In the winter of the 24th year of Kaiyuan, Li Longji and the central officials visited Zhongnan Mountain more than 100 miles outside Chang'an City, and ordered the prince to supervise the country and the minister Li Linfu to handle general government affairs in the foreign court. Zhang Jiuling, Pei Yaoqing and others all accompanied him.

Li Feng, the son of Wu Huifei, who is favored by Li Longji, is also among the leaders, which makes many people lose their eyes. Many people who are active in the heart are wondering what Li Longji's move is for.

A few days after Li Longji and his party left Chang'an, rumors spread in the city, saying that the saint would worship the sky in Zhongnan Mountain, then abolish the prince and make Li Guan the new prince. For a time, people in the circle of powerful people were panic and undercurrents were surging.

Of course, as for the New Year, it is time to celebrate the New Year, and we will not stop just because of the rumors of the deposed prince. The only ones affected are only high-ranking officials and nobles. How could ordinary people be concerned about who the prince is?

This incident also had different impacts on different people and places in Chang'an City.

For example, the East City of Chang'an mainly sells noble people, and the surrounding areas are all high-ranking officials and noble people, and the things inside are not affordable to ordinary people.

Due to the influence of the rumors of the deposed prince, the business in the East City has been greatly affected. Not only is there no crowds of people during the Chinese New Year, but the business is much quieter than usual.

However, the West City of Chang'an, which is mainly consumer-friendly and ordinary rich, was not affected by the rumors of abolishing prince. Chang'an residents who purchased New Year's goods in the west city were in constant contact.

Even merchants from the Western Regions gathered around and worked hard to get a piece of the pie during the peak season of their business.

Chang'an is highly commercialized, and other things that need to be brought by others, especially in rural areas, are sold here. For example, the must-have items such as Tusu wine, five-spice plate, fake flower fruit, and gummy oats required for New Year celebrations. Not only are there a wide variety here, but there are also grades and subdivisions.

The rich have the luxury of the rich, and the poor have the poor's ways of making mistakes. The two are clearly distinguished, do not interfere with each other, and each has their own pleasure.

If you don’t look at other places in the Tang Dynasty and just focus your attention in Chang'an, then it is indeed the prosperous Tang Dynasty and there is no place to be picky about.

A regular and magnificent city.

Solemn order.

A wide range of goods.

A convenient and stable life.

And the peaceful memory of not having any war for many years.

Chang'an is the pearl of the Tang Dynasty and the symbol of the Tang Dynasty. It is a city that lives in the memory of historical books, and even in the memory of the nation!

Of course, no matter how good his residence is, he will feel tired of living for a long time. Although Chang'an is good, Li Longji has long lost his sense of novelty. This time he took all officials to visit Zhongnan Mountain, which was also considered as the emperor himself giving himself the New Year holiday.

There was no such thing as "Spring Festival" in the Tang Dynasty. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, it was called "New Year's Day", "New Year's Day" or "Yuan Zheng" in the Tang Dynasty.

In the early days of Kaiyuan, Li Longji issued the "Fake Ning Order": "The Yuan Dynasty is the winter solstice, and each is given seven days off." That is to say, the New Year's Eve is a total of seven days off, three days before New Year's Eve, and the first day of the lunar calendar (i.e. the second day of the lunar calendar, and the third day of the lunar calendar, similar to the Golden Week in Fang Chongyong's previous life.

Li Long is basically a fun-loving person. During the Chinese New Year, he went around the surrounding mountains and enjoyed snow and sacrificed to the sky. It seems reasonable. The emperor is engaged in team building, so it is not impossible.

Just a few days before the New Year is approaching, it is snowing heavily in Chang'an, and the house of Li Linfu's house in Pingkangfang is being renovated and renovated to welcome the New Year.

The area of ​​Pingkangfang is not small, with a length of 1,022 meters from east to west and about 500 meters from north to south, with a total area of ​​about 500,000 square meters, that is, nearly half of the Forbidden City (the Forbidden City covers an area of ​​720,000 square meters).

