Chapter 286: An old man and a young man secretly drinking alcohol
Daan rarely spoke before, and he would only speak when asked.
Even if he asked, he would not be able to say so much as he is now. Li Chengqian sat cross-legged and took a sip of tea, "Do you mean that Zhang Yang wants to keep his family business in his own hands? Originally, the family business
Isn’t it his?”
Zhang Daan bowed and said, "Your Highness, the circulation of goods is related to supply and demand."
Digesting these words carefully, Li Chengqian, who usually read books by sages, now has very little knowledge about supply and demand and business.
"How did you know?"
Zhang Da'an bowed and said, "Brother often says that you should think more. In addition to thinking more, I read books in the Chongwen Hall. I also go to the Hongwen Hall to listen to scholars and scholars discussing things, and I have benefited a lot."
Li Chengqian nodded clearly, "No wonder Zhang Yang often reads books. Sure enough, reading can really make you smarter."
Zhang Da'an smiled naively, "I have always felt that I am quite stupid."
Seeing his smile, Li Chengqian felt that he had returned to his original form and became the same Zhang Daan he knew before.
Zhang Daan added: "In the past, I always felt groggy when I read. Now I find that studying in Chongwen Hall can make my mind clearer. Your Highness, you can also try it."
Li Chengqian walked to the Chongwen Hall and pushed open the old door. He picked up a book and sat down cross-legged to read it. After reading for half an hour, he sighed deeply.
"What do you think, His Royal Highness?" Zhang Daan asked.
Li Chengqian shook his head and put the scroll back to its original position, "It's of no use at all."
The village has just reached its initial stage, and there are many things that need to be taken care of. I have been living in the village for the past two days since the construction started.
Li Yue and Xiao Yi were sitting in the accounting room, each peeling off the beads on their own abacus and calculating in silence.
Xiao Wu was sitting on a small bench nearby, holding a pen in his clumsy little hand and writing with his lotus-like arms swinging.
As construction started in the village, the number of accounts increased, and the accounts began to become complex.
It takes a long time to do the calculations in the accounting room.
"The accounts of your Royal Highness's cotton factory have been settled yesterday."
Li Yue took the account and looked at the contents above, "The calculation is very good. You can record the accounts in the general ledger."
Xiao Yi nodded and said, "Let's do it now."
Opening the tea cup made by her husband, Li Yue opened the lid and took a sip of tea. Then she glanced at Xiao Wu who was writing intently. Although the words she wrote were not pretty, she was very serious.
Li Yue smiled softly.
Li Xiaogong and Li Tai were holding on to the wall, while an old man and a young boy were vomiting by the wall. They didn't know how much they drank last night. The madness from yesterday didn't stop until they woke up now.
Zhang Yang asked Li Tai's bodyguard, "Has His Royal Highness the King of Wei secretly drank alcohol again?"
The guard said with a straight face: "His Royal Highness the King of Wei did not drink secretly."
"really?"
The guard lowered his head and said helplessly: "Your Highness won't let us talk."
Zhang Yang looked at the warehouse where the alcohol was stored, "We still need to add more big locks in the future."
The guard added: "Actually, there was a reason. The King of Hejian County wanted to drink. King Wei tried to persuade him to no avail, so he had no choice but to drink together."
"Then how did Prince Hejian know about alcohol?"
"Your Highness mentioned it."
"Is it possible that King Wei wanted to drink it and said it on purpose?"
"this……"
Zhang Yang said to him: "Go catch a duck."
"Do you want to eat the duck, Mr. Zhang? I will kill it for you."
"No, I want to live."
"I understand, Mr. Zhang wants to kill him with his own hands."
"Stop talking nonsense, Your Highness is so depraved because of your contribution."
After the duck was brought, Zhang Yang took out a can of alcohol and came to the weak Li Tai and Li Xiaogong.
Li Tai vomited on the spot when he smelled the duck.
Patting his back, Zhang Yang said patiently: "Does His Highness King Wei know why I don't let you drink alcohol?"
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Li Tai wiped his mouth and said, "You said that people who drink alcohol will get into trouble."
"Then please pay attention to what I am going to do next."
Li Xiaogong sat leaning against the wall with dull eyes.
Taking a funnel, Zhang Yang stuffed a section of the hole into the duck's mouth, poured down the entire can of alcohol, and then placed the duck on the ground again.
Under Li Tai's gaze, the duck plopped for a while, then swayed on the ground after a few breaths, and finally landed on the ground, with its beak open and motionless.
After waiting for an hour, the duck died.
Zhang Yang opened the belly of the duck in front of him.
