Li Kuan was summoned to the palace by Li Shimin.

Although Li Shimin did not agree with Changsun Wuji's suggestion yesterday, when he went to bed at night, he turned over and over again and felt that this suggestion did not seem completely unreasonable.

Kuan'er can mess around, and always comes up with something that ordinary people can't think of, and his ideas are very unconstrained.

I'm just asking for his opinion, it doesn't matter.

"Kuan'er, I heard that the prices of books and paper in Chang'an City have plummeted during this period, but the sales have more than doubled compared to previous years. I didn't expect that you would actually accomplish this."

Li Shimin still remembers when Li Kuan was talking to him about the monopoly of social resources by aristocratic families. At that time, Li Kuan felt that the first thing he could do was to lower the price of book paper and lower the threshold for reading so that more people could read. He didn't expect this.

It's almost done.

"This is possible because of the indispensable contribution of the craftsmen in the papermaking and printing workshops. If Your Majesty wants to reward me, I boldly ask Your Majesty to reward those craftsmen."

The status of craftsmen in the Tang Dynasty was higher than that in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but overall they still had little social status. Li Kuan wanted to take this opportunity to make some changes.

"Okay, but the opposition from the DPRK and China will probably be huge, so don't expect much reward." Li Shimin simply thought that Li Kuan was trying to win over the craftsmen in the workshop, so he agreed without hesitation.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Li Kuan did not expect to significantly improve the status of craftsmen at once, so he would do it step by step.

"I came to you today because I want to hear your opinion on something. Have you heard about the disaster in Dengzhou Prefecture?"

"No!"

Li Shimin:......

That’s not what the lines are like!

"Your Majesty, has something happened in Dengzhou?"

"It's nothing. It's just that a hurricane destroyed many houses some time ago, and some fishermen's fishing boats were also damaged. I'm thinking about whether there is any way to completely solve the problem in Tengzhou Prefecture, otherwise it wouldn't be such a disaster every year.

Even that disaster requires constant relief efforts from the Ministry of Revenue, but this is not an option."

Li Shimin took a deep breath and decided to go directly to the topic according to his own ideas.

"Dengzhou faces the sea, and the entire Bohai Bay is like its back garden. Shouldn't it be relatively wealthy?"

Li Kuan did not know much about the situation in many state capitals in the Tang Dynasty.

For example, Dengzhou, in his opinion, with its back to the sea, is like being next to a treasure house.

In this era, fishery resources have not been over-exploited and should be very abundant.

However, it is obvious that he had a deep misunderstanding of the fishing industry of this era.

"Should one be richer if it faces the sea? There are many state capitals in the Tang Dynasty facing the sea, but I haven't seen a few that are richer. Basically, those counties are all lower counties, and they need relief from the court every year.

.”

Li Shimin looked at Li Kuan in surprise, this guy couldn't be at this level, right?

Did I overestimate him?

"Ah? They can go fishing."

"Fishing? Haha! You can catch it, but catching fish for a day is often not enough for a family to eat. Occasionally, if you catch more than once, you have no way to store it and can only waste it. What's the point of fishing?"

Hearing what Li Shimin said, Li Kuan probably guessed that he might not know enough about Datang's fishing level.

Otherwise, life in these coastal states and counties would not be so miserable.

"Your Majesty, there is still a lot of potential for fishing!"

"Forget it, you go back first, I have other things to deal with."

Li Shimin was a little disappointed. There was a big gap between Li Kuan's performance today and what he expected.

After hearing this, Li Kuan had no choice but to prepare to leave the palace, but at this time, the system dinged again, "You have a new mission! Please make Dengzhou Mansion a place where everyone has food to eat and everyone has clothes to wear within one year."

Wearing a prosperous city]

Will it be completed within a year?

What a crappy mission, isn’t this system too confusing?

"What will happen if it can't be completed?" Li Kuan couldn't help but ask.

[If you cannot complete the task, you will not be able to redeem the task items on the system within one year after that, and no new tasks will be released]

Li Kuan was speechless for a while. This was like forcing a horse to eat grass.

However, Li Kuan has seen the cheating nature of the system and has become much more tolerant.

"Your Majesty, please hand over Dengzhou to our ministers, and I will return you a prosperous Dengzhou city in one year!"

Li Kuan, who had already turned around and walked to the entrance of the hall, suddenly made a gorgeous turn and said something that stunned Li Shimin.

"Kuan'er, after the disaster in Dengzhou, people now have a problem even filling their stomachs. Guanzhong Road has barely had good weather in the past two years, but there have been droughts in Shandong one after another, and the food that the court can support Dengzhou is very limited. You said

I will have a prosperous Dengzhou back in one year..."

Li Shimin's meaning was very clear. In his opinion, it was already a very rare thing to prevent the people of Dengzhou from going hungry.

"Your Majesty, the difference between human beings is sometimes worse than the difference between human beings and dogs. I would like to tell you that the current officials in Dengzhou Prefecture are all idlers and have no level at all. They enter Baoshan Mountain empty-handed.

Reply, I’m talking about people like them.”

Although Li Kuan has not yet fully figured out how to make Dengzhou prosperous within a year, he has some general ideas; as for Li Shimin's hope of solving the food problem of the people of Dengzhou, that is even less of a problem.

The Prince of Chu had his own shipbuilding workshop and took a fleet to Dengzhou. He had many ways to get food from the sea.

"Kuan'er, you take back what you said now. I can still pretend that you didn't say anything. Once you are appointed as the governor of Dengzhou and have full authority to take over the affairs of Dengzhou, if you do not do well, then I will let you go.

The imperial censors will not spare you."

Li Shimin stared at Li Kuan with a serious face. Although he hoped that someone could solve the problem in Dengzhou, he also did not want to see Li Kuan fall into a trap.

"As a gentleman says, a horse cannot be chased! If a humble minister dares to say this in front of His Majesty, there will naturally be a solution. Besides, the worst is that there are so many industries in the Chu Palace. If you buy grain and transport it there, you will not let Dengzhou appear.

Mass starvation."

No matter what concerns Li Shimin had, Li Kuan had to convince him to let him go to Dengzhou.

Otherwise, items cannot be redeemed in the system within a year, which would be too inconvenient.

Whether it is the wool workshop or the papermaking workshop in Liangzhou, some chemicals are regularly exchanged from the system. If the task cannot be completed...

Li Kuan can’t afford to lose!

"You actually said that, then I will really send you to Dengzhou!" Seeing Li Kuan's insistence, Li Shimin thought of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, and prepared to let Li Kuan give it a try.
Chapter completed!