Chapter 26: The Golden Mean
"The Western Regions are still the Li family's after all."
Gently spit out the tasteless licorice root that you chew in your mouth.
"This should be a contract that Master Xuanzang and the emperor and empress reached a long time ago.
My ancestor told me before that the emperor and the empress did not attach much importance to the Western Regions, but they were bent on treating the Western Regions as a place that could be supplemented by the Tang Dynasty.
However, if Datang has to pay a huge price to defend the Western Regions, it will be worth the loss for Datang after all.
So, at that time, Master Xuanzang said, if I don't go to hell, who will go to hell, if Datang can't guarantee that the people in the Western Regions can live a peaceful life, he is willing to take his Faxiangzong as a pioneer, even if the bones are cushioned, it will be a possible good future for the people of the Western Regions.
At that time, His Majesty said that without the Li family's Western Regions, even if it was chaotic, it would be like a hell of a nose, and what would it have to do with the Tang Dynasty.
At that time, Master Xuanzang wanted to convert a child of the Li royal family into the Faxiang Sect, and was willing to serve him as the suzerain, so that the Western Regions would have a relationship with the Li family and belong to the kind of community of interests you said.
It's a pity that at that time, Master Xuanzang's Faxiangzong was not famous, his strength was low, and no one of the Li family was willing to shave his ordination, let alone go to the Western Regions to be the lord of the Buddha country, so he threw the peeping Ji, the son of the Wei Chi family, to the master.
It wasn't until you appeared on the streets of Chang'an with Naha that Master Xuanzang and the old monkey suddenly found that they seemed to have another choice.
Yun Chu, why do you think the Great Ci'en Temple will help you, and any of your requirements can be met? Do you think that a small miscellaneous official can drive straight to the front of His Majesty, and there can be such a strange thing as the infant prince falling into your arms?
All the benefits given in the early stage are for greater gains in the future.
Now, it's time for someone to reap. ”
Yun Chu couldn't help but smile when he heard Wen Rou say this, patted Wen Rou's hand and said, "Don't think nonsense, things are not what you think." ”
Gently looked at Yun Chu and smiled bitterly: "I know, to tell the truth, it's not good." ”
Yun Chu stepped on the solid earth with his foot: "Chang'an City is real. ”
Gentle said: "Do you really not care about being used? ”
Yun Chu said: "Do you think, is the current Western Regions better than the Western Regions that rebelled at every turn before?" ”
Gently and seriously: "It's good for Datang." ”
Yun Chu said with a smile: "Don't let me recite the poor and uncertain riverside bones, especially the poems like the person in the dream of the boudoir, it's a good one." ”
"The Wuding River is in Qinghai."
"Don't care too much, I'll just make a random analogy, in short, don't die the Tang people, don't kill my brother.
Datang is good, that is, all of us are good, even if we can't leave anything else, it is a great good thing to fall into peace.
This world is like this, we work hard to live in the better, today is a little better than yesterday, tomorrow is a little better than today, the day after tomorrow is a little better than tomorrow, so a little bit of accumulation, one day you will find that what we have done is not in vain.
As for other things, to tell you the truth, what do we have to do, we are working towards our goal, and as for the rest, leave it to the heavens, and leave it to the Buddha to judge.
It is not because of them that we are great, it should be because the world is great because of us.
Since the history of China, there have been people who have worked hard, people who have worked hard, people who have asked for their lives for the people, and people who have sacrificed their lives to seek the law,...... Although it is equivalent to the so-called "history" of the genealogy of the emperors and generals, it often cannot hide their glory, which is the backbone of China.
We are the ridges, they are the fat, when, whether the body of Huaxia, the giant, can stand up is up to those fats?
There is no fairness in the world, and all good things must be fought for to obtain.
However, competition requires ability, means, and accumulation, and the vast majority of people do not have these things, so at this time, we need those of us who have excess capacity to help them deploy.
So that the big guys can live their lives.
It is the most stupid thing not to let anyone, not to retreat, and then everyone will sit back and wait for the result of the jade burning. ”
"So, we're fucking saints?"
Yun Chu said with a smile: "It's not that we want to be saints, we just enjoy the process of taking the money that originally belonged to the rich to give the poor people a good stomach."
Well, we are not fools who are exploited by others, nor are we saints who are high-spirited, it is because the world needs people like you and me, and we just happen to appear, so there is nothing surprising. ”
The scene of the two chatting was really warm, even if the people outside Liu Zhushu saw it, they also felt that the atmosphere of getting along with their old friends was too rare, and it was several grades higher than the scene of them chatting.
In previous years, every summer, the whole Chang'an City seemed to be stinky, mainly because the number of cattle, horses, camels and other big animals was too much.
The place was filled with the stench of large animals and the smell of things rotting at high temperatures.
On top of that, the period from spring to early summer is the time when plagues are at their highest.
Therefore, wealthy families are reluctant to live in the city when summer comes.
Now it's different, first, there is no stagnant pool in Chang'an City, in the construction process last year, Yunchu, gentle has used all the large waterholes to use the height difference to hook up the canal, after the stagnant water becomes living water, mosquitoes have been reduced by more than eighty percent.
