Li Zhi, don't be a coward

Chapter 357 Inner Sage Outer King
After Jin Xiang left, King Teng breathed a sigh of relief, and Li Qinzai looked at him with a half-smile.

Seeing his expression, King Teng was very upset, and bared his teeth like an Erha: "What!"

Li Qinzai smiled: "Why, I'll tell the story of His Highness being thrown into the latrine later. Please ask someone who is articulate, and stand on Zhuque Avenue in Chang'an City in [-] episodes and talk back and forth non-stop."

King Teng suddenly panicked: "Zhu Zi'an dare to insult my name!"

Li Qinzai sighed: "His Royal Highness always threatens me and always asks me if I dare. In fact, why am I not afraid?"

Everyone is a senior dandy, besides rebelling, what else would you not dare to do?

Sure enough, King Teng was more polite, this guy is a bit bullying.

"Cough, Uncle Li, take a step to speak."

Li Qinzai said without hesitation: "No borrowing!"

After saying that, he turned his head and left.

He is already very clear about the virtues of dandies, so he can't make fun of them anyway, and the same goes for old dandies.

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Li Zhi and Empress Wu didn't get up until the sun was up, and Li Qinzai really doubted whether the couple came to Ganjingzhuang for business or for vacation.

In other words, in a new environment, the long-lost passion of the middle-aged couple was revived, and they had a rare upside-down last night?
Li Zhi still had no intention of leaving Zhuangzi, so Li Qinzai had no choice but to lead him to the kiln where the cement was fired.

The cement-burning kiln mouth was very polluted. Li Qinzai specially made a thick mask with layers of linen and turf on the inside, and a layer of sheepskin on the outside with more than a dozen air holes.

Li Qinzai strictly ordered farmers to wear masks, and they were not allowed to take them off as long as they were working. Otherwise, they would be fined heavily. This is no joke. If you suffer from pneumoconiosis, you will basically lose your life.

Not only wearing a mask, but also paying attention to daily maintenance. Li Qinzai asked people to cook pig blood soup near the kiln mouth every day, and let the farmers run to exercise their lungs every day.

Li Zhi was very puzzled by the rules set by Li Qinzai, so Li Qinzai had to explain it patiently, and Li Zhi suddenly realized.

"Your Majesty, burning cement is actually a life-saving job. I have a proposal..." Li Qinzai said hesitantly.

"Jing Chu just say it."

"In the future, if the Tang Dynasty wants to burn cement, it is better to let the criminals in the prison do it, or let the foreign prisoners of war do it, such as the country of Wa. His Majesty can order the country of Wa to send 1 strong men to help us burn cement... ..."

Li Zhi laughed: "Your proposal is poisonous enough, the Japanese country is already very honest, and you are still harming their people."

"Wa people are not considered human... is it better than harming our own people in Datang?"

Seeing that Li Zhi disagreed, Li Qinzai had no choice but to say: "Or, Your Majesty asked the generals who were sweeping up the remnants of Baekje to work hard and capture a few more prisoners of war. In short, our Tang Dynasty lacks labor, not only to burn cement, In the future, it will be useful for building roads, bridges, and embankments.”

"Your Majesty must tell those generals that you can't just kill the living enemies casually on the battlefield. Killing people is a loss. It's too bad."

Li Zhi laughed angrily, pointed at him and said, "Go and tell your grandfather, tell those old generals, see if they smoke you or not, and you're done."

Li Qinzai said sadly: "There is a real shortage of people. The farmers in my own village can't burn cement for a long time. It's too harmful to the body. Right now, burning cement is only temporary. After a few days, if there is enough quantity, we will stop working."

"How nice prisoners of war are. They are afraid of death and hardworking. They only need to take care of food and don't need to pay wages. They are full of treasures."

Li Zhi laughed and shook his head: "Looking back, I will give an order to Sun Renshi, the chief of Xiongjin Road's march, asking him to send a thousand prisoners of war to try. If the prisoners of war are really useful, it can be made a rule in the future."

