However, at this moment, these aristocratic families have no time to think about this.
The auction for the order in which the escort troops will be dispatched has begun!
It’s still the same teahouse on Zhuque Street.
Still a familiar venue.
Only the host changed from Li Chang, the general manager of the Jin Palace, to Li Xiaogong, the prince of Hejian County, and the auction items changed from liquor to a 6,000-strong escort team.
At the time of the auction, a group of Wuhou had quietly set up a dragnet within a hundred steps of the entire teahouse.
At the same time, at the outermost edge, there are a group of young men in green clothes, all servants of various aristocratic families.
They are all watching closely. As long as there are sneaky people approaching, especially those barbarian hozens with big beards, blue eyes, yellow hair, or strange smells all over their bodies, they will directly attack them.
Tow away.
Anyway, this is the biggest partnership event between the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty and a number of aristocratic families in the Tang Dynasty. Those barbarian hozens must not be allowed to come in and interfere with it!
And in the teahouse.
The atmosphere was solemn.
After Li Xiaogong walked onto the auction stage, explained all the rules, and knocked down the small hammer in his hand.
The entire auction floor suddenly became lively.
Among them, the loudest ones were the Five and Six families, as well as the Hedong family, the Jiangnan family, and the Luoyang family. Not only were these families rich, they also had at least the children of princes or third-rank officials in their families!
As for the remaining families, they were all small families, and the aristocratic families that did not have noble children in the court could only sit aside quietly. After hearing those rules, they no longer even thought about bidding.
In addition, those who are still bidding are a number of noble families, such as the family behind Cao Guogong Li Ji, Pingbei ancestor Shangfang Xu family, a low-key family.
There are thousands of servants in the house, and thousands of bells are accumulated!
Li Ji was not only the Duke of the Tang Dynasty, but also the commander of the escort team. The Xu family naturally had an auction privilege.
There are also Cheng Zhijie's family, Jeju Dong'afang family; Qinghe Fang family where Fang Xuanling lives; Du Ruhui's Jingzhao Du family...
At this moment, these aristocratic families finally had a new understanding of the privileges of the nobles and officials of the Tang Dynasty.
However, this time we are only auctioning the order of dispatching the escort troops in the spring of next year. Five companies will be dispatched first.
Then, the order of the five houses will be auctioned in sequence.
The Cui family of Qinghe directly occupied one of the places; the Li family of Longxi had the addition of noble descendants such as Dai Guogong Li Jing and Danyang County Duke Li Keshi, and occupied one of the places; the rest were the Zheng family of Xingyang and the Zhao family
The Li family in the county also each occupied a quota.
The last spot.
As for the Wang family in Qixian County, although the Taiyuan Wang family branch was wiped out by the King of Jin, and the strength of the entire Wang family was greatly reduced, the Wang family in Qixian County separated their relationship with the Wang family in Taiyuan in time and escaped the disaster.
A skinny camel is bigger than a horse.
The Wang family in Qixian County directly gave up half of their family property, and under the shocked eyes of all the aristocratic families, they directly fought for the next spot.
Seeing all the aristocratic families around them, they were speechless.
The Wang family in Qixian County is crazy!
Five places were selected, and the remaining five places did not compete again.
Anyway, even if we can't give them these five families next year, each family can capture three cities.
The year after next, we will be the first to attack these three families!
All the aristocratic families watching this auction were red-eyed.
Li Shimin, Li Xiaogong and others were also excited.
Just these five companies provided Datang with at least fifty more iron ores, more than half a million kilograms of pig iron, twenty coal mines, thirty thousand hectares of fertile land, and one hundred thousand bolts of cloth...
Anyway, add it up bit by bit.
Datang’s net profit is at least tens of millions!
Looking at the account book that Li Xiaogong brought up, Li Shimin couldn't close his mouth.
"Unexpectedly, the Thunder Army has only been established for less than two months, and it has already earned tens of millions of dollars for Datang! And those aristocratic families can actually produce half a million kilograms of pig iron!"
