Don't be a prince

"Brother Huang, you are cheating, how could you jump overboard!"

At this time, Li Ke finally rushed over. Seeing that Li Chengqian was fine, he was relieved, and he was still in a joking mood.

"Your Highness, how could you do such a dangerous thing?"

Unlike Li Ke, Li Xiaogong's complexion was much worse. The emperor did not hesitate to re-endow him with military power, just to let him protect the crown prince in Lingnan and his party.Regardless of King Wei and King Wu for the time being, if something happens to the crown prince, even if he is the king of Hejian, the elders of the clan cannot bear it.

"Okay, okay, King Hejian, if Gu has no self-confidence, how could he do such a thing. You came at the right time, we will definitely not be able to go back to Chang'an this year, why not take this opportunity to choose a good birthday gift for the father. This businessman brought good things from the Far West, enough for a birthday present."

Li Xiaogong and Li Ke looked at each other, and walked towards the huge ivory in the cargo pile almost at the same time.The lion skin was taken the top spot by the prince, and at first glance, this ivory was the most suitable.Whether it is directly sent or carved out of the finished product, it is of high grade.

Just when Li Ke and Li Xiaogong exchanged strange moves for Ivory, Li Taicai finally came late.

Walking to Li Chengqian's side, Li Tai stretched out his thumb and said, "Your jump was really wonderful, I didn't expect your skill to reach such a level! However, skill is your skill, and you should not do such dangerous things in the future. "

Li Ke and Li Tai are very aware of their elder brother's temper, and only one sentence of remonstrance is enough, and it would be annoying to say too much.

Not participating in the battle between Li Xiaogong and Li Ke, Li Tai walked around the pile of goods, but picked out two slightly defective ivory from inside, and ordered the guards to take them away.I don't know what he wants to do with two defective ivory.

"Huh? This skin looks like a lion's skin, why doesn't it have a mane?"

"Reporting to King Wei, this is lioness skin. Only male lions have mane. Because it is not majestic enough, although lioness skin is valuable, it cannot reach the sky-high price of male lion skin."

"Well, I'm not interested in using the skin of a lioness, but it's suitable for Wei Wangfei to use. Wrap it up, and I want it."

"Come here, wrap up the lion skin for King Wei!"

Watching a group of people picking out the goods, whether it is the owner of the goods, Hamud, or the businessman who is about to become the owner of the goods, they all stand aside respectfully and introduce them from time to time.As for asking for money?Who dares to open this mouth?

Regardless of how Li Tai, Li Ke and the others squeezed Hamud, from Li Chengqian's point of view, even if all of Hamud's goods were taken away this time, overall, he would only lose a small amount of money.This point can be seen by looking at the goods he buys.Tea, porcelain, silk, and even many Chinese patent medicines.Tea and other things have been the best-selling goods in the Central Plains for thousands of years. It's nothing, and Chinese patent medicines are the most powerful.

At this time in the West, various schools of medicine emerged one after another, and bloodletting wherever it hurts is still the mainstream treatment method.To them, Chinese medicine is no different from miracles.If these Chinese patent medicines are sold properly, Hamoud can gain a lot of wealth.As for Chinese patent medicines, although they were quite expensive in Datang, they were not sky-high.

The line of sight shifted to the inner side of the harbor, a large group of people were rushing towards, and the one running in the front was Li Yongshu.It's been a while since I've seen him again, now Li Yongshu is really no different from Lingnan people, he has to do everything by himself, let him learn how to dress like a sailor, the short clothes and shorts are no longer the same as before.

After a distance, Li Yongshu saluted respectfully: "I pay my respects to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. I never thought that you would come to Lingnan in person. I am really pleasantly surprised."

He personally stepped forward to help Li Yongshu up. With Li Chengqian's current height, patting him on the shoulder is no longer so incongruous.

Patting him on the shoulder, Li Chengqian said with a smile: "It's not that I don't trust you, it's that Chang'an is really a place of right and wrong now. Instead of living in panic there, it's better to come out and relax. The harbor is under construction. It’s very good, but it’s not grand enough, you have to expand the scale!”

Li Yongshu nodded and said: "What your highness said is that the materials delivered by the imperial court are really slow. Today's harbor has been laid wide enough, and it is much more difficult to extend the length than before. And , The current place of our harbor is owned by Mr. Feng, and the two sides are the land of the Xu family and the Cui family. We want to expand, but we don’t know how they will open their mouths.”

The Xu family and the Cui family?

