Xiao Qingqing turned over and sat on the bear's back, urging: "Xiong Da, let's go!"
It wasn't until her daughter left Huaqing Pool and could no longer be seen that Li Yue withdrew his gaze and continued to mend.
Aunt Wang came over in a hurry and said in a low voice: "Marquis of the County, your Majesty is here."
Zhang Yang nodded and said, "I'll clean it up."
Hearing this, Li Yue put down her needlework and helped organize the books on the desk. She glanced at her aunt waiting outside and said with a low expression: "The two aunts have aged very fast in the past two years."
The couple walked into the study room, and Zhang Yang put the books on the bookshelf, "Everyone ages."
"Yes, everyone gets older, and aunts are getting more and more gray hair."
To the daughter-in-law, the two aunts are relatives. She added, "When the aunts come, I will take care of them."
Zhang Yang smiled coquettishly, "There are only a few relatives at home, so of course we have to take care of them."
Not long after, Li Shimin walked onto Lishan Mountain.
The emperor's visit to Lishan was very low-key, he didn't have a car, and his attire was not so grand.
On the contrary, it feels like traveling light and simple.
Zhang Yang walked out of the door first and poured tea politely, "Why is Your Majesty free to come to Lishan today?"
Li Shimin did not answer, but took out a clay cup. The cup was quite long and hung on his waist. After opening the lid, he poured the tea in and explained: "I used to find it very confusing for you to have a kettle hanging on your waist." , now I feel that once you use this method, you can’t live without it, you can take a sip anytime and anywhere, eh.”
Zhang Yang first sat down and looked at his younger siblings who were still doing their homework. Their homework today was an essay, and the title of the essay was "Thinking."
That is to say, write an article. The article should not be long, only two hundred words.
Zhang Yang smiled and said, "Is Your Majesty here for a spring outing?"
Li Shimin shook his head and said: "The Lishan factory is under construction and is not suitable for spring outings."
"Lishan is really not suitable for spring outings now. Those generals were playing with artillery at the entrance of the village all day long. What should I do if they were accidentally blown up?"
Hearing this, Li Shimin choked on his throat with a mouthful of tea, and it took him a while to regain his breath.
"If your Majesty is here, the general will probably not continue to use artillery. You can't kill your Majesty."
"If you don't welcome me, there's no need to say such words. I'll come and have a meal when I'm hungry."
It was meal time, and my aunt came with food.
Zhang Yang shook the fan in his hand. Today's sunshine was a bit hot. A pot of fried vegetables and a bowl of radish soup were so delicious.
Remembering that his daughter's bicycle was broken, he ignored the emperor's meal and picked up his handmade knife to dismantle the tires of the bicycle.
Zhang Yang is very skilled in digging holes, polishing, and removing corners with a hand-made knife.
Li Shimin was holding the bowl, crossing his legs and shaking unconsciously, and said: "I asked the Ministry of Industry to build this kind of car. It is not easy to use. It is not as good as a carriage."
After trying the wheel and finding that it worked, Zhang Yang applied tung oil to the tire gears and washed his hands before sitting down again.
"Why can't the craftsmen in the palace make the things you make or just not use them?"
Zhang Yang frowned and shook his legs unconsciously while drinking tea. This kind of leg shaking behavior is easily spread from person to person.
He lowered his crossed legs, restrained himself from shaking his legs, and asked, "Your Majesty, where did this bad habit come from?"
Li Shimin stopped shaking his legs and recalled, "It's the habit of coming with Cheng Yaojin and the others."
"That's really weird."
"It's nothing surprising. Cheng Yaojin and the others already have this habit. They are rough people to begin with."
After finishing the meal, the emperor burped again, with a look of enjoyment on his face.
"I haven't had such a good meal in a long time. The cooks in the palace are always bad at it. Their cooking skills are simple. They can't learn any of Lishan's steaming, frying, and roasting."
"It doesn't matter. We, Lishan, have opened a technical institute. In addition to learning from the palace, we, Lishan, will teach them cooking skills."
Now that the atmosphere of casual chatting has arrived, it's time for the emperor to get down to business.
"Why hasn't Lishan sent me the firearm I wanted?"
"Your Majesty has also seen that Lishan has been undergoing renovations. Once the factory is renovated, it will be used by Your Majesty as soon as possible. However, the accounts for the money have not yet been settled."
Li Shimin said in a deep voice: "How much more iron ore do you want?"
Zhang Yang thought for a moment and then said: "If Lishan only needs to provide the primer device, the price can be cheaper, one primer costs a thousand guan."
"I've seen that the primer device is a small part of the artillery. It's the size of a palm and requires a thousand guan?"
"That's one thousand strings."
Li Shimin stood up, supported the stone table with both hands and said solemnly: "Okay, I'll wait for you to build it."
"Early July at the earliest."
