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

Chapter 185 Returning from trade, starting to lay out plans for Silla in Japan
After making the arrangements, Xie Shufang and his colleagues devoted all their energy to training the new army. After twelve days of preparation, Liu Rengui led 60,000 naval forces out of the port and headed towards the target.

As time went by in this development, Haikang's population had reached 1.3 million, and Li Yuanji was getting closer and closer to completing his mission.

On this day, Li Yuanji had a rare opportunity to stay with Yang Qingwan and Wei Gui, enjoying the quiet time. At the rosewood table in front of Li Yuanji, two little ones were eating rice. These two little ones were the sisters Wu Shun and Wu Mei.

Wu Shigui was really too shameless. He said that he was almost always in the army and couldn't take good care of the two sisters, so he just stuffed the two sisters into his palace.

Li Yuanji was really speechless. He had asked Yang Qingwan to find a few women for Wu Shigui to take care of Wu Shun and Wu Mei, but this old woman tried the same trick on him. He was determined not to let her do it. After all, how old were Wu Shun and Wu Mei?
If these two were older, he would have taken them in for the sake of the future Empress Wu Zetian, but now they are only a few years old, and he wants these two little ones to be maids? I really don't know who will serve whom.

However, what he had not expected was that Yang Qingwan and Wei Gui actually took the two little ones in while he was not in the palace. He was helpless. He really wanted to say that he should at least wait until Wu Shun and Wu Mei were in their teens before taking them in.

Li Yuanji no longer cared about this matter. In fact, he knew that Yang Qingwan and Wei Gui brought Wu Shun and Wu Mei into the palace because they had their eyes on Wu Shigui. Otherwise, why would they do such a foolish thing? Li Yuanji could only acquiesce.

"My king, eat the plow."

Seeing Wu Mei coming to him with a peeled plow and a smile on her face, Li Yuanji was very emotional. His childhood was free from the bullying of Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang, and he was very lively. On the contrary, Wu Shun, perhaps because he was a year older and more sensible, was a little restrained.

Yang Qingwan on the side spoke with a smile at this time.

"I've handed you the plow, but you still don't want to take it. What are you doing lying there?"

Looking at Yang Qingwan, her smiling face and her doting expression on Wu Mei, Li Yuanji suddenly felt tired. There was such a big difference between these two people. Did he really treat Wu Mei and Wu Shun as his future sisters?

Li Yuanji stood up, took the plow, and rubbed Wu Mei's head.

"Yes, this plow is really sweet. You picked it well."

Seeing Li Yuanji eating with big mouthfuls, Wu Mei became even happier. She came to Wu Shun and pushed him. Wu Shun also came to Li Yuanji with a peeled plow. What else could Li Yuanji do? He took it in his hands and started eating it, taking bites from left and right.

Wu Mei and Wu Shun then cut one for each of Yang Qingwan and Wei Gui, which made the two of them so happy that Li Yuanji didn't want to talk anymore.

After a while, Xie Shufang's voice suddenly came from outside.

"Your Majesty, Yuanlin and Xuanyan are back and have entered the port."

Upon hearing this, Li Yuanji stood up immediately.

"Ma'am, I'm leaving now, you guys continue."

After Li Yuanji finished speaking, he walked out quickly. He really didn't want to stay any longer.

Yang Qingwan and Wei Gui looked at each other and laughed at Li Yuanji who was going away. Wu Shun and Wu Mei were still wondering what happened and why they were so happy. Then they also laughed. Anyway, no matter what happened, they both felt happy.

Li Yuanji came outside and immediately asked Xie Shufang.

"You said Yuanlin and Xuanyan came back together?"

Li Yuanji was indeed very confused. According to his thinking, Yang Cheng should have come back first, but they both came back together. Especially for Yang Cheng, he was really speechless. This man took longer to be out than Pei Xuanyan did. He had to ask him what he had done.

Xie Shufang responded immediately.

"Your Majesty, they did arrive at about the same time. Yuan Lin entered the port less than an incense stick earlier than Xuan Yan."

Li Yuanji came to the main hall in front and waited. After a while, he didn't see anyone, but the voice came in.

"Brother-in-law! I'm back!"

Hearing this voice, Li Yuanji's face turned dark and he immediately held his forehead. Even if he didn't see the person, he already knew who it was. After a while, Yang Cheng's figure rushed in quickly, and without stopping, he came directly in front of him and gave him a big hug, and then went back downstairs.

