Ye Chang returned to Beijing this time, firstly, to report on his work, secondly, to offer prisoners, and thirdly, to seek the support of the imperial court for the Anxi Chamber of Commerce

There are some things that he can decide, but if he really wants to make the plan go smoothly, the support of the imperial court is also indispensable. He can feel that Li Longji's suspicion of him is deepening, but at the same time, Li Longji is becoming more and more dependent on his endless methods of making money, and this dual relationship makes the two both struggle and cooperation.

Thinking of this important minister who almost became his daughter's concubine, Li Longji had a headache, it can be said that no official has ever given him such a headache, even if Li Linfu was in power to the government and the opposition, he had never done so.

In terms of merit, Ye Chang is a loyal minister of the Tang Dynasty, as long as he needs it, he will send a steady stream of money and silk, as long as the country needs it, no matter how difficult the conditions are, he will not say a word, never bargain over his personal treatment, at most just ask for some power.

But Ye Chang was the most domineering of the Tang courtiers, and when he was in Liaodong, he dared to start a war with the outside world without authorization, and Liaodong's tough stance towards Silla and Bohai over the years was the result of Ye Chang's secret force; In Yunnan, he did not hesitate to kill Ge Luofeng and other people who had surrendered, and did not pay attention to the meaning of Yang Zhao; This time in Anxi, although it was another big battle, it was even more brilly seized Gao Xianzhi's military power and sent Gao Xianzhi to Chang'an - this kind of behavior is close to mutiny

Stroking his forehead, Li Longji sighed.

Ye Chang has his own way to pass the news directly to his desk, even if he has no intention of political affairs, Ye Chang's twists and turns have to be seen every year, and Ye Chang himself also needs to see it.

"What is the saint sighing, do you think that the song of the neon clothes and feathers still needs to be changed?"

Yang Yuhuan took the corner of her skirt and walked in slowly, just in time to hear Li Longji sigh. Seeing her, Li Longji sighed in his heart this time.

At this time, Yang Yuhuan came here, definitely not to discuss any tunes with him, but to inquire about Yang Zhao's news.

"This Ye Chang, I originally thought that he was going to stay in Anxi for half a year, but he never thought that the war over there had just ended, and he couldn't wait to come...... Not to mention that others came, they also drove 3,000 good horses, and the preparation of horse feed along the way made people panic......"

Yang Yuhuan smiled lightly, although she was in her thirties and approaching forty, but she was well maintained, she looked like she was only in her twenties, her eyes were so flexible that she couldn't look like this, every time she saw her like this, Li Longji had an impulse in his heart, and then a kind of melancholy.

After all, I am not in my thirties or forties, and I am in the prime of life, such a delicate flower, sometimes...... It's really powerless.

"Although Ye Shiyi has caused a lot of trouble for the saint, he has also made a lot of meritorious deeds, if he doesn't cause trouble, I'm afraid he won't be able to make these feats." Yang Yuhuan seemed to be inadvertent: "He has such a great ability, if he doesn't make a mistake at all, isn't he a saint again?" Datang, it is enough to have a saint. ”

Li Longji glanced at her, and his face turned slightly cold.

Is Yang Yuhuan speaking for Ye Chang, or reminding himself that Ye Changgong is high?

"However, the concubine feels that Ye Shiyi has caused the biggest trouble to the saint, not outside, but in the palace." Yang Yuhuan also realized that what he said was a bit excessive, and said with a smile.

"Miyauchi?"

"Twenty-nine Niang, at the age of Twenty-Nine Niang, she should have married a long time ago, but now she still doesn't marry, the concubine has said her several times, but it is useless"

This is indeed a big trouble caused by Ye Chang, and I don't know what Lu Dao Shou'an thinks, after failing to recruit Ye Chang as a concubine, he refused to marry. Li Longji wrinkled his eyebrows and snorted: "How can you let her ...... In this way, I see that Yang Zhao's son Yang Ji has a good character and learning, so I will marry Shou An to him, what do you think

Yang Yuhuan was stunned.

Because Yang Zhao is powerful, several of his sons have also taken up important positions, like Yang Ji is now Honglu Shaoqing - it won't be long before he becomes Hongluqing. And Yang Yuhuan has also been secretly working hard, hoping to marry a certain princess to Yang Ji and enhance the Yang family's help in the court.

But Princess Shou An ......

That's the insect girl, the twenty-ninth mother, the relationship between her and Ye Chang, although the royal family intends to hide it, but the market is talking about it. There are even poets who are bored and make up a long poem "Princess Song" to sing it. What "the princess of the Han family is very colorful, the twenty-nine Niangli is in love with the country, the marriage of Zhufan makes the horses one after another, and the yellow sand is all over the world", what "the hero throws the pen angrily, draws the sword and crosses the water proudly, lies on the sand and drinks the snow to fight for the aftermath, and does not teach the lord to descend to the room". It is said that Ye Chang runs the frontier, it seems that it is just to prevent Shou'an from marrying and kissing, God is pitiful, at the beginning, An Lushan suggested that he was close to Khitan and Xi, and he had nothing to do with Princess Shou'an

If this family affair is really done, it will make the Yang family and Ye Chang mortal enemies.

