Chapter 21 Li Shimin's decision

Although Chen Ying was careful, building a manor and a fort are definitely two different concepts. Not only did Yu Qing discover that Chen Ying was not as simple as rumored to build a farm, but this kind of thing also came to Li Yuan's ears.

Li Yuan was secretly surprised. Chen Ying was dissatisfied with the position of secretary. He could understand Chen Ying's mood, but as the emperor, Li Yuan would never indulge Chen Ying's behavior of giving up when he was upset.

The report information of the guards in the prison was soon placed on Li Yuan's desk. Li Yuan glanced at him quickly and felt relieved about Chen Ying.

Some people may be surprised that Chen Yingming built a fort, but when he arrived at Li Yuan, the news became "Chen Ying organized thousands of young and strong men to build a ditch in the Qing forest east of the Ba River and west of the Jieyu River. It is expected that this ditch will be more than 30 miles long, irrigating the 300 glutinous fields that Chen Ying had in the Qing forest."

In fact, this cannot be blamed for the dereliction of duty by the left supervisor. At this time, the news that Chen Ying built the Chen family fort in the Qinglin was limited to Chen Ying, Ge Tong, Xu Jingzong and Miaomiao.

Two-thirds of the manpower and almost all of the funds were used to dig ditches and transport mud. In the eyes of the left-level guard's secret stake, Chen Ying spent his family to build a ditches.

Upon learning this news, Li Yuan's original concerns and suspicions about Chen Ying were eliminated all at once. The reason was actually very simple. When Qin State built a Zheng Guo Canal that lasted 300 miles, it took ten years to complete it. This Zheng Guo Canal almost exhausted the Qin State's national strength at that time. Although the investment was huge, the benefits also brought were huge. Due to the completion of the Zheng Guo Canal, Guanzhong had more than 40,000 yuan (4 million mu of fertile land), and the annual grain output increased by as much as 20,000 stones.

Although the length of the ditches built by Chen Ying at this time was only one tenth of that of the Zheng Guo Canal, the money and grain invested in the early stage would definitely not be borne by the Chen Ying family. Even if the Hou Mo Chen family could do all their efforts, it would take at least three or five years to make a profit from this ditches. After three or five years, the Tang Dynasty's status in Guanzhong will be irreplaceable.

In Li Yuan's view, Chen Ying was using this method to express his selflessness and loyalty to Li Yuan. If a intentional general or clan would never waste valuable resources on building a ditch in this environment.

If Chen Ying had a rebellious heart, he should have built a secret military camp in the Qinglin under the name of building a farm, waiting for the opportunity.

When an emperor looks at things, he sometimes simply means he is outrageous. For example, Chen Ying, who is rich, food and soldiers, is a threat, but once Chen Ying has no money and food, even if he wants to rebel, no one will follow him.

After happening to come to Chang'an, Ling Jing expressed to Li Yuan through Pei Ji's path that Dou Jiande wanted to join forces with Li Tang, prepare to enter the east and west, and divide the Central Plains equally.

It was Ling Jing's suggestion that attracted Li Yuan's main attention. Li Yuan originally wanted to take advantage of the power of Hedong's victory to find Wang Shichong's bad luck. He was sleepy and someone gave him a pillow, so Li Yuan almost laughed out loud.

Under this circumstance, General Tiance's mansion of King Li Shimin of Qin also launched tense pre-war preparations. Although Li Yuan appointed Sima for Li Shimin and the assistant officer who was in charge of the military, Li Shimin still liked to discuss countermeasures with the officials of the King of Qin's mansion.

Li Shimin directly bypassed Li Yuan and appointed Fang Xuanling as the chief of the marshal's office of Shandong Road marshal.

Changsun Wuji was appointed as the military officer of the Shandong Road Marshal's Office.

Du Ruhui was appointed as the military officer of the Shandong Road marshal's office.

Hou Junji was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the left side of the Shandong Road marshal's mansion.

Duan Zhixuan was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Shandong Road marshal's office on the right.

Li Jing was appointed as the commander of the marshal of the Shandong Road, the mansion of the Central Road.

Lei Yongji was appointed as the deputy general manager of the Shandong Road Marshal's Office.

The assistant appointed by Li Shimin immediately took his seat and discussed military information in the Chengqian Hall of the Qin Palace. Everyone discussed how to send troops, how to raise food, which route to take, how to cross the river, etc.

Suddenly, Li Shimin asked, "Have Chen Ying's injury healed?"

When Changsun Wuji heard this, his face changed slightly. Although Changsun Wuji could not provide direct evidence, his intuition told him that Chai Shao's death was definitely inaccessible to Chen Ying.

In fact, Changsun Wuji's intuition was very accurate. If it weren't for Chen Ying, Chai Shao would have lived well and eventually became one of the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion.

Changsun Wuji said worriedly: "I'm afraid it shouldn't be fine yet. He even resigned from the position of secretary and supervisor. I heard that his manor is now built in the Qinglin east of the Ba River."

The Changshi Fang Xuanling said in confusion: "The king means..."

Li Shimin said: "I want to take him with me this time on Shandong Road..."

Before Li Shimin could speak, Changsun Wuji stood up and said, "Your Highness, he is the prince's man and the number one strong general of the Eastern Palace. We cannot win over such people."

Li Shimin shook his head and said lightly: "Gou, what you have to do is actually a posture... Whether you succeed or not is not important. What is important is that Gu wants to see if the prince's brother has this belly!"

When Fang Xuanling heard this, he stroked his beard and smiled, "Your Highness is wise!"

Du Ruhui frowned and said, "Will it be a mistake? Chen Ying was already from the third-rank cavalry general, and then he was the state of the pillar."

Li Shimin smiled and said, "Keming, when he is not up to the point of being promoted, do you think, isn't it better?"

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With the more than 5,000 stakes of money sent by Li Daozhen, Chen Ying's pressure on money and grain was greatly alleviated. Although there was still a big gap, there was room for maneuver.

What is more beneficial for Chen Ying is that he is a giant standing on the shoulders of historical giants. With Chen Ying's knowledge, it is not that difficult for him to make money.

For example, now, more than 3,000 acres of weeds have only been burned out a small part, and the rest have been cut into roofs and mud walls on all sides. By chance, Chen Ying picked up a weed and put it in his hand to play with it. Suddenly, Chen Ying saw that the purchase price of rice paper was as high as 1,500 yuan for rice paper.

At this time, there were not a hundred pieces of rice paper, but seventy pieces. In other words, each piece of rice paper costs more than twenty yuan, one piece of rice paper, one foot and six inches wide and three feet long, is as high as twenty yuan. If it is converted into the price of later generations, it looks like fifty yuan per piece.

This price shocked Chen Ying. In later generations, Chen Ying invited guests and gave gifts and bought calligraphy works from the Calligraphy Association. He once learned that the raw materials for rice paper are mainly green sandalwood trees, a specialty in the mountainous areas of southern Anhui, and are accompanied by some straw. After a long period of soaking, ash pickling, steaming, washing, bleaching, beating, water fishing, adding glue, and baking, more than 100 operating processes.

It looks very complicated, but in fact it is not difficult to manufacture.

At least the remaining weeds can be used to make paper.

In this era, even the production process of authentic rice paper is not fully mature, and it is still in the stage of production and research. If Chen Ying gets out the rice paper process and opens a small papermaking workshop, you can try it anyway
Chapter completed!