It was impossible for Li Yuan to immediately agree to the Turkic envoy, and the envoy temporarily retreated, leaving only the crown prince Jiancheng and the five ministers in the side hall, and they needed to negotiate the terms of trade proposed by the Turks.

Li Yuan also knew that the conditions of the Turks were very harsh, and they wanted strategic materials such as pig iron and grain, and once these strategies were exported to the Turks, they would inevitably make the Turks' strength quickly become stronger.

"I need to say first, the alliance with the Turks is extremely important to me, which will save the Tang Dynasty's unfavorable situation against the Turks, and more importantly, the Turks can cooperate with the Tang Dynasty to deal with the Sui Dynasty, so I need to discuss trade issues with everyone, how to maximize the benefits and minimize the disadvantages."

"Father, please let Rong Erchen speak first."

Li Jiancheng stood up and bowed to give a salute, "Father, the Turks are the state of tigers and wolves, and they have been the great enemies of the Central Plains since ancient times, and the sons are just worried that once the Turks are strong, its greed is not just a Sui Dynasty, once the Hu people sweep the Central Plains, it will bring deep disasters to the Central Plains, and reopen the era of Wuhu Chaohua, then it is not something that our Tang Dynasty can recover, we will become sinners through the ages, and the sons do not approve of opening up trade with the Turks." ”

Li Yuan's face turned gloomy, and he said with extreme displeasure: "Then you approve of the Tang Dynasty being destroyed by the Sui Dynasty?" Are you in favor of the Tang Dynasty's eternal submission to the Turks? ”

Li Jiancheng felt the annoyance in his father's tone, he was silent, and then Pei Lin got up and said, "Your Majesty, can you allow the minister to say a word." ”

"Pei Aiqing, please speak!"

Pei Lin glanced at Li Jiancheng lightly from the corner of his eye, and said unhurriedly: "In fact, some of His Royal Highness the Prince's ideas are still not very appropriate, the Turks have invaded the Central Plains more than once or twice, they did not occupy the Central Plains like the Wuhu Rebellion in the Chinese era, every time they plundered some materials and the population retreated to the grassland, after all, their roots are in the grassland, and they will not encroach on the land of the Central Plains, and the enemy of the Turks is the Sui Dynasty. The two sides of Sui and Tu have formed an indissoluble enmity. If the Turks attack the Sui Dynasty, we are the winners, if they lose both, the winners are even us, the Sui Dynasty is weakened, and the Turks break their claws, we can take advantage of the situation to annex the Sui Dynasty, and then clean up the Turks, and the Tang Dynasty can build an immortal achievement. Therefore, the so-called trade is nothing more than a means to make the Sui Turquoise compete with each other. ”

Speaking of this, Pei Lin turned back to Li Jiancheng and smiled: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince thinks that the great enemy of the Tang Dynasty is the Sui Dynasty or the Turks? ”

Li Jiancheng snorted heavily, "Competing with Sui is just a domestic enemy, and funding the Turks is a national shame." Which is more important. Don't you understand Pei Xiangguo? ”

Li Jiancheng's repeated opposition made Li Yuan's heart more and more annoyed, and Pei Lian's suggestion went up to his heart, but Li Jiancheng's refutation with righteousness swept away his interest.

He was about to have a seizure, but Xiao Yu got up and smiled and played a round game, "Your Majesty, the minister has a better plan, which can give you the best of both worlds." ”

The words 'the best of both worlds' made Li Yuanlong's face happy, and he immediately nodded, "Xiao Aiqing, please speak!" ”

Xiao Yu stepped forward and said with a smile: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is right. Exchanges with the Turks involve national righteousness, and we must not be careless, and Pei Xiangguo is also reasonable, we can use the Turks to weaken the Sui Dynasty and get rid of our fierce enemies, so what to do is the best of both worlds? The minister thought that the key was in this trade. We might as well say yes. ”