Li Chengqian looked at Feng An, Feng An could only nod and said, "That's right, the land here belongs to the minister. You said you wanted to build a seaport, so the minister gave the land to Lord Li without hesitation, but, The land of the Xu family and the Cui family is not controlled by this official. Although the Feng family is stronger than their combined strength, this official has no way to tear themselves apart from them."

Li Chengqian knew that there was another meaning. Feng An didn't say that he couldn't fight other families on behalf of the imperial court, just like Quanzhou. He went that trip just to pick himself out and show his attitude so as not to be dragged down. .

In the eyes of some Central Plains people, Feng An is a great man who is loyal to the court, but also a coward who has no courage to be independent.In the eyes of some Lingnan people, Feng An is a traitor who sold his land, and he is a translator or something.In the midst of discord between the two, Feng An's indifference is the best way to protect himself.

After listening to Feng An's words, Li Chengqian waved to Li Yongshu.

Li Yongshu leaned over curiously, ready to listen to the teachings of His Highness the Prince.

In the end, what was given to him was not an idea, but a slap.

It didn't take much force to slap Li Chengqian, but it still gave Li Yongshu a jump.

Withdrawing his hand, Li Chengqian said angrily: "I originally wanted to give you a hard time, but after thinking about it, I forgot it. Who are you? The supervisor of Donggong Jialing Temple! Although you are not popular in Chang'an, this bird is not in Lingnan." Except for the Feng family, who else is more official than you? What about the Xu family and the Cui family? You are an official of the imperial court!

Now, I will give you 2000 people alone, how to use it is your own problem.You are humiliating Gu by using two unpopular families to make Gu bother. "

Li Chengqian deliberately spoke loudly, causing many people in the harbor to stop and listen.

After being slapped, Li Yongshu's face turned red immediately, it wasn't from being slapped, nor from anger, but from excitement.He knew very well that the 2000 people the prince mentioned were all the elite of the Tang army.Although the Xu family and the Cui family are the top snakes in Gaozhou, it is difficult for the two families to gather 3000 people.With these 2000 people, he can completely uproot the two companies!

The long-standing unhappiness disappeared, and Li Yongshu immediately knelt on one knee and said, "I take orders!"

After speaking, Li Yongshu stood up and walked towards the most familiar relative.

Watching Li Yongshu call out one thousand pro-rates and one thousand Xuanjia troops, Feng An couldn't help but shiver.It seems that after killing the Liu family, the prince still has no plans to stop, and he still wants to stand up!To say that the Xu family and the Cui family are stupid enough, they think that the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and they can do anything wrong. In the face of the righteousness of Lingnan as a whole, even the imperial court is not easy to tear their skins.

But this time is different. The power carried by the prince is enough to threaten Lingnan. With an army of more than 1 and three invincible ships, coupled with unpredictable gunpowder weapons, the prince clearly came to Lingnan to kill chickens and monkeys.At this time, if you hit the knife edge, what will you do if you don't get the knife?

"Feng Gong thinks that the lonely problem has become a big deal?"

Seeing the crown prince looking at him, Feng An hurriedly said: "Don't dare, the Cui family of the Xu family has no court, so it's not too much to deal with it. However, I suggest that you don't start killing again. The reason why you can't be too powerful, you should knew."

With a slight smile, Li Chengqian walked towards the harbor, and said as he walked: "Gu knows it well, Li Yongshu is a smart person, and he won't do things too badly. There is still some time before dark, and Gu still has to look at it." What happened to the shipyard."

After finishing speaking, Li Chengqian led Li Xiaogong and others to continue walking in.

Lingnan's shipyard is deep in the harbor, on the banks of the Pearl River.Without his order, no work would have started here.

Feng An glanced at the approaching carriage, beckoned to his subordinates, gave a few words of advice, and then quickly chased after him.Now in Lingnan, the crown prince's safety is not only linked to his head, but to the whole land.

People are cheap, before the big waves come over, they always like to stretch their legs on the beach to test, and when they can't escape and are face-faced by the big waves, it's too late to regret it.

As soon as Li Chengqian arrived at the main entrance of the shipyard, a large group of people greeted him with arms crossed and smiles on their faces.Two of them were very different. They had mournful faces, and they knelt down on the ground from a distance, lowering their heads.

Seeing the people approaching, Feng An didn't bother to explain one by one, and whispered in Li Chengqian's ear: "His Royal Highness, these are all prominent figures in Lingnan, and the heads of each family are here. After the harbor was put into use, they all ran to Gaozhou Come and live. Now it seems that I heard that you are coming, and I also heard about the fall of the Liu family. The two people kneeling are Xu Yan, the head of the Xu family, and Cui Fu, the head of the Cui family."

