Chapter 378: Monarchs and Ministers Are Not Good People
Seeing that the green tendons on His Majesty's forehead had risen.
The two guards on the side looked at the young Shangshu, and their hands were already on the handle of the knife.
Aunt Yang and Aunt Wang stood quietly aside, as long as they dared to draw their knives, the family was ready to break the net with the royal fish at any time.
Zhang Yang's words continued, "Your Majesty intends to let Lu Chengqing be the head of the household, and lure him to check the acres of land, so that he can have a conflict with Lishan, so that he wants the ministers to have a grudge with the people of the five surnames, and this time the grievances will inevitably face the revenge of the family, and Your Majesty can guide from it, it's a big deal that my head will fall to the ground, maybe the five surnames will recognize it, and in the eyes of people, Your Majesty is still the wise Heavenly Khan, no matter how you calculate it, you will not suffer."
Picking up the tea on the table, Zhang Yang said slowly, "Your Majesty said that I am an unscrupulous person, what about Your Majesty? Your Majesty is always wise, and the means used behind his backs are no less than those of his ministers."
The dialogue between the monarch and the son-in-law is like the tip of a needle to the wheat.
Li Xiaogong lifted his shirt, cold sweat was already oozing from his back, if he hadn't listened to it today, he would have known that so many things had happened between Zhang Yang and His Majesty.
And there is also a smell of tearing the face.
Is the conversation between them and their son-in-law usually so exciting?
was uneasy in his heart, at this moment Li Xiaogong wanted to pretend to be drunk and fall asleep to the lake, but it was still tea.
After the words were spoken, the emperor fell silent again.
He looked at his daughter and then at his son-in-law, "Do you believe me if I want to say I've never thought of it that way?"
Zhang Yang nodded, "Of course the minister believes it."
"You worship Zhang Gongjin as a teacher, what did he teach you?"
"Back to Your Majesty, the teacher has taught everything he can teach."
With a bitter smile, Li Shimin shook his head and said, "He has taught a good disciple."
Zhang Yang held up the teacup, "The minister will relay this to the teacher."
Li Shimin said in a deep voice: "This attack on Luo is all your arrangement, if you want to say anything, I should promise you."
"The wood and stone needed for the construction of the new home in Lishan should be provided by the Ministry of Industry."
"One should be provided by the Ministry of Industry? That's how much stone wood is needed? The Lishan Palace has been leveled by you so much, and the stones and timber you need can build another palace for me!"
"If Your Majesty doesn't give it, the minister won't force it."
"I'll give it!" Li Shimin gritted his teeth and said two words.
"And whether the craftsmen promised before can give Lishan, what Your Majesty promised last year has been delayed for so long."
"Good! I should give it to you."
Zhang Yang smiled and stood up and saluted, "There is one more thing, there is another wave of envoys from Tubo who are about to come to Chang'an, can this matter be handed over to the Ministry of Rites to handle with full authority."
Li Shimin bowed his head and said, "This is a matter of the Ministry of Rites, but I will arrange for someone to observe the specific discussion."
"At your Majesty's disposal."
I wanted to say something more, but I couldn't say it at the moment, Li Shimin shook his head again and sighed and left.
When the emperor left with the people, the family breathed a sigh of relief.
Seeing that Li Xiaogong was still sitting, Zhang Yang was puzzled: "Do you say that our Majesty has any psychological problems?"
Li Xiaogong hesitated and said, "The old man doesn't understand what psychological problems mean, and now the old man thinks that Your Majesty is not a good person, and you are not a good thing."
Choking on a sip of tea, Zhang Yang kept coughing, "I'm a good person."
Li Xiaogong shook his head and said, "If Your Majesty really wants you to die one day without a place to be buried, you will definitely call the old man."
"Are you going to burn paper money for me?"
"You are still young, and the old man died for you, but the old man's whole family has been handed over to you to take care of."
Feeling the force of Li Xiaogong patting his shoulder, he said to himself as he walked, "Poor child."
The atmosphere was a little heavy for a while, Zhang Yang looked at Li Xiaogong's back, and inexplicably felt that this back was much taller.
Thinking about what he said to Li Shimin, maybe he thinks that one day the emperor is true
will cut off their own heads.
Feeling the sharp pain coming from his waist, Zhang Yang gasped and endured the pain, "Daughter-in-law, what are you doing here?"
Li Yue twisted twice, and then swung her fist and thrashed it hard, as if she had finished venting, she whispered again, "It's okay now, it's nothing."
The heart said that this is what makes the daughter-in-law unhappy.
Feed the remaining bun to the bear.
Li Yue cleaned up the house and changed Xiao Wu into old clothes, "My husband has cleaned up."
Zhang Yang looked at the sky, "As long as it doesn't rain, no one will stop us from building a new home."
