Chapter 278: Evil Causes

The lunar month was undoubtedly the coldest month, but the winter in the Tang Dynasty was still on the warm side.

Li Wei did not know that the coldest in history was the end of the Ming Dynasty, the great cold condensed the sea, the Yellow Sea froze, and the Xiaoice River brought drought, so the Ming Dynasty died! There is also the Song Dynasty, which is a pseudo-Xiaoice period, with heavy snowfall, many Bianliang guards froze to death, and the soldiers standing guard on Kaifeng froze to death. The Tang Dynasty was better, and at one time the Yangtze River was able to allow elephant taming to survive. Chang'an has experienced many extremely warm climates without ice and snow.

However, extreme weather is still rare, and even many sections of the Yellow River with gentle water flow begin to freeze in the lunar month. Migrant workers work in this environment, and it is very hard. Therefore, Li Wei issued an order to let all the old, weak, sick and disabled people go home immediately, and an additional subsidy of five cents per day was added to the remaining people.

However, including Wei Hongji, they all underestimated the oppression of the people's poverty. The two canals are now officially divided into two sections, except for a small number of people in Luoyang, most of the people in Xinkaihe come from Shaanzhou and Yuzhou, and there are almost no people in Chang'an in the Danshui Canal, most of them come from Shangzhou and Junzhou, and a few people come to Dengzhou. This is also a reasonable requisition, after all, the closer the construction site is to home, the less laborious it is. However, most of the people recruited from these areas came from the mountainous areas, or were poor and helpless. Now they are given a chance to make money, which is not too thin, and it is better in the long run, and they are not willing to go back.

After all, it was cold weather, not working in the mud, but there were boulders, bulky machinery, and even working at the water's edge and on the boat, people froze, their bodies were inflexible, and sometimes work-related accidents occurred, and some also fell into the river, and there were not many people who knew how to water, so the two canals had sacrificed more than a dozen people. Not only that, but it is not dry hands and feet, soaking up water, and even taking the initiative to use cold water to excite each other, hot and cold, the number of sick people increases, and many people have chilblains.

Don't think about fame, don't treat the people as one thing, such a big project, dozens of people die is nothing. Yang Guangzheng built a boat, and people have grown maggots in the water for a long time, and they continue to work. Compared to Yang Guang, it's really nothing.

But everyone knows who the prince is, and the two supervising officials, Zhu Jing, are the same as Wei Xuan, both of whom are upright people. If you want to stop work for fear of delaying the construction period, if you continue to stop work, half of the people will fall ill.

I had to report the emergency one after another.

Li Wei also felt that this matter was sloppy, and there was no other good way, so he immediately ordered to bring some herbs to the construction site to treat colds and chilblains, and asked Yao Wei and the others to build several large pools, send people to boil water every night, adjust a batch of salt, put it in the pool, and dissolve it with the water, which is a disinfection effect. In addition, when people gather together, they are also prone to various epidemics. And send someone to boil water in a cauldron, put tea and ginger slices, the best way to warm up is wine, one is expensive, the other is more dangerous to drink too much wine on the construction site, use this method to warm up a little body. Then a batch of cotton coats and cotton jackets were transferred, and a man was given a cotton coat and a cotton jacket.

The last item is very expensive, cotton is popularized, but it has not been popularized throughout the country, and it is still expensive. Another reason was that the Tang Dynasty had insufficient copper, and cloth was used instead of currency. Cloth is meant to be worn, not used as currency. For example, Donggong immediately began to hoard, such as hoarding copper coins, and other places have less money and can only use cloth to hoard, such as hoarding cloth, directly reducing the use of cloth. Therefore, the lack of currency also hindered the further prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.

In addition, the technology is backward, even if it is a cotton coat, it must be deseeded, elastic, and spinn, so an ordinary cotton coat costs five or six hundred yuan, even if it is a cotton jacket, it also needs more than two hundred yuan. Quilts and cotton clothes began to enter people's homes, and there were also in the palace, and they felt warm in winter. But not everyone can afford it.

With these few improvements to migrant workers, even if they freeze to death, they will be so benevolent and righteous, and there will be no ministers to impeach. Of course, a lot of money was piled up.

