"So, although they are proud that they will not fail, they are also afraid of unwarranted losses of their combat power, so they dare not start a war, right?"
Seeing Li Zhi looking here with a smile, Li Xian nodded.
This is his consideration. Those who are good at fighting have no great achievements. The contest between two countries has never been on the battlefield. Of course, regarding something, he still firmly believed that the noise was actually too small.
Looking at Liu Zi who was tanned by the sun but still handsome, Li Zhi suddenly felt even more relieved.
He has a good grasp of the principle of government, combining leniency and severity.
In terms of personal quality, he didn't pick out many flaws.
Judging from the fact that Hao Chujun and others were particularly attentive, his way of governing his subordinates was pretty good.
Now, when it comes to external affairs, he thought it would take some time for the child to understand the truth. Who knew that he could see so much from just one contact with the Tibetan envoys.
Why didn't he see that this child was so good before?
As soon as this idea appeared, Li Zhi himself laughed and killed it.
Based on my previous temperament, if I found out that this child was such a genius, I'm afraid the only way to deal with him would be to seal him away even further, and he might even be treated the same as Li Shangjin and others.
The eldest son of the Tang Dynasty failed to succeed to the throne for two consecutive generations. This was a huge hidden danger. He originally planned to solve it in his own generation, but who knew that Li Hong was short-lived.
However, this is fine.
No matter what I say, he has a successor.
Standing up and patting Li Xian on the shoulder, Li Zhi said with a smile: "Since you have concerns in your mind, I won't care about it. The envoys of Tubo are not worthy of your personal greeting. They can only be met by chance. , but not the Turks. I received news that the Turks sent this time was actually a little khan."
"The little Khan of the Turks is respected in the Turks, second only to the Great Khan, but compared with our Tang Dynasty, you, a prince, are more than equal to him. So, this time, you can Let’s go out of town to greet you.”
The little Turkic Khan?
Li Xian nodded, cupped his hands and said, "Well, Aye, what if I choose not to greet you?"
Li Zhi laughed loudly, picked up the teapot, turned around and said, "That's your business, I won't ask about it. Okay, you continue to practice, there is no need to send me away."
Seeing that Li Zhi was leaving and specifically told him that there was no need to see him off, Li Xian thought about it and decided to stay and listen to him and not see him off.
Instructing the guards to release some more pheasants, he continued to contact archery.
If you practice archery all morning, even if you have some basic skills, you will inevitably have physical problems.
When he performed in the martial arts field at noon, Li Xian felt that his two arms were no longer his own.
Even if you push yourself up casually, you will feel extra sore.
In the past, if I became like this bear, I would have to use Li Xing's potion.
But now, instead of looking for him, you can look for your own little wife.
In Kong Xinyu's Chongren Hall, Li Xian was naked from the waist up and allowed her to apply medicine on herself and occasionally give him acupuncture.
According to her, proper acupuncture can have a very good stimulating effect on the recovery of the body.
Li Xian still trusts traditional Chinese medicine. Perhaps in terms of short-term curative effect on some diseases, Chinese medicine is not as strong as Western medicine. However, in many fields, the magic of traditional Chinese medicine has been effective until later generations, and it is difficult to find scientific basis.
The potion prepared by Kong Xinyu didn't know what it was made of. It was different from the heat of Li Yun's potion. After applying it, it was actually cold. With acupuncture, it didn't take long for Li Xian to feel that his arm felt much better. Although I still feel a little bloated, it is much better than the pain from the heat.
After the acupuncture, Kong Xinyu withdrew, and not long after, he and Shangguan Wan'er came over carrying a pot of medicinal porridge.
Seeing the obvious wolfberry in the medicinal porridge, Li Xian couldn't help but blush.
This girl just tested her wrist, and needless to say, she found something.
Sure enough, after serving a bowl of porridge, Kong Xinyu said earnestly: "Husband, although you feel that your energy has not changed much, this is also because you are young and energetic. Although you are young now, you need to make up for it appropriately. It will be of great benefit in the future.”
Hearing what she said, Li Xian breathed a sigh of relief.
