Wei Zheng looked at a field in front of him, and finally his eyes fell on a vegetable field in the distance, the vegetable field was on the edge of the ridge, but it did not occupy the cultivated field.

It wasn't until Zhang Yang, Li Tai and Shangguan Yi arrived together that Wei Zheng withdrew his eyes, "The vegetable fields in Lishan are doing well. ”

"Zheng Gong said with a smile, these are all planted in his spare time, and we also have a seedbed with crops that we cultivate."

Zhang Yang said again: "Brother Wen, why are you here?" ”

Cen Wenwen smiled embarrassedly, "Come and check the accounts of the Lishan Brewery and the Paper Mill, it's just that when His Royal Highness King Wei can use the paper recycling technique, last month's accounts were looked at by the officials, and the court had a loss of sixty yuan, and His Majesty came to ask several times because of this matter." ”

The paper mill was originally a loss, not to mention meeting the paper needs of the DPRK and China, so the loss was added to the loss, and the loss was 60 times a month, or the production scale was not large, but fortunately, the scale is not large now, and if the scale is expanded, it will only lose more.

Li Tai has been busy with the steam engine recently, and he can't care about anything else at all.

Zhang Yang patted the fat man on the back and motioned him not to speak yet, so he helped explain: "There are still many technical things to be solved in the paper recycling technique, and His Royal Highness the King of Wei still has to watch the progress of the construction of the entire Lishan Mountain, there is not so much leisure, and we will put it on the agenda when we are free." ”

Seeing that he was still a little uneasy, Zhang Yang said again: "This paper mill has a three-percent profit and is also from Lishan, and when I traded with His Majesty, I made it very clear that some operations let Lishan call the shots." ”

Since the operation has been handed over to Lishan, it is also Lishan's business to turn losses into profits.

Cen Wenwen sighed: "The lower officials will explain it to Your Majesty." ”

Zhang Yang said with a smile: "A lot of tea sent from the Jiangnan area of the East China Sea this year is still sent by Xu Yushi, and they are all new tea this year. ”

Xu Xiaode was originally a member of the Xu clan in the East China Sea, and his relatives in the Jiangnan area were also considered to have connections.

Xu Hui learned that roasted tea had become popular in Guanzhong, so he asked his father to buy a few pieces of mountain land for planting tea, and after the girl learned that the climate in Jiangnan was suitable for growing tea, she persuaded her father to arrange for relatives in her hometown to do this.

Xu Hui is a very smart girl, saying that she is a disciple in Lishan, and she will also think about her family, the Xu family in the East China Sea is lonely, and it is no longer what it was back then, but she thinks that she can make the Xu family in the East China Sea rich again through the tea business.

When she helped Li Yue sort out the accounts, she found that the price of tea had increased several times as soon as it came out of the customs.

If the tea grown in Jiangnan is good enough, it can even be sold for 100 yuan.

Of course, the cultivation of these teas in the south of the Yangtze River is really good, and the climate in the south, especially in Huainan and the southeast, is very suitable for growing tea.

Therefore, tea was once cheap in the south, and Xu's tea was widely planted to buy a lot of mountainous land, and these teas were worthless in the south of the Yangtze River, but the price could be increased several times when they went to Guanwai.

This girl is very keenly grasped the business opportunity, and the mountainous land that cannot grow food can be used to grow tea trees, so that the Xu family has been vigorously planting tea trees since the first two years, and now most of the tea leaves in Lishan are also sent by Xu Xiaode's side.

Sending these tea leaves to the outside of the gate is just a matter of Lishan's handiwork, Li Yue is happy to help this proud disciple, the better the disciple is, the more satisfied she is.

A gust of spring breeze blew across his face, Zhang Yang took his thoughts back, and Li Tai's guards had already made tea.

Zhang Yang held the tea bowl and said: "There is something I have been caring about for a long time, the court asked about the marriage of Princess Changle, whether it was also the marriage of King Wei." ”

Hearing this, Li Tai's demeanor was also a little twisted, he showed an attitude of not caring, and he was unwilling to leave.

Wei Zheng took a sip of tea, "The court has talked about this matter, but according to the rules of Lishan, men and women really have to be twenty years old to marry." ”

Zhang Yang nodded heavily, "This is our rule in Lishan, and this rule will always be in the future." ”

Wei Zheng did not speak.

The children of Lishan should be strong, smart, and energetic.

