Chapter 618: Beginning of Winter

Li Lizhi saw that her sisters were lying down peacefully, so she was relieved to sleep.

With so many younger siblings, it's so much trouble to take care of.

The current imperial sister and brother-in-law can watch them, and there are still many things to worry about in the future.

Late at night, Zhang Yang was still knitting slippers for his younger brothers and sisters, sleeping when it was dark, these little ones had no conscience.

Li Yue knitted clothes, "I will have to change new clothes in the spring of next year, and the child is growing up so fast." ”

The two aunts helped clean up the toys in the house, and Aunt Yang said in a low voice: "I heard that the price of salt in Guanzhong is cheap again, and a bucket of salt only costs ten yuan." ”

Li Yue said in a low voice: "This is a good thing." ”

After winning the battle with Tubo, the salt lake of Tubo also came into the hands of Tian Khan, and if the price of salt in Guanzhong fluctuated, this must have something to do with Tian Khan.

The emperor can't eat all this salt alone, no matter how many people in the palace can't eat it all.

The farther away from the court, the more clearly you can see the current situation.

Zhang Yang changed the straw sandals worn by the children in summer into slippers, and then put these slippers in a row from small to large, with different colors, and placed them neatly in pairs.

"I don't know how the palace raises these children, their childhood is too little fun, and the deep palace is not suitable for raising children."

Zhang Yang sighed and looked at the night in contemplation.

Li Yue changed the child's clothes again, and every autumn and winter season is also the busiest time for her and her two aunts.

Prepare winter clothes for these children, as well as new clothes for the coming year.

The palace does prepare, but I always feel that the clothes made by Lishan are comfortable and more beautiful.

Following.

For the development of children's morality, intelligence, physical and beauty in the United States, in addition to daily learning, there are also exercise courses.

Early in the morning, the children stood in a row from tall to short, Zhang Yang took them to run around Huaqing Pond, and after running five laps like this, they were already tired.

Usually in the palace are pampered, where there will be this kind of exercise, it is also necessary to strengthen the body, it is the time to grow the body, exercise is indispensable.

Seeing them all fall to the ground from exhaustion, they just sit on the ground, and there is one more thing today.

Today Li Zhi is going to have a swimming competition with Little Bear.

Taking advantage of the fact that the current Huaqing Pond is not cold to the bone, if it is past the frost season, it will be impossible to enter the water again in the beginning of winter.

Once the weather is cold, it is no longer suitable for children to swim in the water.

Little Bear and Li Zhi are at the starting point.

"Are you ready to exercise?" Zhang Yang looked at him and asked.

Li Zhi nodded heavily.

And the bear looked indifferent, and it even yawned.

Zhang Yang took two steps back, blew a whistle, and the bear and Li Zhi entered the water together, and one person and one bear fluttered in the water, swimming towards the other side of Huaqing Pond.

The bear's water nature has always been very good, it doesn't look good when it swims in Huaqing Pond, and it is also like a leisurely walk to deal with Li Zhi.

The five cubs were also at the edge of the pool, and after several attempts to go down, their paws only touched the water and retracted.

"Child, hurry up!" Dongyang and Qinghe shouted on the side.

Li Zhi kept paddling his hands and feet.

Perhaps the bear was also impatient, and when it got into the water, it was already a big head ahead when it floated again.

Li Zhi gritted his teeth and swam up, but the bear was already on the other side, shaking the water on its body, and raising its head very proudly.

Zhang Yang followed aside, afraid that something would happen to Li Zhi, but whenever he had something wrong in the pool, he immediately went into the water to bring him up.

Even if he already knew that he was defeated, he still insisted on swimming, perseverance and determination were good, and he was a child who could be cultivated.

Finally, Li Zhi also swam to the other side, he gasped for breath and his face turned red.

Li Lizhi took the cloth towel and handed it to him, "Child, isn't it cold in the water?" ”

Li Zhi wiped his face vigorously, "It's not cold when you're in the water." ”

A gust of wind blew, and Li Zhi was shivering from the cold again.

Under the distressed gaze of the palace maid, His Royal Highness King Jin went to the house to change his clothes before coming out.

Li Zhi's swimming methods are all learned from Zhang Yang, he is indeed not slow to swim, and his movements are very standard, but he is still far from winning against this bear.

I don't know how this bear can swim so fast with such short limbs.

Li Zhi, who was helplessly defeated, sat on a small stool, staring at the leisurely bear.

However, in the eyes of children such as Qinghe, Dongyang, Li Fu and Li Ming, Li Zhi is already very powerful.

At least in this late autumn, they also dare to swim in Huaqing Pond.

