Then, Li Zhiyun asked him about the money spent on building warships and the water routes currently opened by the Chinese.
Some Zhang Zhenzhou could answer, and some he couldn't. After all, he was a general, not a shipbuilder.
Li Zhiyun stood up, walked around for a moment, and looked at Zhang Zhenzhou.
"Zhang Qing, I would like to appoint you as the governor of Yangzhou to entrust you with important tasks."
Zhang Zhenzhou stood up and bowed, "I am willing to serve His Highness."
Li Zhiyun stepped forward, helped him up, and said: "After you go to Yangzhou, you will do two things for me. First, expand the original ferry and shipyard in Yangzhou. Second, recruit craftsmen who are proficient in shipbuilding and have deep knowledge of shipbuilding."
Water-based mengshi."
"Your Highness wants to conquer overseas?" Zhang Zhenzhou asked.
"No." Li Zhiyun said with a smile: "When all nations come to court one day, I want the goods of the Tang Dynasty to be spread at home and abroad to show the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty!"
Haha, who doesn’t know how to deal with capitalism?
Sell your product and I get the raw materials.
Wherever the route goes, that's my sphere of influence.
Not convinced?
That's great, we are in need of slaves!
The primitive capital accumulation in the West in later generations is the history of blood and tears of the Kunlun slaves.
Zhang Zhenzhou secretly muttered to himself how ambitious His Highness the King of Chu was.
He hesitated and said: "Your Highness, this fund..."
Li Zhiyun smiled and held his hand, "The imperial court will take some, and the king will send someone to give it to you secretly."
Hearing this, Zhang Zhenzhou breathed a sigh of relief. He was worried that the King of Chu would ask him to allocate official resources to do this. Now the world is in ruins, and the situation in Yangzhou is probably not good either. He really can't do anything that harms the people.
Immediately afterwards, Li Zhiyun said: "I know that the local situation is not good, so you don't have to be anxious when doing things. You can take your time and don't harm the people. In addition, before these things, there is another thing. After you take office in Yangzhou, you must
Do it now.”
"What's the matter?"
"This time when you go to Yangzhou, I will ask someone to deliver a five-tooth warship from Luoyang to you. Remember, after arriving in Yangzhou, send someone to go to sea and go all the way east..."
When Li Zhiyun followed his second brother to conquer Luoyang, he saw several of them laid up in the shipyard.
After a while, Zhang Zhenzhou left the hall, his mind buzzing.
King Chu, how outrageous.
Going all the way east, will there really be another world?
Also, do those kinds of things that King Chu asked him to find really exist?
With such doubts, Zhang Zhenzhou left.
Inside the palace.
Li Zhiyun told Li Zhen: "Send a special person to Yangzhou to help Zhang Zhenzhou, and transfer funds separately and send them directly there."
"Yes." After a pause, Li Zhen said hesitantly: "Your Highness, is it really profitable to go to sea? I just heard what Commander Zhang said that building warships costs a lot. What's more, what Your Highness wants is not the Ryukyu Japanese country.
Is it really possible to find a place like that?"
Li Zhiyun smiled and patted him on the shoulder.
"Azhen, if this happens, you will also be a witness to history."
How could it not be!
As long as those few crops are found, the Tang Dynasty will become more powerful and there will be more and more people in the Tang Dynasty!
If it weren't for the current domestic situation, Li Zhiyun would have really wanted to build warships on a large scale and then send them out to sea to find the lost continent.
Unfortunately, he can't.
Not only can't it be done, but it has to be endured slowly.
The deadline for the task he gave to Zhang Zhenzhou can be seen as five or even seven years.
After all, what he wants to do now is not to go to sea.
There is a great threat from the Turks in the north, and there are many small countries in the western region.
First, he had to win these places, and then consider other things. He still understood the principle of biting off more than he could chew.
However, now he can ask Zhang Zhenzhou to send people to Yangzhou to explore the sea first. After the Turks are pacified and the country is stable, they may be able to go to sea at that time.
