Wang Hui was really shocked by Li Ye, and he only realized that he really didn't know anything about this young Shouwang now.

Listening to King Shou, this weapon will be used in battle, and it is conceivable that at that time, there was no army that could resist this weapon, whether it was a local feudal town, a nomad, or a court army.

Now he was convinced that King Shou might really have a bad intention.

As soon as he returned to the mansion of Xingyuan Mansion, he wrote a letter, but when he was about to send someone to Chang'an, he hesitated.

Thinking of the current situation in the imperial court, the emperor is incompetent, the eunuchs are in power, and there are feudal towns in the region.

Let's not talk about how to solve Tian Lingzi, even if Tian Lingzi is eliminated, with the emperor's ability and character, I am afraid that he will not be able to properly deal with the situation of the division of feudal towns. But King Shou is different, he has powerful weapons, a strong army, and he is also a prince, the seventh prince of Yizong, and the younger brother of the current emperor.

After thinking about it for a long time, looking at the impeachment of King Shou in front of him, he couldn't help it, so he put it away and stopped playing.

However, he did not tear or burn this letter, but locked it in a small box.

Li Ye didn't know that because of the artillery incident, Wang Hui almost wanted to impeach him.

But he wasn't worried. Even if it is impeached, without conclusive evidence, does Tian Lingzi really dare to do anything against him?

So even if Wang Hui impeached him, it wouldn't have much effect.

The progress of artillery and muskets made Li Ye very happy, and he also had a very happy New Year in the fifth year of the Middle Yuan Dynasty.

Compared with last year's New Year in Lizhou, this year's New Year in Xingyuan Mansion is particularly lively.

Since Chinese New Year's Eve, Li Ye has announced that he will lift the curfew until the sixteenth day of the first month. This is not only in Xingyuan Mansion, but also in the entire prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Shannan West Road, which also brings great pressure to the security of the prefectures and counties.

However, while reducing the local garrison, Li Ye also increased the number of local officials. Of course, this is determined according to the population of the area, but it is not difficult for Li Ye to increase the number of servants.

The effect of commercial taxation has begun to appear, whether it is at the provincial level or in the states and counties below, the tax revenue has also increased greatly compared with before. Therefore, the increased costs of the government are within the range of affordability.

The smooth passage of the Shu Road, the stationing of the Tiance army and the personnel of the palace also made the population of Xingyuan Mansion exceed 300,000 and reach 350,000.

The increase in population naturally makes Xingyuan Mansion more lively.

So this year's New Year, Xingyuan Mansion will undoubtedly be very lively.

The sales of fireworks have also become very popular, and after a year of publicity and promotion, the reputation of fireworks has also been beaten.

Due to the business opportunities contained in fireworks, Li Ye separated the production of fireworks from the Ordnance Department and set up a special fireworks workshop under the name of the palace.

The production of fireworks is in charge of the workshop of the palace, after all, this is gunpowder, which involves secrets, and Li Ye naturally cannot leak it. Sales are in charge of He Dong, and the profit is three or seven points, naturally He Dong is three, and Wang Fu is seven.

But even so, He Dong earned tens of thousands of yuan through this fireworks last year.

The big head is still in the New Year, starting from the lunar month to the day before the first day of the New Year's Eve, the money from the sale of fireworks is as high as more than 100,000 yuan.

Of course, the current fireworks are only more famous in Shannan West Road, and most of these fireworks sold are bought by big families in the jurisdiction of Shannan West Road. It is conceivable that if this fireworks are further promoted to the east and west of Erchuan and other places, the profits will be high.

Before anyone else imitates it, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is profitable, no wonder they all say that monopoly makes money.

Li Ye also knew that it was only sold on Shannan West Road, and the market was still a little small. It is best to open the market in Chang'an, so on the eve of Shangyuan Eve, Li Ye sent people to transport dozens of boxes of fireworks to Chang'an.

It's not for sale, but for Li Yi.

Although his relationship with this imperial brother is a bit stiff now, these fireworks should ease the relationship, and at the same time, they can easily open up the market for fireworks. What the emperor is using, can it be bad?

Although Chang'an has been recovered, but the rebellion of Huangchao has dealt a great blow to Chang'an, and the huge Chang'an, in a few years, has lost more than half of its population.

But after all, this is the center of power in the Tang Dynasty, and every move here can still affect the whole country.

In Xingyuan Mansion, in order to open the fireworks market, Li Ye held a grand fireworks event by the Hanshui River on the night of Shangyuan.

When hundreds of fireworks burst off along the Hanshui River, the entire Xingyuan Mansion was boiling.

This scene should only exist in the sky, and there can be several encounters in the world.

However, when the people of Xingyuan Mansion were spending the Spring Festival together, in the territory of Tubo, a caravan dressed as Tang people arrived in Songzhou.

Songzhou, that is, the Songpan of the later generations, chokes the Minling, controls the source of the river, borders Helong on the left, reaches Kangzang on the right, shields Tianfu, and locks the yin. Since the Han Dynasty, there have been heavy troops here.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, when Tibet began to rise, it still belonged to the Tang Dynasty.

During the reign of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Songtsen Gampo, the leader of Tubo, sent an envoy to Chang'an to propose marriage, and the envoy passed through Songzhou and was detained by the state officials. Songtsen Gampo was furious, personally led an army of 200,000 to invade, the Tang general Han Xian was defeated, and then Li Shimin sent reinforcements, defeated Tubo in Songzhou, Songtsen Gampo fled back to Lhasa in embarrassment, and sent an envoy to apologize for peace.

