The Crown Princess took her children to see Li Yue first, and the female family members of the three families sat together and talked and laughed.
The conversation soon became centered on Li Yue, who fully overwhelmed the Crown Princess and Princess Wei in terms of knowledge, temperament, and aura control.
As for the prince's son Li Xiang, he was bullied by Xiao Qingqing as soon as he arrived at Lishan.
The three of them sat at the foot of Lishan Mountain. Before they could say anything, Li Chengqian sighed, looking very sad, and whispered: "Due to the war between Dashi and Datang, this year's imperial examination has been postponed until late autumn. , there are more and more people in Chongde Square, and it is already overwhelmed."
Zhang Yang shook his fan and said with a smile: "It would be nice to be lively."
Li Tai watched with cold eyes, saying to himself that his brother-in-law had given you a lot of face when he helped you with Chongde Fang, so why now he is saying that there is something wrong with Chongde Fang.
Speaking of the Zhenguan Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty emperor Li Shimin, a fierce man from heaven, planned to push the country towards the direction of comprehensive development of civil and military affairs.
The Zhechong Prefecture was reorganized, young generals were re-employed, and the imperial examination was established to curb aristocratic families.
Strengthening centralization weakens local governments and weakens local governments.
But this Tian Khan had a headache when it came to educating his children. After Li Chengqian saw that the establishment of official schools and supporting education had improved, and let Cen Wenwen and Zhongshu Sheng take over full management, the prince still wanted to intervene in the matter.
Now he is still worried about Chongdefang. Does the prince really not understand what his father means?
"I also heard that Master Kong Yingda admired the knowledge of Lishan Mountain Gate."
"Really?" Zhang Yang smiled in astonishment, "It's just some bad opinions."
Li Chengqian nodded and added: "Even the prime minister said that after reading the article, it felt like a glow on his back."
Zhang Yang still waved his hand and said: "It's just some superficial opinions that can't be brought to the table. Besides, I am now wholeheartedly busy solving Lishan's predicament. Now my family can hardly open the pot."
"Can't you open the pot?"
"It means being very poor, eh! Life is hard."
Listening to Zhang Yang's words, Li Chengqian lowered his head and saw a pot of iced grapes on the table, "Didn't my father send a lot of money to Lishan last time?"
Zhang Yang added: "His Royal Highness, you don't know. They are all used to make firearms. After paying our craftsmen the wages of what can be left, Lishan will pay back."
No one can be said to be poor in Lishan. Li Chengqian was suspicious. Lishan could not be without money.
After that, Li Chengqian took out some medicinal materials and said, "The mother was concerned about Princess Wei's pregnancy and hoped that the child would be born safely, so she asked Gu to visit."
Li Tai saluted in the direction of Chang'an City, "My mother is worried."
He sat down again and said, "Brother Huang, please inform the Queen Mother that everything is fine with us. We have Divine Doctor Sun watching over us so that nothing can go wrong."
Originally, the prince listened to the queen's words and came to Lishan to visit Li Tai, but the two brothers couldn't speak directly, so they wanted to pay a visit to their mother.
And Li Tai just said, everything is fine in Lishan and you can go back.
Zhang Yang looked at the two brothers, his expressions were not very good, and said with a smile: "Your Highness, what has the court been busy with recently?"
Li Chengqian explained: "The Prime Minister proposed to select a county in the Hetao south of Helan Mountain, and the central government would arrange control and construction, and then build a mutual market property similar to the Hexi Corridor."
The Hetao is located to the north of the Guanzhong Plain, and the Hexi Corridor is located to the west of the Guanzhong.
In this way, Chang'an City has a position for mutual trade between the north and the west.
Zhang Yang is more willing to believe that this was Li Shimin's special request. After tasting the benefits of mutual trading, with Li Shimin's character of wanting everything, he definitely does not want to continue to make money in the Hexi Corridor with Lishan.
The court also needs money, and needs a lot of money. Fang Xuanling and others will not sit back and watch the Lishan family dominate.
Now another mutual market place has been opened, which has the meaning of checking and balancing Lishan.
Not all people in the court are good people. People like Changsun Wuji will definitely support it with both hands. The more Lishan plays a decisive role, the more worried people like him will be.
After all, it is a centralized system, and the powerful can cause chaos and evil, it doesn't matter, but with this family of relatives who are pursuing advancement and are wealthy and close to the people, it is inevitable for people to think too much.
Zhang Yang folded his hands and sighed: "There are all bad people in the court, except me! There are no good people in this world."
"The prime minister and the others are all thinking about the country."
Zhang Yang continued to ask Li Chengqian about news from the DPRK, and then he talked about the reason why the Prime Minister did what he did.
Li Chengqian smiled and said: "Actually, the Fang Xiang and Zhao Guogong have such an opinion, and it is really not against Lishan."
