yuping and Lu Shuyuan, trying to persuade them to stay:
"Of course I won't stop you, but you have been officials in the Tang Dynasty for so long, holding high positions and great power. How wonderful it is."
A Shangshu and a prime minister hold enormous power in their hands.
This kind of feeling of having the power of life and death, being above everyone else, and being admired and admired by countless people, is something that countless officials in modern times would be willing to exchange for modern living conditions.
However, Wen Yuping and Lu Shuyuan were very clear-headed, and their hesitation was never because of this.
"Boss, what I'm most worried about is that if I stay, one day you might get tired of me or have a brain cramp.
I might be shot because I stepped through the door with my left foot."
It is clearly written in history books that since ancient times, not many powerful officials who have reached the level of prime minister have been able to reap good rewards.
Even if this emperor was Li Shimin, he has always had a good reputation in history for not killing his meritorious officials.
But this is a feudal society after all, where the emperor can take someone's life with just a word.
Without the support of the system, they would no longer be experiencers wearing resurrection armor, but would become real officials of the Tang Dynasty.
"How could I be such a person!"
Li Shimin was shocked and then very sad:
"It's been decades, and you still don't trust me?"
“What if someone else wants us to die, or if the new emperor wants us to die after Your Majesty passes away?
It's not that we don't trust Your Majesty, it's just that the ancient class system and institutions simply can't give us modern people a sense of security."
The sense of security brought by institutions, laws and human rights in modern society is something that no dynasty in ancient feudal society could provide.
"Okay, I get it, I understand.
Don't worry about me, I'm just a little sad."
Li Shimin knew that these two people were probably determined to leave, and he immediately burst into tears.
Modern workers couldn't stand it anymore and started crying.
Soon, other local officials learned that these overseas people would return home en masse in a year. At first, they were very surprised.
Everyone was filled with joy and breathed a sigh of relief as if they had survived a disaster, and asked these people how long they planned to stay back.
But when they shook their heads and said that the mountains were high and the waters were far away and they would never come back in their lifetime, they all felt very sad again.
This group of overseas people are crazy and crazy every day, and local court officials always get together to complain about them after dinner.
But now, even the madness of these workers has become cute.
What's wrong with being crazy?
No matter how crazy he was, he was still a minister of the Tang Dynasty and had made countless contributions to the Tang Dynasty!
Normally, they would quarrel with modern people in the court, but at this time many people took the initiative to apologize, saying that they had just exaggerated in their previous remarks in the court.
Everyone is just doing official business, and the attacks on people are not based on personal grudges.
Liu Yan, Diwu Qi, Yuan Zai and others found the overseas people who were about to leave, bowed their heads and admitted their mistakes and apologized. The workers immediately gathered together happily and asked them to say it again loudly.
"Record it, record it, this kind of thing must be made known to everyone!
In the end, we won, hahaha!"
After expressing their gratitude, Li Guangbi, Guo Ziyi and others gave them some precious items such as swords they had made themselves.
However, modern workers complain after getting it:
“Can you change it?
Could you please give me some of your personal belongings, such as handkerchiefs, handkerchiefs, clothes you've worn, hairpins, etc. Why are you looking at me like that?
As for the gift, it would be nice if I could pick one myself. If you don't give me something I like, I should tell you directly. Otherwise, if we keep it in our hearts, no one will feel good, right? "
Some even took the initiative to ask Yan Zhenqing and Li Shimin for calligraphy copies as souvenirs.
After all, Li Shimin had limited time, so asking for an autograph was enough. But Yan Zhenqing was a famous calligrapher:
"Please rewrite your "Duobao Pagoda Stele" and other inscriptions and make a book for me!
Others learn calligraphy by using your photocopied copy, but mine is the original copy you wrote yourself, hehehe, it makes me proud when I tell others about it!"
"By the way, why don't you rewrite all the poems of Li Bai and Du Fu in Yan Zhenqing's style? It would be more valuable if it were spread out, the kind that could be put in the Forbidden City!"
"What? Why don't I ask you to just paint another picture? This is such a good feeling!
This is what you said, keep your word, sir. I'm waiting for you!"
Even though they were leaving, these people were still that crazy group of overseas people, leaving all the court officials speechless and angry enough to want to hit someone...
"You're not going to let me go, just get out of here!"
