Coming to Datang, Li Ye knew that it would not be easy for him to turn the tide and reproduce the prosperity of Datang. If it is according to history, do nothing, and then rely on eunuchs to support the upper position, that is not what Li Ye thinks, so he decided to rely on himself to accumulate strength.

Since ancient times, those who want to achieve great things are indispensable for the army, ministers, and money. The power out of the barrel of a gun is an eternal truth in Chinese history for thousands of years, and now he has the Tiance Army, although the strength is weak, but at least there is a foundation, and it can grow slowly in the future; Ministers, here refers to the fact that he must have a group of henchmen and talented people under his command, Li Ye wants to be the emperor, it is impossible to rely on himself, there must be ordinary people under his subordinates, although there are people under Li Ye now, but there are not many, and they are under the emperor's nose, and they dare not woo the courtiers in a big way, so this can't be rushed.

Another is money, you need money to fight a war, and you need money to do anything. But he is just a prince, and he can't gather a lot of wealth just by rewarding them, so when everything else is straightened out, Li Ye began to plan how to make money.

Li Ye also knows a lot about the history of the Tang Dynasty, and he also knows what to do to make money.

What makes money, papermaking, glass, cotton, roasted tea, printing, selling illicit salt, and of course, selling grain from the land of Sanchuan to the Central Plains and other places also makes money. There is a lot of money to be made, but not many that are quick and easy to make money.

Paper? Li Ye doesn't know how to improve papermaking, he doesn't study engineering, and he doesn't know much about the papermaking industry, where does he know how to improve papermaking. So papermaking is directly excluded!

Glass, too, so also culled.

Cotton is good, and it will be very popular in these troubled times, but. However, although cotton can be planted in the Xichuan area, the hydrothermal conditions are not suitable, and the cycle is long, so it can only be kept first, and then returned to Chang'an later, Guanzhong is more suitable than the Xichuan area.

Selling illicit salt? Although he knew that there was well salt in Rongzhou (now Zigong), it was not suitable for him to sell illicit salt as a prince, and the reputation of the illicit salt dealer was not good.

So after thinking about it, Li Ye still chose roasted tea and printing, although Li Ye only knew the theory, he still knew, and the cycle was fast and the raw materials were abundant.

The land of Sanchuan originally produced tea, and the territory of the Tang Dynasty, Tubo in the west, and Nanzhao in the south all liked to drink tea, and there was a large market.

How profitable printing can be, Li Ye is not easy to say, of course, Li Ye is talking about movable type printing, and engraving printing has long been produced at this time. The benefits of block printing are obvious, and there are many disadvantages, but the emergence of movable type printing books is of great help to the promotion of education.

Why do they say that it is difficult to produce a noble son from a poor family? In ancient times, because of the printing press and the price of paper, the cost of reading was very high, and ordinary families rarely received a good education. Only then can there be a distinction between several levels such as scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, and in order to monopolize education, the scholars have also raised the threshold for entering the scholars.

It's hard to say whether it makes money or not, but the emergence of movable type printing is definitely a very important thing for the ruling authorities, and to put it bluntly, as long as it is used well, it is a good thing. It is also beneficial to break the monopoly of the scholar gate valve on education, Li Ye does not have the confidence to go against the scholar gate valve now, although the current Shi gate valve was suppressed and weakened by several monarchs in the early and middle Tang Dynasty, but the strength still exists.

"Your Highness, where are we going?"

On the official road outside Chengdu, due to the lack of pedestrians, hundreds of cavalry are galloping on the wide official road, led by a man and a woman, both of whom are wearing tight-fitting brocade robes, and the cavalry behind them are wearing armor, which is an elite division at a glance.

This man and woman are Li Ye and his future princess Liu Chenyan. If it was in the dynasty after the Song Dynasty, a woman like Liu Chenyan who set up a marriage was generally not allowed to go out, but in the Tang Dynasty, and Li Ye personally came to greet her, and the Liu family did not dare to stop and not let go.

