Tang Dynasty Never Night

The most tragic thing in this world is that when you want to buy, buy, buy, and find that... there is no money!

Li Xian did not expect that when he was a small citizen, he would worry about money, but now he has become a prince and prince, and he still has to worry about money!What?If you ask him where the money has gone, he also wants to know!Could it be that someone under him was corrupt?Can't you?

Don't talk about anything, let's look at the account book, and then Li Xian saw all kinds of accounts that made his blood pressure soar. To be honest, he doesn't like to read the account book, because the account book in this era is not so simple and clear. You need to reform, but if you change, your subordinates are not used to it. When you can't change the world, the only thing you need to do is probably to adapt to the world.

Li Xian forced himself to adapt to this dynasty, even though his eyes were about to turn into mosquito coils, he was still looking hard, and after looking at him, he found that his expenses were indeed very high recently.

Among other things, New Year's Eve must be given a New Year's gift. Although he is not yet married, he is not considered an adult in the true sense, but it is true that he has moved out to live alone, and even though he eats in the palace during the Chinese New Year There is a New Year's banquet, but there is also a banquet in the palace, which costs a lot of money.

In addition, when he was hit by a disaster last year, he also donated a lot of money, and he had to pay wages, subsidies and benefits to the people below every ten days, and then he had to reward individuals from time to time when he traveled, all kinds of people came down... Today's Zhou Palace can still maintain expenses Probably because Li Xian is not that extravagant, but if he is a bit extravagant, it will be a loophole everywhere.

Of course, it is true that the people below must have dirty hands and feet, but Li Xian has always turned a blind eye to this, as long as it is not too much, he will not care about it. When the water is clear, there will be no fish. He knows this truth.

Well then, what are you thinking behind closed doors, confinement, falling out of favor, let's put these things aside for now, our Royal Highness Zhou Wang began to worry... how to make money.

In order to compensate him, the emperor and empress rewarded him with a lot of good things before, but most of those things were gold statues and jade wares, and there was not much money. Even if they had money, they were all gold cakes. Yes, gold cakes can only be kept for merchants, and those rare treasures can only be kept for themselves to enjoy or reward.

So...Although King Zhou's Mansion looks gorgeous, it's actually...really poor qaq But from the beginning he was beaten to the ground - the strangeness of this era made him feel that even if he is really capable, he may not be able to succeed.

What's more...he is still so powerful, he is neither a student master nor a profiteer, the most important thing is that because of the restriction of status, many things cannot be done. He makes money. The two great gods above are probably going to clean him up.

Li Xian sat in the study for a long time in a daze, and finally chose a way-ceramic products, of course not those everyday cups, bowls and saucers, but ceramic tiles!

The firing of ceramics in the Tang Dynasty is considered mature. Li Xian also learned about it when he was reading idle books before. It is called Southern Qingbeibai. The craftsmanship of white porcelain and celadon is already very mature. It's not bad, ahem, of course Tang Sancai or something, it's a funerary object so don't bother.The only regret is that the secret-color porcelain that appeared in the late Tang Dynasty is still missing, and Li Xian feels...he probably can't see the secret-color porcelain anymore.

Li Xian is also glad that he traveled to the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty was a very tolerant dynasty. You must know that before the Tang Dynasty, the aesthetics were mainly plain, and it became more colorful in the Tang Dynasty.

Li Xian has observed that there are no such things as tiles, except for the imperial palace, even his prince's mansion - of course, it only refers to floor tiles, and there are still roof decorations such as glazed tiles.

This is a blank space, and Li Xian wants to start from here.The advantage of a high status is that he doesn't have to worry about many things by himself. For example, if he is a commoner, if he wants to start with ceramic tiles, he probably has to first understand how ceramics are fired, but now such things are all It is kept secret by a large porcelain kiln, and it is impossible to spread such things as recipes, so it is difficult to make.

But Li Xian is different. He has money, status, and a little connection, so he can find someone to do it.The biggest question now is whether there is a market for this thing!

Li Xian sent someone to inquire first, it is best to get a small porcelain kiln for fun, anyway, there are a lot of private kilns these days, and there are more that can't be opened.

Of course, the most important thing right now is that Li Xian wants to give Zheng Qi a good knife!Although Li Xian has always believed that a gentleman should buy a good sword and give it to Zheng Qi, but in the Tang Dynasty, most soldiers still used the Mo Dao. The Mo Dao is actually a kind of Tang Dao, which is longer and heavier. Li Xian let Chang Shi go Collect sharp knives and armor.

