Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 383 Feng An's Choice

Zhang Xuansu directly remonstrated with Li Shimin, to be honest, this incident was beyond everyone's expectations.

After all, as the news that Li Tai has the talent of a monarch began to spread, everyone began to look at Li Tai squarely, thinking that Li Tai was the crown prince's biggest competitor.

The vast majority of people in the court did not want to participate in this vortex, and even seemed to avoid it.

But Zhang Xuansu came out to remonstrate with Li Tai at this time, and everyone felt that this was a matter of course.

Because Zhang Xuansu is the young son of the East Palace and the son of the right concubine, Zhang Xuansu seeks to govern in his position, especially after discovering that Li Chengqian's position has been shaken, Zhang Xuansu patiently looks for the flaws of King Wei.

Now after receiving the news from Jiangnan Road, he immediately remonstrated with Li Shimin.

Zhang Xuansu could see clearly that even if the king of Wei possessed the talent of a monarch, he was still only the king of Wei, and even if the prince did not have the talent of a monarch, he was still a prince.

The crown prince doesn't need to fight with King Wei, and if King Wei leaves Chang'an, this kind of discussion will naturally calm down.

Even if the saint dies in the future, the crown prince in Chang'an will be the one who can inherit the throne, not the king of Wei who is far away in Luoyang.

When the time comes, if the king of Wei refuses to accept the rebellion, the Tang army will also be famous and wipe out the king of Wei with a dignified and upright momentum.

After all, it is a matter of course for the prince to inherit the throne.

Therefore, Zhang Xuansu directly remonstrated with King Wei, just wanting to let King Wei leave Chang'an, so as to avoid a direct confrontation between the prince and King Wei.

And following Zhang Xuansu's direct remonstrance, Li Tai, who was originally discussing with Genglu Anshou in Wei Wang's mansion, was called into the palace by the servant sent by Li Shimin.

Obviously, Li Tai needs to explain this matter well.

"This guy Zhang Xuansu has really tough bones!" Li Tai muttered, but he was thinking about whether he should leave Chang'an with the trend.

After all, I have put enough pressure on Li Chengqian, and I will continue to stay in Chang'an. If Li Chengqian can't bear the pressure, God knows what he will do.

On the contrary, I need to give Li Chengqian enough space to think that my threat has been lifted, so it won't be long before Li Chengqian's true nature will be exposed more and more.

After all, now Li Chengqian has become a young man who has entered the rebellious period.

Facing tough people like Zhang Xuansu, if neither side is willing to back down, then Li Tai is still very curious about the future development of things.

Li Tai followed the servants to the palace, and Zhang Xuansu, his lifelong enemy in the court, stood beside him with his head held high.

Li Tai saluted Li Shimin, and said, "Aye, why did you find me here today?"

Li Shimin glanced at Li Tai, then at Zhang Xuansu and said,

"Zhang Shaozhan said that you indulged your subordinates, disturbed the local area, and disrupted people's livelihood. You can read this memorial for yourself!"

"Huh?" Li Tai took Zhang Xuansu's memorial from a servant.

After reading it, it was probably when Liu Rengui from Youzhou led the fleet through Jiangnan Road, because no one in the Jiangnan area had seen such a giant ship, and thought it was an enemy coming, which caused riots in some coastal cities.

To be honest, it actually doesn't have much to do with Liu Rengui.

"Eh..." Li Tai sighed helplessly after reading the above news. Although from a legal point of view, it has nothing to do with Liu Rengui, but causing riots and causing losses will ultimately require one person to take the blame.

Local officials can't say that their governance ability is low and they failed to appease the people, so this blame must be thrown to Liu Rengui.

"This matter has nothing to do with Liu Rengui, and it is impossible for me to pay for Jiangnan Dao's losses.

If Aye really thinks this is Qingque's responsibility, then please ask Aye to demote Qingque back to Luoyang instead of punishing Liu Rengui.

After all, he was only following Qingque's orders! "

Li Tai looked at the content above and finally made his own choice.

Hearing Li Tai's words, Zhang Xuansu looked at King Wei in surprise, because he didn't expect King Wei to be willing to take responsibility for his subordinates.

Whether this kind of leader is hostile or not, at least in Zhang Xuansu's view, he is worthy of respect.

"You can't blame Liu Rengui for this matter, why do you need to take responsibility!" Li Shimin said, after all, he knew the whole plan.

Seeing such a situation, Zhang Xuansu just wanted to speak, but Li Shimin said:

"Okay Zhang Qing. Qing Que has admitted his mistake in this matter, so I will punish him naturally, let's stop here."

