"Bonnie, Bonnie." "Vinny, Vinny!"

Xincheng screamed happily, holding a doll bigger than her in one hand, and laughing from ear to ear. It's not an ordinary doll, it's a human being, and it can walk and move.

Next to her son is a Teletubbie, and her cute appearance makes her like it very much.

Finally invited the princess to come to the house as a guest, Xiao Zhao took the boss's mind, took out all the fun things to show, said this and that proudly, and even took something from Xu Qilin's study for Princess Changle to appreciate.

Of course, Xu Qilin can also think that he is not at home, the little sister is a lawless existence, and there are no taboo things left in the study.

Even so, Princess Changle was still very interested in one of the paintings and the inscription poem on it.

Those were two Q charcoal drawings drawn by Xu Qilin, and one of them was only half colored.

"These are you three little girls!" Li Lizhi looked at the three little girls on the paper and said with a smile: "The head is big and the eyes are big, but they look very cute!" ”

Xiao Zhao grinned and said, "My brother is a lazy person, let him draw for me and the two princesses, it's always procrastinating, and I haven't finished painting until now." ”

"Qi Lin is busy with official business, so he doesn't have so much time!" Princess Changle touched the little head of the son who came over to watch, and said with a smile: "Look, this is you, this is Xincheng, let's play boating together!" ”

"This is me, holding a lotus leaf to shade the sun!" The son leaned over and said with a smile: "There is still a flower on his face!" ”

"Let me see, let me see." Xincheng finally couldn't help it, let go of the two live dolls, ran to Sister A, and the little head got under Princess Changle's arm.

Two little girls with clear eyebrows sat on a painting boat with a smile, one holding a lotus leaf like an umbrella, and the other nestled next to her, with a dragonfly on her outstretched fingers.

"Giggle." Xincheng laughed and pointed out, "Look, I caught a dragonfly." ”

Princess Changle laughed and read a poem on it softly, "Take the color boat, cross the lotus pond, and wake up the sleeping mandarin duck." The wandering girl took flowers and laughed, competed for the slender, and competed for the lotus to cover the evening photos. ”

Riding the colorful painting boat, playing in the lotus pond, I woke up the sleeping mandarin ducks. The innocent and romantic girl snuggled up to her companion and smiled, and folded the lotus leaf as an umbrella to block the sunset.

The painting and the artistic conception of the words are integrated, and the end is pleasing to the eye, and Li Lizhi can't help but praise again and again.

"This is what I want to give to the two highnesses, and the color has not been painted yet." Xiao Zhao said: "It's just that some of the pigments are incomplete and haven't been made up yet." ”

Li Lizhi nodded and said, "What kind of paint do you want, see if I have it there?" Or, you go to the princess's mansion and take it if you have one. ”

Xiao Zhao smiled and nodded, and moved her gaze to another painting, which was her favorite and proudest, just waiting for others to praise it.

Sure enough, Princess Changle took another painting and admired it.

Dressed in fluttering palace clothes, a cute girl is leaning against the door and sniffing the green plum in her hand, her eyes are stealing, and her delicate and shy color is overflowing on the paper. In the background, there is a pavilion of flowers and a swing, and the branches of several trees are still hanging with crystal dewdrops.

"Kick off the swing and get up and straighten your hands. Lunon flowers are thin, thin sweat and light clothes. Seeing the guests entering, the socks slipped through the golden hairpins. and ashamed to go, leaning on the door and looking back, but sniffing the green plums. ”

Li Lizhi chanted softly, and the image of an innocent and lively but pretending to be reserved girl appeared in front of her life, who had not experienced that time, her mentality and feelings were so similar.

Hehe, Xiao Zhao smiled, looking at the cute image in the painting, he was even more happy.

"This poem is really well written." Li Lizhi lightly exhaled a long breath, bowed her head slightly, reached out to touch Xiao Zhao's face, and said with a smile: "Qi Lin loves you, Fang painted so delicately and wrote so expressively." ”

The son pursed the corners of his mouth and said, "I want Xu Xiaolang to draw another one for me and write another poem."

"I want it too, I want it too." Xincheng screamed twice in a lively manner, but in the end it was still a child's heart, giggling and running away, pulling the two dolls to play in the garden.

Xiao Zhao hurriedly greeted Xincheng, "Don't rush to go outside to play first, the kitchen will prepare meals immediately, they are all delicious, and you haven't tasted some of them yet!" ”

Fun and delicious, this is a children's favorite. When Xincheng heard this, he immediately stopped and licked his lips subconsciously.

