Living Leisurely in Tang Dynasty

Li Yuanying was quite puzzled. He hadn't done any bad things recently. Why did Your Majesty Li Er specially call someone to call him. Although she was playing the snare drum in her heart, Li Yuanying still said to Liu Baolin: "Brother Emperor must miss me, I will go to see him now!"

Liu Baolin was worried. Hearing Li Yuanying's unobstructed talk, the servant who was busy passing the message smiled and took care of Li Yuanying's messy clothes.

Li Yuanying let Liu Baolin tidy herself up, and followed others to see His Majesty Li Er.

It was only when Li Yuanying arrived at Li Er's Majesty that Li Yuanying discovered that there was an old acquaintance: Yan Liben.

Li Yuanying graciously stepped forward to meet her, and then she spontaneously sat down in the empty seat next to His Majesty Li Er without any greeting.

His Majesty Li Er glanced at him, did not say anything, and continued to discuss business matters with Yan Liben and Chu Suiliang. It turned out that His Majesty Li Er planned to name a building in the palace as Lingyan Pavilion, displaying portraits of heroes since the founding of the Tang Dynasty. He had already made the list, discussed with Changsun Wuji and others, and finally picked Changsun Wuji and other 24 heroes.

The first task now is to paint the portraits of the twenty-four heroes. This **** fell into Yan Liben's hands, and Yan Liben ran one after another with his hard work. Since this is a great thing that will last forever, everyone's enthusiasm is quite high.

But now there is a little problem. When Yan Liben went to Li Jing's house to give a portrait of Li Jing, a little leopard suddenly jumped out and frightened Yan Liben. Although the leopard didn't bite anyone, Yan Liben broke his hand and couldn't hold the paintbrush in a short time. Because Li Jing's home is relatively remote, Li Jing is the last one, and now he is missing his portrait!

Lingyan Pavilion hasn't been repaired yet, so it's not impossible to paint at another time, but Yan Liben is also temperamental. During the portrait, Li Jing let the leopard jump out, obviously not wanting him to paint! Are animals ignorant and humans ignorant? Then he won't paint!

When Yan Liben came here this time, he expressed this euphemistically with His Majesty Li Er. He also mentioned to His Majesty Li Er, that Li Yuanying and Li Jing have a good relationship, let Li Yuanying paint. Li Yuanying has a high talent for painting, and his brother Yan Lide praises it well.

Yan Liben’s words were actually a bit outrageous, and he planned to pit both Li Yuanying and Li Jing at one time. Li Jing is the new hatred, and Li Yuanying is the old hatred. When he drove to Luoyang, Li Yuanying and his brother were so good that they only wore the same pants, which made him sulking all alone. Just let these two guys gather a bunch of things to solve the portrait!

As a result, His Majesty Li Er heard people praise his bad-hearted brother for his talent, and was very happy, and he really ordered Li Yuanying to be called over.

When Li Yuanying heard that this was the case, her hanging heart was put back in her stomach. It's not just to find out what bad things he has done, other things are easy to say. Li Yuanying responded with one mouthful, but in order to put them together not abruptly, he asked to see the 23 portraits painted by Yan Liben, and then he would compare the paintings.

His Majesty Li Er saw that Yan Liben's complexion was not very good, and said jokingly: "Can you learn it at a glance?"

Li Yuanying said: "That's not true. I definitely can't draw the same thing, but people and people are originally different. It doesn't matter if they are a little different, as long as they don't look strange together."

His Majesty Li Er was also curious about what the paintings looked like, and agreed to Li Yuanying's request, and the brothers went to see the twenty-three heroes of Lingyan Pavilion together. The person above Li Yuanying can't recognize it completely. For example, Du Ruhui, Lord Lai, disappeared in the year he was born. He had never seen it before.

Li Yuanying took a close look at Du Ruhui's portrait, turned her head and said to His Majesty Li Er: "This is the "Du" in "Fang Mou Du Duan". It's a pity that I was too late to see it."

When His Majesty Li Er saw the vivid portrait of Du Ruhui, he was both sad and nostalgic, and he nodded and said, "You are late to give birth."

