Chapter 548 Everything is ready, all that is left is the camel
Since the civil and military officials have not left Chang'an, the court meetings in the first and middle of the month will still be held as usual.
Li Hong was naturally the one with the highest position. He did not sit on the large bed and chair where his father usually sat. Instead, he set up a small table and small chair under the Danqi. He wore a bright yellow crown that belonged to the prince to receive the ministers.
After the etiquette, he began to deal with government affairs in a decent manner.
However, most of the time, he was an audience. The people who handled the affairs of the court were General Xin Mao, the official of Guanglu, Xu Jingzong, and Li Yifu, the secretary of the Central Committee. After these three people jointly decided on a matter,
You must clearly explain to Li Hong why you need to handle it this way, and what the advantages and disadvantages are.
Yunchu heard it very clearly from below.
The traitorous ministers were not traitors in everything. At least when dealing with ordinary matters, they could still abide by their professional ethics and deal with things that happened in various parts of the Tang Dynasty fairly and equitably.
There were a few things that were handled not only expertly, but also with insight, and even Yun Chu was impressed by them.
First of all, he is a qualified bureaucrat first, and then a traitor.
Li Hong cherished this rare opportunity to serve as an official. He liked to get to the bottom of everything his ministers reported to him, no matter how big or small. Some of the questions got to the root of the matter, and he was praised by Li Yifu, Xu Jingzong and General Xin Mao.
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These three people took the opportunity to peel the matter apart and tell Li Hong the causes and consequences.
In the end, a governor's family was sent to the Western Regions, but they were still not pardoned. Li Hong was already showing leniency to the criminals who embezzled river workers' funds.
In this way, the time for handling government affairs will be significantly lengthened. However, Li Yifu, Xu Jingzong, and Xin Mao do not care about them, and everyone can only cooperate and serve as teaching tools for Li Hong.
Seeing that the last memorial on Li Hong's desk was closed by Li Hong with satisfaction, everyone thought that today's teaching tool man was finished.
Li Hong raised his head and looked at Li Yifu and said, "Master, Your Majesty has previously issued an order to allow Yun Qing and Wen Qing to go to the Western Regions to open up trade routes. Why has this matter not been initiated yet?"
Seeing Li Hong take out a thick stack of documents from under the desk and put it on the table, Li Yifu's face couldn't help but twitch when being questioned.
After thinking for a while, he said, "Reporting to Your Highness, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, we have managed our huge land with laws and systems.
Before doing something, we need to review and discuss it at all levels. Only when we are sure that the matter is beneficial and harmless to Datang, we will officially implement it.
This seems to slow down the work schedule, but it is very safe. Our country of the Tang Dynasty stretches for thousands of miles. The sun is already shining in the east, and the sky is still full of stars in the west.
In such a country, when doing things, one should not be in a hurry, but only seek to be safe. Only in this way can the country be stabilized and the world at peace.
Furthermore, it has only been twelve days since Wannian County Magistrate Yun Chu proposed opening the Western Region Trade Road, and it has been handled to such an extent that it is already suspected of being accomplished overnight. How dare you continue to speed up the work?"
Li Hong stood up and saluted Li Yifu respectfully and said, "Thank you for your advice, Taifu, but this matter is different in my opinion."
Xu Jingzong turned around and didn't see Yun Chu in the crowd before he saluted Li Hong and said, "Everything in the world is common. I wonder what the difference is that His Highness said?"
Hearing this old pervert's obviously misleading question, Yun Chu, who was hiding behind a pillar, couldn't help but sweat his palms, for fear that Li Hong would say the wrong thing.
Li Hong frowned and said impatiently, "The difference is that this matter was approved by my father's decree.
I believe that as long as it is something that my father has decreed and approved, we must handle it safely in the shortest possible time. If we cannot give priority to my father’s order, what else do we, the crown prince, do to me?”
After listening to Li Hong's words, the court suddenly seemed like a swarm of wasps flying in, and there was a buzz of ministers whispering everywhere.
Li Hong's words were flawless, and there was nothing wrong with what he said. Don't look at the people in this hall who are like Gancheng tools. To put it bluntly, they all work for Li Hong's father.
Just like Li Hong said, if such a court doesn't even listen to his father, who are these people going to listen to?
Therefore, Li Hong was obviously angry. There is no threat when a breast tiger howls, and people will think it is naive. But when he stands between his parents' legs and howls at you, no one will
Dare to ignore his cry.
Yun Chu counted that he had given Li Hong a total of nineteen documents, including issues regarding the army's residence in the military camps along the way, the supply of grain and fodder purchased from the state capitals along the way, and the issue of customs clearance at Yumen Pass.
Because it is not a regular army sent by the imperial court, the possibility of enjoying this kind of treatment is zero.
Now under the wailing call of Li Hong, Yun Chu took three days to get everything done. Although the person who worked for him looked ugly and had a bad attitude, the speed of doing things was really fast.
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Di Renjie can use far more manpower in Chang'an than Yin Erhu and the others. These days, Di Renjie's main search is the cannibal temple.
