Zhang Yang looked at it carefully and wondered: "This aloe vera is good. It can be used to relieve scabies, and it can also detoxify and relieve pain."
Eunuch Wang moved out the pot of aloe vera that Zhang Yang pointed to.
"This crop likes warmth and hates cold, and it is prone to leaf blight. Moreover, except for the roots, this aloe plant has died, so it will probably be difficult to grow it."
Hearing what Zhang Yang said, Li Shimin was very satisfied with the collection results, at least they were useful.
"So I got a good thing. What about the other crops?"
"Your Majesty, you can keep it first." Zhang Yang felt a little confused in his heart, how to see these dead branches clearly.
With the beginning of cabbage, Li Shimin found a new direction for Sheji, promoting the diversity of animals.
Not long after, the palace maid brought the food, a plate of bacon, a salted duck egg, and a bowl of millet rice.
"My meals are also simple." Li Shimin was serving rice with salted duck eggs.
As a brother-in-law, you also have to help a large family like the royal family to help the poor, right?
Besides, His Majesty is an emperor who spends so much money.
Zhang Yang bowed and said: "Your Majesty, it is indeed difficult in the DPRK. Can I..."
Li Shimin said in a deep voice: "Take him to Wude Hall to see if there is anything useful, let him take it away."
"Here."
The prince bowed and saluted, "Shilang Zhang is coming with this old slave."
After walking out of Xingqing Hall, Zhang Yang asked curiously: "Old Wang, I see that you look much better now. Is the medicine Lishan gave you still suitable?"
"Shilang Zhang is laughing. The old slave has stored all those medicinal materials and hasn't used them yet."
"Yeah?"
Zhang Yang smiled awkwardly, "I thought you used it."
Xingqing Hall is not far from Wude Hall. Pass by Taiji Hall, take a detour and walk a little further behind to reach Wude Hall.
At this moment, the door of Wude Hall is still closed. Li Yuan is retiring in Lishan Mountain, so the place has become idle.
When the prince unlocked the door and pushed it open, Zhang Yang stepped in. The palace was very dark.
Light the oil lamp here to make the room brighter.
Zhang Yang rummaged through the sundries and took out a few unused brushes and inkstones from the bookshelf...
"How did Mr. Zhang get these things here?"
"I have been to Wude Hall several times before, and I remember what I saw with my eyes." Zhang Yang tidied up again.
The prince stood aside with a surprised expression. When he thought that His Majesty had agreed, he felt relieved again.
We walked to a side house in Wude Hall, where the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan used to rest.
The place is well tidied up and the bedding has been taken away.
Zhang Yang found the five stoves placed in the corner and lifted them out.
The prince worriedly said: "If the Supreme Emperor comes back and finds that the Wude Hall has been emptied, I'm afraid he will lose his temper again."
"It doesn't matter, just say support the court, he will understand."
After sorting out the things here, I found six pens, fifteen inkstones, and five stoves.
Barely enough to cope with the present.
Zhang Yang led his men to send these things to the Secretary's Province, where there were many clerical officials who were copying the memorials.
It's so cold that I can't hold a pen in my hand. I can't wait to come here to work under my blanket to keep out the cold.
It’s okay that the living conditions are not good, but the office conditions are also bad.
Separating two more furnaces and sending them to Zhongshu Province was not enough.
When passing by Ganlu Hall, Zhang Yang stopped and looked ahead.
The prince hurriedly said: "Shilang Zhang, your majesty did not agree to this from the Manna Palace."
Zhang Yang carefully recalled the situation in the Manna Hall, and after hearing this, he had no choice but to give up, "Old Wang, you don't have to look at me on guard against thieves, I won't ransack the Manna Hall as well."
Eunuch Wang smiled bitterly and said: "Shilang Zhang, it's better not to worry about Ganlu Hall."
"I know, I won't touch anything in the Manna Palace."
As he was talking, he saw Zhang Yang walking straight towards the Ganlu Hall. Wang Gonggong hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, "Secretary Zhang, Zhongshu Province is in that direction."
"Ouch... I was distracted for a moment."
Seeing that he was still looking into the hall, Wang Gonggong stood firmly in front of the hall, assuming the posture of guarding the Manna Hall.
If you want to enter the temple, you have to step over the corpse.
Zhang Yang turned around and walked towards the Chengtian Gate. The water on the road in the palace was covered with thin ice. It was the coldest winter in the world.
When walking on the stone brick road in the palace, be careful not to slip on the ice on the road.
There was a sigh in the cold air, and white mist came out of the mouth. The office conditions of Zhongshu Province were also difficult.
