Because of the death of the Dou family, Li Yuan did not establish another queen, so Su Xiaoxiao and the three of them visited Li Yuan in the palace, and after thanking him, he was accompanied by Li Shimin to the Zhou Palace, and Gao Buer was left by Li Yuan.

At the beginning of the lamp, the emperor's bedroom, Li Yuanping retired everyone, only he and Gao Bu'er, sitting in light clothes and thin shirts, sat in front of the small table and drinking, and the fireworks in the indoor charcoal stove were rolling, warm as spring.

I only heard Li Yuan say: "You and my brother Chang'an have said goodbye, and now it has been many spring and autumn periods, and I am already dying." ”

Gao Buer and Li Yuan drank a glass of wine and said, "How can Your Majesty be called old, just in the prime of life." ”

"What is the name of Your Majesty between you and my brothers, it is for others, I will be happy if you call me big brother, and then call Your Majesty, be careful that I drive people away."

Gao Buer smiled and said, "Big brother." ”

"That's pretty much it."

"The years are not forgiving, I was a child when I first met my eldest brother, and now I have reached the age of the crown."

"So big brother is old."

"The eldest brother is in the prime of life, but don't talk about the old, now the world is decided, and when the eldest brother is worried about it, I just heard the people of the world say that the sister-in-law has become ancient, why don't you tell me, what's going on."

Hearing that Gao Buer said Dou's, Li Yuan wept, and came over for a long time before saying: "Speaking of your sister-in-law, it's the eldest brother who is sorry for her, a few years ago, the family was squandered by me to make ends meet, your sister-in-law was filial to her parents, and her brothers were upbringing, and they were sick from hard work, and you were already sick when you saw them in Chang'an, but it was not very serious at that time. ”

At this point, the two of them had another drink.

Li Yuan continued: "Later, I migrated several times, and the family followed me everywhere, and they all endured hardships, and soon after they gave birth to two brothers, Xuanba and Yuanji, who knew that Xuanba died early, so that your sister-in-law's old illness recurred, and she soon died." ”

Seeing Li Yuan sad and crying, Gao Buer comforted him for a while, and when Li Yuan was in a better mood, Gao Buer said: "Sister-in-law has worked hard for this family, so that the younger brother admires, and the younger brother wants to pay tribute to the sister-in-law tomorrow, I don't know if it's okay." ”

"Your sister-in-law has always been grateful to you before her death, she will be very happy if you go, and now I will bury her in the Chang'an Imperial Mausoleum, and call Shangcheng and their brothers to go together."

After the matter was decided, Gao Buer said: "Now that you are the emperor, eldest brother, and the harem is huge, aren't you going to set up another eldest sister-in-law to manage the harem for you?" ”

Li Yuanyi waved his hand and said: "I have your sister-in-law and a queen in my heart, and I already have a few brothers who have built them, and I don't want to think so much about the others, you also saw that there are only a few people in my harem, and there is only one to speak." ”

Gao Buer nodded, drank a glass of wine and changed the subject: "Big brother, I came to Chang'an this time, first, I haven't seen my eldest brother miss you for a long time, so I came to see you, and second, I thank my eldest brother." ”

"Thank you for your kindness, if you say this to our family again in the future, I will close the door."

Gao Buer said: "Okay, the other thing is the most important thing, that is, now the world has been decided, at that time, I didn't have many people in the southern counties, and most of the county guards used the officials of the Sui Dynasty, so these need to be sent by the imperial court to take over as soon as possible." ”

"Brother, you arranged it very well, and now many officials in the court are also former Sui officials."

"That's different, it's easy to control in front of you, Jiangnan, especially Lingnan, is far away from Jingshi, or replace it with a caring person, in case it takes a long time to cause trouble, if the eldest brother misses the old feelings, you can gradually transfer them to Jingshi to work."

Li Yuan nodded in agreement: "It's still thoughtful brother." ”

"After all, this is a long-term solution, and there is also the problem of how to settle the soldiers and horses in Jiangnan."

"Brother, what do you think, you say it first."

"I think Hangzhou can leave 60,000 horses, the other nearly 200,000 horses, I suggest the north, now the south is basically stable, the main factors of instability in the country and dynasty are the East Turks in the north and Tuguhun and West Turks, etc., after the soldiers and horses are transferred to the north, the defense forces of these two places can be enriched, especially to focus on the defense of Chang'an, and we must not learn from Yang Guangkong Guanzhong, after all, this is the foundation of the world."

"What my brother said is very true, but is it enough for Hangzhou to leave only 60,000 horses."

"It's enough, after all, the south is sparsely populated, plus more than 100,000 horses stationed in various counties and counties, it is enough to maintain tranquility."

"Okay, just do what you say, brother, you worry about the unification of our family, come and toast you for your brother, if it weren't for the fact that you are a single lineage, I want you to be surnamed Li."

"Haha, it's the same whether the surname is Li or not, we are brothers."

