When Dou Lu Yan walked around Chang'an City, he revealed that Li Shimin and Li Chengqian were about to advance east, Qiu Shenji had already paid attention to him but did not find out his source.

Because it involved some of Li Shimin's thoughts, Li Chengqian knew that the news must have been leaked from the Tai Chi Palace, so he ordered the old ghost to send someone to investigate it strictly in the palace.

As for some policies of the aristocrats to resist the imperial court in the local area, Li Chengqian was prepared and did not take it seriously. He still handled government affairs in the East Palace every day.

On this day, in the Chongjiao Hall of the East Palace, Li Chengqian sat high on the throne, and several Grand Secretary in Pingzhang Court sat on both sides to handle government affairs.

In the middle of the hall, Zhu Cheng held a thick stack of documents in his hand and reported to Li Chengqian with a happy expression on his income from selling silk and tea to Hu Shang in the past two years.

"... In the past two years, grain has been planted in various parts of Guanzhong. Since last year, the imperial court issued an order to the Tang Dynasty that the Tang Dynasty could only sell up to 20,000 silk and 3,000 dan of tea to the Hu people every year. The quantity has decreased by more than ten times, but the price has increased by seven or eight times.

This not only did the merchants make money, but the taxes collected by the court did not decrease.

In the past two years, our Dong Palace has sent people to Jiangdong to sell agricultural tools. Every time we come back to buy some silk, we can make a fortune in tea..."

Li Chengqian's trade policy has begun to show results. Silk and tea are now unique to the Tang Dynasty. These things are all luxury goods when trafficked into the West, and it is too much of a loss to take the path of small profits but quick turnover.

Moreover, the Tang Dynasty did not have so much manpower and material resources to produce these things. It is better to take the high-end route of luxury goods, and selling them more expensive is the king.

Li Chengqian nodded after hearing Zhu Cheng's report and asked again: "What do those Hu merchants use to buy silk and tea from the Tang Dynasty?"

Zhu Cheng was stunned when he heard this, but did not understand what Li Chengqian meant. He directly replied: "There are gold, silver, pearls and gems. In addition, Hu Shang also brought some wine, spices, Hu Ji and others to sell in the Tang Dynasty."

The journey is long, and most of the Hu merchants come to the Tang Dynasty to sell some goods to wealthy families in the Tang Dynasty, and of course the price is also very expensive.

Before Li Chengqian limited the transaction volume of silk and tea, the goods brought by Hu merchants were much more expensive than those of the Tang Dynasty.

Now the price of silk tea in the Tang Dynasty has increased, and these things have also increased. Fortunately, it is not a must-have for daily life, so Li Chengqian is too lazy to care.

Li Chengqian thought for a while after hearing this, "The Orphan King ordered that in the future, Hu Shangshang had to bring some sheepskin, wool or livestock to buy them in the market, and the Hu Shangshangshangs who rushed to livestock were reduced by 30% taxes." Now, most people in the Tang Dynasty could not afford silk cotton in winter, and no matter how cold it was in winter, they could only wear an extra layer of hemp clothes. Even without disaster or difficulties, some weak elderly and children could not survive the winter.

It is difficult to achieve results if it is not said that it is difficult to achieve results. Even if it is necessary to promote the development of cotton, Li Chengqian dare not promote it before solving the grain problem.

Then the people can only start with various fur, wool, down and other aspects.

Zhu Cheng said in confusion: "Your Highness, the imperial court bought sheepskin, what are the wool for?"

Li Chengqian smiled and said, "Sheepskin and sheepskin can be used as clothes. Whether it is sent to the army or sold to the people at a cheap price, it is better than not."

In the Tang Dynasty, there are many elderly, weak, women and children who are frozen to death in winter every year. The lonely king always has to think about them."

"Your Highness the Crown Prince's Holy Spirit!"

Zhu Cheng hurriedly bowed and bowed.

Seeing this, Li Chengqian waved his hand and said, "The people of the Tang Dynasty worked hard all year round but could not let themselves eat and wear warmth, so we must introduce resources from abroad. Gold, silver, jewelry, wine and beauties are just toys for wealthy families. How can they be made of sheepskin, wool and felt sewing clothes? "

Speaking of this, he turned his head and looked at Chu Suiliang and said, "Sir Chu, please tell me the following instructions for Anxi Protectorate and Liangzhou Governor's Office, explain the truth clearly to him and let them cooperate with the court to implement this policy.

In addition, I told the Anxi Protectorate that only allowed Hu merchants to purchase wool from the foreign tribes that surrendered to our Tang Dynasty. If they did not surrender to our Tang Dynasty tribes, they would not purchase their wool."

"I obey the order!" Chu Suiliang hurriedly stood up to accept the order.

