Zhang Yang looked sideways and said in confusion: "I've never seen you so shy before."
Li Yue was so upset that she stamped her foot and closed the door again.
After dinner, the three members of the family played a sandbag throwing game for a while.
Chang'an City is very quiet after the curfew.
The bright moon hangs in the night sky, and the night is deep.
Zhang Yang whispered: "Is Xiao Wu already asleep?"
Li Yue got into the quilt and nodded, "Well, I'm already asleep."
There were whispers in the room. After a while, Zhang Yang lit the oil lamp again. Li Yue sat up holding the quilt and whispered: "I'm going to wash up."
Seeing his wife walking into the bathroom, Zhang Yang was about to go in, but was pushed out by her.
Now she still resists taking a bath together.
"Is summer coming too early this year?"
Her voice and the sound of water could be heard in the bathroom.
Zhang Yang wiped the sweat from his forehead and drank a few sips of cold water. "The temperature in this season is indeed a bit abnormal. It seems that we need to guard against the insects in the fields."
"I heard from the women in the village that the frogs in the fields also come early."
"Next time I go to the village, I will go and see the food in the fields myself."
"But now it seems that the climate in the grassland is definitely very good."
I also thought about the contracting business on the grassland. This is the first time I have tried contracting this year. How much value it can generate will not be known until winter.
In the future, the scale will be expanded and larger pastures will be needed.
"Do you want to have a midnight snack tonight?"
"OK."
"What do you want to eat?"
"The scallion noodles that my husband made before are delicious."
Zhang Yang stood outside the door, and Li Yue was washing in the bathroom.
The couple whispered about daily life through the door.
In the quiet night, the words were spoken softly but clearly audible.
After preparing a bowl of oily noodles, Li Yue also took a shower. Her hair was still wet, and she was sitting in thin clothes eating noodles under the moonlight.
Zhang Yang simply rinsed the noodles and sat down to eat.
The moonlight was bright, and Li Yue's clothes were very thin. Only a layer of silk could vaguely see her skin.
She took a deep breath of the night air and felt the coolness of the night wind blowing on her body.
Zhang Yang mixed the noodles in the bowl again and finished the noodles in two or three mouthfuls. "Today, your father and I have reached an agreement on a cooperation deal."
I'm not asking about the matters between my husband and my father, but since I've spoken out, I'm still willing to listen.
Putting the bowl on the table, Zhang Yang wiped his mouth, "I plan to make sugar as valuable as gold and sell it to wealthy families."
"Are they the ones my husband extracted from brown sugar?"
"As long as there is enough brown sugar, I can have as much white sugar as I want."
As they were talking, Xiao Wu walked out, rubbing his eyes and looking lost in the lake, "Teacher, why don't you sleep?"
Li Yue held Xiao Wu's hand and said, "Teacher will go to bed soon."
Xiao Wu saw the scallion noodles in the bowl and said, "Teacher, Xiao Wu is hungry too."
Zhang Yang cleared his throat and said, "There's still more in the pot, I'll get another bowl."
It has been sunny for several days in a row, and the sky over Chang'an City has become cloudy. A month has passed, and this month there are more and more battle reports coming from the border.
Niu Jinda's army wandered on the plateau for a month, during which time more than 2,000 people were withdrawn.
A thousand people were still staying on the plateau with Niu Jinda. The military report sent stated that they had adapted to the plateau and had also found Su Dingfang.
At this point, the Tubo plateau was no longer a place where the Central Plains Guards' troops could not go.
When Niu Jinda and others come back, they can naturally share their experience with the DPRK and let more soldiers and horses adapt to the plateau.
Another half month passed, and Zhang Yang was in the field looking at the condition of the crops. Summer would come very early this year.
Li Yuan walked aside, "It seems that Erlang wants me to come to Lishan to recuperate."
Walking on the ridge of the field, Zhang Yang nodded, "You should just take care of yourself. Your mood will be much better if you spend more time with the children in the village."
Seeing that the boy was still staring at the wheat in the field, Li Yuan asked again: "Are you worried about this year's harvest?"
Zhang Yang nodded and looked at the sky again, "If the summer wind recedes early this year, drought is likely to occur. If the summer wind is too strong, it may also cause waterlogging."
Li Yuan nodded and said: "They said you can predict the weather, but now I think your words are reasonable."
"You always joke, I can't predict the weather. It's just the experience of some old farmers. They also have their own judgments about the weather."
My wife and Xiao Wu were selecting duck eggs, planning to take them home and make salted duck eggs to eat.
As May approaches, sand and dust blow up from Longxi Road. According to people coming from Longxi Road, a huge wall of sand comes from the sky, and the dust covers the sky and the sun.
Summer came early this year and brought dust with it.
Fortunately, Chang'an City was not greatly affected.