What he feared most was hearing her say that his energy was diminished.
But since it is to make it better in the future, it’s not a big deal to make up for it in advance. When people reach middle age, it is normal to soak wolfberry in a thermos cup. I am just keeping in good health a little earlier.
Although it was medicinal porridge, it tasted very good. After eating two large bowls in a row, Li Xian stopped.
Next, he has to go to Yiqiu Palace.
He was clearly back today and had morning exercises, but Qi Lan did not show up. Thinking about it carefully, something must have happened to her. Most likely, she blamed herself for being out of the palace for two consecutive days in the past two days.
Having too many women is really troublesome, but like most men in this era, being indifferent to them and treating them only as an object or a possession, Li Xian feels that this is too cruel.
After a trip to Yiqiu Palace, I went to Cheng'en Palace to see the big-bellied woman. When I returned to Lizheng Palace, the sun was already setting.
After watching some information sent by Honglu Temple and dealing with some project-related matters, it was already the beginning of the show.
He put down his pen, stretched, and was about to take a rest, but a strange feeling made Li Xian cast his gaze in the direction of the side window.
There seems to be nothing unusual there, but the leaves of the Clivia placed there by Shangguan Wan'er are shaking.
Although the weather is hot now, except for occasional ventilation, the windows of the main hall are closed.
How could the leaves of Clivia move?
For a moment, Li Xian took a step back, reached out and pressed it from the desk. Immediately, a knife handle popped out from the side of the desk, and with a casual pull, a horizontal knife was pulled out.
"His Royal Highness is so shocked, this old servant is really surprised."
Hearing this voice, Li Xian relaxed all his vigilance.
It was Zhou Quan's voice.
Relaxing his vigilance does not mean that he is not vigilant, but because even if he is vigilant, it is of no use.
In terms of boxing and kicking skills, he is still no match for Li Yun, let alone Zhou Quan.
If this old guy was here to kill someone, Li Xian found sadly that he seemed to be unable to resist.
This feeling....
This further strengthened his determination to practice martial arts well.
Behind the bookshelf, Zhou Quan stepped out. Seeing the leaves of Clivia, he immediately understood why he was exposed.
Kneeling on one knee, Zhou Quan said solemnly: "The secret visit late at night has disturbed His Highness the Crown Prince. This old slave deserves to be punished by death. Please punish me."
Putting the horizontal knife back into the scabbard and snapping the mechanism back, Li Xian said nonchalantly: "Everything happened for a reason, so I don't care about it anymore. You came here secretly, I'm afraid you have something important to report."
Zhou Quan nodded: "There are two things. The first thing is that the King of Ji, Li Dan, together with Wen Wenxue, paid a secret visit to the King of England today. His Highness the King of England refused on the grounds that he would think about his past behind closed doors and not see anyone."
"oh?"
Li Xian was still prepared for Li Dan or Ming Chongyan's actions. If it were him, he would not let go of such an ally or chess piece.
The actions of these two people were not surprising to me. What was really surprising was Li Xian's attitude.
Li Dan and Ming Chongyan visited together. Even if Li Xian couldn't understand their meaning for a while, Webster must be able to do it. However, since they chose to refuse to meet, I think...
At least Li Xian and Webster did not express their gratitude quickly.
"I know, what's the other thing?"
"The second thing is that the old slave came to report to His Highness. Now, the eunuchs and old slaves in the East Palace have trained fifty-three people for His Highness, and now they have all been handed over to the supervisor. As for outside the palace, the old slaves are We carefully selected two hundred adult dead soldiers and three hundred young dead soldiers, trained them separately, and established an intelligence network node with a scale of 1,000 people. As for further development..."
Although Zhou Quan didn't say it explicitly, Li Xian still knew very well that if he wanted to develop further, he would need the support of a large amount of money. If you want a group of people to be invisible in Chang'an, they must have their own jobs and take actions, and they also need financial support. Perhaps, after arranging jobs for them, they can be self-reliant and even generate income for him, the prince, but it still requires investment in the early stage.
"You can withdraw money from Sihai Tower. It does not need to be included in the general ledger. If it is not enough, you can withdraw part of it from Juxian Tower. If it is not enough..."
