Li Shimin was given food and salary from the Ministry of War, and the position of recruiting new soldiers was also given, Taiyuan Mansion and Jiangling two places.

Compared with the matter of food and salary, the next thing to recruit soldiers and horses is the most difficult, Gangneung is a city managed by Li Yuanji, and if you want to recruit people in the past, it will definitely be hindered.

Fang Xuanling thought that it would be better to choose to go to Taiyuan Mansion to recruit new soldiers, and he could also use the prestige of the Li family to recruit some better soldiers.

Jiangling can't miss it, after discussion, let the eldest grandson Wuji develop some shops by the way.

After the plan was drawn up, Li Shimin proposed to Li Yuan to temporarily leave Chang'an and go to Taiyuan Mansion to recruit new soldiers.

After Li Yuan approved, Li Shimin immediately packed his things and set off.

Taiyuan Mansion is nominally assigned to Li Yuanba, but in fact, they all know that Taiyuan Mansion is Li Yuan's base camp, where will people interfere.

Li Shimin felt that it would be much easier, and it was in line with his intention to concentrate on recruiting troops without him being busy with the things he was managing.

The 50,000 elites under the eldest grandson Wuji are still in Chang'an, and no one has the right to transfer without the order of the King of Qin, and as the garrison of the Qin Palace, it is impossible for His Majesty to move.

Li Shimin's arrival in Taiyuan Mansion has become easy, and his purpose is not just to recruit some soldiers and horses.

"Yuanba, how are you doing?"

Li Shimin's return to the Li family's mansion is still the same, except that his mother has been admitted to the palace, and Li Yuanba has been left here.

Li Yuanba's situation could not reassure Li Yuan, so although the name was above and let this fourth son, who was born with divine powers, guard Taiyuan Mansion, in fact, the military power was in the hands of the person he trusted the most.

Not to mention Li Yuanba, even the current Li Shimin can't handle the affairs of Taiyuan Mansion, and Li Shimin is also idle.

"Second brother hasn't seen you for a long time, my daily routine is to be followed by many people, but when it comes to buying whatever you want, you can eat whatever you want."

Li Yuanba's privileges, all his expenses are paid by others, and he doesn't have to think about it to know that it was arranged by his father.

"Just be happy." Li Shimin really doesn't have much to force on Li Yuanba.

After meeting Li Yuanba, Li Shimin immediately asked the Xuanjia soldiers he brought to participate in the logging matter, although he had the food and salary of 200,000 soldiers from the Ministry of War, but where was it enough.

What Li Shimin wanted to do was to continue to sell timber, and when he arrived here, the distance from Youzhou was much shorter, and he could still do timber business through the caravan of Changsun Wuji.

He thought about it for a while and felt that it was inappropriate, so he had a new plan, and half a month later, all the new recruits asked him to form a caravan dedicated to the transportation of goods.

Various forces are forming their own caravans, and Li Shimin feels that this is a good opportunity to make money and easily obtain information.

With this idea, a small caravan of 3,000 people was quickly formed, and the caravan of 3,000 people was cost-effective and small, yes, according to the caravan in Youzhou, it all started with 10,000 people.

Three thousand people is really nothing for a large caravan, there are too many small caravans like this.

Li Shimin then relied on this caravan to sell timber to Youzhou, and the funds from the first transaction were quickly brought back with some advantages.

In this way, after each transaction returned to Taiyuan Mansion, the size of the caravan doubled, and most of the money that Li Shimin planned to use to buy armor was used to build carriages.

The price of the carriage is too expensive, and it is really not something that can be purchased by saving some armor, but Li Shimin does not care that the size of the caravan has expanded to the level of 10,000 people in a month.

It is already very powerful in the caravan of Taiyuan Fufu.

Li Shimin knew that these were all exchanged for timber resources, and he was very curious about whether Youzhou was really so rich, and the timber sold from him could build half of the city's houses, why there was no news about stopping at all. Jiujiu Chinese

In fact, the construction materials in Youzhou are very large, and there is not only one park project that needs to use wood.

In addition, a lot of wood was used to make horse-drawn carriages, and perhaps no one noticed that it was used as a material for shipbuilding.

Youzhou's blind acquisition will not tell the seller how to use it.

Li De used all these materials as reserves, and stored them while consuming them, not only to spend the money, but also to sell them to various workshops to earn the difference.

He is not worried about the loss of money, as long as he wants to develop, he must spend the money, just like he knows that Li Shimin sells timber in exchange for money.

According to the intelligence of Red Peony, the matter of Li Shimin has been almost investigated, and the situation of the newly recruited 100,000 soldiers and horses has also been understood.

However, Li Shimin's arrival in Taiyuan Mansion was still known through the news of the transaction, and Li De still continued to buy timber with an attitude.

Two months later, Shuofang's Li Jiancheng led his troops to fight Xie Tianbao, and geographically speaking, the Li family's soldiers and horses did not have an advantage.

It's just that the supplies are in place as soon as possible, giving them the opportunity to continue fighting.

Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji were not worry-free people, and they directly killed them with the newly replenished 100,000 soldiers and horses.

The battle situation was unusually smooth, and Xie Tianbao was solved by them, which was also the price of more than 20,000 people, but the power of harvest was a momentum for Li Yuan.

What Li Yuan wants is good news, not to mention how happy he is now with Xinzhong, but his goal is not just to put it in the Shuofang area.

He still wants to focus on the affluent Central Plains.

In the second month of Li Shimin's recruitment of new soldiers in Taiyuan Prefecture, Li Jiancheng, who had won the battle since then, was transferred back to Chang'an.

Li De learned about their situation through Red Peony in Youzhou, and knew that it was Li Yuan who took his son's soldiers away to increase his eldest son's merits.

After the matter was clear, Li De felt that at this time, he could consider how big the area of Li Shimin's psychological shadow was.

There is no one who can be pitted like this, no wonder the Li family father and son will have a love-hate relationship, and no one can stand it.

In the Governor's Mansion, Li Dechao's 9-to-5 life was very comfortable.

"Xiuning, your younger brothers seem to be very uncomfortable." Li De said suddenly.

"What's wrong with them, it can't be the idea of trying to fight Youzhou." Li Xiuning said with some worry.

"No, it's just that your father is a little biased towards Li Jiancheng."

Li De told Li Xiuning what he knew.

"Alas, my father has always valued the eldest son, and the talent of the second brother is obvious to all, if only I could give the people more opportunities." Li Xiuning sighed.

"Do you think this matter is still very objective?" Li Dedao.

"I'm their sister, so naturally I know them very well, and if my father doesn't solve these contradictions, I'm afraid sooner or later there will be chaos."

"What you said is quite reasonable, with your second brother's absolutely unyielding temperament, it is really worrying." Li Dedao.

"But don't worry about it, either, I'm a member of your family now, and their affairs can't be affected by our business, it's not early, husband, let's rest early."