Chapter 262: Conflict

A cold moonlight shone in through the window, and the night wind was a little cold, blowing in from nowhere, and the candlelight kept flickering.

Both were silent.

Pei Yuhe was thinking about what his father said last night:

"He'er, you're about to get married, but a lot of things have happened, and the prince must be unhappy when he thinks about it. But the prince is a loving man in the end, and he is reasonable. When you enter the East Palace, you can only tolerate it, although the stone is hard, but the dripping water can chisel the stone, it is permanent. ”

"He'er, although our Pei family is a famous family in the Tang Dynasty, the prince attaches great importance to the people's livelihood and is merciful. Especially the side rooms around the prince, you can't be arrogant. ”

"He'er, it's mainly the death of Yang Sijian and Xu Qidan, if you enter the East Palace, you will definitely be indifferent to the prince. But everything in the world is bitter first and then sweet, and you need not to be arrogant or complaining. The deeds of the kings and queens of the past, you should take warning. The more indifferent you are, the more you have to be courteous. ”

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Having said a lot, the mother just cried.

Thinking of this, Pei Yuhe said in the red hijab: "Your Highness, the concubine has heard a lot of things, and the concubine and the concubine's family don't want it to happen. I know that His Royal Highness is dissatisfied, but the concubines are also naïve, after all, it is the will of the two saints. ”

But Pei Yuhe's words had the opposite effect, but Li Wei was thinking in his heart, could it be that you used my parents to press me, so you didn't say anything.

was silent again, and Pei Yuhe said again: "The person His Highness likes has to go to Yangzhou again, and the concubine is also guilty......"

is not a very organic girl, mentioning this can only make Li Wei even more unhappy, and said: "I don't blame you, a few cronies around me all say that you are good, and even Pei Shilang has become a lobbyist, saying that you are very good." Go to sleep. ”

After saying that, he fell into bed and fell asleep. He didn't even take off his hijab, let alone drink the wine.

A few days later, when Li Xian arrived, he married Fang's daughter as the princess.

The husband and wife have nothing to disagree with, the Fang family is also from the famous Qinghe Fang family, and they are knowledgeable and courteous, and they are good-looking. But because of all kinds of things that happened, Li Xian did not have a good impression among the people. There are even more conspiracy theorists who once again turned over the canonization of the emperor last year. said that the emperor was jealous of the prince and wanted to abolish Changli Youyunyun.

The same embarrassment, one is on the outside and the other is on the inside.

A few days later, Li Wei ignored his newlywed and went to Lishan to hunt. It was cold, the north wind whistled, and a few snows fell, although the sun shone from time to time, it did not melt, and the sky and the earth were white. Gradually, even Weishui was frozen, and the construction of the Guangtong Canal had to be suspended.

Li Wei returned to Chang'an, and there was no prey to be seen on Lishan Mountain, so he couldn't stay any longer. As soon as he returned to the East Palace, he asked his father to call over.

Li Zhi said angrily: "The crown princess I accepted for you, are you not satisfied? ”

"The sons are dissatisfied," Li Wei replied honestly, and said: "Father, the sons and daughters were lucky enough to make their father the crown prince, what should be learned is that the father and the emperor govern the country, and there is no need to work the women of the East Palace." ”

I haven't said the last sentence yet, let alone learn from you, so many things have happened in your harem, what qualifications do you have to say about me.

"Are you satisfied with the frivolous little lady of Xu Qidan's family to be the crown princess for you? Or give you the little lady of Yang Sijian's family as the princess, and you will be satisfied? ”

"Father, although Xu Qidan and Yang Sijian have committed small mistakes, but they have been degraded to Lingnan and have died, father, there is no need to be so careful."

"Are you dissatisfied with me?"

