The sky was just getting bright and there were no pedestrians on the streets yet. The fire in the post house soon caused chaos.
Upon seeing this, Zhang Elephant shouted angrily: "Lu Dongzan, you are so brave!"
The officers and soldiers guarding the place hurriedly brought Lu Dongzan and other Tubo people out. Fortunately, the fire did not spread quickly. Only the room where Lu Dongzan was on caught fire. After the fire was put out, there were obvious signs of burns on the walls outside the window.
Xu Jingzong and his men came forward and shouted: "Lu Dongzan, do you know that arson in Chang'an City is a serious crime?"
Lu Dongzan just smiled and didn't reply.
Seeing his proud expression, Xu Jingzong paced back and forth, thought for a while and then said: "Someone will take down Lu Dongzan and hand it over to the Ministry of Punishment for disposal."
"Here."
Zhang Dashu said helplessly: "The news about him couldn't be spread last night, so he burned down the post house. This matter will be known to many people soon. Lu Dongzan wanted to use this method to convey the news, and Songtsen Gampo also
You will know the situation of Lu Dongzan in Chang'an City."
Xu Jingzong looked tired and whispered: "Everyone has been tired all day and night. Let's go to bed early."
Zhang Xiangxiang and Zhang Dashu also left with their own people.
Everyone in the Ministry of Rites has been very busy from the New Year to now, especially this year when envoys from various countries come to Chang'an City, they have to deal with many things, and border wars are about to break out.
Fortunately, the Diplomatic Academy now has enough manpower, otherwise everyone would really not know how to deal with these things in front of them.
After sending New Year greetings to Li Shimin, the following days became much easier.
When he got up early in the morning, Zhang Yang pushed away the bear beside the bed and stood in the yard to wash up.
Xiao Wu and his wife were still asleep in the room, so they washed their faces with cold water and water with ice residue to refresh themselves.
There were also some sawdust piled up in the yard, and the shaved wood was piled neatly one by one. Zhang Yang patiently put all these things on a wooden cart, planning to take the wood to the village first.
Li Yue and Xiao Wu also woke up and cleaned up the house together.
After breakfast, the family got ready to go out.
In fact, Li Yue is quite tall. She couldn't tell when she was wearing a skirt when she was a child. Today, she is going to build a new house in Lishan, so she deliberately put on old clothes.
These were coarse cloth clothes left behind when she worked as a coolie. Wearing men's clothes and tightening her waist, she looked much taller.
Being looked at by her husband like this, Li Yue's face turned red. She avoided looking and fixed Xiao Wu's hair.
All the things that should be brought were brought into the car. After leaving the house, Aunt Yang was asked to bring some food prepared for today. She planned to stay in Lishan all day.
Zhang Yang pulled the cart all the way out of Chang'an City.
There were no servants at home. Zhang Yang was wearing a rough cloth and driving a cart. He did not look like an order from Lishan, let alone the Minister of Rites of the dynasty who was carrying a bag of silver fish.
After leaving the gate of Chang'an City, the coachman had already prepared the carriage.
Zhang Yang noticed that his business had expanded a lot. There were rows of carriages lined up in front of the city. It was very spectacular at first glance. There were hundreds of them.
"Your business is getting bigger and bigger."
"The noble man is joking. Compared with the noble man's family business, the villain's business is nothing. It's just that there are other noble people to help the villain, and the villain's business is better now, with more carriages.
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Expanding blindly may not necessarily bring benefits.
In order for his business to reach such a scale, he must have made some kind of deal with others, and I don’t know what he paid for this business.
But these things have nothing to do with me.
Hanging the wooden cart behind the carriage, Zhang Yang helped his wife and Xiao Wu get on the carriage and head to Lishan Mountain.
As the carriage moved, Li Yue whispered: "This person has indeed found other powerful people to do this deal with him."
Zhang Yang nodded and said: "It is not necessarily a good thing to expand blindly. If you are too anxious, you will lose control. If you are too greedy and too eager, you will fall down sooner or later."
Li Yue nodded slightly.
If he cannot control his greed, sooner or later the business he has built will be eaten up by the powerful people behind him, and it is more likely that his business will fall apart.
If he was given a better outcome, his business would be deprived of him, and he would be left with some family property in the end.
Or give him nothing and leave him with nothing.
The powerful and powerful don't want to suffer.
Because they are the most risk-averse people.
And this kind of business is also seasonal.
Zhang Yang said with emotion: "Compared to this business of renting carriages, I prefer the transportation industry."
"Is the transportation industry that my husband is talking about transporting goods?"
"That's what I mean. I have considered it before. Whether it is merchants or porters, the current business scale has not yet reached the conditions for the creation of a transportation industry. Moreover, the timeliness depends on the weather. The efficiency is very low and the cost is too high."