The military report from the border came again. Niu Jinda and Su Dingfang jointly defeated Songtsen Gampo's three troops and were encircling and suppressing the remaining troops.
As soon as the news arrived, the entire city of Chang'an was shocked.
This is also exciting news.
After three months of fighting, we finally received some truly good news.
Li Shimin was not too happy about this and was worried that Songtsen Gampo would counterattack after a small victory like before.
The fact is that even if Songtsen Gampo wants to counterattack, most of his troops have been lost now and he is at the end of his war effort.
Lu Dongzan walked quickly towards the Diplomatic Academy, where Xu Jingzong was sitting leisurely in the courtyard, eating cakes and drinking mutton soup.
Seeing someone approaching, Xu Jingzong took a sip of the hot mutton soup and sighed in relief, "I told him to put in more shallots, but he puts in a little more every time. The people in Chang'an City are really becoming more and more popular."
It’s not kind anymore.”
Xu Jingzong said this and completely ignored Lu Dongzan who looked angry.
"I want to see Zhang Yang!"
Xu Jingzong frowned and said, "Didn't the Prime Minister say before that there was no rush?"
Lu Dongzan clapped his hands and said, "I want to see Zhang Yang."
This slap also knocked over his own mutton soup. Xu Jingzong picked up the two or three pieces of mutton that fell on the table, ate them, and then wiped the table well.
"Did you hear what I said!" Lu Dongzan said angrily again.
Xu Jingzong said helplessly: "It's not so easy to see Zhang Shangshu. Because of the Prime Minister's matter, our Zhang Shangshu was banned."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Isn't he only grounded for a month?"
"One month? You, the prime minister, still don't understand our customs and customs in Guanzhong." Xu Jingzong handed the empty bowl to the clerk aside and asked him to return it to the vendor selling mutton soup at the door.
After adjusting his sleeves, Xu Jingzong looked at a large area on his sleeves that was wet with mutton soup, "It's just an official uniform, but now it won't dry after washing it tomorrow."
Xu Jingzong looked troubled, "Isn't it difficult for the Prime Minister to resign?"
Lu Dongzan stood up again and saluted, "Please also ask Mr. Xu to arrange for me to meet Zhang Yang."
Now I finally know how to speak properly and politely. Songtsen Gampo is over. As a Tibetan Zampo, he has underestimated the current Tang Dynasty.
The generals who fought in the troubled times are still there, and the bones of the Turks who died in Yinshan are probably not even cold yet.
After all, Songtsen Gampo was too young and energetic, and he didn’t know how tough the Tang Dynasty was.
Even if His Majesty now advocates light corvee and low taxes and releasing soldiers to farm the fields, the strength of the Tang Dynasty will still be there.
Those left behind were all killed on the battlefields of those troubled times.
Songtsen Gampo had never experienced the troubled times of the Central Plains. As an opponent, he was inferior to the generals of the Central Plains in terms of military skills and strategy.
The counselors in your Majesty's hands are all old foxes who were killed from a group of human spirits.
Songtsen Gampo is still able to dance around in Tubo. He should really thank the old foxes in the court and the Khan for his mercy.
If Li Shimin were any more brutal, Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Zhang Gongjin and others would be able to chop off the skin of Songtsan Gambo and cook it.
It's just that the old foxes in the court didn't take action.
Xu Jingzong shook his head and sighed, "How are you Zanpu now? You are in Chang'an City. If you come to Tibet, they will send you news. Now you know where Songtsen Gampo is, right?"
Lu Dongzan bowed and said: "Zanpu sent a message to the foreign ministers to negotiate peace with the Tang Dynasty."
Xu Jingzong added: "Seeing as you have been entangled with our Ministry of Rites for many years, you have learned the methods of our minister since Zhang Shangshu was still a prose writer. I think it has been four years now."
Lu Dongzan whispered: "This is the fifth year."
Xu Jingzong sat down again and said, "We have been rivals for five years. If we were rivals, we would soon become friends. However, Zhang Shangshu is still banned. His Majesty said he would be banned for a month. His Majesty did not lift the ban. Zhang Shangshu cannot make his own decisions.
Walking back to the court."
"Why?"
Sweat fell from Lu Dongzan's forehead. Several more civil servants entered the Diplomatic Academy, and another three or two left.
"Why was Zhang Shangshu banned?"
As soon as the words passed through his mind, Lu Dongzan replied: "Because of the impeachment of officials in the DPRK."
Xu Jingzong asked again: "Why impeachment?"
"because……"
Seeing how he was hesitating, Xu Jingzong took over the words, "It was not because the negotiation with you Tubo people failed to reach an agreement last time and ended on bad terms, that there was an impeachment in the court. To be honest with the Prime Minister, in fact, the relationship between the monarch and his ministers
There is also a tacit understanding between us. As long as His Majesty does not speak and Zhang Shangshu does not advocate returning to the court, he will still be banned."
