Chapter 371 Preface to the Lanting Collection Soaking in the Sun
Chapter 371 Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection Soaking in the Sun
Author: The best is like no water
"This meal is really expensive."
Fang Xuanling returned to her home and waved to the lady who brought the food, "I'm full."
"It's full of meat." Fang Xuanling's wife Lu, the heroine of the anecdote "Jealous Jar", heard Fang Xuanling's words and immediately laughed and said, "You've always been short of food, haven't you? This time
I’m really full.”
"Alas~~~"
Fang Xuanling sighed repeatedly, "This meal is too expensive."
"How expensive can it be?"
"Five hundred taels." Fang Xuanling opened his palm and said, "Gold."
Lu was stunned for a moment and exclaimed, "Why is it so expensive? Have you eaten dragon liver and phoenix marrow?"
"A meal of beef." Fang Xuanling waved her hand, "This is just a deposit."
Lu was by no means the jealous and shrewish woman in the folklore of later generations. After hearing this, she immediately sat down and asked, "What is going on?"
Fang Xuanling had nothing to hide, so he directly told the whole story.
After listening, Mr. Lu pondered for a moment, "The root cause is that Zhuangzi was sold by our family. Your Majesty is not interested in our family's ten thousand taels of gold. It is purely because these golds belong to that strange person, so they are competing."
Don't be impatient, Your Majesty will surely help.
Compensation."
"I know it." Fang Xuanling burped. "It's interesting to say that our Zhuangzi seems to have become a fairy cave. Everything can be taken out from it."
"How does Your Majesty plan to deal with such strange people and magic?"
"With His Majesty's character, it is natural for him to use it." Fang Xuanling gently twirled his beard and fell into thought. "As long as it does not endanger Your Majesty and the Tang Dynasty, we will just wait and see for the time being. It is important to first understand its ins and outs and capabilities.
thing."
Mrs. Lu nodded after hearing this and said no more about the matter.
Over at Zhuangzi, Li Yunze is leading the refugees to build a cowshed.
Of course, his cattle raising cannot be just a matter of grazing. The two thousand acres of land are not enough to graze hundreds of cows.
After all, for grazing, a cow needs at least five to ten acres of grassland, and if the quality of the grass is not good, it will take more.
If you raise too many cattle, your land will be eaten up and turned into a desert.
For Li Yunze, of course, it is to use integrated captive breeding to grow rapidly.
In this case, a large cowshed is a necessity.
"Boss." The refugees who worked according to Li Yunze's instructions were very surprised by the aluminum alloy used in their hands. "What kind of treasure is this? It seems to be iron but not iron and yet it is so light."
"This thing is called aluminum, and it is extracted from the soil." Li Yunze, holding the blueprint, directed the homeless people nearby to pull the pulley crane and hoist the huge pieces of aluminum alloy to the roof of the cattle shed.
What he bought was a complete set of equipment that provided one-stop services. It was directly dismantled from a cattle farm that could no longer operate.
Li Yunze not only bought the cowshed equipment, but also bought all the cows.
Although there is a lack of large-scale machinery, with sufficient human resources, it is not too difficult to build such a simple building.
After finishing the beef here last time, Li Er left without saying a word.
But not long after, a large group of people arrived, bringing together five or six hundred people.
The people who sent them here were the government officials from Lantian County, saying they were ordered to send these refugees to Zhuangzi for resettlement.
Including the previous manpower, the entire Zhuangzi has almost 700 people, nearly half of whom are strong laborers.
It is certainly not difficult for hundreds of people to do simple physical work together.
According to the practice of this era, it is to work at sunrise and rest at sunset.
But things have changed here in Li Yunze, and he has to work overtime at night.
It was not that he, Li Yunze, turned into a capitalist and crazily squeezed the labor force, but that he provided night shift work opportunities after dinner in order to keep up with the schedule.