Li Yuanying has seen the portraits of the twenty-three heroes one by one, and said to Yan Liben admiringly: "Xiao Yan, you paint people really well, I can't paint so well."

Yan Li said in his heart, how old are you, how can you let others live if you can paint like this? Of course, Yan Liben is quite humble on the surface, struggling to say "where and where".

After reading the portrait, Li Yuanying was about to leave, and His Majesty Li Er left him to speak again. Li Yuanying obediently followed His Majesty Li Er to eat tea. After eating a small bowl, she secretly looked at His Majesty Li Er and asked: "Brother Emperor, do you have anything else to tell me?"

His Majesty Li Er put aside the tea and asked him: "Is there any idea about the portrait? If you want, I will find someone."

Li Yuanying said: "It's a bit difficult, I have to try it to find out. Anyway, Lingyan Pavilion hasn't been repaired yet. Maybe it will be fine if you look back at Xiao Yan's hand, but it won't work. If you turn back, you can find Da Yan to paint." There are few portraits, but the foundation is not bad. It’s good to be a kid. When people chase butterflies when they were young, he would paint butterflies. The emperor praised him for his good paintings. He was very happy. Have a good foundation.

His Majesty Li Er said lightly: "Okay, then let you try."

Li Yuanying asked Li Er if there was anything else.

His Majesty Li Er raised his eyebrows and said: "You are so unwilling to let you eat a bowl of tea with me? When selling tea in my name, you didn't say that."

Li Yuanying heard what His Majesty Li Er said, and immediately moved along the pole to sit down in front of His Majesty Li Er, and said happily: "I sell tea not only for myself, and don't I pay the imperial court an increase in tea tax? Now the Tubo and Turkic tribes Tea is becoming more and more inseparable. There is also a trend of drinking tea in various places in Datang. The annual tea tax is getting higher and higher!" Enclosed around, they directly collect the tea tax and then let them transport the tea out, and they are not allowed to grow tea whenever permitted. This way, it can prevent someone from trying to improve the tea field into a tea farm, and secondly, it can also prevent someone from leaking tea. taxi!"

His Majesty Li Er said: "You have a lot of ideas."

Li Yuanying proudly said: "That's natural, I love thinking about problems." He continued to tell His Majesty Li Er his views, "There is a third advantage in doing so, that is, it adds a lot of places to place locals. Talent. Didn’t he say that when he recommended himself? Just give him a sack, and he can show his sharpness. So we find some sack that can show people's ability, so that talents from all over the world can experience and do well. If you have the ability, let them be high-ranking officials. If you can't do a little thing well, let them keep doing the things that can be done with their eyes closed."

His Majesty Li Er said: "It means knowing people and doing good jobs."

"Yes, yes, know people and be good at them." Li Yuanying was very happy, "Anyway, there will be more and more talents. If you find something for them, they don't have the mind to think about other things. They should think about how to perform well and how to do it. Let you see their talents! This is what I learned after I set up the workshop and Fengtai Building. As long as I find a suitable person to take the lead, things can be done naturally. As for those who have no ideas, it is not useless. , As long as you tell them what to do, they can still do it."

The two brothers discussed the taxation of the tea farm and when they finished drinking the brewed tea, His Majesty Li Er sent Li Yuanying away.

As soon as Li Yuanying left, His Majesty Li Er rubbed her eyebrows, rested on Pingji for a while, and asked Chu Suiliang to transcribe a copy of the conversation just now and send it to the prince.

Although Li Yuanying often comes up with some wild ideas, but after careful consideration, he finds that the feasibility is quite high. With the hot sale of tea, the tea tax has indeed risen, and Tang Jian, Shangshu of the Household Department, is now smiling every day, even pretending to be sick. The number of children is less.

Since the profits of tea are huge, the establishment of tax customs in major tea farms should also be on the agenda. It is best to keep such a profitable thing firmly in the hands of the court. Maybe a few years later, the military expenses for the conquest of Goryeo will be collected! If it's not enough, let Li Yuanying think about some more ways. Anyway, he said last time that Dang Renhong "does anything to greet that one million dollars", and it is certainly not bad money or a way to make money.

