I have a backstage in Datang

Liu Hongji was startled, turned his head to look at the speaker, sneered immediately, and said dissatisfiedly: "Who am I? It turned out to be General Zhang Liang, what's the matter? Did our old Liu say something wrong? I envy you." What's wrong with the empress's property? Even if His Majesty knew about it, he wouldn't blame it. What kind of a thing are you, but you jumped out and shouted."

Zhang Liang was furious, rolled up his sleeves and said, "Your surname is Liu, I think you are courting death."

Liu Hongji was not afraid at all, instead he was elated and said with a smirk: "Some people thought they were smart and insisted on playing that set of cautious tricks, but in the end they only opened up a thousand acres of wasteland on the side of Youyun. Now seeing that everyone is about to get rich, some people feel sour and jealous. They don’t listen to the words of cotton industry at all. Whoever says these words will be anxious with whoever they say. But you think I, Liu Hongji, was scared? I just want to say these four words in front of you, cotton industry, cotton industry, hahahaha, what can you do to me? Do you want to fight? Lao Liu, I will accompany you at any time. "

Zhang Liang was angry and annoyed, his face was red and his ears were red and his teeth were gritted.

At this time, some military generals couldn't see it, and several princes came up to persuade him to fight. Among them, Xu Shiji grabbed Liu Hongji, pretended to be displeased and reprimanded: "You know that General Zhang is feeling uncomfortable, why do you have to use words to provoke him?"

On the other side, Cheng Yaojin and others grabbed Zhang Liang, and continued to comfort him: "Old Zhang, don't be as knowledgeable as him, Liu Hongji has such a face, and it's not the first day you know him, so you can't get angry with him at all." It’s self-inflicted. Don’t you just grow a little less cotton at home? This year, more people will be relocated to open up wasteland. Listen to the advice of the brothers, don’t make a fuss, the Taiji Hall has opened, and His Majesty will come soon If you want to face the court, if you really make a scene, you will have to be reprimanded..."

Zhang Liang sighed, his mouth full of bitterness, and said: "My old Zhang doesn't have to make trouble, but I can't express the bitterness in my heart. Obviously everyone is from the Tiance Mansion, and the one named Liu was not as good as me back then." Well done. But it was because I was short-sighted for a while, and only planted a thousand acres of cotton in Youyun. Even His Majesty never annoyed me about this. At most, he just teased me for being too cautious. But he Liu Hongji, chattering in front of me all day long."

Old Cheng chuckled, stretched out his hand and patted Zhang Liang on the shoulder, and said, "Okay, okay, calm down. In fact, Liu Hongji didn't intend to provoke you. He was just excited because he was about to make a lot of money. After all, this fellow He has planted a full [-] mu of cotton in Youyun, and he is going to make a profit, so how can he not show off. We all know his temperament, he is born with this kind of face. "

Zhang Liang's face became more miserable, and he said angrily: "The more this happens, the more angry I become, why am I the only one who planted a thousand acres."

Suddenly he looked at Cheng Yaojin eagerly, and said flatteringly: "Cheng Zhijie, we have always had a good relationship. I heard that your family has also planted [-] mu of cotton. Can you sell some to me after picking it?"

Lao Cheng immediately shook his head like a rattle, stared bull-eyed and said, "How can that be done? Friendship is friendship."

Zhang Liang sighed in disappointment, and looked at the other princes.

All the princes backed away immediately, and everyone sneered, "Master Zhang, don't think about our family. Friendship is friendship, and property is property. There is no need to talk about this kind of thing..."

I only heard Liu Hongji humming and sneering over there, and said mockingly: "After the cotton is picked, it can be sold to Gu Tianya's textile workshop for points. After getting the points, it can be exchanged for various treasures, such as Miracle medicines and vaccines, such as exquisite equipment, and after these treasures are exchanged, they can be sold to foreigners in accordance with the new foreign business regulations formulated by the court.

Chapter 305 [A secret unsolved case of investing in the cotton industry at the beginning]

I have a backstage in Datang Chapter 305 of the main text volume [A hidden and unsolved case of investing in the cotton industry at the beginning] The so-called scolding does not expose shortcomings, and beatings do not slap people in the face. Simple.