Because it is almost impossible to eat the food of the Great Cannibal outside the Great Cannibal Temple.
Especially after Jinchangfang Cafeteria made pork delicious, the city changed from a city that smelled of mutton to a city that smelled of pork.
Very unfriendly.
Since it has been determined that Bagman is a cannibal, he can only live in the temple of the cannibal, or in the residences of the cannibal merchants scattered around the cannibal temple.
The Great Cannibal Temple in Chang'an City is very simple and small, with no features other than a mushroom roof.
This temple was financed and built after Osman, the Great Eclipse Caliph, sent Uais, Qais, and Wangas to Chang'an during the Zhenguan period.
Among them, Lecturer Wu Aisi just entered the Yumen Pass of the Tang Dynasty and died of illness there. Geisi, Wangasi dug a pit for him, piled stones for him and then entered the Tang Dynasty.
After a short stay in Chang'an, Emperor Taizong felt sorry for their inability to adapt to the climate in Chang'an and allowed them to go to Quanzhou to preach.
The Dashi Temple in Chang'an City cannot actually be called a temple. It was originally a clean place of worship that the two big eaters were looking for. Later, as more and more big eaters came to Datang to do business, people came to visit it.
Huaiyuanfang, where this place of worship is located, is densely populated.
What Di Renjie has to do now is to find this mysterious Bagman from the cannibal settlement in Huaiyuanfang.
This is just one direction. Since the dead Suleiman once said that he could buy his life with a thousand camels, then Di Renjie still needs to investigate a giant caravan with a thousand camels.
In view of this man's extremely strong fighting power, Di Renjie was unwilling to alert the enemy. Once he found traces of this man, he would leave it to Wen Wen, who now has three thousand soldiers in his hands, to deal with it.
As for the duel, Yun Chu, Wen Wen, and Di Renjie never considered it at all. If the king or other nobles of the Stone Kingdom were not satisfied, they would prepare to deal with the country after arriving in the Western Regions.
As long as we kill all the people in the Shi Kingdom who despise the old monkey for not accepting the duel, no one will question the character of the old monkey.
The reason why we still need to find Bagman is entirely because this guy is a damn assassin, like a thorn in the flesh that must be pulled out quickly.
Di Renjie did not believe that a foreigner could hide his identity for a long time in Chang'an City.
Yun Chu had no time to pay attention to this assassin. He was currently busy wetting the fluffy tea leaves with water and pressing them into tea bricks.
The advantage of doing this is that you can carry as much tea as possible. Even if some tea leaves are moldy, you can tell those in the Western Regions that there are good things in such tea cakes, which are more beneficial to the human body.
Although Wen Wen was very suspicious of Yun Chu's statement, in order to save a lot of loading space, he held his nose and admitted it. Anyway, he had never seen Yun Chu drink such a moldy good thing.
A large amount of goods were gathered from various cities and towns in Wannian County and Chang'an County to the military camp outside the city. In just a few days, the goods here were already piled up like a mountain.
Yunchu did not pay for these goods. On the contrary, the owners of these goods needed to advance in advance to pay for the food and drink of the army along the way.
There are too many people responsible for guarding the cargo, and too little cargo they can carry. No matter from which aspect, this should be a loss-making business.
The merchants in Chang'an City had a mysterious trust in Yunchu. They insisted that the county magistrate could not do any loss-making business, and this caravan, which did not look like a caravan, itself gave them a huge advantage.
confidence.
Thinking about the magistrate's bravery in killing an enemy general with seven in and seven outs among millions of troops, it was as easy as picking something out of a bag. Even if the business is losing money, shouldn't the magistrate be allowed to go to the Western Regions to destroy a country or something?
As long as a country is destroyed, everything will be fine, right?
Therefore, the guys sent by the merchants to join the caravans should not be eloquent and able to do business, but should be strong and capable of fighting.
Yun Chu brought Liang Ying, who was exhausted as a dog, to the military camp again. He sat softly on a chair with his hands on his belly, and his ten fingers were flexibly grasping each other, looking very leisurely.
"This time, Lao Di is a little embarrassed. The thousand camels he promised, now don't even have a single hair on them."
Yun Chu took out a stack of documents from his arms and handed it to Wen Wen, "Now everything is ready, all that's left is the camel."
Wen Wen flipped through the documents and said with a smile, "The prince did a great job. Not only did he not leave anything to say, he also allowed all the civil and military officials to see the prince's majesty for the first time."
Yun Chu smiled and said, "Can it be said that His Majesty the Emperor is satisfied with the Crown Prince's behavior?"
He said softly, "Your Majesty didn't say anything."
"Who said this?"
"Zuo Chun!"
"He wants something from us?"
"Yes, Baiqisi hopes to dump cotton cloth to the Western Regions."
"Hey, Hyakuchiji's cotton should be sold to the military."
Wen Wen laughed loudly and said, "Anyway, they will send ten people this time to carry two thousand pieces of cotton to the Western Regions. It seems that they want to test the waters. If it works, they will definitely form a caravan to travel to the Western Regions in the future."