From this era, the largest city in the world is Chang'an, where is the prosperity of Jiangnan? That is bustling in the city numerous.

If you talk about a city alone, there is still no way to compare it with Chang'an City, but it can also be seen from the clothes of these people that this side is indeed much richer than the north.

From the end of the Sui Dynasty to the present, the north has been in the midst of war, and Jiangnan is also the tax base of the entire imperial court.

In addition to the capital, there is no way to compare with the south of the Yangtze River in other cities in the whole north, at this moment Li Xiang walked down from the boat, looked at the people living and working in peace and contentment on both sides, and nodded with satisfaction in his heart, this is a basis for Li Xiang to be able to fight outside.

Although Li Xiang's system can exchange a large number of materials, there are still many requisitioned from the treasury in Jiangnan, if there is no silent contribution from the people of Jiangnan, then I am afraid that the current Datang is not so powerful.

"His Royal Highness, Chitose Chitose Chitose!"

Whenever Li Xiang went to a place, the people of Jiangnan would kneel down and kowtow to Li Xiang, first of all, they couldn't see those Fusang robbers now, and secondly, they bought a large number of cheap Fusang slaves.

You must know that many places in Jiangnan are short of human resources.

Although in the past, whenever Li Xiang conquered a country, there would be a large number of slaves pulled over, but the number was not very large, and it had been carved up in the north.

Especially around Hangzhou Bay, which is the richest place in the whole country, and the merchants in the south of the Yangtze River are also relatively wealthy, and the price of their slaves is often slightly higher than that of the merchants in the north, so many slave traders are willing to sell people here.

After having sufficient labor, some land that was not very cultivated was also reclaimed, coupled with the advantage of two crops a year, so the grain production here was higher, and the local people also lived a good life with these slaves.

The second is that after Li Xiang, who was transported back from outside, captured Goguryeo, the merchants in Jiangnan also found business opportunities, so they pooled a sum of money and went to sea one after another, all thinking of being able to start their own business in Goguryeo.

At present, they are doing well, every time there is a festival, a lot of money is shipped back from overseas, most of it is the harvest of Goguryeo's grain, which is all the credit of His Royal Highness Taisun, if His Royal Highness Taisun did not lay down Goguryeo, then where did we get all this money?

"Your Highness, this is a golden body that our whole village has made for you."

When Li Xiang inspected the city of Hangzhou, an old man came over with a golden statue, which was made of all gold.

"What is this, old sir?"

After Lord Hangzhou Thorn Shiwen saw this scene, he didn't let others stop him, this village should indeed give Li Xiang a golden body.

"Your Highness, listen to him slowly, and when he finishes speaking, this golden body will be necessary."

Listening to the meaning of Lord Wen's words, it seems that the people in this village have made a lot of money in their own policies.

"What Master Wen said is that there are a total of 150 households in our village, and there are now more than 100 young and middle-aged people in Goguryeo, and our village has been allocated a large amount of land, and there are also a large number of Fusang slaves, although it is in the bitter cold land of the far north, but the grain income of last year alone is worth 30 times that of our whole village."

The old man said very happily that their village was such a big family, and when the imperial court made the decision to emigrate, many people were watching, but their village was already organizing people to go.

Fortunately, they went early, the first batch of people went to twice as many as the second batch, who let the land have the adventurous spirit to go early, if the second batch of people are not convinced, then why don't you go on the road early?

Of course, these people also have the spirit of hardship, in the environment of more than minus 20 degrees, the annual grain is only ripe once a year, but fortunately, the place is relatively large, and there are a large number of Fusang slaves, so they transported back a lot of money in the village, but the draught does not forget to dig wells, this first money of course to create a golden body for Li Xiang.

"Old man, this is all the hard work of the people in your village, I will accept this golden body, but I will take out the same amount of land as this golden body from the land of my Fusang and give it to your village."

Li Xiang asked the little eunuch next to him to accept this golden body, but Li Xiang couldn't take the people's things for no reason, even if they were given by the people, the current Tang officialdom is still clear, and Li Xiang can't let himself break this rule.

"How can this work? How can this work? ”

As soon as the old man heard this, he was anxious, and the old and young masters of the whole village asked him to give gifts, who knew that such a result would be given, wouldn't this mean that His Royal Highness bought this golden body? What does it have to do with the people in their village.

However, Li Xiang had already moved forward at the moment, and the old man still wanted to say a few words to Li Xiang, but the people on both sides were so enthusiastic that they didn't even have a chance to defend the old man.

Along the way, Li Xiang also felt that when an empire takes the right path, the cohesion of the people will be greatly strengthened, and now is the period of rapid development of the entire Tang Empire, from officialdom to the people, all people have only one idea, that is, to see what the outside world can bring us.

Li Xiang finally made all the people make some changes, of course, this change is not enough, only a small number of people go out, more people still like to guard their own acres and threes of land, in their opinion, no matter how good the foreign land is, it is not as good as the piece left by the ancestors.

Of course, this part of the people are vested interests, and it is too dangerous for them to go to the north of Goguryeo to find food, so it is better to stay in the same place and live a little harder.

Of course, everyone has their own ambitions, and Li Xiang can't send all the people to the frontier to see the wealth of the people in the south of the Yangtze River, Li Xiang's heart also has a bottom, and he originally wanted to rest for a few years, but now it seems that there is no need to repair at all, Datang still has the strength to support other foreign wars, after all, the previous wars did not hurt Datang's national capital.

On this trip to Lingnan, Li Xiang's inspection was to prepare for the next war.