Today's Chang'an is slightly cold. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info was supposed to send off to Ba, but it was inconvenient for him to go out, so he saw him off at Danfeng Gate. Looking at the team that went out of Tonghuamen, Li Chen could only pray that they would go well.

It should go well, and they expect to gradually explore north in the spring of next year. I tried my best to equip them with very good equipment, telescopes, various measuring tools, and the most accurate new clock.

Time is very important to measure the distance on the sea, and it is necessary to measure it at a fixed time, so that it is easy to position. For this reason, it has promoted the prosperity of the watch industry, and now the Tang Dynasty, a high-end clock, has become a fashion, a royal emerging luxury industry. Li Chen also plans to set up a large bell tower on the Vermilion Bird Gate, which will tell the time on time, like London's Big Ben, which will become a new landscape of the Tang Dynasty in the future.

Well, he didn't spend the money softly. But he's very himself, maybe that's his nature. He saw these material needs more and more lightly.

In fact, he is very generous to several wives and concubines, everyone has a lot of monthly cases, his wives and concubines are not many, and it doesn't cost much more per person. He thought that he was becoming more and more like his father, and he was not very good at talking, but he loved his children very much, and he was very economical, very economical, and the money he spent on himself a month was very small. It is very generous to his family, and he will never save it if he needs it.

Like he bought a computer, at that time, the computer was updated quickly, and it was only two years ago that he bought the mainstream model that was relatively cheap at that time. After two years, he asked his father to buy him a new one, not to mention the best, but also to catch up with the times. Dad bought it for him. However, he was a little different from his father in this regard, and he was very good to his daughter. is very harsh on his son.

Several of his wives and concubines were probably influenced by him, after all, he didn't spend much himself, and his wives and concubines didn't spend lavishly. They spend a lot of money on their children, and the only one who is more miserable is Li Yan.

He is the only eldest son, Li Chen is more strict with him, in addition to going to school, he also has to work. It's miserable, isn't it, a prince, and he has to learn to work.

Li Chen arranged a field for him to plow. Let him take care of it. It's not that he really wants to be a farmer, it only lasts for two years, and farming is very important after all. Let him learn well, too.

Or go outside the palace, an internship at a royal trading house. Of course, the identity must be concealed outside the palace, and only the chief shopkeeper knows that this person has a lot of origin, but he is also ordered not to talk much.

Everyone was against this. The Zheng family is against it, the Chao family is also against it, everyone is against it, this is still the situation that the prime minister does not know, otherwise even hundreds of officials will be in the book.

Only Li Chen insisted that he could not raise an emperor who grew up in the deep palace and didn't know anything about the world. That is irresponsible to his son and to Datang. The emperors of the past dynasties, except for a few founding army lords who were wise, the others grew up in the deep palace, and they were the masters of the defense, and many people couldn't even defend Chengdu.

He does not ask his son how capable he is, but when he calculates, he is foolish, and he is shunned. Looking at history, those dynasties were more wise, not the founding monarchs and emperors, and many of them had a humble experience.

He told Li Yan these words and told him that it may be difficult for him to have this opportunity in the future, he didn't see his father become the emperor, and he didn't go out of the palace in his spare time, your father had that experience, but you didn't. Now I will give you this experience, so that you can understand more about the suffering of the people.

Fortunately, this son is not really stupid, he knows that his father has to work hard, and he has gone out of the palace to work several times, but he has not shown his feet. The performance is not bad.

Of course, Li Chen didn't let his guard down, Jinyi was on standby at any time, and Li Chen wouldn't let him take this as a regular job, if he really had to raise an emperor, because he was afraid of poverty, and he looked too closely at money, it wouldn't be good.

Far away, what he wanted to talk about was interests, and when he turned back to the palace, he was still thinking that he was going to try to find out where the interests of developing America were. Without benefits, it cannot be carried out. This policy will only continue if it finds great benefits in the Americas that allow the country to make money without continuous subsidies.

What are the interests of the Americas? Tuntian? It can be considered that there are many specialties in the Americas, such as tobacco and cocoa, and you can also grow sugar cane and sugar.

However, the results of farming are slow, and besides, planting those things, he remembers that the Caribbean Sea is more suitable, but they landed from the west coast of the Americas, whether they can grow those is still a question.

