Chapter 178: Liuli
Where is Zongzheng's mansion, Li Chengqian didn't remember the road at all, but just found a eunuch at random and ordered him to take him with him.
So along the way, all Li Chengqian saw was the heels of eunuchs.
Different from the imaginary gusts of yin wind, the Zongzheng Mansion was built with a bright and magnificent atmosphere. It's just that the screams that come out from time to time inside are really a bit ear-piercing.
trembling and following the screams to enter, I saw that above the middle hall, a richly dressed guy was being beaten by the board, and his buttocks were exposed, and there was blood on it. But he couldn't care about covering it anymore, so he could only put his side face on the bench and scream at the top of his throat.
"Keep fighting! Lao Li's family doesn't come out of anything, but it doesn't come out of waste! ”
Today's prisoner happens to be Li Daozong, not Dazongzheng, sitting on a chair drinking tea, as for the screams of the beaten, it is right to be music.
Seeing Li Chengqian at the door, Li Daozong stood up and said, "His Royal Highness the Prince, I don't know why I came to Zongzheng Mansion?" ”
Li Chengqian pointed to the person who was beaten and asked, "Uncle Huang, who is this person?" Why was he punished? ”
Glancing at it, Li Daozong said disdainfully: "This person, the second son of Li Cheng, the king of Liang, is Li Shizheng, the king of Jiangdong County." During the period of the feudal domain, he harassed the people and did all kinds of evil in the locality. The assassin couldn't stand it, so he wrote to impeach him, but no, he was called back to Chang'an by Zongzheng Mansion to be admonished. ”
Looking at Li Shizheng's bleeding buttocks, Li Chengqian shuddered, and said to Li Daozong: "Father said that I am acting wantonly above the court, and I should come to the Zongzheng Mansion to ask for punishment." Uncle Huang, if you punish lightly, I may not be able to stand this board. ”
"I see."
Li Daozong nodded, then waved his hand and asked the two eunuchs to get Li Shizheng down.
The emperor only said that he would be punished, and he did not mean to kill him, so this board would be like this at most, and if it continued, it would beat people to death.
Looking at the series of blood droplets on the ground, Li Chengqian couldn't help but shudder.
Good guy, how many boards has this guy played?
After the two eunuchs came back, Li Daozong pointed and Li Chengqian lay down honestly. The authority of Zongzheng Mansion in the ethnic group is second only to the emperor, and even more terrifying than the emperor.
The two eunuchs were very experienced in untying people's pants, and as soon as Li Chengqian breathed a sigh of relief, he felt that his ass was exposed.
Premature life.
Li Daozong walked up to Li Chengqian and read out the charges as usual: "It is really a big crime to wantonly come to the court, but the thought is right, so it will not be severely punished." Let's execute! ”
There were no tiger skin mats, and I didn't see the two eunuchs wrapping something around the board.
In the desperate tension, Li Chengqian finally waited for the ass on the .... Pain.
It's pain, not severe pain.
Looking back in surprise, Li Chengqian immediately completely hid his smile.
The two eunuchs were struggling to greet their buttocks with two panels like door panels, although it hurt to smash this thing down, but compared with three or four inch boards, it was not too easy.
"Didn't you see the prince and didn't scream? Keep playing! ”
Overheard Li Daozong's words, Li Chengqian hurriedly shouted at the top of his throat.
Not long after, another scream sounded next door, how to listen to it more real than his own.
Li Chengqian was playful, and he specially took advantage of the fact that the screams of the brother next door were attenuated, and the two of them went up and down, just like a concert.
I don't know how many boards passed, this time there was no need for Li Daozong's body shape, Li Chengqian himself gasped, climbed down little by little, and sighed.
"Okay, don't act here, just remember to play when you go out later. Today's matter, I can't blame you, it's just that you have swept the face of so many people in court, so you have to have an explanation. The old man also hates people who take credit from others the most on weekdays, Duan Lun was taken away by Dali Temple this time, otherwise, the old man will definitely not let him feel better! ”
Li Chengqian didn't know what to say at this time, the existence of Zongzheng Mansion was to punish members of the royal family, although Duan Lun was a concubine, but it was also under the control of Zongzheng Mansion. However, a big crime, as long as you enter the Zongzheng Mansion, it means that it will not be too serious, unless it is specially for other members of the royal family, otherwise entering the Zongzheng Mansion will be a meal at most. It's great to lose the first-class title, and a few years less. But when you enter Dali Temple, like Duan Lun, there is basically no drama.