As soon as he opened his stomach, Li Tai vomited violently again.
"Your Highness King Wei, please look at the duck's internal organs." Zhang Yang took out a pile of internal organs. "Look at the duck intestines and the duck's stomach. The duck intestines have begun to ooze blood. If a person drinks too much, it will
How about it."
"Why are you torturing me?" Li Tai vomited and coughed again, until he found that the things he vomited were bloodshot and he was sweating coldly.
Zhang Yang patted him on the back and helped him calm down, "If you continue to drink like this in the future, I can only help you collect it. I can only help accept the money from King Wei. Those who don't know think that
I am seeking wealth and death."
Li Tai's face turned pale.
"Will you drink again?" Zhang Yang asked with a smile.
Looking at the duck that died unexpectedly, Li Tai waved his hand and said, "I listen to my brother-in-law and I won't drink anymore."
Just after he finished speaking, Li Tai started vomiting again. There was nothing left in his stomach, and he almost even vomited out bile.
Shangguan Yi hurried over and said, "Shilang Zhang, the caravan from the Western Regions has arrived."
"Take good care of King Wei, nourish his intestines and stomach for a few days, and don't let him eat greasy food."
"Here!" Li Tai's bodyguard stood up straight.
Following Shangguan Yi towards the village, Zhang Yang whispered: "Next time, it's best not to let King Wei know if you change the place to store the alcohol."
Shangguan Yi asked, "Are you afraid of being stolen?"
Zhang Yang nodded, "There have been rats in the village recently."
"I understand, I will arrange it later."
Looking back at Li Tai, he was already lying on a chair supported by his bodyguards. As for the Hejian County King, he had not yet recovered from his hangover and was still wearing women's clothes.
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The person who came was the person who had given him the national seal of Gaochang Kingdom before.
Asking Shangguan Yi to unload the cotton, Zhang Yang whispered to the Gaochang slave: "Is the general's health okay?"
The other party bowed and replied, "Everything is fine, the general has been looking forward to seeing Shilang Zhang again."
It seemed that the garrison general Adalan missed his family. Zhang Yang said to him: "Everything is fine with his family. I will find an opportunity for him to see his family again."
Several carts of cotton were unloaded very quickly. Zhang Yang put his hands in his hands and asked, "I don't know your name yet."
"We didn't have a name, we were born to be slaves."
"You are no longer slaves."
"The general is very kind to us. There is already a woman and he even allowed her to give birth to a child."
"The changes in the past two years are really big." Zhang Yang looked at him and said: "If you don't have a name, you must have a code name. From now on, you will be called No. 1. This is the code name I gave you."
He suddenly knelt on the ground and said, "Thank you, Mr. Zhang, for the name."
"Your Guanzhong dialect is really getting better and better."
No. 1 stood up again, "The general captured fifteen Central Plains people in the Western Regions and asked them to teach us. What we read are Central Plains books and are written in Central Plains characters."
"The person he captured?"
"Yes."
"Do you people in the Western Regions ask for wives like this? You are so tough. Without humanistic care, the folk customs in the Western Regions are very strange."
"I have met the nobles of the Western Regions before. Those nobles were very polite to the scholars in the Central Plains. Because these fifteen scholars refused to accept the price offered by the general, the general simply refused to pay them and tied them up and let them teach."
No. 1 also scratched his head, "But they are very obedient now, just put the knife on their necks."
Zhang Yang was speechless for a while, and even sympathized with these fifteen teachers.
Since the opening of the Silk Road, people in the Western Regions have known that there was a wealthy Tang Dynasty. They traveled between the Central Plains and the Western Regions through the Silk Road, where they could earn money and even exchange for salt and iron.
For those who can come to Datang, speaking Central Plains dialect is also a very important skill.
"Shilang Zhang, we still have a lot of cotton outside the customs."
"Can't luck get in?"
No. 1 nodded and said: "The general guarding the gate said that we can only enter a maximum of thirty people at a time, and we can't let too many people in. Now we have more than 300 cotton carriages waiting, and there are still a lot of cotton waiting.
Transport it to the Hexi Corridor."
Zhang Yang nodded solemnly, "Transportation is indeed a very important matter."
No. 1 took out an account and said, "This is the account for this trip of cotton. I would like to ask Mr. Zhang to take a look at it."
The account stated that the goods cost one hundred.
The price is very low. One carriage weighs about three hundred kilograms, and the three carriages weigh one thousand kilograms in total, which is half a ton.
Basically, it's all transportation costs. As for the cotton, it's free.
That is to say, the value of cotton is not so high now. If the cotton enters the Central Plains and has a market price after it is actually circulated, the price will be more than this. Taking into account transportation costs, the price will more than double.
