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Volume 1: Who Rides the Star Chassis to Break through the Void Chapter 156: Who dares to stroke the beard of a tiger?

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    This winter, there was no snow at all, not only in Xiuwu, but also in the entire Central Plains.  Without snow cover, the newly arrived Tianbao's three-year grain production would be worrying.  Although he lived in the countryside, the news spread quickly. The court changed the year to Zai. From this year on, it will no longer be called Tianbao certain year, but Tianbao certain Zai.  " In previous years, Ye Dan would have been worried when he saw this long winter without snow. The old farmers in Wu Zepi would also get together to discuss how to survive the famine in the coming year.  But today, Ye Dan is not too worried.  "Are you afraid of running out of food or clothing? You are nagging every day. If it doesn't snow, it won't snow. Our current situation is that there is no food in the fields for a year, and there are no hungry people. Knock the soil off the soles of your shoes on the rocks.  Ye Dan slowly lectured the eldest son beside him. His eldest son was almost fifty years old, and he scolded him as if he were a child.  People in other places also starve.  "His eldest son accompanied him and said with a smile: "Not to mention the distance, their Dazhou Village has always been close to our Ye family. When the time comes, they will have to come to our house to catch the autumn breeze" "It's not that you failed to live up to your expectations and married the Zhou family.  "My mother-in-law is my bride." Ye Dan snorted. His son's little thoughts could not be hidden from him. He squatted on the stone and looked down at Wu Zepi in front of him, with a kind of satisfaction in his eyes. "I am indeed very satisfied. I am taking advantage of this leisure time."  At that time, Wu Zepi was undergoing extensive construction work, and half of the families in the village were building new houses. Even if they did not want to expand on the original basis, they also wanted to use cement and moso bamboo to build their own small house into a two-story house with more than three floors.  It can't be built at will, but two floors are nothing. Moreover, the imperial power does not go to the countryside. The Mingfu and Shaofu in the county don't care about Wu Zepi's affairs at all. Those officials who usually show off their power come to Wu Zepi.  All of this is just because Ye Chang is here in Wolong Valley in Wu Zepi. The increase in the income of the villagers comes from the expansion of Ye Chang's several workshops-the papermaking workshop.  There are only fifty workers, but this is also its limit, because the nearby bamboo materials that can be used to make paper have been almost exhausted, and the printing shop is working around the clock to catch up, not only printing Ye Chang's own works, but also the printing shop.  I also want to print their works for those poets and scribes. ¡°Didn¡¯t you, my lord, arrange this marriage in the first place, but now you are complaining about your son?  "Ye Dan's eldest son, Ye Ge, said, "How about my son divorce his wife right now and find another adult that you are satisfied with?"  " "It's not enough."  "Ye Dan stared at him, but saw that his son had a tired smile on his face, and there was nothing he could do. "You should learn more from Eleven Lang. As long as you can learn everything that Eleven Lang knows, I will die without worry.  " "No matter how you say it, I am also the uncle of the Shiyilang clan. What benefits does he have? For the sake of your honor, I will never be short of him.  If I really had any ability, adults would not be able to sleep.  "Ye Ge said nonchalantly. Ye Dan didn't expect that his unworthy son could even think of such a step, and he was a little surprised. "Indeed, if Ye Ge really has any skills and wants to compete with Ye Chang for clan power, it will definitely be Ye Chang in the end.  "The eleventh man is here.  Ye Ge shouted at this time. I saw Ye Chang leading a group of people, slowly walking on the newly paved gravel road. Although he could get some cement from the cement kiln, it was only enough for building houses. As for  Don¡¯t even think about building roads. ¡°Uncle, why do you need me to wait here?  " Seeing Ye Dan and his son looking for him, Ye Chang saluted and smiled. "It's not your incompetent uncle. His bride's family has something to ask of you, and he doesn't have the guts to tell you, so he can only let me, an old guy.  Come out and nag again.  "Ye Dan sighed. He completely regarded Ye Chang as an adult, but treated his fifty-year-old son as a child. Ye Chang was also used to it, and knew that his clan leader was indeed incompetent. He was idle when he was young, and when he got old, he was idle  It¡¯s also mediocre. ¡°If my uncle is here, if he has anything to do, please tell me and I will definitely take care of him.  "Ye Chang looked at Ye Ge and saw that he was not a little embarrassed. He assessed it and then said: "But you want to put some people in Zhuangzi?  "No, I know that Shiyilang is smart. How do people say that he knows the dentist just by hearing Xiange?"  Ye Ge's words made Ye Chang laugh: "The Zhou family also wants people to follow them to Mengzhou?"  " "Well, your mother-in-law's nephews are all honest and willing. No matter how shameless I am, I will not let those unreliable people cause trouble for you, Shiyilang.  " "In that case, I just need to give my name, and I don't care how many more people there are But, the Zhou family can rest assured that their children will be under my control?  "Ye Chang said. "A few days ago, Princess Yuzhen sent someone to ask Ye Chang to go to Mengzhou. She said that the barbarian kapok seeds and farmers were already in place, and they were just waiting for Ye Chang to go and receive them. Ye Chang had no intention of entering Chang'an.  , so he invited the envoy to come back.Princess Yuzhen made an appointment and asked him to send her to the manor in Mengzhou.  In this case, going to Mengzhou will be put on the agenda.  Fortunately, Mengzhou is not far from Xiuwu, which is only a two- or three-day trip. However, what Ye Chang did not expect was that, excluding the pre-determined list of thirty people, some villages that were slightly farther away would not be able to travel in the past few days.  They even asked for people to pass on the message and wanted to send their children to follow him.  "That's a natural thing. Everyone is watching what you have done in the past two years, Shishilang. Whoever listens to you will not make a fortune, and whoever goes against your advice will not lose money?" Ye Ge said happily: "  Even if I send your mother-in-law back to Ning for a visit, it will be a honorable thing. As long as I say this is what my family said, no one will dare to refute her. " "Haha," Ye Chang laughed.  It makes his neighbors live a better life, which gives him a strange sense of satisfaction.  Li Qi and others invited him to go to the frontier. The reason why he refused was, firstly, because he was afraid of hardship, fatigue, and unsafety. Secondly, he felt that cultivating the fields himself would be much more useful than traveling to the frontier.  The dispute between the Tang Dynasty and the surrounding barbarians is ultimately a competition of national power. As long as the national power of the Tang Dynasty can have an absolutely overwhelming advantage, the place occupied by the barbarians will sooner or later become the territory of China since ancient times.  After sending Ye Dan and Ye Ge away, Ye Chang felt very fulfilled as he looked at the fields that had shown some vitality.  Sure enough, farming was his favorite. Compared with this, going to the border to eat and sleep in the open was really a torment.  "Shiyilang, you are quite leisurely." He was thinking about where to go when he heard someone calling him again.  Looking back, his sister-in-law Fang, with Xiang'er, Ci Nu and Xiao Niang, were looking at him at the edge of the village.  Ye Chang shrank his neck and walked over with a frown on his face.  "You looked like this when you saw me. Could it be that I am a dominatrix?" "My sister-in-law was originallya Bodhisattva-like figure. She just forced me to go on a blind date and became like a dominatrix." Mrs. Fang curled her lips, with a look on her face.  It was a look of disdain. She really couldn't understand that at such an age, young men from other families would be eager to get married, but her uncle had such a strong aversion to blind dates and marriages.  "I don't like my uncle's blind date either." The little girl was spoiled by Ye Chang. As soon as she saw Ye Chang, she stretched out her arms to hug him. Ye Chang held her in his arms. She raised her little face and said, "If my uncle gets married, I won't hug him anymore."  My mother is here - if my uncle wants to get married, he should get married to his mother." Fang's face suddenly turned red and he spat: "You little man, where did you come from with this crazy talk?" But it was not crazy, the Tang Dynasty did not respect women.  Remarry, because the Fang family controls the three profitable industries founded by Ye Chang: the wine shop, the printing shop, and the paper shop. Some people in the clan are already muttering that if the Fang family doesn't marry someone else and takes away these industrial skills, it will be a big mistake.  It's better to let her marry Ye Chang - in the Tang Dynasty, such things were not uncommon.  ¡° However, this kind of marriage is often just a marriage in name, just to facilitate the inheritance of family property and child support, and also to allow the widowed sister-in-law to spend the rest of her life peacefully in her husband¡¯s family.  The two parties are married in name, but in fact they are not living together.  It¡¯s just that this is just the murmuring of some Ye family members behind their backs. No one dares to say it in front of Ye Chang or Fang.  Occasionally, some wind noise reached their ears, but they pretended not to hear it.  "Uh, sister-in-law called me, but is there something wrong?" Ye Chang could only pretend not to hear this time, and he asked with some embarrassment.  "There's something wrong Yinfang, are you going to continue to take orders?" "Of course, why not take it?" Ye Chang found it funny when he mentioned this.  Because Yejia Printing House uses bronze movable type and gel ink, and the binding is also different, the printed books are gorgeous and delicate, elegant or beautiful, so they are extremely popular.  At first, it was just books compiled by Ye Chang himself, such as "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "The Warring States Policy of Xiu Xiang". In the second half of last year, some Confucian scholars even came to the door and proposed to have Ye Jia Yin Fang print them for them.  Books - of course they pay for it.  As a result, the self-publishing market in the Tang Dynasty suddenly became prosperous. Those scholars with considerable assets were not stingy about printing hundreds of volumes of their poems and texts, and then giving some to relatives and friends. The cost was only more than a hundred yuan.  Several hundred dollars.  