Immediately carried it out, and used a fast horse to pull the materials to the construction site, and Li Wei came to the palace to see Wu Zetian.

said: "Queen Mother, Erchen has an immature idea. ”

"Let's talk about it," Wu Zetian said with a smile, but listening carefully, his son does have some places where he is young, but all kinds of whimsical ideas make *** open his eyes, and he has ideas when he hears them, and Wu Zetian attaches great importance to them.

"The queen mother, the sons and sons took a look, and there was not enough copper money in the country. The currencies of the Northern and Southern Dynasties were different, and the people were prone to disorder, so Emperor Wen of Sui issued five pieces of money (3.4 grams), which was convenient for the people. However, the money is small, and there are many private mints among the people. When I went to Gaozu, I wasted five coins and cast Kaiyuan Tongbao (4.5 grams). At that time, after a long time, the money was insufficient and expensive, and the people privately melted copper coins as utensils, or re-minted private coins, and the copper quality was poor and light (three grams). When the father was sealed for two years, he cast a dry seal spring treasure, slightly heavier (4.8 grams), the meat quality was good, and the edict was issued to recycle the old money when one was ten, and wanted to make the money expensive, the people would not melt copper, and the old money was wasted over the years, but next year, the merchants would not pass, the rice and silk were expensive, and the resumption of Kaiyuan Tongbao, the world minted money, and the public and private were not distinguished, and now almost half of the private transactions were inferior private money. ”

It can also be seen from this that from my father to various officials, I do not understand the laws of the market economy.

Of course, it was several years in the Tang Dynasty, otherwise Li Wei would not know.

He also said, "The reason why there are so many disputes is not because the law is not strict, but because of the lack of money. Erchen had an immature idea, and the imperial court also minted a small amount of Kaiyuan Tongbao with gold, silver, and gilt, because gold and silver were expensive, so they were used as a reward, not as a circulating currency. Is it possible to use one tael of silver into ten, mint some coins, and use them as eighty wen? ”

One tael of silver is about equivalent to one tael of money, because there is a lot of private money, and one tael of money also becomes chaotic, one is not enough money, and the other is that the weight of public and private money is different, so sometimes a tael of money is all public minted money, only eight hundred. The silver could not be used directly, and it was exchanged in the locker, and the merchant deducted the exchange fee, so he only said 80 wen, not 100 wen.

There is another way, the issuance of Jiaozi. But officials don't understand the economy, the issuance of Jiaozi must have enough metal currency storage, and it depends on the amount of money, and now the issuance of Jiaozi is undoubtedly a three-year-old child holding a ** bag that lights the fuse in his hand, which is very dangerous. Li Weiti did not mention this discussion. In fact, Li Wei's idea was to increase the amount of currency in circulation, and sailing, which could earn enough gold and silver for the Tang Dynasty, especially in the countries of the Great Food South China Sea, which liked to use gold and silver as currency, so that the two phases were also convenient for transportation, and they could bring enough gold and silver from foreign countries. Either knock down all the bronze statues in the Taoist palaces and Buddhist temples in the world, recast copper coins, and immediately have enough copper coins. But even if Li Wei ascended the throne, he didn't dare to play like this.

Wu Zetian pondered for a while, shook his head, and said, "You have a good idea. However, there are some differences in copper coins, and all of them are turned into utensils or re-turned into private money regardless of the danger of killing their heads. Once minted into a silver coin, it is even more valuable. At that time, there will be more people who will adulterate silver coins and mint private coins. The people of gold and silver have little knowledge and are difficult to discern. Although the intention is beautiful, I am afraid that it will cause greater disputes. Now the gold and silver are heavy, but they are distinguished by the cabinet guys, so that they will not be messed up. This is inappropriate. ”

Saying this, Li Wei was at a loss again. Money is scarce, and even because Qian Shao has issued an edict, half of the large-scale transactions need to be replaced with cloth. There should be a way to solve it, and I can't think of it for a while. After thinking for a while, he finally gave up and said, "Queen Mother, Erchen has another request. ”

"Say." Wu Zetian's attitude has always been very mild. Counting up, she has received a lot of affection from her son in the past few years, and as for whether she will take human affection as one thing, only she knows herself.

"Erchen wants to go to Sanmen."

"Go, that's your duty."

