Don't be a prince

Leaving Chai Lingwu alone, each of them strives to become a leader in one aspect.

Cheng Chusi dominated the push-ups and sit-ups, Yuchi Baolin took the weightlifting event, Qin Huaidao took the long and short distance...

He originally thought that he could win the rock climbing championship, but if the rock climbing structure changes...

After screaming, Chang Sun Chong immediately returned to the climbing wall, abolished his best route, and practiced from other routes.

That's it, how good it is for everyone to be tortured together!

After a dark smile, Li Chengqian had no choice but to put down the sword in his left hand.

He used the sword with his left hand. Although he had also practiced it before, he still used his right hand, and he couldn't achieve the same level of proficiency as his right hand.

Looking at his right hand with big blisters, Li Chengqian sighed.If you continue to practice like this, this big blister will definitely burst.

Although the pain of breaking a blister was nothing, but out of hygienic considerations, Li Chengqian was still unwilling to just let it break open.

If he contracted a cold or something, Xiao Ming'er was very vulnerable in the Tang Dynasty when there was no penicillin cephalosporin.

The practice in the afternoon had to end early because of the cloudy weather.

The cold wind blows, but the cloudy sky does not mean that it is raining or snowing, which makes people worry.

During dinner time, the eldest sons each held a rice bowl and looked at the gloomy sky with Li Chengqian.

Changsun Chong said while chewing the meat: "Our Tang Dynasty has less snow this winter. My father said that if there is less snow, most of the locusts will not be frozen to death, and it is easy to have locust plagues. Now it seems that this year is very likely There will be small-scale locust plagues."

"A small-scale locust plague?"

Hearing Chang Sun Chong's words, Li Chengqian suddenly remembered what he had been forgetting before.

Locust plague!

Changsun Chong's words are correct, there will indeed be locust plagues in the first year of Zhenguan, but compared with the second year, the locust plagues in the first year are simply nothing.The most likely scenario is that this winter, there will still be no heavy snowfall, and the small locust plague that has been raging for a year will eventually evolve into a larger-scale locust plague.

How big is it this time?When the emperor was under pressure, he swallowed locusts and said: "People live on grains, but you eat them, which is harmful to the people. If the people have made mistakes, let me give it to one person. You have a spirit, but you should eat my heart. Harm the people."

This is a catastrophe!

Thinking of his wine production industry, which consumes the most food, Li Chengqian suddenly felt a chill.

Can't produce anymore!Absolutely no production!

Next year's locust plague will be a large-scale locust plague that ravages the entire Guanzhong. At that time, the people will not even have enough food to survive. How can they use food to make wine?

Thinking of this, Li Chengqian's hands trembled, and the rice bowl fell to the ground.

Changsun Chong and Chai Zhewei, who were closest, were taken aback. They thought that Li Chengqian's food was poisoned, and immediately threw their own rice bowls on the ground.

"Chengqian! Chengqian! What's wrong with you?"

Pushing Changsun Chong away, Li Chengqian shouted with trembling lips: "Yu Tai! Yu Tai! Get the hell out of me!"

Yu Tai was eating nearby, and when he heard the prince's summons, he threw away his rice bowl and ran over like flying.

After standing still, Yu Tai asked, "Your Highness, what are your orders?"

Li Chengqian pointed in the direction of Chang'an and said: "Get on your horse immediately and go to the East Palace to bring Shangfang Sheng, and ask him to inform Zhao Yongsheng and Li Dahai that from now on, they are no longer allowed to make wine, and the two workshops will temporarily switch to grain business. Grain outside Guanzhong, Don't ask the price, if you can accept it, you will receive it from Chang'an!"

Yu Tai didn't ask why, and left the barracks after hearing the order clearly, mounted his horse and returned to Chang'an.

Hearing the commotion, Li Jing couldn't help but get out of the tent, and seeing Yu Tai leaving overnight on horseback, he asked Li Chengqian, "Why do you need Yu Tai to leave overnight?"