"Brother-in-law, I missed you so much. I rushed back as soon as I finished my work."

Li Yuanji's hands clenched and unclenched, and he kept reminding himself in his heart that this was his wife's brother, who had come from Chang'an to help him, so he should spoil him.

After a while, Li Yuanji came to his senses.

"Yuanlin, you're still in this state after going out for a while. You've been gone for such a long time. It must have been hard on the way. Did everything go well?"

Yang Cheng was extremely excited when he heard this.

"Brother-in-law, it's not that hard. I was just a little bored on the boat, but everything else is fine. Besides, I have already negotiated with Yang and Wei for this trip. They will buy the goods directly from us and sell them in Datang. The price has been negotiated.

The other two Cui families, as well as the Zheng, Wang, Lu, and Li families have all come, and I have already negotiated with them. By the way, except for the Li family, the other families are already preparing their fleets, and they said later that they would open shops here.

This time I brought back five large ships of food, two large ships of supplies, and one large ship carrying money. They are all being unloaded at the dock.

Oh, brother-in-law, I have found the sorghum, but after collecting it for a long time, there is not much left. I only brought back eight bags. There is really not much sorghum. Most of it grows wild outside without anyone taking care of it. I asked people to collect a lot of it, and it cost a lot of money."

At the end of his speech, Yang Cheng lowered his head. It can be seen that in order to find this sorghum, Yang Cheng spent a lot of money on it, otherwise he would not be like this.

Looking at Yang Cheng like this, Li Yuanji was completely out of breath, and then he spoke with a smile.

“Why are you lowering your head? Raise your head. You have done a great job this time. You have brought back so much food and supplies. There is also a large ship of money. Moreover, this sorghum is really very important. I will be happy even if you use all the money in this ship.” Li Yuanji was not joking. If he could exchange it for sorghum, he would be willing to spend the money in this ship. After all, if it was exchanged with contribution points, he had seen that it cost 20,000 contribution points. This is because contribution points cannot be used to purchase money.

If this contribution point can be recharged with money, will he still care about money? He doesn't care at all, because this money is easy to make in his opinion. Now that Yang Cheng uses some money to bring back sorghum, Li Yuanji thinks it is extremely cost-effective.

Yang Cheng also raised his head in surprise when he heard Li Yuanji's words.

"Brother-in-law, you really don't blame me?"

Seeing Li Yuanji nod, Yang Cheng became even more excited. Seeing this scene, Li Yuanji also shook his head and laughed.

"Okay, look at you. I'm not going to punish you, so why are you so happy?
This time when you went to the Tang Dynasty, you did an excellent job in all aspects. Not only did you negotiate the trade routes, but you also got those people to come here. This is very good. All that you have done is worthy of recognition.

But there is one thing you need to explain to me. It’s not that far from here to Datang, right? Why did it take so long to get there? "

When Li Yuanji said this, Yang Cheng suddenly became proud, which made Li Yuanji confused, and soon Yang Cheng spoke proudly.

"Brother-in-law, this time I didn't just go to the Tang Dynasty, I also went to Japan, Baekje, and Silla. The money and food I earned from selling goods in these three countries are still behind, and should arrive in ten days or so. At that time, there were not enough ships, so I had to buy some ships to bring back, so I left later."

Li Yuanji was really shocked by Yang Cheng this time. This guy actually went to places like Japan, Baekje, and Silla?

Afterwards, Li Yuanji really began to look at Yang Chen with admiration. He could be said to have completed the tasks assigned to him in the Tang Dynasty very well. Now he was in contact with the Three Kingdoms and had sold all the goods. Although he had assigned these places to Yang Chen, he had not expected that Yang Chen would be so eager to go there.

Li Yuanji was still curious about why Yang Cheng had been gone for so long. After all this time, he had finally found his roots here. Going to those three places would indeed take quite a bit of time.

Then Yang Cheng began to talk about his experiences in the Three Kingdoms. The present-day Wakoku was ruled by Empress Suiko Odabe, the first female emperor in Japanese history (died in March 628), and the minister was the newly succeeded Soga no Emishi.

Now that Otabe is old and will die at any time, the Japanese Kingdom is facing an extremely important problem, that is, the successor has not been determined. Soga no Emishi and Kagami no Minister Marise have different opinions. Soga no Emishi supports Prince Tamura, and Marise supports Yamabe no Oe.

