"Don't worry, the old man can still say a few words in Chang'an, the eldest grandson's family is indeed a little biased in driving you out of the academy."

"You're always casual, I'm going home for dinner."

After Li Zheng finished speaking, he left.

"Wait!" Li Gang stopped him and asked, "What did you and the prince say yesterday?" ”

Li Zheng went farther and farther away from Li Gang, and the farther away from people like Li Gang, the better, this kind of person will brainwash you.

I don't want to be like a piece of wood in my next life, constantly reading Confucian classics.

Recalling those brainwashed guys in later generations, Li Zheng was in a cold sweat.

Li Gang looked at the river in Jingyang under the moonlight and whispered: "This Jingyang is indeed a good place to raise people." ”

On the way back to Chang'an, Li Gang said to the servants beside him: "Don't spread a word of what I said to Li Zheng today. ”

Li Zheng's words are very pertinent, if these words are known by those who are interested, Li Zheng will sooner or later become the enemy of Confucian students all over the world.

Today's Confucianism does have its drawbacks, and the authorities are obsessed with bystanders.

Perhaps others can see that the current Confucian children have changed their taste.

In other words, the Confucian classics and rituals have begun to change in the hands of the family.

Thinking back to what Li Zheng said yesterday, Li Gang had a general direction in his heart, and all the sons and hundreds of schools of thought were free in their knowledge.

I don't know when it started, but the Confucian disciples changed.

Looking at the bright moon in the sky, Li Gang felt inexplicably lost.

Li Zheng may be a villain, but he is a villain who is very upright.

An upright villain?

After Li Gang returned to Chang'an, he kept his door closed, and refused to see anyone who came to see him.

is even more to the current majesty, and he can't afford to be the prince and young master.

Li Shimin looked at the piece in his hand suspiciously, "Li Gang, what's wrong?" ”

Wang Ding said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Li Gang has been closed since he went to see Li Zheng yesterday. ”

"Li Zheng? What's going on with Li Zheng here? ”

"The old slave doesn't know either."

Li Shimin wanted to ask Li Junxian to ask clearly, but then he remembered that the eyeliner arranged in Jingyang had been pulled out.

Throwing the piece in his hand, Li Shimin lost his temper, "Cheng bites Jin, this old horseman, has ruined my good deeds." ”

Wang Ding stood aside with his head down.

finally invited Li Gang back to Chang'an, and now he doesn't want to do it anymore.

Li Shimin sat in his place distressedly, "I still don't believe in evil anymore, there must be something about Li Zheng here." ”

Li Tai said to Li Zheng, who was frying tofu: "Why did Li Gang suddenly stop being the young master of the prince." ”

Li Zheng ignored Li Tai, carefully fried the tofu, put the tofu into the oil pot, and watched the tofu expand in the oil pot and become golden.

After the pot is out of the pot, pour some old godmothers, and it tastes very good when it is hot.

Stinky tofu can't be eaten for the time being, and it needs to be stored for a period of time, and moldy fermentation needs to be slowed down.

Li Tai ate fried tofu, thought about it and couldn't figure it out, and asked again: "Li Zheng, why did you say that Li Gang suddenly stopped being the prince and young master." ”

"How do I know?" Li Zheng was enjoying the fried tofu, "His Royal Highness King Wei, don't use your brain when eating, it's a rare opportunity to taste delicious food." ”

Li Tai ate fried tofu, "I didn't expect tofu to have such a method, you can always make some ordinary and inconspicuous food delicious." ”

"It would be better if His Royal Highness King Wei could pay for food."

"Are you so rich and lack me so much money?"

After Li Tai finished eating, he said, "Li Zheng, do you know what my father wants to do recently?" ”

"Want to kick the prince and make you the prince?."

"Can you be serious?" Li Tai thought for a while and said: "A few days ago, I heard that my father and Fang Xuanling and many other ministers discussed whether to attack Tibet, but the matter has not yet been decided, and I don't know what the prince and his father said later, and my father suddenly dispelled the idea of attacking Tibet at this time. ”

Li Zheng is still busy tinkering with tofu.

"Li Zheng, are you listening to me?"

Putting a bowl of tofu brain in front of Li Tai, Li Zheng said again: "His Royal Highness King Wei taste this." ”

Li Tai listlessly took a bite of tofu brain, "Huh? ”

"How?"

"It's delicious." Li Tai took another bite.

Li Zheng shook the pu fan in his hand, "There are many ways to eat tofu." ”

"Your craftsmanship is really good." Li Tai ate a bowl of tofu brain in a few bites, and then he was about to speak, "Huh? Where did I just go? ”

When Li Yifu came to his home, he took out the account book.

Li Tai glanced at Li Zheng's account book, and couldn't help but gasp, "Spend 30,000 yuan a month, Li Zheng, you are really a waste of money to build roads." ”

"It's called investment, strategic investment." Li Zheng finished typing the ledger.

"What is investing?" Li Tai asked curiously.

"How to put it, it looks like I'm spending money, but I'm actually making money, and of course there are risks."

"What risk?"

"It's just that your money is easy to go down the drain, and you can't get a penny."

Li Zheng said as he looked at the account book carefully, and handed over another 30,000 yuan to Li Yifu.

