Li Shimin sent Tang Jian to receive them, with Sun Xiangfu's previous matter, Li Shimin felt that he should put up the shelf a little, at least not let the Japanese people think that the Tang Dynasty was a random country, so let the people of the Japanese delegation live in Siyi Hall for a few days to learn etiquette before speaking.

Of course, this is also a means of diplomacy, through this process of learning etiquette, Tang Jian has already explored the purpose of the envoy of the Japanese State clearly, and when the emperor officially summons the envoys, where to agree and what not to agree, in fact, the emperor has already discussed with the ministers.

In the imperial study of the Taiji Palace, Jiuqing and several prime ministers of the Political Affairs Hall were there, as the great Honglu in charge of diplomacy, Tang Jian was naturally mainly responsible for the performance.

"Your Majesty, the envoy of the Wa State sent Tang Ambassador Inue Ertian to come to my Tang Dynasty on the order of Emperor Tuigu for three purposes.

One is a tribute, and this time Inougami Ertian brought ten boats of silver to Chang'an, each with 10,000 catties. ”

"Hiss~"

Tang Jian's words just said this, and there was a sound of cold air in the imperial study, Tang Qi lacked gold, silver and copper, this Japanese people were generous, and actually sent 100,000 catties of silver to pay tribute, how did Li Shimin return the gift? According to the old system of the Sui Dynasty, the gift should be returned with double or even triple the value.

If Sun Xiangfu is here, he will definitely tell everyone with a smile that silver is worthless in the Wa Kingdom, it is everywhere, and we will also return some local products of the Tang Dynasty to them, such as the courgette planted this year, the watermelon is good, and it is easy to give them 100,000 catties.

However, the people of this era do not know! I just think that this Japanese people are so magnificent, our Datang must not be suppressed by them, and the eldest grandson Wuji is even calculating how much gold can be used in the imperial treasury.

"Second, for study, among the members of the mission this time, there are 300 people who are nobles of the Wa Kingdom, who know Chinese characters and speak Chinese, and Emperor Tuigu wants to ask His Majesty to allow them to study in my Tang Kingdom."

"Three hundred?"

"Impossible."

Tang Jian didn't continue to speak, and a voice interrupted him, this time it was Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the first thing to restore was the education system, but the effect was not ideal, and the number of students who were qualified to enter the Guozijian was only a few hundred, and he himself was only a few hundred students, but he enrolled 300 foreign students, which was obviously inappropriate.

You must know that at this time, pen, ink, paper and inkstone are very expensive, and Guozijian not only provides these things for students, but also provides various books, as well as food and accommodation, which is a big expense for the imperial court.

Of course, this is because it is only the first year of Zhenguan, and the economy of Datang has not yet taken off, if it is five years later, three hundred people will be trivial, and the scale at that time will reach thousands.

"Third, in order to increase non-governmental trade, therefore, the Japanese mission sent 800 craftsmen to learn the shipbuilding technology of our Datang Dynasty this time, hoping to build more ships to facilitate non-governmental trade."

At first glance, it seems that the first two are difficult problems, but this third one is a normal condition for you and me, however, if Sun Xiangfu was here, he would definitely say, 'There is a conspiracy'.

Ships are too important to an island nation like Japan, not silver or anything else that can be measured, once they are given the ability to go out, their ambitions will be completely exposed, and then, the sea is vast, who can control them?

However, at this time, in the imperial study, no one felt that there was anything wrong with this, in their opinion, the ship was just a means of transportation, it was inconvenient for the Wa Kingdom to come to the Tang Dynasty, the largest ship they could build was only the volume of a thousand stones, if they were allowed to build a large number of ten thousand stone ships, then a little loss in tribute would be immediately made up for from trade, after all, now the Tang Dynasty is exporting its own goods to any country.

"What do you think, let's discuss it!" Li Shimin listened to Tang Jian's words quietly, and then said.

To tell the truth, in what Tang Jian said, there was no sentence that Li Shimin wanted to hear the most, what kind of attitude did the Wa Kingdom have in dealing with the Tang Dynasty? Since it is a tribute, but I am the suzerainty of the Tang Dynasty?

Therefore, Li Shimin's interest in the so-called conditions is not high.

Just as Li Shimin and the ministers were discussing in the imperial study how to return the gifts to the Japanese envoys and how to reply to the conditions they put forward, in the guest room of the Siyi Pavilion, Inugami Erda was conspiring with his subordinates.

"Have you found out the news of that Sun Zhengming?"

"Find out, this person was originally just a farmer, and later because he could fish, he was recruited as a retainer by the Tang Emperor, and then the industry became bigger and bigger, and he also opened the largest restaurant in Chang'an, Wangjiang Tower, it is said that he is very good at farming, and this year he planted a special courgette in the Western Regions, white stacked seeds, at present, he should go to Lingnan, it is said that it is to plant a new rice."

"Boat, I'm talking about boats, why does he have a ship like that?"

"This was also found, and his boat was made for him by a family of boatmen in Lantian County."

"Let's go, go to Lantian County."

"No, there are his guards there, they are very well-equipped, if we go to rob them, we will definitely not be able to get out of Chang'an, and we can only find a way from the Tang Emperor."