The two forces often clash, and there are constant small wars. As for major wars, I'm sorry, there haven't been any. They are basically conflicts between a few hundred people.

Through Yang Cheng's description, Li Yuanji almost understood that Japan was also in chaos now, with fighting between various forces. But when he heard that the battles involved hundreds of people, Li Yuanji almost couldn't hold back.

Can this be called a war between a few hundred people? What the hell is a war?

This is because Li Yuanji did not understand the history of Japan. If he did, he would know that Japan has a small population, but has numerous forces. One force can have hundreds or thousands of people, which is really amazing.

Moreover, the current situation in Japan is not that chaotic. We have to wait and see. Later, Soga no Emishi and his son Soga no Iruka will become too powerful, which will eventually cause dissatisfaction in the court. When the Soga clan is destroyed, Japan will be truly in chaos.

Li Yuanji listened roughly and lost much interest. After all, it was not that Li Yuanji looked down on Japan today. Let alone the Tang Dynasty, he himself, with his current strength, could defeat Japan again and again. It's just that he did not have the energy and money for that now.

"Brother-in-law, when I was doing business in Japan, someone came to ask me if I would sell military equipment. Someone from the Morisi clan also contacted me secretly, accusing the powerful officials of the Soga clan of influencing the entire Japan, and asked me if the Tang Dynasty could help Japan.

Mo Lishi thought I was from the Tang Dynasty, but I didn't say anything. I didn't accept or refuse. Brother-in-law, what do you think we should do? "

Upon hearing this, Li Yuanji's eyes suddenly lit up, because why was this situation so similar to the situation in Funan?

Thinking of this, Li Yuanji suddenly became interested. Although he did not have the energy to take care of Japan now, it seemed that he could deal with Japan in the same way as he dealt with Funan and Tang Ming. It would be feasible to send people there to secretly control the situation or sell obsolete weapons to make them fight more brutally.

The most important thing is that in this way, he doesn't need to send a large army to Japan, he can seize the wealth of Japan, establish his power in Japan, and eventually take over Japan, which seems to be a better choice.

Thinking of this, Li Yuanji was suddenly moved. At this moment, Li Yuanji was really impatient. As for Japan, now that he had the ability, it seemed a bit unreasonable not to teach these barbarians how to be human beings.

Li Yuanji, who had an idea, immediately looked at Yang Cheng.

"Yuanlin, you did a great job on this matter! You have made a great contribution!
You did a good job of not agreeing or refusing directly. Don't cut off your contact with them. After you go down, tell Morishi that there will be someone to help him fight against the Soga clan and they will not interfere in the government of Japan, so he can rest assured.

At the same time, for those who want to buy weapons, we will sell them to every force. We will sell them to them at a high price with our broken and inferior weapons. You should always pay attention to the situation in Japan in the future. If any force is in trouble, you should sell the weapons to them. "

Li Yuanji's eyes sparkled. Do you like fighting? What kind of people can be killed with some ancient iron tools? He directly provided those people with advanced weapons and let them fight well. It would be best if the fight was so fierce that no one could easily win.

By then he will have made money, and the Japanese will start killing each other again. That is the scene he would like to see.

As for sending people over there, that's very simple. Sending more than a thousand people, plus one with brains, is enough to deal with the situation in Japan.

Listening to Li Yuanji's extremely serious and earnest words, Yang Cheng stopped playing around and agreed immediately. Then Li Yuanji began to tell Yang Cheng about the things he needed to pay attention to. He should be as careful as possible in doing this matter, otherwise if those people found out and stopped fighting, he would be in trouble.

Although the possibility is very small, Li Yuanji had to take precautions.

As for the latest news about Baekje and Silla, there were frequent fights within Baekje. The current King Buyeo Jang of Baekje began to indulge in enjoyment, and his cronies and the eight major clans were abusing power. The struggles in the court were very fierce, and there were constant small wars between Baekje and Silla.

Moreover, Baekje was connected with Goguryeo and Japan, and Silla was now suffering terribly from the oppression.

As for Silla, Yang Cheng didn't know much about it. However, Silla also contacted Yang Cheng secretly, asking whether the Tang Dynasty could intervene and ask Baekje to return the six cities that had been seized. Li Yuanji laughed when he heard this.

After understanding the situation clearly, Li Yuanji immediately called Cen Wenben and began to discuss the layout against Japan and Silla. Now that he had this opportunity, he didn't want to miss it at all.

(End of this chapter)