I opened a tavern in Datang/Datang: My peerless talent was exposed

Is this Nima a bit too fast?

However, Lao Fang nodded and told him that the fact is that it is the autumn of the third year of Zhenguan, half a year has passed.

After struggling with Lao Fang and his own memory for a long time, Zhang Nuo finally collapsed on his sofa like a puddle of mud.

Mother, why is it that more than half of the year has passed in the blink of an eye, why don't I feel anything.

Li Shimin, who was sitting across from him, was holding a cup of tea and looked at Zhang Nuo with distaste as if looking at a pile of rubbish.

"Stop moaning and moaning there, I really don't understand, how can a person with such a great ability be so tired as you are!"

"Think about it yourself, how much has changed in the Tang Dynasty in the past six months, and how many things you have missed while hiding in Lantian City and Pyongyang City!"

Hearing Li Shimin's words of hating iron for nothing, Zhang Nuo rolled his eyes angrily, but fuck you, it's true that Datang is developing rapidly, but there's no need for us to take up the pole to find a job. , can't we develop at a high speed if we are not in Datang? Isn't this developing very well now?

If we say the biggest change in the Tang Dynasty in the past six months, it is that the railway from Dengzhou to Chang'an has finally opened to traffic.

On the day of opening to traffic, the city of Chang'an was really lively. Since countless civil servants and military generals disagreed with the plan of opening a hole in the city wall to let trains in, the train station was eventually placed in Lantian City.

At that time, Zhang Nuo was almost killed. These idiots really couldn't imagine how much a train station can pull a city.

But since they gave up, Zhang Nuo naturally took over cheerfully. The warehouse area, freight wharf, and passenger transport area are all clearly divided into a train station covering an area of ​​nearly a thousand acres. built.

On the opening day, nearly 10 people flocked to Lantian City to see the grand occasion. After all, trains are not uncommon in Pyongyang. Many people who have been in Pyongyang have proudly boasted about it when they came back. The magic of trains.

What a train can easily pull away hundreds of thousands of tons of goods, what a train can pull hundreds of thousands of people running day and night non-stop, what trains need to be It took a lot of fine iron, this is still good, at least I know some real news, even if there is some bragging, but what I said is still true.

And some people have seen it at least once or even never seen it at all. If it is rumored, it will be completely irrelevant. The train is actually an artifact that can only be moved by His Highness King Qin. The direction of the railway must be in line with it. Feng Shui, all kinds of strange rumors have come out.

Zhang Nuo had also heard some of it at that time, and he couldn't laugh or cry when he accidentally became the protagonist in a myth that people circulated, but he couldn't say anything.

Only after several decades, when the national quality of the entire Tang Dynasty has been continuously improved, and people have gained more and more knowledge, will people gradually become familiar with all kinds of new things that continue to appear around them.

In fact, it is as if many old people in later generations did not understand what the Internet is, nor did they know anything about computers. This is the limitation brought about by knowledge and experience.

But for young people, as long as their knowledge and insights are in place, computers and the Internet are just indispensable tools in their lives and work.

On the day of its opening, tens of 10 people almost unanimously exclaimed as they watched the locomotive, which was painted like a dragon's head like the train running on the Pyongyang City Railway, roaring into the station with billowing steam.

The shock brought about by the crystallization of this industrial age is simply a magic weapon that breaks through the dimension for these Chang'an people who have struggled on the land all their lives and do small business at most.

Especially the little brother who was driving blew his whistle when he entered the station according to the rules, and the long sound of the whistle completely ignited the atmosphere.

Almost all the people in Chang'an wanted to come forward to take a good look at this amazing big guy.

It's a pity that Li Shimin, who knew that there would be many people watching the excitement, had already mobilized a whole four guards to maintain order.

It was these sergeants who kept everyone out of the safe area. You must know that when the sergeants maintain order at this moment, they don’t pay attention to the military and civilian fish and water like later generations, and they don’t know what civilized law enforcement is. After all, Datang does not have such a thing at present.