Zhang Yang ate grapes and listened patiently.
This matter should start from the morning greetings at the beginning of this year, Li Chengqian explained patiently.
The Turks in the Hexi Corridor have long had objections. They do not want their tribesmen to take such a long detour and go to Jiayu Mountain.
This year Ashina Funian came to congratulate him and asked for mutual trade. This Ashina Funian is also a relative of the Turkic royal court. Anyway, everyone is named Ashina, and they all control their own territories among various tribes and tribes. power within.
Ashina Funian is the son of Jieli Khan's elder brother. He was still young when Jieli was defeated. It was not until Jieli was captured that this man slowly took over the population of Jieli tribe.
Ashinadur left the Turks for so long and never returned, while Fu Nian was thinking of strengthening himself while professing tribulation to the Tang Dynasty.
Couldn't Chaozhong clearly see Fu Nian's thoughts?
No matter how generous Li Shimin was, Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji would not be able to look past him if he allowed it to develop.
It is very troublesome for the Turks living in Yinshan to go through the Hexi Corridor if they want to trade with each other. Trade only needs a place and does not require a specific pass.
Therefore, Fang Xuanling chose the location closest to the Turks and most advantageous to the Tang Dynasty, which was the Hetao.
The Turks had to cross the Yinshan Mountains to trade in the Hetao, and the journey was more convenient than going to the Hexi Corridor.
The people in the court are all talented people. In this matter, people in the court have to contribute, and the Turks can get benefits in vain without doing anything?
It was only under the advice of Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji, and Wei Zheng that Li Shimin finally agreed to the Turks' request for mutual trade.
However, this was conditional, allowing Ashina Funian to lead troops to rescue the Tang people in Persia.
Firstly, it can eliminate the hidden danger of Ashina Fu Nian, and secondly, for the reason that the prince did not say, they want to use this to check and balance Lishan, and then open a mutual market, so that the Lishan family cannot be the dominant one.
Due to the signing of the original contract, North Korea and China cannot interfere with the Hexi Corridor anymore, so they will open another mutual market place.
After listening to Li Chengqian's words, Zhang Yang thought about the pros and cons, and slowly understood Fang Xuanling's plan.
After receiving the basket of grapes from Li Yuan, the prince's family also went back.
On the carriage back to Chang'an City, Crown Princess Su talked about what she had learned from today's conversation with the hostess of Lishan, and she had a better idea for managing the prince's family business.
In the carriage, the prince's son Li Xiang was still mumbling to himself.
Su asked in confusion: "Xiang'er? What are you talking about?"
Li Xiang asked: "Mother, three bowls of rice for three people in three days, how many bowls of rice for nine people in nine days?"
Seeing Su's eyes looking over, Li Chengqian also avoided his eyes and thought to himself.
Li Xiang added: "This is a question given by the little princess to the child. If the child cannot answer it, she will call the child a fool."
"Fool?"
Li Xiang added: "It's just a very stupid egg. I'll go back and ask Master Kong if such an egg really exists in the world."
This didn't sound like a good word at all. Crown Princess Su held her forehead and looked at her child's waist, "Huh? Where is the jade pendant given by your grandpa?"
Li Xiang replied: "My child lost in the chess game, and the jade pendant also lost to Qingqing."
Li Chengqian hesitated to speak, and he couldn't get angry for a while. The Donggong family owed Lishan a lot of favors, and the jade pendant given by his father was very important.
Su Shi said: "Xiang'er, when your grandpa asked, he said that the little princess of Lishan liked to give it to her, but don't say that he lost it to her."
Li Xiang nodded heavily, "I understand, kid."
On the way back, Mrs. Su also talked about what happened today. Only then did Li Chengqian know how smart Zhang Yang and Yue'er's children were. Now she was the leader of the Lishan children. No matter in terms of skill or intelligence, she was not comparable to ordinary children. of.
Presumably, the children from Donggong are not as good as the children from Lishan. Her teachers are Li Jing, Ouyang Xun, and Zhang Gongjin. '
Moreover, the child was born to Princess Runan, who ran Lishan Mountain, and her father was Zhang Yang.
After seeing off the prince's family, Li Tai asked in confusion: "My father actually asked Ashina Funian to go to Persia and brought 20,000 Turkic troops with him?"
The war between Dashi and Datang is imminent, and Datang is more like a party with more help from those who have achieved enlightenment. All peoples and ethnic groups obey the orders of Tian Khan and start a Central Asian war.
"His Royal Highness the King of Wei, the people in the court are very clever. They know that Ashinadur is not in the Turks, and Fu Nian's power will continue to expand, thus threatening the status of the little Khan."
Li Tai nodded and said, "Is that why Father asked him to leave the grassland?"
