Tang's dining table

Song Yu once said: The husband's style is born in the ground and begins at the end of Qingping.

They invade the valleys and are angry at the mouth of the earth bag.

On the edge of Taishan Mountain, I dance under the pines and cypresses, floating in the waves, arousing the excitement and anger.

The rumble of thunder returns to the wrong acupoint. Breaking down rocks and cutting down trees will kill the forest.

This paragraph of text is beautiful, but it is of no use. It also borrows the allusions of Emperor Sword and Peifu Sword, which is plagiarism and very boring.

Li Chunfeng's understanding of the wind is different. He believes that when the wind blows the leaves, the wind can travel ten miles a day. Then, it will sing for a hundred miles, shake branches for two hundred miles, fall leaves for three hundred miles, break small branches for four hundred miles, and break big branches. Five hundred miles, walking a stone a thousand miles, uprooting a big root three thousand miles, and so on.

Yes, this is Li Chunfeng's recent research result. Although it sounds useless, everyone still gives it a thumbs up and praises it.

Whether the wind started at the end of Qingping was in the Tang Dynasty, it was up to the emperor to have the final say, because the emperor had spoken and said that the wind started in Yingzhou and must be extinguished in Yingzhou.

After these words were conveyed from Jiucheng Palace to the ears of Yun Chu, Wen Gen, Di Renjie and the others, the three of them were silent for a long time.

The meaning of what the emperor said was very clear. He disliked Xue Rengui for not killing people hard enough in Yingzhou, and he needed to kill him a few more times.

Yingzhou is in the east, and Xue Rengui, the emperor's number one lackey, is killing people there.

The emperor is punishing the east, so in contrast, the north, west, and south are considered good lands. In addition, the emperor is in the Central Plains, and other big guys have no choice but to run outward.

It was against this background that Xuanzang hoped to unite with the power of the Taoist sect to develop westward. However, the Taoist sect members, whether Li Chunfeng or Ye Fashan, the Imperial Academy's priest, did not agree with Xuanzang's view. Instead of going to the west, they chose to go south.

This is called adhering to the higher intention.

Punish one party and appease three parties. This will be the political ecology of Datang society in the next twenty years.

It sounds very helpless to say that it will take twenty years to completely pacify the East, and twenty years later we will find someone who is not pleasing to the eye to continue to pacify, and then appease the other three parties. In this way, the entire Tang Dynasty will be divided like a clock dial. Good times and bad times.

What the emperor wants is for everyone to keep turning with his pointer, and then achieve the purpose of eliminating the weak and retaining the strong, getting rid of the old and retaining the new.

As for the aristocratic families, they are now the prey of the emperor's giant dragon. The emperor plans to use twenty years to devour these rich foods.

Naturally, Yunchu didn't want to go anywhere. He thought Chang'an was very good.

Since the emperor has formulated the major policies, he just needs to follow them. Anyway, the clock will break one day, and maybe on that day, the hands of the clock may break.

For him, the most important thing at the moment is to revitalize Chang'an's economic vitality and end the old custom of barter.

Changle, Ande, Anyi, and Baoning, four cities close to Qixiamen, were singled out by Yunchu and began to be renovated. These four cities were the same as those that had been renovated before. It is the messiest, dirtiest and shabbiest market in Chang'an City. However, because these four markets are close to Qixiamen and the closest to Qujiang Pool, and Qujiang River is only five miles away, so Above, the houses here have high renovation value.

It is said that the people have no money. However, when the news came out that Wannian County was going to rebuild Sifangshizi, it only took three days. In addition to the houses that needed to be handed over to the relocated households, The rest of the houses have been snapped up by ordinary people.

Renovating these four buildings requires a large amount of river sand, white ash, green bricks, green tiles, hemp pulp, wood, stone... and other materials. Therefore, the corresponding workshops outside Chang'an City became busy again. Prepare various materials for the construction of four workshops.

However, this will be a long process.

On August 20th, the appearance of Zhuque Street that Yun Chu presented on the model already had a basic look.

Yun Chu took his whole family to a restaurant near the Imperial City early in the morning and prepared to watch the first copper bull being placed on Zhuque Street.

A cow weighs one hundred thousand kilograms...

The shape of the whole cow is extremely simple, and there are not many tricks. This is already the highest level of copper smelting by the General of the Tang Dynasty. When hundreds of copper smelting furnaces poured copper liquid into the huge mold at the same time, Even Yun Chu couldn't help but burst into tears when he saw this scene.

This process should be the best in the world. (Don’t think it’s nonsense. The 40-ton iron ox at Pujin Crossing in Shanxi Province was cast during the Kaiyuan period and still exists today)

A copper bull is actually an economic anchor cast by Yunchu for Chang'an. Moreover, these copper bulls are easy to cast. If you want to melt them in the future... you basically don't have to think about it. Therefore, these copper bulls are in the Tang Dynasty. Before the giant smelting furnace was built, there was basically no need to think about it, and there was no possibility of melting.

