Chapter 249: Bright the Sword

Li Wei is twenty-two years old. He is a teenager and timid, but he can study. Now he seems to be too low-key. Being a prince is good, but the emperor repeatedly asks you to supervise the country, and he is an adult in his twenties. He has no choice but to do anything. Maybe the ministers can understand it, but it will also make the ministers have the idea that the prince is not decisive.

If you want to win the appreciation of the ministers, the war in the southwest is still not possible. After all, the Tang Dynasty is now unified, not the Five Barbarians invading China or the Three Kingdoms. The emperor needs military talents, and both civil and military are good, but literature occupies the main position. Therefore, Li Shimin used martial arts to conquer the world, and could use his writing as his posthumous title. Although he was named benevolent, benevolent is far from enough, and he also had the ability to handle affairs. Li Wei made a statement, so that these important ministers could truly support him with all their strength.

Once the prime ministers and these bigwigs will support themselves, even though the father is unhappy, he will be more cautious in dealing with himself.

Not only that, it is not good for him to act in the wrong way, but as a father, he has ideas. The older he is, the more his father is concerned. The older he is, the worse his condition will be. In the end, for the so-called balance, he will give his mother more real power. Once the mother gets enough real power, he will not talk to his second brother. After a few years, his father will not be able to take it back. The best result is to force his father to abdicate the throne to himself when he is seriously ill. Whether it is done well or not, a bloody storm can be avoided. If this result, these big guys cannot watch and need them to intervene directly. If they want to intervene, they must give them some abilities to see.

So today's actions were taken.

Di Renjie said nothing, knowing that the prince did this because of the news of Xu and Yang's death. But he could not say that most of his voice was wrong. Keeping low-key is not a long-term solution, and it is inevitable that all the important officials in the court will see it clearly. However, this time, the emperor will definitely have some ideas.

If you are not sure about the importance of the matter, you have to say, "Your Highness, when you ask Your Majesty, Your Majesty will continue to discuss and not argue."

"Okay," Li Wei nodded.

As he said that, he entered the Daming Palace and first cared about his father's condition and said, "Father, are you in better health?"

Malaria is a puffering disease. In this era, it is also a very dangerous disease. Therefore, Li Zhi hurriedly asked Li Wei to supervise the country and be subject to various affairs. He hurriedly hurriedly hurriedly in a quilt. Li Zhi looked very pale and replied, "It's a little better. What's going on in the country these days?"

"The state affairs are acceptable. My father needs to be at ease to recuperate and don't worry about it. All the ministers are capable ministers in governing the country. If you do your best, you will not make any mistakes."

"Well, you have to learn to handle some business, too."

"I tried it briefly, but I didn't find it difficult to deal with it when I saw my father and mother deal with it before. But after I tried it, I still felt awkward." I wonder if my father had heard about it today, Li Wei answered carefully and said, "By the way, I made some suggestions, told you about it, and came to ask my father again."

“What suggestions?”

Li Wei said four of his suggestions again.

After hearing this, Li Zhi sat up with difficulty. Li Wei quickly brought a pillow, placed it behind him, and brought another cloak to him. But Li Zhi just looked at him, and he felt his son's sword vaguely. He wanted to refute it, but he had no way to refute it.

Whether it is clearing the two waters or hoarding food, it is a long-term plan. Even if some finance is needed, it is still done with strength and not seeking a day's work. Besides, when it comes to money, the last two suggestions are the way to make money. It can be said that it is the way to make money, not to compete for profit with the people. This is open source, and it uses great power as a hidden decoration. It is not purely to do business and make profits, but the court actually gains benefits.

After thinking for a while, he said, "Take the map over."

Li Wei found a map, Li Zhi lay on it, looked at it for a long time before putting it down, and said, "It is very difficult to clear the Wei River and Dan River."

"I know that there are many mountains along the Wei River, but from Chang'an, the surface of the Yellow River is wide and there are not many narrow places. Although it is not easy, it is not impossible to achieve." Speaking of this, I thought of ** again. With **, it is not difficult to do. Of course, the power of black gunpowder is still smaller, preferably yellow gunpowder, but I don't know the proportion of the formula of black gunpowder. Should I send someone to test it? But I continued to say, "It's difficult Danshui. Danshui has been navigated since ancient times since ancient times, mainly from Longju Village to Shangzhou. The river water is very shallow, and most of them are rapids and dangerous shoals. But they all pass through the valleys and valleys. Although the riverbed is mostly rocks, it is not very long, and there is no need to navigate a large ship of 100 tons. Therefore, manpower can be used. After clearing the riverbed, cut off the upstream of Luoshui. The upstream of Luoshui is not far from the upstream of Danshui. After cutting off, dig a canal to go to the downstream of the river.

