Emperor Sui Yang

Xu Shiji served as Yang Rui's bodyguard. Basically, wherever Yang Rui went, he had to follow him. He was completely a servant.

But he is very, very happy, because the one he serves is most likely the future prince, not to mention just being a guard, he can do anything with a urinal.

Serving people is all-encompassing. Don't laugh at people who serve the urinal. They serve the leader with the urinal. When they face you, they piss on the top of your head.

If a person wants to be successful in this life, groveling is a necessary skill. If you lick the right person and lick the person well, you will have the opportunity to be licked by others.

Still the same sentence, you can't be a grandfather if you can't be a grandson.

Li Shimin was about to leave, so Yang Rui and Changsun Wuji had been running to Tang Guogong's mansion these days, and even Yang Jin rushed over after hearing the news. After all, he had a good relationship with Shimin.

It is now August, and it will take two months at the fastest to go to Jiangdu, and after the Chinese New Year in Jiangdu, it is almost ready to become a princess.

In fact, the reason why Yang Guang agreed so simply was because he had asked his daughter that Yang Qi was indeed interested in the people of the world, so it's easy to say, my daughter, the son of the world is not up to you to choose?

As for whether Li Shimin is willing or not, almost no one cares. If he dares to say that he is not happy, Li Yuan can break his leg.

"So, Yuanji and Zhiyun will follow?" Yang Jin asked Shimin while eating fresh plums.

In the Sui Dynasty, there were five kinds of fruits that nobles liked most, with green plum as the first, lentil pear as the vice, cherry as the third, sweet potato as the fourth, rose apple as the fifth. Ripe, now is the season to eat plums.

Among them, ganzi is mandarin fruit, and rose apple is grape.

The plum that Yang Rui ate was not an ordinary plum, but the Jiaqing Green Plum, which was produced in Jiaqingfang, the eastern capital, known as the king of plums.

Because the output of this stuff is very rare, most people can't eat it.

Yang Ming doesn't like to eat plums, because isn't there a saying: peaches are full, apricots hurt people, and dead people are buried under plum trees.

Peaches are rich in nutrients and can be full, apricots are hot in nature and easy to get angry, plums are cool in nature, and eating too much cold food can hurt the spleen, so there is such a saying.

Yang Jin liked to eat plums since she was a child, as a meal. Yang Ming taught him a lesson many times, so now he only dares to eat plums behind his father's back.

"Eat less, my father has taught you many times, but I still can't change it," Yang Rui said to his younger brother.

Yang Jin chuckled: "If you don't say it, I don't say it, and everyone doesn't say it, how could the father know?"

"Yes, yes, we won't talk about it, Your Highness, feel free to eat," Dou said with a smile: "Our family will go to Jiangdu this time, and only a side room is left in the house to guard the door. Let’s go, we have to wait until the Chinese New Year.”

Yang Jin sighed, "Then we don't know when we will see Shimin again."

Li Shimin was also sad for a while. With these few friends, he must be reluctant to go to Jiangdu with his family. How great would it be if he got married in the capital?Many friends are also lively.

Wei Gui also laughed at the side today: "I often hear people say that the mountains and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River are warm and elegant, and the small bridges and flowing water are misty and rainy. I want to go too, but I don't have a chance."

Many of their families are talented people who have traveled far and wide, and they know Jiangnan very well.

When Yang Rui heard this, he immediately frowned and said, "If I ask my father, mother and concubine to let me go to Jiangdu, do you think they will agree?"

"No," everyone shook their heads at the same time.

Changsun Wuji said: "You are the eldest son, and the distance from the capital to Jiangdu is more than a thousand miles away. The crown prince will never agree."

"It's good to let you leave the capital, but you still want to leave Guanzhong?" Yang Jin smiled slyly.

Wei Gui knew that Yang Rui's words were due to himself, and besides being overjoyed, he hurriedly said:
"We are still young, and there will be plenty of opportunities in the future. To go to the river, we have to take a boat. Now I can't stand the turbulence of the boat, and I will vomit."

Hearing this, Yang Rui nodded, "We'll grow up later, and I'll take you there."

Two days later, Yang Rui and the others sent Shimin to Chang'an Station, and then reluctantly waved goodbye.

"How would I live without Shimin?" Yang Rui looked up to the sky and sighed.

The eldest grandson Wuji on the side was stunned for a moment, and thought: Don't you still have me?
After Li Xiuning took his son Yang Cong to say goodbye to everyone, he returned to the palace. Yang Cong was only five years old today, and he couldn't play with them.

"Let's go, let's take a look at Wuji's new home," Yang Jin pulled the two of them back and started to return, Jian Jiancheng followed behind, and after sending them to Gao Shilian's residence, he returned to the Ministry of Rites went.

The eldest grandson Wuji and the others have now lived in the house of their uncle Gao Shilian. I have to say that this uncle is really in place.

Brother and sister Wuji can do whatever they want in the house, just like in their own home, without restraint.

Generally, married daughters splash water, and younger sisters are not doing well. As elder brothers, they help as much as they can, but those who directly support them like Gao Shilian are a minority after all.

Of course, there was another reason, Gao Shilian's mother was still alive.

The arrival of Yang Rui and the others naturally brought glory to the Gao Mansion, and Gao Shilian and his family wholeheartedly entertained them.

His daughter-in-law is Xianyu, a Tiele people who moved to Ding County, Hebei, Central Plains during the Northern Wei Dynasty, a branch of the Huns, and basically integrated into the Han nationality.

