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"I recommend Wang Shang, the magistrate of Cheng'an County!"

"Do you know the current situation in Cheng'an County?" Li Shimin asked suppressing his anger.

"I know!"

"Then you still dare to recommend him? Do you know where he went?"

"I don't know, but I know that for so many years, Wang Zhixian has been personally rectifying water conservancy in Cheng'an County." Liu Min frowned and said, "You asked me to recommend him. Anyway, if you ask me, I will recommend Wang Shang. "

"You!" Li Shimin was speechless. This Liu Min was really unusual.

"Your Majesty, let's wait until we find Wangzhi County." Yan Kai advised from the side.

He inquired about it in Cheng'an County and found out that Wang Shang really loved the people like a son and had a very good reputation among the people.

But no one has found it yet, which gave Yan Kai some bad premonitions.

Sure enough, someone came to report and found Wang Shang and his son, but both of them were already dead.

"Dead?" Li Shimin was a little confused.

"It was found more than 30 miles downstream. It is said that the father and son were reinforcing the river embankment at that time, but the sudden flood was washed away. At that time, there were several common people and government officials who were reinforcing the river embankment with them, all along the river. He chased them to save them, so no one knew Wang Shang's whereabouts."

After the informant finished speaking, Li Shimin, Liu Min, and all the officials who followed Li Shimin fell silent.

Yan Kai also sighed.

There were many corrupt officials in the Tang Dynasty, but there was no shortage of good officials like Liu Min and Wang Shang.

It is difficult for a country to achieve 100% clean governance, but if a country becomes more and more powerful step by step, then most officials must be qualified.

"This is my fault!" Li Shimin suddenly said.

Hearing what Li Shimin said, other officials quickly said: "It was the negligence of the ministers."

The final analysis of what happened this time was that the court neglected a lot of local infrastructure construction.

If more money could be given to Weizhou in advance, it is estimated that Changpingcang would not collapse and the river embankment could be repaired better.

Wang Shang didn't even have any descendants. Li Shimin couldn't reward him even if he wanted to, so he could only build a statue for him by the river in Cheng'an County based on Yan Kai's suggestion.

This trip allowed Datang's senior officials to know that the real situation among the people was sometimes very different from the reports received in Chang'an.

"After we go back, we will make a plan. From now on, the chief officers of the three provinces and six departments will have to spend one or two months patrolling various places every two years! The same goes for the prince!"

Just like Yan Kai said, if you don't understand this country, how can you govern this country well?

With Li Shimin in charge, the disaster in Weizhou was quickly brought under control, and Liu Min was temporarily retained in office.

This was his own request. He would personally wait until the money from the court came in and rectify all the floods in the area before going to Chang'an to report on his duties, and then take up the post of censor.

"Haha, I came out this time to see if there were any problems with us, but I didn't expect to see that there are still so many problems with the governance of the Tang Dynasty. It's not like I came out in vain."

Li Shimin said with some self-deprecation.

"Erlang, don't worry too much. Just like what Yan Zhixian said, just cross the river slowly by feeling the stones." Empress Changsun comforted at the side.

"Hey, it's safer to go slower, but I'm afraid I won't have enough time!"

"Your Majesty is in the prime of life, why do you say this?" Empress Changsun said with a smile: "The county magistrate Yan said that this was the best era of the Tang Dynasty."

"That kid, sometimes you can only believe one out of three sentences." Li Shimin also laughed: "But it seems that we are going to Dengzhou today, right?"

"Well, you see, the closer we get to Dengzhou, the richer the people outside seem to be. This is all the credit of Yanzhi County!"

This is true. The current Kuoding County is similar to the later Special Economic Zone.

It perfectly explains that getting rich first leads to getting rich later.

The entire Dengzhou and even the surrounding places are making money from the industries in Kuoding County.

And because the manufacturing industry here is developed and the output of goods is large, prices are relatively cheaper.

Even ordinary people can afford good clothes, which is different from many places in the Tang Dynasty where people are reluctant to wear new clothes and the clothes are full of patches.

It also makes the people here look much richer.

The business here is also more developed, and you can see many vendors setting up stalls along the official road.

There were everything for sale. Li Shimin saw a melon vendor and asked someone to buy some. He also asked about the price. The price in Chang'an was actually many times more expensive than here.

#34;How is your majesty? Our Dengzhou melons are sweet, right? #34; Yan Kai asked proudly outside the carriage.

"You kid, are you a profiteer? Why are you selling this melon so expensively in Chang'an?" Li Shimin asked with some dissatisfaction.

"Your Majesty, you have wronged me, not to mention how much the freight is along the way." Yan Kai complained: "And think about it, how many melons and people are there in Dengzhou. How many melons and people are there in Chang'an? , This is determined by the market.”

"Oh, tell me in detail." Li Shimin didn't expect that he casually mentioned the price of melons, and Yan Kai was able to talk to him for a while. The key point was that what he said seemed to make some sense.

"There are many melons in Dengzhou. The more people buy melons, the bigger the market. Your Majesty, you have also seen that many of the melon buyers are not only passing caravans but also ordinary people."

"If these melons are sold at a high price and people are unwilling to buy them, wouldn't the melons rot in their hands? Sell them cheaper so that everyone can afford them. The more melons you can sell, the more money you can make. ”

"But it's different in Chang'an. The few melons that have been shipped to Chang'an can only be bought by the rich and powerful from Chang'an's aristocratic families. Of course, they will sell them more expensively so that they can make more money."

"To put it bluntly, how to make more money is how you set the price!" Li Shimin sighed, and then said with bright eyes: "I saw the world map you gave me, and according to you, the world is so big, if it were all me The territory of the Tang Dynasty means there are more melons, so will the prices of things come down? "

"Uh..." Yan Kai didn't expect Li Shimin to be so understanding.

Of course, he has always firmly believed that there is only one Chinese country in the world.

So he nodded and said, "Theoretically, the more resources a country has, the better off its people will be."

With a piece of cloth on my head, why am I the richest in the world? Isn't it because they have one of the most important resources in the world, oil?

If Datang had more resources and the ruling class treated the people better, it would certainly make people's lives better.

Li Shimin was silent for a moment, and then asked: "In that case, can your plan of eating sheep and humans be brought forward a little earlier?"

It seems that Li Shimin is starting to plan to take action against Tubo.