Inside the house, Li Yue lowered her head in grievance, not daring to face her husband directly.
The tea was still steaming. Zhang Yang held the tea cup in one hand and slowly closed the lid. "You are right to want to recruit more tea farmers and plant tea trees."
"Um."
She responded quietly.
Zhang Yang continued: "It is right for you to distribute the benefits to the villagers. It is also right for you to develop tea planting and give the villagers an extra livelihood."
After saying that, Li Yue raised her head slightly, moved a chair and sat down, so she didn't think there was anything wrong, so she felt a lot more confident.
Zhang Yang said worriedly: "It's just that now that the memorial has been sent to your father, after passing through the hands of so many people, more people will definitely talk about it."
"Then let them discuss it, we Lishan did nothing wrong!"
She said this happily.
The hostess of Lishan is a bit more domineering, with a look of disdain in her words.
Zhang Yang nodded and said: "With our financial resources in Lishan, it is not difficult to solve this problem. It is just a matter of giving money to those prominent families in the south of the Yangtze River."
Hearing this, Li Yue looked solemn and said: "I can't give it."
"Yes, I can't give it."
At this point, the couple reached a consensus. Once they gave them money, Lishan would not be able to establish its authority.
Lishan was by no means easy to bully, and Lishan who dared to challenge the emperor was even less likely to compromise with the prominent families in the south of the Yangtze River.
The daughter-in-law has trouble getting along with the famous families in Jiangnan, although the famous families in Jiangnan are not as intricately connected and powerful as the aristocratic families of the seven sects and five surnames.
But their methods are still very sophisticated. These people used land sales to hold Lishan in check, trying to force Lishan to give in under such pressure.
This is how things are in the world, as long as wealth is privatized, when the emperor rewards fields to meritorious ministers, but in the current situation of material scarcity and insufficient productivity, food and fields are equivalent to wealth.
Anything that can be traded is wealth.
And wealth will definitely be concentrated and merged.
For example, in a disaster year, not everyone may complain, but there are also many people who applaud.
Once the couple reaches such a consensus, things will be easier to handle.
Life is like this, it is necessary to sit down and communicate.
Li Yue whispered: "Sooner or later, the debt between Lishan and the prominent families in Jiangnan will be settled. I hope that your husband will not interfere in this matter again."
Zhang Yang sighed and shook his head again, "But we in Lishan have no power or influence, and are nothing but rich."
It is said that listening to the wall is a bad behavior. At this moment, the younger brothers and sisters, including Xiao Wu and Xiaohui, were leaning against the door and listening to what was going on in the house.
I originally thought there would be a quarrel in the house, but it turned out to be so peaceful.
Xiao Wu frowned and heard a few words, "Lishan has no power or power?"
It is said that Lishan has the Supreme Emperor taking care of him, and there are also the Prince of Hejian County and the King of Wei, so how can he be powerless and powerless.
The conversation in the room continued, and Li Yue's pretty face seemed to be covered with a layer of cold frost. "Lishan's power is weak now. In time, they will definitely pay back many times."
It is rare to see a daughter-in-law with such a decisive look. In fact, she has always been very strong in her heart.
Whenever I think about things like land annexation, the land annexation in the Tang Dynasty is not yet serious, and the national power of the Tang Dynasty has just started, so those people don't dare to be too ostentatious.
Zhang Yang looked at the impeachment memorial on the table again, "There is no rush to settle accounts after the fall, but now we have to deal with the impact of this memorial. What they mean is that we in Lishan wantonly buy and sell tea mountains to make profits and control the villagers to cause trouble. , causing local chaos."
"It's not what they said. Xiaohui and I have never talked about it."
The couple had a direction for their affairs. Zhang Yang was responsible for dealing with the impact of this memorial, while Li Yue had to prepare how to deal with the prominent families in the south of the Yangtze River.
The largest source of tea in Lishan, besides Di Zhisun's Bingzhou, is Xiaohui's mother's home in Wuxing County in Huainan.
However, Xu Hui and Li Yue encountered some obstacles on their way to expand their territory in Chashan.
It does no harm to the current Lishan Mountain, nor does it harm the original tea cultivation.
I just can't take this breath right now.
Zhang Yang got up and opened the door and saw fat faces looking up at him.
There was silence for a moment, and the group of children dispersed after realizing the embarrassment.
Until dinner time, Li Yue was always thinking about things with a frown on her face.
At night, after the children had dinner, Zhang Yang sat in his study, preparing to write a reply memorial in response to this impeachment.
