Such things as presenting birthday gifts happen every year. Although His Majesty Li Er said that there is no need for it, once the palace banquet is held, those who should present gifts still have to offer them.
Fortunately, His Majesty Li Er usually doesn't show his preferences very much, and he nods and accepts as long as it is delivered, so there has been basically no comparison of birthday gifts over the years.
After Li Yuanying was qualified to present gifts in public, this situation had a faint tendency to change.
If you want to talk about who loves making trouble the most when it comes to birthday gifts, it must be Li Yuanying. He often either makes a big noise or presents something out of the ordinary, which attracts the attention of the audience. Involuntarily attracted to him.
Then, for some reason, their money was no longer their own, either they were tricked into buying tea, or they were tricked into paying for roads and bridges.
Last year, it was even worse, plausibly saying that the entire Tang Dynasty belonged to His Majesty Li Er, and the birthday gift had to be found overseas to be sincere, so he just fooled them into buying a sea-going ship. They are thousands of miles away from the sea, and somehow they booked a sea boat! Up to now, they have given the money, and the boat has not been seen yet!
This guy is really evil.
This year everyone has made up their minds not to be influenced by Li Yuanying.
So what did he say last year, this year everyone still presents the same as previous years, no one really listened to Li Yuanying's flickering to go overseas to look for it! Therefore, as long as one's will is firm enough, no matter what Li Yuanying's envoy sends this time, they will never be fooled!
Many people silently exchanged glances with their familiar companions, and they all saw the determination of the other party.
At this time, the envoys of the vassal king came forward to offer gifts one after another, and it seemed that there was nothing new, and the people sitting in the corner had already started to yawn quietly. It wasn't until someone reported, "The envoy of King Teng presents a gift", that everyone instantly became energetic and looked at the chubby envoy of King Teng in unison.
The chubby envoy of King Teng had studied etiquette in order to present gifts to the palace, but with so many people staring at him, he was nervous at first! He secretly recited "Don't lose face to Your Highness", "Don't lose face to Your Highness", "Don't lose face to Your Highness" in his heart, repeated three times before he finally calmed down.
He stepped forward and introduced Li Yuanying's three gifts to His Majesty Li Er.
The first one was Li Yuanying's letter. There was nothing to say, it was stuffed bulging, and looked very thick. The only special thing was that there was a gold silk stamp with a face value of ten coins on the envelope and a red stamp stamped by him himself. Stamping this stamp means that the stamp has already been used and cannot be used again next time.
The second item is a set of gold thread stamps. Although the gold thread is embedded on it, it looks very exquisite, but it is too shabby compared to the priceless birthday gifts of other vassal kings.
Even if you carve it out of gold, it's more valuable than this, right? What's the matter with embedding gold wires that are so much smaller than a hair? Thank you for taking it out!
For a while, many people at the palace banquet felt that Li Yuanying was too perfunctory this time.
The envoy of King Teng is the person in charge of the Imperial City Post Office, and he has already memorized the operation mode of the post office by heart. Stamps are related to his job, so he explained the use of the stamps to everyone.
This is a way for the common people to spend very little money to send letters out. Within the six stations, they will definitely arrive the next day, and the time outside the six stations will increase according to the distance. Everyone's letter will definitely be ready to arrive at the corresponding post office!
When the envoy of King Teng talked about the comfort, he completely forgot to be nervous, and revealed the last hole card. He unfolded the map of the straight road marked with the station: "His Royal Highness has never slackened for three years and a day, raised materials from all parties, organized all parties to expand the straight road, this winter, the straight road from Chang'an to Mount Tai has been fully connected, and the whole journey is wide. It is flat enough for several horse-drawn carriages to drive side by side, and there are 60 post offices and mailboxes along the way. They are all equipped next to the post station. The letter from His Royal Highness King Teng was sent back to the capital in a straight line!" The envoy of King Teng straightened his waist proudly. pole, and respectfully turned sideways to show His Majesty Li Er the blank space on the map, "Please give this straight road a name, Your Majesty!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone understood that this year's gift was once again Li Yuanying's first prize, and the envoy of the king of Wei who had spoken out just now wanted to pretend that he didn't exist.