As for the others, that's even more impossible. It takes a lot of time and a lot of money to resettle a large number of people, and it is even more difficult to grow other non-cash crops.

If you don't think about crops, it's gold. I hope that this trip can find Jinshan, and he secretly told Fat Qiu and Li Chengtai about the location of Jinshan in some memories. If you can find the gold mountain, and contact the golden empire in Central America, dump a large number of Datang goods, and exchange a large amount of gold back, then this route will definitely become.

As long as this interest is not abandoned, the North American continent will not be forgotten. At that time, even if the imperial court does not care, this route will continue to develop, and when the time comes, even if the imperial court does not care, there will be many poor and landless people who will migrate to the Americas.

Even, if this route is maintained, maybe more people will spontaneously explore the interior. Needless to say, what will happen in the future. With the love and demand of Chinese for land, they found that the inland is so vast, the fertile land is extremely rich, even if there is no gold, there are many minerals, and more and more people will definitely come here.

He was hundreds of years ahead of the Westerners and discovered America. Continue to migrate people, and when Europeans discover the Americas, they may think that this is China, because I am afraid that every inch of land will be occupied by the Chinese.

In addition to gold, there is also fur. It's also a big business that can be sustained. If he remembered correctly, this business was actually bigger than gold.

Gold can be a catalyst for a moment, but it won't last long. Moreover, gold is not found everywhere. But fur is different. He had the impression that fur was the interest that supported the Europeans in their initial exploration of the Americas.

Of course, it was tempted by gold at first. But later, for example, Britain, France and other countries were supported by the fur trade. He established trading posts, bought furs from the Indians, and sold them a variety of products, thus maintaining a constant flow of exploration and exploration.

Especially in some cold places, what crops should be planted here? It all depends on fur, and the colder it is, the better the quality of the fur. Take the Russians as an example, why did they open up Siberia in the first place, and it lasted for hundreds of years. Are Russians rich?

Looking for an ice-free port? That kind of thing is like Emperor Yongle going to sea several times, and it is impossible to maintain it for a long time. It is because of the existence of fur interests that the Russians continue to advance eastward. Eventually advanced to Alaska.

Emperor Yongle went to sea several times, please, there is no benefit, no matter how rich he is, it is impossible for Chengzu to sustain it. I don't want to think about it, he has to go out of the fortress five times, build the capital, and send people to the West to find Emperor Hui, how can that kind of thing be maintained? In fact, several times I went to the West, I got a lot of income. What is said to work the people and hurt the money, which civil servants have an excuse at all.

In the Tang Dynasty, Li Chen felt that this was also a good point of interest for expansion, which could support continuous expansion and colonization inland. With the support of gold and fur, Li Chen felt that this American continent was the Tang Dynasty, or the Han people's possession.

After sending off the expedition, Li Chen came back to deal with some affairs and worries. First of all, there is the problem of rumors, a few days ago, Li Chengyu told him that some rumors have begun to circulate in many places at present, and Li Chen wants to abolish the feudal town.

Yes, yes, but not really. At present, there are about 50 feudal towns in Datang, which are densely packed, and they are probably out of Chang'an, which is the feudal town.

Of course, Li Chen will abolish the feudal towns, but it is not abolished, he will take back the rights, finances, supervision rights, and gradually take back the rights of the local feudal towns, and finally the Jiedu will only have a purely military function, and no longer have the right to control a place.

However, there are many things that can only be done, not said, and it will be very troublesome to do. He meant it, but he wasn't going to reveal it. Just want to take your time,

In particular, rumors are now mounting that he will completely abolish the post of Temperance Envoy. Although there is no section to ask the upper chapter, it is estimated that it will be soon.

I don't know who spread the rumor, but it spread quickly. The three towns of Hebei reacted greatly. The other forty or so are fine.

Several prime ministers were not very active in abolishing the feudal towns. At present, Datang still has control over many feudal towns. Although the feudal towns were self-reliant, and the soldiers were often expelled from the imperial court to send envoys, the Tang Dynasty could still control it at present.

is Li Chen's intention to abolish it, but his main target is the three towns of Hebei. These towns are exemplary, and if they are abolished, he can let go of reform. Only by carrying out a thorough reform can the repeated unauthorized behavior of the soldiers of the feudal towns be suppressed.

