At the same time, the official road leading to Luoyang has been repaired. The cement road several meters wide is as flat as sharp. A three-foot-wide isolation belt separates the entire road, traveling between Chang'an and Luoyang carriages and carriages, flowing endlessly.

Although the completion of this road has not shortened the distance from Chang'an to Luoyang, the time between the two places has been greatly shortened due to the good road conditions and orderly driving.

The caravan, which tasted the sweetness, not only did not reject the court setting up a toll station in the middle of the road, but instead strongly supported it.

After all, if there is no such good road, they will need to delay several more days on the road. The consumption of people eating horse feeding is much more than that little toll.

Not to mention that after the road was repaired, the court set up a management agency on the road and sent officers and soldiers to patrol along the road. This alone saved them a lot of money for hiring guards.

Chaoting did not suffer any losses in this regard. According to Changsun Wuji's statistics, within ten days of the cement road repair, the Chaoting collected up to 100 pounds of income from tolls.

On the surface, this money doesn't seem to be much, but it's better because it's going to be a long-term flow. It's estimated that the cost of road construction will be recovered in about ten years, and in the future it will be pure profit.

Putting aside these things, because the government distributed food, the people who built cement roads did not have the same public grievances as in the former Sui Dynasty, but instead praised the court's actions, which caused a locust plague that affected the entire Guanzhong to disappear invisibly.

With a sneer, Li Er pulled his thoughts back to reality from his memories and sighed: "Oh, these guys have a good brain."

Seeing that Li Er was back to his mind, Lin Xi came over and said, "Your Majesty, His Highness the Crown Prince and Shidu Li asked for a meeting."

"What are these two kids doing? Tell them that I am resting and no one will see you." Li Er, who was in a good mood, frowned. According to past practice, these two kids are typical night owls who come to the house without any trouble. The great emperor does not want to ruin his good mood.

Lin Xi hesitated for a moment, and there was no place under his feet.

Li Er said 'um': "What, what else is there?"

Lin Xi bowed and whispered: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty and Shidu Li brought many boxes over. It seems that there is really important things."

Box? There are so many! What do these two kids want to do?

Li Er took a deep breath, observed a moment of silence for his good mood, and raised his hand slightly: "Then let them come in. I want to see what important things these two boys with similar smells can have."

After receiving Li Er's order, Li Chengqian and Li Hao sneaked in and saluted in front of Li Er: "Son (member), see Your Majesty, long live my emperor."

Then, he held his chest, lowered his head, bent down, stood on both sides of Li Er with his extreme legs, and waved his hand outside.

Soon, in Li Er's confusing eyes, countless boxes were carried in and placed in the center of the room, and soon all the open space in the room was covered until there was no place to settle down. Then he stopped.

At this time, Li Er was already covered in black lines. He looked left and right, and pointed to the box all over the floor: "This, what's this thing? What are you two doing?"

"Open." Li Chengqian did not answer the old man's question and ordered several eunuchs who had been squeezed to the door.

"No." The little eunuch dared not disobey, climbed over mountains and rivers and opened the box in front of Li Er.

‘Bang’, the golden light is shining, and a box of gold is full.

Li Er's mouth twitched, and there was a little more black thread on his head.

‘Bang’, another box was opened, and there was still gold inside.

‘Bangbangbangbangbang…’ The sound of unboxing continued, and the imperial study room was quickly completely coated with a layer of golden light.

Even though Li Er was the largest landlord in the Tang Dynasty, the scene of so much gold being piled together still made him widen his eyes and he couldn't help but stand up from the chair. His first reaction was that these two kids wouldn't have robbed the Ministry of Revenue, right?

But it's not right. Even if there is gold in the warehouse of the Ministry of Revenue, there will never be so much.

Could it be...

"You two, can you collapse my inner palace treasury, right?" After thinking about it, Li Er felt that only this guess is the most reliable. Only when the inner palace treasury collapsed would these two kids go to his place to work hard.

Li Hao and Li Chengqian looked at each other and answered the question irrelevantly: "Your Majesty, there are still 500,000 taels of silver outside."

