Traveling across the heavens starting from the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 73

Chapter 73: Datang Coal Chamber of Commerce
In the history of the main world, Li Huaian didn't know whether there was heavy snow in the winter of the sixth year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, and he couldn't remember it clearly. He only knew that there would be floods, locust plagues, and droughts in the Tang Dynasty in the past few years.

Talk about ghosts and gods.

This shows how unworthy Li Shimin is.

None of this actually matters.

The important thing is that in the world of the Tang Dynasty, in the winter of the sixth year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, it was snowing in Chang'an City. Li Huaian got up and came to Cui Yu's side, looking at the scenery outside the window and murmuring to himself.

"This heavy snow is a perfect match for the Datang Coal Chamber of Commerce."

There was heavy snow in the sky.

It only takes a moment.

Pingkangfang at night seemed to be covered with a layer of white frost. Against the backdrop of the lanterns, the night of Pingkangfang in Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty looked particularly squinting.

In particular, in the surrounding flower buildings, windows were pushed open from time to time, and beauties leaned out of the windows to look at the snowy scenery. Even more daring, some beauties were just wearing a red or green gauze skirt and ran to the flower building. Next, chasing in the snowy night.

Some romantic literati even came outside the house with Mei Ji in their arms, leaning on the fence, holding wine, admiring the first snow in the sixth year of Zhenguan, seeming to be inspired by poetry, raising their glasses to the sky, wanting to Recite a poem.

Occasionally.

Cui Yu, who was standing by the window, met an acquaintance from the adjacent flower building. They didn't speak to each other and only toasted to each other.

Until the snow gets heavier and heavier.

Cui Yu looked at the snow scene outside and said to Li Huaian: "Brother Li, back in Wanhua Tower, I won Miss Ruoqiu with a poem. Although there is no oiran to win tonight, the snow scene is not bad."

Pointing to the snowy scene outside the window, the entire city of Chang'an, decorated with heavy snow and candlelight, made people feel hazy.

"Why not take advantage of the first snow of the year to compose a poem."

"Do you two gentlemen want to write poems?"

"Do you want me to order you to prepare pen and ink?"

"The slave family is honored to practice ink for these two gentlemen."

When several beauties in the room heard that Cui Yu invited Li Huaian to write poems, they hurriedly came forward to serve him and asked if they needed someone to prepare some records such as pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

As for Li Huaian and Cui Yu, the two generous benefactors tonight.

The girls in this room, whether they were dancers, singers, or beauties, were all extremely emotional and enthusiastic, and they tried their best to please her.

"Need not."

Li Huaian rejected Meiji's kindness, and then shook his head at Cui Yu and said: "No, the original poem was written entirely because it felt fresh when I came to the brothel for the first time, and because I don't write poems, I didn't feel involved, so I wrote that poem." A poem.”

"There's no need to compose any poems today, it's better to drink."

It's not that he's afraid of poetry.

After all, I haven’t forgotten all the three hundred Tang poems in my mind.

The reason why he didn't want to agree to Cui Yu's request to write a poem was simply because he was lazy. He didn't want to write a poem just for a snowy scene. This was not a poetry conference. He had to write a poem just to see the scenery to highlight his literary talent.

It's not as fun as drinking.

Besides, for him, among the beauties in this room, which one is better than composing poetry?

then.

Li Huaian left the window, sat back on the chair, hugged Mei Ji, and continued drinking.

That's right.

Wu Dayong had long brought the business of Lao Wu Ji Furniture Shop to the flower building in Pingkangfang. Now the flower building in Pingkangfang is filled with beds, tables, chairs and benches from Yishui Lao Wu Ji Furniture Shop.

Otherwise, this flower house must not be of high quality and worthy of the nobles in Chang'an City.

No matter what.

Cui Yu was really drunk.

He had to pester Li Huaian to write poems.

"Brother Li, here is a poem. You see, I am about to be transferred to Luoyang. I don't know how long it will be before we meet again. How about giving me a poem?"

"That's your reason."

Li Huaian was a little helpless, pondered for a moment, and reluctantly agreed, who made Cui Yu a good friend of his in the Tang Dynasty world.

"I can give you one, but you can't be picky."

"Okay, I promise not to pick. I want whatever brother Li gives me."

Cui Yu also knew that he would give up when he was ready, and he was very happy to wait for Li Huaian to write a poem.

Li Huaian searched in his mind, raised the corners of his mouth unnoticeably, and said: "It's like a blur on the river, black holes on the well, white on the yellow dog, and swollen on the white dog."

Done.

Li Huaian looked at the stunned Cui Yu.

"This is the poem I gave you, okay, that's it."

For a long time.

Only then did Cui Yu come back to his senses.

"This poem."

Aftertaste for a long time.

"What he wrote makes so much sense that I have nothing to say."

Li Huaian also smiled.

It doesn't make sense.

