Chapter 699: A Touchstone (Asking for a Monthly Pass)

"Although Lin Yi Country is small, it is a great place to use!" I let out a long sigh and said, "What kind of place is Lin Yi Country, the barbarians are only two or three hundred thousand, but do you know how much rice they produce there?" More than 10 million stones, do you know what is near Linyi Kingdom? There are countless iron, coal, copper, and countless pearls and products, to the west of Linyi country, is a vast plain, where there are countless ironwood, mahogany, cypress wood, more purple stem, cinnamon, rosin, fennel and other spices, and there are codonopsis, notoginseng, Polygonum multiflori, sand kernel, Morinda officinalis, Coptis chinensis and other precious medicinal materials...... There are several natural excellent ports in the vicinity of Linyi, and the products of Linyi can be transshipped by sea without land...... "I endlessly recount the richness of Linyi, every time I say the same, Li Su's eyes will be a little brighter, and in the end, Li Su's eyes can almost compete with the bright moon in the sky.

I returned to my chair and sat down, and continued to Li Su, who was standing beside me: "The forests in the south of Linyi alone have countless and inexhaustible wealth, what can you have in Yuzhou?" Do you know that after arriving in Linyi, it is a peninsula that is close to half the size of the Tang Dynasty, and its richness is ......?"

Li Su was both excited and hesitant: "The words of the master let the master know that Linyi is a promising place, but what should I do?" I also hope that the master will advise. ”

"Do you still need me to teach this? Grow grain first, the southern part of Linyi, but two years and seven ripe land, with food, and then develop others, you can also do more maritime trade with Lingnan and Jiangnan, and deal with other places in the Tang Dynasty, but there is one thing you have to remember, build roads, this is the most critical, if you want to gain a foothold in Linyi, first you have to build roads, first, you can speed up local development and trade exchanges, second, if there is anything unusual about the land of Linyi, my army in the Tang Dynasty and Lingnan will come to ...... day and night."

The next day, Li Zhi was also invited by me, this prince came to give his half-brother confidence, and secondly, let Li Zhi, the prince, know what I said to Li Su, at least, I can't make people suspect me of doing bad things, you can't have the heart to hurt people, but you can't have the heart to prevent people.

Uncle Li and Li Zhi were so greedy for the richness of Lin Yi that they almost drooled, and now they have sent a son to guard the town, and I also drew a perfect dough cake according to Uncle Li's instructions and threw it to Li Su, and the rest can only depend on Uncle Li himself.

----------------------------------------------------However, as I was planning for Uncle Li and risking being impeached, Uncle Li reciprocated that the first thing Li did after his arrival was to transfer 500,000 stone of Champa rice seeds from Yizhou to Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Mingzhou, Yangzhou, and the newly established Liuzhou, that is, Xingang on the island of Liuqiu.

"Virtuous son-in-law, the old man has to thank you, if you can't convince him, the old man is afraid that he will have a headache and be nagged by others." Uncle Li raised a glass to me and invited me to drink, and I naturally knew that the person Uncle Li was referring to was Concubine Yang, the mother of Li Ke and Li Su.

I took a sip of wine: "It's not that Your Majesty has arranged it properly, the son-in-law is just acting on orders, but my father-in-law, my son-in-law wants to ask, His Royal Highness the King of Shu is here, but he is in charge of civil affairs?" ”

"Huh?" Uncle Li rolled his eyelids: "What the virtuous son-in-law asked, the governor of Yizhou, is naturally the military and civil affairs chief. ”

"Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that since Datang has begun military reform and is ready to carry out military and political affairs across the country, but now you ...... it like this" I looked at Uncle Li, and after half of the words, Uncle Li thought about it by himself.

Uncle Li grabbed a chopstick, lifted it, put it down again, and glanced at me. I lowered my head: "Your Majesty is the king of a country, every move is the eyes of the world, everything is the country first, act by law, I hope Your Majesty will think twice." Military power and civil affairs cannot be concentrated in the hands of one person. Otherwise, just like the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, the power of the country is sidelined, and the candidates are stronger than the country, which is really unwise. ”

"Maybe you are right, the prince broke the law and committed the same crime as the people, since I am the Son of Heaven and have issued an edict, how can it be different from person to person?" Uncle Li's fingers tapped on the desk, and I didn't say anything more.

