Li Shimin was an emperor who acted arrogantly. In the outside world, he was known as a benevolent and virtuous sage, a heavenly khan respected by thousands of people.
After all, this is about establishing a good image.
Because he was not righteous when he got the throne, Li Shimin paid great attention to his words and deeds, and was strict with himself. It was not easy to get some good comments.
Zhang Yang felt that based on his understanding of the emperor, explaining the future situation to him clearly would not only annoy the emperor, but would only cause trouble, and there would be no concessions on the food plan.
He wrote a memorial to explain his concerns clearly and asked his aunt to give it to Shangguan Yi.
Ask Shangguan Yi to write another copy and send it to the Central Government.
Serving as the Minister of Taifu Temple can be regarded as the most dedicated period of time for me.
On the path leading down the mountain, Aunt Yang was carrying a basket of vegetables up the mountain and met Aunt Wang who was holding a memorial.
"Is this another memorial written by the county prince?"
Aunt Wang sighed: "When I was the Minister of Rites, I had never seen the county marquis write so many memorials."
Aunt Yang sighed, "This county prince is always careless when doing things for His Majesty. It seems that the county prince is now very busy with Guanzhong crops, doing everything himself, and he often writes memorials."
The conflict between the emperor and the county princes does not last for a day or two.
The County Marquis is such a person. If he wants to serve the emperor, he would rather give up the entire Ministry of Rites than leave it alone. He always has his own opinions and ideas, and he will not compromise with the emperor on what he thinks is right.
Aunt Yang smiled and said: "Princesses and princes like to eat meat all day long. Her Highness the Princess told the children to eat some vegetarian dishes and not to eat meat all the time."
The memorial was sent to the court, but after three or two days there was no reply.
It seems that the advice given to His Majesty this time was not responded to as expected.
With nothing to do, Zhang Yang looked through the files that had been delivered recently. In August this year, grain from various places will be harvested.
"Last year, Taiyuan produced 3.7 million shi of grain and Fanyang produced 2.2 million shi. The most abundant crops were millet, wheat, and beetroot. Most of them were rice in the south and wheat in Hebei."
Judging from the climate this year, it will only be more severe than previous years.
Zhang Yang put down the file in distress and looked at his wife who was knitting clothes again, "Food prices are going to drop again."
Li Yue smiled and said: "Since we already know that the price of food will fall, the DPRK will also know it."
With a sigh, Zhang Yang shook his head and said: "You can't wake up a person who is pretending to sleep, nor can you wake up the current bloated emperor."
Putting down the needle and thread in her hand, she asked curiously: "So we can only sit back and watch the price of food fall?"
"I wrote a memorial to your father, but I don't know if he will care. As far as the court is concerned, the more food the better, but this kind of pressure will also make farmers unable to breathe. Beans are easy to store.
, the price of wheat will mostly not fall, but the prices of millet and rice will definitely fall."
Relatively speaking, the prices of beans and wheat are the most stable.
Zhang Yang nodded and said: "Taifu Temple naturally depends on the harvest and the price of food. Taifu Temple only has the right to report, not to dispose. We have done everything we should do."
There are only these things Taifu Temple can do, and the next step will be to see what the DPRK will do.
Picking up the memorial on the desk, this is the construction file of the Guanzhong river channel. At that time, a man named Zheng Guo built the Zheng Guo Canal. The Zheng Guo Canal connected the Jing River to the west and continued to the Luo River. This waterway benefited Guanzhong.
It created the current prosperity of Guanzhong and laid a solid foundation for the First Emperor to unify the Central Plains.
Along the more than 300 miles of waterways, much of the originally barren land has been turned into fertile farmland.
This allowed more villagers to return to Guanzhong to farm, increased food output, and boosted the population.
A stone of Jingshui, with several buckets of mud, and irrigation and excrement, will grow my grain and millet, and feed and clothe the capital, with hundreds of millions of mouths.
This is Zheng Guoqu's contribution.
This is the first place in the world where large-scale canals were dug to irrigate fields.
Zhang Yang looked at the records in the files and the description of the river course. Today, the Zhengguo Canal still plays a vital role.
Open a map and compare it with the Guanzhong map. No matter how you look at the 800-mile hinterland of Qinchuan, you feel something is wrong.
Little Qingqing fell asleep on the bear's back again. It was the time when her body was growing, and she loved sleeping recently.
"The child doesn't know where the problem comes from. He always doesn't like to wear shoes and prefers to wear straw sandals."
After saying that, Li Yue stared at the straw sandals on her husband's feet.
Zhang Yang smiled coquettishly and said, "I'll set some rules for her some other time. I'll make my wife worried."
Li Yue pursed her lips in frustration and continued to knit clothes. She watched her husband look at the map in his hand for a while and asked curiously: "Is there anything weird about this map?"
After flattening the map, he could see the various river channels in the hinterland of Qinchuan, which is 800 miles away. Zhang Yang took a sip of tea and asked, "Do you think something is strange when you look at it?"
