Dingzhou.

Li Xiuning stared at Li Chengzong very seriously, and there were only Li Chengzong and her in the hall.

Li Chengzong asked in a low voice, "I said aunt, do you have something to tell me?"

Li Xiuning didn't answer at first, then sighed and frowned: "You also know that your aunt and the women's army under my command are not as good as the soldiers under your command, and I don't want to say that everyone is wearing armor, and even weapons can't be uniformly equipped."

"What?" Li Chengzong said secretly, you come to me for a ride, what do you want to do and go?

It's all Nima's way of showing off her wealth, so that you can equip your troops so well, and you have to wear armor with horizontal knives and strange knives, so you will bring disaster!

Li Xiuning frowned, and asked coldly, "Don't you want to fund your aunt with some weapons and armor?"

Threats,** naked danger, this actually bullied me.

Although Li Chengzong was reluctant in his heart, he also knew that it was best not to offend Li Xiuning, there were seventy or eighty thousand women in her hands, and she was also a particularly important force in the early Tang Dynasty.

Moreover, Pingyang Princess Li Xiuning's troops are stationed in Niangzi Pass, which is the throat of Shanxi, and the Li family's base camp is her care, so it is conceivable that Li Yuan trusts him.

Li Chengzong said: "How much my aunt needs, let's discuss it."

Li Xiuning didn't really pull his face, after all, blackmailing his brother and blackmailing his nephew were completely different feelings.

"Two hundred thousand," Li Xiuning said slowly.

"Is 200,000 guan too much, the little nephew can only take out 100,000 guan here." Li Chengzong said.

Li Xiuning asked: "Don't tell me, Dou Jiande has left hundreds of thousands of yuan after entrenching the entire Hebei for many years."

Li Chengzong said: "In these years, there have been wars everywhere, and Dou Jiande has saved some private money. Auntie, you said, my uncle Chai Shao's private money must not be much. Dou Jiande didn't leave a few sons. ”

Li Xiuning asked curiously, "How do you know that your uncle has private money?"

Li Chengzong was stunned for a moment, and said slowly: "I'm just saying, I don't know if my uncle has hidden private money."

Li Xiuning seemed to remember something wrong, and said after a while: "I don't care how much Dou Jiande leaves, 150,000 yuan can't be missing, just treat it as the eldest nephew, you honor your aunt."

What else could Li Chengzong say, and said with blood dripping in his heart: "I will let people send the money to Aunt Chang'an's mansion, aunt rest assured."

Li Xiuning said: "This is the case first, you can rest assured that your aunt will do things." I still have to go back to Chang'an to check if your uncle has hidden private money, so I'll leave first. ”

Sending Li Xiuning away, Li Chengzong has not yet recovered.

Wei Zheng, Qi Shanxing and Li Xuantong came.

Wei Zheng said: "Chief Administrator Qiqi, this time Liu Heimin's rebellion in Hebei lasted for half a year, Hebei was hit hard, and the people were struggling to make a living."

Li Chengzong glanced at him and said, "Tell the point."

Wei Zheng's face turned red and said, "I want to ask the chief manager to apply to the emperor to reduce or exempt the taxes of some states and counties."

"You can look at it, I'll stamp it when it's ready." Li Chengzong said.

When Li Xuantong saw Wei Zheng say this, he immediately said that Dingzhou suffered the most losses and hoped that it could be included in the states and counties that reduced and exempted taxes.

Wei Zheng disagreed, saying that although Dingzhou had killed many soldiers, the people's livelihood in Dingzhou had not been hit too hard, unlike other prefectures and counties that had been defeated by Liu Heimin, and the treasury had been looted.

Li Xuantong was anxious, ready to roll up his sleeves and have a good fight with Wei Zheng.

Qi Shanxing on the side said: "Chief Administrator, this time we have 20,000 soldiers killed and wounded in battle, and more than 3,000 people have been killed and wounded, and the total cost of various subsidies is 69,000 yuan. and the cost of repairing the torn armor and weapons was also 2,100 yuan. ”

"Are you saying that I lost almost 80,000 in one battle?" Li Chengzong said.

"It's not 80,000, it's 71,100." Qi is a good deed.

O God! Just 150,000 were gone, and then 71,100.

After careful calculation, Dou Jiande doesn't have much left of his foundation, and it seems that there are only 200,000 yuan.

"I'll go, then I'm not a heavy loss." Li Chengzong thought to himself.

Sure enough, making money is like picking up soil with a needle, and spending money is like pushing sand with water, and the ancients never deceived me.