The refugees enthusiastically signed up to participate, and even almost got into a fight over the spots.
The reason is very simple. The overtime pay for working overtime at night is about one piece of beef per pound.
The common people who had just emerged from the troubled times of the late Sui Dynasty could hardly eat pork, let alone beef.
Taking a pound of beef home is enough to make a family cry happily.
Because there is enough overtime pay, everyone is very enthusiastic about work.
It can be seen that working people are not unwilling to work overtime, but are unwilling to be social animals without reasonable remuneration.
Capital can use people as livestock, but people cannot use themselves as livestock.
As for the biggest difficulty in working at night, the lack of light, it was naturally solved with the lighting system obtained by Li Yunze.
The large combined incandescent lampstand, driven by the diesel generator, not only provided lighting for the construction site, but also the threshing floor in the middle of Zhuangzi was bright.
The children are playing wildly here in the threshing floor, while the women are working as female workers, mending clothes, etc.
Everyone was talking and laughing, and the dullness of exercising on the couch as soon as the sky darkened was completely gone.
Seeing this scene in the eyes of the Baiqisi spies who were monitoring from a distance, they were also greatly amazed and even called out their magic skills.
After days and nights of hard work, the cowshed was finally capped, and hundreds of cows finally had a place to shelter from the wind and rain.
However, the work is never finished. As the population of Zhuangzi increases, a large number of houses need to be built to solve the accommodation problem.
The first is to build a tin house. This kind of prefabricated house is simple and fast to build. It can solve the accommodation problem in a short time. As time goes by, the temperature will get higher and higher without freezing.
Then there is the construction of a kiln. Of course, he built a kiln not to make porcelain, but to make bricks.
With bricks, you can build a brick house, which is definitely a luxury house in this era.
That day, Li Yunze found a kaolin slope not far from Zhuangzi, and he decided to build a brick-making factory here.
"We need to build a road." Li Yunze gestured to Fang Xuanling beside him, "We need to build it directly to Zhuangzi to facilitate transportation and people. These land acquisition matters will trouble Fang Gong."
Fang Xuanling smiled and stroked his beard, "It's no problem to acquire land, or even send out corvees to help with the work, but it's about the cost."
He had made up his mind that not only would he earn back his face this time, but he would also give Li Yunze a break and get more good things.
Just like the lantern in Zhuangzi that emits bright light at night, it is very good.
"The final payment for those bent-shaft plows and various iron farm tools has not yet been settled." Li Yunze raised an eyebrow and looked over, "The final payment is not enough for land acquisition?"
Fang Xuanling, who had a confident smile on his face, was about to ask the lion to open his mouth, but then he looked to the horizon in the distance in astonishment.
As he looked over, a large gray fog appeared on the horizon in the distance, looking like a sandstorm.
That was not a sandstorm, but a crazy swarm of locusts.
Looking at the pale-faced Fang Xuanling, Li Yunze smiled, "You have to pay the balance, and you have to spend money to buy locust-killing medicine from me!"
"Don't say it's a joke!"
Fang Xuanling, who looked extremely serious, shouted, "It's up to now whether the countless people in Guanzhong can keep their food rations for a year. If you have a strategy to exterminate the locusts, come up with it immediately. If you can really exterminate the locusts, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the people of Guanzhong."
You kowtow to express your gratitude and build a shrine for you! If so,
No, don’t make fun of me here.”
"Shengshi?" When Li Yunze heard this word, his first thought was that he had killed Jiu Qiansui in some parallel world.
Fang Xuanling's well-founded and righteous words were indeed very nice to hear. It would have made a young guy's blood boil.
It's a pity that Li Yunze is a fool, and he is also a fool who has traveled all over the world.
He has truly seen all kinds of people and experienced all kinds of things.
Fang Xuanling's words were like a breeze blowing on his face and were of no use to him.
