Chapter 398: Ma Zhou Delivering Letters and Xieli Dancing
Chapter 398 Ma Zhou delivering the message and Jie Li dancing
Author: The best is like no water
Chapter 398 Ma Zhou delivering the message and Jie Li dancing
Li Yunze was very embarrassed.
Because he only knows how to educate with sticks and is an expert at defiling children, but he really doesn’t know anything else.
Being a role model for others is too difficult.
After a sumptuous lunch, everyone in the Wu family said goodbye and left.
When leaving, Wu Hua whispered that he would not tell Aye and the others about being cheated.
Li Yunze smiled and said, "It doesn't matter if you say it. You are not the only one who can understand this matter. There are many smart people in the world."
He also gave the Wu family a cart of vegetables and a cart of fruits as gifts.
The Wu family's order for carriages has been settled, so we just have to wait in line. Many nobles who have ordered carriages in the past have not received them yet.
It’s not that he lacks productivity and can’t make it, but Li Yunze knows how to market this luxury product very well.
If you really want to get as much as you want, it will actually reduce its value.
So it is simply a limited quantity, and only a few can be produced every month. On the contrary, it makes the nobles flock to it, and they would rather pay more than wait in line to pick up the goods.
In fashionable terms, buying luxury goods is paying IQ tax.
Sun Simiao went to the palace and reported to the emperor about the development of a smallpox vaccine.
This kind of thing must have the support of the emperor before it can be promoted on a large scale.
If nothing else happens, Sun Simiao will devote himself wholeheartedly to this matter in these days.
As a doctor, it is his lifelong wish to be able to personally eradicate a disease that has brought harm to the world and caused countless tragedies.
Anyway, Sun Simiao would not put up a banner in his Taoist temple to celebrate how much money he made.
That's not a doctor, that's a vampire.
Naturally, Li Yunze was absolutely supportive and would give him whatever he wanted, especially a sufficient number of cows.
Days pass by, the cold wind goes away, and spring flowers bloom.
Datang soon entered the annual spring plowing season.
As the saying goes, a day's plan begins in the morning, and a year's plan begins in spring.
The quality of spring plowing is directly related to the harvest throughout the year.
If it is not done well, there will not be enough food during the autumn harvest, and people will really starve to death.
Li Yunze has always believed that people will die eventually, but no matter what kind of death it is, they cannot starve to death.
Therefore, he continued to provide Datang with advanced agricultural tools, better seeds, and more ways to prepare soil-based fertilizers.
As for the fields in Lijiazhuang, except for alfalfa in the fallow areas, the rest of the land is still dominated by soybeans. This year, high-yielding corn has been added, and the fish ponds have been expanded again to increase the breeding volume.
After all, livestock feed is basically soybeans, corn, soybean meal, amino acids, fish meal and oil.
There are many people growing food, but Li Yunze chose breeding instead of growing food.
Provide the Tang Dynasty with scarce meat and dairy products.
On this day, Li Yunze was planning a two-year fish breeding area by the fish pond. A messenger from the palace came quickly to invite him to the palace for a banquet.
"Having another banquet? This is a busy time for farming. Didn't Wei Zheng spray?"
"Your Majesty is joking." The envoy responded with a smile, "Not only did Duke Wei not complain, but he also agreed very much. There is another great event for the country."
Li Yunze rubbed his chin and thought for a moment, "The queen is still here, so she must not be marrying the queen. The prince has also been married. If he gives birth to a child and holds a large banquet, Wei Zheng will be furious. The wealthy family looks down on the emperor, saying that he has Hu people's blood.
If you don’t give face, it won’t be him
They voluntarily surrendered and handed over the leadership of Wenhua.”
When Li Yunze said this, the messenger's eyelids jumped wildly, and he wanted to reach out and cover his mouth.
You really dare to say anything.
"Then it can only be a military action. The Turks have been defeated, and they can still hold a big banquet at this busy time of spring plowing and waste money. Has Jieli been caught?"
The envoy was stunned, and after a moment he saluted with admiration, "Your Majesty, your great talent, captured that Jieli Khan. And all the tribes in the grasslands sent people to Chang'an City to congratulate Your Majesty."
"You're a good talker."
Li Yunze looked at the messenger in front of him, "What's your name? See if I've heard of it."
The envoy smiled and saluted, "The provincial censor Ma Zhou is an unknown person. The Lord must have never heard of him."
"Ma Zhou?" It was Li Yunze's turn to smile, "You are wrong, I really know you."
"I think your boy is full of heaven and has a rosy face. He will definitely be the prime minister in the future."
Ma Zhou was stunned for a moment and waved his hands repeatedly, "Don't make fun of me, don't make fun of me. How dare I have such extravagant hopes."
It's not that he was really being modest, but the Tang Dynasty in this era was a typical era of powerful families.
Knowledge is monopolized by aristocratic families, and most of the yamen in the central government come from their sects. If ordinary people want to get ahead, it is no less difficult than reaching the sky.
Even Fang Xuanling, the prime minister of the current dynasty, was born in the Qinghe Fang family.
As for a person like Ma Zhou who came from a poor family, he naturally did not dare to seek the position of prime minister.
