Tang's dining table

At the court meeting three days later, Changsun Wuji, who was closest to the emperor, went out to tell the emperor that the Eastern Expedition should be ended as soon as possible to improve the people's livelihood.

He was clearly aware that Li Zhi was staring at him with intriguing eyes.

However, Changsun Wuji didn't care and asked the Minister of Household Affairs to list various matters that the Tang Dynasty was in urgent need of money and food.

The first is the rebellion in Xiangzhou. This rebellion was entirely caused by the plague in Liuzhou two years ago.

During that great plague, the people of Liuzhou lost their lives, leaving large areas of farmland deserted and houses uninhabited.

After the old god Sun Simiao and his party completely quelled the plague in Liuzhou, the local government in Xiangzhou immediately implemented a policy called "relocating people to their fields to fill the field rolls."

To be precise, this policy is to hand over the fields and houses of the dead people on the field register to the refugees for cultivation and residence.

This will ensure that Xiangzhou's population register and land register look relatively complete, allowing the court to believe that the people of Xiangzhou did not suffer much losses in the plague, and can then keep their official positions.

In fact, such changes are not very drastic, and are even beneficial to the refugees. The problem lies in the fact that a large part of the local people are not from the Tang Dynasty, and most of them are from a group called Moyao.

The lifestyle of the Moyao people is still mainly group living, and their property and land exist in the name of public ownership.

And this tribe was also the tribe that suffered the most from the plague. In many villages, entire villages and entire villages perished.

Therefore, the government divided these Moyao villages among the refugees.

Unexpectedly, the Moyao people quit. At first they just had conflicts with the refugees, killing and injuring many refugees. Later, those Moyao people suddenly discovered that they were very powerful, and even the officials would run away when they saw them.

Then, under the situation of "there is no mountain without Yao in Nanling", the Moyao rebellion began.

If the rebellion of the Moyao people alone was not a big deal, they could be wiped out immediately by sending an army to the Zhechong Mansion. Unfortunately, these Moyao people somehow got involved with the rebels in Annan, and also with Shi Shi from the Six Divisions of Nanzhao. The waves supported each other and the momentum was so great that it had the potential to sweep through the southwest.

In this way, it is no longer a matter for the Xiangzhou family to exterminate this group of rebels. It requires the cooperation of the Zhechong Prefecture in the Southwest and even Annan to form an iron wall around the periphery and strangle this force. In bud.

It is not that there are no soldiers in the southwest, but the soldiers here are very poor. In addition, almost all the military supplies of the Tang Dynasty were sent to the battlefields of the Eastern Expedition. If you want to organize such a huge encirclement and suppression campaign, you must first deal with the lack of weapons and armor. The Southwest soldiers replenished weapons and supplies.

Moreover, it needs to be done as soon as possible. Once it is delayed, the power of rebellion will become stronger and stronger.

There are many workshops in Chang'an. Production is not the problem, but money is. According to the estimates of Chang Sun Wuji and others, at least 200,000 silver coins are needed to produce enough weapons and supplies immediately.

After Changsun Wuji's lengthy narration ended, Li Zhi's cold voice sounded in the hall.

"The transfer envoy Zuo Chun from Laizhou reported to the general, the Ministry of Works, and allocated two hundred thousand guan of silver to prepare the troops and armor without any mistakes."

Just when Changsun Wuji and others were shocked by Li Zhi's answer, the white-haired eunuch Zuo Chun came out from behind the curtain and actually accepted the emperor's order.

Later, I heard Li Zhi say coldly: "Order Chu Suiliang, the governor of Guizhou, to transfer the governor of Aizhou to participate in the suppression of bandits."

Changsun Wuji said to the emperor with some sadness: "Your Majesty, Chu Suiliang is too old and too weak to hold the post. Please choose another virtuous one."

Li Zhi said, "I've given you the money you asked for. Then it's your business to suppress the bandits. If you can't do it, come and see me."

Changsun Wuji saw that Li Zhi showed no mercy at all, so he sadly withdrew.

At the same time, he was also keenly aware that the emperor should have new financial resources, and all appropriations requested by the Ministry of Revenue would be approved.

Sure enough, no matter whether the Ministry of Revenue proposed disaster relief, grain storage, land reclamation, border opening, etc., they all received the emperor's financial support. In the end, even the request to build the Paiyun Hall of the Wannian Palace was also approved. Yes.

Changsun Wuji felt quite sad when he left the hall.

It's just hundreds of thousands of silver coins, one million coins. As long as the emperor opens his mouth to him, he will immediately summon the nobles of Guan Long to prepare everything for the emperor as soon as possible. Don't say it's one million coins, even two million coins. , three million, Changsun Wuji didn’t think it was a difficult task.

What he needs is to let the emperor know that the affairs of this world are still inseparable from Guanlong. They are the mainstay of the Tang Dynasty at all times.

The most helpless thing in the world is not being needed...

From the day the Eastern Expedition began, Changsun Wuji and his group were calculating the cost of money and food. According to their estimates, the emperor could only use the money and food to support the Eastern Expedition army to conquer Goguryeo, and it must be done after the expedition to Goguryeo. Withdraw troops quickly, otherwise, the court will be unable to afford military expenses.

Changsun Wuji felt empty in his heart at this time. He had always thought that the young man sitting on the throne was still as weak and helpless as before, and needed the support of his uncle at every turn.

