"Big brother, do you have time? I would like to invite you to visit Chang'an West City. In the early morning, Li Xuanqing was about to go to Changqing Hall to keep an eye on the construction work of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce on the Jiangnan Textile Center, but was stopped by Qiaoxi.

Li Xuanqing didn't react for a while and asked, "Xishi?" What is there to do in West Market? Is there anything to see today? ”

"That's it." Qiaoxi walked to Li Xuanqing's side with her hands on her back, looked delicate, and said with a smile: "Today, several caravans of the Murong family are going to set off from Chang'an to the Western Regions and the Northern Tibetan Plateau. Let's go check it out. ”

"Okay, let's go check it out." Li Xuanqing smiled and walked over Qiaoxi's fragrant shoulder and said, "I originally planned to ask how the textile center in Murong Jiangnan was built, and it seems that the effect is good." But it's time for the western trade route to make a big effort. "Now the five wealthy merchants plus the Zhang family, the six wealthy merchants, have basically delineated their own trade routes, together with other small and medium-sized merchants affiliated to their respective banners to form a nationwide trade network, relying on this increasingly dense network, the empire's industrial commodities and agricultural products can be quickly transported to various places, which is regarded as the initial formation of a national industrial and commercial sales system. With the improvement of the empire's economy and the improvement of transportation conditions, this vast net is becoming faster and more dense to cover the goods of the whole country. Among them, the location of the procurement of the Northwest Trade Route that the Yelu family is responsible for is basically concentrated in the northern industrial zone and grassland commodities centered on Fengzhou, while the Murong family is responsible for the export of commodities in the Central Plains, the Zhang family is concentrated in the southern and Nanyang routes, and the Xu family is basically responsible for the maritime trade route. In contrast, the He family and the Yuwen family are concerned with mainland trade. In this way, the whole country has been divided by several of them.

Qiaoxi looked at Li Xuanqing's expression, but her heart suddenly moved, she had another purpose for this trip, but seeing that Li Xuanqing didn't think about it, she couldn't help but feel a little sweet.

Li Xuanqing didn't notice Qiaoxi's careful thoughts, but walked straight out of the gate of the palace, and headed towards the West Market with a few guards. Because Li Xuanqing didn't pay much attention to this etiquette, and now all the thoughts of the Tang Empire are put on recovering Anxi and developing the economy, the connection between the royal family and the outside world is many times more open than the previous generation, and even Li Xuanqing has thought about choosing a certain period of time every year to open the palace of the Qujiang generation for the people of Chang'an to enter the park and experience the royal life up close.

After leaving the palace soon into the downtown area, after two years of uninterrupted construction, the speed of Chang'an City recovery has been significantly accelerated, and after the popularization of cement and other building materials, the new houses in Chang'an City are also higher than one building, similar to the kind of community and commercial area in later generations began to gradually popularize, the current permanent population of the whole Chang'an City has been close to 700,000 plus the floating population, basically has exceeded the scale of one million people. This was unthinkable for the newly unified new empire, which brought a series of municipal problems, so the county yamen of Chang'an County began to formally set up a municipal department, which was responsible for handling and building a series of municipal projects, which could be regarded as accumulating experience for other cities. After the Cabinet learned about this problem, the Ministry of Construction quickly set up a municipal department to lead and plan this matter.

"Big brother, look, Sister Feixue is over there." When they arrived in the West Market, Qiao Xi saw Murong Feixue standing at the entrance of the West Market dressed in red, as if waiting for them. In fact, most of the commodities of the Murong family have been decorated at the railway station, and at this time, the goods that go from the West Market are basically transported to the plateau area of northern Tibet, and this part of the Murong family has also been contacted by the Gesang family, and when they arrive in northern Tibet, their family is responsible for sales, and they are only responsible for the delivery here.

"Hee-hee, big brother, Sister Feixue is waiting for you." Qiaoxi's actions made Li Xuanqing suddenly remember what Qiaoxi had said to him some time ago, and his face suddenly became extremely strange, but he still dragged his steps and followed Qiaoxi to Murong Feixue Feixue. But I don't know why, Li Xuanqing looked at Murong Feixue and looked a little embarrassed.

"My sister is so generous this time, I'm afraid that the goods purchased this time are only a lot more than the Yelu family some time ago, right? Tell me, did all your dowry money go to you? Qiaoxi saw that Li Xuanqing's face was different, so he naturally guessed what he was thinking, and immediately ran over and pulled Murong Feixue and asked with a pun.