Gao Shilian originally belonged to the royal family of the old Qi Dynasty, there was no way, the country was ruined and his family was destroyed, so he could not marry the daughter of a wealthy family, but his wife was really a good wife, the old mother relied on others to support her, managed the family frugally, and taught her husband and children. have to pick.

Only such a good daughter-in-law would tolerate her husband's younger sister's family living in and treat her as a family.

When Changsun Wuji met his aunt, he was closer than meeting his own uncle.

"Are there any plums?" Yang Jin looked at the food on the bench and asked directly.

Gao Shilian was taken aback, and embarrassedly said: "There are none in the house, Your Highness will wait a moment, and I will go and buy some for you."

Then, Gao Shilian called his eldest son, Gao Shifu, and asked him to go to the treasury to get some money and go out to buy plums.

"If you want Jiaqing green plums, they are sold in Dongshi," Yang Jin reminded.

Don't think that Yang Jin is being rude. In fact, his character is to follow his mother. He will say what he wants, and he will not lie.

Since Yang Rui entered the mansion, he has been looking at the situation in the mansion, and now he frowned and said:
"I see that your family is quite struggling. The governor of Honglu Temple is considered to be from the sixth grade, right? Is the salary very little?"

Gao Shilian said with a smile: "In fact, it's quite a lot. The monthly salary is [-] shi, food and materials [-] shi, miscellaneous expenses [-] shi, and at the end of the year there is still [-] shi of Lumi."

Lumi at the end of the year almost means year-end bonus.

The salaries of officials in ancient China were always low, so corruption was commonplace. In the Song Dynasty, it was okay. There was a period of high salaries to support honesty, but the effect was not satisfactory. The Ming Dynasty was the worst, and the salaries of officials could not be paid.

Da Sui is considered high, but Gao Shilian's monthly salary is definitely not enough. After all, there are so many people in the family, so he must find a way to make money.

In fact, it is very simple, what does Honglu Temple care about?Reception of foreign guests, Taoist temples across the country, guests, good and bad rituals, these three parts are very lucrative.

For example, Chen Shuming is the young minister of Honghe Temple. He presided over two high-level funerals of Liang Bi and Changsun Chi this year. The imperial court allocates funeral expenses, and part of it is the flowers of Honghe Temple. They are responsible for the funeral preparations. As long as you spend If you want money, you can get it.

Gao Shilian went to Bashu with Liu Su, the servant of the Ministry of Industry, to build temples, buy and sell monk registrations, and made a lot of money, but he didn't dare to spend it because the money was not visible.

Everyone knows that he is very poor. If you renovate the mansion at once, the people at Yushitai will ask, where did you get the money from?Can't answer?Let's go to the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

So now Gao Shilian is rich, but his family looks shabby everywhere.

Yang Rui looked at Yang Jin and asked, "Do we have a monthly salary?"

"No, right? Aren't our expenses all from my father?" Yang Jin said.

Gao Shilian was taken aback, I dare not answer these words, you two are princes, and the prince is a top grade, how could it be possible that you don't have a salary?

But Wei Gui didn't think too much about it, and said directly: "You two have food, so you don't have to care about the salary at all."

"So, I should also have a salary?" Yang Rui asked.

Wei Gui nodded: "My grandfather is Duke Xun. This is Cong Yipin, with a monthly salary of [-], food materials of [-] shi, miscellaneous expenses of [-] qian, and Lumi of [-] shi. First rank, but according to our Tai Sui system, the monthly salary is the same as Cong Yi rank."

"From what you hear, it's really not that much?" Yang Jin roughly calculated.

If the two of them were county kings, they would have actual fiefdoms, but they would lose them when they became princes, but there are many food towns.

The prince's Shiyi has [-] households, which is calculated by household, not by dime, and the tax paid in the Sui Dynasty is calculated by dime, so the taxes paid by the two of them are constantly changing every year.

Calculated by Ding, one Ding pays 500 catties of grain a year, 14 Dings, which is 20 million Jins. According to current weights and measures, it is equivalent to about 30 shi of grain, and the household calculation is about [-] to [-]. .

Their salary is really not worth mentioning compared with Shiyi.

However, since the Sui Dynasty, there have been two kinds of weights and measures. Yang Jian’s large system of weights and measures has been used almost until the Qing Dynasty. However, after Yang Guang’s reform, he returned to the ancient system and became a small system of weights and measures. This small system of weights and measures was not used in the Tang Dynasty. , and used Yang Jian’s again.

The large-scale system of weights and measures was initiated by Yang Jian. Gu Yanwu called it in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties: since three generations, the system of power and quantity has changed from Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty.

The three generations are Xia, Shang, and Zhou.

So according to China's mainstream weights and measures, Yang Rui's annual food production in Shiyi is between [-] to [-] shi, which sounds less exaggerated.

After all, a stone in Yang Jian's time was 120 catties, but now it is only 35 catties.

"Have you seen the taxes we pay in Shiyi?" Yang Rui asked.

Yang Jin asked back, "Have you seen it?"

Yang Rui shook his head, and Yang Jin also shook his head.

The corners of Wei Gui's eyebrows twitched, knowing that he had said something wrong, he hurriedly added:

"Because you two are underage."

Yang Rui frowned and said, "Not necessarily. When I was the King of Hedong, I knew that Hedong County paid taxes for me. Although I haven't seen it, if I become a prince, I don't have it anymore?"

"Don't think about it," Yang Jin said directly, "It was spent by our grandpa."

Yang Rui was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "You can't say that, without grandpa, where would we get the title? So the money belongs to grandpa."

"Well," Yang Jin nodded: "You are better at talking than me, that's why." (End of this chapter)