Chapter 192: People die for money and birds die for food

"I reported to my father and I didn't know whether General Liang had any idea about the matter of the Nanzhao. That day I just heard General Liang explain the Central Plains. My son said something, but there were only two things. The first one was to attack the heart as the best, attack the city as the best, and the second one was to divide it into pieces. I didn't say anything else, either, the possibility of Tubo sending troops was extremely small."

No matter which one, it has nothing to do with Liang Jishou's continued leadership of his troops south.

In fact, Liang Jishou did this and was very worried about the court. After all, the court did not mobilize many main troops, and the officials were governed by the officials, and most of them used the men of Mengshezhao and other troops. It was only when Liang Jishou commanded properly and contrasted with Meng Jian's scattered soldiers and bravery, which led to a great victory.

Liang Jishou's suggestion seemed to make sense. However, his army was small and he went south alone and was far from Yaozhou, which was far from the base camp. It seemed very similar to Xue Rengui's defeat in Dafeichuan. First of all, it was very difficult to supply, either by fighting to support the war. The result of that would make the troops fall faster to Tubo. Also, Tubo has always been in a state of peace. If they defeated them, they would not move. If they were defeated, they might be able to step over from the Shenchuan Iron Cable Bridge built on the Jinsha River two years ago and cut a knife. Not only that, Tubo also established a Labu District in the Lijiang area. The Tang Dynasty called the Shenchuan Governor's Office, which seemed to be a bridgehead to go east.

In short, there are many disadvantages. Or if Liang Jishou's marching and fighting are as magical as Li Jing, then nothing will happen.

Since it was not because his son was very happy to be the idea, Li Zhi couldn't help but ponder. It was mainly far away and felt that it was a little bit strange, but he could not notify him in time. It was pulled into a straight line, thousands of miles, but the mountains were high and the water was far away, and there were still many mountain roads, twisting and twisting, and climbing mountains and ridges. After all, it was more than ten thousand miles. It was not the road from Luoyang to Chang'an, even if you use a fast horse to inform him, it would be good to run 500 miles a day. It took at least two months to go, and it would be too late to issue the edict to withdraw the troops to Yunnan.

Li Zhi looked at Yan Liben and others.

But these prime ministers are still good at governing the country. In terms of military affairs, they are similar to Li Wei. They are all laymen and cannot make a sound. If they can't force them over, Yan Liben had to say: "Your Majesty still issued an edict to ask General Liang to withdraw his troops and return. It just took some time to delay General Liang's army would not go south far."

Li Zhi had no choice but to issue an edict.

Li Wei didn't pay much attention to this matter.

He definitely hoped that the Tang Dynasty would win, but he had no say in the marching, arrangement of generals, transferring animal resources and the army. He had the right to speak, and with his jealousy level, he was also blinded. For example, this time, Nanzhao, he had not figured out what kind of man and any other corps of the country, and he had no idea how to speak.

With a gentle personality, my father immediately forgot about this. However, when he heard that Liang Jishou led his army south, he immediately called himself from Mount Li to blame him, and seemed to be still very dissatisfied with him...

So he only hopes for another thing, and the occurrence of this thing may make his father happy.

It was soon September, and the people of Guanzhong finally had their hardships and ended their end.

The weather is good, and the grain harvest is good. Not only that, many people have seen and heard that there is no need for the court to mobilize them, and some have learned the method of the prince to plant. Large-scale planting is unlikely. After all, many people have more land and fewer people, so this kind of intensive cultivation cannot be implemented. But I also tried it.

The experimental sites in the imperial court were not as good as those in the Chang'an Huangzhuang. The land was not as good as those in the area of ​​Chang'an Huangzhuang. The land was not necessarily good, but it also produced a real Wushi field. This was already amazing, and it made more people think. In particular, it gave the people with a small land a way out.

So after autumn, the rice price in Chang'an kept falling, and the almost corn fell to 4 cents per bucket of rice. The difficulty is that the rice price is so low. Should we continue to hoard? What if there is another bumper harvest next year, what should we do if we lose it again...

However, when the imperial court saw Mi Jian, he purchased a batch in time to supplement the granaries in Chang'an and Luoyang. The granaries have also been emptied in recent years.