"The sons and daughters dare, just like the daughter of the Pei family, the sons and daughters don't like it, it is the order of the parents, and the sons dare not disobey. It's just a matter of a few women in the East Palace, and Erchen also has his own preferences. It's not immorality, it's not about state affairs. Just like the father and the emperor let the sons and daughters supervise the country, the sons should be conscientious and conscientious and share the worries and relieve the labor for their fathers. But how did the father impose his father's preferences on his sons? ”

"You bastard!" Li Zhi was so angry that he smashed the teacup on Li Wei's head, and Li Wei was quick to catch it, but he didn't hit it.

Wu Zetian relieved the siege and said, "Hong'er, you go back first." ”

However, he added a sentence and said: "Although you have done many things to make Your Majesty and the palace happy, but in this matter, you have disappointed the palace." ”

This is also the first time in the past few years that Li Wei has had the most serious conflict with his father.

Then Li Wei heard in the East Palace that the two kings of Gongyue Shule were coming, and the reason why Tubo captured the four towns was because Gongyue and other departments colluded with Tubo. However, Tubo was even more brutal, even stripped off people's clothes, Gongyue and other troops regretted it very much, and repeatedly resisted Tubo. But the interior is not very calm, Gongyue Shule two divisions first led Tubo to capture Khotan, and then Gongyue led Tubo again, north to the throat, attack Shule. The Tang Dynasty then sent Hongluqing Xiao Siye to send troops to fight for it. Before the soldiers arrived, the king of Gongyue was afraid and came to surrender with the king of Shule.

Since he surrendered, Li Zhi did not pursue it, so he pardoned his sins and let him return to China.

There is another thing, Liang and Lu wrote again, using gunpowder to make firecrackers, and asked the imperial court to collect taxes. The officials are all laughing and laughing, but in any case, the two canals have already started, and the cost is huge, and I don't know how much tax can be collected. So I agreed.

In fact, the end of the year is approaching, and I have also got the sweetness. There is still no movement in the two newly established sea markets, the sea ships in the Central Plains are far away, and the big food merchants have not heard of them in Guangzhou, but they have heard of them, and they are not very familiar with the Central Plains. However, in several Fan and Guan markets, many merchants have begun to trade, and have obtained nearly 60,000 yuan in taxes for the imperial court. It's not a small amount, and it hasn't been long since it started, and if it continues to develop like this, after a year, 500,000 yuan can still be obtained.

The account can still be calculated in this way, the current court income of the Tang Dynasty is about more than 10 million yuan, and some of the imperial court's industries, such as salt farms, or horse farms, or official villages, and some of them are commercial taxes, such as the city of Guangzhou, but most of them are borne by farmers. Rent adjustment plus various miscellaneous taxes, a minimum of 2 taels a year for a ding, and 30 volunteers. The income of Fan City alone is equivalent to 200,000 ding, and the tax income paid by more than one million people.

But as big as the bottom, you can dig as many holes. Not to mention the two canals, next year we will send troops to ***, and we will also prevent the invasion of the Tubo people, and we will need more funds, so the court is still strapped for money.

The quota of "good businessmen" going to sea has also been decided. There were many businessmen from Liangjing who participated, but most of them held Zou Fengchi's mentality and regarded it as a donation, and it was impossible to have Zou Fengchi's family property, so they gave little, and some of them only expressed their stance to take out a thousand yuan. On the other hand, businessmen in the coastal areas are more enthusiastic in participating, but they do not have many assets. In the end, the income was less than 600,000 yuan.

The officials of the imperial court were very happy, and the 600,000 yuan was already a huge amount of money, not only this money, but also the income from the customs duties of the sea market in the future. There were still opponents, a hundred places, 3,000 ships, and nearly 50,000 people were allowed to go to sea. How many people were there in the Tang Dynasty? But in the face of this huge amount of money, all opposition has turned pale.

