After cleaning up, Zhang Yang frowned and looked at his masterpiece, first of all, this was the first experimental product, the bullet flew out, and the breech of the gun was also burned out.

Picking up the gun in the basin, Zhang Yang hung his head, this one was wasted.

The instantaneous temperature during combustion is too high, and this half-wooden barrel cannot withstand such high temperatures, and the construction is a problem, as is the accuracy.

If you can't hit the target, you can listen to it, which is too embarrassing.

Zhang Yang was suddenly out of mood, but this sound woke up the sleeping bear, and the five little milk bears also woke up, crawling out one by one, thinking that spring had arrived.

The cold wind blew and made them realize that it was still winter, so they went back to sleep in the wood house.

A huge map was spread out, and Li Yue pointed in the direction of Persia, "Is the purpose now to take here?" ”

"Well, expansion is necessary."

"But it also has to be governed." Li Yue emphasized.

Aunt Wang stood quietly aside, listening to the couple discussing the important affairs of the court, and it had been a long time since she had heard Her Royal Highness the princess and the county marquis say this.

There are a few points on the map, that is, the capital protection mansion that needs to be built in various places, the Tubo capital protection house, the Hanhai capital protection house, and the Anxi capital protection house, it is not impossible to build a few more capital protection houses.

The powerful Datang was destroyed with a bang, and Zhang Yang hoped that Datang could do well and become stronger and stronger.

Rich and strong, rich and strong are inseparable.

How did Persia perish, Persia was a very rich place, located at the crossroads of the Silk Road, and commerce allowed Persia to make enough money, but only rich and not powerful.

As for the historical reasons why the Tang Dynasty fell, there are different opinions.

Zhang Yang also thought about it in his shoes that the Tang Dynasty is very powerful, one of the few powerful countries in history, although the people are fierce and the emperor is strong.

If you want to talk about the collapse of Datang, you have to start with the cessation of expansion.

There are a lot of strongmen in Datang, if Datang didn't stop the pace of expansion and put many strongmen on the ground to let them grow, maybe there would be no An Lushan and the like, the original strategy was obviously inappropriate.

Li Shimin's current approach is very right, he has gathered power, and has been weakening the power of the local government, the pillar of the Tang Dynasty is Chang'an City, the stronger this pillar, the greater his power, and the denser the branches and leaves of this big tree, the better.

It's just that the branches and leaves can't be too strong, weak places, strong centralization, is beneficial to all dynasties.

You can't let these strongmen with military strategies stay in Guanzhong, and if there is too much involution, something will happen.

Assign these strongmen to various parts of the Central Plains to defend them, compete for territory and roll up endlessly?

In this way, can nothing happen?

The internal friction must not be too much, otherwise it will roll people to death.

With such a strong strength, it should be expanded, this is the upward force, and it is the positive impact.

As for Datang's reputation? The idea is not so civilized, there are monarchies everywhere, and conquest and occupation have always been the main tone of this era, of this world.

So in this day and age, expansion is the way to go.

Strengthen the centralized forces, send expeditionary forces, and the powerful centralized forces do not have to be afraid of whether the generals will support their own troops, and they can be rewarded by the Heavenly Khan after they return.

No one would stupidly stay outside and mingle with a group of barbarians, whose civilization lagged too far behind the Tang Dynasty.

The important thing is that the identity of identity always exists under the centralized power, because they are Tang people from beginning to end, and no matter how far away they go with this identity, they know where they are home.

The banner of Datang will be planted all over the world, and the territory of thousands of miles will meet the needs of Datang now.

This is the only reason why Zhang Yang can analyze the collapse of Datang now.

Personal opinions should not be all, at least Zhang Yang feels that this should always be right.

A few days ago, another batch of kitchenware was sent to Gaochang, and there will be Gaochang people who will hand over these kitchenware to Pei Xingjian, who is far away in Persia, so that this young man can take these kitchenware to overturn the big cannibals and conquer the Tianzhu people.

Whoever dares not to surrender to the Heavenly Khan is Zhang Yang's biggest enemy.

Li Yue drank a sip of boiled water, and now that she is pregnant, her aunt only allows her to drink boiled water.

Not long after, Xu Hui and Xiao Wu also came back, because Xu Xiaode also came to Lishan for the New Year, Xu Hui took Xiao Wu to visit together.

"Teacher, Daddy said that Zhao Guogong wants to take the power of the Foreign Affairs Academy." Xu Hui said this very sensibly.

Li Yue smiled: "Let your aunt send some fine salt to your father." ”

"Thank you, teacher."

Xu Hui smiled and entered the house with Xiao Wu.

