In fact, at this time, more than a dozen Datang ships were already in dilapidation.

Miraculously, however, the ship was still able to remain stable in the sea, except for two ships that were badly damaged and had to be transferred to other ships.

And the ship pulled up the sails very fast.

In this era, a ship like this, like the appearance of a steam ironclad in the world, is almost a huge breakthrough across the era.

You must know that the ship at this time, because there is no keel structure, in order to maintain stability and resist the wind and waves, often do not dare to hang the sails very large, and the shape of the belly under the ship is not only clumsy, but also the ability to resist wind and waves is also limited.

Such a ship can hardly cross the ocean, can only sail along the coast, and the speed is very limited.

On the other hand, the Tang ship, to a certain extent, this kind of ship has really begun to have the ability to fight against wind and waves.

In fact, Na Lou Shide never expected that he had not yet launched an attack, and this fleet, which had fled, but was still quite sizable, had actually fallen.

This is obviously somewhat unscientific compared to his cognition.

Anyway, let's struggle, have a good fight, and talk about it when more than half of the casualties are over!

However, the sailors in the ship, in fact, were exhausted, and at this time they finally relaxed a little, took over the ship, imprisoned all the beggars in the bilge, and then returned to the ship.

…………

Time always flies quickly, and in the blink of an eye, Princess Sui'an has been pregnant for four months, and the dark tide has been surging in the DPRK recently.

In the case of Lou Shide, more and more details began to surface.

Li Shimin sent Yushi to investigate the Yangzhou case in detail, but when Yushi came back, the news he got was that everything was the same as the report of the Yangzhou Assassin and Huainan's envoy.

This Lou Shide? It's really the opposite, and before the rebellion, there were a lot of tolerances tied? Immediately, he took the soldiers of the water village and fled to sea.

And a lot of evidence? It is indeed proved that Lou Shide had contact with Goguryeo, especially the Baekje people.

And as soon as this evidence is presented? There was another uproar in the court.

Now the imperial history, according to the inspection envoy, and the assassin history are almost all conclusive, and they all say that Lou Shide is plotting rebellion? Not only that, but Lou Shide has a lot of bullshit on weekdays? Have you all checked them all? For example, a large amount of bribes were solicited, and it was like being powerful and prosperous in Yangzhou on weekdays, so that the people were miserable.

Li Shimin read the report? His eyes fell on the newspaper on the side.

Exposed in the newspapers? But is it another truth, in this newspaper? A large number of depictions of Lou Shide in Yangzhou assassin history? The merits of the implementation of the New Deal and the placement of a large number of businessmen? Established a new market? Blows inhibit Haoqiang? So that the people of Yangzhou live and work in peace and contentment!

As for Lou Shide's rebellion, this is obviously not a fact? Because Lou Shide has been training sailors and is determined to attack Baekje and Goguryeo, most of the sailors recruited are the families of soldiers who were killed by Baekje and Goguryeo in the last naval battle, and these people and Baekje and Goguryeo people can be said to have a deep blood feud.

There are a lot of details about each other's recitals, and around this large-scale recital and publication, in front of Li Shimin are two completely different people, but they are ...... These two are concentrated on Lou Shide alone.

Li Shimin finally couldn't sit still, and now the controversy about Lou Shide has aroused discussions among the government and the opposition, especially after the news was published, and the matter has become more and more uncontrollable.

Originally, a small Yangzhou lieutenant was really not worth mentioning, but now, this matter has to be managed.

He summoned the ministers of the three provinces and six ministries, and found Chen Zhengtai, and in the Xuanzheng Palace, in front of everyone, he put the music and news in front of everyone.

The ministers looked at each other.

Li Shimin looked calm and relaxed, and clicked on the case and said: "Now there are different opinions, I am confused now, a Yangzhou school captain, the city is full of wind and rain, Zhu Qing has heard a little about it, and now this matter has dragged on for several months, what do you think?" ”

Fang Xuanling couldn't help but smile bitterly, this matter obviously has little to do with whether the captain of Yangzhou is guilty or not, according to his years of experience, it is clear that someone in the court has stepped up, and they are on the same page with each other.