Li Wei was not very satisfied, and in his expectation, he could get at least one million to two million dollars. After all, it was the beginning of the Tang Dynasty that allowed people to go abroad to do business, and the number of places was limited, and the people who participated were more enthusiastic. Although this amount of money is huge, when it comes to the beginning of spring, if we want to repair the Guangtong Canal before the spring floods, and avoid spring plowing and production in February, we must recruit more people to rush to work. There are also house demolitions that have been delayed to the beginning of spring because of expenditures. When spring comes, the technology of stone opening is mature, and it costs a lot of money to build a Sanmen mountain road and build a few warehouses. It is possible that this money will be used up when the Guangtong Canal and the Sanmen Road are completed. What about next fall?

After the autumn, in the excavation of the new river, tidying up the downstream river of Danshui, the surface of the two projects is not as big as the Guangtong Canal project, but the Guangtong Canal is just to re-dredge it, at most it is to intercept the water of Fengchan, and even the three doors have a section of the original repaired road, so the difficulty of the project next year will be several times that of this year, and the cost is only high. Where will the fees come from?

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Because of the firecrackers, the celebration of the New Year has increased, and many people have gone out of their homes and come to the street to sing and dance, which has a little taste of prosperity.

After the New Year, as Li Wei expected, Wei Hongji, in order to seize time, had sufficient funds to recruit people's husbands, and it was at a time when the green and yellow were scarce, and many poor families were still in urgent need of money, and at one time, more than 98,000 people were employed from Sanmen Road to Guangtong Canal, and nearly 100,000 people were employed to maintain order. With the arrival of March, the Guangtong Canal was gradually completed, and the first to be completed was Sanmendao. But the cost is amazing, Wei Hongji is proficient in civil engineering, careful budgeting, and the people are also full of motivation because they are the unprecedented humanized workers of the imperial court, few people are lazy, and the project is progressing very fast. However, the 600,000 yuan gradually ran out.

This is still the construction of the original canals and roads, and if you start with nothing, the cost will be at least doubled. Someone boredly calculated that the Grand Canal in Yangguang was probably between 100 and 200 times the size of the Grand Canal. In other words, according to Li Wei's way of opening a canal, it would cost at least 200 million to 400 million yuan.

After calculating the total project of the two canals, there is no way to calculate, and it is roughly estimated that with the new quarrying technology, it will cost at least 10 million yuan to complete. Far from what was originally thought, it would cost five million six million dollars, and with the new method of opening the stone, otherwise the cost would have increased by two or three times.

Of course, not without benefits. On March 16, with an order, the embankments at both ends of the canal were opened, and the water on both sides of the river rushed in. Thousands of boats sailed in, and all the people celebrated. When the two canals will be completed, it is too far away, but the Guangtong canal has been completed, and Guanzhong has benefited. It's not like Weishui, because the current is fast, the ship is often stranded, and it also needs a slender man to pull the fiber. These portionmen were not recruited, but were also formed in the form of forced labor. Not only the slender man, but also the ships transporting grain, are also supplied by the rich merchants in Jiangnan for free, otherwise it is just freight, and the grain from Jiangnan to Guanzhong has become an astonishing sky-high price. Moreover, there were no protective measures along the way, and the boat capsized and people died, which was also a big burden on the wealthy. As a result, many wealthy families find ways to escape.

It's not that if the Guangtong Canal is repaired, the ship won't capsize, but it will reduce the accident rate somewhat. Moreover, the construction of three doorways, although the cost is increased, can reduce the accident rate, for the transportation of valuable goods, it is a fortunate thing, and give the people of Shaanzhou a way to make a living. Therefore, from the rich families in Jiangnan to the people in Guanzhong, all the people are jubilant.

The most important thing is that such a big project was not completed by enslaving the people, but in the form of recruiting people. It has also solved the problem of Cao Yun to some extent.

Many people happily call it the Taizi Canal.

Li Wei frowned after hearing this, this is going to stimulate his father again.

March is coming, everything in the East Palace is also recovering, flowers are red and willow green, a large group of small swallows are flying around, this time there are quite a few who come back, there are eighteen. Bi'er walked over, very shy, Li Wei glanced at her and asked, "What do you want to say?" ”

Bi'er said softly: "Your Highness, the concubine is here." ”

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