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Chapter 648
For the rulers of the Tang Dynasty, the most harmless and favorite behavior of the courtiers was to create a large amount of supplies for the empire.

Among all the supplies, food is the most important.

Lou Shide came from a poor family, so he knew the importance of food to the people. From the perspective of an official, he also knew that as long as there was food in the granary at home, the people would not have any urge to rebel.

Longyou Road has a vast territory, with a large number of snow-capped mountains, and criss-crossing rivers and water networks. Whether it is in Guzang, Ganzhou, or near the Yellow River Basin, there are large tracts of fertile land waiting for people to cultivate.

Lou Shide, who is familiar with history books, knows that since ancient times, the garrison strategy will bring a lot of food to the government. Whether it is Cao Cao's garrison at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, or the great cause of the Eastern Jin Dynasty's garrison, they have all achieved their goals.

Lou Shide is also a cautious person, so he plans to use the power of the prince to farm in Longyou, and then open up a new situation for him to be an official in the East Palace.

Li Hong was very much in favor of Lou Shide's plan to go to Longyou to recruit refugees from various ethnic groups to farm in the name of the prince.

This matter is relatively simple, as long as you give Lou Shide a part of the prince's teaching and a thousand or so troops, Lou Shide can go to farm and get food for the prince.

The above are things that the prince can do, and things that the prince can't do, such as the funds for buying farm tools and the food to feed this team, Li Hong thinks he can ask Naha for help.

Naha took away his crown prince teaching gold medal.

Li Hong also took the key to Naha's treasure house.

When Lou Shide was thinking hard about how to get funds and food without embarrassing the prince, the prince Li Hong took him to the Daci'en Temple.

After paying homage to Queen Wende, the Zhike monk Xiangji Kitchen of Da Ci'en Temple brought the prince and Lou Shide to a rockery.

Then the Zhike monk left.

In front of Lou Shide, the prince pulled out an iron chain from the rockery. After pulling it hard, the rockery split from the middle, revealing a dark tunnel.

The prince's personal eunuch lit a torch, went down first and lit the candles in the tunnel, and when the smoke was almost gone, the prince took Lou Shide down the tunnel.

After the crown prince opened an iron door with a key, Lou Shide's face became very pale.

No matter what, he never imagined that His Royal Highness had hidden so much money in private.

As a result, he immediately felt that His Highness the Crown Prince was a gloomy person, not like a wise master, but more like a tyrant with ulterior motives.

What is in front of you is a treasure cave. Countless copper coins are randomly packed in the grain storehouses. It is hard to see how many there are. You only need to look at the volume of these seven or eight huge grain storehouses to know why Chang'an City is always There is a lack of copper coins.

Beside the grain storage, there were hundreds of huge wooden boxes. When Li Hong opened one of them, Lou Shide took two steps back in shock from the golden light emitted by the gold...

"All this money belongs to His Royal Highness?"

Looking at the wealth in front of him, Li Hong seemed a little sad. He grabbed a handful of gold sand from the ground, watched the gold sand flow through his fingers, and said in a low voice, "This belongs to a woman who is very good at saving money..."

Lou Shide cleared his throat and said: "If the money belongs to His Highness, I think that the money cannot be moved, and I even think that His Highness shouldn't have so much money.

For His Highness, this money is harmful but not beneficial.

As for the needs of farming, I naturally have a way to solve it. There are many merchants in Chang'an City. As long as His Highness is willing to disperse the income from farming, he can raise enough for farming. There is no need for His Highness to reveal too much strength, so as not to attract the suspicion of His Majesty and all the courtiers. . "

After hearing Lou Shide's words, Li Hong looked back at him. This was the first time he felt that his master's deduction about this person was correct.

The reason why he valued Lou Shide before was entirely because the master swore to guarantee this person's ability and loyalty.

Now, from what he said just now, he could tell that although the fat man in front of him looked stupid, he didn't show any greed when facing this mountain of money. Harm, not benefit, on this point, Li Hong at least has no objection to saying that this person has the talent of a prime minister.

"Don't worry, your monarch, I am not a duplicitous, Piri Yangqiu generation. The money here is not mine. I brought you here to borrow money. Just take the money and leave an IOU."

Lou Shide looked around, and saw an IOU from a gold box, took a look, and found that it was the IOU written by His Royal Highness, and the IOU was from Xianqing for three years... because it was a loan to the officials of the Eastern Palace. Holiday costs.

There are five or six other IOUs of the same kind, and where the money was taken from, the IOUs are placed there. Among them, the IOUs placed on a pile of white jade are from eight pieces of mutton fat jade that were borrowed for the current queen's birthday celebration.

Lou Shide coughed lightly, cleared his congested throat and said to the crown prince, "Your Highness, there will be consequences for borrowing such a large amount of debt."

