Li Chengqian only had a sigh in his heart about Li Shimin's calculations, and it had only been about a month since the creation of the Flying Eagle Army.

Even if these thousands were sent to Liaodong, Li Chengqian would be able to train another batch of Flying Eagle Army very quickly.

Li Shimin didn't know about this process, thinking that the absolute military superiority of sending Su Dingfang and Li Chengqian of the Flying Eagle Army in Chang'an City would be gone, and he was obviously thinking too much.

However, since he wants to use the Flying Eagle Army as a regular army, Li Chengqian still finds a way to take advantage of it.

"Father Qi, the soldiers of the Flying Eagle Army are now Ding Zhuang on the Dragon Head Plain, these Ding Zhuang are not government soldiers, they only train when they are not working, and they have to farm, pay taxes, and serve Ding when they are busy, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to send them to fight in battle, right?"

Li Shimin and the ministers thought that Li Chengqian was still making the last struggle, and looked at Li Chengqian with a smile and said openly: "The people on the Longshou Plain are all the disaster victims and landless peasants you have summoned, you have given them fields and tools, and they are also very loyal to you. Then count them as government soldiers and include them in the Six Laws of the East Palace. ”

Li Shimin didn't feel anything when he said this, but when he finished speaking, he was terrified, the dragon head was originally in the north of the Taiji Palace, and there were nearly 100,000 people who were loyal to Li Chengqian.

Then when I thought of the scene when the people of Chang'an came out with farm tools to quell the chaos when King Jing rebelled, it was simply chilling.

Thinking of this, Li Shimin wanted to regret changing the people on Longshou Yuan into government soldiers, but Li Chengqian would not give him a chance to regret it.

I saw Li Chengqian get up slowly, and said to Ma Zhou lightly: "Then do it according to Your Majesty's will, and the book will be written!" ”

The Zhongshu made Yang Shidao because of the pain of losing his son, and he had not been in charge of the government for several days.

Ma Zhou, the squire of the Chinese book, came out and saluted: "The minister obeys the order!" ”

This scene is very strange, Li Shimin's will needs to be confirmed by Li Chengqian before receiving the decree, and it seems that Li Chengqian's power is above Li Shimin.

Don't look at Li Shiji's order, he can't do anything without the edict of the Chinese book.

However, according to Li Chengqian's edict on the state of affairs when Li Shimin was critically ill, Ma Zhou's will to accept Li Chengqian's will was reasonable, and Li Shimin could not say anything.

Anyway, looking at the father and son standing above, the ministers were a little big.

Li Chengqian also gave an order to Li Shiji without realizing it: "Li Bingbu sent troops to Liaodong and passed through Wagang Village to go back and have a look, and build another village in the place where you rebelled back then, which is about the same as back then......

"Don't dare!"

Before Li Chengqian finished speaking, he bowed Li Shiji to the ground in fright, and never dared to raise his head again, his voice was very frightened.

Li Shimin also asked with an ugly face: "What are you going to do?"

Seeing this, Li Chengqian smiled and said, "Li Qing misunderstood, hurry up!" ”

Hearing this, Li Shiji slowly straightened up and said to Li Chengqian: "If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has any orders, please make it clear." ”

Li Chengqian nodded slightly when he heard this, and continued: "King Gu asked you to build a village there, and then recorded the uprising in Wagangzhai that year.

Find some old people who remember the events of the year, and ask him to also tell him why they rebelled back then, record all the things they said, and engrave them into an inscription and stand there.

King Gu will send the students of the Tang Royal Military and Political Academy, the princes of the country, the students of Taixue, and the princes and grandsons of the Hongwen Pavilion to study there, so that they can all know that the people's livelihood is difficult and the superior cannot do anything nonsense. ”

Li Shiji and the ministers suddenly realized that Li Chengqian was striking at Li Shimin.

Li Shimin has always been a self-police officer for the death of Emperor Yang of Sui, how could he not know that the Sui Yang Empire's gray conquest of Goguryeo caused the people's livelihood to wither, and the world was full of smoke......

Li Chengqian wants to use this to teach students and juniors, where does this make Li Shimin's face?

Sure enough, Li Shimin's face turned the color of pig liver, snorted angrily, and left with a flick of his sleeves.

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Li Shiji watched Li Shimin walk away, looked at Li Chengqian with embarrassment, and didn't know whether to accept his will for a while.

Li Chengqian looked at Li Shiji embarrassed, so he smiled and said to him: "The cost of repairing the village is paid by the royal treasury, you go back and calculate how much it will cost?"

Then write a note and present it to Your Majesty. ”

With that, he turned around and left.

