"Sage, these things are what my ministers have seen and heard in Zheng Baiqu these days. I am afraid of any omissions, so I have written a memorial with a daily note attached.
Nowadays, the people of Gaoling are happy when they hear the work. It is the honor of King Yue, Zheng Bai's diligent cooperation in the battle, Ma Zhou's ability, and the people of foreign races are diligent in the affairs of the king, which is the virtue of the saint!
I believe that King Yue and Shui Envoy Ma Zhou have never criticized the people of Gaoling,"
Zhang Xuansu came back and told Li Shimin exactly what happened. Li Shimin was so happy that he said this.
Li Shimin touched his beard proudly, so that Zhang Xuansu could speak such words. It was obvious that Qingque did a pretty good job this time.
After all, Zhang Xuansu is a famous hard bone in the court. He is very happy to let him lick it like this.
Fang Xuanling, who was standing beside him, looked at Zhang Xuansu in surprise, although it seemed as if he had known him for the first time.
However, Zhang Xuansu's words continued, "I think the way King Yue can integrate the aliens through labor is very good.
We can use this as a template to transfer part of the corvee mission to these alien races.
Only when they served for a certain number of years, they were allowed to speak Chinese and understand Han rituals, then they were allowed to become my nationality in the Tang Dynasty.
In this way, one can educate foreign races and enrich our population in the Tang Dynasty. The other can reduce the heavy labor service of our Tang Dynasty people.
Now it seems that the labor reform effect is indeed very good!”
"Oh?" Li Shimin heard Zhang Xuansu's words and couldn't help looking at Fang Xuanling.
"..." Fang Xuanling said, "There are two difficulties in this matter.
The first is short of money. The group of alien races in Zheng Guoqu can be successfully naturalized. The most important reason is that King Yue is willing to spend money.
Now Zheng Baiqu eats meat every three days, and a pair of cotton gloves every six days, not to mention grain and cotton clothes.
If the number is large, the consumption will be too great for the Tang Dynasty's national strength.
As for the second point, it is that the scale is still small and Su Dingfang leads the troops to guard it, so it is difficult for the alien race to feel disgusted.
But if the scale becomes larger, there will inevitably be people who disturb the local area, and then how many servants or even soldiers need to be dispatched to manage it.
All these require preparation, but this will put pressure on the Tang Dynasty's finances."
"After all, it's the money issue!" Li Shimin sighed. He had been in power for so many years, and Li Shimin also understood that basically as long as the finances are in place, there is no administrative problem that the Tang Dynasty cannot solve.
If so, please add more money!
"Does such a good policy give up because you don't have money?" Zhang Xuansu said with a little regret.
"It's not impossible!" Fang Xuanling thought for a while and said softly.
Fang Xuanling said: "The ability of King Yue to make money can be said to have created something out of nothing.
In my opinion, it is not known whether King Yue can be comparable to Ganluo Chen, but Gaoling's place now does limit the performance of King Yue.
I think that perhaps giving the King of Yue a state may make more alien races the people of our Tang Dynasty.”
"Have Gaoling restricted the Qingque in one place?" Li Shimin also recognized Fang Xuanling's judgment when he heard Fang Xuanling's words.
To be honest, this kind of thing may be difficult for others to understand, but for Li Shimin, this kind of thing is really easy to understand.
It’s like I can command a hundred thousand legion when I lead the troops, but the reality is that I can only lead five thousand soldiers.
In Li Shimin's view, Li Tai is his own son, a copy of himself when he was young, but he has slightly strengthened his internal affairs ability.
Fang Xuanling looked at Li Shimin already thinking, and also entered a state of being dumbfounded. He did not talk much, let alone put forward the word Youzhou.
Because if you continue talking at this time, people will think that they are going to kick Li Tai to Youzhou on purpose.
But in fact, when Li Shimin thought about arranging a state for Li Tai, Youzhou became almost an inevitable choice.
The reason is very simple, because Li Tai's labor reform method is effective, which shows that Li Tai can handle the contradictions of ethnic minorities.
Such people go to the border areas to exert their strength, isn’t this setting up a stage for Li Tai?
Secondly, compared with other places, Li Tai broke into a Youzhou School Branch in Youzhou, with various plans formulated at the beginning. It can be said that although Li Tai is now in Gaoling, he is not without any foundation in Youzhou.
