Li Zhi was shocked when he heard this, and at the same time couldn't help but raise his head to look at Li Shimin, in his heart, his father has always been a wise and martial image, and no matter what kind of military and political affairs, it will be solved in the hands of Li Shimin, as if nothing in the world can be difficult to live with his father, but now Li Shimin personally admitted that he has no energy, which makes Li Zhi suddenly find that his father seems to be really old.

Li Shimin also felt the strangeness of his son, and immediately walked over and patted Li Zhi on the shoulder and said: "Don't be stupid, although you are the emperor for your father, and you are known as the son of heaven, but in fact, you are just a mortal, and there will always be a day when your life will end, so there is nothing to be sad about, but the burden on your body is very heavy, what preparations do you have for future reforms?" ”

Li Zhi is a person with great feelings, and seeing his father behaving so open-mindedly made him feel even more uncomfortable, and at the same time felt that the wrinkles on his father's face became more and more dazzling. It's just that as the crown prince, Li Zhi quickly cheered up and said in a deep voice: "Father Qi, the son-in-law has done a detailed investigation of some situations in the country during this time, and then referred to the sixth brother, and he has already had some experience in the content of the change, but it has not been written yet, and it will be submitted to the father and emperor for review after it is written!" ”

Li Shimin nodded after hearing this, but then said: "Zhi'er, it is far from enough to have the content of the change, the real key is that you need a group of talents who understand the content of the change, and also faithfully implement the change, your uncle is a rare talent, but his position determines that he cannot support this change, so he can only find other talents again." ”

"This ......" Li Zhi was stunned after hearing this, after he returned from Taiwan. As far as he has the mind to change the law, it's just that he has been busy investigating all aspects of Datang in the past few years. In addition, he thinks that there is still plenty of time, so he is interested in changing talents. I haven't had time to look for it.

I saw that Li Shimin showed a smug smile and said: "But you don't have to worry about this point, I have prepared a group of talents for you, and now these people have been sent to your sixth brother to work in the government at all levels in Daqi, and they are already familiar with the operation of the Daqi government, and they can return to Datang at any time, and with the help of these people, I believe you will feel more comfortable when implementing reforms!" ”

Li Zhi was also moved in his heart after hearing this, but he didn't expect his father to be preparing for him early: "Thank you, father." Erchen will do his best to lead Datang to create a new prosperous era! ”

At the same time that Li Shimin and Li Zhi, father and son, were discussing the reform of the Tang Dynasty, a coastal port was under construction at the western end of Java Island, because the port was surrounded by coconut trees, so the new city was also named Coconut City.

After the plague last hit Java, the total population of the island has dropped to less than one million, and a considerable number of those who have survived have been destroyed by the plague. You won't live for a few years at all.

After confirming that the plague on the island of Java had finally disappeared, Li finally decided to include Java in the scope of development again, and several cities were under construction near several relatively good natural harbors. However, in order to prevent a recurrence of the plague, these cities have extremely high hygiene requirements, not only wide sewers. There are also special people who are responsible for cleaning up the garbage generated in the city, and the natives of the island are strictly forbidden to enter these cities.

Coconut City is one of these emerging cities in Java. Now the whole city has been almost built, but there are not many inhabitants in the city. Even the people who have registered for the Coconut City household registration will rarely live in the city, because now Java mainly relies on plantations to attract residents, and most of the people who come to settle down are some plantation owners, who buy large tracts of land near the Coconut City to grow rubber, cocoa, tea, sugar cane and other cash crops, usually live in the plantations, and only when they are free, they will take the whole family to live in the city for a few days.

Today is a day of great commemorative significance in the Coconut City, the outermost city wall of the Coconut City has finally reached the day of closing, which means that the Coconut City has finally been built today, although there are still large areas of vacant land in the city, but these vacant land are used as commercial and residential land, and will be sold to those who come to do business or live in it, so that they can build their own houses.

At noon, most of the inhabitants of Coconut City rushed to the city wall that was about to be closed. The island of Java is divided into three states: eastern, central and western, of which Coconut City is the capital of West Java, and the supreme governor of the city is naturally the history of Thorn. When all the people in the city rushed to the city wall, Lord Thorn Shi, who was in charge of the coconut city, also stood on the city wall.

I saw that this Lord Thorn Shi was nearly sixty years old, slightly chubby, with a kind smile on his face all the time, and he didn't look like an official at all, but like a businessman who bought and sold things. However, if you say the name of this assassin master, I am afraid that many people have heard of it, he is the famous Xu Jingzong in history.

