Duke Zheng was not interested in the cultivation of crops in Taifu Temple, so he didn't even take a second look.
The emperor who challenges the emperor must persevere, fight for what should be fought for, and cannot give up on what should not be given up.
Li Tai whispered: "Brother Wen will continue to cause trouble to brother-in-law."
Zhang Yang was thinking about the affairs of the court, the imperial examination was going to be held again, the authority of the Duhufu was finally implemented, and most of the education strategies were still managed by Duke Zheng.
At the same time, Zheng Gong's status should be better. Many matters in the court are now presided over by the Prime Minister, Zhao Guogong, and Zheng Gong.
Previously, Zheng Gong had been in charge of the Yushitai, so Zheng Gong had always been weak in terms of power in the government.
If Zheng Gong were in charge of education again, his power in the court would be much more stable. In this way, Zheng Gong's status in the court would be better and he would be able to control more things.
At least compared to Changsun Wuji, he can check and balance.
Li Tai followed his brother-in-law's footsteps, "Mr. Zheng must be nearly sixty now."
Zhang Yang sighed: "Yes, most of his beard and hair have turned white."
Wei Zheng is a very stubborn person, and he is also an outspoken and fearless person. If a person is not even afraid of death, the emperor will not be able to do anything to him.
At first, Wei Zheng was working in the hands of Li Jiancheng, but after the Xuanwu Gate incident, Fang Xuanling recommended him to His Majesty.
It is also because of the hard work of the Fang Xiang that the Fang Xiang may feel that people like Wei Zheng are needed in the court. Such people can be a benchmark or a mirror.
There are fewer flatterers in the court, and more upright people like Wei Zheng.
It may have a positive impact on the court, which may have been Fang Xiang’s original intention at the time.
Compared with Li Shimin's open-mindedness and openness of opinions, naturally we cannot underestimate the people in the DPRK.
Zhang Yang thought about it and wanted to have a good chat with Fang Xiang, Li Shimin's right-hand man, if he had the chance.
He is different from Changsun Wuji, and he is also different from Wei Zheng.
If Changsun Wuji will become more powerful as his power grows, but on the contrary, Fang Xuanling, a person who is dedicated to the country will only use his abilities for the country.
The drums in Chang'an City were beating loudly. At that time, Tian Khan was also the general of Tian Ce. Such an emperor had an extravagant and fierce style when conducting the imperial examinations.
The imperial examination organized by Li Shimin was only conducted in Chang'an City. Official schools were opened in various places to teach students. Students could come to Chang'an to take the imperial examination if they had a guide to explain their household registration and origin, and certificates from the county magistrates in various places.
Nowadays, the scale of imperial examinations in Datang is not large, and everything is simple.
Li Shimin is willing to do such things as recruiting talents, so he also hopes that there will be more and more talented people in Chang'an City.
Gather all the talents from the Central Plains in Chang'an City.
After mid-May of the 11th year of Zhenguan, the weather began to get hotter.
On Lishan Mountain, Zhang Yang was still busy in the workshop, pulling the trigger of the flintlock gun. The gunpowder in the gun chamber burned, there was an explosion, and the bullets came out.
A flintlock gun was fixed on a shelf. Zhang Yang stretched out his hand to test the temperature on the barrel of the gun. It was a little hot, but it would not burn out the outer shell.
Putting the gunpowder in again, Zhang Yang tried again. There was a crisp explosion in the barrel of the gun, and iron bullets came out.
The bullet is round. Because of the excitation device, a cylindrical bullet will roll out when it explodes.
Spherical bullets are relatively easier to use.
Zhang Yang looked at the bullets on the wall. It was not deep into the wall, and the lethality within a hundred meters was at least guaranteed.
The barrel of the flintlock gun is made of iron, and the polished iron shell shines in the sun. This is his first relatively successful flintlock gun.
Holding the gun with both hands, I fired another round. The recoil was still there, and the muzzle of the gun would shake when it exploded, because the amount of gunpowder used was not much. Fortunately, it was stable, but the power was not too great, and the bullets could be picked up. Come back and reuse.
Zhang Yang continued to carve on the body of the gun, planning to carve some patterns on his first successful flintlock gun. Maybe it would rust in three or two years and be eliminated by more sophisticated firearms.
But at least the Tang Dynasty had its first flintlock gun. The first usable flintlock gun had better be more beautiful and better-looking.
"Well, it's great. The Tang Dynasty finally has a flintlock gun." Zhang Yang said to himself.
Open the window, let the smoke in the workshop disperse, and tidy up the parts next to the lathe.
Zhang Yang took the charcoal pen from his ear, took his drawings to the study room, and continued sketching the drawings.
