The rain was still falling, and the night breeze was getting colder, and Zhang Yang could warm himself up by drinking a sip of hot water.

The climate in Guanzhong is like this, when the autumn rain comes, the temperature drops quickly.

I didn't put on any extra clothes when I went out.

Li Shimin said in a deep voice: "If I have a sharp weapon that can break the city and level the mountains and rivers, why bother to endure it again and again until now." ”

People have tempers, and the emperor also has tempers.

When a person is forced to be in a hurry, it is inevitable that he will do something more out of line.

If a person has a very lethal weapon in his hand, he is likely to do something out of the ordinary in an angry situation.

This kid has such a sharp weapon in his hands, and he can still be calm.

Li Shimin thought a little higher about his strength and endurance.

Zhang Yang drank tea, "The application of this firearm has only been developed in the past two years, and at the beginning, it was just like the demonstration to His Majesty, just a cannon battle. ”

The prince stood quietly on the sidelines and did not dare to relax at all, especially when His Majesty lifted the table just now.

The guards on the side were also very nervous

The tea was served again, and Li Shimin took a shallow sip, "I asked Li Junxian to investigate the matter of the sky vision, and many clues point to Lishan, but there is no actual evidence, I think this matter is also related to Lishan." ”

Zhang Yang nodded slightly, "This matter is indeed what I did." ”

"What else have you done?"

"The temple wasn't struck by lightning, it was blown up by me."

When the words fell, Li Shimin stared at his face and didn't speak for a long time, and the scene was quiet for a while.

Another cold wind with rain blew, Li Shimin breathed heavily, and suddenly overturned the table again.

"You're so daring!"

With an angry roar, His Majesty blew his beard and glared, his forehead was bruised, and he said angrily: "I should have ...... in the first place"

Halfway through the words, Li Shimin got up and paced back and forth, looking around as if he was looking for a weapon.

"Your Majesty, there is a knife here."

A self-proclaimed clever guard handed the knife in both hands.

Seeing this, Li Shimin was even more angry in his heart, and raised a kick to kick the knife-handed guard to the ground, "You will go to the border for me in the future, and go to the Hexi Corridor, don't let me see you again." ”

The guard, realizing that he had been harmed, fled in disarray, and ran wild in the rainy night.

Zhang Yang took another sip of tea, looked at the back of the man holding the torch all the way out of Qujiang Pond, and couldn't help but sigh again.

Li Shimin's breathing was heavy, and his middle-aged belly, which was slightly too big to hide, rose and fell, pointed at people and shouted loudly: "Zhang Yang! ”

"Yes."

Zhang Yang replied expressionlessly.

"You're so daring! You even dare to bomb those temples, and you have to blame God and deceive the heavens, you will have retribution! ”

Zhang Yang bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty said that it was funny, I never believed in retribution, and besides, monks cultivate the next life, with the nature of those monks, they don't care about what is in this life, and they don't care how much suffering there is in this life, so I want to blow them up." ”

Looking at His Majesty's eyes again, there were more bloodshots in His Majesty's eyes, others didn't know His Majesty's thoughts, and the prince who had been serving His Majesty was clear, and his eyes signaled for people to clean up this place again.

The table is rearranged, the tea is boiled, and the tea bowl is sprinkled with tea leaves.

The prince laid all this out and stood quietly aside.

After being quiet for a long time, Li Shimin sat down again and drank tea, "You even calculate my own!" ”

Zhang Yang said in a low voice: "I have never asked Your Majesty to do anything, everything is done by Your Majesty himself, as for the benefits that Your Majesty has received, Your Majesty must know better than me in your heart, isn't it?" ”

Li Shimin looked at the son-in-law in front of him, and took another sip of tea, "You still calculated me." ”

"Your Majesty, is there any other way to restrict them for the sake of the community? The growth of that group of people is not to suck blood on the community, population, food, and land are the top priority of the community. ”

Boom! Another slap on the table, Li Shimin's eyes were fierce, "Even if these are the people of the society, it is not an excuse for you to coerce me." ”

"Oh, excuses." Zhang Yang said with a smile: "Your Majesty is joking again, the measures taken by the DPRK and China to restrict Buddhism are not something that I can control alone, nor can I decide on His Majesty's own selfishness, this is right." ”

Li Shimin nodded slightly.

"Since Your Majesty also thinks so, that's right, there is a way that the people's will cannot be violated, all of this is caused by the people's will, Your Majesty just went down a step, but gained the people's heart, so that everyone can get benefits."