Zhang Liang suddenly roared, rushed forward like crazy, and said angrily: "You man, die to me."

Liu Hongji also yelled loudly, and also growled: "I have long disliked you, and if I don't beat your shit out today, you will be clean."

They are all generals, and their tempers are very irritable. If they disagree with each other, they are about to fight.

Fortunately, the onlookers will not stand idly by.

But seeing Xu Shiji and Qin Qiong reaching out their hands, one left and one right clamping Liu Hongji's arm directly, and Lao Cheng and others on the other side also rushed out, three or four princes grabbed Zhang Liang tightly.

Hejian County King Li Xiaogong scolded sharply, and cursed impartially: "Whoever dares to make noise and provoke again, don't blame this king for not giving face."

Li Xiaogong's status in the army was extremely high, and he barely suppressed the two princes.

The dukes took the opportunity to try to persuade them, and dragged the two of them into the Tai Chi Hall, where they each stood according to their respective positions, waiting for the morning court to start.

He didn't know much about kung fu, but he heard the sound of footsteps in the back of the hall, and as a servant shouted "Your Majesty is coming", Li Shimin walked in with a swift pace.

The emperor went straight to the dragon chair and sat down, his eyes swept over the faces of the ministers, and then he said calmly, "Just now a servant told me that the two princes were going to have a decisive battle in front of the palace. After seeing it, I feel admiration. I don’t know which two heroes are so courageous? Come, come, stand up, let me take a good look at them, what kind of heroes they are..."

These words are calm and light, but the words in the words are not light. The majestic emperor of the Tang Dynasty called others a hero. This was obviously not a compliment, but an anger rising in his heart.

The civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty were silent, one or two pretended to be nothing, some looked up at the top of their heads, as if they were studying the patterns on the roof, and some looked down at the ground, as if they were pondering the patterns of bricks and stones.

Li Shimin glanced slowly, and said lightly: "Is no one standing up?"

bang!

The emperor suddenly slapped the dragon chair hard, and shouted angrily: "Isn't he very courageous? Why did he become a coward. I counted three times..."

Before the emperor finished speaking, Liu Hongji suddenly stood up from the court and said loudly: "Your Majesty, it's my old Liu. When I was at the gate of the Taiji Hall just now, it was me Liu Hongji who taunted Zhang Liang, which caused trouble. If there is a dispute, I ask Your Majesty to punish you. It is only my old Liu who has a foul mouth, and this matter has nothing to do with Zhang Liang."

Zhang Liang also stood up suddenly, glared at Liu Hongji and said, "Who wants you to pretend to be a good person? I will take the blame myself."

As he said, he bowed his hands to salute Li Shimin, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, it was the minister who roared in front of the palace just now."

Li Shimin glanced at the two courtiers, and snorted coldly: "The dignified founder of the country is making noise in front of the hall like a child. Do you feel ashamed? Do you want to lose face?"

As he spoke, he looked at Liu Hongji, and reprimanded him: "Especially you, how many times have I scolded you? You never speak out of your head, do you know how many people you have offended?"

Then he looked at Zhang Liang again, and scolded in the same way: "And you, you always fight with others. To put it nicely, it's called Wu Yong, but to put it bluntly, it's bad temper. Do you really think you're good at fighting? Do you need me to ask you?" Qin Qiong will fight with you?"

The emperor's words were fair and honest, and the two princes scolded them all. It was obvious that they didn't want to pursue the situation, otherwise they would never use such a gentle method.

Unexpectedly, Liu Hongji suddenly stiffened his neck, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, I have used my brain when I speak this time. To be honest, our old Liu did it purely on purpose. I just can't understand Zhang Liang's behavior, so I just said it." I taunted him aloud. If Your Majesty wants to be punished, our old Liu will never beg for mercy, but there is one thing I have to explain clearly. I mocked Zhang Liang for his own good. This is called good intentions, but it is a strategy that has been pondered for a long time ..."

Hahahaha!

All the ministers burst out laughing.

