In this way, the temperature was rising except for not taking action in the main hall.
As for the emperor, his heart was as calm as water, and his head was thinking about writing a preface to the new version of Taoist script.
Pan Weixi felt quieter. He felt that listening to their quarrels was more interesting than Zuixianju’s sketch, which was quite nice.
Five days later, as Liu An asked, let Li Mingde come to see him.
Li Mingde arrived, but did not enter the door. He only sent a bag, and then a handwritten letter, and left the main door.
There are some evidence of the crimes of illegal Persian merchants in the baggage.
The content of the letter is that I wish to protect the majesty of the Song Dynasty and to wait for Mr. Liu to call him at any time.
After reading these things, Liu An thought of Tietou's words again.
What happened more than 200 years ago was the mistake of some people or everyone's mistake. It seems inappropriate to knock down a boat of people with one blow.
Tietou arranged for people to investigate Li Mingde yet. After all, he was a person who lived in the Song Dynasty for twenty years and the investigation would take a long time.
Sitting behind the desk, Liu An thought about it and wrote a letter, and asked someone to send it to Fan Wei.
First impeach, and then deal with these illegal merchants. But we must protect the rules.
Then Tietou sent Li Mingde ten invitation letters. Ten Persian chambers of commerce could come to watch the ceremony in the New Year competition, and the other nine were given the option to Li Mingde.
One evening, Liu An was about to let the emperor stay before returning home.
Night banquet in the palace.
There are six dishes and one soup, and there are only two people, Emperor and Liu An.
The emperor first gave Liu An a page of paper. Liu An opened it and saw that it was the preface.
Preface to the book "Laozi".
What else should I say about this? It must be used. Not only can I change a word, but I also have to be carved out as it is. There is no way, who made this the emperor's pen?
The emperor took a sip of the soup and said slowly: "These days, there are very fierce quarrels in the court. Although my uncle can be calm, Brother You will come back tomorrow night. When will this pepper be as Brother You said, twenty-five ounces."
Liu An hung in the air with the chopsticks holding the vegetables, thinking about putting them down.
"Uncle, it is impossible for ten years, unless we can grow peppers ourselves, and the amount of peppers is not only enough to be used all over the world, but also enough to sell them to Liao, Goryeo, Liugu, Xizhou, Dali... In short, there is enough price to reduce, or an additional enclave."
The emperor did not understand the word "enclave?"
Liu An explained: "The origin of pepper has become the territory of the Song Dynasty. This is called an enclave. I heard that ten years ago, the country of Java rose up and defeated the Three Buddhas. The Three Buddhas King fled, and the capital was occupied by others. The Song Dynasty did not have the strength to help them. Even if it was to help, it would take several years to switch to an enclave."
"It will take several years to grow pepper in Qiongya or Guangnan East Road."
“So, ten years.”
After hearing this, the emperor nodded silently, Liu An was right.
What's more, the Song Dynasty would not help others fight, and its own enemies could not be dealt with.
Planting pepper becomes a best strategy.
The emperor suddenly thought of another point: "So, will the pepper plant be stolen?"
"this!"
Liu An is mute, and this question is really unanswered.
Think about it, no matter how poor the technology is, a mu of pepper can still be 100 kilograms. This is 800 jin, and this kind of pepper is not pepper, but silver.
This is quite troublesome.
The emperor smiled: "It's better to find a way to transport it back, but there is no result in the debate in the court."
Liu An said: "My nephew has a weird way, but this method may be taboo, so please decide."
"Speak and listen."
"A new chamber of commerce was established, and my nephew went to persuade the 150,000 imperial guards in Bianliang. Each of them invested in one conglomerate. They could afford two conglomerates. This was more than 100,000 conglomerates. Then persuade several important officials to invest money, so that there would be a million conglomerates. When the important officials invested money, their disciples would also invest."
"Continue." Although the emperor didn't quite understand what this meant.
Millions of stagnant money, for pepper, the treasury can be taken out without being nervous, and these are nothing.
Liu An said: "The court officials are not rich, and there are not many like Kou Gong. After Kou Gong married his daughter, I know that the family doesn't have much money now. Although Wang Shangshu is in a high position, there are many fellow tribes in the family who need relief. He also sponsors dozens of people in the clan to study, and he is poor."
"Yeah." The emperor knew that Wang Dan didn't have much money and had not bought a house in Bianliang until now, and he lived in a small courtyard given by his father-in-law's house.
Speaking of Wang Dan’s father-in-law, Zhao Changyan was not rich either, but he was lucky enough to buy a house in Bianliang City.
The emperor suddenly laughed: "Zhang Qixian is even poorer. I heard that his family reduced four female envoys and six servants last month. Because they could not pay their wages."
“He ate too much.”
Hahaha!
The emperor laughed.
Liu An also smiled and said, "Please bring them together to make money. I believe there will be a resolution in the court immediately. The reason is simple first, and the matter is not related. Who will work hard? Some officials are just doing more mistakes, doing less mistakes, and not doing less. That's why Xianggong Li will clean up the administration and investigate."
"Yeah. This matter is not prohibited."
What is a taboo? The emperor says yes, and the emperor says no, it is not.
The emperor asked again: "Why let the imperial guards pay?"
"Uncle, what should I do if I pay the money? The imperial guards are going to fight against the people who rob our peppers. They have money in this part. Whoever robs peppers is just robs their money? Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents."
The emperor nodded and shook his head slightly: "It's not good to compete with the people for profit."
"Uncle, I took people to the grassland to kill five thousand sheep. Is this considered cutting off the livelihood of herders on the grassland?"
"Five thousand, hahaha, I'm afraid it's going to make a living for 50 million."
Liu An was very serious: "This is the pepper industry. It is just tens of millions of chunks, which may affect pepper. But for the huge spice industry, it is a burning wooden house, poured with a bowl of water."
The emperor thought for a moment and said, "This is not your case in advance. If you convince the two of the three princes, you will do this according to your wishes."
"Yes, uncle, I will go to Mr. Lu's mansion in a while."
"Go now."
"yes."
Liu An stood up, wiped his mouth and bowed, and left.
Lu Meng's Mansion.
The Lu family was not from a poor family. Lu Mengzheng's father was the minister of the Later Zhou Dynasty, his father was a daily nephew, and his uncle also served as the chief of the palace.
The Lu family has two houses in Bianliang, one of which belongs to Lu Mengzheng's father and the other belongs to his uncle. But together, none of them exceeds five acres of land, which is not as good as Liu An's house.
Chapter completed!