Li Yue smelled the gunpowder smoke on his body carefully, frowned and said, "Have you made your husband's gun?"
"Yes." Zhang Yang looked back at her frowning brows. Growing up, this daughter-in-law didn't like making instruments that could hurt people. When he thought of the sleeve arrows he had never used since they were made, they were still sitting idle at home.
Li Yue picked up the flintlock gun placed on the table and said, "It's very heavy."
Zhang Yang put down the pen in his hand and said with a smile: "I used a lot of fine iron to make it. The handle is still wooden, but the barrel of the gun is all made of fine iron."
She slowly put down the gun and whispered: "My husband's craftsmanship has improved a lot."
I can see that the calluses on my husband's hands have disappeared a lot. Recently, a new callus has grown on the side of his thumb. After two years of recuperation, the original calluses on my husband's hands have actually disappeared a lot.
But a few more new cocoons have grown, but fortunately they are not big. They were all ground out in the workshop.
Li Yue looked at the newly grown calluses, sat down and whispered: "It took a lot of effort to take care of these hands, but now they have calluses again."
Zhang Yang smiled and said: "These are the hands of working people. This shows that our lives are still as hard and we are still working hard for a better tomorrow."
Even if you don't work for a period of time, the calluses on your hands will fall off and some new skin will grow in March or May, but these big hands will still be as rough.
This kind of roughness will never go away. Li Yue smiled and said: "Qingqing said when she was little, her father's hands hurt her face."
"Have it?"
"She has never told her husband."
Zhang Yang thought about it carefully, "Even though my daughter is still young, she is already very smart. Who taught her to talk ill to her mother behind her father's back?"
"Every holiday, we go to visit Grandpa Huang, and we don't know what Grandpa Huang is saying when he holds her."
Love was taught by his wife's grandpa, Zhang Yang thought, "It would be better if your grandpa didn't teach her to rebel."
Hearing this, Li Yue held her waist and smiled softly.
Feeling good while pregnant is also a good thing.
Li Yuan, on the other hand, was the most successful and the only successful one among the eighteen princes who fought against the Sui Dynasty.
Elderly people like to tell the story of their glorious deeds.
But if he told his rebellion experience, he might have an impact on his daughter.
What if, after hearing this, my daughter also wants to rebel, after all, it is such an exciting thing.
"Dad, Mom, what are you talking about?" Xiao Qingqing didn't know when she had entered the study room, she raised her head and asked curiously.
Zhang Yang picked her up and asked, "Why are you here?"
There are rules in the family, especially that the daughter and younger siblings cannot enter the study at will unless there is something important.
Xiao Qingqing pointed to the door and said: "Uncle Jin Wang and Uncle Li Ming said they were going to the breeding farm in Lantian County to catch chickens and ducks and raise them in Lishan Mountain."
Hearing this, knowing that Li Zhi and Li Ming were going to catch chickens and ducks, Zhang Yang slapped his forehead in distress and said, "Let aunt go there."
Li Yue also nodded worriedly and said a word or two to the aunt outside the door.
Aunt Yang left in a hurry after hearing this.
Zhang Yang then thought again, hugged Xiao Qingqing and said, "Why are they going to catch chickens and ducks?"
Xiao Qingqing explained in a low voice: "It's said to be raised for food."
Childlike innocence is beautiful, who doesn’t have such a childhood.
When the aunt brought the two back, the chickens and ducks were returned to the farm.
There was no shortage of chicken and duck meat at home. Zhang Yang looked at the two princes with drooped heads and asked, "Why do you want to catch chickens and ducks?"
Li Ming lowered his head and replied aggrievedly: "If you want to raise him, kill him and eat him."
Zhang Yang nodded and said, "Seriously?"
Facing his brother-in-law's questioning tone, Li Zhi lowered his head and sniffed aggrievedly, "Actually, I just want to grill the meat myself, catch the big ones and finish them. If I still can't catch them, I want to catch the little ones."
"I think it's not that I can't catch him, it's that you two can't beat him."
Li Zhi felt even more aggrieved.
"Each person should write a review, at least one hundred words." Zhang Yang said casually.
Li Zhi and Li Ming sat down obediently and began to write a review.
The punishment is not big, but it would be good if they could understand that some things must be followed from an early age. I don't know how Li Shimin teaches his children. At least in Lishan, some things must be clearly distinguished between what they can and cannot do.
Zhang Yang added: "After writing the review, I will punish you to tidy up the room. There should be no garbage, and the bedding must be folded neatly. You can rest only if Aunt Yang allows you to."
Li Zhi wailed. The houses at home were divided into one room for the princesses and another room for the princes.
