Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 366
Hongyi Palace.

It was a bit cold in the palace, Li Yuan was wearing a torn sheepskin jacket, which had been patched a few times, his beard was messy and hadn't been trimmed, and there were still wine stains on the lapel of the overlord.

The ivory brand mahjong was clattering.

While pushing the cards, Qin Lang wondered what Li Yuan was up to again.

Now that the national treasury is full, and the emperor's internal treasury is even richer, it is impossible for Li Er to treat his father badly. In fact, when he was in charge of the transshipment department, he knew clearly that the imperial court would draw [-] guan of money to Li Yuan's Hongyi Palace every year. , In addition, other various expenses are not included, and filial piety is indispensable during the New Year and holidays.

It is impossible for Li Yuan to be short of money.

It's even more impossible to patch even a piece of clothing as it is now, and can't even afford to burn a charcoal.

Several prince consorts either played mahjong with the emperor on the cards, or watched from the sidelines, each of them was careful, Feng Shaoshi, Dou Dan, Chai Shao, Duan Lun, Yang Shidao, Xue Wanche, Dou Lu Huairang, Dou Fengjie, Qin Guozhong, Li Sili, Li Simo...
Qin Lang's opponent is Li Yuan, his opponent is Xue Wanche, and his opponent is Chai Shao.

Today is the Hongmen Banquet, Li Yuan is making trouble with the demon son, Xue Wanche has been staring at him with murderous eyes, wishing to kill him with his eyes, and Chai Shao has a smile on his face, but there is a hint of malice.

As for the other sons-in-law, except for the three Turkic sons-in-law who are quite polite, everyone else is also eccentric.

The starting hands suck.

Chai Shao played a nine-barrel, and Qin Lang was about to draw a card, but Xue Wanche immediately called out, and Qin Lang withdrew his hand.Li Yuan smiled and ate the eight barrels shot by Xue Wanche, and then hit a chicken.

When Qin Lang was about to draw a card, Xue Wanche touched it again, and this time he didn't touch it sooner or later. After Chai Shao played five barrels, he deliberately waited for it, but Xue Wanche didn't touch it, waiting for him to touch it. When the cards came, Xue Wanche called again.

Qin Lang endured it.

Who made Xue Wanche's head green now, covering Chang'an City with greenery? The entire Chang'an City knows how Princess Danyang cuckolded Xue Wanche.

Li Shimin is not easy to stop.

Xue Wanche has eight brothers, who were once known as the Eight Tigers of the Xue family. Although he is far away in Hangzhou, he doesn't know how Danyang in Chang'an City cuckolded him, and they all gave birth to a child for the bald donkey, and they almost gave birth.

Although in the end the bastard was killed and the bald donkey was also killed, this matter was not hidden from outsiders. There were rumors all over Chang'an, and there were even rumors that the child in Danyang was actually the child of Qin Lang who was pregnant. When the incident got out, Qin Lang found an unlucky monk to take the place of the dead ghost. Anyway, this kind of matter has never been heard in court.

Xue Wanjun and others told the brothers that this was unlikely.

But Xue Wanche now thinks everything is green. The more he looks at Qin Lang, the more he feels that this bastard has put on a green hat for him. After all, he personally caught Qin Lang and Danyang in bed, but they denied it that time. Therefore, no matter what they say now, Xue Wanche will not believe it.

Seven barrels touch!
Xue Wanche glanced at the two sticks in his hand, and the more he looked at them, the less pleasing they were. This green stick said, "Two sticks!"

"Touch!" Qin Lang took the Ertiao away.

Xue Wanche drew another card, and it turned out to be four green, and Xue Wanche played it without hesitation.

"And, green one color! Four dark engravings!"

Qin Lang picked up the three of a kind and pushed it down.

Two, three, four, and sixty-eight add fortune.

The whole hand is green and smooth without any variegation, and it is still a slam.

Xue Wanche looked at the two and three deals he had personally made to Qin Langpeng and the four and eight deals he had made earlier to get rich, the more he looked at it, the more annoyed he became, and he felt that this bastard did it on purpose.

His hands were clenched into fists, his eyes were already breathing fire.

Seeing that he might run away at any time, jump up and hurt people.

Chai Shao pushed the cards in front of him, "Sanlang is really good at it!"

The sound of clattering cards sounded, and Chai Shao said to Xue Wanche, "Why don't you play a few hands with your eldest brother-in-law?"

Feng Shaoshi belonged to Jingzhao Feng's family. His uncle Feng Shiji was the Secretary of the Ministry of War in the Sui Dynasty. As Li Yuan's eldest son-in-law, Feng Shaoshi once served as the Zuo Servant of Daxingtai in Eastern Shaanxi Province and assisted Li Shimin. He is now the Minister of Honglu.

"Old Xue has worked hard all the way back from Hangzhou, let me play a few games instead." Master Feng smiled and pulled Xue Wanche off the table, and gently pulled his lapel a few times.

Xue Wanche stared fixedly at Qin Lang, and finally stepped aside.

As soon as Master Feng came up, he took the initiative to adjust the easing atmosphere.

"Sanlang, the renovation of the three workshops that you recently carried out was quite a sensation in Chang'an. How many people paid attention to it. I heard that in such a large renovation of the three workshops, you can actually be a white wolf with nothing to spend. You can make a lot of money, it’s really a good way to make money, I’m so envious of us uncles who don’t understand economics!”

"Next time there is such a good thing, we have to bring us uncles together to play together. We are all a family, so we can't be born!"