I have to say that Li Xian originally thought that these things would cost a lot of money. After all, he wanted to give Zheng Qi the best, but he didn't arrive first... There are some privately hidden weapons in his palace, and the number is definitely not many That's it.Li Xian picked and picked the sharpest and best-looking ones and sent them to Zheng Qi's mansion—he really wanted to go by himself, but he was still grounded, not to mention that the prince sent things to his courtiers. One thing that makes people feel very strange.

Li Xian was waiting for an answer at home, but unexpectedly, Zheng Qi was waiting for him.

Zheng Qi couldn't help but feel slightly relieved after discovering that Li Xian seemed to be in good spirits, and then looked at him a little dumbfounded and said, "What are you doing? I'm just a long history, and I don't need to go to the battlefield."

To put it simply, although Zheng Qi went with him, the shadow of a civil servant on his body is greater than that of a military officer. Strictly speaking, Zheng Qi is in charge of logistics, so it is useless to give him such good equipment. If even he is in danger, then basically It means that there is no big difference from annihilation of the whole army.

Li Xian didn't expect this, but of course the things he sent out couldn't be taken back, so he just said: "Hey, you can use it for self-defense. Anyway, that knife looks good to me, so it's fine to keep it here. Let it go, I don’t need it either.”

Zheng Qi didn't say anything else, but specifically said: "Don't recruit Zhou Guogong, you will die if you do many injustices, just wait and see."

Li Xian nodded quickly, and then asked Zheng Qi to have dinner together. To be honest, Li Xian was very worried about Zheng Qi going out with the army. But finally swallowed it back.

That was Zheng Qi's own decision, and he had no position to interfere. They... said that if they are close, they are teachers and students, and if they are great, they are just friends with a good relationship. However, Li Xian feels... If Zheng Qi can be estimated, he will not think about it. If you want him as a friend, after all, the levels of the two people are different.

After a meal, Zheng Qi couldn't help frowning when he saw Li Xian's sad look. He knew that Li Xian was worried about him, but why bother?How could he do something he wasn't sure about?Even Ge Luolu's entire tribe doesn't have many people, not to mention the branch of the tribe.

Both Zheng Qi and Li Xian didn't drink, Zheng Qi just said before leaving: "I'll have a drink with you when I come back."

Li Xian's expression softened slightly: "Take care!"

Strictly speaking, going to crusade against the Moubu tribe is not a major military measure, so this time there is no drama of sending troops to the expedition. As the grounded Li Xian... he still can only let people go out to find out the news.

It's just that some news can't be found out casually. Li Xian has no choice but to let people pay more attention to Zheng Qi's family. After all, there are only two old people in his family now... Uh, although they are not very old, they are indeed considered to be in the Tang Dynasty. They are old people, and one of them is very unreliable.

Although Li Xian was worried about Zheng Qi, he still had to do what he should do, for example...to make money.

While Li Xian was busy looking for a suitable porcelain kiln to buy, his cheap parents were in the palace and were about to die of worry.

There was a drought last year. I thought it would be better this year, but I didn’t expect that there would be no snow since last winter. Until the Chinese New Year, I didn’t see any snowflakes!It is said that spring rain is as expensive as oil, and now it is the beginning of February, and I haven't even seen a drop of rain!

Li Zhi had no choice but to issue an edict: Record the prisoner himself, and at the same time ask the department to prepare that he will send people to famous mountains and rivers to pray!

The so-called self-recorded prisoner is actually going through all the criminal cases to see if there is any misjudgment or omission. After all, in ancient times, people used to associate celestial phenomena with God, and once any disaster occurred, they thought it was God's anger. Yes, there must be something wrong, for example, there are unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, for example, the worship of God is not devout enough, and so on.

But the prisoner who was sent by the emperor himself is naturally different. At this time, no one dares to bend the law for personal gain, and the whole country is a little turbulent for a while-there are more outlaws than law-abiding citizens these days Many, especially those with money and power.

Those who are kinder will let the people below give some money or benefits to those who have been wronged, and tell them not to sue, and those who are more beastly will probably find a way to silence them.

Not to mention Li Zhi, Li Xian knew that these things would definitely happen, but there was no way, the whole country was so big, how could it be possible to be fair everywhere?Not to mention that rich people can still spend money to eliminate disasters even if they break the law.

So Li Zhi asked the prisoner to be recorded while preparing to pray. Combining the two, there must be a trick that will work, right?

It's just that Li Zhi's health is not good. If he is really asked to pray in famous mountains and rivers, who knows what will happen on the way?What's more, the weather is still a bit cold now.

So now the question is, since the sage has no way to sacrifice, who will he send?For a moment, all eyes were on these grown-up princes.

After all, praying on behalf of one's father can be said in the past, and besides the prince, there is no one who can preside over the sacrificial ceremony in place of the saint.