Daring lovers don't just send a few pieces of paper, but a straight road leading to Mount Tai!
This is a big deal, all the rare treasures today may not be able to be cultivated, who can compare with him? !
As everyone expected, His Majesty Li Er was really happy.
If His Majesty Li Er had any wish, it would undoubtedly be to take a trip to Mount Tai. There was a little flaw in his process of ascension to the throne. Although he didn't intend to completely cover it up, he also wanted to prove that his ascension to the throne was done by heaven, not by usurpation.
Even though Wei Zheng and the others always said that as long as he works hard, works diligently and loves the people, future generations will always praise him as an "eternal Mingjun" when they comment, but they have repeatedly mentioned that going to Mount Tai was blocked for one reason or another, and His Majesty Li Er was still very unhappy. . Could it be that God really didn't want to admit him that much
On his birthday, when he heard that Li Yuanying had really cultivated the straight way, His Majesty Li Er was so refreshed, he didn't care about showing his joy, he clapped his hands and laughed on the spot: "Okay!" He got up and walked out of the throne, asking someone to fetch a pen and ink .
Li Yuanying ordered people to operate Fengtai Building to support the road construction. His Majesty Li Er thought for a while and wrote the word "Fengtai" in the blank space.
A good harvest means a good harvest, and Thailand means Aetna.
The common people will be safe when they meet a good year, and the people will be safe when they are safe. These two words have a very good meaning, so there is no need to change it!
Li Yuanying was the youngest among the brothers, and he was already at the bottom of the list. His Majesty Li Er gave the name and gift to the end.
His Majesty Li Er was obviously in a very good mood, he smiled and clapped his palms for people to play music, all the ministers rose up in response, and accompanied His Majesty Li Er to dance happily to the music.
After a palace banquet, the monarch and his subjects were extremely happy. His Majesty Li Er was half drunk, and did not go to any of the concubines. Instead, he returned to the bedroom and sat quietly on the large dragon bed.
He sat back and forth for a long while, looking at the empty bedroom and thinking, I didn't quite believe the Guanyin maid when you said that the child Yuanying was different, but looking at it now, you still know how to judge people, this child is indeed different. Many people will say nice words, but very few people actually do it. This kid always keeps his word, making people afraid that he will never grow up, and that he will grow up too soon.
All kinds of things in the past were turbulent in his mind. After a long time, His Majesty Li Er sighed. He said to the bright candles in the room: "Guanyin maidservant, you have been away for so many years, why have you never come to my dream."
There was still silence in the house, only the candle flame swaying gently with the night wind.
His Majesty Li Er didn't say any more, and took a break from drinking.
A good night's sleep, no one sleeps.
Li Yuanying asked people to present gold silk stamps at the birthday banquet of His Majesty Li Er. Everyone thought it was very beautiful. After going back to inquire, there were a thousand sets of gold silk stamps. Li Yuanying used one set for himself and dedicated one set to His Majesty Li Er. , there are nine hundred and ninety-eight sets left! Because these 998 sets of gold stamps are inlaid with gold threads, the price has doubled and doubled and doubled compared to ordinary stamps. To put it bluntly, you can take away one set for 100 coins. The price is clearly marked. Start early.
If you think it is too expensive, you can buy ordinary stamps to go back. Ordinary stamps have both collection value and use value. It only costs fifty-five yuan, and the price is very reasonable. It doesn’t cost much to buy eight sets of ten sets!
Compared with buying a boat, repairing roads and building buildings, one hundred stamps is indeed very small, and you can immediately take home the same gold silk stamp of His Majesty Li Er! It doesn't seem like it's a scam if you pay for it? After thinking about it, everyone decided to buy a set, and they even felt a little inexplicably disappointed: This year, Li Yuanying only wanted to steal this little money from them
The most important thing in Chang'an is rich people. As soon as I heard that it was dedicated to His Majesty Li Er as a birthday gift, which was very popular with His Majesty Li Er, I went to order it as soon as the post office opened the next day.