"Actually, you can go to the library to write strategies."
"It's more suitable and quieter in the study room." Li Yue replied calmly.
Zhang Yang saw that there was only a small space for him to write on the desk, and his wife still wanted to occupy half of it, so he looked troubled and said: "We don't have to do this."
"Sitting here can make you feel calmer."
"Yeah?"
"And there are no younger brothers or sisters to bother me." Li Yue added with a solemn expression.
Zhang Yang picked up the memorial and the writing brush and walked out of the study, sitting in the main hall of his home and writing a reply to the memorial.
The table in the main hall is not small, and it is also very quiet. Only my daughter is feeding her brother.
After sitting down, Zhang Yang started writing, which made him feel much more comfortable.
After a while, the daughter-in-law came out of the study. She also brought out the oil lamp and placed it on the table. Naturally, she occupied half of the table.
Zhang Yang stopped talking and didn't know where to start.
After straightening his expression, Li Yue whispered: "Sure enough, writing strategies will go more smoothly when you are by your husband's side, and your thoughts will become clearer. It has nothing to do with the study."
Holding his forehead in distress, Zhang Yang was about to stand up, but found that his wrist was grabbed by her.
"What is this for?"
Li Yue nodded and said, "Wait until it is finished."
Just holding her hand, the other hand kept writing on the paper. Zhang Yang drank tea and his eyes fell on her paper.
She is writing a land profit distribution strategy. This method seems to be quite practical, but it is not the best policy.
Let the villagers plant tea trees, and Lishan will directly share the profits with the mountain residents and give them a certain amount of dividends. The better the sales, the more the villagers will benefit. As for the accounting, Xiaohui's mother can completely arrange it.
It must be said that she has mastered Lishan's leading business concepts very well. This model of direct participation in dividends has mastered many tea farmers.
The prominent families in the south of the Yangtze River wanted land, but Lishan took the people directly. They got the land but not the people. The most important part of growing tea trees was inseparable from the help of local villagers. This was a great move.
The daughter had already fed her brother, so she took a pen to copy the copybook and learned to write stroke by stroke.
In the quiet night, the cool mountain breeze blew through the window.
His arm was held by his wife like this, and he became a tool to calm her down.
After she finished writing, she left with satisfaction and found that Zhang Yang's legs were numb.
After getting up and moving her legs, she finished writing contentedly, washed up and prepared to rest.
I only wrote one or two sentences in my reply memorial.
When Li Yue put on new pajamas and flashed past the bedroom, Zhang Yang had no intention of writing anymore.
The son fell asleep in the cradle, and the daughter sensibly washed herself and went to her room to rest.
After sitting quietly for another moment, he raised his head and let out a long sigh. All thoughts were gone from his mind.
Zhang Yang stood up and jumped into Huaqing Pool for a good wash before walking into the house.
Ignoring the wetness, I closed the door.
Li Yue turned around and said, "Huh? Husband, please don't catch a cold. Please quickly change into clean clothes."
"We need to add a family rule. In the future, we are not allowed to use Lishan's seal without permission, including that of Taifu Temple."
"Um."
She arranged her clothes and nodded with a smile. When she saw her husband standing in front of her, she raised her head and said, "What's wrong?"
Realizing that something was wrong in the atmosphere, Li Yue quickly dodged and said, "Doctor Sun has told me that your husband should rest his mind and not go too far."
"I can't care less."
…
Late at night, the bedroom finally became quiet. The light of the oil lamp flickered on and off. Zhang Yang grabbed his wife's white and tender legs and said tangledly: "Your father will probably fine me a salary."
Li Yue tried to pull his legs back several times, but found that he was too tired to raise his strength. "My father has always been tolerant of meritorious ministers, let alone us, Lishan."
"Yes, we are the only two people who care about the Tang Dynasty."
"I think of those Confucian scholars' accusations against the clock." Zhang Yang sat on the couch and put her legs on his knees, and said: "In a society where human governance is the core, the coldness of industrial development is against people's hearts. For them, industry is the most inhumane in today’s people-oriented world.”
Hearing this, Li Yue frowned and said nothing, with a sharp look in his eyes.
Zhang Yang continued: "I heard someone say before that there are no social problems that cannot be solved by science and technology. But after I really walked into the court, understood the power structure of the court, and understood the operation of the court, I discovered It is wrong to just use your own eyes to judge whether something is good or bad at the moment."
"Many things that I take for granted on the road of development are so powerless in this current situation where people and power control them all. I can't find the conditions for argumentation, even if right and wrong are so clear. Can……"
There was a pause in the words, Zhang Yang's eyes looked a little helpless, and he didn't want to talk any more.