"That's right! Brother-german. ”

After drinking the wine in the cup, Gao Buer suggested to Li Yuan: "Now that my Datang territory is extremely extensive, we must strengthen the connection between the capital and the locality, which is the foundation of the country's long-term stability. ”

"Brother is right, do you want Brother Wei to build a gallop road across the country like the First Emperor?"

"Of course not, and today's preliminary decision is the time for the people to recuperate, and if the people are recruited from Guang, it is tantamount to following Yang Guang's old path."

"Is there a better way to do it, brother?"

"The eldest brother asked people to bring pen and ink, and I talked with the eldest brother while drawing."

Li Yuan got up and took the red pen and red clay from the dragon case and gave it to Gao Buer and said: "You still know how to Danqing, you can make do with this, our brothers won't call outsiders to disturb us, we will have a long talk tonight." ”

Gao Buji took it and said: "I have heard people overseas say that they can only paint by imagination, and I have been researching it, because I have not been able to settle down for these years, and I still don't have an eyebrow." After speaking, he drew the rails and trains in the future on rice paper.

Li Yuan looked at it for a long time, frowned, and said, "What is this?" ”

"I heard that it is a means of transportation that does not need to be pushed by people or pulled by oxen, and the one on it is called a train, and I heard that it is the water vapor generated by burning coal to propel the car to run, just like the water vapor pushes the lid of the kettle up and down after our kettle is boiled. The next two are rails made of iron, and when the tracks are laid there, the train can run wherever it goes, and I heard that it can travel sixty or seventy miles in an hour, which is far from being comparable to the strength of man and livestock. ”

"This thing is wonderful, I don't know where that person is, let's ask him carefully."

"I may not have seen each other for a long time, so I can only figure it out for myself, this is really going to be figured out, which can shorten the time for Jingshi to travel to various places and strengthen the rule over the places. The future brothers are going to spend all their time on this, maybe years, maybe decades, even generations. ”

"Brother, just do it, I fully support you, let's not succeed and let them continue to do it, this is definitely a great merit for the present and the future, I look forward to that day."

"Okay, I'll try. However, big brother, before that, we must give full play to the role of the Grand Canal, which connects the north and the south and is a very important transportation channel. ”

"I also know what you said, so I asked people to build a palace for you on the basis of Yang Guangxing Palace in Jiangdu, and I can rest assured that you will hold the lifeblood of money and food in Jiangnan for me."

"It is incumbent on me to relieve my eldest brother's worries and be a younger brother, but can I forget about building the palace, and now I am in ruins, and if I can't do it, I won't do it, after all, you also know that my family has four people, plus less than twenty servants, so the big house won't be abandoned for me to live in."

"It's because I'm worried about frugality, so I thought about changing the palace to make the palace, if you don't agree, then I'll order someone to choose a new site in Hangzhou."

As a last resort, Gao Fuji had to accept it.

Then Gao Buer handed over the manufacturing method of artillery and gunpowder to Li Yuan, Li Yuan had long heard that Gao Buji had an artifact that could thunder, but he heard Li Xiaogong talk about the difficulty of manufacturing, so he didn't ask, and now he heard that Gao Buji will be the danger of explosives and the low success rate of artillery, and finally saw it.

"I've heard Xiaogong say that this artillery is so difficult to make, but no matter how difficult it is to make such an artifact, if you have it, my Tang army will really be invincible."

Gao Buer nodded in agreement, and suggested that a special craftsman supervisor be set up to conduct research and manufacturing, but Li Yuan did not refuse.

Gao Buer said again: "Now that the eldest brother has set the capital in Chang'an, then he can no longer rely on the south to supply Chang'an with grain from the south to the north like the Sui Dynasty, and must achieve self-sufficiency. ”

"What my brother said is that my brother has also paid attention to this problem, and he has begun to think about it, but the crops are not anything else, pick a place, and I don't know what is best to plant."

So Gao Buer recommended the sweet potato to Li Yuan, and today there are hundreds of wastes to be revived, the most lacking is food, as soon as he heard that there is a new grain with a yield of forty or fifty deniers per mu, he does not pick the land, the north and south of the river can be planted, and the south has been planted for many years, the yield per mu is terrifying, Li Yuan immediately couldn't sit still.

Seeing that the sky was already dawning, he immediately sent an order to let Hangzhou Assassin Gu Ci expedite 800 li to escort Yin Qiao into Beijing, and Li Yuan was ready to appoint him as the Great Synon, responsible for promoting new farm tools and new grain. In addition, he also had to bring enough sweet potatoes to be planted on 10,000 acres of land, and this kind of high-yield grain would be promoted to the world one day earlier, and one less person would starve to death, so Li Yuan attached great importance to it.

Later, he ordered Li Jiancheng's three brothers and the clan to enter the palace, and Li Yuan was ready to arrange firearms manufacturing and train research and development.

Li Jiancheng's three brothers are close to the palace, the first to enter the palace, Li Yuan, Gao Buer and two people have been waiting for them in the imperial study, seeing the three brothers coming, immediately let the three brothers kneel to Gao Buer to bow to the uncle and nephew, the three brothers are happy and convinced, pay respects, Gao Buer one by one to help them up.