Therefore, for these Chang'an civilians who were desperately pushing forward, the sergeants dealt with it very simply. They roared a few times, kicked them without stopping, and then drew out their knives.

Not to mention hacking to death a few people on the spot, but it was definitely not a rare thing that day to chop a few fools directly on people with the back of a knife.

However, even if the situation is so fierce that it looks like this, when everyone sees a steady stream of goods coming off the train through the fence, and a large number of sergeants who have stayed in Pyongyang for a year or two and have not returned home get off the train. People still couldn't help exclaiming one after another.

And from that day on, the old Chang'an people had another good place to brag to their poor relatives from other places, that is, they brought their poor relatives who had just arrived in Chang'an to the train station to see what Chang'an city can only see.

However, less than a month after the traffic was opened, the civil servants and military generals in Chang'an City actually began to regret it, because Zhang Nuo had the foresight to build shops around the train station that were only rented and not sold, but the business was so good that it exploded.

Whether it is a small business or a small restaurant for eating, it can be described as making a lot of money every day. Whether it is a passenger who really needs to use the railway to transport goods or take a car, or a person who simply comes here to watch the excitement, they always have When you are hungry or thirsty, then there is a small restaurant with high quality and low price next to it, can you resist going in?

Not to mention the storage area in the train station, it was basically covered by various chambers of commerce immediately. They were afraid that they would not be able to grab the warehouse, so they basically begged Zhang Nuo to accept it with money.

Except for the railway station here in Lantian City, the entire railway line is actually gradually changing because of this railway.

These changes may seem insignificant temporarily, but when people look back in a year or two, they will feel that it is really different!

Chapter 745 Subtle Changes

Chang'an City is developing, Lantian City is developing, and Datang is developing at a high speed. This kind of change makes people feel dizzying.

It is not a change in one or two places, let alone a change in one or two places, but a change that can be felt by everyone in the entire Tang Dynasty and in all regions.

In addition to the most obvious thing about the train, the most real experience of the old people in Chang'an City is that there are more and more fresh goods in Chang'an City, and the prices of many things are getting cheaper and cheaper.

For example, seaweed, who used to know what this smelly thing was, but now anyone with a little background knows that several signature dishes of Zhang's restaurant are made of seaweed.

And as long as you have a little bit of channels, you will know that Zhang Nuo, the miraculous His Royal Highness the King of Qin, said that it is good to drink stewed seaweed with pork bones, especially for children.

Just Zhang Nuo's casual words, kelp, something that was looked down upon before, immediately went to Li Chengqian's table.

Others don't know, but don't they know that Li Shimin's eldest grandson and empresses know that Zhang Nuo's greatest skill is actually scratching his mouth. The things he said about other aspects may only be more reliable, but when it comes to food, it is absolutely reliable exist.

Sure enough, not to mention how effective food supplements are, at least Li Chengqian likes this kind of soup that has been boiled for a long time.

So it didn't take long for kelp to become a bestseller in Chang'an City!

In fact, in this era, kelp basically played the role of monosodium glutamate or chicken essence. The deliciousness of the stew was definitely something these inland bumpkins had never touched before.

In addition to the prosperity of the commercial market, there is another huge change, that is, after the new year this year, Li Shimin's first imperial decree reduced the agricultural tax by half.

To be honest, if it weren't for the earnest remonstrance of others, Li Shimin, who loves face and loves his bones, would have exempted the agricultural tax in one go.

However, although Datang today has the support of commercial taxation, which makes the national treasury much richer than before, with the emergence of various new things and measures by Li Shimin and Zhang Nuo, there are also railways, airships, navies, and city buildings. With various construction projects emerging one after another, the expenditure of the national treasury is more than a little more than before, and it is rolling upwards.

This means that after the people in the household department have been trained by Zhang Nuo's school, they have improved a lot in sorting out accounts and mathematics.Otherwise, they probably can only cry in the face of this situation.

But even so, the treasury of the entire Tang Dynasty is still struggling on the verge of precariousness. Once any major event outside the budget occurs, Li Shimin's internal funds must be used to rescue and fill the hole.

