Ninety into the palace, inside the side hall.

"Hoo ......"

Gently putting the cup in his hand on the table, Li Shimin exhaled a mouthful of goat's milk, and suddenly felt a strong tiredness.

Recently, he has worked hard enough as an emperor.

But there is nothing to do, who let the world suffer a great drought this year, and Datang suffered another catastrophe? As soon as he thought of the countless lands that were about to be harvested due to drought, Li Shimin's anxiety was a little nowhere to put it!

The common people are really bitter, and he, the emperor, is really miserable!

Lao Tzu, how many years has he been the emperor? First the Turks went south, then there were overwhelming locust plagues, and in the past few years there have been floods and droughts, and there are always airport rebellions all year round, and those damned guys can't stop...... Let's talk about the past few days, Li Shimin not only has to discuss disaster relief with the ministers, but he also has to send Shangguan Huairen to lead troops to Pingba, Bi, Yang, and Jizhou to fight against Fang......

Every morning pilgrimage lasts until noon, and in the evening a whole candle is used up for the recitals!

"Even so, Wei Zheng still thinks I'm not good enough?!"

Suddenly a burst of fire erupted from his nostrils, Li Shimin couldn't help but grab a piece of music on the table, and read the last paragraph in a low voice: "The minister is honest and stupid, and he doesn't reach the opportunity. I hope that Your Majesty will take the words of the ministers wildly, participate in the discussion of the sword, and hope that once you have a thousand considerations, and if you have made up for your duties, you will die and be willing to obey the axe...... Alas! ”

This movement is the famous "Ten Gradual and Unstoppable" in history.

The content is not particularly long, only more than 2,000 words, mainly listing Li Shimin's ten changes in his attitude towards politics from the early days of coming to power to the present, such as "at the beginning of Zhenguan, there was no action and no desire, and the transformation of tranquility was far from being deserted...... In short, I want to use this method to remind Li Shimin to be prepared for danger in times of peace and not to lie on the merit book to live a leisurely life.

So after reading the last line, Li Shimin sighed lightly again, a little heartbroken.

Even if he has read it at least six or seven times, every time he reads Wei Zheng's book "Ten Gradual and Unstoppable", Li Shimin can always have a new feeling and think of something new.

As said in the recital, he is indeed different from him in the early years of Zhenguan.

Merely......

After being silent for a moment, Li Shimin suddenly thought of what everyone had discussed in the court this morning, and his eyes, which had just been a little touched, quickly became a little annoyed: When the world was in a great drought, Wei Zheng, that old thing, was definitely his heart!

Thinking about it, the emperor was a little annoyed again.

Just when Li Shimin took a deep breath and suppressed the anger in his heart, an attendant walked in briskly: "Your Majesty, Liang Guogong has arrived." ”

"Oh? Hurry up! ”

Hearing the news that Fang Xuanling had arrived, Li Shimin's expression lit up, and he casually threw the piece on the table.

After a while, Liang Guogong Fang Xuanling walked in quickly, and stepped forward with a serious face: "Minister's Xuanling, see Your Majesty!" ”

"Haha, hurry up!"

Standing up from behind the desk, Li Shimin stepped forward and grabbed Fang Xuanling's hand: "Xuanling, come, sit down...... Come on, make a pot of tea and bring it, and use the spring tea sent by King Han! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

As a chamberlain hurried away, Fang Xuanling thanked His Majesty before sitting down on the chair. Then he blinked his eyes and asked with a little curiosity, "Your Majesty, when did you like to drink tea?" ”

The son-in-law sent a lot of tea to the cell, and every year. And Fang Xuanling knew that in addition to himself, Li Yuanjia would also send some to the emperor, the crown prince, Yu Wenshi and others, and recently added Li Tai, the king of Wei.

It's just a pity that except for Li Tai, no one else likes to drink tea.

At least Fang Xuanling doesn't like it himself, especially when he gets older, it is not easy to change the habit of drinking goat's milk. And he knew that the emperor, like him, was unlikely to like tea!

Li Shimin smiled, shook his head and said, "Hehe, I still don't like it, but ...... Since I received a letter from Lao Eleven saying that a Turkic merchant had returned to Chang'an and wanted to buy at least 2,000 catties of tea from him, I decided to try more of this stuff in the future...... Hehe, start with 2,000 pounds, and I want more next year! ”

"Old Eleven? King Han? ”

With a move in his heart, Fang Xuanling's expression gradually became serious.

Isn't that his own son-in-law?

However, after a young face flashed in his mind, Fang Xuanling immediately grasped the point of the emperor's words, widened his eyes and asked, "Your Majesty, what did you just say...... Where did a Turkic merchant want to buy tea from the king of Han? And it's two thousand pounds when you buy it? ”

After asking this question, Fang Xuanling subconsciously swallowed and foamed.

To be honest, a little flustered.

Tea will, like salt and iron, eventually become one of the important materials of Datang's foreign trade, this argument Fang Xuanling has certainly heard of a long time ago. And he also knew very well that this argument was first put forward by Li Yuanjia, the king of Han, and even he purchased 5,000 acres of low-cost mountain land in the south of the Yangtze River, and hired many people to grow tea for him.

To be honest, Lao Fang has always felt that his son-in-law is messing around.

Because salt is a must for everyone, iron is a must for making weapons, and no country can do without it. But how can tea be compared with salt and iron? Do you want to make the Turks, Tiele, and Tubo people inseparable?

So all along, Fang Xuanling didn't think much of what Li Yuanjia had said to him.

But now that he suddenly heard the news from the emperor's mouth, Fang Xuanling suddenly felt a little flustered, because this was completely beyond his comprehension - there was really a merchant from the grassland who wanted to buy tea? And this purchase is to start with two thousand catties?!

Just when Fang Xuanling was dumbfounded, the waiter walked over with a wooden plate.

Taking a cup of freshly brewed tea, Fang Xuanling frowned slightly, and observed it carefully - it was no different from the tea that his daughter Fang Fengzhu occasionally brewed for him, the refreshing and cool soup was very good, but it smelled a little weird, the kind of weirdness that he couldn't like.

So, why do people on the prairie like it?

Could it be ......

Suddenly remembering what Li Yuanjia had said, Fang Xuanling frowned and asked, "Your Majesty, is this thing really good for the body?" ”

"Hehe, I don't know."

Squinting his eyes, Li Shimin shook his head and said with a meaningful smile: "Old Eleven's words always make people feel a little unfathomable, and he can always come up with something surprising...... Hehe, for example, this tea, and then sea salt! ”

Sea salt? What sea salt?

After listening to Li Shimin's words, Fang Xuanling's face changed, and he immediately asked urgently: "Your Majesty, what did you say about Haiyan...... What is the meaning? ”