Although he said this, Li Shimin personally demonstrated what it meant to say one thing and do another.
He and Yan Zhenqing erected a large stone tablet in the palace for all modern people, called the "Overseas Tang Dynasty Biography Tablet."
The front side is written in Li Shimin's Feibai style, which contains words of praise for these workers.
On the back is calligraphy written by Yan Zhenqing himself, which records the contributions made by these modern people to the Tang Dynasty so that the future generations of the Tang Dynasty will remember them forever.
"Wow!"
A group of modern workers stood in front of the stone tablet and looked up, all sighing that they had never seen the world.
Anyway, it's very meaningful and amazing, and the handwriting is so beautiful and neat.
"Can we move to modern times?"
"That's right, if I bring it back to my hometown and put it in front of the ancestral hall, I'll be the most handsome guy in the village!
From now on, when my mother gets angry, I run to the stone tablet and she doesn’t even dare to hit me with her slippers!"
Li Shimin and Yan Zhenqing: ...?
Li Shimin was at a loss whether to laugh or cry. Finally, amid the laughter of the people in the sky, he helplessly and speechlessly helped modern people build a similar stone tablet.
Then he wrote it again with Yan Zhenqing, so that modern people could move it away.
Of course, modern people also worked hard in this last year, striving to leave more scientific and technological and knowledge wealth to the Tang Dynasty.
The modern man who works is still the same cunning, sharp-tongued, and heartbreaking scab. The court officials are left speechless and heartbroken every day with anger.
But when the time came for them to leave, all the Tang Dynasty officials and Li Shimin reluctantly waved goodbye to them in front of Chang'an City.
In order not to scare these ancient people, they said they wanted to take a boat to return home, and they actually spent a month sailing along the Yellow River to the sea, and then collectively crossed the time and space gate to return to the modern era.
At this moment, at the gate of Chang'an, a group of modern people finally understood the feelings and reluctance of the ancients when they said goodbye to someone they would never see again in this life.
They desperately waved at Li Shimin and others. Some of them burst into tears.
However, there are also modern people who, taking advantage of the moment of parting, rely on their male gender and longer strides to stride up to Li Shimin and kiss him on the face!
There was also a loud kiss sound left behind.
Then, amidst everyone's astonishment and Li Shimin's shock, he circled the field, cheering loudly like a world champion:
"Ahhhhh comrades, I kissed Erfeng on the face!
Ahhh, this is so great, so cool! I did this, it’s worth it in my life! "
[Fuck, man, Warriors!]
Come back and give me a kiss on the mouth. To round it off, Er Feng and I have indirectly kissed each other! 】
[Dude, you're right. Look at Li Shimin's eyes. You've left a huge psychological shadow on him!]
[Hahaha, from now on, the Tang Dynasty laws will have to add a new rule because of you, prohibiting court officials from kissing the emperor without permission! No matter how charming the emperor is, he can't kiss casually!]
"Fuck, this is still possible! It's over, it's over! I'm at a loss!"
After being kissed by surprise, Li Shimin must have been on guard and would not be able to do it again in the same way.
Suddenly, the workers nearby all looked saddened by the loss of 100 million...
Li Shimin: ...?
Li Shimin sighed, and sighed again, but in the end he did not criticize these people.
After all, everyone is going to die, so what else can he do with this group of modern people?
No matter how much he expressed disgust, he couldn't bear to burn even the earliest diary written by a modern person.
This is a unique way of recording. Li Shimin even planned to put it in his tomb together with the treasure map, so that future generations would be stunned when they saw it.
Every time they were about to leave, they would play a joke like this. Everyone was seeing these overseas people off with a mixture of laughter and tears. When the court went up the next day, the Tang Dynasty court was much more dull.
Without the sharp tongues and humor of these modern people, the Tang Dynasty officials felt empty and uncomfortable.
Li Shimin also felt empty in his heart and felt that something was missing in the court.
These modern people have already gone out to sea and returned to the modern era. The system's space-time gate is about to close, and they will never come back.
I'll never see you again!
Li Shimin was sighing continuously when he suddenly heard someone outside reporting that Prime Minister Wen had returned!
Li Shimin was suddenly startled and took the lead to rush out with big strides.