When Li Su was in Datang, he created the far-reaching Datang Patent Division, of which the highest chief of the Patent Department was Lang Zhong, and the first Lang Zhong of the Patent Department was this Xu Jingzong.

The Patent Division was originally upgraded from the Cement Supervision Institute founded by Li Su, and all the people up and down the department were Li Su's old subordinates, such as Li Yifu, the second in command of the Patent Division, who was promoted by Li Su, and had long been on the same front as Li Su. Therefore, after Xu Jingzong took office, he took refuge in Li Su very smartly, and it was not easy to gain a firm foothold.

However, later Li Su developed overseas, Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu were court officials after all, and they were both in important positions, so they did not follow, which was also agreed by Li Su, and later Xu Jingzong was promoted to Huangmen Shilang, and Li Yifu took over as the patent secretary, which was considered to be a promotion.

But just a few years ago, Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu resigned almost at the same time, and then rushed to Taiwan to find Li Su, and then presented Li Su's handwritten letter to Li Su, and was warmly received by Li Su, and then the two of them, as well as some other officials or scholars who came from the Tang Dynasty, entered the government at all levels of Daqi to work, among which Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu performed well among the crowd, and were soon released as officials by Li Su, and now Xu Jingzong is the West Java Thorn History, and Li Yifu is the long history, which is his deputy, Now stand behind Xu Jingzong.

"Lord Thorn, the auspicious time has come, please preside over the completion ceremony of the city wall!" At this moment, Li Yifu, who was the deputy, walked up to Xu Jingzong's side and reminded softly.

Xu Jingzong nodded after hearing this, then walked to the head of the city, picked up a city brick tied with red silk from the master of ceremonies next to him, and put it into the hole specially left by the craftsman, just to fill the hole, and the construction area next to it was immediately sealed with cement. At the same time as he laid down the bricks, firecrackers and drums rang out in unison above and below the city wall, and dragon and lion dances celebrated on both sides of the city wall. Immediately after that, the salute on the city wall continued to sound, adding a bit of solemnity to the whole ceremony.

"Dear people of Coconut City, today is the day when the Coconut City is officially completed, and it is also the first day that Xu Mou officially took office.

As soon as Xu Jingzong took office, he brought gifts to everyone, and the people below naturally cheered when they heard that they were going to cut taxes, although the total population of Coconut City was less than 5,000 people, but at the same time, they cheered, and the momentum was also very huge.

Then Xu Jingzong's hands were pressed, and after the people below calmed down, he continued to start his speech, but the following content was a little boring, nothing more than to introduce the geographical advantages and rich products of Java, and encourage the people under the city to work hard to open up, and strive to make the coconut city a pearl of the South Seas as soon as possible.

In fact, Xu Jingzong doesn't like to talk nonsense, but the ceremony must always have a ceremonial appearance, and their financial budget is very tight, and the scale of the ceremony is not large, if you don't say a few words to delay the time, then there will be basically no program, so he spoke very stage, and the people below listened very hard.

Finally waited for Xu Jingzong to finish speaking, and then in the sound of music, the entire completion ceremony was finally completed, and most of the people in the city dispersed, they had to rush back to their plantations before dark, and a small part of the remaining people, quite a lot of people were the staff of the Coconut City Port and their families, and there were very few people who really lived in the Coconut City.

After seeing the people leave, Xu Jingzong and the officials behind him also returned to their yamen to do business, before the construction of the coconut city, there are many affairs in all aspects, especially Xu Jingzong's thorn history, he is busy every day, sometimes he can't even take care of food, and now that the coconut city has finally been built, he can also take a few breaths.

Daqi advocates centralized office, for example, in the coconut city, the yamen at all levels are concentrated around the yamen, which not only facilitates the communication between various departments, but also facilitates the people's affairs. This is also Li Su's experience of learning from a certain Celestial Dynasty in later generations, lest he have to run all over the city if he has to do a trivial matter such as a certificate, and he may not be able to do it in the end, which can simply make people angry.

Xu Jingzong returned to the second hall of his assassin's yamen, where he handled his daily affairs, and further inside was where he and his family lived. However, as soon as Xu Jingzong sat down, he saw Li Yifu quickly barging in from outside, and shouted with a look of surprise: "Lord Assassin Shi, ...... Come with me to the dock to greet us, the imperial court has sent us a lot of people! (To be continued......)