Wen Sanwu couldn't help but complain in his heart: "You didn't even collect enough coffins. Your imperial mausoleum has been built for several years! You are really a greedy old guy than the young master!"

But he said flatteringly: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I will definitely tell the young master and ask him to find more good projects for you!"

Li Yuan pointed at Wen Sanwu and said with a smile: "It's the same virtue as literature and art. Well, the rest of you don't have any objections, right?"

Xiao Rong and other principals sent by aristocratic families didn't dare to say "no", so they hurriedly agreed.

Li Yuan was then satisfied: "Okay, now that the matter here has been settled, I won't stay any longer. I'll leave first.

There is news that there are pirates in Goguryeo who dare to rob our merchant ships of the Tang Dynasty. It’s really boring, I’m going to give them some color now!”

As soon as Wen Sanwu heard this, he hurriedly went up to stop Li Yuan and said, "Your Majesty, there is a reason for this matter. Please ask your Majesty to move to the captain's cabin. I will report to you in detail later."

Li Yuan guessed as soon as he heard that this was probably some kind of nonsense created by literature and art. He nodded and walked leisurely to the captain's cabin.

After Wen Sanwu made some fragrant tea for Li Yuan, he said: "Your Majesty, you can't go there. Our Datang is currently engaged in infrastructure construction and needs manpower everywhere.

What our Tang Dynasty lacks now is people, so Prime Minister Wen wants to show weakness to the enemy and lure the surrounding small countries to attack us.

Then we will catch them all! After all, we can get hundreds of thousands of free labor! And because they initiated the war on their own initiative, we can ask them to compensate us for our losses in the war. This document is called "war reparations"

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You can get countless labor and money in one go, what a deal!"

Li Yuan raised his eyebrows when he heard this and asked: "Let's not talk about the surrounding powerful countries such as Turks, Tuyuhun, Tubo, etc., but hundreds of countries in the Western Region can muster an army of 200,000. Are you sure that Literary Art can handle it?"

Wen Sanwu looked around and found that he and Li Yuan were alone and then quietly said: "Your Majesty, I heard that Prime Minister Wen has ordered a set of armor for you. Have you received it?"

Li Yuan shook his head and said: "Not yet, this guy is too slow. You have to help me urge him when you get back. But why are you bringing this up?"

Wen Sanwu replied in a low voice: "Currently, all 3,000 members of the Xuanjia Army have been replaced with the latest Hope Armor.

There are another 2,000 sets still in production, and the best talents among the Sixteen Guards have been selected to form the second Iron Legion! According to the deductions of Commander Li, Commander Niu, Commander Hou and others, our Datang can now launch a three-front battle at the same time.

And it can defeat any enemy within 5 million head-on! So your Majesty does not have to worry."

Li Yuan asked in disbelief: "5 million! Doesn't that mean we are already invincible?"

Wen Sanwu smiled and said, "Isn't this all thanks to His Majesty's great blessing?"

Li Yuan chuckled and said: "You, you didn't learn anything from literature and art, but you learned his glib accent ten to ten.

Okay, since you already have a plan, I won't get involved.

Hey, I can’t go to Goguryeo, so I don’t know where to go.”

Wen Sanwu rolled his eyes twice, nodded and bowed, "If Your Majesty wants to have some fun, it won't be easy.

I heard that although the countries in the south are small and weak, they are all extremely rich. Why don't your Majesty go there to have some fun?"

Li Yuan's eyes lit up and he said with a smile: "Do you want me to do a business without capital like you?"

Wen Sanwu said seriously: "Your Majesty, what you said is wrong. We traveled all the way to the south, and the hard work, gas expenses, and labor costs are not capital.

We create our own wealth through our own hands. How can this be a business without capital?

This is a legitimate and legitimate business!”

Li Yuan laughed so hard that his newly inserted dentures almost fell out. He patted Wen Sanwu on the shoulder vigorously and said: "Good boy! You can say that robbery is so justified and legal. I ask you, which country are you from?

Does the law allow you to rob?"

Wen Sanwu smiled naively: "The Tang Dynasty definitely did not have such a law, but we have the "Outer Seas Convention".

It’s clearly written on it!”

Li Yuan asked curiously: "Convention on the Outer Sea?"

Why haven’t I heard of it? Please tell me what is written in the "Outer Seas Convention"."

Wen Sanwu rubbed his nose in embarrassment and chuckled, "Well, this convention hasn't been drawn up yet. We're currently discussing it. I'll eventually read this and write it into the convention."

Li Yuan smiled even more heartily: "Okay, I'll see how your kid can make the robbery reasonable and legal."

Wen Sanwu's brain was racing, and for a moment Wen Sanwu smiled evilly and said: "Article 1 of the Treaty on the Open Sea: All non-Datang merchant ships, people, and merchants who suffer losses in non-Datang territories must bear their own responsibilities.

Article 2: Whenever the people, livestock, and belongings belonging to the Tang Dynasty are missing or left behind in non-Datang territories, the country involved must properly resettle them and notify the relevant personnel of the Tang Dynasty in a timely manner. If injuries, damage, etc. occur, the country must

I will bear all the adverse consequences caused by this.”

After hearing this, Li Yuan laughed again: "Good guy, you have even thought of an excuse for me to rob! Not bad, not bad, a great young man.