Thinking about the connection inside, Li Chengqian saluted Li Daozong, and then turned around and limped away.
As soon as he left Zongzheng's mansion, there were eunuchs carrying stretchers waiting on both sides.
Li Shizheng was still paralyzed like a lump of mud on one side, but these eunuchs didn't seem to see it.
But when Li Chengqian appeared, these guys immediately came over with a smile and helped Li Chengqian to lie on the stretcher.
"Your Highness, being tortured in Zongzheng Mansion is not all bad. As long as he has gone through this experience, even if the officials in the court at that time still have any mustards, they will not care anymore. ”
Just listening to this title, you know that the one who accompanies you next to the stretcher is also from the Alliance of the Despicable.
Good guys, even Zongzheng Mansion has been infiltrated by this group of bastards.
Entering the Yongdao and seeing that there was no one in front of him, Li Chengqian stopped inhaling and asked him: "How many palace maids and eunuchs are there in the palace who are about to be released from the palace?" I thought about it, or I would like to build a village for you. Although Liao Zhong, Wang Sheng, and Fang Sheng didn't say anything, but after you leave the palace like this, I'm afraid you won't be added to the blue eyes. ”
The stretcher stopped, and the two eunuchs carrying the stretcher looked enviously at the one who knelt on the ground and kowtowed, as if it was an honor to kowtow to the prince.
Looks like a guess.
Li Chengqian sighed, eunuchs, a deformed product of feudal society, will become the culprit of the separation of imperial power in many dynasties.
It's just that hateful people must also have pity, after suffering the most cruel palace punishment in the world, especially being constantly treated with white eyes and bad words, it is impossible not to distort it. That is, these guys don't know about nuclear bombs or anything, otherwise, it is estimated that some of the best will be very happy to lead the whole world to play with themselves.
All the way back to the East Palace, and it was still walking around the imperial city, and the officials in Zhongshu Province and other places saw the prince who was carried on a stretcher.
There were no screams, but the effect was sufficient.
Being able to let the emperor and the crown prince perform a play together, the officials felt very content.
After returning to the East Palace, he met Yan Liben.
He had just been awarded the title of baron, but he couldn't see a little joy, and when he saw the prince lying on the stretcher, his eyes immediately turned red again.
When you get here, you don't need to continue acting, Li Chengqian patted his ass and stood up, and said disapprerovitically: "Lone and you haven't really been punished, what are you doing with red eyes." When is the Celestial Banquet held? It's hard to spend so much effort alone, and it's not okay not to eat a lot. ”
"Your Highness, this is a joke, although Weichen is a young eunuch, but his identity is still a craftsman, how can anyone participate in Weichen's promotion banquet."
patted Yan Liben's waist and motioned for him to go with him, Li Chengqian said as he walked: "You are underestimating yourself, do you think that the title of county boy must be nothing?" Don't forget that it is the second year of Zhenguan, not the year of Wude, and the titles obtained at this time have a lot of gold content! If you don't believe it, you can have a banquet to try, and I promise that many people will attend, and it is estimated that the marquis will come to visit. Even if you don't participate, you will be given a gift. If you want to break into the aristocratic circle quickly, you have to hurry up and receive gifts now. ”
People need to be used, and only those who have no use value will become like dogs.
Pushing open the door of the study, a dark guy came out, wagging his tail at Li Chengqian and baring his teeth at Yan Liben.
picked up the black charcoal head and led Yan Liben into the study. Starting.. ..
On the desk, there is a drawing of the construction of the college.
No matter what, leave it to a professional person, yes. On the issue of the construction of the college, Li Chengqian is like this.
At most, I would like to make a suggestion, but how to do it and how to arrange it are all up to Yan Liben.