Just from September last year to now, in just five or six months, dozens of books have been printed, which, after deducting the cost, has also brought thousands of dollars in revenue to Yejia Print Shop.  Naturally, some people are jealous and want to learn from it, but movable type is easy to learn. Some printing houses have already begun to learn to make wooden movable type and iron movable type, but they are not as good as the bronze movable type of Yejia Seal Workshop.  But ink is difficult to make. The formula of ink is the top secret of the Ye family. Even above the art of bamboo papermaking and wine making, only Ye Chang and Fang have the control of the entire Ye family.  "If we take over again, we will have to recruit people." Fang said in a low voice.  "Sister-in-law, just go and recruit some more for backup. I also want to print a newspaper."In addition to the major events in the hall, it is more about the shortcomings of the family. The populations of Chang'an and Luoyang are both over one million, so this thing must be easy to sell.  If you can sell two thousand copies, you can maintain it. If you can sell more than 10,000 copies, you will make a lot of money.  " Mrs. Fang pursed her lips, nodded and said nothing more. Ye Chang also felt embarrassed. Although the two were talking about business, the childish words made by the mother just now still made them uncomfortable. Seeing Mr. Fang hesitate to speak, Ye Chang  Chang said casually: "I'm going to the wine shop to see Sister-in-law, I'm leaving now.  " " Just go.  "Fang said with some bitterness. "Ye Chang immediately ran away, running faster than he escaped from Luoyang. Thinking of the entanglement between Li Qi and others in Luoyang, now Cen Shen should take the imperial examination, Ye Chang thought,  Should I go back to Luoyang again? Although I have left Jia Maoer in Luoyang, there are still some things that need to be checked frequently, otherwise the more than two thousand qualified workers will not be trained for myself, but for them.  Others were making wedding clothes. The wine shop was a bit far away, but Ye Chang planned to go to the wine warehouse near Wu Zepi outside the village to facilitate transportation.  With Li Xu, there are usually two members of the Ye family watching. When Ye Chang brought Shanzhi and others to this place, he saw that there was a panic here. "Eleventh Lang is here, just in time."  It was said that he was sent to see the official. Shiyilang was kind-hearted and might have let this guy get away.  " "Don't make your own decisions. It's just that Shi Yilang has a good heart and a lot of virtue. If he lets this person go, it's also Shi Yilang's own business. It's not your turn to say" "That's natural, that's natural.  .  " This noise ended with the arrival of Ye Chang. Ye Chang came to the wine warehouse and saw everyone gathered together. " What's going on?  "He asked. "Just now we were inspecting the wine cellar and found this guy." One of his tribesmen said angrily, "This guy somehow broke into the wine cellar, spoiled a jar of wine, and was very drunk himself.  "Drunk" At this time, Ye Chang noticed that among the people, there was a person lying down. He went up to look, and saw that the person's eyes were closed tightly, snoring slightly, and he was sleeping very soundly. "This is" The person was dressed as a Taoist priest.  He was dressed a bit slovenly, with thin eyebrows, long eyes, and a long beard. He was about thirty or forty years old, and he was dirty because he was soaked in wine stains. He didn't know he was in the wine cellar.  Which one was hit, and there was still a half-palm mark on his face. Ye Chang didn¡¯t know this guy. ¡°He was carried out of the wine cellar by you?  "Although the weather has turned to spring, the spring cold is still there at this time. It is impossible for this guy to sleep so peacefully in the open air. "Exactly, we are thinking about whether to report to the Eleventh Lang and then send this guy to the official.  Not only did he steal some wine, but he also ruined several jars of our wine." "Oh?  " The tribesmen guarding the wine warehouse are somewhat frightened. The wine warehouse is just a place where the wine is stored. Although it is not as heavily guarded as the winery and paper mill, it is still a place where Ye Chang has repeatedly told us to pay attention to safety. But this time  But someone sneaked in at night. They were all responsible for this little thought. Ye Chang certainly understood it. He first entered the wine cellar and inspected the situation in the wine cellar. The aroma of the wine was there.  It smells so good that I think the drunkard on the ground sniffed the wine at night and then entered it. He probably entered the courtyard by climbing over the wall, then used his sword to open the lock on the door, and entered the wine cellar in a grand manner.  In the cellar, he first opened two jars of wine, taking a sip from the left and a sip from the right to drink it down. However, the wine in Ye Chang's place was drunken yellow rice with an alcohol content of nearly 50 degrees, which was a high-altitude wine in this era.  Without much wine, he became drunk and started to drink like crazy. This guy broke a few bottles of wine and took a bath in the wine. These bottles of wine were sold on the market, but they were worth dozens or hundreds of dollars.  Ye Chang was not heartbroken after losing Qian. What he was angry about was that someone dared to stroke his beard in Xiu Wu's hometown, and even stroked him to the point of saying, "Sober him up with cold water," Ye Chang ordered with a hesitant expression.
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