Zhang Yang looked at it carefully and wondered: "This aloe vera is good, it can be used to relieve scabies, and it can also detoxify and relieve pain."
Eunuch Wang moved out the pot of aloe vera that Zhang Yang pointed to.
"This crop likes warmth and is afraid of cold, and it is prone to leaf blight. Moreover, except for the roots, this aloe vera plant has died, so it will probably be difficult to grow it."
Hearing what Zhang Yang said, Li Shimin was very satisfied with the collection results, at least they were useful.
"So I got a good thing. What about the other crops?"
"Your Majesty, you can keep it first." Zhang Yang was confused in his heart, how to see these dead branches clearly.
With the beginning of cabbage, Li Shimin found a new direction for Sheji to promote the diversity of animals.
Not long after, the palace maid brought the food, a plate of bacon, a salted duck egg, and a bowl of millet rice.
"My meals are also simple." Li Shimin was serving rice with salted duck eggs.
As a brother-in-law, you also need to help a large family like the royal family to help the poor, right?
Besides, His Majesty is an emperor who spends so much money.
Zhang Yang bowed and said: "Your Majesty, it is indeed difficult in the court. Can I..."
Li Shimin said solemnly: "Take him to the Wude Hall to see if there is anything useful, let him take it away."
"Here."
The prince bowed and saluted, "Shilang Zhang is here with this old slave."
After walking out of Xingqing Hall, Zhang Yang asked curiously: "Old Wang, I see that you look much better now. Is the medicine Lishan gave you still suitable?"
"Shilang Zhang is laughing. The old slave has stored all those medicinal materials and hasn't used them yet."
"Yeah?"
Zhang Yang smiled awkwardly, "I thought you used it."
Xingqing Hall is not far from Wude Hall. Passing by Taiji Hall and taking a detour to the rear is Wude Hall.
At this moment, the door of Wude Hall is still closed. Li Yuan is retiring in Lishan Mountain, so the place has become idle.
When the prince unlocked the door and pushed it open, Zhang Yang stepped in. The palace was very dark.
Light the oil lamp here to make it brighter.
Zhang Yang rummaged through the sundries and took out a few unused brushes and inkstones from the bookshelf...
"How did Mr. Zhang get these things here?"
"I have been to Wude Hall several times before, and I remember what I saw with my eyes." Zhang Yang tidied up again.
The prince stood aside with a surprised expression. When he thought that His Majesty had agreed, he felt relieved again.
We walked to a side house in Wude Hall, where the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan used to rest.
The place is well tidied and the bedding has been taken away.
Zhang Yang found the five stoves placed in the corner and lifted them out.
The prince worriedly said: "If the Supreme Emperor comes back and finds that the Wude Hall has been emptied, I'm afraid he will lose his temper again."
"It doesn't matter, just say support the court, he will understand."
After sorting out the things here, I found six pens, fifteen inkstones, and five stoves.
Barely enough to cope with the situation.
Zhang Yang led people to send these things to the Secretary's Office and Zhongshu Province. There were still many clerical officials in the Secretary's Office copying the memorials.
It's so cold that I can't hold a pen in my hand. I can't wait to come here to work under my blanket to keep out the cold.
It’s okay if the living conditions are not good, the office conditions are also bad.
Two more furnaces were sent to Zhongshu Province, which was not enough.
When passing by Ganlu Hall, Zhang Yang stopped and looked ahead.
The prince hurriedly said: "Shilang Zhang, your Majesty did not agree to this thing from the Manna Palace."
Zhang Yang carefully thought about the situation in the Manna Hall, and after hearing this, he had no choice but to give up, "Old Wang, you don't have to look at me wary of thieves, I won't ransack the Manna Hall as well."
The prince smiled bitterly and said, "Shilang Zhang, it's better not to worry about the Manlu Palace."
"I know, I won't touch anything in the Manna Palace."
While talking, Zhang Yang was about to go straight to the nectar.
As he walked towards the palace, Wang Gonggong hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, "Shilang Zhang, Zhongshu Province is in that direction."
"Ouch... I was distracted for a moment."
Seeing that he was still looking into the hall, Wang Gonggong stood firmly in front of the hall, assuming a posture of guarding the Manna Hall.
If you want to enter the temple, you have to step over the corpse.
Zhang Yang turned around and walked towards the Chengtian Gate. The water on the road in the palace was covered with thin ice. It was the coldest winter in the world.
When walking on the stone brick road in the palace, be careful not to slip on the ice on the road.
There was a sigh in the cold air, white mist came out of the mouth, and the office conditions of Zhongshu Province were also difficult.
Three or two stoves were not enough for heating. Everyone wrote the memorial, stopping to rub their hands from time to time, and then started writing again when their hands were warmer.
There was even a lot of nose-blowing sounds.
Wang Gonggong led people to put the stove in Zhongshu Province, and Zhang Yang followed him to Xingqing Hall again.
Li Shimin was still looking at these potted plants. When he saw someone coming back, he asked again, "Has everything been arranged?"
The prince looked back at Minister Zhang, "Your Majesty, the stoves and pens and ink in Wude Hall have been separated."
"Um."
The emperor nodded, still looking at these withered crops. It would take at least until warm spring for them to regain their vitality.
And some crops have even withered and they are still watching with pleasure.
Not wanting to disturb the emperor's elegance, Zhang Yang cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, Lishan can cooperate to solve the most urgent problems in the court."
"Elaborate."
Li Shimin said loudly.
