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Zhao Pu visited the merchant mansion in Jinling and visited merchants from all walks of life; It is also to visit Li Tang high-ranking officials, or to meet Li Jingsui and other Li Tang clan relatives and nobles, jumping up and down, busy and happy. In previous years, when Zhao Pu came to Jinling, Li Jing would basically meet him soon, and he had never put Zhao Pu outside like this time, and he would let him go for half a month. Whether it is Shang Jia, or officials like Feng Yansi, Zhou Zong, or Li Jingsui, the emperor's brother, they all understand what is going on. His Majesty the Emperor's mental face is on fire? Why did you Chu send troops to the Northern Expedition, conquered the Weisheng Jiedu envoy and occupied the land of Kyushu, while the Northern Expedition of my Tang Dynasty was justified by the Tang Dynasty, but it was humiliated by the Han army, and the Han army lost its armor.

The emperor had a fire in his heart, and of course the ministers panicked, but Zhao Pu came to visit with a smile with gifts, as the saying goes: Raise your hand and don't hit a smiling person. People are civilized and polite, and they also came to the door with gifts, how can it be good to give people a closed-door soup, not to mention that this week, Feng and the others still want to touch the bottom of Zhao Pu in their hearts, but Zhao Pu is this guy, seeing people talking about people, seeing birds and talking birds, Zhou Zong said that our Dachu also wants to develop the economy, and when he saw this Feng Yansi, he danced and played with guns, and he couldn't wait to immediately send troops to attack Lingnan. made these two people's favorability towards Zhao Pu rise again. As for the businessmen and others, most of them think that Li Tang is in financial difficulties right now, and he hopes to take advantage of the east wind of Chu to tide over the difficulties smoothly, so he is even more respectful to Zhao Pu. Even some businessmen made some promises to Zhao Pu in private.

In short, Zhao Pu was busy every day in Jinling, and Li Jing didn't mention the meeting, so he was not in a hurry at all. After more than half a month, Chang Mengxi finally came to the post house with Li Jing's edict and announced that Zhao Pu would meet him.

Zhao Pu straightened his clothes, asked people to take the portraits of Ma Yun, Princess Mingle and Yunwu's family of three, swaggered into the sedan chair, followed Chang Mengxi, and went to Hanyuan Hall to meet Li Jing.

Why did Li Jing meet Zhao Pu, the reason is very simple, Zhao Pu talked to Zhou Zong and Feng Yansi, and they all spoke to the hearts of these two people, which made these two people feel that this Zhao Pu is a reasonable person, and they all want to use the power of Chu to persuade Li Jing to agree with their political ideas. In the past two days, the two parties have launched a fierce debate on Li Tang's recent economic situation and how to stabilize copper prices.

Feng Yansi categorically refused to make a lot of money, although there is no evidence now, but someone must want to take advantage of the opportunity to make a lot of money and make a fortune. Feng Yansi resolutely did not accept this wronged boss, but he did not agree, and he proposed that Yong'an Supervisor work overtime to quickly make a batch of new copper coins and enter the market to stabilize copper prices. He felt that as long as he re-invested new copper coins and lowered the ratio of silver and copper again, then unscrupulous merchants might not be able to bear it, and it was very likely that they would take advantage of the current low prices to sell the copper coins in their hands, so that the price of copper would naturally decrease. However, how can it be possible to make copper coins without copper, he proposed two methods, one is to increase the development of copper mines in Fuzhou and other places, and the other is to raise troops to go south and plunder the copper mines in Lingnan for their own use. In this way, on the one hand, it expands the territory, and on the other hand, it also solves the problem of rising domestic copper prices.

He said it wildly, but in Zhou Zong's eyes, it was completely a remark about the death of the country. The old man was so excited that he almost didn't fight with Feng Yansi, Zhou Zong's set, to put it bluntly, was a truce to stop the war and raise the people. The specific method is to cut taxes first, and then allow the people to pay silver as taxes, and if the price of copper still rises, then make a lot of money.

Last time, Feng Yansi sued Diao, which made Li Jing feel that it was better not to do this big money for the time being. Although he believed in Zhou Zong, he couldn't figure out whether Zhou Zong was deceived by others, so Li Jing was very conflicted, if he sent troops, he was afraid that he would not win, don't make it like the last Northern Expedition, stealing chickens will not make rice; If you make a lot of money, will you let unscrupulous businessmen take advantage of the loopholes? Although due to the limitations of history, he is in the period of the Five Dynasties, and he still does not understand the material immortality theorem, but there is one thing, this is so much less in the copper coin, it will definitely not disappear, and it has been traced for so long, and there is no whereabouts, so it must be hidden somewhere. There must be a conspiracy in this, so he doesn't dare to make a lot of money unless he has to.

But it's not a way to stand up. After thinking about it, he decided to meet this envoy from the Chu State, Lord Zhao Puzhao.

"Weichen, meet His Royal Highness the King of Tang." In the Hanyuan Palace, Zhao Pu saluted.