"Although the initial construction can be completed before winter, the subsequent wasteland reclamation cannot be stopped. The east, west, and north walls of the college cannot be sealed, leaving a gate, and the subsequent expansion can form a whole with the current building. ”
Looking at the schematic diagram, Yan Liben said bitterly at the corner of his mouth: "Your Highness, this academy is completed, do you know how much it will cost?" The financial situation of the East Palace, Wei Chen, knew that he could barely cope with it now, as long as it was time to start decorating, it would be completely insufficient. Not to mention, you'll have to expand later. In this way, you don't have to do the prince's business, you run around all day long, just for copper coins. ”
Li Chengqian smiled and shook his head: "Stupid, what's wrong with running around for copper coins alone?" Let me tell you, what you have to do now is to avoid the court and find something suitable for you to do. Even when it comes to Lone's start watching politics, it won't involve too much. As long as the academy can be built in Lone's hands, this is Lone's greatest achievement, and he will become the emperor in the future, even if he does not make any political achievements in the court, who would dare to disobey the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty? ”
Yan Liben bowed and bowed, indicating that he was taught.
Touching the black charcoal head, Li Chengqian sighed.
Before he knew it, he had long forgotten what he had in mind.
The more I recognize Datang, the more sad I am about it. There are 10,000 ideas in his mind, but he can't implement them, because he is a prince, a child, and most importantly, he is not an emperor yet!
If you want to implement these ideas, there is no second way to go except to be an emperor.
When it was time for lunch, Yan Liben was dragged by Li Chengqian to stay and eat a meal.
In the afternoon, the two of them completely sorted out what the team needed to do.
As the sun set, Li Chengqian sent two guards from the East Palace to send Yan Liben home.
At night, he can't stay here, Li Gang can, Yu Shinan can, but if Yan Liben stays overnight, it will be a bit of a killing.
Fang Sheng came back, and he made no less than 50,000 pieces of gold, silver, copper, coins, and jade and other things in the Inner Mansion.
50,000 is not a small number, but it is still a drop in the bucket when it comes to the follow-up construction of the college.
The Eastern Turks are now in chaos, and the caravans that have entered the steppe have not heard of any returning. The worries of the Tang people during the locust plague were also shared by the Eastern Turks.
Liang Shidu is just suffering from ringworm, and Chai Shao can knock him down. Pushing the border line of the Tang Dynasty to the hinterland of the Eastern Turks is like putting a steel knife on the chest of the Eastern Turks.
The big business on the grassland couldn't go on, and he went to the Western Regions, but was blocked by Gaochang again. After being blackmailed by the Gaochang people and returning with only a small profit, Li Dahai reported and suggested that he no longer go to the Western Regions.
But the academy still costs money!
With 50,000 yuan, Fang Sheng, who came back with joy, was reprimanded by Li Chengqian. Taking 50,000 yuan at one time, it is simply a hammer deal to treat the emperor's reward as a hammer deal, and how can it be compared with boiling a frog in warm water? Only a small pen and a small pen can be slowly eaten in the inner mansion to take a bite.
As for 50,000 guan, it just made the inner government have some blood.
When Li Gang's letter arrived in the East Palace, the old gentleman condemned Li Chengqian for not doing anything in the East Palace alone, and asked him to go to the construction site more often.
As everyone knows, Li Chengqian is now worried in the East Palace.
There are many ways to make money, but none of them can make a lot of money directly.
Want to get rich overnight? Then you have to sell lottery tickets! But Li Chengqian really couldn't do such a unconscionable thing.
When people are overly worried, it is easy to get angry, and Li Chengqian's dishes have turned into cold dandelions in the past two days.
"Your Highness, this is the treasure that appeared on our kiln, Weichen felt a little ugly, so he carved it before sending it over."
Looking at the brocade box that Yan Liben handed over as if he was offering a treasure, Li Chengqian could only open it and take a look.
What a broken thing, isn't it Jiaozi!
Li Chengqian threw away the brocade box very casually, a piece of broken coke, and Yan Liben carefully carved out the pattern as if it were a treasure.
It is because of the existence of this thing that the processing plant will discharge a lot of debris in later generations, and the surrounding children and the elderly will earn pocket money by picking up crushed lime slag in the coke.
Looking at his bandaged hands, you know that this bastard is purely seeking fault on his own.
