In feudal societies, emperors were often deified and promoted as the embodiment of magical powers sent by Heaven to rule over the people. In a sense, it can be said that the emperor and officials are the highest class of landlords. They exploit the people through guò government and rights to maintain themselves. The looted money and land allowed the emperor and high-ranking officials to control the common people.

But there is a kind of people who have a keen sense of smell, resell goods, exchange what they have, and quickly accumulate the money of the people, so that they can also live a luxurious life like emperors and officials, which has in a certain way threatened the traditional ideas that have been propagated for a long time, threatened the identity and status of emperors and officials, and also made the people question the authenticity of the so-called theocracy. Such a person is a businessman.

Therefore, since ancient times, the ruling class has been constantly introducing policies that emphasize agriculture and suppress business, and it can be said that the low status of businessmen is deliberately devalued by the ruling class.

Li Er's attitude towards merchants is very vague now, and now that merchants are all over the world, he does not show that he hates the merchant class as much as the ruling class in the past, but he never promulgates policies to support the common people in business.

Li Er seems to be more enthusiastic about conquest than the affairs of the merchants, and if the merchant pays enough commercial taxes to provide a large amount of financial support for his army, he does not mind the peaceful development of the merchants in the Tang Dynasty.

Nowadays, Datang's army is developing rapidly, Xu Yang once vaguely heard in a conversation with Lao Cheng that Datang has now hoarded tens of thousands of grenades and gunpowder shells, Li Er's confident medicine this time is not without his reason, the hoarded arms have no effect, but will explode. Although he has tried his best to hide the gunpowder in the mountains. But the explosion was inevitable. Instead of hiding in the mountains, it is better to blow up the supposedly impregnable walls of Goryeo with these firearms that have never been seen in history before.

Li Er is actively preparing for war, the Ministry of War is already gathering manpower and preparing supplies, and Li Ji has also rushed back from Taiyuan to serve as Minister of National Defense.

Li Er proudly pulled out a group of teams from the deep mountains, that is, the Chengguan E team that Xu Yang took to support Silla back then, and now this elite division is even more shotgun, not only has the number increased from 3,000 to 1,500. Moreover, each person has a musket, three flint military thorns, and a grenade on his waist, this kind of equipment seems to be the equipment of future soldiers in Datang.

Xu Yang doesn't care how Li Er deals with the matter of sending troops, once the Tang Dynasty fights around, nothing can resist it, and the artillery technology that has surpassed hundreds of years can not be rejected by the brick back city.

Although there is no heat in Youzhou, Chang'an is also like a huge steamer. It's almost like the ground is roasted and dry.

The summer cicadas kept chirping in the trees, and the lush and dense green shade covered the streets of Chang'an. Dunhuafang is full of people, it turns out that today is the day when all the buildings of Dunhuafang are completed.

The people of the original Qinglongfang and Dunhuafang lived in the new house as they wished, and from the outside, the new-style building gave them a great shock, the milky white fence, a delicate yard, a sapling planted in it, the ground was full of green grass, and a gray two-story attic towered above the green grass.

This completely subverts the architectural style of the previous courtyard houses in the Tang Dynasty, which is more warm and comfortable, and most importantly, this kind of house is expensive at first glance, and Guiguzi can privately pay for them to build this kind of house, which is really a great blessing for them.

From time to time, some people in the crowd praised Xu Shanren, Liu Qi also smiled and squinted, he liked to hear people praise the county lord the most, which made him happier than others praising him.

Today's early dynasty has just ended, everyone from the Liangyi Hall rushed out, Li Er at the court meeting to determine the time of the attack on Goryeo, the second day of the eighth month, explained the appointment of Li Ji from Penglai into the sea, from the sea to Pyongyang; On the land route, Li Daozongwei was appointed as the head of the marching road, the goal was to go straight to Liaodong, lead 30,000 troops in two ways, attack in two ways, and let the two of them explore the road first.

Li Er's crazy idea was stopped by many people, but the key was that no one could come up with a reasonable reason.

