Happy trip to the Tang Dynasty

Walking all the way to the city, Yazhou County is more tidy and spacious than other towns. Needless to say, even the road under your feet is very interesting. It looks like stone but not stone, like mud but not mud. It is paved with a wonderful substance called "cement".Except for roads, most of the buildings in the city are made of cement.After the cement plants are mixed with a certain proportion of sand and gravel, they are extremely strong when exposed to wind and fossils, so they can build houses at an extremely fast speed.

The road is extremely wide. According to Goudan, it is called "six lanes", which means a road where six carriages can run side by side.King Xiang is the chief designer of the entire Yazhou New City. He ordered that all main roads in the Yazhou New City should not be less than four lanes wide.Street trees are planted on both sides of the road. Different road tree species are different, some are coconut trees, some are betel nut trees, and there are mango trees, poincianas, palm trees and so on.

The architectural style of the houses in the city is also different from other places. The style is minimal, square, and row upon row. At a glance, it looks like an army formation.

"Hey, why are there no children on this street?" Li Tan suddenly noticed.

"Oh, well, all minors are required to go to school here. At this time, they are all studying in the academy. We are the only ones who want to do social practice, so we wander the streets."

"All children, regardless of rich or poor? How can those poor families afford the teacher's training?"

"We call this compulsory education here, which means that if children of school age do not study, their parents are breaking the law. It is true that poor families or orphans can reduce or exempt tuition fees after verification. By the way, the school also provides free lunch, and Everyone should eat at least one egg and a bowl of milk every day. Milk with added sugar is really delicious!"

Speaking of sweet milk, Goudan's saliva flowed down again.

Goudan led him to a big hotel called Banyan Tree.It is said to be an inn, but it is actually bigger than a Zongwang mansion.I saw that this inn covers an area of ​​nearly one hundred acres. In addition to the main three magnificent inn buildings, there are even a series of entertainment facilities in the inn, such as pavilions, lotus ponds and flower gardens, as well as a Cuju field, an archery range, and a swing frame. .

"The establishment of this inn has exceeded the rules." Li Tan asked calmly.

I'm afraid the palace is not that big.

"According to the rules of the Central Plains, it is indeed beyond the norm. However, King Xiang doesn't care at all. In fact, in our city of Yazhou, we have built many houses that are bigger than King Xiang's mansion."

"Oh? Is no one in charge?"

"Why is no one caring? The old housekeeper of King Xiang, and some officials who were relegated from the mainland, knelt outside King Xiang's mansion for a while and persuaded Lord Xiang to expand the mansion every day. Guess what King Xiang said?" Let me It’s okay to expand the house, you come to clean the house every day!’ As a result, those old men ran away without saying a word. Everyone has a lot of work to do, and only ghosts have time to clean the house.”

"What, there are no servants to clean in Prince Xiang's mansion?"

"Our Yazhou county is waiting for prosperity and does not support idlers. And the most important thing is that everyone is equal. Prince Xiang abolished all slave and lowly registrations, and all people are civilians. Servants are not called Servants are called domestic service personnel. These people can be hired for a long time to serve a certain family, or they can be hired temporarily to do things such as cleaning. People in the Wusheng Mansion even hire domestic workers. If you find it troublesome, you often do it yourself.”

"Five Saints Mansion?"

"It's actually Prince Xiang's Mansion, but because five saints who changed the fate of Lingnan live in it, we call it the Mansion of Five Sages."

"who are they?"

"These five sages are 'Emperor Sage', King Xiang Li Huang, 'Master Sage', Mu Li, dean of Jinshan Academy, 'Cai Sheng', Ye Qinghou, president of Yazhou Chamber of Commerce, 'Singer Sage', Lan Huahua, head of the song and dance troupe, and 'Yin Sheng', Shui Wuxin, whom Master Wang Jixin calls 'Heaven's Fortune', is almost never seen."

After Goudan left, Li Tan looked around at the Tianzi room he had booked.Sofa, spring bed, soap, flush toilet, and running water, which are new things that cannot be seen in other places, make him feel refreshed. The whole room is comfortable and convenient.It is no wonder that apart from visitors from other places, even the locals often come here to stay for a few days when they have free time, which is called "holiday".

That night, he strolled around the nearby streets and found that the business was flourishing and the people were rich.

There is no curfew at night, but there is a bustling night market. In addition to various small vendors, there are also all kinds of gourmet snacks. Even Li Tan did not resist the temptation of the fragrance and bought a piece of cake.

On the way, he wanted to throw away the wrapping paper, but was stopped by a woman.The woman blushed and peeked at Li Tan's handsome face, and said, "Master, I'm afraid he is a foreigner. If you litter here, you will be fined or even whipped. Please throw the garbage over there."

She pointed and saw two different-colored trash cans on the side of the road, with "Perishable Garbage" and "Remaining Garbage" written on them.

"Which one should this go in?"

"Perishable garbage refers to food residues, dead branches and leaves, fruit peels and shells that will rot. Every morning, cleaners collect these garbage and use them as compost. My son, this piece of paper in your hand should be Belongs to the rest of the trash."

"Food leftovers...there is still leftover after the people here are full?"

"Isn't it? The little girl was originally born in the Central Plains. She escaped from the famine and came here. After only three years, she started to have leftovers every day. Thinking about it now, it's really a sin."

Li Tan turned his head and looked at the brightly lit street market, silent.

The next day, Goudan came as promised.When asked where he wanted to visit, Li Tan suggested that he wanted to visit Jinshan Academy.

"Jinshan Academy has seven colleges, and each college is divided into many different departments. It may be impossible to finish it in one day. Guest officer, are you really going?"