Uncle Li narrowed his eyes: "I will take back the military power in the hands of my sons step by step, but now is not the time, I can't let everyone in the world think crookedly, so, Su'er, is a touchstone for me." ”

Li Su's clear decree to be promoted to the governor of Yizhou was finally issued, however, Li Su only has the right to supervise civil affairs, and the military force is supervised by Feng An, the Duke of Yueguo, and the command and dispatch power of the military force must be jointly signed by the General Staff and His Majesty the Emperor Uncle Li. Liaodong, which was originally occupied, adopted such a method, Cen Wenwen was in charge of civil affairs, Xue Wanche was in charge of the military, and now in Yizhou, Li Su, the king of Shu, was in charge of civil affairs, and Feng An, the prince of Yueguo, was in charge of the military, and at the same time, it was also a signal, a signal of the separation of military and government, so that the Manchu Dynasty of the Tang Dynasty, all provinces and prefectures clearly understood and saw that Uncle Li's desire to carry out military and political reform became stronger and stronger.

Li Su didn't care whether he had military power in his hands, he was more concerned about the richness of Yizhou, and the flatbread I painted for him, and in addition, I also arranged for people to expand the business to the south. "Borrowing chickens to lay eggs, our family can't help but want to forge ahead, and if the business does not progress, it is tantamount to regression. Hey, hey, hey...... "I proudly scratched the big dog squatting in front of me, the three smartest Chow Chows, I named them all, the eldest is called Ben Ben, this is to commemorate my dog in the next life, the second on the side is called Wangcai, the second is called Fugui." It's a vulgar name, but it's very much in line with my hope that my family will be rich and that I will be enterprising in the spirit of making money.

"It's a shame that you're still a great literati in our Tang Dynasty, how can you give your dog such an ugly name." The palace maid's sister patted the rich man lying at her feet very lovingly, and threw it into the distance with a piece of meat and bone.

Clumsy and lazily squinted his eyes, still enjoying me scratching his belly, Li Shu on the side was teaching Wangcai to stand on his legs, poor thing, the hound is about to become the plaything of my family's beautiful girl.

"Today the old man talked to me about something. In the early years of Zhenguan, the population of my Datang was only 2 million households, and now, there are 3 million households, with a population of more than 17 million. ”

Li Shu wrenched his fingers and couldn't help but say: "It's amazing, it's less than 20 years since the beginning of Zhenguan, and the population has increased so much at once?" ”

---------------------------------------------------- "Yes, we Datang lacks everything, but there is never a shortage of population." I smiled proudly and shook my head and cleared my throat: "In the seventeenth year of Zhenguan, the population of Guanzhong had 400,000 households, with a total population of more than 2.3 million, and by the end of this year, there were 300,000 households with a total population of more than 1.7 million, a total of 600,000 people. I'm afraid that next year, this number will be reduced. However, Guanzhong's Tianfu last year and this year have increased by two percent compared with previous years. Hehehe......"

"Speaking of which, it's not the credit of our handsome man, since the past dynasties, the people have been relocated to fill other land, and the people and the government and the opposition will complain, but now, it is the people who say good, and there is surprisingly no opposition." Cheng Luanluan reclined on the recliner, holding a sandalwood fan and fanning it gently, a pair of lazy eyes half-squinted at me, his eyes were full of affection, and he was proud of having such a capable Langjun.

"It is also in the interest of the law of land replacement, the Guanzhong area is too densely populated, the land is narrow and densely populated, the Tang Dynasty's uniform land system is feasible everywhere, but in Guanzhong, it is most difficult to implement, why, it is because the people are not enough to receive the land, the harvest is less, once a disaster occurs, it is easy to famine, and now to Liaodong, Hetao and Jiangnan to move people, and now even in the Longyou area, there are people to move to it, planting cotton. It can not only alleviate the land pressure in the middle of my Datang Guanzhong, but also make the sparsely populated land in my Datang to replenish a large amount of labor, and play a great role in the development of these places for my Datang, and it is conducive to my Datang to consolidate the border defense......

"Yes, Your Majesty is worthy of being Your Majesty, the Founding King, the Wise and Resolute Lord." I took the tea handed by Li Shu seriously, took a sip, and patted Li Shu's father's ass by the way. The little girl raised her eyebrows, smiled and drew a circle on my chest with her finger: "Junlang, our family's field in Liaodong, you have to pay attention, you can't just look at it like that, right?" That's 10,000 acres of good land. Now all the crops are millet and wheat, and the yield is too low. ”

"Little Nizi, what the hell is the idea?" I grinned, pinched the face of the beauty and smiled, I became a mother, but I am still so smart, every move, I look at the smoke, and the hook is always blind.

(To be continued)