The four words 'human words are terrifying' are wise sayings in any period, and it is not so easy for the family to wash away the that Sun Xiangfu overturned.

First of all, they can't kill Sun Xiangfu in private, otherwise, they will retaliate against those who tell the truth.

Secondly, they have to find evidence to prove their innocence, otherwise, you will have to bear the fingers of the world. It's a pity that what Sun Xiangfu said is the truth, and it is not so easy to make up a false truth.

The advantage of the public opinion offensive is that it does not politicize the matter in the court, and Li Shimin will not ask Cui Wang Zheng Lu about the crimes of the Zheng Lu family about some things in the newspaper, and these families have no reason to challenge the imperial court, after all, this matter was not caused by Li Shimin.

Therefore, on the case of Li Shimin, the impeachment of Sun Xiangfu for wantonly spreading rumors and destroying the names of several major families are piled up.

At this time, it is time to reflect Li Shimin's partiality and protection of Sun Xiangfu, he is too lazy to look through those pieces, you impeach you, I still need him to take cowpox to resist the smallpox plague!

In fact, Sun Xiangfu dared to make such a big fuss about the facts at this time, because he was sure that Li Shimin would not punish him for this, and even guessed that Li Shimin would gloat early on and see the family make a fool of himself. The people of the family also understand this truth, and know that the plague has not been lifted, and they will not be able to move their grandchildren to enjoy happiness, so at present, they can only impeach and fight, and try their best to show themselves as wronged.

The situation in Chang'an is so delicately balanced, after the reputation of the family was stinked by the whirlwind blown up by the newspapers, the people should spread it very strongly, and the court should continue to impeach those who should be impeached, anyway, Li Shimin just doesn't deal with it, and no one can force him to deal with it.

It wasn't until a few days later that Sun Xiangfu didn't need to do the work of taking cowpox himself, and the people at the bottom of Guanzhong didn't regard the family as a good person, and when everything developed according to Sun Xiangfu's expectations, things changed somewhat.

After stabilizing the pastures in the 800 places east of Shuozhou, Tuli gathered more than 20,000 young men and women to approach Shuozhou, and the Xue Yantuo and Hui tribes did not make any response to this matter.

This is not good news for Datang, you know, the closer to the autumn harvest, the more panicked the people in Guanzhong who have no grain to harvest in the fields, no food, everyone will not be able to survive this winter, and if there is a war at this time, the family has surplus grain to supply the government soldiers to go to war?

Sun Xiangfu is actually confident in the defense of Shuozhou, Shanyang City is strong, not losing Chang'an, Mayi City is also a war fortress-type fortified city, there are 3,000 well-equipped, training strength of soldiers and horses, and tens of thousands of people who can be called up to defend the city at any time, not the 20,000 remnants of the Tuli army can easily take it, and there are dozens of fortresses of the Wang family as the first line of defense······

"No, Xue Yantuo and Hui didn't take the opportunity to eat Tuli, someone must have done something from it, most likely Wang Lin, it seems that this guy is going to kill me now."

Sun Xiangfu speculated slightly, then he felt bad, called Zhang Ke, Zhao Qiang and a group of guards came, and went to Chang'an together.

Now, the things about Sun Xiangfu are all big things, although he is only a five-grade long history, but the request to see was immediately passed to Li Shimin by the inner servant, and it didn't take long for Sun Xiangfu to be taken to the imperial study.