The Hou'an Rebellion broke out, and all the elite border troops of the Tang Dynasty were transferred to quell the rebellion. The Tibetans invaded the western part of the Tang Dynasty on a large scale.

In December of the first year of Daizong Guangde (763 AD), Tubo captured the three prefectures of Song, Wei and Bao. In the following year, the Tang court ordered the Jiannan Jiedu envoy to cooperate with Guo Ziyi to counterattack the large-scale invasion of Tibet, although the invasion of Tibet was repulsed, but Songzhou was not recovered.

Since then, Songzhou has changed from the territory of the Tang Dynasty to the territory of Tibet, and until now, it still belongs to Tibet.

At this time, the territory of Songzhou was roughly more than the Ruoergai grassland in later generations, and it was larger than that. Because the terrain here is flat and the water and grass are abundant, it is suitable for grazing, so Songzhou is also an important war horse production area in the early Tang Dynasty.

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It's just that after the Anshi Rebellion, Songzhou's excellent war horses fell into the hands of Tubo, and this horse-producing land had nothing to do with the Tang Dynasty.

The Tang caravan was not large, numbering only a few hundred, but the knights with well-armed weapons kept the outlaws in their path behind.

If it had been before, such a caravan would not have been able to appear in Tibet. However, now Tibet is torn apart, and a slave uprising in Shannan a few years ago dug up the graves of the Tibetan dynasties.

Even Zampu's grave has not been saved, which shows that the current situation in Tubo is not much better than that of the Tang Dynasty, and even worse than the Tang Dynasty.

Songzhou is close to the Tang Dynasty, although it was not affected by the rebellion in Shannan, but it was affected by the previous wars such as the late Wen Dynasty and the melee of monks and maids who were afraid of heat, and the population in the territory dropped significantly.

At present, Songzhou is occupied by a very small regime of the current Tibetan separatist regime, named Cidan Wangjie, who calls himself the envoy of Songzhou Jiedu, but has less than 2,000 cavalry. And this next Dan Wangjie is still a descendant of Zampu, but now there are a lot of Zampu descendants in Tubo, and he, a descendant of Zampu who doesn't know which line, has no appeal, and the surrounding tribes still beat him, so the Songzhou he controls now has shrunk a lot compared to the previous Songzhou.

"Lord Zhang, there is Songzhou City in front."

Just after the Tang caravan crossed a hillside, a small city appeared in everyone's sight.

Looking at this not big Songzhou City, Zhang Xiong was a little disappointed, this is less than a small county town in Shannan West Road, can you buy so many war horses in such a place?

That's right, this caravan is the caravan led by Zhang Xiong. His task was simple, to trade with the tribes of Tibet in exchange for horses.

This was also the first time Zhang Xiong had come to Tibet, and he had never dealt with the Tibetans before, but he still accepted the appointment and went to Tibet.

The current Zhang Xiong is no longer the small account office he used to be, and he has become a shrewd person who has been working in the palace for many years.

Although he was not familiar with Tibet, he realized that this was an opportunity. King Shou attaches great importance to trade with various tribes in Tibet, as long as he does this well, he will definitely be reused by King Shou.

And he also discussed it with his uncle, Zhang Wei, who originally disagreed with him before. But Zhang Xiong persuaded Zhang Wei on the grounds that he already had children to pass on to the next generation, and the old Zhang family would not cut off children and grandchildren, so that he would appear in Songzhou.

The Songzhou in front of him was indeed a little unexpected to him, but he naturally had to take a look.

"Let's go, let's go into the city and see how this Songzhou is."

Zhang Xiong clamped the horse's belly between his legs, then took the reins of the horse, and walked towards Songzhou unhappily and slowly.

Since Zhang Xiong and his entourage had sent people to contact Songzhou in advance, they entered Songzhou City without any hindrance.

It is said to be a city, but Songzhou is more like a fortress, and the architectural style still retains the style of the Tang Dynasty.

As soon as they arrived in Songzhou City, Zhang Xiong and his entourage were warmly treated by Songzhou. Compared with Zhang Xiong and his entourage, who needed war horses, Songzhou needed a Tang caravan like Zhang Xiong even more.

If there was no Huangchao Rebellion, there might have been many merchants who took risks to do business in Tubo, but the Huangchao Rebellion was too big a blow to the Tang Dynasty, and the people everywhere were struggling to make a living, and the commercial development was slow, and doing business with Tubo was only limited to the junction, and the scale was also very small, mostly tea and other daily necessities.

But although Wangjie also needs tea, he needs weapons and armor even more. But not everyone can provide these things, so he naturally looked forward to providing these Zhang Xiong for a long time.

The Songzhou he occupies is suitable for grazing, but he does not have the corresponding military strength, so he is naturally targeted by other surrounding tribes, and the huge Songzhou is getting smaller and smaller under his rule, and he is also anxious. He is the person who wants to be the great Zampu, and cooperating with the Tang people is tantamount to the best choice.

When he saw the armor and weapons that Zhang Xiong had people take out, his whole eyes were staring at him, and he wanted to snatch them up. But thinking that the other party only brought a few sets of such armor, he couldn't help it, if he wanted to do business for a long time, he had to be calm.

(End of chapter)