As the daughter-in-law said, in order to fight against her father and preserve the Lishan family fortune, there are still many things to prepare.
At night, Lishan becomes even more mysterious.
The moon was bright and the stars were sparse. Looking up from the foot of the mountain, the entire Lishan Mountain looked hazy.
At this time, on Lishan Mountain, Xiao Wu was holding a scroll in his hand, reading the title, and kicked the shuttlecock towards Xu Hui.
While the shuttlecock was being passed back and forth before it hit the ground, Xu Hui thought for a moment and came up with the answer. Then she asked Xiao Wu to answer the question.
These two girls can now concentrate on answering questions.
I have to admire the learning ability of these two girls.
The main reason is that my daughter-in-law teaches well, and these two children are the ones she teaches most attentively.
The little bear squatted aside and stared at the shuttlecock going back and forth. When he got a little tired, he leaned down.
After plowing the ground for a day, it was tired. Even twisting its neck was too hard, and now only its eyeballs could move.
Zhang Yang was shaving himself in front of a bronze mirror. The bronze mirror was difficult to use at night. He had to put the oil lamp aside and then raise his chin and get closer to see the details of the stubble on the skin.
Seeing her husband struggling to shave, Li Yue took the slender razor in his hand and said, "I'll do it."
She took the small bronze mirror on the side and held her husband's chin with one hand, shaving it carefully.
Feeling the coolness on his wife's fingertips, Zhang Yang frowned and said, "I should shave during the day, but I don't pay so much attention when I'm free. But today I noticed Pei Xingjian's eyes, and I realized that I haven't shaved for a long time.
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Li Yue chuckled softly: "Does he dislike it?"
"I can't say I dislike him, it's just that his eyes are a little weird."
He held a razor blade in one hand and carefully shaved the husband's chin. The beard in the pores grew again, and when he swallowed his saliva, he could still see his Adam's apple moving.
After scraping for a while, I put the blade into a basin and washed it.
Because of the high-level relationship, Li Yue noticed her husband's gaze. She glared at him and said angrily, "Aunt Wang took some cotton cloth today and went to the Chang'an City Dyeing House to dye cloth. I heard about something."
She paused for a moment, and continued to scrape with the cold blade against her skin. She whispered: "We Lishan have taken so many books out. Some people wonder where we in Lishan got so much paper. Some people suspect that Lishan has its own
Papermaking."
They were talking in low voices, and the sound of shuttlecock kicking outside the door also stopped. Xiao Wu and Xiao Hui were sitting by the Huaqing Pool washing up.
The Huaqing Pool at night is very beautiful, especially when the moonlight is bright and the stars in the sky are falling in the pool, it can always make people admire it for a long time.
She helped her husband shave the temples and wiped them carefully with hot water, "Well, it looks much cleaner this way."
Zhang Yang took a sip of tea and said, "Today is different from the past. What can we do if we know that Lishan has papermaking technology?"
Aunt Yang came down from the second floor and said, "Your Highness, the little princess has gone to bed."
"Well, Auntie, let's go to bed early."
Aunt Yang bowed briefly and left.
I saw my husband walking into the study, an oil lamp was lit, and there were many drawings hanging here.
Li Yue walked inside and looked at the walls full of drawings. Various detailed dimensions were marked on the drawings. For others, these dismantling drawings were incomprehensible, but for Li Yue, it was easy to understand these anatomy diagrams.
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Putting a drawing on the shelf, Zhang Yang held the teacup in his hand and asked, "What do you think of this greenhouse?"
Seeing that the greenhouse was in the shape of a semicircle, he wondered, "Why is it arranged like this?"
Zhang Yang held a glass bead in his hand, "Because I want to fill it with light-transmitting glass. The growth of plants cannot be separated from temperature and humidity, let alone light. I want to use the pool in the hot spring hall to surround it.
This pond serves as a greenhouse, so our family can have fresh vegetables even in autumn and winter."
"Alas..." Li Yue had no choice but to hold the banquet, "I used to think that my husband wanted to use colored glass to decorate the doors and windows, but now he wants to use it to build a house."
"What others regard as a treasure, to me is just something easily available on the periodic table of elements."
Li Yue sat down and helped sharpen the ink, "The periodic table of elements is that weird formula I wrote before?"
Zhang Yang nodded, "The teacher taught me well back then. I memorized it by rote and now I can pick up the knowledge from back then."
There was some yearning in her expression, and she looked forward to it: "It would be great if we could plant flowers in winter, a flower field that would be like spring all year round."
"The conditions for growing flowers are too harsh and require pollination by flying insects. The easiest and most practical way is to grow vegetables."
The movement of grinding ink stopped, and she pursed her lips in dissatisfaction: "Are you only allowed to grow vegetables and not me?"