The son chuckled twice and asked, "Is it the recipe that Xu Xiaolang sent back?" I'm hungry too! ”

Xiao Zhao smiled, took out two pieces of paper, gave them to Princess Changle and her son, and said, "If Her Royal Highness the princess likes to eat, go back and let the cook do it." ”

After speaking, she went to the cabinet next to her and took out three boxes, opened them as if offering treasures, and said with a smile: "Look, these are all Huadian, for the three princesses." ”

Hua Tian is a kind of flower ornament on the face of women in ancient times, and it is a more popular jewelry in the Tang Dynasty. It is usually made of gold and silver in the shape of a flower, which is attached to the face, forehead, or covered with hair.

In addition to gold and silver, the materials used to make Huadian are also made of paper, fish scales, and camellia oil flower cakes. The most interesting thing is that even dragonfly wings can be used to make Huadian!

In addition to the plum blossom shape, there are also various birds, small fish, ducklings, etc., which are very wonderful and novel.

In addition, there are many complex and changeable patterns, such as horns, fans, peaches, etc., and more are depicted as various abstract patterns, sparse and dense, and well-proportioned.

This kind of flower is attached to the forehead, like a gorgeous and bright strange flower, which makes the woman look graceful and gorgeous.

Regarding the origin of Huadian, according to Song Gaocheng's "Chronicle of Things", the "Miscellaneous Five Elements Book" said: "Princess Shouyang, the daughter of Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty, lies under the eaves of the Hanzhang Palace, and the plum blossoms fall on the forehead, becoming five flowers, and they do not go away. For some reason, it is called "plum blossom makeup" or "longevity makeup".

Interestingly, the glue used to paste Huadian is a very convenient glue, which sticks as soon as it is breathed, and according to legend, it is made of fish eyes, and the adhesive force is very strong, and it can be used to stick arrow feathers.

Women use it to paste Huadian, as long as they breathe on it and dip it in a small amount of saliva, it can dissolve the paste. When removing makeup, you can remove it with a hot water, much like the self-adhesive of later generations.

The son and Xincheng leaned over, and were immediately attracted by the colorful flowers, their eyes widened, and they let out exclamations from time to time.

The color of the flower depends on the material of the flower day, for example, the gold leaf is golden, which is shimmering and reflective; The black light paper is black, and the smoke is shiny; The gills are white, clean as jade; There are also various patterns drawn on the wings of dragonflies......

Even Princess Changle's eyes widened, and she asked suspiciously, "Xiao Zhao, are these made by you?" It's so beautiful! ”

Xiao Zhao shook his head with a smile and said, "How can I be so powerful, my shop will be sold soon." ”

I see, Princess Changle reached out and took the small box, and a crystal jade finger gently plucked, as a woman, she also likes these shiny and delicate little things very much.

"Sister, post one for me!" Xincheng stretched out her little hand and picked up one, which was the little rabbit she liked.

"Okay." Princess Changle took it with a smile, took a few breaths of hot air, and pasted it on Xincheng's eyebrows.

"I want it too." The son also reached out and picked up a favorite one.

After a while, the eyebrows of the three little girls were pasted with Huadian. is already clear-eyed, but at this time it is even more handsome.

"Wow, that's pretty." Princess Changle found that with these three little girls, she also became like a child, with such simple joy and joy.

Xiao Zhao giggled happily and said to the three princesses: "Go to my shop tomorrow to have a look, there are other good things, take them if you look at them." ”

"Aren't you going to the theater tomorrow?" The son asked, a little puzzled.

"The shops and cinemas are not far away, they are all outside the city." Xiao Zhao explained: "Let's either leave early, or go back after watching the play." ”

"Yes, yes!" Xincheng likes fresh things, and at this time, he smelled the aroma of the food again, and he was even more excited.

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In the late Tang Dynasty, Cao Yun was already the lifeblood. Due to the division of feudal towns, transportation routes were often choked, and the capital Chang'an repeatedly experienced food crises.

It is precisely because of the great importance of Cao Yun that the post of Du Zhi (later divided into Du Zhi and Salt and Iron Transit Envoy) is often held by the prime minister, and how to improve the efficiency of Cao Yun and ensure the food supply in Guanzhong has always been an important research topic for the Tang Dynasty government.

However, despite the many measures taken, the cost of water transportation is still high. In the late Tang Dynasty, when Li Biao was appointed to support it, the freight per stone of rice was still maintained at 700 yuan.

At this time, the price of rice in the capital market was only 40 yuan per bucket (ten buckets for one stone). Therefore, Li Biao advocated that grain should no longer be transported from Jianghuai to Beijing, but instead pay money, which was converted into 700 wen yuan per stone of rice, and then the imperial court would take the money to purchase grain directly from the capital market and put it into the official warehouse.

