Chapter 816 Lose his words and destroy his history
After Liu Zongxin went out, Li Yuanjing sent someone to call the two deputy commanders of the guards in the palace.
Subsequently, one of them was appointed as the captain of Pyongyang City, temporarily assuming the post of Liu Zongxin.
During this period, no mutiny or resistance occurred, but Li Xuan, Cheng Chusi and others were slightly disappointed.
After everything was arranged, Li Yuan, Li Chengqian and others were once again left in the hall, and Li Yuanjing smiled.
"It's the child's incompetence that makes Aye laugh!"
"I didn't expect you to live in such poverty in Goguryeo!"
Li Yuan couldn't help but sigh slightly.
Li Xuan: "..."
The family lives in a luxurious palace covering hundreds of acres, and is served by dozens of beautiful prostitutes every day. Is this called poverty?
However, thinking that this matter seemed to have something to do with him no matter what, Li Xuan couldn't help but ask: "Yuan Jing, how many people are under your rule now?"
"Back to Brother Three Princes, Pyongyang City and the four surrounding cities now have a total population of 350,000!"
Li Yuanjing replied slowly.
"Three hundred and fifty thousand?"
Li Xuan pondered for a moment, "With a population of 350,000, the monthly taxes collected are only more than 40,000 yuan?"
"What about the property of the palace under your rule?"
"The palace's property?"
Li Yuanjing couldn't help but was stunned, and then slowly replied: "Back to Brother Three Kings, Yuanjing now has four iron mines, two pottery making workshops, four iron smelting workshops, a copper smelting workshop, a gilding workshop, and a gold smelting workshop.
Silverware workshop, two lacquer-making workshops, two textile workshops, and two shipbuilding workshops."
"With so many workshops, you can't make any money?"
Li Xuan couldn't help but look puzzled.
"Brother Three Kings, after the war two years ago, you took away all the ironware and valuables in these workshops, and not a single thing was left!" Li Yuanjing said with a helpless look.
Every time he recalled that time, Li Yuanjing was filled with regret. If he had known how helpless he would be today, he would have asked Li Xuan to take some items no matter what, even if he was shameless.
"I didn't bring it, it's not me!"
Li Xuan shook his head repeatedly.
Li Yuanjing was speechless.
"It's really not me!"
Li Xuan's face was full of sincerity, "I only like gold and iron. Apart from these two, the rest of the items were looted by Cheng Zhijie and Li Ji!"
Li Yuanjing looked stunned, then let out a long sigh.
"Well, I thought that you, the King of Pyongyang, were very poor, but I didn't expect that your family is so rich and you have so many workshops. You just need to expand these workshops and put them into operation, and then send people to various places in Goguryeo.
Are you afraid that you won't be able to make money if you go to sell it in the vassal state?"
Li Xuan looked relieved and said: "You have to know that the kings of the vassal states now are all from a group of aristocratic families. They are all rich. The money in their families is the money accumulated by their ancestors for hundreds of years.
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And now, when they are building various cities, they will definitely be short of everything. As long as you sell them, you will definitely make a lot of money."
"Can it really be so?"
Li Yuanjing said hesitantly.
"Why not?"
Li Xuan sneered, "Go and call Captain Shi Bohua from Yashan Harbor and ask him how many merchant ships come from the Tang Dynasty every day and what kind of items they transport? Then, send people to the surrounding areas.
Inquire about the city?
Two years ago, Li Ji, Cheng Zhijie and others plundered all the ironware and valuable objects in nearby cities.
At this time, the homes of the surrounding wealthy businessmen and powerful people must be lacking a large number of items, so you can just make them.
Moreover, if you feel that Goguryeo, Silla, and Baekje cannot afford those iron wares, you can sell them to caravans and let them buy them directly from Pyongyang City and then transport them to the Tang Dynasty!"
"Brother Three Princes, you have been fighting everywhere and have almost exhausted the iron weapons of Goguryeo, Japan, Tuyuhun, and Tubo. In addition, the aristocratic families of the Tang Dynasty have sold so much iron mines and pig iron to Your Majesty. The Tang Dynasty is now
Are you still short of pig iron?”
"Why is there no shortage?"
Li Xuan chuckled lightly and said: "As long as it is a good thing, the Tang Dynasty is in short supply! Your Majesty's enfeoffment move has brought out the private fields and hermit houses of the aristocratic families in the Tang Dynasty.
The common people of the Tang Dynasty would surely be able to save some money by cultivating their fields for a year or two with peace of mind, but iron tools are always scarce for them!"
"Moreover, even if you don't want to ship it to the Tang Dynasty, the Goguryeo people in your four cities and the Goguryeo people in the surrounding vassal states will still rush to buy it!
I don’t believe it. In just two years, the hozens in Goguryeo, Silla, and Baekje have all the iron tools in their homes?”