Enter Danshui. This section of water flow is not much, and it has little impact on Luoshui navigation, but it is enough to raise the water level of the upstream channel of Danshui, so that the ship can reach Shangzhou directly. After arriving in Shangzhou, from Shangzhou to Lantian Pass, from Lantian Pass to Beijing, are all roads. The distance is not long, just a little widening and compaction. And my ministers have also said that the main focus is not to damage the people's strength and national strength, less than two years, and less than three years. It is only necessary to be as if the people have nothing to do in winter. The court

Give them a chance to subsidize their household income. Even if the Grand Canal led to the demise of the Sui Dynasty, our dynasty was profitable, and even thousands of years later, the people would still benefit. But Emperor Yang of Sui was too hasty, and a good thing was done, but this water flow could not only save the urgent situation, but the goods of the prefectures of Shannan Road and even the prefectures of the Xiangjiang River Basin can be usually supplied to the capital. There is no need to detour thousands of miles from the Grand Canal."

"Sit down," although Li Zhi was a little unhappy with his son, but it was related to the country, so he still took it seriously.

Li Wei sat down and Li Zhi said, "Things are as easy as you said? First of all, the Wei River is not wide. You saw it the year before yesterday. The width is there, mainly shallow."

"So my son said we should clear it."

"I have thought about this idea for a long time, but it is not that simple. The Wei River has a lot of quicksand, and this year it takes a lot of effort to dredge, and by next year, it will be silted again. This is the real disadvantage. It is better to dredge the Guangtong Canal again than to dredge the Wei River."

"Father, the Guangtong Canal has been silted and abandoned. Even if it is dredged, there is no water source. If it has water sources, it will be intercepted by the people." Li Wei shook his head. The Guangtong Canal was drilled by Emperor Wen of Sui. It lasted for more than 300 miles and reached Sanmenxia in Tongguan. It was once called the Fumin Canal. However, after Emperor Yang of Sui moved his capital to Luoyang, it was disrepaired and had been silted. The Tang Dynasty established the capital of Chang'an. At first, the national use was relatively cheap. The amount of grain transport in the east and west was not large, and the Wei River could barely bear it. However, the people in Guanzhong Yue Yue were Yue.

There were more and more people coming, especially in the severe drought year before yesterday, the Wei River could no longer bear this burden. So Li Zhi split the four things, the first thing was to talk about the canal transportation. After Li Wei said that, he thought about escaping the road and remembered the map. He didn't even have to look at the map, and it came out in his mind. Escape may not be necessary, but there are some benefits. When discussing the deployment of the expedition with Pei Xingjian and others, he was very familiar with the mountains, rivers and terrain levels. Sometimes he could even give some suggestions to Pei Xingjian, which made Pei Xingjian feel very worried.

After thinking for a while, he said, "Father, if the Guangtong Channel is re-excavated, it means that the Wei River will be left alone."

"If you can excavate successfully, you can avoid using Wei River."

"Then my father, can you cut off Fengshui and Fengshui, and prevent the two waters from entering Wei, and directly enter Guangtong Canal."

Although his son's fox tail finally appeared and began to roar in a hurry to draw his sword, the son was a little crooked. He could come up with an idea so quickly, which seemed to be a good idea. Li Zhi felt a little sour.

I don't know if it's good to be happy or unhappy, but I restrained these thoughts and said, "This is a solution. However, you can notice that whether you enter Beijing from Guangtong Canal or from Wei to Beijing, you must pass through the river surface in front of Sanmenxia. This section of the river is turbulent. Going up the west side of the river, a ship of grain requires hundreds of people to pull the grain, and the reefs are undulating, and passing ships are often accidental. If the canal transportation increases, the number of ships that will cause accidents will inevitably increase. The increase cost does not count, and many boatmen will be drowned by the river every year, in order to hurt people's grievances. In the past, Emperor Wen of Sui issued an edict to carve the pillars of the Three Gate, and used countless manpower and financial resources.

Even many civilians died, but still failed. Or they took a detour, whether from south to north, the local stone is hard, and it is almost as difficult to dig a riverbed. If this section of the three dangerous roads is not removed, the shipping problem will never be truly solved. Not only the three dangerous roads, but also Danshui, Danshui canals are not completed. As you have discussed, it is of great benefit to communicating the Han River and Xiang River with the river. The river channel is wide and there are no human and financial resources to excavate. It seems that there are many rocks on both sides of the shore. If the river channel is small, it will inevitably be because of the many ships and the blockage cannot be done. If you don’t dig, it will be practical. Are you ready?"

