Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

Li Ke's words can't be fooled by Li Zhen. Didn't he expect that the future Tang Dynasty would open up the land like this?Isn't the issue of land annexation the most important issue in all dynasties?Why would His Majesty open this door?

Could it be that His Majesty cannot see this problem with his eyes?That must be impossible.

After so many years, they all know what His Majesty's vision is. It can be said that no one in the world can be smarter than His Majesty. If this is the case, why is Your Majesty so open?

But...this is a good thing.

"Is this land purchase also done by a state-owned commercial bank?" Li Zhene hesitated.

"Of course not, you are allowed to do it in a private way." Li Ke said with a smile, "After purchasing the land, it becomes your private land and can be passed on. Of course, as I said, you must abide by the laws of the Tang Dynasty. .”

"Yes." Li Zhen'e was a little confused. This news was different from what he had thought before.

"Well, since you are here, it just so happens that I also have a development need in Xinjiang Prefecture, so just in time, I will call the head of the Li family in Longxi over. If you are willing, then I will help you. Tang set a precedent." Li Ke said with a smile.

"Yes..." Li Zhene was stunned for a moment, but he did not refuse.

Li Ke directly asked Xu Song to call the head of the Li family in Longxi. Most of the heads of the major families in the Tang Dynasty are in Chang'an. In other words, they all have two heads. The one in charge is in Chang'an and can preside over Other family matters are at the family location.

After all, Chang'an now represents the administrative and political center of the entire Tang Dynasty. Many policies must be understood at the first time. On the contrary, it is the hometown where the family is located. The daily things they deal with are just the business run by the family, reading, and a series of other things. .

These are not big things, and even if they are delayed, they will not affect the overall situation.

Xu Song went to call for help, while Li Ke chatted with Li Zhen'e here until Li Zhang, the head of the Li family in Longxi, arrived.

"I have seen Your Majesty."

"Well, sit down. It's like this. Li Zhen'e just came to me and wanted to ask about his thoughts on the development of Datang. And I just picked out a place before. I don't know if you are interested." Li Ke He nodded and spoke directly.

Li Zhang hesitated. To be honest, he was not interested.

Although His Majesty said this in the court before, Li Zhang was not too interested in this. What he was interested in actually wanted to build railways or invest in some industrial plants of state-owned commercial banks. He was interested in this.

Because he feels that the things currently being studied by the academicians in Datang's Ministry of Industry, or in Datang's current Academy of Sciences, have a future.

Whether it was the curved shaft plow, the carriage, or the magical steam engine, etc., they were all of great interest to him.If you can invest in this kind of business, it will obviously make greater profits in the future.

But for now, it seems that the imperial court definitely has no intention of opening up investment by state-owned commercial banks in these areas, but if they want to intervene themselves, they need to buy back the relevant products first, and then hire some themselves. Currently, Datang calls them researchers or scientists. Only scholars can conduct research.

When the day lily is produced, it will be cold, and can their cost be lower than that of state-owned commercial banks?

Since Datang was not prepared to open up this part of the space, what Li Ke said made Li Zhang hesitate.

"Your Majesty, do you know where these areas are?" Li Zhang also asked directly.

"It's Tacheng, Yili Valley and other places in Xinjiang Prefecture." Li Ke did not hide it. These two places are indeed his main development areas in the next step.

First, the railway will pass through these places. Second, these places are the main producing areas of Xinjiang cotton in later generations, and Li Ke developed these places to mainly grow cotton. Currently, cotton has been planted in Gaochang and other places in Xinjiang.

However, the land in these places was originally limited, so later Tacheng and other places were developed. Now Datang not only owns the Yili River Valley and Tacheng.

Including several Stan countries in later generations, which is now Western Turkestan, there are actually a large number of areas suitable for growing cotton. If these areas develop slowly, there will be no shortage of cotton production in the Tang Dynasty in the future.

Li Zhene was a little confused about these two areas, but Li Zhang had the impression that these two places were not powerful countries among the countries in the Western Region, but the overall environment was indeed capable of development.

After pondering for a long time, "I agree to invest on behalf of the Longxi Li family..." Li Zhang said directly.

"Don't force it, these two places will be open to public bidding when the time comes." Li Ke smiled. In fact, the profits of these two places are also very large. Let's not talk about the profits of cotton. Just say that the Tacheng area has a famous oil fields.

The oil in this place even emerges directly from the ground, making it one of the easier parts to exploit.

If Datang's technology does not pass the early stage of mining, then it will naturally complement each other.

Of course, oil extraction will appear to be a lot of profits in later generations. After all, this is how the oil guys got rich. But in the early stage, the profits of the entire state-owned commercial banks can actually be continuously controlled.

Not to mention anything else, initial investment in petroleum machinery, roads, workers, etc. is not allowed?These investments are not a small number yet.

"Yes!" Li Zhang agreed immediately.

Now that the two of them had come over and had this intention, after sending them away, Li Ke simply found Fang Xuanling and the three of them and announced the matter to them.

"Your Majesty, is it because there are railways passing through these two places, so it is the focus of the next development? And in order for Datang to target the three kingdoms of Arabia, Persia and Byzantium in the future, Datang must also have some relatively prosperous businesses on the way to the Western Regions. and other areas.”

"This is indeed the best choice." After listening, Fang Xuanling pondered for a while and said.

As the Minister of the Shangshu Province, Fang Xuanling naturally knows that since His Majesty said that the railway will be built directly from the north of the Tianshan Mountains, it will just pass through the Tacheng area. If this place is developed, the greatest advantage of the railway can also be achieved.

Although the railway construction plan in the Yili Valley may be delayed, it is only the connection with the interior of Datang. However, the Yili Valley can build a railway directly to the west. When it reaches the end of the Tianshan Mountains, the railways on both sides can be connected by then. .

Although it's a detour, it doesn't matter, they will always be connected in the future.

"Well, that's part of it. The other part is that these places are very suitable for the growth of cotton, and cotton is Datang's next strategic production material." Li Ke nodded and said, cotton has too many functions, all kinds of There is cotton in all new materials, not just weaving cloth to make clothes.