After a salute, Sun Xiangfu said directly, "Your Majesty, the disaster relief plan in Guanzhong is about to enter the second step, I don't know if the imperial court has come up with a charter?" ”

Li Shimin naturally knew that the closer to autumn and winter, the more unstable the people's hearts in Guanzhong became, but the imperial court really didn't have any spare money to realize Sun Xiangfu's so-called disaster relief plan for work, so he just looked at him with a sad face and said, "This year's Guanzhong harvest is out, the imperial court has no tax revenue, and last year's surplus wealth is only enough to support the tens of thousands of troops who went out to Yumen Pass a few days ago, and in the past few months, relief has been needed everywhere in Guanzhong, not to mention the treasury, even the money and grain in the harem treasury have been exhausted. Where is there money and food to start such a big project. ”

Li Shimin has no money, Sun Xiangfu knows, but Sun Xiangfu has no money now, for more than a month, Happy Village spends money every day like flowing water, and most of the locusts in the entire Guanzhong land are put away by his private wallet, although he has stored a lot of locust powder, but more than two million yuan of cash has also been spent, however, the first thing to do to build roads is to requisition land, especially the big road, and the number of fields needed is quite a lot, which requires a sum of money to buy those private fields.

In addition, hundreds of thousands, or even nearly a million people's working tools, this also requires a lot of money to build, even if there is Lingnan, Yangzhou transported food for these victims to eat for free, the imperial court wants to complete such a big project, but also needs to invest a lot of money to settle all aspects, without this money, your situation will not be able to turn around.

"Your Majesty, the minister has a strategy to solve the current dilemma." After thinking about it for a long time, Sun Xiangfu decided to use a common development method in later generations, that is, the issuance of treasury bonds.

"What's the best plan, come quickly." Li Shimin is now better than no medicine, he is willing to listen to any method and strategy, and Ma Zhou has been instructed by him recently.

"Issuing treasury bonds, borrowing money to build roads, and collecting fees to repay the money."

"National debt?"

"Yes, in the name of the imperial court, borrow money from the people of the world, promise money, and use the borrowed money to repair the road for disaster relief, and after the road is repaired, the corresponding fees will be charged to the user to repay the loan and interest." Sun Xiangfu explained.

"It's not proper, it's not proper, you have to charge money even for walking, then the people will definitely scold the court for being expropriated and extorted, and acting like this will lose the hearts of the people."

Borrowing money, Li Shimin didn't think about it, but he didn't think about it on such a large scale as Sun Xiangfu said, as soon as he heard Sun Xiangfu say that he wanted to collect the money of the people who walked, his first reaction was to shake his head and refuse, you know, in the former Sui period, Yang Guang levied violently, and once made a kind of city gate tax, that is, the people had to pay taxes when they entered the city, and this kind of tax actually did not really collect much money for the imperial court, most of them were embezzled by the small officials at the bottom, but the impact was very large, affecting the city's commerce and trade, and exploiting the poor people at the bottom. It was a big failure for Yang Guang to lose the support of the people.

"If you don't charge a fee, you can only use the tax of the court to fill it, in this case, the court needs to extend the account period longer, after all, the annual tax revenue of the court has other purposes."

Disaster relief is the top priority at the moment, in the absence of other ways, Li Shimin can only consider Sun Xiangfu's suggestion, on the issuance of treasury bonds after a detailed chat with Li Shimin, Sun Xiangfu proposed to let the imperial court send troops to reinforce Shuozhou, his wife Yu Xiuer is still in Shuozhou!

Shuozhou's affairs, said urgent, it is not urgent, said not urgent, in fact, it is also anxious, with the 10,000 or 20,000 horses of Tuli, it is not easy to take down Shuozhou, besides, Wang Xu can't sit back and watch Tuli rule Shuozhou, they have tens of thousands of young soldiers and 800,000 acres of annual profits can reach millions, or even tens of millions of spice fields!

However, the reason why Tuli was able to maintain an offensive posture against Shuozhou was probably because of Wang Lin's support, so it was very likely that he would engage in sabotage and robbery when he approached Shuozhou, and Sun Xiangfu and Li Shimin did not want the people who had just returned to Shuozhou to be poisoned again, so it was also necessary to quickly send troops to defend themselves.

"I can transfer up to 5,000 soldiers and horses to Shuozhou, and it won't be too long." Li Shimin thought about it for a long time before he said.