Not only that, cotton was also tempted. This time, Wu Zetian tried to plant many Guanzhuang and Huangzhuang, not many, mainly scattered, one in the east and one in the west. I showed everyone that I had the courage and asked carefully. The yield was not as good as my son said, but it was easier to plant in the Western Regions. Even if there was no such yield, it was not a waste, and I was not afraid of people's words. In the end, the yield surprised Wu Zetian.

Then it was made into cloth or quilts, and officials did not compete with the people for profit, and it was difficult for the court to sell them. Just so, Guanzhong suffered a disaster last year, and many families have not recovered until now, and some people are very pitiful. So they rewarded these poor people and their orphans and widows to leave their old age.

If you can't see it, you can see it, and even touch it with your own hands, many people became hot. Elders from various prefectures and counties asked the officials for seeds, and the officials asked the court for it. After getting the benefits, they were embarrassed to scold people, and Wu Zetian also achieved their goal. In fact, Wu Zetian's reputation among the people is still good, but the people are not satisfied with a woman's intervention in the government affairs. Especially this woman's family has decisive methods and killed many people...

Of course, it was still very far away to want the entire Tang Dynasty to have a bumper harvest of grain. Cotton was even more far away. Although the weaving cart was introduced from the big food, it was still very backward.

But more than these, the places where cotton is grown are not only in Guanzhong, Henan, Hebei, Jianghuai, but also in many places in the Western Regions. Li Wei's method can increase cotton production in Henan, Guanzhong, and Henan, but also in the Western Regions. Some wealthy families have realized this problem.

As problems arise one after another, the land is a problem. The Western Regions are vast and the land is vast and sparsely populated. However, there are Turks, and even the Tubo people have expanded their power. There are still people who have problems. If you don’t mention the trouble of planting, picking is even more troublesome, and then spinning out cloth is more troublesome than picking. Where did this person come from?

But Li Wei didn't realize that a big change was about to begin, but his eyes were staring at the East.

When he got up in the morning, he trotted for a while. Although his body became hot, he felt a little sweaty. Bier was afraid that Li Wei would catch a cold, so she quickly brought a piece of clothing to put on for Li Wei.

Li Wei took Bier's hand and said, "Hold your hand and grow old with me."

"Your Highness, how dare I do that."

"Why don't you dare? My father is so picky and is very satisfied with you. It's nothing else, you do the best."

"Your Highness, can you allow me to say something?"

"Why not?"

"Your Highness, all parents in the world want their children to be good. The emperor is just a temporary misunderstanding of you. After the rain, it will be clear. They are parents again..."

"You silly girl, Gu doesn't have any resentment towards his father, but he just doesn't understand why his attitude towards Gu has changed. Do you think Gu doesn't work hard to repair it?"

It's hard to say for the father to be good for his children. But what makes him laugh and cry is that his father looks at him horizontally and vertically, but he doesn't know where he does it so angry. As for his mother, he starts to be a mother. Just live by. If you can find out the reason why his father is angry, it's so easy to satisfy his mother. You may change his way to make her feel satisfied in a year. As long as you delay these ten years, even a few years...

This is something I think, and I know in my heart that it is not that simple!

But even if Bier is so close, she can't say it.

At this moment, Liu Qun came in and reported, "Letter from Yangzhou."

A very low voice was that Liang Jinzhu and Lu Ma in Yangzhou were not good for the prince to have too close contact with the merchants. Moreover, it turned out that the prince was going to Yangzhou, and the emperor was furious.

"Take it over," Li Wei also whispered.

It's like doing underground intelligence.

I opened the letter and took a look, and there were a lot of things on it.

The two of them ran to Yangzhou and tried it, saying that the experiment was quite troublesome. Li Wei said it very simply, but it was not actually that simple, so he had to try it repeatedly. However, after experimenting twice, he had already figured out a lot in his mind. So buying land or renting land was all Li Wei's idea. Anyway, the land by the sea was either useless beaches, swamps, or cliffs, and it was necessary to prevent seawater from pouring back and rivers from flooding. Therefore, it was very desolate.

