The planting of the second season of rice was soon in full swing, not to mention, after the escape incident, Li Tai and these bear children were obviously more calm than before.

In the past, Sun Xiangfu asked Li Tai to go on a diet to lose weight, and he would do everything he could to steal it, but now, after struggling in his heart for a long time, he would find a way to steal it, even when he was stealing it, he would think about eating as little as possible, and then eat all the food he brought.

It is not so simple to restrain desire, especially for a child who is not yet mature, he can have this heart, which is already a kind of progress.

Taking advantage of the growth period of rice seeds in the seedbed, Sun Xiangfu ordered that the people of the Jingzhou team, the Caizhou team, the Huangzhou team and the Yingzhou team gather in Jiangling City, and the entire Shannan Province area, it is these four teams to participate in the sports conference in Dingxiang, and there is more than half a month to set off.

Of the four teams, only the Jingzhou team was formed by the Great Governor's Office, and the manpower was selected and trained by the previous warriors, with about 800 people, almost all of whom participated in each competition, but they were not fully participated, and the other three teams were only three or four hundred people, mainly for some projects that were certain.

However, just from the number and number of participating teams, it can be seen that the Shannan Province area, in the entire Datang, is still at the middle and upper level.

In other state roads, there are also Hebei Province, Henan Province, and Huainan Province, and Andong Dadu Hufu, there are corresponding scale and number of teams to participate, of course, in the land of Guanzhong, there are directly five teams with a scale of more than 1,000 people, and all projects are full of teams, and the population base of more than 5 million people is placed there, which is not comparable to other places.

Then, plus the 16 guards and the royal team, there are more than 60 participating teams within Datang alone, and Tang Jian, who is about to arrive in Dingxiang, has brought more than 120 participating teams over, plus dozens of teams who rushed over to participate in the competition on their own, and the participating teams of the entire sports conference will reach more than 220, and there are more than 100,000 athletes alone.

Want to compete with so many people, strive for a single championship, that is, the first place in the world, the difficulty is not small, Sun Xiangfu means, the team in Shannan Province, should give priority to water sports, in the more than half a month before departure, and then assault training for a period of time, at least, to harvest a few gold medals back, after some cheering and encouragement, but let the morale of the athletes rise a lot.

Of course, the matter of the competition is not very important to him, this excitement can attract those people from Fanbang to Datang, it is already considered a success, and how to continue this prosperity is what Sun Xiangfu should consider.

Jingzhou will become the venue of the next sports conference, and the construction team in Dingxiang will immediately transfer to Jingzhou to invest in the three-year construction after the end of the Dingxiang games.

Jingzhou area is warm all year round, although the construction period is only three years, but the real time for construction is even more than Dingxiang City, which took five years to build.

Therefore, Sun Xiangfu's trip was mainly to plan the construction of the city, and after some investigation, he felt that the overall pattern of Jiangling City was still too small, and the area of the city was less than five square kilometers, where could it accommodate the gathering of millions of people.

So, he looked to the surrounding area outside the city, and then an idea took shape in his mind.

The distance between Jiangling City and Jinan City, the seat of Yingzhou Zhishu, was only five kilometers, and the new city simply included all these two cities and built a large city with an area of 60 square kilometers.

After the city was built, it was larger than half of Chang'an City, almost twice as large as Shanyang and Dingxiang City, and more than 20% larger than Luoyang.

After all, even if you add the Daming Palace, which is really under construction, the total area of Chang'an City is less than 100 square kilometers, and Luoyang City, as the eastern capital, is only 47 square kilometers.

After the administrative offices of the two states of Jingying were merged into one city, the entire jurisdiction could also be merged together to form a large administrative region, which directly upgraded Jiangling City to a capital-level city, and led the eleven counties under the jurisdiction of the two prefectures.

Of course, this idea has to be discussed with Li Shimin after Sun Xiangfu goes to Dingxiang, and as for how to get Li Shimin to agree, Sun Xiangfu needs to issue a more convincing design drawing.

For the design of the city, Sun Xiangfu's subordinates, there is a quite professional team, he put forward some of his own opinions, after the new city land, before the departure, the subordinates will definitely be able to hand over a more perfect design drawing to him.

At the beginning of July, after different kinds of rice seeds were cross-planted in the fields of different blocks, Sun Xiangfu finally led the team to set off, and then how to operate to make the rice seeds hybrid, Sun Xiangfu has explained clearly to the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture, before the rice harvest this season, he almost came back from Dingxiang, and similarly, this season is only for the characteristics of the new rice varieties produced after the initial hybridization of various rice varieties, make some observations, and select high-yield rice varieties that are more suitable for cultivation, and then hybridize.

In just half a year, the cement road from Luoyang to Jingzhou has been repaired for more than half, but they have been in a hurry much faster than expected, and it only took about ten days for Sun Xiangfu to arrive in Shanyang, and Shanyang at this time has long been a scene of crowds.

"The old man has often heard people say in recent years that the north is prosperous, but I can't imagine that it is so prosperous, but I am afraid that compared to Chang'an, it is not too much!"

Cai Can, Huang Xu and others, as the organizers of the sports team in Benzhou, also came to Shanyang with Sun Xiangfu, after entering the city gate, they have been in amazement, Shanyang City is more than four times larger than Gangneung City, the largest city in Shannan Province, however, in such a large city, the flow of people on the street is always like a tide, which is very rare.

Moreover, these people wear various styles of clothing, blonde hair, blue eyes, dark skin, white skin, language, and all kinds of language, most of the customers and shopkeepers in the shops along the street rely on gestures and body language to communicate, so it is not lively.

