When Li Ke returned to the Shu Palace, he was invited to the palace by Wang De.
Li Shimin laid out a table of food and sat at the table waiting for Li Ke.
"Hey, Father, how do you know that my son hasn't eaten?"
Li Ke sat down, picked up his chopsticks, and started eating.
"Father, why don't you eat?"
"There are no rules. I haven't eaten yet, so you start eating?"
"The rules are for people to see. Now we, the father and the son, are the only ones who can see them?"
Li Shimin's mouth twitched, he also picked up the bowl, put down the vegetables and ate the white rice.
"You may have to go to Longxi in advance."
"My son knows."
"This expedition is expected to cost a lot of money and food, especially food and grass, which is the top priority. This year's autumn harvest has not yet come..."
"Is there anything you can do?"
"Don't tell me to pluck the hair from the Li family in Longxi. They probably don't have much hair for you to pluck, especially from grain and grass."
Li Ke put down his bowl and chopsticks and asked, "Isn't my father ready to fight this battle without any preparation?"
"Of course I am prepared, but I am worried that using the stored grain will allow people to take advantage of the situation and cause trouble. Once domestic food prices soar and the foreign war is not over, what do you want me to do?"
"Don't forget that all the wealthy families in Shandong are showing their favor to me and giving you countless gifts at your wedding, but who can say for sure, are they trying to make me relax my vigilance?"
"Ke'er, people are separated from each other, especially emperors. You must always be vigilant. Don't assume that they will fall to you just because they have done something friendly. Maybe they will add insult to injury at a critical moment."
Li Ke was also afraid in his heart. His father was right. Once the country used the last grain reserves, the aristocratic families and wealthy businessmen who controlled the grain would drive up the price of grain.
At that point, it's going to be trouble.
Li Ke suddenly had a bold idea. Should he cheat these aristocratic families and grain merchants?
But this idea is too bold, and if it is messed up, it will be in trouble.
The entire Tang Dynasty might be in chaos.
Food is the most important thing for the people. This sentence is not just rhetoric.
Especially today's Datang is still an agricultural country with a small-scale peasant economy.
"Father, do you have a bold idea?"
"Say it!" Li Shimin knew that his son's ideas were very strange, and sometimes they were quite effective, but sometimes they couldn't be put on the table.
Li Ke coughed, sat upright, and looked around. When he saw no one, even Wang De stayed far away.
"Father, how about we join forces and defraud aristocratic families and wealthy businessmen, and at the same time catch all those speculators."
"If the operation is done well, the military expenses for this troop dispatch will not have to be spent on China, but we can still make money."
Li Shimin's breathing became rapid. He didn't have to pay for military expenses, but he could still make money. Is there such a good thing?
But soon, Li Shimin began to take off his shoes and said angrily: "Do you want me to personally create a food crisis and make everyone in the world panic?"
"You rebellious son, do you want to give away the country of Datang to others?"
"If you are not careful, you will lose everything..."
Li Shimin figured out the key and was so angry that his face was livid. Can you think of such an unreliable method?
"Father, calm down, calm down, don't do anything."
"My son is just talking. As for whether you do it or not, that's your business."
Then, Li Ke put on an indifferent expression: "Anyway, Erchen has hoarded 1 million catties of rice in the south. Chang'an, Luoyang, and Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce also have acquaintances here, and they can probably collect 1 million catties of grain."
"It's just something I do casually. I still have a big killer weapon..."
Li Shimin was stunned by Li Ke's words. Damn it, damn it, damn... all that was left in his heart was damn it.
Two million catties of grain have been stored. Is this something humans do?
You have made it clear that you want to trick those people to death!
Then he quickly asked: "Ke'er, what other killing weapons are there?"
"Father, why are you asking for dinner?"
"Why, father, I can't ask you anymore?"
Li Ke scratched his head and said with a smile: "I also have seafood. We have set up workshops in the coastal areas and produced a large amount of dried seafood, which can be transported to the inland through postal services."
