At night, the snow had stopped, revealing bits of starlight.
Fireworks bloomed one after another, and the sound of firecrackers echoed in the buildings and people's hearts.
Everyone in the capital government ate hotpot.
This included the unemployed people who had rushed over from other places in the autumn. They rented cheap houses everywhere.
Needless to say, there was not only hotpot, but the older people were also served.
Li Yi might have been uncomfortable from the wind during the day. At this moment, his upper and lower eyelids were fighting, and he was dizzily picking up slices of mutton and cooking them in the pot.
Princess Yongmu helped Li Yi cook other things and put them on his plate.
"Li Lang, why don't you go back and rest first?" Princess Yongmu saw Li Yi's appearance and persuaded him.
Li Yi picked up a slice of meat and drank a mouthful of white wine. After exhaling the smell of alcohol, he immediately became energetic.
He fed the slices of meat to Princess Yongmu and ate the boiled oysters himself. "With coal, it's easy to make a kiln. Non-citizens of the capital government should have more pottery at home."
Li Yi was talking about the capital government's hotpot. The Li Family Zhuangzi's hotpot was copper.
Ordinary people couldn't afford it. They used pottery hotpot, which was like copper hotpot, with a chimney.
The advantage was that it was cheap, but the disadvantage was that it was slow to heat up.
But in the end, there were still some. For ordinary people in other places, it was already good enough to have a clay pot for cooking.
In the past, the kiln burned wood and charcoal, depending on the temperature. If it was pottery, wood was fine, but there was less porcelain, so charcoal was needed.
The cost of making a kiln was not low. The same volume of wood and charcoal burned less than coal.
Since there was coal, the price of pottery should be reduced.
Li Yi forgot that he didn't pay attention to the situation of the pottery kilns outside the capital government.
Now that he remembered, he prepared to write in the newspaper that the imperial court ordered.
"Every kiln that burns coal must provide a certain amount of cheap pottery according to the size of the kiln. This will be implemented after the New Year."
Li Yi ordered that no refusal was allowed.
"Who will supervise? Will the supervisor line his own pockets? "Li Cheng was the first to think of the problem of corruption.
Li Dan put down his wine glass. "We were supposed to offer a thousand sets of cheap pottery, but the officials requested a thousand and five hundred sets.
Or, if a thousand sets of pottery were offered, the officials would not distribute them to the commoners who needed them and would instead sell them elsewhere for a higher price.
Wealth and silk move people's hearts. We must guard against it, investigate it, and think about it. "
"If they do well, allow them to have a meal in the Li Family Zhuangzi's canteen when they return to Chang 'an to report their work."
Li Yi picked up a piece of lettuce leaf and dipped it in the seasoning bowl.
He didn't want to rinse it. He wanted to eat raw pickled vegetables.
Realization dawned on everyone's faces.
Li Longji smiled. "Good idea."
"Killing two birds with one stone," Noble Consort Lu commented.
No one objected. They all agreed that it was correct.
If he did a good job, he would go back to Chang 'an to report his work. He would be given a chance to have a meal in the Li Family Zhuangzi's canteen. He might meet Li Yi there.
Up until now, all the officials in the Tang dynasty knew how powerful Li Yi was.
Whether he could be promoted or not depended on this one opportunity.
If the officials who wanted to fake met Li Yi, Li Yi would probably send someone to verify it.
If he didn't do a good job, he wouldn't be promoted when he ate in the Li Family Zhuangzi's canteen.
Once the officials left the Li Family Zhuangzi's canteen, they would receive a kind of proof that there was nothing wrong with them.
At the same time, the imperial examination officials would feel less pressure. Generally, officials with problems wouldn't want to eat in the Li Family Zhuangzi's canteen.
They were afraid that they would be found out.
Other people would spend a lot of money to investigate, but the Li Family Zhuangzi's canteen wasn't short of money.
Being able to eat in the Li Family Zhuangzi's canteen without any problems was better than having a ten thousand people's watch.
And the Li Family Zhuangzi's canteen became a sacred place for honest and capable officials. It could be considered a shortcut to Zhongnan.
"Eat, eat, don't keep asking questions. Xiao Yi is like someone who specializes in answering questions."
Li Dan saw that his granddaughter, Princess Yongmu, was unhappy, so he quickly emphasized the rules of the meal and told her not to ask questions.
He thought back. It seemed that every time he ate with Li Yi, there would be all kinds of questions.
Now, the four prime ministers couldn't answer all these questions. In the end, Li Yi could.
Even if there were no questions, Li Yi would still take the initiative to come up with ideas.
"Yes, yes, yes, don't ask. This year is the best year in recent years. People who are far away don't know, but we already know about the people in the imperial government. "
Li Longji scooped soup into the soup bowl with a spoon. He was in a good mood.
The imperial government's population had increased. Everyone who could work was assigned a job.
The sick and injured were taken care of. They were all people of the Tang dynasty.
The main reason was money. When the imperial government had more money, everything would be easier.
He still didn't know that in history, he put Li Linfu in an important position for money. Then, not to mention how much money he got, even the capable officials were persecuted.
The person who Li Linfu cheated the most was Du Fu. When Du Fu took the imperial examination, Li Linfu canceled the results of that batch of examinees.
… …
In the Honglu Temple, people from different tribes were eating hotpot. They didn't need to celebrate the new year of the Tang dynasty.
However, even if they couldn't celebrate the new year, they still had to eat.
Fireworks rose into the sky, and the roar of the fireworks entered their ears. They all showed an envious and jealous expression.
"The Tang dynasty is getting richer and richer. There must be people who are suffering from the cold. There are also cows and sheep. If it snows heavily, some of them will freeze to death. Sigh!"
A Tubo man looked through the paper window and saw the light of the fireworks outside. He was homesick.
When it snowed heavily in Chang 'an, it would be cleaned up immediately. There were ice lanterns all over the city.
In Tubo, if it snowed heavily, sheep would die if they didn't prepare enough hay.
Even if they learned the method of preparing silage, they couldn't use silage as the main material.
The prosperity of Chang 'an was incomparable to their own "capital city".
They couldn't compare with it in the past, let alone now.
Such prosperity was influenced by the region. When would the Tang dynasty become Tubo?
"I heard that many people from different tribes submitted to the Tang dynasty and went to live in the city built by the Tang dynasty by the Yellow River. They …"
Another Tubo man wanted to blame others, but he couldn't say it.
The rule of Tubo was to submit to the strong. The weak had no right to criticize others.
When the young people who had obtained status slowly grew old, they had to give up their position to the young people who came later.
"Sometimes I think that if the Tang dynasty treated us equally, it wouldn't be wrong to submit to the Tang dynasty." Another Tubo man spoke his mind.
After saying that, he suddenly realized that he had said something wrong. He shouldn't have thought that way.
However, the people around him lowered their heads and ate as if they didn't hear him.
Including Bozhu and Isinba, who always wanted to die together with Li Yi, they had completely given up the idea of exchanging one life for another.
Li Yi didn't give them a chance at all. Seeing that the Li Family Zhuangzi kept putting out good things, Li Yi came up with one plan after another, but he couldn't find any way.
"If we could have seen through it directly at the beginning and exposed it, maybe things would have changed." Bozhu blamed himself.
He thought that when Li Chengqi and Li Longji concealed their identities at the beginning, he should have revealed their identities and forced Li Yi to bow to them.
Then Li Yi would have been restrained by the other prime ministers and officials and couldn't be detached.
"It doesn't matter. Li Yi promised that he would have a way to deal with it." Isinba poured cold water on him.
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
