Chang'an City, Yan Lide and others have already set off, and the Ministry of Industry is also seizing the time to engage in research and production.

Not to mention, since the beginning of the industrial reform, the craftsmen of the entire Chang'an have been refreshed, at least in terms of spiritual outlook.

Everyone looks very energetic.

As for the court, it is very interesting, and everyone maintains a wait-and-see posture.

In short, today's Datang is a thriving performance.

"Such Chang'an, can there be a prosperous style?" On Suzaku Street, Li Er was quite leisurely, looking at the pedestrians coming and going, and asked the attendants around him with interest.

The inner servants are usually flattering, and when they heard Li Er say this, they immediately smiled and said: "Naturally, there is, the old slave lived for three dynasties and seven emperors, but it was the first time I saw such a prosperous Chang'an City." ”

Don't look at his words as bragging, but when he hears Li Er's ears, he is still so comfortable.

"It's not easy to be peaceful in the world!" Li Er said with emotion, "Looking back on so many years, there was such a prosperous era in the southern and northern wars, but the road ahead is long, who knows?"

What the common people want is nothing more than a stable and emperor, if such a simple request cannot meet the people, how is it different from the former Sui? ”

Li Er's thinking was very jumpy, and it was obvious that the chamberlain beside him couldn't parry.

But fortunately, Li Er only sighed, and immediately waved his hand and said, "Find a workshop to see." ”

Just as the waiter was about to find a workshop to see, someone came over and whispered a few words in the waiter's ear.

"What's wrong?" Li Er asked.

"Da Ming is here." The chamberlain immediately said, "I'm waiting outside the palace gate at this time." ”

"Go back to the palace." When Li Er heard this, he lost the idea of inspecting the workshop, and immediately took everyone back to the palace.

After returning to the Liangyi Palace, Li Er asked the messenger to come up, looked at it, and saw that this person was dressed as a foreign race, so he asked, "Xianbei people?" ”

"Back to His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, the foreign minister is from the Yiyuan clan of Chishuiyuan."

Li Er nodded and said, "This time, Your Highness sent you to Chang'an, what explanation do you have?" ”

He was also curious about what Li Chengqian was sending an envoy to Chang'an to do at this time.

When the envoy heard this, he immediately took out two letters from his chest, and without saying anything, Li Er understood, and immediately asked the chamberlain to take the letter.

After opening the two letters and glancing at them, Li Er was obviously stunned.

These two letters were written by the eldest grandson Chong after learning about the specific situation in Deyang City.

One is in Li Chengqian's tone, telling how he discovered Yao Da's identity, of course, these contents are true and false, and it is difficult to distinguish between them.

The other letter is in Yao Da's tone, accusing Yin Hongzhi of slaughtering the eldest grandson Anye's family back then, and begging Li Er to be the master of the eldest grandson's family.

"Yao Da, is that little beggar who followed your Royal Highness back then?" Li Er asked.

"Exactly." The messenger said, "Now I am a hundred captains in the Ming Youth Army." ”

Li Er nodded, but didn't say anything.

He still has an impression of this Yao Da, after all, he is the first batch of fans to follow Li Chengqian.

It's just that I didn't expect this guy to be the son of the eldest grandson Anye.

Thinking of this, he waved his hand and said, "I know about this, so let's go down and rest." ”

After the envoy left, Li Er's second hand made a move, and a ghostly chamberlain appeared behind Li Er.

"Then Yao Da, you secret spy department have an impression."

"Back to Your Majesty's words." The secret spy said, "Yes, when His Highness had not left Chang'an, this person had contact with His Highness. ”

"Huh?" Li Er really can't remember, but Li Chengqian is the prince of the Tang Dynasty, who he has come into contact with and what he has done, naturally someone will help him keep an eye on it, "Tell me." ”

"On that day, His Royal Highness was impeached by everyone because of the wine-making matter, and he went out of the palace to relax in a distraught, and happened to meet this Yao Da.

Maybe it was a whim, His Highness asked these beggars, what do they think of His Highness's winemaking?

At that time, those beggars said that His Highness's winemaking was His Highness's own business, and it didn't cost them a big son.