After another three days of peaceful life, this time Li Shimin was very angry and asked the Ministry of Industry to supply Lishan with all the wood and stone needed to build a new home in Lishan.
Yan Liben came with a group of craftsmen, and there were also blacksmiths among them.
There are not many people who can make a living as blacksmiths in Datang, and for Yan Liben, taking out three blacksmiths is like cutting the meat of the labor department, and one less is gone.
Taking the list handed over by Zhang Yang, Yan Liben was surprised, "So much?"
Zhang Yang grinned and said, "This is promised."
Yan Liben frowned and said, "Your Majesty is the stone and wood for Zhang Shangshu to build a new home, according to the amount listed by Zhang Shangshu, these are enough to build a city."
First cleared his throat, Zhang Yang's face was not red and his heart was not beating, "This is used to build a new home, my new home is very big, um! Yes, it's huge."
Since it was His Majesty's consent, Yan Liben didn't want to say anything more, and he said, "These craftsmen are all good at building, and I hope Zhang Shangshu will treat them well."
[In view of the general environment,
"Certainly, we in Lishan will be able to give them twice the salary they originally paid in the Ministry of Works." Zhang Yang smiled and said that he saw a familiar face in the craftsman team, "Huh? Master Jiang, it's been a long time, why did you go to the Ministry of Works."
Master Jiang, whose hair was already half white, looked suspiciously at the young man in front of him who was talking and laughing with the Ministry of Works, and couldn't remember where he had seen it for a while, so he followed Niu into the village.
Anyway, His Majesty agreed, and besides, these stones have always been mined by people who have committed crimes and done hard labor, and it is nothing for Zhang Yang.
There are more important things for him, Yan Liben accepted this list, "I saw you when I was a yellow-haired boy, but now you can be on an equal footing with the old man."
"You're kidding, I'm still the yellow-haired boy of the year."
Yan Liben looked at the factory under construction not far away, many young and strong people were working, "The old man has a reluctant request."
"Tell me."
"Lishan needs these craftsmen to better build their craft?"
Zhang Yang explained: "To be precise, it should be to improve the level of technology, so as to improve productivity, and you are not wrong to say that you want to improve technology."
"If there is a breakthrough, can you inform the Ministry of Works?"
Yan Liben holds the bulk of building materials, and Lishan Construction is inseparable from building materials soon.
"If there is a technological breakthrough, we must share it with the Ministry of Industry, and we will make progress together and revitalize the technology together."
Hearing this, Yan Li smiled heartily, "In this way, the old man can rest assured, what do you need in Lishan, just mention it to the Ministry of Works."
"You walk slowly."
The mood of sending Yan Liben away is beautiful, at least let Lishan have a place to take building materials for nothing.
The rainy season in Guanzhong does not start until May, and when it first enters March, there is another spring rain, and the spring planting season is the busiest.
Some people say that the autumn rain in West China is used to say that Guanzhong is an abnormal autumn rain.
It has also been said that as long as an opening is made in the Qinling Mountains, there will be more rain in the Qindi of Guanzhong in the spring and summer.
It's an interesting statement.
The spring rain lasted for several days, and the construction of the new home had to come to an end first, and the village began to be busy with spring planting.
Rain poured on every building in Chang'an City.
Zhang Yang and Li Yue sat on the eaves and played chess.
The couple's chess game is very interesting, there are two sets of chessboards, one side is chess and the other is the wall, Aunt Yang, who is cleaning up the sundries at home, looks curious, ordinary people are already racking their brains in a game of chess.
The couple were able to play two games of chess at the same time.
At this moment, Li Yue stared at the chessboard, holding the chess pieces with her slender fingers, she was not her husband's opponent in chess, but fortunately, her husband was not good at Go.
I thought that after watching the chess path of Go in the past two days, I would be able to win the game of Go.
It's hard to deal with it right now.
There is a piece of silver cake on the table, as long as the husband and wife can win two games at the same time, this silver cake belongs to whoever wins, if the two games of chess one win and one loss, then can only start again.
Li Yue's eyes looked at the chess side, the husband's chess pieces had already been killed in front of the general, and on the Go side, the husband was eating away at himself little by little.
After pondering for a long time, Li Yue slowly fell down.
As soon as the chess pieces fell, they were eaten by the husband, and then looking at the chess, Zhang Yang moved his car and pushed it in front of the general, "General!"
Playing the wall and chess at the same time is a great way to exercise thinking skills.
Li Yue shook his head and said, "Husband has won."
Zhang Yang accepted the silver cake with a smile, "If there is anything else to challenge, I will gladly accept it."
"I'll make clothes for Xiao Wu." Li Yue put away her dress and walked into the house.
The spring rain has been falling for four or five days in a row, and there is no intention of stopping.
On this day, a group of Tubo people hurriedly came to Chang'an City to explain their intentions.
Xu Jingzong came to greet him with people from the Ministry of Rites.
