The child's cry echoed in the yard. Xiao Wu's gaze looked at it for a long time,

"Master is not fierce." Li Yue saw that the little bear kept pulling her dress, so she bent down and hugged the child in front of the little bear.

It sniffed, then hit the child's face with its nose and fell to the ground again. Li Yue smiled softly and took the child into the house.

In the eighth year of Zhenguan, the day before Chinese New Year's Eve, Zhang Yang and Li Tai stood at the entrance of the village. A cart of sand and gravel is right in front of you, including borax and harder quartz.

Li Tai whispered: "Brother-in-law, don't we really buy hematite?" Zhang Yang looked into the distance with his hands, and at this moment, a person was riding a horse from the direction of Chang'an City and coming towards Lishan.

The visitor seemed to be in a hurry, and kept waving the horsewhip. As the figure drew closer, he whispered,

"If His Royal Highness King Wei wants to live in Lishan for a few more years, don't look for those dealers to buy hematite, your father doesn't seem to know the existence of these dealers, but in fact he is staring at the wind and grass in Chang'an City." Li Tai first asked the guards to send all the sand and gravel to the blacksmith's workshop.

Zhang Yang instructed again: "Borax can remove impurities when casting iron, and it should be continuously added when forging, and it is also good to crush quartz for cooling, try more." The guard received the words and left.

It is imperative to improve the casting technology, and it is necessary to start from the very basics. Although Datang's wrought iron technology is good, the horizontal knife and the Mo knife are invincible, but in the alloy manufacturing and the application expansion of metals such as carbon steel, it is almost a blank slate.

Most of the industrial manufacturing is still mainly wood, and some iron tools will be used in the better, and there is still a long way to go in application.

Salt and iron are related to the stability of the government and government, and Tian Khan needs to give Lishan a green light. I want the results of Lishan, but I don't want to give Lishan resources, it is inevitably too unkind, and I must talk to the emperor when I have the opportunity.

Thinking about the days, it is now time for Ashnadur to go to the Western Turks. Soon, the visitor arrived.

Li Xiaogong turned over and dismounted,

"You're a father?" Zhang Yang saluted slightly,

"You're late, and in a while the kids will be crawling all over the floor." Lee Hyo-gong handed the reins of the horse to Lee Tae,

"It's the end of the year, Zongzheng Temple is also the busiest time, it's not easy to arrange things, the old man is coming non-stop, and he can't stay in Lishan for a long time, and he has to go back to deal with all the sects after half an hour."

"Go sit at home?"

"No need." Li Xiaogong took out a piece of jade inlaid with blue and purple,

"This piece of jade is for the little princess." Taking the jade, Zhang Yang looked at it carefully.

"This is purple jade, which is said to come from Qinling, and some people call it Qin Ziyu." Li Tai stood aside and introduced.

The jade is not small, it is heavy to start with, a square piece, Zhang Yang took it into his arms,

"King Xie Hejian." Li Xiaogong frowned and said: "According to your instructions, the old man did it, although it is just a name, someone has indeed come to read it." ”

"Everything has to be prepared with both hands."

"How much money do you plan to earn from the children of the family this time?"

"The king of Hejian has mistaken me, am I for money? I'm here for the prosperity of Datang. After Zhang Yang finished speaking, seeing that he was still staring at him, he lowered his head a little weakly,

"Earn some money by the way." Li Tai followed his guards to the blacksmith's workshop. Walking with the king of Hejian at the entrance of the village, Zhang Yang waved his hands and said: "Instead of raising the soup to stop boiling, it is better to draw salary from the bottom of the kettle." ”

"You're getting more and more literati now." Li Xiaogong sighed and was still a little lost,

"You weren't like that before."

"How was I before?"

"It doesn't matter how it used to be, it's much better now than it used to be." Zhang Yang said again: "Maybe I've read a lot of books recently. Li Xiaogong nodded,

"That's right, Your Majesty asked you to read more sage books." The two walked to the Weishui River and sat down, and Zhang Yang held his hands against a stone.

Li Xiaogong's eyes looked at the village,

"I really want to be as idle as you, but yesterday the lady of the family was angry again, and beat the old man because of a trivial matter." Zhang Yang gasped,

"How is King Hejian doing lately?"

"The old man is tough, but he is not injured."

"I mean, have you been going to the toilet in the mornings lately?"

"Do we have to talk about it?" Zhang Yang was silent for a long time. The ice of the Weishui River has finally melted, and the river has begun to flow, which makes people feel much more comfortable just by looking at it.

"The old man will eat more bean sprouts." Li Xiaogong stood up again and walked towards the entrance of the village.

