Chapter 254: peaceful evolution

"Your Highness, are you talking about the scholar who walked very close to Zheng Binglu recently?" Su Mo'er said with her fingers drawing circles on Li Yin's chest, with the red tide still on her face.

Nodding his head, Li Yin said: "That's right, you've been keeping a close eye on him recently, you dare to poach the walls of my territory, and you can't see his **** out."

"What **** is not shit, His Highness is also the king of Shu anyway, and it makes people laugh when it gets out." Su Mo'er gave Li Yin a kick with her head, dissatisfied with Li Yin and swearing.

Li Yin chuckled and didn't take it seriously. After a while, Su Mo'er said again: "It's just that your highness is sending troops to Tubo with such fanfare. Does your majesty have any ideas? Now that there is such a big commotion in Yizhou, it's another Eastern Expedition." Ryukyu is going to the west to seek Tubo again, and the matter of the steamship is probably known to the whole world, so it’s probably not good for His Highness to act independently like this.”

"Don't worry about this. I have written letters with my father before doing these things. It is too late for him to be happy to have a son who has expanded his territory for him. Moreover, he has supported my colonial plan from the very beginning and promised me that I can use it. The army went on an expedition, and as for the matter of the steamship, he didn’t care too much, it’s better to have these things in the hands of his son than in the hands of those powerful people, right?” Li Yin said proudly, and he patted Li Shimin two times. Li Shimin's flattery for many years is responsive to Li Shimin's requests, and it cannot be justified if he does not get Li Shimin's support.

Su Mo'er nodded, and continued: "It's a good thing and a bad thing for His Majesty to love His Highness so much. According to the information I got, the gentry seems to be more and more united recently, and Li Chengqian is also taking advantage of this opportunity to develop in the court. Li Tai is not to be outdone, but His Royal Highness King Wu is at a disadvantage."

"I understand what you said. I have learned something from the coal mine. I have been thinking about how to deal with it these days, and now I have a basic idea." Li Yin said in a deep voice.

"Oh, what can your Highness think of?" Su Mo'er asked in surprise.

"Pull one and beat the other." Li Min's eyes were bright, "As the saying goes, all the hustle and bustle in the world is for profit. The prosperity of the world is for profit. The unity of these aristocratic families is nothing but a trend of profit, but just like King Qin expelling the six kingdoms, these Although the country has a common enemy, it also has its own interests, as long as they are divided."

"Then how does His Highness plan to divide them?" Su More became more and more curious.

"Business benefits!" Li Yin said, one system will only be defeated by another system. He once promised Li Shimin to help Datang develop while developing in Yizhou, so this is an opportunity, "The development of Yizhou industry requires a lot of raw materials, and these raw materials need to be imported from other places, and from whom? Importing is my call, take advantage of that. I can turn one group of people against another, and then we can reap the benefits.”

After what Li Yin said, Su Morer nodded again and again. Li Yin also made an analogy with her. Yizhou is now the world's factory. He buys raw materials from other poor places and processes them before buying them. go back. This can not only save manpower and increase the speed of industrial development in Yizhou, but also make other places in Datang prosperous.

"So, His Highness is planning to relax some technical restrictions?" Su Mo'er raised his head and asked.

"That's right, otherwise I wouldn't be able to explain it to my father. Now we just need to control the industry in our own hands. Some things in agriculture and some things that don't have much technical content can be sold as patents. , such as cotton and the like. These things need large-scale planting, and Yizhou alone can’t do it.” Li Yin analyzed.

Li Yin has fully realized this these days. No matter how novel the agricultural products are, they cannot be sold at a price. Planted potatoes, relative. The sales of potatoes in Yizhou decreased, which made Li Yin suddenly understand that in a few years, the crops he introduced from modern times would bloom everywhere in the Tang Dynasty, and by then Yizhou's agriculture would lose its advantage, and the income of the people in Yizhou would decrease .

So how to maintain the advantages of Yizhou? It's simple - take advantage of industry. Now that I have what you have, then I will not do this kind of hard work without making money. Instead, I will buy fruits and vegetables from you, process them, make them into processed foods and continue to sell them to you, so I will always maintain an advantage.

"Your Highness said the same thing. After they have planted these things, they will naturally break their heads and sell them to His Highness. At that time, they will follow Yizhou's lead." Su Mo'er laughed.

"Smart!" Li Yin closed his eyes and fell asleep tiredly. Next, he was going to do a big thing to overthrow the Great Tang clan system, but this process is also a long process...

Sheng Tang Chamber of Commerce, Wang Tao sold the well salt to Sheng Tang Chamber of Commerce as usual, and after receiving three thousand bills from the accountant of the Chamber of Commerce, he nodded in satisfaction. In the future, the income will be higher than before, and the risks will be relatively less, because as long as the salt is sold to the Shengtang Chamber of Commerce, other things will basically be out of his hands.