After Chu Suiliang sat down and drafted an imperial edict, Li Chengqian directly ordered Zhu Cheng to say, "Zhu Cheng, you have made contributions in your work, and the orphan king named you the right prime minister of the Prince's Family Lingsi, and then take a group of craftsmen from Longshouyuan to build a larger steel mill."

Zhu Cheng hurriedly saluted and said, "Thank you, Your Highness, Long-for-honor!"

Li Chengqian nodded and was about to speak when an eunuch hurried in.

"Report to the Crown Prince, His Highness, His Highness, King of Jin, seeking a meeting outside the palace!"

Li Chengqian was stunned when he heard this. Li Zhi often went to the palace to accompany Li Shimin these days, so why did he suddenly come to the East Palace?

"It is said that King Jin enters the palace!"

Li Shimin now ignores the government affairs and his scope of activities is in the harem. Li Chengqian cannot know at any time that Li Shimin's movements are a bit passive.

"My brother, please see Your Highness!"

Li Zhi entered the palace and saluted Li Chengqian timidly.

"Ninth brother is calm!" Li Chengqian said.

"Is the emperor's will come to Chongjiao Temple?" Li Chengqian stood up and asked when he saw Li Zhi.

"Go back to the crown prince—"

"Okay, we are brothers. We are so arrogant that we are not used to it." Li Chengqian raised his hand and interrupted him.

Li Zhi said happily when he heard this, "Thank you, Brother!"

Li Chengqian reached out and pointed to the seat next to him and said, "Sit down and talk slowly."

"I'm going to leave." Seeing this, the ministers in the palace stood up and took a leave.

The ministers retreated, and Li Zhi sat down and brought tea to Li Chengqian and Li Zhi.

Li Zhi picked up the teacup and took a sip, put down the cup and said, "Brother, my father sent me here to tell you that my father will go out to Beijing to hunt in two days."

Li Chengqian knew that Li Shimin loved hunting, and it was not a big deal that he wanted to go out to hunt in autumn.

He asked casually: "Where is the father planning to go?"

Li Zhi smiled and said, "Beijing Mountain."

“Beijing Mountain?”

Li Chengqian almost spit out the tea in his mouth. Beimang Mountain is north of Luoyang, and it is the cemetery of the emperors whose capitals in all dynasties are in Luoyang.

Beim Mountain has excellent feng shui. There is a saying that "born in Suzhou and Hangzhou, die in Beim".

Li Zhi looked a little embarrassed when he saw this, and he also knew that the excuse of going to Beimang Mountain to hunt was a bit perfunctory.

Li Chengqian put down the teacup and looked at Li Zhi seriously and said, "Father wants to go to Luoyang?"

Li Zhi's face became even more embarrassed when he heard this, and then smiled and said, "The father only said he would go to Beimang Mountain to hunt, but other ministers don't know."

Li Chengqian snorted coldly in his heart, and continued to ask: "When will the father start?"

"Two days later!" Li Zhidao.

Li Chengqian knew that he could not stop Li Shimin from going to Luoyang, so he thought about it and asked the most important question: "Who will be with him when his father goes to Luoyang?"

"The father said that the eldest brother only brought the officials of the State Supervisor of Chang'an, Wang Shu and the officials of the Secretariat in Jiangxia." Li Zhidao.

Li Chengqian had no objection to Li Shimin taking these people away. As a military general, being the Minister of Rites was more like an honorary title. He always left the affairs of the Ministry of Rites to the left and right ministers to deal with. After he left, Li Chengqian could let Chu Suiliang take over.

The officials of the Secretariat Province were not very useful except for Ma Zhou and Li Chengqian. Li Chengqian's secretary team was the Grand Secretary of Pingzhang Court.

However, these people followed Li Shimin to Luoyang and could help Li Shimin reorganize a temporary court at any time, which made Li Chengqian feel a little unwilling to accept it.

Li Shimin had long speculated these things. When Li Zhi saw Li Chengqian not saying anything, he said directly: "The father said that he would rest assured that his elder brother would be in Chang'an. As long as the government is stable, his father would not interfere with his elder brother's governance."

Li Shimin said this and Li Chengqian had no excuses, so he could only order the ministers to cooperate with Li Daozong and Ma Zhou to accompany Li Shimin to hunt in Beimang Mountain.

Except for Li Chengqian's feeling a little uneasy when Li Shimin left Chang'an, the other ministers all breathed a sigh of relief. After all, facing the two monarchs Li Shimin and Li Chengqian at the same time, the pressure was extremely great.

On the day when Li Shimin was sent away, Li Chengqian used a flying pigeon to send a letter to Luoyang to order all the food stored in Luoyang to transport it to Lingzhou.

Li Chengqian was worried that Li Shimin was anxious to fight in the east and misappropriated the food he had prepared to Lingzhou.
Chapter completed!