"No, Erchen also wants to bring a few younger siblings and his wife and concubines over to have a look. After all, they grew up in the palace and didn't know the sufferings of the people, so let them see the lives of the people. The second is that the younger brothers are also older, and they may preside over some affairs for the imperial court in the future, and everyone can want to learn from each other. ”

One thing Li Wei can confirm is that he may not be able to care much about the people's mothers, and the history books later overturned the case for Wu Zetian, which is exaggerated, but he is not much evil to the people.

"You're an excuse...... It's too arrogant to them, and it's not very good...... But just go, and put more restraint and control on them on the way, so as not to lose the royal face. ”

"Thank your mother," in order to show his affection and gratitude, Li Wei stretched out a pair of elbows, Wu Zetian immediately covered them with his hands, and said: "You are an adult, not a child, this is not good." ”

However, there was a smile on his face.

Li Shoucheng snorted next to him, pulling his hand, but he objected to the prince hugging and hugging at every turn.

……

Of course, only adults, children remained in the palace.

The two younger siblings, Li Xian's princess Fang, and Li Xian's little princess Zhao, successively saluted Li Wei. The two little girls are good-looking, but their manners can also be seen that Fang's manners are generous and polite, but Zhao's is very arrogant. There are also reasons for arrogance, Zhao's father Zhao Bi is an official eunuch family, and his mother Princess Changle is the sister of his father Li Zhi, and Li Zhi is extremely fond of Princess Changle at ordinary times. Therefore, it was Bi'er who gave birth to a son for Li Wei, and Zhao's tone was a little arrogant when he spoke.

Li Wei frowned, but saw that the Zhao family was young, and the third child had no liver or lungs, so he endured it.

It's not that the Zhao family is evil, in this era, there is a clear distinction between the noble and the low, and the people of the five surnames and seven families dare to be arrogant to the royal family, and the Zhao family is from a noble background, and Bi'er is from such a shabby background.

After living together for many years, Bi'er immediately noticed it and tugged on Li Wei's sleeve. Li Wei glanced at her with soft eyes, and then Li Xian said excitedly: "Big brother, do you want to go to Bears Ears Mountain after going to Sanmen?" ”

"If you don't want to come back for New Year's Day, then go."

There are more than a dozen important festivals in the Tang Dynasty, the first is the obscure sun festival, when spring comes, hundreds of officials offer agricultural books, Si Nong offers grain seeds, the emperor and the ministers will feast and play music, and the court also lets officials at all levels celebrate. This is the official most solemn holiday. The second is the Shangsi Festival, the banquet of the monarch and the minister is not counted in Qujiang, it is often connected with the Qingming cold food, and the whole country goes on an outing, which is a lively festival for both the official and the people. The third is the Double Ninth Festival, when the people of the whole country climb high, climb the mountain, climb the city, climb the tower, climb the tower, etc., and then plant dogwoods all over.

But the Chinese New Year's Eve and New Year's Day began to rise. Chinese New Year's Eve, New Year's Day is the first day of the first lunar month, the two festivals are celebrated together, celebrate until dawn, all night long, set off firecrackers, that is, burn bamboo, because the Tang Dynasty people are open, but also when the street sings and dances, and invites guests to a happy banquet. Hundreds of officials wore court clothes and congratulated the Son of Heaven.

In addition to these two solemn festivals connected, the New Year's Month is leisurely, and there are many festivals, and the seventh day of the first month is the day festival, and the snow is cut and the ribbon is cut. The Shangyuan Festival of the fifteenth year, also known as the Lantern Festival, is more lively than the New Year's Day. The city gate of the Tang Sunset Gate is closed, but for three days before and after the Shangyuan Festival, the gate of the Fangmen is not closed, so that the people can go out to light the lamps and put on the lights. The people also have spontaneous singing activities, hundreds of people and thousands of people, hand in hand, stepping on the ground for the festival, singing and dancing. Officially, this festival is the most lively. In February, the fifth day after the beginning of spring is the Spring Society Festival, and the fifth day after the beginning of autumn is the Autumn Society Festival, which is released with wine. On the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of May, eating zongzi, drinking realgar wine, tying colored silk, hanging sachets, fighting herbs, and racing dragon boats are far more lively than later generations. On the Qixi Festival on July 7, the two stars of the cow girl are worshipped. On the 15th day of the seventh month, the temple has an obon puja. Either it's a folk festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival in August.