Theoretically speaking, Li Biao's proposition should be correct. The imperial court no longer transported grain from Jianghuai into Beijing, but instead purchased official grain from the capital, and handed over the matter of grain trafficking to private businessmen, which really had a bit of a market economy flavor.

If this reform is successful, it will not only solve the problem of water transportation that has long plagued the imperial court, but also promote the prosperity of the grain market and even promote the budding of capitalism.

However, the problem is that ancient China has always pursued a policy of "emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce," and the social status of merchants is very low, and it is simply impossible to form a grain dispensing market with non-governmental merchants as the main body in the short term.

In other words, the political system at that time did not match the food reform policy conceived by Li Piao. Therefore, as soon as Li Piao's reform plan was introduced, it was questioned by Wang Duo, who was the Chenglang at the time.

Wang Duo believes that if official grain is purchased from the Beijing market, it will lead to a shortage of grain supply in the capital and a sharp rise in prices. And transporting grain from Jianghuai to enrich Guanzhong has another important role, which can relieve many poor people along the way.

Obviously, putting the social benefits of Caoyun in the first place is Wang Duo's proposition. However, because Li's reform plan seemed to be favorable to the imperial court, it was still approved by the emperor.

After the implementation of the plan, as Wang Duo expected, the price of grain in the capital soared. Grain is closely related to the lives of the people, and the sharp rise in grain prices immediately aroused strong dissatisfaction among the people in the capital.

In order to maximize profits, merchants take the opportunity to hoard food. The imperial court wanted to buy grain from the capital market, but no merchant was willing to sell it.

A series of chain reactions greatly surprised Li Biao, and in less than ten days, Li Biao asked for his resignation under strong social pressure and obediently took off the black gauze hat on his head.

Xu Qilin thought about it and thought that it was unreliable to rely on the transportation of private merchants. If the price of food rises or famine occurs, this is not a trivial matter.

Since the private businessmen could not afford this heavy responsibility, they would change their thinking and let the big surplus manage the shipping company and regulate the materials transported. If there is more grain, it will be changed to cloth and money, and the volume of transportation can be reduced.

At the same time, the exchange of goods between the north and the south can also be controlled in hand, and it can be regulated and controlled from a higher level, so that the transport ships can not go back and forth as much as possible, and the efficiency of transportation can be improved.

Only in this way can the cost of transportation be truly reduced. You know, don't look at the risk of bypassing the pillar by land, and the freight is almost the limit of 700 wen per stone.

Of course, 700 Wen is already a saving of 30%, which is a great achievement. But for Xu Qilin, he wants to go further.

Cao Yun, mainly from the south to the north, or to exchange for cloth money. And the ships further south are almost empty, which is quite wasteful.

As for those who carry goods, they need to hire another ship, which is expensive and very troublesome.

Well, it can be regarded as a state-run shipping company, only in this way can it think about the country, not just make money, or even hoard and make a fortune.

Xu Qilin felt that he had thought it through, so he began to write and play the imperial court.

"Xu Cheng." A small official entered the door and bowed down, presented the "Minsheng Daily", and said, "It has just been delivered." After a pause, he asked with some hesitation: "Xu Cheng has seen it, can you let the lower officials also read the news." ”

Xu Qilin nodded and said with a smile: "What is this, I will give it to you after I read it." ”

"Thank you, Xu Cheng." The petty official bowed in thanks and withdrew.

Well, "The Voice of the People" has finally made a name for itself. Xu Qilin temporarily put down his pen and flipped through the newspaper, deliberately paying attention to the news page.

Obviously, because of the approval of His Majesty Li Er, the "Minsheng Bao", which belongs to Dayingku, has received a lot of information that the imperial court allows to be made public.

For example, the newspaper in Xu Qilin's hand published the date and precautions for the imperial examination, as well as the fact that His Majesty Li Er wanted to personally test the palace to determine the ranking of Jinshi.

After all, the reform has begun, and it has only been half a year since he made his own proposal, and His Majesty Li Er is really courageous. It seems that he has long been dissatisfied with the Shi clan, and he just took the opportunity to weaken it.

This year's seal is a credit to write the palace exam, and next year's system, this step by step is very steady! Xu Qilin pondered for a long time, and couldn't help but admire His Majesty Li Er's foresight.

It is indeed the best policy to achieve the goal of consolidating imperial power with minimal turmoil, or to say by slow means. From this point of view, His Majesty Li Er and Xu Qilin are still fundamentally different.

This is also normal, their position, the angle from which they look at the problem, all determine their thoughts and actions, and there will be differences.