Although the marriage has been decided, Li Ye doesn't want to know anything about his future princess, so he often asks her to come to the palace, or ask her to go out to play together to deepen the relationship.

"Yan'er, don't ask, just go." Li Ye on horseback was selling Guanzi and didn't want to tell the story now.

"Humph!" Seeing Li Ye selling off again, Liu Chenyan was also a little unhappy, since they spent more time together, Liu Chenyan's nature slowly showed up, of course, Li Ye was the same.

Soon the group came to a huge manor, in Wenjiang County, but not in the county seat. The area of the manor is not small, covering an area of hundreds of acres, and it is still being expanded, and there are many workers working around it. And around here, it is basically Li Ye's land, almost 2,000 acres, which is a relatively large place for Li Ye's field.

When she came to this manor and saw those servants saluting Li Ye one after another, Liu Chenyan knew what was going on, this should be one of Li Ye's reward places. At a side gate next to the gate of the manor, a carriage full of goods was parked, and a dozen men were carrying the goods on the cart. Seeing all this, Liu Chenyan was also quite surprised, especially as soon as she entered the manor, she asked a strong tea fragrance, and it was a completely different aroma from the previous tea, which was even richer and refreshing.

"See Your Highness!"

As soon as he entered the manor, a man about 30 years old hurriedly greeted him and saluted Li Ye.

"Zou Ming, there's nothing wrong here, right? Has anyone come to make trouble? Li Ye motioned for him to get up, and then asked.

The Zou Ming in front of him was recruited by Li Ye after he came to Chengdu Mansion, but he performed very well in the palace and took care of things politely and orderly, so Li Ye appointed him to be responsible for managing this manor and responsible for the daily affairs of this manor.

"Back to Your Highness, everyone knows that this is His Highness's manor, and no one dares to make trouble, but recently a stranger has appeared nearby, probably because the movement here is too big, attracting the attention of some people." Zou Ming replied.

"Strangers?" Li Ye frowned, "Let the escort pay attention to patrols, especially at night." ”

There are also guards here, but they are not the royal soldiers, and although they have weapons, they are generally not equipped with them, and they only use wooden sticks and other weapons as weapons. Li Ye didn't want to be misunderstood that he was hoarding private soldiers here, but this escort team of more than 200 people was formed on the basis of personal soldiers.

"Yes, Your Highness." Zou Ming hurriedly responded.

When she came to the manor, Liu Chenyan found that it was busy, mostly young men and women, all sitting under the orders of some people to do what they should do.

"Your Highness, what the hell is going on here?" Liu Chenyan couldn't help but ask.

"This will be an important source of money for the royal palace, and this king will take you in, and you will know what is going on." Li Ye said confidently.

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"Master, something strange happened recently."

Chengdu Mansion, He Mansion, as the current head of He Mansion, He Dingxuan is discussing things with several people in charge of his business. Among them, the person in charge of the tea house business couldn't help but say it when he thought of what the people below had reported recently.

"Steward Zhang, what's the strange thing?" He Dingxuan asked curiously.

"During this time, when the villain sent people to the nearby tea garden to buy summer tea, he found that someone was buying summer tea in large quantities, and the amount was huge. Some tea plantations have just picked summer tea and have been bought out, will there be any problems? Steward Zhang, the person in charge of the tea house, hesitated.

"Really?" He Dingxuan was suddenly a little curious, "Could it be that someone wants to hoard Juqi?" But the quality of summer tea is not as good as spring tea, plus there are a large number of tea mountains in Xichuan and Dongchuan, and the climate is also good this year, and there should be a lot of tea production in various places. ”

The villain thinks so too, but the villain always feels that something is wrong. This truth is also known to all tea estates in Chengdu Prefecture, but there are still people who do this, and they won't have too much money to use, right? Steward Zhang pointed out, but his face couldn't hide his worry.