It was just getting dark, there were no pedestrians on the streets, and the fire at the inn soon caused chaos.

Seeing this, Zhang Daxiang shouted angrily: "Lu Dongzan, you are so bold! ”

The officers and soldiers guarding here hurriedly brought out Lu Dongzan and other Tubo people, but fortunately, the fire did not spread quickly, but the room where Lu Dongzan was located was on fire, and after it was extinguished, there were obvious traces of burning on the walls outside the window.

Xu Jingzong led someone forward and asked, "Lu Dongzan, do you know that arson in Chang'an City is a serious crime." ”

In this regard, Lu Dongzan just smiled and did not reply.

Seeing his smug expression, Xu Jingzong paced back and forth, thought for a while, and then said: "Someone will take down Lu Dongzan and hand it over to the Criminal Department for disposal." ”

"Whoa."

Zhang Dasu said helplessly: "Last night, his news couldn't get out, so he burned the post house, this matter will soon be known by many people, Lu Dongzan wants to use this way to deliver the news, and Songtsan Gampo will also know about Lu Dongzan's situation in Chang'an City." ”

Xu Jingzong looked tired and whispered: "Everyone is tired for a day and a night, rest early." ”

Zhang Daxiang and Zhang Dasu also left with their own people.

From the New Year to the present, everyone in the Ministry of Rites is very busy, especially this year, when envoys from various countries come to Chang'an City, there are many things to deal with, and there is a border war that is about to break out.

Fortunately, the Foreign Affairs House has enough manpower now, otherwise everyone really doesn't know how to deal with these things in front of them.

After greeting Li Shimin for the New Year, the following days were much easier.

When he got up early in the morning, Zhang Yang pushed away the bear beside the bed and stood in the yard to wash.

Xiao Wu and his daughter-in-law were still asleep in the room, washing their faces with cold water, and washing their faces with water with ice slag was particularly refreshing.

There were still some sawdust piled up in the yard, and the cut wood was neatly stacked one by one, and Zhang Yang patiently put all these things on a wooden cart, planning to pull the wood to the village first.

Li Yue and Xiao Wu also woke up and cleaned up the house together.

After breakfast, the family was ready to go out.

In fact, Li Yue is quite tall, she couldn't see it when she was wearing a skirt when she was a child, and she was going to Lishan to build a new house today, so she deliberately put on old clothes.

This is the coarse cloth clothes left over from the previous coolies, and she looks much taller in men's clothes to tighten her waist and abdomen.

Being looked at by her husband like this, Li Yue's little face turned red, and she avoided her gaze and arranged Xiao Wu's hair bun.

I brought all the things I needed to bring to the car, and when I went out of the house, I asked Aunt Yang to bring some food prepared today, and planned to spend the whole day in Lishan today.

Zhang Yang pulled the car all the way out of Chang'an City.

There are no servants at home, Zhang Yang is wearing a rough car, no matter how he looks at it, he doesn't look like a Lishan Order, let alone a book of the Ministry of Rites of the Dynasty with a silverfish bag.

Out of the gate of Chang'an City, the coachman had already prepared the carriage.

Zhang Yang noticed that his business had expanded a lot, and there were rows of horse-drawn carriages lined up in front of the city, which looked very spectacular at a glance, and there were hundreds of them.

"Your business is getting bigger."

"The nobleman laughed, compared with the nobleman's family business, what is the villain's business, that is, there are other nobles to help the villain, and the villain's business is better, and there are more carriages."

Expanding alone doesn't necessarily lead to benefits.

In order to make the business of this scale, he must have made some deal with others, and I don't know what he has paid for this business.

But these things have nothing to do with me again.

Hanging the wooden cart behind the carriage, Zhang Yang helped his daughter-in-law and Xiao Wu to get into the carriage and go to Lishan.

The carriage was moving, and Li Yue whispered: "This person really found other powerful people to do this business together." ”

Zhang Yang nodded and said: "Blindly expanding is not necessarily a good thing, if you are too anxious, you will mess up, if you are too greedy and too eager, sooner or later you will fall in the middle of the road." ”

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Li Yue nodded slightly.

If he can't control his greed, the business he has single-handedly pulled up will sooner or later be eaten by the powerful behind him, and it is more likely that his business will fall apart.

If you give him a better end, he will also be deprived of the sale, and finally leave him some family property.

Or give him nothing, and leave him a home to be surrounded by.

Powerful elites don't want to suffer.

Because they are the ones who are the least willing to take risks.

And this kind of business also has a seasonal nature.

Zhang Yang sighed: "I prefer the transportation industry to this kind of business of renting a horse-drawn carriage. ”

"Is the transportation industry you are talking about transporting goods?"

