Li Zhi has recently been obsessed with making some objects. He is still a nine-year-old child, so it's okay to be naughty.
A child's character cannot just be obsessed with casting.
Li Shimin said in a deep voice: "Yan Li will lead people to handle this matter, so you don't have to worry."
Li Zhi nodded, "When the water gate is repaired, can I go and have a look?"
"How long has it been since you studied with Kong Yingda?"
Instead of agreeing to Zhinu's request, the father began to scold him. Li Lizhi stepped forward quickly, "Father, my daughter will take Zhinu to see Confucius more often and supervise Zhinu's studies."
Li Shimin took a sip of tea and nodded slowly.
Before the official policy of the Central Plains was implemented, it spread throughout Guanzhong, and the news was passed among the gentry in the Central Plains.
The establishment of official schools in Luoyang, Tongguan and other places was temporarily abandoned.
At this moment, in a mansion in Luoyang City, the children of the aristocratic family who had been hanging out together all day gathered together again.
"Have you heard about the official policy of the imperial court?" Dugu asked worriedly.
Everyone has different ideas, and everyone has made a small profit from sugar.
But now that there is more sugar, the price has naturally come down.
Someone said: "I thought that because of how hard Li Shimin's teeth were, in the end he wouldn't be able to do anything to me."
Everyone in the house was smiling.
The laughter was not as loud as before, and everyone's minds were not as transparent as before. They all held a lot of sugar in their hands.
[In view of the general environment,
Now that the price of sugar is low, there is more sugar on the market, and everyone is very worried.
"Where's Mr. Li?"
"The young minister from Dali Temple who was sent from Chang'an City asked me to question him. I think it's time to come back at this time."
"I heard that Chang'an also sent a man named Ma Zhou?"
Roshan said in a deep voice: "Is the person here evil?"
Someone laughed and said, "What else can they do? Instead of taking some benefits and leaving, they still dare to patrol Luoyang. Who gave them the courage? Li Shimin even gave in to the official policy. This Li Tang is no different from the former Sui Dynasty."
"We are still the same as before. Who dares to touch our seven surnames and ten families?"
"For many years, those who have been emperors have been the same. The clan has long seen through their faces. In the end, they will give in even if they don't get some benefits. This world is still the same world!"
Roshan cast a disgusted look at the arrogance of these people in front of him. These disciples were so arrogant that sooner or later they would fall into the hands of others.
"Have you heard that Zhang Yang, the demon in Chang'an City, has three faces and two hearts?"
There were bursts of laughter again in the house.
Not long after, Li Xing hurried over and said, "The Young Minister of Dali Temple was difficult to deal with. I was delayed for some time. Please forgive me."
Roshan stuffed a handful of dried fruits into his mouth and stared at him while chewing.
Facing everyone's gaze, Li Xing added: "I promised you all to make money together, and of course we will make money together in the future."
Dugu stepped forward and hugged his shoulders, "Everyone listened to you back then, but now I have a lot of sugar in my hands. This sugar can't just fall into our hands."
Li Xing saluted repeatedly, "Everyone, please listen to what I'm going to say next. If you can buy the white sugar on the market, as long as there is no other white sugar for sale outside, the price will naturally be in your hands. You can still make money. I can take the lead. Eat fifty stones first."
"As the enemy advances, we retreat. At this time, the price is low and we cannot give in. Are you just thinking about the immediate benefits? You might as well look further. If we can control the pricing power of sugar, we can make more."
After saying this, everyone in the house was silent.
After mustering up the courage to say this, Li Xing felt equally uneasy. These people are all children of aristocratic families, and they have a huge amount of money. Even the emperor does not care about these people. They are so arrogant and arrogant. .
Li Bin stood aside and waited for everyone's reaction.
Yes, if this thing really happens, these people will tear themselves into pieces, and they need to find a way out of Luoyang.
"Master Li is really rich, how can we just sit back and watch?"
"Our Cui family will take three hundred stones!" After the man finished speaking, he laughed loudly and proudly.
Although the children of the aristocratic families present were arrogant, they had some calculations in their hearts. They asked the servants around them one after another.
As long as you master enough sugar at this time, when the price rises, you can make more money by selling takeaways.
Arrogant and arrogant people often firmly believe in their own delusions.
For them this is a perfect opportunity to make money.
Pay the money first, wait for the price to rise, and then sell it to others to earn more.
This was not a casual bet involving more than a dozen coins. This was a gamble involving tens of thousands of coins. They had never experienced such a big deal.
