Li Shimin

Li Xuan said to Li Shimin and Cheng Zhijie.

"Thank you Xuan Ba!"

"Thank you, Your Highness King Jin!"

Li Shimin, Cheng Zhijie and others bowed their hands to Li Xuan with joyful faces.

"Your Majesty is polite!"

Li Xuan returned the gift.

Immediately, he asked again: "I don't know if your majesty is coming to Lijiazhuang, but what's the matter?"

After hearing this, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others were stunned for a moment, then their expressions changed slightly, and they said hastily.

"Xuanba, I came here this time to inquire about something!"

"Your Majesty please speak!"

Li Xuan said.

"Xuanba, since spring, the prefectures in the Guanzhou have been suffering from severe drought for several months. The weather is still extremely hot, and there is no sign of rain. This year, all the farmlands in the prefectures in the Guanzhou will definitely lose their harvest. Come to you with Xuanling and others, I wonder if you have a good strategy?"

Li Shimin looked depressed.

After finally having a good harvest year, unexpectedly, this year God started to make trouble again.

Plagues of locusts and droughts come in a hurry.

"Drought is really unsolvable!"

Speaking of this, Li Xuan couldn't help but look helpless.

Seeing this, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and the others couldn't help but subconsciously looked at each other, their eyes filled with disappointment.

"In this case, we can only hope that the cement road from Chang'an to Luoyang can be paved before the autumn harvest!" Li Shimin said.

"Your Majesty said that as long as the cement road is completed, the grain from the south of the Yangtze River can be transported to Chang'an City, and even to the states in the pass!" Fang Xuanling echoed.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, when we get there, I, Old Cheng, will take You Wuwei to patrol around. If anyone dares to make trouble, we will level them up!"

Cheng Zhijie said indifferently.

"Trouble?"

Hearing this, Li Xuan couldn't help but wondered.

"Exactly!"

Li Shimin couldn't help sighing, and explained: "Whenever there is a catastrophe, the people's fields have no harvest, even if the imperial court exempts them from taxes, and then mobilizes food to relieve the victims.

However, there are always some people who want to secretly incite the victims to do evil, and even use various banners to rebel! "

"So whenever there is a catastrophe, the imperial court will send troops to the disaster area to 'relieve' the victims?"

Li Xuan looked at Li Shimin and the others with a strange expression.

Facing Li Xuan's attitude, Li Shimin was also a little dazed.

"Xuanba, this move is also to deter some people with ulterior motives. After all, the victims of the disaster are very easy to incite. Once someone incites the victims, it is unknown how many people will die tragically!"

Hearing this, Li Xuan was silent.

Then, it occurred to me that every dynasty seems to take advantage of a catastrophe to gather a group of victims who could not survive to overthrow the dynasty at that time, and then beat the local tyrants and share the fruits.

"Your Majesty, since those disaster victims have no harvest, why don't you find something for them to do and let them earn some money, so that they have money in their hands and can use it to buy food and food. Seeing the hope of surviving, they will not At the risk of losing my head, I will listen to some people's bewitching and rebel!"

"Ok?"

Hearing this, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and the others couldn't help but straighten their expressions, and looked at Li Xuan seriously.

"Xuan Ba's words, are you using work as relief?"

"Exactly!"

Li Xuan nodded slightly.

"However, how can there be so many construction sites for those victims to work?"

Li Shimin asked subconsciously.

Hearing this, Li Xuan was stunned, this is a bit too much, pay attention to yourself, and let yourself find a specific method of execution.

"Your Majesty, you can dig ditches to connect the nearby rivers. Even if you can't catch up this year, if next year or the year after another drought occurs, you can still irrigate some water to the fields so that the harvest will not be too low!

In addition, concrete roads can also be paved and cities built. All of these can allow these victims to enter as labor servitors, take care of food every day, and pay some wages, which is similar to their days of farming! "

"Especially cement roads, this is the most important thing, as long as there are concrete roads paved between all the states and counties in Datang. With Chang'an City as the center, extend to these states and counties.

The goods in the hands of merchants can be transported from this prefecture to counties thousands of miles away very quickly, and the troubles in various prefectures and counties can also be quickly transmitted to Chang'an City.

In this way, whether it is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, as long as these cement roads are still there, they will be firmly controlled by the imperial court! "

After listening, the eyes of Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others became brighter and brighter.

"This method is wonderful!"

Then, thinking of something, a trace of worry flashed in Fang Xuanling's eyes.

"I'm afraid that those grain merchants will secretly raise prices during this period of time and take the opportunity to make a fortune!"

"They dare!"

Li Xuan said directly and coldly.