Looking at Li Jing who was puzzled, it was difficult for Li Chengqian to tell the news of the locust plague.The matter of Luo Yi has already made Li Jing suspicious, and now he "predicts" what will happen one year later, heh, even a fool will not believe his "guess" anymore.

Shaking his head, picking up the rice bowl on the ground, Li Chengqian left the kitchen without saying a word.

The matter of the locust plague cannot be announced.In any case, predicting natural disasters a year later is beyond the comprehension of ordinary people.It is also impossible to expect the imperial court to formulate countermeasures. Even if it is the prince who speaks, they will not easily believe it.

In the Tang Dynasty, when there were no pesticides, there was no way to prevent the plague of locusts. The only way to prevent it was to mobilize food and find ways to feed the people.

As for the mobilization of grain, the freight alone is an astronomical figure, and then the grain is distributed to the people for free, which can be said to be a complete loss-making business.

Before the locust plague is completely determined, it is impossible for those courtiers who are like iron cocks to prevent it in advance.

Chapter 97 Meat Can Be Eaten

Now, the only thing that can be done is to hoard food in advance with the power of Donggong.

Naturally, it is not possible to mobilize food within Guanzhong, but outside of Guanzhong, the freight costs are astronomical, and how to do it is still a huge problem.

During this period of time, in addition to the money consumed by the army, the East Palace actually left a lot.However, this part of the money is still a drop in the bucket in the face of the entire Guanzhong-level disaster.

How to do?

Li Chengqian didn't think he was a person with a hard heart, so he couldn't calm down and pretend he didn't know about it.

The locust plague is a disaster even in modern times, let alone the Tang Dynasty when there was no food left.

What should I do....

The whole night, Li Chengqian didn't get a good night's sleep, so that when he woke up in the morning, there were blisters on the corners of his mouth.

Chang Sun Chong and others lived next door, and when everyone got up at night, they would deliberately go outside his tent to listen.

I knew he was thinking about something, but from Li Jing to them, no one knew what the prince was thinking.

I couldn't sleep all night, but I still had to practice swords early the next morning.

Seeing Li Chengqian, who was in such a trance that he was almost hit by a wooden stake, Li Jing finally couldn't bear to stop him.

"The stabbing of the sword requires full concentration. Your Highness is in a trance, so it can't be used as a little exercise. In addition, your hand is already injured, so let's stop practicing swords for now!"

After stopping Li Chengqian's sword practice, Li Jing called his son again, and the three of them got into the small wooden shed where the art of war was taught.

Only the six-flower formation was shown yesterday, but a pattern is obviously not the essence of this formation.

From the square normal team, to the common army formation such as the long snake formation, and then to the six flower formation, the way of transformation is the real knowledge.

After demonstrating for a while, seeing that although Li Chengqian was listening attentively, he still looked preoccupied, Li Jing had no choice but to sigh: "Your Highness, why don't you fight against Wei Chen again?"

"Huh? Good!"

Li Chengqian agreed casually, and then formed the formation called "Glutton Formation" just like yesterday.

This time, Li Jing was still pretending to be a Turkic army.The difference from yesterday was that Li Jing put up more than a dozen frontal formations as soon as he came out.

The two armies fought. This time, Li Jing's special thief, with the help of a dozen front arrow formations, managed to polish Li Chengqian's cavalry bit by bit. When facing the main formation of the gluttonous formation, Li Jing did not choose to head-on , instead of breaking it into parts, trying not to get close to the center as much as possible, but sneaking around, touching and leaving, without giving the gluttonous array a chance to open its mouth.

In just two sticks of incense, Li Chengqian was defeated, and the formation was shaken to pieces.

Flipping the chess pieces, Li Chengqian said helplessly: "I lost, Duke Wei is really good."