Li Yue said: "Most merchants also transport the goods themselves and sell them themselves."
The couple talked and analyzed the current transportation industry in Datang. If the canal in Luoyang can be opened, the cost of transportation can be reduced.
Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty opened the Grand Canal, which not only accelerated water transportation, but also brought convenience to commercial flows.
When Lishan becomes large enough, even if the couple wants to make plans for the transportation industry, they will only make plans within the scope of their own business first.
Arriving at the foot of Lishan Mountain, first send Xiao Wu to the warrior Xun.
Walking to the top of Lishan Mountain, a lot of stones are piled here.
Zhang Yang picked up the broom and cleaned the ground first. The foundation was still very solid, and it was the foundation of the palace after all.
Li Yue mixed the sand and mud with a bucket, while Zhang Yang raised the foundation with bricks and stones.
The couple worked together to build this new home brick by brick.
Not long after, Li Yue also had sweat on his forehead, and there was some sand and mud on his clothes, which made him very embarrassed.
When I got tired, I sat down and looked at the drawings.
Li Yue looked at the drawings and asked curiously: "Does our study have to be this big?"
The foundation is being laid for his own study, which is located to the west. According to the drawing, the study covers an area of five acres and is three stories high.
Zhang Yang said with a smile: "Our Shanmen naturally has a lot of knowledge, and our pursuit of science and mathematics is endless. In the future, our family will collect a lot of books."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "I can also compile books myself." Li Yue said while eating the steamed buns. The steamed buns were a little cold, but she didn't mind it.
The main room of my home is right next to the Huaqing Pool. When my new home is completed and I open the door and see the Huaqing Pool in front of me, I will feel very good.
There is no better sense of accomplishment than building your new home brick by brick.
It saves manpower and allows you to know what you are doing.
After Zhang Yang measured the height of the foundation, the next step was the wall.
Take out a piece of string and tie a brick to the other end of the string. Hang the tied brick in mid-air. The straight line can be used as a reference.
Zhang Yang measured the distance between the walls and then built them with wooden beams prepared at home.
Li Yue looked at her husband carrying a wooden beam with a small face in astonishment. One person could carry such a heavy wooden beam.
Thinking of her husband's strength, Li Yue's face turned red again, and she lowered her head and continued to put the bricks and sand into the wall.
"This kind of bricks and stones are used to build city walls, and the Ministry of Industry is quite generous."
Li Yue looked at the bricks and stones in his hands and preached.
The walls built with this kind of masonry are very strong, and even many state capitals cannot use this fine stone.
Zhang Yang explained: "Our people in Chang'an City have simple customs and are generous and generous. Considering that I have such a good relationship with Yan Shangshu, I will naturally provide us with stones."
Li Yue whispered: "It's not that they owed people's hands and refused to give them. Moreover, this was what my father promised. Firstly, the Ministry of Industry has a guilty conscience. Secondly, they already owe our family's hands. How can any husband say such a thing?"
So generous and generous."
"Even if your father still owes our family a debt, I don't know how much he can repay our family with how much tax he collected last year with all his hard work."
Hearing this, Li Yue smiled softly.
During the break, the two of them sat together and enjoyed the mountain breeze. Li Yue took off her boots and relaxed her feet.
There was still a lot of sweat on my forehead.
Zhang Yang saw that the soles of her originally tender feet had turned red due to the construction of the house.
Wearing coarse clothes and taking off her childishness, there is a sense of talent and fragrance hidden in her brows.
This is her temperament that comes from studying for many years.
As the sun gradually moved toward the west, Zhang Yang took a look at today's results. The foundation of the study had been laid.
The two walls were only halfway repaired. This was the wall on the first floor. Zhang Yang looked at the pile of wood he had brought. They were all used for wooden frames. When assembled, he stepped on the frames to build the wall above.
body.
It was almost evening when the two of them went down the mountain.
Zhang Yang whispered: "It's time to prepare a separate room for Xiao Wu."
Li Yue stepped on the stone steps going down the mountain, "There is no extra room at home."
"That's easy to do. Free up my room and pack it up for Xiao Wu to live in." Zhang Yang paused for a moment and cleared his throat, "Yes, that's it, I'll live in your room."
Li Yue reached out and twisted the soft flesh of her waist and abdomen, "My husband has already made a plan, right?"
Zhang Yang dodged her clutches, "Xiao Wu is already so old, it's time for her to have her own space. This is for her own good."
Aunt Yang watched the couple laughing and scolding as they went down the mountain, with a smile on her face.
Her Royal Highness the Princess is living a very happy life now, and her grandma will also be very happy in heaven.