"That's what it means, I have considered it before, whether it is a businessman or a porter, the scale of today's business has not yet reached the conditions that can produce a transportation industry, and the timeliness also depends on the weather, the efficiency is very low, and the cost is too high."

Li Yue said: "Most of the merchants also ship their own goods and sell them themselves. ”

The couple talked, analyzing the current Datang transportation industry, if the canal in Luoyang can be opened, it can also reduce the cost of transportation.

At that time, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty opened up the Grand Canal, which was able to speed up the transportation and bring convenience to the flow of commerce.

When the scale of Lishan is large enough, even if the couple wants to plan for the transportation industry, they are only planning within the scope of their own business.

When you come to the foot of Lishan Mountain, you will first send Xiao Wu to the samurai.

Walking to the top of Lishan Mountain, a large pile of stones is piled up here.

Zhang Yang picked up the broom and cleaned a piece of land first, the foundation is still very solid, no matter how you say it, it is also the foundation of the palace.

Li Yue carried a bucket to mix the sand and mud, and Zhang Yang took the masonry to build the foundation first.

Together, the couple built their new home, brick by brick.

After a while, Li Yue's forehead was also sweaty, and his clothes were stained with some sand and mud, which was very embarrassing.

When you get tired, you sit down and look at the drawings.

Li Yue looked at the drawings and said curiously: "Does our study have to be so big?" ”

The foundation is being laid is his own study, which is located on the west side, and the study covers an area of five acres and is three stories high.

Zhang Yang said with a smile: "Our mountain gate naturally has more knowledge, and science and mathematics are endless, and our family will collect a lot of books in the future." ”

"I can make up books myself." Li Yue ate the buns and said, the buns were a little cold, but she didn't dislike them.

And the main room of his own house is on the edge of Huaqing Pool, and when the new home is completed, the door is opened and the Huaqing Pool is in front of him, and the mood will be very good.

It's best to build your new home brick by brick, and this sense of accomplishment is the best.

It can save manpower and do what you know.

Zhang Yang measured the height of the foundation, and the next step was the wall.

Take out a line, tie a piece of masonry to the other end of the line, hang the tied masonry in the air, and the straight line can be used for reference.

Zhang Yang measured the distance between the walls and then built them with the wooden beams prepared at home.

Li Yue was stunned when she looked at her husband carrying a wooden beam, and she could carry such a heavy wooden beam alone.

Thinking of her husband's strength, Li Yue's little face turned red again, and she lowered her head and continued to build the bricks with sand and soil.

"This kind of brick and stone is used to build the city wall, and the Ministry of Engineering is quite generous."

Li Yue looked at the masonry in his hand and preached.

The walls of this masonry are so strong that even many state capitals do not need this fine stone.

Zhang Yang explained: "The people of Chang'an City are simple and generous, and they are righteous and generous, thinking that I have such a good relationship with Yan Shangshu, I will naturally give us stones." ”

Li Yue whispered: "It's not that they owe people and refuse to give, and besides, this is what my father agreed to at the beginning. ”

"Even if your father still owes our family, I don't know how much tax he collected last year and how much he can repay our family."

Hearing this, Li Yue laughed softly.

When the two were resting, the two sat together blowing the mountain breeze, and Li Yue took off his boots and relaxed his feet.

There was still a lot of sweat on his forehead.

Zhang Yang looked at her originally tender feet because of the construction of the house, and the soles of her feet turned red.

Wearing coarse cloth clothes, childish and childish, there is a feeling of talent hidden between her eyebrows.

This is the temperament that she has come from reading for many years.

The sun gradually turned to the west, and Zhang Yang took a look at today's results, and the foundation of the study had been laid.

The two walls are only halfway repaired, this is the first layer of the wall, Zhang Yang looked at the pile of wood he brought, which is used as a wooden frame, and it is convenient to build the wall above it by stepping on the shelf when it is assembled.

It was almost evening, and the two of them went down the mountain.

Zhang Yang whispered, "It's time to prepare a separate room for Xiao Wu." ”

Li Yue stepped on the stone steps down the mountain, "There is no extra room at home. ”

"This is easy to do, vacate my room and pack up for Xiao Wu to live in." After a slight pause in his words, Zhang Yang cleared his throat, "Yes, that's it, I'll live in your room." ”

Li Yue stretched out his hand and twisted the soft flesh of his waist and abdomen, "Husband has already planned in his heart, hasn't he?" ”

Zhang Yang dodged her claws, "Xiao Wu is so big, she should have her own space, this is for her good." ”

Aunt Yang watched the couple laughing and scolding and going down the mountain, and she also had a smile on her face.

Her Royal Highness the princess is very happy now, and grandma will be very happy in the spirit of heaven.

I didn't see my daughter-in-law agree all the way down the mountain, Zhang Yang had a sad face, Xiao Wu is almost ten years old, the child is getting older and older, how can he sleep with adults all the time.

