Chapter 1344 Return to Yangzhou

Chang'an.

Li Er received a telegram from the Telegraph Hall. All invitations had been sent out to nearly a hundred countries, large and small.

There are also leaders of the eighteen tribes on the grassland.

The leaders of these eighteen tribes were already ready to take over Shuofang and make themselves the master of Shuofang.

But there is another obstacle in their minds, and that is Li Feng. Li Feng's prestige exceeds that of their eighteen leaders.

Both their army and their people relied on Li Feng to obey them. As long as Li Feng gave an order, their eighteen leaders would be pulled down immediately.

So they have been paying attention to Li Feng's movements.

When they learned that Li Feng had gone to Fusang, and then learned from other people that the imperial court would not help Li Feng, their ambitions began to rise again.

Now as long as they wait for the news of Li Feng's death, they will immediately raise troops to rebel against the Tang Dynasty. They have already thought of the reason to avenge Li Feng.

Li Feng died because of the inaction of the imperial court, so this excuse will definitely arouse the hatred of the people and soldiers, and maybe it can lead to Chang'an in one fell swoop.

It's just that they waited for a long time, but they didn't receive the news of Li Feng's sacrifice, but they did receive an invitation from Li Er.

After the eighteen leaders saw the invitation, they knew that they had no reason to refuse. Not going would be tantamount to disrespecting the holy saying.

After Li Er saw the telegram at this time, he was in a very happy mood. Soon, all the countries in the world could see the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.

Fang Xuanling hurriedly walked in at this time and said: "Your Majesty, it's not good. Something big has happened."

Li Er frowned slightly and said, "What happened?"

Fang Xuanling said: "Your Majesty, it has been raining heavily in Guanzhong for the past few days, and floods have occurred in many places.

The most important thing is the flooding of the Yellow River. Now several cities downstream have been flooded, and more than one million people have been affected."

"Hurry up and provide emergency relief." Li Er said, "By the way, let the people from the academy participate. Li Feng often says that the students in the academy are more powerful than other scholars. I just want to see how they provide disaster relief."

Fang Xuanling nodded and said: "I have arranged disaster relief matters, but there are so many more victims all at once? We cannot arrange them all at once."

Li Er nodded and said: "Summon Wei Zheng, Du Ruhui, Changsun Wuji...a group of ministers came to the imperial study to meet him."

"Yes." The eunuch waiting on the side responded immediately.

An hour later, more than a dozen officials were already standing in the imperial study. Because of Li Feng's work-for-relief method, disaster relief matters were quickly implemented.

As for the arrangements for the victims, Li Er was even more direct and sent it directly to Fusang regardless of everyone's objections. He also sent a telegram to Li Feng, explaining the situation in Datang.

After Li Feng learned about the situation, he boasted that Li Er was a good emperor and that the disaster relief work was delayed so quickly.

This made Li Er very happy.

But Li Feng did not accept the victims, because for Fusang, one million Tang people were enough, and too many people would be useless.

But Li Feng also gave Li Er an idea, which was to open up the road between Chang'an and Lingnan. Today's official road wants to go from Chang'an to Lingnan quickly, and it will take more than ten days. That is under the condition of all-out efforts.

But for ordinary people and caravans, it takes several months to go back and forth, and a few months is enough to change everything.

Therefore, Li Feng suggested that all the victims should be allowed to build roads.

Li Feng was originally building this road, but because of the staff, the progress was not as fast as expected. When there was no one around, Li Feng had nothing to do, but when there were people, Li Feng didn't want to waste the labor.

After getting Li Feng's reply, Li Er had a new idea, which was to turn the official road in Guanzhong into a cement road first. As for the road from Chang'an to Lingnan, we will talk about it next time.

Li Er did not tell Li Feng about this, so after Li Feng returned to Chang'an, he was very angry about it and told Li Er and a group of people that he was going to develop Lingnan. If there was a cement road from Chang'an to Lingnan, the court's tax revenue would be at least several times higher.

Fan.

When Li Er and others found out about this, they shouted that they regretted it, and they all clutched their hearts, with expressions of regret and urgency on their faces, which made Li Feng very happy to see them.

But these are all things for later.

Now, the arrangements for the victims have been completed. Since the Tang Dynasty had potatoes, corns and sweet potatoes, plus the rice cultivated by Li Ke, the Tang Dynasty has never had to worry about food.

One million victims, Li Er waved his hand, and then arranged for a capable official, who took one million dan of food to the disaster-stricken area to provide relief.

After arranging everything, Li Er said: "My dear friends, I want to tell you some good news. The invitations I sent out have been responded to by kings of other countries.

This Mid-Autumn Festival, all nations will come to the DPRK, so be prepared."

"Yes." Fang Xuanling and more than a dozen ministers responded one after another.

There are still four months until the Mid-Autumn Festival, so there is plenty of time to prepare.

