Xu Hui smiled and said: "What's wrong? I saw you locked yourself in the room, so I came to take a look."
Xiao Qingqing pulled her outside the house and asked in a low voice: "I just read some files, but after reading them, I can't remember them anymore."
"Do you still remember what I taught you?"
"Something I forgot."
After all, she is just a five-year-old girl. Xu Hui explained: "If you want to remember a sentence, just remember the key points of an article."
Xiao Qingqing sat down and listened to Aunt Xiaohui.
Xu Hui continued: "Just like if you want to remember a sentence, one thousand feet of cotton will be shipped from Lishan tomorrow, you only need to remember tomorrow and one thousand feet. One thousand feet can think of cotton, so that you can memorize it in the shortest possible time.
The most lively thing.”
After that, she chuckled and said: "These are what Aunt Xiaohui and Aunt Xiaowu need to learn. You don't need to learn these. Just study hard."
"Yeah." Xiao Qingqing smiled and nodded.
Xu Hui nodded with satisfaction and then returned to the library. Now the library has become the place where Lishan's chores are usually handled.
Zhang Yang always felt that his son and daughter were hiding something in their hearts recently, and Li Yue also saw this.
After all, they are their own children, and they can tell what these children ate in their last meal even if they fart.
In the morning of the next day, Cen Wenwen came to Lishan to transfer money as usual.
Seeing Xiao Qingqing looking like a beautiful doll always makes people happy. He stroked his beard and said, "I heard that you, a little girl, blew up Long Wujun's stable."
She turned her head and snorted coldly: "The Longwu Army occupied our Lishan territory in vain. My family didn't ask them for any money, so it's a good thing. Even the emperor and the Wei Mansion can't occupy other people's family property, otherwise they will be criticized by the world.
"
Xiao Qingqing looked unconvinced, and she continued: "It was because my parents did not care about the imperial court that they allowed the Longwu Army to occupy Lishan. So what if they bombed one of their stables?"
Listening to her fearless words, Cen Wenwen felt even happier. He nodded and said, "You are right."
It's no wonder that the Tang Dynasty is now so powerful that these children born during the Zhenguan period have a arrogant attitude.
Cen Wenwen believes that this trend stems from the current power of the Tang Dynasty.
While her father was taking people to the warehouse to collect money, Xiao Qingqing hurriedly asked: "Uncle Wenwen, can I ask you a favor?"
The more Cen Wenwen looked at this girl, the more he liked her, and sighed: "It's whatever you say."
I thought to myself, what could a child ask for? This call for uncle filled everyone's heart with joy.
Xiao Qingqing added: "Actually, my parents used to live in Chang'an City."
"I know that your father was still the Minister of Rites back then."
"I really want to know what Chang'an City looks like, and how high are the walls of Chang'an City? I heard that the Ministry of Industry in the DPRK has relevant files. Chang'an City has been repaired everywhere in the past two years, and the Ministry of Industry has made a new file and recorded it.
Related to the construction of Chang’an City.”
"Um."
"I want these files."
Although they were children's words, Cen Wenwen inevitably had doubts in his heart, so he asked again: "What do you want to see these for?"
"I want to learn more." Xiao Qingqing tugged at the corner of his clothes and said expectantly: "Thank you, Uncle Wen."
Cen Wenwen hesitated to speak, but in the end he did not refuse her.
Zhang Yang asked someone to bring a cart of money, holding an account book in his hand, "This time I took away 30,000 guan. Counting the money sent by Qinghe last time, Lishan still has 250,000 guan." Text
Brother, please check."
Cen Wenwen took the account and compared it for a long time. After confirming that there was no problem, he said: "Money will be sent to Lishan in the near future."
Zhang Yang cupped his hands and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Chao Zhong."
"You're welcome, Marquis of the County." Cen Wenwen saluted with both hands, and said: "These silver coins were exploited by aristocratic families. Zheng Gong hopes that these coins can be used for the people again."
"That's what I mean too."
While talking, Zhang Yang glanced at his daughter one more time, and then walked with him to the entrance of the village. The little girl was still following behind.
"Marquis of the county, I heard that there is another war in Nanzhao."
Zhang Yang folded his hands and said melancholy: "It is imperative for Nanzhao to conquer the surrounding tribes. This has been arranged by me a long time ago."
"So that's it."
"Did you make Brother Wenwen worried?"
"I'm not worried, I'm just not worried. It's just that there has been a lot of talk in the imperial court recently." Cen Wenwen stopped and said, "These days, the imperial court is talking about the Western Expedition and the current war in Nanzhao."
"There must be a lot of noise in the court, right?"
"Yes." Cen Wenwen sighed: "The quarrel between Xu Jingzong and everyone in Zhongshu Province has become even more fierce these days."