It is precisely because the situation is not as prosperous as it seems on the surface, so when Li Shimin said that he wanted to exempt the agricultural tax, the Ministry of Households cried the most.

Although the proportion of commercial tax is getting higher and higher, it doesn't mean that there will be no money from agricultural tax. The income from agricultural tax is still a large figure, okay?

You must know that when there were no new types of grain, let alone a large piece of land newly occupied by Goryeo, the previous agricultural tax supported the expenses of the entire Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, after presenting the facts and reasoning and even persuading him for a long time, Li Shimin finally agreed to exempt half of it first.

But at the same time, a decree was issued directly to check and measure all the land in the world, and half of the agricultural tax was exempted. No one will continue to hide it.

At the same time, along with this decree of the investigation, there is another order, that is, from now on, all private land transactions in the entire Tang Dynasty will not be allowed, only lease, but the lease period is only ten years at most.

This further cracked down on the behavior of landlords hoarding land. You can have money, and you can get more land if you want, but if you want to buy tens of millions of acres of land at one time to be a local tyrant, then you can’t do it. If there is a real industrial need, then rent it and return it to others when it expires.

After such a decree, combined with the policy of halving the agricultural tax, many farmers immediately felt that it would be better to work as tenant farmers for others. As long as they work hard for a few years, it seems that they can live a good life, nothing. big deal.

And some with a long-term vision and more courage, rented out the land decisively, and then invested in workshops or small businesses without hesitation.

No one can say which choice is right, it is their own choice anyway, as long as they feel good, then which choice is right.

However, this also brought a new impact, that is, with the continuous opening of workshops, the monthly salary of workers, especially skilled workers, is getting higher and higher.

It's not that there are no people who have just escaped from slavery to find work, especially those Korean captives who have long limited their time as slaves and can release themselves from slavery.

After these people came out of the slave team, they finally really felt the benefits of being Datang people. Anyway, they already had household registration, even though they still stuttered in Datang dialect, at least the officials and people in the village did not discriminate against them.

This is the ethos of Datang. Datang tolerates all foreign races. Even when they were slaves, as long as they were obedient, no one discriminated against them indiscriminately. There are more and more people from other nationalities joining the big family of Datang.

As long as you get the household registration of Datang, it proves that you are from Datang, but the ethnicity is different, but if you want to rebel or rebel against Datang, then there is no need to say, it is definitely worse than those old Datang people.

This is also a policy formulated by Datang. After all, as long as you have a household registration in Datang, you can enjoy the better and better welfare policies of Datang. But if you rebel, you will be a white-eyed wolf, so why not keep it if you are not killed? ?

These people who have just obtained their household registrations are basically the most diligent and intelligent slaves among the slaves, and the last ones are those who have mastered certain skills. These people have just obtained their household registrations, and they are basically laughed at by the workshop owners. I quickly got rid of it.

After all, these people are really capable, and they are all able to stammer and speak Mandarin in Tang Dynasty. Although communication is still a bit difficult, they are smart and willing to work. Not trying to find myself a drinking buddy.

Of course, this kind of scene can only be seen by those who allow the transfer of slavery. The vast majority of them are Koreans. As for the Korean soldiers and Turkic soldiers whose hands are stained with the blood of the Tang Dynasty, don’t even think about it. , Honestly be a slave for the rest of your life.

Chapter 746 Li Chengqian is Scared

In fact, for Zhang Nuo, the first half of the three years of Zhenguan was the real life, and it was only during the first half of the year that he truly realized the power and benefits of the title King Qin.

Although he is not obsessed with power, and he has never been in the court, there are still an endless stream of officials who come to him, maybe they are depressed, or they have other thoughts, anyway, Zhang Nuo doesn't care, except No acquaintances were seen.

Moreover, Zhang Nuo, who was a little annoyed by the quarrel, directly let out the word through Du Ruhui, who the hell came to him with official affairs, just wanted to instigate him to plot a usurper and rebel leader.