Since the middle of winter last year, this is the second time that the Tibetan envoy has been received.
First, he led people into the Foreign Affairs Academy, and Zhang Daxiang was puzzled: "Hasn't Zhang Shangshu arrived yet?"
Xu Jingzong packed up the eucalyptus scroll and explained, "I said I would come later."
The Foreign Affairs Yuan was staffed in and out, and Zhang Dasu first asked these Tubo people to sit down and drink tea to keep warm, "It's easy to catch a cold when it rains at this season, so let's rest for the time being, and we can start talking when our Shangshu comes."
After another half a pillar of incense, Zhang Yang walked into the Foreign Affairs Yuan with a basket of vegetables, "I just delayed some hours of shopping for vegetables in Dongshi."
Xu Jingzong hurriedly took the vegetable basket, "Everyone has arrived."
Zhang Yang dusted off the water droplets on his clothes, took off his still somewhat wet coat and dried it by the stove, cleaned up his hair bun and sat down again, "I don't know when the rain will stop."
The conversation was about to begin, Li Chengqian and Fang Xuanling also came, and the province of Zhongshu could not participate in the conversation between Tubo and the Foreign Affairs Yuan, but it still needed to be asked.
Li Shimin is not 100% at ease with the Foreign Affairs Yuan.
"Fang Xiang, His Royal Highness the Prince, take a seat here." Zhang Yang invited.
"Fang Xiang sits first, and Lone just listens and stands."
Seeing that the prince is so humble and polite, Fang Xuanling is not easy to refuse.
Zhang Yang first looked around, "Everyone who should arrive has arrived, let's start first."
Under the arrangement of several scribes, these Tubo people sat in a neat row, and the leader said, "I don't know if the Tang Dynasty can release our Tubo minister first."
Guanzhong spoke fluently, and the people specially arranged by Songtsen Gampo attached great importance to this negotiation.
Zhang Yang opened his mouth and said, "Let's not talk about Lu Dongzan first, dare to ask you where Tubo Zanpu is."
"If you can release the great picture, Zampu will sing the praises of the wise Heavenly Khan."
You say east, I say west and I feel very uncomfortable.
Originally, it was a tentative question, these people would definitely not tell the whereabouts of Songtsen Gampo, the last time the military reported that Niu Jinda and Li Daliang's people were about to cross the West Sea and Hehuang, and from the date on the letter, they have now entered the plateau.
When the next military report comes back, maybe there will be variables.
It was not because of the backwardness of information, Li Shimin and the generals of the DPRK and China were at a time when their fighting spirit was high and they were pursuing the attack with victory, and they could not be persuaded at all at this time.
Zhang Yang sat cross-legged with his hands in hand,
"First of all, Lu Dongzan was imprisoned in Chang'an City because he ran into His Royal Highness the King of Wei, and other envoys in the official post can testify to this matter."
When these Tibetans heard this, they did not refute it.
Zhang Yang preached again: "Lu Dongzan let go of burning the official post and he confessed his guilt, so we took him into the dungeon, don't you object to this?"
These Tibetan people still laughed and begged for everything, and there was no objection.
Zhang Yang said again: "Even if it is the prime minister of Tubo, we in Chang'an must be dealt with in accordance with the rules of Chang'an City, and if you want us to release people, you can do it, you need to pay a fine."
Halfway through his words, Zhang Yang looked at Xu Jingzong, "Are all the treasures seized by Lu Dongzan still there?"
Xu Jingzong explained, "It's all still there."
"In that case, then hand over those treasures to the court as fines, and the matter of burning the post will be waived for the time being, and you can tell the criminal department that you can release people."
"Why?"
Zhang Yang shook the fan and thought about it in his heart, it seems that Lu Dongzan will not say much if these Tubo people do not appear.
It was quiet inside the Foreign Affairs Courtyard, but the rain outside was much heavier, and you could hear the sound of rain hitting the roof.
Not long after, Xu Jingzong and the officials of the three criminal departments came with Lu Dongzan.
Seeing Lu Dongzan, these Tubo people surrounded them, they talked in Tubo dialect, and even wiped their tears.
Li Chengqian asked in a low voice, "Is it appropriate to release Lu Dongzan?"
Zhang Yang said with a smile: "His Royal Highness the Prince, you have to be forgiving and forgiving, if you don't release him, how can our Ministry of Rites exploit him?"
"Exploitation?"
"Whew...... Ahem." Zhang Yang cleared his throat and changed his words: "It's a negotiation, Lu Dongzan is the prime minister of Tubo, it is most suitable to have him to represent Tubo, and we also need such a person."
Li Chengqian nodded slightly and didn't ask any more.
The Tibetan dialect was very jerky and difficult to understand, and Zhang Yang whispered, "Brother Su, what do they say?"
Zhang Dasu explained: "They said that Songtsen Gampo needed him, the prime minister, to go back and stabilize the situation."