Originally, there were forty-two carriages neatly lined up in the west courtyard, but now there are only thirty-nine left, and those four were pulled away by Cheng Yanjin and Yu Chi Gong, and Cheng Zhihei and Wei Chi Baolin also went back, after all, they have been away from home for so long, and there must be some parents who have something to say, even if there are four carriages missing, Li Li still has a headache when she looks at the carriage in this yard and says.

"Lang Jun, I calculated carefully, our warehouse here is almost full, why can't we put so many spices!"

Seeing Li Liqian's sad face, Li Yong couldn't help but feel very funny, who would have thought that Li Liqin would be worried because there were too many spices at home to put down? Li Yong said with a smile.

"What are you worried about, leave a few cars for a point, and pull the rest to the East Market and sell them."

Li Lizhi was immediately surprised when she heard it.

"Huh? Sell them all? Our family is not short of money, so why should we sell it? ”

The preciousness of spices is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, although I am very worried about how to clean it up, but when I heard Li Yong say that they were all sold, Li Lizhi felt very distressed, and Li Yong couldn't cry or laugh.

"It's not a good thing, overseas spice islands are everywhere, leaving a few carriages is enough for several years, why do you keep so many spices?"

As one of the business wizards of Huating Hou, Wu Cao said with a smile.

"Even if you want to sell it, you can't sell it all at once! There are so many spices on the market at one time, it will definitely bring the price down, it is better to keep it and sell it slowly, anyway, spices are in demand, and I am not afraid that I will not be able to sell them. ”

Li Lizhi nodded and said.

"What Sister Wu said makes sense, you don't have to rush to sell it."

Li Yong groaned.

"Actually, I wanted to give everyone a stimulus, at the beginning I tried my best to promote the rolling of overseas money, but everyone was only excited for a while, only a few people went to sea with us, but most of them were not active, I used these dozens of cars of spices to make firewood and then add fire to everyone, and burn their lust."

Cui Mo asked weakly.

"Master Hou, why do you want everyone to go to sea, then aren't they going to rob our family's spices? Isn't it good for us to make a fortune by stealing it ourselves? ”

This asked the voices of many people, whether it was Li Lizhen or Yingluo, these maids, they couldn't figure it out, only Wu Cao understood Li Yong's thoughts, but she smiled and said nothing, Li Yong glanced at Wu Cao and smiled.

"Be open-minded, long-term vision, just spices, worth a few dollars, the real big head is the overseas market, the world is very big, far bigger than you think, so the market is very big, so big that not a person or a few families can eat, if you want to open up the overseas market, it is not our family can do it, only everyone goes to sea, and the strength is to make a piece, in order to develop the sea trade, our Datang porcelain, brocade, transported to everywhere are in demand, and pull back is a boatload of gold and silver, Gems, spices, in comparison, the Spice Island is worth a few dollars. ”

Cuimo, Yingluo and other maids still seem to understand whether they understand or not, but Li Lizhen has suddenly realized, and suddenly realized that she has suddenly realized, but Li Lizhen is still a little reluctant, after all, spices are precious things.

"Do you really want to sell them all?"

Li Li asked, seeing Li Liqian's reluctant look, Li Yong smiled.

"Okay, okay, then leave more, the main thing is that it's useless to leave more! In the future, there will be more ships going to sea slowly, and spices will be worthless. ”

When Li Lizhi heard this, he suddenly became entangled again, and Li Yong suddenly smiled with an idea.

"Actually, spices can also extract the essence to configure perfumes, but I don't know how to configure which ones to use in proportions, so I need to experiment slowly."

Li Lizhi suddenly perked up when she heard this, it was good to be able to extract the essence of spices, as for how to configure it, she could try it slowly! Anyway, being idle at home is also idle, just taking Yingluo and them to find something to do, once the configuration is successful in the future, the spice is one price, and the perfume is another price.

"Lang Jun, why don't you sell half and keep half, okay? Twenty carts were left, just enough to be squeezed in the warehouse. ”

Li Li said in a coquettish voice, isn't it just a pile of firewood? Li Yong doesn't care, he doesn't care if he sells it for money or not, money is just a number, it doesn't mean anything.

"Okay, okay, whatever you want!"

Li Yong said with a smile.

"Lord Hou, Lord Hou, the saint and the queen have arrived!"

The porter below panted and came to report.

"The Emperor is here? The nose is still very smart, and you can smell the fragrance for dozens of miles. ”

Li Yong couldn't help muttering, Li Li couldn't help but glance at Li Yong charmingly when she heard this, and said coquettishly.

