Li Shimin

Chapter 845 Another Year

"Mi'er, don't worry, my husband has no intention of taking concubines!"

To be honest, Li Xuan was really moved.

However, according to seniority, he and the samurai Xun are of the same generation.Moreover, there are two wives and concubines in the family, and it is almost impossible to cope with it. If three more are brought in...

Thinking about it, Li Xuan trembled and shook his head again and again.

The three sisters of the Wu family are not easy-going lamps!
Seeing Li Xuan's attitude, Cui Mi didn't say much.

In the next few days, Li Xuan did not see the mother and daughter of the Yang family again.

However, the news that the mother and daughter of the Yang family purchased a three-acre house in Lijiazhuang spread in Chang'an City, causing a sensation.

Inexplicably, the inn where the mother and daughter of the Yang family stayed was suddenly full of guests. After coming to Chang'an City for so many days, the dignitaries who had never had any contact with each other could have a slight relationship, and then they visited the mother and daughter of the Yang family. people.

In just two days, the mother and daughter of the Yang family were overwhelmed by the disturbance, so they found Li Chang, and then found a small courtyard that was temporarily vacant from Lijiazhuang, and lived in it.

Not seeing the mother and daughter of the Yang family, all the dignitaries and aristocratic families in Chang'an City are full of regret. Who would have thought that the mother and daughter of the Yang family who were kicked out of the family could walk such a big dog? Shi luck, into the eyes of King Jin, and bought a three-acre house in Lijiazhuang.

However, there is no shortage of new things in Chang'an City.

These dignitaries only regretted for a few days, but they were all attracted by other events.

Especially in Weinan County, which is less than a day's journey from Chang'an City, tens of thousands of people dig ditches in winter, and on the day of digging, there is also the sound of thunder.

Above the court, he was impeached by a group of censors.

Outside the court, there were many criticisms.

However, under the secret hints of Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and others, there was no big disturbance.

Some officials with a sensitive sense of smell also have some guesses about the identity of the young county magistrate who was parachuted from Weinan County, and the identities of those young gentlemen.

However, after the servants they sent to investigate were driven back by a group of people, all the dignitaries and officials in Chang'an City began to calm down.

And in Lijiazhuang.

Li Chang brought a group of farmers and a few Mohists to occupy the land for Yang, draw pictures, and prepare cement, stone, bricks, steel bars and other building materials.

However, the labor for these construction materials is basically handed over to the people in several nearby villages.

Although there are not many this time, at any rate, the people in the nearby villages can have some income in winter.

Simultaneously.

Under the leadership of Li Chang, the Yang family and Wu Yan's mother and daughter got to know the whole Lijiazhuang thoroughly.

Now, the Yang family and Wu Yan, mother and daughter, also understood why the King of Jin would say that there are countless dignitaries in Chang'an City who want to buy a house in Lijiazhuang.

Especially the Confucianism in the four small courtyards on the west side of Lijiazhuang is enough to make the children of the aristocratic families in Chang'an crazy!
How lucky are the four of them, mother and daughter?

The heavy snow in the ninth year of Zhenguan came relatively late, but it was fierce.

Thousands of people in the entire pass have more or less suffered from snow disasters.

However, when food is sufficient, there are still large iron furnaces and coal in various states and counties that have already prepared large iron furnaces and coal, and few ordinary people have not been frozen to death.

All in all, in the ninth year of Zhenguan, the people of the Tang Dynasty finally experienced the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty for the first time.

In a blink of an eye, it is the New Year's Eve.

Eat and drink, relax and visit Chang'an!
The farmers in Lijiazhuang are still as simple and arrogant as before.

After New Year's Eve.

Li Chengqian, along with Wang Xuance, Cheng Chusi, and Changsun Chong, a group of disciples of the King of Jin, came to Lijiazhuang to pay New Year's greetings to Li Xuan.

It was mainly because Li Chengqian reported to Li Xuan the progress of the water conservancy ditches in Weinan County, and the impact of high-yield grains such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn in the glass greenhouse on the people of Weinan County.

In addition, there are also Weinan County, where there are hundreds more cattle, all of which were purchased from Shunzhou, Yuzhou, Huazhou and other prefecture cities in partnership with Li Chengqian, Wang Xuance, Fang Yizhi and others.

Those cattle caused a sensation as soon as they arrived in Weinan County.

Basically, the situation is basically consistent with what Li Xuan guessed.

"Very good!"

Li Xuan nodded slightly.

"Master, after the spring plowing next year, Chengqian wants to borrow a sum of money from the Datang Bank in Chang'an, or the Datang Bank in Huazhou, to build more than 50 cement houses in Weinan County!"

Li Chengqian continued to report.

"Ok?"

Li Xuan glanced at Li Chengqian in astonishment, he never thought that Li Chengqian would dare to show such courage.