"Looking at your friendship with our minister for so many years, I can help you."
"Then thank you very much, Mr. Xu."
How persistent and unyielding Lu Dongzan was in the previous negotiations, how humble he is now.
Xu Jingzong wrote a memorial and handed it to Lu Dongzan, "I also ask the prime minister to write the above words in Tubo dialect, and the lower officials will hand it over to the court on his behalf."
Lu Dongzan looked at the contents written on the memorial and felt confused.
"Illiterate?" Xu Jingzong smiled.
"We know..." Lu Dongzan said slowly.
"As long as you make it clear that the previous impeachment was a misunderstanding, there was nothing inappropriate in our minister's words and deeds during the negotiations with you Tubo people, and you must also write down Tubo's gratitude to the Ministry of Rites."
"Furthermore, the impeachment in the imperial court is all false. It was framed by those officials. We can just ask the Ministry of Rites to do more justice for Tubo."
Lu Dongzan swallowed his saliva and closed his eyes as if he had taken a breath, "Only by doing this can Zhang Shangshu be lifted from the ban?"
"Yes." Xu Jingzong put the pen and ink in place, "Prime Minister, please."
Lu Dongzan closed his eyes again and took a deep breath, slowly picked up the pen and started writing.
Let us also say that Lu Dongzan wrote a memorial and handed it to the court. Before Li Shimin could respond, Zhang Yang, who was building a new home in Lishan, heard Li Tai talk about it.
"Your Highness, King Wei, don't be lazy. Hurry up and fill up the bricks and pull them over on a cart."
After hearing this, Li Tai worked harder and harder.
"Brother-in-law, Tubo Ludongzan has finally bowed his head. I think the ban will be lifted soon."
Zhang Yang nodded, "I wish I could be grounded forever."
Li Tai wiped his sweat and said, "This Lu Dongzan is really interesting. He was so unyielding before, but now he wants to take the initiative to negotiate and ask the Ministry of Rites to seek justice for Tubo."
Sometimes when dealing with a guy like Songtsen Gampo who feels good about himself, you just have to give him a slap from reality before he will lower his head again.
Tibet and Tang Dynasty fighting?
You Tibetans have killed more than 100,000 troops, and a population of 200,000 is considered good. At this level, you still want to fight the Tang Dynasty.
Fortunately, Tubo had a plateau as a barrier, so Songtsen Gampo would have suffered a more disastrous defeat.
Li Shimin defeated many competitors and after taking Yinshan and defeating the Turks, he drew his sword and looked around at a loss as to where to find his opponents.
Here comes a Tibetan man who was brought up to be beaten.
It was just the right moment for Li Shimin to establish his prestige, and it was also the time to give the Heavenly Khan the opportunity to show off his majesty and show off the strength of the Tang Dynasty.
It can only be said that Songtsen Gampo's timing of starting the war was not good, and the way he started the war was even worse.
After all, I lost because of my youth.
"Brother-in-law, brother-in-law!" Li Tai called.
"What's wrong?" Zhang Yang continued to put bricks and stones on the wall without hesitation.
"What should we talk about next?"
"How to talk about what?"
Li Tai followed behind and kept talking, "Negotiations, what are we going to do next, are we going to make Tibet pay a bigger price?"
Li Yue came over and said seriously: "Qingque, you go to the village to catch two ducks. We will roast the ducks for lunch."
Li Tai nodded when he heard this, "I'll make arrangements now."
After removing it, Li Tai's ears finally felt a lot cleaner.
The couple smiled tacitly and sat down to rest.
The hottest time at noon was here, and Zhang Yang saw the sweat falling from Li Yue's cheeks and flowing down to his smooth neck.
Wet the clean cloth you prepared earlier with cold water and hand it to her.
Li Yue took it and wiped the sweat, "I brought this cloth from home, and my husband has been hiding it until now and is reluctant to use it."
Wiping the sweat with his sleeve, Zhang Yang smiled and said, "I can just wipe it with my sleeve."
Li Yue wiped her sweat and handed over a peach, "It was specially soaked in ice water."
Eating cold peaches and enjoying the mountain breeze made me feel a lot cooler.
Xiao Wu happily rides a bear and chases other small animals everywhere.
This bear can already carry Xiao Wu on his back. He was still very small when he was adopted. In the past three years, he has grown rapidly and gained weight every year.
Let it carry Xiao Wu and run around, and it will be considered as losing weight.
Only when Xiao Wu is taken with him, he will not run too far and will always hang around near his new home.
Li Tai wants to lose weight, and this bear also needs to lose weight.
If you continue to eat like this, a good beast will soon become useless.
Li Tai hurriedly walked up with two slaughtered ducks, "Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, I also brought a lot of pepper and fine salt."
It was also strange, Zhang Yang held his forehead in pain, why did this little fat man talk so densely recently.