Li Yunze raised his hand to pick out his ears, and flicked his nails. "There must be medicine to kill locusts, but my principle is not to take off my pants. Bah! I mean, don't let the hawk know if you don't see the rabbit. Now that the money is in place, I want to
There is as much as there is. It is impossible to give it away for free."
Fang Xuanling rolled her eyes. She really showed her eyebrows to a blind man. This kid didn't accept this trick at all.
"My sleeves are fresh." Fang Xuanling swung his sleeves neatly, "I have nothing but the ten thousand taels of gold I sold you Zhuangzi."
"It's better to have gold. If you don't have it, you can use something else instead."
Li Yunze smiled and said, "I heard that the authentic copy of Wang Xizhi's Preface to the Lanting Collection is in the hands of the emperor. If I can exchange it, I can give you the locust-killing medicine."
Wang Xizhi's preface to the Lanting Collection is known as the first calligrapher in running script and is a true national treasure.
Li Yunze has seen it before in many parallel worlds, but unfortunately they were all copied.
As for the original work, it was brought into the mausoleum by Li Er as a burial companion.
It is such a pity that such a treasure was buried with him. We just took this opportunity to take it away so that this authentic work can appear in the sun!
Well, it appeared under the sunlight in his living room.
Although Fang Xuanling's palace was very deep, he was stunned when he heard Li Yunze's request.
The Preface to the Lanting Collection is the emperor's beloved treasure, as precious as eyeballs.
In order to show off, the emperor would also give copies to his relatives and ministers to show off.
Now this kid actually wants this baby
Fang Xuanling shook his head repeatedly. He was afraid that the emperor would go crazy when he found out about this.
"That's up to you." Li Yunze shrugged and said, "It is better to exterminate the locusts sooner rather than later. Large swaths of spring seedlings will be devoured every night. I think it is better for the landlord to inform the emperor about this first."
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Fang Xuanling, whose hair turned gray from worry, came to the palace with sighs.
I happened to meet Li Er who was about to go to worship heaven and ask heaven to destroy the locusts.
After hearing Fang Xuanling finish Li Yunze's request, Li Er did not get furious, but frowned and asked, "Can he guarantee that the locusts can be exterminated?"
"He said so himself." Fang Xuanling lowered his head and responded, "But I don't know if it has any specific effect. I haven't tried it yet."
Li Er, who was pacing with his hands behind his back, wandered around for a long time and waved his hand, "The matter of worshiping the heaven will wait for now."
Back in the palace, Li Er solemnly took out the preface to the Lanting Collection, looked at it carefully, and then carefully put it away properly.
Immediately, he took a large number of guards and rode out of the city, heading straight for Lijiazhuang.
At this time, Lijiazhuang was very lively. The women were cooking. Some of the laborers were feeding the cattle in the cowshed with feed that Li Yunze got from someone unknown. Others were nailing barbed wire along the edge of the two thousand acres of land.
of wooden piles.
Looking at the boiling broth in the big pot, Li Er sighed in his heart, if every village in the world could eat broth every day, then he would have nothing more to ask for.
After getting off the horse, we went directly to the courtyard where Li Yunze lived.
Pushing open the courtyard door and walking in, he saw Li Yunze lying on a lounge chair in the front yard and soaking up the sun.
"coming?"
Li Yunze, who squinted his eyes and shook it, pointed to the spray bucket on the side. "This is the agent that can kill locusts. Just take it and spray it directly on the locusts. You will know if it has any effect after you try it."
Li Er nodded and motioned to the guards to carry the spray bucket away.
He walked up to Li Yunze and said firmly, "If we can destroy the locusts, I will reward you with the preface to the Lanting Collection!"
It would be difficult for any other emperor to make such a decision, but Li Er was different.
He is the Tang Taizong Li Shimin who can stand shoulder to shoulder with the ancestral dragon Han Wu, who can say that "water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it"!
If it can save the people from fire and water, then the preface to the Lanting Collection will be nothing more than that!
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