The same subordinate Ping Zhangshi Wei said that as an envoy of the Luoyang court, he arrived in Jinyang at the end of April and was ready to welcome the crown prince back to Beijing to inherit the throne. In this regard, Li Qi could only "say that he couldn't afford to be sick", claiming that he was seriously ill and could not return to the court for the time being.

However, he doesn't want to openly tear his face with Li Siyuan now, and issue an edict in the name of the crown prince, which can be regarded as recognizing his status as a "prison state". In addition, he ordered someone to write a sincere letter, requesting that the remains of his father, Emperor Li Cunqing, be returned and buried near the Jianling Tomb of Li Keyong, the king of Jin in Daizhou.

History has come full circle, and it has returned to the situation when Li Cunmiao first inherited the Jin king: most of Hedong and part of Guanzhong obeyed the orders of Li Qi, the crown prince, and the original Liang land and even Youzhou were the sphere of influence of Li Siyuan, in addition, Shu was made by Meng Zhixiang, the envoy of the Xichuan Festival, Dong Zhang, the envoy of the Dongchuan Festival, and Zhang Yun, the envoy of the two rivers in Hanzhong.

The situation was much better than Li Qi expected in Xingping, and he originally planned to run away if he couldn't return to Jinyang smoothly, find a corner to hide first, occupy the mountain as the king, and Xu Tu developed.

And now, at least Li Siyuan still nominally recognized Li Qi's status as the crown prince, and the two sides only fought a skirmish at Fenshui Pass.

In fact, the soldiers and horses that Li Siyuan could use in his hands were more than 10,000 of the tooth army in his original headquarters when he was the envoy of the Jiedu, and there were also Li Shaozhen, Li Shaoqian, Li Shaoying and other Liang generals who also took refuge, adding up to only more than 30,000 soldiers and horses. After Yecheng stayed, Zhao Zaili was a rebel general, and these Wei Bojun sometimes rebelled, and Li Siyuan did not dare to use them lightly, so as not to burn himself.

Li Siyuan became a prisoner of the country, only to know the difficulty of being the emperor, everywhere is reaching out to ask for money, the court expenses, supporting the army, the daily expenses are huge, and the treasury is empty, there is no money to spare, and the crown prince Li Qi who is far away in Taiyuan, is also worried about raising money and food all day long.

At the beginning, after Li Jiqi and Guo Chongtao attacked Shu, they looted more than 1.5 million silver coins from Shu. When Li Jiqi returned to the division, he brought back more than 300,000 silver coins, in addition to the part of the army, there were still millions of silver coins left in Shuzhong, for the Xichuan Jiedu in Chengdu to make Meng Zhixiang earn.

Now Li Siyuan is also in urgent need of money, so he sent Zhao Jiliang, the Taifu Siqing, into Shu to be the transfer envoy of Sanchuan, intending to transport the remaining money back to Beijing.

Meng Zhixiang sat in Chengdu, controlled half of the army of Shu, supported the army and respected himself, where was he willing to spit out the money in hand, shirk it in every possible way, and forcibly left Zhao Jiliang in Shu, preventing him from returning to Beijing to resume his life.

Li Siyuan didn't have much to do with Meng Zhixiang, Shu had just been pacified, and it had become a separatist again.

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Wei said that his entourage stayed in Jinyang for more than ten days, and every day they had to go to the Jin Palace's palace to visit the "sick" prince, but Li Qi was depressed.

Staying in the palace every day, I can't go anywhere except for the experimental workshop under construction in the backyard.

Thankfully, the plague god was finally sent back to Luoyang.

This Wei said that the front foot of the party went out of Jinyang, and Li Qi also took a carriage out of the Great Xia Gate north of Jinyang.

To the north of Jinyang, there is a small lake, which is called Jinchi, and the Jinshui flows through the Jinchi, and then flows into the Fenshui. Around Jinchi, there are royal gardens of the Tang Dynasty, covering a vast area. There is a dam built on the Jinshui River to store water for the use of Jinyang City. This embankment was built in the pre-Qin period, and after a major rebuild during the Northern Dynasties, because there is an ancestral hall commemorating the earliest builder of Jinyang City, Dong Anyu, the secretary of the Jin Kingdom, in the north, so it is called the Dong Ancestral Embankment.