When the copper bull was put on a rolling log and pulled out of the workshop by a hundred cows, and gradually moved to the destination, people from all over Chang'an City came to watch this spectacle.

A cow weighs one hundred thousand pounds and naturally moves very slowly. However, everyone who saw this bronze cow was stunned.

Everyone knows that copper is very valuable now. Now, such a huge copper bull is walking on Suzaku Street. The intense visual impact makes ordinary people in the Tang Dynasty realize for the first time that the wealth of a huge family is nothing more than this.

The weight of Kaiyuan Tongbao is very stable, one tael for ten coins, one pound for one hundred and sixty coins, and only sixty-five thousand pounds. A copper bull has already exceeded ten thousand pounds.

What Yun Chu is doing now is actually not much different from what wealthy nobles do. When they have a lot of money, they both cast money into bronzes and store them.

However, in order to make it easier to smelt and make money in the future, the copperware they cast was not very big, otherwise it was easy to cut into pieces.

Yun Chu was different. He completely cast those copper coins into a huge copper lump that was slightly shaped like a cow.

These copper bulls, if the smelting and cutting technology of the Tang Dynasty did not achieve rapid development, would basically stay on Zhuque Street forever.

Based on Yunchu's understanding of future generations, as long as these twenty-four bronze bulls are still in Chang'an, no matter what disasters the city has experienced, it will eventually stand in Guanzhong forever because of the existence of these twenty-four bronze bulls. on the plains.

"Give me a big saw and enough time, someone can still untie these copper bulls."

After finally coming to Chang'an to see the lively Zhong Kui, he looked down on Yun Chu and Wen Wen's proud looks and whispered to Di Renjie.

Di Renjie looked at Zhong Kui, who was neither human nor ghost, and said: "The secret lies in the last few furnaces of bronze water. It uses Ou Yezi's secret method of casting bronze swords. Your saw may not be strong enough."

Zhong Kui looked at Yun Chu in confusion and said, "You made the copper bull look like this, so you can only look at it but not use it, right?"

Yunchu took a sip of the cool grape wine from the wine glass, narrowed his eyes and said, "I would actually rather call this thing helpless!"

Wen Wen looked at the bustling scene of transporting copper bulls and sighed: "If the city of Chang'an has a soul, you should be grateful for the hard work we have put in for Chang'an. Others need lives to occupy Chang'an. We spent money to buy Chang'an..."

Yun Chu said: "The emperor uses his authority to command the world and let everyone in the world follow his fingers. We have no authority and can only use these copper bulls to calm the situation."

Di Renjie said: "The common people use copper coins, usually one piece or more. A cow costs fifteen guan. A farmer has no energy in his life. As long as he can leave a cow for his family, he will be worthy of his ancestors and worthy of his descendants."

To be honest, they can't afford those people to use these copper coins at will. "

Yun Chu shrugged his shoulders and said: "It's okay now. Although I don't know how much copper there is in the world, but after we cast the twenty-four copper bulls, there should be no extra money in the world. Even if Yes, there won't be any trouble.

If they still want copper in the future, then they can just smelt it with ashes. I don’t believe that they are willing to throw the new copper into the furnace again and again after spending a lot of money to smelt it. In the future, the copper money will only become more and more expensive. The more valuable it is. "

Zhong Kui was a smart man after all, and he understood Yun Chu's purpose of doing this after a little thought.

"You have sealed the savings left by many generations of wealthy families in these twenty-four copper bulls. In other words, if they still want to live the luxurious life before, they will have to start from scratch?"

She smiled softly and said, "That's right. At least give the people in Chang'an City a relatively fair environment. From now on, everyone will use their own methods to see if wealth is really destined by God."

Amid everyone's celebration, the first nearest copper bull was accurately transported to the entire granite platform. The craftsmen lit a fire under the copper bull and waited for its four pillar-like legs. After being heated, a huge crucible was transported over. Under the command of the craftsman, spoonfuls of copper slurry were poured in along the holes on the four legs of the copper bull, and finally flowed along the holes at the bottom into the original inlay. In copper sleeve in granite.

Although the hot copper slurry made the granite make a few explosions, the craftsmen were very experienced and did not crack the granite.

After a short time, the copper slurry gradually solidified, and the four feet of the copper bull were firmly integrated with the granite.

Lu Ting stood in the crowd and saw the first copper bull standing on Zhuque Street with his own eyes. There was no emotion or anger on his face. However, his grandson Lu Zhaolin knew that at this moment, he must be very, very proud of his grandfather. anger.

Because his hand hurt from being pinched by his grandfather.

"Father, will Your Majesty allow Yun Chu and the others to act so recklessly? Such a huge amount of copper coins—"

Liu Rengui glanced at his eldest son Liu Tao and said with neither joy nor sadness: "What do you want to use this money for?"

Liu Tao did not see the disdain in his father's eyes and continued, "With so many copper coins, I can do anything, but I can't turn him into the trash he is now."

Liu Rengui looked at his eldest son and said, "The reason why Yunchu did this is to prevent fools like you from using this money to harm the world."