Li Shimin decided to leave early tomorrow morning, and to take away all the weapons and equipment produced by the major workshops in Shanyang in the past year, even most of the chariots originally equipped with the Anbei Army, which just gave Sun Xiangfu an opportunity to upgrade the equipment of the Anbei Army again.

There are no ball bearings and iron wheels, as well as angle rulers of the chariot, in his opinion, it can only be arranged on the city wall to fight defensive battles, and the real attack, but also the new output of Weinan ball bearings, and steel structure chariots, only to go through the bumps, and frequent use.

The terrain of most parts of Goguryeo is rugged and difficult to travel, which is very suitable for building some defensive fortresses, and there are no very durable siege chariots, and there is no rapid advance.

At dusk, Sun Xiangfu went to the Shanyang branch of Wangjiang Building for a banquet, Wang Xu, who had not been seen for about a year, was even more extraordinary, and now, he is no longer one of the heirs of the Wang family, but the future head of the Wang family, which is a head higher than the identity of the sons of the descendants of several other families.

"I heard that Brother Zhengming helped one of my second brother's subordinates in Chang'an before?"

"I just happened to meet it."

"It seems that Brother Zhengming's compassionate heart is not divided against me! My second brother is in Yunnan, but he doesn't have any good intentions, you have to be careful of the embankment. ”

Wang Xu invited wine, Sun Xiangfu took a cup and touched a glass with him, nodded very approvingly, "This is true, so I have to find a way to learn more about him." ”

"In this way, saving this person, Brother Zhengming has another meaning?"

"I can't talk about it, occasionally take a step of idle chess, maybe it will be of great use, by the way, with your current identity as the young master of the king, come to me, you won't talk about these trivial things!"

Hearing this, Wang Xu said with a smug smile, "Hehe, Brother Zhengming is quick to talk, I won't go around the bend with you anymore, I came to you this time to talk about buying land." ”

"Buying land? Around the city of Shangqi? ”

Wang Xu smiled when he heard this, "Brother Zhengming is really powerful, he actually expected it." That's right, what I want to buy is the land around Shangqi City, and it is the land that is close to the five of them and can prevent them from continuing to expand. ”

Sun Xiangfu said calmly, "This should be a means for your Wang family to do business!" ”

Looking at Sun Xiangfu's reaction, Wang Xu knew that this matter had been discussed, so he continued to toast a glass of wine and said, "That's right, my Wang family intends to use those lands that can hinder their expansion in exchange for the fields they auctioned off earlier in Shanyang and Dingxiang, so that this entire field will belong to my Wang family." ”

"Wang Gongzi has a good plan, these fields on the side of Shanyang Dingxiang have now been developed by several of them, and it is just time for the harvest, I am afraid that it will not be so easy to stop."

"Compared with the space for development cut off by my Wang family, I believe they will know how to choose, and now they are investing in building a new city and rehousing their subordinate tenants, which requires a lot of money and materials, and my Wang family, one step ahead of them, has already been settled, in terms of living money, even if they are united, it may not be much more than my Wang family."

As the so-called step by step, step by step, the Wang family is the first family to cooperate with Sun Xiangfu, their fields are developed one year earlier than the rest, this advantage will be gradually amplified in each subsequent year, and they began to send places, which are very close to the original foundation of the Wang family, which leads to the development speed of the Wang family's land in hand, which is the fastest.

The development is fast, the income is naturally high, the Wang family in the spice field, first of all, more than a few more than a few more cash capital, coupled with the dense population of Dingxiang and Shanyang, the city construction tends to be complete, convenient for their various tools, the use of materials, and the employment of labor.

This has led to the gap between the Wang family and several other families to further widen, you know, Shanyang and Dingxiang together are 700,000 households, after the beginning of spring this year, the Wang family directly spent money to hire more than 300,000 young people, plus their Wang family's own more than 200,000 peasant households converted into hired laborers, only one spring, will be around Dingxiang City, their Wang family newly replaced millions of acres of land, more than half of the development.

These lands will bring output to the Wang family this year, and the remaining undeveloped land can be fully developed by the Wang family within this year, and it will be sown and harvested next year.

So, by the time of next year, plus the three million acres of oat fields planted by Sun Xiangfu and Wang's cooperation, the fields that the Wang family can produce in the north can almost reach nearly 10 million mu.

The Wang family, which has money and profit expectations, will naturally not be satisfied with the status quo, in the court, they have Wang Gui, a high-ranking official, to support, and in terms of economic strength, they are stronger than several others, so they naturally want to chase after the other families and establish their status as the first family of the Wang family in one fell swoop.

If Sun Xiangfu agrees to sell the land around Shangqi City to the Wang family, the Wang family will be tantamount to controlling the expansion of the five families in Shangqi City, thinking about it, just changing the land may not be able to satisfy the appetite of the Wang family, Wang Xu will definitely take this opportunity to put forward more conditions to the five of them, anyway, the Wang family turned against them a few years ago, and now, they will only talk about interests.

"If you want to block all the development space of the five of them, there is a lot of land that your Wang family wants to buy!"

"Hehe, as long as the price is fair, my Wang family is not bad for money."

"According to my estimates, if you want to seal the development space of those five families around Shangqi City, you need to buy at least 15 million mu of land around it, how much does the Wang family plan to bid?"

