Li Bai’s teacher was Zhao Rui.
Zhao Rui was a member of the Taoist branch of the Tang Dynasty. He read hundreds of books, was good at strategy, and was good at managing the world. The great poet Li Bai highly respected him and once studied imperial studies and vertical and horizontal skills with him. At that time, he was called "Zhao Rui's Shu Shu and Li Bai's Articles". Zhao Rui and Li Bai were the "Two Heroes of Shu" in the Tang Dynasty. Li Bai learned from Zhao Rui's Confucian style, Taoist thoughts and heroic character.
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Main works
Zhao Rui’s representative is the "Long and Short Classics", also called "Anti-Jing". "The Long and Short Classics" was written in the fourth year of Kaiyuan (716 AD), with 64 chapters in nine volumes. It is a culmination of Confucian, Taoist, Legalist, Military, Miscellaneous and Yin-Yang thoughts;
It is black and white The Book of Zarou takes strategy as its classic and history as its latitude. It records the rise and fall of the country, contingency strategies, recommendation of talents, and the good and evil in the world. It also takes the two key points of Machiavellian politics and knowing people for their good deeds as its core. This book is sublime and perfect. The unity of nature and man, inspiring enlightenment, warning the world and punishing evil, is a rare strategy book.
Baidu Encyclopedia—Zhao Rui