As for the rat infestation, it has now become a specialized business in Chang'an City.
There is an old man in Qinglongfang, and I don't know where to get a litter of raccoon cats, the old man has no children and no daughters, so he raises these raccoon cats as sons and daughters, when the raccoon cats are small, it is the old man who squeezes out food from between his teeth to feed these cats.
Until one day, a raccoon cat put a mouse in its mouth in front of the old man and invited the old man to eat together, the old man's eyes suddenly lit up......
Fang is collecting rats, whether they are dead or alive, one or two dollars.
It's not just the Qinglongfang that is collecting mice, but the one hundred and eight squares in Chang'an City are all collecting mice, and the price is fair, and Tong Su is not bullied.
After a month, the old man stopped doing the work he had done before, which had something to do with the lotus.
He is already old and frail, whether it is planting lotus flowers, harvesting lotus pods, or digging lotus roots, it is a huge burden for him.
The old man now has six cats, six cats who are very good at catching mice, and when other people have mice, they will hire the old man's cat to catch mice, not only the mice caught belong to the old man, but the master will also give the old man a lot of money.
Of course, if you catch a long worm occasionally, you will be paid for it.
So, there was an old man full of cats in Chang'an City, he would go to the big canteen in the morning to find a corner to eat a delicious breakfast, and after breakfast, he would go to the bathhouse to take a hot bath, the hotter the more enjoyable, and then sleep again, and when the sun sets, it will be time for the family to make money.
This kind of good thing will only appear in Chang'an City, and more and more industries that have never been heard of before have also appeared in Chang'an City.
This kind of thing will not be recorded in the history books, and occasionally it will appear in some picture books, with some weirdness, some magic, in short, it is beautiful.
The construction of Chang'an City is still being carried out in an orderly manner, and there are many unheard of good things in the market that are slowly breeding, as long as such a good situation can continue for a few more years, Chang'an will change beyond recognition.
When Yun Chu walked in the market, he could keenly feel the changes in Chang'an City.
The most important thing is that the city is slowly changing to what he is familiar with.
Whether it is a sanitation worker who wakes up early, or a bad person standing at a crossroads with an iron whistle in his mouth and blowing the direction of the carriage, or a large group of female textile workers with green cloth handkerchiefs on their heads and a flower cloth bag with a food box on their shoulders, they will all bring Yun Chu back to a distant memory.
The bastard who sells bread and mutton likes to push his fat amazing wife to Yun Chu's side, intentionally or unintentionally.
The young man has become a greasy and obscene man, and the beautiful proprietress who worked for a big family when he was young has become a tiger king tank, which is what Yun Chu is willing to see, and under the many changes in his mood, even in the face of the fat proprietress can be treated politely, and ask with a smile, it's good lately.
The Tang people value righteousness and ignore money, and Yun Chu's greeting made the proprietress of the Tiger King return to that period of green years in an instant.
At that time, the beauty was like jade, the son was like a dragon, and now, the son is still like a dragon, but the beauty has been drowned in firewood, rice, oil and salt.
No matter what, Yun Chu still got two baked naan cakes filled with minced mutton, and one weighed more than a catty.
Seeing that the boss's face was pale, Yun Chuyang pretended to give money, but was blocked by the woman's birth.
This situation is far more comfortable than Yun Chu's dealings with the emperor, empress, and prince.
So, he said, "Come back tomorrow." ”
It's a big thing, but it's not as interesting as watching these two people have a conflict, the days are very long, and you can be happy for a long time.
Yu Xiurong was sitting in the cotton pile, still pulling cotton seeds out with her hands, her headscarf was stained with cotton wool, and the Yun family's yard was full of white cotton.
A whiskered lynx passed through the cotton pile with trembling legs, the bells and whistles were stained with cotton, Yu Xiurong kicked over, this guy's upper body did not move, just dexterously moved his buttocks, and Yu Xiurong's sudden attack failed.
Yun Chu grabbed Yu Xiurong, who was about to fall, tore off the cotton wool on her head, and handed her a pound of bread and mutton.
"Eat it while it's hot, this is what your husband exchanged for hue, it's delicious!"
Yu Xiurong leaned on Yun Chu's arms with a silky look and said, "If the husband wants to rely on hue to exchange for money, he can exchange more good things from the concubine." ”
Yun Chu slapped his wife's ass and said, "The old fairy just said some time ago that you were overindulgent. ”
Cui Yao, who was also peeling cotton seeds in the cotton pile next door, roared and left, and kicked it when he passed by Fei Jiu.
Cui Shi was not affected, and opened his mouth with a toothless mouth with a smile and urged the maids and servants all over the yard to hurry up and work.
When Yu Xiurong saw his son coming out of the study, he stood up straight and whispered to Yun Chu: "Husband's mood has changed? ”
Yun Chu smiled, wanting to slap Yu Xiurong's ass again, but when he saw his son coming straight to him, he withdrew his hand and said: "This is nature, from now on, our family will pursue the golden mean." ”