In the northwest corner of Pingkangfang is the Princess Changning Mansion. This house alone occupies a full quarter of the area of ​​Pingkangfang, including a Cuju Field. However, after Tang Ruizong took office during the Jingyun period, Princess Changning had already lost power and left Chang'an, packed the mansion and sold it as a whole, and divided the land to build a new house.

Now many houses here have been converted into brothels and brothels. In order to facilitate officials to "visit prostitutes" after going to court, these brothels are located next to the gate. It is easy for guests to come in and it is also easy to go out.

In the southwest corner of Pingkangfang, there are many palaces for the imperial officials, such as Chu Suiliang's house, Pei Guangting's house, etc. Moreover, the imperial court's Jinzhaoyuan has always been located here without any change.

The residents in the northeast corner are relatively complex and the houses are divided very carefully. To the west is the "Sanqu", while the others are small retail investors, and they often rent them to some down-and-out students who enter the Chang'an imperial examination.

There is also a temple here called Yanghua Temple.

"Three Songs" are where the prostitutes live. The northernmost song is a poor and humble prostitute who can only do flesh and blood business and even dare not report their own name. The second song and three songs are regular visitors in the mansion of the Daguan Guiren of Chang'an, and their lives are much more comfortable.

The southeast corner of Pingkangfang is where Li Linfu's house is located. It and Bodhi Temple occupy a quarter of the space in Pingkangfang.

In other words, Li Linfu's mansion is indeed no smaller than Princess Changning's mansion back then.

It is impossible to expand, and the size and size of the house that officials can own are customized. Besides, many of the people living in Pingkangfang are noble people, so Li Linfu cannot offend these people in order to expand his own house.

He was promoted to the office and built a house. This is also the old rules in the officialdom, but if he occupied someone else's house, he would obviously have crossed the boundaries.

Not only did Li Linfu not show off, he even deliberately kept a low profile. His house, even the outside yard, and the courtyard wall, did not change, but the furnishings inside changed a lot.

At Li Linfu's strong request, the craftsmen opened the wall between the wing rooms and built compartments between the rooms, including only two people and a table. They said they were meeting guests, but the place was too small. They said they wanted to be quiet, but they were too closed.

It's a bit like a place to plot big things.

The decoration of the house of the Left Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty actually required such trouble, which made the craftsmen feel incredible. However, Li Linfu was generous and powerful, and the project payment was very generous in one go. These craftsmen had to think that they were blind, deaf, and mute.

Anyway, if you see it, you will pretend that you didn’t see it, if you hear it, you will pretend that you didn’t hear it, and if you know it, you will pretend that you forgot it. That’s right.

The yard is being renovated, but Li Linfu in the study is meeting guests.

The guest who came was Xiao Jing, a clerk of Li Linfu. He was previously an official of the Ministry of Revenue and was a former subordinate of Li Linfu.

Why add "before"?

Because he was demoted at this critical moment of the New Year.

The reason for being demoted is also bizarre.

As the Minister of Revenue, Xiao Jing, who was the Minister of Revenue, went to attend an event of an official gathering with Yan Ting, the Minister of the Secretariat. During this period, Xiao Jing was probably bored and took a copy of "The Book of Rites" and passed the time.

In fact, this is also the norm, because central officials in the Tang Dynasty spent a lot of time scrambling and had a lot of boring chores and socializing.

But it shouldn’t be true. Xiao Jing read it when he saw it, and even read it incorrectly!

It is a sentence in the book called "steaming and tasting the scent of the lambs". Xiao Jiong recognized the word "经" and pronounced the word "经".

If Fang Chongyong had done such a stupid thing when he was in school in his previous life, it would definitely be harmless. Who dares to say that he had not read missed words after studying?

But at this critical moment, especially in the eyes of court officials, reading typos is a big deal.

In fact, this is easy to understand. There are no small matters in the officialdom, and no matter how small things are, they can be killed at some moments!

Because "The Book of Rites" is one of the must-read books for scholars in the Tang Dynasty, they must learn it when participating in school system learning. Moreover, the word "La" is not an uncommon character or a different character.

Xiao Jing was able to pronounce "Fu Hunting", which means he didn't understand what the word meant at all. Simply put, this man was a slut, a fake scholar who didn't know why he got into the court!

