Chapter 166 Chen Ying will not treat his cousin badly

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying curiously and asked, "You say, what else is the reason?" ”

"In the land of the Western Regions, since ancient times, the people have been fierce, debauched, and not bound by the king's law!" Chen Ying smiled slightly and said: "We, Datang, are newly incorporated into Xizhou Road, and all ethnic groups and tribes are difficult to adapt to the laws of Datang for a while. ”

Li Xiuning nodded. What Chen Ying said was deeply true, back then, the Qin State used the Shang Dynasty to change the law to become strong, and the Great Qin used the rule of law, and the people had already adapted to the strictness of the Qin Law, so they felt fine. However, the six countries of Kwantung did not think so, they had been scattered for hundreds of years, and they could not adapt to the constraints of Qin law at all, when millions of Qin troops were eyeing each other, they had grievances that could only be buried in their hearts, and in the long run, the grievances were backlogged like a mountain, until Chen Sheng and Wu Guang of Daze Township rebelled, and the six countries responded in groups.

Now this is the situation in the Western Regions, with Chen Ying, the capital protector, the Modao Army, and the Xiao Cavalry Army in the Western Regions for a day, all the ethnic groups and tribes in the Western Regions will not dare to move, but once Chen Ying is transferred back to Guanzhong, or the two elites of the Modao Army and the Xiao Cavalry Army are transferred back to Guanzhong, all the ethnic groups and tribes in the Western Regions will probably be like the Six Kingdoms of Kanto at the end of Qin, and the sparks will burn the plains!

Chen Ying continued: "I will now transfer all the tribes and tribes, all the young and strong, and take them to build roads, dredge ditches, build cities, and carry out various engineering construction, the purpose is to make them adapt to the constraints of the law!" ”

Whether it is paving roads and bridges, or dredging ditches, Chen Ying adopts military management, and military law and whips will teach them what can and cannot be done. Of course, the most important thing is that Chen Ying is not a gratuitous exploitation of all ethnic groups and tribes in the Western Regions, but a paid service. All ethnic groups and tribes in the Western Regions have received benefits, and the young and strong people who participate in the construction of the project infrastructure have been paid, and of course, money. After these young men had money, they always had to make clothes for their families, or buy some salt and various daily necessities, and as the roads were built farther and farther, the tables of the people of all ethnic groups and tribes in the Western Regions became richer, and their family wealth became richer.

The construction of roads stimulated the prosperity of commerce. The transportation of goods and prices from Chang'an to Central and Western Asia is naturally different from that of Chang'an, Guanzhong. is also a pound of tea, and an ordinary load of tea in Chang'an, Guanzhong, is at best three or five thousand yuan. Of course, the price of the best famous tea is naturally different, but it is scarce and expensive, as long as it is expensive tea, the yield must be extremely low.

However, when the tea is transported to Xizhou Road, the price has actually increased by five or six times, and it is impossible to buy tea foam without twenty or thirty times. There is also silk, and the price of a piece of silk in Chang'an has always ranged from about 500 wen or two guan, but in Xizhou Road this value has doubled to 10 guan. Moreover, the resources of the Western Regions are very rich, Chen Ying uses the steel, coal, and oil mined by Chen Ying, all of which are hard currency, and the oil refined by Chen Ying burns violently and the fire is high, and the soot produced when refining the oil is actually the best raw material for making ink. All kinds of valuable medicinal herbs and spices are simply endless.

Chen Ying's development of the Western Regions is actually a benefit to the whole people. Although the tribes and tribes of the Western Regions have paid for their labor, they have received corresponding rewards, and they can eat rice and white noodles that they had never even dared to think of before, as well as golden millet, and even drink tea. In the Western Regions, people's eating habits are very easy to get anorectal digestive system diseases, but tea has the effect of promoting digestion, especially salt, although there are salt mines in the Western Regions, but most of the salt is toxic salt, and the caravan is carrying its own salt, while Chen Ying takes the method of analysis and separation to obtain a large amount of salt, which can not only supply merchants along the way, but also export a large number of them.

The Western Regions are now the main building of Wanzhang from the ground, and gratifying progress has been made.

Li Xiuning casually looked at the newspaper in front of Chen Ying, as well as all kinds of information, and smiled: "You are suspicious now, right?" ”

Chen Ying smiled noncommittally and said, "It seems that there is nothing to hide from you!" ”

"It's not surprising!" Li Xiuning pointed to the intelligence file on Chen Ying's case and said: "More than two-thirds of your intelligence here comes from the Western Turks, and you deliberately look like you are clearing wasteland, building bridges and paving roads in the Western Regions, and doing nothing, just to tell the Western Turks that you don't plan to attack the Western Turks?" ”

"Wouldn't that be better?" Chen Yingdao: "Since the death of the Western Turkic Emperor Yehu Khan, the Western Turks have been divided into four, and now the four Khans are fighting for their heads and blood, and the dog's brains are all out, why don't I let them fight for a while?" If I show a half-hearted posture of going westward, they will definitely shake hands and make peace, and fight against the Tang Dynasty together, the lives of the soldiers are precious, and if they can, don't sacrifice if they can! ”

Li Xiuning frowned slightly and said, "Aren't you worried that there will be another heroic figure similar to the Turkic Tumen Khan in the Western Turks, and with the help of this infighting, he will unify the Western Turks and become a fierce rival of our Tang Dynasty?" ”