This made Li Shimin almost roll his eyes. It's not that this reason is unreliable, but that this reason is too frankly reliable, because some people really have this idea.

But this can't be said clearly, but Li Shimin also understands that Zhang Nuo is really annoying, otherwise he wouldn't grab Du Ruhui who came to the door to find a drink and a meal.

Li Shimin knew better that Zhang Nuo was just impatient with these people with other thoughts in their hearts disturbing his life, and hated the feeling that others thought him a fool, otherwise he would not have spoken so directly.

So after thinking about it, Li Shimin suddenly felt that Zhang Nuo's confession was really good. If he went to Zhang Nuo with business that did not belong to Zhang Nuo, then Li Shimin would have to doubt it. Does this person really have any idea to use Zhang Nuo to carry it out?

Because Li Shimin knew very well that Zhang Nuo really didn't have the idea to toss about the government, and he didn't even want military power. It was Li Shimin who drank wine several times in a row and said a lot of good things, so he was reluctant. Going to the air force base to train those brats.

That's it, when I first went there, I still vented my anger on others, often staged good shows such as one-on-ten, one-on-twenty, and then took the opportunity to beat up the gang of brats.

Li Shimin is sometimes speechless. These days, it is true that a man is rich and comfortable, but a man cannot be powerless for a day. Does Zhang Nuo not care?

But how did he know that if a person like Zhang Nuo had been in the past, he would have lived in Chang'an City in peace and stability. After having the system, he would feel like he didn't value anything in his heart.

Zhang Nuo, who has experienced the education of later generations, has a deep understanding of the relationship between rights and obligations. No matter how stupid you are, as long as you are the emperor, you will not be able to escape your obligations. As for leaving state affairs to others, That's possible, isn't it waiting for someone to come up and kill you?

Therefore, Zhang Nuo always felt that as long as he could live a comfortable and good life, why did he have to bear the burden of life and death for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people?

Would it be comfortable like that?

But fuck his uncle, doesn't that mean that I have to be a babysitter for many people?

So in the end Zhang Nuo chose to be his rich man comfortably, and he never got tired of it, leaving all the mess behind him to Li Shimin.

But Li Shimin was so happy. Anyway, Zhang Nuo didn't care about rights, so the brotherhood between them would be more stable, and if there were still people who didn't open their eyes to Zhang Nuo in the future, it would expose a few ambitious fools.

Today's Li Shimin is neither worried about Li Chengqian usurping the throne nor about his children taking the throne, but instead focuses on developing the Tang Dynasty.

He is very clear that as long as the territory is large enough, each of his children will be allocated a large piece of land.

Moreover, he has already made up his mind that in the future all the children will be sent to Lantian City to conceal their identities and receive ordinary education.

Zhang Nuo had told him a long time ago that receiving those so-called emperor's mental skills education is actually useless, but will lose touch with the current world. At that time, even if he is a prince, he will be a man who doesn't even know what his subordinates are doing and what to report. Idiots who don't understand.

Li Shimin's vision at this time has long been very long-term. What he thinks now is not whether Li Chengqian will usurp the throne in advance or something.

In his opinion, his merits have long been realized without the need to continue to suffer on the throne of the emperor.

Regardless of how great Zhang Nuo's achievements are, anyway, the destruction of Goryeo, the destruction of Turks, the conquest of Tubo, and the great development of the country all appeared when he was emperor, so there must be a big book in the history books, even if Zhang Nuo The merits of Zhang Nuo, it has to be turned around to explain that Zhang Nuo was also discovered and wooed by him.

Therefore, it goes without saying that his own achievements are absolutely unprecedented.

However, when the emperor's achievements are settled, but his own wish, he still wants to take his eldest grandson empress around to see, and he still wants to be a navy, an air force or something.

With so many thoughts, it is no wonder that Li Shimin is willing to be the emperor forever. Anyway, his son is a decent city lord now, and he will definitely do better in the future.