"What's weird in the hinterland of Qinchuan?"
Zhang Yang still shook his head, "That shouldn't be the case. I remember there should be a waterway from Jinghe River to Sanyuan County."
"The Zhengguo Canal is to the east of the Jinghe River. When did it go north to Sanyuan?"
The words woke up the dreamer, Zhang Yang slapped his forehead, "I'm confused, the Jinghui Canal hasn't been excavated yet."
The Jinghui Canal was dug only by later generations to solve the drought.
Sometimes after getting used to it for a long time, I almost forget about it.
Looking at the map, I instinctively thought there should be a river here, but now I feel something is wrong.
Since the Song Dynasty, the water level in the hinterland of Guanzhong has gradually become lower, and soon the Jing River could no longer divert water. Guanzhong suffered from repeated droughts. Therefore, after the Song Dynasty, droughts always occurred in the western part of Guanzhong.
Nowadays, the flow of water in the Jinghe River is not bad, and waterlogging occurs from time to time.
I don’t know if Li Shimin will agree to build the Jinghui Canal to divert waterways and turn the wasteland to the west of Sanyuan County into fertile soil.
When he thought that Taifu Temple only had the right to report, Zhang Yang felt a headache and felt very uncomfortable being tied up.
Feeling depressed, I could only put this map on the bookshelf. I wanted to be out of sight and out of mind, but if the Jinghui Canal was not built, Guanzhong would sooner or later be drought due to the depletion of the Jinghe River.
Drought will not only occur in the current era but also in future generations. It will cause the population of Guanzhong to drop sharply and turn Guanzhong into a desolate land.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Distraught, Zhang Yang still wrote about the construction of Jinghui Canal and sent it to the court for Tian Khan to see.
The two memorials before and after entered the court without any response for a long time. Zhang Yang really wanted to go to the court and ask that Tian Khan where your concern for the country and the people and your efforts to govern were gone.
This is what I planned in my heart. My wife is going to give birth at any time these days, so I can only put it aside for now.
June in Guanzhong is the wheat harvest season. People come and go in the fields to harvest wheat. When the wind blows towards Lishan Mountain, you can even smell the fragrance of grain.
Li Yue and Aunt Wang were walking by the pool when their lower abdomen hurt and they could no longer stand.
Hearing his wife's exclamation, Zhang Yang quickly ran forward and picked her up, "Are you about to give birth?"
Li Yue turned pale and nodded.
"The Marquis of the County will quickly send Her Royal Highness into the room." Aunt Wang asked while walking into the main room with Aunt Yang and started busy. They picked up the hot water on the stove and prepared to deliver the baby.
The door was slammed shut, and Zhang Yang had to wait outside the room.
Seeing his daughter looking at him eagerly, Zhang Yang also looked at her.
Xiao Qingqing raised her head and asked, "Is Mom going to have a baby?"
Zhang Yang made himself look as relaxed as possible and nodded in response.
Not long after, younger brothers and sisters also gathered around, waiting to see what was going on inside the house.
From time to time, an exclamation came from inside the house. Zhang Yang waited anxiously outside the door. Unable to bear it anymore, he opened the door and walked in.
The aunts moved very quickly and cooperated well.
Zhang Yang sat by the bed and looked at her pale face.
Just looking at it like this, Li Yue suddenly smiled.
"It's already this time, why are you still laughing?"
"I think it must be my son." After saying this, her face turned pale again, and cold sweat kept flowing from her forehead, enduring the severe pain.
After half an hour, the baby's cry finally came.
The aunt held the newborn child and said with a smile: "Congratulations to the county prince, congratulations to your highness the princess, we have a little prince."
"Yes...really?" Li Yue weakly took the child, her face full of happiness, but also very weak.
Aunt Wang added: "The birth of the child went smoothly. Let's go and ask Dr. Sun."
Aunt Yang tidied the room skillfully, took off the bedding, took it for cleaning, opened the doors and windows, ventilated it for a while, and then walked out of the room with a basin in hand.
Everything went smoothly and the aunts acted in an orderly manner.
The door opened and the brothers and sisters came in.
The child was lying in swaddling clothes, and the younger brothers and sisters gathered around to look at the newborn child.
Xiao Qingqing climbed onto the bed, looked at her brother and said curiously: "How small."
Li Yue said tiredly: "You were so young when you were a child."
"Then I must have been prettier than my brother when I was little."
Li Lizhi stood up and said: "Sister Huang needs to rest, please go outside and don't disturb her."
Seeing that Li Zhi wanted to take another look, Li Lizhi held his ears and left. Li Zhi screamed in pain along the way.
Xiao Qingqing also left.
Li Yue looked at her newborn son, whose nose was breathing hard in and out, "Look at how hard he is breathing, give him a name."
While still thinking about the name, Aunt Wang had already brought the Supreme Emperor and Divine Doctor Sun to the door of her house.