Li Chengqian nodded, the so-called raising hands does not hit people with smiling faces, and he didn't care that these monkeys only flattered people after seeing the chicken's head. Don't worry, the Liu family is self-defeating, and in the land of Tang Dynasty, Gu will not attack obedient people for no reason."

No one expected that the prince would be so straight to the point, and under embarrassment, he could only keep "haha" and "haha", which seemed extraordinarily stupid.

Ignoring the self-reporting of these local turtles, Li Chengqian walked directly in front of Xu Yan and Cui Mi.

"The head of the Xu family, Xu Yan~"

"The head of the Cui family, Cui Qiu~"

"Meet Your Highness the Crown Prince!" ×2

After speaking, the two of them smashed their heads to the ground.

Li Chengqian snorted coldly and said, "Xu family? Cui family? Cui Fu, I ask you alone, do you know Qinghe Cui family and Boling Cui family?"

Cui Fu raised his head slightly and replied, "The grass people know, the grass people know."

"Now that I know, how do these two Cui families compare with yours?"

Cui Mi opened his mouth, but still said: "The two Cui families in the Central Plains are famous families, and our Cui family can't even reach relatives."

Li Chengqian squatted down, stared into Cui Fu's eyes and said, "Since you are so self-aware, why did you fight against Gu? You know the Taiyuan Wang family, but when you said some bad things about Gu, everyone almost turned into shouting and beating him." Now Er Cui is just like other families, too busy to flatter the royal family. And what about you? Are you going against Gu? Do you think that the imperial court really has nothing to do with Lingnan? Do you think that Gu has nothing to do with you? Method?"

Cui Fu hurriedly said: "The grass people don't have such thoughts. What they did was temporarily blinded by lard. I hope His Royal Highness will show mercy!"

Ignoring Cui Fu, Li Chengqian looked at Xu Yan who was on the side again: "I have seen the bills of Lingnan Seaport. In order to get your land, Li Yongshu even offered a price of [-] guan, but judging from the current results. Look, you don't want to earn a hundred thousand. Now that Gu has come to Lingnan, tell Gu, how much more do you want?"

Xu Yan hurriedly said: "No money, no money, the Xu family is willing to give this land to His Royal Highness, His Royal Highness, please be kind!"

With a cold snort, Li Chengqian's face turned cold instantly: "Send it? On the land of the Tang Dynasty, what does the imperial court want to do with this land, and you need the consent of your Xu family?"

Just one word made Xu Nian tremble in fright.

Standing up, Li Chengqian looked around at the patriarchs who died of rabbits and foxes, and said: "I remember you all, if you want to be obedient citizens, don't have any crooked thoughts. The imperial court is not interested in your broken family property, even if the imperial court will send officials to manage it in the future. Lingnan will not find you uncomfortable for no reason.

The family property is your own, but the land is owned by the Tang Dynasty.I don’t mind building a seaport in Gaozhou alone, and I don’t mind bringing you to make a fortune together, but if any of you think about what you shouldn’t do with the money you earn, the Liu family in Quanzhou will be your fate! "

Obviously the crown prince in front of him was only a teenager, but the heads of the families were silent, bowed their hands and said they didn't dare.

Glancing at Xu Yan and Cui Fu who were still lying on the ground, Li Chengqian said: "Get up, go back and evacuate your people. Now that construction in many places in the north has stopped, a large amount of cement will be sent to Lingnan. If you dare Affecting the construction speed of the harbor, you know the consequences."

After finishing speaking, Li Chengqian looked at the people around him again: "Let's go away, I don't mean to hurt you one by one, the shipyard is about to start construction, it will consume a lot of materials, and I am not familiar with the place here, these materials need You supply it."

Hearing this luminous point, everyone who was depressed at first breathed a sigh of relief, and one of the patriarchs immediately said: "Don't worry, Your Highness, if you don't have enough wood in the shipyard, you can ask our Li family to ask for it. If you want to talk about your manager, you can also count as us." What about relatives?"

"Don't worry, Your Highness, if you want craftsmen, our He family will definitely do their best! Who doesn't know that our He family's boat craftsmen are the best?"

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Seeing that the scene was becoming chaotic, Feng An could only stand up and say: "Shut up, His Royal Highness has traveled all the way, and after seeing the shipyard, he has to go back to rest. What's the matter, won't you talk to the harbor master? "

With Feng An's words, everyone dispersed regretfully.

Finally, the ears are quiet.

Walking into the shipyard, Li Tai couldn't help but said to Li Chengqian: "Brother Huang, I thought these people were so cunning. You just killed the Liu family. Who would have thought that these people would come to your door with a proud face and let you kill them?" , if they are playing tricks and tricks, I will give them a high regard."

