Li Zhengzao looked at the white sugar on the table in shock, and was speechless for a while.

Monk Huikuang said in a low voice: "At the beginning, everyone knew about the Luoyang white sugar case, and many people were exploring the origin of the white sugar. ”

Staring, Li Zheng walked to the table, pinched up some sugar, and looked at it carefully, "The old man has never used sugar!" It's not the old man's! ”

The wind and snow outside the window had stopped, and cold air poured in from the windows and doors, and Monk Huikuang said in a low voice: "Then why did it appear in Mr. Li's package." ”

"There must be someone else who has put the burden of the old man."

Monk Huikuang said: "The origin of the sugar is a mystery, who owns the sugar and can put it into Mr. Li's baggage?" ”

Looking at the old monk's face, Li Zhengzao said angrily: "What do you mean, the white sugar case in Luoyang has nothing to do with the old man!" ”

Monk Hui Kuang stood up, "Today's matter will be kept secret, as for who planted the blame to Mr. Li, please ask the old man to find out by himself, and give me an explanation." ”

The old monk took out the drawings in the baggage again, "Since Mr. Li is still entangled in these complicated things, then the old monk will not bother, in order to ensure that the drawings are safe, the old monk will take them away for the time being, and then contact him when he gets out of Tongguan." ”

"In the spring of next year, the old monk will take a boat to Yangzhou, and then we will talk about who the drawings belong to."

After the old monk finished speaking, he left with the drawings and sugar.

Li Zhengzao stood in the room, his forehead was bruised, and the origin of these white sugars was difficult to identify.

Just as the main house owner of the Nanzu lineage of the Li family in Zhao County was still investigating the origin of the white sugar in the baggage, the rumors about Li Zhengzao and the white sugar soon spread.

Who passed it on, whether it was the monk Huikuang or someone else, this matter is unknown.

Li Zhengzao has also experienced the ups and downs of life, and he is an old fox who has lived a fine life, and he knows that someone must have arranged this matter.

The monk Huikuang was erudite and resourceful, he didn't say anything or explain, but left with his monks.

After two days of investigation, Li Zhengzao calmed down and figured out three locations, the residence in Chang'an City is absolutely clean, and only Pei Xuanji can come into contact with this burden, when he was drinking in Lishan, it was Shangguan Yiwen's wine, not prepared by His Royal Highness King Wei.

But when Li Zhengzao had a direction to investigate, the people of Qinghe Cui's family came to the door.

At the beginning of the Luoyang white sugar case, Qinghe Cui's loss was the greatest, and the loss of silver was also the largest, and they struggled to trace the trace of white sugar this year.

When he heard that Li Zhengzao of the Li family of Zhao County still had sugar, and he didn't care that everyone was a Hebei wang clan, he immediately asked people to detain Li Zhengzao first, and asked people to check the Li family of Zhao County.

Cui Zheng, a descendant of the Cui family who served in Yongzhou, sat in front of Li Zhengzao, and the entire young man was already a meritorious member of Yongzhou at such an age.

He had such a military position on the ground at such a young age, and it was arranged by the noble clan in Qinghe.

Facing the juniors in front of him, Li Zhengzao said with a straight face: "Your old consort Cui Renshi still wants to call the old man a brother in Chang'an City, do you dare to detain the old man here?" ”

Cui Zheng is also a soldier ruffian, he played with the short knife in his hand, "The old father in the family will be courteous to you before, because I don't know that you still have sugar in your hand, and the two brothers in the family are still on death row in Dali Temple because they need our Hebei Wang clan to be together." ”

"Right now, you have sugar in your hand, we can only detain you first, and we will give an explanation when we find out the truth."

Cui Zhen said in a low voice: "Don't worry, Fan Yang and several other families in Taiyuan are also on the way." ”

Li Zhengzao was sad.

To say that this Li Zhengzao went all the way to Chang'an City and wanted to buy papermaking, no matter how Lishan printed, the Tian Khan without paper was like a toothless tiger, and everyone understood the stakes.

It's just that this time, Li Zhengzao took out 100,000 yuan of family funds for this transaction, and Buddhism gave 200,000 yuan.

After that, each family will have to pay another million, and to raise this money, it is not enough for one family.

Hui Kuang's old monk is about to die, he needs to mobilize the money of temples around the world, maybe this is the last thing Hui Kuang, who has been a monk all his life since Emperor Yang of Sui, did for Buddhism before he passed away.

But now, someone went to Monk Huikuang to confirm that the white sugar was obtained from Li Zhengzao's baggage.

This time, even if Li Zhengzao is not dead, he will lose a layer of skin.