Three or two stoves were not enough for heating. Everyone wrote the memorial, stopping to rub their hands from time to time, and then started writing again when their hands were warmer.
There were even a lot of nose-blowing sounds.
Wang Gonggong led people to put the stove in Zhongshu Province, and Zhang Yang followed him to Xingqing Hall again.
Li Shimin was still looking at these potted plants. When he saw someone coming back, he asked again: "Has everything been arranged?"
The prince looked back at Minister Zhang and said, "Your Majesty, the stoves and pens and ink in Wude Hall have been separated."
"Um."
The emperor nodded, still looking at these withered crops. It would take at least until warm spring for them to regain their vitality.
And some crops have even withered and died, but they are still watching it.
Not wanting to disturb the emperor's leisurely mood, Zhang Yang cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, if we want to solve the most urgent needs of the DPRK, Lishan can cooperate."
"Elaborate."
Li Shimin said loudly.
Zhang Yang saluted again and said: "Lishan can make stoves for officials in various ministries, but the court needs money."
"How do you want to arrange it."
"Of course it's better to be more affordable." Zhang Yang looked outside the palace for a day and said, "The winter season has not passed yet. Lishan can make many heaters to solve the current dilemma. The money for the heaters needs to be paid by the Central Government. Lishan also
You can take some of it yourself."
"I promised you back then that you would arrange the money Shangshu saved."
After bowing slightly to Li Shimin, Zhang Yang said again: "However, Chaozhong has to provide the charcoal fire himself, and in the future, Lishan can purchase the coal from Xueyantuo at a lower price than the market price. What do you think, Your Majesty?"
"
When it comes to purchasing from Chaozhong and making deals with Lishan, Li Shimin's originally troubled expression perked up and said, "I will ask Duke Zhao to discuss the coal purchase with you in detail."
Zhang Yang bowed slightly and walked out of Xingqing Hall.
Still, the emperor should not be too generous. He asked Changsun Wuji to preside over the transaction with Lishan, which also shows that the emperor was defensive.
Both Zheng Gong and Fang Xuanling are fine.
It just happened to be the old fox Zhao Guogong.
This is the emperor. While using his ministers, he also needs to take into account the checks and balances in the court.
The emperor would not trust his ministers 100%, and he would speak lightly, but in fact he might have other thoughts hidden behind him.
Zhang Yang sighed as he walked home, "Oh my God! You keep saying that you will give me the royal expenses. To put it nicely, you are not secretly looking for someone to keep an eye on you and check and balance you."
Do your best to serve the DPRK, but you also have to face the emperor's arrangements.
At noon, Zhang Yang went to Dongshi to buy some vegetables.
At home, Li Yue is working on a math problem. Since she has learned some operations related to derivatives, she is now solving a math problem in arithmetic.
Zhang Yang glanced at the question, which was related to function operations.
Li Yue was still writing the calculations quietly.
Xiao Wu glanced at the dense calculations written on the paper and ran back into the house in fright.
Xu Hui was combing the bear's hair. If it was not taken care of for three or two days, its hair would easily become tangled. Seeing the senior sister's worried look, she asked curiously: "What's going on?"
Xiao Wu first poured a sip of cold water into his mouth, "I just saw the teacher writing calculations."
"Teacher, I haven't solved the problem for a long time. Maybe I have some free time to do some calculations."
"Junior sister, if you see that formula, you will know how scary it is." Xiao Wu whispered: "Teacher's formula shows a lot of square roots at a glance."
The two girls studied mathematics with Li Yue. Those mathematics problems were different from the calculation methods used in the outside world.
The teacher's math skills focus more on formulas, and now the two of them have just begun to learn radicals.
Only after learning it did I know how torturous the calculation of the radical sign was. The amount of calculations almost exhausted the brain cells of the two sisters.
Xu Hui also quietly poked her head out of the room and glanced at the calculations on the teacher's paper, then quickly looked away, "Sure enough, there are many."
"Yeah!" Xiao Wu clenched his hands into fists, "In the future... the teacher won't teach us this, right?"
The two girls didn't dare to think about that situation.
The husband prepared the meal and put it on the table, and Li Yue also solved the problem, "Well! I haven't solved the problem for a long time, and it's a bit difficult."
"This kind of functional operation requires the use of a lot of radicals, so it's a good way to practice your problem-solving ideas."
Li Yue relaxed her hands, squinted her eyes and looked satisfied, "I feel much more comfortable, and I feel that my thoughts are much clearer."
My wife's habit of using complex function questions to refresh her mind is getting more and more terrifying.