It makes sense, so much so that Cui Yu, a young man from an aristocratic family, started to curse.

After hearing this poem, even the beautiful girl next to her smiled coquettishly and her branches trembled, regardless of her good looks.

"This poem by Lang Jun is so interesting. I like it."

"The slave family also likes it. Lang Jun's poem is right. But after it doesn't snow, the white dog's body will be swollen, and the yellow dog's body will be white."

"No way, yellow dogs are not only white on their bodies. From what I see, black dogs are also white on their bodies, and spotted dogs are also white on their bodies."

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Several beauties were doing compliments.

Cui Yu heard this, hugged Mei Ji in his arms, and added with a smirk.

"Haha. Not only black dogs, but also white dogs if I put you in the snow."

Immediately afterwards, Na Meiji stopped complying.

"No way, sir, if you don't put it in the snow, your servants will be in vain."

"Hahaha"

This sudden tenderness made Cui Yu burst into laughter.

Wait until you laugh.

Cui Yucai expressed dissatisfaction with Li Huaian.

"Brother Li, I don't want this poem. You have to write a new one. Taking this poem out will make me lose face. It's a white dog or a yellow dog. It's easy for people to laugh at me."

"Ok."

Just kidding.

Li Huaian put away his mind and prepared to write a new poem, which was really a farewell poem to Cui Yu.

"The north wind blows and the white grass breaks on the ground, and snow falls in the twelfth lunar month in Chang'an. Suddenly, like a spring breeze coming overnight, thousands of pear trees bloom."

"Brother Li, does this poem have a name?"

"In the winter of the sixth year of Zhenguan, Bai Xuege sent Cui Yu away from Chang'an."

This poem is adapted from "Bai Xuege Sends Magistrate Wu Back to the Capital" written by Cen Shen of the Tang Dynasty.

However, he only said part of it, and only changed "Hu Di August" to "Chang'an twelfth lunar month".

There is still a lot left unsaid later.

Because the latter part is not suitable for Cui Yu, it can be seen from the name of this poem that it is a poem dedicated to a military commander. The remaining verses also describe many words about military commanders. Cui Yu is a civil servant in the Ministry of Personnel. Not very suitable.

Wen Chao Gong as a temporary guest.

Li Huaian didn't want to bother revising the poem. He just revised the content to suit Cui Yu, a civil servant, so he just said the first two sentences to save trouble.Even if it’s just two lines of poetry.

It can also be passed down to future generations.

This can be seen from Cui Yu's state at this time, and the power of this poem.

"Brother Li."

Cui Yu let go of Mei Ji in her arms, raised her wine glass solemnly, and drank it all in one gulp.

"It's unspoken."

Li Huaian raised his glass and took a drink with him.

The beautiful lady next to her became even more rosy after reading this poem. She thought she had met two generous noble patrons, but unexpectedly she turned out to be two generous literati patrons.

How could this not make these beauties moved and turn into boneless chicken demons?

Start pouring wine diligently.

The dancer kept twisting her waist.

Warm up the atmosphere in the room.

the next day.

Li Ruoqiu and her maid Taohua left the Shouchang Hou Mansion with their carriage early in the morning and waited outside the Changchun Tower.

After seeing Li Huaian and Cui Yu coming out of Changchun Tower, they immediately stepped forward and, together with the maid Taohua, put on Li Huaian the black fur cloak that had been heated by the stove.

This cloak is naturally the one made by Li Lizhi, and it is also one of Li Huaian's favorite cloaks.

"Mr. Sir, put on a big cloak. It's just snowed heavily so you don't catch a cold."

Li Huaian felt the temperature on the fur cloak and expressed concern for Li Ruoqiu and the maid Taohua.

"Have you two arrived already?"

"No, Nujia and Taohua have just arrived."

"It's snowing so heavily, just wait for me to go back at home."

"No, the Nujia and Taohua are both worried about the husband and are waiting at home. It's better to come here to pick up the husband. It will give you peace of mind."

Li Ruoqiu looked concerned but disobedient, prompting Li Huaian to hold her in his arms and pull the maid Taohua beside her into her cloak.

"Come on, let's go home."

"it is good."

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Huaian took Li Ruoqiu and his maid Taohua to get into the carriage and go home.

"Hey."

Cui Yu watched for a long time and saw that no one was paying attention to him, so he quickly stopped Li Huaian who was leaving.

"You three can't be so heartless."

"Brother Li, we were together last night, you can't just leave me here."

"My home is not close to Pingkangfang. It's very cold today."

"Without."

Li Huaian saw a carriage approaching at the corner of Changchunlou Street, so he said without looking back: "I paid for the drink last night, and I also gave you a poem. You still want to ride on my car today, just dream." "

"I'll freeze you to death."

His carriage is not big and cannot hold Cui Yu. It can only hold him, Li Ruoqiu, and the maid Taohua.