Is it because there is not enough food? Is it that the army is not equipped? Is it because the people live in poverty? No, Datang is now exploiting overseas, and has become a giant with no weaknesses in his body, the people are rich, the business is prosperous, the army is unprecedentedly powerful, the ministers have nothing to say, the only thing that can be said is that the road is far away, and the transportation of materials may not be able to keep up, I am afraid that things will change, but Li Er's stubborn temper has come up, what is this road, I want to start from Guanzhong back then, and the road bypassed by marching and fighting is more than ten times this. Transporting supplies? The steam locomotive invented by Xu Yang can travel hundreds of miles a day without using animal power.

Li Er waved his hand and announced that each sergeant on this expedition would be equipped with a bicycle, and everyone would be Xiaoyong's cavalry at that time.

At the court meeting, Xu Yang almost vomited blood when he heard his resolution, everyone is equipped with one, this is 30,000 vehicles, although there are now stamping machine tools, but at most a day can only manufacture hundreds of chains, not to mention the assembly of the body frame, Li Er wants everyone to have a bicycle is also living in a dream.

There is no need to stand up and say it yourself, and immediately an official of the household department said that this move was impossible, and at first glance he was a person who often dealt with bicycle factories, and even knew the maximum output of the three production lines of the bicycle factory in a day.

Li Eryi was very unhappy when he heard that the output of bicycles was still so low, but fortunately, the official of the household department said that only 1,000 bicycles were needed to give to soldiers who did not ride horses, and they could be regarded as soldiers all the time.

Li Er was satisfied, and ordered the household official to supervise the work, and he must prepare 1,000 high-quality bicycles before the second day of the eighth month.

There is no nutrition in the big court meeting, basically the same as the small meeting between Li Er and the prime ministers to discuss things, at most it is more lively, Xu Yang listened to it drowsy, until the sound of Bai Mei sounded, he was like being amnestied, his spirit was lifted, and he hurriedly took out more than a dozen invitations from his sleeve robe, looked at the door outside the Liangyi Palace, and was eager to try.

When everyone came out of the court, Xu Yang carefully looked at the crowd, and when he saw the people he was waiting for, he hurriedly came up and handed over the invitation in his hand.

"What is this?" Fang Xuanling looked at the invitation in his hand with some curiosity, the big red skin seemed to have gilded characters on it. "It's not going to be an invitation to the auction again, is it? Read the newspaper that you kid is going to sell the shares of those factories, are you short of money now? Fang Xuanling's words were a bit joking.

"Oh, what kind of joke is Fang Xiang, there can't be many auctions, scarce things are expensive, this time the kid is here to send you benefits." Xu Yang's voice was a little sneaky......

"Qinglongfang aristocratic living area?" The eldest grandson Wuji's cloudy eyes were half-narrowed, as if he was savoring the meaning of the gilded words on the invitation.

"Yes, yes, yes." Xu Yang's smile was very treacherous no matter how you looked at it. "This is a welfare house given to you by the kid, and you will only be charged 300 yuan for materials, and this house will belong to you."

"Three hundred?" Three hundred guan a house, this price is simply a joke, now the house in Chang'an City is not thousands of guan, the eldest grandson Wuji did not speak, generally for what he does not understand, he will never speak first, this is also a good habit he has maintained in the court for many years.

Gently opened the invitation, the font on it was beautiful, it didn't look like it was written by a man, but there was a woman's charm in it.

"Living by the lake, interpreting romantic style? Out-of-print waterfront scenery? Extravagant aristocracy, exquisite stature? The eldest grandson Wuji looked a little dazed.

"Hehe, Lord Changsun, this residence is built in Qinglongfang next to Qujiang Pond, it is definitely a good place for vacation and leisure, the kid specially picked a house not far from your family, I think it will definitely satisfy Lord Changsun."

The eldest grandson Wuji raised his head, looked at Xu Yang, and then looked at the invitation, with a smile on his face, "Since it is a gift from Guigu, how can the old man not accept it, and the old man will buy this house." ”…… (To be continued......)