Time Travel: I am the idle king Li Shen and Li Shimin in the Tang Dynasty

At noon, the imperial edict left the province and was sent to various places, and Li Shen's Prince Ji's Wang Xuance rushed over to report it immediately.

This kind of imperial edict does not require any intelligence system at all. As a prince, it is easy to know the contents of this kind of national edict.

"Your Majesty, this is the entire content of the imperial edict, what should we do."

"Xuance, what does this have to do with us? National affairs are not our business." Li Shen was still lying on the rocking chair, enjoying the professional Chinese medicine massage of Chunxiang Dongmei.

There are too few entertainment projects in this era, and Li Shen doesn't go to brothels to paint boats, so the most comfortable thing every day is to lie on the rocking chair, while Wu Mei tells him legends, Chunxiang Dongmei massages him, and he has a good sleep.

If you have nothing to do in the afternoon, you can go out for a walk, or go to Dongshan Mountain to catch some wild game with his archery skills, and come back in the evening to have a good meal.

"Your Majesty, I was wondering, can we get any benefit from this?" Wang Xuance and Li Shen have been together for a long time, and they have also picked up some bad habits.

"Xuance, if you don't let me donate now, I'm already burning incense. You still want benefits, so you'd better keep a low profile at this time. Don't let Aye pay attention to it. There isn't much money in the treasury."

"Your Majesty, someone is coming to the palace. Please call your Majesty into the palace." Shitou came over to report.

"Oops!" Li Shen fell off the rocking chair without being able to sit firmly.

"What I said, what I said. I knew it would be like this. He has been thinking about my money." Li Shen entered a messy state again.

In the Liangyi Hall, Li Shen and Li Shimin were staring at each other, neither of them saying anything, and Wang De next to them was a little hairy.

In fact, what Li Shen was thinking about was how to keep his money.

"Well..." Li Shengang was about to speak.

"Haha, you spoke first, huh, it seems that even though you are young, you still can't hold your breath." Li Shimin laughed.

"..." This dad is getting more and more abnormal. What kind of bad taste is this?

"Aye, why did you call me here?"

"Nothing. I want to conquer Goguryeo. I asked the transfer department. If we prepare the food and wages and build the armament, we need to wait until the beginning of next year or even longer. The main reason is that the national treasury is empty. This year we need to build water conservancy and dredge the rivers. But I want to send troops as soon as possible. ,so....."

"So Aye wants to be generous and use some money as food and salary?" Li Shen asked cautiously.

"If you have this kind of filial piety, it must be good. Everyone in Chang'an knows that King Ji is filial."

"Aye, you have more than 2000 million gold in your internal funds, which is enough to meet all the expenses of attacking Goguryeo."

"Don't you know what that money is? In just a few months, tens of millions of dollars have been spent from internal funds. Do you think others won't be suspicious? This money cannot be touched."

"Aye, you can't touch my money. It's not easy for me to make some money in the past few years. I work early in the morning and go late in the day, through wind and rain. I have earned a little bit of family property, but the royal palace has a lot of expenses.

I spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on the cavalry battalion alone, as well as equipment wear and tear and salary expenses for other arms.

In addition, the research institute I built in the first few years also cost a lot of money, and the other hospital of Dr. Sun was also very expensive. There are also the annual maintenance fees for my huge palace, and..."

"Okay, needless to say, 300 million guan. I need to attack Goguryeo as soon as possible. When I win, I will give you the spoils of war."

"300 million yuan?" Li Shen's voice was a little high.

"Aye, how can I have 300 million yuan?"

"Don't think that I don't know. You now have at least six to seven million yuan, maybe more. Just treat it as a loan from me. I'm asking the Ministry of Revenue to chip in. It should be enough in the early stage."

"Aye, I think it is not the right time to attack Goguryeo. Now that the people have just recovered a little bit of life, it is really not appropriate to fight on a large scale."

"Li Shen, are you also questioning my decision? Do you also think that I am as eager for success as Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty? Or do you also think that I should not attack Goguryeo?" Li Shimin's expression changed a little.

"Aye, I heard that Goguryeo united with Baekje to attack Silla. Aye sent an envoy to mediate. Goguryeo disagreed. In fact, you don't have to fight to teach them a lesson."

"Then what do you think?"

Li Shen was thinking quickly in his mind, he had to find a way for his 300 million.

"Aye, isn't Goguryeo also a target in our food strategy? We can raise the price of food for him, and also for Baekje, raising it bit by bit, causing panic to them.

Although they also have food of their own, I estimate that I have accounted for [-]% of their food supply in the past two years. "

"This alone is not enough," Li Shimin said

Regarding the price increase mentioned by Li Shen, Li Shimin said it was not feasible.

"Aye, the increase in food prices is just to make some money, so Baekje can have a greater impact. However, it is inevitable that food prices will increase during wars. We can give Silla some help, such as food, weapons and so on.

Let Silla fight first, and we will send ships to the coastal cities of Baekje. Baekje will definitely be afraid that we will attack them and will not dare to send all its troops to Silla.

We sent a military governor to station at the border of Goguryeo to give the impression that we would attack at any time. I guess they would not dare to attack Silla with all their strength. "

"But Silla's crisis has still not been resolved." Li Shimin thought for a while and asked.

"Aye, why should we resolve the crisis in Silla? Let the three of them fight. The longer the fight, the better, the greater the consumption, the better, and the more people die, the better. Wait until we in Datang are ready , let's..." Li Shen grasped his open palm.

Li Shimin also began to think deeply after hearing this. The outline of Li Shen's method is feasible, but the details he said have many loopholes. However, this does not hinder Li Shimin's reference. Li Shimin can completely find the ministers to come up with a perfect plan based on Li Shen's strategy. .

If we can really engulf all three countries, it won't be a big deal if we wait a few years.

"Old Shi, I didn't expect you to be so flexible for your 300 million yuan." Li Shimin felt that Li Shen's method was feasible, so he raised his head and said to Li Shen with a smile.

"Aye is so complimentary. It's all for sharing Aye's worries."

"Go back and let me think about it."

Li Shen nodded quickly and said, "Aye, let's go back there. By the way, we can also contact the Treasure King and provide some support when appropriate."

"Oh, is it the method you mentioned before that is similar to competing for reserves?"

"Absolutely. If this treasure king is ambitious, then we will satisfy him. We can provide him with money, food, and weapons.

When necessary, we can send a small group of people to help him, as long as he can fight Su Gaiwen. "

"Well, this is feasible. I will discuss it with the princes. You can go back."

"Yes"

Li Shen finally breathed a sigh of relief and escaped.