"Your Majesty, as long as the Thunder Army can fight well next year, it will make even more money next year!"
Li Xiaogong said with a chuckle.
"Hahaha……"
Li Shimin was immediately overjoyed.
"Your Majesty, this money is not enough to build three giant steel ships!"
On the side, Fang Xuanling whispered.
"..."
Suddenly, Li Shimin's face froze.
"The imperial court is still too poor!"
"Yes, Your Majesty, the Tang Dynasty is still too poor. Especially the steel of the Tang Dynasty. If it is used as required by the King of Jin, I would like to lead troops to go to Goguryeo to plunder it!"
Cheng Zhijie said with a worried look.
"snort!"
Li Shimin, Li Xiaogong and others all glared at Cheng Zhijie.
"Originally, the Tang Dynasty allowed those aristocratic families to privately conquer the surrounding vassal states, but those vassal states were already full of dissatisfaction. Every day, monkeys from the vassal state came to me to write memorials and protest against me.
If you, a black man like you, lead troops to plunder Goguryeo again, the vassal states around the king may unite their troops and start a war against me, the Tang Dynasty!"
Li Shimin said angrily.
"Your Majesty, they are just a group of barbarian hozens. A few years ago, they were no match for us. Now, those aristocratic families have begun to actively exert their efforts, and those hozens are no match for us in the Tang Dynasty.
Even if they come, as long as we give Old Cheng an army of 100,000, we can capture them all and help me build roads and mines in the Tang Dynasty!"
Cheng Zhijie was still full of excitement.
"You bastard, if we fight together, thousands of people in the border areas of the Tang Dynasty will suffer again!" Li Shimin angrily scolded.
"Wait a few more years until Tubo is completely in civil strife caused by caravans, small countries such as Linyi are included in the territory of our Tang Dynasty, and small countries such as Tuyuhun, Goguryeo, and Baekje are divided up and occupied by all the powerful families of our Datang Dynasty.
The small foreign countries surrounding our Tang Dynasty are all meat on my Tang Dynasty’s eucalyptus board!”
On the side, Changsun Wuji was also making secret guesses.
Although Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Wei Zheng and others did not speak, they all nodded subconsciously.
Obviously, they all had the same view on the vassal states surrounding the Tang Dynasty.
Otherwise, we wouldn't all agree that those aristocratic families would go crazy to fight overseas.
"Xiao Gong, arrange for people to receive the pig iron and iron blocks auctioned by these aristocratic families as soon as possible, and hand them over to the Shaofu Supervisor. He will be the supervisor. After refining the refined steel and manufacturing enough muskets and bombs, the rest will be used to build steel ships!
"
Li Shimin ordered to Li Xiaogong.
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Li Xiaogong responded.
Then, Li Shimin looked at Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling on the side again.
"Auxiliary machine, Xuanling, the sweet potatoes, potatoes and corns in your house are almost ready to be harvested!"
Hearing this, Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and others quickly bowed to Li Shimin.
"Your Majesty is wise, the sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn seedlings have begun to wither and turn yellow. Wait a few more days and the harvest will be complete!"
"Although the yield of these three items is high, they are still relatively rare in the Tang Dynasty. We should try to eat as little of these items as possible, keep them as seeds, and continue to plant them!"
Li Shimin said slowly.
"Your Majesty, don't worry, I will definitely keep an eye on those evil creatures like this kind of magical thing, and we will never let them destroy it at will!"
Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji said solemnly.
"Um!"
Li Shimin nodded slightly.
at the same time.
In Chang'an City, the heads of the aristocratic families who had not auctioned off next year's escort team focused their attention on Lijiazhuang again.
There, there are 1,400 kilograms of potatoes, more than 10,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes, and more than 10,000 kilograms of corn.
They haven't been able to compete for the vassal city next year. With so many kilograms of rare items, they can definitely compete for every kilogram!