Dark clouds filled the sky, lightning and thunder, and the party was very large, and then the wind whined, and the raindrops like broad beans fell to the ground crackling. It's always good to rain. Now from Henan to Guanzhong, even if it rains for ten days and ten nights, no people will say that it rains too much.

And yet......

In less than five minutes, the broad beans turned into millet beads. In less than five minutes, the millet beads turned into sesame seeds, and after another five minutes, there was nothing left. After another five minutes, the clouds opened, and the sun showed that red face that was not cute.

In fact, since the beginning of summer, it has rained, but every time.

This made Li Wei think of a very unpleasant word, premature ejaculation......

"Let's go," Li Wei said to Bi'er. took the group out of the East Palace and walked towards the Tianjin Bridge. Although it rained, no one rejoiced. Well, the current drought is like a resentful woman who has been locked up for 30 years, Viagra definitely doesn't love it, and Brother Leak will not be satisfied. However, the ground is a little wet, and there is a thin layer of standing water in some low-lying places. It's better to have rain than nothing. It was getting close to dusk, and I saw Di Renjie standing on the Tianjin Bridge, waiting for him.

This is also a helpless thing, serving as the Dali Temple, always on duty. It is inconvenient to visit the prince at night, although Luoyang is not as big as Chang'an, but a Luoshui and the leaking city canal isolate the palace, and it is not easy to meet. I had to leave a note to the East Palace before I was on duty in the morning, and asked the prince to discuss something when he was on duty.

I don't like to disturb the people, it's just an ordinary car, Li Wei asked the eunuch to lead Di Renjie's horse and said, "Di Qing, get in the car." ”

Di Renjie hesitated, and finally got into the carriage. Li Wei said again: "Go to Di Mansion." ”

It's a little far away, but Li Wei doesn't care, many things are about to be discussed with Di Renjie, the carriage starts to drive, Li Wei said: "Di Qing, how is it in Dali Temple?" ”

"Hehe," Di Renjie smiled heartily, this was his best job, and said, "It's okay." Of course, Li Wei didn't know Di Renjie's deeds in certain types of myths in Dali Temple, otherwise he would also be shocked by his glasses.

"Di Qing, you guessed it right, the father and the queen mother finally succumbed to Gu's two strategies."

"Alas, it's inevitable," Di Renjie sighed. The emperor and the empress are good to the people, of course, this good also has a sequence, compared with their position, even if thousands of people starve to death, they must keep their position safe. So the beginning was to focus on bamboo paper. When the righteousness is over, the people will also care. Don't say it's bad, it's already very good that the emperor can do this. Since bamboo paper is used as a life-saving straw, although that idea is not appropriate, it is also inevitable to put it on the agenda. Some solutions are better than no solutions.

"Di Qing, but it's not impossible," Li Wei said the experience, not so directly, using the method of covering his ears and stealing the bell, so that even if there is criticism, it will be much smaller. The main method is still something he came up with, and he is a little complacent.

But when Di Renjie heard this, he immediately shook his head and said, "Your Highness, you shouldn't intervene. ”

"Why, the queen mother is right, every day if it is not resolved, some people will die."

"Your Highness, you are kind-hearted and good, but have you ever thought about it, your wisdom is really stronger than Your Majesty and the Queen, or the two ministers?"

Li Wei was embarrassed for a while, don't think it's bamboo paper again, and it's salt again. The difference between the lives of the two lives is more than a thousand years, if there is enough luck, for who came from his era, as long as it is a normal adult, there will always be some knowledge that has not been in this era, and very advanced knowledge, even if the memory is not very real, but there are countless financial resources and manpower for him to mobilize, then it is like bamboo paper, repeated adjustment, new things will come out!

It's not his real skill, including the poems. The real skills, not to mention the great parents, Hao Chujun is not as good as him, even the good old man Yan Liben, he will not be able to do it.

Di Renjie said: "Speaking of official comments, Hao Xianggong is good, and his reputation among the people is very good. Otherwise, he wouldn't have brought it up. But why can't he think of a really safe solution? ”

"Why?"

"When it comes to businessmen, he is also afraid that others will accuse him of this in the future. Therefore, half of it was said, half of it was kept, and this half was given to His Majesty and the Queen. ”

"You mean that Hao Chujun can't afford this infamy, in fact, he already has a plan in his heart, so he let his father and queen mother make a decision. But it's hard for the father and queen mother to speak. So please be lonely-faced and let Lone speak it. In the future, when the people discussed this matter, Lone became a shield? ”

"Exactly. Not only that, once the feast begins, Your Majesty and the Empress will definitely not come forward, but will be handed over to you and the two ministers. His Royal Highness now has a reputation, and the two ministers are enough to make Shang Jia believe it. Your Majesty and the Empress can stay out of it. ”

"Yes," it turned out that he let his parents be monkeys, and he was very disappointed all of a sudden, and said self-deprecatingly: "There are countless people who can live, and terrible people accuse, and no one is willing to speak, so if you open your mouth, you will open your mouth." It's a big deal to have a bad reputation, after all, human lives matter. ”

"Your Highness, don't be discouraged. This matter is not entirely bad for His Highness," Di Renjie comforted: "Although the reputation will be stained, His Highness is here to save the people." This is also a great righteousness, and it may not be much dirty. Besides, this time you automatically entered the net of His Majesty and the Queen, and His Majesty and the Empress thought that His Royal Highness could still master it, but they would secretly rejoice in their hearts. ”

Hearing Di Renjie say this, Li Wei couldn't cry or laugh.