Yang Yuhuan is a woman, and although her temperament is a little wise, it is the same as competing for favor in the harem, but figuring out the emperor's mind is a little insufficient.

It is precisely because this matter is difficult to succeed that Li Longji has to do it, and it is precisely because the Yang family and Ye Chang have no possibility of slowing down, so Li Longji wants to do it well.

"Why bother with Shou'an...... In the opinion of the concubine, Wanchun can also ......"

"Wan Chun is still young." Li Longji said lightly: "This matter is settled. ”

Yang Yuhuan this time, it was really a discoloration.

Wanting to marry Shou An out of Lu is to cut off Ye Chang's support in the palace, which is the way the sisters of the Yang family think they can solve the problem.

Unlike Yang Zhao and Ye Chang, the relationship between the Yang sisters and Ye Chang is quite good, including Yang Yuhuan, who admires Ye Chang very much. But a woman's political mind is either as terrifyingly powerful as Empress Wu, or as shallow as the Yang sisters. They actually thought that after marrying Shou'an, Ye Chang had no support in the palace, so he had to bow to them. In this way, they can not only get more benefits from Ye Chang, but also make up for the relationship between Ye Chang and Yang Zhao.

They didn't expect that if Yang and Ye were one, the first person who couldn't sleep would be Li Longji, not to mention that Ye Chang would be the one who succumbed to others.

Although Shou An married Yang Ji, it can be regarded as achieving part of their purpose, but the effect is only the opposite, Ye Chang is afraid that from now on, I am afraid that if he does not kill the Yang family, he will not be able to get angry.

It was only at this time that Yang Yuhuan thought that Ye Chang ...... It's not a young man who has no power to fight back. More importantly, through the two chambers of commerce in Andong and Yunnan, he formed an alliance of interests with the magnates and wealthy businessmen in Chang'an City, and even Li Longji did not dare to despise this alliance.

She wanted to persuade again, but Li Longji waved his hand: "I want to see the minister, you should step back first."

Although Yang Yuhuan was pampered, he also knew that he couldn't be hard at this time, so he retreated silently at the moment, thinking about how to redeem it. After she left, Li Longji pondered for a while, and then ordered: "Summoning Ye Chang to meet inside." ”

It didn't take long for Ye Chang to be brought to him. Looking at the tiredness on Ye Chang's face, Li Longji smiled and said, "I am preparing to go to the Hot Spring Palace...... Ye Qing fought hard, go with me this time, recuperate for a while, I am there, and I will also prepare a mansion for you, not far from my palace. ”

"Thank you, saint." Ye Changdao.

"I have already read the report of Qing Zhan, I never thought that Qing came in such a hurry, originally I also wanted Yang Zhao to lead the civil and military forces to the city gate to greet him. Along the way, Gao Xianzhi didn't make trouble for you, right? ”

"The minister was frightened, arrested Gao Xianzhi without authorization, did this arbitrary thing without the will of the saint, and asked the saint to give him the sin." Ye Changdao.

"Nature is for sin." Li Longji's face turned pale: "You are bold, Gao Xianzhi is your chief official, you dare to take it down, if I am in Anxi, do you want to take me down too?" ”

"The Guilty of the Minister"

This set is just a procedure, Li Longji knew that Ye Chang didn't feel guilty at all, and Ye Chang also understood that Li Longji's nonsense was just beating himself. The two looked like they were separated, and they first completed this set of procedures between monarchs and ministers, and then it was time to get to the point.

"What is the situation in Anxi now, you have made a compromise, only saying that the water attack defeated the Great Food, and that the Tang military system needs to be changed, but you don't say it in detail."

"Yes, Anxi now, can only say a temporary truce, the bitter cold over there, better than Liaodong, and the plateau, it will snow in August, whether it is our side or the big food, we can't use the army ......"

As Ye Chang said, the second half of the year is not the season for the use of troops in the Green Mountains, even if the 20,000 sets of cotton clothes, cotton pants and leather boots urgently provided by the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce are sent to Anxi, it is still extremely dangerous to brave the wind and snow in such a winter. The main thing is that the road from Guizi to Broken Leaves is really difficult, and after October, it is basically covered with snow, and the wind is so strong that it can blow people away.

Therefore, after capturing Talas, Ye Chang did not continue to use troops to the west, he began to drive the captives to dig mountains and stones, and built sixteen forts in the west of Talas, each of which sent 2 to 30 soldiers to be responsible for the beacon fire vigilance. Then he strengthened the city of Talas, and drove all the Hu people in the city into slavery, thinking that they would help Dashi resist the punishment of the Tang Dynasty.