Li Jing was not excited, but said helplessly: "Actually, the old man also took advantage of it. It is very difficult for the Turkic people to carry out such a layout. At least so far, the old man has never seen a commander from the Turkic people who can use such a strategy. Your Highness The formation method is still very powerful, and I am afraid it will be of great use when dealing with the Turkic army!"

"Against the Turks?"

Li Chengqian just thought about it, and remembered the time of the destruction of the East Turks.

Zhenguan three years, less than four years away from the Weishui alliance!Even though Datang had just been hit by the locust plague, he still stubbornly killed the Eastern Turks, and even Jieli was captured and trained by Li Shimin to become a dancer.

Turkic?

By the way, Turks!

Li Chengqian, who was depressed at first, immediately became enlightened after hearing the word "Turk".

Gratefully bowing to Li Jing, Li Chengqian said: "Thank you, Duke Wei, for reminding me, Gu has already thought about it!"

After speaking, he returned to his tent and began to write letters to Yongsheng Winery and Li Dahai's winery.

After sending the letter away, Li Chengqian also breathed a sigh of relief, returned to the tent and began to sleep.

That's right, there is indeed no solution to the entanglement in food, but it is much more convenient to start with the Turks.

Although the Turks have no food, they have meat!The Turkic people, who live as nomads, have fertile pastures, and naturally there is no shortage of cattle and sheep.Although beef and mutton are a little extravagant, they are also a kind of food.

Coincidentally, the second-class wine produced by Li Dahai Winery successfully conquered the mouths of grassland people through the delivery of grassland caravans.From nobles to ordinary herdsmen, everyone is proud to drink this wine.The price of a jar of high-quality wine was spontaneously quarreled from half a sheep to five sheep or even a cow.

And the consumption of brewing this jar of wine is nothing compared to cattle and sheep!

After confirming a plan to exchange cattle and sheep with inferior grain and wine, Li Chengqian finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Although doing this is really cheating Turkic people, but cheating foreigners, at least your conscience won't hurt too much, right?

As long as the people in their own family can have enough to eat, who cares whether the Turks suffer or not.

Seeing that the prince finally fell asleep, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

It is very dangerous to be by the prince's side. If the prince is injured, they are guilty, and if the prince falls ill, they are also guilty.If the prince is assassinated or dies, heh, even if they are the eldest sons of each family, they cannot afford such a crime.

They all felt Li Chengqian's anxiety.People are overly anxious, even if they are in good health, they can't resist for a long time.

Now that the prince is sleeping peacefully, they finally have the leisure to exercise.

If your hand is injured, you can't practice sword practice.However, Li Jing's military law class continued.

The six-flower formation is very simple, and the one-word long snake formation is very simple.But mastering when to use which formation, which formation and which formation to switch faster is the real knowledge.

Under Li Jing's teaching, it took Li Chengqian only five days to throw Li Dejian to the ends of the world.

No way, no matter how talented Li Dejian is, he can't compare with Li Chengqian. The difference in vision between modern people and ancient people, especially between adults and children, is simply heaven and earth.

Just when Li Jing had to slow down the progress of the course, Zhao Yongsheng, the shopkeeper of Yongsheng Winery, found the barracks.

Zhao Yongsheng is naturally not qualified to enter the military camp that even the family generals of the Duke's family are not allowed to enter, so Li Chengqian met Zhao Yongsheng five miles away from the military camp.

As soon as they met, Zhao Yongsheng cried and knelt down in front of the carriage: "Okay, Your Highness, how can you make this old man stop brewing? Those people are better off. The high-ranking mansion heard that we were going to stop brewing, so we directly asked them to stop brewing." They sent someone over to smash the gate. After Fang Xiang learned about it, he also sent a letter to question him. Especially the supply of the palace, the little old man is an ordinary businessman, how dare he say it will be cut off!"

Lifting the door curtain, looking at Zhao Yongsheng who was kneeling on the ground dripping with tears, Li Chengqian didn't know what to say for a moment.