These lands don’t even have to be paid, they can be taken down as long as they are given some bribes to the officials. Therefore, I bought a lot of land suitable for drying salt. But something happened in the middle. This time, someone began to pay attention to them. After peeping, I also took them, and even raised the land price slightly and snatched many flat beaches from them that were suitable for drying salt.

Li Wei said this before leaving, don’t consider the court, buy as much land as you can. Lu Liang and the other two were puzzled at first. Li Wei explained it once. When the court realized it, it was too late. This was a fight for himself for the time being, but in fact, it was a fight for the court in the future.

Or he would not consider the imperial court's magic horse when he was forced to escape.

In general, the ground is taken down smoothly, followed by manpower. It can be dried into salt without a beach, but it needs to be sorted into salt fields. If it is sorted out, the dried brine must be led to the brine pool and evaporated again, and some treatment will be done.

Li Wei was once very suspicious about whether this kind of salt could be eaten. So he asked about other salt types now. Cooking salt would be better, but its properties would be similar to dry salt. As for Hujing, Ze salt and well salt, the current process is also a problem. Sometimes some industrial salts from the salt lake were eaten as salt. It can only be said that people's stomachs are good now. Or just like cottonseed oil, it is said that eating cottonseed oil will affect fertility. However, when Li Wei was in childhood, many people ate it, and China's population was still rising.

Due to technology, there is no way.

Not only does the Yantian need manpower, but in the autumn, the sugar in Lingnan and Jiangnan will also be reopened. Li Wei took back a lot of money, and the capital was less. Moreover, he was not enough. He wanted to ask several trusted friends in the capital, mainly for the assistance of reliable merchants, such as Chu Xiaosheng, the merchant who sells seasonings, who is a dealer of soy sauce, rice, vinegar and spices. Li Wei also saw it when Hu Ying was inviting guests that day. Ask Li Wei if he could do it.

By the way, the two girls Yang Xu were all fine in Yangzhou. They sent people to protect them and secretly notified some friends to take care of them. Li Wei was asked not to worry about them and to report their safety.

After reading it, Li Wei immediately burned the letter, and then asked Liu Qun to bring the message, saying, "You can do it yourself, but if you are alone, you must not let more people know."

He took the message away, but Li Zhi once again called him to the Daming Palace.

It’s about Liang Jishou.

Liang Jishou wrote another mansion report, saying that the army was heading south all the way, and it was moving south quickly. The troops were frightened and convinced that some tribes had sent envoys to Chang'an to pay tribute.

At first glance, it seems to be a good thing. If Li Wei had just come to the Tang Dynasty, he would have said, "Congratulations to Father."

But this is not the case. The Tang Dynasty only operated the areas of Kunzhou and Erhai Lake. The first was the large population, and the second was the mature and high-level sinicization. Further south was the young masters, who were barbaric by nature and poor in the area, and even lost money. Therefore, the court was not interested.

This is only secondary.

Liang Jishou's situation was exactly what the court was worried about. After all, there were few troops he led, and he was promoted too quickly, and the supply difficulties were not mentioned. It was far away from Yaozhou, which always made people feel uneasy.

"How do you think?"

"My son doesn't know."

"Didn't you talk big about the Battle of Dafeichuan?"

He insisted on forcing Li Wei to say that Li Wei had to say: "The court has issued an edict. Even if General Liang advances quickly, I think there should be nothing in just one or two months. Nanzhao and Liaoman rebel and surrender, and he still needs to give some warnings..."

Suddenly, hesitantly said, "Can you, can you..."

"Is it something?"

"Father, can you show the map to my sons?"

"Take it to the prince."

"Here," the eunuch responded and took out a map. The marking on the map was not clear. Only the terrain in Kunzhou and Erhai Lake was roughly accurate, but it was inaccurate when going south. It was even marked in the Piao Kingdom and all the way to the Indian Ocean. But don't take it seriously, it is wrong to have a terrain from Zhuge Liang City to the south.

According to the Di newspaper, Li Wei guessed Liang Jishou's marching route, and recalled the route mentioned by the Jimo and the other three, which gradually matched the mind.

He said, "Father, please send the three people immediately."

If Jimo returns home and has no time to make a message in Luzhou, the eldest son Yu and the meat-selling businessman Ye Yi live in Chang'an.