The ministers watched Li Shimin's father and son leave like this, and felt that Li Shimin must be allowed to come out to preside over the government.

Otherwise, the imperial court ordered many doors, and they might also end up in the same embarrassing situation as Li Shiji today.

The next day, when the three high-ranking officials jointly wrote a letter asking Li Shimin to come out to preside over the government affairs, Li Shimin refused to come out to preside over the government on the grounds that the emperor had been successful in his studies, handled the government affairs safely, and should have been trained in the court.

The ministers of the court were very puzzled, but Li Shimin did not express his opinions on other government affairs.

Li Shiji's request for appropriation to repair the tile gang village was approved, but the inner treasury only approved ten yuan.

Li Shiji just shook his head and smiled bitterly when he looked at the ten yuan sent by the waiter.

But thinking that the rebuilding of Wagangzhai was also a recognition of what they did back then, he decided to make up for the cost of repairing the village himself.

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The purple light hall of the East Palace is brightly lit.

Li Chengqian set up a banquet for Li Ke, who will go to sea tomorrow, and Li Shiji, who is about to go east, and others.

Li Chengqian sat on the throne, and Li Ke, Li Shiji, Su Dingfang and others set up seats on both sides.

"Father's dragon body has healed, and you can go to sea with peace of mind." Li Chengqian raised his glass to Li Ke and toasted Li Ke with a glass of wine.

"But why is my father unwilling to preside over the government?"

After Li Ke raised his glass with both hands in return, he asked cautiously.

Li Chengqian smiled when he heard this, and only looked at Li Shiji.

Li Ke was stunned when he saw this, and then suddenly said: "Could it be that my father wants to conquer Goguryeo in person?"

After hearing this, Li Chengqian nodded and said, "I think it should be for this." ”

"But my father's body is ......," Li Ke said worriedly when he heard this.

Li Chengqian raised his hand to stop him and said, "Don't worry, there is still me, when the time comes, I will go to Goguryeo on behalf of my father." ”

Hearing this, Li Ke got up and saluted Li Chengqian solemnly: "Then I'll leave everything to the eldest brother." ”

This worship is to worship Li Chengqian's filial piety to Li Shimin for him, and it is a gift of brothers.

Seeing this, Li Chengqian hurriedly got up and stepped off the throne, helped him up with both hands, looked at Li Ke and said sincerely: "Opening up overseas is the great plan of my Chinese clan for thousands of years, but the sea is also a life of death.

The eldest brother is useless, these things can only rely on the third brother! ”

As he spoke, he took a wine glass from Liu Kui's hand and handed it to Li Ke with both hands.

Li Ke took the wine glass with both hands and drank it with tears, and saluted Li Chengqian again, before being helped by Li Chengqian to sit down.

Li Chengqian walked back to the throne and wiped the corners of his eyes, and after a while, he turned his head to look at Su Dingfang and said, "Su Qing is not only deterring Goguryeo, but also catching some whales in the sea." ”

Whaling?

Qin Shi Huang once shot whales, that was to go to sea to find the elixir of immortality, what did Li Chengqian do when he hunted whales?

Su Dingfang hesitated when he heard this: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, Qin Shi Huang once shot whales in the East China Sea, and then Qin Shi Huang died outside, and later generations said that whale shooting is ominous!" ”

Li Chengqian waved his hand when he heard this: "Don't believe that these things are false, although the whale is big, it is just a kind of livestock.

When you have caught whales, you may make salted meat on the spot and use it as food for your soldiers. Bones can be ground into powder for horse feed, and other offal can also be used to fertilize the fields. The most important thing is whale oil, if our hot air balloon burns whale oil, it can fly at least tens or hundreds of miles at a time. ”

"There are still such good things in this sea, can the younger brother also catch some?"

Su Dingfang hadn't answered yet, but Li Ke's eyes lit up first.

Li Chengqian heard this: "Of course you can! ”

Li Ke nodded when he heard this, and then said with some embarrassment: "Big brother and brother still have something to understand......

Li Chengqian saw that Su Dingfang was still thinking about something, so he said to him directly: "If you have anything to say, say it directly." ”

Li Ke said cautiously when he heard this: "Brother Fang Xuanling said the day before yesterday that the islands on the sea are wild and barren, people are like beasts, and the language is not understood, so I am afraid it will be difficult to collect taxes. ”

Li Chengqian looked at Li Ke with sharp eyes when he heard this, until Li Ke was afraid to get up and wanted to ask guilty, so he asked hatefully: "Did the old man give you any ideas?"

Fang Xuanling was one of the participants in Li Shimin's Xuanwumen coup, and Li Chengqian was really worried that he would give Li Ke some kind of ghost idea.