Li Shimin pointed at Zhang Yang's fingers trembling slightly, "You play with the ignorance of the people." ”

Zhang Yang put down the tea bowl in his hand, "The truth is not important, the important thing is that all this is in the interests of the vast majority of people, when people feel that this is right, then it doesn't matter what the truth is, what does Your Majesty think?" ”

Li Shimin wanted to speak and stopped.

Silence returned to the pavilion, and one of the guards yawned.

Zhang Yang said again: "It's ironic, my heart is towards justice and light, but this world is cruel, this world does not allow me to have so much justice and light, so I also began to become ignorant, all this is the choice of the times, not my choice." ”

Li Shimin was silent for a moment, and then stopped talking.

Zhang Yang continued: "The times are like this, history is vast, a few pieces of paper can't write an era, and you can't write your majesty and my life." ”

"I don't want to live up to this life in Datang, otherwise I'm afraid that I won't sleep well in the rest of my life, since I live in Datang in this life, I will do my best for this land, even if my strength is very insignificant in the tide of history."

"Who knows what will happen after that? The Central Plains looks very large, but after dividing the southeast, northwest, and northwest, I feel that it is only so big. ”

"The words from the bottom of my heart still made Your Majesty smile."

Li Shimin was silent for a long time, as if he had compromised a little, and his words sounded like the words of a chaotic minister and thief.

If this kind of thing is put in someone else's mouth, it should be killed on the spot.

But in Zhang Yang's mouth, he felt that it was such an understatement, Li Shimin said slowly: "That's right, since the first emperor unified the Central Plains, and then the Han Dynasty was established, or after I died, the Tang Dynasty was in chaos, maybe I and you have passed away and are lying in the mausoleum, what does it matter if the future generations are bright or chaotic." ”

"I can only say that I have worked hard all my life, in order to be worthy of this life, worthy of the struggle and hard work of the year, I have come to this point, I have not been sorry for anyone, except my father."

His heartfelt words seemed to have opened Li Shimin's eyes, human life is short, but history is long.

Who will be able to see the world in the next thousand years?

Li Shimin couldn't see it.

Zhang Yang has seen it.

"You don't have anything else to do with me?" Li Shimin put down the tea bowl and asked again.

"Yes."

Hearing him say this, Li Shimin's expression perked.

Zhang Yang said lightly: "Last time, I deceived the monk and asked him to give thousands of catties of silver ore to the Ministry of Rites, but this matter lasted for two years and then it was broken, and then he died." ”

After a pause, Zhang Yang said again: "How he died, Your Majesty is clear." ”

"A few thousand pounds of silver mines?" Li Shimin said coldly.

"Well, a few thousand catties, it's just a pity that I cut off contact with that side later, there should have been more." Zhang Yang sighed: "It's okay, now that Xu Jingzong and the envoy over there are talking again, there will be money to send in the future, but there may not be so much." ”

"What?" Hearing this, Li Shimin was unhappy, "No! They should be asked to send more silver mines, you don't want it, I want it! ”

Zhang Yang paused slightly, "Then let's talk about it later." ”

"A few thousand pounds...... That's a lot of silver. Li Shimin suddenly overturned the table case again, and he suddenly discovered a very serious matter, a fact that had been neglected for a long time.

Wang Gonggong looked numb when he saw the tea table being overturned again.

Zhang Yang shook his head and was speechless.

The third time, the prince was very worried, as if His Majesty had to lose his life for several years every time he talked to the county marquis.

Li Shimin shouted and asked, "Thousands of catties of silver mines?" ”

Zhang Yang raised his head and thought for a moment, "There are not ten thousand catties, there are eight or nine thousand!" ”

"Where's the money!" Li Shimin drew his sword again and said angrily: "Where did all this money go?" ”

"It was sent to the Ministry of Rites, and it was used for the convenience of diplomatic relations between the countries."

The emperor smiled contemptuously, "Heh, how is it possible? Can a Ministry of Rites use so much money? I heard that the location of the Foreign Affairs Institute of the Ministry of Rites was originally selected, and it was decided by Li Xiaogong, and you didn't spend so much money at all. ”

Zhang Yang waved his hand and explained: "Your Majesty doesn't know, doesn't it cost money to send the eyeliner to the Western Regions, Tubo, and Turkic Xue Yantuo?" If you don't understand the situation, can the Ministry of Rites take the lead in everything? ”

"These news are all paid to hire eyeliner and hire people to find out, if necessary, I will also arrange people around the current leaders of other tribes, such as Jieli was taken by General Li Jing."