"Drink less alcohol and eat more vegetables." Zhang Yang instructed all the way. Picking up the reins of the horse again, Li Xiaogong turned over and got on the horse,

"The old man will watch the affairs of the family for you." Zhang Yang said loudly: "When the child can speak, I will recognize you as a grandfather." ”

"Hahaha!" Li Xiaogong laughed heartily, rode his horse and whipped towards Chang'an City. This world will always give me a sense of alienation, and the only one who can communicate and get close is Li Xiaogong.

This person is careless, and he can do something like burning the Ministry of Rites. Zhang Yang worries about his later life.

After so many years in Chang'an City, Li Xiaogong really wanted to be good for himself for the first time, and the acceptance of his elders did not need too many words, he could carry the thunder for himself, and he could help me exonerate himself at the risk of being beheaded by Li Shimin.

Li Xiaogong was the first and sincerely stood by his side.

"The big husband walks the world, when he is so free." Hearing this, Zhang Yang glanced back, not knowing when Zhang Dasu was standing behind him.

"Da Su, where is your brother?"

"The eldest brother has gone to Chang'an City, and the eldest brother has a family to take care of." Zhang Yang nodded slightly,

"Aren't you married too?" Speaking of this, Zhang Dasu's expression was a little difficult,

"It's the end of the year, and now he is a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, and many of his wife's relatives want to seek an official position for their children, but how can the little waiter arrange for them, and now they can come and hide for a day." No matter how you say that Zhang Gongjin is also a national prince, there will be some clinging to her mother's side.

Zhang Dasu said again: "It's okay, when those pro-rolls go back in the spring of next year, they will stop, Zhang Shangshu can rest assured, his father also said that these pro-rolls cannot be agreed, once agreed, there will only be more such things in the future." ”

"Besides, Your Majesty is rectifying the rule of officials, and the lower officials are in a diplomatic position, how can they make a mistake at this time."

"The teacher is still sensible, and we will definitely be able to do a great job in the future and make the Foreign Affairs Institute bigger and stronger."

"Yes, bigger and stronger." Walking towards the village, Zhang Yang asked curiously: "How is the translation doing?" Zhang Dasu replied,

"Tibetan and Turkic dialects are ready."

"Da Su, have you ever thought about letting these people speak Guanzhong dialect and read Guanzhong books."

"If that's the case, is it still useful for me to be a translator?" Zhang Dasu is a very hard-working person, and now he is plunging into the customs and customs of various places outside the border, mainly doing research and sorting out.

"It's useful, why is it useless, it's all the result of our Foreign Affairs Academy, and it's hard to forget their own language."

"That's what Zhang Shangshu said." On the Chinese New Year's Eve of the eighth year of Zhenguan, Zhang Yang cooked several tables of sumptuous meals and invited Li Yuan and the teacher's family.

There are also Shangguan Yi, Wu Shi Tong, Niu Chuang and the backbone of the village. At the dinner table, Li Yuan hugged his little granddaughter with a smile on his face, and the child's cry spread outside the courtyard, and there was laughter in the courtyard.

Zhang Yang sat next to the teacher,

"The teacher should also eat some meat, you can try the fish I fried myself." Zhang Gongjin smiled and nodded. In Chang'an City, this moment is also the most lively time.

Li Shimin also set up a banquet in the Taiji Palace, and Xu Jingzong stood outside the hall to arrange for the envoys of various countries to meet him.

"I also invite the envoys of all countries to mention state affairs at the banquet, and wait for the next year's court meeting Your Majesty will arrange it." Everyone understands.

In the end, Xu Jingzong's eyes fell on the envoy of the Wa State, and the person who came was also the son of the powerful over there, the son of the middle minister Kamazu.

Speaking of Zhongchen Kazu's guidance when he was invited by Nanyuan, this person and Su I also studied in the Central Plains.

At the time of compiling the Sui book, there were such records in the Cen text. And the former Sui fell, the world was in turmoil, Li Yuan entered Chang'an City and became the emperor, and these people went back.

And now the middle minister Kamazu is already an important minister over there, and he has a close relationship with the royal family. Xu Jingzong was quite pleasing to the eye when he saw this envoy, at least he sent a large box of silver cakes to the Foreign Affairs Academy, more than last year.

The Diplomatic Academy's spending this year is enough. The silver cake is the silver cake, and the state affairs are still in accordance with the rules.

Looking at this envoy of the Japanese Kingdom because of the matter of sending money to the Foreign Affairs Yuan, he was arrogant in front of other envoys, and Xu Jingzong's heart was not happy.

Do you really think the Foreign Affairs House will take more care of him? With Zhang Shangshu's temperament, most of them will eat their value, and most of them will end up with the same fate as Songtsen Gampo.

The drums in the Taiji Hall were bursting, and Xu Jingzong stood in the cold wind, feeling that just these messengers could think of something to do in the coming year.

These people also come more or less with a purpose. Just like the matter of Nanzhao, two years ago, Datang, who was still sending envoys to Chang'an City in the hope of helping them, has not yet been resolved.