At this time, Li Yuanying had already walked halfway, and suddenly sneezed. He said strangely to the left and right: "It's not cold today, why did I sneeze suddenly?"

Left and right said: "Xu is the princess who wants to be his Royal Highness."

Li Yuanying was very beautiful in her heart, and she said modestly on her face: "I haven't seen you for a long time, why does Sister Shu miss me? It's okay to think about it. I'll go back tomorrow, and I won't ask her to think about it for too long!"

Both left and right listened and laughed.

Li Yuanying went to talk to Liu Baolin, then rode out of the palace again and went straight to Li Jing's house. In fact, when Yan Liben said that there was a little leopard, Li Yuanying's eyes lit up and she couldn't wait to go to Li Jing to pick up the leopard!

However, he still had to pretend in front of his emperor brother, lest his emperor brother felt that something was wrong and would not let him go. After all, his emperor brother had a criminal record of forbidding him to ride an elephant at Li Jing's house!

At the same time, at Li Jing's home, Hong Fu was tidying up the robes that Li Jing hadn't worn for a long time, complaining that the leopard he had raised was scurrying. Li Jing said, "The people underneath didn't close the cage door for a while. Who knew they would bump into Yan Shilang?"

The person has already offended, Hong Fu can only sigh and say: "He went back and talked to the saint, the saint would not stop your portrait from entering the Lingyan Pavilion, right?"

Li Jingyan succinctly said: "No." Although he is already in the state of returning to the field in half disbandment, he has been considered to have repeatedly made military exploits since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, and he has also written military records for the court. His Majesty Li Er will not exclude him for such a trivial matter. He said, "I just don't know who will be replaced?"

The couple were talking, and someone outside reported that Li Yuanying was here, saying that they were ordered to paint for Li Jing.

Li Jing and Hong Fu glanced at each other, both a little surprised. However, the two of them welcomed Li Yuanying's arrival, mainly because Li Yuanying had taken the initiative to help Hongfu invite Sun Simiao, and rescued Hongfu who was seriously ill. Later, after learning more, Li Jing felt that the little prince was very temperamental to him, and every time Li Yuanying came to his door, he was very welcome.

Li Yuanying didn't see Li Jing outside either, she rushed in excitedly, looked left and right, didn't see the leopard, and asked Li Jing: "Isn't there a little leopard? Where? I want to see!"

Li Jing was not in a hurry to ask for a portrait, so he got up and took Li Yuanying to see his young leopard. He said: "The leopard's parents are gone, and he didn't open his eyes when he was brought back. I asked someone to feed the goat milk to the big one. I didn't expect it to be quite wild."

Li Yuanying was not afraid of the wild leopard at all, and eagerly offered to touch it.

Li Jing asked the person who feeds the leopard to trick it out and give Li Yuanying a good time.

Li Yuanying touched the leopard smoothly, and felt that it felt pretty good, but she was ravaged for a while and was very satisfied. After driving up the leopard, he went to see the yak that Dai Ting brought back from Tubo last year. Li Jing’s people are very good at raising things. Even the yak that may not be able to live off the plateau has lived for almost a year, although it is not thin. Few, but finally can eat and run. The weather is about to get hotter, and the person looking after the yak is helping it to shave its hair and let it survive the cool summer refreshingly.

Li Yuanying was also very interested in shaving her hair, so she rushed to catch the white yak and cut a handful of white hair, having a great time. Li Yuanying went to discuss the portrait with Li Jing contented only when he was pushed by the insecure white yak and smashed.

Li Jing had asked someone to prepare his pen and ink, and put on a formal gown again, which looked very formal.

Li Yuanying put forward his own opinion: "I think this outfit is not prestigious, so it's better to wear armor! The general still has to wear armor and hold weapons in his hand! I think everyone else wears the same clothes. Everyone is too inconspicuous. , I will give you the most conspicuous picture!"

Li Jing said: "Also."

The two discussed and discussed, and finally turned into a heroic posture of Li Jing wearing armor and riding on horseback.