Li Er felt that he was going crazy. I was asking how much money I still had. I clearly asked where the money came from.

Knowing that his father is better than his son, Li Chengqian finally woke up earlier and said with a tight head and a blind eye: "Father, do you still remember being sent to Baekje's Ocean Navy?"

"What's wrong with the Ocean Navy?" Li Er suddenly felt that he was a little old and his thinking was a little unable to keep up with these two brats.

"Father, these things were just sent back by the Ocean Navy."

Li Er was stunned for a moment when the Ocean Navy sent it back.

He knew the Ocean Navy, and he knew what the navy was going to do.

In his opinion, it was just a team of more than a thousand people, and at most it was to go to Baekje for a walk. The biggest function was to let Changsun Chong, Cheng Chumo, Li Zhen and others go to plating the gilding.

But what's wrong with so much gold in front of you? Did those guys go to gilt, but rob the Baekje Palace?

Otherwise, even if I tried my best to grab it at sea for half a year, I wouldn’t have been able to get so much gold back.

The more Li Er thought about it, the less calm he became. He knew that before Li Chengqian and Li Hao came in, he knew that there would be no good things for these two boys to come, but he never expected that it would be such a big thing.

"Speak, what happened? Why did the Ocean Navy send so much gold and silver? Li Dejian is the governor of the navy, you say."

Li Er said in one sentence, he took out his son first. It seems that Li Chengqian should be his biological son.

Li Hao touched it from his arms for a long time, took out a wrinkled letter, carefully placed it on Li Er's table, and then shrank his head and said, "Your Majesty, this is actually the case...Bar, crackling..."

Half an hour later, Li Er threw the wrinkled letter to the side, saying amused and laughed and crying: "What a mess, Baekje Tiger King, is this guy a fool?"

"I don't know what's going on. Anyway, that's what the person who sent Lei Yao and the others to escort the gold said." Li Hao smacked his lips, knowing that this level in front of him should have been considered passing.

He was the one who advocated that the Navy go to Baekje, and he was the one who kept the Navy in Baekje.

Now that Baekje is fighting with the navy, the country is in chaos again. No fool will believe it if he has nothing to do with him. If he is discovered by the nitpicking censors in the court in the future, it will inevitably be another big and small trouble.

After all, Li Er has been an emperor for so long, how can he not know what Li Hao is thinking?

After staring at the gold that covered the room for a while, the great imperialist leader decided that he would take the blame for so much gold.

Lin Xi, who waved his hand and his eyes were red, quickly ordered someone to cover the box and watched the imperial guards send the golden yellows to the inner palace treasury.

When the room was emptied again, Li Er sat down again, calmed down and asked Li Hao, "What do you think about Baekje?"

Li Hao scratched his head, and it was a bit surprised that he could get away with it so easily. After thinking about it, he winked at Li Chengqian, meaning you.

Before coming to see Li Er, the two had a tacit understanding. Li Hao had reached the top of his position as a third-rank at the age of fifteen or sixteen. Credit was a dispensable thing for him.

But Li Chengqian is different. Now it is the time to show his performance. No matter how much credit he has, he will not be too much.

So, after returning a look of understanding, Li Chengqian cleared his throat: "Father, my son, think that we have two solutions to this situation in Baekje."

Li Er showed an interesting expression: "Oh, what two solutions should I tell you."

Li Chengqian first calmed down and re-organized his thinking before speaking slowly: "The first solution is to use the name of Baekje's turmoil to send troops, called defending the border, but in fact put pressure on Baekje. The advantage of this is to make up for the insufficient troops in Luozhou and monitor Baekje nearby. However, if there is an opportunity, we can enter Baekje and put them in our territory.

But there are also disadvantages to doing this, that is, it is easy for Baekje to abandon past grudges and deal with us together under pressure."

Li Er nodded: "What about the second solution."

"The second solution is to respond to changes in the same way and sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight.

Judging from the current situation in Baekje, their Tiger King is likely to be no match for the eight major clans. In order to maintain his rule, he is likely to seek help from other countries.