"Lang Jun, let's go pick it up!"

In fact, there is no need for Li Yong and Li Lizhen to take over at all, because Li Er and Empress Changsun have already walked in, and the dignified emperor is cheeky to break in, who dares to stop him?

"I don't know that the saint and the queen are coming, and the minister can't meet him from afar, and I ask for forgiveness!"

Li Yong bowed his hand to salute, and Wu Cao, Cuimo and others next to him were all blessed, but Li Lizhi did not salute, she had already stepped forward to hold the arm of the eldest grandson queen and sprinkled coquettishly.

"Queen Mother, why are you here?"

"I heard that there are wonders here, come and see it with your father."

Empress Eldest Sun said with a smile.

"You don't have to be polite, it's all free!"

Li Er was very casual, he didn't look at Li Yong at all, his eyes were already attracted by the courtyard.

"These are the forty-two carriages?"

Li Er sighed, as soon as he walked into this courtyard, he smelled the strong smell of spices, the news was really well-informed, and even the number of carriages was not bad at all, Li Yong said with a smile.

"Yes, saint."

Li Er suddenly said lightly.

"No, it's only forty, why are there two missing?"

Li Yong was speechless, Li Er, you are too serious, right? I even counted it again, this is not your family, why are you so serious? Count them with great interest, are you neurotic? Li Yong explained.

"Just now, Lu Guogong and Wu Guogong came to pick up Cheng and Wei Chi Baolin, and took away the four-horse carriage by the way."

"Oh, they took four carts away!"

Li Er nodded, after all, this time the sea was led by Cheng Chuhei and Wei Chi Baolin, and it was also appropriate to take away the four-horse carriage for himself.

"Why are you still covered with a tarpaulin? Open it and take a look! ”

Li Er commanded, Li Yong nodded slightly, and the surrounding guards hurriedly rushed up and began to lift the tarpaulin, the tarpaulin on a carriage was lifted, and the smell of spices was even stronger, and a carriage full of spices appeared in front of everyone, Li Er's eyes lit up at first, and then pointed to the carriage and said sadly.

"Loser, it's really a tyrannical thing, how precious are the spices, you just packed them in rag bags and shipped them back to Chang'an? You don't cherish it too much! How can this be? ”

Seeing Li Er's heartbroken appearance, Li Yong was speechless, and he didn't know that he thought it was the emperor's spices that were ruined!

"What's this? If not, just load it up and transport it to Chang'an. ”

Li Yong muttered quietly.

"How do you use this rag bag, this rag sack? This is all for transporting grain and grass, at least you have to use a good wooden box, right? ”

Li Er said angrily, and as he spoke, Li Er opened a sack full of nutmeg.

Li Er sighed.

"This nutmeg is in such good condition!"

Li Yong said with a smile.

"Of course, spice islands are full of spices, and they didn't go to sea with the fleet this time, just a boat to explore, of course, they can only pick up good spices."

Li Er asked.

"What about the rest of the spices?"

Li Yong said with a smile.

"The rest is rotten!"

Li Er's tone suddenly became high.

"It's all rotten?"

Li Yong nodded.

"Anyway, no one will collect it, isn't it rotten, the ground on the spice island has already rotted a thick layer."

Li Er felt that his heart was dripping blood, at that time he still felt that the spices in these forty carriages were so magnificent, so magnificent, but now he suddenly felt distressed, this is just a small part of the spices on the spice island, most of the spices are rotten, isn't it a waste? Originally, he was very excited to see the spices in these dozens of carriages, but now he suddenly felt that it was not fragrant at all, and Li Er said angrily.

"Li Yong, it's not that you said so, you said that you were going to Spice Island, so you would send more boats to follow, so that all the spices on Spice Island would be wasted."

"Sage, do you have a sea ship?"

Li Yong was speechless, he had already told you that he wanted to build a sea ship, but you didn't take it to heart at all.

"That's because you didn't tell X to go to Spice Island, if you want to tell X, why don't you make up a dozen boats for you."

Li Er complained, it can't be his fault anyway, it's all Li Yong's fault, Li Yong complained in his heart after listening to it, and now there are still sea ships in the imperial court? The shipyard that manufactures sea ships is in Huating County, and the broken ships of the sailors have been decomposed or remodeled by themselves, and you still have fart boats in your hands, but Li Yong had to explain slowly.

"The sage misunderstood, the minister didn't plan to go to the Spice Island, Cheng was going to go to the Wa Kingdom, but he encountered a hurricane and happened to be blown to a small Spice Island."