"Leave the transportation issues to me. Take the silver and go back to deliver the goods first." Zhang Yang took out a piece of silver cake and handed it to him, "If you have more, treat it as my reward for you."
"Thank you, Mr. Zhang. The price of this piece of silver cake is ten guan, and I will pay for the subsequent goods."
"also."
Zhang Yang smiled and nodded.
Number One saluted again, "I'll take my leave now."
After nodding farewell to them, Shangguan Yi also took a look at the account and said, "The price is quite low."
Zhang Yang smiled and said, "Are you still getting used to living in the new house?"
Shangguan Yi cupped his hands and said: "Everything is fine. The wives at home have also come to visit a few days ago. They are very relieved. This is the office. They have been used to running around the village for a long time. They have to sit and wait there.
I’m not used to doing things only when they come to me.”
"You can train more people in the village and establish our management system as soon as possible."
"I understand, and the other thing is to prepare more ink for printing. The factory can print nearly a thousand pages a day, and the ink is consumed very quickly."
Zhang Yang slapped his forehead and almost forgot that the increase in factory efficiency will also lead to an increase in the consumption of raw materials.
Shangguan Yi asked: "Do you want to ask Brother He Bi to arrange some more oil?"
Now I have no choice but to look for help from He Bi.
After finishing these things, Zhang Yang sat by the village path and watched the villagers moving boxes of goods out of the factory in the distance.
Looking at this scenery makes people feel happy physically and mentally. These are all money.
When Li Tai finally recovered, he was grabbed by the ears by Li Yue.
"Sister Huang, Sister Huang, I know I was wrong." Li Tai swayed over with his head tilted, enduring the pain.
The little fat man's ears were pulled red, making Yu Yi snicker at the side.
Until Li Yue let go, Li Tai covered his ears in grievance.
Li Yue shouted: "Now you swear in front of your brother-in-law that you will never secretly drink alcohol again."
Li Tai pointed his finger at the sky and said aggrievedly: "Brother-in-law, I swear as one of the 30% members in the village that I will never secretly drink alcohol again."
Seeing that his brother-in-law didn't speak, Li Tai looked at Li Yue again, "Sister Huang, is this okay?"
Li Yue looked at her younger brother and felt like she hated iron. If it were any other princess, she wouldn't dare to pull Li Tai's ears, but Li Tai really listened to his sister.
There are many princes and princesses in the palace, but not many people in the clan can get close to a prince like Li Tai who is the direct descendant of the queen.
Zhang Yang coughed and said, "There is something you need to do right now."
Li Tai stood respectfully, "Brother-in-law, please speak."
"We still have a lot of cotton outside the customs that cannot be brought in. Can you ask your people to help transport the cotton in? It is currently being held in the Hexi Corridor."
Li Tai recalled, "The guard in the Hexi Corridor is General Niu Jinda."
"That's right."
"If it's not enough for me to send people there, it would be best if someone in the army can help and let our people in the army escort us."
Zhang Yang thought about it, "Let Prince Hejian help?"
Li Tai took the bowl of hot water brought by his imperial sister. The little fat man saluted sensibly, then smiled ingratiatingly, took a sip of hot water and continued, "It is indeed convenient to ask Uncle Wang to help, but since Uncle Wang has been appointed as the Ministry of Etiquette,
Since becoming Minister, I have long lost military power, and those who followed Uncle Wang back then have long since become other people's generals."
"Does that mean this matter will be difficult to handle?"
"It's not difficult to handle. You can ask General Cheng Yaojin for help. General Cheng and General Niu Jinda have a good personal relationship."
"I'll think of a solution, you go and rest first."
Li Tai looked at Li Yue favorably.
Li Yue nodded before he dared to leave.
"Qingque is still young. He drinks like this and is afraid that others will become useless." Li Yue looked worried.
"King Wei is only twelve years old now. It is the time when his body is growing. At this age, his gastrointestinal digestion ability is good and his self-healing ability is also very good."
Hearing what her husband said, Li Yue shook her head and sighed: "Then we can't let him drink like this. I heard that drinking is not allowed in the army."
Zhang Yang smiled and said: "You can put him in the army to train him."
Before returning to Chang'an City, Zhang Yang and Li Yue came to visit Zhang Gongjin. At this moment, the warrior Xun was also here talking and laughing with him.
Xiao Wu ran to the warrior Yun and said, "Dad, your highness the princess has a lot of delicious food at home."
When the warrior Yu saw his daughter, he hugged her with a smile and said, "You must still listen to the princess after you go back."
