Chengqian showed extreme yearning for the sea, which in Li Chao's view was an escape from reality.

This child was so optimistic that Li Chao thought it was too abnormal. After all, he was only eight years old. Even if an eight-year-old child knew that his legs would be good, he had broken his legs and cried, but he was still a little overwhelmed with his optimistic appearance.

Li Chao didn't know how to enlighten him, so he could only take more time every day to accompany him.

After all, Li Shimin was the emperor and could not really stay at the foot of Wudang Mountain in Junzhou for a long time.

He originally wanted someone to carry Li Chengqian back to Xiangyang, but Chengqian didn't want to go back now. The day after Chengqian picked up his legs, Empress Changsun, who had always been extremely virtuous, did not come by carriage, but came by himself on a horse and arrived day and night.

"My mother, I don't want to go back to Xiangyang now. I think I'll stay in Wudang Mountain for a while and recover from my injuries here. Mother, please tell me what I want to do to my father."

Emperor Changsun looked at his son with distress, and his son lost weight.

"When I go back to Xiangyang, it is more convenient to recover from injuries there. It gets cold soon, and there are many inconveniences to live here." The queen was reluctant to let her son stay, but Chengqian made up his mind to stay.

"Empress, it's better to let His Highness stay here for the time being to recuperate. The prince is indeed not suitable for the road to bumpy roads now." Li Chao said.

Changsun was still angry with Li Chao. In her opinion, something happened to her son in Li Chao's hands. No matter what, it was unrelated to Li Chao. She also knew that she could not blame Li Chao too much, but she couldn't get over it. The queen didn't want to talk to Li Chao. Even if the two of them talked, she wouldn't look at Li Chao, and used this method to express her dissatisfaction.

Seeing this, Li Xiuning hurriedly spoke for Li Chao.

"Then I will stay and take care of the prince." Queen Changsun said last.

"Your Majesty cannot live without the Empress, so let me leave it here. I will definitely take good care of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"Leave it to you? I am not relieved." Changsun said.

Li Chao was embarrassed for a moment and didn't know how to answer the conversation.

"Then I'll stay, the Empress should always believe me. I am Chengqian's aunt, and Chengqian usually has a good relationship with me."

During the meal, Changsun told Li Shimin about this. While watching the memorials transferred from Xiangyang, Li Shimin was having dinner. Xiangyang arrived here for more than 200 miles, and the memorials were repeated, and it took two or three days in between.

Two or three days also delays things.

Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and other ministers who stayed in Xiangyang wrote several letters to urge the emperor to return to Xiangyang as soon as possible, but Li Shimin was always worried about the prince.

"I have to go back. There are so many things in the court, so I always turn to this side, which is also delayed. But I still can't rest assured that the prince."

"Sanniang said she would stay here to take care of the prince."

After a pause, the queen said again, "Duke Zhao also said to stay and take care of the prince."

"The one I don't believe in now is Li San." Li Shimin became angry when he heard Li San, and put the memorial in his hand and slapped the table.

Thinking of Li Chao, he used to be the minister he trusted the most and even grateful to the most.

At the head of Longxi city, it was a life-saving grace. During the Xuanwu Gate Incident, Li Chao was the leader of the plot. He helped him block the imperial guards outside the palace that day, and then entered the palace to persuade the emperor to issue an edict. At that time, Li Chao's words of look-a-honored spirit greatly strengthened his desire to fight for the throne.

But as a confidant minister, he handed over the crown prince to Li Chao, but Li Chao almost turned his crown prince into a one-legged crown prince. Even now, Li Shimin couldn't guarantee that the crown prince would be able to recover completely by then. He could see clearly that the prince's leg was seriously injured that day.

Empress Changsun was also angry with Li Chao, but at this time, she did not add fuel to the fire.

"Your Majesty also beat Wen Yuan that day. He is also a dignified Duke of Zhao and the prime minister of the court. You beat him to the bruised face in front of the guards. He is already very embarrassed. Your Majesty has breathed a sigh of relief. Besides, this time, you can't blame Wen Yuan for teaching the prince. But isn't the prince also in the same camp as His Majesty? The one who really neglected his duties is the prince's guards, and they did not take good care of the prince."

"The queen also speaks for Li San?"

"I am just telling the truth. To be honest, I am also angry. But if you are angry, you still cannot implicate Prime Minister Li. The important minister of Prime Minister Li made great contributions to Your Majesty, following Long Yuanzuo, the prime minister of the court. If Your Majesty is alienated and even complained about Wen Yuan because of this, I believe this is not the way of employing people that Your Majesty has always believed in?"

Li Shimin snorted coldly.

"I usually spoiled Li San and spoiled him too much. Let him be bold and acted recklessly. Look at the things he did and the third sister, aren't it bold? If I hadn't thought that he had made great contributions to me and the court, just by his and the third sister, I would have been able to remove him from his post a hundred times and even exiled to the South China Sea!"

"Why do you have to say about the third sister's affairs? Forget it, this time, Duke Zhao brought the strange man named Qiulang Guest and helped the prince to pick up his legs. It can be considered as a redemption of his merits." Changsun advised.