"How much money do you expect to borrow, and how big is the house to build? Is there such a large open space in Weinan County? Besides, there are [-] families in Weinan County who can afford cement houses?

Whose craftsmen are you looking for to build these cement houses?
Finally, how much money do you make for preparing a cement house?

......"

In an instant, Li Xuan asked a lot of questions.

Li Chengqian, Wang Xuance, Fang Yizhi and others couldn't help but flash a gleam of joy in their eyes.

They naturally knew that the more Master asked, the more he agreed with them.

"Returning to Master, I have calculated that the construction cost of a ten-acre cement house is about 800 yuan, and I can sell it for [-] yuan;

As for the six-acre house, the construction cost is more than 600 guan, and we will sell [-] guan;

For a three-acre house, the construction cost is at most [-] guan, and I will sell [-] guan!

In this way, we need to borrow 23 guan to build nine [-]-mu houses, [-] [-]-mu houses, and [-] [-]-mu houses, and we can earn [-] guan in a year and a half at most. "

Li Chengqian continued to report, "As for the small aristocratic families, upper households in Weinan County, and wealthy businessmen who can afford cement houses, there are almost exactly fifty!"

"Exactly fifty?"

Li Xuan shook his head lightly, "Gao Ming, this king has forged nine magical weapons that blow hair and hair, but you need to spend two thousand coins to buy each of them."

"And now there are exactly nine people who can afford it, will you be in a hurry to buy it? And you still have weapons at home that you are used to using!"

"This……"

Li Chengqian, Wang Xuance and others couldn't help but froze for a while after thinking for a while.

"Master, do you mean that we are going to build more concrete houses?"

"Ruzi can be taught!"

Li Xuan nodded in satisfaction.

"Since ancient times, rare things have been valued!"

"I also ask the master to teach me!"

"There are fifty noble families in Weinan County who can afford concrete houses, but you have honestly built fifty concrete houses for them. When they saw it, they happened to be able to buy one for each family.

In this way, if you are those aristocratic families and dignitaries in Weinan County, facing this situation, will you secretly collude with each other and jointly put pressure on you who build concrete houses in order to reduce housing prices?
Even if you finally withstood the pressure and did not lower the price.

However, how long have you been intriguing with those nobles of the aristocratic family during this period, and you have to pay as much interest to Datang Bank.

Moreover, under the condition that there is no fear of having a house, those powerful families in Weinan County may not necessarily buy the concrete houses built by you in the end, or they may delay buying them for a year or two...

So, how much money will you lose if you wait like this! "

"Thank you, Master!"

Hearing this, Li Chengqian, Wang Xuance and the others couldn't help feeling a little scared, and hurriedly bowed their hands to Li Xuan gratefully.

"Master, then Chengqian built 45 cement houses?" Li Chengqian continued to ask.

"too much!"

Li Xuan shook his head slightly, "You'll build thirty first, to test the reaction of those dignitaries from aristocratic families in Weinan County."

"If their competition is very fierce, you, the county magistrate of Weinan County, will stand up and persuade you, and then you can continue to build cement houses. Moreover, you can also directly let those aristocratic families who have not bought cement houses, first Pay a deposit.

Once they are guaranteed enough to buy your second batch of concrete houses, you can start building concrete houses again! "

Hearing this, Li Chengqian and Wang Xuance's eyes widened.

This operation by Li Xuan directly opened the door to a new world for them!
"Master is wise!"

They couldn't be more familiar with the dispositions of those aristocratic families.

For any new items, they must fight for it.

"Okay, I'm tired of listening to your flattery!"

Li Xuan curled his lips, "Hurry up and take the money that the king gave you and so on, and get out of here!"

"Hey, yes, Master!"

Li Chengqian, Cheng Chusi and others were not annoyed, they were still smiling.

The money that Li Xuan gave these bastards all looked like copper coins made of gold, which could be regarded as the only one in the Tang Dynasty!
"Xuance, Baoding, everyone in the family has married wives, and you have not heard from the two of you. Even if you can't get married this year, you still have to make a marriage contract for my wife, or I will go to the court to invite your majesty." Marriage!"

Wang Xuance and Li Baoding both looked happy, "Thank you, Master!"

Li Xuan glared at the two of them fiercely, "The marriage bestowed by His Majesty, can Bill wait for the beauty you find yourself?"

"Hey, master, a marriage bestowed by God, the appointment..."

"Okay, a group of traitors, get out of here, Master!"

"Hey, master forgive me..."

A group of bastards left Lijiazhuang laughing.

However, what Li Xuan did not expect was that a few days later, Li Shimin would come to Lijiazhuang because of his indignant words.

"Your Majesty, are you going to marry that bastard Wang Xuance?"

Li Xuan looked at Li Shimin in disbelief.

"Xuan Ba, this son of Xuan Ce is the only one from a poor family among your many disciples. This son must have something extraordinary! Wouldn't it be a pity that such a young talent is not a member of my Li family?"

