Wei Ting put down the book in his hand, bowed for a long time and said, "Your Majesty doesn't understand why His Highness doesn't take the Silk Road. but he walked the way of wool. ”

"The Wool Road!" Hearing this name, Li Yuanxing smiled: "This king likes this name!" ”

Yan Shigu, who was sitting on the side, heard the two of them talking, but he didn't hear them at all. It also implied that Li Yuanchang also pretended not to hear, unless King Qin took the initiative to talk to them. Li Yuanchang was smart, and immediately lowered his head to read the book.

This main car, the car alone is eight meters long. Together with the sixteen horses pulling the cart, the length of the cart reached thirty meters long.

Inside the carriage is the layout of the front hall and the back room, so to speak, Li Yuanxing's bedroom and living room are all there.

Everyone sitting in this front hall has a separate carriage, but Li Yuanxing invited them to sit in his own cart and chat, not afraid of being bored on the road.

Behind this car, there were two eight-horse carriages, Cui Yingying and Cui Yanyan, as well as Yuan Chun and others were playing mahjong, and two tables were opened.

"Your Highness hasn't answered your subordinates yet, why do you want to take this road?"

"Is it official business, or is it curiosity?" Li Yuanxing asked rhetorically.

"It's curiosity, Your Highness must be doing things for a reason. Or for General Liu of Shuozhou! It's just that His Royal Highness will definitely not go to Shuozhou, it should be to Xiazhou to "Wei Ting is direct, and he doesn't shy away from anything at all."

Li Yuanxing daxiao: "If it's really smart, then guess again, this king weishenme is going to Xiazhou?" ”

"Is it appeasement, or coercion! The subordinates thought that General Shuofang Liu and Li Xiaochang, who is now in prison, had a very deep friendship. Shuozhou, Pingzhou, Liangzhou, Yunzhou. Like four pillars. It supports the tranquility of the northern part of the Tang Dynasty, so His Royal Highness wants to go to Xiazhou, because General Shunde, the eldest grandson, is in Xiazhou. His Royal Highness is gone, General Liu and General Shunde, the eldest grandson, will have a stable heart, and the sergeants in Shuozhou will be very reliable. ”

Li Yuanxing lightly clapped his hands a few times: "That's right." ”

"Please teach me, Your Highness!" Wei Ting was not unconvinced, he was already very proud to be able to guess ninety percent.

"Actually, it's nothing, even if this king doesn't say it, you will fully understand it if you think about it for two days. Xiazhou was originally a frontier and would fight at any time. Now that it is five or six hundred miles away from the Turks, Xia Zhou should think more about farming. By the way, do some finishing or something. There is money and food. It also eliminates the problem of always transporting grain from all over the place! ”

"Your Highness is wise!"

Where is the wisdom, Wei Ting has no need to say.

Li Yuanchang didn't understand, and he was embarrassed to ask, so he turned around and asked about his own palace governor's history.

To say rest assured. Li Yuanxing has nothing to worry about. He did not believe that Liu Hongji would rebel. And Shuozhou City is a strategic location. Since you have chosen Liu Hongji, you must trust.

Li Yuanxing didn't come out to enjoy the mountains and rivers, but just stopped at Guhukou for a day. Just keep on the road. He also ordered that no local areas should be harassed, and there was no need for officials from Yanlu to go out to greet them, and when he had to pass through several county seats, Li Yuanxing also strictly ordered not to disturb the people.

Even if they didn't travel the mountains and rivers, Li Yuanxing's two princesses and the group of little girls like the senior maids, and then they went out so far away, they were naturally very excited.

Chang'an to Xiazhou (now Jingbian County, Shaanxi) was only 900 miles, and Li Yuanxing's team traveled about 60 miles a day, and arrived in Xiazhou when they left Chang'an for 17 days.

Liu Hongji had already rushed over from Shuozhou City, only with his personal guards.

"Your Highness has worked hard all the way!" The eldest grandson, Shunde, as the general of the town guard, went out of the city twenty miles to greet him. Xiazhou Ling's surname is Ma, and he was the county commander here when he was in the former Sui, and he was regarded as a Hanmen scholar, and he didn't have much family support behind him, but he had some ability, so he was transferred here as the governor in the sixth year of Wude.

"It's not hard, there are more hard things than this king. The king had a chariot to sit on, and the soldiers were even more toiling on foot. Since you have come to the territory of General Changsun and Mafu Yin, prepare a hot meal for the sergeants. ”

The eldest grandson, Shunde, hurriedly sent someone to make arrangements.

"In the same car with this king!" Li Yuanxing invited the eldest grandson Shunde and Ma Fuyin to get in the car.

In the car, Li Yuanxing said: "If you demote your official, you are also qualified to cry out for injustice." You are my imperial sister-in-law's uncle, and you are also a family. This king has a few words, although there are outsiders here, it will hurt some of your face. This king just has one sentence, do you know about the donation of the king? ”

The eldest grandson, Shunde, understood.

He went through four emperors from the Sui Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, if he didn't understand this sentence, he would really live in vain.

Li Yuanxing is warning him, don't be too greedy.

"Let's not talk about the court, let's take the market as an example. There is a gangster in the East City, and some of his men are willing to give him their lives. weishenme？ ”

"Please give me advice, Your Highness!"

"He has benevolence to this person, and he will help all the gangsters in their families when they are in trouble. This man is righteous, and every time he fights for territory with other gangsters, he rushes to the front, and when he retreats, he stays behind. This person knows etiquette, he rewards and punishes clearly, and even his own brother does not take special care. This man is very wise, he knows when to fight and when to learn to back down. This man has faith, and what he says, even if he is desperate, will do it! ”

The eldest grandson Shunde is not young, although Li Yuanxing's words have some lessons, but he understands the meaning.

