Chapter 503 Long Years

"Guan Guan Ju Dove, in the river island, my fair lady, gentleman is good......"

Accompanied by bursts of crisp and pleasant children's voices, Zhang Che's head shook with the intonation of reading.

Now, this Zhang Che is seven years old and has begun to read books such as the Book of Songs under the guidance of Li Yu. Zhang Yunwen is teaching him some basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and basic physical chemistry knowledge.

Putting down the scroll, Zhang Yunwen touched the two mustaches on his lips, shook his clothes, and walked out of the door.

At this time, in the courtyard, the autumn leaves are falling, and the autumn breeze is rising.

This year is already the twenty-first year of Zhenguan. It's been a year since the Sumo people attacked the Datang material convoy. Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, the past is all gone.

During this year, Zhang Yunwen stayed in Chang'an and lived a leisurely and comfortable life. In addition to going to the court every once in a while or working in a few departments, the rest of the time is to visit the mountains and rivers and visit the entire Guanzhong.

At that time, there was no war in the four realms of the Tang Dynasty, even if there was a little friction, it was the Tang Army that was bullying the surrounding aliens. That's why Zhang Yunwen can be so leisurely.

In the summer of last year, the 20,000 Tang troops stationed in Tuyuhun marched to the plateau, crossed the Jishi Mountain, and fought a small battle with the Lujia army near Doma, in this battle, a total of 927 Lujia troops were annihilated, and their own losses were 340. This proportion of losses is very rare in the Tang Dynasty's foreign wars. Generally speaking, in the battle with the northern nomads, the losses are ten to one, nine to one, of course, when calculating this ratio, in addition to firearms, only cold weapons are counted. Due to the sophisticated armor and weapons of the Tang Dynasty, the losses have been maintained to this extent. I didn't expect to fight this small battle with the Tubo people on the plateau, and the loss was like this, if the Tang Dynasty and the Tubo started a full-scale war, what should be the loss of the soldiers?

Both Li Shimin and Li Ji are very dissatisfied with this result. Therefore, those Tang soldiers stationed in Tuyuhun hurriedly practiced day and night, striving to achieve satisfactory results on the plateau.

However, after this battle, Naqinling sent a messenger to Chang'an and respectfully asked Li Shimin, I offended the Tang Dynasty in Tibet, and actually provoked the Tang Dynasty to come east?

Li Shimin said righteously: "Tuyuhun is my Tang Dynasty's vassal country, you wait for the horses to plunder Tuyuhun, and my Tang Dynasty protects the subject country, this is a justifiable thing, do you dare to criticize me for it?" ”

Hearing Li Shimin say this, the envoy who dared to ask Tubo was immediately silent.

Today's plateau situation has become much clearer, although the new nobles represented by Qinling and the old Tibetan nobles are fighting internally, but externally, they are working together, resisting Yangtong, marching into Yongjing, and forming an alliance with Tang Jing to deal with Yongjing together. When Songtsen Gampo died and Lu Dongzan was imprisoned, the whole of Tibet was torn apart. Now, under the continuous conquest and diplomatic offensive of this Qinling, Yongjing is trapped in a corner, and has been defeated by the combined forces of Tubo and Tang Jing several times, and the day of destruction is not far away. To deal with Yangtong, this Qinling tried his best to lure the discord and use it all over again, and secretly cultivated his own power, so that Yangtong was in a semi-split state, and had no time to attack Tubo.

When Li Shimin saw the information about this Qinling from Tibet, Li Shimin sighed: "This Qinling is really a generation of heroes, watching its actions, whether it is bright or dark, unscrupulous. If this person is in charge of Tibet, my Datang wants to break through this place, but there are many troubles! At the same time, he ordered the soldiers to step up their training, and it was necessary to train at least 50,000 soldiers suitable for highland operations before the destruction of the sheep in this Qinling.

Now Datang is peaceful in all directions, and the situation in China is also good. Due to the implementation of the heavy commercial order, the rapid development of commerce, Chang'an City, often see cars in and out, and on the Grand Canal, there are many sails and shadows, and the river is endless. Compared with the prosperous commerce, the road situation in the Tang Dynasty was much worse, although every year the government would levy conscription to repair the roads, but many merchants and travelers soon rolled out two deep ruts on the roads that had been repaired. This road is still not easy to walk.

However, the conscription and conscription, the wasted labor, and the repaired official roads will be trampled out of deep pits in a few months. This gave Li Shimin a headache. Although Zhang Yunwen put on a concert, asking businessmen from all over the country to raise money on their own to repair the road, this piece was rejected by Li Shimin. He said that this road is a great tool of the country, and the matter of building the road is the business of the state, where can the businessmen interfere. For this situation, Zhang Yunwen is also very helpless. Let's put it here first, and then I will slowly persuade Li Shimin.

Commerce is booming, and agriculture is not bad. With the development of Jiangnan, the flow of people in Jiangnan has gradually increased, and the city represented by Yangzhou has developed rapidly. The annual rent paid is increasing. In addition, the population of Youzhou Yingzhou began to migrate to Liaodong, and those alien races captured by the Tang army began to be sinicized under the words and deeds of the Han people, rushing to nomadic hunting and specializing in farming. Although it will eventually be a very long process to realize the transformation of nomadic hunting to agricultural civilization in the whole of Liaodong, there is at least a good start now.

