Lu Qiuyu gently pulled Cui Yanyan's hand: "Your Highness confessed today that starting from the age of four, Li Xing will send his children to live on the island for two months every June, everything."
"Do you know the reason?" Cui Yanyan asked softly.
"My guess is, firstly, because Li Xing is the youngest, and the real reason may be that His Highness wants to teach in person." Lu Qiuyu's voice was very low, and she added at the end: "The Cui family of Qinghe accounts for 90% of the canned fish in Huating.
As for the share, my Lu family wants 20%."
"I want 40%." Cui Yanyan said directly.
"Then it's settled." Lu Qiuyu took Cui Yanyan's hand, and the two seemed to be very close and chatting privately. No one could have imagined that with just these few words of conversation, the two families would start to fight against Qinghe Cui.
The business war between the two families. The Lu family and the Boling Cui family have a close relationship. When they have common interests, the two women will also work closely together.
After entering Zhuangzi, the place is still the same as before, there is no difference.
However, forty miles south of Chang'an City, we suddenly arrived at this small island in the South China Sea.
Is this a miracle?
There are all kinds of legends in Chang'an City, but no one knows what the real image is. Not even the seven concubines of King Qin know.
But the Qin princesses believed that Li Lanshan and Wu Zhao must know.
Entering Zhuangzi, Li Yuanxing was sitting under the pavilion, and Qiuxiang and Yuanchun were waiting on him, reading various messages sent from Chang'an City.
After bowing and bowing, Cui Yanyan sat next to Li Yuanxing and said, "Your Highness, before I come back, they have sent out troops. Counting that I have been on the road for more than a month and almost two months, I have covered at least three thousand miles.
"
"Land is easy to occupy, but people's hearts are hard to occupy." Li Yuanxing replied calmly.
Cui Yanyan poured a cup of tea for Li Yuanxing and held it in front of Li Yuanxing with both hands. Li Yuanxing took the tea and asked, "Has Mo'er gone back to the house to rest?"
"Without His Highness's summons, he naturally cannot come here casually."
Cui Yanyan is not talking nonsense. This is a rule set by the Ministry of Rites. As the king of Qin and the first king of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuanxing's rules are almost the same as those in the imperial palace. There is nothing wrong with it. There is no tradition, even his own son cannot come here casually.
.Of course, these are just rules. Children can run away casually and that will be the case when they come over.
It's just that Cui Yanyan herself was a woman who received a strict aristocratic education since she was a child, and everything was done according to the rules.
Li Yuanxing put down his tea cup: "The canal on the Changying side employed two hundred thousand local slaves. One hundred thousand Nanyang slave workers, two hundred thousand Vietnamese slave workers, Japanese, Goguryeo, and Baekje people, almost seven or eight people in total.
There are 100,000 people, and it is expected that in the spring of next year, 2,000-ton boats will be able to enter the canal."
"That's a good thing. There's no need to take that long detour to the east and west of America."
Cui Yanyan replied softly.
"While the ship that's sending you to you hasn't left yet, send someone to give it a shout. It seems that each family will have to draw up regulations to expand their fiefdoms. The emperor seems to have this intention as well. But how to expand and how to manage it will always have to be done.
There is a rule. Tianying Pavilion will definitely have a meeting, but the emperor brother will decide the title."
Cui Yanyan is no longer the little girl she was five years ago.
She was surprised at such a big event, but she didn't jump up. After all, she was still a girl in her early twenties.
After giving a few explanations to her maid, the maid Ling Ye quickly ran outside the village.
Seeing Ling Ye running out, Li Yuanxing signaled Yuan Chun and Qiuxiang to retreat as well.
When there were only Li Yuanxing and Cui Yanyan in the pavilion, Li Yuanxing said: "Yanyan, you are too impatient. I know you want to make the fiefdom develop better. But have you ever thought about how many people are not there now?
How about Feng? Don’t talk about the far ones, let’s talk about the nearby ones. How do you think the families across the sea will react? You are allies!"
What Li Yuanxing was talking about was the territory of Spain and Portugal.
Cui Yanyan bit her lip and said nothing, but she already understood what Li Yuanxing meant.
"Moreover, you are developing too fast. When the Byzantine Empire was alerted, the Tang Dynasty had not yet made any development in other people's fiefdoms. Once the time comes when water and fire are incompatible, your Cui family is the biggest in the storm.
That tree!"
Even if the trees are beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy them!
Cui Yanyan is also well-educated. How could she not know this truth?
"Your Highness, Byzantium has nothing to fear!" Cui Yanyan said in her heart. She had battleships and a strong army in her hands. How could she be afraid?
Li Yuanxing had a different idea: "Yanyan, remember my words, even a little mouse will cause you harm. A little mouse will bite your clothes and eat the food in your granary. Think about it, if you
I’m about to go out, I’ve already changed my clothes, and suddenly I find a hole in my clothes that was bitten by a mouse, what will happen?”
"Then what should I do?" Cui Yanyan was not going to beat around the bush.
"Go talk to Li Changying and ask him to do everything possible to speed up the canal, and then take him and the Lu family to establish trade relations with the Byzantine Empire merchants. The nobles behind the Byzantine merchants must make money. The benefits are huge.
