But no matter what, these things are inevitable. Those who should come will always come, and they will arrive in at most four days, so Li Shimin can only do his best to do his best to do the reception work.

In fact, it’s nothing to do if the reception is not done well, but Li Shimin just doesn’t want to lose face in front of Huo Gang. The main reason is... The development of the Han Dynasty was so fast that it made Li Shimin feel like he didn’t know how to describe it. This made him feel a strong sense of frustration. Li Shimin is a very outstanding person. To be precise, he is also a very proud person. He feels better than most people in the world.

Just like why he launched the Xuanwu Gate Incident back then, there are various reasons, but he also believes that he is a good emperor and a person who is more suitable to be an emperor than Li Jiancheng. He can bring the Tang Dynasty to the top.

It is precisely because he has this confidence in himself that he has taken this step today. Before meeting Huo Gang, Li Shimin did this, but after meeting Huo Gang, all this seemed to have changed.

At least, he believed that under the same conditions, if he had led the Han Dynasty, he would never be able to do the same as Huo Gang. The Han Dynasty could not have developed to the point where it is today. The Tang Dynasty inherited so many post stations of the Sui Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty had a population of tens of millions. But even so, in less than ten years, the Han Dynasty led by Huo Gang had surpassed the Tang Dynasty in all aspects.

Moreover, this kind of transcendence has a feeling of being extremely powerless, and it is already very powerful to be unable to catch up. It is already very powerful to be able to not be left behind by the other party. He always feels that the big man is like a machine and will not make mistakes. More importantly, he thinks that the officials of the big man are all iron men? Their efficiency is too high.

It was so high that Li Shimin felt terrible. After the Han Dynasty discussed the same thing, the government orders could be issued in a few days to implement the specific implementation, and the same government orders could be implemented almost immediately. The strong execution ability of grassroots officials made the Han Dynasty extremely efficient.

And what about the Tang Dynasty? The same thing, in terms of top-level discussions, would be used at least three to five times or even ten times more than the Han Dynasty.

After the policy is decided, it will be issued to the departments below to implement the implementation. The plan of the department will be at least three to five times slower than that of the great man. The transfer of government orders to the local area will be slower than that of the great man. When this matter is completed, the time it takes is even more than ten times more than that of the great man... This is so terrifying.

If there is no comparison between the great man, the world will be like this. Li Shimin didn't think so, but because of the comparison between the great man, this terrifying difference is too obvious! It is so obvious that it is scary.

As a ruler, Li Shimin knew very well what this efficiency meant, which meant that it was also a war. Only when other people's army reached the border, did you discuss how to fight, and the specific mobilization of food and grass, etc. had not started to take action.

How can you play with such poor efficiency? So in recent years, Li Shimin has been learning the methods of the Han Dynasty. He found that the biggest difference between the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty is that the things learned by personnel from different departments of the Han Dynasty are not exactly the Confucian things.

Although the imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty also included math and other aspects, if Huo Gang had not given the relevant set of enlightenment books, the math and other knowledge in the Tang Dynasty would have been very difficult to get started with, and it was the kind that required teachers to teach carefully to learn.

Therefore, the popularity of talents is very slow. If Changle had not taken out all the funds in her business and built countless private schools for the Tang Dynasty to popularize many poor children, the current situation in the Tang Dynasty would probably have been even worse.

Li Shimin has tried to carry out reforms. The efficiency of the current government departments of the Tang Dynasty has far exceeded that of the past, but you have to see who they compare with. If it is compared with the Tang Dynasty in the past, Li Shimin could probably speak proudly with his head raised, but if he compares with the Han Dynasty, the gap is still as deep as a gap.

But everything is moving in a positive direction, and that's the most important thing.

So this time Huo Gang came here, Li Shimin wanted to show Huo Gang a good Tang Dynasty and let his cheap son-in-law see that his Tang Dynasty was no worse than his Han Dynasty. Of course, another more important reason was that he also attached great importance to Huo Gang's arrival.

