As it turns out, infrastructure maniacs aren't so easy to do.

First of all, you have to have money in your hands.

Even some infrastructure projects can minimize the cost of various projects because of the advantages of the imperial court without affecting the quality.

But the cost required is also huge, is there anything wrong with Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty engaging in infrastructure construction?

From Li Yuanji's point of view, there is naturally nothing wrong with infrastructure construction, which is indispensable in any era, and it is precisely because of the Sui Dynasty's large-scale infrastructure construction that it can have later glory, so that the later dynasties can benefit from it, and even in later generations, the projects built during this period are still benefiting the people after repairing.

Later generations of China can be called the infrastructure madness, but the effect is also very clear, in just a few decades, it has surpassed countless powers.

Although there are no trains, no cars, nothing now, the infrastructure is still useful.

For example, the road from Chang'an to Luozhou is about 1,000 miles, which is the distance after seven turns and eight detours, and it is about 100 kilometers more than the straight-line distance, that is, less than 300 miles.

But the effect is extremely obvious, for example, the caravan from Chang'an to Luozhou in the past, it took at least seven days on the way, a little slower, or more goods, ten days, or even half a month is possible.

But now, even if the goods are pulled, as long as they are in a hurry, it will only take six days at most, and the huge caravan can complete this journey.

If it is an army, the speed is even faster, and it only takes about four days to run all the way from Luozhou to Chang'an.

Whether it's business, military or agriculture, road construction has a powerful effect.

But Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty made a mistake in that, while engaging in infrastructure construction, he adopted a compulsory system.

Whether it is an individual who has to contribute, or free contribution, even if it delays farming, it cannot delay the progress of the project.

One or two are enough, year after year, how can the people not complain?

Therefore, Li Yuanji fully learned the lessons of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, and while engaging in infrastructure construction, he also adopted fund-raising labor.

The court could not afford to pay for it, so it used it to offset the annual taxes, and the consequence of this was that only those people who did not get a quota would complain.

This is good, but the income of the imperial court has been greatly reduced, and the reason why he did not continue to build other roads is that Li Yuanji is also worried that the imperial court will not be able to withstand such pressure, so he will slow down for the time being, and then see if there can be other ways.

"Your Majesty, the envoys of Yamato ask to see you!" Song Zhong reported a little indifferently.

"Yamato envoy?" Li Yuanji was stunned, if Song Zhong didn't mention this matter, he was afraid that he would forget about it. A little dissatisfied: "That thing is still alive?" ”

Song Zhong grinned and said, "Anyway, it's quite embarrassing......"

It's been two years, it's been nearly two years, and since he said he wanted to cooperate two years ago, the Yamato envoy has never heard from him again, as if he disappeared in the Tang Dynasty, and even the dark guard can only hear that he seems to have gone to sea, and then the news is cut off.

Li Yuanji waited for two years in vain, but he couldn't wait for news from the Yamato envoys.

Although I don't know what Li Yuanji wants silver for, there is still a shortage of women, especially to expand the population of Zhenzhou.

"Your Majesty, Minister...... The minister is finally back...... "The whole person in the cave of the Ministry of Things is very embarrassed, although before entering the palace, he has sorted out according to the requirements of the official on duty in the Ministry of Rites, but he still can't get rid of the embarrassment on his body, as soon as he enters the main hall, he directly knelt on the ground, and told Li Yuanji with a face full of grievances.

"Tell me what you're suffering about!" I wanted to say that you would make the big guy happy by saying that you were unhappy, but I felt that I was losing the identity of the emperor.

To be honest, Li Yuanji really didn't have much hope for this Wubu cave that had been gone for two years.

"Xiaochen's journey is also quite unsmooth, first returned to Yamato in a good manner, wasted half a year to finally get together some gold and silver, planning to transport it to trade first, but just set off on the big waves, the ship capsized, finally salvaged up, and scraped together some gold and silver, the result is ......" Speaking of this, the face of the cave in the monobe has appeared in despair.

"The boat capsized again?" Li Yuanji's eyes widened, and he capsized twice on one trip, so don't you little devils go out to see the yellow calendar?

"I didn't ...... Didn't turn over ......" Monobe Cave shook his head and continued, "The ship sank when it was almost there. ”

'Poof......'

One didn't hold back, Li Yuanji almost squirted out, what is the difference between this special meow and capsizing?

"Where's the stuff?" Holding back his wild laughter, Li Yuanji asked with some heartache, although he basically knew the result, he was still a little unwilling.