Then why is he still occupying the throne, he must get out of it early, so after he figured it out, he would talk to Li Chengqian every few days, let him grow up quickly, and he would give him the throne when he was at most 50 years old, and The sooner he grows up, the sooner his father abdicates, and he drags his Uncle Wang to play around.

When Li Chengqian heard this for the first time, his first reaction was that his father was testing him, so he quickly lowered his head honestly and said how filial and obedient he was, and so on. I hope his father will live a long life. Come on, Li Shimin is tired of hearing it.

When Li Shimin approached Li Chengqian for the second and third time, and even said directly that Lao Tzu did not test you, but really wanted to do this and that you would also do it in the future, Li Chengqian, a young man in his teens, finally understood that he seemed to be the same as him in the palace. What those idiots said is different, but what Uncle Zhang said is reliable, there is nothing that cannot be discussed between father and son.

In fact, Li Chengqian asked Zhang Nuo. In fact, this child is very smart.In his opinion, Zhang Nuo actually has the strength of an emperor, but he is neither willing to be an emperor nor an official, so it proves that he really wants to live a small life, not to mention he has always been so kind to himself. Uncle Zhang is the most trustworthy person.

Therefore, after Li Chengqian was dragged into a conversation by Li Shimin for the first time, instead of looking for his uncle as usual, he went directly to Zhang Nuo. He is also greedy for power and position, only this Uncle Zhang, but he really won't touch it if he doesn't touch it, so Uncle Zhang is still reliable.

Then Zhang Nuo laughed out loud after hearing it, patted him on the shoulder and told him, don't think too much, don't say your father will be in 20 years, maybe if you haven't grown up yet, you might want to abdicate right now.

Chapter 747 A Safety Accident Occurs

It has to be said that Zhang Nuo's persuasion was immediate for Li Chengqian, because he knew that Zhang Nuo would not joke about this kind of thing.

Moreover, after Zhang Nuo told him some of his own views on the throne, even Li Chengqian felt that being the emperor for a long time was really meaningless.

It is inconvenient to go anywhere, you have to work every day, and many people have to intervene to discuss getting a wife. There are regulations on food, clothing and clothing, and even going out has become extremely difficult.

After hearing Zhang Nuo's description, Li Chengqian recalled his father's daily work and life and the palace classics he had learned, and instantly realized that what Uncle Zhang said was true. No wonder his father planned to meditate earlier. It seems that besides the face of being an emperor, there are actually a lot of uncomfortable things.

Well, in the future I will also have to be a Zen position for ten or twenty years.

So when Li Shimin talked to Li Chengqian for the second and third time, Li Chengqian not only promised to study hard recently so that he could become emperor as soon as possible, but also expressed his opinion to Li Shimin very happily, and he would also take the Zen throne in the future.

It made Li Shimin confused, and he was even thinking in his heart, is this son out of his mind, why is he planning the Zen position before he becomes the emperor?

But when Li Chengqian faltered and told him what Zhang Nuo told him, Li Shimin couldn't laugh or cry immediately, what should I do.

It's a bit unrealistic to deny Zhang Nuo's statement. After all, Li Chengqian already knows everything he should know now, and he has his own judgment. Of course, he knows that the emperor is not so easy to be, so he still tells lies to coax him. On the contrary, the relationship between father and son, which was finally eased a lot, went to the freezing point again.

So, after thinking about it, Li Shimin could only pat him on the shoulder and say,

"Chengqian, being an emperor is indeed hard work, and my father will not hide this from you. Before I became an emperor, or even after I became an emperor, I didn't realize how difficult it is. I was full of thoughts about being an emperor." The joy of the emperor in the future!"

"But when I got to know you, Uncle Zhang, and later saw the vastness and splendor of this world, I really felt that I should be the emperor. It would be nice to be an emperor for a few years or more, but if It’s too boring to keep doing it until the day you die of old age and have to be wary of your brothers, children and so on!”

"So, Chengqian, I hope that you will become emperor in the future, because this is your responsibility, and it is also what your father expects from you. You are my son, and you are destined to ascend to the throne and take over my throne to rule the empire." !"