"Excuse me, flat. I've been busy these days, and I'm so tired that my husband is staying in the inn, and I'm so uneasy in my heart. Is it customary for a gentleman to live in a post house? Li Jing said in a greeting.

"Thanks to His Royal Highness, the officials eat well and sleep well." Zhao Pu said with a smile.

"Your Royal Highness, King Chu, are you well?" Li Jingdao.

"My king is in good health." Zhao Pu replied.

"I heard that the situation in Chu State is now embarrassing, but is it true?"

"It's true." Zhao Pu said unabashedly.

Zhao Pu's honesty made Li Jingleng pause, and he was silent for a while before he said, "What is the current situation in your country?" ”

"Lack of money, lack of food."

"King Chu, what are you going to do?"

"My king is ready to borrow."

Li Jing sighed and said, "My Datang is also in a difficult situation now, and I have more than enough heart but not enough strength." ”

Zhao Pu said with a smile: "The Tang King misunderstood, my king did not want to borrow from the Tang Dynasty, but from the Lingnan Liu family. ”

Li Jing was stunned for a moment, and said suspiciously: "Lingnan Liu? I heard that your country and Lingnan have always had enmity, are they willing to borrow it? ”

"Hehe, I have hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers in Da Chu, but he refuses, until he is willing." Zhao Pu said with a smile, his attitude was natural and his tone was relaxed, making people feel that this Lingnan was like Da Chu's own backyard.

Li Jing was stunned for a moment, glanced at Feng Yansi and Zhou Zong who were standing on the side, and said in his heart: Ya, this Chu country is too dark.

He was silent for a long time before asking, "I wonder when the King of Chu borrowed grain?" ”

"Harvest this autumn at the earliest, early spring next year at the latest."

"Why did you choose this time?" Li Jing asked.

"At the time of the autumn harvest, there is grain in Lingnan. In the early spring, there was no food in Dachu. That's it. ”

Li Jing was silent, and Zhou Zong couldn't help but say, "Lord Zhao, didn't you say that His Royal Highness the King of Chu wants to suspend the army and support the people?" Why is it borrowing grain from Lingnan again today? ”

Zhao Pu arched his hand and said: "Lord Zhou's policy of recuperation with the people is not only admired very much, but even my king is also very appreciative. However, for my Da Chu, the timing is not enough. My Dachu spans Jingchu, and Datang is also the Huainan River. If I guard the first line of Deng Xiang in Dachu and your country guards the south of the Huai River, although there are millions of soldiers in the Central Plains, we can no longer underestimate my Jiangnan. However, if the Central Plains raises troops to the south, and Lingnan moves northward and attacks each other, Sun Wu will always be resurrected, and I am afraid that he will not be able to win. Therefore, my king borrowed grain from Lingnan. ”

"According to you, borrowing food is just an excuse. The state of Chu is nothing more than trying to annex Lingnan. Zhou Zong said angrily, he felt that he had been bought by this kid.

"Yes, only when Lingnan is pacified and there are no worries, will my king take a break to raise the people and watch the world." Zhao Pu said, "Therefore, Zhou Zongzhou's suggestion, although good, is not suitable for the current situation. In the past, King Ji of Wu practiced benevolence and righteousness, while the princes were obedient; In the Spring and Autumn Period, Chen Guoxing was benevolent and righteous, but he was tragically destroyed. It's just that the situation is different. For example, if you take your gold, walk the mountain and forest paths, and meet robbers, can you use benevolence, righteousness and morality to influence the robbers to let you go? Apparently impossible. My king loves the people like a son, and he doesn't want to fight, but to stop fighting. ”

Zhao Pu talked eloquently. But these words were too shameless, Zhou Zong's hands and feet trembled, his mouth was crooked, and Li Jing was shocked that such shameless words could be said by Zhao Pu without blushing, panting, and with a smile on his face, as for Feng Yansi, he glanced at Li Jing, stood up, and blamed: "Lord Zhao is wrong about what he said." Do you remember that last year, there was an agreement between Tang and Chu that our two countries would divide Lingnan equally, and when you heard your words, you obviously wanted to swallow it alone... Hum... I'm afraid this is unreasonable. ”

Zhao Purong said: "My king is full of words, how can he regret it." However, the time for our crusade against Lingnan is likely to be set in the early spring of next year. When the time comes, you and I will send troops together. There is no problem with this, we still have Hejiang and Yujiang as the boundary. ”

It's only June now, and it's delayed until the early spring of next year, that is, in March next year, it may not matter if Chu State is in the country, can my Datang be smoothly delayed to that time? Li Jing muttered in his heart.

