Tang Dynasty good doctor

Chapter 282 What's Under the Lake

Wang Pingan nodded and said: "Yes, no problem, then take it off and build it again! Landlord, you don't know, that old house is already uninhabitable. Not to mention the weeds and living beings inside, even the walls have collapsed, it is considered a building. If it is repaired, it will not be able to live in people, and one day the beams of the house will be broken, who dares to live in it!"

The landlord said: "According to the court law, people with titles, like you, have to pay for the construction of the mansion, but since the establishment of our dynasty, everything has been frugal, and the construction of the mansion has always been allocated for minor repairs. In other words, our household department can only give you 160 yuan to repair the house, and you have to pay the rest of the money yourself."

Wang Ping'an groaned, frowned and said: "Is there such a law? I don't know why. If the old house is to be built and reinhabited, it will cost at least... how much will it cost?" The cost of building a new house, He really doesn't know.

The landlord said: "I know that house, and I have also visited it. The place is big, not to mention the heavy cover, but it will cost six or seven thousand guan if it is repaired. It costs a lot. And if you want to make it smaller, you have to dig out the foundations in some places. You have to change it. The heights of the towers in the Earl’s Mansion and the towers in the Duke’s Mansion are different. The original foundation will not work. In this way, the project will be too big. You have to deal with the old one first, and then build a new one. It will cost more than building a new one directly. It will cost at least [-] to [-] yuan. !"

Wang Pingan frowned and said: "The foundation needs to be changed. This project is indeed a bit bigger, but the Ministry of Households can't just allocate 160 Guan to me, which is too little!"

He thought to himself, I just sent [-] coins to the official department, without blinking my eyelids, how happy I am to give you money, why is it so hard to get some from you, the public Money, shouldn't it be easier to get it!

The owner of the land heyed, and said: "160 guan is still too little. At the beginning, the household department only allocated [-] guan to the eldest grandson to build the country's mansion, and the rest of the money was paid by the eldest grandson himself. You alone Earl, if you allocate more money than the eldest grandson, I guess you, the Earl, will be the boss!"

Wang Pingan sighed, and said, "That's a lot!" He sighed, but thought in his heart, "It's only [-] to [-] guan. It's a little money. I'll give you [-] guan to make a beautiful one." Earl, maybe it will become a marquis' mansion in the future, and the public mansion, so the foundation must be laid well!"

The owner of the land was kind enough to persuade him: "Your Majesty Wang, according to the official's instructions, you can build a new house in another place, and you can get it! Choose a place with cheap land, such as Yonghefang, Yongpingfang, etc. It is ten times cheaper than Zhuque Street, and if you count the land money, you will only spend five or six thousand guan to build a big house. If you build a new one on Zhuque Street, it will still be built on the foundation of the old house. With this little salary of yours, I'm afraid you'll have to save it until you're a hundred years old!"

Wang Pingan heheed twice, and said, "It's only tens of thousands of guan, but I can afford it. My Zheliu Earl's Mansion is built there, and it won't change. You should file it!"

"Tens of thousands...just!" The landlord grinned and thought, "You really put it lightly. That's right, what do you do? You are a doctor. The two most profitable businesses in the world are: The one who robs the way, the second is the drug seller, you are the one who sells the drug, how can you have no money!"

I really feel envious and jealous in my heart. I made up my mind to go home and force my child to study, so I will study medicine. When the child grows up, I will also let him build a big house. I will follow the example of Lord Wang, make money hard, and then work hard. Flowers!

After finishing the rest of the formalities, Wang Ping'an left the household department and rode a horse to go back to Lingling Temple, but when he was halfway there, he was afraid of going back and playing tricks with a large group of sycophants, so he simply went to Zhuque Street and found After lunch, they went to Yang Xuangan's old house.

When he came to this house again, he inspected it more carefully. Last time, he was sloppy and didn't look carefully at some places.This house is indeed big enough, he turned around and went to the back house, and saw a big pond in the back garden, which was several tens of mu in size, even bigger than the pond in Changsun's mansion, it was simply It can be called a small lake.But this small lake has long since dried up, and the small lake has been filled. It is full of big stones, a lot of wood, and discarded bricks and tiles. It can only be seen from the outline that this place used to be a small lake with rippling blue waves!
Wang Pingan walked to the edge of the pond, shaking his head and sighing.It seems that this pond was filled on purpose. The boulders, rubble, and broken house beams inside were all piled up on purpose. Such a large lake was filled up abruptly, and it was piled up like this high!