The emperor left, and left very quickly...
The more Lishan made money, the unhappy Li Shimin became. He picked up the memorial on the table and looked at it carefully.
This is a memorial about taxation, written by Changsun Wuji and many officials in Zhongshu Province.
After watching for a long time, Li Shimin ordered the eunuch beside him to reply the memorial to Zhongshu Province.
The next day, a decree came from the DPRK, and groups of officers and soldiers left Chang'an City to read out the decree.
The laws of the Tang Dynasty have been revised, one after another, from the Wude period to the present.
Now, another change has occurred. The residents of Chang'an City have gathered at the place where the notice was posted. There is a civil servant standing in front of everyone and repeating this time's decree.
Changsun Wuji was sitting in a wine shop. Hearing the meaning of the decree, he finally put down the wine bowl in his hand and let out a sigh of relief.
Gao Jingcheng poured wine for Changsun Wuji again and said with a smile: "Your Majesty can still discern clearly."
Changsun Wuji took another sip of tea and said: "Your Majesty restricted merchants and increased business taxes again."
"This also limits Lishan."
After listening to Gao Xingyi's words, Changsun Wuji became a little more worried about the cousin in front of him. His vision was still too short-sighted.
"Execution, you have to take a long-term view of things. Your Majesty's control of merchants is not to deal with Lishan. How can you deal with Lishan with such a small tax?"
This statement made Gao Jixiu fall into silence. He didn't know what it meant. It was right that merchants should be restrained. Lishan was the largest merchant in Guanzhong.
How much money did Zhang Yang earn from the land in Lishan? Isn't this obvious to everyone in Chang'an City?
It is said that there are so many copper coins and silver cakes in Lishan that there is no room for them in the warehouse.
Changsun Wuji looked sideways and saw a man walking out of Chang'an City in a hurry, that was Gao Jifu.
The connections in the Ministry of Rites are getting wider and wider, and he has made friends with Gao Jifu, a member of Zhongshushe. Will he also make friends with Liu Jie and Zhang Xingcheng next?
Because Gao Jifu had a good relationship with Xu Jingzong, he entrusted his son Xu Jingzong to take him to the Hexi Corridor for training, and then thought about the current situation in the Hexi Corridor.
Changsun Wuji smiled, picked up the wine bowl and said, "Xi, you are right, your majesty is wise."
Merchants in Guanzhong are taxed 30% more. Not only that, merchants entering the market must be strictly inspected.
This, of course, also involves the situation in the Hexi Corridor.
At this moment in Lishan, Zhang Yang looked at the large den of bears at home. Two pandas were lying beside the Huaqing Pool, yawning innocently, and even holding the cold pool water with their paws.
Pandas are easy to raise and mature, and they have become lazier. They rarely go to the bamboo forest to eat bamboo by themselves. Instead, they have become accustomed to the bamboo shoots dug by their aunt. They sit by the pool and wait for food to eat.
It was all his daughter's fault for doting on these bears. Zhang Yang sighed melancholy: "Maybe our family can really build a zoo."
Li Yue was still looking at the new tax policy established by the government, and turned a deaf ear to her husband's complaints, "This tax is really a slap in the face."
Zhang Yang took a sip of tea, nodded and said, "Well, Changsun Old Fox and more than ten civil servants made this happen."
Li Yue added: "It is also stipulated that traders in various places are not allowed to raise the prices of goods in the name of taxation."
"Well, it also blocked the only way to transfer risks."
"The Hexi Corridor currently collects 10% of the tax, and now it adds 30%. Those outsiders who come to trade with each other will definitely cause trouble."
Zhang Yang nodded heavily, "Well, there will be twists and turns after that."
"Do you really want to suppress businessmen like this?"
The more surprised Li Yue becomes, the calmer Zhang Yang becomes, and all subsequent reactions will be directed towards the Hexi Corridor.
What they have in mind is not Lishan, but the Hexi Corridor.
Everyone is a fox who has become a spirit, let alone Liaozhai. Changsun Wuji hopes to put the Hexi Corridor back under their control by suppressing traders.
Because the memorial was sent in March, the construction of Jiayuguan was in the final stage.
The fortifications of cooperation between Lishan and North Korea and China can also be delivered.
Once chaos breaks out in the Hexi Corridor and traders from various countries make trouble, the Ministry of Rites will be endangered.
He did not come for Lishan. The old fox wrote a memorial and he could put the Ministry of Rites, Lishan, Hexi Corridor, and even the countries in the Western Regions into chaos.
Sure enough, Jiang is still old and hot, but Zhao Guogong can get his opponent into endless trouble with just one casual sentence or a memorial.
He is not targeting Lishan or businessmen, but everyone.