At the same time, Tianwei Jian'er retreated, and the conscripted Hebei Provincial Unity Army replaced them, and 30,000 people guarded Qiuzi. The original 5,000 Anxi soldiers stayed in Talas to be responsible for the defense and construction of this winter, and the remaining less than 10,000 people returned to Broken Leaf with the city annex soldiers, preparing to spend the winter in Broken Leaf.

As compensation for these Zhuhucheng annexes who had left their hometowns, Ye Chang hoarded fields on both sides of the Xiaye River, taking into account both commercial and military hoarding, and promised to distribute the reclaimed fields to Zhuhucheng annexes, which to some extent made up for the lack of troops.

"Do you think Big Food will give up?" Li Longji heard Ye Chang's arrangement, frowned and said, "I remember that you once said that the root of the Great Eclipse is in the West, and now it is fighting with Great Qin, he has suffered this hardship, will he continue to go east?" ”

"If the minister is a big cannibal, he will make peace with my Datang. But we are not afraid of 10,000, we are only afraid of just in case, and we can only last a long time if we promote peace by war, and if we do not reorganize the army and cultivate weapons to prepare for war, there will be no peace at all. The saying that the knives and guns entered Kuma and put Nanshan was mostly ulterior motives, so the minister was still actively stockpiling supplies and preparing for a big war. ”

"What you say makes sense, but after this defeat, Da Shi still has the strength to fight me."

"Although our army won a great victory in this matter, killing nearly 30,000 enemies and capturing more than 50,000 people, only 20,000 of them really belonged to the Great Food Headquarters, and only 10,000 were in the Khorasan elite. Although the Great Eclipse was a heavy blow, it could not be said that it hurt the essence and bones, and although the Great Eclipse was defeated, the dog Rong was not defeated. The dog Rong is only temporarily retreating, and if the big food makes a comeback, they will also come out of the little Bolu and enter Anxi. Be prepared for danger in times of peace, and do not be careless. ”

"You said in the compromise, what kind of charter do you intend to recruit displaced people into Anxi?"

"The minister intends to recruit the landless people and the homeless households in the interior, enrich the broken turtles and Ye Chuan, and make the broken Ye River forever the Han land." Ye Chang said again.

"How many?"

"10 to 200,000 households, 500 to 1,000,000 people"

Li Longji is still very keen on opening up the territory and expanding the territory, anyway, Ye Chang's opening of China and France to manage the frontier, the center of the imperial court only provides policies, except for the need to allocate some money and grain at the beginning, the biggest expenditure is the population. In Li Longji's view, there is no shortage of population in Datang, the latest household registration survey, Datang has 9 million households, 50 million people, and according to Yang Zhao, there are still 20 to 30 percent of the hidden household registration has not been registered, if this is calculated, the population of Datang should finally be 70 to 80 million

Moreover, the population has grown rapidly in recent years, which is higher than the annual growth rate of 2 per 1,000 during the Zhenguan to Shenlong period ("Chinese Population History Sui Tang Volume"), reaching a terrible 4 per thousand, which means that hundreds of thousands of new people will be added every year. This is the blessing of the method of planting pox and the theory of germs and the promotion of forceps, the maternal and infant mortality rate of Datang has been greatly reduced, and the rapid population growth is a matter of course.

Whether Li Longji admits it or not, some of Ye Chang's practices have greatly affected Datang, for example, he, the son of heaven, must worry about the hundreds of thousands of people who are growing every year. When they grow up, have a family, and have children, how to give them land to feed them?

Regarding the affairs of Anxi, no matter how big or small, Ye Chang talked to Li Longji one by one, from the arrangement of manpower, how to let the merchants operate the relocation of the people, how to use Zhuhu to capture captives as serfs, and the land of Anxi is suitable for promoting cotton.

Li Longji has been tired of government affairs all these years, but it is strange to say, when he heard Ye Chang say these details, he felt that he was interested. This is the joy of farming, after all, he was a talented politician, it is natural to imagine that according to Ye Chang's plan, the land of Anxi will gradually become the cotton base, animal husbandry base and foreign trade hub of the Tang Dynasty. At that time, the rule of the Han people in the Western Regions will be solidified, and as long as the trade routes are endless, then the Han people will even be able to push the Hezhong countries west of the Green Ridge and hoard and develop there.

"With Lao Yeqing, everything you asked for is approved. However, Fang Cai said that if you take Gao Xianzhi without authorization, you will be punished after all...... Do you want to hear my punishment? ”

The two talked carefully for more than an hour, and Li Longji finally showed tiredness, he felt that it was time to send Ye Chang away, so he interrupted the question with Ye Chang and returned the topic to the beginning.

"And ask the saint to condemn his sin." Ye Chang didn't care in his heart.

"I want to marry Shou'an to Yang Ji." Li Longji said lightly: "Since you chose Li Linfu's daughter at the beginning, don't blame me for today's decision. ”

Ye Chang only felt a rush of blood and rushed straight to his head