"That's unreasonable, it's nonsense! Fang Er, do you really think that I don't dare to kill you?!"
Li You's face turned pale and he was furious, glaring at Fang Jun angrily.
You really dare to say that. Don’t you know what His Majesty is most afraid of? The prince is isolated from the outside world and has all the finance, government and military under his control. Once his ambition grows and he rebels, he will immediately drag the country into war.
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He actually said that this king "has ulterior motives and wants to do great things that go against the will of heaven"?
If this word reaches the ears of that old scholar and old-fashioned Quan Wanji, he secretly writes a piece of black material and sends it to his father...
You want me to die!
Li You was almost scared out of his wits. How could he not be frightened and angry?
Fang Jun looked at him with a smile and thought, I know you are a good-for-nothing dim sum, you don't have the guts.
"If that's the case, then why does His Highness use such despicable and shameless methods to obtain the family wealth of his ministers?"
"This king..."
Li You almost spat out a mouthful of blood. Now you know you are a minister. Why didn't you know you were a minister when you hit me?
He was very angry, but he was really afraid that when Fang Jun returned to Chang'an, he would make nonsense, and his father might not believe him, but he couldn't stop the censor Yanguan who was all over Chang'an.
Stirring up waves of seventy-three feet, if you have this excuse, why don't you join me in death?
Li You rolled his eyes, knowing that threatening Fang Jun to use the glass method was going to be a shame. He sat down slumped and waited angrily for Fang Jun to say: "How shameless!"
Fang Jun's expression remained unchanged: "Your Highness, thank you."
"Are I complimenting you? I really didn't realize it. Your second roommate is so shameless that he's almost as thick-skinned as a wild boar in the mountains..."
"Your Highness commends you."
"Hey! The more you talk, the more breathless you become, right?"
"Your Highness, thank you!"
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Li You almost fell over in anger, and sparks almost appeared in his eyes as he glared at Fang Jun.
After teasing Li You for a while, Fang Jun said slowly: "Actually, if His Highness is really interested in this glass method, it is not impossible to talk about it."
Li You was stunned.
He sacrificed his face and tried to coerce Fang Jun to give up the glass method by using the matter of the Fang family cemetery, but Fang Jun threatened him instead... Seeing that this method was not working and he was frustrated, this stick actually offered to talk about it.
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Immediately, Li You couldn't wait to ask, "Seriously?"
"really?"
Li You said excitedly: "That's it, Erlang, tell me, what are the conditions?"
This turned him from the second son to the second son. This Li You was indeed not an honest boy, but he was not stupid enough to say "whatever you want"...
Fang Jun said: "Is there a navy in Dengzhou?"
Li You was stunned: "Yes!"
What does it have to do with the navy? Could it be that you want to be an official and want me to find you a lieutenant general to work as a general?
Fang Jun continued to ask: "Does the Navy usually have cruise missions?"
Li You scratched his head: "There should be, right?"
Fang Jun was speechless: "What do you mean there should be? You are the military commander of Qi, Qing, Lai, Mi and other five states, and the governor of Qizhou, but you don't know anything about the things within your jurisdiction?"
In the 4th year of Wude, Emperor Gaozu Li Yuan established the administrative division of Dengzhou for the first time, including Wendeng and Guanyang counties, with Wendeng as its administrative seat and subordinate to Henan Province.
Li You was greatly embarrassed. He touched his nose and said, "I have just taken office..." Then, he pulled his neck and shouted out the door: "Du Xingmin! Come in for me!"
Before he finished speaking, a person walked in quickly from outside the door. When he arrived in front of Li You, he bowed and asked, "What did your highness call for?"
Li You asked: "Can the Dengzhou navy always go out to sea for cruise?"
Du Xingmin replied: "Of course we have to patrol the waterway."
Li You looked at Fang Jun and said carelessly: "This is Qizhou Bingcao. If you want anything else, ask him!"
Fang Jun smiled and shook his head.
Li You waited for a while, and when he saw that Fang Jun had stopped talking, he realized what he was doing and scolded Du Xingmin: "Why don't you leave yet? You can hear what I'm doing? You don't have the eyesight to see it."