This kind of stimulation scratches their hearts. The less firm their minds are, the more they will be shaken. These are the children of aristocratic families who are addicted to wine and meat.
Li Bin watched these people endure the nauseating feeling in his heart again and again. Sooner or later, these people would go bankrupt.
News from Luoyang was sent to Lishan.
Li Tai sat by the stove and took out two huge loaves of bread from the large stove where the sugar had been deposited. "Brother-in-law hid the secret recipe and refused to give it to me. I guess I figured it out."
He walked out of the workshop with the freshly baked bread and ate the hot bread while looking at the snowy scene.
"Your Highness, King Wei, it will taste better if you sprinkle some sugar on it."
Li Tai glared at his bodyguard after hearing this, "I will not touch this thing."
Because the refined sugar was used to do bad things for his brother-in-law, Li Tai also felt conflicted about this thing.
White sugar is nothing but a sweet food.
It’s just a kind of food, but when it is associated with bad things.
Li Tai felt a little guilty.
"His Royal Highness the King of Wei! A letter from Luoyang."
Li Tai chewed the bread in his mouth and looked at the letter in his hand while eating. As expected, the children of the aristocratic families in Luoyang took the bait.
They began to eat sugar continuously. The current share of sugar in Luoyang was eight hundred shi. If they wanted to eat so much sugar, they would have to pay 600,000 gu in silver.
Looking at this number, Li Tai felt that the north wind was getting colder.
Look at the bags of sugar piled up in front of them. If all of these were sent to Luoyang, they would go crazy.
The aristocratic family not only controlled the scholars and power who entered the officialdom.
They also have huge financial resources.
This kind of financial resources will make them emboldened. Whether it is to win over people's hearts or officials, the money used is insignificant to them.
Wealth is their support and their confidence.
In the words of my brother-in-law, the aristocratic family is like water in a pot with a fire burning underneath. If the water in the pot boils, the aristocratic family will cause chaos.
What Zhao Guogong did was to calm the boiling water, which could only temporarily relieve the pressure on the family.
And after the temporary relief, they only want more.
The brother-in-law's method is simpler and more vicious. It is better to remove the fuel from the bottom of the cauldron than to stop the boiling water.
What was drawn was the financial resources of the aristocratic family, so that they could no longer rely on financial resources.
Even if you can't spare them for a while, it can still severely damage their vitality.
Li Tai picked up a book and opened it. What he was reading was the book of the former Sui Dynasty. The aristocratic family today is no longer as powerful as it was back then.
Take advantage of their weakness to pursue the victory.
My brother-in-law is not a good person.
My father is not a good person either.
Those in power in the DPRK are all evil people. Li Tai picked up the steaming bread and took a fierce bite.
On Lishan Mountain, it is rare to visit the new home since the beginning of winter.
Zhang Yang plans to dig a sewer and make several drainage outlets for his home.
Next to the Huaqing Pool in their new home, Xiao Wu and Xu Hui were playing shuttlecock. They kicked the shuttlecock to
Little Bear, Little Bear hit the shuttlecock back with his head.
The new home is beginning to take shape. After the original Lishan Palace was renovated, many unnecessary palaces were demolished. Now it looks much empty at first glance.
The ground paved with masonry is very smooth.
The hot spring water not far away did not freeze in winter and emitted some white smoke and heat. Some filters were added to the upstream outlet of the water to make the water flowing into the pool clearer.
The water here is no more turbid than when I first came here, and now I can see the bottom of Huaqing Pool at a glance.
You can still vaguely see the clouds in the sky.
The husband also laid bricks and stones on the bottom of the pool.
There is also a small pool next to Huaqing Pool, which was originally the imperial soup.
Yuyu is a hot spring. In order to maintain the temperature of the hot spring water, it was built into a small pool.
However, this place has been demolished by the husband and transformed into a small ditch. The narrow water channel can speed up the flow of water. It passes through a stone wall and flows straight down, becoming a hot spring water curtain.
Then it flows to the stream at the foot of the mountain, and the water in Huaqing Pool becomes living water.
Zhang Yang came over with a shovel, "It looks good. When spring comes, the trees by the pond will start to sprout green buds. It will look even better."
The original Huaqing Palace has been converted into the main room of the new house. In front of the main room is the three-hectare Huaqing Pool.
"Daughter-in-law, we can try winter swimming."
"Winter swimming?"
Zhang Yang nodded, "This is the time to jump into the water and swim."
She looked at the water without speaking for a long time, then raised her head and looked at the sky, "Husband, do we have to take a bath like this in broad daylight?"