Li Zhi, Li Fu, and Li Ming lived in one room, and the princesses had their own room.
Li Lizhi had her own room last year, just like Xiao Wu and Xu Hui.
After writing the self-criticism, they could eat. Zhang Yang saw that there were many typos in the two people's self-criticisms, and saw that their attitude of admitting their mistakes was okay, so he forgot about it.
"If I do it again next time, I won't be so polite."
Seeing their brother-in-law's serious expression, Li Zhi and Li Ming nodded blankly, while Gao Yang and Qinghe scolded them together.
After the meal, after his brothers and sisters had rested, Zhang Yang came to the room after washing up. The floor was laid out, and the couple and their daughter slept like this for four months.
After sleeping on the floor for four months, I have become accustomed to it.
Zhang Yang lay down and relaxed his body, took a deep breath and said, "Let's see if these two guys will do it again in the future. If so, I won't let them off so easily next time."
My daughter is lying on the bed still playing puzzles. She can play with various puzzles for a long time, and her lotus-like legs are shaking again and again.
Now that I have a daughter at home, there are more decorations in the room that girls like.
Zhang Yang looked at the ceiling of his home, "I kind of hope it's my son now."
Li Yue, who was still looking through the account book, whispered: "I gave Xiaohui 30,000 yuan."
She arranges all the money at home, and her daughter-in-law controls the entire financial power of Lishan. Zhang Yang asked curiously: "Give her so much money? What are you doing?"
"I read the archives of Taifu Temple in my husband's study. There are records of tea cultivation in Huainan, Lingnan, and even Shu. However, the cultivation was scattered and not on a large scale."
Li Yue put away the account book and said: "Xiaohui's family doesn't have much money. After buying some mountainous land in the past two years, they planted a lot of tea. Now that they want more mountainous land to plant tea, they can't afford more." Xiaohui’s mother was responsible for all this. She gave her the money in the hope that they could buy more mountain land to grow tea.”
Li Yue added: "As for the abilities of the disciples, apart from math and writing, if she can make better achievements in business, I plan to hand over part of the family business to her."
Xu Hui is a very smart child and also knows how to plan carefully.
Among the disciples in the family, Xu Hui is the most outstanding one.
Li Zhi is a slow learner, but has perseverance and perseverance.
Xiao Wu is very talented in mathematics, but has shortcomings in writing, and is very partial to arts and sciences.
In contrast, Xu Hui's development is relatively comprehensive.
Li Yue added: "Give these 30,000 guan to Xiaohui. She can go to the warehouse to get the money at any time until the 30,000 guan is used up. This money is not given to her for nothing. If she can become a big tea merchant in Jiangnan, Lishan You can get 40% of Donghai Xu's tea. If it is not done well, the money will be regarded as a failed experience and it can also help Xiaohui grow."
"So whether Xiaohui's attempt fails or succeeds, you will hand over part of your family's property to her."
Zhang Yang figured out what his wife was thinking.
The family is rich, and Li Yue is the head of the Lishan family. It is not impossible for her to use 30,000 yuan to give Xiaohui a try.
The next day, it was a bit cold in Lishan in the morning, but the wind felt quite comfortable on my body.
The children were having breakfast. Zhang Yang was eating a piece of cake and looked at his wife and Xiaohui, who were talking in a low voice and each reading a book in their hands.
Look at what they are discussing.
If Xu Huiruo really wanted to find an industry, it would be easier to get twice the result with half the effort with Li Yue's guidance.
Not long after, Zhang Yang saw her walking in front of him, still chewing the cake, "How was the conversation with your teacher?"
Xu Hui held the scroll in her arms and said, "How did Master arrange the cotton trade?"
"It's nothing more than sending people to watch Gaochang, using Gaochang as a base to let them develop first. Once they have enough strength in the Western Region, they will have the ability to protect their own property, and then they will hire people to start growing cotton."
At this point, seeing that the girl was still looking at him, Zhang Yang finished the cake in his mouth and picked up the mutton soup. There was some chopped green onion on the mutton soup. After taking a sip, he said, "Is there anything else you don't understand?" ?"
“How is cotton grown?”
Zhang Yang sat by the door of his house with a bowl in one hand and took another sip of broth. "At the beginning, Gaochang used a lot of local people from Western Turks to grow it."
Xu Hui nodded and said: The local people know best what the water, soil and weather are like. Local people are needed to grow crops locally. "
"Well, use professional people to do professional things, learn from experience, and make overall arrangements."
She recorded these words in her booklet and nodded: "Well, the teacher said it is very simple."
Xiao Hui actually showed dissatisfaction with these words, as if she was being perfunctory, and Zhang Yang smiled in surprise.
