Li Shimin had gone through a detailed investigation before issuing the order.

When they became monks, they relied on their own land and did not pay taxes, so they contracted all these lands to tenants.

They take more than 40 percent of their production as rent.

In this way, they can get enough food without having to cultivate it themselves.

In addition, these temples often set up shops or pawnshops in the city, and these industries allowed them to obtain a lot of money.

Now Li Shimin shouted this sentence obviously to warn these monks: I know everything you are doing, and if you dare to beep, I will send someone to the temple to check and see what you are doing all day long.

For the sake of their own happy life, those monks naturally dare not have any more objections.

However, this matter seems to be very easily quelled, but in fact it is an undercurrent.

There were actually two reasons why there were many monks in the Tang Dynasty.

The first is that some people have been forced to choose to become monks because of the huge loss of land and property caused by wars and natural disasters, and their livelihood is unsustainable.

The original idea of these people was just to survive.

Second, some young and strong children from wealthy families took the initiative to leave their homes in order to avoid hard labor.

These people's families are inextricably linked to the temple, and they have even benefited from it.

Now that the interests of these people have been lost, they will naturally find ways to sabotage the policies of the imperial court.

So these people began to quietly mobilize relations, ready to look for opportunities to create new public opinion.

With the arrival of spring, Li Zhi's previous architectural plans also began to break ground.

Li Zhi, an inn in Chang'an City, asked Pei Mingli to take care of him first, and at the same time asked him to help hire a qualified shopkeeper.

As for the swimming pool in the palace, of course, the work supervisor is in charge.

In both cases, bricks and cement are used in large quantities, so this novel building material has attracted a lot of attention.

In particular, the inn built in Chang'an City is particularly unique from the beginning of the construction of the foundation.

Other people's foundations are filled with gravel and earth, but Li Zhi uses concrete here.

The foundation of other people's houses needs to be tamped layer by layer several times, but Li Zhi only leveled it here except for the bottom tamping once.

This strange phenomenon quickly attracted the attention of many people, who would come here every day to observe the changes.

However, there was no change in the foundation laid for the next ten days, except for someone pouring some water into the foundation from time to time.

Just when people began to wonder, there was finally movement on the foundation.

Workers began to quickly use bricks and cement to build walls, both inside and out.

Such an operation immediately caused people to talk, and everyone was discussing who was so rich.

In this era, bricks were quite expensive building materials, and ordinary people could not afford to use them, and most of the people used were mud and wood.

As the inn was built, the people felt more and more amazement, and by the end they could no longer even understand it.

The second floor of the inn will soon be built, but not a single piece of wood has been seen used here.

This is exactly what Li Zhi wants, and he wants to use this method to make people aware of this way of construction.

The main building of this inn, Li Zhi, planned to use all green bricks and cement.

Even the floor slabs were specially customized by Li Zhi from the ironmaking workshop, and then poured cement to make them.

Not to mention the people who watched the excitement of this kind of operation, even the workers involved in the construction were still a little confused.

The ironmaking workshop in Da'anfang is also undergoing great changes.

A huge renovation work is also underway here.

The foundations are dug deeper and more steel is used.

People were surprised to find that this was an iron-producing workshop, but steel was purchased from other places to be remodeled.

What Li Shimin is most worried about now is here, and at this time he is taking Fang Xuanling and others to visit here.

When he saw that the iron ingots were being remelted and processed into giant steel beams, his whole heart was dripping blood.

Once again, he asked Li Zhi uncertainly: "Pheasant slave, tell my father that the transformation here really won't fail, right?" ”

Li Zhi said: "Please rest assured that the son will promise you that the output of each furnace will increase by at least ten times after the transformation is completed here." ”

After Li Shimin heard Li Zhi's promise, his expression numbly said "oh oh" twice.

Then he frowned and looked at the transformation site.

At the beginning, he only agreed to this transformation after listening to the promise of Li Zhi and Pei Bandshu.

At that time, in order to increase the efficiency of ironmaking by ten times, he even ignored the huge transformation fee declared by the two, and directly agreed without hesitation.

It wasn't until this time that the renovation had begun that he thought of coming to see it, but he didn't expect that what caught his eyes was such a wasteful scene.

Fang Xuanling and the others on the side also muttered in their hearts when they saw this situation.

This kind of cost is too great, in case of failure, wouldn't the imperial court lose a lot?

After seeing their expressions, Li Zhi opened his mouth and comforted: "Your Excellency, you don't need to worry, this improvement has already been discussed in detail with Lord Pei and the Bakken Iron Envoy, and it will not fail." ”

Wang Qi pursed his lips after listening to Li Zhi's words, and finally couldn't help but ask: "Your Highness, isn't there any other way to transform the process?" It's just too wasteful. ”

After saying this, he was afraid that Li Zhi would misunderstand, and then added: "The minister is just worried that the ministers will raise objections on this matter." ”

Li Zhi knew what he meant by that.

It's just that this matter wastes too many resources, and they are afraid that they will be blamed by the ministers of the court for failing to stop it after failure.

Thinking of this, Li Zhi didn't talk nonsense with him, and said directly to Li Shimin: "Although my father can rest assured, if this matter fails, his son is willing to resign from all his positions and give up his fief and food." ”

Li Shimin was taken aback by Li Zhi's promise, and hurriedly said: "My son must not be like this, since the father has agreed to this matter, the responsibility will be borne by the father." ”

Fang Xuanling was also frightened after listening to Li Zhi's words.

His Royal Highness the King of Jin is really willing to gamble on his fiefdom.

Could it be that he really had so much faith in this transformation?

Thinking of this, he also said on the side: "I just want to confirm the possibility of success in this matter, and His Highness does not need to guarantee it like this." ”

Wang Qi and Li Jing also nodded awkwardly.

They didn't expect Li Zhi to be so sophisticated at such a young age.

He and the others just said it casually, and he heard the thoughts behind it.

Fang Xuanling and the three of them quietly glanced at each other, and they all saw a touch of helplessness in each other's eyes.

The emperor's father and son are really two foxes, big and small, wouldn't it be obvious to let himself and others be responsible for performing such a drama of father's kindness and filial piety in front of himself and others?