The Tang Dynasty started from saving Empress Changsun

Although the poll tax has existed in name only, it has not been officially abolished after all.

Li Shimin's announcement of the exemption for another three years is also a kind of benevolent government, and it also expresses the emperor's joy with the people.

Then came the feast.

As a favorite minister, Chen Jingke naturally sat next to Li Shimin, specifically, next to Li Chengqian, and all the people sitting around him were important officials in the court.

This treatment can be said to be beyond grace.

Empress Xiao of the previous dynasty was also invited to the banquet. Li Shimin took advantage of his drink and asked a question again: "Today's Tang Dynasty, is the wealth comparable to that of the Sui Dynasty?"

In the fourth year of Zhenguan, he asked the same question. Empress Xiao answered at the beginning: Your Majesty is an entrepreneurial king, why should he be compared with the king who subjugated the country.

But Li Shimin was still not reconciled, and continued to question.

Empress Xiao got angry and said: "Emperor Sui Yang set up a bonfire in the palace. The wood burned was sandalwood, and musk and other precious spices were added to it."

There are hundreds of stones of all kinds of precious spices burned in the palace every day.

At that time, Li Shimin looked at the bonfire made of ordinary wood in front of him, and it was embarrassing.

I didn't expect him to ask such a question again after ten years, I can only say, this damn desire to win.

Empress Xiao was silent for a moment, looked at the tableware made of transparent glass on the table, and sighed:

"The wealth of the Tang Dynasty is far beyond that of the Sui Dynasty."

"Haha..." Li Shimin laughed happily and said, "This is all the merit of your lords."

Others couldn't help but feel embarrassed for him, the majestic Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, this way of showing off his wealth is too embarrassing.

But there is no way, whoever makes him the emperor, everyone has to agree.

Praises are all like the emperor's wisdom.

But there are always people who sing the opposite, this time it is Chen Jingke, he said: "Although Datang is rich, it is still not satisfactory."

Li Shimin was not angry, but asked with interest: "Oh, what makes people dissatisfied?"

Chen Jingke pointed to the position of the envoys of the vassal state, and said: "This place is too deserted and not lively enough. If it can be expanded ten times and a hundred times, it will be able to show my Tang Tianwei."

Li Shimin laughed and said, "Haha, that's a good point, then we'll find a way to increase the number of people here. Zhu Qing, what do you think?"

Naturally, everyone would not pour cold water on it at this time, but said: "I am willing to do the work of a dog and a horse for the saint."

When the members of the missions in the distance learned the reason, they were all panicked.

After this little episode, the banquet continued.

Naturally, no one dared to disturb the Yuan Dynasty, and the meeting ended smoothly.

Datang Chinese New Year is a seven-day holiday, but it starts on December 27 and ends on January [-].

After the holiday on the [-]th, everything returned to normal.

All the members of the Gewu class returned to the temple early in the morning on the [-]th, and got busy around the loom.

They have not been idle these days, but kept deducing the structure.

After returning to the view, they all came up with their own ideas, and everyone eliminated them one by one, and finally screened out a few seemingly feasible solutions.

Then I started to experiment with these plans one by one, and naturally they all failed in the end.

But it is not nothing. This verification has given everyone a deeper understanding of the loom and gained more inspiration.

After modifying and modifying these failed plans, solving various problems one by one, the embryonic form of the steam loom gradually came into being.

When everyone was immersed in research, Chen Jingke was not idle.

On the one hand, we continue to stare at the construction work of various workshops, and on the other hand, we are concerned about the relocation of the Gewu class.

Although there are not many people in the Gewu class, the house is worth a lot, and there are quite a lot of things to pack up.

Organize people to move these things to the academy one by one.

In addition, such a large academy also needs someone to clean up and carry out supporting management and the like.

Although you can learn from the school in the previous life, let the students clean up, and encourage everyone to engage in work-study programs.

But now there are only three melons and two dates in the Gewu class, and they can't handle such a big campus even if they are exhausted.

So Chen Jingke went to Li Shimin and asked him to ask for fifty people who were demoted to slavery for crimes, and they were all young people.

As for why young people are needed, Chen Jingke has a good reason: "These young people have a strong ability to accept and can study while working, and maybe a few geniuses will be born from them."

Li Shimin didn't say anything, and approved 50 people for him.Forty men and ten women.

But Chen Jingke doesn't want everyone, and his place is not a labor camp, so why punish so many prisoners.

He chose those who were implicated and demoted to slavery, rather than committing crimes himself.