Li Jiancheng's face changed, and he was about to speak, but Xiao Yu stopped him with a wave of his hand, "Your Highness, don't worry, listen to the minister's words." ”

Li Jiancheng swallowed back what he was about to say, held back, and Xiao Yu said calmly: "Whether it is an alliance, marriage or trade, these are normal exchanges between the two countries, there is nothing to criticize, and it can also remove some of the adverse effects of the Tang Dynasty's original morality, which can be described as beneficial and harmless, the key is trade, we can sign a trade agreement with the Turks, but don't write any materials on the agreement, we can verbally promise materials such as pig iron." ”

At this time, Li Jiancheng couldn't hold back any longer, but he also knew that he couldn't say it anymore, so he gave Chen Shuda a look.

Chen Shuda is a staunch supporter of Li Jiancheng, and he understands the prince's eyes, so he said: "Listening to Xiao Xiangguo's words, he still promised to send pig iron to the Turks, but it was only secretly exported to the Turks, so that the people would not know, is this what it means?" ”

Xiao Yu shook his head and sighed: "Why is Chen Xiangguo so anxious, can I say it well?" ”

Li Yuan was finally annoyed, he glared at Li Jiancheng with great dissatisfaction, and snorted heavily, "When Xiao Xiangguo makes a statement, no one is allowed to intervene again, and those who violate the order are driven out of the palace." ”

The side hall became silent, Xiao Yu continued: "Our trade route with the Turks has basically been cut off, only take a road from Zhangye County, from Zhangye to the north to live in Yanze, and then enter the territory of the Turks, the minister calculates, so that it will take two or three months at the earliest, and a year, it will only be two or three trips, we can transport a small amount of pig iron at a time, and more cloth and tea, so that the pig iron transported in a year is not a worry, but within this year, the situation may have changed greatly." ”

At this time, everyone finally understood what Xiao Yu meant, and used the long distance and time delay to make the pig iron trade nominal, but what the Tang Dynasty wanted was obtained, and everyone did not dare to intervene, and they all secretly praised it in their hearts, it was really a good plan.

Li Yuan also agreed, he thought for a while and asked: "The Turks are not stupid, they can't get pig iron, how can they cooperate with us to attack the Sui Dynasty, how can this be good?" ”

Xiao Yu smiled slightly, "Your Majesty, in addition to government trade, there is also private trade, official trade is tightened, but private trade is liberalized, the Turks can not only benefit from private trade, but our reputation will not be affected, and there are a lot of Hu merchants in Zhangye, so let Hu merchants trade with the Turks, we will not interfere, so we will have the best of both worlds." ”

There was a whisper in the hall, and Pei Lin came out again: "Your Majesty, Xiao Xiangguo is very right, the Turks need pig iron, they will try to get it, if they can't get it from the outside world, then they will smelt their own ideas, plunder the craftsmen of the Central Plains, and find the source of grassland minerals, which will make them strong, it is better to open an opening, let them have a way to obtain pig iron, and they can stop their self-reliance." ”

The ministers gradually reached an agreement, and Li Yuan finally nodded, "Xiao Aiqing's plan, I have adopted it, and Xiao Aiqing will be fully responsible for this matter." ”……

Back in the imperial study, Li Yuan immediately reproached the crown prince Li Jiancheng and said: "Those who are in the top position, the first thing is to consider solving the problem, you have denied everything if you are not in line with the national righteousness, so what about the vital interests of the Tang Dynasty?" I can accept your national righteousness. But you have to come up with measures to solve the problem. Otherwise, you're just talking unrealistically! ”

Li Jiancheng was silent, in fact, he wanted to say that even if the Tang Dynasty had nothing to do with the Turks, the Turks would still attack the Sui Dynasty, it was just a matter of time, and the Tang Dynasty should not have anything to do with the Turks, but now it was pointless to say this, he had to remain silent.