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Li Tai did not start from scratch in the past, but had his own ruling foundation, and his anger would be undermined in the blink of an eye.
The third question is Li Tai's age. Li Tai's age determines that Li Tai must spend more energy to take back the rights to his own hands when going to any place without foundation. But in Youzhou,
Almost paved the way.
So Li Shimin released Li Tai, and even if the place in Youzhou is not the first choice, it is definitely a choice.
Other alternatives should be Luoyang, Chengdu and Yuhang, which are all possible.
After all, Li Shimin likes Li Tai very much. Fang Xuanling cannot guarantee whether he will keep Li Tai by his side, but Li Shimin is definitely willing to make King Yue live a better life.
Therefore, this influence is best released little by little, and finally let Li Shimin choose a location.
The only thing that made Fang Xuanling breathe a sigh of relief was that Li Tai seemed to be really preparing for going to Youzhou.
This series of things will unconsciously increase the weight of Youzhou that Li Tai went to.
For Li Shimin, Li Tai showed his attitude of willingness to go to Youzhou, and then showed his ability to deal with conflicts between foreign races and Han races.
Under such circumstances, Li Shimin also began to wonder whether Li Tai was really suitable to go to Youzhou.
Of course, this thought just passed away. No matter what, it was his own son. He threw him to Youzhou. Don’t say that he was reluctant to let him go, even Empress Changsun would not be willing to let him go.
"In addition, I found a cotton jacket in Gaoling, which has a gentle texture and is extremely warm. It is a good product among winter clothes. Compared with the down jackets invented by King Yue before, it is gentler!" Zhang Xuansu continued.
"It's a cotton jacket made of a white mat!" Li Shimin thought of Li Tai's cotton jacket mentioned in his diary, and said,
"The King of Yue gave Changle a cotton jacket made of white mat flowers that he had planted himself a few years ago.
Later, in order to increase the yield, I planted it in Yuanzhou, Shengzhou and other places. Now I think I have gained a lot."
"Yuanzhou, Shengzhou?" Fang Xuanling was stunned when he heard this because he really didn't know.
"Well, this cotton fertilizes both sunshine and water. Although the requirements for soil are not too high, it takes a lot of effort to plant it." Li Shimin nodded and said,
"However, the canal transportation plan was successfully completed and the Wei River channel was cleared.
Therefore, the grain in Chang'an can be transported to Shengzhou, Yuanzhou, so I planted a little more cotton field."
"This white mat scrambles the land with grain?" Fang Xuanling couldn't help frowning when he heard Li Shimin's words.
"These two places are not rich in nature. If they can produce some white mats, they can be considered to be used!" Li Shimin said.
After hearing Li Shimin's words, Fang Xuanling didn't say anything more, because no matter what, he still had to wait until the tax revenue of these two states increased this year before he could make a judgment.
However, this year, we will have to order the two places to make more money, no matter how much white mats make money, we must not threaten the farming and fields of the two places.
To be honest, this is because the white mat produces cotton coats for winter, so Fang Xuanling can still tolerate encroaching on grain fields to a certain extent.
After all, I have seen the scene of being poor and having no food in the three years of Zhenguan, so for Fang Xuanling, food is more important than woven materials such as white mats.
Li Shimin said: "However, the cotton jacket produced by this white mat ensures warmth.
It is even more than the down that Qingque invented, huh? It is called down, which is softer and more comfortable to wear.
Especially for some down, if not handled properly, it will still have a faint smell of livestock.
But if you have a white mat, there is no such problem at all!
This was prepared by Qingque to deal with Goguryeo in the future. Now there is not enough venue. If you want to equip the army, you need to produce more."
When Fang Xuanling heard this, she frowned slightly, because Li Tai's incident made Fang Xuanling feel that Li Tai was too prepared.
I did not plan to follow my advice to go to Youzhou and go to Youzhou to make a big fuss. It was obvious that I was ready to go to Youzhou for a big fuss!
For a moment, Fang Xuanling was a little confused about whether to support Li Tai in going to Youzhou.
But then I thought about it, would it be better to let Li Tai go to Youzhou than to let Li Tai stay in Chang'an and continue to shine this light to cover the prince's glory?
If Li Tai takes a step back, at most, he will only lead to a war with Goguryeo.
But this is nothing compared to the orderly inheritance of the Tang Dynasty.
