The sound of the announcement outside the door made everyone in the imperial study stunned.

Coming back?

Coming back so soon?

Wrong......

Li Shimin realized that something might be wrong with the situation, and hurriedly asked people to summon Cheng Zhijie and Cheng Chuliang's father and son in.

"You're back on your own?" Looking at Cheng Chuliang's expression, Li Shimin had some doubts in his heart.

Cheng Chuliang's expression was a little tired, but he didn't have any other expressions, could it be that he was thinking wrong?

"Oh, Your Majesty, Changsun Lian is also back, but it will take him a while to return to Chang'an, I got off the boat directly in Haizhou and came back by land first, and Changsun Lian has to go back to Yangzhou first, and then transfer things to the Neijiang boat and come back." Cheng Chuliang nodded tiredly and said.

"What about the others?" Li Shimin wondered.

"It's still in Silla, His Royal Highness sent the two of us back, one is to report the situation over there to the imperial court, and the other is to replenish the stock......" Cheng Chuliang said in a low voice, and secretly looked up at Li Shimin, and found that Li Shimin was staring at himself intently, and Cheng Chuliang was instantly embarrassed to death.

"You've brought a lot of goods, haven't you? How long has it been since it sold out? Fang Xuanling was surprised, although he had never been to Silla, he also knew that it was relatively poor.

It's easy to say that cloth or something, as long as the price is not too outrageous, more people buy it, and the groceries brought by Fang Yiai are also easy to say, they are all some best-selling goods, but Cheng Chuliang and Changsun Jian have made a boatload of porcelain in the past, except for the nobles, others are unlikely to buy it.

"That'...... It's easy to sell things over there......" Cheng Chuliang whispered, regretting it to death, why do you want to say replenishment if you have nothing to do? How much did you earn? If you are targeted by others, how will you make money next?

"Huh?" Li Shimin seemed to have grasped the crux of the problem, and couldn't help asking: "How much did it sell?" ”

"Two ...... Two thousand pounds ......"

"Two thousand pounds? Is Silla's money calculated by the pound? Li Shimin glared at Cheng Chuliang fiercely, and knew that there must be an article in it when he looked at it.

"Your Majesty, we can pay the tax, we can pay it how we want, and the minister is not cheeky to say that it is exempt from taxes, but the hardships on the way are not unbearable for ordinary people, when I went, I lost two ships, hundreds of soldiers, and when I came back, I almost lost it, and I almost couldn't come back, this is all life money......" Cheng Zhijie on the side couldn't see it, if he didn't come forward at this time, it was estimated that his little doll would be taken to the ditch by Li Shimin.

"I didn't say I wanted your money! Thirty taxes one is thirty taxes one! Li Shimin then glared at Cheng Zhijie, realizing that this time they may not be making less money.

"Two thousand pounds of gold! Five thousand pounds of silver! After getting Li Shimin's promise, Cheng Zhijie did not hide it, and directly said the amount of money sold.

"Profiteering...... Profiteering......"

"Your Majesty, Silla is also a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty, and it is understandable to make more money in business, but dozens of times the profit may affect the image of the Tang Dynasty in the three vassal countries of the peninsula." Wei Zheng frowned, and stood up directly and said.

However, after persuading Li Shimin, he still didn't seem to feel very enjoyable, and turned his head to look at Cheng Zhijie: "Su Guogong, 10,000 pieces of cloth, a boatload of porcelain, a boatload of groceries, such a thing is at most 10,000 yuan in Datang, don't you feel hot with this money?" ”

"Humph!" Cheng Zhijie snorted coldly and glanced at Wei Zheng.

This thing is a dog raised by the Shandong Shi clan, although Li Shimin's trust is deep, but the things in the court, good performance is not necessarily really good, how can Cheng Zhijie, a person, not see these cats?

But he was too lazy to talk so much to Wei Zheng, there was no need.

"Who told you it's all? That's just the price of a shipload of porcelain! ”

"What?"

'Bang! ’

Li Shimin knocked heavily on the table, and when he heard Cheng Zhijie's words, he was also a little angry, a boatload of porcelain dared to sell at this price, this is a sincere search for trouble, do you want the face of the dignified Heavenly Empire?

"Your Majesty...... Your Majesty...... Gold and silver are naturally very precious in the Tang Dynasty, but in the three countries of the peninsula, it is actually like that, people are the origin, not to mention that there is gold and silver everywhere, but as long as people are willing, a mine can mine so much in one or two months. Cheng Chuliang hurriedly explained, now that he regrets it a little, why didn't he let Fang Yiai's stunned son come back?

Why don't you let the eldest grandson come back first?

"Origin?" Li Shimin was stunned, he had never heard of a large number of gold and silver mines in the three countries of the peninsula, and he had not seen much gold and silver in the previous tribute list, Li Shimin reserved his skeptical opinion about this statement.

The reactions of the ministers in the imperial study were not much different from Li Shimin, no one had ever been to the peninsula, let alone what the situation was over there, even if they had sent the imperial history before, they didn't know so much about it.

"Your Majesty, it's really the place of origin, and the gifts given by the King of Silla are hundreds of catties of ......," Cheng Chuliang said cautiously, secretly warning himself that he must be calm, and he must not shake out what they are doing there.

'Hiss......'

Li Shimin couldn't help but gasp, he was still having a headache for gold and silver for several months, but he didn't expect people to be so generous with gifts.

"Your Majesty, the minister wants to go to the peninsula to see for himself, if this is the case, the minister thinks he can exchange with them." Fang Xuanling thought for a while and said.

What the imperial court lacks most now is gold and silver, and if these two are not fully prepared, the currency reform will not be carried out at all.

Although the problem of currency is not so serious now, since the emergence of money banks, the concept of finance has slowly entered their sight.

And some capable bigwigs naturally felt the slightest sign of something wrong.

Because Datang's money is too small, it is not enough at all, and if this problem is not solved for a long time, something big will happen sooner or later.

Li Shimin also saw this problem, so he urgently summoned ministers every day to discuss, but only increasing gold and silver is not safe, and there must be an equal amount, or even more copper coins, to keep this new currency without problems.

"Swap? Why exchange? Cheng Chuliang subconsciously asked, when he was in Silla before, Li Yuanjing had mentioned these gold mines, silver mines, and even copper mines, and it was not difficult for Datang to get them, and he never mentioned exchanging them or anything.

"What else can you do without exchanging? Let the court go to the Ming to rob it? Fang Xuanling looked at Cheng Chuliang with a smile, this melon baby is really not a loss at all when he is beaten every day.

"Oh......" Cheng Chuliang suddenly remembered something, and took out a secret letter from his arms with a little embarrassment.

The so-called secret letter is actually a blank book, and then the content written directly on it, wrapped in base oil paper outside, and then sealed with mud to prevent moisture, although it is not as safe as the bamboo tube package, but even if it falls into the water for a short time, the problem is not big, and there is a layer of oil paper cut from the umbrella on the outermost periphery.

"This is His Royal Highness King Zhao asked me to hand it over to His Majesty, and repeatedly told him that no one is allowed to watch it except His Majesty, and His Majesty must burn it immediately after reading it, and it must be burned by my own hands, and I need to be present during ......the whole process" Cheng Chuliang said with a sweat on the top of his head, these words are really too special to die, but this is Li Yuanjing's original words, and he doesn't want to omit some, what if it causes other bad things?

But Cheng Chuliang felt that he needed to be flexible at this time, and continued: "Of course, Your Majesty can watch whoever you want, whether you burn it or not, Your Majesty said that it will be burned, as long as the caliber is unified, otherwise it will be difficult for me to do it with King Zhao......"