Li Shimin obviously couldn't hold back his laughter, and with an expression of interest on his face, he couldn't help but said, "Who in the Tang Dynasty doesn't know that you, Liu Hongji, are a bastard? When have you ever used your brains besides being able to charge into battle? Now you are fighting with me." Say, did you treat Zhang Liang with good intentions?"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Liu Hongji seemed unable to understand Li Shimin's ridicule, and he answered loudly with his head held high: "The minister has good intentions."

Li Shimin became even more interested, and couldn't help but poked his body forward, and said with a smile: "Well, I'd like to listen carefully, and if what you do is reasonable, I will give you some benefits. Tell me , why are you mocking Zhang Liang?"

Liu Hongji clasped his hands together, and said without hesitation: "In order to wake him up, let him wake up to where he was wrong in time."

The ministers in the hall burst into laughter again, and someone said in a teasing voice: "The morals of the world have indeed changed, and even people like Duke Kui can warn others."

Liu Hongji turned his head to look, and then gave a yell, cursing: "Why can't our old Liu warn others, why do you talk like shit like eating shit?"

Li Shimin slapped the dragon chair hard, and scolded: "Don't swear, talk about yourself obediently. I'm very curious now, what exactly are you trying to make Zhang Liang realize?"

Liu Hongji didn't dare to talk back to the emperor, so he had no choice but to give the minister who had teased him just now a vicious look.

The guy immediately withdrew his gaze, bowed his hands to Li Shimin, and said: "Your Majesty, I want Zhang Liang to wake up to one thing. You can't be too soft-hearted. You should make up your own mind when encountering major issues, especially when it involves the future of the family. Don't listen to those foster sons talking nonsense, it will kill Zhang Liang, and it may cause a catastrophe one day..."

Huh?

Mandian Wenwu subconsciously made a sound.

Someone took a look at Liu Hongji from a distance, and said in surprise, "I never thought Duke Kui would have extraordinary insight."

Obviously, many ministers in the court saw something wrong with Zhang Liang's adoptive son.

But seeing Liu Hongji glanced at Zhang Liang, his tone became sad for some reason, then turned his head and said to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, you should still remember that my old Liu and Zhang Liang had the strongest relationship when we were in Tiance Mansion. It is precisely because of the strong relationship, so I don't want to see him have an accident..."

Li Shimin took a deep look at Liu Hongji, nodded slowly and said, "Go on, I will listen attentively."

After the emperor finished speaking, he glanced at Zhang Liang, and said again: "You also listen attentively, Liu Hongji is indeed doing it for your own good."

Zhang Liang opened his mouth to argue, but then stopped suddenly.

But Liu Hongji said loudly: "Zhang Liang is good at everything, but he has a bad habit of taking in adopted sons. It's fine if he takes in one or two, but he takes in five hundred people as soon as he takes in. Good guy, They all call foster fathers, wandering around every day, between opening and closing their mouths, they are all children who are filial, in fact, filial piety is a fart, the whole **** is going to the grave and burning leaves to fool ghosts..."

Zhang Liang finally couldn't help but speak, and roared angrily, "Liu Hongji, you fart."

"Shut up Laozi!"

Liu Hongji also roared angrily, looked at Zhang Liang with fierce eyes and said, "Tell me a few words, are you uncomfortable? Do you know that if this goes on, there will be more discomfort? Just the five hundred goods you received, It will kill you one day."

Zhang Liang's chest heaved and heaved, and he said with a livid face, "They are all my children of flesh and blood."

Liu Hongji blurted out, and asked sharply: "If the adopted son is also called flesh and blood, then what is your own flesh and blood?"

Zhang Liang froze immediately.

Liu Hongji asked sharply again, and said: "You obviously have your own son, and obviously that child should be the direct branch of the Zhang family, but look at what you did, do you know that your own son was killed by five hundred What kind of bullying has become of an adopted son?"

Zhang Liang hesitated again, and it took him a long time before he subconsciously said, "It's impossible for Yi'er to be bullied? His five hundred brothers love him very much..."

Liu Hongji was suddenly furious, and shouted: "Fuck your mother, if you say that again, I'll beat you to death. My sister was really blind back then, how could she marry such a bastard like you?"

