Li Kuan was summoned into the palace by Li Shimin.

Although Li Shimin did not agree to the proposal of the eldest grandson Wuji yesterday, when he went to bed at night, he felt that this proposal did not seem to be completely unreasonable.

Kuan'er can toss, and always comes up with something that ordinary people can't think of, and his ideas are very imaginative.

I just asked him what he thought, it didn't matter.

"Kuan'er, I heard that the prices of books and paper in Chang'an City have all plummeted during this time, but the sales volume has more than doubled compared with previous years. I didn't expect you to do it. ”

Li Shimin still remembers that Li Kuan talked to him about the monopoly of social resources by the family, and at that time Li Kuan felt that the first thing he could do was to reduce the price of books and paper, lower the threshold for reading, and let more people read books, but he didn't expect it to be done so quickly.

"This can be done thanks to the craftsmen of the paper and printing workshops. If Your Majesty wants to reward them, Weichen has the courage to beg Your Majesty to reward those craftsmen. ”

The status of craftsmen in the Tang Dynasty is higher than that of the Ming and Qing dynasties, but on the whole there is still no social status, and Li Kuan wants to take this opportunity to change it slightly.

"Okay, but the opposition between the DPRK and China is estimated to be very large, and you don't expect much reward." Li Shimin simply thought that Li Kuan was gathering the hearts of the craftsmen in the workshop, and agreed disapprovingly.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Li Kuan didn't expect to greatly improve the status of the craftsman all at once, so let's take it step by step.

"I came to you today because I wanted to hear your opinion. Have you heard about the disaster in Dengzhou Mansion? ”

"Nope!"

Li Shimin: ......

That's not the way the lines are!

"Your Majesty, is something happening in Dengzhou?"

"It's nothing, it's just that a hurricane destroyed a lot of houses some time ago, and some fishermen's fishing boats were also damaged.

Li Shimin took a deep breath and felt that it was better to follow his own ideas and go directly to the topic.

"Dengzhou faces the sea, and the entire Bohai Bay is like its back garden, shouldn't it be relatively wealthy?"

Li Kuan doesn't know much about the situation in many state capitals in Datang.

For example, Dengzhou, in his opinion, with the sea at his back, is like a treasure trove next to it.

In this era, fishery resources have not been overexploited, and they should be very abundant.

However, it is clear that he has a deep misunderstanding of the fishing industry of this era.

"Should you be richer if you face the sea? There are many state capitals facing the sea in the Tang Dynasty, and I don't see a few of them that are relatively wealthy, basically those counties are all lower counties, and they need relief from the imperial court every year. ”

Li Shimin looked at Li Kuan in surprise, this guy, won't he be at such a level, right?

Did I overestimate him?

"Huh? They can go fishing. ”

"Fishing? Hehe! It can be caught, but catching a day's fish is often not enough for a family to eat by themselves, and occasionally catch more than once, there is no way to store it, only waste, what is the point of fishing? ”

Hearing Li Shimin say this, Li Kuan probably guessed that he might not have enough understanding of the fishing level of Datang.

Otherwise, these coastal states and counties would not have lived so hard.

"Your Majesty, fishing is actually promising!"

"Forget it, you go back first, I have other things to deal with."

Li Shimin was a little disappointed, Li Kuan's performance today was a bit different from what he expected.

Li Kuan had no choice but to prepare to leave the palace when he heard this, but at this time, the system was "clanging" again, [You have a new task!] Please make Dengzhou into a prosperous city where everyone has food and clothes within a year]

Going to be done in a year?

What a broken task, this system is too pitiful, right?

"What happens if I can't finish it?" Li Kuan couldn't help but ask.

[If you can't complete the mission, you won't be able to redeem the mission item on the system for one year after that, and no new mission will be released]

Li Kuan was speechless for a while, this is a horse that doesn't eat grass and presses his head.

However, Li Kuan can also be regarded as having seen the pit attributes of the system, and his patience is much higher.

"Your Majesty, hand over Dengzhou to Weichen, and return you a prosperous Dengzhou City in a year!"

Li Kuan, who had already turned around and walked to the door of the main hall, suddenly turned around gorgeously and said something that made Li Shimin stunned.

"Kuan'er, after the disaster in Dengzhou, it is now a problem for the people to even fill their stomachs. Guanzhong Province has barely been able to enjoy good weather in the past two years, but there have been some droughts in Shandong one after another, and the food that the imperial court can support Dengzhou is very limited. You said that in a year, I will return to a prosperous Dengzhou......"

Li Shimin's meaning is very clear, and even in his opinion, it is already a very rare thing to be able to keep the people of Dengzhou from going hungry.

"Your Majesty, the difference between man and man is sometimes worse than the difference between man and dog. To Weichen said that the current officials in Dengzhou Mansion are all rice buckets, and they have no level at all. Entering Baoshan and returning empty-handed, he is talking about people like them. ”

Although Li Kuan has not yet fully figured out how to make Dengzhou prosperous within a year, some general ideas are available; As for Li Shimin's hope to solve the problem of eating for the people of Dengzhou, it is even more of a matter.

The Chu Wangfu had its own shipbuilding workshop, and he took a fleet to Dengzhou, and he had a way to ask for food from the sea.

"Kuan'er, you take back what you said now, I can still say nothing, once you are appointed as the governor of Dengzhou, take over the affairs of Dengzhou, if you don't do well, then I will let you go, and the imperial historians in the court will not spare you."

Li Shimin stared at Li Kuan with a serious face, although he hoped that someone could solve the problem in Dengzhou, but he didn't want to see Li Kuan fall into the pit.

"A gentleman's words, the horse is hard to chase! Wei Chen dared to say this in front of His Majesty, naturally there was a way. Besides, the worst thing is that there are so many industries in the Chu Palace, and if you buy grain and ship it over, it will not make Dengzhou starve to death on a large scale. ”

No matter what worries Li Shimin had, Li Kuan had to convince him to let him go to Dengzhou.

Otherwise, you won't be able to redeem items in the system for a year, which will be too inconvenient.

Whether it is a wool workshop or a paper workshop in Liangzhou, some chemicals are regularly exchanged from the system, if the task is not completed......

Li Kuan can't afford to lose!

"Since you say so, then I really sent you to Dengzhou!" Li Shimin saw that Li Kuan was so persistent, so he held the idea of treating a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and was ready to let Li Kuan give it a try.

"Your Majesty, please wait and see!"