Chapter 31: Your Majesty, Let's form a group to do business
"This minister doesn't know that it's been a long time since he's been in this state and hasn't spoken to anyone else." Chang Anling shook his head and said, he himself had secretly watched it, and he didn't see a reason for it.
"Let's go and have a look in the prison."
"Your Majesty, no! This prison is damp, filthy, and stinky, and your majesty is afraid that it will pollute your ears and eyes. ”
"Joke, I am fighting the world and stepping on the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood, what I have never seen before, lead the way ahead." Li Shimin smiled proudly, he had seen the most filthy thing in the world, the stench of grain reincarnation, how could he not bear it.
"Your Majesty, please." Li Shimin said so, Chang'an Ling naturally didn't know what to do, and obediently led the way in front.
The smell in this cell is unbearable at all times, Chang An Ling subconsciously frowned as soon as he stepped in, but Li Shimin's face was as usual, as if he was walking between the gardens.
Cai Cong was half-leaning against the wall, his eyes slightly closed, his brows tightly locked, as if he had encountered something unpleasant. A ray of sunlight shone through the window, and in an instant he was a clear spring in this turbid world.
Chang An Ling wanted to wake up Cai Cong, but was stopped by Li Er, and the two stood quietly, waiting for Cai Cong to wake up from meditation.
As if knowing that the most noble person in the world was standing beside him, Cai Cong sighed and opened his eyes after a while. Li Shimin felt very cute when he saw such a little person's sad face, and couldn't help but smile and said, "What is the stinky boy thinking?" At a young age, he learned to sigh. ”
Cai Cong noticed the two people standing outside the cell, and hurriedly saluted: "Minister, Xiaomin Cai Cong greets the emperor." ”
"Get up! What are you thinking? "Li Shimin is in a very good mood, Cai Cong is a few months older than his eldest son, and his son is filial, steady and smart. Cai Cong is also filial, almost demonic, and old-fashioned, the two have many similarities, and when he sees Cai Cong, he always thinks of Li Chengqian.
"Xiaomin is thinking, I have committed such a big crime, and Your Majesty didn't kill me, how can I repay Your Majesty." Cai Cong's brows furrowed again as he spoke, and his chubby little face looked very cute.
"Then do you think of how to repay me?"
"It's a lot of ideas, but it's time-consuming to do, and I really can't think of any quicker way." Cai Cong was very depressed, in his previous life, he said that he was called an international thief if it sounded good, but he was a thief if it was ugly. The only thing that is superior to the Tang people is his knowledge that is two thousand years ahead, but these insights cannot be realized immediately, and it takes time to accumulate.
"Hahaha, I have time to wait for you to serve, don't be too anxious, after you go out, go to the palace to study hard, and then come to work for me when you grow up."
"Is the emperor interested in partnering in business?" Cai Cong suddenly raised his head and said leisurely. Li Shimin almost didn't laugh when he heard this, he blushed and pointed at Cai Cong with one hand, and he was speechless with anger.
"If I don't like it, then I'll do my own business. Then Your Majesty, I have a way to strengthen the army, do you want to? Cai Cong was a little disappointed, it was really not so easy to pull the emperor into the water.
"The way to strengthen the army? What method? Li Shimin immediately asked.
"There are many kinds, such as making the whole army strong, even if the commander dies unexpectedly, but as long as the whole army does not receive the order to retreat, it will defend the city until the last man dies. Then there is the kind of corps that takes the army as a unit, and any danger in the world is like walking on the ground, and it can fight and kill when it enters, and it can sneak to stab the enemy's head when it retreats, or it can pass through many levels in order to be meticulous, bringing the information needed by the army, and being the king of soldiers. But I still want to do business with Your Majesty, I promise......"
"Shut up!" When Li Shimin heard this method of strengthening the army, he couldn't wait to train those sergeants immediately, thinking that with such a powerful army, how much should Datang's combat effectiveness be improved? The beauty he was thinking about in his heart, Cai Cong's last sentence was like rat, and he was speechless with disgust.
"Bastard thing, I think about these things every day, and I don't have any interest! Now go back to the palace with me. After Li Shimin finished speaking, he walked out of the cell in a huff, and Chang'an ordered to immediately open the door and release Cai Cong.
"If you don't do business, you won't do business, why do you still scold, it's too much, don't you say?" Cai Cong muttered, Chang'an Ling stiffly smiled, you give him a leopard gall, he doesn't dare to take this, isn't this a scolding of the emperor?
