Datang: What's wrong with my fief being a billion points larger?

Chapter 115 Foreign trade is settled, Li Yuanji expands the army

As soon as Yang Cheng arrived, he looked around. When he saw the glass in Pei Xuanyan's hand, his eyes widened.

"Is this colored glass? The quality is so good! Let me see it."

Pei Xuanyan didn't know who Yang Cheng was, but when he heard Yang Cheng calling Li Yuanji brother-in-law, he knew that this was someone he could not afford to offend. He could only hand it to Yang Cheng with great care and concern. However, Yang Cheng took it and played with it vigorously. Pei Xuanyan's heart almost fell out.

If Li Yuanji had not been here, no matter what the relationship between Yang Cheng and Li Yuanji was, he would have to say a few words to Yang Cheng. In his eyes, Yang Cheng was just a prodigal son.

Is this colored glaze beautiful? This is just one of the reasons. The most important thing is that this is a reward from Li Yuanji. This is a recognition of him and a special honor for him. He must preserve the reward well.

This is equivalent to Qin Qiong's later story. His family was obviously very poor because they had no income, and Li Shimin gave him a lot of rewards, but he could only look at them, because if he sold the rewards, it would be a great disrespect to the person who gave the rewards.

The more Yang Cheng looked at it, the happier he felt. He then returned it to Pei Xuanyan, who took it carefully, wiped the sweat off his forehead, and then put it in a wooden box.

Yang Cheng looked at Li Yuanji, full of excitement.

"Brother-in-law."

"Ok?"

"My king, do you have any glass to reward me? Where is it? Where is it? My king, where is the glass you rewarded me?"

Yang Cheng wanted to call him brother-in-law, but Li Yuanji glared back at him. Yang Cheng didn't care and instead asked where his glass was. That's right, in his opinion, since others had given it as a reward, he must have some too. As long as it was given as a reward, wouldn't it be his, right?

The comprehension ability is perfect, nothing wrong with it.

Li Yuanji listened to Yang Cheng's words and covered his face with one hand. He really didn't expect that this man could be so careless and take one for everyone?
Let’s talk about it after he makes it. Now if he gives one to each person, he might go bankrupt buying Liuli. Fortunately, Yang Chen said that.

Xie Shufang and Ning Chun were both shocked by Yang Cheng's vicious words and looked at each other, neither of them wanted to talk. They couldn't understand why Princess Qi Yang Qingwan, such a good person, had to have such a brother?
Both of them were filled with helplessness. Can someone with such a whimsical personality really get anything done?

Li Yuanji looked at Yang Cheng who was expectant, and spoke immediately.

"What do you think about all day? I really want to open your head and see what's inside. How can you say this so naturally? Don't you know the value of Liuli?"

Yang Cheng smiled awkwardly.

"Brother-in-law, since he already has one, I thought you were going to give one to everyone."

After hearing this, Li Yuanji wanted to hit someone, but then he was too lazy to talk about it anymore.

"You really want this glass, right? Then do your job well. I can give you a better one later. Not only you, but I will also reward you all if you do your job well in the future."

Not to mention Yang Cheng, even Xie Shufang and Ning Chun were excited.

"My king, are you serious?"

Looking at the excited expressions of several people, Li Yuanji immediately smiled disdainfully.

"It's just a piece of glass, why would I care about it? And when have I ever regretted what I said? What do you have that I have here? What don't you have at home?"

Li Yuanji was right. He was generous in giving away snow salt, furniture made of a mixture of red sandalwood and huanghuali wood, small ornaments, and sewing machines. Now, Li Yuanji decided to let these people open their eyes to the colored glaze.

After hearing this, several people became completely excited. If Li Yuanji was willing to reward them with this glass, they would definitely accept it without any hesitation.

"Your Majesty, this is what you said, so it is settled now."

Xie Shufang spoke first, and the others followed suit. The matter was settled, and then Li Yuanji looked at Yang Cheng.

"Yuanlin, this is Xuan Yan. He was previously in charge of the negotiations with the Tang Dynasty. He has just returned. After Xuan Yan has rested well, you will go and make the handover with him. From now on, Xuan Yan will be responsible for the trade with overseas countries and the trade with the Tang Dynasty. You will take over everything from now on.

When you develop trade in the future, remember to tell them about the current situation here so that they can come here to do business. It would also be best if you can organize your own fleet to pick up the goods and have us deliver them. We will charge a delivery fee for that, so you have to make these clear.

In addition, you will also be in charge of the trade with Baekje, Silla, and Goguryeo. Those places close to Dengzhou will be under your responsibility. The goods sold to these small countries are mainly salt, accessories, tea, clothing, and some toys.

The prices to foreign countries are also correspondingly higher. Large quantities of gold, silver, copper, iron, and grain must be exchanged for people outside. Grain and other materials cannot be sold to foreign countries.

You must also remember that these propagandas to overseas countries have only one purpose, which is to make money, using our products to earn materials from them.

You must be clear about this purpose.”

Pei Xuanyan responded with a heavy heart, while Yang Cheng's face was filled with excitement and excitement. Now, it was finally time for him to start showing his skills.

"Sister Queen, rest assured. I will do a good job in the trade with the Tang Dynasty, Baekje, Silla, and Goguryeo. I will sell the goods at a high price and exchange them for the materials needed by Lingnan at a low price!"

Looking at Yang Cheng's appearance, Li Yuanji felt a little scared for a moment. Can this man really do the job?

But at this point, Li Yuanji can only believe it first. If it doesn't work, then he will have to change someone else.

"Okay, go down and do this well."

After the two of them went down, Li Yuanji sorted out his thoughts and then looked at Xie Shufang.

"Shufang, you have to do what I'm going to tell you next. We originally had 35,000 soldiers. Now Yang Shu has 5,000 soldiers. Yuwen Bao's navy has 12,000 soldiers, but the navy that truly belongs to us only has 5,000 soldiers.

The fleet that will go out to sea and to the Tang Dynasty will also need a navy, so the only navy we can mobilize are two to three thousand people.

The same is true for Feng Ang and Tan Dian. The armies in those places are not included for the time being. Now the army we can mobilize at any time is less than 10,000 people. However, Yu Minghe has already led 8,000 troops to quell the rebellion in the five states.

In other words, if a war breaks out suddenly right now, we will not have more troops to quell the war, which will be very bad. So next, Yang Shu’s army will need to be expanded to 10,000 people, and you will need to expand another 10,000 troops.

In total, it means an expansion of 15,000 people, 5,000 of whom will be under the charge of Yang Shu. Among the 10,000 new troops under your charge, 3,000 of them will be assigned to Yuwen Bao's navy. Now here, the importance of the navy is self-evident. The navy must be developed and must be more powerful than it is now.

Now our supplies and food are still limited. Too many troops will lead to a shortage of young and strong people, and no one will cultivate the arable land. Ten thousand is already the limit. You must form an army and train it as soon as possible. As for the 3,000 people in the navy, let Yuwen Bao be in charge of their training.

I didn’t talk about this before because the conditions didn’t allow it and I didn’t have the foundation. Now it’s different, and I have to hurry up and do this, do you understand?”

(End of this chapter)