Among the surrounding countries, Silla and Baekje have both new hatreds and old hatreds, so it is impossible for them to help Fuyuzhang. Goguryeo has been eyeing Baekje for a long time. If he dared to ask for help from Silla, he would probably not know how to die. Inferred by this, we are the ones who are most likely to ask for help from Fuyuzhang.

So we can wait for a while, and when the envoys sent by Fuyuzhang to ask for help, we can send a large army into Baekje with justification. At that time, whether it is to help Fuyuzhang to wipe out the eight major clans or help the eight major clans get Fuyuzhang down, it depends entirely on our will."

Li Chengqian said it for nearly half an hour in one breath, and finally explained Li Hao’s explanation and his analysis.

However, with his personality, he didn't like both plans very much.

The Tang Empire had many soldiers and generals. In fact, the best way was to directly mobilize the army, step onto the Baekje capital, and then head north to cooperate with the domestic army to attack Goguryeo and capture the entire peninsula.

As for Silla... For the sake of Li Hao's little lover, they will be allowed to exist for a few more years. If the Silla people know each other and surrender voluntarily, they will reward them with the land. If they don't know each other, it will be much more difficult to crush Silla with the national strength of the Tang Dynasty than to crush an ant.

"Are you finished talking?" Just as Li Chengqian was thinking about it, the old man looked at him and looked at Li Hao again: "That's what you meant."

"Your Majesty, I think the Crown Prince's advice is very good." What can Li Hao say? This is what he told Li Chengqian. If he asked him about it, it would not be better than what Li Chengqian said.

I thought Li Erhui would put forward any constructive opinions, or just follow these two plans.

Unexpectedly, Li Er just waved his hand lightly: "You'll go down after you finish speaking, do whatever you should do, and pretend that Baekje has never happened."

"ah?"

"Ah, what, go out." Li Er leaned his body to the back of the chair and gently closed his eyes.

Well, it's in vain.

Li Hao was a little discouraged. Seeing that Li Chengqian seemed to want to say something else, he quickly winked at him, pulled him to bow to Li Er together, and both retreated.

...

Outside the Lizheng Hall.

Li Chengqian left Li Hao away: "Dejian, what's wrong with you? Could it be that this matter is gone?"

Li Hao shook his head: "No, what else can you do? The two million taels of silver are enough. You have to leave some chance for others."

Just now, he figured out a lot, and the most important point was that wood was revealed by the forest wind.

Over the past period of time, whether it is road construction or iron smelting, it has already made enough of its popularity. In addition, the fact that the Ocean Navy has recovered two million taels of silver in half a year is not an exaggeration to say that it is standing at the forefront.

Of course, you can also say that you are not jealous of mediocre people. Since you have the opportunity to show your performance, you must move forward bravely. It’s amazing that you hold Li Er’s thigh tightly. I guess no one dares to touch him.

But Li Er is not a god after all. In another twenty years, if His Majesty the Emperor is not good enough, he will be on the road to the west. At that time, he will no longer have a backer, and he knows what kind of revenge he will face.

As for Li Chengqian..., let's forget it, there are still twenty years left.

Li Chengqian was speechless, and after a while, he said, "You are just thinking too much, and I really don't understand. How can you do things so well at a young age?"

Li Hao smiled with a tooth: "Don't say that, it's like it's bigger than me."

"Okay, if you don't say it, don't say it." Li Chengqian waved his hand in a calm mood, and thought for a while and said, "But since the Ocean Navy has made such a great contribution, it's okay for us to celebrate. Let's take a walk, let's go and walk on Kangpingfang."

It's Kangpingfang again...

Li Hao had a twitching heart for no reason.

He did not forget that Li Yueling was preached by him last time after coming out of Kangpingfang, and then paid for a whole box of jewelry.

Now, Li Chengqian even proposed to go to Kangpingfang, how could he not feel moved by the scene?

Soon, Li Chengqian discovered his abnormal behavior as a attendant and turned his head: "What's wrong?"

Li Hao coughed dryly to hide his embarrassment: "Can we change a place? Otherwise, let's go to Dongshi, after all, you are the prince. It would be bad for your reputation to go to Kangpingfang to spread."
Chapter completed!