Soon, it helps him to let things go. Far from it, in this way, there will be no situation like the Song Dynasty in the future, where the strong cadres and weak branches are heavy, and the emphasis is on literature and light on military force. Every dynasty and every generation will make reforms on the basis of the previous generation. However, such a reform is very tolerant of crookedness, like the Song Dynasty was overkill.

It is best that Datang can last for 10,000 years, even if it doesn't work, he doesn't want to pass on the situation of the feudal town. If there is a next dynasty, he is very sure that even if it is not the Song Dynasty, he will implement strong cadres and weak branches, emphasizing literature and light military force. This is not good for China's development.

In addition to the troublesome feudal towns, there is also the problem of the old army. The new god army has proven that it can fight and fight. The military system has been basically established. In this way, the old army is a problem.

Absorb the old army into the new army, he doesn't want. The foundation of the old army is too poor, and it is basically composed of scoundrels and splashes. And because he has been in the center for a long time, there is rarely any actual combat, so there is even less training.

The more they raise, the more they waste, and it is not easy for them to do something. The best thing is to bully the market and harm the township. It's useless to raise them, and it's a waste of public money. Therefore, it is an inevitable trend to abolish them.

These people are of little value even if they are sent to build roads. Previously, he had sent some of the soldiers who had participated in the rebellion to build roads. Then they were resettled on the spot, and the results were not bad, these people were quite resigned to their fate, very cooperative, and after the fields were allocated, they also worked very hard. made Li Chen think that the old army could still be transformed.

However, later he tried to form some old armies that had not participated in the rebellion into a box army, and wanted to imitate those old armies, and gradually reorganize them into local tuntian armies, and then disbanded them, and things went into chaos.

These ruffians are very poorly motivated. I'm lazy for three days, and it's useless to do anything. Li Chen tried to compete in groups and road building groups, but the worst had no food, and no one in the group reached the goal. None of them met the award criteria. I don't know if it's been discussed, it's all a poor moral character.

Even if Li Chen lowers his standards, even if he doesn't meet the standard, he will give rewards, as long as he has done something, he will give him the most rewards, hoping to stimulate their enthusiasm and divide them. They also dare that everyone does not do anything, or fishes, and there is no last bit of achievement.

Don't give food? They dare to make trouble with you, these people have lived in Chang'an for a long time, and they can be regarded as children of Chang'an. Even if it's not a big deal, but many people have a lot of family relatives, or something.

Although it is so deep-rooted and wins people, there are not many. But you can't move one, don't move the others, and those people will rally around the connected winners. If they want to move, unless Li Chen suppresses it bloodily, they dare to make a fuss. Who told you not to give food.

In the end, Li Chen stopped for the time being. He is still thinking about a way, to see if it is really a bloody suppression, or to dissolve it directly, and to suppress it if he dares to make trouble, or to think about what can be done to reform. As a result, with the return of the Shence Left Army from Hehuang and the large-scale training of the new army, rumors of the disbandment of the army rose again.

Li Chen is thinking about what to do about these two things. These two things, which are rumors, are actually correct. Refute rumors? Whether it's to tell the truth or to lie.

To tell the truth is to sit on rumors. Even if he says it just means it, it's not the case. Lie, say that there is no such time, but if it is done in the future, won't the court lose its credibility?

In order to establish the credibility of the imperial court, Shang Ying specially erected wood and rewarded him heavily. Now there is no credibility, and we have to go back on our word. Once the credibility is lost, it will be troublesome to recover. It's not a vegetable government, it always changes its orders, and in the morning it says what to do, and it regrets it in the middle of the night.

People are always like this, if you do something that goes back on your word, it is easy for others to remember, and if they don't remember how many times you keep your promises, they will remember how many times you broke your promises.

Just like a good person who has done a lot of good things in his life. He did a bad thing, and his reputation was ruined, and everyone said that this person was a hypocrite and pretended to be a good person. Now the original form is revealed. On the other hand, if a bad person does evil things all the time, and occasionally does a good deed one day, he is thought to be not so bad.

People are like this, not to mention that the imperial court, especially in this era, because the news is not smooth, it is likely that there will not even be a chance to save the reputation or clarify.

How to deal with these two rumors, he is still slowly thinking about it. (To be continued.) )