"His Royal Highness the King of Wei must not forget that Ashinadur is also in Persia. The court hopes that Ashinadur will fight with Fu Nian, thereby stabilizing the situation in the north of the Tang Dynasty and allowing the Turks to fight in the Persian battlefield. Be more dedicated.”
"As long as the little Turkic Khan can grow up comfortably and the Heavenly Khan promises rewards, everything will be justified, and the Turkic people will be willing to die for the Tang Dynasty."
Lishan had an opponent, and when Fang Xuanling also came forward, Zhang Yang felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart.
There are too many capable people around Li Shimin. In the past, it was okay to be angry with Changsun Wuji, but Xu Jingzong was enough to give him a headache.
But when he thought that Lishan's opponent was Fang Xuanling, Zhang Yang always felt unsure.
Whether it is military strategy and actions between North Korea and China, or containing Lishan.
Fang Xuanling's methods were both subtle and sharp, going straight to the point.
After being an official for so many years and running Lishan Mountain for so many years, I have never had any direct contact with Fang Xiang.
After this battle, Zhang Yang felt like a fox playing tricks, and those things in the past were nothing.
Fang Xuanling has been hiding behind the scenes, standing beside His Majesty, making suggestions for the Tian Khan.
Zhang Yang lamented that the Prime Minister was very low-key and did not show off his talents easily. He did not even feel that he had much presence in the court.
If you don't take action, that's it. Once you take action, it's a calculation to manipulate multiple parties.
Thinking carefully about what has happened over the years, Changsun Wuji, Yan Shigu, or Li Zhengzao, Songtsan Gampo and others, none of these people seem to be as good as Fang Xuanling.
Your Majesty was the one who allowed the Ministry of Rites and Lishan to bear fruit, and Fang Xuanling was the one who picked the fruit, digested it, and used the nutrients for the country.
Only then did I realize that I knew too little about Fang Xuanling.
He has always kept a low profile in the court and has few old friends or disciples. It is difficult to find faults in him.
Walking on the mountain road home, Xiao Qingqing sat on the back of a bear and played the flute.
Li Yue was in a good mood. The couple walked next to each other, "My husband seems to have something on his mind."
"Well, I was thinking about how Fang Xianghui would treat Lishan."
"We, Lishan, don't have much contact with Fang Xiang."
"It is precisely because we don't have much contact that I feel that the prime minister has been hiding in the dark and observing us."
The whole family returned to Huaqing Pool. The younger brothers and sisters rushed to swim, so Zhang Yang let them go.
When he came to the study, Zhang Yang sat alone, with drawings in front of him and stacks of memorials from Taifu Temple.
This was the first time I felt uneasy and uneasy inside.
His Highness the Crown Prince's visit today was not in vain, at least he had a taste of the methods of the Prime Minister.
As soon as Fang Xiang went to the court, Lishan lost the confidence to act arrogantly, and Lishan had to be cautious.
Wherever they dare to make mistakes, let alone annexing land, they dare not move.
As expected of the former Fang Gujue, there is a reason why he has been valued by Li Shimin for so long.
No matter how powerful the opponent was, Lishan still had to develop. Zhang Yang looked through the files of Taifu Temple and buried his thoughts in his work.
Half a month later, another news came from the DPRK that Li Zhengzao had been captured by Dali Temple.
He was the person behind the original instigation of merchants to sue Lishan.
Even though he was driven out of Zhao County, he was still a member of the Li family of Zhao County. Zhao County immediately sent people to lobby the court.
As the victim, Lishan did not express any attitude.
Zhang Yang stood on the top of the mountain, looking at the clouds that kept gathering and dispersing in the blue sky, wanting to see how the court would deal with this matter and how he would arrange this person.
News also came from Jiangnan. The imperial censors in the DPRK found out that Lishan did not forcefully buy the tea mountain.
The prime minister acted fairly, and Lishan was cleared of both incidents.
The DPRK reprimanded the prominent families in Jiangnan for competing with the people.
The Li family of Zhaojun also paid a fine of one thousand guan to the court, and ordered Li Zhengzao and his clan members to no longer be allowed to serve as officials.
Now that this matter has been revealed, the DPRK and the Central Government can ignore it and prevent the children of aristocratic families from entering official positions, which is already a good deal.
Reason and justice are on the court's side, and people have nothing to say.
"Dad, His Highness King Wei said there are bad people outside our village." Xiao Qingqing ran over quickly.
"Well, there are too many bad people in this world, just drive them away." Zhang Yang wrote lightly.
"The bad guy was making noise outside the village. He said he would not leave until he saw his father. Uncle Wei Wang had someone beat him up, but he still refused to leave."
Zhang Yang said distressedly: "Who is it?"
"Uncle King Wei said his name is Li Zhengzao."
Zhang Yang took the peach from his wife and said while eating: "No." (End of Chapter)
