Chapter 384 Tao Ziyu
Li Si still knew something about Prime Minister Tao. Prime Minister Tao's name was Tao Ziyu. He was an official and his father was once the Minister of Rites.
He was smart and studious since he was a child. When he was a child, he went back to his hometown to obtain honors. He passed the children's examination, the provincial examination, the general examination, and the palace examination one by one. In the end, he became the top pick and was awarded the Imperial Academy editorship.
Not long after he was awarded the title of Tanhua, his father, who had already resigned and was at home, died of illness, so he resigned and stayed at his father's funeral for three years.
Three years later, he returned to Beijing and resumed his official duties. Because of his filial piety, he was appreciated by the old emperor. Within a few years, he was promoted to a scholar in the Hanlin Academy and took charge of the affairs of the academy.
After that, he became even more prosperous. Four years later, he was promoted to the Imperial Academy and seven years later, like his father, he also became the Minister of Rites.
At that time, he was only thirty-seven years old, and it was a very shocking thing in Wei State.
In the third year after he became the Minister of Rites, the old emperor died and the new emperor ascended the throne.
And because the new emperor valued etiquette very much, he had frequent contact with him, which allowed him to gain the new emperor's trust.
Thirteen years later, the prime minister resigned and recommended Tao Ziyu, with whom he had always been at odds, as the prime minister. The emperor agreed, and Tao Ziyu became the prime minister of Wei and the imperial power of Wei. The first person under him, extremely powerful.
Now, it has been seventeen years since he became prime minister, and he is now seventy years old.
But when Li Si looked at Prime Minister Tao's face, he felt a little strange in his heart.
He found that Tao Ziyu's appearance, minus the wrinkles, was somewhat similar to Xiao Duan's.
And what Li Si knew was that Xiao Duan's brother was not dead.
Xiao Duan's original cause of death was beheading, even more than a dozen times. It can be seen from this that the people in power hate him.
Li Si even suspected that a small knife, or even a machete without a blade, could chop a child more than a dozen times.
From this, he could guess how serious a crime Xiao Duan's father had committed at that time.
And if this Prime Minister Tao is Xiao Duan's brother, it would be incredible.
Li Si couldn't believe this speculation for a moment. After all, if this was true, then how useless the emperor must be to let a sinner ascend to the position of prime minister.
"Sure enough, heroes emerge from youth! This is just a little test for you, don't mind." At this time, Tao Ziyu interrupted Li Si's thoughts with a smile.
"Don't dare." Li Si came back to his senses, concealed his emotions, said lightly, and got out of the carriage.
Then he looked at the coachman next to Tao Ziyu and said, "If you still want to know how strong I am, you can ask him to practice with me, but I won't be merciful this time."
This coachman is naturally a master, which is why there was no movement at all when the coachman left the carriage just now.
After hearing Li Si's words, the coachman no longer had the humility he had before, but instead looked calm, but there was a faint feeling of eagerness in his eyes.
"No need." Tao Ziyu waved his hand and said helplessly: "He is just an ordinary grandmaster. Who will be Grandmaster Li's opponent?"
Then he looked around and said to Li Si: "The weather is very cold now, Grandmaster Li, why don't we go in and talk?"
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and made a guiding gesture.
When Li Si heard this, he glanced at Duke Tao's mansion and nodded slightly.
Afterwards, he followed Tao Ziyu into the Duke's Mansion.
As soon as they entered the Duke's Mansion, the coachman slowly closed the door of the Duke's Mansion.
Li Si and others were immediately cut off from the outside world.
"Prime Minister Tao, why is there no one in your palace?" Li Si glanced around and then asked.
After he came in, he felt like it was a haunted house, and there was no one else except them.
"Oh, I asked them to rest. We are the only ones here now." Tao Ziyu said with a smile.
Li Si nodded slightly and said, "Then what do you want the Prime Minister to do with me?"
As he spoke, he looked around casually and looked at the nearby evil spirits with his peripheral vision.
At this time, Li Si discovered that these ghosts only dared to watch from a distance on the wall of the house and did not dare to come in.
Just like the female ghost holding her head, she was standing on the wall in the dark and cold night, holding her head in her hands.
The other end was still staring at Li Si with bleeding eyes.
It looks weird.
"Actually, it's nothing. Aren't you going to compete with Mo Qiubai recently? Can you postpone the time a little longer?" Tao Ziyu said with a smile as he walked.
"Oh? Why are you delaying?" Li Si raised his eyebrows and asked with some doubts.
He knew that Zhang Yuan wanted to delay, because Zhang Yuan wanted to use this to suppress the prestige of the royal family and cause chaos in the world.
But the Prime Minister wanted to delay, but he didn't understand why.
"This is also for the good of Wei." Tao Ziyu sighed after hearing this, and said helplessly: "This so-called martial arts academy is definitely a wrong move. The Jianghu and Wei Kingdom have been safe since ancient times. And the establishment of the martial arts academy will It is absolutely unfavorable for Wei to make everyone in the world panic and the country's affairs are in turmoil, so it is better to remain unchanged in the face of change."
Then he paused and continued: "Now the resistance of the martial arts academy lies on Mo Qiubai. As long as he dies, the martial arts academy will naturally cease to exist."
Having said this, Tao Ziyu looked at Li Si and continued: "In order for the court to make up its mind and not let them continue to run the martial arts academy, Mo Qiubai had to die in full view of the public. It happened that the Enrong Banquet after the palace examination was a Chance."
When Li Si heard what Tao Ziyu said, he didn't know what to say.
I couldn't help but feel a little weird in my heart, even though Mo Qiubai was dancing so happily now, and the scenery was endless.
But secretly, others have prepared ways to kill him, and his death is approaching.
However, Tao Ziyu might have thought too easily. Even after killing Mo Qiubai, the world would still be in chaos.
Because Zhang Yuan had already laid out everything.
"But I may not be able to kill Mo Qiubai." Li Si shook his head and said with a look of embarrassment on his face.
Now is the right time to blackmail Tao Ziyu, and at the same time, he can see what Tao Ziyu has to do to kill Mo Qiubai with confidence.
In this way, we can also find out the background of Prime Minister Tao and see if we can find any clues. After all, his appearance is very similar to Xiao Duan.
Both emotionally and rationally, he wanted to explore the prime minister's background.
Hearing what Li Si said, Tao Ziyu smiled softly and said, "Come with me, I have something for you."
As he said that, he led Li Si in one direction.
Following them were the coachman and the twin sisters.
At this time, they were staring at Li Si warily, their eyes full of alertness.
Li Si's previous display of force was too strong, so they were wary of this unfamiliar grandmaster.
When Li Si saw this, he didn't say anything. If he wanted to kill Tao Ziyu, these three people couldn't stop him at all.
Of course, Tao Ziyu is not a fool.
Just now, Li Si looked at the hiding of those ghosts and discovered some problems. In addition to these three people, he also saw a large number of masters in the dark.
He believed that as soon as he made any move, those masters would jump out and work together to kill him on the spot.
This is a certain death situation for any master.
Of course, except... Li Si himself.