Hearing this, Li Yuanjing couldn't help but feel heartbroken again.
However, thinking that he could make a lot of money again, Li Yuanjing couldn't help but feel a little excited.
"Thank you, Brother Three Kings, for your advice!"
"There is no need for this. If you feel that you still have any difficulties, especially since you don't have many confidants who can do business, I can send some from the Chamber of Commerce, such as the four people outside the palace now. If you like them, I
Or you can make them available to you immediately."
"Thank you, Third Prince Brother. There are still some people in charge of things in Yudi's house!"
Li Yuanjing said quickly.
He didn't believe that Li Xuan would lend him someone so well.
Seeing this, Li Xuan felt resentful. Naturally, he was not so kind.
"By the way, Yuan Jing, do you want an enlightenment book?"
Suddenly, thinking of something, Li Xuan asked again.
"Book of Enlightenment?"
Li Yuanjing was stunned.
"Exactly!"
Li Xuan nodded slightly, "Now you have governed Pyongyang City for two years. Pyongyang City is connected with the four surrounding cities. How many Goguryeo hozens can speak our Tang Dynasty language and write our Tang Dynasty characters?"
"this……"
Hearing this, Li Yuanjing couldn't help but frown slightly.
"Brother Wang, I don't know much about this. But paper in Pyongyang City is more expensive than in the Tang Dynasty. Except for some wealthy businessmen and dignitaries, the rest of the Goguryeo Hozens simply don't have the money to learn literacy!"
"This is a great thing!"
Li Xuan couldn't help but smile, and under Li Yuanjing's confused look, he continued: "You can ask a master to give you some Koguryo hozens who have done merit for you and really want to be loyal to you, whether they are farmers, wealthy businessmen, or
The powerful and powerful, let them learn my Tang Dynasty characters and read my Tang Dynasty books.
The rest of the people have no chance to read my Tang Dynasty books, but only they can read them? How much grace is this? Those Koguryeo hozens who have no chance are even more envious? Aren't they more grateful to you, the King of Pyongyang?"
Li Xuan chuckled lightly and continued: "As for what classics those Goguryeo hozens read, it's not up to you to choose? Even you, the King of Pyongyang, can ask your subordinates to compile a classic, no matter how good it is.
All you need to do is compile the achievements of you, the King of Pyongyang, in governing Pyongyang City and the four surrounding cities, and let those Goguryeo hozens know how much kindness you, the King of Pyongyang, have to them!
In this way, if you recite it day and night, after one year or at most five years, these 300,000 Goryeo hozens will all know the achievements of you, the King of Pyongyang!
How high is your prestige as the King of Pyongyang?
Even some Goguryeo hozens who are dissatisfied with your punishment will gradually change their sense of you under the praises read by the Goguryeo scholars around you.
In this way, you, the King of Pyongyang, will be as stable as a mountain, and there will be fewer and fewer Goguryeo hozens who want to secretly resist you!"
Hearing this, Li Yuanjing's face was filled with joy and his whole body was shaking with excitement. He really needed the sincere support of those hozens from Goguryeo.
"Yuan Jing is very happy about the plans of the three brothers. I don't hide it from Aye and the three brothers. Even though Yuan Jing has governed Pyongyang City and the four surrounding cities for two years, Yuan Jing rarely goes out of the palace.
It's not that Yuan Jing doesn't like to patrol his own land, but Yuan Jing knows that although those Goguryeo hozens are respectful to Yuan Jing, the King of Pyongyang.
However, most of the time they are full of fear, all due to fear of the Tang Dynasty, and no one is truly loyal to Yuan Jing and treats Yuan Jing as the King of Pyongyang!"
“If only it were easier!”
Li Xuan chuckled lightly and said: "Yuan Jing, three people make a tiger! As long as you promote a group of Goguryeo scholars who are sincerely loyal to you and let them tell their fellow villagers about the achievements of you, the King of Pyongyang, these Goguryeo hozens will
, you will gradually be convinced.
Then, every year, you send people to take those Goguryeo scholars who are loyal to you to study in the Tang Dynasty, especially Chang'an City.
Let them see the power and prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, give them a sense of superiority, and let them know how weak their Goguryeo hozens are in front of the Tang Dynasty.
Finally, you can set up a historian to compile your own history of the King of Pyongyang starting from the year you became King of Pyongyang. Secretly, you can buy all the history books of Goguryeo from the homes of wealthy businessmen and powerful people in Goguryeo.
Let the city of Pyongyang contain only the classics of the Tang Dynasty that you brought from the Tang Dynasty, and your history book of the King of Pyongyang.
After this, twenty or fifty years later.
The people under your rule will only know the country of King Pyongyang and forget about the previous country of Goguryeo. They will only be able to speak the language of the Tang Dynasty and write the characters of the Tang Dynasty!"