After counting the bills, Wang Tao carefully stuffed the bills into his pocket. These bills are now more important than copper coins. When trading with merchants in Yizhou, they no longer accept copper coins, but ask for money bills directly. This is especially true for large transactions.

Patting the money ticket on his chest, Wang Tao felt relieved. He would also like to thank Wang Gui for being able to join the salt industry of the Shengtang Chamber of Commerce. Thinking of this, he planned to give Wang Gui some gifts when he returned to the Wang family in Taiyuan at the end of the year. To express our thanks.

"The shopkeeper Wang stays behind."

When Wang Gui was about to leave, a voice sounded. He looked back, but he didn't expect it to be Tong Nian at the meeting of Shengtang Chamber of Commerce. He was a little surprised, bowed and saluted, "It turned out to be Chairman Tong. What is the matter with Mr. Wang?"

Tong Nian said in a loud voice: "I just received a letter from His Royal Highness, asking me to invite Shopkeeper Wang to the palace to talk about some things."

Hearing this, Wang Tao's heart skipped a beat. He also has some understanding of the situation in the north now. Merchants with five surnames and seven Wangs united to set too high a coal price, and his Wang family also took a share. Now Li Yin is looking for him for this matter. ? There was a trace of cold sweat on his forehead, and Wang Tao showed a wry smile: "President Tong, the Wang family was forced to get involved with those families, and I hope that Your Highness will hold your hand high and not blame the Wang family."

"Treasurer Wang thinks too much. How can His Highness be an ignorant person? You will naturally understand when you arrive at the palace." Tong Nian said with a smile.

Tong Nian's words reassured Wang Tao, and he said, "That's fine."

In the Yizheng Hall of the Prince of Shu’s Mansion, Li Yin was sipping a cup of matcha. Ever since Yanbei joined the Chamber of Commerce in the Tang Dynasty, he vigorously promoted matcha. For this reason, he even opened a matcha shop by the lakeside of Baihuatan Lake. It’s just a long-standing custom of the Tang people. He is planning to make some acquisitions recently, and the status of matcha is too high. He has already thought up the slogan - tour Baihuatan, drink matcha, a symbol of taste, the choice of literati, today, you Have you drank?

Just as he was thinking, Tong Nian brought Wang Tao into the Palace of Political Affairs. Li Yin hadn't seen Wang Tao since he inspected the Yanjing Mine. Today, when he saw him, he found that he had gained a lot of weight and also lost a lot of weight. It seems that life is passing Not bad.

"Wang Tao sees His Highness the King of Shu!" Entering the Palace of Political Affairs, Wang Tao hurried a few steps and saluted Li Yin.

"Exemption!" Li Yinxu gave a support, and he stretched out his hand and said, "Shopkeeper Wang, please sit down and serve tea!"

Wang Tao was a little flattered by Li Yin's series of actions, and he said cautiously: "Your Highness, I don't know why you are looking for Caomin, so please tell Your Highness clearly."

Li Yin said: "The treasurer Wang is a businessman, so the king is looking for you for business, but this king is not only for you, but also for the Wang family behind you."

Wang Tao glanced at Li Yin, and he said: "Your Highness, Caomin's status in the Wang family is not high, I'm afraid..."

"Don't worry about this. I just want you to send a message to the Wang family. The first thing is to let him stop messing around with coal after following Li Yuanchang. After a while, the king will naturally have a way to deal with him. The only ones who suffer at the time are themselves.”

Wang Tao nodded, but he didn't expect that Li Yin already knew about Hedong Road.

"The second thing, you go back and tell them that the king promised the emperor to help the development of other places in Datang when Yizhou has spare capacity. These two years have passed, and the king thought that he should also combine some things with If it is shared in other places, you say that the Shengtang Chamber of Commerce wants to sell high-yielding rice seeds, and intends to choose the Wang family. If the Wang family is willing, please reply. If not, the king will find another house. The relationship between them is good, and the waste water doesn’t flow into outsiders’ fields, right?” Li Yin said with a smile.

"High-yield rice?" Wang Tao was a little surprised. So far, the sale of high-yield rice seeds in Yizhou has been prohibited. The north has been very greedy, but unexpectedly let go.

"You heard me right, it's high-yielding rice. In addition, you can tell him that if the cooperation in this project is successful, then the king of potato seedlings and sweet potato seedlings will cooperate with the Wang family one after another." Li Yin threw out this blockbuster again.

Although some people in the north have planted the potatoes and sweet potatoes they bought back into the ground, they have not yet mastered the seedling raising technology, and the yield of the things they plant must be very low, and taking advantage of this gap, Li Yin can completely hold the key to the seedlings things as chips.

The northern gentry has a large population, and the intertwined killings are endless. Moreover, Li Yin launched a war in order to eliminate the gentry, and it is meaningless to bring the newly recovered Datang back to the primitive society. Instead of this, it is better to have a peaceful evolution, so that , Datang became rich and powerful, and at the same time he tied Datang with the rope of interests.