The first month of the two capitals is the most lively.

When Li Xian heard this, he hesitated.

Li Wei patted him on the shoulder and said, "In February next year, I will go to Danshui and take you with me." ”

If you want to hunt, even in the name of brotherhood, you can't bring your daughters. By inspecting Danshui, take a turn around Funiu Mountain or Bear's Ears Mountain along the way, let a few brothers let go of their temperament, and they can also get through the tricks. If even their daughters are brought with them, even if Di Renjie listens to it, he will also write a book to admonish.

……

The three gates are near, and the materials have arrived one after another, and when I saw the prince and several princes, they all brought the princess here, and there was thunder.

After looking at it, Wei Hong was proficient in civil engineering, and also did a detailed investigation, and finally set the Xinkai River as three zhang deep, with this depth, it was enough for the water level to be at its lowest, and it could be navigated by ships of 2,000 stones. This tonnage, too, is enough. The deeper the water is more gentle, but for every minute deep, the construction difficulty increases by one point because there is not much room for movement. So the width was increased to five zhang, which exceeded the expected two zhang. Not only does the water calm down, but now the ships are not large, and the width of five zhang can allow two ships to meet.

But the cost is even greater, seeing that the people are pumping water, and the dikes on both sides have been closed, Zhu Jing said: "Your Highness, some people call this new river the golden river. ”

Li Wei laughed, a total of 300 meters, the cost amounted to hundreds of thousands of yuan, more than 1,000 yuan per meter, and said that the Golden River was not excessive. After laughing, he said: "Even if it is the Golden River, it is worth it to benefit the people and the country." ”

Zhu Jing was silent.

Although the gentleman is ashamed of his words, he does not have so much money, and it is impossible to build the people without complaining.

Zhu Jing is a gentleman, looking at his expression, Li Wei said again: "What means that the country is strong is not a vast territory, not martial arts. Not only is the territory vast, the monarch wise, the ministers virtuous, the brave generals, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the nation is self-confident and self-confident, but there is also one thing, that is, the country is rich and the people are rich. ”

deliberately added a nation's self-improvement and self-confidence, no matter how rich and big it is, no matter how large the population is, there is no blood, people still look down on you, and even a small country with a big egg can despise you and bully you. There is still blood, but this bloody history does not change, and it will not be maintained for long...... Then the literati can only be obscene......

"A gentleman doesn't talk about profit, after all, pursuing profit is contrary to morality. But if the people are not rich, there will be chaos, and the people will not even have food and clothing, so how can we talk about ethics and etiquette? The state can't even pay the salaries of officials, so how can we talk about officials being honest? Therefore, the people are encouraged to be prosperous, the country is prosperous, and at the same time to promote morality. Most of the time, Zhu Jing still couldn't turn this corner, made an analogy, and said: "In the fourth year of Zhenguan, Tang Jian sent an envoy to the Turks, and Jieli was not defended. Li Jing led Li Jibing to Bai Dao, saw the opportunity to take advantage of it, and sought to seek benefits, Zhang Gong Jinyun, the edict allowed him to surrender, and the messenger was there, so he could not hit it. Li Jing said, this Han Xin is so broken, what a pity for Tang Jian's generation. So he broke Jieli, killed Princess Yicheng of Sui, captured his son Dieluo Shi, Jieli fled from the mouth, Li Jibing blocked it, and he couldn't do it, and the whole clan surrendered. The battle was determined from the Yin Mountain to the desert. It's not that we don't keep our promises, and we are in a hurry to do things. The battle of the Song Xianggong and the gentleman guarded the etiquette system, and the shame was laughed at through the ages. The things of the world, how can all people and all things come from? Although the ancestor White Emperor City said not to take evil as small, don't take good as small and do nothing. But where are the ten evil and ten good things? Therefore, Emperor Taizongwen said, use it for long, take it for short. This is true for employing people, and the same is true for doing things. It mainly depends on its strengths and weaknesses, and learns from its strengths to make up for its weaknesses, such as wealth, teaching the people and gentlemen to seek wealth, and taking it in a proper way, and prohibiting illegal wealth. That's the truth. ”

I value Zhu Jingze's discipline very much, but I don't want Zhu Jingze to become a corrupt person. In that case, will there be fewer Confucians in Chongwen Hall and Hongwen Hall?