Soon, when the system prompted that it was about to shut down, he saw Wen Yuping walking up the stairs towards him in the morning sunlight.
Wen Yuping looked at Li Shimin and the ministers with a smile and said:
"Your Majesty, I'm back!"
Li Shimin's eyes were a little sore. He also smiled and looked at this courtier who had always followed him, and was also the most special modern Tang Dynasty official:
"Have you made up your mind? You're not leaving?"
"Well, I've decided. I won't leave."
Li Shimin suddenly laughed. Although he was nearly fifty years old, he still looked like a young man in his early twenties. His laughter was very happy and hearty.
"I knew you couldn't bear to leave me! You couldn't bear to leave the Tang Dynasty!"
Ahhh, it's like that TV series I've been following for decades, and I thought it was going to end, but then it suddenly turns out to be a happy ending!
[But this is a lifelong decision, it’s too important!
I cried. Sister, even in ancient times, you should take care of yourself!
[Sister, no matter what choice you make, all of us modern people are supporting you behind the scenes!
But why did my sister suddenly change her mind? Are you sure you really want to stay in Datang?
After the court session, Shen Yue, who hurried to Prime Minister Wen's residence upon hearing the news, asked the same question.
Wen Yuping invited Chen Yue to sit down with her and drink the newly improved version of green tea from the Tang Dynasty.
After staying in ancient times for a long time, she gradually began to like the taste of Tang Dynasty tea. This is probably the custom of adapting to local customs.
"Although my situation is different from yours, it is actually very similar."
Unlike Shen Yue, Wen Yuping was born into a middle-class family in a modern metropolitan city. She attended the best schools in the city and a top university in China, earning a doctorate.
Later, after graduating with a doctorate, he successfully found a high-paying job. In the eyes of many people, this is already an enviable life.
"But even so, when I discovered that my younger brother was my parents' favorite child, I suddenly realized that my relationship with my parents wasn't that close."
My parents are from Chaoshan and have a strong sense of family. Although the family has no worries about food and clothing, once there are resources, they will definitely lean towards my younger brother.
The bulk of the family's property and money were left to her younger brother, and when she grew up, she had to rely on herself for everything. Her parents even asked her to subsidize the family and her younger brother from time to time.
She had resisted and argued, but her parents loved her, just not as much as they loved her brother. What could she do?
In the last year before she left ancient times, she returned home to pay homage to her deceased parents.
Then, when she passed by a primary school, she suddenly saw the honor board posted at the school gate.
There was a photo of a girl on it, and next to it were the girl’s own words: “Study hard so that women can have more seats.”
She stopped and looked for a long time, and suddenly made a decision.
In modern times, she might not be able to do much, but here, as the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, she can help countless women.
Perhaps just one word or one policy can give countless women here a completely different life.
“Maybe I’m also an escapist.
In modern society, many people are striving for change, but I can’t do much and I’m powerless to change the status quo.”
Wen Yuping laughed at herself.
She was actually afraid of returning to the Tang Dynasty.
As a typical modern businessman, she is also greedy for money and afraid of death!
"Who said that?"
Li Shimin jumped over the wall at some point. He was fifty years old but still so naughty, which immediately made Shen Yue roll up her sleeves and glare at him.
He coughed twice guiltily, touched his nose, and then said:
“You modern people always say that you are afraid of death and only care about money, but in fact, people in every dynasty have always been like this.
From ancient times to the present, most people have been busy traveling for fame and fortune. But even among you modern people, there are celebrities who serve their country and their people, and heroes who are willing to sacrifice their lives.
Just like the two ladies, they should be recorded in history and be admired.
China is full of talented people, generation after generation, for thousands of years, from ancient times to the present, we have never lost our Chinese spirit! "
Hearing this, Wen Yuping smiled:
"When I was studying, I often saw your ancients say 'not to have lived in vain' between the lines. I never understood what it meant to have lived in vain.
It wasn’t until today that I finally understood.”
Witness the history of Li Shimin, become a part of history together, and change the future history of the Tang Dynasty.
This is how her life is worthwhile.
...
A few years later, the prince grew up, and Li Shimin took Prince Li Hua to court to discuss government affairs.
Although Princess Chaoyang could not attend court, she liked to ride horses and train soldiers like her father.
Until one day, Princess Hezheng, who was far away in Tubo, sent a message saying that she was old and had fallen ill some time ago, and felt that she did not have much time left.
