Living Leisurely in Tang Dynasty - Chapter 194

The offering of birthday gifts happens once a year. Although His Majesty Li Er said that it is unnecessary, as soon as the palace banquet is opened, the gifts should be presented, and if people can’t arrive, they will send envoys back.

Fortunately, His Majesty Li Er generally doesn’t show his preferences very much. He nods his head as long as it is delivered. Therefore, there has been basically no comparison of birthday gifts for so many years.

This situation has faintly changed after Li Yuanying was qualified to offer gifts in public.

Regarding who likes to make moths the most in the birthday ceremony, it must be Li Yuanying. He often makes a big noise or sends something out of the ordinary, attracting the attention of the audience. Involuntarily attracted to him over.

Then, for some reason, their money was not their own, either they were fooled into buying tea, or they were fooled into paying for roads and bridges.

Last year, it was even more absolute. He said plausibly that the entire Datang was owned by His Majesty Li Er. The birthday gift had to be found overseas to be sincere, so he directly fooled them to buy sea ships. They were thousands of miles away from the sea, and somehow they booked a sea boat! So far they have given the money, and the boat hasn’t been seen yet!

This guy is so evil.

This year everyone made up their minds and was determined not to be affected by Li Yuanying.

What happened to what he said last year? This year, everyone is not offering gifts to previous years. No one really listened to Li Yuanying and went overseas to look for it! Therefore, as long as their will is strong enough, no matter what stuff Li Yuanying’s messenger sends this time, they will definitely not be fooled!

Many people silently exchanged glances with their acquaintances, and they all saw the other’s determination.

At this time, the emissaries of the vassal kings stepped forward to offer gifts one after another. Seeing nothing new, the people sitting in the corner had already begun to yawn quietly. Until someone reported “A gift from King Teng’s messenger”, all the people instantly became energetic and looked at the chubby messenger of King Teng.

This plump envoy of King Teng had specially studied etiquette for entering the palace to offer gifts, but was stared at by so many people, the initial tension still appeared! He secretly chanted “You can’t lose your highness’s face”, “You can’t lose your highness’s face” and “You can’t lose your highness’s face”. After repeating it three times, he finally calmed down.

He stepped forward and introduced Li Yuanying’s three gifts to His Majesty Li Er.

The first is Li Yuanying’s letter. There is nothing to say. It is stuffed and thick and looks very thick. The only special thing is that the envelope is affixed with a ten-wen gold stamp and the red stamp he personally put on it. If this stamp is applied, it means that the stamp has already been used and cannot be used again next time.

The second is a complete set of stamps with gold threads. Although they are embedded with gold threads, they look very exquisite. Compared with the priceless birthday gifts of other feudal kings, they are still too shabby.

Even if you carved it out of gold, it’s more expensive than this, right? What is a gold thread with an inlay so much smaller than a hair strand? You can get it right!

For a while, many people at the palace banquet felt that Li Yuanying was too perfunctory this time.

The emissary of King Teng was the person in charge of the Imperial City Post Office. He had memorized the operation mode of the post office a long time ago. The stamps were related to his job, so he explained the usefulness of the stamps to everyone.

This is a way to allow the people to spend very little money to send letters out. The next day within the six stations is sure to arrive, and the time outside the six stations increases according to the distance, so everyone’s letter can be prepared to reach the corresponding post office!

When the envoy of King Teng talked about the soundness, he completely forgot to be nervous and lifted the last hole card. He unfolded the straight road map marked with the post station: “His Royal Highness has never slackened during the three years of the feudal clan. He has collected materials from all parties and organized all parties to expand the straight road. This winter, this straight road from Chang’an to Mount Tai has been fully connected, and the whole journey is wide. It is flat enough for several carriages to drive side by side, and the sixty post offices and post boxes along the way are also equipped with the post station. The letter of His Royal Highness King Teng was sent back to the capital by a straight road!” The envoy of King Teng straightened his waist proudly. He respectfully sideways to show the blank space of the map to His Majesty Li Er, “Your Majesty, please give a name to this straight road!”