"Xiao Wu, Xiao Hui, it's time to eat."
"Got it." There was a response from inside the house, and after a while the two girls came out of the house, washed their hands obediently, and ate together.
Aunt Wang walked over quickly and said, "Your Highness Princess, County Marquis, this is the account book sent by Lishan."
Li Yue put down the Kuaizi in his hand, took the account book and looked at it carefully, "The clansmen with the nine surnames of Zhaowu have already captured it, and a lot of gold and silver were collected from their clansmen's settlements. After the soldiers and horses from Gaochang were collected,
Then we sent it to Lishan."
Zhang Yang was eating pancakes with pickled radish.
"The money also sent from the Western Turks, including the property confiscated by the nine Zhaowu surnames in Gaochang, is six thousand gold coins, three stones of gold nuggets, five stones of silver cakes, and more than a hundred other copper and jade articles."
After finishing the cake in his hand, Zhang Yang took the account book and looked at it, "How did things go?"
Aunt Wang replied: "The people sent by Gaochang said that some of the soldiers and horses in Guanzhong were also confiscated, but there was definitely not as much money as the money sent to Lishan. This money originally belonged to Gaochang garrison general Adalan, but he only thought about the county marquis.
All the gifts of promotion were given to me."
With this money, the development of Lantian County can also be put on the agenda.
Apart from money, the most lacking thing in Lishan is resources, and they are a long-term supply of resources.
The resources that are lacking are vast.
It is definitely not enough for Lishan to fight for it alone.
After the meal, Zhang Yang sat in the courtyard, thinking about the development situation in front of Lishan. "The army has not yet used food and grass before marching. Lishan will continue to build without the provision of resources."
Li Yue moved a deck chair, lay down slowly, and looked up at the relatively clear sky. It was very comfortable to have the sun shine like this in winter.
She held the scroll in her hand and whispered: "Although Lishan can also purchase it himself, mineral materials are first-hand resources. If Lishan does not master these, he may be controlled by others in the future."
Mastering resources is the real upstream, and this is what Lishan lacks in order to improve productivity.
"I plan to ask the DPRK and China to help with the transition to Lishan first. The coal mines required after the expansion of the blacksmith workshop will be several times that of before. Besides, there are also raw materials for paper. Such a large consumption cannot be dealt with by ourselves."
Li Yue sat up and took a sip of tea.
"Now the DPRK and China can give us a fairer and better price, but that may not happen in the future."
"What are your plans, husband?"
Zhang Yang closed his eyes and felt the rare warm sunshine in winter. The short-term warmth now also means that there will be a more biting cold wave in the north that will envelope Guanzhong.
Auntie took out the bedding and clothes in the house to dry them.
The fence in the courtyard can block the cold wind blowing from the northwest, which just makes the whole courtyard warm, unlike the biting cold wind in the palace that makes people shiver.
Although the yard is small, it is also warm.
After thinking for a long time, Zhang Yang whispered: "We controlled the supply of cotton when we bought Gaochang."
"My husband is right. Cotton is one of the few products we control. This is something we can control ourselves and not be controlled by others."
Taking stock of the money situation at home, the gold and silver sent today can be used to buy land.
Zhang Yang added: "When we bought Gaochang, we then bought the land."
“Where do you want to buy land?”
"There are several small countries around us that are pretty good and can be considered."
Land sales in Guanzhong are very strict, and private land sales will be arrested by the government.
Even if you really want to buy it, you can only buy a mountain or a few acres of land at most.
The situation in my own family is different. My husband has always had a huge appetite. He wants to buy several small neighboring countries.
At that time, I bought Gaochang and obtained the maximum benefit at the minimum price.
It also gave the family enough capital to establish itself.
I watched my husband draw a circle in the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest.
Li Yue frowned and said, "Why Nanzhao?"
"There are copper mines in Nanzhao."
"What does Persia have?"
"Persia was a corridor from the Tang Dynasty to the West, and it was also a pass to the West. If the Central Plains masters the Snow Mountains, it will master the barrier against the West. If it masters Persia, it will master the Western Turks and open the road to the West.
, this is where the initiative lies in conquering the West.”
Li Yue has also read some military books, and she also understands the geographical key points in some military books. "If we control Goguryeo, we will have absolute control over the East China Sea. If we control Persia, we can march out of the Tianshan Mountains and attack the west directly."
While talking, she sorted out her husband's drawings and saw a very strange picture, "What is this?"
"How does the swimsuit I designed for you look like?"
Thinking of the pajamas from before... Li Yue blushed and immediately put the drawing away, "Do you always draw such unsightly clothes at night?"