"Fifteen million guan, what does Brother Zhengming think?"

"Installment or cash?"

"Both."

"It seems that the Wang family has gained a lot in the past few years, but I can't promise you a bite of tens of millions of deals, I must ask Your Majesty first, and this price is still to be discussed."

"If Your Majesty wasn't in Shanyang, I would have gone to Chang'an to talk to you a long time ago, and if this matter is successful, I will also have a lot of thanks."

"Well, it's a deal."

Sun Xiangfu raised his glass, and after having a toast with Wang Xu, he didn't stay long, and went directly to the barracks.

At this time, Li Shimin was having dinner accompanied by Li Chengqian, and when he saw Sun Xiangfu coming, he directly asked someone to add a pair of dishes and chopsticks, and while eating, he talked about the affairs of the Wang family.

"Wang's financial resources are so powerful?" After listening to Sun Xiangfu's report, Li Shimin was a little stunned.

The Tang Dynasty's annual fiscal and tax revenue is only a few million guan, and it owes more than 20 million guan in huge debts after a crusade to the east.

"It's not surprising that the Wang family is rich, before, spices, and the cultivation of Champa rice, they have made a lot of money, and one percent of Shanyang's business belongs to their Wang family, just looking at the business taxes they pay, you can know that their Wang family's annual income will not be less than two million, if this money is released to the market, it can relieve a lot of pressure on circulation."

"What do you mean, sell the land to them?"

Although Li Shimin was asking Sun Xiangfu's opinion, there was a look of worry on his face, in his opinion, let the Wang family master all the land around Shanyang and Dingxiang, but he was afraid that it would be inappropriate, so that Shanyang and Dingxiang would become a copy of Taiyuan, and it was also a strong version.

"Sell, moreover, once the Wang family and the five families in Shangqi City reach a replacement agreement, then, the five families in Shangqi City will also find the imperial court to buy land again, to prevent the Wang family from using money to buy land again, blocking their development space, as long as they come to the imperial court to buy, we will sell."

"But if these places outside the gate are controlled by them, won't they form a new county power?" Li Shimin voiced his concerns.

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, don't forget, the people who live in these lands are the Hu people, and if they want to form a county, they must make these Hu people as obedient as the Han people, first of all, not to mention that this is a difficult thing to do, even if they do it, what harm will there be to the imperial court?"

The sons of the family used their strengths to help us educate these Hu people, so that the imperial court's rule over these places outside the customs was more solid, which is a great thing, even if they formed a new county, so what?

When they are in the Guan, we still have a way to kick them outside the Guan, and in the future, we will naturally have a way to kick them farther away, or, without us kicking them, they themselves will develop even further. ”

Once they enjoy the dividends brought by expansion, these families may not stop, and after the power of the Tang Dynasty further develops to Europe and the Middle East in the future, their current location may not be the key place for border business, and when the time comes, they will choose to move to a farther place like they choose to move to Shangqi City now, so as to obtain the benefits of trade.

What remains is the fields and cities that have been developed, and the imperial court only needs to be a pusher to wait for the harvest of these finished products.

Moreover, the Wang family, who seemed to have benefited in the process, may not have the last laugh, because although the territory they occupy is connected and has become a fertile soil with higher output, they will lose the opportunity in commercial trade, and when the time comes, when they beg the five families to sell what they have produced in their fields, things will be reversed.

Moreover, it is an irreversible reversal, when the output of all agricultural crops is saturated, the income of large landowners like the Wang family in terms of fields will be pitifully low, because the people of the whole world are planting the same things as them.

And they can only do business in domestic demand, and their commercial income will not be high, because the saturation of agricultural products will reduce the profits of all commodities in Datang, and if you sell at a high price, no one will buy it at all.

Li Shimin listened to Sun Xiangfu's words, tapped his fingers on the table, and after thinking for a long time, he replied, "In this case, you will reply to Wang Xu, this transaction has been completed, but the price, in terms of price, I will increase the price by 3 million yuan, and after the imperial court receives this money, it will be used to repay part of the loan for military purchases, so that the money can be approved for more loans in other projects." ”

The reason why Sun Xiangfu did not ink on the price with Wang Xu was because he knew that with Li Shimin's character, he would definitely ask for a price increase, and what Li Shimin said about letting Qian Zhuang take out multiple loans on other projects was naturally talking about the construction of commercial plazas across the country.

This is related to the interests of Li Shimin, but also to the interests of Datang, when commerce is developed, the entire economy will be alive, and speeding up the construction of commercial plazas is also what Sun Xiangfu is happy to see.

"The minister will reach an agreement with the Wang family as soon as possible at the price you set."

"Well, Cheng Qian, you send Zhengming for me."

"The retainers take the order."

After listening to the whole discussion process, Li Chengqian got up and gave Li Shimin a farewell salute, gave Sun Xiangfu a look, and the two withdrew from the dining room together.

"What is this called, I haven't eaten anything at two meals in a row." Sun Xiangfu, who came out of the dining room, said with a complaining face.

"Hehe, don't be annoyed, teacher, my father asked me to come out to see each other, didn't I just let me invite you to eat again, let's go! Let's talk to that Wang Xu again. ”