Chen Zhengtai immediately said: "Your Majesty, right and wrong, you have your own discernment, everything investigated in this news newspaper has solid evidence, Erchen has always understood Lou Shide, since he was convicted, he has always wanted to make meritorious contributions, a few days ago, recruited a large number of sailors, and most of these sailors, most of them have grudges with Goguryeo and Baekje people, Erchen dares to ask, how can such a person say that he can mobilize his subordinates to join Baekje and Goguryeo?" Therefore, the sons dared to think that this must be attacked. Lou Shide was previously the assassin of Yangzhou, His Majesty ordered him to implement a new policy, the essence of the new policy is to break the old barriers, rarely to offend people, will touch the interests of others, now someone deliberately embarrassed him, slander his innocence, which is understandable. “

Li Shimin was thoughtful, in fact, he had already thought of this possibility.

Sun Fujia, the secretary of Dali Temple, said: "Dali Temple is in prison, and it is responsible for reviewing the case, but the case has dragged on for so long, and a lot of evidence has been put on the table. Of course, the minister thought that in order to be precautionary, he still asked Huainan to come to Chang'an according to the envoy and Yangzhou Assassin Shi, since there were still doubts about this case, so simply let these two people make it clear and clear in front of His Majesty. ”

When Li Shimin heard this, he felt that what Sun Fujia said was reasonable, so he said: "In this case, let their adjutant temporarily replace them, and let the two of them come to Chang'an to meet immediately." ”

After discussing this matter, Li Shimin felt that he was afraid that only by asking in person could it be effective!

So he didn't continue to ask any more questions, but he remembered something, so he looked at Chen Zhengtai and said, "I heard that the wooden track from Shuofang to Chang'an has been repaired?" ”

"Yes." Chen Zhengtai responded.

At this time, in fact, he was still thinking about Lou Shide in his heart, this Lou Shide was recommended by him, and now the Manchu Dynasty civil and military knew that Lou Shide was his Chen Zhengtai's person, Chen Zhengtai could believe that Lou Shide was corrupt and perverted the law, but if this person defected to Goguryeo and Baekje, he would never believe it.

However, Li Shimin obviously still felt cautious, and he should wait until the people from Yangzhou came to Chang'an, and Chen Zhengtai didn't have much to say.

At this moment, he followed Li Shimin's words: "Yes, it was completed at the end of last month, of course, only four lines are through now, and some will be added in the future. ”

Li Shimin was very impressed by the wooden rail, so he was overjoyed: "Isn't this the 'canal' outside the plug?" With this wooden rail, at least Shuo Fang's line, the imperial court can have no worries. ”

Chen Zhengtai said: "Now a large number of immigrants are cultivating land near Shuofang and various stations, grazing cattle and horses, and I think that in the near future, a large amount of meat and fur from the grassland will be transported to Chang'an through wooden rails. ”

Li Shimin is happy to see this happen, and he finally has a good thing these days.

But at this time, he suddenly remembered something: "I heard that in the area of Yingzhou, a kind of soil mine was opened, and it was sold for 110,000 yuan?" ”

This incident was recorded in the newspaper.

The porcelain clay mine was discovered in Yingzhou, and soon many merchants went to bid for each other, and in the end it seemed that Cui's bought it, spending 110,000 yuan.

110,000 guan is definitely not a small amount, even if it is the Cui family, it will be nerve-wracking.

It's just that in the news, the report is a bit exaggerated, and people only write down a soil mine, which is actually worth a fortune!

Chen Zhengtai can only explain: "This is porcelain clay mine, used to produce porcelain, Your Majesty, the world's clay, innumerable, so people love pottery, but now the porcelain technology is a thousand miles away, this porcelain than pottery, I don't know how much more exquisite, deeply loved by the people, and the price is more expensive than pottery, but porcelain clay is not easy to come by, nowadays, porcelain clay mines are rare, now subject to porcelain, is this porcelain clay, so Yingzhou found porcelain clay mine, many merchants have bid, If anyone gets such a big mine, as long as the kiln mouth is built, a steady stream of porcelain can be made, and the future will naturally be profitable. ”

Li Shimin couldn't help but think in his heart, no matter what kind of soil it was, after all, it was just soil in the past, where did he think that this soil would be sold at such a high price!

It is said that the whole world is not the king's land, and if the soil on this earth can be sold, I can fill this Taiji Palace with gold.