Li Shimin said.

Li Xuan: "..."

"Since Xuanba doesn't object, and it happens that Linchuan is not yet married, I will marry Linchuan to Xuance!" Seeing that Li Xuan didn't speak, Li Shimin directly judged that Li Xuan agreed.

"As long as His Majesty likes it!"

Li Xuan said helplessly.

Princess Linchuan is the tenth daughter of Li Shimin. Her mother is Concubine Wei, and she is supported by the Wei family.

But now, Li Shimin is willing to marry Linchuan to Wang Xuance.

In this regard, Li Xuan really couldn't refute anything.

Anyway, they are all from my own family, which is also very good!

Thinking about it, Li Xuan felt inexplicably better.

"Your Majesty, in the past few months, Letai and Yuan Jia have improved the cannon a little bit more. Would you like to release it, Your Majesty?"

"The artillery has improved again?"

Hearing this, Li Shimin couldn't help being pleasantly surprised.

"Exactly!"

Li Xuan nodded affirmatively.

"go!"

Li Shimin stood up directly, and walked towards the forge very familiarly.

"Zheng Fu, ask Letai to bring the newly improved artillery, and ten bombs, and go to the back mountain!"

After going out the gate, arrest Zheng Fu, Li Xuan ordered.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Zheng Fu saluted quickly, then ran towards the forge with a full face of excitement.

Seeing this, Li Shimin was startled, turned around and saw that Li Xuan had already started walking back up the mountain, blinked his eyes, and sighed helplessly.

Take Li Wei and follow slowly.

After half an hour.

The top of the back mountain.

Li Shimin panted heavily, holding a long broom in his hand, staring at Li Xuan: "Xuanba, you brought me to the mountain to test the artillery, is it because you want me to sweep the snow for you?"

"Your Majesty misunderstood!"

Li Xuan quickly explained with sincerity: "Your Majesty, the snow on the mountainside is so thick that we can only go up to the top of the mountain by sweeping a path.

Moreover, just now I came to shovel the snow, and Li Wei followed behind to sweep the snow. It was His Majesty who made Li Wei sweep slowly, so he insisted on sweeping the snow by himself! "

Li Wei looked helpless, this is not my fault, His Majesty obviously thinks that you shovel the snow too slowly!
"call……"

Li Shimin heaved a sigh of relief, not wanting to entangle Li Xuan with this scoundrel topic, looked up and continued.

"Xuanba, since we are going to test the cannon, don't we need to clear out another vacant lot?"

"Your Majesty is wise!"

Li Xuan hurriedly cupped his hands.

"Smart ass!"

Seeing Li Xuan's expression, the corners of Li Shimin's mouth couldn't help twitching slightly, "This old man has fallen for your tricks today!"

However, despite talking, there are only him, Li Xuan, and Li Wei on the entire back mountain.

There is no need to pay attention to yourself.

Li Shimin directly picked up the iron catalpa on the side, and began to shovel snow to the place where the artillery was placed according to his past memory.

"Your Majesty, leave this matter to the last general!"

Seeing this, Li Wei was shocked.

"Hey, it's Your Majesty, since we have already reached the top of the mountain, Zheng Fu and Letai will be here soon, just leave this kind of matter to them!"

On the side, Li Xuan sat on a thick tree pole, persuading him with a smile on his face.

"Hmph, how much time is wasted waiting for them to come up and then clean them up?"

Li Shimin turned his head and glared at Li Xuan with disgust on his face, but his hands still didn't stop.

Not to mention, it seems that since he became the king of Qin, he has never cleared the snow by himself.

I didn't expect that shoveling snow would be such a pleasant thing.

Wait until Le Tai, Zheng Fu and others came up with the newly improved artillery and bombs.

Li Shimin and Li Wei have already cleared out a clean place on the mountain.

Therefore, Letai, Li Yuanjia and others hurriedly began to assemble the artillery.

Soon, a cannon that was just thicker than before appeared in front of Li Shimin.

"Bring me the bomb!"

Li Shimin was the first to get started, checked the entire cannon, and shouted at Li Wei.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Li Wei walked directly towards the bomb box next to Li Xuan.

"Your Majesty, no!"

Le Tai said anxiously.

Li Xuan, on the other hand, had already pushed away Li Wei's hand.

"Why?"

Li Shimin's face darkened, but he was not looking at the stage, but at Li Xuan.

"Xuanba, could it be that you want to fire the cannon yourself first?"

"Your Majesty, this is a test of the cannon. No one is sure whether the cannon can be fired normally. For the sake of your majesty's safety, please wait for a while!" Li Xuan explained.

"Then who will fire the first shot?"

Li Shimin asked.

"Your Majesty, it's a humble minister!"

The band stage hurriedly saluted!

(End of this chapter)