At this time Li Shimin slapped the dragon chair suddenly, and scolded: "Liu Hongji, pay attention to your tone of voice. I know you are angry in your heart, and I know that you feel sorry for the heir left by your deceased sister, but it's up to you to talk about things. The classroom is not the place for you to swear at others. I just took the sentence just now as a slip of the tongue, and don’t take it as an example, otherwise don’t blame me for punishing you.”

Liu Hongji took a deep breath.

Li Shimin glanced at Zhang Liang, and suddenly said slowly: "Actually, I have heard about this matter, and I have long wanted to find a time to wake you up. Zhang Liang, I ask you, but you think the five hundred righteous sons are extremely filial. , everyone treats you as a father-in-law with all their heart and soul?"

Zhang Liang wanted to nod subconsciously, but his heart was suddenly excited. He looked up at Li Shimin, who was smiling but not smiling, and bowed his hands and said: "I originally thought so, but I found that everyone seemed to know something inside, but I didn't. Your Majesty, please clarify."

Li Shimin nodded, and said leisurely: "It seems that you are not hopeless."

After the emperor finished saying this sentence, he didn't intend to continue to explain to him. Instead, he looked at Liu Hongji, and then slowly said, "There is something you may not know. In fact, Liu Hongji asked me for help half a year ago. Pass!"

"Half a year ago? Asking you for help?" Zhang Liang was obviously stunned.

Li Shimin nodded, and said: "He wanted to ask me to personally issue an order to force you to claim [-] mu of land reclamation share in Youzhou. But because of well-known reasons, it was inconvenient for me to issue such an order at that time. Once this is done, it will be tantamount to making the cotton industry mandatory, which will disrupt Gu Tianya's layout and arouse everyone's rebellion."

The emperor glanced at Zhang Liang, and said calmly: "At the beginning, my brother-in-law had emphasized to me several times that everyone must not be forced to participate in the cotton industry, and people must be willing to do it. The more forced, the more afraid people will be." participate."

Zhang Liang subconsciously nodded, and said bitterly: "Yes, everyone was not persecuted at the beginning. It is precisely because they were not persecuted that many people instead claimed a large amount of land reclamation shares..."

He paused while talking, and said with a more bitter face: "Only I have claimed a thousand acres."

Li Shimin let out a breath slowly, as if he couldn't bear it, and said warmly: "Tell me, why did you make such a decision at that time?"

This seems to be a question, but it is actually a wake-up call.

Sure enough, Zhang Liang's body was shocked, and his face suddenly showed a look of enlightenment, and he subconsciously said: "It is because I listened to the words of the foster sons that I have the idea of ​​not going to Youzhou to invest money... The foster sons have persuaded I said that the cotton industry is Gu Tianya's conspiracy, the purpose is to get everyone to pay for him to develop Youzhou, our Zhang family must not fall into Gu Tianya's trick."

Li Shimin sighed, looked at Zhang Liang meaningfully, and said, "What a 'Our Zhang Family', you adopted sons are really good at speaking, every mouthful of 'Our Zhang Family' really sounds like an illusion of being loyal to your family But Zhang Liang, have you ever thought that they are not your blood at all..."

At this time, Liu Hongji suddenly opened his mouth and snorted coldly: "The reason why they stopped you from investing money in Youzhou is because they have been coveting the Zhang family's family business for a long time. If you invest money in Youzhou, they How can people enjoy wealth?"

Zhang Liang was taken aback for a moment, and then retorted: "No, this argument doesn't make sense at all. If they covet the Zhang family's property, shouldn't they hope that the family property will be bigger and better? Then they should encourage me to claim more land reclamation shares." Yes, not everyone persuaded me not to invest money in Youzhou..."

Liu Hongji snorted again, and said, "If you invest your wealth in Youzhou, how can they enjoy the fine clothes and fine food?"

Zhang Liang blurted out: "Wouldn't it be possible to enjoy wealth even more when the cotton industry is profitable?"

At this time, some civil servants finally couldn't stand it anymore, but Fang Xuanling stood up and said: "This is because they don't have the future of the Zhang family in their hearts. They only care about the need to hold on to the current family business. In such things as investing money, if there is a loss, you will lose money." There is a profit. What if the money is invested and lost? Don’t your adopted sons have no wealth to enjoy?”

