Chapter 577: A butcher's knife
As the daughter-in-law said, in order to fight against her father and the emperor, in order to keep the family business of Lishan, there are still many things to prepare.
At night, it adds a bit of mystery to Lishan. The moon is bright and the stars are scarce, and when you look up from the foot of the mountain, the whole Lishan Mountain looks hazy.
At this time, on Lishan Mountain, Xiao Wu held the scroll in his hand and read the question, and kicked the shuttlecock towards Xu Hui. The shuttlecock did not fall to the ground, and between passing back and forth, Xu Hui thought for a moment and said the answer, and then she asked Xiao Wu to answer.
These two girls can now devote themselves to answering questions. I have to admire the learning ability of these two girls.
The main thing is that the daughter-in-law teaches well, and these two children are the ones she teaches the most. The bear squatted to the side, staring at the shuttlecock back and forth, and when it was a little tired, it bent down.
After a day of ploughing, it was tired, and it was too hard to twist its neck, but now it was only left with its eyeballs to move.
Zhang Yang shaved himself in front of the bronze mirror, which was very difficult to use at night, so he could only put the oil lamp aside, and then lift his chin to get closer to see the details of the stubble on his skin.
Seeing that the husband was shaving hard, Li Yue took the slender spatula in his hand,
"I'll come." took the small bronze mirror on the side, and held her husband's chin with one hand and scraped it carefully. Feeling the coolness of his daughter-in-law's fingertips, Zhang Yang frowned and said: "I should have shaved during the day, and I didn't pay so much attention when I was free, but I noticed Pei Xingjian's gaze today, and I realized that I hadn't taken care of it for a long time." Li Yue chuckled softly: "Is he disgusted?" ”
"I can't say I dislike it, it's just that my eyes are a little weird." Holding a blade in one hand and carefully scraping the lower jaw of the husband, the beard at the pores grew back again, and the Adam's apple could be seen moving when swallowing saliva.
After scraping for a while, I put the blade in a basin of water and washed it. Because of the relationship between high and low, noticing her husband's gaze, Li Yue glared at her and said with some shame: "Aunt Wang took some cotton cloth today and went to the Chang'an City Dyeing Workshop to dye cloth, but I heard about something." The words paused, the cold blade continued to scrape against the skin, and she whispered: "We Lishan have taken so many books out, some people think that where did we get so much paper in Lishan, and some people suspect that Lishan has its own papermaking skills." Whispering, the sound of kicking the shuttlecock outside the door also stopped, and Xiao Wu and Xiao Hui were sitting by the Huaqing Pool to wash.
The Huaqing Pool at night is very beautiful, especially when the moon is bright and the stars are falling in the pool, it can always make people appreciate it for a long time.
helped the husband shave the beard on the temples, and then carefully wiped it with hot water.
"Well, it looks much cleaner that way." Zhang Yang took a sip of tea,
"It's different now, what can you do if you know that Lishan has papermaking skills?" Aunt Yang walked down from the second floor,
"Your Royal Highness Princess, the little princess has already slept."
"Well, Auntie should rest early." Aunt Yang bowed a little and left. Seeing that the husband walked into the study, an oil lamp was lit, and there were a lot of drawings hanging here.
Li Yue walked into it, looking at the wall full of drawings, all kinds of detailed dimensions are marked on the drawings, for others these dismantled drawings are incomprehensible, for Li Yue to understand these anatomy drawings is very easy.
Putting a drawing on the shelf, Zhang Yang held a teacup in his hand,
"What do you think of this greenhouse?" Seeing that the greenhouse was in a semicircle, he wondered,
"Why is this arrangement?" Zhang Yang was holding a glass bead in his hand,
"Because I want to fill the top with transparent glass, the growth of plants is inseparable from temperature and humidity, and even more inseparable from light, I want to use the pool in the hot spring hall to make a greenhouse around this pool, so that even in autumn and winter, our family can eat fresh vegetables."
"Alas......" Li Yue had no choice but to feast,
"In the past, I just thought that my husband wanted to use glass to install doors and windows, but now I want to use it to build a house."
"Treating others like treasures is nothing more than something that is readily available in the periodic table for me." Li Yue sat down on the side to help polish the ink,
"The periodic table is that weird mantra that was written before?" Zhang Yang nodded,
"The teacher taught me well back then, and I can still pick up the knowledge of the year by rote memorization." There was a little yearning in her expression, and she looked forward to it: "It must be good if you can plant flowers in winter, a flower field that is like spring all year round." ”
"The conditions for growing flowers are too harsh, and they need to be pollinated by flying insects, and the simplest and most practical thing is to grow vegetables." The action of grinding ink stopped, and she pursed her lips unconvinced: "Are you only allowed to grow vegetables and not me to grow flowers?" ”
"Heh, growing vegetables is a man's feelings, there was a guy named Liu Bei back then, and he also liked to grow vegetables." Li Yue suddenly lost the interest in staying here, got up and threw the door and left.
