Chastity Layman

Wintersweet is in full bloom.

Added a few touches of strong color to the garden.

The weather was fine, Qin Lang lay under the tree basking in the sun.

Ah Huang was instructing Cun Xiao and Cun Yi brothers to push a wheelbarrow, which was full of bamboo.

"What is this for?"

"It's not about to celebrate the New Year, so prepare more firecrackers. This year is not going well, and it is even more necessary to set off more firecrackers during the New Year, to go to the evil god of plague, 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 burn 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 families will buy some small bamboos to burn, but of course big families have to burn big bamboos to hear the loud noise.

"Sanlang, I bought a car here, and it will explode a hundred times on New Year's Eve!"

One hundred rings!

Seeing Ah Huang's proud and proud 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 must be prepared and then wetted and then 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 be 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 didn't know the details, he knew the direction. If a group of craftsmen were invited to come over and provide research directions and research funds, and reward them heavily, I believe that this kind of special research could quickly develop gunpowder products.

But 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 thinking about it, Qin Lang felt that he could first look for a few talents in alchemy and medicine dispensing, and do a small-scale research first.

After all, even if it is really researched, it is impossible to have results all at once.

In fact, Qin Lang's energy is not focused on inventions and creations now. He feels that the Great Tang Dynasty 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 sound, the upper and lower can run smoothly.

Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, yet Qin Lang is still staying in the country today.

Because of Qin Lang's outstanding performance in leading the transshipment department, especially in the matter of 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 slope on the west bank of the Chan River Changlepo.

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. .

Like Baqiao, here is the place where the eastern suburbs of Chang'an welcome and send off.

Changle Slope has Changle Palace and Changle Station, where many people from Chang'an come to see off and welcome people.

From the lower slope of Changle to the banks of the Chan River, there is the Wangchun Palace built on the basis of the Wangchun Pavilion in the Sui Dynasty, which is one of the palaces of Emperor Wude.

In addition, there is a piece of Guangyun Lake.

Guangyuntan is in the east of Wangchun Palace. At the end of Sui Dynasty and the beginning of Tang Dynasty, the imperial court successively opened Caohe River to divert Weishui from Xiyuan, and then went directly to Huayin through Fuminqu Ancient Road, and then re-entered Weishui.

Before the food shortage, Qin Lang personally presided over the adjustment and expansion of the people, and transported the grain outside Tongguan from the Yellow River to the Weihe River, and then transferred it to Guangyuntan through the Weihe River, and transported it to the outside of 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.

It is precisely because of this that today's Changlepo can be said to be very lively, with beautiful scenery, convenient transportation, close to Chang'an, and prosperous business and industry. Therefore, relatives and high-ranking officials from the capital came 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 court and China also came here to buy land, making this place a luxury resort for a while.

Qin Lang didn't buy land and a manor here, 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 them to Qin Qiong and Qin Lang and his sons.

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.

Not only is Qin Lang's villa next to his father Qin Qiong's, but the surrounding private residences are full of dignitaries of the dynasty, such as grandson Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Wei Zhengma, Zhou Wanggui, Gao Shilian, Li Jingwei, Chi Gonghou Junji, etc. are all nearby.

It's not that Qin Lang can't wait to come to this other industry to try something new, but it's 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.

But since the elimination of 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 Buddhism, there are many people who come to Qin Lang every day recently, which annoys him a lot. 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.

However, 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, it would be an annexation in their hands, and it would not be beneficial in the long run.

But there were so many people who interceded, 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 happened, so Qin Lang had no choice but to hide.

The transfer department was temporarily handed over to Ma Zhou, the deputy envoy. He escaped from the monster and went back to Changlepo to hide for peace.

Now Ma Zhou couldn't bear it any longer, 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 empress 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 also wrote to say to make arrangements according to the situation.

I have arranged this, but I can’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.

There are indeed a lot of temple fields cleared out this time, as much as ten thousand hectares, and now they take out 30%, which is more than three thousand hectares. For these princes, dukes, and Qi wealthy families in Chang'an, it can temporarily satisfy their appetite.

Now there is a strange scene in Chang'an, for example, the prince and 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 common people also picked up some leftovers, and Qin Lang finally reserved more than 400,000 mu of land for them. If the common people who don't have enough land, granting ten mu 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.