After taking a look at the sky, Cen Wenwen saw that all the civil servants had packed up and said, "I'll go back as soon as I'm here."
"Walk slowly."
Watching everyone leave with the money, Xiao Qingqing followed his father's footsteps and asked: "Do fights often occur in Tai Chi Hall?"
"Your father and I haven't gone to court for many years, so I don't know very well."
"My daughter also wants to visit Tai Chi Hall."
"Hehehe..." Zhang Yang sneered: "You probably won't come back after you go."
Xiao Qingqing added: "But Crown Princess Su's Aunt Su said that I can go to the East Palace to play at any time. When I go to the East Palace, I can also go to Tai Chi Hall."
The weather had just entered autumn. Zhang Yang felt a little cold in his straw sandals. He shook the fan in his hand, looked at his daughter again and said: "If you arrive in Chang'an City, the emperor will definitely hold you in his hands, and then he will lock you up."
Being in the palace makes you happy and reluctant to miss Shu, but also makes you unable to return home."
"No!" Xiao Qingqing's expression suddenly became more solemn, and she said, "Then my daughter still can't go to Chang'an City."
Back home, Li Yue has been taking care of her health recently, and is being watched by her two aunts, who prevent her from being busy with Lishan's production schedule for too long.
To my aunt, family property is not important, the children in the family are the most important.
When he has nothing to do, Li Yue will also ask his aunt to go to Chang'an City to bring some news from the DPRK.
Seeing that Zhang Yang came back with his daughter, she poured a bowl of tea and said, "I heard that the DPRK and the Central Government have started to quarrel again about the Western Expedition recently."
Zhang Yang smiled and said: "This is how Xu Jingzong does things. When he was the Minister of Rites, he attached great importance to Li Yifu. After the imperial examination this year, he planned to re-appoint Yuan Gongyu."
He blew the tea leaves and continued: "There are good people around him who work hard, and there are also bad people. Judging from his personality and experience in life, good people are not necessarily reliable, and bad people also look at means and ability."
Li Yue nodded in agreement, "That's true. A good person without means has nothing to rely on, and will eventually be defeated by people like the sycophant. But there are so many people in this world who are both good people and have means."
The couple reached a consensus and smiled at each other again.
When the aunt heard these words, she saw the expressions on the couple's eyes.
Aunt Wang whispered: "As long as the County Marquis and Her Royal Highness the Princess are well, it doesn't matter if we are a little tired."
Aunt Yang added: "What's the matter with being tired? We brought up Her Royal Highness the Princess."
While talking, the two aunts thought of Yue'er's life experience, and their eyes became a little more lonely.
Today, Li Yue is wearing white plain clothes. Her pregnancy is not obvious now. She looks very energetic. She tied up her hair and looked at a plural question in front of her with clear eyes.
She has already mastered complex number arithmetic, but if she doesn't want to become unfamiliar with it after a few years, she will look at past arithmetic problems and do the calculations.
The day after Cen Wenwen took the money, he had someone send a repair atlas of Chang'an City from Chang'an.
They are just some albums without specific diamond structures.
Xiao Qingqing was wearing a skirt. When she squatted down and put away the hem of the skirt, she could still see a pair of small cloth shoes.
Place the albums on the floor so you can see them all at a glance.
She looked very solemn, stood up with her arms akimbo, as if she had completed a huge project, and said: "Dad, I want to build a city in Chang'an."
Zhang Yang took a look and said calmly: "The family has no money."
Xiao Qingqing stamped her feet and said: "My daughter either said that she wanted to build a city exactly like Chang'an City, or it would be small, like the little house built on the sand table by Uncle Jin Wang."
Zhang Yang nodded clearly and said: "You mean the model."
"right."
"Let's talk about it when we have time."
Seeing her father's indifferent attitude, Xiao Qingqing pursed her lips in grievance.
Later, Zhang Yang became discouraged and said: "I can make building blocks for you, but you have to build them yourself."
"good."
Father and daughter reached an agreement.
I was thinking of building a small house for my daughter and giving her a separate room. However, due to the recent heavy rain in autumn, construction work has been temporarily suspended.
When Lishan was free, Zhang Yang took his daughter into the workshop and started making wood.
Using palm-sized wooden blocks to make the bricks of the city, Zhang Yang hung the drawings on the wall, looked at them for a long time, and then marked the scales on the wood.
Suddenly Zhang Yang stopped and looked at his daughter, "Are you still thinking about blowing up Chang'an City?"
Xiao Qingqing said with a smile: "Where did my daughter come from with such great skills? Daddy was joking."
Seeing her awake appearance, Zhang Yang remained alert and asked: "Where is your brother?"
"My younger brother has been playing with uncle King Wei recently and has no time to look at him."
It goes without saying that Xiao Qingqing herself was also the most playful at her age, let alone letting her take care of her younger brother.