Several other companies will also accelerate the development of the fiefdom."
Cui Yanyan understood that it was to bring a group of people together to share the pressure.
At least the money earned by the Byzantine Empire, gold, was still gold after all.
When the Byzantine Empire was defeated, the gold still belonged to the Tang Dynasty.
At the end, Li Yuanxing said again: "When trade profits reached a new level, the Panama Canal became a key point, including river crossing fees, port discharge, etc. Perhaps many people would think that it was controlled by the Li family in Longxi.
.When the time comes, whether you and Changying will quarrel, fight, or something else, I believe your mother-in-law will have an idea."
Cui Yanyan was stunned.
Someone once said in Chang'an that the Tang Dynasty would come again in the Spring and Autumn Period.
No one dared to say this at the time, and Cui Yanyan heard it only by chance.
Isn't this the current situation? She and Li Changying cooperated because of their interests, and then opposed because of their interests. They may even join forces with many forces to ask the Li family in Longxi to come up with a fair and equitable canal use plan. Paying money can
, but the rules must be recognized by everyone.
"Yanyan, next June, Moore will be sent to the island. I won't see him today." Li Yuanxing's tone was so calm that no emotion could be heard.
Cui Yanyan wanted to say something else, but Qiuxiang had already returned, so Cui Yanyan suppressed the words in her heart.
"Your Highness, the battle report has just been compiled, the battle report on Breton Island and the battle reports on surrounding islands."
"Tell me about it!" Li Yuanxing became interested.
Cui Yanyan was also interested in listening, because Buledian Island was considered her neighbor. When dealing with the Byzantine Empire in the future, Li Chengqian would definitely be one of the main forces.
"The first battle started not with King Cheng Qianying, but with Princess Liyuan."
"Continue!" Li Yuanxing pushed lightly on his back and sat up straight.
"Princess Liyuan borrowed two soldiers from her family, one was the Khitan prince, and the other was the Tuli Khan. Then they divided the troops into two groups, one by sea, and the other by land, and conquered several tribes in the Western Turks.
Fall behind and head further west. Although they don't know the specific process, they conquered a very powerful nation. Their cavalry combat power is better than the elite of Tuli Khan!"
Li Yuanxing came up with a word in his mind.
"Cossack Cavalry!"
"Yes, they call themselves the Cossacks. Later, most of the whole family followed the Li family to the northwest and arrived at a place named Riga Port by His Highness. Because Riga has the same sound as the Li family's name, a port was built there across the sea.
You can see Li Fen's fiefdom." Qiuxiang read the battle report.
Li Yuanxing nodded and calculated the time. One year was really hard work.
The cost will definitely be huge.
But if you can conquer the Cossack cavalry, the deal is worth it.
Qiuxiang continued to read: "The Li family's fleet was scheduled to dock in Morocco. After adding supplies, it was natural to go to the fiefdom to have a look. Then after joining the large cavalry force, they actually transported three thousand cavalry to Bulie.
On Ding Island, there were three thousand cavalry, one thousand from each of the three tribes, and with the cooperation of infantry, we captured three cities in one day. After that, the battle started in Bristol on the west of the island."
Not surprisingly, Li Yuanxing had already thought about the deal between the Li family and the Cossack clan.
It's nothing more than a complete set of equipment on horseback, plus food wealth and other things.
In this era, the Cossack cavalry were still nomadic, and their number was not too large. The Li family had been doing business in the Western Regions for many years, so they naturally had some skills.
"Your Highness, there is one more thing."
"speak!"
"There are now more than ten feudal lords who have paid high prices to hire the cavalry from Princess Liyuan. Princess Liyuan now owns 100,000 war horses. How they got it? The Imperial Security Department did not deliberately investigate. According to General Qin
I mean, this is a private matter for each family, and as long as the imperial military horse farm is not used, even if there are millions of horses, it doesn't matter."
Li Yuanxing nodded, and that was what he thought.
"Your Highness, the number of stallions in America has exceeded 4,000. It is estimated that within five years, the number of American war horses will reach more than 100,000."
When Qiuxiang reported, her face was full of excitement. After all, Datang had won.
The news that surprised Li Yuanxing the most today was that the Western Turks were pacified and the entire clan attached themselves to the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty sent a garrison governor. A small half of the Western Turk nobles moved to the Central Plains, and a smaller half entered Lanzhou City. Less than 30% remained.
On the original land of the Western Turks.
The war started, and Li Yuanxing still didn't show much expression, neither excited nor nervous.
Power, conquest, etc... are not what Li Yuanxing is pursuing.
A wild dog with food in its mouth meets a tiger. The wild dog is always worried that the food in its mouth will be snatched away. Unfortunately, the tiger does not care about the food at all.
Li Yuanxing doesn’t want to comment on what the family’s vision is?
If you were to look at yourself in the past, you wouldn't be any better than the aristocratic family, but people will make progress.
Li Yuanxing continued to listen to information from Chang'an, Nanyang, America, and Europe, just to understand, and only to understand.