Li Yuan saw that he didn't talk back. His face also improved a little, "I won't talk much about you about this matter, you better focus on disaster relief!" ”

"Yes! The retainers obeyed. ”

At this time, a eunuch reported at the door: "Your Majesty, the King of Qin urgently asks to see him, saying that there is important information about the Sui Dynasty. ”

Li Yuan was stunned, and immediately ordered: "Announce his audience!" ”

The eunuch rushed away, and Li Jiancheng bowed and said, "Father." There the minister retired. ”

Li Yuan shook his head. "Nope! You stay and listen to it. ”

Li Jiancheng saw that although his father blamed himself just now, he still trusted himself very much in his heart, and he did not have a prejudice against himself because of one thing, he was moved in his heart, so he stood aside silently.

At this time, Li Shimin hurriedly walked in and knelt down on his knees. Respectfully kowtow to his father, "My son sees my father, I wish my father a long life than Nanshan, and I will stay forever!" ”

Li Shimin's respect made Li Yuan like it very much, he waved his hand, smiled and said: "The emperor is exempt, what is the matter with looking for his father?" ”

"Thank you, Father!"

Li Shimin stood up. He bowed down and said: "Today, Erchen received news from the Tang Dynasty in Taiyuan, the Sui Dynasty began to make a large number of silver coins and pushed them into the market. ”

After speaking, he turned his head to make a look, a eunuch presented the letter and silver money with a gold plate, Li Yuan's face was solemn, he picked up the letter and read it again, and then gave the letter to Li Jiancheng, picked up two silver coins from the gold plate, held them on the palm of his hand and looked at them for a long time, and his eyes slowly showed a look of fear.

He glanced back at Li Jiancheng, Li Jiancheng's face was also extremely serious, they are all rulers, how could they not understand the seriousness of the problem, if these silver coins flow into the Tang Dynasty, then the wealth of the Tang Dynasty will be plundered by the Sui Dynasty, and it was only then that they finally realized the serious consequences of the Sui army taking away Huining County.

"Father, at the beginning of the year, the Sui Dynasty used the former five baht money to buy a large amount of materials from Chang'an, which caused prices to skyrocket and the people's grievances to boil, because the Sui Dynasty had a large amount of copper coins, and now the Sui Dynasty has a large amount of silver and even gold, which will make us face a huge crisis."

Li Jiancheng said this because the Tang Dynasty had a profound lesson, at the beginning of the year, the Sui Dynasty used the scrapped five baht money to buy a large number of materials, so that Chang'an was short of goods, prices skyrocketed, and the imperial court transported the materials of Bashu to Chang'an almost to stabilize prices.

Later, the Tang Dynasty also found copper mines in Bashu and obtained a large number of copper ingots, so they began to issue the Kaiyuan Tongbao of the Tang Dynasty, which redeemed the disadvantage of the currency, and now the Sui Dynasty used gold and silver to make currency, which will make the crisis faced by the Tang Dynasty ten times more serious than at the beginning of the year, so that Li Jiancheng is not in a hurry.

Li Yuan saw that Li Shimin seemed to have something to say, so he asked, "Is there any good way for the emperor?" ”

"Qi Qi father, the son has three plans, one is that we make fake silver coins and invest a lot of them in the Sui Dynasty to disrupt them to launch silver coins, so that we can buy time, and the other is that we must also immediately find gold and silver mines, and also launch silver coins to resist the plunder of the Sui Dynasty."

Next to Li Jiancheng interjected: "It is feasible to make fake silver money, we can use white copper to make fakes, but it is probably unrealistic to look for gold and silver mines, I have consulted the documents of the previous dynasty, only in Lingnan there are silver mines, too far away, and in the Tang Dynasty, we have also been looking for more than half a year, only found copper mines, and did not find large gold and silver mines." ”

Li Yuan pondered for a while, and asked Li Shimin again, "What is the emperor's third plan?" ”

Li Shimin bowed down and said: "If the first two strategies fail, then we have only one way to deal with the crisis." ”

His face was solemn, and he said word by word: "We must take back the silver mine of Huining County!" ”……

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