The imperial court built roads and bridges to improve transportation, and naturally came first from Gyeonggi Province around Chang'an City.

Therefore, in addition to vigorously building roads to the Western Regions, Liangzhou, which is close to Yongzhou, is also building roads at the same time.

The case that several people talked about was related to the current governor of Liangzhou, Li Yuanchang, the king of Han.

Nowadays, the cost of building roads is higher than before, mainly reflected in the labor cost.

The reason for this is simple.

Because the country has money, many of the previous policies have begun to gradually try to abolish them.

Among these attempts to abolish the system was the forced labor system.

In the Tang Dynasty, the conscription was divided into regular and miscellaneous servants.

Regular service is divided into force service and military service, and miscellaneous service is possible to do any work.

Conscription had to work for the court for twenty days a year.

And you have to take care of yourself for eating and drinking for these twenty days.

To put it bluntly, the country does not spend a penny in vain.

In fact, all parts of Datang have not been very stable in recent years.

Every now and then, disasters of one kind or another occur.

Therefore, the imperial court's conscription system was not very strictly enforced.

Many times, Li Shimin is exempt if he can be exempted.

Li Zhi has always felt that this kind of white envoy calling people is a bit immoral, and now the imperial court also has money.

Therefore, he took Fang Xuanling and others together to persuade Li Shimin to try to cancel the conscription.

Today, all the labor used to build roads is paid for.

As soon as this practice of spending money to hire people was implemented, Li Yuanchang discovered the loopholes in it.

Datang's abolition of conscription is now only a trial trial, so there is no fanfare for publicity.

And the hired people did not know that the imperial court had abolished the conscription.

Therefore, Li Yuanchang started to think about this.

He bribed Lu Benwei, a member of the Ministry of Works, who was sent by the Ministry of Industry to supervise the work, and the two worked together to conceal the exemption from forced labor.

In this way, a lot of labor costs are saved.

And all this money fell into the pockets of Li Yuanchang and Lu Benwei.

Liangzhou is Li Yuanchang's base camp, and the officials under him naturally dare not break this matter.

Moreover, Li Yuanchang also leaked some from his fingers to distribute to them.

So it went fairly smoothly in the beginning.

But there is also a loophole.

That is, the person in charge of directing the construction of the road was sent from the general as an overseer.

Although the people who will be sent as supervisors are only a few inconspicuous officials, they are also able to talk to their superiors.

And now the prison will be all loyal supporters of Li Zhi.

Therefore, Li Zhi naturally knew many things early on.

But Li Yuanchang, who was involved in this matter, and Lu Benwei's boss Duan Lun are all related to Li Zhi.

Therefore, Li Zhi really didn't want to interfere in this matter.

This is why the eldest grandson Wuji wonders why Li Zhi has become low-key recently.

Since you don't want to take care of things, you naturally need to hide.

So Li Zhi simply took Li Zhe and the two around the entire Yongzhou every day.

If you see where the road is not easy to walk, ask someone to repair the road, and take someone to build the bridge where you need to build it.

Anyway, as long as it is not necessary, Li Zhi will definitely not appear in the court, or even in Chang'an City.

But although Li Zhi can hide, there are some things that can't be covered by paper after all.

There were 30,000 people involved in the construction of the road, if not 50,000.

With so many people's network spreading, what can be hidden for a long time?

So not long ago, someone finally learned about the exemption of the imperial court from forced labor.

Therefore, what Li Yuanchang did was gradually understood by everyone present.

Dai Guan's question is aimed at this matter.

And Li Daozong's explanation also shows that he has also heard about this matter.

However, Li Daozong was lucky.

He had just succeeded Chen Shuda, who was not in good health, as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

Just escaped this thing that gave him a headache too.

Wei Zheng, who was on the side, spoke: "Your Highness, this matter will have an impact on the reputation of the royal family after all.

If you can't deal with it as soon as possible, once the matter gets to the emperor, it's not easy to explain! ”

Li Zhi smiled bitterly: "Then Li Yuanchang is the uncle of this king, and he has a lot of dealings with my eldest brother."

Even that Lu Benwei is also from the Lu family, and his top boss Duan Lun is the uncle of this king.

Tell me about it, and what can the king do about it? ”

After listening to Li Zhi's words, everyone couldn't help but look at Fang Xuanling on the side.

Fang Xuanling hurriedly spoke: "Don't look at this official like this.

Although the official is related to the Lu family, he is not enough to protect Lu Benwei. ”

Wang Qi, who was getting older, said: "This matter has caused a large deficit of money in the imperial court, and we as ministers always have to share the emperor's worries!" ”

Li Zhi said to him: "Seeing that Lord Wang's energy is getting low day by day, it is better to find a time to go to the medical school for a check-up." ”

Although Li Zhi did not say this explicitly, he also indirectly warned Wang Jue, telling him not to meddle in this matter.

Wang Qi is now nearly seventy years old, and it can be said that he may become a leader at any time.

And so far, the children of his family have not become talents.

If he intervenes in this matter at this time, then the children of his family may not want to have a future in the future.

After listening to Li Zhi's words, Wang Qi opened his mouth, but in the end, he sighed and said, "The old minister should indeed go and investigate." ”

When the others heard this, they all fell silent.

Don't say it's them about Li Yuanchang, I'm afraid even Li Shimin himself can't handle it.

Now that Li Shimin has just released his suspicions with Li Yuanbing, his brother has done such a thing.

If Li Shimin chooses to be lenient, the law just promulgated by the Tang Dynasty will lose its authority.

But if it is dealt with according to the law, I am afraid that the emperor will lose his beloved son again.

At that time, the relationship between father and son may become stiff again.

Unless a stunned young man suddenly pops up right now, he takes the initiative to make a big deal about it.

Then everyone used public opinion to force Li Shimin to deal with the matter in accordance with the law.

Only then can the embarrassing situation that Li Shimin may face be successfully resolved.

And this stunned young man actually has a goal in Li Zhi's heart.

Li Tai, who was in the palace of the King of Wei, had been socializing a lot less recently.

The main reason is that the money that came out of the two weddings in a row was a bit much, so he didn't have much pocket money in his hand for the time being.

He also recently heard about Li Yuanchang.

But apart from a little envy for his uncle's clever mind, he didn't think much about it.

It can be said that his thoughts at this time are actually the same as Li Yuanchang's, and they all want to take advantage of the loopholes in the policy to make some quick money.

But just because he doesn't have other ideas doesn't mean that Li Zhi doesn't want him to have ideas.

So Li Zhi's eyes rolled and he thought of a brilliant idea.

As soon as the meeting of Li Zhi and others ended, two days later, he went to the Daming Palace where Li Yuan lived to pay his respects.

Li Zhi accompanied Li Yuan to play mahjong for a long time, and then forcibly dragged him to the garden for a walk.

And it was at this time that he mentioned Li Yuanchang's matter to Li Yuan with a serious face.