Li Xiaogong waved his hand and said, "How can an elder just take something from a junior's house?"
Zhang Yang said awkwardly: "There is still a can at home."
Li Xiaogong noticed the iron fiber on the side, "That iron fiber is very good for splitting meat."
"You can take it away if you like."
Li Yue's smile was a little forced.
After dinner, Zhang Yang told the two shareholders of Lishan about his future plans. With these two backers, anyone who wants to do Lishan's business must weigh the weight of these two people.
Xiao Wu was cleaning the yard with a broom.
Li Xiaogong whispered: "As soon as the cotton cloth from Lishan came out, there was a lot of criticism in Chang'an City."
Li Yue sat upright and frowned: "We and I rarely go out, so what criticism is there now?"
Li Tai whispered, "It's just that the original vendors couldn't sell the mulberry and linen cloth, so they came to blame Lishan's cotton cloth."
I noticed that Li Yue's eyes were still worried. Since the last snow disaster in Lishan Mountain had a good reputation, she now cares about things like reputation.
Zhang Yang asked again: "They must have hoarded a lot of mulberry and linen cloth."
Li Xiaogong nodded, "Of course it is, otherwise there wouldn't be so many people in such a hurry, but don't worry, I'll keep an eye on it for you. Anyone who dares to make a mistake will not be spared. Lishan didn't steal or rob, it's all cotton produced by himself."
, they can’t let them talk nonsense.”
Li Yue hesitated and said: "With such a large population in Chang'an City, Lishan's production efficiency should not be able to meet such a huge demand."
Li Xiaogong nodded and said, "That's true. Lishan's cotton cannot reach everyone's hands. Everyone says that our cotton is too cheap. They are worried that they will not be able to sell the linen and fine linen in the future."
Li Tai said unconvinced: "Survival of the fittest is inevitable."
Xiao Wu put down the broom and walked over obediently, picked up the kettle and poured tea for several people.
Seeing his wife's frown, Zhang Yang smiled and said: "Actually, it's not that there is no way. It's just that we feel that our cotton cloth has taken away their market. Our original intention is to transform into a supplier."
"As the upstream of the market, we can sell the cloth to them and let them continue to sell it. As for the previous mulberry linen cloth, we can take it back for them, or we can use the original old linen cloth to exchange for new cotton cloth."
Li Xiaogong nodded, "Treat this trouble as an opportunity for us to expand our cotton cloth business. As long as all Chang'an City sells is our cotton cloth, we will only make more and more money in the future."
After discussing this matter, Zhang Yang sent Li Tai and Li Xiaogong away.
Back home, Li Yue was already packing her clothes. She put a red official uniform in the basin and washed it carefully. "The imperial court will start in a few days. My husband has to go to the East Palace to be on duty, but I have to go to the East Palace for duty."
Wash your official uniform."
According to the current official system of the Tang Dynasty, a fourth-grade official like me, the Young Master of the East Palace, must wear this kind of red round-collared official robe.
Zhang Yang sat down next to her and looked at the starry sky quietly.
While washing clothes, Li Yue's hands were red from the cold, and she said: "If we have enough cloth merchants in Chang'an City, can we also control the price of cloth in Chang'an City?"
Zhang Yang nodded, "Theoretically, this is the case. This matter sounds simple, but in fact it is difficult to handle. Who can do big business in Chang'an City without the backing of powerful people?"
Li Yue put down the clothes in her hands and thought, "So we want to get more details about the cloth merchants. We need to find out who is whose backer. We can't act recklessly to avoid unnecessary trouble."
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"My wife is thoughtful, so we can avoid a lot of trouble."
Li Yue whispered: "On the day when the court begins, I will go to the Queen Mother and tell her about this matter first. Whether the Queen Mother will help will be discussed later. At least let the Queen Mother know our current situation, and Grandpa Huang will also tell her."
If you want to visit, his words in the clan are very important."
Seeing her husband looking at her all the time, Li Yue lowered her head and asked, "Why are you looking at me like this?"
Zhang Yang withdrew his eyes and put his arm around her shoulders, "You are becoming more and more impressive now."
Li Yue leaned on her husband's shoulder and smiled happily, "Everyone will grow up."
"I mean you are getting better and better at business."
"Is your husband teasing me and saying I don't look like a woman?"
Zhang Yang cleared his throat, "I don't mean that. You know me. I have always scorned the worldly opinions outside. Why can't women have a career?"
Li Yue is seventeen years old, and her eyebrows are more heroic. She is actually very strong at heart, and she has a dissatisfaction engraved in her bones about many things.
