Tanabata Diva Concert: Happy Breakup

Jiang Ci thought about Li Shimin's question for a long time and said, "Li Yi is just courting his own death."

Li Shimin looked at Jiang Ci and asked, "What do you mean?"

Jiang Ci rolled his eyes at Li Shimin and said, "Li Yi was Li Jiancheng's man in the beginning. He was arrogant and domineering because he had the support of Crown Prince Li Jiancheng. He didn't take you, the King of Qin, seriously. Now it's you, the King of Qin, who has ascended the throne. I'm sure that King Yan Li Yi has been unable to sleep or eat well during this period."

Li Shimin murmured, "You mean, he was afraid that I would settle accounts with him, so he rebelled?"

Jiang Ci nodded: "It also has to do with his wife's instigation."

Li Shimin nodded and asked, "Will they be in danger on this auxiliary mission?"

Jiang Ci said speechlessly: "It's not dangerous at all. I guess they won't get halfway this time and will turn back."

Li Shimin looked at Jiang Ci and asked, "What do you mean?"

Jiang Ci said bluntly: "Li Yi's head has been chopped off by his men and is being sent to Chang'an. The Tang Dynasty has been established for ten years. Although the people are not rich yet, they are at least living and working in peace. Shuita wants to go to war. War means death. The people around Li Yi are not all fools."

Li Shimin asked, "Are you sure Li Yi has been hacked to death by his men?"

Zheng Zhengjin said: "If Li Yi is not dead, then I will personally go and twist his dog head off."

Li Shimin smiled happily and said, "Good son-in-law, you are really my good son-in-law. By the way, when I was in court today, I kept rubbing my waist. Can't you do that?"

Zheng Zhengjin stared at Li Shimin: "You can't do it, you can't do it, I can do it very well."

Li Shimin didn't care, but asked Wang De beside him: "Wang De, do you think the state of the idle prince needs a ten-ingredient tonic soup?"

Wang De smiled bitterly, thinking: "Your Majesty, you are asking a eunuch like me, which is a bit cruel." He said: "Your Majesty is wise."

Wang De's words made Zheng Zhengjin depressed. After thinking for a while, Zheng Zhengjin said, "Your Majesty, are you interested in doing a business?"

Li Shimin's eyes almost popped out and he asked, "Tell me, what good idea do you have?"

Zheng Zhengjin said: "I want to strike a blow to the Five Surnames and Seven Families, so I set up a papermaking workshop and a printing workshop."

Li Shimin said: "Hey, you, I thought you had come up with some new research. But it turns out to be this. Papermaking, printing, books, etc. have long been monopolized by the five surnames and seven families." This situation is the reason why there are no commoners in the gentry and no princes in the lower class today.

A lot of knowledge is in the hands of wealthy nobles.

Zheng Zhengjin then took out some papers and handed them to Li Shimin.

After Li Shimin took it, he praised: "This is good paper." Li Shimin knew that the cost of paper was extremely high, so he had no intention of competing with the Five Surnames and Seven Families.

But Zheng Zhengjin said: "What if the cost of this paper is much lower than the paper circulating in the market?"

Li Shimin asked, "How many sheets of this kind of paper can I buy with one tael of money?"

Zheng Zhengjin looked at Li Shimin as if he were a fool and said, "One tael of money can buy a thousand sheets of this kind of paper!"

"What did you say?" Li Shimin stood up from his seat. Seeing this, he calmly waved his hand and said, "Calm down, calm down. How about this business? Do you think you can make money?"

Li Shimin said without hesitation: "Of course there is money to be made. One tael of silver can buy a thousand sheets of paper, which is of better quality than the paper from the noble families, and the price is very cheap. This is a huge advantage." Then he sat down and asked: "Boy, how do you want to cooperate?"

At this moment, Li Shimin seemed to have seen how happy he was when a lot of gold and silver flowed into his private treasury.

Jiang Ci said: "Since your majesty has agreed, then please lend me a copy of all the rare books in your collection, and then print them all out so that those poor students can also afford to buy books and read books."

Li Shimin smiled and said, "Okay, okay. Then how do we distribute our profits?" He rubbed his hands and looked smiling.

Jiang Ci said seriously: "I plan to open this shop in Chang'an first. When the shop opens, the people from the Five Surnames and Seven Families will definitely panic. They will definitely make trouble. What I want is privilege."

Li Shimin immediately said: "Then I will allow you the right to execute first and report later." He knew that the son-in-law in front of him was really a ruthless person. To put it bluntly, asking him for privileges was just to give face to his father-in-law.

Jiang Ci then said: "How about this, I make it and you sell it, and I want 20% of the final profit. After all, your treasury is really poor." Jiang Ci didn't have much hope for his current wealth in the Tang Dynasty. With the title of King Xian, wouldn't it be easy for him to make money?

Li Shimin was despised by Jiang Ci, but he didn't care at all. After all, the Prince of Xian was really rich, while he was really poor. Since he ascended the throne, his father had not left him any money. If it weren't for the coal that helped him recover some blood in the winter, then his treasury would have been so full that even rats would starve to death if they entered it.

Jiang Ci said, "Then you should set up the store as soon as possible, and let someone know when the time comes. By the way, how are the preparations for the Zhenguan Salt going? I want to trick the Five Surnames and Seven Families once."

Li Shimin asked doubtfully, "How do you want to trick me?"

Zheng Zhengjin then told Li Shimin about his plan. To put it simply, he would first use a hunger marketing strategy. By then, the people from the Five Surnames and Seven Aristocrats would definitely try to take advantage of the situation and try to make huge profits from the Zhenguan salt. However, after the Five Surnames and Seven Aristocrats and some large families had stockpiled enough Zhenguan salt, the price of salt would plummet, and those bastards would suffer huge losses.

Li Shimin and his eunuch Wang De both took a deep breath.
Wang De thought to himself: "My Lord Xian, if you continue like this, the Five Surnames and Seven Families will be ruined by you."

Li Shimin thought thoughtfully: "Jiang Ci doesn't have to worry about being beaten to death by the Five Surnames and Seven Families if he does this, because he is not afraid at all."

Li Shimin immediately made the decision and said, "Okay, I'll let you handle this matter and severely trick the people of the Five Surnames and Seven Families."

Jiang Ci smiled: "That's right, who let those people from the Five Surnames and Seven Families have nothing to do but look for trouble? So this time, let's find something for them to do, so that they won't be bored one by one."

Li Shimin also laughed. The father-in-law and son-in-law were discussing in the imperial study how to trick the five surnames and seven families. Li Shimin admired Jiang Ci's vengeful character.

At this moment, in the residence of Zheng Qishuang, the Zheng family of Xingyang and Chang'an, all the people from the five surnames and seven families sat on the stools with unmoved expressions and discussed how to fight back. After all, they also knew that Li Shimin favored Jiang Ci.

The head of the Taiyuan Wang family said, "How about this, we say that there is something wrong with our salt fields and no salt will be shipped to Chang'an within a month. Then we won't have to worry about Li Er not compromising."

Qinghe Cui: "I think Lao Wang's idea is good."

Someone from the Zheng family said, "Actually, I think this is a very good idea. We, a thousand-year-old family, are not so easy to control."

At this moment, Jiang Ci had already boarded the carriage heading back to Prince Xian's mansion. He felt inexplicably expectant. After all, there were two Yu Youweis in the mansion.

(End of this chapter)