My harem can't be this messy

Chapter 458 Anxi Protectorate

"Silly boy, how can the queen mother be willing!"

Empress Changsun looked at Li Zhi and smiled, Li Zhi also smiled, and suddenly got hit on the buttocks again.

"Mother, you said just now how willing you are!"

"I believe what women say."

Empress Changsun lifted up Li Zhi's trousers, and suddenly saw something from her perspective, and her gaze changed several times.

Looking at Li Zhi at this time, I really think that Li Zhi has become the emperor at this time, and he can do anything wrong in this harem.

She didn't want to endure the emptiness, loneliness and coldness of this harem anymore.

Li Zhi was still looking at his mother, noticed her expression, and then looked at her eyes.

"Aunt Lin, do you really want to try?"

Butt, butt hurts, Li Zhi pulled up his pants and ran away quickly.

This is really screwy!And it is still far greater than 180 degrees of twist.

Empress Changsun saw him running with his pants up, and beckoned.

"Mother, you can hit as soon as you hit, can you stop twisting?"

"You don't know it hurts if you don't twist it. Okay, I won't talk nonsense with you. Come, change your mother's clothes."

"Oh, I see, Queen Mother."

Li Zhi walked to the side of Empress Changsun, untied the girdle, and then turned behind the empress mother, taking off her outermost court attire.

At this moment, a cry of long live the emperor came from outside.

"Queen Mother, Emperor Father is here!"

"Look, I won't let you mess around. If you mess around, how do you run now? Just happened to be bumped into by your father."

The door over there has been opened, and Li Shimin has already stepped into the hall, just in time to see his son helping the queen change her clothes.

This didn't arouse Li Shimin's thoughts. Their mother and son have always been like this, just helping to change clothes.

There, Li Zhi had obediently put the cotton padded clothes on the queen mother, and put the court dress on the queen mother.

"Your Majesty, why are you here? Your Majesty doesn't come here often these days."

"I'm here to ask Zhi'er something."

"Father, what's the matter?"

"Is the cotton you showed Father easy to get?"

"I don't know about this Zhi'er, but I heard from people in Honglu Temple that this thing is easy to grow in the frontier, and the yield is not small."

Li Shimin stroked his beard, and at this moment asked someone to send Dahonghe over, and by the way, asked him to bring along the people who had seen cotton.

After Da Honglu came, he brought two small officials with him, and they were naturally the ones who had seen cotton.

Li Shimin asked for a while, and his complexion became better and better. Hearing from the few people who had seen it, this cotton is not very picky, even in the desolate frontier areas, it can be grown in large quantities, and the yield per plant is quite good.

Li Shimin waved his hand, the people from Honglu Temple stepped back, Li Shimin looked at Li Zhi.

"Zhier, where do you think this thing is suitable for planting on a large scale?"

"Father, there are wastelands in many places in our Tang Dynasty, which are not suitable for growing food. You can try to plant them. However, Zhier thinks the best place is the Anxi Protectorate."

Anxi Duhufu is a Tang Dynasty local military and political institution in charge of the four towns of Anxi. The four towns of Anxi are Qiuci, Yutian, Shule, and Suiye.

It is roughly similar to the area rich in long-staple cotton in later generations, and it was the largest local military and political institution in Datang at this time.

"Anxi Dufu Mansion is also a good choice. There is no shortage of land, but there is a shortage of people."

"Father, you can move the people in Guanzhong, Longxi, Gansu and the Yellow River Valley to rest. I believe that as long as Father gives them some benefits, there will be a large number of people willing to go."

"benefit?"

"The land, the reclaimed land, and the cotton grown there can also be processed locally, and then transported back to Guanzhong and the southern areas through the Hexi Corridor. It can also be transported to Persia and more distant barbarian lands through the Silk Road."

Empress Changsun looked at Li Zhi. This little guy didn't just think about cotton. If he just wanted to get cotton, there was actually a large area of ​​land in Longxi that could be cultivated and planted, and it was closer to Guanzhong.

Empress Changsun naturally understood what Li Zhi was thinking. What he wanted was to strengthen Datang's control over the four towns of Anxi, and move a large number of Han people to Anxi, so that the population density of Han people in the four towns of Anxi could be continuously increased, and then Anxi could be increased. The garrisons in the four towns continued to strengthen Datang's control over Anxi Duhufu from the aspects of population composition and troop deployment.

Cotton is just an introduction in it, and it doesn't attract too much attention from other forces.

Take a look at what's around Anxi Dufu Mansion, Persia, Tubo, and Western Turks, I'm afraid Zhi'er wants to wipe out these forces one by one!
"Anxi Dufu, okay, who does Zhi'er think it is appropriate to send to do this?"

"Hou Junji, he was the one who conquered Gaochang back then and established the Anxi Capital Protectorate. At this time, there are few military disasters in the frontier. Let Hou Junji do this. He is very familiar with Anxi and can control the people there. Aliens."

Empress Changsun looked at her son, Zhi'er wanted to save Hou Junji, as long as Hou Junji went to rest, then no matter what happened in Chang'an, he would not be involved.

You must know that in the original history, Hou Junji was directly executed because of his involvement in the prince's coercion of the palace.If he is not in Chang'an, he will stay away from the political disputes in Chang'an, the battle for the throne, and he will avoid death.

Why Zhi'er wanted to save Hou Junji at this time, Empress Changsun also understood that the battles between Anxi, Tubo, Western Turks, and these countries were basically fought by Hou Junji, and Zhi'er obviously wanted to keep Hou Junji and let him Cultivate power in Anxi, and then go to war when the time comes.

Hou Junji is indeed a good sword, and should not be folded in the political struggle in Chang'an.

Anxi Dufu Mansion is the place where he should display his talents and residual heat.

"Zhi'er, you are letting my most trusted confidant Ai Jiang go to the frontier to plant cotton!"

Li Shimin said something there.

"Father, this is not overkill. People's livelihood has never been trivial."

People's livelihood has never been a small matter. Li Shimin was very happy when he heard this sentence, he laughed loudly, got up and patted his son on the shoulder.

"Zhi'er, what you said is good. People's livelihood has never been a trivial matter. I will leave this matter to Hou Junji."

"Father, I still have a big bag of cotton seeds here. Father, let's plant these in the palace and see how they grow?"

"My father will leave this matter to you. If cotton can really be grown in large quantities, how many innocent people will die from freezing to death in Tang Dynasty this year."

"Father, don't worry, Zhi'er will definitely plant cotton well."

"This is interesting. A general went to grow cotton in peace, and a prince planted cotton in the harem."

"Queen, there is no small matter in people's livelihood, there is no small matter in people's livelihood."

The three of them all laughed, and Li Shimin was also quite interested today, so he stayed at the Lizheng Hall for dinner.

(End of this chapter)