In August of the fourth year of Huichang, this is a good time for the imperial court. The www.biquge.info of the Zhaoyi crusade fought from last year to the present, and it came to a complete end, ending with a great victory for the imperial court.

The turning point came in July. Originally, the mode of this crusade was the same as before, the imperial court first prospered and then declined, and there were some results, and the festival envoy began to cheat. The troops did not move forward, and the results of the battle were nothing, but they demanded food and salaries and rewards. The imperial court could only try to cope.

For such a situation, the imperial court has nothing to do. If it can't be given, the troops will be withdrawn at the least, and the army will be rebelled at the worst. Send someone to oversee the war? Who to send? The two sides have common interests and consensus, and they can delay it. Even the imperial court had to pay an extra salary. It is equivalent to one more debt collection.

Send a minister? There is no power without soldiers, not to mention that if you force the order of the commander in front of you, whether it affects the battle situation or not, it is a felony. So no one dared to go.

Fortunately, there is a virtuous minister Li Deyu in the imperial court, and with the east wind of destroying the Buddha, the imperial court has made a fortune in the city, and the finances can still cope with it, and the war situation continues to stalemate.

However, after several months of siege, things changed, and the three prefectures of Xing, Wei, and Ci in Zhaoyi Shandong could not bear the long-term siege and surrendered, and the battle situation took a turn for the better.

Although there is a consensus among these festivals, they tacitly have to procrastinate. Each crusade is a succession and a decline, and then it is to encircle instead of attack, reducing one's own casualties and asking for more food.

But at the end of the day, they didn't completely collude together. In this case, the economic strength of both sides is fighting, and it depends on whether the imperial court can't drag it out first, and it will break through the siege on its own, or whether it will collapse by itself.

This time, it was the imperial court that won. Liu Zhi was young and cowardly, and relied on Wang Xie, the envoy of the house, Li Shigui, and others as his directors. But these guys are very good at coercing their subordinates and amassing wealth and goods, and they can be stingy for others. The imperial court continued to reward the soldiers and generals in front of them, but these lonely ghosts did not pull out a dime, and even did not reward them for their merits, causing people to be resentful.

What's worse is that the long-term siege has caused a shortage of food, and whatever these people can think of, it is nothing more than looting. Nominally, he is a tax merchant, but in fact, his henchmen go out to loot the people's assets, and they take two out of ten, and the people do their best to pay the floating wealth and rations, but the number is insufficient, causing people to be uneasy, and they are deeply afraid that the looting will not be possible, and it will be changed to looting.

In the end, the result of Wei Ling's subordinates and the people was that its internal division fell apart, and even Liu Zhide's uncle and Pei Wen, who guarded Xingzhou, were forced to surrender to the imperial court.

In fact, it can be seen from this that Shao Ze has to be shrewd and has planned early on to unify all kinds of forces in the Xu Mansion, such as Wang Tong, Lao Immortal represents the local clans, as well as the wealthy merchants of the Xu Mansion, so that he can have the capital to fight against the imperial court.

And Li Chen was the first to rot as a rafter who came out. Who let him make a big move, and a theater is making money every day. Who made him an outsider, Xu Mansion has no local foundation, so he was treated as a bird, and Shao Ze wanted to clean him up.

However, if there is no if, there is no regret medicine in this world, and Shao Ze can't say that if he didn't provoke Li Chen at the beginning, or he regretted provoking Li Chen.

The surrender of these three states has fundamentally changed the war situation, and Liu Zhi's side is completely confused, because Zhaoyi is all in the three states of Shandong, and now the three states have surrendered, and Luzhou is difficult to support.

In the end, this poor boy was betrayed by a few of his trustworthy subordinates, and he trusted the Wang Xie to collude with the general Guo Yi to design this stupid boy to cut off his arm, and his cousin, Liu Kuangzhou, the soldier and horse envoy of the Chinese army and the commander of the Ya, was relieved of military power. After Guo Yi was stayed, he asked Liu Zhi to surrender.

And he trusted Li Shigui, the soldier and horse envoy in the house, and he didn't know if he saw through this plan, or he didn't want to surrender, so he failed to attack Guo Yi and was killed.

In the end, hundreds of members of Liu Zhi's family were killed by Wang Xie and Guo Yi, including his twelve relatives. In this way, he asked the court to surrender.

Li Chen shook his head when he looked at the newspaper issued by the imperial court, a few stupid people, who would like to go back to the lord and seek glory. If it is a rebellion at the beginning, you will do it, and there will be no merit, and the court may reward it vigorously. But in the current situation, it's strange that the court will spare you.

Sure enough, not long after, the imperial court sent Hezhong Jiedu to envoy Shi Xiong to lead 7,000 people into Luzhou, capture Guo Yi, Wang Xie and dozens of others, and send them to Chang'an to behead the public. And Li Chen was busy at this time, and he had to make all preparations for going to sea.

'My lord, the sea is treacherous, and the master has been gone for many years, it is too dangerous. Fu Bo persuaded Li Chen and said, "No need to persuade a certain family, a certain family has already made up its mind." ’

Everyone disagreed that he wanted to go to sea, and only advised Li Chen to have something to do and let the children get on the boat, but Li Chen did not agree.

The reasons for going to sea have been talked about a lot before, but now Li Chen has to add one. He wants to test how to control the inheritance here.

