"I still have to be on duty at the East Palace, I'm afraid it will be delayed."
"It doesn't matter, there are some things I still want to talk to you and your wife."
Zhang Yang glanced at Li Yue, and the two of them looked at each other. After reaching a consensus, they took the chair brought by the palace maid.
Queen Changsun sat down first, and then Li Yue and Zhang Yang sat down.
First she sighed, then frowned and said, "I heard from your father yesterday that he actually has great expectations for you and your wife, whether it's math or national policy."
Li Yue whispered: "How can a husband and daughter talk about national policy?"
Empress Changsun smiled and said: "The chart strategy is very good. At that time, as soon as Cheng Qian took it out, officials in various ministries thought it was useful. Whether it was the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Works, the Punishment Department, or the Dali Temple, they all copied a copy. It was effective and could be seen at a glance.
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Hearing this, Li Yue explained: "Actually, these are charts that my husband made before. Because my family was not so wealthy before, we had to plan everything we spent on money. We have to plan and plan regularly to form a habit."
Listening to the conversation between the daughter-in-law and the Empress Changsun, the daughter-in-law usually regards the Empress Changsun as her teacher and often asks her for advice. Now the daughter-in-law has a good sense of proportion in her words, and she is doing Tai Chi with the Queen during her words.
Everything is done casually, there is nothing deliberate in our family.
Our family does not do anything like participating in government affairs. This boundary is very clear in Li Yue's mind.
"My husband is studying with the prince, and my daughter is also happy to be able to gain something." Li Yue said calmly.
Zhang Yang smiled calmly.
Empress Changsun said again: "Your father has to deal with government affairs on weekdays, which is always uncertain. I have already spoken about the matter in Chongwen Hall yesterday, and I think I won't embarrass you and your wife again."
"The queen mother was joking. How can we say that she is in trouble? It would be better to say that we were negligent in doing things and made our father worried."
Empress Changsun had a smile on her face, and she was becoming more and more satisfied with Li Yue's conversation and way of speaking.
Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed the look in the Queen's heart. She looked like a profound monk looking at a little demon playing tricks on her.
Although Li Yue spoke calmly, in the eyes of the queen, everything had been seen through.
Zhang Yang coughed and signaled.
Li Yue stopped talking immediately.
Zhang Yang said: "We understand what the Queen means, but in fact we didn't think too much about it. I will do my best to manage the affairs inside and outside the East Palace."
Empress Changsun still had a smile on her face. Zhang Yang looked at Li Yue and continued: "I will go to the East Palace for duty first, and I will pick you up when it is over."
After speaking, he winked at his wife.
Li Yue's eyes became clearer when she received it, "Husband, please go, don't waste the time."
After saluting the queen, Zhang Yang walked outside the palace and breathed a sigh of relief. Is this the aura of the queen?
First, Li Shimin sang a bad face in Chongwen Hall, and then the queen came to sing a white face.
In order to clean things up for Li Shimin? Or perhaps because she was afraid that her daughter-in-law and herself would deepen the estrangement between Li Shimin and the royal family, Empress Changsun came to comfort her. The empress also gave up a lot of thoughts for the emperor.
Although the queen does not interfere in the government affairs, as the emperor's wife, the queen must help appease these people's hearts in the royal family documents.
Zhang Yang was carrying a bag of wheat and was about to take a few steps when he saw Li Lizhi looking at him with a stern face.
"Didn't you give it to your mother?" Li Li asked, her voice still milky.
"That bag of wheat is for your mother, and this bag of wheat is for the prince." Zhang Yang turned back and glanced at her, "In the future, you should stop asking about adults' matters."
"You also bullied Sister Huang, I saw it all."
Zhang Yang stopped, took a deep breath, and said in his heart that he didn't care because she was his wife's sister. He put on a smile and faced her, "Your Highness, you should call me brother-in-law like King Wei."
"Humph!" Li Lizhi shook her head vigorously.
The way she shook her head looked very handsome, but this time she probably twisted her own neck.
Zhang Yang carried a linen bag and continued walking to the East Palace. When he looked back, he saw that Princess Changle had entered the Li Zheng Hall.
Li Chengqian was standing in front of Chongwen Hall. The current Chongwen Hall has changed its door plaque and has now become Chongwen Hall.
Zhang Yang stepped forward and said, "Your Highness, our village has just received wheat this year."
Li Chengqian nodded slightly, "Let Daan send it in."
"Here." After handing the bag of wheat to Da'an, Zhang Yang came back to his senses and looked at the Chongwen Pavilion with the prince.
The two of them remained silent until Daan put the wheat in the East Palace and came out again. Li Chengqian finally spoke, "What do you think?"