"There is indeed a problem with the education system of the Tang Dynasty." Li Yunze stepped forward and signaled to Ma Zhou, "The aristocratic families have too much control, which has seriously hindered the development and progress of the Tang Dynasty. Not only do they have a lot to eat, but they have never thought of cooking for the Tang Dynasty."
Contribution, but on the contrary, it is holding back and sucking
Blood. Do you know what the usual outcome is in this case?"
Ma Zhou laughed a few times and said, "I don't know."
How could Ma Zhou, who had read many books, not know what the outcome would be? It was either that the princes, generals, and prime ministers would have a happy ending, or that there would be a reform.
Theoretically speaking, those who carry out reforms are almost never successful. Even the most successful reform of Shang Yang, Shang Yang himself died without a burial place.
In comparison, the success rate of princes and generals like Ning Youzhong is higher.
No matter which one it is, the purpose is the same, to try every means to take the benefits away from others.
As for the result, it will always be a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
The imperial examination did exist in the Tang Dynasty, but the problem was that the imperial examination was almost monopolized by aristocratic families and noble groups, because they not only had power but also monopolized knowledge. Most ordinary people were illiterate, so how could they participate in the imperial examination?
Most of the nobles in the dynasty came from aristocratic families and noble groups. In this case, Ma Zhou, who was born as a commoner, wanted to be the prime minister? Go to sleep, he has everything in his dreams, and there is no way he can be an emperor in his dreams.
The two rode horses to Chang'an City together, and had an in-depth exchange of views on the education issues in Datang on the way.
Before arriving at the palace, I came to the conclusion that the only way to peacefully change the current situation is to open up people's wisdom.
"This is easy to say, but too difficult to do."
Ma Zhouchang sighed, a person of his background had suffered too much in the court.
"Take it easy."
Li Yunze comforted him with a smile, "If there are no difficulties and obstacles, how can it be a big deal? It's like fighting the Turks. Before the war started, who would have thought that the Turks would be so careless. With a single punch from the Tang Dynasty, they would overwhelm the Central Plains."
The Turks of 2000 were brought to their knees, except
Who else but me could think of it?"
"Uh~~~"
Ma Zhou smiled bitterly, what do you mean no one thought of it except you? There is no way to accept this.
The two of them said goodbye at the entrance of the palace. Ma Zhou went to do his own business, while Li Yunze walked towards the banquet hall.
Today's banquet is larger and more luxurious than last time.
The soldiers responsible for guarding were all wearing plate armor suits sold by Li Yunze, and they looked as majestic as tin cans.
Compared with Li Er's set of plate armor, these plate armors do not count as cutting corners, they can only be said to be mass-produced products on the assembly line.
The banquet table was even equipped with a complete set of glass wine glasses, tea cups, and ceramic dishes.
The banquet was still scheduled for the evening, because Li Er, who liked face, felt that only at night could the brilliance brought by the kerosene lamp be displayed.
All of this shocked the tribal nobles who came from the grassland to express their surrender to the Emperor of Tang Dynasty who had defeated the Turks.
If the productivity of the Tang Dynasty was synonymous with backwardness in Li Yunze's eyes, then the productivity of the grassland tribes must be primitive society. He even suspected that those tribes still used stone tools.
These tribal nobles, following the captured Jieli Khan, entered the city from Mingde Gate and walked onto Zhuque Street. They were immediately shocked by the Tianjie in front of them.
At night, this spacious sky street is as bright as day!
Rows of kerosene lamps emitted bright light, lighting up the entire Suzaku Street.
This is Zhuque Street after the second phase of construction.
Previously, Li Yunze installed kerosene lamps on both sides of Zhuque Street, and the brightness was satisfactory.
But the problem is that these are only kerosene lamps and not searchlights. The width of Zhuque Street is more than 100 meters, and the kerosene lamps on both sides of the road cannot illuminate the middle.
One night, on a whim, Li Er rode a horse around Zhuque Street and told Fang Xuanling that there must be light in the middle.
Then there was the second phase of the Zhuque Street kerosene lamp renovation project, and two rows of spotlight kerosene lamps were erected in the middle.
Naturally, what Li Yunze is selling is not an antique, but a condenser kerosene lamp that has been improved many times in the modern world. Through the refraction of the glass and concentrated light, it can emit a very high lumen of light.
With the addition of two rows of kerosene lamps in the middle, Zhuque Street has entered the era of three lanes.
This even formed a spontaneous walking rule, with the emperor walking in the middle and everyone else walking on both sides.
At this time, with the permission of Li Er, Jieli Khan and the noble elders of the tribes walked in the middle of the spacious and flat street, which was also extremely bright at night. Their hearts were inexplicably shocked.
"This lamp is actually made of glass. Doesn't one lamp cost several cows?"
"There are so many glazed lanterns on this road, even if we sell all the cattle and sheep in the tribe, it won't be enough."
"The Tang Dynasty was so powerful."
"No wonder even the Turks can't defeat them."
The whispers from everyone made Jieli Khan, who was walking alone at the front, very uncomfortable.
A few months ago, he was the most powerful person in the world, and his casual words could scare the people of Tang Dynasty to sleepless nights.
But now
With a wry smile, Jieli lowered his head and looked at the clothes he was wearing. This was a costume that the tribe would only wear when dancing!