For the generals of the Han Dynasty, attacking Goguryeo may not be able to defeat Goguryeo, but if Goguryeo takes the initiative to attack the Tang Dynasty, wouldn’t that be the experience package of the Tang Dynasty?
After all, since ancient times, besides the Jin Dynasty, which unified the dynasty has been afraid that these barbarian countries will not succeed.
At this time, Fang Xuanling felt a little relieved. No matter what, Li Tai's use of labor service in winter was over.
However, not long after that, a large amount of cotton cloth began to appear throughout Chang'an, which crazily impacted the cloth market in Chang'an.
After all, Li Tai has treated the feathers of the down jacket as much as possible, but due to the limitations of the skills of this era, it still has a bit of a thorny feeling. The most important thing is that even if the taste of down animal hair has been processed many times, there will still be a little smell left.
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Usually it's nothing, but as long as the person wearing it sweats, the smell will be a little heavy.
So when there is no warm and natural plant material like cotton, everyone can bear it.
But with the emergence of cotton, the market for down jackets is naturally excluded, and there is nothing we can do about it.
So when Peacock returned to Chang'an with the cotton cloth project, Zheng Fengchi's cloth store was most affected.
Although it will not hurt the muscles, it is somewhat considered that a strong competitor has emerged to compete on the same stage.
Zheng Mingshang learned about the family down jacket business and was anxious after Peacock launched the cotton cloth, so he immediately summoned his family members to discuss countermeasures, but there was no good way for them to go up and down.
After all, the last time the peacock gave the Zheng family the opportunity to make money, the Zheng family set up a peacock.
Although the relationship between the two parties has eased, it is unrealistic to say that they go back completely.
After all, even if the injury is healed, no one will allow a scar to fall.
"We have the right to manage down from King Yue. She took new cotton cloth to compete with our down.
Isn’t this an obvious trick?
Let’s go to the Yue Palace and ask the Yue King to give an explanation. Isn’t this treating us as fools! Ouch!"
The second wife began to yell when she knew the whole story, obviously she couldn't swallow her breath!
However, as soon as he finished speaking, he felt his butt being sucked hard.
For a moment, he became angry and turned around angrily, but then he saw Zheng Fengchi holding a crutch and immediately became cowardly, with a smile on his face and said, "Dad, you are here!"
"There are so many white silks in the house. If you want to find one to hang yourself, don't implicate the family!" Zheng Fengchi knocked on the crutch.
"You are my real father, what are you talking about?" Hearing Zheng Fengchi's words, the second room couldn't help but mutter.
"It's not your real father, you think you can still talk here."
Zheng Fengchi looked up at Zheng Mingshang. Although his eldest son was not very outstanding, he was not a playboy. After several years of training, he had become a sign of the Zheng family in Chang'an.
"Don't pay attention to the second brother's misunderstanding. Mingshang, what do you think should be handled?" Zheng Fengchi looked at Zheng Mingshang and said.
"The King of Yue asked the peacock to take out this cotton cloth this time. Although it hit us, it may not have made any mention of our intentions.
Our down jacket contract with King Yue is about to expire, and I think we need to talk to King Yue again.
In any case, we must continue to sign the down jacket contract." Zheng Mingshang said.
"Do you want to continue to lose money?" The second roomman touched his butt and said unwillingly, feeling that the boss was crazy.
"Explain the second child!" Zheng Fengchi heard the second child's words and sighed that the second child was stupid, and was glad that the second child was stupid.
"Second brother, our Chang'an Zheng family has been able to gradually gain a foothold in the capital in recent years. The most important reason is that we took over the down jacket of King Yue, which means that we will be online with King Yue.
In addition, in recent years, King Yue has been at its peak, which is why our Zheng family has peace in Chang'an.
If you give up your cooperation with King Yue, it would be like leaving Chang'an alone!"
Zheng Mingshang looked at the second room and said, "And then, I'm afraid anyone can step on our Zheng family.
So, no matter whether it is a down jacket or not, we must maintain a relationship with King Yue.”
"Huh!" Zheng Fengchi was relieved when he heard Zheng Mingshang's words and said, "Tomorrow you will go to Gaoling to find the King of Yue.
It is necessary to remember that others have choices, but we businessmen have no chance to choose.
Since you have chosen King Yue, you can walk this path to the end. Maybe the five families and seven hopes in the future will become five families and eight hopes!"
"No!" Zheng Mingshang nodded, indicating that he knew.