Li Yuan seemed to be drowsy there.

"Qin Sanlang is not the same Qin Sanlang at the beginning. Looking at the new dynasty, how many holy family members surpass Qin Sanlang? Now Sanlang doesn't even come to my Hongyi Palace. It's not that he invited me again and again, even today. Come see me, a bad old man, do you think my Hongyi Palace is dilapidated and small? I know it too, but there is no way, after I abdicate, I can only live here." Li Yuan said.

Chai Shao answered.

"People in the world say that you, Saburo, have a good way of making money. You are the god of wealth. You have collected so much money for the imperial treasury, the emperor's internal treasury, and even the crown prince's east palace. How can you forget the emperor?" Chai Shao leisurely pushed the card, and said with a sneer, "Sanlang, my Tang Dynasty ruled the country with filial piety, and filial piety should be the first priority. Don't just honor your father-in-law, you have to honor your emperor's ancestors too!"

Master Feng laughed and slapped.

"Before I heard that His Majesty intends to build a new palace in the northeast of Taiji Palace. The name has been chosen. It is called Daming Palace. It is specially built for the Taishang Emperor to retire. It seems that Empress Changsun said that the Daming Palace was too expensive, so she stopped, I wonder if this is the case?"

Sitting there, Qin Lang couldn't help but feel a little unhappy seeing these guys teaming up to surround him.

In my heart, I understand why Li Yuan called him here today, and deliberately dressed in tatters, not even burning charcoal.This is to change the palace to live.

It is also human nature for the Supreme Emperor to want to live in a big palace.

What's more, from the founding emperor to being imprisoned in this other palace, this sense of loss must be huge, especially seeing Li Shimin sitting on the emperor's throne more and more steadily, and even came from behind. It only took more than a year. Li Yuan's mentality really collapsed when he surpassed his nine years of hard work.

In his heart, it might be that he didn't secretly hope that Li Shimin would screw up.

But now Li Shimin is doing extremely well.

Congratulations from all directions.

Jieli has surrendered.

Li Yuan was very unconvinced, but he couldn't go anywhere or do anything other than being trapped in this other palace, and his son kept sending beautiful women into the palace.

If you eat too much meat, you will get tired, and if you have too many beauties, your body will not be able to bear it.

Li Yuan is almost sixty years old. Over the past year, he drank his sorrows and indulged in sensuality, which made his body collapse even more.

Beauty is no longer attractive to him now.

He felt more and more that this Hongyi Palace was a prison.

Even in prison, he would like to make a bigger cell.

The son's treasury is full and the internal treasury is rich, why can't he build a new palace for him?

"Sanlang, you are so capable, can you build this Daming Palace for me? I won't let you build it for nothing. I will give you one hundred thousand coins, plus the 1 taels of gold I have accumulated over the years. How about I repair this Daming Palace?"

Li Yuan did not play according to the cards, and asked Qin Lang.

Qin Lang had actually seen the design drawings of the Daming Palace. Before he was in charge of the Transshipment Department, as the Minister of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin proposed the plan to build the Daming Palace, but later Qin Lang objected, the Empress Changsun also objected, and many ministers objected , Li Shimin temporarily shelved the plan.

The designers of the Daming Palace were Yan Lide and Yan Liben brothers. In fact, Yan’s mother Yanmei and other Yan family members worked together to design the new palace.

The entire Daming Palace is actually very grand in design, not much worse than the Taiji Palace, so if it is really built, the cost must be extremely astonishing.

The specifications of various materials are extremely high, such as the beams and columns of the palace, as well as the pillars, foundation stones, floor tiles, etc., all of which cannot be supplied by Guanzhong, and have to be cut and transported from the distant Jiangnan or even Bashu. It will be very labor intensive.

Back in the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian built the Daxing Palace in Daxing City, and later the Renshou Palace, and Yang Guang built the Luoyang Palace, all of which recruited millions of civilian husbands.

Not to mention, to build a palace, there must be special glazed tiles and gold bricks.

1 taels of gold can now be exchanged for about 13 guan, plus 23 guan, Li Yuan’s private money is only [-] guan Kaiyuan Tongbao, which is not enough even for materials, let alone transportation and labor Fee these.

But now that Li Yuan has said this, it cannot be refused.

"If the Supreme Emperor wants to build the Daming Palace, money is actually only secondary. It's just that such a large project requires extremely precious materials and requires a lot of labor. It cannot be completed in a short time."

"I can wait. Anyway, I don't think I'll die in a year or two. You can build a palace for up to three years. It won't take five, six, seven or eight years, right?" Li Yuan stared at Qin Lang, "If you're worried about the emperor, then I can go to Erlang and say, I am his father, and I want to live in a new house, he is not allowed to show filial piety, there is no reason to refuse, right?"

Having said that, Qin Lang had no choice but to answer Li Yuan first.

"I'm going back to make plans!"

Qin Lang didn't quite understand Li Yuan, why he insisted on wrestling with Li Shimin, Hongyi Palace is not good, you can change to other palaces, besides Chang'an, even in Gyeonggi, there are many Sui Dynasty palaces, etc., in fact The conditions are much better than Hongyi Palace, and now Li Shimin is probably willing to let Li Yuan live there.

Why do you have to wrestle with the emperor?
Li Yuan said, "If the money is not enough, let Erlang make up for it. I gave him a country, and now as long as he returns me a Daming Palace, this is not too much to ask for!"

(End of this chapter)