Shangguan Yi, who was sitting on the side, finally spoke: "Gong Zheng doesn't know, it has been four years since the county marquis and the princess set this rule, and in the past four years, we have fifteen newborn children in Lishan, and there are few difficult births, and there are no early deaths, and the children are very strong." ”

Wei Zheng said in a low voice: "Strong biological parents, children are naturally healthy. ”

Shangguan Yi said: "But the children born to women under the age of twenty often do not go well, Taifu Temple in addition to taking care of the cultivation of the acres, but also compared with the population of various places, women under the age of sixteen give birth, early death and difficult childbirth is very much, the Western Regions and the Turks are even more barbaric. ”

"Xia Guan thinks that talking about marriage at the age of 20 is the embodiment of my Datang literacy, which is a bit ......"

At this point, Shangguan Yi was silent, it is very stupid to argue with others about Gangchang in this era, because you can't break this bad habit at all.

It's like you talk about freedom and equality in front of the emperor, it's a very stupid idea.

Over the years, Shangguanyi has felt a lot, and he has changed a lot, and he is the person who is most adapted to the new system of Lishan, and he is also the first person to practice the values of Lishan locally.

The value and subjectivity of Lishan are different from many places.

Wei Zheng said with a smile: "Okay, the old man came to Lishan this time to talk to Zhang Yang about the education strategy of the people in the Western Regions. ”

Zhang Yang arched his hand and said, "Gong Zheng, please speak." ”

Seeing that this kid's attitude was not bad, Wei Zheng said in a deep voice: "There are also concerns about this matter, whether it is appropriate to use the books of sages and sages to educate the people of the Western Regions, not to mention the Uighurs, once they have turmoil, everything will be wasted." ”

There is also a cost to the DPRK and China, although the current Tian Khan is finally not as poor as he was back then, it is also because he has some family background.

Although the matter of Du Zhilang has now been in the hands of Fang Xuanling, the situation of the lack of money in the DPRK and the central government has not been resolved, and another year of imperial examinations is coming soon, and now Chang'an City is still busy preparing.

The imperial examination and teaching support are a huge burden.

Originally, he didn't want the emperor to repair the Taiye Pool so quickly, but Tian Khan wanted to spend it lavishly as soon as he had a little money, so Zhang Yang resisted repairing the Taiye Pool at first.

After selling the papermaking technique, Li Shimin got 200,000 guan, which gave this heavenly khan a lot of confidence.

There will be no shortage of money in the DPRK and China for some time to come.

However, the inflow of silver money is still very small except for taxes, and from the emperor's point of view, he feels that when a penny arrives in Lishan, Lishan can use this penny to have the effect of three cents, or even ten cents.

As everyone knows, this is the result of using the creation of the Central Plains to harvest the fruits outside the Guanwai, the Central Plains is too poor, and the Tang people are all arrogant.

Lishan is no longer satisfied with the involution among the villagers of the Central Plains with weak purchasing power, and the nobles of the Western Regions are good customers worth harvesting.

Such customers are like Tibetans, Uighurs, or Turks.

These are all the benefits that Lisan can create for the DPRK and China, so when the customs tax was set up in the first place, the DPRK and China did not have much resistance.

It was just a matter of arguing for a while, and the matter went on.

It's good that the investment pays off.

Although there is no income in the short term, the imperial examination has produced a siphon effect in Chang'an City, absorbing all the people with lofty ideals and talents in the entire Central Plains, and these people can enter the court as officials through the imperial examination.

This is also the reason why the DPRK and China were able to continue to maintain the imperial examination.

But at present, this strategy of educating the people of the Western Regions is obviously a matter of unstable income.

Cen Wenwen said in a low voice: "Let the people of the Western Regions also participate in the imperial examination, whether you can get twice the result with half the effort, this is the lower official heard some people in the court discuss, talking about this, this matter was said by Tang Shanzhi." ”

Zhang Yang shook his head and said: "The people of the Western Regions do not directly participate in the imperial examination, and Chang'an City will open up an official residence to educate the people of the Western Regions, and who can come to learn, the court can carefully select, this kind of person is best the children of the nobles of Tubo or the Western Regions, the higher the status of these children outside the Guan, the greater the influence." ”

When Wei Zheng heard this, he bowed his head slightly, "You mean that the matter of indoctrination is different from the imperial examination?" ”

"Zheng Gong is right, the court selects the children of the nobles of the Western Regions to study in Chang'an, and sends special people to teach them, so that they can understand the essence of the Confucian classics, and they need to take the teaching test, and after the learning results are satisfied, they can leave Chang'an City and return to their hometown to serve as the patriarch or leader."

Cen Wenwen was suspicious: "What if they don't come? ”

"Brother Wen is too worried, with the endorsement of my Datang, with the direct appointment and guarantee of our Datang, as we all know, Datang's reputation is the best, we don't have to pick it ourselves, there will be many people rushing to it, and we can charge a high fee for this, the nobles of the Western Regions are far richer than we think."

Wei Zheng had no concept of the nobles of the Western Regions, in fact, after the development of the former Sui or the two dynasties, the nobles of the Western Regions had already accumulated a lot of wealth.