Originally, the two of them often made this kind of joke, and Murong Feixue didn't care, but she couldn't stand the incident that this girl said to her some time ago, so she didn't know what to say for a while, and looking at Li Xuanqing's expression, she obviously already knew. This moment the words were related and almost made her die of shame, so she glared at Qiaoxi with a red face, and stomped her feet and didn't know what to say.

"Okay, okay, I didn't come with my big brother today to talk about that." Qiaoxi saw that Murong Feixue, a person who controlled a large family, actually blushed so much that he lowered his head and counted the ants, and immediately opened his mouth again to change the topic, "We are here to see how your family's goods are, and by the way, learn about the Northwest Trade Route." Her words were originally to change the topic to resolve the embarrassment, but she couldn't help but say it too obviously, and she simply clarified the matter directly, so that Murong Feixue didn't know what attention she was paying attention to.

"Okay, let's go to your family's headquarters in Xishi, it just so happens that I have something to consult." Li Xuanqing opened his mouth to save Murong Feixue's life, so he led the way directly in front and left the two of them far away.

"Qiaoxi, is this appropriate?" Li Xuanqing was also a little helpless about Qiaoxi's thoughts, so he could only smile bitterly at her.

Qiaoxi looked at Li Xuanqing's expression, and said with a slight smile: "Big brother, don't worry, Sister Feixue is not an outsider, if you don't marry, I'm afraid she won't look down on others." Our royal family can't always have two or three kittens. In the future, the generation of Xiao Tianqi will grow up without the support of his brothers. Besides, Sister Feixue and I are like sisters, and I don't care what you care about. ”

Qiaoxi's words made Li Xuanqing not know how to take it, it seems that Qiaoxi is a typical worry about Xiao Tianqi, compared to his generation without himself and Qiaoxi with thousands of years of knowledge accumulation, if the royal family is thin, I am afraid that there will be a lot of problems in the future.

Along the way, Li Xuanqing was thinking about Qiaoxi's words just now, and his face was constantly changing, but unlike Qiaoxi who wanted Li Xuanqing to add popularity to the royal family, Li Xuanqing was more thinking about how to improve the existing system he founded himself, but this kind of difficulty is too great, and it is not possible for his own generation to do it, and many concepts do not have time to accumulate and popularize culture, but I am afraid that even if they are forcibly grafted, they may not achieve the effect.

Li Xuanqing sighed silently when he thought of this, looking at Qiaoxi and looking at himself while walking, I was afraid that this girl had already thought about this problem, so she thought of this method, so she couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Qiaoxi, how did I find out that you sometimes think more than me?" It seems that I have no other way in the short term. ”

"Well, I'm smart." Qiaoxi glanced at Li Xuanqing, and said with a smile: "Otherwise, how can the big brother marry another concubine?" Anyway, I haven't seen the scene of the emperor's selection of concubines, why don't I go back and tell Mr. Cen to choose a concubine for my eldest brother? Mr. Cen, they will definitely agree. ”

The two put down their minds and caught up with Murong Feixue's steps and came to the Murong family's headquarters in Xishi. Today's West Market is not so much a trading market, but rather the headquarters of the major merchants in Chang'an City, the function of the transaction is basically transferred to the East Market, which is the largest commodity trading market in Chang'an City, and the West Market is more of an office area lined with buildings, where the top major merchants of Chang'an City gather, almost eighty percent of Chang'an's emerging industrial and commercial class will set up their headquarters here.

Li Xuanqing and Qiaoxi came to Murong Feixue's office, which was very graceful and luxurious, and it also revealed a woman's aesthetic sense, which was much more comfortable than the Western-style style that Li Xuanqing was used to in his previous life. However, at this time, Li Xuanqing no longer thought about the incident just now, and simply handed it all over to Qiaoxi, so after sitting down, he began to ask questions he was concerned about.

Murong Feixue, as the helmsman of the Murong family, the largest wealthy businessman today, knows no less about the situation in various places than the people in the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and because there are many issues of perspective, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce may not pay attention to them. Li Xuanqing didn't find Murong Hanhai to find her sister, and it was the same.

The Murong family, the textile center in Jiangnan, did not participate much, mainly led by the Xu family and the Zhang family, and was built with the major local textile merchants in Jiangnan, so Li Xuanqing asked about the trade line.