After Li Zhen left, Li Zhiyun thought for a while and appointed Zhao Cihao as the governor of Yangzhou and asked him to go to Yangzhou to cooperate with Zhang Zhenzhou.
In this way, together with Fuyi's people, one in the dark and one in the dark, we can completely control the affairs of Yangzhou.
He secretly told himself that he couldn't rush now.
The top priority is to wipe out the rebels and defeat the Turks first, and then decide whether to advance westward or expand the sea.
Anyway, there is no point in rushing now. The vitality of Yangzhou and other places has not yet recovered, and people's livelihood is in decline, so it is not suitable to carry out large-scale construction projects.
In his opinion, it would be a long-term project for Zhang Zhenzhou to expand the ferry and shipyard.
"No matter how many things there are, let's bury one son first and wait until the conditions are ripe in the future before talking about anything else."
Thinking of this, Li Zhiyun started to wonder, should he start a shipping company in the future?
Then, he shook his head and smiled bitterly.
It’s too ambitious, so let’s settle down and do the things in front of us first.
The next day, Tang Jian, Minister of Civil Affairs, reported the autumn harvest results to Li Zhiyun.
Guanzhong and Bashu have unsurprisingly good harvests. The harvests in Hedong and Hebei Provinces are barely enough for the people to eat. The harvests in Henan Province are a bit more, which is good news. In addition, Huainan Road, Anzhou Road, and Shannan Road
, the harvest has increased compared with previous years.
After careful consideration, Li Zhiyun ordered that all the harvested grain be sealed in the warehouse.
It is now the sixth year of Wude, and he has to start storing grain.
Because, he vaguely remembered that after the ninth year of Takeori, natural disasters of varying degrees occurred all over the world.
For several years!
A dry granary can store millet for nine years and rice for five years.
Start stocking up now so that when the time comes to face a disaster, you can use it for disaster relief.
There are many large warehouses in the pass, such as Yongfeng warehouse, Changping warehouse, Guangtong warehouse, Taicang, etc. If they can be filled, they should be able to survive the disaster smoothly.
After discussing with the prime ministers, Li Zhiyun sent people to start storing grain.
Regarding future disasters, Li Zhiyun did not mention a word to Yang Gongren and others because it was meaningless.
Grain is collected and stored.
This kind of system already exists and there is no need to think too much about it.
Yang Gongren and others are more speculating that His Highness the King of Chu is collecting grain to deal with the Turks in the future.
Therefore, when Yang Gongren and others praised Li Zhiyun for his foresight, Li Zhiyun was confused for a moment.
He thought Pei Ju and the others would say that they were planning for a rainy day.
After figuring out the matter, Li Zhiyun felt dumbfounded and felt a little regretful. If there were no such disasters in the future, these grains could be used as military supplies to launch wars and beat Turkic dogs to death.
However, who said that to obtain food and military resources, we must take it from the heads of the people?
If anyone in the world has the most food, it must be the aristocratic family that occupies the most land!
Last time Dou Jing was defeated, the food Lao Li stole from the Dou family gave Li Zhiyun the confidence to launch a war to annihilate Lin Shihong.
If we can plan to get a few more, we should be able to fully support whether it is conquering the Turks or providing disaster relief.
Don't rush, take your time.
On this day, Li Zhiyun discussed matters with the prime ministers in the political hall.
"The millet has been harvested, and I have decided to use the refugees to open up wasteland and plant it in the local area."
The world is in chaos, and there are many refugees, and they are moving around. The court's solution to this problem is to let them reclaim wasteland and hand over part of the food they get after eating. In a few years, those wastelands will be completely handed over to the refugees. At that time,
The amount of grain turned in was returned to the court's regulations.
This is a good method.
Several prime ministers looked at each other in confusion.
Chen Shuda said: "Your Highness, this strategy is feasible, but it is almost winter, so we cannot plant millet. In this case, it is better to wait until next year to cultivate the land."
They felt that the King of Chu was naive and ignorant of farming.
How can anyone open up wasteland for planting in winter?
"I didn't say that I wanted to plant millet." Li Zhiyun grinned.