Chapter 527
Li Er's thinking is purely militarized, if possible, the sparrows in the sky and the rats on the ground, he wants them to fight for the Tang Empire.
When Chang'an City appeared riding a bicycle and pressing the bell "jingle bell" ringing wildly. Li Er arrogantly asked Yun Hao to renovate a batch of bicycles, and especially proposed to be able to pull more goods.
Isn't it just pulling goods? Add an extra wheel and pull two or three hundred pounds no problem. It's just a tricycle, it's not a high-tech invention.
Tricycles appeared, but the roads in Datang were far less developed. Human-powered tricycles are not mechanically powered, and tricycles often get stuck in mud puddles. The dirt roads in the countryside are not yet able to be turned by these things that play with wheels.
So large-scale road construction work began, all according to Lintong's standards. The kind that needs to be paved with asphalt on the road, if there are electric poles on both sides of the road, Yun Hao feels that it is no different from the future generations.
Anyway, Li Er is very rich now, and there is no war with the outside world. Let Li Er's appropriations all flow to the construction of people's livelihood, and the eldest grandson Wuji is now as tired as his grandson all day long. He is the head of the household, and he has to find him for money. Fang Xuanling is now pretending to be a Buddha all day long, and Li Er will speak when he asks. Li Er didn't ask, he didn't even bother to speak.
After a lifetime of revolution, Fang Xuanling really wants to live a retired life. Years of life in the sea have made him tired of officialdom. Especially with such a ruined daughter-in-law as Gao Yang in the family, it is simply the retribution for the lack of virtue of the ancestors of the old house.
The retirement fold has been handed over several times, but Li Er just doesn't approve it. The eldest grandson Wuji hinted a few times openly and secretly, and Li Er was pretending to be confused. The court is full of shrewd people, and it is more difficult to find a fool than to ascend to the sky. What Fang Xuanling's idea was, Li Er knew very well.
Pragmatist Li Er's requirements for his courtiers are actually two, one is loyalty, and the other is easy to use!
At present, Fang Xuanling is loyal. is also a capable official, Fang Xuanling is also easy to use. Since it is easy to use, use it to the end and use it until it is scrapped. Anyway, Fang Xuanling's wife has passed away, and the manufacturer has no accessories and can't find it. If you use scrapped, you don't need to repair it, just go directly into the coffin.
Those who want to go can't go, and those who want to progress can't progress. Yun Hao found a strange thing, the more Fang Xuanling hit the bell like a wood carving clay sculpture, the more the eldest grandson Wuji worked hard to show his ability. When Li Er seemed to care about the bicycle to pass the time, the Tang Empire was running in an orderly manner.
Imperial Mind! This is the Emperor's Mind Technique!
Yun Hao was very curious, in the end, whether Fang Xuanling died of old age first, or the eldest grandson Wuji died of exhaustion first. If the current situation continues, the eldest grandson Wuji will die of exhaustion first.
The tabloids on the street still often report some things that are too expensive and life is erosive, but no one dares to report the private affairs of Gao Yang and her aunts. What people say they know is nothing more than word of mouth.
People are like that, from this mouth to that ear, things will be distorted and exaggerated. In the end, what came out was 108,000 miles away from the original facts. The spring breeze once turned into a night and night song, an accidental derailment, and finally became a meat joke where the three of them slept together.
No way, Chang'an people like this. The love story of rebellion against feudal etiquette, how can there be the fragrance and excitement of the princess's cheating. Now that I am full of food and drink, I don't worry about eating together in my spare time, and I naturally have to talk about it after dinner. The little thing about men and women naturally becomes the best accompaniment to alcohol.
In the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, the Tang Empire was harmonious. Under Li Er's construction, almost everyone had a job. A huge amount of money flowed into the private sector, resulting in an unprecedented boom in commerce. At the same time, it also created a large amount of tax revenue for His Majesty Li Er.
The prosperity of the Tang Empire can be seen just by looking at the sails around Chang'an City. Not to mention other places, just the Lintong Railway Station, the throughput of goods has become a scene. A huge amount of supplies were taken away by train. Then it was resold to all parts of Datang, and many things got off the train directly in Dengzhou.
They were then loaded onto a ship and headed overseas. In Persia, the industrial goods of the Tang Dynasty dominated. Tea, silk and other consumables, no matter how much they were transported, could not satisfy the appetite of the Persian aristocracy. Further afield in the Roman Empire, these things were worth about as little as gold.
There are fewer and fewer things that the West can export to Datang, and some glassware can be sold in the past. Now the glass craftsmanship of the Tang Dynasty has completely crushed the big cannibals and the distant Venetians. Their inferior glassware is not Datang's high-level opponent at all.
Now the situation has been completely reversed, and Datang is constantly exporting glass to Persia. And Persia, from a country of production and sales, has completely become a country of consumption.