Zhang Yang said again: "Zheng Gongke still remembers the father and son of King Gaochang at the beginning? ”

"The old man naturally remembers."

"After the prince of Gaochang was tossed to death by the slaves they enslaved, many of the nobles who gathered in Gaochang also left, and later Gaochang was taken over again, but Gaochang did not lose its vitality."

"It is located at the throat of the Western Regions, after Gaochang changed its governance, the original nobles of the Western Regions returned, commerce and trade also resumed, and Gaochang's tax level returned to the level of the year in a very short period of time."

"There are many records in the Foreign Affairs House that record the origins of many nobles, and also record the wealth of nobles."

Cen Wenwen was silent, and at first he heard the indoctrination of barbarians in the court, and he had no confidence in his heart.

Hearing Zhang Yang say this, he finally had a direction, and he said with a straight face: "It's a pity, why are you in Taifu Temple, you should come to Zhongshu Province." ”

Wei Zheng nodded in agreement, "It's really a pity, you are still a Chinese scholar, you have other ideas in the future, write more chapters to the court, the first two months were still considered to have chapters, why don't you write these two months." ”

"Your Majesty accepts advice, and the courtiers should give advice, saying that the old man has been unwilling to see you leave the Ministry of Rites, which backfired, although the old man didn't know what happened between you and His Majesty, but the old man thought that if you could make the Tang Dynasty strong, you couldn't let it go."

Wei Zheng's words mean in other words, if what you are doing now is right, you should argue with His Majesty today, instead of obeying now.

Zhang Yang said with a smile: "Gong Zheng, I have never given up the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Rites was brought out by me, and Xu Jingzong is also a person I can trust." ”

"Okay, let's not talk about that." Wei Zheng looked at Zhang Yang's gaze with a little appreciation, this kind of person who knows how to advance and retreat can live for a long time, and sooner or later he will return to the court if he has the means, Zhang Yang is too young, and he has not yet reached thirty.

The younger you are, the more opportunities and options you have.

Wei Zheng is still very sure of Zhang Yang's future.

As he said, Xu Jingzong is a trustworthy person, everything in the Ministry of Rites has not changed, even if he doesn't go to the Ministry of Rites, the Foreign Affairs Yuan can operate normally, and he can do things well.

Wei Zheng is a person who dares to argue with the emperor, a person who dares to face the emperor, and death is only a hundred catties.

These false names are nothing.

Live a bright and upright life, be worthy of your heart, say what you should say, and scold when you scold.

In terms of refusing internal friction and refusing involution, Wei Zheng is a very good precedent.

It is no wonder that there will be people in the DPRK and China who will talk about it, and I, Zhang Yang, will become the second Wei Zheng.

Everyone drank tea, Zhang Yang and Wei Zheng talked about the strategy of educating the barbarians, this strategy is actually very simple, first recruit students, and the students should choose people with prominent status in the Western Regions, and young people under the age of twenty.

Standing at thirty, not confused at forty, people who are already old, their values and concepts have been ossified.

People who can be edified and molded, under the age of twenty are the best.

The children of the nobles in the Western Regions have prestige, connections, and the endorsement of the Tang Dynasty's academic qualifications, their status will be higher and their influence will be greater.

In this way, if these people are used to educate other barbarians, the spirit of Confucianism in the Central Plains can spread in a wider world.

After saying this, Zhang Yang said goodbye to Zheng Gong, "Confucius, his old man said that there is no class in teaching, if you can use the sage classics to educate more people, this is also a great thing, and it is incumbent on my generation." ”

Wei Zheng was in a bit of a sad mood at the moment, and he didn't know whether his old man was happy or angry.

Not long after, Li Tai also walked out of the village with Cen Wenwen.

Zhang Yang said with a smile: "Brother Wen, I found out in the next place, and every time I meet you, it seems that there is no good thing." ”

"Zhang Shilang, this is inevitably inappropriate."

"It's not appropriate, it's appropriate." Zhang Yang cleared his throat, "Every time I see Brother Wen, I will always encounter some troublesome things, the last time the old gentleman of the scholar clan was there, and the matter of official learning, just that time Brother Wen hurt me more than three times." ”

Cen Wenwen wanted to speak and stopped, this is really the case, and after thinking about it again, he smiled and said: "Zhang Shilang said that he laughed, the officials came to meet for the sake of the government's major affairs, where is the harm to Zhang Shilang." ”

After saying that, he smiled heartily, and then walked forward, all the way in the direction of Chang'an, striding forward.

Zhang Yang and Li Tai looked at him worriedly, "His Royal Highness King Wei, I'm afraid this person will still cause us trouble." ”

"Do you want to get rid of him next time?"