Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 683
"Lang Jun, Lang Jun?"

Li Shan, who was lying on his back on the bed, stared at the ceiling, and only shook his hands. Zhou and Xiaoman, who were holding the clothes, looked at each other, and could only quietly exit the bedroom.

Not to mention after time travel, even in the previous life, Li Shan has never slept in the past few days until he woke up naturally. In fact, the powerful biological clock overcomes the barriers of time and space and forced Li Shan to wake up early, but he would rather keep his eyes open than to wake up. Willing to get up.

In Daizhou, even after the war, even if Li Shan was recuperating in bed, he still had to think about many things, about Li Jing, about Xiashi, about Li Kai, about the family in Dai County, and Liu Shirang in Mayi, Zhang Shigui and Xue Wanche who stayed in the Daizhou Army...

Back in Chang'an, although there is one more time-consuming thing to do, in general, Li Shan has a lot of rest time and doesn't need to think too much.

Of course, although Li Shan didn't shy away from it, he didn't want to see the hangings in the village all the time. His sadness was buried in his heart, but the days continued to move forward without stopping.

Just lying there, lying down... until Mrs. Zhu couldn't bear it anymore and drove her son out of bed.

After washing, Li Shan sat lazily in the yard and asked casually, "Is everything settled?"

"All have been resettled." Zhang Zhongjian said softly, "Uncle Qi said that we will build a new house after the spring of next year."

"Yeah." Li Shan nodded, "Let Qu Silang ask, if there is anything wrong, report it immediately."

"Yes."

After staying in Daizhou for two months, Wang Junhao reorganized the personal guards, with dozens of surviving personal guards as the backbone, and asked Zhang Zhongjian to choose warriors from among his cronies, and then asked Qu Shilang to choose from among the young and strong who gathered with Li Kai to go south to aid Nao County that day. , A total of 200 people were gathered.

These people are all from Daizhou, Shuozhou, and Xinzhou. This time they moved to Guanzhong with Li Shan, and they naturally settled in Sun Moon Lake. Zhuangzi suddenly added nearly [-] families, and the original houses were naturally not enough.

However, according to Zhu Wei and Ling Jing's feedback, the original villagers have some opinions... Now the entire Zhuangzi is under the name of Li Shan, and only need to pay a small amount of land rent, and there is no need to consider taxes and corvees, but they are accepted as personal guards. The treatment is much better.

This is a good thing... How can Mr. Lang leave it all to outsiders?

But Li Shan's formation of [-] personal guards is already the limit, if there are more... it is really beyond the limit, now the entire Tiance Mansion is counted from Li Shimin down, there are so many confidant generals, all the personal guards add up to no more than [-] .

Of course, this refers to the personal guards who stayed in Chang'an.

It was Ling Jing who told Li Shan at the beginning of the year, and the latter could not help thinking about it. It is very likely to be the truth. I remember that during the Xuanwumen Incident, Gao Shilian, Gao Xing’s father, was going to release the prisoners to serve as troops... the ones in his hands The personal guard might come in handy.

Li Shan thought about it in his heart, and glanced at Zhang Zhongjian, "Sanlang is serving as a guard, and he is overqualified. Why don't you go to Zuo Wuwei?"

Among the people who followed Li Shan back to Chang'an, although Wang Junhao won the title of a county male, he still did not join the army. He Liu now lives in the house of his brother-in-law Yuan Junzhang, and only Su Dingfang was promoted to General Zuowuwei. In the Twelve Guards system, it is second only to the position of the general.

"I would like to hold the halberd for you." Zhang Zhongjian said with a smile: "Does the gentleman despise being ugly?"

"Hahaha!" Li Shan laughed and said seriously: "In the future, Saburo will not be weaker than Brother Dingfang."

Although he is a legendary figure, he is the boss of the Three Heroes, and Zhang Zhongjian also made great contributions to defeating the Turks this time. If it weren't for him, there might not be a great victory in Cangtouhe.

But to be honest, it is very difficult for a poor family to enter an official position. If it is beautiful and has a clear voice, it is possible, like Zhang Zhongjian... it is indeed more difficult.

In this era, Li Shan has met countless officials, and the ugliest one should be the famous Yu Chigong, but even this door god is pretty handsome compared to Zhang Zhongjian.

After talking and joking a few words, Li Shan was about to ask someone to ask what he had for lunch, when there was a loud noise outside the door, a slightly shrill voice said, "Brother Huai, come and see, Brother Huai!"

Li Shan looked helplessly at Zhang Wenguan striding forward, "Tomorrow, tomorrow must go to Cui's Mansion!"

After returning to Beijing for only four or five days, Zhang Wenguan came around almost every day, and asked Li Shan to accompany him to the Cui Mansion... This guy stayed in Daizhou for two months. It is said that his father Zhang Qianxiong lost his temper in Yangcheng. The letter asked my sister Zhang to strictly control her.

The excited Zhang Wenguan's face collapsed, "It's not necessary... Auntie wrote, brother will be here in two days."

Li Shan couldn't help laughing, "It deserves it!"

Zhang Wenguan curled his lips, and pointed to a strange wooden utensil carried by two servants behind him, "This is what I made after looking for the general supervisor!"

Li Shan's eyes lit up, and he stepped forward to look at it a few times. He didn't quite understand how the operation was done, so Zhang Wenguan immediately asked someone to fetch cotton to operate it himself.

After finding cotton, Li Shan’s biggest worry was how to remove the seeds. Cotton is entangled on the seeds layer by layer. If there is no suitable tool, removing cotton seeds is very laborious and inefficient. In fact, this is exactly what cotton promotes. biggest obstacle.

Li Shan was a rural kid in his previous life, but cotton was not grown in the village, so he didn't know how to remove the seeds, but he had seen cotton plucking...

Returning to Daizhou from Chang'an at the beginning of the year, Li Shan specially asked a group of people to try to grow cotton, and has been asking people to develop tools for removing cotton seeds, but unfortunately there has been no progress.

More than a month ago, when Zhang Wenguan was visiting Daizhou, it happened to be the season for picking cotton. In fact, Li Shan stayed in Daizhou for this reason.

After listening to Li Shan's troubles, Zhang Wenguan accidentally experimented with a method, which is simple to say. An iron rod and a pallet are used to rub the cotton with the iron rod. Because of the friction, the cotton is taken away and left behind. Lower the cottonseed.

Although it is a bit labor-intensive, it is much faster than summarizing by hand.

But today this appliance was developed by Zhang Wenguan who found a relationship and asked the general supervisor to develop it. He stuffed cotton into a drum, grabbed the wooden handle and shook it, and the cotton came out from the other end of the drum. The servant brushed the cotton off with a brush, and another servant lay down on the ground and opened an opening, and dozens of cottonseeds with some cotton wrapped around them fell out.

Li Shan patted Zhang Wenguan on the shoulder vigorously, and his joy was beyond words. Although the operation was a little troublesome, at least two people were needed, and it was not too clean, but the efficiency was increased by dozens of times.

Well, tomorrow we can play cotton, and then let Zhou and Xiaoman sew a few pieces, just to have a reason to enter the palace, Li Shan thought to himself, it has been five days since he returned to Beijing, so it is time to enter the palace and have a talk with Li Yuan.

Thinking about Li Shan also having a headache for Li Yuan, how to arrange himself is indeed a troublesome matter... And for this kind of matter, even if Li Yuan comes to speak, other people will feel like they are being treated poorly, so they can only speak up by themselves.

(End of this chapter)