"But ......" Chen Zhengtai coughed suddenly: "But yesterday, the minister learned another news. ”

Just when the monarchs and ministers sighed in their hearts that even soil could be so valuable, Chen Zhengtai continued: "Guanzhong...... Another china clay mine was discovered, and the scale is not small. ”

Li Shimin: "......"

Fang Xuanling and the others looked at each other.

"Now ......," Chen Zhengtai said, "As soon as the news is announced, I'm afraid that someone will bid again." ”

Isn't that funny?

Li Shimin and the others were speechless for a while.

Fang Xuanling said with a wry smile: "The old man heard that the porcelain clay mine in Yingzhou was bought by the Cui family, and they spent 110,000 yuan, which is not counted, the mine was bought, and a large number of craftsmen needed to be recruited to mine, and a large number of craftsmen needed to be hired to build a kiln and fire porcelain, so after that, it ...... The cost is not small, and there are other costs for this manpower alone, but I am afraid that it will take tens of thousands of yuan. Chen Juma...... Now that porcelain clay has been discovered in Guanzhong, the Cui family has spent so much money...... Isn't that ......?"

Chen Zhengtai smiled, the Cui family spent a bit of a lot of money, of course, if there were no other mines discovered, in fact, the Cui family would still be profitable, after all...... The vast majority of the porcelain clay mines in the world are in the hands of the Cui family, which makes the Cui family almost form a monopoly position, and they can make money lying down in this life, spending more than 100,000 yuan, which is nothing.

But the pit is in the pit, and now a big mine has been discovered, once this mine, fall into the hands of other businessmen, you make porcelain, people will also make porcelain, you sell consistently, people dare to sell 800 Wen, you bought the minerals of Yingzhou and spent so much money, people buy this minerals, there must not be as much as you, the cost is lower than you, how do you play?

It's clearly a pit.

Li Shimin couldn't help but wonder: "Don't worry, anyway, the Cui family has money, just a little money, and it won't hurt your muscles and bones." ”

Li Shimin obviously understood the back of this matter, but he was afraid that Chen Zhengtai was operating.

More than 100,000 yuan...... Is this small money?

Fang Xuanling and the others smiled bitterly in their hearts, but they didn't say anything more.

Chen Zhengtai said: "The porcelain clay mine in this pass, it is said that the reserve price is only 30,000 yuan, and the reserves are also amazing. ”

There is definitely no big bargain.

At least now the Cui family has become an ant on a hot pot.

This Qinghe Cui's long house has become a mess.

Cui Zhizheng opened the news newspaper and looked at the news inside, and the whole person was in a state of confusion.

In fact, he didn't pay much attention to the case in Yangzhou, his son was just a whole school captain, with the connections of the Cui family, this protégé and former officials all over the court, he would definitely be able to sit on this case.

For him, the most important thing is the family business.

Originally...... The Cui family spent a lot of money in Yingzhou to buy the porcelain clay mine in Yingzhou, and originally thought that when the kiln was built and the mine was bought, the Cui family could monopolize seventy or eighty percent of the porcelain in the world, but where did they think of it...... It's out of the mine again.

After reading the news in the newspaper, he was ...... for a long time I couldn't speak.

I knew that Guanzhong could still produce mines, so what did our Cui family do when they bought mines in Yingzhou? And it also spent so much money, not to mention, but also spent a lot of money to mine minerals, in order to settle those laborers, built a lot of money to build a house, the porcelain clay mine in the deep mountains, but also labor, built a road to transport porcelain clay, and the cost of building a kiln......

Now there are thousands of people, and they spend money every day......

But if you make everyone red, then ...... What if you have invested so much money?

"Ah Lang, now the uncles are jumping to their feet, come and ask you what to do."

"What should I do?" Cui Zhizheng realized that he might have been cheated!

He's not stupid, and now he understands it all at once.

It turned out that all this was manipulated by the Chen family behind their backs, and they knew that the Cui family had deep roots in pottery and porcelain, so they came up with a big mine in Yingzhou, which was to fool themselves into the pit!

But the biggest question now is, what about the mine in Guanzhong?

Turning a blind eye? Once the mine in this pass is acquired by others, the Cui family will face a new ceramic surname in the future, and it will be impossible to ...... There is a price war to be fought.

