Chapter 657 Xuanzang is not allowed to enter the pass
No matter how well they did in the exam, even though Li Yue had stipulated that only half of the people who answered the exam questions correctly could not eat meat, the children would still be given barbecue when they should eat it. At most, they would just give them a few words of reprimand. This rule was almost the same as no rule at all.
But the children still have to answer the questions and reach the passing mark as always.
Little did they know that even exams were just a means used by Li Yue to teach his younger brothers and sisters.
The mistress of Lishan has been growing up, managing the family has become more and more mature, and she has become more and more familiar with managing Lishan's accounts and warehouse.
She asked Xiao Yu to also recruit three or five women from the village to help her with her work.
In this way, Li Yue only needs to call Xiao Yu up the mountain in Lishan, and he will be able to know the current situation of each warehouse and where each batch of external goods is flowing.
She doesn't even have to show up, she can just sit behind the scenes and control everything in Lishan.
Li Yue mainly controls the flow of goods and money in the Lishan warehouse. She does not care about Lishan's production, but the entire Lishan money is in the hands of the hostess. This is more like the logistics and distribution of the entire Lishan industrial cluster.
finance.
This hostess also knows how to delegate power. Xiao Wu and Xu Hui will become her good helpers in the future, and they have already begun to let these two little girls have access to Lishan's accounts.
After the exam, the results were almost as expected. Li Zhi was still the one with the worst grades. Among the younger siblings, Li Zhi was actually the most savvy, but also the one who studied the least.
Sure enough, Li Yue scolded the younger brother for a while and then let him eat barbecue.
The exam ended and it was afternoon.
After taking a nap, Zhang Yang whistled in all directions of Lishan Mountain. After a while, Sanhe Horse came running.
Today I am going to teach these three girls who have just finished hairdoing how to ride a horse.
There are also many women in Guanzhong who are good at riding and shooting. Under the prevalence of chivalrous culture in the Tang Dynasty, there are also many chivalrous women. Therefore, there are also many women who are better at riding and shooting than ordinary men.
In the middle period of the Tang Dynasty, the trend of gallantry became even greater. Women in the Tang Dynasty did not reject riding and shooting, which was also a unique landscape of the Tang people.
Riding, shooting and hunting are natural. Zhang Yang sneered at the behavior that stifles human nature. When a person reaches adulthood, he should have the power to make his own choices and should not be restricted by the secular framework. Those saints who stand at the highest point of feudalism, they have
The killing of productivity is really abominable.
Sanhema is already very familiar with his younger brothers and sisters at home, so he won't have much resistance.
Li Lizhi got on the horse, tried it out and it was safe, then let the horse carry her around the Huaqing Pool.
Then came Xu Hui, and finally it was Xiao Wu’s turn.
In terms of article discussion, Xiao Wu may not be as good as Li Zhi or Xu Hui, but she is very good at horse riding.
First get used to the horse's walking, and then slowly let the horse start running.
After walking around Huaqing Pool for a few times, Xiao Wu became a little tired. She wanted the horse to run, but without Zhang Yang's permission, it just wouldn't move its hooves.
Zhang Yang advised patiently: "You shouldn't rush for success. Learn to walk first, then run. Skills need to be gradually accumulated and accumulated, rather than achieved overnight. If you don't accumulate temporary success, you will be surpassed by others sooner or later."
Xu Hui nodded and said, "Master is right."
The younger brothers and sisters watched with envy as Huang Jie, Xiao Wu and Xu Hui rode horses. They also wanted to ride horses, but the two aunts did not allow them.
But Xiao Qingqing is different. She likes to ride bears. She doesn't like Sanhe horses because they are too high and she can't climb up.
When the aunt began to prepare dinner for the evening, Sanhe Ma left with graceful steps.
The spring plowing in Guanzhong was over, and Taifu Temple was about to start sorting out the plowing reports from various places. Shangguanyi sorted them out first and then handed them over to Zhang Yang.
And Zhang Yang has to sort it out again.
At the same time, Shangguan Yi will continue to monitor the crop planting situation in various counties, and begins to prepare for the planting of various vegetables.
Taifu Temple has no government office and no manpower. There are only two people, Taifu Temple Minister and Shaoqing.
After Li Tai sent people to inquire, it turned out that two eunuchs from Taifu Temple were sent by His Majesty to supervise the fortification of Taiye Pond.
Zhang Yang looked at the land reclamation situation in Longyou, and compared it with the grain harvest in previous years. The grain harvest in Longyou was getting worse year by year, and there was a downward trend every year. Due to the large-scale reclamation of the Qin and Han dynasties, or the war
During this period, the soil was seriously damaged due to the strong walls and clear fields.
Even if Longyou's grain harvest increased in two or three years, it could not stop the downward trend.