"Don't worry, if it's really that day, I'm looking forward to a duel with 400,000 Western Turks, and let the iron cavalry decide the ownership of this Western Regions!" Chen Yingdao: "The last thing we are afraid of in the Tang Dynasty now is to hold a national war, the Tang Dynasty has begun to return to the south, Li Jing will enter the main military department, as the left attendant of the Tang military department, it seems that Qu Tutong will soon abdicate to make way for Xian, General Li is also sharpening his sword, ready to lay the foundation for him to ascend to the military department, at this time, our Tang Dynasty can mobilize an army of more than 300,000 horses at any time, if the Western Turks are smart, they will immediately run all the way to the west, otherwise, they have no chance at all!" ”

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying and said, "Chen Lang, the secretary of the military department of the Tang Dynasty, you should do it!" ”

"I ......" Chen Ying smiled dumbly: "I'm too young, Li Jing is in the prime of life, he is more suitable!" ”

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying and said, "I'm not joking!" ”

"I'm not kidding!" Chen Yingdao: "What I want to do most is not to get promoted and make a fortune, but to stay with you for a long time!" ”

In fact, it turns out that there is a price to be paid for staying together.

What's more, Chen Ying also has six concubines such as Li Xiuning, Li Daozhen, Xu Erniang, etc., even if the rain and dew are wet, Chen Ying gradually feels a little powerless.

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Since Yang Rong married Wu Shi Tong, she is Wu Shi Tong's housekeeper mother-in-law, of course, Wu Shi Tong has no intention of taking care of business, and he puts all his energy on his career This is also the main reason.

Yang Rong, like her historical daughter Wu Zetian, met a husband who was willing to let go, so in this patriarchal society, she has the space and stage to display her talents.

After Yang Rong took charge of all the businesses of the Wu family, although the warrior Tong was like a boy who scattered wealth, he scattered wealth everywhere, but the money of the Wu family was not exhausted, but became more and more prosperous.

A quilt made of cotton appeared in Chang'an City, which made Yang Rong keenly feel the business opportunity. In this era, although down and duvet bedding is light and warm, the price is still high due to the problem of down production. For example, now, the duvet is different from the original price of 100 or 200 yuan, and now the duvet has been reduced to 80 or 50 yuan.

However, this price is also not acceptable to ordinary people. When the quilt was covered on Yang Rong's body, she slept beautifully and felt very comfortable.

Although down is easy, like fur, due to technical reasons, it is impossible to eradicate odors, and many people smoke them with a lot of spices, but it makes the duvet taste even more weird. However, quilts don't have this problem.

Yang Rong took the carriage that Chen Ying gave her early in the morning and went to Fuguiju. Fuguiju is said to be the property of the Marquis of Lantian. This is the industry of the famous Taiyuan Wang.

Seeing Yang Rong appear, the shopkeeper of Fuguiju hurriedly came out to meet him, and Yang Rong's elder brother Yang Gongren, the Duke of Guanguo, was promoted to Zhongshu Shizhong (formerly Nayan) in the sixth year of Wude, and Yang Rong also rose by the way. Liu Sicong, the shopkeeper of Fuguiju, asked people to bring tea and pastries. Yang Rong did not have a polite conversation with Liu Sicong, and got to the point at the beginning: "It is reported that Shopkeeper Liu brought six thousand catties of cotton from the Western Regions? ”

Shopkeeper Liu immediately said: "Six thousand two hundred catties!" ”

Yang Rong asked again: "How is the market?" ”

Shopkeeper Liu smiled bitterly: "The price is two hundred and fifty-three yuan per catty?" ”

Yang Rong silently calculated in her heart, if it is a thick quilt of ten catties, it is not two thousand five hundred and thirty yuan, plus transportation and labor costs, as long as it does not exceed the price of five pounds, it is estimated that most people can afford it.

"Not bad." Yang Rong smiled and said: "This is naturally rest assured, we will not cheat on the sale of the government, and then you only need to bring the cotton to the warehouse, weigh it into the warehouse, and it will be a lot." ”

Shopkeeper Liu shook his head and said: "Mrs. Wu, don't blame the old man for talking too much, there are some things that the old man wants to say, although Brother Ling has already served in the middle school, we are Taiyuan Wang...... Hehe. ”

He didn't say the rest of the words, but the meaning was very clear. Don't think that one of you can embezzle the business of the Taiyuan Wang family by adding a secretary to the Ministry of Works. There are no doors.

Yang Rong's eyebrows raised: "I'll give you three hundred wen per catty!" ”

Shopkeeper Liu said: "It's not about money! ”

"Five hundred wen per catty, no more, shopkeeper Liu, you can't be too greedy!" Yang Rong said: "We don't talk about anything else in the business field, just ask whether you do this business or not!" ”

Shopkeeper Liu shook his head and said, "Mrs. Wu, forgive me, this is really not a matter of money!" ”

"As long as I get out of this door, there is no room for unsalvage!" Yang Rong got up and walked to the door, turned to look at Shopkeeper Liu and said, "Or, you send a letter to your family and find someone who can call the shots?" ”

Shopkeeper Liu smiled bitterly: "There is really no way to accommodate this matter, please don't embarrass the old man!" ”

"Haha!" The smile on Yang Rong's face became thicker and thicker, and she strode towards the door.

Shopkeeper Liu thought for a while and said, "Mrs. Wu, if the house needs a quilt, the old man can call the shots and send three sets of Wu Mansion!" ”

"No need, let the Taiyuan Wang family find someone with weight to talk to me in the future!" Saying that, Yang Rong left without looking back.

Yang Rong is only sure of one thing, the cotton is produced in the Western Regions, and that is enough.

Chen Ying is her cousin, and she will definitely not treat this cousin badly!

PS: I got together with friends today and came back a little late. Wait for the meeting, today, no matter how late it is, don't write three watches, don't sleep!