Changsun Wuji also stood up and said in a leisurely tone: "Even if they can make a lot of money, they are not willing to gamble because they don't regard themselves as the Zhang family. Since they are not the Zhang family, why bother to gamble for the Zhang family? Just divide up the wealth in front of them." , what does it have to do with them if the Zhang family takes off or falls in the future?"

Zhang Liang froze on the spot.

I just felt a crash in my head.

Li Shimin sighed, and said with a face full of unbearable: "There is one more thing, I also want to tell you, when Liu Hongji came to ask me for help, he told me that someone in your family also advised you to invest money in Youzhou, That's your son, Zhang Wei, right? That child once advised you to claim the [-] mu land reclamation share, right?"

Zhang Liang raised his head subconsciously.

Liu Hongji interrupted suddenly, and snorted coldly: "But soon you will find that Yi'er no longer persuades you to invest money, and even doesn't appear in front of you for a while, while your adoptive sons are telling you that Yi'er left home I ran away, went to my uncle's house and refused to come back..."

Zhang Liang subconsciously nodded again, and murmured: "At that time, I was very angry, thinking that Yi'er was very ignorant, and I even complained about you, Liu Hongji, and never visited your house in the past six months."

Liu Hongji roared suddenly, and roared: "But do you know that Yi'er was forced away by your adoptive sons, and those bastards used various methods to bully you every day in order to prevent Yi'er from persuading you to invest money again. He tortured him. But you, a father, have never realized that your son has suffered so much. "

Liu Hongji's face was ashen, and the whole hall was filled with his roar, and he said angrily, "Yi'er was almost murdered by those dogs, and had no choice but to hide in my uncle's house... Even so , that child still has no complaints against you, do you know what the first thing he did when he came to my house? He knelt on the ground and cried and begged me to help the Zhang family buy land reclamation shares."

The emperor said again slowly: "This is my family who really care about the future of the Zhang family."

And Liu Hongji stared at Zhang Liang with red eyes, and said word by word: ""

Chapter 306 [Gu Tianya's Seventh Disciple]

I Have a Backstage in Datang Text Volume Chapter 306 [Gu Tianya's Seventh Disciple] Thirty thousand mu?

Liu Hongji actually helped me open up [-] mu of land?

Zhang Liang stood there in a daze, as if he was in a dream.

At this time, Xu Shiji suddenly walked out of the court, stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder, and said earnestly: "Mr. Yu, do you understand now? Just now you bought cotton from us outside the main hall. Why did everyone choose me?" No? Because your Zhang family doesn’t need to buy cotton at all, and Liu Hongji spent all his money to help you open up [-] mu of wasteland.”

Zhang Liang's body shook, and he murmured subconsciously: "Scatter all the wealth?"

Seeing Cheng Yaojin walking out slowly, he also reached out to pat him, saying: "Old Liu, he really spent all his family wealth in order to open up the [-] mu of land for you. We all know that the Youzhou side Land reclamation is very expensive, not only to relocate the people there, but also to afford food and clothing for the people. To build houses and farm cattle, a large amount of money and food are poured in almost every day, and there will be no money back for five or six months... "

Old Cheng stopped here for a while, glanced at Liu Hongji over there, and said, "Even though it was so difficult, Old Liu still gritted his teeth and endured, but do you know how tired he is? Every once in a while he They will borrow money from us soon."

"Borrowing debt?" Zhang Liang's body was shocked again, and his lips trembled a few times.

Old Cheng took a deep look at him, nodded solemnly and said, "That's right, borrowing money."

At this time, Qin Qiong also walked out of the court class, and explained with a sigh: "At the beginning, we people could lend him some for free, but gradually everyone couldn't hold it anymore, because it was an extra [-] land reclamation after all. Mu's burden, even for our Duke's family, it is very difficult to bear this burden."

Datang in this era is very poor!

The annual treasury revenue is only 200 million yuan.

The income of such a huge country is only 200 million guan, so how high can the income of these princely families be?

If you count all the money, you can only earn thousands of dollars a year.

And how much would it cost to open up [-] acres of wasteland in Youzhou?

In just half a year, 10,000+ hits were made.