The new home will continue to be built, in the morning in his study for the casting of flintlock pistol busy for half a day, in the afternoon to the other end of the mountain, the back of the greenhouse, here is also a piece of rubble, originally here is a Taoist temple in the Lishan Palace.

There is no statue of Dao Ancestor, only a large furnace, like an alchemy furnace.

Now the stove has been thrown down the hill and has become a useless ornament, as if it were an old object.

Zhang Yang pressed the ground to be flat and flat, and then took out his own drawings, and tried the distance with his feet before and after, this piece of land is just to make a workshop for himself, which can be used to make some objects in the future.

It will start from the beginning of winter and will be completed in the summer of the following year.

Zhang Yang called Li Zhi, Li Fu and Li Ming, three boys, to carry stones and wood together and prepare first.

On the day of the beginning of winter, there are village children who lead the cattle to graze the cattle in the wilderness, feed the cattle and need hay, pull the cattle out in the early winter to have a good meal, and when they come back, they need to prepare enough hay.

On the country roads in the fields, one or two cows can be seen every few miles, and there are big cows with small calves.

After the emperor worshiped his ancestors at the beginning of winter, he walked in the countryside and saw that some families were busy preparing for winter.

On the contrary, Lishan is different in this winter season, and they are soaking rice.

The rice was planted after the wheat harvest in August in the summer, and now it is time to harvest the rice in Yeosan.

Li Shimin picked up a handful of rice lying on the ground and looked at it.

The villagers here don't mind this situation, after all, outsiders who can enter the village are not bad people.

They didn't know Tian Khan, but they knew that this figure often visited the factory with Shangguan Yi, and even Shangguan Yi had to be respectful to him, so the villagers would not care.

Li Shimin put down the rice in his hand again, "This rice doesn't grow well, and it's rare for this kid to plant it every year." ”

Wei Chigong, who was accompanying him, replied: "Your Majesty, do you want to inform His Royal Highness King Wei." ”

As he spoke, Yu Chigong was still carrying a burden, which was very heavy, because the burden was burned out of refined copper.

Li Shimin raised his eyes and looked at Lishan, "I heard that Qingque has been addicted to wrought iron recently, so I won't bother him, and I told him that it is better to go to Zhang Yang." ”

"Whoa!"

To eat noodles in the beginning of winter, Zhang Yang made mutton and scallion oil noodles for the children, boiled a pot of chicken soup, and distributed the stewed chicken to the children.

Zhang Yang sprinkled some chopped green onions on top of the chicken broth.

Aunt Yang hurriedly came, "County Marquis, Your Majesty is here." ”

Before he could take a sip of the bowl of chicken soup in his hand, he heard the voice outside the house.

"I heard that you sent a lot of iron tools to the Western Regions, what are those iron tools for?"

For a while, they were not in the mood to drink chicken soup, and the children sat neatly in a row from tall to short sucking the scallion oil noodles in the bowl, which was a good habit they developed in Lishan.

Seeing that there were a lot of children, they shouted their father neatly, which made Li Shimin feel very good.

Looking at the shiny noodles in their bowls, the children ate so well that they suddenly felt hungry too.

Zhang Yang held the chicken soup in his hand, and the emperor stood in front of him, not knowing how to put his mouth at this moment, handed the bowl over, and said again: "Your Majesty, drink the soup." ”

This should be a good way to greet you.

Li Shimin looked down, "There are still green onions in Lishan?" ”

Zhang Yang replied: "I grow it in my own greenhouse." ”

"I won't drink this chicken soup, you can drink it."

Wei Chi saluted and said, "Your Majesty." ”

Zhang Yang handed the bowl of chicken soup in his hand to the general in front of him, Wei Chigong took it with both hands, and drank the whole bowl of chicken soup in one gulp.

Wei Chigong wiped his mouth, "Well, refreshing!" ”

Zhang Yang poured him another bowl of strong tea, "Although the chicken soup is good, it is also greasy, and it is just right to drink a sip of strong tea to relieve greasyness." ”

"Thank you."

Wei Chigong took the strong tea, drank it in one gulp and said, "Well, refreshing!" ”

It's still the same, this General Wei Chi drinks soup, tea and wine all the same, worthy of being my Tang Dynasty general, well, refreshing!

Li Shimin took out a bowl of noodles from the pot, picked up chopsticks as if it were his own home, and ate it.

Originally, there were not many noodles left in the pot, and the remaining ones were originally reserved for himself, watching the emperor eat all the rest, Zhang Yang was melancholy, vicious Tian Khan! Let's not let people eat properly.

Tian Khan once again showed his impoverished posture, and sat at the door of someone else's house eating food so loudly.

