The First Happy King of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 633 Scam
Li Muyun couldn't laugh or cry after hearing about this incident. In fact, not only Wannian County Magistrate, he also hadn't considered this issue before, so the omnipotent Xiaoyao County King finally did it himself. The stupidity of the decision.

But fortunately, the matter was not serious enough to slap the ass and leave. In order not to let the situation continue to deteriorate, the construction team of the three fat men stopped the work of building roads and houses, and was divided into more than [-] small teams, shuttled every day In towns and villages, they rush to work day and night to build latrines.

Different from the past, the new latrines are all made of cement. Behind the latrines are cement pools, which are used to hoard "supplies". in the septic tank.

For this task alone, the construction team worked non-stop for nearly a month, and finally completed the new toilet before the weather turned cold.

Then, the common people raised their opinions again: Why is the toilet repaired better than our house!

In the countryside of Datang, most of the houses are made of adobe or thatched huts, which are hot to death in summer and dogs to death in winter.

But what about the newly repaired toilet?Good guy, blue bricks and big tiles, so imposing, people who don't know enter the village and think it's the village chief's house, but after entering the village, they regret it.

However, with the rise of these latrines, the environmental sanitation in Wannian County has really changed a lot.

In the past, mosquitoes and flies flew around, the dirty and messy situation disappeared, and the air was much cleaner than before; in addition, the construction of the garbage dump, all the garbage that was discarded randomly before was piled up together, and a special person was responsible for cleaning, sorting, and transporting , and finally buried and destroyed in a unified manner.

Speaking of burial, I have to add here that Datang does not have so much industrial waste, and the waste generated can basically be degraded naturally. There are no batteries and no plastics, which makes the disposal of waste many times easier than later generations.

Moreover, after more than a month of adaptation, the sanitation situation in Wannian County has greatly improved. This has also given the people in Wannian County an inexplicable sense of superiority. Even in Chang'an City, the people under the jurisdiction of Wannian County are much more proud than the people under the jurisdiction of Chang'an County.

Why?Because we are civilized people, only civilized people will not defecate everywhere, only civilized people will not litter, and only civilized people will not cause trouble for the government.

I have to say that sometimes a tyrannical treatment can really achieve unexpected results. If such a one-size-fits-all environmental sanitation work is placed in later generations, it is estimated that the common people will be bombarded long ago, but in the Tang Dynasty, hey, under the three trees, who would dare Dissatisfied? !
The people of Wannian County are powerless to resist under the imperial decree, so they can only use the spiritual victory method to defeat themselves, so they have that inexplicable sense of superiority.

The great His Majesty Li Er finally couldn't suppress the desire in his heart, and through a home visit, once again turned Li Muyun out of the back garden.

"Stinky boy, what's the smell here, are you playing with shit?" Li Er asked, covering his nose, looking at Li Muyun who was stirring it with a stick at the side of a large vat.

Li Muyun staggered and almost didn't fall into the vat, turned around and said dumbfoundingly: "Brother Huang, you are the emperor, how can you say such things."

Yes, as a civilized person, such filth as feces and urine cannot be talked about, not to mention the emperor, even the students of Taixue would not be so casual.

Unexpectedly, Li Shimin just snorted disdainfully, and didn't answer him at all, continuing the topic just now: "Stop talking nonsense, what are you doing, tell me."

"Papermaking!" Li Muyun said concisely.

"What? Making paper?" Li Er covered his nose and glanced into the vat, then took a few steps back, and said contemptuously, "If you make this paper, no one will use it to go to the toilet, right? "

Li Muyun shrugged indifferently: "Paper is ridiculously expensive now, and many poor students can't afford it, but my paper is made of reeds and weeds, etc. After I make it, it may be cheaper than the ones sold in the market. More than ten times cheaper."

Li Shimin didn't believe Li Muyun's words at the beginning, but after hearing what he said, his face became serious, and he put down his hand covering his nose, looked at the contents of the tank again, turned his head and asked: "You know that the crime of deceiving the emperor will cost you your head."

"Brother Huang, how can you joke about this kind of thing." Li Muyun smiled bitterly, pointed to the big vat and said, "This is just the initial fermentation, because we don't have a very good crushing technology, so we can only wait for the fermentation in this way. Things rot into fibers, and as for the smell, it won't exist when it's made into paper."

Li Shimin took a deep look at Li Muyun, and said in a deep voice after a long time: "If you can really make paper that is ten times cheaper than the current paper, I will directly seal you a first-rank prince."

Li Muyun smiled sheepishly: "Brother Huang, let's not talk about whether you are close to the prince or not. I plan to set up a book printing shop. Do you think you can approve a note for me?"