He went down the mountain without seeing his wife's consent. Zhang Yang had a sad look on his face. Xiao Wu must be almost ten years old. The child is getting older. How can he keep sleeping with adults.
Although my wife did not agree this time, I was still confident and would find an opportunity to have a good talk with my daughter-in-law.
Lu Dongzan's incident of setting fire to the post house caused quite a disturbance in Chang'an City.
This incident was also known to many outsiders.
People were talking a lot for a while that a war between Tang Dynasty and Tubo was imminent.
In Ganlu Hall, Li Junxian is reporting to Li Shimin.
After hearing what he said, Li Shimin said in a deep voice: "The strange phenomenon in the sky on New Year's Eve came from the direction of Lishan Mountain. The snow covered the traces, so there is no way to investigate it, right?"
Li Junxian whispered, "In the past, we were near Chang'an, but this year we are in Lishan. It's because I was negligent."
After so many years of searching, there is no result.
Li Shimin also wanted to give up. People said this vision in the night sky was an auspicious sign.
From this vision, Datang has had a good harvest in the past two years.
Even Yuan Tiangang couldn't explain why.
Of course Li Shimin didn't believe this was a miracle.
Since the person who created this vision had no ill intentions towards the Tang Dynasty, there was no harm in treating it as an auspicious sign.
"You have to continue to investigate this matter, keep it secret, and tell me if you have any news."
"Here."
The eunuch walked forward in small steps, bowed and said: "Your Majesty, everyone is here."
Li Shimin nodded, "You should step aside first and let the auxiliary machine and Yuchi Gong enter the palace."
Li Junxian saluted again, "I will retire at the end of the day."
Seeing Changsun Wuji and Yuchi Gong walking into the palace, Li Shimin said loudly: "What does Lu Dongzan mean by setting fire to the post house this time?"
Yuchigong replied: "Your Majesty, Tubo and Tang Dynasty are about to start a war. After returning the treasures, Lu Dongzan was taken into custody. During this period, Lu Dongzan tried to send news to Tubo but failed, so he set fire to the post house.
The general thought that his move was also to send news to Tibet."
Changsun Wuji nodded and said, "Your Majesty, I believe that the Tibetans will definitely want to start a war as soon as they receive the news."
Li Shimin's eyes were gloomy, "If a war breaks out, what are the chances of winning at the border crossing?"
The three monarchs and ministers in the Ganlu Hall discussed for a long time until Li Shimin's decree was sent out from the hall.
He ordered Hou Junji to be the general manager of the march on Hexi Road and immediately went to Xizhou to rectify the border defense matters. He ordered Niu Jinda to gather 30,000 troops and go to Songzhou to rectify the border defense matters.
The order was sent, and several fast horses left Chang'an City to deliver military reports.
The next day, soldiers and horses continued to appear around Chang'an City, and groups headed toward Longxi along the official road.
Zhang Yang heard the news at home that a war between Tang Dynasty and Tubo was inevitable.
There must always be a distinction between the high-spirited Songtsen Gampo and the ambitious Li Shimin.
Li Yue looked worried, "I wonder what's going on at the border now?"
Zhang Yang was sitting at home, with a map of the Western Regions in front of him, "Su Dingfang and Li Daoyan arrived in the Western Regions last year, and they should be ready to capture cities and territories in the Western Regions now."
Li Yue took a small stool and sat aside. She saw her husband draw a circle on the map and then draw a line, "What does this mean?"
Zhang Yang pointed to the line extending from the Western Regions to the territory of Tubo and said with a smile: "This is a stolen home."
"How sure are you?"
"It depends on whether Su Dingfang and Li Daoyan have adapted to the plateau climate now. Songtsen Gampo is leading the troops. Relying on the terrain of the plateau, he is probably unprepared for his rear area and feels at ease."
Li Yue took a sip of tea and said, "The goal of this army was not the Western Regions from the beginning, but Tubo."
"If the Western Regions are pacified, there will also be the threat of Tibet. Songtsen Gampo is anxious to send troops, and naturally he does not want to see the Western Regions fall into the hands of the Tang Dynasty."
After Zhang Yang finished speaking, he shook his head again, "I hope Su Dingfang and the others can go well. I can cook and build houses, but I'm really not good at marching, fighting, and analyzing the situation. I can only use strange tricks to minimize losses."
way to exchange for a chance of winning."
"What if we win this battle?" Li Yue asked curiously.
Zhang Yang smiled meaningfully and said nothing.
There was some dissatisfaction in his eyes, and Li Yue said again: "Why don't you let me listen to what my husband has to say?"
"This plan has been planned for a long time, and even your father doesn't know about it."
"You even hid it from your wife."
Li Yue's eyes widened and she stretched out her hand to twist again.
"Prepare a separate room for Xiao Wu, and I'll tell you."