Zhu Jingze's eyes were confused.

Li Wei added again: "There are thousands of laws, and if you use it rightly, you will be evil if you use it!" ”

Zhu Jing finally pondered.

I went around again, looking curious from afar, but in fact, in front of me, the scene was still very chaotic, many people on the peninsula were busy, and even there were many people on the mountain road, transporting various materials and resources to the peninsula continuously. Not only coke, ** and other necessary materials, but also the soil covering required for tic-tac-toe firing and pressing. To put it mildly, this line of work plus the protection of nearly 200 guards, as well as the car, are somewhat hindered.

Of course, the people don't think so, such a good treatment was given by the prince. But Li Xian turned around for a while, and his interest immediately decreased.

Coming to the lower end again, looking at the pillar not far away, Li Xian turned his head and said: "Big brother, I have always wondered, why not just remove this reef, and only then do I know when I see this rapids in front of me." I can't help but worry about the Dan water canal ......"

"The pillar villain can't stand on it, and the ship can't anchor in the current and can't lay the pile. Danshui is different, the downstream water is deep, and the water potential is gentle. The middle and upper reaches of the water flow are fast, but the water is shallow, which is different from the big rivers. It is still difficult to start construction, but the two canals are the foundation of the country, and they have to do it themselves. ”

"Yes."

Li Wei pointed to the stone piers behind him and asked Wei Hongji, "What is the use of these stone piers?" ”

"Your Royal Highness, next year I want to open the new river of Renmen Island, but it is not easy to cross the Xinkai River and the Renmen River, and it is not easy to cross the boat, so the ministers leave these stone piers here, and next year they will be tied to thick iron chains, paved with wooden planks, the rivers are not wide, and the suspension bridge is not very flexible, so the materials will be transported on the South Peninsula and sent to Renmen Island. After the materials are transported, the planks can be put away and the iron chains can be pulled up without affecting the waterway. ”

"It's a wonderful method."

"The minister dares to do it, not as much as His Highness."

But this time, Liangqu picked a few candidates. Under the supervision of Zhu Jing and Wei Xuantong, there will not be much greed for ink and fish and meat. Wei Hongji and Yao Xuan can be said to be not pure ministers, let alone Geng Zhi, but they are proficient in civil engineering, not pure ministers, and they will be careful in their calculations and save expenses for utilitarianism. The two complement each other perfectly.

I turned around, asked about some matters of concern, and went back with a group of people.

When I arrived at Tianjin Bridge, it happened that Wu Chengsi came out.

When he touched it, Wu Chengji gave a salute very politely. Li Wei was suspicious in his heart, did Wu Chengsi deliberately go down and collide with his own line, whether the gift was fake, and whether it was true to win over the relationship?

But I'd rather offend the gentleman, there is no need to offend the villain, Li Wei is very polite and polite. But at this time, there was a small change, and when it came to Zhao, Zhao just snorted coldly. Of course, there are reasons to look down on it, the martial family is from a thin background, Wu Chengsi himself has nothing to show his hands on, and there are already many contradictions and conflicts between relatives and the clan, because of Wu Zetian, this contradiction is even more intensified.

Li Wei frowned, most people thought that his appointment as Zong Zhengqing was a joke, with no talent, no qualifications, no ability, and no reputation. But Li Wei doesn't remember much, he still knows what kind of people Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi are. Wu Chengsi was not Bi'er, he glanced at the third Li Xian again, and when he saw that he was still giggling, his brows couldn't help but tighten tighter.

Bi'er asked with concern, "What's wrong?" ”

"Nothing."

Pei Yuhe suddenly realized, and said softly: "Princess Zhou is still young, let alone Your Highness, how big the wings are, how many chicks can be protected." ”

This trip has not changed anything, but since the prince has taken him out, in some respects it is equivalent to acquiescing in this family affair, which has improved slightly. finally grew up in a big family, and there was some knowledge, so he interjected.

Li Wei couldn't help but look at her more. Then looked at Wu Chenghe, whose face was a little ugly, and continued to look at the third child, wanting to remind him, but he didn't know how to remind him......

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