Zhang Yang emphasized, "The main thing is swimming, this is for fitness, and I can take a shower by the way."
Li Yue shook her head and sighed, "My husband often says that we should live frugally, how can we be extravagant?"
"This is not luxury, this is physical exercise."
"No! My husband cannot do this."
Li Yue refused decisively. She would never accept doing this in broad daylight, let alone swimming.
Looking at her attitude, Zhang Yang washed himself by the pool, as if his wife and he were not thinking about the same thing.
Zhang Yang whispered to her: "I will make you a swimsuit another day."
"Swimsuit?"
"Yes, clothes for swimming."
It's up to her husband to do whatever he wants at home, and Li Yue's attitude on these matters will never be compromised easily.
"no!"
"It doesn't matter, I can wait for you to accept it slowly."
"You teach people how to accept it?"
"After I prepare the furniture in the new home and build the drainage system, the new home will be ready for move-in."
Li Yue quickened her pace and left the Huaqing Pool. It didn't matter what happened to her husband. This was her new home anyway.
He walked towards his daughter and picked her up.
Xiao Qingqing was very interested in a big stone pier in the distance. She was pointing at the big stone pier and muttering something.
When I looked again, it turned out that the little bear my daughter was pointing to was lying comfortably on the big stone pier.
After all, she was also her daughter. Li Yue vaguely understood what she meant. She also wanted to go to the top of the big stone pier and lie down like a little bear.
That stone pier was used to make a statue of the little bear. The carving has not been completed yet. The husband also has to build drainage channels, and there is no time to erect a statue for it.
I don’t know what my husband is like.
What does a swimsuit look like?
She couldn't help but become curious.
Auntie walked over quickly and said, "Your Highness Princess, this is a letter sent by His Highness the King of Wei."
Li Yue gave the child to Aunt Wang and opened the letter to read. It said the situation in Luoyang and the amount of sugar at the moment.
There are 600,000 guan of white sugar in Luoyang. Even if there is a deviation in the price, when all the sugar is sold, there will be about 500,000 guan when it is delivered to Lishan.
Taking the letter and walking to the edge of the pool, Li Yue whispered: "Qing Que had someone send a letter."
Zhang Yang took the letter and looked at the content carefully, "Six hundred thousand yuan?"
"I didn't expect Luoyang to raise the price so high."
"These lunatics are raising prices like crazy for profit. I want to see how they end up."
"The crazier they get, the faster they will destroy themselves."
Zhang Yang nodded and said, "After all, I think highly of them. I thought they would at least exercise restraint, but I didn't expect them to be so unscrupulous when they let it go."
"When can we close the net?"
Zhang Yang washed his face with pool water, "We can do it again and again, but they will probably wake up and it's really time to close the net and wait for Lishan to refine the next batch of sugar."
"We still don't know how deep their financial background is, so it's a pity to close the net like this."
This time it was 600,000 guan, and next time it would be 300,000 guan even if it was halved.
Zhang Yang blew a fire note and burned the letter, "There will never be a shortage of people in this world who are idle and looking for excitement."
Because he had been repairing the drainage canal in Lishan Mountain, Li Yue saw that her husband's bare feet were red and even purple from the cold.
She said distressedly: "Why don't you wait until the weather gets warmer before repairing it?"
"Drainage channels accumulate a lot of water during snowy weather. If the sludge underneath is not cleared out, it will become even more difficult to clean up if it overflows our new home."
Zhang Yang washed his feet in the pool water, put on his straw sandals, walked to the mouth of the hot spring pool, rolled up his trousers and soaked his feet in the warm pool water, "It doesn't matter, just soak in it for a while." "
After returning to Chang'an City, I still suffered from frostbite because I had been soaked in ice water in the ditch for too long.
Li Yue poured the decoction into the basin, "My husband, soak your feet in it and soak it for three days and it will be fine."
After saying this, my husband was indifferent and even applied minced garlic and ginger on the frostbitten area.
"Is this useful?"
"I read that's what it says in the Medicine Book." Zhang Yang even smelled it, "Well, it feels like pickled pig's feet."
Li Yue couldn't hold back her laughter for a while, "I asked my aunt to go to the palace and ask for frostbite medicine. She said it should be boiled and put in a basin to soak your feet."
Zhang Yang wiped off the minced ginger from the wound as instructed and soaked his foot in the soup. The wound suddenly hurt.
"It would be great if there was frostbite ointment. Apply some and it will heal."