Under the prevention of his subordinates, Inugami Erda Yu calmed down in an instant, Yangzhou Wharf, the picture of dozens of samurai under him being slaughtered by those elite armored men is still in front of him, even if he goes to Chang'an this time, he secretly brings nearly a thousand samurai, and he does not dare to face such a warrior head-on.

After the Yangzhou incident more than three months ago, Sun Xiangfu immediately realized the importance of the ship, so he wrote to Chang'an and sent a hundred guards from Xingfu Village to Yang Shunshui's shipyard to protect it, but it made the shipyard's secrecy several levels higher, so that the people on the dog had no chance to start.

"Do you think the emperor of the Tang Dynasty will agree to our proposal?"

"Hopefully, if they get some money to buy off their ministers, it might be easy."

"Well, do as you wish! As long as we have that kind of boat, we will have endless money. ”

After the agreement between the two men, they went their separate ways.

Besides, Sun Xiangfu, who was in Lingnan, after asking Li Chunfeng for a pigeon, felt that one might not be safe, so he asked for all the pigeons that might fly to Chang'an, and not only wrote to Yu Xiu'er alone, she was a woman after all, and she couldn't interfere in court politics, so Qin Qiong, Dugumou, Hou Junji, and even Yu Chigong and Cheng Yanjin all wrote, in the court, only when they spoke worked.

"Okay, the letter has been sent back, if it doesn't work out, just leave it to fate!"

Li Chunfeng, who had experienced the ship robbery incident, naturally knew the hatefulness of these Japanese people, and comforted.

"Hey, it's inconvenient to communicate, it's just trouble."

Sun Xiangfu complained, at this moment, he missed the phone call of the future generations.

After accepting the reality, he continued to read the letter from the samurai.

Before the Huainan land harvest, the warehouse of the government alone has been tuned into millions of soybeans, and the soybeans of the people are multiples of the official warehouse, and now once the price of soybeans has dropped to 120 Wen, it continues to fall, and if the soybeans in the second season after the autumn are harvested again, the samurai Tong is worried that the price of soybeans will not even be sold for 100 Wen, so he asked him for advice.

Not to mention soybeans, as long as the drought in Guanzhong is survived next year, the price of a stone of rice in the future will not be sold for 100 yuan, let alone soybeans, the reason is that there is too much land and too few people.

"Plant, why not plant, the people of Datang haven't eaten stir-fried vegetables yet! As soon as my brother's salted fish and bean sauce came out, the people ate the soybean paste as salt, and many soybeans were sold. ”

While going back to the room to write a reply, I thought about the matter of salt, it seems that I have to go to see how Shen Tuyong and his gang are doing in the past two days, salt is a vital part.

On an island less than 200 miles away from Guangzhou Bay, all the ships brought by Shen Tuyong from Huainan are docked here, and today, they will do a big thing here, that is, salt production.

There are two ways to make salt, one is to divert sea water to dry salt on the beach, and the other is to boil seawater filtered with gauze charcoal in a casserole.

In this era of no pollution, the salt obtained by these two methods can actually be eaten directly, because it takes a lot of time to build a salt drying plant, and the smoke is not as fine as the salt boiled after filtering through the filter pool, so Shen Tuyong directly chose this island with more dense forests and used the boiling salt method.

After the filter pool was built according to the requirements of the secret recipe, the whole process was simple for everyone, so without any difficulty, after an hour, Shen Tuyong got a large jar of sea salt with white flowers.

"This, this is refined salt."

Dipping his fingers in a little bit of frothed salt and putting it in his mouth, several subordinates involved in boiling salt were stunned, they just used this clay pot to boil two barrels of filtered seawater, and actually got at least more than a pound of salt.

"Brother Shentu, we are developed, developed, this is refined salt, hundreds of pounds! There are so many of us, how much can we cook in a day? Hahaha, developed ······"

"Calm down, don't shout, have you forgotten about Hangzhou Bay? Do you know who gave us this method of making salt? In the future, whoever dares to mention a word of salt in front of others, don't blame me Shen Tu for greeting him with a knife.

We will only fish, will only dry salted fish, so, from tomorrow, women and children will stay on the island to cook salt, our old men, all go out to sea to fish, and when the salted fish is made, regularly pull to Yangzhou, thirty wen a catty, a boat is more than 10,000 guan, and there are thousands of guan in our hands, enough to save a family business for our children and grandchildren. ”

Shen Tuyong's words suddenly reminded his subordinates of the terrifying picture of Hangzhou Bay, in fact, among these people, the really ruthless people have been taken away by Sun Xiangfu, and the rest are honest men who don't have much enterprising mind, and it is precisely because of this that Sun Xiangfu dared to hand over the matter of salt making to them, as for Wei Shuhuan, it was Sun Xiangfu who was afraid that the matter would be out of control after Li Shimin knew about it, so he was looking for a backstabbing party. Of course, if he carries this pot, he will also get the corresponding profit, fifty-fifty shares, Shen Tuyong has this kind of 3,000 stone boat in his hand, and every time he pulls a boat of salted fish to Yangzhou, he can earn almost 5,000 yuan.