As for His Royal Highness's preference to make wine rather than give food to them, it has nothing to do with them, others are willing to give, they take it, and they are grateful, and others are not willing to give, so they will find another way, but they can't blame others.

Perhaps it was because of this that when His Highness met these beggars again in Jingyang, he took them all away. ”

"It's a bit backbone." Li Er smiled, "Listening to the tone, it does seem to be from a high-ranking family, but is it really such a coincidence?" ”

Chang'an encountered it once, Jingyang encountered it again, and it was in a short period of time, Li Er didn't believe it.

"Send someone to investigate, not only to check this Yao Da, but also other beggars, all for me to check."

As an emperor, he has supreme power, not to mention that there are doubts, even if there are no doubts, he will not just fool the past.

The chamberlain of the secret spy department nodded when he heard this, and immediately made arrangements.

But Li Er showed an evil smile.

"Interesting, Yin Hongzhi's family has just been slaughtered, and the old story of the eldest grandson Anye has been turned over." Li Er said, "Don't let the queen know about this matter for the time being, if anyone leaks the news, it will be severely punished!"

By the way, send someone to contact the messenger of the Ming Dynasty to see if he has any intention of joining the Tang Dynasty?

As long as he is willing to join Datang, the conditions are good. ”

After Li Er arranged these, he began to close his eyes and recuperate, it is actually inappropriate to say that he closed his eyes and recuperated his nerves, Li Er was actually contemplating at this time.

He was pondering the timing of Yao Da's appearance.

"Your Majesty, Taohe County is eight hundred miles in an emergency." At this moment, someone hurriedly ran in.

When Li Er heard this, his eyes widened: "Submit it." ”

After reading the recital of the eldest grandson Wuji, Li Er nodded, and he was more and more satisfied with the eldest grandson Wuji.

At the beginning of the eldest grandson Wuji's tenure, Li Er gave him absolute rights, after all, if you want to do things, you can't be restrained, but the eldest grandson Wuji still talks about the rules.

At this point, Li Er is very satisfied.

"That's right, a group of corpse vegetarian people, it's long time to have changed." Li Er immediately said, "Come on, the intention is ......"

……

The gaze returned to Sun Moon Mountain.

Daming Palace, Qunying Palace.

Li Chengqian was also discussing with the ministers.

"Your Highness, didn't you promise not to use troops in the Western Regions for a few years?" Ashina said with some surprise, "Doing this, will it make the world laugh?" ”

"Did this king say that he was going to use troops against the Western Regions?" Li Chengqian raised his head and asked curiously.

Ashina Ni looked at a group of people lying on the table to study the map of the Western Regions, this is boring, I am not blind.

Seeing his constipated look, Li Chengqian smiled and said, "The issue of the Western Regions does not necessarily have to use troops. That, Pu Shangshu, you can tell me. ”

When Puxi heard this, he immediately smiled and said: "Whether it is His Highness or our Da Ming, they are by no means people who break their promises and gain weight, and the reason why we are here to study the issue of the Western Regions is by no means to use swords against the Western Regions."

Moreover, His Royal Highness said at the Yongshan Festival before, Daming has been fighting many times for more than a year, whether it is the people or the soldiers, if it is not necessary, it is time to recuperate, how can it be easy to use swords? ”

"And where are you?" Ashina didn't dare to ask Li Chengqian, but in the face of Puxiruo, he didn't have so many worries.

Puxi patted his head and said apologetically: "It's all my fault, after we formulated the economic strategy for the Western Regions, we didn't have time to tell Ashina Shangshu, no, I misunderstood." ”

Ashina has just surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, and he really doesn't know many of the strategies of the Ming Dynasty, which is also reasonable.

Of course, Ashina Ni is not against the use of troops against the Western Regions at this time, he just wants to show his sense of existence.

After being in Sun Moon Mountain for so long, although he presided over all the affairs of the ministry, in the final analysis, he still couldn't do anything.

That's all Li Chengqian's words, okay, he, the secretary of the ministry, is more like an ornament many times.

This was not the result he wanted, after all, he was still worried about his own people.

After all, only if he has more power in Sun Moon Mountain, can he better maintain his people.

