At present, this kind of wine is only provided to a few old people and wives, even Li Zhi himself, who was rarely willing to drink it before.

However, the boundless world has collected too many fruits that are not available in the world today, and it is a product of the aura environment, and the monkey wine made by them is too advanced.

When Li Zhi was busy outside, Sun Simiao in the secret territory took on the work of brewing in large quantities, and with the help of Pang Ti, the current quality of such wine is tens of thousands of catties.

Not long after, a group of old people came, and Jiang Long sighed: "It's still thanks to you, the Jiang family is thriving now!" ”

Lao Ming Wang smiled and said: "Text, guess how much harvest the Jiang family's restaurant has every month?" ”

"There's always one of three or four hundred taels, right?"

Li Zhi is also very interested in knowing, after all, he has a deep relationship with the Jiang family, no less than the grandson family of the Eastern Mountains.

But this restaurant is built on the edge of the deep mountain, and there are very few people passing by, and the number in his mouth is already too much.

Jiang Long laughed: "On average, there are two thousand two two or three per month, you can only guess a fraction!" ”

"So many?" Li Zhi's tone was full of surprise.

"Isn't that all, don't forget that they don't have a place to eat and drink, and they are even more counting on the Jiang family to sort out the relationship with Tianji Pavilion!"

Li Zhi thought about it, judging from the long-term residence of more than 20 forces, each with a number of retinues, plus those who came temporarily, there would be a hundred and ten daily guests.

Jiang Long continued: "This is still the absence of Daoist Cheng Bi for a period of time, once the news comes out, more people will come!" ”

"What about security? Some cultivation is very arrogant! Li Zhi asked worriedly.

"There is no problem, not only are there more than a dozen forbidden guards sent by General Li Yu stationed all year round, but there are also other personnel from the Laojun Hall and Tianji Pavilion to protect them. Moreover, there are also four people in the Jiang family who are cultivating in Tianji Pavilion, and the eldest of your second uncle is already a third-level hunter! ”

The second uncle is Jiang Cheng, and the eldest son, Jiang Manchu, is nineteen years old this year, and he had the strength of a first-level hunter earlier, and he was the only cultivator of the Jiang family before.

His physique can only be regarded as average, so Li Zhi only gave out a part of the pill and did not deliberately instruct.

"How is the business between our Jiang family and the Huaqing Palace Imperial Dining Hall?"

"With the help of the two generals, Li Shao and Li Yu, there is always a few thousand taels of income a year, and even our family's iron tools have begun to be supplied. However, they were in high demand, and a blacksmith shop couldn't do it, so I divided it among nearby workshops! ”

"Coupled with the business with Zhengqing Wenqitang, the Jiang family also has an income of 10,000 taels every year, right?"

"Last year, I calculated that it was more than 16,000 taels, not counting the gold I received sporadically!"

"Haha!" Li Zhile said, "This is more than the annual income of some big families in Chang'an City!" ”

The old ancestor interjected with a smile: "It's better than the eastern mountains, no wonder his grandfather is so happy!" ”

Lao Ming Wang said: "In the next few years like this, the Jiang family will be enough to become a big family, the juniors in the clan, but they must be sent to the city to study earlier, maybe there will be a few available talents in the future!" ”

"Yuran's mother is already in Zhangluo, and the old people in the Ming Wangfu are also busy with it!" Jiang Long said.

The boss he said was Li Yu Li Fanglun, the eldest son of the third generation of the Ming Dynasty, who was a scholar from the second grade, and was in charge of the edict, and his status was worthy of being the prime minister of the dynasty, and he did not have much real power.

After Gaozong's death, he was transferred to Guozijian to teach, which was the competent institution and the highest institution of education in the Tang Dynasty, and it was just right to find him.

Of course, the topic of the crowd will not be so dull.

Suddenly, Jiang Long asked: "Text, do you still remember the incident with Yuxian Bridge in the story of Lishan?" ”

Li's heart moved, and he vaguely felt that the old man had something to say.

Yuxian Bridge incident, of course, he still remembers, there is a candidate, go to Beijing to catch the exam to this bridge, get the advice of the immortals, lucky to pass the test, deep in Lishan, a certain bridge is named "Yuxian Bridge".

Lintong County was named only five years ago, and it was called Zhaoying County before, and the reason why Zhaoying was changed to Lintong is closely related to this incident.

This incident was later confirmed that the so-called instructions of the immortals were actually made up by individuals, and the initiator of this series of farces was Wang Pin, who was then the Cheng of Zhaoying County.

It is said that it was the distant elder of the examinee Mo Weng Valley who received his heavy gift and worship, so he came up with such a rebellious but strange show.

It was only because the incident initiated by him was a great sensation at the time, and was therefore named Zhaoying by the royal family, from "Gai to Xiaogan Heavenly God, Zhaoying is so".

Therefore, it attracted the imperial edict of Gaozong, and built a Yuxian Bridge in that location.

Yuxian Bridge is located in the Shiweng Valley between the East and West Xiuling, and the Moweng Valley was renamed because of this incident is its source, claiming to be grateful for the grace of the immortals.

Mo Weng Gu was the most direct beneficiary, and was once promoted to the rank of Wailang of Shangshu Province, and had a brief experience as a bachelor of Hanlin.