It can't be said that remote control, if he returns to Chang'an, he will definitely not be able to continue to manage here. What should I do when the time comes, and I give up like this?

Of course it's impossible, after making up his mind to be the emperor, he has a deep idea about his career, he feels that he is not doing day work, and now he has a career in his hands, and the future will be his help. There's no way he's going to just give up.

So it takes a person to continue to maintain. Even if he can't expand, he can't stop his career, and when he needs it, he needs to act immediately. Therefore, he had to leave to test whether the whole business could continue to operate if he could no longer supervise.

Even if it's a year's worth of time. Now he is going to sea and will come back in a year, but when he arrives in Chang'an, I don't know when he will be able to come back. A year later, there will be a chance to correct the problem, and when he boards the plane, he will face many tests, and he will definitely not pay attention to it.

After persuading several times, it was ineffective, Fu Bo was not persuading, and Yang Er's persuasion was useless, he could only think about it now, whether to let Xiaohong come forward to persuade him.

'Insurance? Li Chen was in a hurry, and after talking to Fu Bo, he took something to Zhao Duanduan, took out a thick stack of paper, and handed it to Zhao Duanduan.

To put it simply, it's a mutual aid society. It's just a maritime mutual aid association. Li Chen explained, "Aren't there many guilds now? A lot of it is mutual aid, and so is the insurance company. ’

'There is a danger in going to sea, and this insurance allows everyone to reduce the risk. Li Chenlin had to handle this insurance business no matter what before he left. As a modern person, who doesn't have a few insurances, five insurances and one housing fund, at least.

Li Chen was afraid that he would not be able to come back if he went to sea, so he thought of this method. In the Tang Dynasty, there were a lot of mutual aid associations, which were originally just mutual help between the people. Li Chen's insurance company uses this name to absorb premiums, and then whoever has an accident will use the premiums to pay for it.

'Is Mrs. Zhao interested?' Li Chen asked with a smile, "This insurance company is different from other insurance companies, it is not that someone needs to donate, but every time you go to sea, you have to pay a part of the premium." Afterwards it will not be returned. ''Something like that?' Zhao Duanduan was so cute that he tilted his head and thought, 'If nothing happens and the money can't be recovered, will anyone have to pay it?' ’

'Peace of mind. God knows what it will be on that day. Moreover, as long as you pay a little less money, when the time comes, there will be a large amount of compensation, and the shrewd businessman will definitely agree to it. ''Rarely crossed?'' But wouldn't that lose money? ’

Oh, how is it possible to lose money, but you know, modern social insurance companies make more money. Basically, it's a sure win. Not to mention that those insurance companies have been actuarial, the premiums collected must be enough to pay out, and they will use various means not to pay money.

I have heard of insurance companies that are getting bigger and bigger, and insurance companies that have been acquired and merged, but I have never heard of insurance companies that lose money.

'That's it. Zhao Duanduan agreed to join the group, and Li Chen found Suleiman again. Although Suleiman is retiring, he wants to go back to heaven. However, the insurance company does not have to go to sea, and besides, Suleiman is so shrewd that he immediately smells the business opportunity, and this insurance company can make a lot of money.

will look for Suleiman, mainly because Tianfang needs people here, there are not many maritime merchants in the Tang Dynasty, and it is impossible to accept only Tang maritime merchants. In this case, there must be someone on Tianfang's side, Suleiman has a lot of money, and he has quite a lot of contacts and connections, so it's a pity not to bring it in. Suleiman agreed, and Li Chen took care of a big matter before leaving, and began to prepare for the goods again.

This matter is very simple, in this era, Datang has the most foreign sales, nothing more than silk, porcelain and handicrafts. These are all simple, and they can be ordered for money, but Li Chen still needs something special.

'Hmmm! Delicious. Su Laiman admired, "How to call this tea, Su has never drunk such a good tea." ''Like it?'' If you like it, this time I went to sea, Li plans to sell this tea to the sky, especially ask Brother Su to taste it, and see Brother Su's reaction, I can rest assured. 'I came to Suleiman, and there is a deeper reason, Li Chen wants to sell black tea to the big food.

Strangely, this green tea is only drunk by Oriental people. The Chinese drink it, the Japanese drink it, and the powerful people of Southeast Asian countries also drink it, but the Tianfang people, and later the British, only drink black tea. Drinking black tea alone is too bitter, and they have to come up with all kinds of tricks to make milk tea and various flower teas.

So far, there is no black tea in China, and it is all green tea. It was not until the Song Dynasty that the exercises were improved, and black tea appeared. However, Li Chen remembered that at that time, there seemed to be no awareness of red and green tea in China, mainly because of the improvement of exercises, long-distance transportation by sea road, and natural fermentation, so that Tianfang people loved to drink black tea.

Li Chen followed the method in his memory, and he sent Wei Xuan to buy the right tea leaves, and made black tea, but he was so cautious that he still asked Suleiman to try it first, and only after seeing Suleiman's reaction, he was relieved. Of course, he had a useful intention, and now he was only taking the first step.

'Can you not go?' Xiaohong looked at Li Chen with tears in her eyes, and Li Chen was silent for a while. When the north wind blows and Li Chen is ready to go to sea, Fu Bo invited Xiaohong to persuade Li Chen, hoping that Li Chen will change his mind...

Holding Xiaohong's hand, looking at her teary eyes, Li Chen hesitated.

。 (To be continued.) )