"And you got into it automatically, why didn't they coerce and set up an ambush, and they were a little sorry for you, plus bamboo paper. This feeling of shame and regret is bound to be very strong. At least for this time, His Highness can be safe. Your Highness, your reputation is only a cloud of the past, and it will be dispersed after the fact. Your Highness, how can you survive this hundred years of waiting......"

Li Wei was shocked, and said with a straight face: "Exactly." ”

He doesn't have to think about it now, he has to live first. Don't think it's easy to survive, for his identity, if you want to live, it's even more difficult than those absconding Jiangyang thieves!

Thinking of this, he asked, "Di Qing, you are so urgent, bow down, what's the matter with finding Gu?" ”

"Salt drying."

"Di Qing, drying salt can be done, you don't have to worry."

"The minister knows that drying salt can be done, but this is the reason why the minister is worried."

"Lone won't show up."

"That's not what I mean. Your Highness, is it possible to dry salt as long as it is by the sea and the terrain is appropriate? ”

This Li Wei didn't know very well, but he remembered that in later generations, there were large salt farms on all coasts from the Liaodong Peninsula to the Yellow Sea, East China Sea, and South China Sea, so he hesitated for a moment and said, "It should be so." ”

"In fact, in China, the price of salt is slightly high, but there is no shortage of salt, and the lack of salt is not our Tang Dynasty, but the Khitan, Turkic, Xi and further away Guligan, Kyugu, Dubo, as well as Liaodong and other Tibetan countries and tribes."

"Yes."

"If the price of salt is very low, you can exchange it with them in exchange for a large number of war horses and livestock, which is good for our Tang Dynasty. In addition, the people ate cheaper salt, and the imperial court could also levy taxes appropriately. ”

"Yes." Li Wei hadn't thought about some of the benefits, but he didn't quite understand in his heart, why there were so many benefits, and he was still worried.

Di Renjie changed the conversation and asked, "What Liang Jinzhu did you choose, and what else is Lu?" ”

"Earth ponies, a merchant who sells horses."

"They should be in the Eastern Capital soon, right?"

"Calculating the time, I'm afraid that in just two or three days, it may be necessary to reach the Eastern Capital."

"Fortunately, yesterday the minister came up with it at home, and it was still too late."

"Di Qing, what do you mean ......?"

"The territory of the Tang Dynasty reached as far north as Xiaohai, which was an unprecedented boundary in the ages. However, Your Highness, you also know that in fact, in the northern desert grasslands, the imperial court is only a fetter, and cannot be completely controlled, and various nomads descend and rebel from time to time. Only the coastal areas that really belonged to the control of the imperial court were the coastal areas. The East China Sea (including the Yellow Sea) and the Rising Sea (South China Sea) will not be much of a crisis. But the Bohai Sea is only a thin link. This technique of drying salt is very simple, Your Highness, can you guarantee that it will not be passed on? ”

Li Wei shook his head blankly. It's not like a toffee workshop, which is operated in a workshop and can't be seen by outsiders. That's it, Li Wei doubted how long this technology could be maintained.

"That's it, the technology is so simple, and the nomadic peoples in the north are very short of salt, so they must covet the boundary by the sea. In normal times, we will be afraid that our Tang Dynasty will be strong and helpless. However, our Tang Dynasty was recently defeated last year, and the country's finances were in dire straits, and the people were displaced. What will they do, you say? Or can we Datang launch a few more powerful wars to subdue them? ”

Li Wei has been in the Tang Dynasty for so long, and he is not like before, he doesn't know anything.

Why are there so many courtiers who oppose the opening of the border, it is not so easy, a war, not to mention the need for a large number of soldiers, the logistics supply is also an astonishing number. For example, some people in history say that the Tang Dynasty lost 100,000 soldiers in the Battle of Dafeichuan, and some people say that it only lost 50,000 soldiers. Both of these statements are correct, the extra 50,000 people are the people who are supplied by logistics. With a one-to-one number of logistics supplies, you can imagine how many materials are needed!

And after researching it, Li Wei found a lot of helplessness. The Tang Dynasty was an agrarian way of life, and the people were wealthy. That's a good thing. However, if the nomads invade, there will be gains. However, the Tang Dynasty was at war with them, and before the army arrived, the people drove cattle and sheep, enlarged the tent and put it in the cart, and left.

And that's not all, because in the eyes of many Confucian scholars, the goal of war is only to bring these barbarians to their knees. If the battle is defeated, as long as you surrender, you will be released immediately, the generals will be returned, the livestock will be returned, the people will be returned, the soldiers will be returned, and there will even be rewards and officials. If you kill like Xue Rengui, you know that it will make these barbarians tremble, but you can't make Haode, then you will desperately admonish and impeach.

In fact, sometimes Li Wei pondered for a while and was very depressed.

"Di Qing, then ......what do you say?"

"I don't know about the salt, but I just listened to what His Highness said, and the time will soon be effective, and the area chosen is by the sea, and the land is easy to find. This matter will have to be taxed by the imperial court, and it will inevitably be a sensation at that time. The tribes of the north will also hear about it. At this time, they coveted the salt of the sea and waged war. What will happen to the imperial court? ”

The country was in dire straits, and it was necessary to guard against another invasion of Tibet, Dafeichuan and Tuyuhun fell, and even many places in the Western Regions fell. At that time, it is possible that the northern tribes will betray the Tang Dynasty again, and attack inside and outside, and something big will happen!