The father and daughter worked in the workshop for another long time, and then Xiao An came back.
When he came back, he brought baskets of fish, saying that he and his uncle King Wei went to catch fish today.
At night, the couple was busy in the house, and they had to sleep in separate beds when they were pregnant with the child. This was the aunt's order and must be followed.
During the period when I was pregnant with the child, my two aunts were very strict, even if I didn't drink alcohol, they were very particular about the meat and vegetables in their meals.
Li Yue looked worried and said: "Yesterday my son was playing in the mud, and today he went to the river to catch fish. Husband..."
Zhang Yang asked puzzledly while packing up his belongings: "What's wrong?"
"I feel like our son is a loser."
Zhang Yang lay down. He and his daughter were very tired after sawing wood all day. As soon as he lay down, he fell asleep.
Seeing that her husband was becoming more and more perfunctory with her words, she sat on the edge of the bed sternly, and then sat down next to her husband.
Zhang Yang sat up and said, "Auntie asked us to sleep in separate beds."
"No!" Li Yue stubbornly grabbed the quilt.
In desperation, Zhang Yang had to take another quilt and separate the quilts to sleep in separate beds.
In Chang'an City, Xu Jingzong's philosophy of life is very simple. He believes that people with means can achieve things, so when selecting people for his faction, he focuses on ability and means, but does not have such high requirements for character.
For example, Li Yifu, Yuan Gongyu, Gao Jifu and others.
When serving as officials in the court, everyone is doing it for the sake of the country. Some people have noble character but lack the means. Such people will suffer in court disputes. If something big happens to them, they may not be reliable.
Compared with Zhang Yang, he had to arrange people like Li Yifu and prudent people like Zhang Xiang in the Ministry of Rites.
Xu Jingzong's choice is much simpler. He only appreciates capable people.
The current Minister of Rites is Zhang Daan. He is very young and a good person. He governed Liaodong in the early years. To enter Goguryeo alone requires means, courage and courage.
Of course he was the perfect choice to be the Minister of Rites.
Xu Jingzong believed in the magistrate's vision.
A good person without means cannot succeed in defeating a sycophant with means, and will not be able to accomplish anything.
A bad person who has means but does not have noble character will also attract infamy.
No one is perfect. Xu Jingzong feels that there is only one Zhang Yang in the world, and there is no second one.
Xu Jingzong also felt that only people like Zhang Yang were perfect. The county prince had both talent and moral character, although his moral character was not very good.
Since serving as an official in Jiangshan in Li Tang Dynasty, the person Xu Jingzong admires the most is the Marquis of Lishan County.
The genius was bright, and Xu Jingzong was sitting in the Ministry of Rites, getting ready to go to court. Di Renjie took some medicinal wine and Lishan gold sore medicine to apply on him.
"Shilang Xu, His Majesty said you can rest." Di Renjie's chubby face frowned.
Xu Jingzong used to be the Minister of Rites. When he came to the Ministry of Rites, the officials here would not say anything, and even Yuan Gongyu and Li Yifu were there.
Zhang Daan is the Minister of Rites, but he is also willing to give Xu Jingzong three points of favor, five points of favor, and one point of leniency...
Xu Jingzong endured the pain of his old injury and added: "My leg is not broken. As long as I can reach the Tai Chi Hall, I must go."
"But you are so injured."
Di Renjie poured some medicinal wine on the cloth, applied it again and said: "Your wife also asked me if Xu Jingzong went to fight, why did he come home with wounds all over his body."
Xu Jingzong slowly stood up and said with a solemn expression: "Government is about fighting. The Western Expedition is related to the country. The decision cannot be stopped here. Chu Suiliang and the people of Tang Shanshi don't know the importance of state affairs. They are short-sighted people. How do they know about the Western Expedition?"
The hard work of conquering."
In the dark etiquette department, Di Renjie sighed, "Alas..."
The morning court time is approaching, and more and more officials in the imperial city are heading towards Chengtian Gate.
Xu Jingzong adjusted his official uniform and hat, walked out of the Ministry of Etiquette step by step, and then walked towards Chengtian Gate.
As soon as they entered Chengtian Gate, Li Yifu and Yuan Gongyu were already waiting here.
Looking aside, the condition of Chu Suiliang and Tang Shanshi was not much better. Their official uniforms were in tatters, and Chu Suiliang's face was still bruised.
Not long after, Chang Sun Wuji also arrived. The two forces looked at each other and followed them towards the Tai Chi Hall.
Li Chengqian had been waiting in the Tai Chi Hall early. Today's morning meeting was mostly about the Western Expedition, and he had prepared some homework for this.
As a prince, he should not take a stand on the issue of the Western Expedition, but he should stand on Xu Jingzong's side both emotionally and rationally.