Li Chengqian said with a smile: "Lingnan and the Central Plains have no news, and they can easily think that Yelang is arrogant. Fortunately, the Liu family is relatively strong, otherwise it would not have such an effect. Although these families are self-confident, they are not stupid. Now the land that protects them is barren and empty, and it is useless under the opening of sea routes. Coupled with the development of Shanghai Port Shipping, the roads on land will be opened up by omnipotent businessmen sooner or later. When the imperial court really pays attention to Lingnan, they all No matter how many there are, they are nothing more than clowns. Anyway, it is a good thing to achieve the goal by killing fewer people."

After finishing speaking, Li Chengqian walked into the workshop of the shipyard.

Chapter 395

The shipyard in Lingnan obviously learned from the Dengzhou shipyard and made later improvements. The open roof of the Dengzhou shipyard has also been changed here.Although the dock is not very huge, when the timber used for the structure is installed in the dock pit, it is still very spectacular under the intricate.

Externally, the warships built by Lingnan Shipyard are the main force. Although the three ships of Prince Edward, Wei Wang and Wu Wang look majestic, only a few people including Li Chengqian know that the three ships sail Restrictions are all offshore only.It is possible to sail long distances to attack Koryo, only because the routes are basically in the bay.

The huge size and bulky armor certainly improved its attack power and defense power, but at the same time greatly increased its risk of capsizing at sea.Therefore, the three ships are not so much an absolute deterrent force at sea, but rather guardians of Datang's offshore waters.However, only a few people know about this issue, so I don't worry about being found out by others.

The long-distance voyage of today's era is still in the groping stage. It is no exaggeration to say that the route from the west to Lingnan was paved by merchants with bones.Even if it is the distance from Datang to Tianzhu, the probability of shipwreck is more than [-]%.Otherwise, why did Xuanzang take the overland detour to Tianzhu?

Because they did not receive the order from the prince, the shipyard also made preparations, and the construction has not yet officially started.

Not long after, Li Yongshu came back excitedly.Seeing that the prince was fascinated by the boat pit, he respectfully stood aside and waited for orders.

"How many people were killed?"

"Reporting to His Royal Highness, a total of more than 40 people were killed. They were all people who talked nonsense and insulted the royal court and even you. For the rest, I just gave them a lesson and then let them go."

Li Chengqian nodded, very satisfied with Li Yongshu's actions.

There is no doubt that during his time in Lingnan, he must have suffered a lot of bullying.For the officials in the Central Plains, Lingnan people have a kind of paranoid resistance, especially those few old hat families, who think that the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and they always want to get wool from Li Yongshu.Although Feng An can be regarded as Li Yongshu's help, but because of his delicate identity, he can't stand out in everything.

In such a stuffy environment, Li Yongshu still did not carry out too many killings when he suddenly got a chance to avenge his shame, which only shows that his xinxing surpassed many people.

"I don't know how long I'm going to stay in Lingnan. During this period, you are still in charge of the affairs of the shipyard. Your father said that your younger brother is ready to take over your shift. You go back with Gu , take over your father's work, and let your father take care of his life well. Don't think that he and Gu have not been together for a long time, but it is really hard work."

Li Yongshu hurriedly bowed and said: "It's a blessing for our family to be able to share the crown prince's worries. His Highness the crown prince has never treated the Li family badly. My father and son of the Li family dare not do our best!"

Li Chengqian laughed, turned around and patted Li Yongshu on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, I don't mean to promote you too much. There is such a large industry in Lingnan, the construction of seaports and shipyards, and you have to fight with the people here. You It is indeed worthy of hard work. If you insist on talking alone, it is not a problem to give you a higher official position.

However, you should also understand Gu's difficulties. It's okay to give you an official position in charge, but if you grow older, you won't be able to control Gu.You take your father's place first. As for your younger brother, hehe, the guy who has experience in the household department was personally recommended by Zhao Guogong. He came to Lingnan purely to generate income for the harbor shipyard.In this respect, you are definitely not as good as your younger brother! "

After finishing speaking, Li Chengqian turned around and walked out of the shipyard building under the leadership of Feng An.

In terms of the ship port, Changsun Wuji has a share, so he is also very concerned about the profits of the sea port.Li Yongshu's younger brother, Li Yongzhong, was sent by the household department to practice in Tuyuhun.Even Yu Tai was full of praise for his ability to convince the herdsmen in Tuyuhun to pay a large amount of cattle and sheep as taxes every year, and to be grateful to the Tang frontier army.