Don't follow Wenyi, that guy will only lead you astray, just follow me from now on, well, from now on you will be my guard commander!"

Wen Sanwu was dumbfounded. Wouldn't this be like shooting himself in the foot? He still wanted to go back and sleep with his wife in his arms! In the flash of lightning, Wen Sanwu's eyes turned red and he knelt on the ground with a "pop" and said in a sincere tone:

"Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty. I will be grateful! But please take back your order. The little boy in my family has just turned four years old and is just learning to talk. There is still a son in the womb. I am worried about the little one in my family."

I really don’t dare to leave for too long!”

Li Yuan looked at Wen Sanwu, whose eyes were red, and couldn't help but think of the scene when he became a father for the first time. He couldn't help but let out a long sigh, pulled him up from the ground and said with a smile: "I was so abrupt, I can't blame you, since my wife is about to give birth."

, how can a husband not care about it? Let’s just drop this matter.

It’s business to go back and take good care of your wife.

By the way, I have a lot of supplements on board, all of which I will reward you with."

Wen Sanwu was so moved that he gave Li Yuan another military salute before leaving the room.

Li Yuan didn't stay any longer and had people deliver the supplements, then boarded the ship and departed.

...The rest of the journey was much smoother. Xiao Rong stayed in Shanghai to continue training the East China Sea Fleet, and Wen Sanwu changed from Shanghai Port to a river boat and returned to Chang'an smoothly.

Wen Yi took the heads of the various families involved in this plan to wait at the newly built Chang'an Wharf early.

After Wen Sanwu got off the ship, he went directly to Wen Yi and handed over the account book and said respectfully: "I would like to inform Prime Minister Wen that everything went well during this trip and all the property acquired has been recorded in the book. Please take a look at it."

Wenyi took the account book and flipped through it. The heads of the family behind him also stretched their necks to look at the account book curiously. They were shocked to take a breath when they saw the first page. They saw it read "One foot, three feet and four inches of red coral."

"One, value unknown", "One blue coral measuring one foot, two feet six inches, value unknown", "Ten rare white bear skins, worth one hundred thousand taels"... I was dazzled by the literature and art, so I simply turned to the end, and it was clear above

It says on the ground: "A total of approximately 89.4 million taels of silver."

Everyone's ears were red with excitement. There were 6 families participating in this plan. According to the agreement, each family can get more than 12 million taels! This is an increase of nearly 10% of the family wealth! I wonder which generation of family heads can be so powerful?

Family wealth increased by 10%?

That is the wealth accumulated by the hard work of more than ten or even dozens of generations! Li Huaiyuan, who lacked experience, was the first to say: "It's a lot of money! Now we really make it! Haha" It's so concise and direct

Bai's expression perfectly destroyed the atmosphere that the other family heads had been brewing for a long time.

The steady Cui Qian glared at him angrily and said: "How can a child be deceived by mere money? You should spend more time on your studies.

Are you ready for the imperial examination this year?"

Lu Chengqing then followed up: "My nephew is so young and can't settle down to study. Why does he care so much about money?"

Immediately afterwards came the chattering of the bosses, as if they wanted to drown this bad boy who ruined the atmosphere with spittle.

In the end, the same young Wenyi smoothed things over and said, "Uncles, uncle, let's not stand around chatting all the time. I'm going to invite you all to enjoy today. How about we go to Yanlai Tower to celebrate?"

Li Shousu smiled and answered: "This is reasonable. Today is a happy day, how can we not drink?

No matter what you say tonight, you won’t come home until you’re drunk!”

Everyone clapped their hands and applauded, but Li Huaiyuan breathed a sigh of relief, quickly wiped the spit on his face with his sleeves, and followed them obediently with his tail between his legs, not daring to say another word.

Although Li Huaiyuan is young, he still understands the rules. Although he is the person in charge of this matter, he has gained far more than he imagined. He is not qualified to get involved in this group of big guys. He asks his bodyguard to go back and notify the head of the family, Li Huaiyuan.

Mengchang went to Yanlai Tower to attend the meeting.

After three rounds of wine, five flavors of food, and a new high of artistic appreciation, everyone coughed and said: "Uncle, uncle, although we returned home with a full load this time, there were some small accidents on the way. I want to explain it to you."

Cui Gan smiled and said: "What Minister Wen is talking about is the Emperor's robbery on his way?

But Wen Xiang doesn’t need to worry too much. Since the Supreme Emperor has already released it, it means that he doesn’t want to take the money for himself. Let each family give him some."

The other family heads also agreed with great enthusiasm.

Wenyi waved his hand and said: "Although the Supreme Emperor doesn't want to monopolize it, it's not appropriate for us to just give a part of it.

I came up with an idea, let’s share this treasure equally, but there is a small condition.”

Everyone put down their glasses and waited for Wen Yi's words. Wen Yi can be called a genius of the Tang Dynasty. As long as the method he comes up with is definitely a good way, it is also a good way to make huge profits! You must listen carefully! Wen Yi organized his words and said slowly: "

Everyone, the Emperor has entrusted me to use this money to invest in some profitable industries, but I have thought about it and it is not appropriate to simply invest in it.
Chapter completed!