Damn it, how did this guy manage to cry so emotionally for such a big man?

Knowing that his legs were not good, Li Chengqian ordered the guards to lift him up.

Without getting out of the carriage, Li Chengqian sat on the carriage and stretched out his hand to signal Zhao Yongsheng to come closer.

After waving his hand to repel the surrounding guards, Li Chengqian hated the iron and said: "Why can't you stand the pressure? From Gu's point of view, you bastard just can't bear to make money! Good guy, you are only [-]% of the people, and you have earned so much money!" , or in the first year, you accounted for [-]% and earned more! Bastard, you pat your belly, and dare to tell Gu that you can't bear the pressure from above, so you came to look for Gu? "

Chapter 98 Brands

As a delivery man, he has seen too many merchants, and Li Chengqian couldn't understand this kind of businessman's mentality very well.

What does it mean to be unable to bear the pressure from above?It's true that you can't make money yourself.

Many stores, when they first opened, were of high quality and low price, with a large quantity and full capacity, but after they became popular, they would always lower the quality of their products due to excuses such as operations.They can all sell badly, but the actual reason is that they want to make more money.Otherwise, why is there such a big gap between the actual products in the store and the takeaway online?

The same is true for Zhao Yongsheng. From his weeping expression, Li Chengqian saw more of the greed of this old bastard.Otherwise, he should have a terrified expression.

Zhao Yongsheng, who was exposed, couldn't help but rubbed his eyes, and then he said aggrievedly: "Your Highness, think about it carefully, if Yongsheng Winery is closed, your income will also be damaged! No matter what we say now, we will all be prosperous It’s a bad relationship, isn’t it?”

Seeing that Zhao Yongsheng no longer expressed affection, but started to act rationally, Li Chengqian still shook his head: "It's just in time for you to come today, and I won't return to Chang'an for the next two days. Since you are here, you can save yourself the loneliness." I'm looking for you."

After finishing speaking, Li Chengqian looked at the guards around him, and whispered to Zhao Yongsheng: "Gu told you to stop making wine, because a year later, there will be a plague of locusts, and people will have nothing to eat. You use grain to make wine now. When the time comes, people will blame you, don't say Gu didn't remind you!"

"what?"

Zhao Yongsheng's eyes widened, and he also lowered his voice and said, "Your Highness, how do you know?"

Li Chengqian said leisurely: "Don't worry about how Gu knows, I just ask you a question, do you want Yongsheng Distillery to take root in Chang'an and become the most famous brand in the Tang Dynasty?"

Zhao Yongsheng asked in confusion, "Your Highness, what does the brand mean?"

Looking at the confused Zhao Yongsheng, Li Chengqian knew that the concept of brand is still too advanced now.

Leaning towards the carriage, Li Chengqian patted his side, signaling Zhao Yongsheng to sit up too.

Zhao Yongsheng didn't even dare to shout, he just leaned on the carriage and leaned against the carriage to listen to the crown prince's explanation.

With a long sigh of relief, Li Chengqian said: "The so-called brand is the impression. Let me ask you, your current winery only supplies Chang'an. If your business has spread all over the Tang Dynasty, what will it be like?"

Zhao Yongsheng tried to think about it, but wiped his saliva quickly.If he has been in the wine business of the Tang Dynasty all over the world, he will not be counted as rich as an enemy, but he will be worry-free for several generations.

"Your Highness, don't bully the old man who doesn't know how to do business. Wine is not easy to transport, how can it be used all over the Tang Dynasty?"

Li Chengqian hated the iron and said: "Are you planning to set up your wine shop in Chang'an? Do you understand the branch store? You can open a branch store! Well, I probably know your business level. You can start now." Shut up and listen to Gu!"

Zhao Yongsheng immediately shut his mouth.

Taking a deep breath, Li Chengqian said: "Who stipulates that a winery must be opened in one place? You can open a No. [-] winery in Luoyang, and a No. [-] winery in Xiangyang!"