Chapter 244 Changle Slope
The wintersweet is in full bloom.
Added a few strong colors to the garden.
The weather was fine, Qin Lang was lying under a tree basking in the sun.
Ah Huang is directing the two brothers Cunxiao and Cunyi to push a wheelbarrow, which is full of bamboo.
"What is this for?"
"It's not going to be Chinese New Year soon, so prepare more firecrackers. This year is not going well, and it is even more necessary to set off more firecrackers during the Chinese New Year, to go to the evil gods and plague gods, and pray for smooth sailing next year, good health for the whole family, and prosperity for the animals."
Qin Lang got up and went over to have a look, and found that they were all sawn-off moso bamboo knots. It turned out that there was no gunpowder in this era, and naturally there were no fireworks. The firecrackers of the Tang people are real firecrackers, they will put the bamboo joints on the fire, and then listen to the sound of the bamboo joints bursting, as a way to celebrate the New Year.
Small households will buy some small bamboos to burn, but of course large households have to burn big bamboos to hear loud noises.
"Sanlang, I bought a car here, and it will explode a hundred times on New Year's Eve!"
One hundred rings!
Looking at Ah Huang's proud and complacent look, yes, during the Chinese New Year, these firecrackers are not cheap, and they are set off for a hundred times, and they are indeed only available to wealthy families.
Qin Lang just chuckled.
Firecrackers, he couldn't help but think of fireworks. Gunpowder is the real powerful thing. It's very simple to make thousands of sounds, let alone fireworks with brilliant sparks and silver flowers.
Do you want to study this thing yourself?
However, although he still has some research on the history of the Tang Dynasty, he is a bit of an amateur when it comes to gunpowder and fireworks. He only knows that the most basic ratio of black gunpowder seems to be nitrate, charcoal and sulfur. Assembling, etc., among them, the leads, the shell, etc., I don’t quite understand.
I remember that if it is to be applied, it seems that the gunpowder needs to be prepared and then wetted and shaped. In short, it is very complicated.
Of course, he believed that there was no shortage of skilled craftsmen in the Tang Dynasty. After all, gunpowder first appeared in the late Tang Dynasty. Leading to the discovery of gunpowder.
By the Song Dynasty, fireworks and firecrackers seemed to have been very famous. By the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, gunpowder had been widely used in military affairs, and guns and artillery came out.
Although Qin Lang doesn't know the specific details, he knows the direction. If he finds a group of craftsmen to come over, provide the research direction and research funds, and reward them heavily, I believe that this kind of special research can quickly develop gunpowder products.
However, he was a little hesitant. This kind of thing feels a little bit beyond the age. Is it good or bad to get it now?
Seeing Qin Lang in a daze, Ah Huang and the others pushed the firecrackers away without disturbing him.
After much deliberation, Qin Lang felt that he could first look for a few talents in alchemy and dispensing, and do some research on a small scale first.
After all, even if you really do research, it is impossible to get results all at once.
Actually, Qin Lang’s energy is not focused on inventions and creations now. He feels that the Great Tang was established at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, and the new Zhenguan Dynasty will begin. What is urgently needed now is not these inventions and creations, but the unity of thought, which is the goal direction of the court.
To unify thinking and clarify goals, the foundation is still the system.
As long as the system is improved, the upper and lower can run smoothly.
Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, yet Qin Lang is still staying in the countryside today.
Because Qin Lang led the transshipment department and performed outstandingly, especially in Shatai Buddhism and Taoism, the emperor specially gave him a piece of land in Changlepo, east of Chang'an City, as a manor.
Yang Jian, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, once built the Changle Palace here, and built the Wangchun Pavilion in the south of the palace, and personally named the **** on the west bank of the Chan River as Changle Slope.
It is only twenty-five miles away from Chang'an, with Chanshui on its chest, Longshou branch canal on its back, surrounded by clear water, shaded by willows, fragrant wild flowers, dancing butterflies and bees, so it was already a place with beautiful scenery and tourists in the Sui Dynasty. .
Here is the same as Baqiao, and it is also the place where the eastern suburbs of Chang'an welcome and send off.
Changle Slope has Changle Palace and Changle Station. Many people in Chang'an come here to see off and welcome people.
There is also a piece of Guangyun Lake.
Guangyuntan is located in the east of Wangchun Palace. At the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of Tang Dynasty, the imperial court successively opened the Caohe River to divert the Weishui from Xiyuan, and then went directly to Huayin through the old road of Fumin Canal, and then re-entered the Weishui.
Before the grain shortage, Qin Lang personally presided over the adjustment and expansion of the people, and transported the grain from outside Tongguan from the Yellow River to the Weihe River, and then transferred it to Guangyuntan through the Weihe River, and transported it to Chang'an City for unloading.
This makes Changlepo Guangyuntan an important flood and drought wharf outside Beijing, where department stores are stocked and businessmen gather.
Because of this, today’s Changlepo can be said to be very lively, with beautiful scenery, convenient transportation, close to Chang’an, and thriving business and industry. Therefore, relatives and high-ranking officials from the capital have come here to buy other courtyard manors.
Li Yuan had Wangchun Palace here, the emperor had Changle Palace, and the princesses built luxurious manors here one after another, and many upstarts from the dynasty also came here to buy land, making this place a luxury resort for a while.