Seeing that the prince threw away the brocade box with a wave of his hand, Yan Liben screamed, hugged the brocade box, and was relieved to see that the contents were not broken: "Good my prince, this is a rare treasure glass!" Liang Gong's house is just a small water cup, look at this piece, it is the size of a palm, according to Weichen, it is estimated that only the glass ball in the palace can press this end. ”
"Glass?"
Looking at Yan Liben's chick pecking rice, Li Chengqian suddenly had an idea.
"Hurry up, take Lone to the kiln!"
Throwing aside the so-called treasure that Yan Liben was holding in his hand, Li Chengqian was about to go to the lime kiln.
"Your Highness, what are you doing in the lime kiln?"
"Make glass."
"However, doesn't the beard say that the glass is the treasure of heaven and earth?"
"Shit! This thing is made out of sand burning, and there is as much sand as there is. ”
Urging Yan Liben to get into the carriage, Li Chengqian asked the coachman to go to the lime kiln.
On the way, he happened to see a chubby Hu man selling glass balls on the street, and Li Chengqian was full of contempt.
It's also a glass ball, and things that are not round or flat are very bumpy. Hu people are not honest, what heaven and earth are generated, they are simply burned out of sand.
In later generations, when he was picking up lime slag in the lime factory to make money, Li Chengqian had seen too many strange so-called "colored glass". As long as there is sand or something in the kiln, it is easy to burn this thing. Some are black, and some are even almost transparent with a green sheen, presumably some bastard potter threw the beer bottle in.
Liuli is good!
Although it is easy to make, it is surprising that people at this time revere this thing. Its value, even above the white jade, can make a good-looking treasure house at home, how to look at how to grade.
It happened that the college was short of money, and Li Chengqian felt that since the glass was so popular, if he made some exaggerated shapes, he was afraid that it would not be something that could be bought with a little money.
Because of the Eastern Turkic Civil War and the Tang Locust Plague, many caravans from the Western Regions and the Goryeo Peninsula were detained in Chang'an and were not allowed to return.
There are those who want to sneak away, and all of them are cut off their heads and paraded through the streets.
Now that Chang'an has gathered a large number of bearded rich people, they must be very interested in Liuli.
Seeing that the prince was smiling evilly, Yan Li didn't know what to do.
The county order of Wannian County was changed, and He Shou became a state assassin because of his exploits during the disaster year, but he was in a hurry and didn't say goodbye.
As for where he went, Li Chengqian didn't know, and only after many inquiries did he know that it was Danzhou.
Now the county order of Wannian County is the original county Cheng Zhou Jizhi, and he has a good meal to praise the prince's initiative to choose the cement workshop in Wannian County. The cement workshop is still expanding, and a lot of labor is required in Wannian County. There are cement workshops, and many families in Wannian County have benefited.
"Hurry up, Gu wants to add something to the kiln, and tell the workers who unload the kiln that when they are almost unloaded to this layer tomorrow, you must help Gu pay attention to it!"
Zhou Jizhi is also a competent county magistrate, and when he has nothing to do, he runs to the cement workshop.
Seeing that the prince mixed a small pile of sand into the coal seam, Yan Liben still couldn't understand how the glaze was changed.
Feeling the heat in the kiln, especially the obvious smell of sulfur dioxide, Li Chengqian glanced at the sky helplessly.
In other words, lime kilns are also a major culprit of the greenhouse effect, but there is no so-called environmentally friendly ash burning machine in this era. Even the kiln of this shaft was taught to Yan Liben by him. The most primitive method of burning lime is to burn it with wood. The stones are stacked on a wooden shelf and burned until the finished product is burned.
The shaft method is much more convenient to install the kiln, as long as each layer of stone is covered with thick anthracite.
Seeing that the coal seam mixed with small sand piles was covered with a layer of white stones, Yan Li came back to his senses: "Your Highness, can it really be done?" ”
"I guess I can."
Glancing at the direction of the academy, Li Chengqian said firmly: "Surely, hum, Lone must get enough money for the academy." Yu Tai! ”
Yu Tai stood up and bowed down to wait for the prince's orders.
"You go to Pingkangfang, find the largest green building, and tell the old bustard to decorate it, and there will be an auction there in the near future."