In the small palace, a group of palace guards exited the room in embarrassment. Li Tai looked back and saw that these people were still prepared to rush into the room to protect his father.
The quarrel in the room became louder and louder. Li Tai wiped the sweat from his forehead, worried about his brother-in-law and father, and wondered if they would make any move.
Here you can hear the sound of rain falling continuously on the roof. This sound will not make people upset, but it will make people meditate unconsciously.
In the room, when talking about the Hexi Corridor, Li Shimin was upset because of the huge burden of the construction of Jiayuguan Pass.
Now listening to what Zhang Yang said, Li Shimin waved his sleeves and said, "You can even make money from the wool that the Turks don't want, but you can't sell the grain?"
Zhang Yang stared at the emperor, looked away and shook his head, "Thirty-seven million stones of grain, all sold out? Even if I can't stuff enough grain into the mouths of the people in the Western Regions, are you kidding me? Haha!
It’s really interesting.”
Li Shimin breathed heavily, "Okay, let me ask you, Lishan has 70% of the taxes on the Hexi Corridor. Now the tariffs are increased, and then the taxes are collected on the sales of alcohol. In the end, both the alcohol sales and taxes will go into your pocket.
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Pointing at him, the emperor was trembling with anger, "Zhang Yang, you are so scheming."
"Hahaha!"
Zhang Yang raised his head and laughed and said: "That is the capital of Lishan. Since Your Majesty is not willing, let us invest the capital of Lishan in the construction of the Hexi Corridor, a total of 57,000 yuan. Just pay back the money, and the matter of taxation will be settled in Lishan."
Don't interfere."
"you……"
Li Shimin was so angry that his face was twitching at the moment. There were no fifty-seven thousand guan in the court. He was thankful to have even 5,000 guan.
Whoever is allowed to be arrogant will not be allowed to be arrogant.
Li Shimin picked up a jar and threw it to the ground, "How dare you! Zhang Yang, how dare you threaten me."
After the words fell, the earthen jars on the ground were smashed, and a group of guards in front of the palace pushed the door open again.
Before the visitor could speak, His Majesty heard a loud shout: "Get out!"
The guards were so frightened that they shrank their heads and hurriedly retreated and closed the door.
"I am not threatening His Majesty, I am just stating the facts."
At this moment, both sides were angry. The heavier the rain outside, the more angry the emperor was. "At first you were just a country boy, but now you can preach to me?"
Zhang Yang looked directly at the other party, "Can your Majesty not be unreasonable?"
"What do you know? Do you have any respect for me?"
"Your Majesty, don't you blush when you say this? Didn't your Majesty do a lot of things secretly? Monitor Lishan, arrange spies in the Foreign Affairs Academy, and even use his own son!" Zhang Yang said loudly: "I dare to ask your Majesty, how can the ministers respect you?
, I’m hiding before it’s too late, how can I be open and honest? How can I be honest with each other?”
Li Shimin was also a general who traveled around the world and killed countless people. He was filled with anger and now his eyes were bloodshot. "You bastard, how dare you talk to me like this."
"I'm a bastard! But I want face."
"You said I'm shameless?"
Li Shimin took two steps back and forth, intending to use a handy weapon to chop the boy into pieces.
Picking up the chair next to him, there was a voice in his heart admonishing him. It was the family affection and conscience hidden in the emperor's heart.
After all, he is Yue'er's husband and the children's brother-in-law.
He gritted his teeth and put the chair down again.
The monarch and his ministers kept their faces red and stretched out their necks, shouting and scolding each other for a long time, just like two partners who were sharing the spoils unevenly.
The room became quiet again. Li Tai put his ear against the door, trying to hear clearly the next conversation in the room. He frowned and moved his ear again.
Li Zhi walked up cautiously, watching the emperor's movements, and listened carefully with his ear against the door.
The monarch and his ministers sat down again, spoke out what they had been holding in their hearts, and now they calmed down again.
Once I spoke out what I was holding in my heart, I felt much better.
Li Shimin looked at the rainy scene outside without saying a word for a long time. He looked at a field of yellow-green crops from a distance, and the rain kept falling on it.
The water in the ditches in the fields is rapid and flows all the way to the Weishui River.
"You say I am shameless, but you are not a good person."
After counting the many bad things they had done over the years, Li Shimin and Zhang Yang had been arguing with each other for almost half an hour, but Li Shimin did not want to reconcile with Zhang Yang.
It was the time of the Tang Dynasty to employ people, and before his value was used up, there was no time to hang him in front of the Chengtian Gate.
With anger still in his eyes, Li Shimin slowly said: "Those grains can be turned into wine, but Lishan must not sell them to Guanzhong."