Li Mountain in the cold of winter, the whole mountain has become silvery white, Li Tai and Shangguan Yi drank tea, since four years ago Zhang Yang used the Red Mansion to send the first roar to the family, and then spent three years to plan Luoyang affairs, from Zhenguan seven to eight years, two years after the children of the family fell into madness, Shangguan Yi stuffed Li Zhengzao's burden with a bag of sugar.

The contradiction of this white sugar case was transferred to the Li family of Zhaojun.

At this point, Lishan can get out.

In the last month of the ten years of Zhenguan, Li Shimin gave the family the decision of this heavenly khan, as long as anyone still has the sugar, he will be endlessly tracked down by the world's scholars and courts.

Li Shimin has the power to decide the life and death of thousands of people, and the heavenly khan, who holds the highest authority in the world, gave an order, and the heads of people in front of Chang'an City were rolling, and the children of the family who had been imprisoned for more than a year were beheaded.

Sun Fujia read aloud their thirty cardinal sins, informing the world of the charges they had committed to poisoning the locality.

And hundreds of horsemen left Chang'an City and went to Hebei under the leadership of Ma Zhou, the inspector of the imperial history.

So far, the Luoyang case has come to an end.

After drinking the tea in the bowl, a guard came to Li Tai's side and whispered a few words.

Li Tai raised his head and smiled: "This king is going to see someone." ”

Shangguan Yi nodded and said, "His Royal Highness King Wei walks slowly." ”

The wind and snow in Guanzhong were still very strong, and the wind and snowflakes hit the face very painfully, Li Tai walked out of Lishan Village and saw Yang Lian, who he hadn't seen for a long time, on the official road.

Yang Lian bowed and saluted, "His Royal Highness King Wei, are you still satisfied with your current situation?" ”

Li Tai was very satisfied, Yang Lian had already eaten himself into a fat man who was fatter than this king, even if he was walking on Suzaku Street now, those people in Luoyang would not recognize him back then.

"Have you seen your sister? Have you explained everything that should be explained? ”

Yang Lian still maintained a respectful salute posture, and put his hands in front of him, "His Royal Highness King Wei can rest assured, everything has been explained." ”

Li Tai took out a map, "This is where the Western Regions Anxi Protectorate is located, go to the Western Regions in the future, hand over this matter to Pei Duhu of the Metropolitan Protectorate, and finish this matter for Pei Duhu, and you will have nothing to do with this king in the future." ”

"Thank you, Your Royal Highness King Wei." Yang Lian took the map and letter with both hands.

This man walked into the wind and snow and went to the Western Regions alone.

Li Tai felt that the monk Xuanzang was still a hidden danger, "This monk should be intercepted and killed on the road." ”

"His Royal Highness the King of Wei, I am willing to go to the Western Regions and give the monk Xuanzang to ......" The guard made a neck wiping motion.

With a sad face, Li Tai walked back to the village, "Brother-in-law said that this matter should be considered in the long run. ”

"Then do you want to arrange for someone to keep an eye on that Xuanzang monk?"

"No need, my father is still on Lishan Mountain, we have to go back soon."

At this moment, Lishan is covered with snow, and the children are having a snowball fight in front of the house, and a snowball grabs over the Huaqing Pond and stands directly on Li Shimin's head.

He mechanically turned his head to see that the initiator was the little son, and Li Shimin had to turn his head again, as if nothing had happened.

There was mutton stewed in the hot pot, and Zhang Yang poured wine for His Majesty again, "How about this wine?" ”

Li Shimin poured another sip, "This wine is clear, and it burns like fire in the throat, it is a good wine." ”

As he spoke, he took another sip, "There are green vegetables, wine and meat, your Lishan is like a fairyland, and the rumored Penglai is nothing more than that." ”

"Your Majesty laughed, how can my dilapidated house in Lishan be compared to Penglai Wonderland." Zhang Yang's words paused and added: "There has never been such a thing as immortality in this world. ”

Li Shimin nodded slowly.

The bear cub was rolling in the snow, originally a brown bear, but now it was almost a white bear, covered in snow.

Because the upstream of Huaqing Pond is connected to the hot spring pool, even in winter, the Weishui River is frozen, and there is only some thin ice on the surface of Huaqing Pond.

The children's snowball fights continued, their cheeks and hands were red from the cold, and the men were divided into two groups, throwing snowballs at each other, and even starting to build small walls with snow.

The laughter of these children continued to echo in Lishan.

Li Yue was pregnant again, she was sitting by the stove, looking through the medicine scriptures written by Doctor Sun, wanting to learn some pharmacology from it.

The building near the water got the moon first, and what Lishan got was the first-hand medicine scripture written by Sun Shenyi.

In her spare time, Li Yue would pick up the medicine scripture and look at it carefully, frantically supplementing the medical knowledge she already lacked.