Li Tan nodded and said, "I just don't know if an outsider like me can..."

"What can I do? Jinshan Academy doesn't even have a wall, and people from the public are welcome to attend lectures at any time. If you want to go to a scenic spot, I'm afraid I will try to find a way to buy you a discounted ticket. This is great, go to the lectures, Even tickets are saved." Goudan grinned happily.

So in the next few days, Li Tan listened to the monetary theory of Marxist economics, the dialectics of Marxist philosophy, and the basic mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and geography required by all colleges.

After listening to the class for two days, Li Tan casually asked a passing student: "Don't you here learn "The Analects of Confucius", "Book of Filial Piety" and "Poems", "Books", "Rituals", "Yi", " "Spring and Autumn"?"

The student scratched his head and said, "Those things are obscure and impractical. They are all placed in miscellaneous studies, and they are taken as electives."

"If you don't learn the words of the sages, you won't be afraid that the rituals will collapse and music will be ruined, and people's hearts will not be ancient?"

The student laughed immediately: "Then those who have learned the words of the sages before, don't they have no morals and music, and their hearts are not ancient? Every time more dogs are slaughtered in righteousness, those who have read poetry and books, don't they have no clothes and beasts? "

Li Tan was still about to say something, when the class bell rang, the student picked up a stack of books, and rushed to the classroom in a hurry.

Li Tan sighed, and then returned to Banyan Tree.In his room, a dozen Jianning iron guards had been waiting for a long time.In the past few days, these dozen iron guards were like Li Tan's eyes and ears scattered all over Yazhou, checking all kinds of information for him.The operation of the government, the livelihood of the people, the public opinion of the people, and the armed forces are all-encompassing.

"What, King Xiang didn't have any troops at all?"

"Yes, all the troops detected by my subordinates belong to Lingnan Jiedushi. However, none of the private soldiers belonged to King Xiang."

Li Tan fell into deep thought.Li Huang's performance was too perfect, and such a person, if not a generation of sages, is the reborn Wang Mang.

"Create a greeting card for me, and tomorrow I will go to see my younger brother."

For Li Tan's visit, Li Huang refused very much.

It takes [-] hours a day just to approve documents, and they even have to pick up customers. That's not how prostitution works.

So Li Tan saw a younger brother who was full of displeasure, and Mu Li, who came here to act as a safety valve for Li Huang, who was afraid that Li Huang would make a mistake.

The two exchanged pleasantries, and Li Tan praised Li Huang a lot: "Eighth brother, brother Yu, who has come all the way, and saw that Lingnan has been rehabilitated by you in such a way that it is flourishing, and it is really admirable."

"Where it is, it's not worth mentioning."

Li Huang was expressionless, reading the secret chat that Mu Li had given him, thinking to himself why I didn't spend time with my daughter-in-law?

"Thinking about this Lingnan, except for Guangzhou and Quanzhou, the rest of the place was originally a land of southern barbarians, and this Yazhou is even more remote and barren. The eighth brother was able to build this place into a paradise on earth in just three or four years. Talent, I am afraid that it is unique in the world."

"I'm overwhelmed, I'm terrified." Li Huang continued to parrot.

"Brother Yu thinks that the royal family of the Li and Tang Dynasties are all mediocre, far less capable than eighth brother you. Therefore, Brother Yu thought, if you were to be the crown prince..."

"Ashamed, ashamed—wait a minute! Is the crown prince the one who will be the emperor in the future?"

Li Huang's heart skipped a beat.

"Exactly." Li Tan carefully watched Li Huang's reaction.Whether a person is ambitious or not, can be best revealed in front of the emperor.

"Don't do it! Don't talk about it! Whoever loves it!"

Li Huang jumped up like a husky whose tail had been stepped on, denying three times.

——One Lingnan has already made him a working overtime dog, and adding another Datang will make it impossible for people to live! !

Mu Li coughed at the side, and said, "His Royal Highness Jianning is unparalleled in the world. To be honest, you are more suitable for the crown prince."

"That's right! Second brother, you should be the crown prince more than me!" Li Huang seemed to be grasping at straws, "Little brother, I will give you my full support!"

——Of course it is moral support.Matter is fine.

Li Tan helplessly looked at this younger brother who regarded the throne like a scourge, and asked: "Then I don't know if the eighth younger brother is interested in Jiutian Juntian Lord?"

"Not interested, I already have a wife." Li Huang blurted out.Mu Li couldn't stop him in time, so he whispered with his forehead and said, people are asking you if you would like to be Jun Tianjun, not to introduce someone to you.

Oh, it turned out to be Tianjun Jun, Li Huang heaved a sigh of relief, and then asked Li Tan: "Is there any benefit to be Tianjun Jun?"

Li Tan's mouth twitched when he asked, "No."

All, it is another "beautiful job" with obligations but no rights, feelings but no reality.

Li Huang's disgust was beyond words.

"Promise him!"

After Ye Qinghou knew the situation here, he hurriedly had a secret chat.

"Look at those Jiutian, how many of them are doing practical things? We can take the title and not do anything! Moreover, with the status of Jiutian, we can get on the three lines of the Central Plains Chamber of Commerce, Tianxia Bank and Yinyuanhui , and many high-end personal connections, which are very beneficial to us."

The elder sister ordered, Li Huang finally reluctantly accepted the title of "Jun Tianjun" among the nine heavens.That expression was like holding a pile of shit by his nose.

His bad attitude caused Li Tan's extreme discomfort, and even "forgot" to pass on "Nine Heavens Military Mirror" to him.

When he left Yazhou, he sneered and told his subordinates: "Send a message to the other nine days, let them also come to Lingnan to see."