Fan Zhiyi's spirit was not good, and he was listless in the Chongwen Pavilion for several days.

A few classmates naturally became curious and asked him, but he just shook his head and said nothing.

When it was time for the school to end, Wei Renshi couldn't look at it, so he grabbed him and asked, "Brother Zhiyi, it doesn't look like you these days!" ”

Seeing that there was no one around, Fan Zhiyi replied: "Brother Renshi, I don't have a bottom in my heart." After that night, there was no response from Miss Du's side, and you say, I was a complete failure. ”

Wei Renshi smiled and asked again, "Have you ever gone to find Miss Du again these days?" ”

Fan Zhiyi shook his head: "Where do I dare to go!" ”

"Isn't that it?" Wei Renshi said: "If you don't go to find Miss Du, do you still expect Miss Du to come to you by herself?" ”

Fan Zhiyi was stunned for a moment and said, "Brother Renshi, do you think I succeeded?" ”

Wei Renshi nodded: "Go ahead, if my guess is right, Miss Du won't see you this time." ”

When Fan Zhiyi heard this, he ran away.

Wei Renshi looked at his running away figure, and sighed, secretly feeling a little sorry for him.

Fan Zhiyi has been very enthusiastic since he entered the Chongwen Pavilion, and he was also the first friend he made in Chang'an City.

Using the matter of helping him pursue the girl he loves, to fall behind his favor, so that he can prepare to talk better in front of his Ah Weng, this is always a suspicion of taking advantage of him.

Let's have a chance to compensate him in the future.

Wei Renshi returned to his carriage and went back to Yankangfang.

As soon as I arrived at the door of my house, I got out of the carriage and was about to enter, but I suddenly heard a shout from behind me: "Lord Wei, please stay!" ”

Wei Renshi looked back, but saw a person dressed as a palace guard, walking over.

When he got closer, the guard saluted and said, "Your Majesty has a decree to summon Lord Wei to enter the palace immediately and inquire about something." ”

Wei Renshi was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart that tonight's meal was delicious. At the moment, he could only respond: "Okay, then let's go." ”

Wei Renshi followed the guards to the palace, and was led by the inner attendant to the outside of the palace, and after the transmission, Wei Renshi had to enter and see Li Shi.

"Your Majesty." Wei Renshi stepped forward and saluted.

"Excuse me." Li Shi raised his hand, and said to the attendant beside him, "Liu Guangqi, give Wei Qing a seat." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Wei Renshi thanked him, and after sitting down, he asked again: "Your Majesty summoned the ministers to come, I don't know what to order?" ”

Li Shi looked at him and said, "I summoned Wei Qing here today for two things. The first is about the Luoyang River embankment. I heard that the embankment of the Luoyang River has been built to one side, and dozens of businesses in Luoyang City have contributed money to it. They didn't have a market on the embankment, but they still paid for it, so they could engrave the name of their firm on the stone tablet on the embankment. This is the title of the picture, as Wei Qing said before. Right now, I also believe what Wei Qing said, and I want to try to do the same in other big cities. Wei Qing went down to draw up a detailed charter. ”

"Obey the order!" Wei Ren bowed, agreed, and asked, "The minister dares to ask in which big city is Your Majesty going to try this law in?" The minister is not to inquire about the news, but to make some adjustments in this method according to the local situation. ”

"It's Chang'an." Li Shi replied: "Yong'an Canal." ”

Wei Renshi was not very familiar with Chang'an, so he was stunned.