For this reason, Zhang Yang felt that the sooner afforestation could be done, the better. Longyou was to the west of Guanzhong and did not have sufficient rivers and water sources like the Eight Rivers around Chang'an.
Afforestation is necessary, as there were sand invasions in the past two summers
Zhang Yang also remembered that every time horses pass by on the official road, a cloud of dust will be kicked up, so preparations must be made for building the official road.
Only when I worked at Taifu Temple did I feel that I had endless things to do.
Just like the teacher's advice, doing things well in Taifu Temple may actually make the emperor forget about himself.
In Guanzhong in April, everything revives. After the cold fades away, Chang'an City becomes more and more lively.
Li Shimin's will was handed over to Xuanzang, and monk Xuanzang could only stop in Dunhuang and look at the Hexi Corridor from Shazhou.
Walking from the Anxi Protectorate, Xuanzang saw a scene that he had never dared to imagine when he just came out of isolation a few years ago.
Groups of merchants from the Western Regions passed by Shazhou and headed for the Hexi Corridor.
The Tang people and their soldiers and horses could move around freely in this area without fear of robbers.
After asking around for a long time, Xuanzang found out that the bandits who were rampant in the Western Regions had been wiped out by the Gaochang people, and those bandits were captured by the Gaochang people to grow cotton.
Xuanzang wrote two more letters and asked people to help send them to Guanzhong.
One letter went to Lishan, and the other letter was given to Tian Khan.
Zhang Yang received another letter from Monk Xuanzang, and since he did not want to have anything to do with Monk Xuanzang, he was willing to untie the knot on the silk.
Sitting at the foot of Lishan Mountain, Zhang Yang and Li Tai read the contents of the letter together.
After reading it, Li Tai jumped to his feet and said: "What a monk Xuanzang, he really deserves to be killed. He actually said that his brother-in-law enslaved the villagers of Lishan Mountain."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! When it comes to slavery, Zhang Yang is the one who protests against slaves and slave owners the most.
Slaves are servants who have no personal subjective behavior. They do not own any property, and they do not even own their own bodies.
But there was not even a servant on Lishan Mountain, and Zhang Yang even refused the emperor and the queen's request to arrange a maid to take care of the couple's daily life.
There are only two aunts taking care of the family. These two aunts are also regarded by Li Yue as elders. They are family members.
As for slavery, there has never been such a term in Lishan. There is no untouchable status in Lishan, and all villagers are citizens of the Tang Dynasty. They can actively learn and increase production skills. What people earn from their work is their own wealth.
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Villagers all have their own homes and families.
No matter what happens in other places except Lishan, Lishan's wealth has always been the result of hard work and production.
Li Tai now wants to send people to kill monk Xuanzang.
This monk Xuanzang didn't know the situation in Guanzhong, and he didn't even see Lishan with his own eyes, so he slandered it like this.
If Xu Jingzong hadn't had the means to deal with this monk, killing him would have helped Xuanzang.
Only then did Li Tai endure it again.
Zhang Yang whispered: "Your Highness, King Wei, Xuanzang is a monk. He has no affiliation, and he does not say that he is a Tang Dynasty. When a person wants to deprive himself of his identity, he is rebelling. We are Tang people, and we
Even more so, they are Han Chinese, and they are all descended from father and mother."
Li Tai took a deep breath to calm down his guilty conscience, "Brother-in-law is right. Who is not the son of father and mother? Xuanzang, who claims to be a monk, actually said such words. People who have no king and no father should be punished by everyone.
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Monks are all arrogant, especially what Xuanzang said. He described the world as ignorant. In his eyes, only by escaping into Buddhism can one be transcendent, whether they are emperors, dignitaries or ordinary people, or people from the Western Regions, Uighurs, or Tianzhu.
People...in his eyes are all the same, they are all mortals.
Conceptually, there are only two differences: ordinary people and monks.
Buddhism can tolerate everyone, including all things in the world and animals, and there is no difference between people and animals.
It is a terrible thing to have no borders between home and country, and this is where chaos comes from.
After Zhang Yang put away the letter and burned it, he replied: "His Royal Highness, King Wei, we practice Haoran Zhengqi, and we are afraid of what a villain like him will do. The most important thing for a country is identity. Once we throw away that
He will be a country and not a country."
Li Tai said with a gloomy face, "Fuck the Buddha's message, we can never let Monk Xuanzang enter the pass. This person's views and Zen words are too terrible."
Once such people enter the country, Buddhism will surely prosper.
Li Tai thought firmly in his heart.
Another letter from Xuanzang was delivered to the palace. Li Shimin stood in front of the Sanqing Palace and looked at the letter in his hand.
There was also a monk standing outside Sanqing Hall. This monk was Hui Kuang, the monk from Guoqing Temple who had gone to Lishan to discuss papermaking business.
At first he planned to go south and return to Guoqing Temple.