Let's take a look, first of all, the crown prince. Although it is said that the saint's health is not good and he can't withstand the fatigue of the horses and horses, everyone knows that the crown prince's body...is not much better than the saint's health. It is said that he was infected with wind and cold two days ago. for two days.

Then the only ones who can support the situation are Pei Wang Li Xian and Zhou Wang Li Xian. However, Pei Wang has been a bit high-profile these days, and his status has risen sharply. It seems that he is already a faint threat to the prince. If the saint wants to protect the prince, He should not let King Pei go.

It's just that if it wasn't King Pei, King Zhou...was fined a few days ago, and he's still under ground, so it wouldn't be appropriate to let him go, right?

Everyone is guessing, in fact, Li Zhi is also a little worried, he really wants to let the prince go, but the prince's body seems to be really unable to support, so let King Pei go...he is also worried that he will let King Pei go again. If you increase the chips, the prince's position will be very embarrassing.

So... let King Zhou go?It's not that Li Zhi looks down on Li Xian, it's that he always feels that letting this guy do serious things feels like he's messing with you every minute.

If it really doesn't work...Let Li Xian go!Li Zhi made up his mind with difficulty, and then turned around to discuss with Empress Wu. He and Empress Wu had different priorities for his sons. He wanted to train the prince, and Empress Wu wanted to train King Pei. It is only possible with Li Xian.

What's more, in his and Empress Wu's hearts, he always felt that Li Xian was a little distracted, maybe he could communicate with the sky?

Li Zhi didn't announce the candidate soon, he was still deliberating, although he and Afternoon had agreed that it was basically Li Xian, but anyway, many things were not ready yet, so don't worry too much.

It's just that even if Li Zhi didn't mention Li Hong and Li Xian, he reflected it almost immediately. Li Hong secretly hated his weak body, while Li Xian was simpler and straightforward. He went directly to the Zhou Palace.

Li Xian was not at all surprised by Li Xian's arrival. Among Empress Wu's children, apart from Li Lingyue and Li Lun who often came here recently, Li Xian was the most diligent in coming to him to eat and drink.

After dinner, Li Xian stayed and chatted with him for a while.

"I heard that your people are looking around for a porcelain kiln recently?"

Li Xian was not surprised at all that Li Xian would know that other than him, who among the brothers didn't have their own news channel?Even he has some people on hand who can go to inquire about the news.

Li Xian nodded, and Li Xian asked with a strange expression: "Why are you bothering about this?"

Li Xian definitely wouldn't tell him the truth, he didn't even tell Zheng Qi about this matter, of course it had something to do with Zheng Qi's going to war, he didn't want to trouble Zheng Qi with this kind of thing.

"It's okay to toss around and play around. A while ago, Yan cultivated my artistic sentiment when he was my king Fu."

Li Xian looked at him with a look like a snake spirit, and said after a long while: "If you like... I can find it for you."

"Huh? Liulang also plays this?"

Li Xian waved his hand: "It's because my family's porcelain kiln can't go on any longer, and when something happens, I want to change hands of the porcelain kiln."

Li Xian stroked his chin and said, "Well, in this case, I will take it if the price is right. Oh, and the original porcelain kilns don't need to be driven away. I will continue to use them, but I have to be obedient."

Li Xian made it very clear, I don't mind if I know it belongs to your family, but you have to listen to me, otherwise you don't want it.

Li Xian smiled slightly: "There are not many people in those craftsmen's families, so you can just ask someone to go through the formalities."

Li Xian nodded. He had a very strange feeling in his heart. He always felt that this matter... was too coincidental. Why did he want a porcelain kiln and Li Xian's subordinates happened to have a porcelain kiln to sell?And after completing the formalities, it is said that the price given by this porcelain kiln is very low, so low that it is almost a free gift.

People must ask for courtesy, what does Li Xian want to do?

At first Li Xian didn't think about offering sacrifices to mountains and rivers, but after Li Xian left after eating and drinking, the crown prince sent someone to send a few sets of accessories, and Li Xian knew that something was going to happen.

It's not a day or two since Li Xian has been showing affection to him. Probably because of his similar age, Li Xian has a faint feeling that he wants to cuddle with him. Of course, the purpose of this clique is to deal with the prince.

As for the prince...in fact, it's not that Li Xian is biased, it's probably because the other party has been the prince for many years. Although he is a brother of the same mother, the prince treats him and Li Xian a bit...high, yes, if he doesn't Unexpectedly, the titles of monarchs and ministers have been determined, he and Li Xian will definitely obey orders in the future, but you are like this now... It makes people feel very unbalanced, okay?

He felt that he somewhat understood Li Xian's thoughts, he was the son of a sage lady, why should you be superior to others?Isn't it because you are the prince?Then when I pull you down, I will become a prince, let's see how rampant you are!