In fact, I had told Li Yue about this before, but I didn't tell anyone else, Zhang Yang hugged her shoulders and whispered: "You are becoming more and more like a housewife now." ”

"Well, our family business is so big, I can only learn more, and it is all taught by my mother."

Zhang Yang laughed softly: "It's been a few days since the construction of Taiye Pond started, and I don't know how Yan Liben is prepared, and the second phase of the fortification should be prepared after the beginning of spring." ”

The flintlock pistol was finally scrapped, and it was a failed experiment.

With failure, there is experience, and it will be much faster to build another one, or the problem of the process, and the process needs to be improved.

Zhang Yang looked at his drawings and came up with several reasons, the first is to change the structure of the breech, but fortunately, it was only burned up, and there was no explosion.

In order to improve accuracy, it was necessary to continue to compress the space in the breech, which required the use of refined iron from Lishan, and the barrel had to be reworked to find the best accuracy.

In the end, Xiao Qingqing wandered around the Huaqing Pond and found the bullet, which turned out to be the target it deviated from, and finally landed on the east side of the Huaqing Pond, which was really far enough.

"Daddy, what are you doing?" Xiao Qingqing looked at the pair of big hands that polished the iron, put his hands on the table, his chin on his hands, and blinked curiously.

"I have a very powerful toy, waiting for Daddy to make it and play with it."

"Mother! Daddy said he was going to give me a gun to play with. Xiao Qingqing ran out again in a hurry.

provoked the daughter-in-law to fly a roll of the eyes at herself, how can such a dangerous thing be played with by the child.

Dismantling the gun and keeping all the parts that could be used, Zhang Yang washed his hands and prepared to make dinner.

Although the mutton hot pot is simple and trouble-free, the family is tired of eating it.

Zhang Yang stood in his kitchen, looking at a large lump of mutton, his brows were tightened, and he saw that his aunt was going to deliver fine salt and bring these mutton.

"Well, I feel much more comfortable without mutton."

Nodding heavily, Zhang Yang looked at the pork ribs on the side, and his daughter-in-law was pregnant and afraid that she wouldn't be able to eat it, so she made a meal of sweet and sour pork ribs.

I picked some greens from my own greenhouse, and in winter, my own table is always the warmest.

Li Yue ate the ribs and whispered: "In two days, it will be Chinese New Year's Eve, and according to the rules of the village, a banquet will be held." ”

"Well, then let's have a feast for three days."

"There are many green onions in the greenhouse, and these green onions and garlic grow so tall, and some of them are also brought to the villagers."

Zhang Yang still nodded, "Listen to you." ”

After thinking about it again, Li Yue said again: "Give some more brown sugar to the villagers." ”

The daughter-in-law is the biggest housewife in Lishan, and she needs to reward the villagers in Lishan, and the couple calculates the accounts after the meal.

This year, Lishan has a total of 53,000 guan of profits, of which 30,000 guan are earned by businesses outside the Guan, while the surplus in the customs is only 20,000 guan.

"The separation of the paper mill has relieved a lot of pressure on the family." Li Yue skillfully dialed the abacus, "I also have to take out 5,000 yuan to divide it, and all kinds of technological breakthroughs will be given silver coins, and this year's blacksmith workshop will also add silver coin......s to develop pressure cookers."

When she finishes the calculation, counting the wages and various rewards, she will have to divide more than 10,000 yuan in total.

However, now that the family has millions of properties, Li Yue is very generous, and the richest woman in Lishan spares no effort in buying people's hearts.

In fact, she doesn't need to buy it, the villagers of Lishan are simple, as long as they are given a peaceful day, there is a surplus every harvest, and with enough food and clothing, they can support Lishan like death.

Now that her daughter-in-law is pregnant, she has to sleep with her daughter at night.

Zhang Yang looked at his small bed in the study, sighed and lay down, covered the futon and prepared to sleep, just closed his eyes and snored like thunder, the bear grew bigger and bigger, and the snoring became louder and louder.

was so noisy that he couldn't sleep, Zhang Yang sat up from the bed suddenly, holding an oil lamp in one hand and a stick in the other, intending to teach it a lesson.

As soon as he opened the door of the house, a few snowflakes greeted him, and he shivered with cold, Zhang Yang had no choice but to put down his stick and return to the study again, continuing to endure the torture of the bear's snoring.

The main house of the family is very large, and the study is far away from the bedroom, so neither the daughter-in-law's bedroom nor the daughter's room can be heard, except that the window of the study faces the bear's firewood room.

Really sleepless, Zhang Yang stuffed some paper into his ears and simply continued to draw drawings.

The next day, Zhang Yang walked out of the study listlessly, and Aunt Liang was just bright with hot porridge cakes and noodles, as well as scallion fried eggs on the table.