"But after that, His Majesty did not mention the governance of the Turks, and later the Turkic Khan inherited the position of the Turkic Khan, I have long known that the Turki Khan is not in good health, but I didn't expect to die so early, so I am in the son of the Turkic Khan, after this Ashina He Luohu inherited the Khan."

"I arranged for someone to be around him, to watch this little khan's every move, and to arrange a person to have fun around him, so that this little khan only cares about having fun, and has nothing else to do, so that the Ministry of Rites has the opportunity to do so many things in the Turks."

"Of course, in order to ensure the accuracy of the information sent by the detailed workers we hire, we will send several independent detailed workers to infer the current situation from multiple sources."

"Not only does it cost money, but that little bit of silver is not enough at all, and we have to post it upside down in Lishan."

"Upside down?" Li Shimin's tone was a few points higher.

Zhang Yang nodded, "From investigation to operation, and then to buying and selling people's hearts, it will cost about three thousand to five thousand yuan a year, if the matter is urgent, more people are needed for this flower, in short, it depends on the situation, if the status quo is maintained, two or three thousand yuan a year is enough." ”

"Two or three thousand, you said it lightly."

Seeing that His Majesty had calmed down again, the prince once again quickly cleaned up the place, set the tea table, and poured the tea again.

Smelling the fragrance of tea, his mood unconsciously calmed down a lot, Li Shimin sat down again, "Do you know how much money is spent in a year in the middle of the court?" ”

Zhang Yang raised his head and thought about it for a while, "When I first read the dossier in Shangshu Province, the annual consumption of the court was about 5,000 to 10,000 yuan, but at that time, there were not many people, and aside from the spending of local officials, there was only so much that could be seen in Xia, of course, there were many accounts in Zhongshu Province, and I couldn't see it in Xia." ”

Li Shimin asked: "The flowers of the Ministry of Rites for a year can be used by all the officials in Chang'an City for a year, why do you need to use so much for the Ministry of Rites in a year?" Even if there are six squires, it won't be so many? Twenty is enough. ”

"I know that the DPRK and China don't have much money, so it has been attached to Lishan for the past two years." Zhang Yang smiled again, "But now that the Ministry of Rites has been handed over to Chaozhong, Lishan doesn't have so much trouble." ”

Li Shimin poured a sip of tea, the water had just been soaked, and the prince just wanted to remind him that it was freshly boiled water, but he saw that His Majesty had already drunk it.

It's like feeling a hot mouth, and it's like a hot mouth.

Don't look at Xu Jingzong's honesty, now it seems that the Ministry of Rites is hiding a lot of things behind his back.

If the DPRK and China take over the Foreign Affairs Yuan, there are many people, and many of them are external people, and even if each person is 50 or 60 yuan a month, 3,500 people, it will be a lot of money for a year.

At that time, my mind was hot and I wanted to take back the Ministry of Rites.

Now that I think about it, can the DPRK and China afford it?

There is also a paper mill in Lishan, which has not yet returned to its original value.

Li Shimin said in a deep voice: "Xu Jingzong ......"

"It's good that he's a good secretary of the Ministry of Rites."

"What about the flowers of the Ministry of Rites?"

"That's a matter in the court, and it's good to be in this Taifu Temple."

After Zhang Yang's first two years of opening up sources and reducing expenditures, the shortage of money in the court and the central government has indeed eased a lot, and Niu Jinda's new deeds of the Weifu that they specialize in now advocate the teaching of supplementary texts and articles for the soldiers of the Weifu in the army.

And it worked.

There is also the imperial examination that costs a lot of money every year.

Not to mention the prince's construction of Chongde Fang, the money spent has not been recovered.

Li Shimin looked at Zhang Yang's posture of drinking tea calmly, and he was angry, and he didn't know why he felt a headache when he thought of money.

Holding his forehead, Li Shimin said in a deep voice: "You let me think about it, even if Xu Jingzong is the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, before I am ready to take over, you will have to preside over the affairs of the Ministry of Rites." ”

"Your Majesty, this is not appropriate, is it?"

Seeing that he hesitated, His Majesty snorted coldly again: "I said that it is appropriate, it is appropriate." ”

There was a white fish belly on the horizon, but the rain was still falling, and the night was very long, and now it was dawn.

The rain was much lighter, and Li Shimin asked in a low voice: "The firearms you said can be kept by Lishan first, if they are to be used in the army, what should they do?" ”

Zhang Yang frowned and said: "The core formula of firearms is in my hands, and firearms are needed in the army in the future, and Lishan can use them, but the court cannot cast them privately." ”