Li Qinzai hurriedly said: "Send two thousand, Your Majesty, from Baekje to Guanzhong, many prisoners of war may die on the way, half of them will be fine when we reach the ground."

Li Zhi said indifferently: "Then two thousand, it doesn't matter."

The monarch and the minister seemed to be chatting, but the content of the chat was full of blood, but both the monarch and the minister felt that it was normal, as if they were talking about the recent bad taste, hunting a few wild game to taste.

Li Zhi is a benevolent king, but the benevolent king is only to the people of the Tang Dynasty, not so kind to the prisoners of war and the people of foreign countries.

Since he was a child, he has been obsessed with his father Li Shimin's wars in the south and north. Li Zhi is not an emperor who is soft on the enemy. In fact, he launched a foreign war and killed more people than his father. Every time a city is trapped, the massacre of the city has become a routine .

Saint inside and king outside, this is Li Zhi's unique style.

The relaxed political environment of the Tang Dynasty made the folk style in the country extraordinarily simple, but for the neighboring countries of the Tang Dynasty, the monarchs of the neighboring countries felt a sense of oppression that they had never felt in the past ten years since Li Zhi ascended the throne.

Especially after Baekje was destroyed, and then Wa was destroyed again, this sense of oppression became more serious. It is not an exaggeration for the Tang army to say that it has swept the world. They do have this strength.

What's more, the god-arm bow, gunpowder and three-eyed blunderbuss invented by Li Qinzai even added a blessing state to Tang Jun, who is already invincible in the world.

The two left the kiln and walked aimlessly in the village.

Li Zhi sighed suddenly, and said: "Master Sun Ren has wiped out Baekje, and the remaining evils can't be turned upside down. You have wiped out the Wa Kingdom, and you have completely cut off the last sea supply line of Goguryeo. Originally, I planned to do it next year." Those who conquered Goguryeo in the east, who knows..."

"There was an inexplicable drought this year. Could it be that the heavens are warning me not to use force?"

Li Qinzai said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, let's wait patiently for two years. This year's drought is severe, and the national treasury has to spend a lot of food relief. It may take a year or two to recover. It is really unwise to go east to Goguryeo at this time."

Li Zhi sighed: "If I had enough food in the Tang Dynasty, those powerful neighbors in the Tang Dynasty would have been conquered by me long ago. Why are they so timid and in a dilemma now?"

"Food..." Li Qinzai was thoughtful.

Li Zhi's eyes lit up: "Jingchu has many ways, can you think of a way to increase grain production?"

"Your Majesty, calm down, I'm just a mortal, not a god."

Li Zhi sighed dejectedly, and said with a wry smile: "That's right, if Jing Chu can figure out a way to increase grain production, wouldn't he be a god?"

Li Qinzai hesitated for a long time, then said softly: "There is a way to try your luck, let's see if His Majesty is willing to take a gamble..."

Li Zhi was startled, then overjoyed: "Jing Chu really has a solution?"

"It's a luck-based method. It may not succeed. The probability of failure is very high. If you fail later, I'm afraid..."

Before he finished speaking, Li Zhi immediately interrupted: "I will never blame, just try my best, maybe I just hit the big luck, tell me quickly."

Li Qinzai hesitated for a moment, then slowly asked: "What does the 'world' look like in His Majesty's eyes?"

Li Zhi was taken aback, and said: "The so-called 'world' is naturally the Tang Dynasty, and the surrounding Tubo, Turkic remnants, Mohe, Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla, etc. I heard that there is a wider land in the east of the ocean, but that's just It's a rumor."

Li Qinzai shook his head: "The world is huge, definitely beyond your Majesty's imagination, and those undiscovered continents are rich in products, various crops, and various exotic flowers and fruits."

"Many species are not available in Datang. If they can be collected and transplanted to Datang for cultivation, over time, the increase in food production in Datang will not be a problem."

(End of this chapter)