"Why send them a message?"

Li Wei told the story of the Elephant Tomb, and then said: "The Erchen did not support them at that time, and he was negligent. Now, I think that these three people must have chased General Liang, and I don't know how to deceive General Liang, so after the great victory, it did not stop and the army continued to go south."

"What happened?" Li Zhi's face was still very calm. In fact, he had known it for a long time, but like Li Wei, he quickly threw it away. But the prime ministers heard about it for the first time and asked in surprise.

"This is true, but the instinct of the elephant, the tombs found in the world are places that are difficult for people to reach. Otherwise, for thousands of years, who had seen the elephant cemetery who had seen the elephant cemetery? Now the ministers are even more worried. There are countless ivory and treasures left by a large tribe. General Liang will be moved by the victory... Even if they are unstoppable, there will be many dangers wherever they reach. It is purely a lucky chance that the three of them can escape, and some areas in the south are not something that humans can enter."

Li Wei was a little annoyed. His father only wandered around Henan and Guanzhong, and the place he went was not far away. Even in the north, the so-called human realm also refers to winter and summer. No matter how far it is, it can still be tens of thousands of miles away, and stayed in the Liugui tribe on the Kamchatka Peninsula? But he didn't know the terribleness of some mountainous rivers at the junction of northern Yunnan and Myanmar.

Li Zhi just pondered and said nothing. Not only Li Zhi, but also Dai Zhide and others were thinking.

Don’t think that a gentleman doesn’t talk about profit. The treasury is a little empty now. Li Zhi is anxious, and the prime ministers are also anxious.

This treasure is real, and it is still possible to use some troops. It is not considered disturbing the people. Even if some soldiers are sacrificed, the first is to show their power to the various divisions of Nanzhao. Second, with this wealth, it can all alleviate the crisis of the court. Don’t have hundreds of thousands of ivory, even if there are tens of thousands of ivory, plus some gold and silver, it is also a considerable wealth.

It may not be credible if others say it is serious, but Li Wei says it is true, but Li Zhi believes it. If you get something out, your son can be "learned", especially miscellaneous studies. His poems are well written and his words are also good, but his articles are slightly worse.

I was thinking about how much money I had...

Li Wei was really anxious. The so-called people die for money and birds die for food, so I will never deceive me. Seeing that, my own son is the emperor, he seemed to be moved. He said, "Father, look for these three people. If this matter is true, I will issue an edict immediately. As fast as the postman needs to be, I will urgently entrust Liang Jishou to come back."

I don’t know that this mountain range was the later one. If it were really a Wild Man Mountain, it would have won the first prize. Later generations were so terrifying, and now it is now sparsely populated, and there may be some natives in the local area who are not civilized, just like wild men, with the flexibility of apes and the power of tigers and wolves, and later generations cannot deal with guns. There is also the harsh environment. Later, it was developed, and it became more popular and science became more developed, so it was developed. That’s it. There is still no human being in some areas of Wild Man Mountain. God knows where the elephant tombs mentioned by Jimo and the other three are?

Don’t have wealth anymore. Send a large army of 340,000 yuan in. It is possible to make a turn. If you can’t see any wealth, you can bring out 5,000 people, even if it’s good.

Li Zhi still didn't say anything.

Li Wei continued: "Father, a gentleman loves money and takes it well. Even if it is true, after the three of them go back, they may not be able to find it again. They can find it. They don't know how many soldiers' lives are used to build it. It's not worth it. You are a benevolent emperor, and you can't think about wealth, so you don't think about the people. Besides, wealth, the grain harvest will soon get better and better. There are no six stone fields in various places, but the good news of three stones, four stones, and five stones fields continue to fly to the capital. There is also cotton from the mother's queen. What is wealth? The people live and work in peace and contentment, and have food to eat and clothes to wear. This is your greatest wealth."

"This statement...is reasonable," Li Zhi pondered for a moment and replied.

But it is impossible not to be moved. Later, an ivory price was tens of thousands or more than 200,000 yuan. This era was still very expensive. The good ones cost more than one hundred tumblers, and the bad ones were close to fifty tumblers, and the supply was in short supply. Hundreds of thousands of ivory were an astronomical figure.
To be continued...