Because he wanted to have a good exchange with Huo Gang, many of the strategies he had last met and communicated with Huo Gang so far have affected the development of the Tang Dynasty. The problems mentioned in the last dialogue have also been verified for several years, and have proved that what Huo Gang said was without any deception. This is the direct reason why the Han and Tang Dynasties still maintained such an intimate relationship to date.

This is also the reason why Li Shimin believed in Huo Gang. This time he still had so many questions to ask. In the past few years, it can be said that Li Shimin has gradually raised his power to the limit. If he understood that when he first came to power, although he was the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, the real influence of the Tang Dynasty was the various aristocratic families.

Now Li Shimin can ignore these aristocratic families. To be precise, a large number of poor children have been constantly entering the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty. Li Shimin no longer cares about aristocratic families. On the contrary, the current aristocratic families have already fallen into the trap due to many laws in the Tang Dynasty. Now that they want to continue their family, they must listen to Li Shimin.

Even aristocratic families like the Five Clans and Qi Wang dare not violate Li Shimin's orders or dare to disobey the emperor. Moreover, Li Shimin also found that his control over the Tang Dynasty was constantly spreading.

Like before, his influence on the Jiangnan region... Actually, there is, but this kind of influence is something that the Jiangnan officials want him to know, but he knows it, but he doesn't want him to know, and Li Shimin almost couldn't know it.

Li Shimin himself knew that there were some things he could not change, so he could only pretend to be deaf and do more important things first, and achieve absolute control of the surroundings step by step.

Now this situation is much faster than Li Shimin imagined. At least, in wealthy areas like Jiangnan, they have been completely included in Li Shimin's control. Of course, there is another reason for this, that is, it has a lot to do with the Tang Dynasty not having to spend a lot of troops, manpower and material resources in the Western Regions, and the Eastern Turks have been completely eliminated to the north.

In the southwest direction, Tuyuhun and the plateau direction had already been under the control of the Tang Dynasty.

Time flies very quickly. On the ninth day of the Chinese New Year, Chang'an City was already lively at this time in previous years. Of course, the Chinese New Year has not been over. Only the end of the Spring Festival is the end of the New Year. All the yamen will open their doors after the end of the Spring Festival.

As for the people, the dragon raises its head on February 2nd, and the dragon raises its head will be considered to have completely finished the New Year.

However, this year's Chang'an is different from previous years. This year's Chang'an 9th day of the lunar calendar, and this time it has been implemented for three days. Although most areas are still difficult to clean, some major streets, such as Zhuque Street, have been thoroughly cleaned.

Some of the bluestone slabs on the road have even been repaired. The reason why this year is that the entire Tang Dynasty learned about the news that Huo Gang, the leader of the Han Dynasty, was coming.

The people of the entire Tang Dynasty were very familiar with the Han Dynasty, because in the past few years, the goods of the Han Dynasty meant a synonym for high-end and high-end products. Many merchants from the Han Dynasty's Chamber of Commerce said that the Han Dynasty was like heaven, living better and safer than the Han Dynasty. Even the people could eat meat and eat meat every day.

Although most people don’t believe that even the people can eat meat every day? Isn’t this a coaxing person to play with? Could it be that everyone in the Han Dynasty is a gentry? You should know that some poorer gentry in the countryside of the Tang Dynasty dare not say that they eat meat every day, which is obviously bragging.

But whether it is bragging or not, the wealth of the Han Dynasty has penetrated into the hearts of the people of the Tang Dynasty. Many people of the Tang Dynasty yearn for it. If they have the opportunity, they also want to settle down in the Han Dynasty. I heard that the Han Dynasty did not restrict the people of the Tang Dynasty from going to settle down.

But the big men are too far away, and they cannot take the train, and it is impossible for them to take the train. That is, it takes several months to pass. Who knows what the result will be after it passes? People who dare to take risks will always be a small number in this era.

