Bai Ziguo's question is not a trivial matter in Li Shimin's opinion, he decided to ask everyone's wishes first, and then make a decision after summoning Zhang Le to enter the court tomorrow, and then, Sun Xiangfu, Fang Xuanling, Li Jing and others were invited to the imperial study for afternoon tea by Li Shimin without accident.

When he got here, Sun Xiangfu didn't have so much evasion, and took out the letter written by Wang Hao to Li Shimin to see, to Sun Xiangfu's surprise, after Li Shimin read the letter, not only was he not as entangled as Sun Xiangfu, but he had a very cool expression.

"If Wang Hao's son can enter the court, I will definitely treat him as the prime minister."

"Eh, Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Fang Xiang and Li Xiang's talent is so great that they are better than Wang Hao, why do you say this!"

Being answered by Sun Xiangfu like this, Li Shimin was suddenly a little embarrassed, looked at Fang Xuanling and Li Jing with apologetic eyes, and explained, "What I said is not that I am shooting left and right, and those who can enter the political hall in the Tang Dynasty can be called Xiang." ”

The reason is very far-fetched, but Sun Xiangfu knows that Fang Xuanling and Li Jing will not be entangled in such a thing, so they will not continue to dwell on such a topic, and if they talk too much, they will be suspected of provoking the relationship between the monarch and the minister.

"Your Majesty, it was Goguryeo before, and now, when he arrives in the Yunnan Provinces, Wang Hao is following what he thinks in his heart, and is pulling the Tang Dynasty to the road designed by him, and the minister feels that this is inappropriate."

Li Shimin smiled and said, "I thought that in some things, this Wang Hao and my Tang Dynasty goals are the same, and although we were driven by him, we didn't necessarily follow what he wanted, he thought that my people in the Tang Dynasty would always hate Goguryeo, and I couldn't wait to slaughter all the people of Goguryeo, in order to avenge the revenge of the soldiers who died tragically in Goguryeo before, but I didn't, if I treated the people of Goguryeo like the people of Hanmin, treated them equally, and implemented a policy of assimilation, you say, this Wang Hao, Is it for us to destroy Goguryeo and add some help to it? ”

Hearing this, even Sun Xiangfu found some good words to refute for a while, Li Shimin's bones still very much wanted to sweep away all the dissatisfaction around him and achieve real unification and hegemony, especially after the strength of the Tang Dynasty became strong.

Therefore, he now has a happy attitude towards Wang Hao's operation, and he even thinks that Wang Hao will go to Tubo to slip away after he solves the problem in Yunnan, maybe under his operation, Tubo can also be destroyed by himself.

In the era when Sun Xiangfu was born, more than eighty percent of Goguryeo's current territory belonged to the three eastern provinces of our country, so he never regarded that place as a foreign country, and naturally hoped that this place would be naturalized and unified as soon as possible to avoid internal wars and consume his own population.

But with his understanding of Wang Hao, he doesn't think that Li Shimin can easily get what he wants, including the current Goguryeo, don't look at Zhang Gongjin After taking Gaode to Goguryeo itself, the war went very smoothly, and there was even a tendency to exceed the strategic goal, that is because in those battles, all the people who died were Goguryeo, which Wang Hao was happy to see.

If the Tang army continued to adopt a soft policy towards the people of Goguryeo after the war was launched, perhaps Wang Hao would make the plan provoke Li Shimin to do irrational things, and his goal was always to promote the Tang Dynasty to eliminate the surrounding foreign races, rather than merge and merge, because he thought in his heart that if it was not my race, its heart would be different.

Seeing that Sun Xiangfu was no longer speechless, Fang Xuanling said, "In Xiao Gong's handwriting, the situation in Yunnan is explained in great detail, and there are many people, but there are deep mountains and old forests everywhere, and it is difficult for locals who are used to living there to adapt to the living conditions there. However, some of the outputs over there are quite a few, such as the white medicine that has a miraculous effect on sword wounds, and it is said that it is found all over the mountains over there, and the price of this medicinal material, since it was designated as a strategic reserve material, is very high. For example, the tea tree is also calculated according to the mountain, and when these things come to our Datang, that is money. And they almost lack all the goods produced by our Datang, if they can get enough business, it will be of great benefit to us.

The minister also suggested that he agree to Zhang Le's request for Zen concessions, and give Shelong more favorable conditions, so that Mengshe Zhao will first afford the trade between Shuzhong and Yunnan, so that our goods will begin to flow into Yunnan in large quantities, and the strength of the Bai people who are willing to go to my Tang Dynasty will definitely increase greatly, even if the rest of the tribes rebel, when we send troops to quell the rebellion, we will also have the Bai people's strong reinforcement to help. ”

Fang Xuanling's analysis, Li Shimin agrees very much, including Li Jing, a strategist, there is nothing to say, Sun Xiangfu can't find anything wrong with his suggestions, but the more faulty the suggestions, the more Sun Xiangfu feels, there is a lingering cloud here, this is Wang Hao! If he doesn't make trouble, is he still Wang Hao?

However, he can't dismiss a good suggestion because he has some doubts, and, before, he also thinks in his heart that he should agree with Zhang Le's Zen concession, he feels that even if the land of Yunnan is chaotic, it can't be chaotic now, because now the surrounding area of Datang is chaotic enough, at least, it has to be stabilized first, and after the matter of Goguryeo is over, it will not be too late to be chaotic.

