Chapter 34 Trade Street
Li Hao said a few words casually, and hit the nail on the head, and the reason for not lending money to Li Shimin was directly there.
Now the heavy snow covers the mountains, and the most affected is not the Tang Dynasty, not the Tibetan Goryeo, but the Turks.
The Turks do not grow food, they only eat meat, and if it snows in previous years, the Turks will eat fat and strong in the coming year, as well as cattle and sheep.
But now it is a rare heavy snow to cover the mountains, cattle and sheep can not eat pasture, can not grow any meat, so that the Turks can not eat enough golden cattle at all, and it is normal for people to starve to death.
Li Hao's analysis is not wrong at all, this is why the Eastern and Western Turks will find a way to attack the Tang Dynasty.
Now, if Li Shimin sends troops to go, he will absolutely destroy the best reality of the Turks, and the Turks will starve to death, where will the Turks still have the strength to fight.
Li Shimin pondered for a moment, and directly called someone, "Let people inquire about the situation of the Turks, 100,000 are in a hurry!" ”
The attack on the Turks is a top priority for Li Shimin, and the Turks are a group of white-eyed wolves that cannot be raised, and they will naturally not let him go if they can get rid of him as soon as possible.
If what Li Hao said is true, this is a great thing for Datang.
Li Hao looked at all this with a smile on his face, "Your Majesty, now that your matter is over, it's time to talk about my matter!" ”
Li Hao's visit this time is naturally not only about Li Shimin, but now Lijiazhuang is developing steadily, but it has also encountered bottlenecks.
That's the lack of money!
Yes, Li Hao is very short of money now, and the construction of Lijiazhuang needs a lot of money every day, and it is good to say that those people are residents of Lijiazhuang, but now there are very few people who become residents of Lijiazhuang.
In addition to the local villagers of Lijiazhuang, there are about 3,000 people, and the other foreign refugees, in addition to the soldiers, have officially become residents of Lijiazhuang.
All of these people are people who have made great contributions to the construction of Lijiazhuang.
Because of this, Lijiazhuang spends money every day like flowing water, tens of thousands of people participate in the construction, and Li Hao watches the money flow out little by little.
Especially when Li Hao checked the accounts, he saw a long list of numbers shrinking by two or three squares, could he not feel distressed?
However, who Li Hao is, he soon has a way, that is, to trade with Datang in advance.
The things of Lijiazhuang are all good things for the people of Datang, and they can easily make Lijiazhuang's treasury abundant.
Li Shimin sat on the dragon chair and looked at Li Hao, he wanted to see what Li Hao was going to do, "I don't know if there is anything that King Zhen'an can help me with?" ”
Li Hao didn't ink either, and said his own things directly, "Your Majesty, I want to build a trade street specifically for trade between Datang and Lijiazhuang." ”
Hearing this, Li Shimin pondered for a while, "Where are you going to build the trade street?" ”
Fortunately, on the way here, Li Hao deliberately asked the coachman to walk slower, and he also found a suitable place, "It is built on Chang'an Avenue, where the dense flow of people is the most suitable." ”
"I will also prepare an area in Lijiazhuang for trading for the merchants of the Great Tang, but it requires rent, and each shop can be thirty taels of gold per Chinese New Year's Eve."
"Your Majesty, rest assured, I will also pay thirty taels of rent to Datang every year for each shop in Trade Street."
Li Shimin frowned slightly, "Li Hao, do you mean that those businessmen of the Tang Dynasty are doing business, and I still have to pay rent to your Li Jiazhuang?" ”
Li Hao covered his forehead, and couldn't cry or laugh for a while, "Your Majesty, you misunderstood, and blame me for not making it clear, I mean those who do business in the shop, they just need to pay it themselves, but this needs to be notified in advance by Your Majesty." ”
"Otherwise, if someone defaults on the debt, I can only take away all this person's things and drive them out of Lijiazhuang."
Hearing Li Hao's explanation, Li Shimin's brows relaxed, "That's fine." ”
Subsequently, Li Hao and Li Shimin chatted for a while, then left the palace and went back to Lijiazhuang directly, without the slightest intention of staying in Chang'an.
As for the matter of the trade street, I will leave it to Li Shimin to handle it himself.
What Li Hao didn't know was that as soon as he left, Li Shimin summoned the ministers of the court and the central government to the palace.
As soon as the ministers came to the Ganlu Palace, Li Shimin told them everything Li Hao said.
Hearing that these ministers had complicated faces, in fact, they came up with the bad idea of summoning Li Hao into the palace today to ask for money to fight.
In their opinion, Li Hao set up another kingdom in the Tang Dynasty, this is a threat, a naked threat, they want to restrict the development of Lijiazhuang, but who would have thought that Li Hao would simply deal with it.
Originally, they thought that as long as Li Hao was willing to pay money, they could find a way to ask Li Hao for military expenses every once in a while.
Looking at the complicated ministers under the dragon chair, Li Shimin's face was full of majesty, "Now I have asked people to go to the border to inquire about the news, if this matter is true, Li Hao can be regarded as a great favor for Datang, and this kind of thing will not be mentioned again in the future." ”
"Now the affairs of the business street, leave it to Xuan Ling!"
"Alright, I'm tired, you can go back and rest!"
The ministers looked at each other, not knowing what Li Shimin meant.
When this group of ministers walked out of the Ganlu Palace, they all surrounded Fang Xuanling, and in their opinion, since Li Shimin handed over the matter of Trade Street to Fang Xuanling, then he must know something.
Fang Xuanling understood in his heart, but he pretended to be confused, anyway, he didn't know anything.
When the ministers saw that they couldn't ask anything, they simply didn't bother with the matter.
In fact, when Fang Xuanling received the summons, he already understood what was going on, and he knew that Li Shimin meant to have a stable relationship with Li Jiazhuang.
Li Shimin sent people to see Lijiazhuang and told him about the development there, which led him to agree with the ministers' opinions and suppress the development of Lijiazhuang.
After talking with Li Hao today, he found that Li Hao did not want to rebel, he just wanted to develop Lijiazhuang.
Combined with Li Hao's attitude and the development of Li Jiazhuang, Li Shimin let go of the mustard in his heart.
It is precisely because of this that Li Shimin will hand over the matter of Trade Street to Fang Xuanling.
Fang Xuanling is the only person in the court today who does not agree to suppress Li Jiazhuang, and many ministers have impeached him for this, especially Wei Zheng.
In addition, Li Shimin also wants to use Li Jiazhuang to suppress or even directly overthrow the five surnames and seven hopes, and the relationship between the two sides naturally needs to be stable.
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Following!
Li Hao came to the office early in the morning, and the matter was already overcrowded.
"Owner, this is your Li Jiazhuang ID card."
In the crowded crowd, Li Hao stood at the forefront, and he took the unique card from the salesman's hand, that is, the Li Jiazhuang ID card.