The couple sat opposite each other, and Li Yue whispered: "In the eyes of the clan elders, our land in Lishan is too little."
"Well, from the 100 acres of land in Lishan to the 600 households in Lantian County, the land we control is indeed not much."
The two reached a consensus and clearly understood the concerns of the clan elders about Lishan.
If you want your family to be prosperous, you must have enough land. The land of more than 100 acres in Weinan controlled by Lishan is indeed very fertile. For Lishan, the land in Lantian County only has a share of food but does not belong to the category of fiefdom.
In other words, there are only a few hundred acres of usable land at the moment. The clan elders hope that Lishan can keep up with the pace of land annexation and leave a piece of real estate for future generations.
From ancient times to the present, people on this land have a fanatical attachment to the land. For them, your family's failure to annex land is a foolish choice and an irresponsible behavior towards future generations.
If you dare to sell your land, you will be stabbed in the back by your elders and relatives.
This pursuit has almost risen to a level of moral considerations.
Even though the act of land annexation is expressly prohibited by imperial authority and various regulations, everyone tacitly understands it.
Zhang Yang whispered: "When a dynasty is reshuffled and re-established, it is often accompanied by wars, which will lead to a sharp decrease in population. The new emperor can easily divide and equalize the fields."
"But as time goes by, the population will increase after the world is peaceful. From Wude to Zhenguan, the population of Guanzhong has increased five times due to the efforts of the central government and various prefectures and counties to boost the population, including migration from various places.
The population entering the customs."
The night wind blew into the house, causing the light of the oil lamp to sway.
Li Yue took a sip of tea and wrote a few words with the characters "人人" and "田", "One person per field and three people divided one field. This is how the land becomes precious."
Zhang Yang nodded and said: "When the rich and powerful have more land, they take the food and towns as their own, so that the tax revenue of the country cannot be used for the people, and the life of the people becomes more and more difficult."
"Well, according to my husband, this seems to be an endless cycle that cannot be broken out of." Li Yue gave her own evaluation.
After reaching a consensus, both husband and wife resisted this move of land annexation.
She whispered: "I hope Lishan will never go down this road."
After a long night of conversation, the couple had a firmer direction for Lishan's future.
The next day, Zhang Yang continued to tell the children about the contradiction between productivity and production relations.
"...So under the basic contradiction of the country, people from different classes have different interests and demands, thus forming a chain of games."
Li Lizhi, Xiao Wu and Xiao Hui listened very attentively, and they have all developed the habit of taking notes.
Since Li Yue established the mountain gate of Lishan to teach the main topics of Lishan knowledge, Zhang Yang has given very few lectures.
He looked at the group of children in front of him and said, "Do you know what is the most dazzling and important treasure of our Lishan Academic School since its establishment?"
Seeing that the children were silent, Zhang Yang was silent for a long time and then said: "It is knowledge. Knowledge is a precious thing in the process of our era."
The children nodded heavily.
Auntie had already prepared the meal, but it seemed that they were no longer interested in continuing to listen to the lecture, and their attention was focused on the bowls of dishes on the dining table.
Children of this age are most likely to feel hungry. Zhang Yang clapped his hands and said: "Eat."
"Okay!" The group of children happily ran to eat.
The knowledge of Lishan Academic School was often sent to the palace. As the father of his children, Li Shimin often wanted to see what Zhang Yang was telling the princes and princesses.
Every time I was sent one or two articles written by Zhang Yang, Li Shimin looked at the unfamiliar knowledge and tried hard to understand it.
Today I called Fang Xuanling and Kong Yingda to discuss it together.
Fang Xuanling read several articles on materialism and the theory of production class, frowned and said: "Your Majesty, I have never seen these learned ministers before."
Kong Yingda was the person who taught the princesses and princes. He had also seen Zhang Yang's knowledge and listened to the children's stories about what they had learned in Lishan Mountain.
He whispered: "Since ancient times, Confucianism and Taoism have often argued. From the debates of hundreds of schools of thought, the three schools of Confucianism, Daoism and Legalism are the most prosperous. Now Zhang Yang's materialism has some of the momentum of the past."
Li Shimin drank tea and said: "Which article does the old gentleman like the most?"
Kong Yingda stroked his beard and said, "Your Majesty, all old men like it."
"Why?"
Kong Yingda was born in Confucianism and had a high reputation among the gentry. Since he likes this old gentleman, he would also like to hear his unique insights into this knowledge.
"Your Majesty, I am a man who has been studying for a long time. I have also met people with great talents, and even met people with great ambitions. It can be said that I have read books all my life. I have read many articles and many opinions, but the Lishan Academic School
The knowledge is very interesting.”
