The next day, Lin Xuan took a rare nap and didn't get up until daybreak.
After breakfast, Lin Xuan estimated that the morning change was almost over, so he went out to the palace.
After some briefing, Lin Xuan was taken to Ganlu Hall.
"My lord, please see your majesty."
Li Shimin waved his hand and said, "No courtesy."
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Lin Xuan took out a piece of silk cloth from his arms, held it in both hands, and said, "I am here to return the imperial edict to Your Majesty."
This imperial edict was given to him by Li Shimin to mobilize troops, and he would naturally have to return it when he returned.
Li Mu stepped forward and took the imperial edict from Lin Xuan.
"I heard that you were assassinated this time?" Li Shimin said.
"Your Majesty, thank you for your trouble. The matter has been resolved." Lin Xuan said.
Lin Xuan was not surprised at all that Li Shimin knew about his assassination.
How could Li Shimin not arrange spies to Lingnan?
"Is it solved? Is it really solved?" Li Shimin said pointedly.
Lin Xuan asked with some confusion: "Why did your Majesty say that?"
There was obviously something else in Li Shimin's words, but Lin Xuan couldn't guess it for a while.
"As far as I know, Feng Zhishen is still alive, how can we solve it?" Li Shimin said calmly.
Lin Xuan was stunned for a moment and quickly understood what Li Shimin meant.
The person who instigated Feng Zhidao behind the scenes was Feng Zhidao.
In this way, everything is explained.
However, Li Shimin didn't have any good intentions when he told him this.
What Li Shimin said was just to make him and the Feng family at odds.
The method of combining vertical and horizontal lines is very clever, and he is worthy of being an emperor through the ages.
"By the way, how was your discussion with Geng Guogong?" Li Shimin asked.
"We have already negotiated and will give Duke Geng 10% of the benefits." Lin Xuan said.
Li Shimin said a little strangely: "Yicheng? I'm very curious, how did you convince him."
No matter why Feng Ang agreed to cooperate, he must strive for more profits.
Li Shimin's bottom line was to give Feng Ang two levels of profit. Unexpectedly, Lin Xuan promised 10% of the profit, and Feng Ang agreed.
Lin Xuan told Li Shimin what he had said to convince Feng An.
After listening to this, Li Shimin's eyes flashed with a hint of haze, and he said, "Are you telling the truth? Can Guangzhou really rival Suzhou and Hangzhou?"
The prosperity of Suzhou and Hangzhou is not just talk, it represents wealth.
Feng An's control of Lingnan has already made him uneasy. If Guangzhou's prosperity can rival that of Suzhou and Hangzhou, it will undoubtedly be even more powerful.
Lin Xuan didn't notice Li Shimin's expression and said nonchalantly: "Not to mention being on par with Suzhou and Hangzhou, it is also possible to surpass them. But this is only possible, and it will take a very long time."
Until the Qing Dynasty, the prosperity of Jiangnan was one of the best among all cities.
How could the Tang Dynasty manage Guangzhou better than Suzhou and Hangzhou?
Unless Lin Xuan runs it himself, it's almost the same.
Even so, it takes a lot of time and is not something that can be accomplished overnight.
Li Shimin breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.
"I heard that you brought a girl from the Lu family with you when you came back?" Li Shimin said seemingly unintentionally.
"Speaking of this, Your Majesty, I have a secret to report to Your Majesty," Lin Xuan said.
Li Shimin pondered for a while and waved his hand: "You all can go down. No one is allowed to come in without my order."
After everyone retreated, Li Shimin said, "Tell me, what's the matter?"
"Your Majesty, the woman who came back with me is called Lu Yuxuan. She told me that the Lu family wants to surrender to Your Majesty," Lin Xuan said.
"What?"
Li Shimin stood up in shock, looked at Lin Xuan in shock, and asked: "Is everything you said true?"
Before Lin Xuan could answer, Li Shimin quickly shook his head and murmured: "Impossible. What aristocratic families care about most is power. How could they give up?"
