Just when Yanbei was training and integrating the slave catching team in Dengzhou in the Qi Palace, Li Su took Xiao Wenxin and them out of the city, took the carriage with the guards, and found a deserted and clean beach outside Dengzhou City, after sending off the guards, Li Su took the lead in taking off his shoes and chasing the waves on the slightly cool beach.

Since coming to Dengzhou, not only a bunch of things in the palace resettlement, but also various local officials in Dengzhou have rushed to visit, and Li Su can't take care of this end, and finally simply set up a 'refuse to see guests' sign outside the mansion, and bomb all the people who visit, this is quiet for a few days, and deal with the affairs of the palace, and Yanbei shifted his attention to the slave hunting team on the first day he came.

A large part of the reason why Yanbei followed Li Su to Dengzhou desperately is because of the slave hunting team in Dengzhou, and now there is a shortage of miners in the coal mine, and the various Chang'an upstarts within the Coal Industry Association are trying to find a way to solve this problem, among which Cheng Yanjin and Li Ji and other old guys have turned their attention to the northern grassland. However, Yanbei turned his attention to the Three Kingdoms of Goguryeo from Li Su's move to Dengzhou.

Dengzhou is not only one of the most important ports in the north of the Tang Dynasty, but also faces Goguryeo across the sea, in order to guard against Goguryeo, there are 30,000 Tang naval troops stationed outside Dengzhou City, which is the most important military port in the Tang Dynasty. In addition, because of the short distance from Silla and Baekje, coupled with the demand for Silla maids in the Tang Dynasty, Dengju was also one of the most prosperous ports for the Tang slave trade, almost second only to Guangzhou City in the south. It was precisely when Yanbei saw this that he saved the slave hunting team that integrated Dengzhou City, and went to the Three Kingdoms of Goguryeo to buy or rob it, and got slaves suitable for being miners.

Of course, although this matter seems to be led by Yanbei. However, behind it is Li Su who is adding fuel to the fire, and after the matter is completed, the interests are also Li Su who takes the lion's share, and Yanbei takes the small head. Yanbei has nothing to say about this result, after all, Dengzhou is Li Su's territory, and he is still a subordinate of others, so he naturally does more work and takes less money.

After finishing these things, Li Su had a chance. Take Wenxin and them out of the city, after all, they grew up in Chang'an since they were children, and they never had the opportunity to see the sea, when they were on the way here. Li Su told a lot of interesting stories about the sea, so he was full of interest in the mysterious ocean, if it wasn't for Li Su being too busy some time ago, they would have urged Li Su to go out of the city to play.

Seeing the vast and boundless sea for the first time brought Wen Xin and the others an incomparable shock, looking at the junction with the sea that day, they felt for the first time that they were just a speck of dust between the world and the world, so insignificant. Thinking about what I was depressed about before, it seemed so ridiculous, thinking of this, everyone felt that they had become open-minded.

In his previous life, Li Su was also long in the inland, and he had never seen the sea a few times together, but now he can see this familiar and unfamiliar ocean in Datang. He was also ecstatic, running barefoot on the beach several times, stepping on the cold and clear water but not feeling the cold at all, if he didn't know how to swim, he would have stripped naked and jumped into the sea to swim a few laps.

After venting the excitement almost. Li Su and the painting and the green beads are piling up sand, but unfortunately Li Su has no artistic cells, and the piles are all lumps of things. However, the painting and the green beads were ingenious and meticulous, and they actually piled up a miniature Chang'an City on the beach, which made Li Su suddenly remember that he had forgotten such an important thing as the sand table when he was in Chang'an.

However, Li Su's eyes rolled, and he immediately thought of a good idea, it will be Li Shimin's birthday in a few months, he just hasn't thought about what gift to give, this sand table just now is a good thing, and as long as he spends a little effort on it, he will definitely make the emperor's father happy and can't find the north.

Accompanied by the painting they played with the sand, and helped Wen Xin and Wen Er pick up shells, and when the sun set in the west in the afternoon, the fishermen who went out to sea returned, Li Su let people buy a few fresh sea fish, raised a bonfire on the beach, and showed off the cooking skills of grilling fish, but unfortunately it was scorched in the end, but today everyone had fun, and they didn't care about what to eat at all, until it was almost dark, they returned to Dengzhou City, but after sending Wen Xin and them back to their homes, Li Su went to Dengzhou Beijiafu again.

Li Su led the Dengzhou assassination history, Biden Prefecture Governor, nominally the entire Dengzhou military and political power to grasp, but in fact there is still some restraint, for example, although the post of governor of Dengzhou controls all the soldiers and horses in Dengzhou, but because Dengzhou is close to Goguryeo, there are 20,000 troops and 30,000 sailors stationed in the territory, both of which have their own top generals, although nominally under Li Su's control, but in fact, he does not command people at all, so the administrative power of Dengzhou is completely controlled by Li Su.

Li Su is the prince, and Dengzhou is his place of governance, and he is automatically promoted to Shangzhou according to Tang law, so he is set up to drive another one. The so-called don't drive, in fact, is Li Su's deputy in political affairs, and his status is higher than Yanbei's long history. Generally speaking, when the prince leads the local administration, he is generally not familiar with the local government affairs, and even some princes do not like to deal with these government affairs, so when the prince serves as a local official, it is generally handled by the other drivers and long histories, and unlike the foreign long histories, the other drivers are generally handled by people who are familiar with local government affairs and have rich experience.