Zhang Yang saluted again and said, "Lishan can make stoves for officials in various ministries, but the court needs money."
"How do you want to arrange it."
"Of course it's better to be more affordable." Zhang Yang looked outside the palace for a day. "The winter season has not passed yet. Lishan can make many heaters to solve the current dilemma. The money for heating the heaters needs to be paid by the Central Government. Lishan also You can take some of it yourself.”
"I promised you back then that you would make arrangements for the money Shangshu saved."
After bowing slightly to Li Shimin, Zhang Yang added: "However, Chaozhong has to provide the charcoal fire himself, and in the future, Lishan can purchase the coal from Xueyantuo at a lower price than the market price. What do you think, Your Majesty?" "
When it comes to purchasing from Chaozhong and making deals with Lishan, Li Shimin's originally troubled expression perked up, "I will ask Duke Zhao to discuss the coal purchase with you in detail."
Zhang Yang bowed slightly and walked out of Xingqing Hall.
Still, the emperor should not be too generous. He would let Changsun Wuji preside over the transaction with Lishan, which also shows that the emperor was defensive.
Both Zheng Gong and Fang Xuanling are fine.
It just happened to be the old fox Zhao Guogong.
This is the emperor. While using his ministers, he also needs to take into account the checks and balances in the court.
The emperor would not trust his ministers 100%, and he would speak lightly, but in fact he might have other thoughts hidden behind him.
Zhang Yang sighed as he walked home, "Oh my God! You keep saying that you will give me the royal expenses. To put it nicely, you are not secretly looking for someone to keep an eye on you and to check and balance you."
While doing his best to serve the DPRK, he also has to face the emperor's arrangements.
At noon, Zhang Yang went to Dongshi to buy some vegetables.
At home, Li Yue is working on a math problem. Since she has learned some operations related to derivatives, she is now solving a math problem in arithmetic.
Zhang Yang glanced at the question, which was related to function operations.
Li Yue is still writing calculations quietly.
Xiao Wu glanced at the dense calculations written on the paper and ran back into the house in fright.
Xu Hui was combing the little bear's hair. If it was not taken care of for three or two days, its hair would easily become tangled. Seeing the senior sister's worried look, she asked curiously: "What's going on?"
Xiao Wu first poured a sip of cold water into his mouth, "I just saw the teacher writing a calculation."
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The teacher has not solved the problem for a long time. Maybe he has nothing to do and does some calculations. "
"Junior sister, if you see that formula, you will know how scary it is." Xiao Wu whispered: "Teacher's formula shows a lot of square roots at a glance."
The two girls studied mathematics with Li Yue. Those mathematics problems were different from the calculation methods used in the outside world.
The teacher's math skills focus more on formulas, and now the two of them have just begun to learn radicals.
Only after learning it did you know how torturous the calculation of the radical sign was. The amount of calculations almost exhausted the brain cells of the two sisters.
Xu Hui also quietly poked her head out of the room and glanced at the calculations on the teacher's paper, then quickly looked away, "Sure enough, there are many."
"Yeah!" Xiao Wu clenched his hands into fists, "In the future...the teacher won't teach us this, right?"
The two girls didn't dare to think about that situation.
The husband prepared the meal and put it on the table, and Li Yue also solved the problem, "Well! I haven't solved the problem for a long time, and it's a bit difficult."
"This kind of functional operation requires the use of a lot of radicals, so it's a good way to practice your problem-solving ideas."
Li Yue relaxed her hands, squinted her eyes and looked satisfied, "I feel much more comfortable, and I feel that my thoughts are much clearer."
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The fence in the courtyard can block the cold wind blowing from the northwest, which just makes the whole courtyard warm, unlike the biting cold wind in the palace that makes people shiver.
Although the yard is small, it is also warm.
After thinking for a long time, Zhang Yang whispered: "We controlled the supply of cotton when we bought Gaochang."
"My husband is right, cotton is one of the few products we have control over. This is something we can control ourselves and not be controlled by others."
Taking stock of the money situation at home, the gold and silver sent today can be used to buy land.
Zhang Yang added: "When we bought Gaochang, we then bought the land."
"Where do you want to buy land?"
"There are several small countries around us that are pretty good and we can consider them."
Land sales in Guanzhong are very strict, and private land sales will be arrested by the government.
Even if you really want to buy it, it will only cost you a mountain or a few acres of land.
The situation in my own family is different. My husband has always had a huge appetite. He wants to buy several small surrounding countries.
At that time, I bought Gaochang and obtained the maximum benefit at the minimum price.
It also gave the family enough capital to establish itself.
I watched my husband draw a circle in the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest.
Li Yue frowned and said, "Why Nanzhao?"
"There are copper mines in Nanzhao."
"What does Persia have?"
"Persia was a corridor from the Tang Dynasty to the West, and it was also a pass to the West. If the Central Plains masters the Snow Mountains, it will master the barrier against the West. If it masters Persia, it will master the Western Turks and open the road to the West. , this is where the initiative lies in conquering the West.”
Li Yue has also read some military books, and she also understands the geographical key points in some military books. "If we control Goguryeo, we will have absolute control over the East China Sea. If we control Persia, we can march out of the Tianshan Mountains and attack the west."
As she spoke, she sorted out her husband's drawings and saw a very strange picture, "What is this?"
"How does the swimsuit I designed for you look like?"
Thinking of the pajamas from before... Li Yue blushed and immediately put the drawing away, "Do you always draw such unsightly clothes at night?"
