The next day, at three o'clock in the afternoon.

Temple of Manna.

Li Shimin looked at Li Kong standing in front of him with a tangled expression, and as for the thing that Li Kong had just handed over, he put it under the palm of his hand and pressed it to death.

The corners of his mouth twitched, and his beard trembled with the shaking of the corners of his mouth, like two dancing goats and a vast grassland fluttering in the wind, although this black grassland was a little smaller.

I don't know how long it took, just when Li Kong was about to fall asleep, Li Shimin snorted violently and said, "Stinky boy, I'll settle accounts with you later!" ”

Li Kong only felt his brain explode, looking at Li Shimin's expression, what he was most worried about had happened.

"Ya, if you really think that Young Master Ben won't get angry, will he?" Gritted his teeth in his heart and greeted those Xuanjia guards, of course, he lowered his head at this time, if Li Shimin saw this expression, he didn't know what would happen.

When he raised his head, his face had changed to a flattering smile again, and he said, "Your Majesty, what is the matter?" Even if you want to clean up the kid, at least let the kid know why, right? ”

Li Shimin was immediately angry when he saw Li Kong's shameless appearance, but now he was not in the mood to worry about these things with Li Kong, on the one hand, the timing was not right, and on the other hand, the pressure on him from Changle was a bit great, and the most important thing was that if Li Kong's convulsions from time to time were abandoned, he was actually quite good as his son-in-law.

At this time, what Li Kong did before was reflected, and the biggest effect was Li Kong's feat of single-handedly retreating from the Turks, coupled with the improvement of Empress Changsun's situation in the past two days, which made Li Shimin feel more pleasing to the eye the more he looked at Li Kong.

But then Li Shimin shook his head, wanting to throw this ridiculous idea out of his mind, and kept muttering in his heart: "Changle is only eight years old, Changle is only eight years old, Changle is only ......."

With this self-hypnotic Ah Q spiritual method, Li Shimin finally suppressed the anger in his heart temporarily, and opened the things handed over by Li Kong and looked at it.

But as he watched, the expression on his face gradually changed from anger to surprise, then shock, and finally even horror......

He didn't care much about glass manufacturing, and he didn't pay much attention to the operation of the restaurant, but the salt-making and gunpowder technology made Li Shimin feel that his three views were about to collapse.

In fact, in addition to these technologies, there are some proposals about papermaking at the end, but because they are not mature, Li Shimin does not see any value.

But even so, it was enough for him to be shocked.

"What are you talking about...... It's all true? After closing the plan for a long time, Li Shimin still couldn't believe it, not to mention gunpowder, a thing that had never appeared, but salt-making was a serious matter related to the whole world.

Not to mention the current salt making technology, and the salt fields are also controlled by several great scholars, although there are some in the imperial court, but only less than one-tenth, for this reason, the salt on the entire market is expensive to death.

This has caused countless people in Datang to not even eat salt, even if it is only rough salt, let alone refined salt.

If what Li Kong's plan said above is true, then he, Li Shimin, can quickly use refined salt to win the hearts of the people in the world, including the army, and even use refined salt to destroy the industry of the Shi clan gate valve, and then even if the Shi clan gate valve is unhappy, he will have to endure it.

What's more, Li Shimin is worried that he can't find an excuse to kill these people.

In addition to the salt-making technique, there is also the gunpowder, although I have never seen it, but since Li Kong wrote it, and the kind of power described in it, Li Shimin yearns for it, if there is really such a sharp weapon, let alone a small Turk, even if it is Goguryeo, it is also easy to capture, after all, under such things as gunpowder, any strong city wall is no different from paper paste.

"Of course it's true, the little nephew doesn't have the courage to joke with His Majesty's uncle, but some of the technologies in this are likely to touch the interests of the existing interest class, so ......"

Li Kong didn't say the rest of the words, but Li Shimin knew what Li Kong was worried about.

The previous emperors had not provoked those scholar clan lords, but most of the final results ended in failure, and there were almost no successes, so Li Kong was worried about whether he, the emperor, could hold on.

"I now believe that you can provide the court with a profit of two million guan a year, so ...... You can do whatever you want, and I will take care of it. ”

What Li Kong wanted was Li Shimin's words, but in order to ensure that Li Shimin's attitude would not change, he once again broke out a hole card: "Your Majesty, if these plans are all implemented smoothly, the little nephew can guarantee that after a year, including taxes, he can pay tens of millions of yuan to the imperial court." ”

Hiss~ Li Shimin gasped when he landed, tens of millions, that is the tax revenue of the entire Tang Dynasty for three years, but then Li Shimin's eyes widened, what did he just hear? Taxation?

Li Kong threw a 'you know' look at Li Shimin, then lowered his head and stopped talking, he believed that Li Shimin must understand what he meant, but whether Li Shimin could make up his mind or not, this was not something he could control.

As Li Kong thought, Li Shimin did understand what he meant, but the Shinong industry and commerce, except for the peasants who need to pay taxes, all the others do not need to pay taxes, and the scholars do not pay taxes from the Han Dynasty, after all, Liu Bang shouted the slogan of 'ruling the world with the scholars', and since then the scholars have become upper-class people and have escaped the control of the court.

In the eyes of the people of the scholar clan, it was a tyrant who competed with the people for profit, so that even if the household department of the later dynasties was empty, and even if the dynasty was defeated, no emperor dared to collect taxes from industry and commerce.

The most vivid example is the former Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang dug the Grand Canal, three expeditions to Goguryeo, several northern expeditions to the Turks, can be described as a great military achievement, brilliant achievements, if it were not for the back of the imperial court to make ends meet, resulting in the collapse of the imperial court economy, maybe now Emperor Yang is not synonymous with the faint monarch, but an emperor through the ages.

However, Li Shimin knew better that the reason why the scholars opposed the taxation of industry and commerce was not the so-called competition for profits with the people, but the fact that the largest industrial and commercial units in the world were the people of these scholars, and they wanted to protect their own interests, and that's it.

After a long time, Li Shimin sighed deeply and said, "It's not time yet!" ”

"It's not the right time, but it doesn't stop us from making initial preparations!"

"Okay, don't talk about this, these plans of yours have been approved, but you have to deal with the rest of the things yourself, as for the land you want, there is a Huangzhuang in Changle County south of Chang'an, and it will be your territory in the future!" After Li Shimin finished speaking, he got up and left the main hall.

Looking at Li Shimin's back, Li Kong was stunned.

Changle County? That's Li Lizhen's fiefdom, what does Li Shimin mean by this?