"Some of them were rescued, and the rest are still at the bottom of the sea...... "This is also the reason why the cave of the Ministry of Things was lost.,It's hard to get together so much.,As a result, the boat capsized twice along the way.,The Monobe family is basically squeezed in Yamato and has no room for survival.,If you don't get that kind of magic weapon anymore.,I'm afraid I'll have to roll up and get out.。

Thinking of this, it seemed that he also realized that the ending might not be good, and the cave of the Ministry of Things hurriedly added: "Your Majesty, this time there were originally three ships, with a total of about 5,000 catties of gold and silver, but now there are only more than 3,000 catties left, Your Majesty, can you see if you can ......?" ”

More than 3,000 pounds? Li Yuanji breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately he still kept so much, if more than 5,000 stones all sank to the bottom of the sea, he felt that he should consider forming a salvage fleet to get it up.

According to the Tang system, one catty is sixteen taels or more than three thousand catties, although it is still not enough for a country, but it is not too little.

What's even more odious is that it wasn't until later that Li Yuanji didn't know that silver is now more expensive than gold.

And he ordered the mining of silver, which has been more than a year, and he has only mined less than 10,000 catties, and it is not particularly pure.

My problem is that I don't have money, and I can't do anything without money.

There is only so much money now, and although the imperial court has withdrawn the right to mint coins, it is subject to the production of copper, so the speed of coinage is not fast, and it cannot keep up with the speed of spending.

So if you want to break the convention, you can only find another way.

Gold and silver were also included in the monetary system, so that the imperial court had more funds at its disposal.

But with only more than 10,000 catties of silver, how much can be made? Even if it is a sixteen taels system, 10,000 catties is 160,000 taels, and the maximum is only 190,000 taels, according to the ratio of 1 to 100, it is only 19 million yuan, well, less than 20,000 yuan, what can you get with this money? Build a peace house?

Dreams still have to be had, what if they come true?

Li Yuanji quickly thought about the pros and cons in his mind, if he wanted to be stable and fast, he could go to the opposite side of the Monobe family to cooperate.

But this doesn't seem to be appropriate.,First of all, the opposite side is now a complete victory.,There are no decent opponents in the country at all.,The only monobe family is still being beaten up.。

Interests like the Monobe family are obviously impossible.

According to the current price, a woman adds ten catties of silver to exchange for a grenade, even if she is a slave, how can this price be nearly twelve or thirteen catties of silver, right? Converted into copper coins, it is also nearly twenty runs, twenty times a grenade, anyway, I don't dare to imagine this price, and I don't dare to accept it.

Except for the big man in front of him, it seems that no one can buy it.

It's okay to pit people, but you can't directly pit people to death, so you won't have to play in the future.

"In business, you should pay with one hand and deliver the goods with the other, but ......" Li Yuanji looked at the cave of the Ministry of Things, and continued: "You say, can I believe you?" ”

The Ministry of Things was stunned for a moment, and he didn't understand what Li Yuanji meant, but he still nodded subconsciously, gritted his teeth and said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, the minister has no second heart for the Tang Dynasty, and the minister will definitely abide by the conditions he said before, and next time, next time he will definitely bring more gold and silver, and he will also bring at least a thousand women." ”

"Good!" Li Yuanji clapped his hands violently and said: "In this case, I will believe you once, this time I will give you 20,000 grenades, but next time, if you can't do what you say, I will personally order the army to march east against Yamato, that is, to level the entire Yamato, and also to slaughter your monobe family!" ”

I only felt a little chill in my neck, but then I was full of joy.

He didn't expect to take much of this thing, and it would be good to be able to give 300 pieces, but he didn't expect that Li Yuanji would give 20,000 pieces in one go.

20,000 of them, if you have 20,000 grenades, are you still afraid that you won't be able to overturn Su Wu's clan?

As long as the Su Wu clan is overturned, are you still afraid that there will be no gold and silver? Aren't there any women?

You know, the most important thing in Yamato is gold and silver, Yamato is rich in gold and silver, even the people are not short of this thing, if you are really ruthless, this thing is basically how much you want, you don't have to worry about it at all.

"Your Majesty, with these 20,000 grenades, the Monobe family will definitely be able to fight back, and successfully regain the advantage, collecting a large amount of gold and silver, but how to transport these gold and silver is a big problem, and this time, the minister is also a little afraid." The Monobe Cave scratched his head and said, this time it was lucky, only one was overturned at a time, if all three were overturned, the Monobe Cave felt that he could wipe his neck?

"If you do your best to solve the ship's problem, I will solve part of it!" Li Yuanji didn't think about it, and said directly.

There are not many ships that can go to the ocean in Datang, and this is not good, Datang will go on an expedition in the future, how can it be done without a ship?

Therefore, Li Yuanji felt very good that he could take this opportunity to transport gold and silver back while training the troops.

"Your Majesty, isn't 20,000 grenades a bit much?" Looking at the excited back of the Wubu cave, Song Zhong asked with some hesitation.

"Many? If you don't give him some motivation, how can you bring more gold and silver in the future? Li Yuanji continued disdainfully: "Besides, if you don't dispose of those, won't you stay in the warehouse and wait for mold?" ”