"Your Majesty can repair the Wude Hall and the river outside the Xuanwu Gate, but it is not yet time to dig the Taiye Pond."
Zhang Yang also looked out the window.
There are two windows in this room, both facing the southeast, and there is still thunder in the sky.
"I will also give you a sum of money for other purposes."
"Your Majesty, please clarify the purpose."
"Long Wujun."
Li Shimin whispered.
The Longwu Army is a military force directly under His Majesty's command. Whatever these soldiers and horses do depends on His Majesty's command, and they rarely appear in front of others.
After Li Shimin ascended the throne, he transformed the original Longwu Army into the Yulin Army to guard inside and outside the imperial city.
But this Yulin Army was just a part of the original Longwu Army. There was another Longwu Army that existed outside, but it was just erased from the files of the Ministry of War.
If the matter involves military power, the emperor will also keep his own troops and horses in his hands.
As well as the founding generals of the past, how many of them still hold military power now?
Since Gao Shilian left the court and Li Shimin returned to power, he cleaned the court and reshuffled the court structure. The current civil and military situation in the Tang Dynasty has become what the emperor wanted.
There are some things that you shouldn't ask too much about, because knowing too much will make you lose your head.
It's okay to do bad things with the emperor, but you have to ask how much power the emperor has. Once you know the emperor's strength, it's not far from being killed.
Zhang Yang stood with his hands behind his back, "Okay."
Li Shimin added: "The affairs of Shangshu Province are still left to you to preside over. You don't have to come to the court. Lishan must print another 30,000 books this year, and Lishan needs to hand over 5,000 stones of iron."
Give it to Chao Zhong."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The iron material in Lishan was the iron nail that was originally given to Li Shimin, who showed the emperor how to cast it.
Zhang Yang nodded and said: "I said at the beginning that your Majesty can know the method of casting, but it cannot be cast in the army. If you want Lishan to provide high-quality iron materials, your Majesty must abide by the original agreement."
"If it were anyone else who could negotiate this condition with me, he would be dead."
"Sheji needs Lishan to provide high-end technology and large-scale productivity." Zhang Yang raised his head and said: "This is all for the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty and the strength of the Central Plains."
Li Shimin glanced at him sideways, and the man was actually a little sad.
I always feel like this guy is being hypocritical.
Lishan has been under construction for many years, and now it has finally achieved some results. Li Shimin looked solemn and a little more greedy.
Whether it is movable type printing or the method of forging iron, these are what the government needs now.
Lishan's productivity all serves people's livelihood, and it seems to be the case now.
You cannot trust this son-in-law 100%. Anyone who believes in him will not end well if his country is ruined and his family is destroyed.
For example, Gaochang and Tuyuhun, or the children of aristocratic families in Luoyang, or the Western Turks.
Li Shimin watched little by little as Gaochang went from short-lived prosperity to self-destruction.
Watching the children of Luoyang's aristocratic families go from madness to current prisoners.
Zhang Yang is a person who hides his true thoughts very deeply. He is not like Li Jing, nor is he Changsun Wuji or Fang Xuanling.
It is difficult for people to trust such a person.
Father Huang and Xiao Gong always said that Zhang Yang had a pure heart and was a good boy.
But he is Zhang Gongjin's disciple. Since he became Zhang Gongjin's disciple, his actions have become more and more bold, and his plans have become bigger and bigger.
Zhang Gongjin was also a world-famous counselor at that time.
There are no good disciples of a counselor.
Li Shimin's eyes were gloomy, and he stood up again and opened the door.
As the door opened, Li Tai and Li Zhi, who were leaning against the door to eavesdrop, lost their support and fell to the ground.
He glanced at his father timidly, stood up in embarrassment, saluted, and said in unison: "Father."
Seeing that his son was actually eavesdropping, Li Shimin's veins jumped in his forehead and he nodded and looked at them, "What are you doing?"
Li Tai coughed, "Er Chen... Er Chen came to Zhang Yang and asked him for some salted duck eggs."
Noticing Li Tai's look for help, Zhang Yang sighed: "His Royal Highness the King of Wei can just go to the duck pen to get the eggs."
Li Tai straightened his clothes and saluted, "Father, I have gone to prepare meals."
Li Shimin stared at Li Zhi, "Are you here for salted duck eggs too?"
"My son?" Li Zhi glanced at Li Tai who was going downstairs, and followed him down the stairs in a panic, "Brother, wait for me, I want salted duck eggs too."
Li Shimin glared at the group of guards standing at the stairs again.
A group of guards put the Hengdao into its scabbard, bowed and left in a hurry.
Zhang Yang straightened the table eucalyptus again, picked up all the pieces of the earthen jar on the ground, and then carefully swept the floor.