The officialdom in the Tang Dynasty was sinister, and the "good people" recorded in historical books may not be noble in private morality.

Yan Tingzhi is quite unkind. Hearing that Xiao Jing was wrong, he laughed out loud and made everyone know about it.

What's even more sinister is that he did not say it clearly on the spot, but when he came back, he talked about Xiao Jiong's embarrassment everywhere. He even directly found Zhang Jiuling, the Secretary of the Central Committee, and said this: How can there be a "hunting minister" in the provincial (Shangshu Province)?

Zhang Jiuling was a traditional scholar-official, and he didn't like people without knowledge (the ability to manage finances is not knowledgeable in the eyes of these people). Therefore, under Zhang Jiuling's operation, not long after, the central government issued a transfer order and transferred Xiao Jing to Qizhou as the governor.

Now that he is resting, Xiao Jing will definitely not be allowed to take up his post in other places. He will definitely be after the Lantern Festival if he leaves. So he spent a lot of money to buy two jars of Red Lotus and came to Li Linfu with wine to find a way.

"There is something big on Li Xiang, Zhang Jiuling's side!"

Xiao Jing leaned over and said in a deep voice to Li Linfu.

"What big deal is there in Xianggong Zhang?"

Li Linfu smiled and waved his hand indifferently, poured Xiao Jing a cup of Honglianchun. He was secretly angry, but his face was silent.

The power struggle between him and Zhang Jiuling has begun and has entered a fierce stage of endless death.

Li Linfu believes that Zhang Jiuling criticized Xiao Jing not because Xiao Jing was pronounced a wrong word, but... he was excluding dissidents! Xiao Jing is Li Linfu's thug in the Ministry of Revenue. Without Xiao Jing, Li Linfu would have lost control of the Ministry of Revenue to a certain extent.

As for what Zhang Jiuling planned, it was actually not that important. The stones blocking the way had to be moved away. If Zhang Jiuling didn't come down, how could Li Linfu become the right prime minister himself? Anyway, they were fighting to the death, and there was no shortage of this.

Li Linfu relies on financial management. If he can't control the Ministry of Revenue, then why should he manage money?

"The phase is vacant, Zhang Jiuling wants to get Yan Tingzhi to the phase!"

Seeing Li Linfu's indifferent appearance, Xiao Jing gritted his teeth and sipped the wine in the glass hard!

Honglianchun is really expensive. But people like this kind of tune. No matter how good they are, they don’t like it, thinking that if they get involved, they will lose their identity! Xiao Jing secretly scolded the people who make Honglianchun in his heart.

"Is that true?"

Li Linfu nodded without comment, secretly calculating gains and losses in his heart.

Among the three prime ministers, Zhang Jiuling is still the right prime minister. Pei Yaoqing was demoted for "embezzling" Li Longji's "pocket money", and the prime minister's position was vacant.

Zhang Jiuling wanted to help Yan Tingzhi, who had a very personal relationship with him, which was actually human nature.

How Li Longji will make a decision? I am afraid it is difficult to predict now.

In Li Linfu's opinion, Zhang Jiuling's biggest problem is that he doesn't understand what Li Longji is missing!

Times have changed, and now Li Longji lacks money!

The Tang Empire needs to run smoothly, and what is lacking is also money!

Money! Money! Money!

Things other than money are nothing to do!

Now is the era of money. In the early years, those poets thought that writing articles and memorials for the emperor would lead to a great success. Haha, I can only say that I was stupid in reading! The times have changed long ago!

Can Zhang Jiuling make money for Li Longji? If so, how much can he do? Can he do more than himself?

Thinking of this, Li Linfu was full of confidence, and the key to solving the problem was in his own hands.

For Li Longji, the prime minister who doesn’t know how to make money is a waste and can be removed at any time!

The prime minister who knows how to make money is the person Li Longji needs in the future. This is true for both the country and Li Long's basic people.

"I already know this matter. You will go to Qizhou to take office first. I will deal with Yan Tingzhi's affairs."

Li Linfu said to Xiao Jiong without comment.

Xiao Jiong had to thank him for his gratitude and left embarrassedly.

After he left, Li Linfu shook his silver lotus wine glass while concentrating on thinking.
To be continued...