"Xuanba's intention is to make the Goguryeo Hozen lose its language, destroy its history, and completely wipe out the roots of the Goguryeo Hozen?"
On the side, Li Yuan also reacted, his face full of joy.
"Exactly!" Li Xuan nodded.
"Great kindness!"
Li Yuan nodded heavily, "In this case, just Yuanjing as a country is still not enough!"
"Have you forgotten the kindness of those powerful families?" Li Xuan said with a faint smile.
"What does Xuanba mean?"
Li Yuan was a little confused.
"Yuan Jing's predicament is not unique to him!"
Li Xuan smiled softly and said: "I believe that those aristocratic families spent so much money to buy the cities, but the Goguryeo hozens in those cities did not really join them, so they were even more anxious.
In this way, as soon as the situation in Pyongyang City in Yuanjing improves, as long as the situation in Pyongyang City is spread a little bit, those aristocratic families will rush to follow!"
"Very good!"
Li Yuan thought about it and realized that it was really what Li Xuan said, then he looked at Li Yuanjing.
"Don't worry, Aye, I will summon a group of officials soon to discuss what the three brothers said!"
Li Yuanjing said quickly.
"Um!"
Li Yuan nodded slightly.
Immediately, Li Yuanjing ordered Li Cheng again to send people to summon the chief officials of Pyongyang City and the four surrounding cities.
Regarding what Li Yuanjing said, all the officials were full of joy.
Everyone agreed that a Datang School should be opened in Pyongyang!
Not only Li Yuanjing needs this school, but they, the officials who face those Goguryeo people, need it even more.
So, the next day.
Li Yuanjing found Li Xuan.
He wanted a thousand letters of enlightenment.
"Only a thousand volumes?"
After hearing the number, Li Xuan chuckled and said, "With a population of 300,000, only 1,000 volumes are too few. Yuan Jing, I will ask the caravan to bring you 10,000 alphabet enlightenment books the next time it comes. Five
A thousand volumes of numbers and arithmetic books, plus ten thousand volumes of the Four Books and Five Classics!
I believe that there should be someone in your house who can read and write the letters of enlightenment!"
"These books can be sold, but some should be kept as rewards to Goguryeo scholars!"
"Thank you, Brother Three Kings!"
Li Yuanjing thanked him again with surprise on his face.
"It doesn't matter, as long as there are any good things in your four cities in the future, especially wild Korean ginseng, just sell me more!" Li Xuan said.
"Brother Three Kings, don't worry. Yuan Jing will give the order now. As long as someone can give me a Korean ginseng that is more than a hundred years old, no matter who he is, he will be able to get a place in the school. I believe that within a few days, he will be able to give it to the Three Kings."
Brother found two hundred-year-old wild ginseng!"
Li Yuanjing said directly.
"good!"
Li Xuan nodded with relief.
Li Yuanjing really learned and applied it this time.
As for the 25,000 volumes of books, they are considered to be the books of the Chamber of Commerce.
And he is only a part of the Chamber of Commerce.
Therefore, what Li Yuanjing didn't know was that Li Shimin was actually paying for most of the 25,000 books.
In the next few days, Li Yuanjing began to send officials to inform all the wealthy businessmen and dignitaries of Goguryeo that Liu Zongxin, the captain of Pyongyang City, had acted recklessly, deceived his superiors and concealed his actions, and wantonly oppressed the wealthy businessmen and dignitaries, which was a heinous crime.
Therefore, he has imprisoned Liu Zongxin and will soon be taken to Chang'an City and handed over to the Tang Dynasty court for disposal.
The wealthy businessmen and dignitaries of Goguryeo were all as happy as during the Chinese New Year, and they were eager to beat gongs and drums to celebrate.
Then, I heard that Li Yuanjing sent someone to tell him that in order to prevent these wealthy businessmen and powerful people from being oppressed by officials again, the King of Pyongyang would soon build a Tang Academy in Pyongyang City.
As long as those who have made great contributions to the city of Pyongyang can send their children to the school to learn Tang language and read Tang classics.
In the future, if you succeed in your studies, you will be reused by the King of Pyongyang.
Regarding this, all the wealthy businessmen and dignitaries in Pyongyang were overjoyed.
Now, not only could they get rid of Liu Papi, but they finally had a chance to get close to the King of Pyongyang!
As for the construction of the Tang Academy, it was not necessary for Li Yuanjing to start preparations before wealthy businessmen and dignitaries already signed up.
They had a house in a good location, which could be used by the King of Pyongyang to build the Tang Academy.
As for the money for repairs, they also provided all the money. They only asked the King of Pyongyang to give their family a place in the Tang Academy.
Seeing this, the next official under Li Yuanjing took the opportunity to reveal that a nobleman liked Laoshan Ginseng.
So, it took less than two days.
Several Goguryeo dignitaries and wealthy businessmen brought hundreds of years old mountain ginseng to see Li Yuanjing!
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