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Du Xingmin's face turned red and he thought to himself, "You won't let me leave. How dare I leave?"
Quickly bow down and leave.
When Du Xingmin went out, Li You asked: "Why are you asking the navy?"
Fang Jun asked in return: "I would like to ask, Your Highness is not short of money, why do you want to get this glass method?"
"this……"
Li You felt guilty for a while and looked embarrassed, but he said nothing.
Fang Jun took a sip of the already warm tea and said coldly: "If it's as expected, Your Highness wants to show off in front of His Majesty?"
Li You was stunned: "How do you know?"
But it is tantamount to admitting it.
As expected! Fang Jun sighed softly.
Among Li Er's many sons, there is not a single idiot. This Li You is already considered the worst... but he still refuses to be mediocre!
Even if he didn't see His Majesty Li Er's desire to feudalize the people in the world, he thought he was sent to a far corner of Qizhou, and still wanted to do something to show His Majesty Li Er that he was not incompetent!
If you can get your hands on the glass method and offer it to His Majesty Li Er, it will be a great achievement!
Perhaps, when Li You was forced to rebel in the future, he probably had the idea in his heart that "no matter how incompetent your son is, he can still do something earth-shattering", and expressed his pride to his father in a twisted manner.
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He is a tragic boy...
At this point, Fang Jun's impression of Li You has changed somewhat.
This person may not be doing his job properly, he may be mischievous, or he may be infamous, but apart from being instigated by a treacherous villain to kill Quan Wanji, he has no other bad deeds. Even if he rebelled in the end, he did not resist with all his strength.
The state has been dragged into war, and countless people have been plunged into dire straits.
His mistake might just be that he shouldn't have been born into an emperor's family...
Fang Jun felt deep in his heart and said: "How about His Highness going to Goryeo, Baekje, and Japan to sell glass products during the naval cruise, and the supply will be supplied by the Fang family, and the proceeds will be divided into 70 and 30, how about that?"
This was a decision made by Fang Jun in a flash of inspiration.
Glass is a top luxury product in this era.
Can it enhance cultural development?
Can it promote social progress?
Can it improve productivity?
Nothing can be done. To put it bluntly, it is the same without it...
Even so, Fang Jun never thought of making the price of glass more accessible to the people. He would only treat it as a top-notch luxury product to make money.
But glass has almost no technical difficulties or production constraints. Raw materials can be found everywhere, and the output must be astonishing. It is easy for supply to exceed demand throughout the Central Plains.
Export is the inevitable way.
Dengzhou Port is where the navy is stationed, and Li You is his immediate boss. Using the navy to traffic glass to various countries in East Asia is the best way to save time, effort and cost. As for whether there will be an impeachment by the censor for seeking power for personal gain?
Yes, I think that when a large amount of taxes are paid to the national treasury, His Majesty Li Er will keep silent, close the door and enjoy himself secretly.
At this time, the Tang Dynasty navy was powerful, but it was completely in a state of being free-range. Apart from occasionally clearing out small groups of pirates, it basically had nothing to do and no one paid attention to it.
It wasn't until His Majesty Li Er decided to conquer North Korea that the Navy was brought under his nose, and the task assigned to him was only to transport grain and grass...
Li Youqi asked: "Why not sell it within the Tang Dynasty?"
Fang Jun hates that iron cannot be made into steel, but Chun Chun is good at tempting: "Where can you sell so many? Things are rare and valuable. They are everywhere like cabbage. Is it worth anything? Trafficking across the ocean to other countries can at least make a profit.
It has increased three to four times! And this is just one of them! The most important thing, your Highness, think about it, what do we get in exchange for selling glass to these countries? Money, food! Once a war breaks out with these countries one day,
Glass is completely useless, but money and food are all military supplies! If one thing goes down and the other goes up, isn’t it a wonderful strategy that benefits the country, the people, and ourselves?”
Li You, who did not understand the theory of "fighting means fighting for logistics", was deceived by Fang Jun's words and his blood boiled.