Zhang Yang looked up and said, "What a nice door plaque. It's just a bit plain. It would be better if it could be gilded."
Li Chengqian hesitated to speak, he held his forehead and frowned: "What do you mean by this Chongwen Museum?"
Zhang Yang cleared his throat and said: "It's very good, clean and tidy."
"Actually, Gu thought a lot last night. My father has rarely handed over a matter to Gu completely. Now that my father is going to set up a Hongwen Pavilion, Gu wants to complete this matter properly."
"The prince wants to develop this Chongwen Museum as a business?"
Li Chengqian nodded slowly.
Zhang Yang looked around, "Where is Mr. Zheng? Why didn't you come today? I miss him a little."
"I know you want to persuade me, but you don't want to see the Chongwen Hall deserted and deserted."
"May I ask His Highness the Crown Prince, if you recruit a hundred people to Chongwen Hall, how much profit can it bring to the Crown Prince?"
"I don't know." Li Chengqian shook his head.
"That's right." Zhang Yang bowed slightly, "I don't know much, but I just understand one thing when doing business."
"What's the point?"
"When we make investments, we always estimate the expected income, but the conditions of our East Palace are limited. How much money does it take to support a group of people who can make suggestions?"
Li Chengqian was silent again, "I don't know this, nor do I know how to do business."
"I wonder what His Highness the Crown Prince thinks of adding fifty people to the Hongwen Hall?"
"It doesn't matter if there are fifty people." Li Chengqian nodded and saw Zhang Yang smiling again and asked in confusion, "Why are you laughing again?"
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"One hundred dollars a day?"
Zhang Yang folded his hands and frowned and calculated, "One person has one hundred dollars a day. According to the thirty-day month, it is three thousand dollars a month. And if there are fifty people, that is fifteen thousand dollars. I dare you ask if the East Palace can afford these.
Money?"
Li Chengqian was stunned, frowned and took a breath, "Actually, the money given by Hongwen Hall is more than this."
Zhang Yang said again, "I don't know how the accounts of the East Palace are. How dare I ask the prince how much money is left in the East Palace?"
Li Chengqian hesitated, "A few coins, maybe. This is the money that the East Palace received after the Guguan Ceremony. This is all that is left. However, the Queen Mother is in charge of the food, clothing, and daily life of the East Palace."
"Can His Highness the Prince bear this cost alone?"
Li Chengqian shook his head, "I never thought there would be someone who doesn't care about money..."
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is wrong again."
"How could it be wrong again?"
Zhang Daan was trying to follow his thoughts and understand what he was saying.
Zhang Yang explained: "What we just talked about is only the cost, and not the income. The income of Hongwen Hall comes from national policies and strategies. If ten people out of fifty people propose strategies, these strategies will be accepted by the prince and submitted to Zhongshu.
Put the province in front of His Majesty. If the strategy is contrary to the government, Your Majesty will reprimand him! Who does Your Highness think the responsibility lies with?"
"Responsibility..." Li Chengqian hesitated for a while, "The responsibility lies with me."
"To use my hometown dialect, I would say that the construction of the Chongwen Museum is a hot potato. Whoever takes on the project will have a hot potato, so be cautious in everything."
Li Chengqian nodded and said, "I thought you were too cautious before."
Zhang Yang said with a smile: "I am just a small person, I don't have the courage to make the prince laugh."
Looking at the Chongwen Hall again, the sun shines in from outside the door, and you can see the rows of bookshelves inside. Li Chengqian sighed: "My father left this matter to you. It turns out that what my father cares about is not Gu, but you."
, you are the kind of person my father wants, the person who can enter the Chongwen Hall."
"I'm just some smart guy in the market."
"The cleverness of the market is not wisdom."
The two of them walked into the East Palace and were speechless again. Li Chengqian sat cross-legged and said, "The Chongwen Pavilion cannot always be empty."
Zhang Yang looked at Zhang Daan outside the hall and said, "Actually, Da'an is pretty good."
"Da'an?"
"On weekdays, Da'an is very silent and not good at talking, so he is the best in Chongwen Hall." Zhang Yang said with a smile: "You must be down-to-earth in your work, and you must not live up to your reputation. Don't be arrogant to show yourself off, and be gloomy to show yourself off.
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Li Chengqian was quiet for a long time, and then said slowly: "It is Gu's idea to build Chongwen Museum into a lively place where people can learn from others' strengths. You are right. Even if Chongwen Museum is lively, what's the use? It's just solitary and complacent."
Zhang Yang added: "If His Highness the Crown Prince really wants to relieve His Majesty's worries and contribute to state affairs, I have a suggestion."
"But it doesn't matter."
"Compiling an enlightening book suitable for children and young people."