He piled up the money on the ox cart and pulled it out to pay the people.

Looking at this scene, Li Tai shook his head and sighed, "It is said that you Li Zheng is first-class in amassing money, and no one in Chang'an can compare to you in terms of the speed of spending money." ”

"Investment, it's all investment." Li Zheng smiled and nodded.

"Build a road, are you sure you can earn the money back?"

"Don't worry, I will definitely earn it back, I'm very sure."

Li Tai shook his head and sighed, just about to say that Li Zheng's next scene made him almost bite his tongue.

The business money of the Cheng family wine shop also brought in a car, and the account of the printing shop was more than 50,000 yuan.

Li Zheng walked into the house carrying the money, "Fatty, don't be stunned to take the handle, help me carry the money in." ”

Only then did Li Tai come back to his senses, looking at the copper coins full of money in front of him, and wanted to slap himself.

With the Cheng family's spirits and printing shop business, Li Zheng is afraid that he will have endless money in his life.

I called a few villagers to put all the money into their own treasury.

Li Tai looked at the treasury of Li Zheng's house, and he couldn't move his steps, "Li Zheng, I dare to guarantee that the money in the treasury of Chaozhong is definitely not as much as yours." ”

"Where, where." Li Zheng closed the door of the warehouse and hung up the big lock.

"It's a pity, what's the use of having so much money and not being an official in the court, if you don't have a big enough official to add you, I'm afraid it will be ...... in the future."

With Li Tai's shoulder, Li Zheng said: "His Royal Highness King Wei, you don't know this, a very rich person will be slaughtered, but a person who makes a fortune with the royal family, the royal family will protect him, I am your father's cash cow." ”

"The printing shop alone gives you tens of thousands of silver dollars a month, which is not the money from taxes, but your father's own small treasury."

"In other words, this money does not need to be put in the treasury, and your father can do whatever he wants." Li Zheng continued: "For example, ......"

"For example, to increase the number of troops."

Li Zheng straightened his clothes and said, "For example, it is used as a dowry." ”

Li Tai: "......"

Seeing that Li was about to go out, Li Tai caught up with him in a few steps, "What are you going to do?" ”

"Earn money!"

Li Zheng came to the entrance of the village in Jingyang and asked Xu Jingzong, "When can this section be repaired?" ”

"It'll be spring next year, and another month."

took out a drawing, this is a drawing for road construction, Li Tai looked at it from the side and saw the fame, Li Zheng made a shortcut.

In the past, the official road had to be detoured from Jingyang and Jingyang River, but now it directly crosses the Jingyang River, and there is no official road that goes straight to the rear without twists and turns.

The distance from Chang'an to the official road was reduced, and the distance between Chang'an and Luoshui River was shortened.

Li Zheng circled a place on the map, pointed to the place he circled and asked, "I remember that this piece of land is also our Jingyang." ”

Looking at the place Li Zheng pointed to, just three miles away from a fork in the road, the entrance of Jingyang Village, Xu Jingzong replied: "It does belong to the boundary of Jingyang, it turns out that those lands are part of the princess's fiefdom, and now they are all assigned to the county marquis?" ”

Li Zheng circled the land again and said: "Build a post house here, passers-by live, and spread the road to build a wide square." ”

"What is the county marquis going to do?"

"Earn money."

Li Zheng grinned: "Run this place well, and some will earn in the future." ”

A ten-kilometer road was built from the fourth year of Zhenguan to the fifth year of Zhenguan, and it was only half completed.

It is already the spring of the fifth year of Zhenguan, and it is the season of mango planting, and many strong laborers have to go back to farming and growing grain.

Li Shimin sat in the Manna Hall and listened to the recent recital.

Last year's bumper harvest made Li Shimin breathe a sigh of relief.

This time it can finally be steady, at least this year, the grain in the official warehouse is full again.

With grain stocks in the DPRK and China, they are full of confidence in doing everything.

Seeing the recital of the household department, Li Shimin said: "Go and call Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui." ”

Half an hour later, the two of them came to the Hall of Manna.

Li Shimin took this piece and asked: "Recently, the Ministry of Household Affairs said that there has been a lot of depression in the east and west cities of Chang'an, and the commercial tax collected in the first month of this year has decreased by nearly 50 percent. ”

This year has just begun, and the DPRK-China court meeting has just begun.

Li Shimin has a lot of recitals to review, and he will focus on matters related to salt and iron taxes.

It's just that I didn't expect it to be so abnormal when I saw the report of the household department, Chang'an's commercial tax fell by half all of a sudden, and it was already thirty taxes and one, could it be that the businessmen didn't do it anymore?

Fang Xuanling opened his mouth and said, "Your Majesty, all this has something to do with Li Zheng's road repair?" ”

"What does it matter? Is Li Zheng's road construction still related to the tax revenue of the DPRK and China? ”

Fang Du and the two looked at each other helplessly.

Fang Xuanling said: "Your Majesty's matter is actually a bit complicated, and Li Zheng's path is a little different. ”

Li Shimin recalled that in the autumn of last year, Li Zheng said that he would build roads.

Now the road must be almost repaired.

The five-kilometer road connects Jingyang to Chang'an, and then connects to the official road through Jingyang.

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