"Brother Li, you are so heartless. Last night, we almost fell asleep together. If you hadn't been unwilling to do anything, I didn't expect you to abandon me today."

"It's okay, it's okay, you thin lover, let's go."

Cui Yu stood there and waved to Li Huaian.

"whee."

Li Ruoqiu couldn't help laughing at Cui Yu's slightly naughty words, and had to turn around to explain to Li Huaian, pointing at the approaching carriage.

"Cui Langjun, it's not that my husband won't take you. If I'm not mistaken, that carriage should be the carriage from Cui Langjun's house."

"Hey, it really is."

Cui Yu looked in the direction and saw a carriage approaching. He could tell at a glance that it was his Cui family's carriage.

"Okay, I'm here to pick you up, you can go."

I saw someone coming to pick me up.

Cui Yu immediately resumed her posture as a member of a noble family and signaled Li Huaian to leave quickly and not to be an eyesore here.

"Mr. Lang, my wife was afraid that it would be difficult for him to return home, so she specially asked her servant to bring the palace carriage to pick him up."

"understood."

Say goodbye to Cui Yu.

on the carriage.

Because of the heavy snowfall last night, Li Huaian asked Li Ruoqiu about the 'Datang Coal Chamber of Commerce'. All matters related to the 'Datang Coal Chamber of Commerce' were left to Li Ruoqiu from beginning to end.

"Ruoqiu, what's going on with the Coal Chamber of Commerce and Lao Wutou's shop?"

"Back to Langjun, everything is ready. When I went out this morning, the Nu family specially passed by our shop. Because of the snow last night, the Coal Chamber of Commerce and Lao Wuji Iron Shop have arranged for people to open the door in advance. .”

"I have seen that at the entrance of these two shops, people have been coming to ask questions one after another in the morning."

"Ah That's good."

Li Huaian was relieved. Fortunately, both the 'Datang Coal Chamber of Commerce' and Lao Wuji Iron Shop had made preparations in advance. Otherwise, the heavy snow might have affected the opening of the business.

After all, these two shops are complementary to each other in the early stage.

Now open as normal.

I don’t know if Li Shimin will give him any reward.

For example, Yingqiu County (Channgle) was awarded to him as a food fief.

After such a long time, with the help of Wu Xing Qi Wang and Li Lizhi, the mining area of ​​Balin Stone was already in his hands, and the Fengmen Qing Mining Area of ​​Qingtian Stone was also in his hands. Together with the Hou of Shouchang County He has collected the four major seal stones in the country, namely Tianhuang Stone's Shoushan Mountain and Chicken Blood Stone's Yuyan Mountain.

Moreover, Li Huaian borrowed people from Princess Li Lizhi's mansion and sent people to the area to start mining, waiting for the mined ore to be transported back to Chang'an City.

On the way passing the 'Datang Coal Chamber of Commerce'.

Li Huaian opened the curtain of the carriage and saw that people from Chang'an City were already pulling their family's human-powered flatbed trucks and began to inquire about the coal sold by the coal shops of the 'Datang Coal Chamber of Commerce'.

Some people in Chang'an City also loaded some purchased briquettes and honeycomb briquettes on flatbed trucks and drove them home. It was easy to see that there was an iron stove and several chimneys mounted on the flatbed trucks.

Except for people who go to the store to buy coal.

The 'Datang Coal Chamber of Commerce' has also launched a delivery service, with a horse-drawn carriage pulling a cart of briquettes and briquettes delivered directly to your home, but additional delivery fees are required.

Whether it is the distribution service of the 'Datang Coal Chamber of Commerce', or briquettes and briquettes.

Naturally, he told me everything.

Even though he never cared about the specific affairs of the Datang Coal Chamber of Commerce, he controlled the entire Datang Coal Chamber of Commerce behind the scenes through Li Ruoqiu.

He regulated the operations of the 'Datang Coal Chamber of Commerce' and personally ordered Wu Dayong to create tools for making briquettes.

Li Ruoqiu leaned on Li Huaian's shoulder and looked at the coal pullers passing by outside the carriage window. Every one of them had a smile on their face, and there was no sadness in the past when they faced the difficult winter.

"Mr. Lang was really kind to the people of Tang Dynasty."

Li Huaian lowered the curtains of the carriage and said calmly: "I can't speak of great kindness. I'm not that kind. I just want to make money from the people of the Tang Dynasty."

“When people in the Tang Dynasty buy coal, aren’t they giving me money?”

"Everyone gets what they need."

In this regard.

Although Li Ruoqiu didn't refute, she didn't feel that way in her heart. Only Lang Jun could earn this money, and outsiders didn't have the ability to make money.

Coal has been around since ancient times.

It was not just Lang Jun who allowed the people of Tang Dynasty to use coal, which was cheaper than charcoal, in winter.

especially.

She knew that the coal burned longer than the charcoal, which invisibly saved the people of Tang Dynasty a lot of money.

(End of this chapter)