The current Dengzhou don't drive surnamed Zhao, the name is Fu, is an old man in his fifties, he used to be the county commander of Wendeng County, because of his good political performance, so when Wendeng and Penglai counties merged into Dengzhou, he was selected to become Dengzhou, and he had also visited Li Su's mansion before, but he didn't have time to talk deeply.

"Your Highness!" As soon as Li Su sat down in the living room of the Beijia Mansion, he saw that Zhao Beijia hurriedly coming from the back of the hall and said with a deep salute.

"Don't drive Zhao, please get up!" Li Su put down the tea bowl and said with a smile. This Zhao Beijia's hair is already gray, the skin on his face is dark, and there are many wrinkles on his forehead at the corners of his eyes, making him look very old. Li Su remembered that this Zhao Bei was from a humble background, and only passed the Jinshi examination in his forties, and he was a Wendeng county magistrate for six or seven years, because he was cautious and down-to-earth as an official, although there were bullies like the Giant Whale Gang under his rule, but he still couldn't cover up his political achievements, so he was promoted to Dengzhou Don't Drive.

"Your Highness!" Zhao Beijia stood up and stood aside.

"The Giant Whale Gang has been eliminated, does Zhao Beijia already know?" Li Su smiled and said, the matter of the Giant Whale Gang, thanks to the information provided by this Zhao Beijia, although he has always had no way to take the Giant Whale Gang when he was the commander of Wendeng County, but he is secretly collecting the information of the other party, this time Li Su came, and immediately handed over the information to him, and as a result, Yanbei wiped out the Giant Whale Gang in one fell swoop.

"Your Royal Highness is the reborn parents of the people of Dengzhou, and the lower official was formerly known as the Wendeng County Commander, but he has always had no way to take them, he is really incompetent, please forgive your Highness!" Zhao Beijia also knew about this earlier, although he was happy in his heart, but the giant whale gang had been harming him for several years under his rule, but he had no way to deal with them, so he was a little worried in his heart.

"Don't worry about Zhao Beijia, there is a history of Laizhou assassination behind the Giant Whale Gang, and you were a small county commander, so naturally there is no way to take them." When Li Su said this, his eyes narrowed slightly, he had already given Li Shimin a lesson in the matter of Laizhou Thorn History covering up his relatives, and it was estimated that the other party's Thorn History had also come to an end.

"By the way, Zhao Beijia, I came to you today, just to learn about the situation in Dengzhou, when I went out to play today, I saw that although Dengzhou City is prosperous, but the people and fishermen outside the city are mostly ragged, and even many people are still wearing vegetables, it seems that life is not very easy?" Li Su asked a little strangely, it is said that with the prosperity of Dengzhou City, even if the surroundings are not rich, they will not be so poor, but many of the people Li Su saw were hungry, not much stronger than the victims he had seen in Chang'an City.

Hearing Li Su ask about this, Zhao Beijia said with a wry smile: "Your Highness doesn't know, although there are many mountains and few places in Dengzhou, but because of the sea, it has always been rich in fishing salt, plus the merchant ships from the south to the north are berthed, so it should be very rich, but because of the proximity to Goguryeo, we Dengzhou and the adjacent Laizhou, there are a lot of troops stationed in the territory, and the daily supply of these armies also has to be part of our various states and counties, so that the taxes of Dengzhou and Laizhou are naturally much heavier than those of other states. Most of the annual income of ordinary people pays taxes, and it is good to be able to make ends meet. ”

Li Su's face sank after hearing this, he saw the scene outside the city today, he thought it was just around Dengzhou City, but he didn't expect that the entire Dengzhou and even the adjacent Laizhou were like this, and it was because of the supply of the army that these two originally rich states were overwhelmed.

"So how many people are there in Dengzhou now?" Li Su asked again in a deep voice.

"Well, although Dengzhou is a newly established state, it accounts for most of the Shandong Peninsula, and many of them are densely populated, and if you add them up, there are more than 57,000 households and a population of about 300,000." Zhao Beijia said as he said and secretly sighed in his heart, His Majesty is really fond of the King of Qi in front of him, and he has handed over all such a large territory to His Royal Highness at once, and with the population of Dengzhou, it is also among the top spears among hundreds of states in the country.

Li Su listened to Zhao Beijia's introduction, but he felt a pain in the egg, as a state's other driver, Zhao Fu didn't know the exact number of his subordinate population, if this was placed in the future generations, it was estimated that it would be a crime of dereliction of duty at least. However, it is a very common thing in Datang, which is not to say that Zhao Beijia is not careful, but Datang is not very strict in the management of households, such as calculating the population, they only calculate the level of households, as for how many people are in a household, the situation is different in various places, and Datang does not have a national census, so the official population figures are often very different from the actual situation, so only one valuation can be calculated.

Thinking of a population of about 300,000, Li Su had a headache again, he came to Dengzhou to have his own plan, but this plan needs a large number of population support, although 300,000 is a lot, but it is far from enough, so Li Su wants to attract a large number of people to relocate to Dengzhou first, but what he didn't expect is that now Dengzhou is a little difficult to even feed these 300,000 people, it seems that he has to solve this problem first. (Your support on this site is my biggest motivation.) )