He still remembered how this weak young man cried in his mansion after Prince Li Chengqian failed in his rebellion and Wei Wangtai warned Jin Wangzhi. It was his uncle who appeared behind him and withstood countless wind and rain for him.

Now, after all, this child no longer needs the protection of his uncle, and is even a little tired of such protection.

Not being needed means that the Changsun family will decline...

Li Zhi was in a very good mood, and it felt good to spend 700,000 yuan at once.

Only by spending this kind of money can you issue various instructions and make various demands to the person who takes the money, instead of spending other people's money and having to accept a lot of humiliation and conditions.

At this moment, Li Zhi became more and more interested in mastering a large amount of his own money.

He felt that after Yun Chu came back, he should have a good discussion with him on how to get more money without affecting the national economy and people's livelihood.

Zuo Chun has already led his people to Laizhou. After arriving in Laizhou, he will organize a huge fleet to take away all the money that Yun Chu has stored in Dahang City.

Because Yun Chu had made it very clear in his memorial to the emperor that it was because of such a large sum of money that he had to fight with the British Duke and stay in Dahang City.

Therefore, for him, this money is a huge trouble, and he needs to get rid of it as soon as possible in order to move forward lightly.

As soon as Li Zhi left the hall, the giant bear came running over and put his round ears on Li Zhi's hand.

Holding the bear's ears in his hand, Li Zhi was very satisfied with the figure of this bear. This was probably the only giant bear that could make its skin tremble like water ripples when running.

Just when Li Zhi was satisfied with the bear's fat figure, he was also very satisfied with his current state.

The fat on his belly is long gone now, and even the old dizziness that he hated so much in the past has not occurred for a long time.

After asking the old god to take his pulse, he received a comment that "the five internal organs are in harmony", which made Li Zhi inexplicably happy.

Even when I asked an old god to diagnose my pulse when I was a teenager, I never received such a comment.

Therefore, while taking the giant bear in the bamboo forest to find young bamboo for the giant bear to eat, Li Zhi also assisted with some winter bamboo shoots brought as tribute from Sichuan.

In a good mood today, Li Zhi gave the giant bear an extra winter bamboo shoot.

Standing in the warm winter sunshine, listening to the sound of the giant bear gnawing bamboo shoots, Li Zhi felt that he should write some poetry to record today's good day.

When I am in a good mood, I feel very comfortable when writing poems. I can write an imperial poem in just a short time.

Duan lived in Linyukou, and was a gold merchant in the first year. The phoenix palace brings out the clear autumn colors, and the dragon palace brings in the evening coolness. The pure mountain air in the wild is condensed, and the forest is sparse and the wind is long. The orchid loses half of its shadow, and the rock osmanthus is fragrant.

The lotus cover is full of withered green, and the round flowers and chrysanthemums are scattered yellow. The whips are swung to fight for the lightning, and the flying feathers are chaotic with the starlight.

The willow sky is broken through the stone, and the string is empty and the moon is stretched on the side. The cowardly ape crows and falls, and the startled geese break off their branches.

The slanted wheel lowers the sunset scenery, returning to the village of Yongtong.

I just wrote the title "December 20th" at the top of this poem. When I lowered my head, I found that there were some things that should not appear in my poem, such as rock osmanthus, lotus cover, and yellow chrysanthemum, which did not match the title.

So Li Zhi immediately painted out the name "December 20th" and replaced it with "September 9th", and then nodded with satisfaction.

He handed the poem in his hand to the palace attendant and said, "Give it to the queen for appreciation."

"My father must have written this poem very well." Li Hong knelt on a chair and came to his mother's side to watch his father's imperial poem.

Wu Mei read the poem once and said: "This poem is a rare masterpiece by Your Majesty. If the name of the poem is not changed, it will be perfect."

Li Hong said seriously on the side: "My child has been copying my father's calligraphy for more than a year. How about letting my child copy this poem with his own hands, and then send it to the Secretary's Prison, and let the Secretary Cheng enter it into the "Daily Notes"?"

Wu Mei looked at her son's black and white eyes, and for a moment she couldn't tell whether her son was innocent or scheming.

However, when she saw that her son was close to her, she also noticed his feet. In order to prevent her feet from touching her mother's belly, she knelt on the chair. It was very rare to notice such details. A child of his age would never be able to do such a subtle thing unless he really admired his parents.

Seeing her son spreading out a piece of paper and kneeling on a chair to copy his father's imperial poems, Wu Mei whispered: "I heard that you like growing vegetables recently?"

Li Hong replied casually while copying: "The child is playful, please don't blame the mother."

Wu Mei said: "Why do you want to grow vegetables?"

Li Hong said while copying: "For the sake of being pro-peasant."

"As a prince, it is a good thing to be close to farmers, but you should not indulge in it."

"Children don't know how to dwell on riddles. This green onion is a good thing that my prince, the Sixth Prince, found after traveling all over the world.

If the children fool around at will, they will not be able to bear the hard work they have put in. "

Wu Mei nodded and said: "That's true. As a prince, every move you make will attract people's attention. Either don't do it. Once you do something, you must do it well."

Li Hong smiled and said, "That's what mother said."

Wu Mei picked up the imperial poem copied by Li Hong and compared it with Li Zhi's original text, and found that it was word for word.

In view of this, Wu Mei now believes that his son's closeness to her and compliments to his father are all from the heart and not intentional.

Because, as long as there is a ghost in the heart, it is impossible to still answer fluently with the mother while copying the poems.

Chapter 2, I continue