I don’t know what I mean by preparing for this, but after playing hard, Li Wei felt a little sweaty.

"You are good at your care, but it does not hurt the people's strength. Do you want the people to be willing to use it for the court? How much subsidy is planned to be given in a day?"

This is mentally prepared. Employment in the capital is expensive and cheap. Those with craftsmanship can earn more than 100 pm a day, while those without craftsmanship can only earn dozens of pm. If the court cannot prepare food, it will only make officials greedy for themselves and must prepare their own food. Li Wei immediately replied: "You can get at least 60 pm a day."

"Have you calculated that if the two waters advance together, how much expenses will the court prepare? 100,000 yuan, 200,000 yuan, what can it help?"

Li Wei couldn't answer. After all, he was just the word "money". The court could immediately take out five million and six million yuan of money, and then start construction immediately. The key was not enough. Thinking about it, the Song Dynasty was still rich. Cao Yu of the Chanyuan Alliance came back and stretched out three fingers. Emperor Zhenzong of Song said, "Three million yuan, although it was expensive, it was okay. In fact, it was 300,000 New Year's money. The Jin Dynasty asked Song Qinzong for five million taels of gold, 50 million taels of silver, and 10,000 cattle and horses. It was not because Song Huizong had to tossed all over. With the national strength of the Song Dynasty, it might have been done. But the Tang Dynasty really didn't have so much money.

Li Zhi knew that his son was in a dilemma, but he hadn't thought about it, otherwise he wouldn't ask questions. It was because of the financial situation that he had never dared to argue. He did not expect his son to come up with any good ideas, and said, "Also, it's good to set up a Changping warehouse in Jiuzhou. But have you ever thought that in various places, except for a small number of charity warehouses, only granaries are set up in the two capitals."

"Break Kyoto."

"It's not just that simple. In addition to controlling the world's food and preventing the country from urgent needs, it is also a kind of remote control. It also punishes the Sui Dynasty Luoyang granaries that were lost outside the city to Li Mi's ring. The granaries of both capitals are in the city. It is certainly convenient to place them in Jiuzhou, but there are also all the conveniences you mentioned. However, there are evil ministers who hold food and grass to defend and rebel. How to deal with it?"

Therefore, it would rather waste some military expenditure than set up a large number of positions in other states and prefectures.

Li Wei did not agree very much. Later, the vassal states in the Tang Dynasty were not because of the food and grass in their hands, but because of the excessive power of military generals. Therefore, he replied: "My ministers do not agree. Father and Jiuzhou were deliberately chosen by the ministers. In addition to Yiyou, they were all not far from the capital. If you are afraid of anything, you also have strategies to choose loyal and honest elders as the assassinators of Jiuzhou. There is also a strategy, the military and political divisions are separated. The government officials are in charge of food and money, and the military generals are in charge of food and money. They are in charge of each other and they are not in charge of food and money. They can be peaceful and peaceful. In fact, the country is still in charge of the monarch. The kings are like what the father did. Even if there are major disasters, the country is still peaceful and peaceful. Like King You of Zhou, Emperor Yang of Sui, and Emperor Hui of Jin, they are either dark and unclear, or cruel. Even if the weather is good, the country will collapse immediately."

The autocracy of military generals is not advisable, but the current Tang Dynasty system was led by the military and political power of the governors of various states. Although there was no military governor, there were already bad signs. But the Song Dynasty was overcorrected. The only way is to avoid the separation of military and political affairs.

Li Zhi was just silent. What his son said was reasonable. In fact, no matter how he did it, it was the emperor himself. The system was formulated by people and could be modified. However, if the emperor did not act, no matter how good the system was, it would harm the country and the people.

The Tang Dynasty was probably fine in its own hands, and in its own hands, there would probably be nothing in its own hands, but what about the descendants? Who can guarantee that every generation is a wise ruler?

After a moment of silence, he said again: "It is good to open a Fan City, but once the Fan City is opened, the enemy will send great scouts to investigate the virtual and real situation of our border. At that time, it will not be possible to make up for the small profits."

"Father, this is easy to deal with. You can set up one city and two cards on the border. Fanhu can enter the card to trade, but you cannot enter another card to enter our territory. Our merchants can enter the card to trade, but you cannot enter another card to enter the enemy territory. Naturally, this loophole will be filled." It is equivalent to the form of a special economic zone. Li Wei said it simple, but it is also very advanced in this era.

Li Zhi couldn't refute, so he said, "Since that's the case, after you go back, you will discuss with several prime ministers and report to me."

"Here," Li Wei said excitedly. This was equivalent to acquiescing.

Li Zhi said again: "Also, let's discuss with your mother more."
Chapter completed!