The first snow of the second year of Zhenguan came later than usual. Wei Zheng has hit the horse to Chang'an, it hasn't come down yet, no, while the snow hasn't come down, the people of Xingfu Village are still busy grabbing seeds.

Vegetables such as couch vegetables, broad beans, celery, spinach, chrysanthemum, lettuce, coriander, Chinese cabbage, and snow fern can be planted at this time of year, and frost can freeze locusts to extinction, but these vegetables cannot be frozen.

The frost is down, the soil is wet, the snow is down, and the water is coming, which means that the locust plague and the drought will pass, if in the past, the people in Guanzhong are at home for the winter, where will there be any busy farming scene, but this year, due to the characteristics of these cold vegetables, the food of the people will be very rich, and the cold winter that may have been very difficult is not so sad.

To Li Shimin's surprise, Chang'an's grain fell again, because Wang Hao's grain arrived in Chang'an, which was enough for millions of stones.

"Your Majesty, although the one million guan brought back by the minister from Shanyang cannot enter the treasury, please don't use it indiscriminately, the livelihood of millions of people in Guanzhong is important."

"Hehe, I didn't expect you Wei Xuancheng to be deceived by that kid's remarks to violate the principles, don't worry, this million yuan, I will only use it to buy food in Wang Hao's hands."

In the imperial study, Li Shimin's eyes looked at Wei Zheng with a bit of ridicule, after understanding the whole process of Shanyang's auction, the most surprising thing for Li Shimin was Wei Zheng's performance in the whole process, an old-fashioned man, he actually knew how to use deception and tricks to cross the sea, in the future, if he stood on the high point of morality and accused himself, he was afraid that he would not have so much confidence!

"Governing the country requires means, if you sacrifice the old man's honor, you can save more people and reduce the country's border troubles, why not! This secret letter was handed over to His Majesty by Sun Zhengming to the old minister, and after reading it, His Majesty should understand why the minister obeyed Sun Zhengming's arrangement and promoted the land auction. ”

Seeing that Wei Zheng solemnly handed over a secret piece sealed with fire paint to himself, Li Shimin also came to the spirit, and immediately opened it to take a closer look.

After a while, Li Shimin's eyes began to glow, and although he had finished reading the entire secret recital, he couldn't help but read it from the beginning.

"Hahahaha, okay, what Sun Zhengming thinks is exactly what I want. Wait for the west ······"

Li Shimin actually wanted to say that when Li Jing's war against Jieli in the west was over, he would give a big reward, but he suddenly thought that Wei Zheng didn't know about Li Jing's expedition, and he was afraid of being sprayed, so he hurriedly closed his mouth.

"Well, when the court goes to court tomorrow, the princes should discuss the reward for the beggar servant, and think it will be an example for those who come after."

Li Shimin braked sharply and changed his tone, but Wei Zheng didn't know why he was talking and hiccuping, only knowing that there were foreign countries expressing their submission, which was a matter of great prestige in the imperial court, and he knew that this was the beginning of Sun Xiangfu's plan, and it was very important to keep this trend, and in his heart, he also strongly supported it, and after a rare compliment on the emperor's wisdom, he withdrew from the imperial study.

When the country's finances are tight, the eldest grandson empress usually reduces the expenses of the harem to the point of tooth acid, why tooth acid? Because the harem has been eating things like sauerkraut and pickles for a while, there are actually fish, but Queen Changsun saw that the price of fish on the market was high, so people pulled it to the market and sold it, and today, Li Shimin finally found an excuse not to eat sauerkraut tofu.

Wei Zheng brought back a million pieces of money, as well as perfume, toffee, and spices, dozens of cars, all of which went into the inner palace, today, how can Empress Changsun let him eat roast mutton, after all, whether the spices grown by Sun Xiangfu are good or not, you have to try it.

"Your Majesty has always kept Sun Zhengming so tight before, how can you rest assured that he has so much money in his hands this time? Coupled with the accounts, he has nearly 20 million yuan of money in the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate. ”

Empress Eldest Sun, who smelled the fragrance emanating from her body from time to time, was also in a very happy mood, even if she was talking about money that made her gnash her teeth, she was also smiling.

"Because I know that money is in his hands and can play a greater role, don't you know, he is the only one who can't find fault with Wei Zheng, and he still tries his best to help him cheat." Li Shimin smelled the fragrant Empress Eldest Sun, and chewed the toffee in his mouth.

"Really? It's not easy. ”

"It's not easy! It is said that when Wei Zheng arrived in Shanyang, he already owed hundreds of thousands of huge debts, and it was a private debt, and those money were all paid by him to help the imperial court solve people's livelihood problems, and now the Turks in Shanyang, oh, it should be said that the people of Shanyang, each of them has their own houses, a job to support their families, and their living standards are even better than when the people of Guanzhong were in good years. ”

"Hah! How did he do this? "Empress Eldest Sun was a little unconvinced.

If there are people elsewhere in this period who are better off than the people in Guanzhong, it is the emperor's dereliction of duty, this is the people at the feet of the Son of Heaven!