"Compilation?"
Zhang Yang explained: "It is not written out of thin air, but through some interesting and vivid stories, it adds a few more extracurricular readings to our Datang."
When it was time to eat, the daughter-in-law who was in the Zhengdian Hall was not worried that she would not starve. The queen took good care of her.
"Your Highness, is it time for dinner?"
Li Chengqian waved his hand and said: "Serve wine and meat."
"No need, I brought wheat and I'll make some food for His Highness the Crown Prince to try."
"Just let the people from the East Palace handle it."
Zhang Yang waved his hand and said: "No, I will do it myself. The people in the East Palace are not as good as me."
Li Chengqian smiled bitterly and shook his head, "You are really..."
There was a newly renovated kitchen in the East Palace, and Zhang Yang was busy with it skillfully. In a short while, he filled three bowls of wheat rice and gave one bowl to Zhang Daan who was standing outside the palace.
Then he walked into the palace and gave the prince a bowl.
Li Chengqian took a sip of wine and said, "If you hadn't woken me up, I would have done something wrong again."
Zhang Yang whispered: "The prince just made a choice and did nothing wrong."
After drinking a bottle of wine, Li Chengqian became drunk again.
Zhang Daan glanced into the palace and saw the drunken prince lying in front of Zhang Yang, who was writing something with a pen.
Time passed very slowly. Zhang Yang was holding his sleeves in one hand and writing on rice paper with the other.
After writing an outline, Zhang Yang handed it to Zhang Daan, "This is the outline written by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. You will stay in Chongwen Hall these days and write down the contents of this outline."
Zhang Daan looked at this dense outline, with many books marked in it.
"That's right." Zhang Yang took out another bunch of silver coins, "Here are thirty coins. Go buy some food and give them to the teacher. Some of the story collections here are storybooks I wrote in my early years, and they are all kept in the Chongwen Museum.
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Zhang Daan nodded, "I understand, don't you need to inform the prince?"
"After you write it down, tell the prince, and think more about everything." Zhang Yang patted his shoulder, "This will help you."
Zhang Yang walked outside the East Palace in good spirits. Zhang Yang looked at him in surprise, "Why didn't you ask today?"
"what?"
"This is the outline I wrote, in the name of the prince."
Zhang Daan whispered: "Brother said that I should think more about it, so I didn't even think of asking."
Zhang Yang nodded and said, "Very good, keep your thinking habits."
Zhang Daan bowed his mind and said, "Brother, walk slowly."
After Zhang Daan visited Zhang Gongjin, he almost lived in Chongwen Hall in the following days. Except for being on duty in the East Palace during the day, he was in Chongwen Hall at night, lighting an oil lamp alone and compiling this extracurricular reading.
After the summer heat has passed, Zhang Yang, apart from going on duty in the East Palace, spends his time writing Romance of the West Chamber with his wife.
On October 15th, the couple came to the village. Today is the day when the first batch of workshops in Lishan Village were completed.
Zhang Yang looked at each workshop and said loudly: "Daughter-in-law, in order to celebrate the good fortune, should we have a big banquet to celebrate."
Li Yue grimaced, "Our business has been suspended for three months. For such a long time, the family has been unable to make ends meet and cannot hold a banquet."
The daughter-in-law is in charge of the family's financial rights. Her miserly character can keep the family's money in good condition. At least until now, the family has not been short of money. This is all due to her diligence and thrift in running the house.
Zhang Yang put his arm around her shoulders and said, "I'll make up for it next time."
Li Yue's expression improved a little, "Okay."
"Let's go in and have a look."
"Um."
Niu Chuang is really busy these days. It's not that the amount of work is too large, but that these things are too difficult to make. Sometimes he spends a lot of time thinking about the principles.
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Zhang Yang smelled Niu Chuang's body: "How long has it been since you took a shower?"
Niu Chuang lamented: "I'm really busy these days."
Li Tai, who was on the side, visited the workshop and explained: "I have been watching Niu Chuang. In order to build these workshops, he slept for two hours every day, got up before dawn, and only started working after midnight.
When I fell asleep, let alone taking a shower, even when I ate, I just put a couple of mouthfuls into my mouth."
Niu Chuang scratched his head and smiled helplessly.
Zhang Yang looked at it and clicked his tongue and said, "Look at how all the hair is caked."
Niu Chuang nodded repeatedly, "Wash when you get back. I know that the consort and the princess love to be clean. Let us guys take a bath together when we get back and get clean!"
I first walked into the printing workshop. The biggest construction difficulty of this workshop is the rollers. These rollers can be rotated to rotate the printing molds.
There are a total of ten rollers in sequence, and each page of text is completed in one assembly line process, and several pages can be printed.