"The trade route of the major provinces and regions in the country has basically been connected with the field, compared to the southwest region is more difficult, before we met when the He family in the southwest has launched an action, but the road problem so the transportation speed is slow, for the time being, can only transport some special products, otherwise I am afraid that the price will suffer a lot. Other places are fine. Since the opening of the maritime trade route by Xujia, the eastern trade route with Bohai Bay and the canal as the basic transportation route has basically reached the stage of convergence, with the canal as the main force connecting the east, west, north and south, and concentrating all the cargo flow directions in the Bohai Bay area, thereby driving the sustainable economic development of the inland provinces and regions. Murong Feixue saw Li Xuanqing asking about the matter, and immediately suppressed the other thoughts in his heart and replied seriously. As the helmsman of the first wealthy businessman, she has a natural sensitivity to this aspect, and she can naturally judge the opening of the Xu family's maritime trade route, and each time the fleet purchases more and more goods, it can naturally attract the direction of domestic merchants' cargo circulation. This point, after the opening of the South China Sea route, the southern goods will also form a whirlpool transportation flow chain.

"Compared with the east, the development of trade routes in the west is relatively slow, except for the Anxi side that has not been recovered, and the trade routes are blocked, the transportation mode in the northwest is also a problem." Murong Feixue glanced at Li Xuanqing when he said this, and said with a smile: "The emperor is still clever, and he started to build the railway early, but I am afraid that once the Changjin Line is opened, it will merge with the Fengzhou and the audience railway, and the entire northern trade route will also be completely activated, and a large number of goods along the railway will also be continuously sent to Hexi, and then take the Silk Road into the Anxi region to restore the grand occasion of the year." Li Xuanqing knew what Murong Feixue said, when the Tang Dynasty was in its prime, the Silk Road was full of merchants from the East and the West all the year round, and a large number of various commodities and specialties from the Western Regions entered the mainland of the Tang Dynasty, and the products of the Tang Dynasty were also transported to the West along this road, from Anxi to some directly to Daqin and Tianfang, and some of them were transferred south to the body poison, that is, the Indian continent in later generations.

"Your Murong family is cooperating with Gesang's brother this time to prepare to open up a trade route in northern Tibet?" Li Xuanqing suddenly asked this question. Speaking of the route into Tibet, in addition to the road from the north, which can only be passed for a few months in a year, there is actually another road, that is, the ancient tea horse road in later generations. This point has been considered after the Southern Zhao was pacified, Li Xuanqing has already considered, compared with the northern route, although this road is also rugged and difficult to walk, but at least the current straight road has been repaired to the territory of Qiqi, plus the southern provinces are also arranging their own road construction plans, Nanzhao and Qiqi provinces will definitely find a way to join forces at that time, starting from Dali City along the Yunnan-Tibet line in later generations should be a little less difficult, and it is really not possible to enter Tibet from Sichuan is also a choice. The main consideration of this point is that the Tiance army in the Tibetan area has not yet been pacified, and the current hostile attitude of the people in China towards the Tubo people is not much, so Li Xuanqing did not say much.

Li Xuanqing didn't say it, but Qiaoxi obviously thought of this, and immediately interjected: "Sister, I think you might as well discuss with He Wenjin and Brother He, start from Nanzhao or Qiqi to enter Tibet, and let Gesang's brother open up joints in the south when the time comes, so that the trade routes in the entire Tibetan area will be opened by you." Many of the daily necessities they need in Tibetan areas need to be transported from the Central Plains, and they are afraid that the annual income will not be less than that of overseas trade. And under the current conditions, no one will participate in this route, and the two of you will benefit a lot from what you say. ”

"Nanzhao's side?" Murong Feixue was a little surprised by what Qiaoxi said, she had never been to Nanzhao, but the He family had already established a lot of freight stations in Nanzhao, and they didn't know how Qiaoxi would know?

But before Murong Feixue could ask, Qiaoxi continued: "I think it should be the Ancient Tea Horse Road, you can take the route that the Tubo people invaded Nanzhao at the beginning." ”

"In this way, the entire trade route of the Tang Dynasty is basically completely connected, and when the Anxi big brother is recovered, the army will definitely enter the Tibetan area, are you afraid that there will be no money to be made?" Qiaoxi looked at Murong Feixue's contemplative face and said with a smile.

Li Xuanqing nodded and followed: "Indeed, in this way, things are indeed connected. And maybe there are other ways to go on Nanzhao's side. Murong Feixue didn't pay attention to this sentence, but obviously Qiaoxi understood what it meant, and immediately covered her mouth and nodded, secretly thinking about whether to arrange it in advance.