For example, a girl named Si Lan was implicated because her elder brother, who was an official, took bribes and neglected human life.

God is sorry to see, in fact, she has not received much favor from that elder brother.

But there is no way, the law is like this.

I don't know who did it, but she was sent to Jiaofang Division.

I know everything here.

Although the state stipulates that the prostitutes of the Jiaofang Division do not need to sell their bodies, it is also strictly forbidden for officials to have relations with the prostitutes of the Jiaofang Division.

But in fact, it is purely overthinking to want to maintain a perfect body when you come here, and what to do to keep yourself clean.

The big and small stewards of the Jiaofang Division have a lot of ways to force her to sell her body.

When Si Lan heard that he was assigned to the Jiaofang Division, he passed out immediately, and when he woke up, he wanted to die.

However, since ancient times, she has been the only one to die, and she still can't make up her mind to end it.

When I arrived at the Jiaofang Division, I was fine a few days ago, eating and drinking.

Even during the Yuan Dynasty, the imperial court needed prostitutes to perform songs and dances. Because she was proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, she was brought over to play a song.

It was the first time to participate in the Great Court Meeting, but in this way, she had mixed feelings in her heart.

But as soon as the first day ended, the suffering came.

The steward told her directly that someone had taken a fancy to her and asked her to clean up and serve him well.

She has also communicated with other people in Jiaofang Division these days, and knows what this means.

Naturally, he would rather die than obey.

Others didn't beat her, they just sent someone over to persuade her, in short, it was just coercion and lure.

"The Secretary of the Jiaofang will never forgive you. Once you come in, you will never go out again. You will never leave in your life."

"It's better to earn more capital for yourself while you are young, and you can spend the rest of your life on this money when you get old and look bad."

Then he took her to visit Jiaofangsi's backyard, which was full of old and decrepit prostitutes.

The rich rely on bribes to manage things, live a relatively easy life, eat well and live well, and can find a doctor when they are sick.

And their work is naturally assigned to those who have no money by the manager.

Those old prostitutes who have no money, do the heaviest work, eat the worst food, live in the most shabby places, and can only suffer when they are sick and have no money to see them.

Most of them left this world in misery.

Si Lan was still unmoved, she was too young to empathize with her.

Seeing that she didn't listen to persuasion, those stewards were not surprised, they had seen this kind of situation too much.

So I started to implement the second trick on her, to be hungry.

She was locked in the room without food or drink, and she was even tempted with delicious food.

Many people can't stand the torture of this level and choose to bow their heads.

Of course, it's useless not to give in even if you pass this level.

There is the next level, the torment of changing the way.

If the torture still doesn't give in, the person in charge will use force as a last resort.

Get drunk or tie her up and throw her on the bed, and let the officials who fancy her force her.

In short, don't think about it when you get here.

Si Lan, who had already inquired about the whole process, secretly made up his mind not to give in to the second move, starve himself to death, and avoid humiliation.

She did, and persisted for four days without begging for mercy.

In fact, by this time, her consciousness had already begun to become illusory, as if she was about to float.

But mentally, he was extremely lazy, without any desire to speak.

No, it's not that I don't want to speak, but that I don't even bother to think.

I just want to lie there without moving.

But those people would not do what she wanted, and would forcefully feed her some rice soup every two days to continue her life.

Although she desperately told herself not to swallow, she would starve herself to death.

But instinct made her drink all the rice soup involuntarily.

Then continue to start a new round of starvation.

Gradually, she felt that her will was collapsing, and she wanted to surrender to the other party, begging for more food.

This made her very terrified, she couldn't surrender, she must never surrender.

She forces herself to recall the books she's read and draws strength from them.

This method really worked, allowing her to persist for a few more days.

But she is not a specially trained fighter after all, gradually this method no longer works.

Surrender, stop doing unnecessary persistence.

Such thoughts came to mind more and more frequently.

Just when she was about to be unable to hold on, the manager appeared in panic and said to the people around:

"Hurry up, feed her, and make sure she's ready."

Someone asked puzzledly: "Guan Zhao, she hasn't surrendered yet, this..."

Zhao Guanshi said impatiently: "What a fart to give in, she was picked away by Zixiao Guan Zhenren Chen... Haven't you heard how Wang Xiuqi died?"

"If you don't want to be fucked to death by ten men, if you're special, hurry up and get her ready for me, and send her to Zixiao temple in its entirety."

The people around were so frightened that their legs softened, and they couldn't help clamping their buttocks.