"Follow the order!" Zhang Xuansu heard the impatience in Li Shimin's tone, and knew that he wanted to use this as a reason, and his idea of ​​letting King Wei leave Chang'an might stop here.

If the entanglement continues, it is not a business matter, but a personal grievance.

Li Shimin looked at Li Tai, and said, "Although this matter cannot be said to be your fault, the training ship of Youzhou Agricultural University is so majestic and mighty going south. It's a Chinese New Year celebration. Why do you do this?" What a nuisance to people's livelihood!"

"To give New Year's gifts to Guangzhou Agricultural University!" Li Tai looked at Li Shimin, Chen Ken said,
"If you want to get from Luoyang to Guangzhou by land, it will take at least three months.

But if you go by water, you can travel from Youzhou to Guangzhou in as short as twenty days or as long as one month.

Even when the ports along the coast are built, the speed will be faster. "

"Oh?" Li Shimin couldn't help stroking his beard when he heard this.

To be honest, Li Shimin doesn't really pay much attention to the Guangzhou area, and it is enough to ask Lingnan Road not to make trouble for himself.

But now, if the fleet can reach Guangzhou within a month, the meaning of this will be completely different.

At least if there is a rebellion in Guangzhou, then your own soldiers can also go directly to Guangzhou by sea.

At this moment, Li Tai continued: "Our Tang Dynasty has always attached great importance to land.

But the sea can also bring infinite wealth. Needless to say, the coastline from Youzhou to Guangzhou is a natural canal.

Even if we can build bigger ships and transport more cargo, the real limit is our shipping capacity.

Unlike the canal, which needs to clear the silt every year, it will be very difficult to even widen the channel.

In contrast, it is much easier for ships to sail on the sea. "

"What you said, King Wei, is reasonable, but I'm afraid it will take a lot of money to build the ship." Zhang Xuansu said,

"So much time has passed since you were named the King of Yan, but Datang only has one real fleet, and even King Wei, you are only a fleet with a training fleet as the core.

Even if the imperial court has money, it should be used for people's livelihood, not just investing too much resources in extravagant things like sugar and tea! "

To be honest, Zhang Xuansu knew very well that Li Tai had established a business route for sugar and tea in Guangzhou.

After all, Li Chengqian was also very envious of Li Tai's ability to get money, but Li Chengqian secretly tried a few times, but failed to establish a business route.

After all, needless to say, the distance between the two parties alone determines that it is impossible for Li Chengqian to arrange people there.

Still the same sentence, Li Chengqian's foundation is in the court, especially the group of civil servants who write books and history.

This is also one of the reasons why Li Tai was not well received when he returned to Chang'an. After all, these people are very good if they are to criticize.

But Li Tai didn't intend to argue with them either.

Because I can't argue with the most verbal, but I just use the facts to defeat it directly.

After all, in the face of living facts, or interests, lip service is the most useless.

"In fact, the most important reason for focusing on the development of ocean shipping is to calm prices or transport emergency supplies when necessary!" Li Tai explained,

"Although sucrose and tea are specialties in Guangzhou, the production scale of such things is limited.

In the case of underdeveloped transportation, it is natural to exchange these special products for high profits.

However, there is no longer any shipping restrictions between Guangzhou and Yuhang, so the land value of Guangzhou with two crops or even three crops a year will be developed.

As long as the size of the ships can continue to increase, the transportation costs will continue to be shared equally.

At that time, the Central Plains region will cause disasters for some reason, and it may be faster for Guangzhou to dispatch food urgently than we dispatch food from Luoyang for disaster relief. "

"Of course, in addition to emergency relief, what is more important is that Lingnan Road is no longer an enclave isolated by mountains in the Tang Dynasty.

It is really able to tie Guangzhou together through the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and ocean shipping.

Even if our Tang Dynasty does not take the initiative to invest in the development of Lingnan Road, with the help of the connection between the coastline and the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, they will naturally develop. "

Li Tai looked at Li Shimin and said earnestly, "Since Lingnan Road is the land of our Tang Dynasty, we can't just ignore the development of Lingnan Road.

Only by driving the development of Lingnan Road can the Lingnan area be included in the effective management of our Tang Dynasty, and the transformation of the local people from Shuman into our Tang people is the safest way to increase the population. "

"Population!" Li Shimin became even more thoughtful when he heard this.

It's still the same sentence, Li Shimin wanted to enfeoff, and even Li Tai found a theoretical basis for enfeoffment for Li Shimin.

That is, the population that the land of the entire Tang Dynasty can carry is limited.