Li Chengzong said: "You all say, I feel that I am spending a lot of money now, and it seems that there is no way to make money."

Wei Zheng hurriedly said: "The chief manager must not do anything tyrannical!"

Li Chengzong wondered, why he couldn't do good things in Wei Zheng's eyes.

"Am I that kind of person? I am the general manager of Wanghe North Road, Taiyuan County. Li Chengzong roared.

Qi Shanxing said: "The chief manager may wish to do some business."

Wei Zheng said: "The chief manager is the eldest grandson of the royal family, how can he participate in the affairs of Shangjia."

Li Xuantong objected to Wei Zheng and said: "You can't expropriate and extort money and you can't participate in the affairs of merchants, does Lord Wei think that this silver will fall from the sky?" I think what Master Qi said is right, although Hebei is not richer than Jiangnan, it is also the Central Plains region since ancient times, and the market is still very large. ”

There's a reason why Li Xuantong and Qi Shanxing hooked up with each other.

Wei Zheng is the prince's person, and Qi Shanxing is obviously Li Chengzong's person, although they are in the same line, they can't get used to each other.

Qi Shanxing couldn't get used to Wei Zheng calling himself a person from the East Palace, and Wei Zheng couldn't look down on Qi Shanxing's status as a subordinate.

Li Xuantong is different, he was originally a centrist, but since Li Chengzong and he have guarded Dingzhou City.

The whole world knows that Li Xuantong has glued to Li Chengzong's light, who doesn't regard him as Li Chengzong's person?

Therefore, in order to stand in front of Li Chengzong, Li Xuantong must find an ally as soon as possible, that is, Qi Shanxing.

Li Chengzong said: "It's good to do business!"

Wei Zheng angrily admonished: "Chief Administrator, you must not participate in the affairs of the merchants."

Li Chengzong said: "I don't have to do business myself, haven't my two uncles already opened a trading house, just let them be in charge, let's talk about something now?"

Wei Zheng saw that the dissuasion was ineffective, and he stood aside and did not speak.

Qi Shanxing said: "I think the most profitable thing is salt."

Li Xuantong shook his head and said: "Although it is good to sell salt, it is not easy to get salt!" There are also one or two salt mines around Dingzhou, but the mining and refining speed is too slow to scale. ”

Li Chengzong thought to himself, this is the Tang Dynasty! The Tang Dynasty didn't have purification and filtration technology, right? Just thinking about it, he felt like a lot of money was waiting for him.

"Give me everything that can still be moved, and immediately go and mine for me on a large scale." Li Chengzong said.

"The chief manager, I said, even if you dig it out, you can't dig it out, those ores can't be eaten directly, it's poisonous." Li Xuantong persuaded.

"You don't care, I have my own way. The only thing you have to do now is bring me the salt ore. Li Chengzong said undoubtedly.

But not long after, Li Chengzong shouted again: "No, you can't use underground salt mines."

Li Xuantong secretly didn't go so fast, otherwise he would have to be called back.

Li Chengzong said: "Forget it, I will leave this matter to someone else to deal with." Let's hurry up and resettle Liu Heimin's soldiers and replenish the troops' equipment and personnel.

The three of them stepped back.

Li Chengzong said secretly: "How can mining salt mines be as convenient as going to the beach to dry salt." In the future, I will have to agree on the biggest salt in Datang. ”

Li Chengzong wrote a letter about the methods of beach enclosure, pond building, tide acceptance, evaporation, and refining of seawater salt, and handed it over to Wang Hu to bring to the Wang Yu brothers in the city of Zhaozhou, and asked them to take 50,000 guan to Pingzhou to make salt from the sea at that time.

When the Wang Yu brothers saw the method of salt making written by Li Chengzong, they were so excited that they couldn't do it, who would have thought that salt making would be so simple from ancient times to the present.

He memorized all the things written by Li Chengzong, and then wrote a letter to Li Chengzong, believing that it was necessary to send troops to guard the seaside salt works day and night to prevent others from stealing the method of salt making.

Li Chengzong immediately agreed to let Wang Hu take 3,000 people to guard the salt works.

Wang Hu said: "I won't go, who will protect the prince if I go."

Li Chengzong said: "You can go with confidence, I didn't worry about the salt farm at first, only you can go to the town in person, uncle."

Wang Hu struggled for a long time but still did not twist Li Chengzong, and finally took 3,000 people to accompany Wang Yu and Wang Zhongdong into Pingzhou.