"But the 5,000 expeditionary force trained by General Li Jing?" Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu understood what Li Shimin meant, at present, Chang'an can only mobilize Li Jing's 5,000 men and horses, because they don't need the imperial court to support, and they are ready to travel far away in the morning, and at the latest in August, they will escort the Hu merchants of the Western Regions back to China again, that is to say, in fact, these 5,000 soldiers and horses can only be dispatched by Li Shimin for one month, after all, it is those Hu merchants who pay to support them.

The whole cavalry is lightly armed, this army with experience in traveling far can march more than 300 miles a day, their horses are installed with horseshoes, even if they run, there is no loss, plus possible trimming, at most seven or eight days they can reach the Shuozhou border, it is now the early autumn weather, the day is fine, plus the return time, then Li Jing's troops and horses have more than ten days to fight in Shuozhou, but there is enough time to fight with Tuli.

"Exactly, this army is well-equipped and experienced in marching, but they have not seen blood, so it is appropriate for them to fight against the remnants of the Tuli army."

Li Shimin's military experience is rich, and his evaluation is naturally pertinent, however, with less troops to fight more troops, Sun Xiangfu always feels unreliable, although the one who led the troops was a figure who was called the god of war by later generations.

"Your Majesty, although General Li is brave and brave, but after all, there are only 5,000 people, and the minister is the governor of Shuozhou, and when Shuozhou survives, he should return to Shuozhou to preside over the overall situation, but this vaccination is ······"

"If you want to go back, go back! It's good to go back and avoid such a big disaster, but the credit for fighting the plague this time, I can only remember it mentally, now the Tang Dynasty is an eventful season, many things can't be done too much, you have to be considerate of me. ”

Sun Xiangfu never thought that he could get any reward this time since he started running the newspaper, and Li Shimin, the revenge of the family, could help him carry half of it, and he would be Amitabha, but it was not easy to hear a few soft words from Li Shimin's mouth, which was much cooler than when he was exploited for free before.

If there is no accident, the credit for fighting the plague should be placed on the heads of Sun Simiao and Li Chunfeng by Li Shimin, and if Sun Xiangfu is not rewarded lavishly, it will not stimulate the sensitive nerves of the family.

Of course, Sun Xiangfu can't always hold the cowpox in his hands, and after expressing to Li Shimin in fear that he will not be proud of his merits, Sun Xiangfu said again, "Your Majesty, cowpox can resist smallpox, but after supplying the people of Weinan, the quantity is still not much, Your Majesty can let people release a small amount of money at a high price in the market, and return a sum of money for backup, this winter in Guanzhong is destined to be bad!" ”

That is, Sun Xiangfu dared to make money by encouraging Li Shimin to make money, if others said this, it was estimated that he would be killed by Li Shimin, but after thinking about it carefully, Li Shimin had to admit that in this way, he could get a sum of money to solve the situation of the court's turnover difficulties, so he asked, "The ability to take pox and plant pox, have all your subordinates learned it?" ”

"Hehe, to put it bluntly, that skill is not worth mentioning, just because people are afraid of this thing, so they are afraid of it, there are many people in Happy Village who will take pox and plant pox, even if Your Majesty requisitions them." Seeing that Li Shimin did not resist making money with cowpox, Sun Xiangfu laughed and said.

A penny is difficult for a hero, even if Li Shimin doesn't want to, he has to use these methods when he really has no money, he also knows in his heart that the reason why Sun Xiangfu has this suggestion is to pit those rich people for a sum of money and take a small revenge on them, and now in this situation, only those rich people can spend a lot of money to buy their lives.

Since he has decided to do it, Li Shimin will do things thoroughly, he is ready to use the royal family to make an example for others as before, and even the royal family buys cowpox vaccination from Happy Village at a high price, so that those who are waiting to use cowpox for free will die, and they will also pay for it, so he nodded and said, "The people of Happy Village have a huge cost to develop medicines, and tomorrow they will be allowed to go to the palace to inoculate the royal family members and a group of palace people in batches, and the inner palace will thank each other heavily." ”