Cai Cong was unlucky, the wind was blowing in October, he was sitting outside the carriage, the wind blew the sand on his face, and when he arrived in the palace, he was already discouraged.
"Look at how dirty you are? Then it still looks like a court official? Someone came to take me down to wash it, change into clean clothes, and see me again. "Li Shimin didn't like Cai Cong all the way, why did this kid suddenly become so eyeless?
When he walked to Qingning Palace, he still had a drooping face. Empress Changsun was wearing a skirt and a golden step on her head, and when she saw the emperor with a drooping face, she greeted her and asked with a smile: "Didn't Your Majesty say to see Cai Cong's child?" Why did you come back in a rage? Didn't that kid make you angry because he didn't know anything? ”
"It's not just angry, it's just angry with me." Li Shimin sat down, drank a glass of water, and said indignantly.
Why is that? The concubine is not lawless, and he is also a polite junior. The eldest grandson said in wonder, although he had only met him once, but Li Ji's wife had talked about how gentle and polite this junior was in front of him many times.
"When I met him, he was thinking about how to repay me for not killing." Li Shimin said angrily. The eldest grandson is different, this is a good thing! Why are my own men still angry.
"In return to me, he invited me to partner with him in business." Li Shimin drooped his eyelids, he really wanted to see what the queen's expression was when she heard this. Sure enough, the corners of the queen's eyes twitched, and she couldn't say a word if she wanted to persuade the emperor to enlarge her heart.
The status of a merchant is extremely low, and if a farmer and a merchant have a dispute, the government's favorable conditions go to the farmer. This Cai Cong asked the emperor to do business, and the emperor did not treat him with great disrespect, which was already merciful.
"Did Your Majesty release the child?"
"In order to clean him up, I let him blow the wind and dust all the way, and now he is being taken down to clean it." Li Shimin couldn't help but laugh as he spoke. The eldest grandson gave him a blank look, and he was still thinking about the children.
The two chatted like this, and Cai Cong was washed and taken to Qingning Palace in vain. He could not wear his own clothes, and he knelt on the ground in clothes that he did not know where the eunuch had found them.
"Come, Cai Cong sit down here, what are you doing so far away?" A child can't talk about the great defense between men and women, and as for Cai Cong's assassination, it is even more nonsense.
Cai Cong immediately approached and knelt beside the queen, staring at the osmanthus cake on the desk with two eyes. You don't know that the food in the cell is really not much different from the pig food, even if he has special treatment.
"Look at your unproductive appearance, you haven't eaten in eight lifetimes?" Li Shimin said angrily, but he also knew how bad Cai Cong had eaten this month, so he picked up the pastries and put them in front of him.
Cai Cong was also not polite, picking up a big bite in each hand of his left and right hands and eating it. Choked and rolled his eyes, and finally swallowed, before he said: "Don't you know, the food in this prison is simply inhuman, I have already thought about it, and when I get home, I will be studying a few delicacies, and then I will invite you and the queen to eat." ”
"Eat, eat, eat, know how to eat, don't hurry up and explain the method of strengthening the army." Li Shimin felt that his brains were not good enough, and he clearly said that it was good to talk about military affairs, but you can't do this.
"Before talking to Your Majesty about the method of strengthening soldiers, the kid has a question I want to ask Your Majesty? What is the most important factor in a campaign? Cai Cong suddenly sat up straight and asked with a straight face.
"Nature is food and grass." Li Shimin also said with a straight face. The three armies did not move the grain and grass first, and this is the correct solution. Don't say anything about the general's force value, that's, if you don't have anything to eat, you have to be soft-footed shrimp.
"Your Majesty is worthy of being a military master, and he sees it very thoroughly. In fact, the battle is about who has more money. Why was Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty able to wave his army up, and the Huns who fought did not dare to look at the Central Plains? In addition to the fact that he had a group of outstanding military strategists and brave generals, the greater reason was that several generations of emperors of the Han Dynasty had accumulated a lot of wealth before him. But even so, several major battles of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty wiped out the foundation of the Han family. ”
It was a very formal duet, Li Lao Er and the eldest grandson took it very seriously, and the eldest grandson withdrew without saying a word, she didn't interfere in politics. Only the emperor and the clerk were left present.
"Please!" Li Shimin no longer thought that Cai Cong was a little ghost this time, and used the word please.