"That's the old man's misunderstanding." Ashina smiled and said, "Since it's a business strategy for the Western Regions, the old man doesn't understand this, or the old man will retire first?" ”

"Ashina Shangshu is right." Li Chengqian smiled when he heard this, "Work together, there are so many people here, who dares to say that they are easy to do in business?" Aren't they all growing up step by step?

In this way, Pu Shangshu, you will first introduce the situation to everyone. ”

Pu Xiru immediately nodded and said: "That's right, we have negotiated with various countries before to build a treaty port on the border.

Now the two treaty ports that have been determined are one of the Tang Dynasty, which is ready to be placed in the east of Deyang City, and the field that has been prepared before.

With the field as the center, we will build a treaty port with Datang.

We'll talk about that later.

Today we are talking about the treaty ports built with the countries of the Western Regions.

We have also chosen a place for this port, and we will set it here! ”

As he spoke, Pu Xiru pointed to the map, and everyone took advantage of the situation to look over, only to see that the place happened to be Sandbank City.

"Before, the high county guard of Shazhou had sent someone to send a message back, saying that they had communicated with the countries of the Western Regions, and they were also willing to set the treaty port here."

"The sandbar is indeed the most suitable place." He Li also said, "Although this place is not big, it borders several countries, and it is estimated that even if we don't say it, the countries of the Western Regions will choose this location as a port." ”

"That's right." Li Chengqian also said, "It's not important, what is important, what should we do after we establish this treaty port?" ”

"What does Your Highness mean?" Ashina was still unfamiliar with Li Chengqian, so he asked curiously when he heard the words.

Li Chengqian didn't hide it, and immediately said: "Although this king did promise not to use swords in the Western Regions within 20 years, this king will never forget this."

But you have also seen the current situation, the Tang Dynasty sent the eldest grandson Wuji to serve as the county guard of Dohe County, and sent Wei Chi Jingde to lead all the military of Dohe County.

What does this mean?

This is not counting, at this moment, Datang is storming Xue Yantuo in the north.

What does all this mean? ”

"Datang is guarding us?" Ashina Ni said immediately.

In fact, this is also his purpose, the reason why he led the Western Turks to join the Tang Dynasty is that he doesn't want the Ming Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty to be monolithic, in that case, let alone his Western Turks, the surrounding countries will be panicked.

"It's not like it's guarding against us." Li Chengqian said with a smile, "Although my Ming Dynasty has developed rapidly in the past two years, for Datang, in the final analysis, it is still a country of projectiles, so what is there to guard against?"

Datang has all these things, but he just wants to curb my Ming Dynasty's eastward advance.

In other words, Datang has cut off all possibilities for us to advance eastward.

But what they do is a fatal threat to my Daming.

This king has never thought of going east, and he can't go east, but they are blocking our way.

Although this king is still the prince of the Tang Dynasty, no one can say what will happen in the future, in this case, I must have a way out.

After all, whether this king, the prince of the Tang Dynasty, will not be able to sit firmly in the future, let alone two words.

If something unspeakable really happens in the future, and Datang waves its troops westward, what will we do?

Therefore, we must have this retreat!

And the Western Regions is our only way out. ”

Hearing Li Chengqian say this, everyone also nodded subconsciously.

That's right, you can't have the heart of harming people, but you can't have the heart of guarding against people.

"But His Highness promised the countries of the Western Regions before that they would not use troops in the Western Regions for twenty years, and if they broke their promises and became fat, they were afraid of causing dissatisfaction among the people of the world." Ashina said.

He has a particularly close relationship with the countries of the Western Regions, so he naturally has to speak for the countries of the Western Regions at this time.

This is not surprising to everyone.

When Ashina was brutalized by Ashina, he fled to the Western Regions, and it was not a bad thing for him to miss the old love.

"That's pretty reassuring." Li Chengqian said, "This king has never thought of using troops against the Western Regions, but if you want to plan the Western Regions, you don't necessarily have to use troops, right?" ”

Speaking of this, Li Chengqian smiled mysteriously.

When Li Qinjian heard this, he immediately reacted, and immediately said: "Your Highness means that you want to take the Western Regions from the commercial level. ”

"Those who know me are not Li Shilang." Li Chengqian said with a smile, "In the eyes of many of you, business is just a fly and a dog to make profits.

