Just when Li Jiancheng was desperately planning, Li Shimin's mansion also got the news. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"What? Auxiliary! Are you saying that there is now a salt shortage in the capital? ”

"Yes! I also got the news today, now the salt shops in the capital are closed, as the saying goes, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar tea, these seven things are urgently needed by the people, especially salt, although the people of the capital did not make any trouble, but if it takes a long time, I am afraid that there will still be a big mess. Moreover, salt is not only a civilian food, but also an extremely important military material. If the sergeants did not eat salt in battle, they would be weak and their combat effectiveness would be greatly reduced. Li Shimin nodded:

"However, the capital is under the jurisdiction of the eldest brother, and from the perspective of this king, the eldest brother must have already gotten the news first, and I am afraid that he has already made a decision, so we must not follow his train of thought, if we follow the same path, there will be no room for activity in my father's emperor."

"His Royal Highness is extremely worried, then King Qin, what should we do?"

"Someone! Hurry up and arrange a guard of honor for this king immediately, and this king will immediately enter the palace to meet the emperor. Auxiliary! You enter the palace with me! The eldest grandson Wuji agreed:

"Yes! Your Majesty obeys! Although the eldest grandson Wuji is Li Shimin's eldest brother, but since Li Shimin achieved a great victory in the conquest of the west and the destruction of Liang, the eldest grandson Wuji has never posed in front of Li Shimin, the eldest grandson Wuji escorted the honor guard of the Qin king Li Shimin to the palace gate of the Taiji Palace where Li Yuan lived, when Li Shimin got off the carriage and was about to enter the door, the eldest grandson Wuji saw that Li Jiancheng's honor guard also came, so he reminded in a whisper:

"Lord Wang! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has come down. Li Shimin heard the voice of the eldest grandson Wuji, and quickly stopped. Standing aside, after Prince Li Jiancheng's carriage came, Prince Li Jiancheng got off the carriage:

"Yo! It's the second brother! Li Jiancheng took the initiative to greet Li Shimin:

"Ahh Wechen see His Royal Highness the Prince! "Li Jiancheng saw Li Shimin pretending to be like a grandson in front of him, and said in his heart: 'Hmph! You Li Shimin are now pretending to be like a grandson in front of me, putting on a respectful look for me, and secretly may kill me a thousand times, but don't worry, I won't let you get your wish. Li Jiancheng stretched out his hand and pulled Li Shimin along:

"Second brother! Why are you so estranged from your big brother now? I got the news from Jing Zhaoyin today, saying that all the major salt shops in the capital no longer sell salt. My brother feels that something is wrong, no, I came to ask my father to see if I can discuss what countermeasures? Oh! The second brother is here because of this incident! Li Shimin did not hide from Li Jiancheng:

"The eldest brother is really like a mirror, and the younger brother also feels that this matter is aimed at us Li Tang, why don't you come with the auxiliary machine immediately and see if you can discuss countermeasures?" Li Jiancheng nodded:

"Second brother, let's go in together!" Li Shimin deliberately pretended to be humble:

"The eldest brother is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, so he should go first!" Li Jiancheng picked up Li Shimin and walked into the Taiji Palace together, but Li Shimin always lowered his head and looked like he didn't dare to look up. Li Yuan listened to Li Jiancheng's brother tell him about the fact that the salt shops in the capital were closed together and did not sell salt, frowned, walked to a book column, and took out two copies of the recital:

"Built! Shimin! You've come just in time! You also take a look, at this time, dozens of days ago, the general manager of Jingzhou Xingtai, the king of Lujiang, Li Jin's report: At that time, Li Ying reported that Jiangnan Fugong Tuo took advantage of the possession of gods and ghosts to establish himself as the governor of Jianghuai, King Wu! He also asked me to increase the number of troops for defense and allocate military salaries, and I replied to him to strengthen his defense, and I immediately asked the Ministry of War to be responsible for the allocation. Later, Li Ying played again and said that the Jianghuai side suddenly died down, I originally thought they were just bluffing, who knew that they were using their brains on the salt, I really miscalculated this time. Li Yuan coughed twice by the way, and Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin hurriedly came out to comfort:

"Father and Emperor have a lot of opportunities, and occasionally there are small mistakes, it's nothing, the top priority is to take care of the dragon's body!"

"Yes! Father! It's all villains like Fu Gongtuo, and Erchen thinks that Fu Gong Tuo and Dou Jiande must have colluded with each other, otherwise, it would be impossible for Jianghuai and Shandong Qilu to suddenly have no salt to be transported. Li Yuan stopped Li Shimin's words:

"What's the use of saying this now! Now that you're all here today, I won't have to bother to say what you think about how to survive this salt shortage. Li Shimin hurriedly grabbed Bai Dao:

"The eldest brother is the crown prince, and he has been in charge of the country for many years, and the younger brother I have been engaged in military affairs for many years, and I don't know much about this kind of civil affairs, so let the eldest brother say it first!" Li Shimin is not really modest, but wants to listen to Li Jiancheng's ideas first, and then improve from them, so as to achieve the goal of being better than blue and the latecomers are superior. Li Jiancheng took out the recital written for him by Wei Zheng:

