The merchants of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youji did not wait for the caravan from the Turks, they were all puzzled.

Li De got the news that since Li De sent people to attack the Turks, Shibi Khan led people to flee and carried out a major purge of the Turkic tribes.

Since then, annexation and expansion have been, and where there are caravans, the former caravans and the idle Turks are now warriors.

Naturally, trade outside the borders could not be done.

After the situation appeared, Li De did not take the news lightly, but asked the sixteen states of Youji to step up the completion of the handover and talent selection and recruitment plan.

In order to raise funds, Li Derang Weili spread the news that Youzhou City would hold a large-scale cattle and horse operation, which was simply to sell cattle, horses and livestock.

The Sui State had a great demand for horses, especially cavalry, and the military department attached great importance to this time, and also sent people to Youzhou after hearing the news.

In a few days, Youzhou City was lively, merchants from all over the world, some people came with cattle, sheep and horses, some people came for the wine made by Li De, some people came for the glass, and some people came to buy grain.

Spring planting and autumn harvesting are all immutable.

The restaurant production in Youzhou City is booming, and with its unique cuisine, businessmen have always liked it, and some people even wrote that they want to learn cooking skills and prepare to run their own restaurants when they go back.

These things are naturally welcome to Li De, and when he was in Chang'an City, he was very experienced in cooking schools and toiletries.

Now the business is still pretentious, don't look at the pioneers' money expenditure is very large, but the Li family's money is getting more and more, and it is different from him to engage in industrial subsidies for the pioneers.

The businessmen came with their own purposes, and there were many spies who took the opportunity to sneak into Youzhou, and Li Dedu arranged for the people of Red Peony to pay more attention.

Isn't it difficult for these people to be patient?

For example, spies are too purposeful, so they will have the instinct of spies in some matters of concern, for example, near the governor's mansion, there are often sneaky people lying behind the corner of the wall and secretly watching.

You say that such a person is not a spy who is.

If it is an ordinary person, at most, he is looking at the Governor's Mansion, how can he stay and observe everywhere.

When there are too many people, anything can happen, and Li De asked the veterans at the yamen to step up patrols to ensure that there is no major chaos in the city.

On the other hand, Li De arranged for Weili to arrange businessmen to register with Youzhou Commercial Bank, such as what goods are in demand, whether it is to participate in a cooking school, or to join toiletries, or to buy fine wine, all of them must be recorded by Youzhou Commercial Bank first.

Unconsciously, Wei Li didn't know when he changed from leading troops to fight to the head of the trading house, and he was sent to these merchants every day, and his rich experience made him a real businessman.

He is in charge of the affairs of the cattle and horses this time.

Li De put all the horses retired from the vanguard into the market, no more, no less than 50,000 horses, although the situation of the horses are eliminated, and the battle is not good, but if it is used for normal use, it will have no effect.

Even if you let the war horse embark on the journey again, it is not impossible.

Fifty thousand horses, Wei Li calculated carefully, according to the average price of war horses, each horse cost 30 yuan, that is, 1.5 million yuan.

Such wealth is worth part of the annual income of the Sui State, and this is also used to recruit troops.

Even if this money is invested in the sixteen states of Youji, it may not be enough, so in addition to cattle, sheep and horses, there are other products that enter the eyes of merchants.

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty handed over the sixteen states of Youji to Li De, Li Jiancheng had returned to the Li family in Taiyuan Mansion with his soldiers and horses, and told his father Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang, about the situation of Youzhou City.

"200,000 soldiers and horses, with Li De's power now, it seems that the two families will come and go often in the future, so let people prepare gifts to send to Xiuning, just say that it is a congratulatory gift from the Li family." Li Yuan said.

What kind of congratulatory gift, naturally Li De took the sixteen states of Youji into his hands, at this time, Li Yuan had changed his attention, with a capable person like Li De, if they didn't make friends, their Li family's situation might be isolated in the future.

It's time to take advantage of this opportunity to ease the relationship.

Tang Guogong can really afford to let go of this kind of thing.

"Yes, the second brother is now appointed as the city guard of Youzhou, I'm afraid he won't come back." Li Jiancheng said.

Li Yuan touched his beard and didn't care, his mind was not on Li Shimin, hearing Li Jiancheng's words, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, Li Shimin is his son, can he not understand his own son.

Why don't you let such a talented and capable person take over the affairs and soldiers of the Li family, one is that the sons of the Li family are very good, either capable of literature or martial arts, and there are more people like Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin, who are both civil and military.

It's just that one mountain can't tolerate two tigers, not to mention the environment of the Li family, Li Yuan himself knows that the personalities, temperaments and temperaments of these sons are similar to him.

There are advantages and disadvantages, and ambition and desire are even more in his eyes.

Especially his two most outstanding sons, if this makes Li Shimin in charge of the Li family's affairs and soldiers, I am afraid that the life of the two brothers will be uncomfortable, and it will even affect the Li family.

Tang Guogong is a smart person, so he can only solve it in the way that is most beneficial to himself, that is, to restrict one side, but what he doesn't know is that relying on Li Shimin's ability to suppress it is useless, but it will make things worse.

If you look at the relationship between Sui and Youzhou, Li Shimin is now at the same level as his father, and it is even higher, because the city guard is the first among the civil officials in Youzhou, and Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang Guo, is the general guard in Taiyuan Mansion, in charge of city affairs and military affairs, but it does not mean that Taiyuan Mansion is the largest in terms of his official position.

In terms of prestige and lordship, the Duke of Guo is naturally big, but in terms of position, Tang Guogong is not the number one, but Li Shimin is one hand.

Li Yuanxiao is because he knows Li Shimin too well, and he has a lot of desires and ambitions, and he can play for Li De safely because he didn't find a suitable opportunity to take the position.

Li Jiancheng didn't know that his father was so optimistic about Li Shimin's ability, and no one could believe that Li Shimin could seize power in Youzhou, this kind of thing was a joke.

Their father didn't think so.

"It's also a good thing if Shimin can have a good errand in Youzhou, and the development of the Li family still depends on you." Li Yuan said.

As soon as Li Jiancheng heard his father say such things, what was there to hesitate, anyway, there was only the hereditary title of the eldest son, and now that Li Shimin was not in the Li family, then he had nothing to worry about.