Tang's dining table

Emperor Li Zhi of the Tang Dynasty was born in the hot summer, which made Queen Wende's postpartum life extremely difficult. When the five-year-old Li Zhi learned that his mother's lingering in bed was because she gave birth to him in the summer, he asked his father The emperor asked: "Father, emperor, why didn't you order your son to be born in spring?"

Emperor Taizong replied: "If my son has this kind of filial piety, it would be better to be born in spring than to be born in spring."

From then on, the auspicious day for Emperor Li Zhi of the Tang Dynasty was spring.

Then, the names of the ministers around him will also have the word "spring" in their names.

For example, Jia Chunyan, or Liu Chunlai in front of me. According to Wen Wen, one of these two people was called Jia Yan and the other was Liu Lai.

Wen Wen also said that as long as you meet someone named Chun in the court, you only need to be friendly on the surface and despicable in your heart, because anyone with the word "Chun" in their name is a sycophant in front of the emperor.

After pouring down a large pot of anti-toxic medicine, Liu Chunlai, the regular servant of Sanqi, fell into a coma for a day and night. When he woke up again, he was full of energy. All the fatigue and pain were completely killed by the anti-toxic medicine. .

The so-called casual knights are a group of learned idlers who serve as scholars. They admonish mistakes when they are in, serve as advisors to the emperor, and ride horses when they are out.

Wen Wen privately called these people a group of people who flattered the emperor.

Because these people often served the emperor, they were extremely noble. No one dared to offend them, for fear that these people would bite their tongues in the emperor's ears and get into trouble unintentionally.

Yun Chu likes to deal with sycophants, because their requirements are very simple, and there is nothing more than asking for money.

Unlike people like Liu Rengui, without some real skills, it is really difficult to get along with him and deal with him.

The sycophants at this time in the Tang Dynasty were actually very ethical. Even if they wanted to make a fortune, they would make others feel like a spring breeze.

Yunchu, who was drinking tea and chatting with Liu Chunlai, felt like this now.

"Can corpses be sold for money?" Yun Chu looked around, and when he saw no one around, he asked Brother Liu, the regular servant of Sanqi, in a low voice for advice.

Brother Sanqi waved his hand and said, "What we are saying is Huanghuang's words. Why did Yuchu whisper?"

Yun Chu held up his hands in shame and said, "This is actually my first time selling a corpse. I really can't help myself."

Brother Sanqi said: "What does selling corpses mean? How could Yu Chu think of Brother Yu in such a dirty way? This is our filial piety to those nobles of Silla.

Think about it, so many young people from Silla, because of their confusion, did wrong things in the Tang Dynasty, resulting in incomplete corpses, and were thrown into mass graves by Yu Chu to feed the bellies of wild beasts.

How does this make the parents, wives and children of these young people feel embarrassed?

In our Tang Dynasty, even if the evil thief was punished in a clear and canonical manner, his sins and hatred will be naturally wiped out, and his family and friends are allowed to collect his body. This is a courtesy of human relations. "

Yun Chu poured a sip of tea into his mouth and said, "Brother, please tell me, how can we turn all these corpses into reality?"

Brother Sanqi looked at Yunchu, a young and excessive fifth-rank official, with disdain and said: "This time Brother Yu will go to the royal palace and be ordered to meet King Jin Chunqiu of Silla. Yuchu only needs to bury these corpses." Go into the snow and save it, lest it be dragged away by wild dogs.

For the rest, let's look at Brother Yu's methods. It's easy to make a big fortune for you and my brother. "

Hearing such a good thing, Yunchu was naturally excited.

Brother Sanqi was in a hurry, and he had to go to Silla to make a fortune, so on the second day, Yun Chu ordered five hundred soldiers to escort brother Sanqi to ten miles away before bidding farewell in tears.

After learning about Brother Sanqi's deeds, Wen Wen felt ashamed and even said he was inferior. Zhong Kui raised his head to the sky and howled, hating that the world was like a ghost land.

Wang Defa heard that corpses could be sold for a lot of money, and couldn't help but bow to Yun Chuchang.

Only Zhang Donghai, after hearing this, although his expression did not change, his heart was like the waves of the East China Sea, turbulent and unable to calm down for a long time.

He still remembers the high-spirited and upright appearance of Sanqi Changshi when he talked with the officials of Yunchu Department respectively.

But in the end, he told him that there was no need to enter a secret letter on this matter, which made Zhang Donghai quite sad.

Yunchu estimated that Brother Sanqi went to Silla to find out what was going on in Silla. After all, Jin Yuxin's army had occupied 27 cities in Baekje and had no intention of handing them over to the Tang Dynasty.

Not only that, Prince Jin Famin of Silla took advantage of the Goguryeo people's full resistance to the Tang Dynasty troops and captured six southern cities of Goguryeo. It seemed that he had no intention of handing them over to the Tang Dynasty.

This is the whole meaning of Brother Sanqi going to Silla to meet Jin Chunqiu. Of course, now he has nearly a thousand corpses of Silla's noble sons in his hand, and he has one more chip in his hand.

It was learned from the military newspaper that Pei Xingjian narrowly defeated Heiji Changzhi in a confrontation with Heiji Changzhi in Huangzhou, and captured Heiji Changzhi alive, thwarting the anti-Tang wave set off by Heiji Changzhi in Baekje.

In order to prevent the Silla people from monopolizing the victory in the south of Goguryeo, Su Dingfang and Pei Xingjian raised 80,000 troops and hurriedly went north to cooperate with the Eastern Expedition Army to realize their military intention of attacking Goguryeo from both sides.

