The Leisurely Life of the Prince of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 483 Canal Canal
During the rest season, everyone returned home after finishing their busy work.

Di Renjie glanced at Zhang Jianzhi who was eating happily and walked into Zhuque Street.

People live leisurely and comfortably in winter, and people should live better.

The emperor did not say anything about the debate taking place in Luoyang, and the court did not have any opinion either, and seemed to be letting people debate.

The civil administration in the court used Duke Zheng's philosophy, which was not afraid of debate. In other words, the more they debated, the more it conformed to the emperor's wishes.

The emperor is happy to see this happen. Besides, the students of Chongwenguan are the most supportive of the current emperor.

Su Tan walked on Zhuque Street and looked at the expressions on people's faces. From the dilapidated era to the present, people now are different from those back then.

People's eyes have become different. They are eyes that are more yearning for the future, and they are full of vitality and vigor.

The golden age has arrived, this is the feeling of everyone in Chang'an City.

Or maybe it is the frugal style of the current court, which advises people to be frugal, so that people today do not waste food or water.

These are all very simple requirements, and people have fulfilled them very well, especially in Guanzhong. Now most people in Guanzhong have started to drink boiled water.

There was no other reason. It was just because the Imperial Medical Bureau strongly requested it, and since people started drinking boiled water, abdominal diseases did not occur often, so people naturally refused to drink raw water.

Also in this cold winter, an old man came to the city of Chang'an on a donkey.

Just as the officer was about to step forward and ask in an unfriendly manner, Su Tan quickly stepped forward and saluted, saying, "Old Immortal Sun."

Seeing the head of Chongwenguan being so respectful, the officers and soldiers nearby had no choice but to step back.

Sun Simiao was still struggling with his stubborn donkey. The donkey refused to go to Chang'an City, which made the old man so angry that he turned over and whipped the donkey with a whip.

Su Tan stood aside and watched quietly.

Until Sun Simiao had no more way to deal with the donkey, he simply sold it to a horse dealer in front of the city.

"This is the donkey that the Taoist priest brought from the mountains. It is difficult to tame."

Su Tan said: "The leisure of the old immortal is beyond the reach of ordinary people."

Sun Simiao stroked his beard and looked at the tall Chang'an city wall, and said: "This Chang'an city is really different."

Su Tan invited Dr. Sun to walk into Chang'an City and asked, "This Chang'an City is better."

"I compiled a medical book and came to hand it over to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. I made an agreement with His Royal Highness many years ago." Suddenly thinking, Sun Simiao changed his words and said, "It is His Majesty, the current His Majesty."

After saying this, Dr. Sun laughed heartily again.

Su Tan said: "Your Majesty will be very happy to know that Divine Doctor Sun is coming."

Although Your Majesty's daily life has not changed much due to the passing of the old grandfather and the old grandfather, the court officials are very worried that Your Majesty will not be able to get out of the grief.

Su Tan talked about what happened in Chang'an City recently. "Those two elders told Your Majesty that they were the most important people. Rumor has it that it was these two elders who helped the prince ascend the throne."

Sun Simiao took out a book. The yellowish-brown paper in the book was a little curled due to dryness, and it seemed that the paper had been preserved for a long time.

Su Tan took the book with both hands and asked, "Is this the medical book that the old immortal has recently compiled?"

Sun Simiao looked at the pedestrians coming and going on Zhuque Street and whispered, "I will not go to see Your Majesty."

Su Tan asked again: "Why? Your Majesty would be happy if he knew that the old gentleman had compiled a medical book."

"The old Taoist is old, so he went back to the Du family's house to rest for a few days and then passed away."

After saying this, Sun Simiao walked into the crowd.

Su Tan was still standing there holding the medical book. He was stunned for a while before he hurried to the imperial city.

The director of Chongwenguan handed the medical book of Dr. Sun to the eunuch in the palace. It was already night when Li Chengqian saw the medical book.

Li Chengqian looked at the volume of emergency prescriptions worth a thousand gold in his hand. This volume of medical book contained some other knowledge. For example, the two concepts of sanitation and disinfection were written in more detail for the first time in the medical book.

"Isn't he willing to come to the palace?"

Eunuch Yang replied, "The divine doctor Sun lives in the former Du Mansion. The Du Mansion in Chang'an City has been vacant for many years. Now Minister Xu and Censor Shangguan are taking care of him."