Although the daughter-in-law did not agree this time, she still has confidence in her heart, and she will find an opportunity to talk to her daughter-in-law again.

Lu Dongzan's incident of setting fire to the post house caused a lot of turmoil in Chang'an City.

This matter is also known to many outsiders.

People talked about it for a while, and the war between Datang and Tubo was imminent.

In the Ganlu Palace, Li Junxian is reporting to Li Shimin.

After listening to the words, Li Shimin said in a deep voice: "The sky vision on Chinese New Year's Eve came from the direction of Lishan, and the snow covered the traces, and there was no way to find it, right?" ”

Li Junxian said in a low voice, "In the past, it was near Chang'an, but this year it was in Lishan, and it was the last general's negligence." ”

After so many years of investigation, there is no result.

Li Shimin also wanted to give up, and people said that this night sky vision was an auspicious omen.

From this vision, Datang has been a bumper harvest in the past two years.

Even Yuan Tiangang couldn't say why.

Of course, Li Shimin did not believe that this was a miracle.

Since the person who created this vision had no ill will towards Datang, it didn't matter if it was an auspicious omen.

"You have to continue to investigate this matter, do things in secret, and tell me if you have news."

"Whoa."

The eunuch stepped forward, bowed and said, "Your Majesty, everyone has arrived." ”

Li Shimin nodded, "You step back first, and let the auxiliary machine and Wei Chigong enter the hall." ”

Li Junxian saluted again, "The last general will retire." ”

Watching the eldest grandson Wuji and Wei Chigong walk into the hall, Li Shimin said loudly: "What does Lu Dongzan mean by setting fire to the post house this time? ”

Wei Chigong replied: "Your Majesty, the war between Tubo and the Tang Dynasty is imminent, and after returning the treasure, he took care of Lu Dongzan, during which Lu Dongzan wanted to send news to Tubo, so he set fire to the post house, and the general thought that he was also doing this to send news to Tubo. ”

Eldest Sun Wuji nodded and said, "Your Majesty, the minister thought that the Tubo people would want to go to war as soon as they received the news. ”

Li Shimin's eyes were gloomy, "If there is a war, what are the chances of winning at the border pass?" ”

The three monarchs and ministers in the Ganlu Hall discussed for a long time until Li Shimin's will was sent out of the palace.

Ordered Hou Junji to be the head of the march of Hexi Road, and immediately went to Xizhou to rectify border defense matters, and ordered Niu Jinda to gather 30,000 soldiers and horses to go to Songzhou to rectify border defense matters.

The will was sent, and a few fast horses left Chang'an City to deliver the military report.

The next day, soldiers and horses continued to appear around Chang'an City, and a group of troops went along the official road towards the west of Longxi.

Zhang Yang heard the news at home that the Tang Dynasty and Tubo would inevitably fight after all.

There must always be a distinction between the high-spirited Songtsen Gampo and the ambitious Li Shimin.

Li Yue looked worried, "I don't know how the border is now?" ”

Zhang Yang sat at home, with a map of the Western Regions in front of him at this moment, "Su Dingfang and Li Daoyan went to the Western Regions last year, and they should be ready to conquer cities in the Western Regions." ”

Li Yue sat down on the side with a small bench, and saw that her husband drew a circle on the map, and drew a line, "What does this mean?" ”

Zhang Yang pointed to the line that extended from the Western Regions to the territory of Tubo, and said with a smile: "This is stealing." ”

"How sure are you?"

"It depends on whether Su Dingfang and Li Daoyan have adapted to the plateau climate now, Songtsen Gampo is leading the troops in front, relying on the topography of the plateau, he is mostly defenseless against his rear, and he is also very relieved."

Li Yue took a sip of tea, "The goal of this army was not the Western Regions from the beginning, but in Tibet. ”

"If the Western Regions are pacified, there will also be a threat from Tibet, and Songtsan Gampo is in a hurry to send troops, so he naturally doesn't want to see the Western Regions fall into the hands of the Tang Dynasty like this."

Zhang Yang shook his head again after speaking, "I hope Su Dingfang and them can go well, if you want to say that I can cook and build a house, and it is really not what I am good at analyzing the situation when marching and fighting, I can only make strange moves, in a way with the least loss, in exchange for the chance of winning." ”

"What if we win this battle?" Li Yue said curiously.

Zhang Yang smiled meaningfully and did not speak.

There was some unconvincing in his eyes, and Li Yue said again: "What's the matter if my husband says to listen to me?" ”

"This plan has been in the works for a long time, and even your father doesn't know about it."

"You don't even hide your wife."

Li Yue's eyes widened, and he stretched out his hand to twist it again.

"Prepare a separate room for Xiao Wu, and I'll tell you."