Li Shimin thought hard several times, but he had to admit that when the population of Datang reached a certain level, only enfeoffment could solve the problem.

But Datang's population is really too small, at least 200 million, or even 300 million households, which simply cannot support the smooth implementation of the enfeoffment policy.

Just like this, even though Li Shimin had the idea of ​​enfeoffment in his heart, but because of the low population, Li Shimin suppressed his thoughts after all.

Therefore, the ruling goal of the entire Datang has gradually become the restoration of the population of the Datang.

Now there is a way to speed up this process. To be honest, Li Shimin is still quite interested.

After all, the barbarians in the south are different from the aliens in the north. The barbarians have accepted the rule of China since ancient times, but the local supplies cannot support the life of the barbarians, and there is no way to completely educate them from barbarians to Chinese people.

Of course, this is only because the country is reluctant to invest.

After all, Guangzhou is too far away from Chang'an. If these barbarians are enlightened, they may become the capital for Lingnan's continued separatism.

So the imperial court continued to deal with it coldly, as long as these barbarians didn't make trouble.

But now, if the soldiers of the imperial court can arrive in Guangzhou within a month, then develop Guangzhou to educate and educate the barbarians, and completely bring Guangzhou into the rule of the Tang Dynasty, instead of just controlling Lingnan Road from afar.

To be honest, with the convenience of the shipping system, the imperial court's ability to control China has been further enhanced!
"If we want to develop the navigation industry thoroughly, I'm afraid we need to make the Bohai Sea the inland sea of ​​our Great Tang!"

When Li Shimin heard Li Tai's words, he immediately discovered the loophole in Li Tai's plan, which was Goguryeo.

Because of the existence of Goguryeo, it is impossible for Datang to develop the shipping industry recklessly, or more precisely, Datang needs to use a large part of its sea power to deal with Goguryeo's fleet.

Therefore, to a certain extent, "Datang developed the navigation industry in order to be able to conquer Goguryeo, but in order to prosper the navigation industry, it is necessary to turn the Bohai Sea into Datang's inland sea!"

"I know!" Li Shimin couldn't help stroking his beard when he heard Li Tai's words, and his heart became more determined to destroy Goguryeo.

And according to Li Tai's words, he originally planned to dispatch materials from Hanjiacang to Youzhou for storage, but now he can send the materials from Guangzhou to Youzhou without using the storage in the Central Plains.

In this case, Li Shimin somewhat understood the importance of what Li Tai said about the importance of ocean shipping to transport supplies.

Zhang Xuansu looked at Li Tai with despair in his eyes.

To be honest, King Wei didn't argue with himself at all, he just spread the matter out and told the saint what kind of interests there are in it.

Originally, the ministers in the imperial court would more or less delay the progress of the saint's preparation for the northern expedition to Goguryeo.

Because everyone is really afraid that Datang will repeat the failure of the end of Sui Dynasty, and the current foundation of Datang is not comparable to that of Sui Dynasty.

Goguryeo disintegrated after three conquests in the Sui Dynasty. In the case of the Tang Dynasty, it might fall apart after two failures.

Therefore, the courtiers will not stop Li Shimin's order, but they will delay a little while working.

But now, King Wei's plan to transport grain from Guangzhou to Youzhou is so wild.

At least the court ministers went up and down, who would have thought that the southernmost area of ​​the Tang Dynasty would transport supplies to the northernmost area, and with the smooth distribution of the new year's goods of the agricultural college this time, no one would doubt that this waterway can pass smoothly!

"It's a blessing!" Zhang Xuansu stood up and looked at Li Shimin and said, "However, Feng An has always been the king of Lingnan Road, if this matter does not have his approval, it may not be easy to carry it out! "

Just as Zhang Xuansu's voice fell, a servant came over and said, "Sent to the sage Liang Guogong to see him."

"Xuanling? Xiumu today, what is he doing here?!" At this time, Li Shimin was somewhat puzzled.

At this time, Fang Xuanling came in and said loudly, "Saint, good news, Feng An from Lingnan Road sent an expedited [-] miles, expressing that he was old and weak, and hoped that he would be able to get back in time." Chang'an, take care of your life!"

Hearing this, Zhang Xuansu couldn't help but took a step back, looked at the calm and unhurried King Wei, and took a sharp breath of air. Was this what you expected, King Wei? !
Li Shimin, on the other hand, was a little bit surprised, and laughed and scolded with a little bit of surprise:

"This old thing is really smart and decisive!"

　The state is very bad, I went to sleep, the first chapter was written from noon to night, the state is very bad, add more things and wait for the third day, usually three days should be able to recover.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)