What's more, the lives of the people of the Tang Dynasty have been getting better and better in recent years. In the hearts of the people of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin is also a saint. Now almost all the people in the Tang Dynasty have been freed from hunger, and many people have been re-distributed to the fields, and every household has surplus grain.

This is also one of the reasons why they all stabilized and did not take risks.

People live a wealthy life, and after dinner, these gossips naturally increase. The messages about Huo Gang have been circulating among the people. Many people believe in the Haotian Sect in the Tang Dynasty, so they have the opportunity to see the "gods" in the sky. Regardless of whether it is true or not, they naturally want to see them.

Especially this person led a group of "refugees" to establish a powerful country like the Han Dynasty and helped the entire Tang Dynasty eliminate the pain of the Turks, so they were naturally very interested.

However, unlike the Han Dynasty, Li Shimin could not get the people so close. It was not that Li Shimin was worried that someone would want to assassinate Huo Gang, and there was almost no possibility of success, but he was afraid that someone would not be able to attack. Even if he could not succeed, it might cause misunderstandings.

The people's position must be very far away from Huo Gang and his team.

The road from Chang'an City to the railway station has been protected by soldiers from the Sixteen Guards of the Tang Dynasty. When the Changle Princess entered the station with the long whistle, Li Shimin couldn't help but speak to Du Ruhui and Li Jing beside him: "This guy is still so high-profile. The Changle Princess must have been replaced."

"Your Majesty, doesn't this mean that he is good to Princess Changle? It means that he values ​​the princess." Fang Xuanling next to him said with a smile.

"It's true that I say this, but I don't know why I always feel like he is showing off to me." Li Shimin said helplessly.

"Haha, I think you should be thinking too much. If he wants to show off to you, there will probably be too many things to show off." Du Ruhui couldn't help laughing and said.

"That's true, that's true." Li Shimin said with a smile.

As the train entered the station, Li Shimin and others did not pass the exam. The staff at the train station had already gone over and quickly helped the personnel on the train get off.

These staff members have long been familiar with each other. Over the past year, the train transport volume between the Tang Dynasty and the Han Dynasty has been almost full, so they are already familiar with all this. Li Shimin watched the entourage on the train keep getting off the train, and he sounded the last time the Changle Princess came over.

However, this time there seemed to be some differences. After the train stopped, Huo Gang's guards were still soldiers wearing regular clothes and holding special and strange weapons, without any armor, but their queue still looked extremely pleasing to the eye.

But this time, Huo Gang's slutty carriage was gone, but he followed Li Lizhi and got off the train.

Seeing Huo Gang and Li Lizhi getting off the train, Li Shimin naturally met directly, and the two sides met soon.

After meeting, Huo Gang didn't wait for Li Shimin to speak, but he smiled and bowed first, and he performed the junior gift: "Son-in-law Huo Gang has met his father-in-law."

"Daughter Li Lizhi has met his father." Huo Gang and Li Lizhi spoke at the same time. The scene in front of him made Li Shimin stunned for a moment, because he never thought of this.

According to normal etiquette, Huo Gang, who is in public at this moment, represents a great man, so they should be celebrating in the same capacity as a relative. Then, after returning to the palace, Huo Gang will be celebrating in private as a junior. This is the correct order.

But I never expected that Huo Gang would give a gentleman's tribute directly in public, which was too great for his face.

Li Shimin paused for a moment and reported it immediately. He walked over and helped Huo Gang and Li Lizhi up and said, "Don't give me a gift, thank you all the hard work along the way."

"It's not hard, you can eat well and live well. Now it's different from before." Huo Gang stood up and said with a smile.

After saying that, he looked at the big scene behind Li Shimin again, and couldn't help but smile and said, "My father-in-law, I have said that I came back in my private capacity this time, so there is no need for this big scene."
Chapter completed!