Li Hong smiled, and the smile was a little gentle, he stroked a huge piece of white jade with his hand and said: "Then owe it, then there is a beginning and a tail, I don't know what I owe her, so I might as well owe more." .”

Lou Shide looked at Li Hong suspiciously and said, "Your Highness, this woman is..."

Li Hong's eye circles were slightly red, he coughed to cover up his embarrassment, and said, "It's a woman I'm destined to treat badly for the rest of my life.

Well, how much money are you going to ask for, just take it, I will just write the IOU. "

Seeing the Prince's appearance like this, Lou Shide didn't know that there was a relationship between a man and a woman, but he was also secretly startled, wondering what kind of woman could make this young boy who looked as hard as iron on weekdays, so The soft intestines are full of knots.

At the same time, he couldn't figure out why there was such a wealthy woman in Chang'an City, but he had never heard of it.

Therefore, Lou Shide once again interrupted Li Hong, who was lost in memory, and said softly: "Your Highness should not be too close to the rich and powerful at this time. Except for Your Majesty and Queen, His Highness should not be so gullible. Changes in the sea will do more harm to His Highness."

Li Hong said with a smile: "You haven't seen her, you don't know what kind of good woman she is, you don't know what a kind and good woman she is, even if there is a change, the one who suffers the most is her, not me."

Lou Shide said doubtfully: "The love affair is over, His Royal Highness just accept her as a concubine."

Li Hong shook his head and said, "She can't become a princess."

Lou Shide said: "The side concubine is enough."

Li Hong smiled and waved his hands and said, "Okay, since you don't know anything, don't humiliate her, and don't embarrass me too much.

Take your money, don't worry, you can use the money from here in an open and honest way, my royal father knows where the money came from, and the courtiers will not gossip about it.

You should do the farming work wholeheartedly, don't let the money go to waste, it is not easy for her to save the money. "

Lou Shide is going to take eight thousand guan from the treasury. The money will be of many uses. Although there is a lot of money here, Lou Shide still uses the eight thousand guan very restrainedly. Moreover, he secretly decided not to After three years, he must pay back the money for the prince.

The crown prince issued an IOU of [-] guan, so Lou Shide took [-] guan, and more than [-]% of it was copper coins.

Regarding his views on money, Li Hong followed Yunchu's habit very well. This thing is just a tool. If you want the people below to handle things quickly, you must not be shabby in terms of money.

Just when Lou Shide was about to call someone to carry the money, the Zhike monk who had disappeared came back again.

According to Lou Shide's needs, [-] coins were sealed in the money bank, and then Lou Shide was given a stack of beautifully printed notes.

It was the first time that Lou Shide knew that among the money circulating in Chang'an City, there were not only copper coins, cloth, brocade, but also this beautifully printed note.

From the contemptuous eyes of the Zhike monk, Lou Shide found that he had become a turtle.

He only needs to take these notes to go to major commercial firms to transfer the supplies he needs, and he can also use these notes as a guarantee to write down the type and quantity of the supplies he needs on the running water sign in Qujiangfang, and wait for the flow of water. When the successor appears on the board, the next family can deliver the goods. After the goods are delivered, the next family will take the security note from the running water card, and finally come to Da Ci'en Temple to withdraw money, or deposit money. money.

More than [-]% of the money may not leave the Xiangji Kitchen of Daci'en Temple, but will just move from this treasure house to another treasure house.

On the way home, Lou Shide was still recalling the IOUs His Royal Highness left in the treasury.

His Royal Highness was very serious when writing these IOUs. Although the amount of money was decided by the Prince, however, as much as was taken away, the amount was filled in the IOUs of the Prince.

I saw that His Highness the Crown Prince neatly wrote the IOU, used the seal... and also pressed the handprint... This is the method used by the illiterate people in the countryside when they sell pigs. It is used on His Highness the Crown Prince. There is no slight violation. Come with peace.

As for His Royal Highness, he is very particular about pressing his fingerprints. Not to mention the completeness of his fingerprints, they are still very clear. What is terrible is that he is very proficient... What Lou Shide can't understand the most is that His Royal Highness is pressing his fingerprints When I was there, I didn't feel any humiliation, and my face was still full of unresolved affection.

The prince's performance made Lou Shide vigilant, which is probably the biggest weakness of His Royal Highness so far.

In the ever-changing imperial court, this kind of woman that the prince loves to death but cannot marry will not end well.

I heard that the crown prince is now negotiating to accept Wenxi's daughter Pei as his concubine. The crown prince undoubtedly does not like this daughter Pei, but the emperor and the empress want the crown prince to marry a daughter Pei, and His Royal Highness the crown prince has no way of refusing.

Thinking of this, Lou Shide's head hurt badly, and he decided to punish You Shi when he got home.

This stinky woman threw him into a huge whirlpool just for a basket of copper coins. She really lacked discipline.

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