"What are those iron tools you sent to the Western Regions?"

Zhang Yang shook the fan in one hand, looked into the distance on the top of the mountain, hesitated for a while and replied: "Pei Xingjian, they are alone in the Western Regions, although they have the help of the DPRK and China, they live in hardship in the depths of the Western Regions, I just hope to improve their lives, and they are all kitchen utensils." ”

Li Shimin snorted coldly, "You care about your own manpower." ”

"We are all His Majesty's courtiers, I just let my subordinates live better and make their quality of life better."

"Really?"

"Your Majesty doesn't believe it, forget it."

The fact that both the monarch and the minister did not trust each other did not prevent the monarch and the minister from colluding and sharing the spoils.

"Take me to see your greenhouse."

After eating the noodles in the bowl, Li Shimin wiped his mouth, as if he was reminiscing and swallowing a mouthful of saliva, and put the empty bowl in Wei Chigong's hand.

Tian Khan came to the greenhouse, and a glass-roofed greenhouse shone in the winter sun.

Opening the door and seeing the lush green in it, Li Shimin couldn't help but gasp, "I always thought that you would not be willing to fall since you were poor, and now I think that you are nothing more than that." ”

There was some disdain in his words, and the emperor's eyes were full of jealousy and envy, and he stepped into the greenhouse, and reached out to brush a green onion, as if to confirm whether it was an illusion that such green in winter was not an illusion.

When he looked up again, Li Shimin's eyes were a little more tangled, "What a glass top, why do you want to ......?"

Zhang Yang raised his head and said: "There is a lack of a piece in the east and a piece in the west, it's like being gnawed by a dog." ”

"Hmm."

Li Shimin nodded with a straight face, worried about the aesthetics of this son-in-law.

But he's a weirdo, and it's not surprising that weirdos have strange habits and strange tastes.

After walking around this new home in Lishan, I found that it was the same as last summer.

"I worshipped my ancestors in Longxi this time, and when I came, I asked the car driver to go back first, and came out for a walk to have a look."

Zhang Yang waved his hand and said: "Your Majesty can go into the countryside and see this water, soil and people, it is really a blessing for the Tang Dynasty." ”

"Luckily?"

"That's right, there is a way that we came from the masses, and His Majesty was also a member of the masses back then, so it is natural to return to the masses, understand our most simple Tang style, understand the needs of the masses, and what they want is what the people want."

"Moreover, it is necessary to further communicate and conduct in-depth exchanges with the villagers, truly understand the needs of the masses, in short, do more practical things and talk less empty words."

After ten years as an emperor, Li Shimin was speechless, "Why has no one ever said such a thing to me?" ”

Zhang Yang said with a smile: "Maybe the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of the Manchu Dynasty has been saying such things, but His Majesty doesn't care." ”

"Really?"

We came to the open space behind the greenhouse, where the workshop was to be built, and now the flat land has been cleared, and there are a lot of stones and wood on the side.

Wei Chigong has been following alongside, and in his ears is the conversation between His Majesty and Zhang Yang, these words went in from one ear of his, and came out of the other, and after a while, he forgot what His Majesty said a few breaths ago.

Automatically filtered out the words that he, the general, didn't want to understand.

When people reach middle age, it is no longer the years when they were young and galloping in the Central Plains.

The two of them sat down on the pile of stones on the side, and said, "I often wonder how you did the matter in Luoyang?" ”

Zhang Yanghu said suspiciously: "Your Majesty should be clear." ”

Of course, Li Shimin knew the beginning and end of the Luoyang incident, but he hadn't figured out the crux of it yet, why those children of the family were so crazy about sugar.

It's been a year since this incident, and those Luoyang disciples are still locked up in the dungeon of Dali Temple.

Zhang Yang held his chin with one hand and looked ahead with blank eyes, "Actually, it's very simple to understand this, it's nothing more than buying and selling." ”

"Exactly."

Li Shimin nodded pertinently.

"Your Majesty, when I want to buy soap, I must think that it is nothing more than a bathing thing, it does not matter, because people are used to the old way of bathing, and soap is not necessary for them, but people have to interact with each other, and if a person has a vague fragrance, it is easy to get close to others."

"Isn't there a demand for it? Create demand without buying and selling, even for things they don't need. ”

Li Shimin was silent for a moment, "Then what are the needs of the children of Luoyang?" ”

Zhang Yang smiled: "Because they are all dreaming of getting rich overnight." ”

Hearing this, Li Shimin smiled, and the heavenly khan suddenly stood up, "Han Feizi is right, businessmen really deserve to die." ”