Sun Simiao checked the pulse, then looked at the child, put his hand on the child's chest, felt the heartbeat, nodded and said: "This child will be very strong in the future, the birth will be smooth, both mother and child are well, I will prepare some medicinal materials to replenish qi and blood."
That’s all.”
Zhang Yang said quickly: "Thank you for your help, Dr. Sun."
Sun Simiao added: "There are still several women in the village who are about to give birth. I will leave now and rush to the next house to have a look. Someone will send the medicinal materials later."
After sending away Divine Doctor Sun, Li Yuan was thinking about it, "What should I seal for him?"
Xiao Qingqing was the princess as soon as she was born, and was given the Wudeyin as a gift. You can imagine the honor of her daughter.
Now he has a great-grandson, which makes the emperor very troubled. Finally he nodded, "How about I make him the Marquis of Guanxi?"
"Wait a minute." Zhang Yang suddenly became unhappy, "Your Majesty, I am only a Marquis of Lishan, my son is a Marquis of Guanxi, and his title is higher than that of his father. This is inappropriate, isn't it?"
Li Yuan fell into deep thought again, and perhaps felt it was inappropriate so he asked: "Does this child have a name?"
Zhang Yang also sat down melancholy. Unknowingly, he was already the father of two children. He replied: "I haven't thought about it yet."
An old man and a young man sat at the door of the house, each lost in thought.
Li Tai and Li Xiaogong came in a hurry. He was in a mess, "Brother-in-law, brother-in-law! Is the emperor's sister giving birth?"
Zhang Yang nodded slowly, "It's a son."
Li Tai still had a lot of oil stains on his body, some sand in his hair, and his clothes were dirty. It looked like he had just come out of the blacksmith's workshop. He took out a token in his arms and said, "This is the token of King Wei. It's like seeing it when you see it."
This king."
Zhang Yang reached out and took the token, but Zhang Yang was not polite to the fat man.
Li Xiaogong was still chewing mutton, "I knew your family was going to have a boy. I guessed it right."
As he spoke, he took out a stack of contracts and said, "A certain family gave three hundred acres of fertile land to this child."
Zhang Yang was surprised and said: "Three hundred acres of fertile land? Prince Hejian, what are you..."
Li Xiaogong also sat down and said, "These fields are just north of the Jinghe River. You are the minister of Taifu Temple. You need the fields to arrange crops. It's a convenient matter."
"Uncle Wang has a good idea. This way, grapes can be grown on his own land first, and both families will benefit."
Li Xiaogong smiled heartily, "Just plant grapes, three hundred acres of grapes, hahaha! Very good."
He smiled heartily, as if he had made a wise decision.
This approach is wise. After this summer's harvest, grain prices will inevitably fall, and this downward trend will not change before next summer.
It is better to plant some other crops to preserve the value of the acres. Grapes are of course the best. The first person to respond to Lishan and cultivate fruits and vegetables is the first person to eat crabs.
Li Xiaogong made a good calculation.
Noticing the gazes of Zhang Yang and Li Tai, Li Xiaogong looked impressive and said, "Actually, Shangguan Yi only listened to these few words when he proposed to me."
This is the first to get the moon near the water tower.
With the first-hand information from Taifu Temple and the official assessment of the situation, it is not surprising that such a decision was made.
Li Xiaogong definitely couldn't have thought of such a smart decision. Now that it was suggested by Shangguan Yi, it didn't feel strange anymore.
Li Yuan said impatiently, "Have you not decided on a name yet?"
Zhang Yang raised his eyes and looked at Li Tai, Li Xiaogong and Li Yuan, clasping his hands and sighing melancholy, "Please give me a message from the Prince of Hejian County and the Supreme Emperor."
Li Yuan stroked his beard and said: "It has been difficult for Yue'er since she was a child. Although she was weak when she was young, she has a strong heart. I will give her the word "heart"."
Li Xiaogong thought for a moment and said, "Everything is done for the sake of peace. Lishan is for peace. If you Zhang Yang seeks peace for Lishan, you will give me the word "an"."
Li Tai finally said out loud, "Zhang Xin'an."
It is best to have four generations of a family living under one roof. Li Yuan was very happy and said boldly: "I will stay drunk tonight."
It's a very good name, and sounds like the name of an ordinary person.
This name is enough to reflect the extraordinary nature of this child. The two characters in this name were chosen by the current Emperor and the Prince of Hejian County.
In Chang'an City and the Imperial Palace, Li Shimin also heard that Yue'er had given birth to a child. He hesitated and asked: "Zhang Xin'an?"
The prince replied: "It was the name given by the Supreme Emperor and the Prince of Hejian County."
Li Shimin shook his head when he heard this, "How can this father name his child at will?"
Eunuch Wang said again: "The Emperor also said that he would give this newborn child the title of Marquis of Guanxi."
Previously, Zhang Qingqing was just a little princess. Now that the prince's son has not been granted a title, how could he give Zhang Yang's son the title of Guanxi Marquis first? "Father, the emperor is really nonsense."