Also influenced by the Queen, her words and deeds in the village looked like a local master, and she also had the momentum that a master should have. The bad things must be changed, and the things that should be rewarded must be rewarded.
"You are becoming more and more like a landowner."
"Landlord mother-in-law?" Li Yue said suspiciously, "That doesn't seem to be a good thing to say."
"The entire fief belongs to you. You are the master. You should have such an aura. There is nothing wrong with it."
Xiao Wu came with a booklet and said, "Teacher, the topic is ready."
Li Yue read the question and looked at it carefully, "Look at this question, you don't write down the calculation process. This is not a good habit."
Xiao Wu nodded.
Listening to his wife's lecture to Xiao Wu, Zhang Yang took the basin at her feet and carried it aside to wash his official uniform.
The official uniforms of the imperial court were made of fine linen and did not feel good to wear.
After two days of calm, the cotton cloth from Lishan was sold out.
Today is the day of the imperial court, so Li Tai should be present on such an important day. He found an excuse to be sick and was sent to the palace, and he went directly to Lishan to help produce cotton cloth and soap.
In a few days, the book "Liang Zhu" will be sold.
This time, instead of only selling half a volume, the entire volume was sold.
Li Tai looked at Shangguan Yi in confusion, and saw that he was still looking at Liang Zhu, "You have read this story several times, don't you feel tired of it?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Shangguan Yi explained: "Does His Highness the King of Wei understand the profound meaning of this story?"
Li Tai washed off the paper pulp stuck to his hands, "Isn't it just about the miserable end of two people who love each other under the world and power?"
Shangguan Yi explained: "Actually, Your Highness the King of Wei needs to think about it from another perspective. The stories of Zhang Shilang are always written as ordinary people, and this kind of book is also for ordinary people to read."
Li Tai said impatiently: "Shangguanyi, your speech is becoming more and more like Zhang Yang."
Today is the day of the court. Zhang Yang first sent his wife and Xiao Wu to the Li Zheng Palace and then hurriedly followed the prince to attend the court meeting.
"Your Highness, I am just a small official in the Eastern Palace. I don't need to attend the court meeting."
Li Chengqian walked quickly, "Every official in the court, including the Huangmen officials, must participate in this great court meeting. If there is no room for them to stand in the Tai Chi Hall, they have to stand outside the Tai Chi Hall. This has been the case in previous years, and it is only once a year."
Having no choice but to follow Li Chengqian's footsteps, when the two of them arrived in front of the Tai Chi Hall, there were already many people standing here.
Li Chengqian, "You stand in front of Da'an and enter the palace first."
The officials of the East Palace could only stand outside the Tai Chi Hall and were not qualified to stand in the hall. Zhang Yang felt helpless, thinking that I had slept in the Tai Chi Hall back then.
Standing in front of Zhang Daan, Zhang Yang saw a guy standing behind him, smiling at him.
Da'an introduced: "This is Xu Xiaode, the chief official who has just arrived at the East Palace."
Zhang Yang cupped his hands and said, "I have met Mr. Xu."
The Khan of Heaven has not yet arrived, except for the civil servants from various ministries and envoys from various countries standing outside the palace.
There was still some distance between him and Lu Dongzan, and he could feel the hostility in his eyes.
Zhang Yang turned around and glared at him. If looks could kill, he would have died hundreds of times with this look.
After receiving such a glare, Lu Dongzan also withdrew his gaze.
Zhang Daan followed his gaze and happened to see Lu Dongzan retracting his gaze in embarrassment, "Does Master Zhang have a grudge against this envoy?"
Zhang Yang stood in his position and said: "This is his one-sided hatred. I have a bright heart and a strong sense of righteousness. How can I have a grudge against such a person?"
"I guess so." Zhang Daan nodded.
The emperor has not come, so everyone can chat about home affairs while waiting.
"I've heard about Master Zhang's talent for a long time, but I only realized that he is so young when I saw him today."
Zhang Yang said helplessly: "In your words, you are no longer young in your early twenties."
Xu Xiaode whispered again: "I just saw His Highness the Crown Prince escorting Master Zhang together. I think His Highness the Crown Prince must have a very good relationship with Master Zhang, and Master Zhang will take care of him in the East Palace in the future."
Zhang Yang smiled bitterly and said: "Zhao Fu can't say that. It will be good if we can all unite in the future."
Zhao Jie said he wanted to take care of him, and he was a member of the same family as Yang Shidao.
Now there is another official named Xu.
"I heard that both Master Zhang and Her Royal Highness Princess are very good at math. Even Taoist Master Li Chunfeng said they are geniuses and their future achievements will not be inferior to that of Taoist Li Chunfeng."