"Drinking soldier's blood is not allowed in Datang. If you deduct a little bit from the soldiers' food, can you get rich? If this king does you, even if the subordinates who have followed you for half your life are not implicated, I am afraid that it will be difficult to be promoted in the future, can you bear it? Your men are fighting to the death for you, are you worthy of this loyalty? ”

Li Yuanxing said, and the eldest grandson Shunde changed from kneeling to kneeling.

"This king is not here to embarrass you, but only to tell you. If Xiazhou wants to get rich, you will be rich. With your subordinates, your soldiers will become rich, and the people of Xiazhou will be rich. By the way, Shuozhou, Shengzhou, Fengzhou, and Lingzhou also followed Xiazhou, and they were better, and it was not easy for the soldiers at the border pass. ”

"The old minister is guilty!"

Li Yuanxing borrowed his hand to help: "This king said that he didn't come to ask for guilt." ”

"The old minister is guilty!" The eldest grandson, Shunde, shouted again.

"Your Highness, a courtier knows that it is good to correct mistakes, but sin is sin. According to the words of his subordinates, General Changsun should go to the Holy Lord, talk about his sins, and say that he will have a heart of repentance for what he will do in the future. Receiving forgiveness from God is the right way! Wei Ting jumped out at this time, and what he said was not only recognized by the eldest grandson Shunde, but also by Yan Shigu.

Li Yuanxing had no choice but to agree.

"You and General Liu are the left and right generals of Xiaowei, although you are older than General Liu, you have the same function. This king just suggested that in the past two years, you should act and consult with General Liu more, one of you is in the frontier and the other is an important border town, so naturally you should take care of each other. Defend the northern frontier well, and when there is no war, we must also train more sergeants. ”

The eldest grandson, Shunde, just bowed down deeply.

In fact, the eldest grandson Shunde is very grateful to Liu Hongji this time, if it weren't for Liu Hongji's persuasion, he might have taken some foolish things seriously.

Even if he didn't rebel, if he hadn't had Liu Hongji's suggestion and explained earlier, he might have been demoted this time. You must know that since he wrote to Chang'an, he has not slept a peaceful night, and he has spent every night in terror, and he is very afraid that there will be a holy decree that day, and he will be arrested back to Chang'an.

He didn't dare to rebel.

First, there is no reason or excuse for rebellion. Second, the soldiers of Xiazhou will not follow him to rebel. The third is that there is the king of Qin there, and he is afraid of it.

In the city of Xiazhou, the town guards the general's mansion.

Liu Hongji did not wear his own general armor, but just wore a most ordinary sergeant uniform, kneeling on the main hall.

"The criminal minister Liu Hongji asks His Royal Highness the King of Qin to be safe!"

"What's the sin?" Li Yuanxing went over and helped him and said: "If you are guilty, it is that you let the sergeants in the frontier live too poorly, I heard that ordinary soldiers can only eat meat once a month, but you are guarding the grassland, where there are countless sheep, and you have no meat to eat." ”

Liu Hongji was stunned by Li Yuanxing's words.

At this time, Qiu Xiang handed a lacquered box to Liu Hongji with both hands.

"Your Highness, what is this?"

"On the way to this king, Wei Yushi said that the original Qin Straight Road is called the Wool Road. In fact, it's a road that can really make us rich. Wool and sheepskin were shipped back to Chang'an in the most primitive state, and the freight was too high. This king thought that he would deal with it once in Xiazhou, and all the goods that were shipped back were fine goods, but at least thirty percent of the weight was lost. The coarse hair and broken hair left behind by the treatment can be pressed into felt here, and there is no need to process it in Chang'an. ”

"Your Highness, the wool on this wool is only a penny on a sheep."

Liu Hongji wanted to say, how much wool does this have to deal with to make money.

But when I think about it, it doesn't seem right. Because the family's thirst for wool is very huge, the tribes on the grassland compete to sell the wool to the Tang Dynasty, but the Tang family is secretly earning this share of the wool.

Li Yuanxing nodded slightly at Qiu Xiang.

Qiu Xiang said softly: "General Liu's wool here is handled according to His Royal Highness's requirements, two catties and one penny." How much His Highness collects. If you can also select the coarse cashmere, the coarse cashmere is 30 wen a catty, how much you want! ”

"A sheep has a maximum of four taels of cashmere!" Li Yuanxing said with a smile.

Qiu Xiang also said: "Your Highness, the finest cashmere is only at the neck of the sheep during the winter, and there are only one or two sheep for each sheep. If it's all like this, the Cui family will offer a hundred wen a catty! ”

Liu Hongji was stunned for a moment and then smiled: "Your Highness is really smart, wool is not expensive, and this craft is expensive." ”

"Don't let anyone steal away. The king happened to have gifts for him, as well as for several other generals. ”

After Li Yuanxing finished speaking, Qiu Xiang clapped her hands, and several low-level maids lined up with boxes and stood inside the door.

Qiu Xiang went to open the box and shook out a Tang-style military uniform. This military uniform has been finalized by the Ministry of Rites, and it is made of burlap and distributed to every soldier. This is not a wartime dress when no armor is worn.

The set that Qiu Xiang took out is already very close to the fabric of pure wool suits in later generations. (To be continued......)

PS: It's my birthday today, and I forgot to eat noodles.

haha。

If you want to eat longevity noodles for your birthday in the north, you will go to the next instant noodle after a while, and you will be eating noodles. Hehe.