Li Shimin was also a little helpless. Changsun Wuji didn't even try to hide it. Logically speaking, Li Ke could be considered half of your nephew.
Forget it, forget it, Li Shimin didn't take it to heart. The main reason was that his son had done too much first, and he couldn't blame his parents, Sun Wuji. Li Shimin thought about it from his perspective. If his son was beaten every month, he would be beaten continuously. After seven or eight years, Li Shimin felt that he might have gone too far.
What is more important is the eldest son of the eldest son of the eldest son. In this era, the eldest son of the eldest son sometimes represents the face of a family.
You said Li Ke beat Changsun Chong like this. If Changsun Chong inherits the Changsun family in the future, it is estimated that the Changsun family will lose their face.
Fortunately, Li Ke was a prince. If he hadn't been a prince, Changsun Wuji would have wanted to kill someone with a knife.
However, Changsun Wuji's words reminded Li Shimin that what this boy is doing is indeed beautiful, but with this method... Li Shimin can also do it beautifully, unless he is rich.
The question is, is Li Shimin rich? No.
The Tang Dynasty has an annual income of 10 million yuan, but the entire Tang Dynasty began to use troops against Tuyuhun last winter. This year, there are disasters in some places. Disaster relief, dredging of rivers, and war all cost money. Didn't Li Shimin's Daming Palace stop construction? Where did the money come from?
There are many people who roll their eyes in private. For example, some people like Fang Xuanling can't stand Changsun Wuji. What do you think you are doing every day with a milk baby who has not yet reached the age of maturity? Didn't I just hit your son a few times? What's there? I was beaten often and nothing happened.
Wasn't Fang Yiai beaten by Li Ke too, less often? Oh, it is indeed a lot less, but the nature is the same. Do you see me targeting the third prince? Be careful!
As for the generals, they are even more looked down upon. It is not that there is opposition between civil and military forces. The distinction between civil and military officials in the Tang Dynasty is not that clear. For example, Changsun Wuji and others have read military books and have led troops, but only a few times. few.
Do you think they can fight? Yes, but of course not in big battles.
But for those who have been in the military for a long time, it is obvious that your own children cannot beat them. Do you blame others?
You said a prince is well-dressed and well-fed, but if you can't even defeat a prince, isn't your son even more useless?
Anyway, if someone like Cheng Yaojin or Cheng Hualiang dared to go home and file a complaint after losing a fight, Lao Cheng would have to let his old injuries remain unhealed and get new ones.
"Well, he just did some small things. This is what a prince should do." Li Shimin waved his hand and prohibited Changsun Wuji from continuing to praise him. No matter how much he praised, Li Shimin felt that he should reward Li Ke with something.
After Li Shimin said this, Changsun Wuji followed suit and stopped talking.
At the end of the court meeting, Li Shimin called Chang Lin over and wrote something that was not an edict or a family letter for him to give to Shu Wangzhuang outside the city.
Li Ke was a little surprised when he got what his father sent him. His father still had time to write this? He opened it and took a look. After reading it, Li Ke couldn't help but sneered.
The content of what my father sent me is probably: You did a good job. Even above the court, Changsun Wuji praised you for your recent performance. You did a great job. You have done a great job for all the refugees and beggars. I saw your father's handling of it.
At first glance, there doesn't seem to be much of a problem, but Li Ke knows very well that Li Shimin is a typical character of later generations. If his son is raised in poverty and his daughter is raised in wealth, the son should be beaten and the daughter should be pampered.
When it comes to his son, he is really an old arrogant person. Even if he cares about him, he cares in a disguised way and won't say it directly.
But most of the ancients were like this too.
The translated meaning of this sentence is, you see, Changsun Wuji has praised you, but you know how outrageous you have done, right? You've done a great job, but you just don't get screwed by me. I understand what the latter part of the sentence means is that if something happens to you, I can only look at you, but I can't save you.
But this old Yin person is really disgusting. I'm not even here, how can you leave this disgusting person alone?
I hope you can still laugh in a few days.
Li Ke was not in a hurry and just asked Tian Meng and the others to continue working step by step.
As for the food these refugees and beggars eat, Li Ke doesn't care at all.
In the Tang Dynasty, one stone of brown rice cost 120 wen, which is about 120 kilograms. One kilogram is about 1 penny. Li Ke gave these refugees more food because their work was heavier. In this era, there was less oil and water, so they needed more staple food. 1 The strong laborers gave him a full meal, which was calculated as 2 kilograms of grain per meal, and he could feed them three meals a day.
A person earns 6 taels a day, and the total number of refugees and beggars is less than 13,000, and the food consumed in a day is only 78 taels.
The Changsun family came over and spent a total of about 10,000 guan as a token. The profit... was not much, more than 9,000 guan. Well, a rough calculation, it was enough to feed these refugees and beggars for four months.
Alas, the profit is too low.
So, is Li Ke under a lot of pressure? Maybe, after all, there are still five thousand soldiers, right?
Ten days passed by very quickly, mainly because there was nothing much to do in ancient times and everything was done slowly, so I couldn't feel any changes. It was just that the weather had become warmer and the winter wheat had grown taller.
It's almost April, and the first batch of industrial buildings in the industrial zone, the printing factory, has finally been completed!
There are a large number of movable type printing machines inside. The paper and ink are in place, and the type and pottery characters are also neatly arranged in the appropriate order. During this time, Tian Meng trained a large number of skilled workers, mainly typesetters.
In fact, most of the workers under Li Ke's name are literate, that is, literate.
In ancient times, literacy and reading were two different things. Again, there are many books without a teacher. You can read them by yourself. You can read them, but you don’t understand what they mean when they are put together.
Read classical Chinese with reference to later generations.
This era is even more outrageous. In almost all books, people don’t like to write punctuation marks when writing, because saving places has been engraved in the bones of readers.
Li Ke was showing people around. They were the literati who were sent here before. In the past few days, they had been gritting their teeth and exercising with the soldiers. They were mentally exhausted every day. In addition, they had to help the refugees register, and then Calculate their work and so on.
They were very tired every day, and Li Ke also gave them lectures. They were so exhausted that they had no time to think, so they subconsciously accepted the chicken blood that Li Ke gave them.
Now they are all passionate young people.
"Did you see it? This is printing. Can you understand what its birth means?" Li Ke asked, pointing to the workers who were printing.
"We have no shortage of books to read!" All the scholars showed their faces brightly. It used to be very difficult for them to read a book. In some small families, several books could be used as family heirlooms.
And now... pieces of paper are constantly printing new things at a seemingly crazy speed.