Cui Zhizheng couldn't help but sneer: "It's a good Chen family, the old man can see it, they deliberately want to bleed the Cui family, okay, it's good." What do the uncles mean? ”

What do they mean...... It is hoped that some more money will be raised as soon as possible, and the mines in Guanzhong will also be taken down, if not...... The Cui family's losses were even greater. ”

"Guanzhong ......" Cui Zhizheng frowned and said, "If it is won by bidding." Not to mention that it is not easy to raise so much cash, and then it will be necessary to sell the land and sell the ancestral business. But even if the mine in Guanzhong is won, what if new china clay mines are discovered in the future? ”

"This ...... The uncles have pondered carefully, we may be cheated by the Chen family, but ...... Porcelain clay ore is precious, exploration is not easy, uncles do not believe that Yingzhou found a big mine, Guanzhong found another one, this day, but also a new big mine at once, uncles inquired, Guanzhong mine, not only a lot of reserves, and the quality of this mine is not low, such a mine, it is rare. ”

Cui Zhizheng was also difficult to make a decision for a while.

If you don't buy it, the monopoly advantage that you originally thought about will be gone, and you have spent a lot of money before, which is equivalent to smashing it in your hands, and you will definitely lose money.

But if you buy it, there is no such big mine in other parts of the world, then ...... Although the Cui family spends more money, at least it still maintains the monopoly advantage, as long as it can monopolize, people in the world have to buy the porcelain of the Cui family, so ...... The advantages of the Cui family are obvious, it's just the difference between earning more and earning less.

He fixed his mind and said: "Find someone, go and inquire about the price of porcelain clay in Guanzhong, since this is what the uncles meant, the old man has no choice but to obey, but this cash is not easy to raise, so prepare early." ”

In fact, the porcelain clay mine in Guanzhong has attracted the attention of many people, after all, the mine in Yingzhou was sold at a sky-high price of 10,000 yuan.

But I don't know how much it can be sold this time.

It is precisely because the porcelain clay mine has received the attention of many people, but when bidding, there are many bidders.

This is because, in the news, and hype, a lot of Hu businessmen seem to have a very high concern about porcelain, has begun to have a lot of Hu businessmen, want to purchase porcelain, this thing, after all, is the only one in the world, the future market prospects, can be imagined.

Therefore, the bidding was extremely fierce, and the price actually reached 100,000 yuan.

And in the end...... The soil mine in this pass was still won by the Cui family.

Qinghe Cui's family is really wealthy, which has aroused the emotion of many people.

It's just that you have money and a mine at home, and it's amazing.

But the Cui family didn't feel easy, after all, ...... It is impossible for a family like the Cui family to have too much cash, on the surface, the two mines spent more than 200,000 yuan, plus other expenses, it is close to 300,000 yuan.

But in fact, in order to raise cash, he had to sell a lot of family property in a hurry, and at this time, the family property was difficult to get rid of in a hurry, and finally he could only sell it cheaply.

The Cui family obviously recognized that within three or five years, there would be no more big mines, and as long as they could still monopolize the trading of ceramics, then they would definitely be able to recover the capital.

After buying this mine, although everyone outside said that the Cui family was wealthy, the people of the Cui family were not happy, and I don't know how many people had insomnia that night.

But at this time, a boatload of porcelain was transported by water and sent to the Chen family.

Boxes of porcelain were moved off the ship, and after that, Chen Zhengtai hurriedly asked people to carry this box of porcelain and send it to the palace.

Recently, there have been a lot of worries, Li Shimin has not been in a good mood these days, and when he heard that Chen Zhengtai came to give gifts, he couldn't help but be curious.

So he asked Chen Zhengtai to come in.

"Princess Sui'an is pregnant, you are not at home with you, what are you doing running here all day long?"

"Because what the retainers are most worried about is Your Majesty." Chen Zhengtai smiled, and his smile was a little obscene.

Li Shimin: "......"

Li Shimin found that behind Chen Zhengtai, the crown prince Li Chengqian also sneaked in, and seeing Li Chengqian's tiptoeing appearance, Li Shimin couldn't help but glare at him.

Standing without standing, sitting without sitting.