The waiter next to him explained: "Lord Wei Xu doesn't know, this Yong'an Canal was built by the former Sui, and the Xiangji Weir built in the southwest of the Xiangji Temple in the southern suburbs diverted water to the north, passed through the Shilan Bridge, and entered the city at Anhua Gate. It flows through the city to the north, passes through the west of Datong, Dunyi, Yong'an, Yanfu, Chongxian, Yankangfang, passes the east of the West City, merges with the Caoqu to form a pool, and flows north through the west of the four squares of Buzheng, Xuzheng, Fuxing and Xiude, goes out of Jingyaomen in the north, flows through the Forbidden Garden, and flows into the Wei River after the Forbidden Garden. This Yong'an Canal enters the city from the southwest of Chang'an City, and runs through Chang'an from south to north. ”

As soon as he said it, Wei Renshi knew which one it was. So he said, "I see." Thank you for explaining. ”

"Slaves don't dare." The chamberlain smiled and bowed slightly, took another half step back, and continued to stand beside Li Shi.

Wei Renshi said to Li Shi again: "Your Majesty, the minister understands. In a few days, the minister drew up a detailed charter. ”

Li Shi nodded, and said, "This is the second thing...... I heard from the prince that Wei Qing told the prince a way to make the surrounding countries bow down and not dare to be half-hearted without spending a single soldier and only doing business. Although the prince relayed something, I still wanted to hear what Wei Qing had to say. ”

"Your Majesty, this method was not created by a minister, but has existed since ancient times!" Wei Renshi said: "Your Majesty, don't you hear about the plan to buy deer? ”

Li Shi's eyes lit up when he heard this, stared at Wei Renshi, and said, "Wei Qing, let's talk about it." ”

"Back then, Duke Qi Huan worshiped Guan Zhong as the prime minister, and Qi became the overlord, only Chu State did not listen to orders, and several generals asked Qi Huan Gong to fight, asking to take command to attack Chu State, but was opposed by Guan Zhong. Guan Zhong believes that military conquest costs the people and money, and it is better to find another way. Wei Renshi said.

So Guan Zhong sent people to Chu to buy deer pretending to be a businessman, and threatened everywhere in Chu State: Qi Huan is a good deer, and he will buy it at any cost. Deer is a relatively common animal, the Chu country is rich in deer, people use deer as a meat animal, two copper coins can buy one. Qi merchants began to sell deer, initially with three copper coins per head, and later increased the price to five copper coins per head. A month later, the price of the deer rose to 40 copper coins per head, which could be exchanged for 1,000 catties of grain at that time. The high profits made the whole state of Chu crazy, and the peasants stopped farming and became hunters; The soldiers no longer trained, and secretly went up to the mountains to hunt deer with bows and arrows on their backs. ”

"As the days go by, the deer become less and less, the price of deer becomes more and more expensive, and the more expensive the deer becomes, and the more people put aside other things to devote themselves to deer hunting. The more deer hunters there are, the fewer deer there are, and this goes into a vicious circle. ”

"A year later, copper coins were piled up in Chu, but the fields were barren and food was cut off." Wei Renshi said: "At this time, Guan Zhong issued another order to the vassal states, strictly ordering the vassal states to prohibit trading with the Chu state. The people of Chu had a lot of copper coins, but they couldn't buy food. There was a famine throughout the country, people fled in all directions, and the Chu soldiers were thin and completely incapacitated. Guan Zhong saw that the time had come, gathered the princes of the Eight Roads, and made a posture to go to the border of Chu State. King Chu Cheng was in a difficult situation both internally and externally, so he had to hurriedly ask for peace with the State of Qi and express his submission. ”

When Li Shi heard this, a flash of brilliance flashed on his face at first, but then he disappeared and said: "Although this strategy is good, if the Qi Kingdom has no money to buy deer on a large scale, it will not work out after all." ”

Wei Renshi nodded: "Your Majesty Mingjian." ”

Li Shi didn't speak anymore, and Wei Renshi didn't continue to speak.

After waiting for a long time, I saw that Li Shi's mouth moved, but he yawned twice.

Looking at the way he yawned, Wei Renshi felt that what he said was in vain.

Just when Wei Renshi thought that Li Shi was going to let him leave, he heard Li Shi suddenly ask: "Then Wei Qing thinks, how can I Datang have the capital to 'buy deer' in a big way?" ”