Pick up a hot cake and a bowl of noodles and sit in front of the house to eat.

Although it is unsightly to sit in front of the house to eat, I was born in the countryside, and I was also a countryman in my previous life, so I am used to eating breakfast like this.

The aunt carried a wooden basin in front of the firewood house, which contained some pork and pig bones, half a chicken, and porridge.

The bear is getting more and more able to eat, from small bowls to large bowls, and now it eats in pots.

Seeing that it was still full of eating, it staggered back to the firewood room.

Zhang Yang stared at the bear that ruined his sleep, it didn't notice the owner's malice at all, but lay down after eating, and just lay down without sleeping, enjoying it very much.

After having dinner with his daughter, Li Yue asked Xiao Wu and Xu Hui to tell the villagers to have a banquet.

The two aunts each brought a basket of onions, garlic and vegetables to the villagers, and the villagers at the bottom of the mountain cheered happily.

Vegetables in winter are rare, and except for a few restaurants allocated to Chang'an City, Lishan's self-sufficiency is not very practical.

Zhang Yang continues to build his own workshop.

Seeing that her husband's project had already built the wall, she nodded and said, "Study in the study all day, and sooner or later the new home will be burned." ”

Zhang Yang smiled embarrassedly: "It's not so serious." ”

"Really?" Li Yue's expression obviously didn't believe this statement, "Since I started to specialize in earth mines and flints, sixteen tables have been burned out. ”

"I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, I'll try not to do these experiments in the study in the future, which worries my wife."

Li Yue couldn't help but smile, she was very useful to this lady, but she corrected her own look again, "I'm still used to hearing you call me my daughter-in-law." ”

Marking the sticks and sawing them down requires a very large table on which many instruments are placed.

"My daughter said she wanted a brother."

"She doesn't count this kind of thing."

The snow is not heavy today, there is a little snow on the ground, and there is still a lot of snow on the pine forest in the distance, and the scenery is very beautiful.

The aunt brought the accounts of the Hexi Corridor, "Your Royal Highness the Princess, this is the tax of the Hexi Corridor this year. ”

Lishan has seventy percent of the taxes paid by the Hexi Corridor, which is a deal with the Heavenly Khan.

Dicchison collected customs duties in the Hexi Corridor, of which 70 percent belonged to Lishan, and the remaining 30 percent was given to the DPRK.

Li Yue looked at the accounts and said in surprise: "There are more than 8,000 yuan." ”

Especially after the sale of liquor in Guanzhong, the business environment of the Hexi Corridor has also been unprecedentedly prosperous.

Including the inflow of pepper, jewelry, and jade, which also allowed the tariff to generate huge revenues.

In order to ensure that the silver money of the Tang Dynasty does not flow too seriously, it is necessary to increase the commercial tax, and now the tariff in the Hexi Corridor is the heaviest.

It is also the largest in terms of income.

As for the court, there are only a few more than 2,000 guan.

Li Yue sighed: "Now I am a little worried about my father's health, and I don't know how he will feel when he sees this account." ”

"What else can you think, when I made a note, if he dares to regret it, I will go to Chengtianmen every day to ask for an account."

Li Yue held his forehead in distress, "How can my father be a heavenly khan." ”

The environment in Longxi is not as bad as that of later generations, and even the Hexi Corridor can now raise horses, herd sheep, and farm.

In addition to planting trees and managing the four counties of Hexi, he is also busy helping Lishan with business and buying and selling goods.

It will be the eleventh year of Zhenguan soon, whether it is the Western Regions, Tubo, or Anxi Protectorate, there will be many changes in the court.

Zhang Yang sat in the snow with his daughter-in-law, "With such a fat piece of tax, your father will not give up." ”

"So what?"

"Daughter-in-law, if I fight with your father, will your younger brothers and sisters help me?"

Li Yue kept a straight face and was speechless for a while.

"I don't think these little conscienceless people will necessarily help me then."

"My father won't worry about my husband."

"In this way, if your father comes to Lishan to bargain with me at that time, you will let me go to the bedroom to sleep, and if your father doesn't care, I will continue to sleep in the study."

"But my ......"

Zhang Yang bowed his head and said, "It's okay, I'll sleep on the ground!" ”

There was an agreement between the husband and wife, and the heavy snow stopped after a while.

The villagers at the foot of the mountain were preparing for a feast, and Xiao Yu took the little girl from the village to salute to the top of Lishan Mountain, "Thank you to Her Royal Highness the princess and the county marquis for giving us vegetables in winter, and we will faithfully protect Lishan and never give up." ”

The unity of the people of Lishan is unbreakable, and whoever dares to get along with the county marquis and Her Royal Highness the princess can't get along with the entire Lishan.