It seemed as if everything had returned to me. I remembered the first time I met Doctor Sun. He lived in the Du Mansion, with Xu Jingzong and Shangguan Yi.

We were just starting out back then, it seems like a lifetime ago, so many years have passed.

Li Chengqian put the medical book aside, raised his head and said, "I can't keep him after all."

The medical career that he wanted to plan with Dr. Sun ultimately failed. Of course, he had expected that the old man would leave sooner or later, and that failure would follow sooner or later.

People always fail.

Fortunately, Doctor Sun has quite a few disciples.

"Your Majesty, do you want to keep the old immortal here?"

When the night wind blew, the weather was still a little cold. Another eunuch came running over and saluted, saying, "Your Majesty, the files of the Literature Museum."

The night wind is still howling,

The seventh year of Qianqing was spent in a howling cold wind.

People have passed another spring and autumn.

If a dynasty can last stably for a hundred years, then three generations will live in this hundred years.

Over the long course of a century, not many stories have survived.

In fact, my grandfather and uncle were people who took life and death lightly, and perhaps they had already seen this as early as the Zhenguan period.

Just like grandpa said, it’s good not to be able to see clearly. Even at my old age, everyone looks beautiful to me.

Just as my uncle said, those who don't want him to die have ulterior motives.

Both of these old people are the type whose tempers get weirder as they get older.

Li Chengqian sat in front of the Liangyi Hall, watching his children playing. Time seemed to speed up at this moment, and spring and autumn passed in the blink of an eye.

During the Spring and Autumn Period of the Tang Dynasty, people still lived on this land year after year, and for thousands of years, they would occasionally look up at the starry sky.

In the spring of the ninth year of Qianqing, Jin Chunqiu killed the last batch of Japanese. Two years had passed since he last received the official uniform of Tian Khan.

He was not sure whether there were still Japanese hiding, but he had to go back because of the imperial edict from Chang'an.

Jin Chunqiu looked at the silver mine in front of him that had not yet been emptied. He thought that more people would come here to dig in the future until the entire island was dug through.

The volcano in the distance was still emitting black smoke, and it looked like it was about to erupt for a long time.

Jin Chunqiu used the hot springs here to wash his face clean and had someone wash it hard. When he returned to Chang'an, he wanted to become a completely new person. Only when he became a Tang person could he be considered a real person.

Tian Khan promised to give him the identity of a Tang citizen, and gave him the identity of a Tang army general, the commander-in-chief of the Silla Road. This was a title of a great general, and although he served in Chang'an, he was now a legitimate Tang citizen.

After washing up, Jin Chunqiu looked back at the corpses behind him. The cold wind was howling on this uninhabited island thousands of miles away.

This is how war works. Jin Chunqiu used an even more cruel method, setting fire to the mountains and forests, leaving corpses everywhere.

If there are still people here in the future, there will be descendants who will plow this place again.

At least for now, looking around, after searching for a month, there is no living person to be seen.

After boarding the ship to leave here, Jin Chunqiu heard the exclamations of the people on the ship again. Looking back, he saw that the volcano had begun to erupt, and thick black smoke went straight into the sky.

Fortunately, the ship was far enough away from the coast and was not affected by the brief earthquake.

This is the seventh earthquake that Jin Chunqiu has encountered here. This is not a place for people to stay. The hot magma is swallowing everything.

He still remembered the most severe earthquake, which killed two thousand Silla soldiers, and for this he killed 20,000 Japanese to appease the public anger.

After the earthquake, silver mines appeared in the mountains, which allowed Jin Chunqiu to find the location of the silver mine.

Now, he left with a ship full of silver ore, and no one would set foot here again for several years.

Thick smoke blocked out the sun and the sky, as if heavy dark clouds had covered the horizon. Ashes were raining from the sky. Jin Chunqiu, who already had a lot of white hair, looked up and saw that the sky was split into two. One was in the east, as blue as the world.

The other side was like purgatory, with thick dark clouds, as if the sky was about to fall.

Jin Chunqiu never wanted to come to this place full of corpses again.

In March of the ninth year of Qianqing's reign, it was the time when the Baili River opened and herds of horses were used for labor.

When the ice in the river melted, large ships were sailing on the canal. There were many young people on the ships, talking about Chang'an.

Jin Chunqiu was sitting on the boat heading to Luoyang, listening to these young people talk about the changes in Chang'an today.

The canal built by Yang Guang was not good. In order to make the canal unobstructed, the court added 10,000 laborers to make the blocked river section unobstructed again.