I hope the emperor will quickly select new people to go to Tubo to prevent chaos in Tubo.
At this time, Princess Chaoyang, who had just turned eighteen, volunteered to take over Princess Hezheng's position and go to Tubo.
Of course Li Shimin was unwilling to do so. This was his beloved daughter whom he doted on.
But no matter how Li Shimin and Empress Zhangsun tried to persuade and dissuade her, Princess Chaoyang was determined:
"Aunt He Zheng has been in Tubo for ten years. Now that she is old, it is time for her to return to Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty. Even if it means death, she must stay in her homeland.
I'm still young, so what if I go for ten years?
And I’ll be back.”
Princess Chaoyang, who had grown up, only then realized the difference between herself and her brother.
She never understood why her parents doted on her but were very strict with her younger brother.
Her parents doted on her, but there were some things that weighed heavily on her heart, which she could not tell her parents or anyone else.
This road may be difficult, but it is just a beginning.
Wu Zetian was able to do it back then, and she was her father's legitimate daughter. If she didn't try to fight for it, she would probably regret it for the rest of her life.
Li Shimin couldn't persuade his daughter, so he had to give up power.
Before leaving, Li Shimin was reluctant to let her go, but Princess Chaoyang quietly came to the house of Wen Yuping who was preparing to retire.
At this time, Wen Yuping was at home leisurely watering the flowers in the garden. Listening to Princess Chaoyang's overt and covert solicitations and tests, she pretended not to understand:
"Princess, why did you come to see me?
I am just an old man who is about to retire, and I have no longer any interest in future court affairs.
What's more, the princess should have heard from His Majesty about the habits of us overseas people.
We just like to do our job well and hate to get involved in irrelevant matters outside of work."
As a modern person, she has watched too many TV dramas and knows very well that the greatest disaster for a prime minister or a general who is more powerful than his master is to be involved in court struggles.
Especially in the fight between princes, if you stand on the wrong side, your whole family will lose their heads.
She was just working for the boss, and the fight between the boss's children had nothing to do with her.
"I once heard Aunt Yue talk about Mr. Wen and her experiences, and I felt quite emotional after hearing it.
I always feel that Mr. Wen’s situation is very similar to mine.
Is it true that Mr. Wen really doesn't care about me anymore?"
Princess Chaoyang grabbed Wen Yuping's sleeve and acted coquettishly. Wen Yuping sighed and said after a long while:
"Perhaps, I shouldn't have intervened."
When the little princess heard the word "maybe", she understood.
She bowed to Wen Yuping, then turned and left gracefully, beginning to write her first political achievement in history.
Li Shimin did not know about this and did not understand his daughter's thoughts.
Although people were still coming and going on the skylight at this time, its function was gradually weakening and even disappeared. They could no longer see the conversation between Wen Yuping and the princess.
Until one day, the words on the sky became intermittent, and Li Shimin knew that this "sacred artifact" that had always stayed by his side to assist him, as well as those modern people, would eventually leave him.
[Wow, I’ve been chasing her since I was young, from college until retirement, but now I can’t see the end?
No, I'm dying of tears! 】
Why is it so cruel? Stop whining!
I follow Datang and Erfeng's daily routines every day. Without this, what would I watch? How would I eat with it?
[Wow, I'm going to miss Erfeng so much if I can't see his still handsome face!]
"I miss you too, my friends whom I have never met.
But what other ending could there be? I have revived the Tang Dynasty, and it will prosper for at least another hundred years. Isn't this the best outcome?"
Modern people always have a feeling of watching the fire from the other side of the river and treating it as a play, but people will always grow old, and perhaps one day, he and Empress Changsun will pass away again.
Do they have to see it until then?
They would probably be very sad too.
[Wow, I want to keep watching, but I'm also afraid that one day, Erfeng will just leave like this.]
[Yes, although I am reluctant, it is better to let time stop here. In this way, in my heart, Erfeng will never die!
He will always be the proud Phoenix of the Tang Dynasty! He will live happily with Empress Zhangsun forever! The Tang Dynasty will always be the prosperous Tang Dynasty!
【Goodbye, the best Erfeng. 】
"Goodbye, modern Chinese."
Li Shimin said silently in his heart.
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