Li Shimin nodded and said: "I would like to give you more details."
"Well." Kong Yingda whispered, "The difference between Lishan's article and other gentry articles is materialism, that is, Zhang Yang's materialistic discussion, so he talked about the debate between idealism and materialism. What surprised me was his discussion
It talks about the persistence of seeking truth from facts and seeking truth and knowledge. Well...this kind of persistence is rarely seen anymore."
"Scholars from ancient times often lacked practice and truth-seeking in their studies. When people lack the thinking of seeking truth from facts and the persistence of seeking truth and knowledge, then people will become blindly obedient, thus killing their literary talent and becoming a mediocre person.
My dear, I feel sad every time I think about this."
Fang Xuanling was surprised and said: "The old master is a great Confucian in the world. The lower official thought that the knowledge Lishan insisted on was in conflict with Confucianism. I didn't expect that the old master would appreciate these articles so much."
Kong Yingda shook his head and said: "I am familiar with not only Confucian classics, but also Confucian classics and Yi studies. Zhang Yang is a studious person. Even though he is withdrawn and has an eccentric temperament, he is not too bad at being a studious child."
Kong Yingda's remarks to Zhang Yang were pertinent, and he did not show the attitude of an elder giving advice. He affirmed these articles with gentle words.
Li Shimin looked at Fang Xuanling, "What do Xuanling think?"
"Your Majesty, I like Zhang Yang's article on production relations and class contradictions."
"Xuan Ling said it bluntly."
Hearing this, Fang Xuanling looked solemn and said: "The discussion of production relations and the production class described in the article is very explicit."
"Well, I feel like a light is shining on my back after seeing it."
Fang Xuanling added: "Zhang Yang did not divide people into three, six or nine grades, but through changes in production relations, the value of people's production, the utilization of surplus value, and even the efficiency of the utilization of this value."
"Such articles are bound to be despised by the gentry and despised by the current world. People who pursue noble beliefs believe that everyone is free, but in Zhang Yang's discussion, no one can escape the framework of production, which makes people feel like a thorn in their backs.
This is the reality.”
The three monarchs and ministers in the palace were discussing, and voices came from the front of the palace.
The guard came to report, "Your Majesty, the Persian army has reported."
Li Shimin said loudly: "Send it up."
At the same time as the military report was delivered, Cheng Yaojin, Li Daliang, Niu Jinda, Hou Junji and others also entered the palace.
"Your Majesty! Give a certain family a thousand soldiers and horses to wipe out the cannibals!" Cheng Yaojin said loudly.
"Your Majesty, the cannibals and bullies have gone too far. General Mo will lead his troops to destroy them!"
"His Majesty……"
Li Shimin glared at a few people, then opened the military newspaper and read the contents. Musab, the envoy of Dashi, returned to Dashi and built Jingguan at the junction of Persia and Dashi with the prisoners of war they captured from the west.
Thousands of human heads were piled high and sacrificed in front of the capital, sending a bloody letter of war to the Tang Dynasty.
Li Shimin's eyelids jumped as he looked at it, and he slammed the general report on the table, "Arrogant kid!"
Musab was only in his early twenties, and when he came to visit the Tang Dynasty, the people of the Tang Dynasty were quite polite to him.
There were even some officials in the court who advocated making peace with the Tang Dynasty. They did not want this person to declare war on the Tang Dynasty and even build a temple in the capital as soon as he returned to the feast.
The military report was sent by Liang Jianfang. The Great Eater had assembled an army of more than 400,000, and there was a steady stream of troops gathering from the rear.
"Your Majesty!" Cheng Yaojin took a step forward.
Everyone was so angry that Li Shimin would have mobilized an army to wipe out the cannibals.
The emperor stood up slowly, nodded and said, "Pass on my decree and tell Liang Jianfang that if he fails to win this battle, he will return to his hometown to farm."
Li Daliang bowed and said: "If Liang Jianfang loses to the big cannibal, I will die!"
Hou Junji said in a deep voice: "You, Li Daliang, are quite old. Let alone leading troops on an expedition, you will most likely fall ill after leaving the Western Regions."
Li Daliang, who had black hair and black beard mixed with white, replied: "A certain family is always strong."
The food envoy Musab succeeded in angering the emperors and ministers of the Tang Dynasty. After receiving his majesty's order, Xu Jingzong also sent all the food information accumulated over the years to the court.
In Lishan, Zhang Yang read the letter from monk Xuanzang.