Who filled this lake? Emperor Sui Yang?At that time, the world was in chaos, he seemed to be stuck in Jiangdu, and he didn't seem to come back, so naturally he didn't have the time to do this kind of thing.Was it Yang Xuangan's enemy who did it?Why should it be set on fire? It took so much effort to fill the lake, wouldn't it be full of food?

Then it can only be done by Yang Xuangan himself. He demolished his house in a proper manner, and then came to fill this lake. What does he want to do?If you are full, even if you are full, you will not do such a thing!

It's really inexplicable!
Wang Pingan walked slowly along the lake, and finally found a reason. If you want to make people die, you must first make people crazy.Before the rebellion, Yang Xuangan was already insane. He was afraid that his home would be taken over by others after he failed, so he simply destroyed it first, so that no one else could live in it!Very good, he achieved his goal, no one wants to live here anymore, this house has been deserted for decades!
Seeing such a large area of ​​rubble, Wang Ping'an really wanted to jump up and curse, no wonder Yuchi Gong didn't come to live, fear of violating the taboo was one thing, and on the other hand, how much money would it cost and how much manpower would be used!
To clean up this pile of rubble, I am afraid that thousands of people will have to be used, and the manpower will be transported out of the city, and it will have to be transported out of the city to throw it away. This is such a large project and how much it will cost.Where can he find so many people? Could it be that he went to Zuo Wuwei and borrowed an army?

The more Wang Pingan watched, the more angry he became, and he said angrily: "Yang Xuangan, old Mr. Yang, if you have nothing to do and are in a hurry, then you can rebel. Why are you filling the lake? You also filled your own lake. If you have the ability to fill the Qujiang Pond, then you have the talent, I admire you, now, I can only admire you!"

Flicking his sleeves, he left the dilapidated house, rode on the white dragon horse, and returned to the Inspiration Temple.

Back at Lingling Temple, I saw countless horses and chariots parked at the entrance of the temple. You can guess with your toes. They must be here to make friends. My surname is Wang, which is a common surname. It's not good that a large group of uncles and uncles will come out!

He was not in the mood to socialize, so he turned around, entered the temple through the back door, and went back to his bedroom directly.

Not long after, Di Renjie came, and he said: "Brother, it's hard to see you coming back from the back mountain gate. I know you don't like to make lies, so I sent the people in front of me, and then I came to see you. Hey, brother, you It seems that you are very unhappy, what happened, but when you reported it today, the officials made things difficult for you?"

Wang Pingan shook his head and said, "No, no one made things difficult for me... Yes, that Yang Xuangan made things difficult for me!" He told about his visit to the old house.

Di Renjie wondered: "Filling the lake with boulders and trees, are you sure it was Yang Xuangan who did it?"

Wang Pingan shook his head and said, "I guessed it. Don't think about the turmoil in those years. Even the emperor couldn't return to the capital. Who knows what happened in the capital. After so many years, there is no way to check it!"

He paused, and then said: "Forget it, if you want to dig that lake again, the project is too big, and it will cost a lot of manpower and financial resources. If it doesn't work, let's pile up the rubble and cover it with soil, and build a small mountain. Well, don't spend too much money!"

Di Renjie frowned, and said: "If something is abnormal, it is a demon. If Yang Xuangan really did it, why did he do it? Could it be that he is trying to cover up something? Is there anything under the lake that he doesn't want?" Something that people know?"

He remembered the rumors in the rivers and lakes again. Could it be that Yang Su's treasure was hidden at the bottom of the lake?This is safer than hiding in deep mountains and old forests. Who would have thought that there are countless treasures next to Zhuque Street?
Wang Pingan thought for a while and said, "Maybe there is, who knows!" He had never heard of the so-called rumors in the world, so naturally he would not think of treasures.

That Jianghu rumor is too outrageous, it was always told as a joke, it belongs to the category of nonsense, so even if Di Renjie had an idea in his heart, he didn't say it out, let's talk to Wang Pingan on the spot when the house is being repaired!
For the next two days, Wang Pingan thanked the guests behind closed doors, without seeing anyone, and concentrated on preventing smallpox in the temple. Everything he thought of was written down on paper as a reminder!

Time passed quickly, and this day was the day when Li Shimin proclaimed to heaven, the notices had already been posted everywhere in the streets and alleys, and the people in Beijing knew everything, everything!