Li Lizhen and Xu Hui are going to perform a ceremony in the coming year, and they are frying beef with Xiao Wu, the beef was brought from the palace by the father and queen mother, and it is rare to be able to eat it once.

Inside the house, the eldest grandson, the queen and the two aunts, packed the children's new clothes, and the aunts also reported to the queen the recent situation of the princess and the princes.

With such a large family, Lishan is very lively and busy.

Li Tai hurried over and came to the front of his brother-in-law and father, "Father, brother-in-law, and grandpa insist on separating the high and low with Zou Guogong in chess, saying that he will come back at night." ”

The mutton in the hot pot had been eaten, and Zhang Yang saw that Li Tai was coming, so he finally picked up two plates of cut beef on the side and put them in the pot, "This is the beef brought by His Majesty, it is rare to eat beef in Lishan, and His Royal Highness the King of Wei will also taste it." ”

Listening to his brother-in-law's words, Li Tai looked at his father's face again.

The side of the hot pot was very warm, Li Shimin's cheeks were already red after drinking the wine, and he was vaguely drunk, "Qingque, you can sit too." ”

"Thank you, Father." Li Tai took the bowl and chopsticks and poured himself some wine, and then poured some into his father's bowl diligently.

If you want to change Chengqian, you will definitely not want to sit aside and eat hot pot with your father, and only Li Tai, who is usually thoughtful, will sit down.

Li Tai enjoyed eating a few slices of beef, and then took a sip of wine, "Well, refreshing!" ”

Zhang Yang put some chopped green onions into the soup of the hot pot again, "Your Majesty is worried that papermaking has been losing money, and the DPRK and China will not be able to maintain it?" ”

Coincidentally, talking about this, Li Tai ate beef in his mouth and pricked up his ears to listen.

Li Shimin put down the wine bowl, sat on the small stool, put his hands on the joints of his knees and sat upright, because his face was already red from drunkenness, and said with a straight face: "I have looked at the accounts of papermaking in the past, and your Lishan has been losing money. ”

Zhang Yang explained: "This is indeed the case, because our Lishan paper has always been cheap. ”

"I asked Cen Wenwen to be the supervisor of the paper mill, and he told me that if the DPRK and China want to increase output, the cost will be increased by at least five times."

Li Tai scooped up another piece of beef, put the hot pot after the green onion, and drank a sip of soup to taste better.

Listening to the words of his father and brother-in-law, his gaze also swirled between the two.

Zhang Yang pondered for a moment, thinking that the paper mill still uses the process of drying paper.

Li Shimin bowed his head and said: "I heard that Lishan still handed over the paper-making drawings to them. ”

Li Tai hurriedly said: "Father, what Lishan gave them is only the drawings of the equipment used in papermaking, which is part of the pressing link we use in papermaking, not all of it. ”

Knowing Li Shimin's worries, Zhang Yang explained: "If they can use these drawings to raise the papermaking technology to a higher level, it will be a good thing." ”

Of course, the emperor wanted to control the paper, and wanted to make the books available to the court, not to be printed as scriptures.

Zhang Yang took a bowl of soup and took a sip slowly, "In fact, there is a process on the basis of papermaking, and there must be a lot of paper written in the court." ”

Li Shimin nodded, "Well, a lot." ”

"That's fine, all the used paper in the DPRK can be sent to Lishan, and these papers are kept and not lost, and when we master the technology that old paper can be recycled, the cost of papermaking can be reduced by at least 30%."

Li Shimin calculated an account in his heart, on the basis of the original Lishan papermaking technology, if the cost can be reduced by 30%, then profit will not be a problem.

to solve the immediate problem.

"However, the reuse of recycled paper will also make paper cheaper than it is now, barely able to break even, and if you want books to spread more widely, you need cheaper paper, this account is like this, paper can only get cheaper and cheaper, not to mention recycling and reuse."

Zhang Yang took a sip of tea, "Your Majesty, since the paper mill is still operated by Lishan, Lishan will try its best to help the DPRK and China balance the balance of income and expenditure, and under the condition of not losing money, it can make some profits, what does Your Majesty think?" ”

This son-in-law's ability is still trustworthy, he is a person who can use money between his teeth.

"But I still want Cen Wenwen to supervise the paper mill."

His Majesty is conceited and suspicious, no matter what, he still wants to install one more person in Lishan.

Zhang Yang sighed: "It's okay, the paper mill in Lishan is Your Majesty's, Your Majesty can dispose of it however you want, and the accounts in the future that Lishan is responsible for operating will be reviewed by Cen Wenwen." ”

Li Tai also nodded and said, "Father and emperor can rest assured, and the sons and daughters can also help from the side." ”