Li Shimin didn't bother to discipline him, so he looked at Chen Zhengtai and said, "I heard, you have a big gift for me?" ”

"Exactly." Chen Zhengtai said very seriously: "Erchen asked people to make a set of porcelain, which was specially dedicated to His Majesty. ”

Although there are few porcelains on the market now, for Li Shimin, there are a lot of porcelains in this palace.

However, he always knew that Chen Zhengtai would not do one thing for no reason, so he was a little interested, but he deliberately said: "It's just porcelain, what's the difference?" ”

Li Chengqian interjected on the side: "Father will know when he sees it." ”

As he spoke, a eunuch brought a porcelain vase.

Li Shimin raised his head slightly, looking at it from a distance, and he couldn't help but be moved by it.

Obviously, this porcelain is indeed a little different from the porcelain in the palace, and from a distance, this porcelain is like mutton fat jade, and the color is exceptionally good.

Li Shimin's eyes widened slightly, and he said in surprise: "Isn't this a jade bottle?" ”

From a distance, it does look like jade, this porcelain vase, on the surface, there is not the slightest impurity, at least for the porcelain of this era, it is unimaginable.

Li Shimin stepped forward step by step, this porcelain vase is getting closer and closer, but even if you look closely, you can hardly see the slightest flaw, and this glaze is particularly eye-catching, ingenious.

"It's made by Seiko, isn't it?" Li Shimin bowed, then looked at Chen Zhengtai and said, "You have a heart." ”

Such a porcelain vase is really superior, even if it is used by the palace emperor, it is very different from it.

However, Li Shimin was not too surprised, after all, he was the emperor, and the imperial objects used by the emperor were the best.

Regarding Li Shimin's words, Chen Zhengtai shook his head with a smile and said, "Your Majesty, this is an ordinary fire." There are many more porcelains like this. ”

Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but say: "Ordinary burning? It's ......"

"Erchen last year, in Jiangnan West Province Xinping County Changnan Town found a large number of porcelain clay, you say coincidentally, this porcelain clay near the production area, there happens to be a wharf, of course, that's it, so Erchen opened a kiln, let people try to make ceramics there, who would have thought ...... When he said this, Erchen himself didn't believe it. ”

Chen Zhengtai's face was exaggerated, but Li Shimin was only anxious to know what to say, so he glared at him and said, "Pick up the important ones." ”

Chen Zhengtai smiled and continued: "Who knew that the porcelain fired from Nachangnan Town was actually ingenious, and later through the craftsmen and sons, I learned that the porcelain clay there was of extremely high quality, and the locals called it kaolin......"

In fact, Chen Zhengtai forgot to say that this Changnan Town is actually the Jingdezhen of later generations, and kaolin is almost synonymous with Jingdezhen porcelain clay, so that in later generations, in order to distinguish kaolin from ordinary porcelain clay, this porcelain clay that is the name of the place was deliberately named after Kaolin.

In later generations, kaolin was almost synonymous with top-quality porcelain.

Chen Zhengtai continued: "The ability to make such porcelain is not only because of the terrible quality of the porcelain clay, but also because the water there and the porcelain fired there have almost no impurities, so he ...... Erchen built a kiln in Changnan Town, cultivated a group of craftsmen, these days, it happened that the first batch of mass production of porcelain was sent to Chang'an, Erchen thought, there are good things, since it should be sent to His Majesty immediately, so it is ...... I hurriedly sent it over. ”

Chen Zhengtai is just a passing mention of many things, in fact, there are still a lot of commendable things for water quality, and the water in Changnan Town is simply natural for the manufacture of porcelain. Ordinary water must contain trace minerals, so anywhere in the world, if someone boils water, the boiled water will definitely have scale residue at the bottom of the kettle.

But the water source of this Changnan town is that even if you take an iron kettle, take water from there, and boil it for ten years, the bottom of this kettle is clean and clean, and there is no scale.

And minerals may also be good for the human body, after all, trace minerals are mineral water.

However, this water containing minerals is simply a disaster for burning paper ceramics, porcelain wants to be flawless, it must ensure purity, and a large number of minerals are doped in kaolin to make a billet, and when it is fired, it is full of flaws.

This point, even the royal ceramics in the palace, is not exempt from vulgarity.