In the easternmost part of the Central Plains, this is the boundary of Liaodong, and it is still snowing heavily. Zhang Da'an was sitting in a small courtyard drinking wine, and in front of him was Li Yifu.

"You ran back from Goguryeo, what did the king of Goguryeo say?"

"Yuangai Suwen's family controls the military power, and now the whole Goguryeo is in a hurry, and sooner or later there will be a big chaos, the king of Goguryeo relies on the Tang Dynasty very much, if it weren't for the Yuangai Suwen who controls the military power, he would have sent someone to ask the Tang Dynasty for help."

"It was Chinese New Year's Eve, and if I wanted to find someone to drink, I came to you, and the king of Goguryeo did not dare to stop me, and the people of Yuangai Suwen did not dare to move me, so they all rushed to win me over, and it took three days to go back and forth, and I went back in the morning." Zhang Da'an put down the wine bowl and looked at the snowflakes that drifted into the courtyard from the night.

"The situation in Goguryeo has always been repeated, and if Liaodong is uneven, they will divide one side, and if there is no actual control, even if they help the king of Goguryeo, it is useless." Li Yifu nodded approvingly.

Smiling again, Zhang Da'an said in a low voice: "Brother Yifu doesn't miss his hometown?" Li Yifu sighed: "I think, it's just that I am not as good as Brother Da'an, your father is the current Zou Guogong, and he is from a humble background, even if he is an official, he is not a scholar, and those scholars look down on me." When the words were excited, Li Yifu pinched the wine bowl in one hand, maybe it was the strength of the wine, he gritted his teeth,

"Why! Why can they be high, but I have to bow my head and smile at them, I rely on the imperial examination to get in, they still look down on me, pointing fingers everywhere. Zhang Da'an's expression was calm,

"Origin determines the flow of scholars, and the scholars only look at the family and do not look at the achievements, this stereotype has been hundreds of years, and the family has lasted for hundreds of thousands of years. After pouring a sip of wine, Li Yifu snorted coldly: "Yifu was born poor and unattainable, one day they will be around for me, and I will return all the humiliation at the beginning, and I will become the unattainable person in their eyes." Listening to his tone, Da'an was silent, and he didn't know what Li Yifu had experienced from Jiannan Road all the way to Chang'an City, and what kind of grievances he had suffered.

"Your Majesty's rebuilding of the clan is also to fight against the family."

"Zhang Yang was a homeless person in his early years, but he can also become a scholar." Daan poured him wine,

"My brother was also ridiculed by Yan Shigu in the East Palace back then, this is the prejudice of the scholar clan against poor students, this is not something that can be easily changed, if you want to say it, you should burn the clan chronicles." Li Yifu slapped the table,

"Brother Da'an knows my heart." Zhang Da'an said: "Yes, why, with their family and status? These people shouldn't always be on top, at least my brother doesn't think so, I was stupid and couldn't even speak well, and I didn't dare to refute the words of others, but my brother was able to teach me how to read and help me everywhere, and the Yifu brothers couldn't compare with the brothers, and the wisdom of the brothers was beyond the reach of you and me. Seeing that Li Yifu was about to get drunk, Zhang Da'an looked at a pot of mutton on the table and whispered,

"Lying on the salary and hiding the guts, those who have aspirations, things can be done, the cauldron is broken, and the one hundred and two Qin Passes belong to Chu after all." patted him on the shoulder again, Zhang Da'an's eyes were yearning,

"Hard-working people, the sky is not worth it, lying on the salary and tasting the gall, three thousand Yuejia can swallow Wu! Now that we have been subjected to all kinds of difficulties, we can only watch some things in the Yifu brothers, but these things are already being done. Li Yifu was groggy, his eyelids were fighting, and he finally couldn't support it and fell headlong on the wine table.

Zhang Daan stood up calmly,

"Someone." The two guards walked into the house,

"What does Changshi command?"

"Take Yifu to rest."

"Whoa!" Asked to carry Li Yifu away, Zhang Da'an walked outside the house, braved the wind and snow to another room in the county guard's mansion, where fifteen scribes were still busy.

These people were all sent by the elder brother of Chang'an City, and they have been busy since they came to Liaodong. It is necessary to count the fields of the people in Liaodong.

Chinese New Year's Eve did not stop late at night, Zhang Daan sat down and carefully looked at some of the files that had been sorted out, Liaodong has neglected governance for so many years, the registration of households is incomplete, and there are many omissions in the reporting of fields and acres.

If you want to govern this land, you have to take it step by step, and you can only do things one by one, drinking a sip of hot tea, Da'an woke up, refreshed himself and began to be busy with the next things.

There are many hidden dangers in Goguryeo, and in order for the arrangement of the Foreign Affairs Yuan to proceed smoothly, it is necessary to raise a force to deter them before the Goguryeo Rebellion, so that Yi Yifu can have a greater voice in Goguryeo.