Chapter 21 Li Shimin's decision

Although Chen Ying was very careful, building a manor and a dock fort were definitely two different concepts, not only did Yu Qing discover that Chen Ying was not as simple as building a grange as rumored, but also this kind of thing reached Li Yuan's ears.

Li Yuan was secretly surprised, Chen Ying was dissatisfied with the position of secretary and supervisor, he could understand Chen Ying's feelings, but as an emperor, Li Yuan would definitely not condone Chen Ying's behavior of picking on his son when he was unhappy.

The information reported by the guards in the prison was soon placed on Li Yuan's desk, and Li Yuan hurriedly glanced at it, but he was relieved of Chen Ying.

Some people may wonder that Chen Ying obviously built a dock fort, but when Li Yuan arrived, the news became "Chen Ying organized thousands of young people to build a ditch in the Qinglin east of the Bahe River and west of the Jieyu River." It is estimated that this ditch will be more than 30 miles long, irrigating 300 hectares of fertile land in the clear forest. ”

In fact, this cannot be blamed on the dereliction of duty of the guards of the left prison. At this time, the news of Chen Ying's construction of Chen's Dock Fort in Qinglin was only known to Chen Ying, Ge Tong and Xu Jingzong.

Digging ditches and transporting mud with two-thirds of the manpower and almost all of his family's resources, in the eyes of the guards of the left prison, Chen Ying poured his family resources into preparing to build a ditch.

Hearing this news, Li Yuan's original worries and suspicions about Chen Ying were eliminated at once. The reason is actually very simple, when the Qin State built a 300-mile Zhengguo Canal, it took ten years to complete, this Zhengguo Canal almost exhausted the national strength of the Qin State at that time, although the investment is huge, but the same benefits are also huge, due to the completion of the Zhengguo Canal, Guanzhong has more than 40,000 tilts (4 million acres of fertile land), only the annual grain production increase, as much as two or three million stones.

Although the length of the ditch built by Chen Ying at this time is only one-tenth of that of Zheng Guoqu, the money and grain invested in the early stage will definitely not be something that Chen Ying's family can afford, even if Hou Mo Chen's family can do it, but if this ditch wants to make a profit, it will take at least three or five years, and after three or five years, Datang's position in Guanzhong will be irreplaceable.

In Li Yuan's view, Chen Ying is using this way to express his selflessness and loyalty to Li Yuan, if a willing general or gate valve, he will definitely not waste precious resources on building a ditch in this environment.

If Chen Ying is against it, at this time, in the name of building a grange, he should build a secret military camp in the Qinglin to wait for the opportunity.

When the emperor looks at things, sometimes he will be simple and outrageous. For example, like Chen Ying, Chen Ying is a threat when he has money, food and soldiers, but once Chen Ying has no money and no food, even if he wants to rebel, no one will follow him as a thief.

Ling Jing, who happened to come to Chang'an, expressed to Li Yuan that Dou Jiande wanted to join forces with Li Tang through Pei Lian's door, prepare to advance east and west, and divide the Central Plains equally.

It was Ling Jing's suggestion that attracted Li Yuan's main attention. Li Yuan originally wanted to take advantage of the power of Hedong's victory to find Wang Shichong's bad luck, and when he was dozing, someone sent a pillow, Li Yuan almost laughed out loud.

Under such circumstances, the Tiance General's Mansion of Li Shimin, the king of Qin, also launched intense pre-war preparations. Although Li Yuan appointed Sima for Li Shimin, the adjutant who joined the army, Li Shimin still liked to discuss countermeasures with the subordinate officials of the Qin Palace.

Li Shimin directly bypassed Li Yuan and appointed Fang Xuanling as the head of the Marshal Mansion of the Shandong Provincial Marching Army.

The eldest grandson Wuji was appointed as the marshal of the Shandong Provincial Marching Army, and the secretary of the office joined the army.

Du Ruhui was appointed as the marshal of the Shandong Provincial Marching Army, and Cao participated in the military.