Li Shimin sat down and watched him quietly doing these things, and then whispered: "None of my sons are decent."
Zhang Yang continued to sweep the floor.
Li Shimin added: "The prince is kind to others, but he follows the crowd too much and does not have his own opinions in his heart. Such a person will be influenced by others sooner or later. I often think about how to teach him, but I am also powerless."
Li Chengqian is the crown prince, he is different from Li Tai.
As long as Li Tai doesn't make a big mistake, Li Shimin will naturally not care.
But the prince is different. In order to inherit the throne of the Tang Dynasty, he must be able to control his ministers and be able to see and understand people.
I just listened to His Majesty whispering about the prince, King Wei, Li Zhi and other sons.
Zhang Yang took a closer look and saw that there was no dirt on the ground, so it looked more pleasing to the eye. It was okay to break some things, since King Wei had arranged them anyway.
"The iron materials cast in Lishan can be handed over to the DPRK. How much does your Majesty offer?"
When it came to the price again, Li Shimin hesitated, wondering if the son-in-law still wanted to quarrel.
"If the government can't come up with enough silver, it doesn't matter. You can exchange it for more iron ore. How about exchanging one pound of iron for seven hundred pounds of iron ore?"
"Seven hundred for one exchange? You really can speak."
Zhang Yang wiped the table in front of His Majesty again and said with a smile: "The technology is worth the price. Lishan only gives it to the court and not to others."
The anger that was about to rise in my heart was extinguished again.
Just as Zhang Yang said that technology is worth the price, Li Shimin said solemnly: "Can Lishan's forging iron technology be even more sophisticated?"
Zhang Yang said with a smile: "Technical production is not like training your mind and physical strength. In addition to hard work and persistence, the next bottleneck period for Lishan is construction."
"Elaborate."
After calming down, what I care about most is the production results and construction of Lishan.
Today's Lishan Mountain is a treasure house. When it begins to explode with potential, Li Shimin feels that the day when Zhang Yang hangs himself in front of Chengtian Gate is getting closer.
"The next goal is to increase the investment in the construction of the blacksmith shop, and continue to expand the expenses, and build new furnaces and die-casting facilities. This is not something that can be accomplished overnight. When our Lishan forged iron reaches a certain strength,
Then you can move on to the next stage.”
"What's the next stage?"
It was still raining outside the window, and the rain in June had no intention of stopping. Looking out the window, the water level of the Weishui River was also much higher.
Rather than saying that it is raining, it is better to say that God is pouring water.
Zhang Yang said with emotion: "I don't know where the goal is for the next stage. Only by looking at the current limit of productivity saturation can we make future arrangements."
The rain is so heavy that it won't stop for a while.
Zhang Yang saw a group of palace servants and eunuchs moving everything in. There were more and more people in this small palace, so he said: "Your Majesty, have a good rest."
There were still many things in his stomach that had not been taken out, but Li Shimin smiled instead, "It's raining so hard to prevent the child from catching a cold. Qingque has already sent people to prepare meals. You can stay and eat before going back."
"It is better to obey my orders than to be respectful."
Under the eaves, Li Yue, the Queen and a group of children saw His Majesty and Zhang Yang walking out safely, and then they breathed a sigh of relief.
Xiao Sizi ran over happily, "Brother-in-law."
The maids on the side saw this. Although the little princess and Zhang Yang did not meet many times, there was an emotional connection between the little princess and the county prince, because the first time Princess Jinyang opened her mouth, she called for help.
It's this brother-in-law.
Zhang Yang picked up the little Sizi and said, "Your Highness, Princess, has grown a lot taller."
"Hehe." Little Sizi grinned, "The emperor's brother and sister all went to Lishan to learn skills. The queen mother said that when Sizi grows up, he can also go to Lishan to learn skills."
Seeing Xiao Sizi being so close to this brother-in-law, and other children also looking towards this brother-in-law, as their father, Li Shimin felt a little sad. Unknowingly, Yue'er and Zhang Yang from Lishan had become the hearts of the children.
Backbone.
Zhang Yang frowned and said: "Lishan's skills are difficult to learn. Your imperial brother is very stupid and can't learn it even after learning for a long time."
She raised her head with some pride, "Si Zi is very smart."
Princess Li Mingda of Jinyang, also known as Sizi, was a child with very smart eyes. Historical records record that Princess Jinyang died young.
Be it Li Tai or Li Chengqian.
As a brother-in-law, the most important thing now is that all of these younger brothers and sisters are doing well.
They are all my younger brothers and sisters. In the words of my daughter-in-law, I will have to worry about a lot of things in the future.
But now it seems that everyone is doing well, and the Tang Dynasty must be doing well too.