In the past three years, more than 2,000 hectares of cultivated land have been added to Pyongyang in eastern Liaodong, and these peasants who came all the way from the Central Plains have cut down the amount and drained the swamps to open up plots of cultivated land. The provinces of Pyongyang Province in Liaodong Province are also exempt from paying taxes for one year on these newly cultivated farmlands.

When it comes to agriculture, we have to mention cotton. Nowadays, all the places in Longyou and the western and northern parts of the audience are planted with cotton. Whenever the cotton harvest season, standing on the ridge of the field, I see the mountains all over the field, a plain white. The large-scale cultivation of cotton has led to the rapid development of the cotton textile industry. However, under the condition that the machinery and equipment are not perfect, the cotton farmers rely on their experience, slowly explore, and combined with the textile equipment from Gaochang, they have created an improved type, which is slightly more efficient than the original machinery. Therefore, the price of cotton cloth is much more expensive than that of linen cloth and kudzu cloth.

It is precisely because Datang now has no internal and external troubles, and Heqing Haiyan is the reason why Zhang Yunwen can put aside his work and leisurely take his family to enjoy the mountains and rivers.

However, what worries Zhang Yunwen is that Li Shimin's health is getting worse day by day. Now, this court meeting is already once every ten days, and usually if there is anything, it is mostly dealt with by the prince. The important matter was handed over to Li Shimin. Li Shimin has been a horse for half his life, and his military achievements are impressive, and his prestige in the government and the opposition is unparalleled. And Li Zhi, above the prestige, is far from his father. Fortunately, Li Shimin is still in charge now, which makes Zhang Yunwen feel a lot more relieved.

Seeing the current Tang Dynasty, Zhang Yunwen couldn't help but feel a little proud. It was his own series of activities in the Tang Dynasty that made the Tang Dynasty at this time much stronger than the medicine in history. Although it can't be perfect, Zhang Yunwen believes that the people behind him will definitely do better.

"Master, master, there is a soldier outside, saying that he has something important to tell you!"

Just as Zhang Yunwen was standing in the courtyard and pacing slowly, he saw a maid come in and report to Zhang Yunwen.

Zhang Yunwen walked to the front hall to take a look, only to see a seventeen or eighteen-year-old young soldier standing in the front hall, seeing Zhang Yunwen coming, the young man saluted, and then took out an invitation card and handed it to Zhang Yunwen: "General Zhang, this is sent by my general, please go to the banquet tonight!" ”

Zhang Yunwen opened the invitation card and saw that it was Su Dingfang, and he couldn't help but wake up, it seemed that today was the day when Su Dingfang returned to Chang'an, how could he forget.

immediately said: "Okay, I will definitely go to Brother Su tonight to catch the wind and wash the dust for Brother Su!" ”

Su Dingfang was named the son of Wuyi County, and he was among the nobles. In the second year of his tenure as the protector of Anton, Li Shimin gave Su Dingfang a large mansion. Tonight, Su Ding is convenient to have a treat in his house.

When Zhang Yunwen arrived at Su Dingfang's residence, he heard a commotion from inside.

When I entered the courtyard, I saw more than ten or twenty people holding large bowls and toasting each other. These people are all generals in the army, including Su Dingfang's colleagues and comrades-in-arms on the battlefield, one by one unceremoniously drinking in big bowls, munching on meat, and joking about Su Dingfang from time to time: "How is it, Lao Su, the girls of Goryeo taste good!" ”

"You are the protector of Anton, you are the biggest over there, can you rob the people's girls openly? Hahaha......"

Hearing the ridicule of these people, Su Dingfang also said with a smile: "The Goryeo girls are really good, that skin is really fucking slippery, Lao Pei, do you want to try it, when Lao Tzu comes back, I will bring a few Goryeo maids back, and I'll give you one later!" ”

Pei Xingjian laughed: "Forget it, you better keep it for yourself!" ”

In addition to Pei Xingjian, there are also Duan Yunsong, Xi Junmai and others, these people are very familiar with Zhang Yunwen, and after drinking two bowls of wine, they talked. Others were Zhang Yunwen's subordinates in the gendarmerie battalion and now Zuo Yulin's army.

"Yunwen, you kid is not righteous, you left me in Liaodong, suffered from the cold and freezing that day, in winter, you gnaw on dried meat every day, and your mouth is full of fishy smells, and now when you come back, you want to gnaw cabbage and radish! Tell me, brother, how should I punish you? Su Dingfang, who was already a little drunk, pointed at Zhang Yunwen and said.

Zhang Yunwen hurriedly picked up a bowl of wine: "Do you want to punish the little brother for drinking?" ”

Su Dingfang gave Zhang Yunwen a bowl of spirits, and shouted loudly: "Drink, drink......"

Those Zhang Yunwen's subordinates rarely saw Zhang Yunwen being drunk, and they followed one by one: "Drink, drink......"

A bowl of strong wine went down his stomach, let out a heavy breath, wiped his mouth, and said loudly: "Where can Lao Tzu drink alone, you all have to drink!" ”

"Okay, drink!"

Su Dingfang's reception banquet eventually evolved into a wine banquet. One by one, the generals held the sea bowl and drank bowl after bowl. From time to time, someone is lying on the table. But he was soon helped down by the soldiers who were standing aside.

When Zhang Yunwen finished drinking a bowl of wine and looked at the drunk people in the courtyard, he couldn't help laughing.

Lying drunk and lying in the world, the vast years and years are year after year.

Those drunken guys didn't know what Zhang Yunwen was laughing at, and laughed with him.