Husband and wife should talk more. This is a family rule set by Li Yue's husband since she got married. It is precisely because of these inexplicable rules that Li Yue feels that she can live a contented life.
"Husband, you don't have to hide some things in your heart, just tell me."
Zhang Yang finally let go of her feet and nodded: "There are some roads that I can't stop once I take them. They are like the foundation of our Lishan Mountain. If you want to get more resources and change the present, you have to do your best." Move forward with all your strength, even if you are criticized by thousands of people."
This time, Li Yue finally had a smile on her face.
Lishan is such a Lishan, she said with a smile: "I said at the beginning that even if we are facing mountains of swords and seas of fire, we will go on together."
"Well, isn't a hundred years really short?"
Since the spring of this year, Lishan has begun to receive news from all parties. Di Zhisun planted a Populus euphratica forest in the Hexi Corridor to resist wind and sand. This Populus euphratica forest is not big. It depends on manpower, but he still insists on it.
Someone asked him what he was insisting on, and he said he didn't know, he just thought it was the right thing to do.
Zhang Yang got up early in the morning and wrote a memorial to deal with the imperial court. The impeachment of a prominent family in the south of the Yangtze River was without evidence. Whether Lishan had bought or sold tea fields, the imperial court could send a censor to inquire. Lishan was willing to prove his innocence.
Early in the morning, I arrived at the emperor's residence. Since Li Shimin came to Lishan for a vacation, he slept until it was completely dark every day.
Zhang Yang was sitting in the courtyard of the palace waiting, and saw His Majesty coming out sleepily, and hurriedly handed over the memorial.
Li Shimin seemed to still have the energy to get out of bed, and said with a displeased face, "On weekdays, I leave these matters to the Zhongshu Provincial Office when I am in Xiumu."
Zhang Yang nodded and said: "Since His Majesty has sent the impeachment memorial, I cannot ignore it."
After opening the memorial and taking a look at the contents, Li Shimin asked curiously: "Do you really want to write this?"
After that, he closed the memorial again and said, "You have already written it. I will arrange for people to go to Huainan to investigate."
Zhang Yang nodded, turned and left.
Standing there with the memorial in his hand, Li Shimin was furious. Did he forget to salute?
After Xiaoqing went to listen to her master's lecture early in the morning, she rode a small car around the village. She always felt that she had grown up and could listen to the teachers' lectures by herself, learn calligraphy from Mr. Ouyang Xun, and learn calligraphy from Hong Fu. Auntie learns skills.
Pedaling, she came all the way to the door of the blacksmith's workshop, which was the noisiest place. The bear who followed beside her despised the little bicycle because it felt that it had robbed its little owner.
She suddenly waved. "Uncle King Wei."
Li Tai smiled and said, "Why are you here?"
Xiao Qingqing glanced at the blacksmith shop and asked curiously: "Are good things being made here?"
Li Tai doted on his niece and nodded: "Well, of course it's a good thing."
"After it's made, can I play with it?"
"This king can make the decision."
"Well, I'm waiting for news about Uncle Wei Wang."
After that, she got on the car again, holding the handlebars with both hands, and hummed the song her father had taught her.
Li Xiaogong hesitated and said, "What is she humming?"
"Lishan's songs still sound good. This little niece likes to sing very much."
"The children raised by Zhang Yang are like this, and so are Zhinu and the others. I heard that on New Year's Eve this year, Zhinu and the others sang in the Tai Chi Hall. After singing, some civil servants admonished them, saying that the prince and princess should learn rules and etiquette, and should not Learn the things of these prostitutes.”
Li Tai lamented: "Those old pedants are so pedantic that they cannot tolerate anything that has nothing to do with etiquette."
Li Xiaogong sighed: "You said when these grapes can be planted, what happened to that kid? You have to wait until summer to plant grapes."
"Brother-in-law also chooses the season to plant grape seedlings based on the weather, water and soil. For some crops, even the greenhouse on Lishan Mountain cannot grow a bunch of grapes if the weather and location are favorable."
Li Xiaogong had never read any books. He felt that if Zhang Yang could grow vegetables in winter, he could grow grapes.
Li Tai patted his shoulder and said, "If the emperor has time to go to Shangguan Yi and look at the archives of Taifu Temple, he will understand a lot... By the way! This year, Taifu Temple recruited a few old farmers and gave them some money." The wages are very high, several times higher than the salary in the imperial court."