The gossip that Wang Xiu Qigu Road broke and died, somehow spread out.

Although there is no conclusive evidence, everyone tends to be true.

While everyone was shocked by his ruthlessness, they also raised his danger level to the top.

Considered one of the least offending people.

Death is indeed terrible, but what is even more terrible is that you have to suffer so many crimes before you die.

At this moment, all the people who knew about this matter reached a consensus in their hearts.

Don't offend Chen Jingke, if you do, either kill him directly, or wipe his neck in advance.

The officials of the Jiaofang Division naturally did not have the courage to offend Chen Jingke, so they could only find a way to send the person he wanted.

Si Lan was actually on the verge of losing consciousness. Although everything happened around her, she didn't know exactly what happened.

The guards fed her rice soup, and she subconsciously drank it.

After drinking, he regained a little strength and fell into a coma.

She could feel it in her sleep, as if someone poured something into her mouth from time to time, and she swallowed it subconsciously.

She fell asleep for two days before waking up. Before she could open her eyes, she felt hungry.

Turning over and getting up from the bed, she was a little surprised herself.

After being hungry for so many days, she has long since lost any strength. How could she sit up so easily?
Where does the strength come from?
Then she realized that maybe it wasn't an illusion before, but someone was really feeding her.

Of course, she would not think that the other party was kind, she just thought that seeing that she did not give in, she was going to use the third trick to torture herself.

I couldn't help but hate myself very much, why didn't I continue to persevere?
Isn't the previous sin all in vain?

However, at this moment, the vicious Manager Zhao appeared in front of her, and said with a smile:
"Miss Si Lan, please forgive me for offending you before."

Si Lan said vigilantly: "Just use any tricks, I won't give in."

Manager Zhao hurriedly said: "Girl, you misunderstood, how could we force you to do something you don't want to do. Before, the people below were ignorant, and I have already severely punished them. If you don't believe me, look..."

At this time, two people were brought in from the door, the same people who persecuted her before.

The bare backs of these two people were covered with dense welts, and it was obvious that they had been beaten severely.

She couldn't help wondering, what is this for?Why did they fight among themselves?

As for what Guanshi Zhao said just now, she didn't believe a word.

Everything is the bad thing done by the people below. He doesn't know it, and even ghosts don't believe such words.

Although she is young, she also knows that the real culprit is this person in front of her.

But what exactly happened to make Manager Zhao's attitude change so drastically?

She thought about it carefully, and finally recalled what Manager Zhao seemed to have said before she fell into a coma.

It's a pity that she was unconscious at that time, and she didn't hear clearly, she only vaguely remembered what Zixiaoguan Chen Zhenren...

Wait, Zixiao Temple?Real Chen?It can't be that Zixiao Temple, that real person Chen?

She naturally knew Zixiao Temple, Chen Jingke, and their status.

Could it be that Zhenren Chen has taken a fancy to me?Want to take me away from Jiaoshifang?
But we haven't met before, how does he know me?And why do you want me to go?

Although she was full of doubts, she was more willing to go to Zixiao Temple than Jiaofang Secretary.

Maybe there will be different results.

It's just that the above are all her guesses, and she doesn't know if it's true or not.

She is not a fool either, her mind turned quickly, and she immediately noticed, so she snorted coldly:

"Don't think that I don't know what you're calling attention to, but you just want to stop me from telling Zhenren Chen about the filth here. Am I wrong?"

Zhao Guanshi didn't realize that she was testing him, he only thought that she heard what he said the day before yesterday, so he said quickly:
"Miss Si Lan is indeed extremely intelligent, please spare me this trouble."

Then he took out a money bag from his pocket, carefully placed it in front of her, and said, "Be careful, as compensation for you, what do you want, girl?"

Si Lan knew very well that he was not out of danger yet, but he didn't dare to tear himself apart with the other party. He glanced at the money bag and said with a greedy look on purpose:
"Add double the money, and I promise not to reveal half a word to outsiders."

Hearing this, Manager Zhao was overjoyed, and readily took out the same money bag, saying: "It's a deal, I hope the girl will keep her promise."

Then there was a hint of sternness on his face, and he said, "Although I can't afford to offend Zhenren Chen, I can still pull you down with me..."

"Miss Si Lan is a smart person, I hope you don't do unwise things."

Si Lan put away the money and said, "As long as you have enough money, everything will be fine."

Afterwards, Guanshi Zhao provided her with good food and drink for two days, and when she recovered a little, he sent her to Zixiao Temple.