Hou Junji was appointed as the commander of the left road of the Marshal of the Shandong Road Marching Army.

Duan Zhixuan was appointed as the commander of the right road of the Marshal's Mansion of the Shandong Road Marching Army.

Li Jing was appointed as the commander of the army in the middle of the Fuzhong Road, the marshal of the march of Shandong Road.

Lei Yongji was appointed as the deputy head of the pro-guard army of the Marshal of the Shandong Provincial Marching Army.

The adjutant appointed by Li Shimin immediately took up his position and discussed the military situation in the Chengqian Hall of the Qin Palace, and everyone discussed how to send troops, how to raise food, what route to take, what way to cross the river, and so on.

Suddenly, Li Shimin asked, "Is Chen Ying's injury healed?" ”

Eldest Sun Wuji's face changed slightly when he heard this, although Eldest Sun Wuji couldn't produce direct evidence, his intuition told him that Chai Shao's death was absolutely inseparable from Chen Ying.

In fact, the eldest grandson Wuji's intuition was very accurate, if it weren't for Chen Ying, Chai Shao would definitely live well, and finally became one of the heroes of the Twenty-four Lingyan Pavilion.

The eldest grandson Wuji said worriedly: "I'm afraid it shouldn't be okay, he even resigned from the official position of secretary and supervisor, and I heard that his manor is now being built in the Qinglin east of the Bahe River." ”

Changshi Fang Xuanling said suspiciously: "What does the king mean ......"

Li Shimin said: "I want to take him ...... this Shandong Road march."

Without waiting for Li Shimin to speak, the eldest grandson Wuji got up and said: "Your Highness, he is the prince's person, the number one general in the East Palace, we can't win over such a person." ”

Li Shimin shook his head and said lightly: "Lonely, in fact, what you have to do is a gesture...... It doesn't matter if it succeeds or not, the important thing is that Lone wants to see if the prince's brother has this belly! ”

When Fang Xuanling heard this, he stroked his beard and smiled: "Your Highness is wise!" ”

Du Ruhui frowned and said, "Will it be self-defeating?" Chen Ying was already a general from the Sanpin Hussar at this time, and then he was the Pillar State. ”

Li Shimin said with a smile: "Keming, when he Chen Yingsheng has nothing to promote, you say, isn't it better?" ”

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With the more than 5,000 yuan sent by Li Daozhen, Chen Ying's pressure on money and food has been reduced a lot. Although there is still a big gap, there is room for manoeuvre.

What is more beneficial to Chen Ying is that he is a giant standing on the shoulders of historical giants, and with Chen Ying's knowledge, if he wants to make money, it is not so difficult.

For example, now, more than 3,000 acres of wild grass, in fact, only a small part of the burned, the rest is cut into the roof of the shack and the mud walls on all sides, by chance, Chen Ying picked up a weed, put it in his hand to play, suddenly, Chen Ying saw that the purchase price of rice paper was as high as 1,500 yuan for a knife of rice paper.

At this time, the rice paper was not a hundred, but seventy, that is, each piece of rice paper was as high as more than 20 yuan, and a piece of rice paper with a width of one foot and six inches and a length of three feet was actually as high as 20 yuan, and if it was converted into the price of later generations, it was almost 50 yuan a piece.

This price made Chen Ying frightened, Chen Ying in later generations to give gifts, to the calligraphy association to buy calligraphy works, had taken the opportunity to learn that the raw materials for the production of rice paper is mainly the green sandalwood tree in the mountainous area of southern Anhui, with part of the straw, after a long period of soaking, ash pickling, cooking, washing, bleaching, beating, fishing, glue, paste and other eighteen processes, more than 100 operation processes.

It looks very complicated, but in fact it is not difficult to manufacture.

At least the rest of the weeds can be used to make paper.

In this era, even if it is authentic rice paper, the production process is not fully mature, and it is still in the stage of production and research

To this end, Chen Ying specially selected a papermaking workshop and used papermaking technology to survive the current financial crisis.