The war on the steppe continued, as did the war between Li Wenyuan and Liang Shidu's army. In the entire Central Plains, every force has never stopped conquest, alliance, betrayal, and the like for a period of time. Every day, a large number of young adults are wasted on the battlefield of the needless civil war. Although Li Wenyuan had already publicized the various benefits of the Western Regions to various places in the Central Plains, as well as the various benefits and benefits that could be obtained after settling in the Western Regions. But after all, it is difficult to leave the homeland, and if the life can go on, no one wants to leave the homeland and go to the Western Regions thousands of miles away to earn a living. What's more, in the eyes of the people of the Central Plains, the Western Regions has always been a barbarian land inhabited by Hu and Han, and it can be said that the living environment is extremely bad, so even if Li Wenyuan in the Western Regions spent so much blood to propagate and encourage the people in the Central Plains to migrate to the Western Regions for refuge, it is still a drop in the bucket compared to the huge total Chinese population. Li Wenyuan was also helpless about this, so he could only increase propaganda efforts while trying all kinds of ways to reduce the number of casualties among the Chinese people who were deeply involved in the war, and the Hu soldiers who were trafficked into the Central Plains by him also came for this purpose.

Li Wenyuan has a headache on Li Wenyuan's side, but it can't be solved by his headache. So after Li Wenyuan did all his possible efforts, he chose to sit back and watch the changes. Moreover, the population of the Western Regions is actually close to saturation now, and the newly conquered Central Asian region has not yet cultivated the land, so it does not have the ability to support too much population for the time being, so this matter was temporarily put aside by Li Wenyuan.

In these days, Li Yuan's life is relatively comfortable, and Xue Ju in the west has suffered a lot of losses after defeating Li Shimin's army on the westward expedition last time, although it is not like Li Shimin, almost half of the army has been wiped out, but the number of casualties in the army has also touched the bones. Moreover, after Li Yuanji led an army into Bashu to start fighting, Xue Ju did not dare to push his line too deep into Guanzhong to fight, lest the army led by Li Yuanji attack from the flank and lead to the rout of the whole army.

In addition to Xue Ju, Sun Hua in the north was officially incorporated into Li Yuan's forces. Li Yuan was able to smoothly expand his territory to the border with Liang Shidu, but now Liang Shidu is busy fighting to the death with Li Wenyuan in Lingwu County with the strength of the whole country. Therefore, it will not be able to threaten Li Yuan's side for a moment and a half. To the east, because of the obstruction of the mountains, Li Yuan only needed to firmly hold the few passes that had been squeezed out into Guanzhong, so that any force east of Guanzhong would have to pay a great price to attack Guanzhong. Therefore, relying on the particularity of the topography of Guanzhong, Li Yuan can now finally be regarded as getting rid of almost all threats from the outside, and has begun to concentrate on managing all kinds of people's livelihood in his territory.

On this day, after the morning dynasty was dispersed. Li Yuan left his eldest son Li Jiancheng behind and took him into the place where he handled official business after his dispersal of the dynasty to have secret talks. Because Li Yuan has not abolished the puppet emperor and proclaimed himself emperor, it is said that Li Yuan, who has dispersed the dynasty every day, is only handling official affairs in one of the palaces in the palace. It is equivalent to the place of work every day, and after getting off work, you still have to go back to your mansion to rest and wait for the next day's court. So after leaving Li Jiancheng behind, Li Yuan pulled Li Jiancheng to his office to speak.

After entering the house, Li Yuan asked Li Jiancheng to sit opposite him, and then said to Li Jiancheng with a frown: "My son, I was busy dealing with all kinds of wars for my father before, and I never asked about all kinds of livelihood matters under our rule, but handed over these matters to you to deal with with with them all. I don't know if you've encountered anything that wasn't so good when dealing with these things? Tell your father about those things, so that he can come up with ideas for you. ”

Li Jiancheng frowned secretly after listening to Li Yuan's words, he didn't know what his father was asking him what these words were for. Because since his father became an important minister in the court, Li Jiancheng found that he couldn't read his father's thoughts more and more. So at this time, Li Yuan asked about this matter, and he didn't dare to answer in vain. It's just that I kept thinking about what Li Yuan meant by asking this in my heart, but since my father had already opened his mouth to ask him, it was not good for him to pretend that he hadn't heard everything, so he asked a little tentatively and ambiguously: "Father, the child is stupid, I don't know what you said Father?" Please also ask the father to make it clear to the child, and the child will answer all truthfully. ”

After Li Yuan listened to Li Jiancheng's words, he snorted and said, "Hmph." You claim to be an official who goes deep into the people to observe the people's feelings, and is close to the people and loves the people. Why do you have to tell you so many things for the Father? As an official who loves the people like a son, don't you know what is most important to the people under our rule? Dull? Can stupidity be the first of a hundred officials? You've obviously been slacking off on your business lately, so you don't know how to answer these words when your father asks you these words, don't you? ”

Li Jiancheng heard that there was a slight anger in Li Yuan's language, so he didn't dare to say anything more, and just looked down at the table in front of him. Seeing that Li Jiancheng didn't answer his words, Li Yuan put the tea bowl he had just drunk on the table again and said to him: "The people take food as the sky, Shinong Industry and Commerce, do you still need me to tell you what these are?" In the whole world, in addition to the scholars, the most important ones are those peasant households. They have to grow food, so that you and I will have something to eat. If they don't grow food, then you and I will starve to death here! What power, wealth and glory are all fake! Can I eat those things? A few days ago, I went to Fang City in Chang'an City for my father, and I disguised myself and wanted to pay a private visit to Weifu. Do you know what the Father has seen? My father saw that all the merchants selling all kinds of ironware in the market said that their ironware was produced in the Western Regions! High quality and low price. In addition to this, there are all kinds of pottery, porcelain, and even cloth for these clothes that we wear. They were all transported in from the Western Regions. Tell me why all the merchants who sell these things can say that they are from the Western Regions. Even if the price of iron in the Western Regions is lower than the price of grain, how can the price of this transportation be lower than the price of our locally produced goods? ”