At this time, only Zuo Xiaoweilang general Liu Renyuan and 20,000 people remained in Baekje to guard the Xiongjin Governor's Mansion.

After hearing that Su Dingfang had gone to Goguryeo, King Buyeo Bokshin, the younger brother of King Baekje, and the monk Daochen took the opportunity to cause rebellion. They supported Prince Buyeo Fong of Baekje, quickly occupied many Baekje cities, and counterattacked the Tang army, besieging Liu Renyuan in Sixian City. Get away.

After seeing the news in the military newspaper, Yun Chu knew that it was time for Liu Rengui, who had been silent for the past two years, to take action.

He didn't know if Liu Rengui could shine this time as described in history.

I wanted to help him in my heart, but I had no way to help this stubborn little old man. I could only encourage him secretly in my heart, hoping that at this time he would be able to perform the same heroic feats as described in the history books.

Li Ji's army was pushing across Goguryeo. Wherever it went, the Goguryeo people all fled. The news of the massacre of the humiliating city spread throughout Goguryeo.

For a time, a large number of Goguryeo people abandoned their homes and businesses and moved closer to the capital Pyongyang.

Business here in Dahang City is getting more and more popular. Even if the sea water is frozen, there are countless merchant ships on the sea waiting to dock at the ice dock to deliver goods to Dahang City.

These merchants are all Goguryeo merchants. Now Goguryeo is in war, and Li Ji is killing people. The merchants who have nowhere to escape accidentally heard of Gao Wen's name and the prosperity of Dahang City, so they took their wealth and sat down. We arrived at Dahang City by boat.

Therefore, Yun Chu, Wen Wen, and Gao Wen were very busy. Merchants who were useful to the Tang army and helpful to the Tang government in Daxing City came ashore one after another. Those merchants who were not helpful to the Tang Dynasty were sent to Wang Defa and Zhang Donghai came from another place. An ice pier landed ashore, and then I heard that they looked down on Daxing City and took the boat south.

The Goguryeo merchants who came to Dahang City naturally found a peaceful place.

After seeing the peace and prosperity of Dahang City with their own eyes, they fell in love with it right away.

Although it is a bit more demanding to settle here and you need to pay a lot of taxes, in the face of wealth and life, the merchants are still willing to pay even though the money is large.

Now, the money paid by Goguryeo merchants has finally filled the giant warehouse prepared by Yunchu.

Even Yun Chu, the instigator, did not expect that Goguryeo merchants would be so rich.

Yunchu estimated that after Li Ji's army continued to advance south to the vicinity of Pyongyang, Dahang City would definitely become more prosperous.

This time Xue Rengui has really made a name for himself in Goguryeo. This time is different from the Taizong period. At that time, he was just a supporting general. Now, he leads an army alone and is invincible in Goguryeo. He completely overthrows Pei Xingjian and Yunchu. The light covered everything.

Not only Xue Rengui, but also Guo Daifeng, after he completely gave up the idea of ​​making money, he repeatedly beheaded generals and captured flags on the military battlefield. Although his soldiers complained repeatedly, Guo Daifeng's military exploits continued to rise and he became the second-largest general. Due to the existence of Xue Rengui and Yun Chu.

When Yun Chu and Wen Wen stood in the giant warehouse, they didn't care about the trend outside.

"Who would have thought that the 380,000-strong army they fought so hard for was not as good as ours? No one knows how much those generals will hate us when these things become known to the world."

"For this expedition to the east, His Majesty not only drained the national treasury, but also used the financial resources of all the states on the north bank of the river. Although the total is unknown, judging from the records in the documents, it is more than 1.3 million yuan."

"Not only that, but grain and fodder are not included. Just the loss of materials can make it impossible for the state capital on the north bank of the river to turn around in three to five years."

Yun Chu looked at the piles of copper coins and gold and silver utensils in the warehouse, and said to Wen Wen, "If you add in the income from Xiaomen Temple, your Majesty should be able to at least get back your money, right?"

Wen Wenwen grabbed a bunch of copper coins from the money pile, identified the year number on it and said with a smile: "The copper coins of the Sui Dynasty were cast during the Kaihuang period. The copper quality is more than one grade better than the Kaiyuan Tongbao of the Tang Dynasty."

Yun Chu sighed and said: "The founding of the emperor, the founding of the emperor, the dynasty founded by Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty with the hundreds of years of savings of the Guanlong nobles, you can imagine how majestic it was back then, but who can imagine that it disappeared in just two generations. "

Wen Wen laughed and said: "The Tang Dynasty is different after all. We have been passed down for three generations. Judging from the current situation, at least the fate of the fifth generation is still there.

As long as I live, we will not allow our flag to change color. "

Yun Chu looked at the high-spirited and gentle man and said, "Write the secret memorial. I'm worried that if I write the secret memorial too late, it will make His Majesty furious."

Wen Wen laughed loudly and said, "I actually want your Majesty to be more anxious, so as not to make him think that fighting is a relaxing and satisfying thing."

Yun Chu also smiled and said: "Based on the current speed at which we are making money, by the time Duke Ying takes Pyongyang, we will be able to get at least 800,000 gold, right?"

Wen Wen shook his head and said: "You are too pessimistic. If our hearts are darker, I think we can still beat the number one million.

As long as we put a million dollars in front of His Majesty, no extraordinary feats can compare with ours. "

Chapter 3, that’s all for today, see you tomorrow.