Li Ke also realized at this time that his contact with Fang Xuanling was easy to cause Li Chengqian's misunderstanding, so he hurriedly walked out and said: "When the courtiers just went to the kiln to mention those criminals, Fang Xuanling said to his sons that the trip was difficult, and these words were not said to the courtiers......"

Li Chengqian didn't look at him either, but said lightly: "There are many difficulties at sea, if you are cowardly, don't go." ”

When Li Ke heard this, he said: "The younger brother is willing to go to the soup and fight the fire!" ”

Li Chengqian still didn't look at him, but said to himself: "'Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister. "The islands of the South China Sea are rich in products, but the barbarians there rarely come to the Tang Dynasty to pay tribute, is there anything wrong with the Lone King sending you to the South China Sea to collect taxes?"

Li Chengqian's words even Li Shiji felt too domineering, but there was no reason to refute them.

"Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister."

Dynasties that dare to say such things and execute them are absolutely expansionary dynasties.

The Tang Dynasty was the last dynasty in China that dared to say that the whole world was 'Mo Fei Wang Tu......', and as long as it could fight next to it, it was basically defeated.

If there is no civil strife, I really don't know where the Tang Dynasty will fight west?

Li Ke regretted it when he heard this, he had always taken it as his responsibility to establish a business, but because of listening to Fang Xuanling, his confidence in going to sea was shaken.

If you regret it now and say that you have made meritorious contributions, I am afraid that it will be difficult to gain a foothold in Datang, and if you want to live well, you will only have one way to rebel.

Thinking of this, he realized that Fang Xuanling was terrible, no wonder Li Chengqian had been wary of Fang Xuanling.

Without hesitation at the moment, he hurriedly replied: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has the world in his heart, what is wrong? The grain ministers of the South China Sea Islands must be requisitioned back for the eldest brother! ”

When Li Chengqian heard this, he said lightly: "You and my brother, don't be polite, take a seat!" ”

Li Ke straightened up and raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead as he walked back.

Li Chengqian looked at him and sighed: "It was also my negligence that almost gave the old man the opportunity to separate my brother."

Later, you go out of the palace and go directly to Feng Zhidai, and let him set off with you tomorrow, and your big ship will go to Guangzhou along the coast first.

When you arrived in Guangzhou, you ordered Geng Guogong Feng Ang to raise a batch of grain from Guangzhou and transport it to the Lutai Salt Works by sea, and at the same time asked Geng Guogong to send some people who were familiar with the islands of the South China Sea to go to sea with you. ”

Feng An, the Duke of Geng, is now the Emperor of Lingnan.

The Feng family has guarded Lingnan for several generations, and the Central Plains has always been in chaos, and they have become bigger and bigger in Lingnan step by step.

In the Tang Dynasty, Feng Ang surrendered to the imperial court in name, but the governance of Lingnan was all decided by Feng An.

Feng Zhidai is Feng An's proton who stayed in Chang'an, because Feng Ang really has no intention of standing on his own, so Li Shimin also ordered Feng Zhidai to go back to Feng Ang for a few days.

Li Ke listened to Li Chengqian's words and found a breakthrough for his trip to the South China Sea, and he was so happy that he no longer took Fang Xuanling's words to heart.

"The Feng clan should not persecute too much in the land of Lingnan Smoke Miasma, and please ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to think twice!" Li Shiji, who had not spoken, opened his mouth to persuade.

When Li Chengqian heard this, he said directly: "In the past, because Lingnan was a land of smoke and miasma, it was not easy for the Tang Dynasty's soldiers and horses to go on expeditions, so Feng was allowed to be the emperor of the soil in Lingnan.

If my Datang navy can go directly to Linyi and Zhenla to collect taxes, how can Lingnan be a foreign land?"

Li Shiji thought that the Tang Dynasty was coming to Guangzhou from the sea, and Feng Ang could indeed only send food, so he didn't say more.

After solving Li Ke's problem, Li Chengqian turned back to Su Dingfang and asked, "How is Su Qing thinking about whaling?"

Hearing this, Su Dingfang hurriedly got up and replied: "Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, the minister thought that he would use the imperial court sailor to hunt whales, but he was afraid that it would lead to the impeachment of the imperial history."

Why don't you recruit some fishermen in the local area, and also use the newly built sea boats of the imperial court to let them go to sea to hunt whales, what does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince think?"

Li Chengqian thought about it when he heard this, as long as he could get whale oil, he nodded and agreed.

When the seats dispersed that day, they each went to arrange their departure from Beijing.

Li Chengqian received news that Xue Rengui was about to arrive in Chang'an with the first batch of gold.