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Fusang, Li Feng and Li Derjian returned to Qiuri City, and they planned to return to Chang'an.

As for the other cities that were not recovered, Li Feng handed them over directly to Suga Hongye and Chai Shao.

Li Feng was very reassured about Soga Hongye and was not afraid of Soga Hongye betraying him or leading his soldiers to become king on his own.

Because all the generals and soldiers in the army belong to him, to put it bluntly, Li Feng can give Suga Hongye rights, and he can also take back her rights.

Li Derjian found Li Feng and said: "My mother has been looking for Uncle Qiu at sea for more than two years, and he has not come back yet. Should I inform my mother that she is back and let us go back to Chang'an together?"

Li Feng thought for a while and said: "It is indeed possible, but the sea is so big. It is not easy to find my mother-in-law."

"Then what should we do? We can't let my mother, your mother-in-law, wander aimlessly on the sea." Li Derjian asked worriedly.

Li Feng thought for a while and said: "That's right, let's do this. Inform all the merchant ships or fishing boats at the dock. Whenever they encounter my mother-in-law's fleet, tell her the news of our return to Chang'an, and tell her to return to Chang'an as soon as possible. I already know about the Qiubeard customers."

Where is it?"

"Do you really know the whereabouts of Uncle Qiubeard?" Li Derjian said in surprise.

Li Feng rolled his eyes and said: "My uncle, what do you want me to say to you? If I don't say that, do you think my mother-in-law will return to Chang'an?"

Li Derjian replied without thinking: "No. But I just said that if he returns to Chang'an because of your words and finds that you have no news about Uncle Qiu, your end will be very tragic."

Li Feng said: "How do you know that by that time, I won't find any news about the bearded guest?"

"If it were so easy to find, my parents wouldn't have to look for it for so long," Li Derjian said.

Li Feng smiled and said: "Don't compare me with your parents. If I really want to find someone, then I will definitely find him."

"Okay, just find Uncle Qiu. I'll go to the dock and notify all the ships. Let them see my mother's fleet and tell my mother the news that you have found Uncle Qiu."

"Okay, you go make arrangements."

Half a month later, the people on a battleship got the news and immediately returned to Chang'an.

Another half month later, Li Feng and Li Derjian waited for Orihime's arrival.

Chang'an's Electric Light Festival invited Emperor Huangji.

Emperor Kogi did not come, but sent Princess Orihime to the Tang Dynasty. There was no problem because Orihime became the next emperor.

Immediately they set off for Datang.

After more than ten days, Li Feng and the others returned to Yangzhou by iron boat. Li Feng planned to spend two days in Yangzhou for repairs before returning to Chang'an.

Therefore, after everyone got off the boat, they went shopping individually.

Li Feng also had something to do. He came to the shipyard and ordered the shipyard to develop a new iron ship, a real warship.

Although the iron ship Li Feng and the others were riding on had artillery, the artillery could be dismantled. Once dismantled, it would become a cargo ship.

Li Feng's original plan was to build a cargo ship and do economics first, and then other things.

Now half of Fuso's territory belongs to the Tang Dynasty, so if you want to protect this land, a powerful naval fleet is indispensable. In the past, sailing warships were of little use.

Although the sailing battleship is already an epoch-making product for the current era, no matter how powerful the sailing battleship is, when faced with iron ships, that is, steam ships, the sailing battleship has to be resigned to the disadvantage.

The shipyard has tens of thousands of employees, of which nearly 10,000 are involved in condensing steel, as well as other technical and physical work. Sometimes tens of thousands of employees are not enough, and Li Feng's requirements are particularly high.

Everything that does not meet the requirements needs to be demolished and started again.

After arranging the shipyard, Li Feng went to the commercial street again. Yangzhou was very prosperous, even better than Chang'an. Yang Guang wanted to turn this place into the second capital and even dig the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

Although what he did was wrong, it was an eternal achievement and no one dared to deny it. It was just that for the people at that time, his policy was wrong.

Li Feng also attaches great importance to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. With this Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the people nearby will be benefited. The most important thing is that the business will become more and more prosperous because of this Grand Canal.

There are many merchants in Yangzhou City, not only people from the Tang Dynasty, but also merchants from various countries appear on the streets in an endless stream.

Although Yangzhou is very prosperous now, it is also relatively messy. The last time he came here, he discovered that there were miscellaneous shops in every street.

Li Feng planned to unify the shops and build a large square. He walked around the city and found that there was no suitable place. Once built in the city, many houses in the city would need to be demolished.

For now, some of the gains outweigh the losses.

So, Li Feng went shopping outside the city the next day and found that there was a large piece of wasteland two miles outside the city that could be used to build a square.

After Li Feng inquired about it, he learned that this wasteland was an ownerless land because no food could be grown on this land. In addition, it was near the official road and there were many people coming and going, so no one was willing to take care of this wasteland.

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