"It is said that there are more than 1.5 million people in Shanyang City now, which is really not much less than that of Chang'an, but in a few days, this side will be clean, and everyone will go to Dingxiang, and it is estimated that there will be at least more than 3 million people during the games."

The attraction of Shanyang lies in its beautiful environment, from the spring, until after the Chongyang Festival, it is the season when the flowers of Shanyang are in full bloom, and it is also the first city of Datang to develop the food and snack culture, now, close to August, all kinds of lotus paste, nuts, and moon cakes made of water chestnut powder have been put on sale, and the soft and sweet moon cakes instantly make those Hu people in the Western Regions forget the hard Bangbang, the Hu cakes that are difficult to swallow.

On the street, the inner chamberlain Wang Deyong led a few small eunuchs to greet Sun Xiangfu.

"Young Master Sun, Your Majesty is invited."

"In this way, you will find an inn to stay in first, and after a day of rest, go to Dingxiang by yourself, and the organizing committee will arrange your food and accommodation in Dingxiang, adapt to the local climate and the venue of the competition as soon as possible, and strive to get the first ······ in the world."

"We will live up to the high expectations of the chief manager······"

After saying goodbye to the big team, Sun Xiangfu followed Wang Deyong to the direction of the palace in the north of the city, as for Hongmei, Chuntao and a few little guys in the family, Zhang Ke would take them directly to Shanyang's mansion to rest.

"Eunuch Wang, I have just arrived at the place, and my feet have not rested, and His Majesty summoned me, but what is the urgent matter to discuss?"

"It's not that it's in a hurry, it's that there are some details of the opening ceremony, I need to negotiate with you, in addition, the Ministry of Industry Research Institute has made a few big things out, and I want to use them, Your Majesty is a little uncertain, I want you to see it."

"Big stuff?"

"It's a large sky lantern, and the people from the research institute say that it can carry people to the sky, and I hope that Your Majesty will take this thing to appear and shock everyone."

Sun Xiangfu heard this, a little depressed, he has planted a science and technology tree for Datang, however, how this science and technology tree grows, Sun Xiangfu has not paid attention, the research institute in Weinan is said to have not been idle in recent years, it seems that the hot air balloon is the result of their drumming, but Sun Xiangfu is very worried about the safety of this thing.

Not long after, Sun Xiangfu came all the way to the imperial study named Wanmin Palace, it was the morning, there were a lot of people in the study, Fang Xuanling, Li Jing, the eldest grandson Wuji, and even the bigwigs of the various ministries were there, it seems that recently, they are discussing politics here, which is already a norm.

After Sun Xiangfu and Li Shimin met with everyone, they quickly became the focus of everyone, because among these people, Sun Xiangfu is more talented in making new ideas, and most of the opening shows rehearsed by Yu Xiuer in Dingxiang are suggestions given by Sun Xiangfu.

"Your Majesty, in fact, those Fanwai Hu people, than our ethnic minorities in the Central Plains, do not know what etiquette is, we just need to let them see the vast scene, feel the strength of my Tang Dynasty, as for the purpose of the games, what sacrifice ceremonies and the like, in fact, can be canceled, I believe, what should be said, Tang Gong has already made it clear to them, we just need to let them know simply and clearly, we are a pure sports meeting, is to rely on the athletes' ability in the sports field, to compete for the first place in the world, When they become more familiar with our Datang and more willing to come to us, we will influence them through all aspects, which will be more effective. ”

After Sun Xiangfu explained first, he looked at Du Zhenglun and said, "Of course, the exchanges between the lords and magnates of various countries are inevitable, we can hold more banquets, communicate with them in a relaxed way, and be able to finalize some international trade affairs, of course, it is the best, the minister suggested that the Ministry of Commerce should draw up all the existing commodities, production capacity, export prices, as well as the commodities and materials that my Datang needs, as well as the expected price and limit price, and memorize it by heart." in case His Majesty may inquire and respond at any time. ”

To put it bluntly, Datang spent so much money to hold this sports conference, in addition to wanting to achieve some effects of promoting national culture, just to make money, and if you want to earn money from those countries, it is naturally only to expand business contacts.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that what Young Master Sun said is reasonable, the people of Fanbang don't understand the language of my Datang, and no matter how many ceremonies are prepared, they can't figure out why, as long as they see the strength of my Datang's population, military strength, financial resources, and material resources, it is enough to achieve the effect of declaring majesty, and trade, earning practical benefits, is what we should do the most, as for our domestic output, and business situation, the Ministry of Commerce has made detailed statistics early on. This year in Dingxiang, we can export goods worth more than 50 million yuan to all foreign businessmen and tourists.

As for the goods brought by those Fanbang merchants, up to now, the imperial court has at least 80 million yuan of procurement capacity, and after the sports conference is held, this number may increase a lot, and their goods may not even have the value of 10% of the money we have stored. ”

"Eighty million?"

Hearing this data in Du Zhenglun's mouth, everyone couldn't help but look at Gao Shilian, the secretary of the Ministry of Finance.

At this time, Gao Shilian said a little proudly, "Your Majesty, everyone, haven't you forgotten that there are large-scale coin mints in Shanyang and Dingxiang City in the north?" During this period, the inflow of gold and silver into these two cities was very huge, and the gold and silver coins minted by the mints every day were worth more than a million yuan. ”

Gold and silver are valuable, especially gold coins, one is ten money, minting 100,000, the value is million, among the countries of the Western Regions, there are many countries rich in gold, this year Datang has a monetary policy reform, on the market, only the coins minted by the mint, and this kind of coin with very good condition, is very popular with all outsiders, but in the large number of gold and silver flowing into the Tang Dynasty, have become coins, and become the deposit of the bank, but the coin factory has made a lot of money.