Zhou Zong looked at Li Jing's appearance, and secretly shouted in his heart, His Majesty the Emperor, won't he be moved again. He stood up and was about to speak. Over there, Zhao Pu said: "Oh, His Royal Highness the King of Tang, Weichen is here in Jinling, and my king specially asked the painter to paint a family carnival and present it to the King of Tang." As he spoke, he waved his hand outside the hall, and a small yellow door, holding a scroll of paintings, walked in, and presented it to Huang Hao with both hands. Huang Hao took it, and under Li Jing's signal, it was unfolded on the imperial table: in the distance of the picture scroll is a small lake with rippling blue waves, there are nine zigzag bridges on the lake, and near is an elegant water pavilion, on which three people are painted, Princess Mingle is sitting on a chair, holding a child in both hands, and the King of Chu is standing behind her, his hands are naturally looking at Princess Mingle's shoulders, his posture is gentle, and the whole picture scroll is a warm home atmosphere.

Li Jing pondered for a moment and said, "Princess Mingle, is it okay to be in the Chu Kingdom?" ”

"The princess is concerned about Your Majesty."

Li Jing sighed and said, "Ordinary people, marrying a daughter and going back to the province to talk about it. If my son misses me, why don't you send her back to me? ”

"The country of Chu is in distress, and the princess is willing to share it with my king." Zhao Pudao.

Li Jing is a typical literati temperament, indecisive, and child-like, Zhou Zong saw that Li Jing actually had the appearance of missing his daughter, he knelt on the ground and said: "Your Majesty think twice, the year before last, the Fujian Wang clan has been fighting for many years, the people's grievances are boiling, our army sent tens of thousands of troops, and it took two years to pacify. Zhou Zong was a little angry, last time Zhao Pu used this tattered poetry collection to lobby Li Jing to send troops to the Northern Expedition, and now he wants to use a painting to persuade Li Jing to send troops to Lingnan.

Feng Yansi did so much homework on the southern expedition, and at the moment, he "snapped", and elaborated on the comparison of the military strength, financial strength, and people's support of the two sides. Li Jing was finally moved and asked, "Mr. Zhao, if you and I jointly go south, how sure are you?" ”

"Ten percent."

"Oh, how so?" Li Jing asked.

"Wechen thought that we had nine victories, and Lingnan had ten defeats. We have so many advantages, and Lingnan is undefeated. At that moment, Zhao Pu explained the nine wins and ten defeats one by one, which is nothing more than the meaning of more help for the righteous and less help for the unjust.

After hearing this, Li Jing's confidence increased greatly, and he asked, "In that case, why don't we send troops immediately?" ”

Zhao Pu shook his head and said, "Da Chu has no food, and there are always 100,000 elite soldiers, and it is difficult to move an inch. ”

Going around and around, it's back to square one. Li Jing glanced at Zhao Pu, this girl comes, every time there is no good thing. But this time, maybe it can really solve the problem of Datang's current copper price. So, he opened his mouth and prepared to be wronged.

Over there, Zhou Zong stood up again and said: "Your Majesty, now the troops of Huainan have no intention of fighting because of the failure of the Northern Expedition, and the soldiers of Jiangbiao, because they have just returned from the expedition to Fujian, how can they be willing to send troops again, the minister thinks that it should be postponed until September, and by September, the state of Chu will also have food, and our army will be almost rested." The weather is not hot anymore, isn't this the best time to send troops? ”

As soon as Zhou Zong reminded him, Li Jing reacted, damn, Lao Tzu almost became the boss again. So, he also said: "In this case, let's jointly send troops in September." What does Lord Zhao think? ”

Zhao Pu regretted a little, just now he was quick to talk, and said that there was food in September, but now he was grabbed by Zhou Zong, he sighed and said: "This matter, the lower official wants to return to my king, and the king will judge it, and the lower official does not have this right." However, this September troops, the deployment of troops and horses, it is estimated that August will be completed, this army is dispatched, grain and grass first, our army is food, I am afraid it will not last, this... ”

"This... We'll talk about that then. Zhou Zong said. When it comes to the war, Zhou Zong can drag it out.

Feng Yansi was not happy over there, he wanted to devote himself to the new war, and only by fighting would Li Jing fully trust him. He hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, Lord Zhao is also reasonable. However, since there is no grain in the Chu State, then you can use the state and county to exchange for food. As long as your country cedes some territory, this grain will naturally be negotiable. ”

Zhao Pu was a little discouraged, but when he heard this, he nodded again and again, and Li Jing over there agreed. Only Zhou Zong shook his head and sighed. What kind of thing is this, this is like Chu Guo took Li Tang's money, sold a piece of land, and then gave Li Tang a piece casually, even if it was repaid. Looking at the state of Chu like this, will it be ceded at that time, so what about it? The state of Chu is getting stronger and stronger, but Li Tang is getting weaker and weaker. Zhou Zong glanced at Zhao Pu, the king of Chu was ambitious, what if Lingnan alone couldn't satisfy him? Zhao Pu, copper coins... Could it be ... Zhou Zong's heart moved, Feng Yansi checked Li Zhao and didn't find anything, but Li Zhao has a lot of shops in Li Tang, he buys and sells, and I am afraid that there are many friends in the mall, will he transfer things? . . If... He didn't dare to think about it anymore...

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