"Ok?"

Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and the others were startled, and then looked at Li Xuan with joy.

"Xuanba, do you have a plan for this matter?"

"I do not have!"

Li Xuan shook his head slowly.

Seeing this, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others couldn't help but be disappointed.

"However, I have tricks to cure them!"

Li Xuan said again.

Li Shimin: "..."

Fang Xuanling: "..."

Don't say it, no matter how annoyed you are in your heart, you have to ask Li Xuan.

"Xuanba, what trick do you have?"

"Your Majesty, people from these aristocratic families have taken a fancy to the business of Jin Tea Shop!"

Li Xuan said slowly.

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Chapter 289

"Jin tea shop?"

Hearing this, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others were startled.

Immediately, he looked sullen!

"Those cysticercosis are extremely greedy, they want to have a hand in everything, and they are not afraid to support them to death!"

However, after scolding, there was another burst of curiosity in my heart.

"Xuan Ba, I heard that Jin Tea Shop officially opened two days ago, how is the business?"

Li Xuan replied calmly: "Your Majesty, the five tea shops, [-] catties of tea leaves, and [-] sticks will be sold out within two days!"

"hiss……"

Immediately, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others were shocked again.

"The business of the Jin tea shop is even stronger than the glass business?"

"It should be about the same!"

Li Xuan said slowly, when the glass shop just opened, it didn't sell as much money as the Jincha shop, because there was not much glass accumulated, and those people who wanted to send money to the glass shop couldn't get in!

On the side, Fang Xuanling, Cheng Zhijie and the others also looked joyful.

In other words, in the future, their family will be able to add another [-] yuan in money every month.

His Royal Highness King Jin really deserves to be the God of Wealth!

"Those aristocratic families are really shameless. They even want to intervene in such a business. I don't know who gave them the courage!"

Thinking about it, Cheng Zhijie looked gloomy.

Li Shimin and others also nodded, those aristocratic families are really going too far.

Seeing this, Li Xuan sighed lightly and said, "Your Majesty, I am ready to agree to this matter!"

"Ok?"

Immediately, Li Shimin, Cheng Zhijie and the others were all shocked, and looked at Li Xuan in disbelief.

"Xuanba, why do you want to let those aristocratic families take a share of such a profitable business?"

"Your Majesty, we don't have so many shopkeepers!"

Li Xuan explained helplessly: "The 360 ​​prefectures of the Tang Dynasty have 550 seven counties under its jurisdiction. With so many prefectures and counties, plus the surrounding barbarians, we simply don't have so many shopkeepers!"

"That's a problem!"

Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others couldn't help but look contemplative and helpless, but after thinking about it, they were full of unwillingness.

"However, we can't let the Jin tea shop give those aristocratic families a piece of the pie!"

"Nowadays, aristocratic families are a stubborn disease of the Tang Dynasty. I have been weakening the power of those aristocratic families. The cement roads and refined salt have weakened the power of the aristocratic families a little bit. But now, if those aristocratic families are allowed to participate in the Jin tea shop, Wouldn't it all be made up for?"

"Your Majesty, the scourge of the family is people, not wealth!"

Li Xuan said: "After so many years of development, the aristocratic family has long been unaware of how much wealth they have stored within the family. The fact that the aristocratic family can have such an important influence on the court is because of the great Confucianism and great scholars within the aristocratic family!"

"Besides, allowing aristocratic families to participate in the Jin tea shop gives those aristocratic families the opportunity to make money, so should they also give up some benefits in other aspects?"

"Ok?"

Hearing this, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others couldn't help but change their expressions slightly, and then they stared closely at Li Xuan with great joy on their faces.

"Xuan Ba, you mean?"

"Grain merchant!"

Li Xuan nodded slightly, and said: "Since we have promised to allow the aristocratic family to sell Jin tea, the grain merchants who sell grain shops in Xuzhou and other disaster-stricken places in the customs cannot raise their prices!"

"This matter, as it should be!"

Li Shimin's expression softened.

Fang Xuanling and the others also nodded slowly.

"Moreover, not only can they not raise the price now, but they will not be able to raise the price if there is any disaster in the future!" Li Xuandao.

"anything else?"

Li Shimin asked again.

Li Xuan: "..."

Seeing this, Li Shimin also looked slightly embarrassed.

"Your Majesty, I have never been very familiar with government affairs. You still need to discuss these matters with those aristocratic families!"

"Ok!"

Li Shimin nodded slightly.

"However, if those aristocratic families want to sell fried tea, they have to be like refined salt!"

After thinking about it, Li Xuan continued.

Hearing this, the eyes of Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others couldn't help but light up again.