As soon as this was said, everyone understood that this year’s gift was Li Yuanying’s top spot, and the envoy of the king of Wei who had just made a run even wanted to pretend that he did not exist.

Dare to love not only to send a few sheets of paper, but to send a straight road to Mount Tai!

This is a big deal. Today, all the rare and precious treasures together may not be able to be cultivated. Who can compare with him? !

As everyone expected, His Majesty Li Er was really happy.

If there is any wish from His Majesty Li Er, it is undoubtedly a trip to Mount Tai. There is such a small flaw in the process of his ascension to the throne of God. Although he has not thought of completely covering it up, he also wants to prove that he ascended the throne of God is going in the sky, not by usurping it.

Even if Wei Zheng and the others always said that as long as he was diligent in governing, diligent and loving the people, he would always praise him in the comments of later generations, but they repeatedly said that going to Mount Tai was blocked for one or another reason. His Majesty Li Er was still very unhappy. . Does God really want to admit him so much?

On the birthday, I heard that Li Yuanying had really repaired the straight road. Her Majesty Li Er lifted up. Regardless of whether he was happy or not, he laughed on the spot and laughed: “Okay!” .

Li Yuanying ordered people to operate Fengtai Building to support the road construction resources. After a little thought, His Majesty Li Er wrote the word “Fengtai” in the blank.

Good harvest, Thai watch Antai.

The common people will be happy when they are in good years, and the common people will be peaceful and settled. These two characters have very good meanings, and there is no need to change them!

Li Yuanying is the youngest of the brothers, and he was already at the bottom. The link of the gift of Li Er’s name is over.

His Majesty Li Er was obviously in a very good mood. Lang smiled and clapped his palms to make people play music. The officials came up to accompany his Majesty Li Er and danced happily to the music.

After a palace banquet, the monarchs and ministers were very happy. His Majesty Li Er was half drunk and did not go to any concubine, but went back to the palace and sat quietly on the large dragon bed.

He sat back and left for a long while, looking at the empty palace, and thought to himself, at the beginning of the Guanyin maid, you said that Yuan Ying is different. I still don’t believe it. Now, if you look at it, you still look at people. This child is indeed different. If it sounds nice, many people will say, but few people actually do it. This kid always does what he says, making people afraid that he will not grow up, but also that he will grow up too quickly.

In the past, all sorts of turbulence in my mind, after a long time, His Majesty Li Er sighed. He said to the bright candlelight in the room: “Avalokitesvara maidservant, you have been here for so many years, how come you haven’t come to my dream.”

The room was still silent, only the candle flame swayed gently with the night breeze.

His Majesty Li Er stopped talking, and stopped by drinking.

Sleep peacefully all night without anyone dreaming.

Li Yuanying asked him to present gold stamps at the birthday banquet of His Majesty Li Er. Everyone looked very good. When I went back to inquire, there were a thousand sets of gold stamps. Li Yuanying used one set and dedicated it to His Majesty Li Er. , There are nine hundred and ninety-eight sets left! Because these 998 sets of gold stamps are embedded with gold thread, the price is doubled, doubled, doubled and doubled compared to ordinary stamps…I can’t count them, anyway, they have doubled a lot. It means that one set can be taken away with one hundred pennies. The price is clearly marked. It is not deceived to buy one set. There is no bargaining for only one set. Only 998 sets will not be reprinted in the future. If you want to buy it, please Start as soon as possible.

If you think it’s too expensive, you can buy regular stamps. Regular stamps have both collection value and use value. They only cost 55 cents, the price is very fair, and it doesn’t cost much to buy ten sets of eight sets!

Compared to buying a ship to repair roads and build buildings, one hundred sticks are indeed rare, and you can immediately bring home the same golden silk stamps of Majesty Li Er! It doesn’t seem to be fooled to pay for this money? After thinking about this, everyone decided to buy a set, and there was even a little inexplicable loss in their hearts: This year Li Yuanying only wants to swindle this money from them?