Li Er's eyes widened suddenly, just like that, he met a spice island? Loaded with a shipload of spices? Before Li Yong said that overseas is full of wealth, this is too everywhere, right?

"Isn't that the spice island where your fleet has been?"

Li Er asked, Li Yong shook his head.

"It's different, the one they went to this time was just an inconspicuous island, and the spice islands that my fleet went to were big."

Li Er licked his lips greedily when he heard this.

"How many spice islands are there in this sea?"

Li Yong said with a smile.

"In fact, there are not many spice islands on the sea, and if there are more, it will not be worth much."

"By the way, are there any people on those spice islands you were talking about?"

Li Er asked, and Li Yong smiled.

"There are people on some spice islands, and they all use spices to build houses and cook with spices, because spices are everywhere, so they are not rare at all."

Lean~ Li Er directly burst into a foul mouth, now he has no doubt at all, the spices on these carriages are in excellent condition, obviously after selection, only good quality was selected, so he finally believed what Li Yong said, those spices are everywhere on the island, and he also understands why, how these spices were rudely transported back to Chang'an, because those people have seen spices everywhere, naturally they are not very rare spices, since the island is full of spices, it is natural to burn a fire to build a house, But when he thought of the preciousness of spices, he couldn't help but burst into foul mouths.

"Build a house on fire? It's a terrible thing, how many people are there on their island? How is the combat power? ”

Li Er asked, he was already thinking about how many armies he was going to send.

Li Yong said with a smile.

"The people on the island are isolated from the world, and their lives are very poor, just a few pieces of cloth, a few pots, and any few clay pots can be exchanged for a boat of spices, which is very simple."

Li Er shook his head, does he just want a few boats of spices?

"I didn't expect the people on the island to be so poor, I feel very sorry! If they were the subjects of so-and-so, how could they live in such a difficult situation? ”

Li Er said with a benevolent face.

"A certain will step up shipbuilding, and when the time comes, a certain ship will go out to people, and you will go out to sea to map out the place, and find the spice island, let's add two to five?"

Li Er asked with great interest, although Li Yong said that there were spice islands on the sea before, but after all, he didn't see that the dozens of truckloads of spices shipped back were more convincing, and now Li Er is full of motivation, and he can't wait to immediately build dozens or hundreds of ships to go to sea to sweep the spice islands on the sea, Li Yongxin smiled secretly, just you? Also shipbuilding? What do you think? Li Yong said with a smile.

"The minister thinks that the saint is a little sacrificing!"

Li Er asked in surprise.

"Oh? Abandon the book? ”

Li Yong nodded and said.

"In fact, in my opinion, the spice island is just a small addition to the maritime trade, and the real wealth is the maritime trade! Our Datang's porcelain, tea and brocade are all treasures, and they are in demand wherever they go by sea. ”

Li Er said with a deep groan.

"Our Datang porcelain, tea, and brocade are naturally in demand, but overseas are all barren places, what good things can be?"

Li Yong said with a smile.

"There are gems! There's spice! For example, our Datang is short of gold and silver, and copper, but there are overseas, for example, the Wa country, in the eyes of the sage, the Wa country is a poor and barren land, but the Wa country is rich in silver, I know that the Wa country has a silver mine, but the silver mine is more than all the silver in our Datang combined, and there are places rich in gold, and some places are rich in gemstones. ”

If Li Yong said that Datang lacked anything else, Li Er definitely disagreed, but Li Yong said that Datang lacked gold and silver, and copper, Li Er couldn't refute it, gold and silver are just like who doesn't lack them, and the silver mines in the barren land of a Japanese country are actually more than the silver in Datang combined, which is too eye-catching, Li Er said with some urgency.

"After all, this overseas is too far away, and it is too troublesome to transport troops, so how many ships do you have to build?"

Are you going to send someone to rob it? Li Yong couldn't help but hold his forehead, Li Er, you are the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and you are not a bandit, can you not always think about robbing, can we be civilized? Although I also plan to fight the Japanese country, after all, the group of people who roared at the sky and those who plotted against themselves at that time were there, and this revenge must be avenged, Li Yong pretended to be helpless and said.

"Sage, you don't need to send troops to go on an expedition, but you can do it through trade, and the imperial court only needs to set up a city department to collect taxes."

Li Er swallowed his saliva, and finally remembered that he was not only a military leader, but also the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, so he naturally understood what Li Yong meant, these things really don't need the imperial court, just need to set up a special yamen to manage and collect taxes, just now Li Er did show a little bit dryly.

"There's some truth to what you're saying."