I sat alone in my study and was busy until late at night, and when I was sleepy, I washed up and returned to the bedroom.
Li Yue was lying on his side asleep. Lifting the futon and lying down, Zhang Yang put his arm under his head, thinking about the eucalyptus in Luoyang, the situation in Chang'an City must be very tense at this moment.
After catching those children of the family, Li Shimin must still want to catch bigger fish, those fish are the people who robbed the prisoners in the first place, whose soldiers and horses are them, and whose private army they are.
As for those officials who have something to do with the family, most of them will not be dealt with if the emperor can stay.
After all, when Li Shimin first ascended the throne, he was tolerant of Li Jiancheng's faction and his ilk, as long as they did not rebel and make trouble, the emperor could still tolerate them generously.
It is not so much to show his virtue, but rather a means for the emperor to win people's hearts. The emperor of heaven kills him, using benevolence and righteousness as a tool to hold power, and there are no good people under power.
The emperor wanted to dispose of the family and take back the military power of the place. Zhang Yang felt that it was okay to help the emperor get to this point, Lishan just needed money, and the next thing was not something he could meddle in.
Now Li Shimin has a lot of talents in his hands, and he must have a skill, a strategy, and a war.
Li Shimin has come to this point, and he has become a heavenly khan who is admired by all nations. The Heavenly Khan, who has enough power in his hands, is the most terrifying, now is the rising period of Li Shimin's career, the emperor will not make a choice, he will only let his courtiers make a choice.
Li Yue turned over and hugged her husband's arm, closed her eyes and murmured, "Still have things on your mind and can't let go?" ”
"Well, thinking about Luoyang."
"After transporting so much silver from Luoyang, my husband slept late every day." It involves the family's plans, and there are many people who can't sleep all night, so Zhang Yang let go of the troubles in his heart.
Zhenguan 10th year, April. A group of prisoners were sent to Chang'an City, and Sun Fujialang recited their crimes, captive private troops, kidnapping prisoners, and killing local officials, causing disaster to the villagers.
After reading the guilt, Sun Fujia looked at the onlookers all over the city, and he waved his sleeves and said, "Your Majesty's will, behead!" At the sound of the order, the heads of the people rolled down.
It's frightening to see a child crying. No one knows where these prisoners were arrested, let alone their identities, only rumors in the court that they are from a family, and that the family lords are keeping private armies in captivity, and strengthening local forces to deceive their superiors and subordinates in the name of the tribe.
This is not a new thing for a long time, and it is only a matter of time before this kind of thing happens to the people of the DPRK and China. After cleaning up the execution ground, the residents of Chang'an City dispersed, and the people were still the same as before.
I don't know who spread the word, those who cut off their heads are the private soldiers of the family, and they are the ones who robbed the prisoners on the road.
Daring to rob prisoners, daring to attack and disturb official roads, and even rushing to kill Tang officers and soldiers are capital crimes. The emperor did not kill the children of the family at the first time, but began to slaughter their arms.
They are not afraid when the knife is cut down, but they are most afraid when the knife is on their neck.
While keeping the children of the family immobile, as if they were being coerced as hostages, they began to clean up the power of the family.
The emperor at the height of his power was the evil dragon, who swallowed everything in heaven and earth, and now began to liquidate the family.
The emperor, who had endured for many years, began to fight back, and Li Shimin told everyone in a very direct way that no matter how big the family was and how majestic the family was, Zhenguan had to lie on his stomach in front of the Tian Khan of the Tang Dynasty.
And those children of the family who were imprisoned in the dungeon of Dali Temple, they never thought that things would progress to this point from the beginning of their participation in the sugar business, and at this moment these people were so frightened that they shouted at the prison door, they confessed, confessed everything.
But the jailers here ignored them, and no one responded to them. It seems that from the first day of being locked up here, no one remembers them except for the regular delivery of meals every day.
The news began to spread from Chang'an City, and after leaving Tongguan, more and more scholars and scholars, whether they were poor scholars or high-ranking families, the anti-family sentiment of these people was ignited again after the emperor waved the butcher's knife.
Outside Chang'an City, Cen Wenwen read His Majesty's will aloud, and three thousand masters took on the mission of teaching and went to remote places in the Central Plains to teach and educate people.
