Traveling through time and space and becoming a deposed prince, he just wants to survive!

Li Tian's life was insignificant to Zhao Wei, but he knew very well that this man would bring disaster to Prime Minister Wei sooner or later.

When Wei Rong found him, Zhao Wei recounted the whole story in detail, and he felt that there was no need to continue keeping a bad guy like Li Tian. Since he would die sooner or later, he should die a worthy death.

Not long after this incident, Li Gang brought ten thousand taels of silver to ask for an audience with Wei Xiang, hoping that he would mediate. When he learned of Li Tian's remarks in Shangjing, he felt a cold sweat on his back.

"How could I have such a wicked creature?" Although he cursed harshly, he did not feel sorry for him.

This unfilial son has given him more than twenty grandchildren over the years. Besides, he has two sons, so at least he is not as trouble-making as Li Tian.

Since the trumpet has been ruined, it is better to practice the trumpet.

Lord Wei accepted the money without hesitation. As for Li Tian's life or death, he also expressed his attitude concisely: Don't ruin the lives of an entire family for a piece of trash.

Speaking of the fifth prince Zhao Heng, he is now twenty-one years old and should have been appointed as a queen, but he has always been weak and sickly, and this problem has not been solved.

Zhao Heng loved reading and would occasionally go out of the palace to make friends with some students, including some from poor families. Because of this, he had an excellent reputation among the students.

But not many people know that he is a prince.

There are two famous academies in the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty. One is the Chongwen Academy, which is almost equivalent to the Imperial College and is coveted by scholars and students. The other is the Deqing Academy, which was founded by the right prime minister Fan Wenyuan and the grand councilor Su Che.

When Su Che first proposed to establish a college, he originally planned to found it in Dingzhou County. However, the right prime minister Fan Wenyuan proposed to establish it in Shangjing, specifically for studious students.

The reason why we mentioned studious students is that this also includes students from poor families.

In order to enable these students to persist in their studies, Fan Wenyuan encouraged wealthy students to buy books from the school. If they felt they would not need them in the future, they could donate them to the college for future students to use.

Most of the students from poor families who study here will do some public welfare work such as copying books in exchange for some accommodation and food expenses in the college. With these two methods, the college's book reserves are more than that of Chongwen College.

In order to expand his influence among students, Zhao Heng often went to Deqing Academy. It was inevitable that the right prime minister Fan Wenyuan would recognize him, but Zhao Heng did not regard himself as a prince and often donated books and materials to the academy.

In this way, the academy, which originally relied on donations from two great Confucian scholars, Su Che and Fan Wenyuan, now appears to be much more formal with the support of the fifth prince.

Nowadays, the students in the academy are not only scholars from poor families, but also many merchants and children of officials come to study.

Deqing Academy does not require tuition fees, and poor students from far away can eat here basically for free. This depends on the awareness and active donations of the public to maintain it.

Of course, the poor scholars were not shameless people. They would do any work like writing and painting for others during the day, and would voluntarily hand over the money they earned to the academy.

Li Jun has only an old mother at home, and he barely makes a living by doing laundry and mending for others. He also copies books for bookstores and does some charity work for the college from time to time.

He seemed to be working much harder than most people. It was at this time that Zhao Heng met Li Jun.

"I often see Brother Li bringing manuscripts to the bookshop. I guess he's copying books to earn some money."

Being caught by Zhao Heng was not a shameful thing, but he was in Deqing Academy like other students, but he took on jobs privately to supplement his family income. He suddenly felt his face flush.

Zhao Heng also knew that he had caught someone else in an embarrassing situation, so he quickly said, "Everyone has their own difficulties. As the saying goes, the world is wide for those who are selfless. I don't think Brother Li is a selfish person."

Seeing Zhao Heng's sincere words, Li Jun no longer felt embarrassed and said, "To be honest, my father passed away early, and I was raised by my mother alone. I can only do these copying jobs to supplement the family income."

"Good!" Zhao Heng clasped his hands together and gave Li Jun a thumbs up, showing his respect for him.

Seeing Zhao Heng being so friendly to him, Li Jun bowed and said, "My family is poor, so I had no choice but to do this."

"It doesn't matter. I, Zhao Heng, only consider people's character when making friends, not their family background. A gentleman is all-round but not partial, while a villain is partial but not all-round."

Just like that, their first meeting opened a door to a bright future for Li Jun.

After finishing the manuscript, Li Jun was about to go home, and Zhao Heng invited Li Jun to drink.

Li Jun said, "Mr. Zhao, my family is still waiting for my rice to be cooked. If I don't go back, my mother might be hungry today, while I, as a son, will be drinking outside."

Zhao Heng said, "Well, I'll send vegetables, rice, oil, salt, and other things to your house. Then, we can drink, recite poetry, and talk about life. Your mother will also have rice and vegetables to fill her stomach."

In ancient times, gentlemen stayed away from the kitchen. Li Jun couldn't say that he still had to cook. Since Zhao Heng had said so, he could only respectfully obey.

At Zhao Heng's command, a bag of about one dou of fine rice was prepared for Li Jun's family, along with roast chicken, cooked meat, and all kinds of fruits and vegetables. Perhaps because they were afraid that Li Jun's family would not have salt and oil, these small things were also prepared.

Zhao Heng, who brought his own wine, went to Li Jun's house. After paying his respects to the old woman, he cut ten pounds of cooked meat and broke open a roast chicken. The two of them started drinking in the yard.

Wine and song, life geometry?

Zhao Heng had actually been pretending to be sick all these years. He often eavesdropped on the plots of his mother, uncle and elder brother. He knew that this was a treason, so he pretended to be sick and not get involved in anyone's affairs. It didn't matter to him who won or lost.

Today I met Li Jun and we hit it off right away. We drank and talked happily. In this small courtyard where no one was watching, drinking three hundred cups of wine was one of the greatest pleasures in life.

The sun had just set and the night had not yet fallen. In the dim light, Zhao Heng seemed to see a fairy floating past his eyes.

That night, Zhao Heng was carried back to his mansion, but the figure of the fairy lingered in his mind for a long time.

The next day, at Deqing Academy, Zhao Heng didn't show up, and Li Jun seemed to be searching for something in the academy with great concentration...

After the locust plague, Zhao Sheng's Shigang Village set up grain and oil shops in several towns between Zhao County and Zhengding County, and also purchased various types of silkworm pupae.

Among them are cicadas, locusts and other nymphs.

Even in later times, these things are delicacies on the tables of major restaurants.

Zhao Sheng did this to increase the protein content in the bodies of soldiers during this period, and also to provide some financial resources for poor families.

Not only that, small dried fish and shrimps that people think are worthless are also purchased by grain and oil stores. Of course, they must be dried and pickled with salt.

At first, those families who had no salt were very anxious. Later, the grain and oil stores counted the villages below and went to them to purchase the products, and then concentrated on salting them.

Salt and iron were state-run in the Great Zhou Dynasty. The salt used by the Zhao family was all fine salt refined by Zhao Sheng. This salt was only used in food processing and was never sold.

Therefore, when purchasing in the countryside, these buyers will also exchange salt for some fish, shrimp and nymphs.

People are always greedy. At the beginning, two kilograms of fish and shrimp could be exchanged for one kilogram of salt, but it could only be exchanged once a month. As a result, the villagers became smarter. They dressed up as two or several families to make the exchange.

Later, when Zhao Sheng learned about this, he immediately cancelled his plan to exchange salt. Refined salt on the market costs about fifty coins per catty, which is not as good as their salt. It is said that it can be sold for a hundred coins on the market.