The most indispensable thing in Chang’an is the rich. As soon as I heard that it was a birthday gift for His Majesty Li Er, something that Li Er loved very much, the next day the post office opened the door and immediately booked it.

Before noon, the Huangcheng Post Office had sold out all the gold stamps, and also sold a lot of ordinary stamps. The person in charge smiled so that his eyes were narrowed, and he made nearly one hundred thousand bonanzas as soon as he opened. Who can have this skill?

Of course, the purpose of the post office is not to make money.

When they attended the training in the academy, Li Yuanying told them that their purpose of existence was to one day send letters to every corner of Datang. As long as there is a place where the Datang flag is flying, they can deliver the letters on time. They have to tell people in every place that they are part of Datang, whether they live on the high mountains or deep in the grasslands, as long as they are willing to learn the Mandarin of Datang and walk into neighboring towns, they can communicate with them. Friends and relatives anywhere in Datang pass messages.

In the future, they may have to send letters to the Western Regions and send letters overseas—and send letters to all places they have discovered or haven’t discovered yet.

This road is very long, they may not see that day comes, but they are the people responsible for kicking off the curtain.

Although they are only doing things that others seem to be thankless and not making much money, if they do it well, someone will remember them in the future!

Li Yuanying didn’t let him speak these words in public, but everyone who heard them kept them in their hearts. No matter how ordinary people, no matter how ordinary people, there will be moments of enthusiasm, and moments when they want to do something big and leave their name in history. This post office will be his life and wealth, even if he lives directly in the post office, he must operate it well!

The same idea appeared in the minds of the heads of post offices almost at the same time.

Other homes are busy celebrating the New Year, but they are the only ones who take root in the small post office and are busy preparing for the official opening on the first day of the Chinese New Year.

As the initiator of all this, Li Yuanying wanted to be lazy after mobilizing the enthusiasm of others. He thinks that those who are able should work harder. It is easy to see what Wu Mei is doing. He quickly delegates the overall planning of the post office to her, and he acts as a shopkeeper.

Had it not been for Li Yuanying’s generous speech that “let you receive a letter wherever the Datang flag flutters”, Wu Mei felt that he had just started this post office on a whim. But since he had heard what Li Yuanying said, Wu Mei couldn’t treat it as a trifle, let alone let Li Yuanying slacken his way.

Wu Mei and Di Renjie discussed a lot of ideas about laying out the post office in an all-round way. After a few days, they worked out a very large plan and discussed it with Li Yuanying.

Li Yuanying was a little sluggish.

He just brags, sometimes he doesn’t know what he is talking about when he is up, do they listen so seriously and so efficiently?

Sometimes it is an annoyance for a small partner to be too capable!

Wu Mei looked at Li Yuanying’s face tangled, and did not urge, only let Li Yuanying take a look at the plan first. She also softly persuaded Li Yuanying, “Anyway, it’s just a planning stage. Don’t rush to implement it, just take it slowly. If you want to spread to the whole country, then it’s not something we can do in Tengzhou. We can send the plan to the court. Go, let them organize manpower to do it.” If they really do it all in one hand, there might be someone in Chang’an who won’t be able to sleep!

Li Yuanying didn’t think so much, she immediately felt relieved when she heard Wu Mei’s words, yes, he didn’t need to do it himself, just throw it to his emperor brother and let his emperor brother worry about it. Li Yuanying immediately nodded vigorously: “No problem, I will look at it.”

Wu Mei’s plan was well written. First, I polished up Li Yuanying’s remarks and talked a lot about the strategic significance of setting up a post office. What would help the people’s naturalization would help strengthen ties between various places. In short, Li Yuanying read All think it makes sense. Yes, that’s right, he thinks that way, the post office is so important and so meaningful!

What’s left is a specific plan such as where to pass in three years and where to pass in five years. They don’t have too detailed maps on their hands, so they can only draw up a rough plan.