Before noon, the Huangcheng Post Office had already sold out all the gold stamps, and also sold a lot of ordinary stamps. The person in charge laughed so hard that his eyes were squinted, and he made nearly 100,000 coins as soon as he opened the business. Who can have this ability
Of course, the purpose of the post office is not to make money.
Li Yuanying told them when they participated in the training at the academy that the purpose of their existence is to send letters to every corner of Datang in the future. As long as there is a place where the flag of Datang is flying, they can deliver the letter on time. They want to tell people everywhere that they are a part of the Tang Dynasty, no matter whether they live on the high mountains or deep in the grasslands, as long as they are willing to learn the Mandarin of the Tang Dynasty and enter the neighboring towns, they can be with them. Send news to relatives and friends anywhere in Datang.
In the future, they may still send letters to the Western Regions and overseas—and send letters to all the places they have discovered or have not yet discovered.
The road is very long, and they may not see that day coming, but they are the ones who will kick it off.
Although now they are only doing things that others seem to be thankless and not profitable, but if they do this thing well, someone will definitely remember them in the future!
Li Yuanying didn't let him say these words in public, but everyone who heard them firmly remembered them in their hearts. No matter how ordinary and ordinary people are, there will be moments when their blood boils, and there will be moments when they want to do something great and leave their names in history. This post office will be his wealth and life in the future, even if he lives directly in the post office, he still has to run it well!
The same idea appeared in the minds of the heads of post offices in various places almost at the same time.
Others are busy celebrating the new year, only they are rooted in the small post office and are busy, preparing for the official opening on the first day of the new year.
As the instigator of all this, Li Yuanying wanted to be lazy after arousing the enthusiasm of others. He thinks that those who are capable should work harder, and seeing that Wu Mei can do everything with ease, he quickly entrusts her with the overall planning work of the post office, and becomes the shopkeeper himself.
If she hadn't heard Li Yuanying's generous speech of "letting letters be received wherever the flag of the Tang Dynasty flutters", Wu Mei would have felt that he just messed with this post office on a whim. But now that she has heard Li Yuanying's words, Wu Mei can't take it as a joke, let alone let Li Yuanying succeed in hiding.
Wu Mei, Di Renjie and the others discussed a lot of ideas about building a comprehensive post office, and after a few days, they sorted out a very large plan and took it to discuss with Li Yuanying.
Li Yuanying was a little dazed.
He's just bragging, and sometimes he doesn't even know what he's talking about when he gets so excited. Did they listen so carefully and efficiently
Sometimes it is also a trouble for a small partner to be too capable!
Seeing Li Yuanying's troubled face, Wu Mei didn't urge her, but only asked Li Yuanying to look at the plan first. She also softly persuaded Li Yuanying, saying: "Anyway, it's just the planning stage. Don't rush to implement it, just take your time. If it is to spread to the whole country, it is beyond what we in Tengzhou can do. We can send the plan to the imperial court." Go, let them organize people to do it." If they do it with one hand, some people in Chang'an might not be able to sleep!
Li Yuanying didn't think too much about it, and when he heard Wu Mei's words, he immediately felt relieved, that's right, he doesn't have to do it himself, just throw it to his imperial brother and let his imperial brother worry about it. Li Yuanying immediately nodded vigorously: "No problem, I'll just watch."
Wu Mei's plan is quite comprehensive. First, I will polish what Li Yuanying said, and talk about the strategic significance of setting up a post office, what will help the people to naturalize and strengthen the connection between places. They all feel very reasonable. Yes, that's right, he thought so, the post office is so important and so meaningful!
What's left is the specific plan of where to go in three years and where to go in five years. They don't have a detailed map in hand, so they can only draw up a rough plan.