"I also only analyzed some clues, he used the land of several counties in Shuozhou to grow enough food for the people in the jurisdiction of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, and lured him with high salaries, so that all the people could not rest in peace, working day by day, and constantly improving the construction of his Shanyang City, while making a lot of things, this perfume! Milk candy! It's just one of them, it is said that there are many shops in Shanyang City now, and the goods are more complete than Chang'an, and the merchants in the north go to Shanyang to sell and buy goods, which can be regarded as giving full play to his talent for good development. ”

Hearing this, Empress Eldest Sun smiled, "Really? If Chang'an, which is run by His Majesty, is compared to Shanyang, won't it be gloomy? ”

The meaning of Empress Eldest Sun's words is actually to inspire Li Shimin, who thinks, Li Shimin's face turned dark when he heard this, and he slapped the toffee in his hand on the table and said, "If you don't mention this stubble, I almost forgot, Feng Ang gave me a fold a few days ago, and asked the people in Guanzhong how much they had earned in the past, and I wondered, so I sent Feng Zhidai to ask, do you know what he said?" ”

"What did he say?"

"He said that Sun Zhengming boasted about the sea crossing in Lingnan back then, saying that the people of Lingnan would be richer than Guanzhong within three years, and within ten years, they would all wear gold and silver, looking at the poor people in Guanzhong and smirking."

"Poof."

The milk candy in the mouth of the eldest grandson queen was chewing vigorously, and after listening to Li Shimin's words, she couldn't help but burst out laughing when she saw Li Shimin's expression when she said this.

However, she thought about it carefully, and the smile on her face gradually converged, if someone else said such a thing, Empress Changsun might still think it was a fantasy, but Sun Xiangfu said such a thing, but it made her feel a little possible.

"Your Majesty, after the waterway was opened, how much grain was transported from Lingnan?"

"Well, I'm afraid there are more than three million stones!" Li Shimin replied stunned.

"That, the annual tribute that Lingnan asked for was sent to the palace in full, that is to say, the imperial court now owes Lingnan more than three million stone grain?"

"Well, yes, that's right!" Li Shimin was even more stunned, when Empress Eldest Sun asked these words, Li Shimin had already understood what she wanted to say.

How many people were there under Feng An's rule? It's only more than 300,000 yuan, but it sent more than 3 million stone of grain to Guanzhong within a year, not counting the annual tribute, these grains are distributed to everyone, which is more than ten stones! Do the people in Guanzhong have more than ten stone of surplus grain at home?

Moreover, this is not counting the more than one million stone of grain that is being transported to Chang'an, in addition, the melon and fruit fresh business, sugar business, but all the industries that come from money, it is said that this year, the white sugar and rock sugar in the east and west cities of Chang'an have all been bought out by merchants in the Western Regions, with a total value of hundreds of thousands of yuan. Moreover, there is also a salted fish industry that regularly goes to Yangzhou salted fish and bean paste workshop to pull tens of thousands of dollars back.

"No wonder Feng Ang is asking the people in the pass how much income they have in the past! It turned out that he thought that the people of Lingnan were already richer than the people of Guanzhong, how long had it been? More than a year? ”

Thinking of this question, Li Shimin was a little confused, as the ruler of the empire, the people under his feet, he was not as rich as the barbarian land on the border, is this worth it?

"Your Majesty can't be counted like this, they have fewer people in charge, and you have more in charge, and besides, Guanzhong has suffered a disaster this year, and it is normal to compare it." Seeing that Li Shimin's expression was wrong, Empress Eldest Sun persuaded.

"I'm pretty sure that even if Guanzhong doesn't suffer a disaster this year, it will be compared to Lingnan, and it will be compared to Shanyang soon. Something is wrong! It must be that my method of governance is wrong, otherwise, with the abundance of products in my Guanzhong, it is impossible to compare with the ······ of the two border barbarian lands."

Li Shimin seemed to be in a daze, and as soon as his brain moved, he even forgot to chew the toffee in his mouth. At this time, there was a report from the inner servant, and the imperial physician ordered Sun Simiao, the imperial historian Yuan Tiangang and the deputy eunuch Li Chunfeng to ask to see him.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the three Taoist leaders ask to see, do you see it or not?" Empress Changsun called several times in a row before Li Shimin recovered from that strange state.

After a while, Sun Simiao and the three were brought in by the attendants, and after a visit, the three explained their intentions.

Sun Simiao is here to resign, and now, the people of Weinan have all been vaccinated with cowpox, and the work of eliminating the source of infection is nearing completion, there is no need for him to stay here, he wants to go to Shanyang City to visit Sun Zhengming to discuss medical skills, and Li Chunfeng is applying to accompany him.

As for Yuan Tiangang, he came to report to Li Shimin on the weather conditions for a period of time in the future, since their collective prediction of the drought in Guanzhong was accurate, Li Shimin was very concerned about the weather situation, and after understanding the farming plan of the farmers of Xingfu Village, he paid more attention to the impact of the weather on production, so he asked every other day.

In the end, Li Shimin did not agree to the resignation of Sun Simiao, who had made great contributions to the fight against the plague this time, and also crowned him and Li Chunfeng as the official titles of Wen San, I believe that there is such a great merit, and no one in the court objected. In the end, Li Shimin allowed them to go to Shanyang to discuss medical skills with Sun Xiangfu, but they asked them to bring Sun Xiangfu a sentence that within the year, they must offer a strategy that can enrich the people in Guanzhong.