After quelling the barbarian rebellion in Fujian, the Tang army switched to the battle to pacify the bandits. The Tang army conscripted troops from some tribes that cooperated with the government, and a group of barbarians familiar with the mountains and forests entered the Tang army.

It was not difficult to suppress bandits, but after the Tang Army made the big move of "only doing the first evil, not asking about coercion," it also implemented a policy of summary execution, and some bandit leaders were executed on the spot once they were caught.

After the heads were hung out, many bandits felt the determination of the Tang Army and began to abandon their original nests and flee deeper into the mountains.

However, the Tang army was in hot pursuit, they were equally familiar with the mountains and forests, and even knew more about them than the bandits. This caused many minions among the bandits to despair, and they took the opportunity to sneak out and surrender to the Tang army, and directed the Tang army to attack the bandits' hiding place.

In the midst of internal and external difficulties, some bandits were exterminated, some went down the mountain to surrender, and some fled to the homes of their employers to seek refuge.

After more than a year of hard fighting, the Tang army exterminated more than 100 bandits, large and small, killed more than 2,000 people, and captured more than 5,000 people. More than 50 squires and tyrants who were directly related to the bandits were punished, and a large number of weapons, food, and documents were seized.

The army of road construction has grown to more than 10,000 people, and the eight patriarchs in Fuzhou, Jianzhou, and Quanzhou can't sit still. They rushed to Changle to make the government confess their guilt, and obediently handed over a large number of shipbuilders, sailors and ransoms under Zhang Wenyi's threats and inducements.

Zhang Wenyi also forced them to sign an agreement to abolish lynching within the family, hand over the rights of the li chief and village head, and appoint them to the Changle Jingluo Mansion instead.

Since then, the local forces in Fujian have been dealt a heavy blow, and the power of the government has risen sharply, basically completely controlling the entire territory of Fujian.

In the third year, the royal shipyards under the rule of Changle Jingluofu developed a large three-masted warship of 370 materials.

Through the development of new warships, the manufacturing standards and manufacturing processes for building ships have been established, and the code of conduct for new warships has been compiled.

At the same time, based on the experience of building ships, 350 seagoing ships have been developed, which is the largest and fastest merchant ship to date. As soon as this kind of merchant ship appeared, it immediately attracted the attention of Quanzhou maritime merchants, and many maritime merchants asked to build and purchase it.

After a series of recruitments, the Changle navy expanded to 7,000 men, with three military ports in Fuzhou, Quanzhou, and Zhangzhou. The patrol area has been expanded to the southern part of Zhejiang and the northern part of Guangzhou, and the sea bandits who are relatively shallow from the coast have begun to be cleared.

Due to the good law and order in Fujian, a large number of businessmen poured in. The Changle Jingluo Prefecture also set up municipal shipping divisions in Fuzhou, Quanzhou, and Zhangzhou to collect taxes on maritime trade.

After Zhang Wenyi began to take shape in Fujian, he asked the imperial court to appoint Zhang Zong, the leader of the Tang army, as the envoy of Changle Jing, and completely transferred his power. At the same time, Shi Yifei, the commander of the army, was appointed as the supervisor of the Royal Shipyard, responsible for supervising the shipyards, and also appointed the city envoys of the three places.

After such a rectification, Fujian is thriving. This was followed by a surge in population, a flourishing maritime trade, and the accumulation of wealth.

At this time, Ja Jie, who was appointed as the naval governor, had to be impressed, and saw the gap in governance, and Ja Jie, who was relieved to be his naval governor, was completely dead to the government.

After initially establishing the status of Fujian's maritime trade center, Zhang Wenyi applied for the setting of the Lingnan Jiedu Envoy. Wen Zhonglian was appointed as the envoy of the Lingnan Jiedu to manage the maritime trade and military administration of Fujian and Guangzhou.

After deliberate suppression, the eight surnames of Fujian, who originally controlled Fujian, have declined, and their strength is far from being comparable with that year.

Zhang Wenyi found them to discuss the establishment of the Fujian-China Chamber of Commerce, and the current eight surnames in Fujian-China have long since lost the arrogance of the past, and they hate and fear this bright queen.

After understanding the nature of the Chamber of Commerce, after discussion and some bargaining, the eight surnames agreed to join the Chamber of Commerce, and agreed that Zhang Wenyi's eldest brother Wen Zhongyu would be the president of the Chamber of Commerce to coordinate the internal affairs of the Chamber of Commerce.

When everything in Fujian was on the track, Zhang Wenyi took the 20 million taels of silver collected by the city shipping department and took the merchant fleet from Fuzhou to Goguryeo, Baekje and then to the Wa Kingdom to Dengzhou, where he landed and returned to Chang'an.

returned to Chang'an, which had been absent for five years, and Li Zhi went out ten miles to greet him.

In the chariot, Li Zhi held Zhang Wenyi's hand and said happily: "Shackles, you want to be ruined." ”

Zhang Wenyi took back his hand and gently held Li Zhi's hand, leaned on his shoulder wholeheartedly, and said softly: "I finally lived up to Your Majesty's expectations, a little success." ”

Li Zhi knew that Zhang Wenyi had brought back 20 million tax silver this time, and he was surprised: "This is just a preliminary small success? ”

Zhang Wenyi slowly snuggled her body into Li Zhi's arms, and instantly transformed herself from a shrewd and capable queen who talked about the big people in Fujian to a little wife who was a bird.

She just said "um" softly, and slowly told Li Zhi about the current state and future plans of Minzhong.

Although the two usually have correspondence, Zhang Wenyi only introduced some specific situations to Li Zhi for the sake of insurance, but did not introduce his thoughts as a whole.