Li Tai was heartbroken, "How come Xuanzang is still alive? What on earth did Xu Jingzong do?"
After that, he was so anxious that he stepped on a bug with his foot, and stepped on it over and over again, "Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"
After Zhang Yang read the contents of the letter, he realized that the dispute between Dashi and Datang was finally known to Monk Xuanzang.
I also learned that Wang Xuance borrowed troops from Tubo to attack Tianzhu. He believed in the equality of life and the Buddha would have mercy on everyone.
The monk said in his letter that he did not care about the life and death of the people of Tianzhu. He felt that if Tianzhu died, the spirit of the people of Tianzhu would last forever. They would not perish, and neither would the Buddhist scriptures.
Zhang Yang was also troubled by Xuanzang, whom he had never met before and who often wrote to him.
Lishan never replied to him, but he persisted in writing again and again.
He was just short of converting Lishan and escaping into Buddhism.
In his letter, he also talked about a beautiful woman with Buddha nature.
Zhang Yang was very confused, how did Xu Jingzong cultivate a woman with Buddha nature, or did Xu Jingzong find a woman according to the appetite of those monks?
It is difficult for monks to believe in love because they are the most inhumane people in the world. It is ridiculous that they still believe that people should be kind and kind.
Looking at Li Tai who was standing aside and gritting his teeth, Zhang Yang advised: "Xu Jingzong did a good job, but it's still unclear whether Xuanzang would be deceived. Is it the woman who dragged monk Xuanzang into the abyss, or monk Xuanzang's salvation?"
Got that woman."
Li Tai whispered: "There are rumors outside the country that Monk Xuanzang went to a small country. The leader of that small country is a woman. It is said that he and the female leader have a child."
Zhang Yang kept coughing, "What a gossip."
"Brother-in-law, is this really happening?"
"How do I know?" Zhang Yang burned the cloth in his hand, and no one else read Xuanzang's letter except himself.
Li Tai murmured to himself, "Well, it's so interesting. We should ask Xu Jingzong to send someone to find out."
"His Royal Highness the King of Wei wants to use this to discredit Monk Xuanzang?"
Li Tai snorted coldly: "I will use the lives of the king and his children to force Monk Xuanzang to die!"
"I thought His Highness King Wei just wanted to discredit him, but I didn't expect him to be so vicious."
Today is the first day of opening of Lishan Technical Institute. Although the entire school has not been completed yet, there are still many main constructions that have not been completed, such as walls, playgrounds, canteens and dormitories.
Lishan still needs to continue to invest money in this technical institute. As long as it cultivates a group of technical backbones, these investments will be nothing.
A group of half-year-old children gathered in front of the technical college. A simple door sign stood in front of the academy, with six words written on it, Lishan Technical College.
Li Tai's bodyguards were reading His Royal Highness the King of Wei's mission for this academy, not only to teach them how to be a good person, but also to teach them how to make a living.
Most of these half-year-old children are from Lantian County and Gaoling County.
As for the children in the village, their starting point is much higher than them. Lishan has been operating for so many years and has its own technical foundation. The children of Lishan were also the first to be influenced by it.
Niu Chuang brought several technical backbones in the village to teach the children, allowing them to choose their own industries.
After a busy morning, the simple entrance ceremony was over.
The academy is very simple, the children's clothes are also very simple, everything is rustic.
If it weren't for Lishan's urgent need for human resources, Zhang Yang wouldn't have wanted to start it hastily.
Once you have a reputation, you need to have results. If you have results, you won't be afraid of not attracting people.
"Your Highness, King Wei, the roster of students and their chosen majors have been recorded."
Li Tai took it and looked at it, nodded and said: "As I expected, there are only five cooks in the group, the largest number are blacksmiths, and there are not many people who study agriculture."
The current situation has not escaped Li Tai's expectation. "As my brother-in-law said, the chosen major is complementary to the current situation. They are still willing to choose the line with the best benefits."
Zhang Yang shook his fan and nodded, "We finally have a beginning."
Princess Wei and Li Yue, as well as Xiao Qingqing, Li Lizhi, Xiao Hui and Xiao Wu were gathering together to talk.
"His Royal Highness King Wei, the prince's family is here."
Li Tai put away his roster, nodded and said, "Please come."
Seeing that the guard was looking at him and waiting for permission, Zhang Yang had no choice but to nod.
Li Chengqian's family didn't have much contact with Lishan on weekdays, so they may not have known much about the prince's current situation for a long time.
"I have met His Highness the Crown Prince." Zhang Yang bowed slightly when he saw the visitor.