Chapter 55: Think about being the crown prince

Want to borrow money from me?

Is this product looking for a fight?

Li Shimin raised his eyebrows and looked at Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian smiled: "It's not to build a ship, the money is not enough, so I came to my father for support." ”

"You don't have enough money?"

Li Shimin can know that Li Chengqian and his eldest grandson Wuji are in partnership to do business.

The piles of copper coins were almost filling Li Chengqian's treasury.

This product actually told himself that he had no money?

Li Shimin threw the fold on the table: "What's the matter, you kid is itchy and wants to be beaten?" ”

As he spoke, his gaze was still scanning back and forth over Li Chengqian's ass.

Since the last time he mistakenly beat Li Chengqian, he regretted it, he hadn't beaten Li Chengqian for a long time.

It's a bit ticklish on this hand.

Seeing this, Li Chengqian subconsciously covered his ass and took two steps back.

"Father, it's not like you don't know how expensive it is to build a ship."

"Just by buying some iron pear wood, I have more than a thousand copper plates."

It cost more than 1,000 copper plates to make just six propellers.

If you continue to do it, won't you have to spend all the savings you have in your treasury?

Wouldn't that be a poor bastard again?

Li Chengqian said bitterly: "Father, my good father, you can support me with some money." ”

"Want to ask me for money to build a ship?"

Li Shimin looked at Li Chengqian with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Li Chengqian nodded hurriedly.

Who knew that Li Shimin's smile was even worse: "It's easy to say if you want money, tomorrow I will issue an edict to make you the prince, so that you will have money." ”

???

What?

Crowning himself the crown prince?

Li Chengqian took two steps back and smiled bitterly: "Father, this can't be a joke." ”

"Who said I was joking?"

Li Shimin directly threw the song on Li Chengqian's body.

"See for yourself."

Li Chengqian suspiciously flipped through the fold, and saw that it was written the so-called nonsense that the country cannot be without reserves for a day, and finally named Li Shimin to make himself the crown prince.

Isn't this forcing yourself to die?

Li Chengqian hurriedly showed annoyance: "This is simply nonsense. ”

"The Tang Dynasty is thriving under the governance of my father, and I still need the prince to help share the government affairs?"

"Father, you can't believe the words of this villain, so you can make the crown prince."

Seeing Li Chengqian's appearance of being sincerely afraid of him as the crown prince, Li Shimin rolled his eyes.

"Give you time to take a sip of tea, and get out of here."

"It's okay, don't bother me!"

"No, Father, Qian ......"

"What money?"

"If you don't want money, you won't give your life, get out of here."

Li Shimin waved his hands indiscriminately and was about to drive people away.

Li Chengqian said bitterly: "Even if my father doesn't give money, he has to give me a place to build a ship." ”

"Such a large open space in the northern suburbs is not enough for you to build a ship?"

Li Shimin continued to pick up the next book and said, "Hurry up and get out of here, otherwise I will break your legs." ”

After speaking, no matter what Li Chengqian said, Li Shimin ignored it.

Li Chengqian hated it so much that the roots of his teeth itched.

Lao Tzu, the son of his own pit, is really the emperor of the pit.

But it's okay, I didn't come in vain today, at least the vacant land in the northern suburbs of Chang'an City belongs to me.

With a R&D site, you can save some money.

After Li Chengqian left, Li Shimin raised his head, and a smile of conspiracy succeeded on the corner of his mouth.

……

After that, Li Chengqian didn't want to make Li Shimin pay for anything, and devoted himself wholeheartedly to the great shipbuilding cause.

In order to apply the propeller to the hull, Li Chengqian made a lot of money.

The keel of the hull is made entirely of iron pear wood, which is not afraid of flooding, and the barrel of the hull is made of cedar.

In order to be able to apply the propeller, Li Chengqian and Li Xiaogong discussed and adopted the format of the future flat-bottomed boat.

At the suggestion of Li Xiaogong, a total of six four propellers with blades longer than half a meter were installed on the bottom of the boat, four on the rear side and two on the side.

In the cabin, there is a wooden bicycle similar to a spinning bike, and people pedal on it to generate kinetic energy.

Then the chain is driven, the chain drives the gear, the gear drives the chain lock, and finally the propeller.

On the day of the completion of the ship, Li Xiaogong and Li Chengqian were present.

Li Xiaogong looked at Li Chengqian's eyes, and he couldn't help but have a little more admiration.

I really underestimated this little guy.

……

Mid-September of the first year.

Before the epoch-making propeller boat was launched, Li Chengqian specially invited Li Shimin to come and watch the ceremony.

{Received Surprise +102......}

{Received Surprise +23......} from Eldest Sun Mowgli

{Received Surprise +25......}

Tang Chusan's hooligans, riding on this flat boat with a length of more than 50 meters and a width of more than 10 meters, were so shocked that they couldn't close their mouths.

When Li Shimin heard that Li Chengqian said that there was a ship that could travel 500 miles a day, he really felt that Li Chengqian was whimsical.

But now it seems that Li Chengqian is whimsical, and it is obvious that he is short-sighted.

Li Chengqian looked at Li Shimin triumphantly: "What's the matter, my father should fulfill your promise to me now, right?" ”

Isn't it true that you don't want to lose face?

Do you have to say it in front of so many people?

Li Shimin glared at Li Chengqian, and then cleared his throat.

"Ahem......"

"I will do what I say, but you don't have to talk about it all the time."

"I'm not afraid you'll forget."

Li Shimin looked at Li Chengqian with a high corner of his mouth.

What he did made Li Shimin even more deepen the idea of letting him be his successor.

"If you have this talent, don't you want to be a prince?"

"Isn't it a bit too wasteful?"

Although the words were not spoken, the look in his eyes really made Li Chengqian a little uncomfortable.

But his scheming city, after all, is not at the same level as Li Shimin, so he didn't see anything.

……

The morning of the second day.

Li Shimin put forward the policy of transferring grain from the south to the north in the court.

This time, the court directly turned the sky upside down.

The transfer of grain from the south to the north is not a trivial matter.

First of all, this is related to the livelihood of the entire Datang.

Secondly, the south-to-north grain transfer has always been there since ancient times, but this business has always been controlled by the family.

Now Li Shimin wants the imperial court to get involved, obviously to grab money from the southern family.

How could those ministers from a family make Li Shimin happy?

How could they give up the benefits they had gotten away?

It's just that this has long been in Li Shimin's expectations.

He had long known that Li Chengqian wanted to transfer grain from the south to the north, and this idea almost coincided with what Li Shimin wanted in his heart.

He had already begun to prepare for this.

However, it is easy to issue the order to transfer grain from the south to the north, but it is very difficult to implement it.

One of the main reasons is that there is no such fast means of transportation that can transport grain and grass from the south to the north.

The second is the family block.

Now Li Chengqian has come up with a fast means of transportation.

Is it still a matter of the family blocking it?

Li Shimin said slowly: "There is a huge difference in grain prices between the north and the south, if I can't balance the grain prices well, won't the people poke my backbone and scold?" ”

"Therefore, it is imperative to transfer grain from the south to the north."

"I have made up my mind, you Aiqing don't need to say it anymore."