The river water stored in this small reservoir is diverted into Jinyang City through the Jin Canal for domestic and irrigation purposes.

In ancient times, there was a lot of farmland retained, but due to the increasing population in the city, there are still more than 2,000 acres of official land left in Jinyang City, and there is not much.

Jinchi Manor was originally a royal garden, the famous North Garden, and has been managed by Jinyang Palace. After the death of Zhang Chengye, the former Hedong supervisor, and Li Cunqiao became the emperor, Jinyang Palace, including Beiyuan, was included in the royal family and became the private property of the Li family, so Beiyuan Jinchi became the largest royal manor of the Li family.

Accompanied by Zhang Shu, the eunuch of Jinyang Palace, Li Qi led more than a dozen people to inspect along Jinshui.

Towards May, the winter wheat sown last year is nearing maturity and the verdant fields are beginning to glow with a golden hue. It can be seen that the fields cultivated by Jinchi Manor are still too small, and Li Qi estimated slightly in his heart that on both sides of the Jinshui River, from Dong Ci Dike to Jinchi, there are thousands of hectares of wasteland that can be reclaimed in the entire Beiyuan.

Jinyang North Garden is a royal garden, private felling of trees is strictly prohibited, and a large area of artificial forest is preserved. The vegetation here is lush and the soil is good. It is a pity that since the end of the Tang Dynasty, the water conservancy facilities in the garden have been in disrepair for a long time, and at a glance, there are barren and dilapidated scenes everywhere, but it also looks primitive.

Riding along the Jinshui, you can see some traces of the original ditches on both sides of the riverbank, but these ditches have not been maintained for many years, and the canal dam has collapsed, and it is basically completely abandoned. If these channels are dredged and renovated, a large area of fertile land can be reclaimed in this area.

"If the ditches in this area are renovated and some soldiers and civilians are recruited to reclaim them, they will be some good fields!" Li Qi sighed, "I am ready to rebuild the forbidden army, implement military cantonment on the east, south and north sides of Jinyang City, and protect the imperial city." ”

Zhang Shu said: "Isn't the prince going back to Luoyang?" ”

Li Qi nodded: "Luoyang is now a wolf's den, I used to be purely self-defeating, and for a long time in the future, this Jinyang area will be my basis." First of all, stabilizing the situation and developing production is the most important task. ”

Since the Tang Dynasty, the situation in the world has been out of control because of the corruption of the government and military system, and the army has lost control.

In the late Tang Dynasty, the feudal towns were divided, and the soldiers were owned by the town generals, which caused the chaotic situation that the government decree did not work now. If Li Qi wants to put things right, he has to start as a warlord and turn himself into the biggest warlord in the country.

Since the start of the construction of the Taishan Reservoir Dam at the foot of the Tushui River, in addition to Li Qi, the person who is most concerned about the progress of the project is Lu Huan, the water supervisor of Jinyang, and even this guy is more concerned about the construction quality and safety of the dam than Li Qi.

It is no wonder that in this broken era, as long as dry land can be turned into irrigated land, the grain yield per mu can be doubled. The people regard food as their heaven, and such projects related to people's livelihood are the top priority for an official in charge of water conservancy like him.

There is a lot of farmland in Jinyang City, which is the characteristic of all cities in this era. In Jinyang City, the largest area of farmland is Jinyang Palace. Due to the preferential treatment of the Li father and son, this huge palace complex left over from the former Tang Dynasty was not forcibly occupied, and still retained the regulations of the former Tang Dynasty.

There are still more than 400 palace people left over from the pre-Tang Dynasty living in Jinyang Palace, most of whom are internal servants, and some are old palace maids who are old and frail. The Tang Dynasty is gone, and these people are still hiding in the palace left by the Tang Dynasty, living an almost isolated life.

Zhang Shu, the eunuch of Jinyang Palace, is the protector of these people.

As the righteous son of Zhang Chengye, the former Hedong Supervisor, Zhang Shu also grew up in Jinyang Palace since he was a child, and he also has a lot of feelings for the people inside.

Li Qi used the Beiyuan Royal Garden as a tun field and began to carry out military reclamation experiments.