The people agreed with this matter very much. The imperial court is determined to eliminate smallpox. This is something that everyone can benefit from. At least in the future, you don’t have to worry about your children getting smallpox and you can live with peace of mind. This is better than anything else!
Before dawn, Wang Pingan got up, and the two little girls helped him wash and eat, and then changed him into the earl's official uniform on the fourth rank.

Ke Lianwu said: "Master, when will you be able to wear the purple official uniform? Although the dark crimson official uniform is not bad, it doesn't look like purple!"

Wang Pingan said with a smile: "The dark crimson ones are already on, but the purple ones will be far away!"

Leaving the bedroom, I saw Di Renjie and Ouyang Li waiting outside the door, all well dressed, Zhao Bi and Lu Xiuzhi also came, unexpectedly, even Qiu Tingxuan came!

Wang Ping'an clapped his hands and said, "Today there are so many people here! Okay, let's go to Chengtian Gate together!"

Everyone got out of Lingling Temple, those who boarded the carriage got on the carriage, and those who rode horses rode to Chengtian Gate together.Although the sky is not yet bright, there are already many pedestrians on the street, and they are all walking in one direction, it seems that they are all going to Chengtianmen.

Some people on the road recognized Wang Pingan who was riding a white dragon horse, and greeted him loudly. Wang Pingan smiled and kept answering the people.

When he was on Suzaku Street, more people knew him. Even if they didn't know him, when they saw someone greet him, they would follow suit and wave to Wang Ping'an.Along the way, Wang Pingan greeted countless times, the muscles on his face almost stiffened from laughing, and he clasped his fists in return, his arms were sore!

The more you go north, the more people there are. When you reach the end of Zhuque Street and get on Chengtianmen Street, there are already a sea of ​​people. The people in Beijing learned that the emperor was going to sue the sky, so they came to watch one after another. I am also very concerned. After all, it is related to my own interests. Even if I have passed smallpox, if any of my relatives have passed it, even if it is not for myself, I have to listen for them.

On Chengtianmen Street, if you walk a short distance, you can’t go any further. Although it’s still dark, Chang’an has a population of millions, and there are many barbarians from other places. No matter how wide the street is, it can’t stand it now. 7 to [-] people, these many people, packed the long Chengtianmen Street so tightly that it was impossible for cars and horses to pass through.

Wang Pingan said: "I thought we came out quite early, but unexpectedly, there are tens of thousands of people who got up earlier than us!"

Zhao Bi poked his head out of the car and asked, "What should we do? There are so many people on the street, and there can't be more people in front of the palace gate. We can't get through now!"

But Di Renjie said: "It's easy, just go through the alley, but if you go through the alley, you may not be able to reach the main entrance of the palace, so you can only go to the side entrance, such as the Chongfu Gate."

Wang Ping'an said: "Then go to the alley and go to Chongfumen." He turned his horse's head, got off the street, walked eastward, from the edge of Taichang Temple to Taimiao, followed the path of Taimiao, and then walked to the Taimiao. Go north and rush to Chongfumen from here.

People could still be seen on the road, although they were still gathering at Chengtianmen, but the number was much smaller, Wang Pingan and his party were able to pass through, and after walking for [-] quarters of an hour, they arrived at Chongfumen.

There was no one in front of Chongfu Gate, it was quite far from Chengtian Gate, it was impossible for the common people to run here after listening to the emperor's warning.

Still far away, I heard someone shouting loudly at the palace gate: "Is it the Lord Wang, County Uncle Zheliu, Lord Wang Pingan?"

Hearing the shout, Wang Pingan looked towards the gate of the palace, and saw two big men running towards here, shouting as they ran, "Oh, it's really Lord Wang, do you still recognize our two brothers?"

It's not yet dawn, but from such a distance, you can see clearly that it's me, the eyes of the two of them are quite good!Wang Pingan got off his horse and said with a smile, "Of course I recognize it. It's Brother Meng and Second Brother Meng. Two brothers, have you been promoted?" He looked at the military uniforms of the two men, which seemed to be different from the last time, and estimated that they would be promoted. Come on!

It was Meng Dayan and Meng Xiaotian who came here. They were indeed promoted. There was no other reason, just because Wang Pingan mentioned them in front of the emperor and the crown prince, and then they were promoted!
Seeing Wang Pingan coming with several carriages, they hurried over to curry favor.Wang Ping'an is their great benefactor, if he doesn't come to see the ceremony, when will he wait?
(End of this chapter)