"Oh, growing vegetables is a man's passion. Back then, there was a guy named Liu Bei who also liked growing vegetables."
Li Yue suddenly lost interest in staying here, stood up, closed the door and left.
I sat alone in my study and worked hard until late at night. When I felt sleepy, I washed up and returned to the bedroom.
Li Yue was sleeping on her side.
Lifting the quilt and lying down, Zhang Yang put his arms under his head, thinking about the eucalyptus in Luoyang. The situation in Chang'an City must be very tense at this moment.
After catching those children of the aristocratic family, Li Shimin must also want to catch bigger fish. Those fish are the people who kidnapped the prisoners in the first place. Whose soldiers and horses are they, and whose private army are they.
As for those officials who were related to aristocratic families, the emperor would probably not deal with them because of his character of keeping them as long as they could.
After all, when Li Shimin first came to the throne, he was tolerant of Li Jiancheng's faction. As long as they did not rebel or make trouble, the emperor could still tolerate them generously.
Rather than showing off his own wisdom, it is better said to be the emperor's method to win people's hearts.
The damned emperor uses benevolence and righteousness as a tool for power. There are no good people under power.
The emperor not only wanted to deal with the aristocratic family, but also wanted to take back local military power.
Zhang Yang felt that it was enough to help the emperor get to this point. Lishan just needed money, and he couldn't intervene in the next thing.
Li Shimin now has a lot of talents at his disposal, and he needs skills, tactics, and strategies. If he wants to fight, he has countless capable generals under his command.
Li Shimin has reached this point, and he has become a heavenly khan respected by thousands of people and worshiped by all nations.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The Tian Khan who has enough power in his hands is the most terrifying. Now is Li Shimin's career rising period. The emperor will not make choices, he will only let his ministers make choices.
Li Yue turned over and hugged her husband's arm, closed her eyes and murmured: "You still have something on your mind that you can't let go of?"
"Well, I'm thinking about things in Luoyang."
"After transporting so much money from Luoyang, my husband sleeps very late every day."
The matter involved a big family matter, so many people stayed up all night, so Zhang Yang let go of his worries.
April of the tenth year of Zhenguan.
A group of prisoners were sent to Chang'an City. Sun Fujia read aloud their crimes, raised private troops, robbed prisoners, killed local officials, and brought harm to the villagers.
After reading out the charges, Sun Fujia looked at the onlookers in the city, waved his sleeves and said: "His Majesty's decree, behead!"
With a command, heads rolled down one by one.
It's frightening to see a child crying.
No one knows where these prisoners were caught, let alone their identities. There are only rumors in the court that they are members of aristocratic families. The aristocratic families raise private armies and strengthen local forces to deceive superiors and subordinates in the name of tribes.
This is nothing new. It is only a matter of time before something like this happens to people in the DPRK.
After cleaning up the execution ground, the residents of Chang'an City dispersed, but the people were still the same as before.
I don't know who spread the news that those who beheaded were the private soldiers of the noble family, and they were the ones who kidnapped the prisoners on the road.
Those who dared to rob prisoners, dare to disturb official roads, or even kill Tang Dynasty officers and soldiers were punished by death.
The emperor did not immediately kill the children of the aristocratic families, but began to slaughter their arms.
They are not afraid when the knife is cut down, but they are most afraid when the knife is placed on their neck.
While keeping the children of the aristocratic family motionless, as if they were being held hostage, he began to clean up the influence of the aristocratic family.
The emperor at the peak of his power was an evil dragon. It swallowed up everything in the world and is now beginning to liquidate the family.
The emperor who had been patient for many years began to fight back. Li Shimin told everyone in a very direct way that during the Zhenguan Dynasty, no matter how big the family was or how majestic it was, they would have to lie down in front of the Tian Khan of the Tang Dynasty.
As for the children of the aristocratic families who were imprisoned in the dungeon of Dali Temple, they never imagined that things would progress to this point since they started participating in the sugar business. At this moment, these people were so frightened that they opened the cell door and shouted, they confessed and confessed to everything.
But the jailers here ignored them and no one responded to them.
It seems that from the first day they were imprisoned here, no one remembered them except for the regular meals delivered every day.
The news began to spread from Chang'an City, and after leaving Tongguan, more and more scholars and scholars, whether they were poor nobles or the original high-ranking families, their anti-aristocratic sentiments were once again ignited after the emperor wielded the butcher's knife.
Outside the city of Chang'an, Cen Wenwen read His Majesty's will loudly, and three thousand masters shouldered the mission of supporting education and went to remote places in the Central Plains to teach and educate people.