If it's not enough, I'm afraid I'll have to use Donggong's money.
However, Li Xian also knew very well that it was really difficult to send the money inside the East Palace out of the palace quietly.
After all, the easiest thing to use is the money from external industries.
Nowadays, in order to provide disaster relief, the book money of Sihai Tower and Juxian Tower is limited. As for the profits of the lumber shops, they are concentrated in Juxian Tower and Sihai Tower and can be ignored.
From this point of view, the external industries of the East Palace are still not enough.
After thinking about it, Li Xian opened the drawer, took out a few gold bars from it, put them on the table, pointed at them, and said to Zhou Quan: "I will give you a task. Go to the East Market and West Market, and then give them to me respectively. Take a piece of land and prepare to start another industry."
Zhou Quan stepped forward, wrapped the gold bar in a cloth towel, and asked, "Excuse me for talking too much, but what kind of business does Your Highness want to open?"
"Hey, I'm planning to set up two auction houses..."
In terms of instant profit, how can a restaurant compare to an auction house? Of course, auction houses mostly conduct auctions for others, but the commission from the auction alone is astonishing enough.
The people of the Tang Dynasty were the same as people of later generations. The richer they were, the more they liked to tinker with antiques. However, for some reasons, they did not dare to reveal their collection of antiques to others. Even if it was an exchange, it would be a secret transaction between two familiar families.
In this case, why not set up an auction house and sell things regardless of where they come from, as long as they are paid?
What's more, with the presence of these two auction houses, some of the East Palace collections can also be moved out for auction, and the profits obtained are much higher than those from direct sales. After all, if the East Palace wants to sell something, it will usually be purchased by relatives of the emperor, and these guys will only give a similar price, and will never pay a big price for a certain thing.
If you want to fully reflect the value of something, or even increase it beyond the standard, then the auction house is the only option.
Zhou Quan didn't understand what an auction house was, so he asked too much. He knew that he was already a little presumptuous.
After collecting the gold bars, he quietly resigned.
This time, he couldn't walk out of the window. Although the gold bars were not particularly heavy, the weight still affected his movements. In this case, he might as well go out openly.
Just after Zhou Quan left, Li Yun came in and reported: "Your Highness, the fifty-three eunuchs trained by Zhou Quan are already ready for use. Moreover, from today on, the slaves will also give them guidance. Do you think how they should be allocated?" ?”
After thinking about it, Li Xian arranged: "Every day, four people will be rotated out to follow Gu. The rest, in addition to accepting your guidance, should be scattered in important places throughout the East Palace. Let them be as inconspicuous as possible. Eye-catching."
Li Yun nodded and went down to give instructions.
Not long after, four eunuchs came to the entrance of the palace and waited for orders.
After waving his hand to indicate that they didn't need to follow him tonight, Li Xian stretched out and prepared to change his bathing place.
Kong Xinyu's potions and acupuncture are really not very effective. By now, he was no longer aware of the pain in his arms.
Now that it doesn't hurt anymore, this girl's hard work can't be wasted.
Therefore, it would be better to stay at her place tonight.
Of course, all of the above are excuses.
The real reason is that Li Xian himself can't help but want it.
Proper drinking is definitely beneficial to physical and mental health.
Early the next morning, because he had restrained himself a little, Li Xian did not feel that his energy was impaired.
After cleaning up, he was originally going to go for morning exercise. However, after hearing Zhou Quan's report that he had chosen a place and secured the land, Li Xian had to put aside his morning exercise plan again and leave the palace to check out the place first.
This time, in the place chosen by Zhou Quan, the merchants only relied on the earl's family.
Regarding the Marquis, Prince Li Xian didn't even need to speak. After Zhou Quan came to the door, the handover was completed happily.
There are four shops in the east market and four shops in the west market, each of which is combined together. The auction house covers an area as large as a restaurant, and more.
The former shopkeeper, after meeting the prince, decisively abandoned the family property and chose to be the steward of the auction house.
After everything was done, following Li Xian's order, eight shops were demolished again!
