Emperor Zhenguan

Chapter 447 Defeat the Turks and advance to Tuohai
Then, Li Zhiyun asked him about the money spent on building warships, and the current waterways opened up by the Chinese.

Some Zhang Zhenzhou could answer, while others he could not answer.After all, he was a general, not a shipbuilder.

Li Zhiyun got up and paced around, looking at Zhang Zhenzhou.

"Zhang Qing, this king wants you to be the governor of Yangzhou and entrust important matters to you."

Zhang Zhenzhou got up and bowed, "I am willing to serve Your Highness."

Li Zhiyun stepped forward, helped him up, and said: "After you go to Yangzhou, you will do two things for the king. First, expand the original ferry and shipyard in Yangzhou. Second, recruit proficient shipbuilders and well-versed Water warrior."

"Your Highness wants to go overseas?" Zhang Zhenzhou asked.

"No." Li Zhiyun said with a smile: "When all nations come to court in the future, this king wants the goods of the Tang Dynasty to spread at home and abroad, to show the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty!"

Hehe, who knows how to do things like capitalism.

Sell ​​your products, I get the raw materials.

Wherever the route goes, that is my sphere of influence.

Dissatisfied?

That's great, there's a shortage of slaves!

Isn't the accumulation of primitive capital in the West in later generations the history of blood and tears of the Kunlun slaves?

Zhang Zhenzhou secretly murmured in his heart how ambitious this His Highness King Chu is.

He hesitated: "Your Highness, this fund."

Li Zhiyun smiled and shook his hand, "The imperial court will take some, and the rest will be sent to you in secret."

Hearing this, Zhang Zhenzhou heaved a sigh of relief, he was worried that the King of Chu would ask him to transfer official resources to do so.Now that the world is full of waste, the situation in Yangzhou is probably not good. He really can't do anything that harms the people.

Immediately afterwards, Li Zhiyun said: "I know that the local situation is not good, so you don't have to worry when you do things, you can take your time and don't harm the people. In addition, before these things, there is one more thing. After you take office in Yangzhou, you must Do it now."

"What's the matter?"

"This time you are going to Yangzhou, this king will ask someone to deliver a five-tooth warship from Luoyang to you. Remember, after arriving in Yangzhou, send people to sea and head east."

Five-tooth warship, when Li Zhiyun followed his second brother to conquer Luoyang, he saw several ships shelved in the shipyard.

After a while, Zhang Zhenzhou left the hall, his mind buzzing.

King Chu, it's outrageous.

All the way to the east, is there really another world?
Also, the king of Chu asked him to find those things, do they really exist?

With such doubts, Zhang Zhenzhou left.

Inside the hall.

Li Zhiyun ordered to Li Zhen: "Send someone to Yangzhou to help Zhang Zhenzhou, and the funds will be allocated separately and sent directly there."

"Yes." After a pause, Li Zhen hesitated and said, "Your Highness, is it really profitable to go to sea? I just heard what Mr. Zhang said just now, that the construction of warships costs a lot. Besides, what Your Highness wants is not from the Ryukyu and Japanese kingdoms. Can you really find that kind of place?"

Li Zhiyun smiled and patted him on the shoulder.

"Ah Zhen, if this happens, you will also be a witness to history."

How could it not be!

As long as those few crops are found, Datang will become stronger, and there will be more and more Tang people!

If it weren't for the current domestic situation, Li Zhiyun really wanted to build warships and send them out to sea to find the lost continent.

Unfortunately, he can't.

Not only can't, but you have to cook slowly.

The task he entrusted to Zhang Zhenzhou can be regarded as five or even seven years.

After all, what he is going to do now is not to go to sea.

There is a big trouble with Turkic in the north, and there are many small countries in the Western Regions.

First of all, he has to win these places, and then consider others.He still understands the truth of chewing too much.

However, now he can ask Zhang Zhenzhou to send people out to explore the way in Yangzhou first, and when the Turks are pacified and the country is stable, then maybe they can go to sea.

