Daqin: I was overheard by Zulong

Chapter 272
"Your Majesty the Great Qin, Ben Shanyu has heard that Great Qin is a state of etiquette, with both civil and military skills, but in Ben Shanyu's view, martial bravery is true, and martial arts may be fake!" Touman Chanyu gritted his teeth provocatively.

Ying Zheng frowned, and stared at Touman with narrowed eyes, "What do you mean by that?"

"Ben Shanyu has three couplets here. If anyone in Daqin can confront him, Benchanyu will surrender immediately. But if no one can confront him, then please let His Majesty Daqin let Ben Shanyu go!" Touman proposed a shocking Unexpected conditions.

Ying Zheng frowned. He didn't believe that Tou Man was innocent. A Huns, even a Chanyu of the Huns, wanted to compete with the elites of Qin in terms of knowledge. Who could believe it?

However, Touman's bet made Yingzheng unable to refuse. Although he made the bet, the conditions made Yingzheng quite tempted. , it will not be difficult.

The civil and military officials in the main hall, after hearing Touman Chanyu's words, they also talked a lot. Everyone looked down on Touman Chanyu at all, and thought that Touman's request was beyond his control.

In Daqin, no scholar had ever played couplets, especially the courtiers present. Most of them came from wealthy families. They grew up playing this kind of tricks, so they were naturally confident.

So everyone agreed and asked Ying Zheng to agree to Touman Shanyu, because in their opinion, it was impossible to lose this bet.

Sima Xin saw that the courtiers were all eager to try, but Zhao Yi was lost in thought, so he couldn't help asking in a low voice: "His Royal Highness, what are you thinking? Do you think this man can beat the crowd present?" Can't the minister succeed?"

Zhao Yi rolled his eyes at Sima Xin, too lazy to talk to his subordinate, and looked up at Touman in the center of the hall.

[This Touman should have come prepared, but isn't he waiting to be abused by playing tricks like couplets? 】

[A prairie man who came to Daqin to read words, what did he think?Are you insane? 】

Zhao Yi's heartfelt voice was heard by Ying Zheng, and Ying Zheng also saw it in the same way, so he agreed with more confidence and boldly: "Okay, Touman, I convince you, I accept this bet, and let you come out first The Union!"

Hearing that Ying Zheng agreed to him, Touman's eyes flashed with joy, but then he said: "Your Majesty's promise doesn't count, you must write down the imperial decree and announce it to the world immediately, otherwise, if your majesty goes back on his word, then..."

"I keep my promises, and I never lie." Ying Zheng looked at Touman coldly, "Do you think everyone is as capricious as you prairie people, going back on what they say?"

Hearing what Ying Zheng said, Touman suddenly put his heart back into his stomach, nodded and said: "Then please His Majesty Daqin take the pair, the first one, please watch!"

As he spoke, Touman wrote a few big characters with the pen and paper brought up by his servant: long long long long long!
After finishing writing a couplet, Touman Shanyu walked aside and signaled to all the ministers present that they could start. At the same time, he observed the expressions on the faces of the courtiers with a proud look on his face.

Above the main hall, the courtiers flocked to the written couplets. At the beginning, everyone looked eager to try, but after everyone saw the couplets, their expressions changed.

The couplet composed of such inexplicable seven characters really made everyone scratch their heads.

As we all know, long is a polyphonic character, and a single group of words will have different meanings, but it is the first time that the ministers present have come across seven long longs grouped together to form a couplet.

For a moment, the ministers whispered to each other and shook their heads helplessly. When Ying Zheng saw this, his brows suddenly furrowed into the character "Chuan", with a worried expression on his face.

He originally thought that all the people present were talented people who had read poetry and books, and this was a good opportunity to win glory for the country. As long as anyone could match up with Man Chanyu's pair, he would definitely reward him generously.

But Ying Zheng didn't expect that so many courtiers present would show helpless expressions in the face of their bad word games, which was really beyond Ying Zheng's expectation.

Yingzheng subconsciously looked towards Li Si and Feng Quji, but the left and right ministers of Daqin didn't even have the courage to look at Yingzheng at this moment. Wherever Yingzheng looked, all the officials bowed their heads, Dare to look at Ying Zheng.

Ying Zheng was suddenly furious. There are so many people who usually boast about how awesome they are, but when it comes time to really use them, none of them dare to stand up. How can this be tolerated?
"Confucius, this is something you are good at, you are right!" Since no one dared to stand up, Ying Zheng could only call names.

When Kong Jia heard Ying Zheng's order, his eyes suddenly went dark, and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

He just tried to get it right, but he always felt that there was something wrong, no matter how round it was, it couldn't be rounded. When he was worried, he was suddenly called by Ying Zheng. The old master naturally looked ashamed, shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, please forgive me!" The old minister is incompetent!"

Kong Jia actually confessed directly, which was even more unexpected by Ying Zheng. This is a great Confucian in the dynasty, and he can't even tell him?
Ying Zheng was a little nervous. This was the first match, and no one could match him. He couldn't help but look at the others. As a result, Feng Jie lowered his head, and Shusun Tong lowered his head. All the officials present were shocked. He looked ashamed.

"You..." Ying Zheng was really anxious at this moment. He didn't expect that a barbarian from the grassland would come up with a couplet. So many people in Daqin were stumped.

If you say this, let alone whether anyone will believe it, in Ying Zheng's eyes, it is absolutely a shame and a great humiliation. Da Qin has raised so many people, but no one can share his worries!
At this time, Touman Chanyu, who had already seen the clue, laughed and asked provocatively: "Your Majesty, how about it? Ben Shanyu, who can match this pair, or Your Majesty, can you match up? Please enlighten me!"

Seeing Touman Chanyu's arrogant face, Ying Zheng was furious, his thoughts changed, and his anger became even worse.

Yingzheng believes that Touman has studied the Central Plains culture of Daqin, but he absolutely does not believe that Touman has such an accomplishment in couplets.

Obviously, Touman has an expert behind him, and this person is most likely from the Central Plains, or even someone in the court at the moment.

Yingzheng's guess was correct. In fact, this couplet was an idea given to him by the Li family in Taiyuan and other aristocratic families who secretly colluded with the Xiongnu.

When Daqin sent his troops to the north, Touman knew that he would be in trouble, so he asked for help from the Daqin family who had a close relationship with him.

Those aristocratic families are now hard to protect themselves, but they also want to keep Touman, their trump card, so they try all kinds of methods to give Touman a trick, and tell Touman all kinds of possibilities and solutions.

And the couplet competition in the court this time is one of them...

(End of this chapter)