The current Li Muyun doesn't really care about the size of his official position. As an empty prince, there is actually no big difference between Yipin and Congyipin. The real important thing is to make money.

Unexpectedly, Li Shimin showed some disdain for his request, glanced at him and said: "You are such a big county king, and you still need me to approve the note when you open a book printing shop?"

Li Muyun lowered his voice, and said in a spirited voice: "Monopoly! Brother Huang, if I am the only monopoly of Datang, that is to say, I need authority, such as the "Analects" I printed, I need it to be the only monopoly of the Great Tang. Don's only officially sanctioned publication."

"This..." Li Shimin hesitated for a moment. He would not agree to such a request that he couldn't understand until he knew Li Muyun's real intention.

Li Muyun saw Li Er's hesitation, and after thinking about it, he talked about the issues discussed when he met Kong Yingda last time, emphasizing the issue of unification.

The quality of many books on the market today is uneven, and one Analects of Confucius often has several interpretations. Although this has the taste of a hundred schools of thought contending, it will also mislead many scholars.

"Let's talk about it, I need to think about it." After listening to the explanation, Li Shimin still didn't make up his mind. After all, this kind of matter is related to many issues in all aspects, and it cannot be explained clearly in a few words.

You must know that all the bookstores that can publish books in the Tang Dynasty are supported by powerful forces behind them. This force is either an aristocratic family or a noble family. The fact that Li Muyun's bookstore is the only version approved by the Tang Dynasty will inevitably arouse the anger of those forces. Rebound, Li Er didn't expect that there would be no way to deal with it.

Li Muyun can generally guess what Li Er meant, so he didn't continue to entangle, but changed the subject: "Brother Huang, why are you free to come to my place today? Someone sued me again, right?"

"I didn't sue you, but you'd better get it elsewhere, otherwise, within three days, your neighbor will throw stones at your yard." Li Shimin pointed to the big tank, shook his head and said .

Li Muyun rubbed his nose and said with a sneer: "Don't worry, Brother Huang, as long as the experiment is successful, I will take this thing away immediately."

"Well, it's good if you know it in your heart." Li Shimin nodded, turned around and walked out of the courtyard, waited in front of Li Muyun's study, drove everyone out of the room, and then told Li Muyun the real intention: "Boy, Your guess is wrong, that monk Biancai doesn't have the Preface to the Lanting Collection at all."

Li Muyun didn't even think about it, and flatly denied it: "Impossible, that thing must be in his hands."

"What is your basis?" Li Shimin asked.

Li Muyun said straightforwardly: "Does this still need a basis? If I have such a good treasure in my hands, I can't confess that I have it."

"Hiss..." Li Er took a deep breath, his brows furrowed into a pimple: "Then this matter will be difficult to handle. The old monk of Bian Cai refuses to admit that the thing is in his hands, and I can't use force..."

"Then lie, it's not..." Li Muyun thought of the legend in the later generations, and said casually that it's not that he didn't do it. Fortunately, he woke up in time and changed his words temporarily: "It's not that there are such talents."

"Cheat? Talent? Who do you think is the most suitable?" Li Shimin was delighted to see Lie Xin, and worried about losing his reputation, so he had no choice but to discuss it with Li Muyun, an unreliable guy.

But fortunately, although Li Muyun is not very reliable, he has a big brain and can always think about problems from angles that others can't consider, so Li Er is also a dead horse as a living horse doctor, and he plans to try if this guy is real. There is a way.

Although Li Muyun doesn't know much about historical events, he has heard quite a few legends about the preface to the Lanting Collection. At this moment when Li Shimin asked about it, a name immediately flashed through his mind, but after thinking about it for a long time, the name was on his lips. But he couldn't call out, so he clicked his tongue and said: "Brother Huang, I heard that there is a supervisor censor surnamed Xiao in the court."

Li Shimin thought for a while: "The surname is Xiao, you are not talking about Xiao Yi, right?"

Li Muyun suddenly said: "Oh, yes, this is the person, this person is full of gossip, you just need to entrust the task to him, and I guarantee that he can do it for you."

Li Shimin was a little speechless, he stared at Li Muyun again and again, until he looked a little scared, and then said: "Your way of complimenting people is also unique, and you are full of tricks, why don't you say you are full of tricks?"

Li Muyun gave Li Er a thumbs-up, and said with some admiration: "Brother Huang has a lot of knowledge and memorization, but he is much better than my younger brother. I can't think of such a learned idiom to praise people."

Li Shimin's complexion darkened again, no matter how scheming it sounded, it didn't sound like a good word, but it turned out to be a compliment in the mouth of Li Muyun, a bastard. I really don't know how this guy's three views were formed.

(End of this chapter)