Datang: My apprentice is Li Chengqian

Chapter 297 Changes
In Liangzhou City, Ma Zhou personally sits here now.

There is no way, for the past half a year, Qin Xiedao has basically been active within a few hundred miles of Liangzhou.

Ma Zhou was personally responsible for all the supplies.

"This Liangzhou city is getting more and more prosperous now. During this period of time, there is an endless stream of caravans coming in and out almost every day."

As Ma Youcai's nephew, Ma Biao is now also a key talent cultivated by the Qin family.

Ma Biao was in charge of the Qin family's business in Liangzhou before, so he was very clear about the changes in Liangzhou.

"Lang Jun's [-] vanguard battalion is fighting in all directions, and the daily consumption is very huge, and every battle, the various spoils are also very impressive.

This influence alone can make Liangzhou City extremely prosperous. "

Ma Zhou's vision was naturally very strong.

However, he also really admires his husband.

Other people's wars dragged down the household department and impoverished nearby counties and counties.

But his own lord made Liangzhou richer and richer, and made the tax revenue of the household department higher and higher.

"Now that Tuyuhun is about to become the ruling area of ​​Longyou Dao, the business here in Liangzhou is expected to get better.

In particular, Datang Construction Engineering has started to build the cement road from Liangzhou to Chang'an City. Once this road is successfully built, Liangzhou City will definitely become the most prosperous state city in Datang. "

In later generations, there are no big cities in the entire northwest region that can be sold.

But in Datang, the situation is quite different.

Even without Qin Xiedao, Liangzhou is still an important city in Dazhou, with a very high status.

Needless to say now.

"Well, although many people from Yushitai and the Ministry of Rites are impeaching Mr. Lang, they don't know the suffering of the people.

If Mr. Lang hadn't fought in Tuyuhun and the Turks' homeland, where would we have so many servants to build concrete roads?
Do you want Datang's own farmers to build roads?Isn't this delaying the grain harvest? "

The ass decides the head.

As Qin Xiedao's staff, Ma Zhou naturally thought about the problem from the perspective of the Qin family.

"Indeed, in the past two years, all kinds of barbarian captives have really made a lot of contributions to Datang. Nowadays, at least hundreds of thousands of barbarians are busy at the construction sites of cement roads, right?

I heard that even in Weishui New City, there are thousands of helpers from Hu people working there.

Even Mr. Lang proposed to the imperial court that the barbarian tribes on the grassland should be relocated to Jiangnan Road to grow rice, so that they could completely leave the grassland and solve the threat in the northern part of the Tang Dynasty.

Then immigrated from Guanzhong to plant cotton on the grassland, making the grassland the actual control area of ​​Datang. "

Ma Biao still knows a lot about the Qin family.

Especially the cotton thing, which he found here in Liangzhou under Qin Xiedao's instructions.

At the beginning, he wasted a lot of time because of the word cotton, because no one had ever heard of the word.

Later, I happened to see something called Baidizi in the backyard of the home of a Hu merchant in the Western Regions, and then I realized that this thing was the cotton that my husband talked about.

So in just two years, Mabia collected a large amount of cotton seeds, and then began to promote planting.

Now it has formed a planting scale of tens of thousands of mu.

After the autumn harvest this year, there will be enough seeds immediately.

This is why Qin Xiedao dared to propose to the imperial court to immigrate to the grassland, and then let the immigrants grow cotton there.

At this time, the northern part of Shanxi was still the homeland of the Turkic people.

There is even a large area of ​​land in Hebei where the Turks graze.

These places are very suitable for growing cotton in later generations.

Qin Xiedao naturally wants to turn these places into the actual control areas of Datang, and manage them like normal Guannei Dao.

The income from planting cotton will definitely be much higher than that from planting rice. In addition, there is enough land there to be distributed to everyone for free. For the people in the pass, the attraction is still very strong.

"It's a pity that not everyone in the court has the vision of Mr. Lang. Fortunately, His Majesty and His Royal Highness still trust Mr. Lang very much. Otherwise, it would be a trouble for so many people to impeach Mr. Lang."

"Speaking of His Highness the Crown Prince, I heard that he had some conflicts with His Highness the King of Wei in the past year. It would be better for Lang Jun to return to Chang'an City sooner."

Although Li Chengqian is very popular with Li Shimin, Li Tai is not bad either.

Even in terms of talent, Li Tai is even better than Li Chengqian.

In this way, Li Tai naturally had some other thoughts in his mind.

The two brothers are now at an age where they know everything, so naturally they think differently.

"Yesterday, Mr. Lang flew a pigeon to send a message. In about half a month, he will return to Liangzhou and then Chang'an City. Finally, we don't have to worry so much anymore."

Although Qin Xiedao's martial arts are very superb, but he has been fighting outside, everyone will actually be worried.

"Well, that's really great. In the past two years, Chang'an City has undergone a lot of changes. If Lang Jun is not here, everyone always feels that a backbone is missing."

"That's right, I heard that the eldest lady of the Yang family has been going to the house several times now, and both the master and the wife really want to make an appointment with the Yang family directly.

But Mr. Lang didn't go back, so it's not easy for everyone to make decisions directly.

I think this time, we finally have a chance to drink the wedding wine of Mr. Lang. "

When it came to the things in Chang'an City, Ma Zhou also had a smile on his face.

"Speaking of which, back then, Mr. Lang gained a reputation as a disciple because of the matter of Mrs. Yang's family.

Unexpectedly, in the end, the lovers will finally get married. "

"In Chang'an City, there are many young ladies who want to enter the gate of our Qin family. If the eldest lady of the Yang family doesn't take the initiative, it's really hard to say how the lord will choose."

Ma Zhou followed Qin Xiedao relatively early, so he still knew Qin Xiedao's affairs very well.

"That's right! Except for the lady of the Yang family, the crown prince has come to our house the most times.

It is estimated that in the entire Chang'an City, His Highness the Crown Prince is also the group of people who most urgently hope that Lang Jun will return to Chang'an. "

Qin Xiedao is a princeling, whether he thinks so or not, the honorable families in Chang'an City think so.

Although both Li Tai and Li Ke expressed their intention to win over the Qin family, they had no effect.

In the past two years, although Qin Xiedao was not in Chang'an City, the communication with Li Chengqian was not completely cut off.

Every time supplies are transported, there are letters from Li Chengqian.

With the guidance of his master Qin Xiedao, Li Chengqian in this life has become more confident than in history, and he is not afraid of Li Tai's challenge.

(End of this chapter)