Qin Lang didn't buy land here to buy a manor, mainly because he didn't have the energy, but he built a lot of chicken and duck farms between Chan and Ba.
The emperor saw that many princes, nobles and relatives had private residences here, so he specially gave Qin Qiong and Qin Lang and his sons their own residences.
What was given to Qin Qiong was originally the residence of Wei Guogong, the prime minister Pei Ji, and the residence given to Qin Lang was the residence of Luo Yi, the former king of Yan. Both of them were originally favored by Li Yuan, so they spent tens of millions of dollars to build this residence, which is very luxurious and extravagant. Not only does the manor occupy a large area, but it is also exquisite in style, and the bricks, tiles and wood used are all top choices, and now they are all cheaper than Qin Qiong and his son.
Qin Lang’s Bieye was not only next to his father Qin Qiong’s Bieye, but the surrounding private residences were full of dignitaries of the dynasty, such as the grandson Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Wei Zhengma, Zhou Wanggui, Gao Shilian, Li Jingwei, Chi Gonghou Junji, etc. were all nearby.
Qin Lang is not eager to come to this other industry to try something new, mainly because of the vigorous and vigorous activities of the Buddha Elimination recently, and troubles follow.
First, Xiao Yu and other Buddhist forces came to intercede with him one after another, including Qin Qiong's original spouse's father, Jia Wuben, and his son, Jia Runfu. Just say that Qin Lang is doing something wrong, and that the Buddha is a sage, and talk about karma.
Qin Lang had to call Jia Wuben his grandfather and Xiao Jia his uncle. In terms of the relationship between the Jia family and him, they should actually be closer to the Cui family. Because Qin Lang's original partner, the Jia family, treated Qin Lang's mother and son pretty well, unlike the Cui family.
Since the matter of eliminating Buddha has started, how can it stop halfway? Qin Lang agreed, but Li Shimin didn't agree either.
In addition to those who intercede for the Buddhist family, there are many people who come to Qin Lang every day recently, which annoys him greatly. These people all came because they wanted to rob the temple property, although the transshipment department used the auction mode to deal with these temple properties.
But after all, there are still many people who want to go through the back door and engage in dark warehouse transactions through relationships. Especially the land property part of the temple property has been targeted by many princes and nobles. Most of the land property has actually been given to the people who are not enough to grant land, and the rest is to be classified as the royal family. The village is the royal property, and the remaining part is designated as public land, school land, etc., and it is not planned to be auctioned.
But land property is an asset that is more valued than real estate in this era. Everyone wants to buy it. Now that there are so many of them at once, no one wants to take the opportunity to buy them. The price is not even a problem.
But Qin Lang was still unwilling to sell the land to these princes and nobles, since it would be an annexation in their hands, which would not be beneficial in the long run.
But there are so many people who intercede, even the housekeeper of Wei Zheng's family came to visit under the order of Mrs. Pei, and gave gifts saying that he wanted to buy some fields and asked Qin Lang to help.
This matter happened, but Qin Lang had no choice but to hide.
Temporarily hand over the transfer department to Ma Zhou, the deputy envoy. He escaped from the demon, and went back to Changlepo to hide in peace.
Now Ma Zhou couldn't hold it anymore, Jiantian wrote to Qin Lang, asking him to go back and take charge of the overall situation. But Qin Lang didn't want to go back, the people from all parties, all of them were powerful and could not be easily offended, so he had no choice but to pretend to be dead.
Now even the emperor and queen can't stand these people anymore, and some people even approached the Supreme Emperor through connections and said they wanted to buy land.
Li Yuan, Li Shimin, and Empress Changsun all wrote letters to Qin Lang, and even the prime ministers such as Changsun Wuji wrote letters now, saying that we should make arrangements according to the situation.
I arranged this, but I couldn’t arrange that, what should I do?
Qin Lang was helpless, so he had no choice but to write to Ma Zhou, asking him to make appropriate adjustments, and redo the distribution plan for the temple land that was taken back this time. Four points are used to make supplementary grants to the people.
The land cleared for temples and temples this time is indeed a lot, covering as much as ten thousand hectares. Now that 30% is taken out, it is more than three thousand hectares.
Now there is a strange scene in Chang'an. For example, the prince and grand master Song Guogong Xiao Yu is constantly running to intercede for the Buddhist family, but his family is actively bidding for the temple property...
It was his family who said that my Buddha was merciful, and it was his family who raised swords and scrambled for the temple's property. Of course, the Xiao family was just a more prominent representative. In fact, it seemed that Qin Lang was playing the vanguard this time. Which of those nobles, nobles and nobles didn't hold their swords and swords and actively chased and snatched them?
Field grabbers, land grabbers, slave grabbers, workshop grabbers, and even timber grabbers, brick tiles, and trees swarmed up, biting and tugging, and no one was left behind.
The people also picked up some leftovers. Qin Lang finally reserved more than 400,000 mu of land for them. If the people who don't have enough land, granting ten acres per person can benefit more than 40,000 people.
The emperor was also very happy. Qin Lang directly assigned 100,000 mu of land, dozens of water mills, etc. to the royal family, not to mention that a large part of the large sum of money obtained through auctions and other things went to the emperor. internal library.
(end of this chapter)