"There is also a large amount of dried meat on the grassland. My son ordered me to buy some. Part of the meat in the military rations this time is these dried meats."
"Father of the Gu family in Wu should know that just the day before Ichen's wedding, the head of their family personally found him and wanted to cooperate with him."
"Er Chen cooperated with him. They were willing to lead the other families in Wu to go to sea with the help of Er Chen's fleet and go south to Jiaozhou to buy millions of catties of grain. They would pay for it, and Er Chen would go out to ship and hire people, and the money earned would be divided in half. .”
Li Shimin: "..."
Li Shimin finally understood why the Gu family of Wu Di, an untouchable person, offered thousands of taels of gold at his son's wedding. It turned out to be his son's partner.
Li Shimin looked at his son in front of him and trembled in his heart. If...if this kid rebelled, would he have a chance to put down the rebellion?
Thinking about it, this boy has firearms and is surrounded by masters. General Li Jing is also his father-in-law, and the Supreme Emperor supports him. He is also the son of the princess of the previous dynasty. Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, except for Confucianism, the other two schools are like this boy. The power is average.
"Father, don't think about useless things. I will not rebel. Don't worry about this. I have no idea about your position. You are as busy as a dog all day long!"
"Who are you calling a dog?"
"Then what are you?"
Li Ke: "Now, are you sure that your father will do something big? This is an excellent opportunity. The time, place and people are all right."
"My son can stabilize the area west of Longxi for you. Father, you can rest assured that Tubo will not be able to achieve great things."
"On the contrary, you have to be careful with the Turks who have surrendered. They are just a bunch of ignorant wolves."
Li Shimin frowned and asked: "Why do you say that? They are very well-behaved now... They are all my guards..."
When Li Ke read history in his previous life, he clearly remembered that in the next few years, Jieli Khan's younger brother led the surrendered Turks to launch a palace coup to assassinate Li Shimin.
This matter actually laid the root of the disaster as early as the third year of Zhenguan, so much so that by the time of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, the Hu man An Lushan directly led to the almost destruction of the Tang Dynasty.
Three years after Zhenguan, Jieli Khan led 100,000 Eastern Turks to surrender to the Tang Dynasty. The issue of resettlement of the Turks was the most heated discussion between the DPRK and the Central Government at that time.
The "Tonghua Sect" represented by Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui was supported by the vast majority of people. Even Changsun Wuji supported this approach.
They want to split the Turks into small tribes and place them in various states and counties, change their customs and habits, give up herding and switch to farming, thereby turning the Hu into Han.
The "border resettlement faction" headed by Zhongshu Ling Wen Yanbo. Following the Turkic management model and letting the Turks manage the Turks can make the Turks a barrier to the north of the Tang Dynasty, but they have to bring their nobles to Chang'an as hostages.
The third faction is the "Hu-Han isolation faction" represented by Wei Zheng and Yan Shigu.
They believed that the Turks were unreliable and would be very difficult to assimilate. Whether they were placed on the border or dispersed in the interior, they would bring endless disasters to the Tang Dynasty.
Once the Tang Dynasty is weak, they will definitely rebel and will never care about morality and kindness.
At the same time, Wei Zheng also proposed a resettlement method, returning them to their hometowns and establishing a strict management system. The leaders of each tribe must be appointed by the Tang Dynasty, delineate the boundaries of their tribes, and strictly prohibit annexation of each other. The Tang Dynasty also established a protective palace in the Turkic homeland to control They conduct close surveillance.
But the three parties argued for half a month, and finally generally accepted the second method. They settled the Turks in the north, brought their nobles to Chang'an, and arranged various official positions. Many of them were guards of the palace, which showed Li Shimin's The generosity and kindness of God Khan.
But Li Ke had wanted to talk about this matter for a long time, but he never had the chance, and Li Shimin would not change anything!
Li Ke could only instill in Li Shimin the words that people who are not from my race must have different hearts.
"Non-my family, its heart must be different."
Li Shimin fainted, I am a fucking foreigner!
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