After reading this, Li Yuanying felt that the details of the details and the ambiguities were vague, which not only established the central idea, but also left room for the imperial court to play, and saw that there was nothing that needed to be changed. He satisfactorily asked Wu Mei and the others to sign their names, and when he turned around, he was sent back to Chang’an.

As for Li Er Majesty not to do it, it doesn’t matter to them, anyway, they are only responsible for making an idea, and let the emperor brother and the old man worry about the rest!

Li Yuanying finished the “Datang Worldwide Mail Program” to Li Er, and whispered to Wei Shu privately: “Mei Niang is too terrible. I don’t want to be lazy. She actually wants to take the opportunity to give me more things. Do it.” Think about it if he wants to fix this nationwide postal system. Not only will he be exhausted, but he will also die in poverty. How could there be such a thing as Mei Niang who can do it by analogy!

Wei Shu said: “You are the backbone of Tengzhou, how can you always think about being lazy?”

Li Yuanying said: “I don’t think Tengzhou needs the backbone.” He said his opinion, “I want a Tengzhou that can flourish without us. Think about it, Di Renjie and the others have it. A better place will definitely leave Tengzhou, even if they don’t want to go, I will rush them; and we are humans, we will always get old, and we will die when we grow old. If we are in Tengzhou, we will be better. What should we do? So, what I want is Tengzhou that can continue to get better and better even if we leave.”

Wei Shu felt that the most powerful thing about Li Yuanying’s body was his mouth.

Apart from Li Yuanying in this world, who else can pull out such a reason for laziness? The most important thing is, knowing that he is talking nonsense, you have to admit that his words are very reasonable! Prosperity managed by one person or a few people is ultimately difficult to last, and it is not easy for Tengzhou to maintain long-term stability.

Wei Shu said, “This is too difficult.”

His Majesty Li Er once asked whether it is difficult for a hundred officials to guard the world. Her grandfather’s answer at the time was “very difficult.”

Li Yuanying’s idea is almost the same as “Keeping the World” asked by His Majesty Li Er. The difference is that he only needs to consider Tengzhou, while His Majesty Li Er has to consider the entire Datang.

Li Yuanying was really talking casually. Seeing that Wei Shu was really thinking about it, she immediately said solemnly: “We try and think slowly, and we can always come up with a way.”

If he really can’t think of it, he doesn’t want to think about it, what a simple thing!

Li Yuanying is happy.

Li Yuanying sent someone here to send the thick national mailing plan to Chang’an, and his long letter of 4d which was sent back to Beijing with the birthday gift happened to be opened. His Majesty Li Er leaned on reading it with relish, and felt that Li Yuanying was so boastful that he was so comfortable all over, and of course he had to share such a good letter with others.

The first to bear the brunt was the living man who was on the side of the attendant to write him a personal note. His Majesty Li Er generously shared the letter with the living man and asked him to copy the letter into the personal note. What is important in daily life is to be detailed, specific, true and reliable. How can the correspondence between the two brothers not be recorded in detail?

Living man: “…”

Living Lang wanted to beg the bones and return home to the old man.

Although he is still young, worthy of forty, and he is in the prime of life, since Li Yuanying began to write letters to His Majesty Li Er, his hair has almost turned white, so sad!

When the resident Lang and Ren changed shifts, they ran to the old boss Chu Suiliang and cried.

The flattering letter of 10,000 words is naturally impossible to copy in front of His Majesty Li Er, he has to bring it out to work overtime. As soon as I saw Chu Suiliang, the tears of the living man almost fell. How did Li Yuanying come up with so many non-respectful fancy flattery?

Does he really want to copy this stuff into his personal notes? !

Li Yuanying’s letter was regarded as a semi-public existence among the courtiers, and Chu Suiliang took a look at it, and there was a moment of silence. After reading most of the page, Chu Suiliang could only objectively comment: “Yes, the words of His Royal Highness King Teng have improved.”

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Little Prince:? What? Also copied into the daily notes?