As for why Li Hong behaved like this, it was probably because... he was favored. As Empress Wu's eldest son, Li Hong was once Empress Wu's most important bargaining chip, and Li Hong's name also represented Empress Wu's expectations of him.In addition, others are smart, courtiers praise, Li Zhi also likes it, and gradually he will naturally ignore many problems.

Li Xian looked at the accessories that could only be used with a dress, and contacted the nearest mansion newspaper, well, an answer was ready to come out - probably Li Zhi wanted him to sacrifice to heaven.

To be honest, Li Xian didn't want to go, he didn't like this kind of showy job at all, he just wanted to be a quiet and handsome man, sometimes he even envied Li Dan who was still studying, studying or something... So much easier than dealing with sibling relationships!It's also easier than thinking about making money every day!

Because Li Xian was grounded, he could only pass on the news through Li Xian. Li Xian was shocked when he heard that Li Xian did not want to sacrifice to heaven on behalf of his father.

That's right, Li Xian had already found the porcelain kiln before. From the very beginning, he found that the people of Li Xian's faction were not very efficient, and he seemed not familiar with it. Li Xian held such a porcelain kiln in his hand. It was originally intended to win over my younger brother—a porcelain kiln is not worth much anyway.

This time it has something to do with offering sacrifices to heaven, and it doesn't matter, Li Xian wants to sell the porcelain kiln to Li Xian at a low price no matter whether it happens or not.He didn't want to grab the sacrifice, and he might not be able to grab it. After all, it was a very important matter, but he never thought that someone would push it out stupidly!

Li Xian looked at Li Xian's surprised look and smiled slightly: "I think it's more appropriate for Liu Lang to go."

"But my father and mother are interested in you." Li Xian felt relieved, he felt that his younger brother had understood his hint, and he was reciprocating at this time.

As a prince, Li Xian is not so narrow-minded. He has to keep all good things in his own hands. He knows what he can fight for and what he can't fight for. If he really doesn't care, it will probably be early. Got killed.

So he really didn't think about letting Li Xian quit this time, and Li Xian's reason was so much that he wanted to beat him up.

Listen, what does it mean that it's too cold and he doesn't want to go out?Are you addicted to confinement?Li Xian didn't try to persuade him. Seeing that the brat really wanted to rush into the Daming Palace every minute to let his parents take back his life, Li Xian couldn't help but knelt down.

Li Xian: Bear boy, go honestly, don't you dare to beat you up!

Li Xian: md, what about being smart, handsome, and gentle?Liulang, have you eaten the word gentle and elegant?

Under Li Xian's strong high-pressure policy, after receiving the notice, Li Xian had no choice but to pack his bags and prepare to engage in feudal superstition activities.

But it wasn't until this time that Li Xian realized that the so-called praying to the mountains and rivers was actually not just the imperial court sending people to carry out more important sacrifices, but also all over the country to carry out sacrifices, but the time was different, and in terms of scale... it was the most lively one created by the imperial court .

Li Xian wrapped himself in fox fur into a fluffy ball, and set off like this. His idea was quite simple, that is, to go early and return early - there is no way to know the news of Zheng Qi's side in the first place outside. ah.

A few days before departure, everyone felt something was wrong—the color of the sun had turned reddish brown.Li Xian was so frightened that he pissed. He always felt like the end of the world. If he didn't know that the Tang Dynasty would not end here, he would have retreated home and piled up a pile of things to save his life.

On the day of departure, the color of the sun was also very wrong, which seemed to indicate a severe drought this year.Everyone is not very hopeful about this sacrifice, and even the Taishi Bureau's divination results are not very good, indicating that there will be no rain in the near future!

But in this way, Li Xian didn't have much pressure, so he just treated it as public money to eat and drink. It's not that he doesn't care about the general situation of the world, but who can do it if God doesn't reward his face?He didn't defy the sky to let the technological development of the Tang Dynasty go directly to the millennium later, not to mention that even after the millennium, there is no way to deal with the severe drought.

So the group arrived at the western foot of Yushan Mountain after wandering around for several days. Li Xian had also imprinted the whole sacrificial process in his mind. , I feel that this errand is really difficult to handle, the clothes are so heavy qaq In the not-so-hot weather, Li Xian broke out in sweat as soon as he put on the dress, and on the surface he acted as if nothing had happened. It passed away, but in the end, he was confused by God's malice—in the middle of the sacrifice, Li Xian had just finished reciting the prayer for rain, when suddenly a gust of wind blew up, and the clear sky slowly turned cloudy.

When he finished a set of procedures and was about to finish, there was a thunder from the sky, and the torrential rain poured down. Standing on the sacrificial altar, Li Xian was drenched instantly.

Li Xian: God, you are playing with me! (╯‵ ′)╯︵┻━┻