But when he learned that Monk Xuanzang was coming back, he came to Chang'an City again. He also learned that His Majesty would not allow Xuanzang to enter the Pass, so he hurriedly came to see him.
Last winter was a long one for many people.
For this old monk too, too many things happened last winter.
Monk Huikang faced Li Shimin and saluted respectfully, "Your Majesty, Lishan has promised to sell us the papermaking technology. Why did Lishan give the paper to the court again? Can't your Majesty see the two ends of Zhang Yang's rat head?"
Li Shimin first sat down and wrote lightly: "As far as I know, you haven't paid off the money for the papermaking business. Furthermore, the paper Lishan gave you was just produced by Lishan before. According to Zhang Yang, I bought it."
It’s Lishan’s production manpower and factories, not papermaking.”
Monk Huikang fell silent after hearing this. At this moment, he felt as if he had swallowed a bug.
"Your Majesty, Zhang Yang promised that after signing the IOU, he would no longer sell papermaking technology to others."
"Hmm." Li Shimin took a sip of tea and hesitated for a moment, "I don't know what happened between you and Zhang Yang. I just know that he sold the paper mill to the Central Government, and the papermaking technology was not handed over to the Central Government.
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The popularity of papermaking may no longer be a secret in the future. With Zhang Yang's current attitude, he is very likely to spread the papermaking technology and let more people master this skill.
Lishan doesn't care how many people master the secret recipe of papermaking. With Lishan's current production capacity and level, Lishan's efficiency cannot be achieved without better technology.
Not to mention those monks.
Monk Huikang felt insulted by Zhang Yang. This was clearly blackmail.
When Zhang Yang completely separated the secret recipe from the technology, the secret recipe was no longer important.
Production technology is the top priority.
That is the core of Lishan's steady improvement.
Monk Huikang said again: "Your Majesty, the old monk has one more thing to ask Your Majesty."
Li Shimin didn't want to meet this monk at first, and the reason why he met him was because he had nothing to do. The main reason was to see what the person who had been tricked by Zhang Yang looked like now, and whether he was crazy or stupid.
At present, it seems that the monk is still sane.
With the mentality of watching the excitement, Li Shimin met with Hui Kuang, just to see if these people who had been calculated by Zhang Yang would go crazy, so he felt that hanging Zhang Yang in front of Chengtian Gate was a very wise decision.
, smiled and said: "Let's talk."
Monk Huikang lowered his body and whispered: "I dare to ask Your Majesty why Xuanzang is not allowed to enter the pass."
The new chairs made by Lishan are becoming more and more comfortable, especially the design of the backrest, which can very well relieve the pain in the back when reviewing memorials.
Li Shimin put his weight on the chair, relaxed his whole body and said with a smile: "Xuan Zang left the confinement privately and confessed his crime. Naturally, I have to deal with him."
Monk Huikang said again: "Your Majesty, Xuanzang was originally from the Central Plains. Isn't it right for Central Plains people to leave and enter the customs? Xuanzang traveled to the Western Regions and praised the Eastern Tang Dynasty among the countries in the Western Regions. Even if he had a fault, he should still have merit.
That's right. Your Majesty is willing to give advice. If the old monk makes any mistakes, I hope your Majesty will forgive you."
"Hehehe..." Li Shimin still had a smile on his face, "Not to mention his merits and demerits, if he is from the Central Plains, he should also be one of my people. I ordered him to return to secular life, but he refused. What do you think?
Does he have me in his eyes? Or does he consider himself not a citizen of the Tang Dynasty? What you said is nothing more than hoping that Xuanzang will enter the Pass. I did not blame him or convict him. As long as he returns to secular life, he can enter the Pass.
, my promise remains as always."
Monk Huikang felt that he was in a dilemma, so he had to bow and said, "Your Majesty, why bother letting Xuanzang return to secular life?"
Li Shimin finally stood up, saw that the monk had lowered his head, and said slowly: "I hope that after he returns to secular life, he can take part in the imperial examination, become an official, and serve the country. What he has seen and heard in his travels is what the Tang Dynasty needs.
To establish a great cause, we need to open up new territory and expand the territory. It is the right time to hire people. Xuanzang traveled all over the Western Regions. How can I not use such talents?"
"Is it wrong for me to let him return to secular life? Everyone in this world can live and work in peace. I consider myself not a sage monarch, nor can I compare with the martial arts of the Han Dynasty, but I know what merit is and what the country is. You Buddhists don't want to live in the Central Plains.
Do you want to contribute to the country?"
Nodding again, the emperor held the back of the chair with one hand, turned his back to the monk and said in a deep voice: "You should not come to persuade me to let him enter the pass. You should persuade Xuanzang to return to secular life."
With these words, the emperor left.
The three or two eunuchs also took a deep look at Monk Huikang and left.