The Persians were not stupid, they started the entrepot trade. At a more expensive price, the good things from the Tang Dynasty were sold to the Romans.
As a result, the Romans lived more erosively, and they preferred things from the Far East more. It's just a state coffer, but it's shrinking because of the bulk trade.
Of course, Persia and Rome also had something to export to the Tang Dynasty.
Human Trafficking! Killer! Whore! The world's three original industries!
There are constantly blonde and blue-eyed women who are trafficked to Datang, especially those with big breasts and round butts. If it's a virgin, it can be sold for a good price.
The nobles of the Tang Dynasty like to raise one or two of these slave girls with blonde hair and blue or green eyes. When you take it out on an outing in the spring, it's very face-saving.
However, the housewife does not seem to like these women in distant places, so there are often blonde-haired nameless female corpses in mass graves. The nobles didn't care, the loss of the Persian cat was more important than these women. Slave girls! If you don't have it, you just buy another one, it's not a big deal.
There are some in the market, and one Persian cat can buy three for the price.
Many times, on the train from Dengzhou. The whole carriage was filled with these blonde women. The women were terrified of the smoking stuff and burrowed into the monster's belly with the feeling of being born to die. It only took ten days and half a month to reach the largest city in the world from the shore of the sea.
In their previous experience, such a journey would take at least half a year.
There were a lot of people on round wheels on the streets, and they were very fast. There are also some three-wheeled ones that can carry a lot of goods. The female slaves entered Chang'an on tricycles, and one tricycle could seat four women. The owner of the pedaling car can also leisurely look back, those round butts and full breasts.
Almost everyone forgets that it was at the beginning of spring. The country almost had a coup d'état! As the crown prince, Li Chengqian deliberately killed his father.
Several times, when Yun Hao saw Li Er. I feel that Li Er seems to have forgotten too!
It's good that everyone forgets what they should forget. In this way, you can live a harmonious life. But there is one thing Yun Hao has not forgotten, where is his daughter-in-law Li Yanrong?
This marriage is a political marriage, and Li Er actually wants to marry his daughter to Yun Hao. Helpless, Zhang Miaoke and the eldest grandson have too strong a relationship. The eldest grandson couldn't do anything to dig the corners of the sisters, so the matter was over. It can only be if Yun Dabao marries a royal family, so that Li Er, a persecuted delusional patient, can rest assured.
I don't know what Li Er thinks, Lao Tzu's son married your granddaughter, everyone is a relative, Lao Tzu will not rebel?
Belch......! It's really not going to rebel!
Not everyone in this world has great ambitions like Li Er, but more people like Yun Hao who like to eat and wait for death. Even if he became an emperor, he wanted to eat, drink and be merry.
It is not a big deal for the nobles to eat, drink and have fun, at most, there are two more cysts in the Tang Empire. The empire was large enough to accommodate a few cysts.
The emperor thinks that eating, drinking, and merrymaking all day long is a big accident, and that will bring boundless disasters to the empire. Qin II is an example, the country passed down from his ancestors was destroyed in his hands, and even his brothers and sisters were killed by Zhao Gao.
So much so that when he finally surrendered, he could only find a nephew to fill the number.
The emperor still let ambitious guys like Li Er do it, because they have unlimited motivation to do anything. Yun Hao thinks that enjoy the best food. Sleep with the most beautiful women and play with the coolest new gadgets. This is life, a pleasant and happy life.
Live happily, ghosts are willing to fight with the sky and the earth and people, and have endless fun. Yun Hao thinks that Taizu is a master, the kind of person who looks up to the mountains. We mortals, it's better not to learn from his old man.
The only thing that is unsatisfactory about a thriving empire is that the population is too small. There was almost no one in Goryeo, the garrison in Pyongyang was cut three times, and Zhang Jian's command was more than 50,000 people from the beginning. It was reduced to less than 8,000 people now.
It's not that Li Er is reassured of the Koreans, and it's not that they don't have the spirit of resistance. It's that the land is basically deserted, and many of the original towns have returned to a state of wilderness. Only the deserted houses, and the occasional skull, remind us that this land was inhabited not so long ago.
The Goryeo, Silla, and Baekje people were systematically relocated to the interior. For a hundred and ten households, it is already the limit to be able to divide two households. The population of the entire Goryeo Peninsula was sprinkled on the land of the Tang Dynasty like pepper noodles by Li Er. Ethnic groups with small populations will always be assimilated by ethnic groups with large populations.
From their clothing to their language, they will be assimilated like the general trend. After three or two generations, their own descendants will pat their chests and say that Lao Tzu is a Tang person, not a Korean one.
Yun Hao felt that in his lifetime, it seemed that he could see the complete destruction of the Goguryeo nation!