Zhang Yang looked at Tai Chi Hall with his hands folded, "You inquired very carefully."
"When you first come here, you naturally have to understand it. Every time you go to a place, you have to understand it well. But there are too many things in Chang'an City and there are too many things to understand. I also heard that Master Zhang wrote a book about Red Mansions, but it was listed as a banned book?"
Zhang Yang nodded.
"Xia Guan bought two volumes from a bookseller and took them home to read. It is indeed a good story. There is no judgment on ethics in the story. Isn't every character in the story the biggest critic of ethics?"
There was a black line on Zhang Yang's end, and his words were fragmented and dense.
Xu Xiaode added: "I heard that there is a kind of milk tea in Chang'an City. I tried it and it was very good."
Zhang Daan's face was expressionless.
Zhang Yang sighed slightly.
"Your Majesty also heard about what happened in Lishan, and even heard that the low price of cotton in Lishan made it difficult for many cloth merchants in Chang'an City to do business. Because of this, your Majesty wrote a memorial and submitted it to His Majesty to impeach Master Zhang.
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Hearing this, Zhang Yang looked back in surprise, why is this man like this...
You said that you just came to the East Palace to take office, and you impeached me before you even entered the East Palace?
Can we still be colleagues?
Xu Xiaode added: "I think these merchants just can't let His Majesty worry about them. At most, they can only send a few Huangmen officials to Chang'an City to appease the merchants and warn Lishan. I think it won't be a big deal."
Zhang Yang:"……"
"Actually, when I impeach Master Zhang, I also hope that the city of Chang'an will be more prosperous under the rule of many civil servants and generals. Cotton cloth is indeed good and cheap, and ordinary people can afford it. I also want to buy some and take it home, but every time
It was sold out every time…”
The man started again, Zhang Yang looked ahead numbly.
It wasn't until the court meeting started that Xu Xiaode stopped thinking.
Standing in the sun, you can't see what's going on inside the hall, and the Tai Chi Hall looks dim.
I don't know how it goes inside.
After standing for half an hour, the sun was still a little hot today. Zhang Yang wiped his sweat and wondered how long it would take for the court meeting to end.
The sun is getting brighter, and the civil servant in front of him doesn't know which of the six departments he is. His sweat has soaked the clothes behind him.
Warm weather is also a good thing, but now that the New Year has just passed, the sun is already too hot for January.
After a while, a eunuch walked outside the palace and said loudly: "Your Majesty has summoned the envoys from Qiuci and Gaochang to enter the palace."
After hearing the words, two people immediately walked out of the envoy team.
Zhang Yang cheered up and continued to stand. He looked back at Daan, who was standing very calmly.
Half an hour later, another eunuch came out and said, "Your Majesty has summoned Zhang Yang, the young master of the East Palace, to enter the palace."
After hearing the words, Zhang Yang walked out of the team, walked past the officials one by one, and walked all the way to the front of the palace.
"Master Zhang, please come into the palace." The eunuch on the side whispered.
First, he raised his head and looked at the situation in the palace. Xu Jingzong was standing in front of the ministers, and the envoys from Qiuci and Gaochang were also standing beside him.
From outside the palace, one could not see Li Shimin's expression inside the palace, but he still took a deep breath and walked into the palace.
Xu Jingzong's eyes were like seeing a savior, "When I gave the strategy to King Gaochang, Master Zhang was also present."
Li Shimin said in a deep voice: "Envoy from Qiuci, please speak first."
"Well." Nali, the envoy from Qiuci, said: "Gaochang's expedition against the Western Turks last year caused chaos among the Western Turks. Many people from the Western Regions who do business with Gaochang have also had contact with today's Gaochang. They are all talking about
, the master of Gaochang is not the slave trader Adalan, the garrison general, but another master."
Li Shimin looked at Gaochang's envoy, "Is that so? I also want to know who the owner of Gaochang is."
No. 1 kept his head lowered, and he slowly said: "I don't know, either."
Nali gave him a look, "Be a slave! You don't even know who your own master is?"
Number 1 still lowered his head and said: "I am no longer a slave, but a general of Gaochang."
"If you are a slave, you are a slave. Even if you are leading the army now, you are still a slave with soldiers and horses. You should still obey your master's instructions."
Number 1 calmly replied: "I already have a family, a wife, and a child. I am not a slave."
The smell of gunpowder in Taiji Hall was very strong. In the eyes of everyone, the Gaochang envoy was surprisingly calm. It is said that a person who had been a slave had a very bad past.
Nali, the messenger from Qiuci, repeatedly tried to expose each other's scars with words, but the messenger from Gaochang remained indifferent. Any other person in the court might have taken action at this time.