Chapter 36: Doing Business with the Emperor

In the palace, Li Shimin listened to Qin Huaiyu's story, everything was detailed, from the carelessness at the beginning to the solemn expression later, Li Shimin's mood fluctuated greatly, especially when he knew that Chen Mo had an extremely profitable business in his hands, saying that it could bring great fortune to the treasury, he finally couldn't help it.

"Are all you telling true? So Chen Mo really has such a certainty? ”

Qin Huaiyu saw that Li Shimin was very serious, and a very serious look appeared on his face and said: "The minister thinks what he said is true, and the minister has also tried the salt he made himself in his house, which is indeed better than refined salt, and those salts were all coarse salt bought by their servants before. ”

"Okay, it's really easy to do, but who's going to talk about it, or else..." Li Shimin left his eyes on Qin Huaiyu's body, including Qin Shubao, who also thought so.

Just when they all looked at Qin Huaiyu, they saw that a white light suddenly appeared on Qin Huaiyu's body that was constantly flickering, and then a person came out from the sky.

"I heard that Your Majesty wants to talk to me about business? Don't know what to talk about? ”

Originally, there were only three people left in the main hall, but at this time, a fourth person suddenly appeared, and the way he came out was so strange that even Li Shimin couldn't hold it back, but Qin Shubao looked very calm.

"How did you get here?" Although he knew that this Chen Mo was a bit strange, the feeling of seeing it with his own eyes was still quite shocking.

"Come here? How to say, as long as I want, I can teleport to anything, whether it is a person or a thing, as long as I have seen it, I can teleport to their place through them, of course, there is a limited distance, such as... The whole of Chang'an. ”

Feeling that Chen Mo said that he could teleport anywhere with anything as a target, Li Shimin and Qin Shubao were very nervous, but when they said that there was a limit, they were relieved, and then when they said that the distance limit was the entire Chang'an, they rolled their eyes again.

How big is Chang'an? Isn't that incomprehensible?

"Don't worry about these unimportant things, you just said that you want to talk about business, what do you want to talk about?" Chen Mo skipped this topic and talked directly about the deliberations.

Li Shimin They didn't want to talk about this, the more they listened, the more panicked they became, and after talking about business, Li Shimin glanced at Chen Mo and said: "Don't ask knowingly, tell me, what conditions do you want." ”

Li Shimin would not believe that Chen Mo would be so kind, and he would come to selflessly dedicate himself when he was in difficulty.

"Conditions... I haven't figured out what I want yet, but I like things like farmland, and I don't pay much attention to money or anything, you see... ”

As soon as he heard that Chen Mo wanted land, Li Shimin was subconsciously entangled, because there are many people in Chang'an now and there is little land, and even the peasants can't arrange it, where is there any other land for Chen Mo, and after thinking about it, he refused: "If that's the case, I can only regret that there is no way to talk about it." ”

Chen Mo didn't expect that he would be rejected just by getting up.

"Your Majesty, why, if the land is not enough, the property of my Yiguo Mansion can be taken out and handed over to Boss Chen first." Qin Shubao attached great importance to the salt production and the subsequent war mentioned by Chen Mo, for fear that the matter of attacking the Turks would end in vain after rejecting this proposal.

"Hey, there is no need to mention this matter, the people are recuperating and living and working in peace and contentment, how can they move their fields and properties because of these things, as for the property of the Yiguo Mansion, it is earned by your merits, it is yours, even if I, the emperor, am poor, I can't touch the things of my courtiers, this matter ends here, I'm sorry Boss Chen, it seems that we can't talk about it."

Li Shimin categorically rejected Qin Shubao's proposal, although he was very moved, but he still refused, in his opinion, such a big interest in the land must not be a small amount, Chang'an City has many people and little land, if the land is given to Chen Mo, then what will his people do? If you don't have money or food, you can always get it if you collect taxes yourself, or pick the heads of the deceased family.

Surprised by Li Shimin's decisiveness, but Chen Mo's senses for Li Shimin have changed, everyone says that the first emperor of the Tang Dynasty and Song Zu, but in Chen Mo's eyes, this is a person who killed his brother and imprisoned his father for the sake of power, and this guy also married his younger brother's wife... killed his younger brother and married his younger brother's wife, but imagine how bad his character is.

Therefore, Chen Mo has always looked at Li Shimin with contempt, but now there has been a change, it is true that he is flawed in terms of life, but as an emperor, it is respectable to think of the people.

It is said that absolute rights will make people absolutely corrupt, Li Shimin's rights in the Tang Dynasty can be called absolute, even Wei Zheng, who is known as the mirror of the ministers, has very little constraint on Li Shimin, he is the emperor and has all the rights, if he is not willing to listen, let alone a Wei Zheng, Wei Zheng in the court will be killed to show you, so as an emperor, he is qualified at this point.

"Don't be in a hurry to refuse, you haven't listened to what I said, I want land is true, but I'm not interested in competing with others for their life, the land of the Tang Dynasty is land, the land of the Turks is also land, and the Western Regions, as well as Goguryeo, etc., etc., the land in these places will not affect the Tang Dynasty."

Li Shimin's expression moved: "What do you mean..." ”

Before Li Shimin could finish speaking, Chen Mo interrupted him and said: "That's right, that's what I mean, I provide you with a way to make money, and even provide you with better grain seeds, so that the field yield can be increased tenfold and hundredfold, and you can sit back and relax and send troops to attack any opponent, I just need to collect the land I deserve from the defeated country, what do you think of this exchange?" ”

"A tenfold increase in grain yields? Didn't you say that you bought grain from Lingnan? Li Shimin was shocked, and was confused by Chen Mo's sudden words.

"Buy? If it's a purchase, wouldn't you be the emperor more of an advantage than me, and if that's the case, how can I do business with you? Once or twice you don't speak, and again and again you do that, do you will? ”

Chen Mo's words simply said that his heart was in trouble, in fact, he really had a way to make money before, and then he would send Chen Mo away with a little benefit, as for the future, it has nothing to do with Chen Mo, and now it seems that Chen Mo still has potential to be tapped.

In Li Shimin's opinion, Chen Mo is a strange person, and an uncontrollable strange person, such a person is actually not liked by those in power, uncontrollable means unstable, and may pose a threat to his rule at any time, but now he is glad that there is such an uncontrollable factor in Datang, if everything he says is true...