After reading it, Li Yuanying felt that the details that should be detailed were detailed, and the places that should be vague were vague. It not only established the central idea, but also left room for the court to develop. It seemed that there was nothing that needed to be changed. Satisfied, he asked Wu Mei and the others to sign their names, and later he sent someone back to Chang'an.
As for whether Majesty Li Er will go down to do it or not, that's none of their business. Anyway, they are only responsible for coming up with an idea, leaving the rest to the emperor and Lao Fang to worry about!
Li Yuanying delivered the "Datang Whole Territory Mail Plan" to His Majesty Li Er, and whispered to Wei Shu in private: "Meiniang is too scary, I just want to be lazy, she actually wants to take this opportunity to give me more things Do it." Think about it, if he were to manage the national postal system, he would not only die of exhaustion, but also die of poverty, how could there be a guy like Mei Niang who knows everything and draws inferences from one instance in the world!
Wei Shu said: "You are the backbone of Tengzhou, how can you always think of being lazy?"
Li Yuanying said: "I don't think Tengzhou needs a backbone." He expressed his opinion, "I want a Tengzhou that can flourish without us. Think about it, Di Renjie and the others have A better place will definitely leave Tengzhou. Even if they don’t want to go, I will drive them to go; and we are human, we will always get old, and we will die when we get old. If Tengzhou has us here, it will be better. What will we do then? ?So, what I want is that Tengzhou can continue to get better and better even without us.”
Wei Shu felt that the most powerful thing about Li Yuanying was his mouth.
Besides Li Yuanying, who else in this world can pull out such a reason for being lazy? The most important thing is, knowing that he is talking nonsense, you have to admit that what he said is very reasonable! Prosperity managed by one person or a few people is difficult to last for a long time, and it is not easy to achieve long-term stability in Tengzhou.
Wei Shu said: "This is too difficult."
His Majesty Li Er once asked whether it was difficult for a hundred officials to guard the world after he ascended the throne. Her grandfather's answer at that time was "very difficult".
Li Yuanying's idea is similar to what His Majesty Li Er asked about "defending the world", the only difference is that he only needs to consider Tengzhou, while His Majesty Li Er has to consider the entire Tang Dynasty.
Li Yuanying was indeed talking casually. Seeing that Wei Shu was really thinking seriously, he immediately said seriously: "We will try and think slowly, and we will always come up with a solution."
If he really can't think of it, he won't think about it, what a simple matter!
Li Yuanying was happy.
Li Yuanying sent someone to send the thick nationwide postal plan to Chang'an, and his four-character long letter that was sent back to Beijing with the birthday gift happened to be unsealed. His Majesty Li Er leaned on his hand to read it with relish, and felt that Li Yuanying's praise was so wonderful and wonderful that he was very comfortable. Of course, he should share such a good letter with others.
The first one to bear the brunt was the living man who wrote the daily note to him with his attendant. His Majesty Li Er generously shared the letter with the living man and asked him to copy the letter into the daily note. The most important thing in daily life is to be detailed, specific, authentic and reliable. How can the correspondence between the two brothers not be recorded in detail
Living Lang: "..."
Living man wanted to beg for the bones, so he returned home when he was old.
Although he is still young, in his forties, he is in his prime, but since Li Yuanying started writing letters to His Majesty Li Er, most of his hair has turned gray, worry!
When Qi Jilang and Ren changed shifts, he ran to his old boss Chu Suiliang and cried.
Naturally, it was impossible to finish transcribing the 10,000-word flattering letter in front of His Majesty Li Er, so he had to bring it out to work overtime. When he saw Chu Suiliang, the living man almost burst into tears. How did this guy Li Yuanying come up with so many fancy flattery
Does he really want to transcribe this kind of stuff into the daily notes? !
Li Yuanying's letter was considered a semi-public existence among the courtiers, Chu Suiliang took it over and looked at it, and was silent for a while. After reading most of the page, Chu Suiliang could only comment objectively: "That's right, His Royal Highness Prince Teng's calligraphy has improved."
As for the content? Do not say worth mentioning!
The author has something to say:
Little Prince:? What? Want to copy it into the daily life notes