"Well, if there are too many businessmen, the country will be in danger." Li Yuan looked at the sleeping Xiao Xing and comforted Xu and said with a smile: "I remember that someone said that Yu Shinan had a long conversation with Changsun Wuji before he died. He talked about Lishan Mountain and When it comes to the conduct of businessmen, once businessmen abandon their morality, they will ignore human life for the sake of profit."
Li Yuan put the baby in the cradle, and the old man smiled and said: "It has been like this since ancient times. There used to be a man named Shang Yang. He hated merchants the most and wanted to kill all the merchants in the world. Later, Qin used Shang Yang's method to become powerful ”
Li Yue shook his head and said: "Grandpa Huang was wrong. The First Emperor also had the behavior of conferring honors upon others."
Li Yuan said again: "The Second Emperor of Qin has died."
Okay, Li Yuan has nothing to refute when you say this.
Looking at the couple in front of him, Li Yuan walked to the Huaqing Pool and continued talking, "Erlang is the person who most imitates Han Wu, whether it is the strategy of stationing troops or the strategy of establishing a border."
Li Yue put down the letter in her hand and fell into deep thought.
Zhang Yang picked up the letter. Aunt Wang copied the emperor's decree before sending it.
Li Yuan had dinner at home and then left. The atmosphere at the dinner table was very bad.
The younger brothers and sisters could all see that the imperial sister was angry in her heart, and this anger was because of her father's decree.
After the meal, Zhang Yang looked at his own schedule and said: "Xiaohui will wash the dishes today, Xiaowu will sweep the floor, and Lizhi will take care of the kitchen."
"Here." The three disciples responded in unison.
Zhang Yang looked at the watch again. Tomorrow it was Gaoyang, Dongyang and Qinghe.
There is also a couple on this duty list.
Because there was not enough manpower at home and the two aunts were too busy, they made a daily schedule and everyone took turns cleaning.
Except for the two aunts, everyone is divided into groups and rotates every seven days, with one day off.
Once there were no servants in Lishan, even if the younger brothers and sisters were served by palace servants, it would only be limited to their daily lives.
Zhang Yang is more willing to cultivate his younger brothers and sisters' hands-on skills.
This is also part of Lishan’s coursework.
Seeing that his wife was still sitting in the room, looking at the decree with a frown, Zhang Yang sat aside, laid out the paper for her, and polished the ink.
"Husband, what are we going to do after the Hexi Corridor? The decree has not been sent yet, but once it is known to outsiders, there will definitely be chaos."
Zhang Yang smiled and said: "Yes, the tariff is already 40%. If we add another 30%, they will make more and more losses on sales."
"Zhao Guogong is really hateful!" Li Yue waved his fist.
This punch hit Zhang Yang's arm, but the husband's expression moved slightly. This shoulder was too strong.
She squeezed it subconsciously. Why is it still so strong after so many years?
Noticing that his wife was squeezing her arm, Zhang Yang said expressionlessly: "How does it feel?"
Li Yue frowned and said, "Same as before."
“They are all cultivated on the land.”
Hearing this, she squinted her eyes and laughed softly. Although her husband had a leisurely life, as the minister of the Taifu Temple, he had to do everything himself, and he often had to be busy in the fields for a long time.
For the sake of adding one more dish to the Tang Dynasty’s dinner table, all men lost weight.
Li Yue glanced sideways and said in a low voice: "People tend to gain weight when they reach middle age. Why is my husband still losing weight?"
"I am often overwhelmed by major social and economic affairs. There are constant battles between the DPRK and China, and the progress of Taifu Temple is difficult. How can I not lose weight?"
Zhang Yang sat upright and said with a solemn expression: "Your father is really a troublemaker."
"There is a way to solve the Hexi Corridor incident."
"Well, yes, it's very simple."
Since the Sui Dynasty, commercial taxes have not included tariffs, but market taxes, making transactions between people from various countries more convenient.
As the saying goes, commercial taxes are levied in the city and are taxed and customs-controlled.
This customs tax is still proposed by myself.
Changsun Wuji could see the key point at a glance.
Zhang Yang whispered: "Actually, Duke Zhao's method is very stupid. He increased the taxes on all goods. In fact, this will make the phenomenon of bartering at the border more serious. People will use various methods to evade it. It will even go back to before the construction of Jiayuguan."
Negotiating taxes is a very troublesome matter. Zhang Yang doesn't want to deal too much with those old men in the court, so it is best to let the prime minister make the arrangements.
Following her husband's words, Li Yue took up the pen and started writing on the paper.
Zhang Yang said loudly: "You will give 40% of the 70% tax to agate and jade, 20% to cattle, sheep and livestock, and the last 10% to grain. Based on this calculation, will the tax increase?"
"Well, it is indeed more, because the price of jade and agate is higher, and the sales tax on cattle, sheep and livestock is less than before. Less... Huh? Where did the less money go?"
Li Yue was surprised after a little calculation.