After Li Zhen went down, Li Zhiyun thought about it, and appointed Zhao Cihao as the governor of Yangzhou, and asked him to go to Yangzhou to cooperate with Zhang Zhenzhou.

In this way, coupled with the people who wiped the clothes, they can completely control the big and small affairs of Yangzhou.

He secretly told himself that there is no need to worry now.

The most urgent task is to wipe out the rebels and defeat the Turks first, and then decide whether to go west or expand the sea.

Anyway, it's useless to be anxious now. The vitality of Yangzhou and other places has not yet recovered, and the people's livelihood is dying, so it is not suitable for large-scale construction.

In his opinion, it might be a long-term project for Zhang Zhenzhou to expand the ferry and shipyard.

"It doesn't matter so much, let's bury one child first, and then talk about other things when the conditions are ripe in the future."

Thinking of this, Li Zhiyun wondered, should he become a shipping company in the future?
Immediately afterwards, he shook his head and smiled wryly.

It's so ambitious, let's settle down and do the things in front of us first.

The next day, Tang Jian, Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, reported to Li Zhiyun the results of the autumn harvest.

The harvests in Guanzhong and Bashu were as expected.The harvests of Hedong and Hebei provinces are barely enough for the common people to eat, while Henan province harvested a little more, which is good news.In addition, the harvests of Huainan Road, Anzhou Road, and Shannan Road have increased compared with previous years.

After thinking twice, Li Zhiyun ordered that all the collected grain be sealed into the warehouse.

It is now the sixth year of Wude, and he has to start storing grain.

Because, he vaguely remembered that after nine years of Wude, natural disasters of varying degrees appeared all over the world.

For several years!

A dry granary can store millet for nine years and rice for five years.

Reserve from now on, when the time comes to face the disaster, it can be used for disaster relief.

There are many large warehouses in the customs, such as Yongfeng warehouse, Changping warehouse, Guangtong warehouse, Taicang warehouse and so on.If it can be filled, it should be able to survive the disaster smoothly.

After discussing with the prime ministers, Li Zhiyun sent people to start storing grain.

Regarding future disasters, Li Zhiyun did not mention a single word to Yang Gongren and others because it was meaningless.

Grain is harvested and stored.

Such a system already exists, and there is no need to think about it.

However, Yang Gongren and others were more guessing that His Highness the King of Chu stockpiled food for the purpose of dealing with the Turks in the future.

Therefore, when Yang Gongren and others praised Li Zhiyun for his vision, Li Zhiyun was stunned for a moment.

He thought that Pei Ju and the others would say that they were planning for a rainy day.

After clarifying the matter, Li Zhiyun couldn't help laughing and crying, but also felt a little pity.If there were no such disasters in the future, these grains could be used as military resources to start wars and beat Turkic dogs to death.

However, who said that taking food and gathering military funds must be taken from the people?

If anyone has the most food in this world, it must be a family with a lot of land!

The last time Dou Jing was planted, the food Lao Li got from the Dou family gave Li Zhiyun the confidence to launch a war to wipe out Lin Shihong.

If we can plan to take a few more companies, we should be able to fully support whether it is the conquest of the Turks or disaster relief.

Don't worry, take your time.

On this day, Li Zhiyun discussed matters with the prime ministers in the Political Affairs Hall.

"The millet has been harvested. This king has decided to open up wasteland and plant it with refugees."

The world is in chaos, there are many refugees, and they are fleeing from place to place.The imperial court's solution to this problem was to let them reclaim the wasteland, and hand over part of the food they got after they had enough to eat. After a few years, those wastelands would be completely handed over to the refugees.At that time, the amount of food to be handed over will return to the regulation of the court.

It's not a bad idea.

Several prime ministers looked at each other in blank dismay, a little puzzled.

Chen Shuda said: "Your Highness, this strategy is feasible, but it's going to be winter, so you can't plant millet. In this case, it's better to wait for the next year to cultivate."

They felt that the King of Chu was a little naive and ignorant of farming.

There is no way to open up wasteland and plant in winter.

"My king didn't say he wanted to plant millet." Li Zhiyun grinned.

Do not plant millet?
Everyone was stunned.

(End of this chapter)