Team after team of people left, they took books with them, and they wanted to train the next generation of readers for Datang, Cen Wenwen asked Kong Yingda in a low voice,
"Old Master Confucius, will the future scholars and students not serve the family?" Kong Yingda, who had white hair, said with a smile: "It's complicated to explain this matter, the power of the family is a local power and the power of the emperor is contradictory, it depends on who is stronger." "Zhang Yang has been in Lishan these days, and he didn't pay attention to the affairs of the court, and today he brought his daughter-in-law and daughter to visit the teacher.
Of the teacher's three children, two are in the middle of the court, and Da'an is far away in Liaodong. Couples can also come here more often.
The wife was very happy to hold Xiao Qingqing, like her granddaughter.
"This kid is likable, and he'll be a waking doll just like you in the future." Zhang Gongjin stroked his beard and smiled.
Zhang Yang said worriedly: "The teacher doesn't know that this kid is slow to learn things and has little patience. ”
"Kid, how much patience can you have." Zhang Gongjin drank a sip of warm tea,
"Have you heard of what happened in Chang'an?"
"Well, I heard that." Zhang Yang poured tea for the teacher again, and his eyes were still on the chessboard.
Zhang Gongjin picked up a puppy that walked to his feet and said, "The sweeping family is not something that can be done overnight."
"Yes, the teacher is right, this is not something that can be swept away overnight, they have been entrenched in the Central Plains for hundreds of years, and they need a firmer position to deal with them, and now it seems that the emperor has picked up the butcher's knife, this butcher's knife is called Tianli Zhaozhao."
"You are very wise, you did not participate in this matter, it is a correct decision to leave Chang'an City at this year's court meeting, if you are an old man, you will not be able to be so decisive." Zhang Yang moved his chess pieces,
"I live in a different era from the teacher, the teacher is in a troubled time, and I am in this peaceful world, and what I think cannot be compared with the teacher."
"Speaking of which......" sighed again, Zhang Yang's face was embarrassed,
"Today, the DPRK sent someone again, saying that the Minister of Housing wants me to go back and continue to preside over the affairs of the DPRK." The emperor is at the peak of his career, and the emperor at this time is high-spirited, but the lack of money is also a real lack of money, and the situation has not improved.
Zhang Gongjin smiled: "It's okay for you to ask." ”
"I want to be in charge of Lishan production, which is also for the sake of the community, I really can't leave." Knowing that this kid would say this, Zhang Gongjin didn't say anything more, looked at the situation on the chessboard and said: "Playing with you is always a bad move, so it's boring." ”
"The teacher is already very good." In the palace, Li Shimin listened to Hou Junji's report,
"In this way, Pei Xingjian has already rushed to the Western Regions with three thousand soldiers and horses from the Hexi Corridor?"
"Back to Your Majesty, judging from the footsteps, it should be almost to Shazhou." Judging from the distance, the urgent report of the Hexi Corridor came to Chang'an City, Pei Xingjian set off to the west, and the time calculation was indeed correct.
Li Shimin looked at Fang Xuanling on the side,
"Why did Zhang Yang choose Pei Xingjian to go to the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate to serve as the capital protector at such a young age, I checked his household registration, he was born in the Pei family in Hedong, and he was only fifteen years old." Fang Xuanling replied: "Back to Your Majesty, Pei Xingjian wrote a strategy for the Western Regions that was very appreciated by Zhang Yang. "The Western Regions Protectorate was established by the Foreign Affairs Yuan, and Li Shimin does not have an obvious concept of the leading position of the Protector.
The DPRK and China do not yet have a complete system for governing the Western Regions, and the Foreign Affairs Yuan does all these things, let alone spend money on them.
All the manpower and material resources are handled by the Foreign Affairs Yuan, and the Ministry of Rites only simply reports these matters, and the Ministry of Letters and the Ministry of Letters and I approve them.
Sending the Persian prince Belus back to Persia was indeed a matter for the Ministry of Rites. But Zhang Yang's unauthorized behavior of making decisions and taking care of everything made Li Shimin feel very uncomfortable.
Looking at the silver money in the treasury of the DPRK and the Central Government now, Li Shimin felt that his eyes were dark, and how to spend this year with the remaining 10,000 yuan.
As he said, the capital of Shangshu Province will go bankrupt, and as soon as Shangshu Province goes bankrupt, Datang will go bankrupt, and it is not a headache that the development of social society is inseparable from money.
"Zhang Yang is still in Lishan and refuses to come?" Fang Xuanling bowed down and said: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister has already sent people to inquire several times, and the village is very tightly guarded, let alone seeing him, even if he enters Lishan." ”
"I don't believe that he has been hiding in Lishan and has never come out." Li Shimin's eyes were gloomy,
"Send someone more...... Please! The word please came from between His Majesty's teeth, which shows how dissatisfied His Majesty is with Zhang Yang at this time.