There is still a lot to be done to realize a maritime trade base centered on Guangzhou, Fujian.

These two places are far away from Chang'an, and they are sea-centered trade, except for Zhang Wenyi, a modern person who knows more clearly, in the Tang Dynasty court, the ancients' understanding of this maritime trade was very superficial and insufficient.

In particular, the distance from the political and military center of the Tang Dynasty was huge, and it was very easy to cause de facto secession due to weak control here.

In addition, Zhang Wenyi deliberately divided the military forces here into the Jingluo Prefecture and the naval governor directly under the emperor, so that the two forces contained each other, and it was difficult to form an effective threat. At the same time, the control of shipbuilding in the hands of the royal family was also a means of strengthening local control.

Although the city department used its name in the past, it was also an independent institution directly under the royal family, and was not under the leadership of the household department, so as to avoid letting civil officials interfere in it now.

Zhang Wenyi brought all the tax revenue of the city department this time, just to promote the collection of taxes on industry and commerce across the country through it. Further reduce the financial resources of the family's gate valve power and slow down the rate of its expansion.

In addition, through industry and commerce, new forces were cultivated to confront the forces of the family lords, so that the two forces were both fighting and depending, restricting each other, and not becoming the sole power of the family.

In this way, the court will gradually degenerate into two or even three factions, instead of fighting against the imperial power with the civil power representing the family of the gate lords.

There is only one party in the family, and it is nothing more than the internal division of Qingji, Jiangzuo, Guanlong and other factions, and no matter how much the emperor checks and balances, he cannot touch their fundamental interests.

The current family of gate lords actually controls the interests of industry and commerce, and they suppress industry and commerce by belittling merchants and despising strange and clever tricks, so that the royal family ignores them and controls their interests in their hands to achieve the purpose of monopoly.

Listening to the prospect described by Zhang Wenyi, Li Zhi's heart was very excited. In the past, after Zhang Wenyi said the concepts of politics, economy, and military, it aroused Li Zhi's thinking. But he didn't know much about it, and now he knew exactly what it meant, and he felt like he had pierced a layer of window paper.

At the same time, he didn't expect that this weak-looking little wife would have such a big plan and idea, and he said in surprise: "Zitong, why don't you come and help me govern the Tang Dynasty together." ”

Zhang Wenyi said with a smile: "The concubine is just the daughter of a businessman, so she naturally knows more about business. The major affairs of governing the country are not only business, where can the concubines help more, and the future affairs will naturally depend on His Majesty to master. ”

Li Zhi smiled: "Zitong doesn't have to be too humble, you are an arm given to me by God." ”

Zhang Wenyi said with a smile: "A woman's greatest achievement is to marry a good man and raise our children well, and other concubines are not delusional." ”

Zhang Wenyi's answer made Li Zhi feel very ironed, and he smiled: "Okay, come back and rest for a few days." Xin'er is also old and needs to be enlightened, I have already found a good teacher for him, so let's be enlightened in the next few days. ”

Zhang Wenyi lazily said "um" in Li Zhi's arms, and slowly fell asleep with peace of mind.

Returning to the palace was naturally a warm reception, but what Zhang Wenyi didn't expect was that Li Zhi's harem suddenly became a lot bigger in the five years that he was away, and several more favored concubines were Helan family, Xu family, Wei family, and Wang family.

However, Xiao Yan has matured a lot in taking care of the harem in recent years, and the Su family has replaced Yu Feng as the number two person in the palace. Of course, Yu Feng is not the third person, she is basically marginalized now.

If she weren't a little like Zhang Wenyi, she might be completely snubbed by Li Zhi. For Feng, she would prefer to be left out in the cold rather than be a stand-in for another woman, so when she saw Zhang Wenyi, she had a very complicated mood.

At the family banquet that received the wind, through Xiao Yan's meaningful smile, Zhang Wenyi also felt a hint of other playfulness.

The Su family's pretense of weakness exposed the ambitions of the four concubines, Helan's publicity, Xu's talent and arrogance, Wei's calm battle, and Wang's secret peeping.

Three women in one play, and there are seventeen of them here. Zhang Wenyi smiled and turned his head to look at Li Zhi, who was courteously persuading the other concubines to drink, and had the urge to strangle him in his heart.

Feeling the coldness coming from his side, Li Zhi turned his head and met Zhang Wenyi's bright eyes.

Zhang Wenyi raised her glass and said gently, "Your Majesty, please." ”

Li Zhi also hurriedly raised his glass and replied, "Queen, please." ”

Xiao Yan looked at the emperor and queen who were drinking happily on the main seat, and turned around and swept the concubines present, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but show a mocking smile.

The afterglow in Su's eyes saw the fleeting mockery on the corner of Xiao Yan's mouth, and then glanced at Zhang Wenyi, who was sitting in all directions, with a trace of doubt in his eyes.

After she entered the palace, Zhang Wenyi has been in the stage of resting and protecting the fetus, and no one knows about her past except for a limited number of people, so Su Wan'er can only see Zhang Wenyi pulling Li Zhi in a way that is different from the life in the palace.

This time, Zhang Wenyi left the palace and went south to Fujian, and her presence could not be found in the palace. This time, Zhang Wenyi came back with 20 million taels of tax silver, which did give Su a great impact, but more of Su's personal experience was Zhang Wenyi's stupid deeds, so Zhang Wenyi was able to bring back 20 million taels of tax silver, which did not mean anything in Su's eyes, at least it was not enough to make her afraid.

The harem is not a place where you can keep your position with money!