Team after team of people left, bringing books with them to cultivate the next generation of scholars for the Tang Dynasty. Cen Wenwen asked Kong Yingda in a low voice, "Old Master Kong, will the future scholars not join the family?"
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Kong Yingda, who had white hair and beard, laughed and said: "It is very complicated to explain this matter. The aristocratic family is a local power and the power of the emperor is in conflict. It depends on who is stronger."
Zhang Yang has been in Lishan these days and has not paid attention to the affairs in the court. Today he brought his wife and daughter to visit the teacher.
Two of the teacher's three children are serving in the imperial court, and Da'an is far away in Liaodong.
The couple can also walk around here more often.
The teacher's wife was very happy holding little Qingqing, as if she were her own granddaughter.
"This child is adorable and will be as alert as you in the future." Zhang Gongjin stroked his beard and said with a smile.
Zhang Yang said worriedly: "The teacher doesn't know what he is doing. This child is a slow learner and has little patience."
"My child, how much patience can you have?" Zhang Gongjin took a sip of warm tea, "Have you heard about what happened in Chang'an?"
"Yes, I heard about it." Zhang Yang poured tea for the teacher again while still looking at the chessboard, ""
Zhang Gongjin picked up a puppy that came to his feet and said: "Erazing aristocratic families is not something that can be accomplished overnight."
"Yes, the teacher is right. This cannot be eliminated overnight. They have been entrenched in the Central Plains for hundreds of years. The trees are big and have deep roots. To deal with them, we need a firmer stance. Now it seems that the emperor has picked up the butcher's knife. This butcher's knife is called
The law of heaven is clear."
"You are very wise. You did not participate in this matter. It is a correct decision to leave Chang'an City this year for the Great Court Meeting. If it were me, I would not be as decisive as you."
Zhang Yang moved his chess piece, "My teacher and I live in different eras. My teacher is in troubled times, but I am in this peaceful world, and my thoughts cannot be compared with my teacher's."
"Speaking of which..." Zhang Yang sighed again, with a look of embarrassment on his face, "Today the imperial court sent someone again, saying that the prime minister wanted me to go back and continue to preside over the affairs of the imperial court."
The emperor is at the peak of his career. At this time, the emperor is very high-spirited, but he is really short of money. The situation has not improved.
Zhang Gongjin smiled and said, "It doesn't hurt to go and ask."
"I have to be responsible for the production in Lishan. This is also for the sake of Sheji. I really can't leave."
Knowing that the child would say this, Zhang Gongjin didn't say anything more. He looked at the situation on the chessboard and said, "Playing with you is always one move away, which is boring."
"The teacher is already very good."
In the palace, Li Shimin listened to Hou Junji's report, "So Pei Xingjian has led three thousand soldiers and horses in the Hexi Corridor to the Western Regions?"
"Back to Your Majesty, judging from the pace, we should be almost at Shazhou."
Judging from the footwork, the urgent news from the Hexi Corridor arrived at Chang'an City, and Pei Xingjian set off to the west. The estimated time is indeed correct.
Li Shimin looked at Fang Xuanling on the side, "Why did Zhang Yang choose such a young person as Pei Xingjian to serve as the Protector of Anxi? I checked his household registration. He was born in the Pei family of Hedong. He is only fifteen years old."
Fang Xuanling replied: "Your Majesty, Pei Xingjian wrote a strategy for the Western Regions, which was highly appreciated by Zhang Yang."
The Protectorate of the Western Regions was established by the Foreign Affairs Council, and Li Shimin did not have a clear idea of the leading position of Protectorate.
The DPRK and China do not yet have a complete system for the governance of the Western Regions, and the Foreign Affairs Council is responsible for doing all these things, let alone the DPRK and China spending money.
All the manpower and material resources are handled by the Foreign Affairs Council, and the Ministry of Rites simply reports these matters, and the Zhongshu Province gives me my approval.
It is indeed a matter for the Ministry of Rites to send Prince Perus back to Persia.
But Zhang Yang's act of taking charge without permission made Li Shimin feel very uncomfortable.
Looking at the money in the imperial treasury now, Li Shimin felt his eyes darken, wondering how he would spend this year with the remaining 10,000 coins.
Just as he said that if the Shangshu Province collapsed, the Tang Dynasty would go bankrupt. The development of the country cannot be separated from money, so it is not a headache.
"Zhang Yang is still in Lishan and refuses to come?"
Fang Xuanling bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I have sent people to inquire several times. The village is very tightly guarded. Let alone seeing him, we cannot even enter Lishan Mountain."
"I don't believe he's been hiding in Lishan Mountain and hasn't come out." Li Shimin's eyes were gloomy, "Send someone else...please!"
The word "please" came out from between His Majesty's teeth, which shows how dissatisfied His Majesty is with Zhang Yang at this time.