"I also thought it was strange, but Lu Yu's declaration was very clear, saying that it was for the sake of family inheritance. Later, I thought about it carefully, and there are only two possibilities."
"Oh? Tell me your guess."
"I think the first possibility is that the Lu family surrendered deliberately. The other possibility is that they surrendered to His Majesty because they felt that the family would eventually come to an end, hoping to preserve the Lu family's inheritance."
Lin Xuan carefully considered it, and there were only two possibilities.
Although there was paper and engraving and printing in the Tang Dynasty, books were still very expensive and not within the reach of ordinary people.
In addition, although the imperial court had an imperial examination, it did not rely entirely on the imperial examination to select scholars, so the aristocratic families still had capital to compete with the imperial court.
Now Lin Xuan has improved papermaking and developed movable type printing. It is also a very advanced signature printing technology, which has improved the printing technology for hundreds of years.
Anyone with foresight can see that in ten or twenty years, the family will eventually come to an end.
The aristocratic family is unwilling to give up its power, and what they are doing now is just a desperate struggle.
Li Shimin nodded and said, "You are right."
"It's up to Your Majesty to judge for yourself what the Lu family has planned." Lin Xuan said.
Li Shimin sneered and said: "What's your idea? You'll know after testing it."
"Your Majesty, are you going to meet someone from the Lu family?" Lin Xuan asked.
Li Shimin shook his head and said: "It is very sensitive now, and the palace has the ears and eyes of many aristocratic families. Why do you think Lu Yuxuan followed you from Lingnan to Chang'an?"
"Does your Majesty know?" Lin Xuan asked curiously.
He never understood how Lu Yuxuan was so cautious when meeting him, but when he came back, he followed him all the way back with great fanfare.
"If the Lu family doesn't do this, I can still find an opportunity to meet the Lu family in private. But Lu Yuxuan's coming back with you all the way has aroused the suspicion of other families. If I don't want to alert the snake, I can't summon him alone in a short time.
People from the Lu family. The Lu family did this just because they don’t want to talk to me." Li Shimin sneered.
Lin Xuan became even more confused and asked: "Your Majesty, since the Lu family doesn't want to talk to you, why do you come to me to talk about this?"
"This is the cleverness of the Lu family. It's just a few words, nothing practical at all. If the aristocratic family has the upper hand, they are still the aristocratic family. If I have the upper hand, they will naturally be on my side. The idea is to have both sides.
." Li Shimin said.
Lin Xuan thought about it carefully and felt that what Li Shimin said made sense.
Although these are just Li Shimin's guesses, Li Shimin's guesses can best explain the context of the whole matter.
"Then how is Your Majesty going to test the Lu family?"
"Naifei!"
Li Shimin looked at Li Shimin with strange eyes.
Is this a test? Is it obviously to take advantage?
However, Qiwang of the Five Surnames once rejected Li Shimin's marriage proposal.
If the Lu family agrees to send a daughter to the palace as a concubine, it will definitely offend other families.
If the Lu family refuses, they will offend Li Shimin.
It has to be said that Li Shimin's plan was very good, and it directly frustrated the Lu family's plan to have both sides.
Li Shimin was a little embarrassed by Lin Xuan's look, and said angrily: "What's that look in your eyes? The concubine I'm talking about is a girl from Gao Ming's Nalu family."
"But has the candidate for the Crown Princess been decided?"
"Who said we should let a girl from the Lu family become the main concubine? It would be nice to give the Lu family a side concubine position."
Yes, Lin Xuan thought Li Shimin wanted old cows to eat young grass.
It seems that this melon cannot be eaten.
"Your Majesty, can the Lu family agree?"
It is said that after Li Shimin ascended the throne, he wanted to win over Qi Wang and women from the five surnames as concubines, but he was rejected.
Li Shimin retreated to the next best thing and asked for marriage for his son, but was still rejected.
If the Lu family's daughter is now asked to be Li Chengqian's concubine, can the Lu family agree?