Unexpectedly, someone with a heart went to Longxi to find Moweng Valley's hometown, only to learn that one of his distant relatives was Wang Pin.

Therefore, the matter was finally exposed, and the candidate himself had no real material, so it angered some people in the court who were enthusiastic about this matter.

In the end, this incident was exposed as a joke, and Mo Weng Valley's whereabouts have been unknown since then, and its initiator, Wang Pin, committed suicide by throwing himself into the river because of this incident, otherwise more people would be affected.

But the money that this person was greedy for before he died was scattered all the way by himself, and it happened to be scattered by the river that committed suicide.

Li Zhi was convinced of this story at the time, at least according to the origin of the idiom of cocooning and self-restraint, he still had doubts about the incident itself, but he was deeply convinced of the man's shouting before throwing himself into the river.

He thought that people who made up stories would not necessarily have the ability to refine new idioms.

Because this matter was related to the dignity of the royal family at that time, it was ordered to circulate strictly, and it was not until a poem by Bai Juyi a hundred years later that this idiom was really widely circulated: Who will save the candle moth? The cocoon is self-entangled.

Li Zhi even personally guessed that this poet king is famous for writing a large number of poems that reflect social reality and hopes to make up for current affairs.

In fact, at that time, Ren Zhaoying County, a small county official, according to his understanding of Wang Pin, had his own doubts about this incident.

And the person who told the story at that time was called Gu Xixiu, who was the secretary of the Ministry of Scholars at that time, and knew that the imperial examination was very difficult.

At that time, there was a so-called "thirty old Ming Jing, fifty young jinshi" saying, which shows the difficulty of the imperial examination.

The imperial examination is too difficult, so many people can't be admitted to the examination even if they have gray hair, which is the truest origin of the phrase "earn all the heroes to be white".

Since the scientific examination is so difficult, how can the candidate who has no real material be able to go to high school and then have more experience in joining the Hanlin Bachelor's degree?

Because in Gu Xixiu's view, there are only two possibilities for those who can pass the scientific examination and be admitted to the Hanlin Academy that year.

One is for that person to have real talent and learning, and can be a newcomer to the Hanlin Bachelor, the Hanlin Bachelor is different from three, six, nine and so on, and is also a specialized artist, that is specially for the emperor to gather a group of scribes as personal advisers, for the purpose of consultants.

The second is that it is indeed instructed by the immortals, and the lucky test is a fait accompli, perhaps the identity of the immortals needs to be studied, but thanks to the help of the nobles, it cannot be extinguished, of course, this is difficult to understand, and there is no way to verify.

In his opinion, based on his understanding of the knowledge of the number of faces of Moun Valley, it is more likely that the second one is more and more bizarre.

Li Zhi still remembers that the tone between Gu Xixiu's words at that time seemed to be inexplicably taboo, and the topic stopped abruptly when it came to his mouth.

Afterwards, Yang Gaotang once mentioned to Li Zhi that Master Tan's hometown was in Longxi.

According to Yang Gaotang's question, Master Tan told him bluntly that every time Longxi fought with the Turks or Tibetans, it was equivalent to rebuilding fortifications in the local area.

Moreover, whenever there is a war together, the various harassments of the invading enemy bandits will continue.

His hometown in Luwang Village is hundreds of miles away from the border town, and more than 230 people in the village have still been looted, and all of them have been slaughtered except for him.

Therefore, Yang Gaotang believes that some people in the court are deliberately covering up what the immortals have instructed them.

Combined with Gaozong's insistence on giving the name of the bridge to the immortal bridge, Li Zhi and Yang Gaoyu both faintly felt that there was a reason for the immortals' instructions, and it was not deliberately made up in advance.

As for Wang Xiancheng, he was pushed out as a substitute for the dead, perhaps to cover up or calm the discord inside and outside the court.

At this time, Li Zhi still didn't know that on the day of the restoration of Tang Zhongzong after more than ten years, Gaozong left him an imperial decree that clarified everything.

It can also be regarded as the last reward for his contribution to the royal family surnamed Li, which will benefit him for the rest of his life.

"Isn't it verified, but indeed contrived? Why did my grandfather mention this again? ”

Because he had always suspected that there was something strange inside, Li Zhi couldn't help but ask in surprise.

Jiang Long's tone suddenly became quite mysterious, and he even looked around in a pretentious gesture:

"This is because someone said again last month that there were traces of immortals in Shiweng Valley again!"

Although the old man's demeanor caused Li Zhi to almost laugh, thinking about the involvement, he knew that the adverse effects caused by the previous incident were huge.

Jiang Long was a small official under Wang Pin back then, how could he not know that such rumors would violate some people's taboos?

Therefore, the old man will never open his mouth in vain, there must be a mystery in it.

Thinking of this, Li Zhi suddenly became energetic.

Sure enough, Jiang Long didn't wait for him to speak again, and was already saying:

"The person who saw the traces of the immortals this time was not someone else, it was Yuran's fourth uncle Jiang Hong! I haven't even mentioned this matter to my family, and only your fourth uncle and me, as well as the three of them, know about it! ”

Jiang Long pointed his finger, it was Xianfeng who presided over.

As he slowly said this, Li Zhi and the people present also understood the process.