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

Chapter 61 Feng Ang Arrives
Listening to Xie Shufang's words, Li Yuanji was stunned, and then he began to think. Now that the salt has been produced, the next thing to do is to sell the salt.

"Go and call Pei Xuanyan."

Pei Xuanyan is an official of the Prince of Qi's Palace. Anyone who can be brought by Li Yuanji this time is a trustworthy confidant. As long as they are not Li Yuanji's confirmed confidants, he will keep everyone else in Chang'an.

As for Pei Xuanyan's talents, although they were not outstanding in Chang'an, they were elevated a lot when he was placed in the local area, especially Lingnan. Li Yuanji had no choice but to pick the tallest one among the short ones.

After a while, Pei Xuanyan arrived.

"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you."

Li Yuanji then looked at Pei Xuanyan.

"Xuan Yan, you don't have to be so polite. Now that you have just arrived here, I should have let you rest more, but there is no other way. Now that I have something to do, I can only let you do it."

Pei Xuanyan heard this and said solemnly: "I am the king's minister. Now that the king needs me, it is my duty to do things for the king. I will do my best and will do my best."

Li Yuanji immediately laughed. He was also a good talker. Such a person was suitable to do this.

"I already know Xuan Yan's intention, and you should also know how the salt is made. I called you here so that you can be responsible for the sale of the salt.

There is a great shortage of supplies here now, so you can sell the salt and exchange it for some money, food and supplies. You can deal with this matter later.

Salt is transported by water rather than by land, and as you know, if salt is sold by water to places like Jiangnan Road, someone will definitely take over the salt now.

In addition to this, you also need to develop other routes, such as going west to sell the salt to Linyi, Zhenla and other countries. You don’t need to consider other more distant places for the time being, but you must establish business with overseas countries.

When traveling to various countries, in addition to salt, you can also bring some silk and other items, and you can bring back some spices. The main thing is to collect money.

In addition, I will arrange some navy officers to act as guards to prevent pirates. If you encounter forced purchases or sales, or pirates who take the goods without paying, and the navy officers cannot defeat them, they should keep the useful ones and bring them back to inform me.

If we can defeat them, we will destroy their country and their clan!"

Li Yuanji's face was furious. He wanted to do business, and everything was for development. But some people wanted to rob his fellow thieves. He was not a pushover. He now had tens of thousands of troops, which could not be compared with the Tang Dynasty, but it was different with those small countries.

He would kill anyone who stood in his way of making money and developing, and then occupy that place and make it his fiefdom. This way, he might be able to develop even faster.

Pei Xuanyan felt heavy-hearted as he listened to Li Yuanji's words. Although he was excited, he was also under a lot of pressure.

Pei Xuanyan was excited because Li Yuanji valued him highly. As Li Yuanji had just said, the power was already considerable. Pei Xuanyan knew very well that this was his opportunity. If he could grasp it, his future would be bright. If he couldn't, he would have no chance at all.

The heavy thing is that he knows nothing about military affairs. He is a scholar and has not learned the art of military formation. Once he takes over this matter and goes to other countries in the future, he will definitely be the backbone. Not understanding military affairs will greatly restrict him.

But in just a moment, Pei Xuanyan made a decision.

"Your Majesty, I have confidence in the business, but when we go to other countries, I hope Your Majesty can send a general. I will be responsible for the business, and the general will be responsible for the rest. Please allow me to do so."

Pei Xuanyan is very self-aware. The most important thing to him is business, and the money and materials he can bring back to Li Yuanji. He doesn't have the ability to manage other things, nor does he want to manage them. He just concentrates on doing his own thing. Li Yuanji looks at Pei Xuanyan with a gratified look. He knows his most important task, knows what he is not good at, and does not force his power. At least this point, Li Yuanji is very optimistic.

"In that case, I will take care of the navy affairs. You go down and prepare now. In the early stage, you will be responsible for the sales within the Tang Dynasty. When the salt production capacity is increased and other commodities are also available, it will be time for you to sail to the west."

Pei Xuanyan agreed excitedly and went downstairs immediately.

Li Yuanji began to worry about the oxen again. He couldn't really let the strong men act as oxen, could he? Although this was done when he had no other choice, people's endurance was not as good as oxen.

Li Yuanji clicked on the exchange column, wanting to see if he could find oxen to exchange for working cattle. After searching for a while, he actually found it. The cattle in the system were oxen and dairy cows, which could be raised.

It also comes with a breeding summary, which can be redeemed separately and there is no compulsion to redeem them together.

Li Yuanji clicked on the yellow scalper and saw that it said, "It takes twenty contribution points to redeem one small yellow scalper."

Li Yuanji was really shocked. He really didn't expect that it could actually be exchanged in this system and it was still alive. However, the price made Li Yuanji frown.

Twenty points can only be exchanged for one, and it is a small cub. If he wants to set up a breeding model, he will need at least hundreds of them, which means two thousand contribution points!
Li Yuanji was numb. His scalp was really numb. It would be useless if he exchanged too little, and he couldn't afford too much. He only had 105 points now, which was enough to exchange for five cubs.

Li Yuanji gave up soon after. This distant water could not quench the immediate thirst, not to mention that the water was too little and would not be of much use at all.

Just then, Xie Shufang hurried in again.

"Your Majesty, Feng Ang is here."

Li Yuanji was stunned for a moment. What did he hear? Feng Ang is here? Is this a joke? Isn't he afraid that Feng Ang will kill him if he comes here?

Xie Shufang was also solemn, and continued: "Your Majesty, Feng Ang really came, and he came by water, pulling three large ships full of supplies, including money, grain, iron, oxen, and some military equipment.

Feng Ang is on his way now, so I won't go to pick up the supplies, but Feng Ang has already had people start unloading the ship."

Li Yuanji was really stunned this time. Not only did Feng Ang come, but he also brought him three large ships of supplies?

Li Yuanji really thought this matter was very mysterious. He went to Cangwu to see Feng Ang before just to stabilize Feng Ang. Even though Feng Ang said he would obey him at that time, he did not take it seriously. He really did not expect that Feng Ang would really do something to him.

Today, Feng Ang's territory occupies the entire eastern part of Lingnan, which is equivalent to most of Guangdong and Hainan. They are all Feng Ang's territory, and he has nearly 100,000 troops under his command. It can be said that he is the King of Lingnan in name only, and Feng Ang is the real 'King of Lingnan'.

Li Yuanji came to his senses. Now that others had arrived, no matter what the reason was, he had to go out to pick them up. No matter what, with the supplies on those three ships, he had to go.

"Let's go, follow me to pick up Duke Geng."

He didn't know what Feng Ang was planning, but he believed that he would find out this time. Since he came to him on his own initiative, he must be ready to reveal his cards.

(End of this chapter)