Seeing that although Sun Xiangfu did not object, he frowned worriedly, Li Shimin smiled and said, "Zhengming doesn't need to worry, this Eastern Crusade, in order to prevent changes in Tibet, I will send Chai Shao to lead 50,000 troops and station them in Shuzhong. ”

There are about 150,000 soldiers from various places who are trained in Guanzhong, and Li Ji and Niu Jinda each brought 30,000 soldiers and horses to Yaozhou and Shanzhou, then, plus the Qianniuwei who have been stationed in the imperial city for a long time, the flying cavalry army, and the expeditionary force independently trained by Li Jing, the total strength of Chang'an now has a little more than 100,000, which is the 100,000 people assigned by Li Shimin to Sun Xiangfu to help with spring ploughing.

If these people are divided into 50,000 to Shuzhong, and then Li Shimin's soldiers and horses are removed to Shanyang, then the soldiers and horses left in Chang'an may only be 10,000 or 20,000, and there are more than a dozen gates that need to be defended in the huge Chang'an City, plus the imperial city that needs more than 10,000 people on duty in peacetime, only 20,000 people are used to defend, and it is almost completely empty.

However, in the eyes of Li Shimin and Li Jing, Chang'an is impregnable, not to mention that Chang'an has a tall city wall and is equipped with new defensive equipment, and the number of private soldiers and generals of various powerful families alone is more than 10,000. When these people are threatened in Chang'an, they should all come out to defend the city, unless there is another situation like the cattle and sheep back then, 200,000 cavalry rushed into the pass, otherwise, in the case of the external defense line is neatly arranged, the rebellion of 350,000 people can be easily suppressed by the Chang'an defenders.

People like them who are good at strategy feel that there is no problem, and Sun Xiangfu, a person who doesn't know much about strategy, naturally can't say anything, so the military transfer is decided.

After that, it is to agree on what kind of reward will be given to Shelong in the court tomorrow, as well as the question of preferential conditions, in this regard, it is natural to focus on Sun Xiangfu, because, in business, no one in Datang can compare with Sun Xiangfu, which is already a matter recognized by everyone.

In later generations, Sun Xiangfu has traveled to Yunnan, for the land of Yunnan with four seasons like spring, he has a lot of agricultural ideas, however, these ideas want to be realized in this era, but it is very difficult, then, retreat to the second, Sun Xiangfu tried his best to recall Yunnan-related specialties, it is very strange that the first thing he thought of was the copper mine.

Copper ore has always been one of the most scarce minerals in the Tang Dynasty, because the coins of the Tang Dynasty are made of copper, and the reason why there is such a huge gap between the commerce of the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty is that the main reason is that the amount of money is too small. Let ordinary people suffer a lot of losses.

After Sun Xiangfu built a paper mill and a printing plant, he had thought about the issue of issuing paper money, but he felt that the time was not ripe, first of all, the people's trust in it, and the reason why people in later generations accepted paper money was also after experiencing a lot of historical precipitation, which was slowly formed.

The Jiaozi of the Song Dynasty, the treasure banknote of the Ming Dynasty, is an example of the failure of the trial of paper money, deeply poisoned the ordinary people of the two dynasties, first to the cash standard of the deposit, so that everyone accepts the paper money is very important, and so on after the mode of deposit is gradually accepted by everyone, and then the implementation of paper money, everyone's acceptance will be much higher, the current situation is that the people in most areas, even the deposit ticket is a thing does not know, and how can you believe that you give a piece of paper, can be used as money!

Of course, Datang's demand for copper is not only on coins, but also on many other equipment and appliances, all of which require copper parts and non-ferrous metals, but the top priority to promote the development of a country, Yunnan, is one of the regions with the richest copper mineral reserves in China.

"Your Majesty, as far as the minister knows, in the land of Yunnan, in addition to medicine, tea trees, spices and other crops are very many, there are also many mines, the minister intends to pass on our new mineral mining technology to Yunnan, let the Bai people organize mining, and even preliminary smelting, we use grain, cloth and other goods to produce, and exchange ······ with them."

"You say, there are a lot of copper mines in Yunnan? Are you sure of this? ”

Li Shimin couldn't wait for Sun Xiangfu to finish talking about the specific business methods, he believed in Sun Xiangfu's business methods very much, and he was now full of the word 'copper mine', because that thing was mined, it was directly money, and he couldn't let so much money fall out of his control.

"Uh, sure!"

Sun Xiangfu was a little stunned. He now regretted that he had said the word copper mine, and seeing Li Shimin's somewhat anxious expression, Sun Xiangfu suspected that he had fallen into Wang Hao's trap.

"In this case, all business affairs will be decided by Zhengming you, and after tomorrow's court meeting, I will set up a banquet in the palace to entertain Zhang Le Qiujin and Shelong······"

The attitude of entertaining the rich and entertaining the poor is really different, the world's copper mines come out of Chile, and he alone accounts for more than 30% of the world's copper resources, but unfortunately Chile is in the far South America near Antarctica, where to dig mines, it is currently impossible.

In addition, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which ranks second, is difficult to go up during this period, let alone mining, and then it belongs to Yunnan, where the four seasons are like spring, and the population is quite large, it is the best place to import copper ore for the Tang Dynasty, and Li Shimin is not moved.

"No, the minister will send a letter to Xiao Xiang later, informing him of some specific trade methods, and in addition, please persuade Shelong to cooperate tomorrow so that this matter can be implemented."

"Well, I know."