The Changsun clan knew very well how much Li Chao was in the court. Li Chao was indeed just the son of an old mansion soldier at the time, but a few years later, the Li family in Bashang had become a wealthy family in the capital, and they married famous families. Li Chao had a very good relationship with many military meritorious families. Even those top families had many marriages with Li Chao.

In addition to the Li family's industry, many wealthy families are mixed in.

If the emperor really wanted to dismiss Li Chao's position or even exile, there would definitely be a large group of people coming to plead for him. What's more, Li Chao is so famous. The great hero of Wenzong who compiled history, compiled books and printed books is also a master of military tactics. How many people in the world don't know about Li Chao's name.

Furthermore, Li Chao is so capable that the court also needs such capable ministers.

"I really want to send Li Chao to the South China Sea. The bearded guest borrowed troops from me. I really want to send Li Chao to the West Manhai."

"Your Majesty, this is absolutely not allowed. If Your Majesty really sends him to the Ximanhai, it would be even more excessive than exile. I am afraid that all the subjects in the world will criticize Your Majesty by then."

"I know, I just think that way." Speaking of this, Li Shimin became more and more angry. Now Li Chao, he still has to look forward to it. He has no reason to be tough, but he can't move Li Chao.

It's okay to force it, but it will undoubtedly cause great losses to his reputation. Li Shimin didn't want to do such a thing. Moreover, although Li Chao annoyed him, he was not really that much as he needed to force him to overthrow it. It just made him unhappy and angry, but he himself admitted that the court still couldn't live without Li Chao.

"I'm so angry!"

"Your Majesty is really angry, I will help you vent your anger."

Li Shimin looked at Empress Changsun curiously, "Can the queen have any good solutions?"

"Of course, Li Chao is the best at making money and likes to make money. Then I just need to take Li Chao some money away."

"Take Li Chao's money?" Li Shimin didn't expect that the queen's 'revenge plan' would be this. "But Li Chao is very rich, so it's useless to take some money from him."

"Li Chao, the guy who loves money, takes his money like digging his meat. No matter how much he is, he will feel heartbroken. The Li family built a sugarcane garden in Lingnan two years ago, planted sugarcane and squeezed sugar, and processed sugar into high-quality rock sugar, frosted sugar, etc. The sugar in the entire Tang Dynasty is exclusively supplied by the Li family. In the past two years, the sugar industry of the Li family has grown bigger and bigger, and it is making money every day."

"I heard that this sugar industry was not the Li family and many nobles together?"

"The Li family did have many nobles in partnership, but what Your Majesty didn't know is that Li Chao was very cunning and helped the nobles go over, but the nobles just bought land and people to build sugarcane plantations in Lingnan, and gave them some simple sugar-pressing techniques. But they would not process sugar sugar into rock sugar or sugar. In fact, every year, the sugarcane from the sugarcane garden was sent to the sugar workshop to squeeze sugar, and they eventually sent it to the Li family's processing workshop. After all, each company is just raw material suppliers of Li Chao's sugar industry. Although it also makes money, it is far worse than the profits of the entire industry controlled by Li Chao."

"At present, the Li family is still expanding the scale of the entire industry and investing a lot of money in it, so the profit is not obvious. When the scale rises in the future, the money that the Li family can make will be really amazing. Think about it, the sugar in the whole world is controlled and supplied by the Li family."

"I expect that if the scale increases, the entire sugar industry will have a profit of at least three million yuan a year."

"Three million?" Li Shimin was shocked after hearing this. Three million is not 300,000 yuan.

"The Li family really has so much profit?"

"It's definitely not available now. I guess it's only tens of thousands of trump cards a year. But it will definitely get bigger and bigger in the future. However, the Li family will definitely share some profits in the future, but the Li family will definitely occupy the most important part, hundreds of thousands of trump cards a year, which will definitely be achieved."

"Why did Li Chao make so much money? Did he finish using it?" Li Shimin said. Although Li Chao also helped the court to make more money, and he made tens of millions of new money a year, but an increase of tens of millions a year is not enough for the court.

After the sugar industry was built, it was millions a year, and Li Shimin couldn't help but be jealous.

"How is the queen planning to steal Li Chao's money?" Li Shimin asked gritted his teeth.

"Just invest in the name of the prince."

"Invest in a share?"

"Well, there is no need to pay. Lingnan has a lot of wasteland. Just pull out some land in Lingnan to build a sugarcane garden for Li Chao, and then change Li Chao's shares."

Li Shimin felt that this method was very relieved.

"Well, I think this method is good. I will talk to Li Chao in person later. Well, let Li Chao take out half of it. Forget it, take out 40% of the shares for Cheng Qian. It can be considered that he will make up for Cheng Qian's injuries."

"40%, now it can be worth at least tens of thousands of guan. In fact, it may be worth tens of thousands of guan. If it looks more in the long run, it will be worth more. I guess Li Chao will feel very distressed now."
Chapter completed!