Chapter 258: Goodbye Yiren
The way back to Beijing along the way was very safe, and there were no such problems, but Li Hong himself knew that this was the calm before the storm, most of the strength of Liu Ju's traitors was eradicated, and the backbone of Liu Ju's group was not eradicated, and these people were the organizers of Liu Ju's group, and they were scattered everywhere to develop their forces, if they let this part of the people know about Liu Ju's situation, they would definitely gather together and try their best to rescue Liu Ju.
But fortunately, when he arrived in Chang'an City, as long as he was locked up in the prison of Dali Temple and sent someone to take care of him, he felt that there would be no more problems.
Besides, with Di Renjie here, he felt that the safety of Dali Temple could at least be guaranteed.
As for using Liu Ju as bait to kill Liu Ju's traitors in one go, Li Hong thinks so, but now is not the time, Liu Ju's traitors are not fools, without a careful plan, will they act rashly?
Also, since there are people in the DPRK and China who collude with Liu Ju's traitors, this time Liu Ju's traitors want to save Liu Ju from his predicament, so they can't help but rely on these people......
The ten-mile long pavilion is a special place in Chang'an City to bid farewell to friends, and as soon as Li Hong's army arrived, Su Dingfang and Le Yanwei came together to greet him.
"See His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" When the two saw Li Hong, they bowed and were rude.
"Su Xiang, you don't need to be polite, please get up!" Li Hong turned over and got off the horse, hurriedly stepped forward to help Su Dingfang and Le Yanwei and said.
"His Royal Highness quelled the invasion of Tubo this time, captured Lu Dongzan alive, and designed to capture Liu Ju, which can be described as an outstanding achievement!" Le Yanwei patted his ass and said, "With such a great achievement, even Your Majesty can't be unhappy, and the minister wants to congratulate His Highness on such a good achievement." ”
"It's serious." Li Hong said modestly, "In the two months that Lone has left Chang'an City, everything is okay in Chang'an?" ”
"Everything is fine, don't worry, Your Highness." Su Dingfang said, "And the old minister has already chosen the address of Jiangwutang, and is asking the Ministry of Engineering to design the drawings, as soon as the plan comes out, the construction will start immediately, and dare to build it in the spring of next year and recruit students." ”
Su Dingfang is still very interested in opening a general's martial arts hall and cultivating young generals, and he has more experience in this area than in government affairs. Because he understands where his strengths are, he can take a big policy in government affairs and let Le Yanwei handle it specifically, but in terms of Jiangwutang, Le Yanwei is a layman, so he needs to do it himself.
"Well, is Su Xiang's money enough?". Li Hong asked.
Although he is still short of money now, as long as he captures Tibet, he will not be short of money. Because of the accumulation of hundreds of years in Tibet, the wealth looted by Lu Dongzan was enough for Li Hong to solve the urgent need in front of him.
This is also one of the reasons why Li Hong wanted to attack Tibet.
Tibet has money, and now he is short of money, so he will go to Tibet to get money.
He knows very well that the collections and furnishings in the Tubo Palace are enough to make the Tang Dynasty embarrassed, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as splendid.
Another point is that Liu Ju is very rich, and now that he has captured Liu Ju alive, Liu Ju will definitely spend a lot of money to save his life for the sake of Liu Ju's life, and in this case, Di Renjie and a group of prison officials of Dali Temple will get a lot of benefits. And he can take this opportunity to let Wei Chi Xunyan and Zhou Xing cut off the enemy's stronghold in Chang'an City and loot another fortune.
Li Hong is not interested in wealth, but he can do a lot of things with money, which Li Hong does not deny.
In his manor outside the city, the cost of developing cannons every day is tens of thousands of dollars, and it is still in the early stage, and it is estimated that the cost will be higher in the middle and late stages. In the Imperial Bank in the city, the reserves are not enough now, and he needs to accumulate enough gold and exchange enough gold in order to gain the trust of depositors step by step in order to issue the paper and currency he wants.
and the Yulinwei he set up is a big money-eater.
Of course, Li Hong is not without income, the income of Egret Bookstore is good, but it is only to maintain the printing and research and development of books, Li Hong has not thought about using the money earned from selling books in other aspects, he feels that the money earned from selling books should be used in the printing and compilation of books, there are many incomplete and unique books in the Tang Dynasty, and there are many fragments left behind that need to be systematically sorted out, as well as out-of-print and rare books hidden in the people, Li Hong wants to print them on a large scale, so it takes a lot of money.
Therefore, although the Egret Study is very profitable and has branches in many places in Datang, Li Hong has never thought of using this money to do other things.
For the first time, it was the iron mine he opened with Xu Jingzong, which was the most profitable business, but unfortunately it took time, and the raw ore sales could only make gross profits, and if you wanted to make a lot of money, you had to smelt the ore into refined iron, and it was iron of high quality that Li Hong thought was of high quality.
Secondly, it is the gold mine he opened himself, and the gold mine is enough to dig out things, and there is no need to make iron like iron ore and then sell it.
However, the gold mine has not yet started, and even if it does, the gold produced by the gold mine will have to be sent to the Imperial Bank for reserves, so Li Hong will not need a single one.
Therefore, now Li Hong's only income is the income of the caravan, the caravan to the Western Regions, the caravan to Goryeo, and the caravan to Fuso. The profits earned by these three caravans are the biggest source of Li Hong's income now.
It's just that the trade of caravans in the Western Regions is decreasing as the number of things sold increases again and again. Because after all, the market of the Western Regions countries is so big, and the demand is satisfied, so they naturally don't need Datang things. If you want to expand further, you have to put the caravan in the country formed by the big cannibals, and only in the huge big food country can Datang's products be further sold.
On the trade route of Goryeo, risks and benefits coexisted, especially during the war, and Li Hong did not dare to put too much wealth on this road.
The trade route to Fusang is the safest, but it is not inexhaustible, Fusang is such a big country, so many people, how much demand can there be? However, Li Hong is very interested in several gold mines in Fusang, he thinks that he should have a good talk with the dogs, sheep and tigers, if it is developed with the Fusang people, and the Tang Dynasty will exchange the goods for it, if not, Li Hong does not mind going to war against Fusang, he is not afraid of fighting with Fusang, and the gold reserves of these two gold mines in Fusang are very rich, and it is worth him to wage war against Fusang for this.
Wars are always for profit, aren't they?
Back then, a certain dynasty lost the dignity of the descendants of Yan and Huang, and let a group of Maozi give all kinds of bullying, daring to say that the descendants of the dragon were dogs.
Now, Li Hong doesn't want history to go like that.
What he has to do now is to conquer this world, plunder all the wealth to the Tang Dynasty, and make people all over the world proud and proud that they are the descendants of Yan and Huang.