"Enlighten the Emperor! This is the son's countermeasure after getting the news, meditating on the bitter face, but it is only for the prevention of the incident after the salt shortage, and the others have not been thought out yet. Li Yuan picked up the notebook and watched it carefully, when he asked Jing Zhaoyin's officials and the defenders of the Beijing division to dispatch to strictly patrol the area of Chang'an, and the same should be done in the areas of Guanzhong and Bashu Jingchu, to prevent the smashing of salt shops and robberies, and to take strict precautions against Tongguan and the Yellow River crossing bordering Liu Wuzhou in Shanxi, he just felt that this was too simple and useless, but there was one thing that attracted Li Yuan's attention - the key was that Jianghuai and Qilu were afraid that they would use salt to buy the aristocratic officials of the major families. Whether it's bribing secrets or turning them against each other, it's possible! Whether he was an official in the pre-Sui period or ascended the throne as an emperor, Li Yuan knew too well the faces of these ministers under his command, whether it was in the period of unification of the world or in the period of juxtaposition, as long as they could get enough benefits, these officials would choose to betray. Li Jiancheng could see this, and Li Yuan felt that as the crown prince, Li Jiancheng already had the most basic imperial mental skills, but it was not of much use to solve the salt shortage in Li Tang.

"The people of the world! What is your solution to this matter!? Li Shimin stepped forward and said:

"Father! Erchen thought that the salt famine in Chang'an must not reveal the news, once the news walked, not only the people would be chaotic, even the barbarians in Bashu and Lingnan would also take the opportunity to rebel, and the Turks were also eyeing me, Erchen also thought hard after getting the news, and finally had a good solution. As soon as they heard the four big words of the solution, Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng both came to the spirit:

"The people of the world! Hurry up! Li Shimin came to the Tang Dynasty map beside Li Yuan, and stretched out a hand:

"Father, please look! Qiongzhou is located in Lingnan, surrounded by the sea, Qiongzhou is also a natural drying field of sea salt, although because of the typhoon and other weather is Qiongzhou sea salt production is not high, but the transport can still alleviate the urgent need of our dynasty, the son wants to repair a letter to the son of the son's uncle Gao Shilian, let him quickly send a capable fleet, quickly transport salt to Chang'an, in order to solve the eyebrows, in addition to the minister also wants to recommend Gao Shilian's son Gao Cheng to Qiongzhou, let him assist his father, increase the development of Qiongzhou salt field, increase production, In this way, I am not afraid of the salt shortage created by Fu Gongtuo and Dou Jiande for my dynasty. Li Yuan listened to Li Shimin's plan, his heart was overjoyed, patted Li Shimin's shoulder and said:

"O people! It's a good plan, and it's an idea! I thought you would only fight, but I didn't expect you to be so calculating, okay! In addition to sending Gao Cheng, I also want to send a samurai to go with Gao Cheng, who is shrewd and capable, and is also my old minister, so the samurai will be the main envoy of the Qincha, and Gao Cheng is still too young, so he will be the deputy envoy of the Qincha, and go to Qiongzhou to handle the affairs of the salt farm. Li Shimin naturally did not dare to raise objections:

"The father is far-sighted, and the sons have no objections!" Li Yuan remade Li Shimin again with satisfaction:

"Good! After completion, you have to learn more from the people of the world to learn more about this scheming! The people of the world are better than you in some ways! ”

"Yes! What my father taught! "Li Yuan praised Li Shimin, and suddenly had a thought in his heart, 'Maybe Shimin is better than Jiancheng, shouldn't it be more appropriate to replace Shimin with the prince, after passing this matter, I still have to test Shimin more, if Shimin is better than Jiancheng, replace Jiancheng!" Just as Li Yuan was thinking like this, two 'thunderbolts from the sky' exploded on the door of his head:

"Report! Reported to the emperor, Xu Shao, the governor of Bashu, reported urgently that the Bashu barbarian chieftain Asguman established himself as the king of the Heavenly Sage, killed the caravan that went to Yanjing to buy salt, closed the salt well, and threatened that if our army did not withdraw from Bashu, we would cut off the salt trade with our dynasty. ”

"Report! Li Ming, the chief of Jingzhou's waterways and the king of Lujiang, urgently reported: Ning Changzhen, a Lingnan slangman, rebelled against our dynasty with a heavy salute and united with the slang chieftain Daqu Shuai Tan Dian, and robbed our merchant ships to block the land route between Lingnan and Jingchu. Please make a decision. Li Yuan was furious when he heard this:

"Bastards, bastards! Ah Guman, as well as that Ning Changzhen, and Tan Dian must have known that when our Li Tang was officially in the salt famine now, someone must have reported to them. Investigate thoroughly, you must find this person, kill him, kill him! Someone! It's disgusting! Li Yuan yelled like a madman, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin hurriedly persuaded Li Yuan to take care of the dragon's body, Li Yuan didn't stop, and pointed to Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin's brothers and shouted:

"You two brothers quickly come up with a way to solve this salt shortage, if you can't think of a way to solve it, I will cut off all of you titles and demote you to commoners. To thank the people for the sin of not being able to eat salt. Now get me out of the palace right away. Get out of here! Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin immediately thanked him. After the brothers Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin left, Li Yuan regained his calm:

"Built, the people! I am the emperor, as the emperor, I must choose the best successor for the Tang Empire, this is also a test for you, you can forgive me! There are some things that I have to do! ”