But in the eyes of this king, business, that is a sharp weapon!

The reason why you are all in a hurry to come here today is that this king has something to do with everyone. ”

"Your Highness, please command." When everyone heard this, they immediately said, "Weichen don't dare to disobey!" ”

Li Chengqian waved his hand and said, "Don't be so serious, this matter is also a good thing for you." ”

"A good thing?" Everyone was stunned.

Li Chengqian said with a smile: "This king wants each of you to form a caravan and enter the Western Regions!" Not only you, but if you can, your relatives, friends, and friends, as long as they are capable, can form a caravan and enter the Western Regions.

You can sell the treasures of my Ming Dynasty to the Western Regions, or you can open a Changming Restaurant in the Western Regions, as long as all the livelihood needs of my Ming Dynasty, you can get them to the Western Regions. ”

"It's as simple as that?" Everyone was stunned again.

It's not that hard, and it's a good thing for them.

The things produced by Daming, wherever they are put are in demand.

"Your Highness, glass can also be sold to the Western Regions?" Ihara Feng immediately asked.

"Why not?" Li Chengqian said, "You have to have the ability, you can sell as much as you can, and in the next few years, all goods will be sold to the Western Regions first!" ”

"Your Highness, then give this glass to Weichen." Yi Yuanfeng immediately smiled and said, "If this is sold to the Western Regions, those local buns in the Western Regions must not be like crazy, crazy to buy them!" ”

"Glass counts me as one." Yi Yuanxi also shouted, "That business is too big, you can't eat it alone." ”

Both of them have big families, and each has a large group of clansmen, although they are all high-ranking officials now, but who doesn't want to leave more family business for their children and grandchildren.

When the rest of the people heard this, they also went crazy.

This one has to do this, that one has to do that, it's the same as dividing the land, it's not lively.

"There's no rush to this." Li Chengqian waved his hand and said, "When the time comes, the lottery will be decided, and the lot will be drawn every six months, and if you draw a big one, it will be lucky, and if you draw a small one, don't be discouraged."

But there is a saying that the king has to say first. ”

"Your Highness just commands." When everyone heard this, they immediately spoke.

At this moment, everyone's faces were full of excitement.

"The money you earned in the Western Regions is not allowed to be brought back, and all the materials you have earned in the Western Regions will be exchanged for the king in exchange for the materials in the Western Regions, whether it is grain, ore, or cattle and sheep.

Well, the grain is placed on the sandbar, and the rest can be pulled back. ”

"Your Highness, rest assured." As soon as they heard this, everyone immediately shouted, "This is simple, not a big problem!" Wechen kept all those things and exchanged them for all kinds of materials to bring back to His Highness. ”

They already get it.

Li Chengqian has said more than once that copper coins can't be eaten!

The biggest role of money is that it can be exchanged for anything useful, but when one day, you can't buy anything with copper coins, hehe, the copper coins are not as good as paper to wipe your buttocks.

"And." Li Chengqian said, "After you go to the Western Regions, you want to invest in the Western Regions on a large scale, that is, regardless of whether the business makes money or not, you will first invest in this king."

At the same time, open more restaurants, do more hedonistic business, and occupy the market in the Western Regions as soon as possible.

At this point, in fact, it is not a big problem, after all, there is the Ming Dynasty to support you, even if those merchants in the Western Regions have great ability, but they do not have your background.

Of course, you also have to unite yourselves, don't go to the Western Regions and pinch yourself when you see those two broken copper coins.

Remember, making money is secondary, and mastering the economic lifeline of the Western Regions is the most important thing. ”

Li Chengqian not only wanted to grasp the economic lifeline of the Western Regions, but he also wanted to widen the gap between the rich and the poor in the Western Regions, and at the same time vigorously engaged in hedonism.

This can really be done in the Western Regions.

After all, although the Western Regions is not a large place, the princes and nobles are the most dense.

As soon as they heard Li Chengqian say this, everyone immediately understood.

One by one, hey, hey, hey, only laughed.

They know this!

It's just that they don't know that the world's first large-scale and organized economic war will be started by them.

(End of chapter)