As for Li Yongshu's official position, just like what Li Chengqian said, he really couldn't give it randomly.Don't look at the large number of government offices under the Eastern Palace, but many of these government offices exist and do nothing. Among them, the most important role of official positions is to provide for the children of honorable nobles, or they are placed by some stupid guys.More or less, it means finding an iron rice bowl for the sons of honored nobles. There is no work to do, but the salary is still paid.Although it is not enough to live a luxurious life, at least it will not starve to death.

Because of this, the appointment power of the subordinate bureaus of the Eastern Palace is basically in the hands of the emperor. As a prince, Li Chengqian really has no right to intervene except for some official positions inside the Eastern Palace wall.

The sun had already set, and there was only a gleam of light left, barely maintaining the illumination of the world.When the last glimmer of light disappeared, Li Chengqian also stepped into Feng An's house.

Looking at the layout of the front yard, Li Chengqian couldn't help feeling the profound heritage of the Feng family.Although Lingnan is the territory of the Tang Dynasty, the residents here are actually not much better than the smelting level of the grassland and plateau.Like some bureaucrats, it is difficult for an entire group to have an iron weapon.But here in Feng An, as long as it is within sight, all the families will be wearing armor.For this item alone, the Feng family has the capital to be proud of Lingnan.

Feng Zhidai had already returned to Lingnan, and he waited at the gate of the backyard with his brothers, saluting from a distance to welcome the arrival of the prince.

Seeing Feng Zhidai who was tanned again, Li Chengqian couldn't help laughing and said: "I remember when you just left Chang'an, you were still in vain, but you never thought that you would become like this again when you returned to Lingnan. I still remember your riding His shooting skills are extraordinary, when will we go out hunting again?"

Feng Zhidai stood up straight, and said without hesitation: "As long as His Royal Highness has time, you can call students at any time. In the lobby, the Feng family has prepared a reception banquet for His Highness, and I hope His Highness will be satisfied. Your bedroom will be arranged in my father's room." Next door, don't be polite if you lack anything."

Li Chengqian smiled and nodded, and at Feng Zhidai's invitation, he walked towards the lobby.

The lobby of the Feng family is naturally magnificent, because no one will come to the door because of the establishment, and it is vaguely bigger than the lobby of the Zhongshu Province.

Several large tables were filled with all kinds of delicacies, half of which were Lingnan specialties, and the other half were authentic Central Plains dishes, which showed Feng Zhidai's intentions.

At Feng An's insistence, he took the first seat, and seeing Feng Zhidai who calmly sat down to Feng An's lower seat, Li Chengqian couldn't help feeling a little bit of affirmation.

The Feng family is not a Central Plains family, and there is no nonsense rule of passing on the elders and not the young. Even though Feng Zhidai is the second son, but because of his "studying abroad" in the Central Plains and his classmate relationship with many noble descendants in the court, It should have surpassed his elder brother and become the successor of the next generation of the Feng family.

After several months of sea fish eating on the boat, now that there are so many fruits and familiar dishes on the table, Li Tai still can't control himself. He picked up a fruit in one hand, probably without seeing what it was, I have already picked up vegetables with chopsticks.

Li Chengqian didn't care about Li Tai's unruly behavior, but smiled and said to Feng Zhidai and others who were holding chopsticks: "Use your chopsticks, don't be polite."

After finishing speaking, Li Chengqian felt his arm was being pulled before he wanted to pick up some food.

It's Zhang Yun.

Glancing at Zhang Yun's worried expression, Li Chengqian smiled slightly, and shook his head to signal him not to worry.

In Lingnan, there is absolutely no need for poison testing or anything like that.If something happened to his prince in Lingnan, the Feng family knew very well what the consequences would be, even those small families knew very well.In addition, even if someone moved their minds, I'm afraid there is no way to penetrate the protection of the Feng family's heaven and earth net.

Although these dishes are all complete, Li Chengqian is sure that Feng Zhidai must have asked more than two people to try them.

Instead of picking up the Central Plains dishes, Li Chengqian's first choice was longan.

The peeled longan is placed on a plate, which is pleasing to the eye, but it also loses the pleasure of biting the skin and sucking it out.As for dicing pineapple, cutting dragon fruit in half and adding a spoon, this design is considerate enough.

Seeing the crown prince skillfully picking up the red fruit and eating it with a spoon, Feng Zhidai, who was a little worried at first, breathed a sigh of relief.But what surprised him was that the prince didn't seem surprised at all when he saw Lingnan, or Gaozhou's specialty fruit for the first time.As for the words that the prince has eaten, he will not believe it at all.The red fruit and other things, let alone sent to Chang'an, may have been broken as soon as they were shipped to the Central Plains.