Jin Chunqiu always had a smile on his face. He was very happy because he had finally come to the human world.

The ship stopped at a shore on the canal. Jin Chunqiu, who had come all the way from Yingzhou by boat, finally stepped on solid ground and could take a short rest here.

This is Hengshui. When Tian Khan returned from his eastern expedition, he stayed here for a while.

When Jin Chunqiu followed Tian Khan on his eastern expedition, he saw Hebei at that time. It was very desolate and there were not many people living on the river banks.

Now this place is very prosperous and has become a gathering place for people. There are busy boatmen coming and going here, and there are many taverns run by women.

"Does this guest need a meal?"

A boy stepped forward and said.

Jin Chunqiu said: "Okay."

Arriving at the tavern, Jin Chunqiu took a sip of his drink and asked, "This place used to be very poor, why is it so lively now?"

The boy sat aside and wiped the bowl, saying, "No one lived here before. My parents said that the emperor built the river bank and rebuilt the canal, so we can make a living here by relying on the canal."

Jin Chunqiu asked, "Aren't you afraid that the river will drown you?"

The boy added: "Don't worry, we have raised the river bank and have ditches to divert water, so it won't flood."

Jin Chunqiu ate the sorghum rice and paid five cents for it. The boat would not leave until tomorrow morning, and the boatman was still loading the cargo.

People are busy here. They want to transport everything here to Luoyang and Chang'an. Many merchants are trying their best to load their goods onto the ship, but the ship can only carry coal and grain, and is guarded by the censor.

The merchants could only curse and shout on the sidelines.

Jin Chunqiu walked to the far side of the river bank, a little further away from the bustling river bank, where there was a bookstore and groups of children were studying.

This river bank has no city walls, but it is like a small town where people can work, children can study, and people can get paid for their business. This is a small world where people can live in peace.

Jin Chunqiu felt that if he didn't become a general, it would be nice to be able to settle down in this place.

When Jin Chunqiu thought of the Khan's order, he gave up the idea.

I found an inn to stay in at night. The room was very expensive, costing one hundred coins a night. I could see the view of the canal and the moon reflected on the canal by opening the window.

The door suddenly opened, and three bad guys walked into the room, bowed and asked, "Excuse me, are you General Jin from Silla?"

Jin Chunqiu withdrew his gaze and looked at the three people. He saluted very humbly and said, "I am General Jin Chunqiu."

The bad man asked, "Where are the soldiers escorting the general?"

Jin Chunqiu added: "I have no soldiers, I came here alone."

The three bad guys looked at each other in confusion, and then the leader saluted and said, "We are here on orders from the Jingzhao Prefecture to escort General Jin to Chang'an."

Jin Chunqiu bowed again and said, "Thank you for your help."

The bad guy retreated to the door and closed it.

Because the Tang Dynasty was the best place on earth, Jin Chunqiu felt that he did not need anyone to escort him, so he left Silla alone, passed Liaodong and came here without encountering any robbers.

There were robbers in the Tang Dynasty a long time ago, but they are no longer seen now. Jin Chunqiu feels that the current Khan is very strict and will not tolerate the appearance of robbers. He brings all the people into workshops to work and brings all the idle people into the army.

Therefore, there are no robbers.

The next day, drums sounded on the ship and people began to board. Jin Chunqiu once again boarded the ship bound for Luoyang.

On the boat, Jin Chunqiu asked, "Can't we go directly to Chang'an?"

The boatman said, "Chang'an is upstream of Luoyang. Our boat is too big to go up there."

“Can I go up there later?”

“This river cannot flow backwards.”

The boatmen around also laughed.

It is very convenient to go down to Luoyang from the canal. The boat uses the river and sails to go straight downstream. The speed of the boat is getting faster and faster, and it sails into an open river channel. The river water in front of us suddenly becomes much clearer and the river surface is calmer.

The blue sky and white clouds are reflected on the mirror-like water surface.

There are still many small boats parked on the river here. Some people are fishing here, and some are drunk on the boats. People are so carefree.

Along the way, Jin Chunqiu saw many prosperous river banks and groups of people on the river banks.

This is the Tang Dynasty. If you don’t come here for three to five years, it will have a new look. The same was true of Guanzhong in the past.

An hour later, the boat left the calm river and sailed into a narrower river channel again. The river was turbulent and the boat was moving faster.

(End of this chapter)