Chen Ying hesitated for a long time and said in a low voice. "There's a saying I don't know if I should say it......

"You and I, when did you become so raw!" Li Yuan looked at Chen Ying and said with a smile.

"Then I'll just say it, if Your Majesty doesn't like it in your heart, you will be a minister talking nonsense."

When Chen Ying said this, Li Yuan frowned and woke up suddenly. Li Yuan had already realized that Chen Ying would definitely have nothing good to say next.

Sure enough, Chen Ying said angrily: "Your Majesty, you are not cultivating the Chi Road, you are the order of the minister, although 500,000 is a lot, it is far from enough to build such a Chi Road." Although the minister's family has accumulated some money, it is not even a dime a dozen compared to the cost of repairing Chi Dao. Even if the minister sells himself, he can't afford to repair this gallop ......"

Li Yuan glanced at Chen Ying, looked at Pei Lian who couldn't help but want to laugh out of the crowd beside him, Pei subconsciously closed his mouth. Li Yuan's face suddenly changed, and he shouted: "You have no jokes, how can you take it back once I have opened my golden mouth, and let me lose my trust in the world, can you afford this responsibility?" ”

Chen Ying pretended to be red-faced, bowed his head and remained silent.

Li Yuan enjoyed this feeling very much, Chen Ying was like a sharp sword, there was nothing to pacify the rebellion in the side of the enterprise, he defeated the Turks four times in a row, and quelled the rebellion in Hedong with his own strength, which made Li Yuan have to be cautious, he himself was not a generous person, watching Chen Ying suffocate, Li Yuan was very happy.

Li Yuan knew that even if the Hou Mo Chen clan poured out the strength of the whole clan, they might not be able to afford to cultivate such a galloping road. However, Li Yuan really didn't want to let go of Chen Ying for such a plain reason, Li Yuan took his hands, squinted at Chen Ying, and said in a very stiff tone: "I seem to remember, Xiuchi Dao but you volunteered and recommended yourself, what, do you want to break your word and get fat?" ”

"The minister doesn't dare, but the minister is afraid of living up to His Majesty's expectations."

Li Yuan's face softened slightly, and he said reluctantly: "In this case, for the sake of Ling Zu's face, I will talk to you." ”

Chen Ying couldn't smile bitterly, it seemed that he had lifted a stone to shoot himself in the foot this time. It's not that he doesn't want to build this Chi Road, but he just asked Li Yuan to agree with him to build a Qian Zhuang, use 500,000 yuan of start-up capital, first build the Qian Village, and then use the overdraft function of the Qian Zhuang to build a Datang Chi Road system.

Li Yuan held his hand and said: "Young people don't think that after a few battles, they will look down on everything and underestimate the heroes of the world. ”

Chen Ying nodded yes again and again, and Li Yuan told Chen Ying about his plan to cross the river to the west of the river secretly, and then told Chen Ying. "Although you are smart, your heart is really small. What you see is only the galloping road, but what I see is the world. Li Yuan paused, and then said with a smile: "Don't worry, this Chi Dao is just to make a show, I will allocate 50,000 people, even if you don't repair the Chi Dao, you can also repair the official road from Chang'an to Tongguan a little, as long as you can confuse Wang Shichong and stabilize Li Rail, you will be a great achievement." ”

When Chen Ying heard that Li Yuan really wanted to pretend, he was anxious. If you don't do it, whose money will I make? Of course, Chen Ying didn't think about filling his pockets, but he just used legal means to build a gallop road, and he could also earn 350,000 yuan. And no one can say anything. But if Li Yuan dispelled this idea, he would lose the most.

Chen Ying got up, and Li Yuan's eyes froze.

Chen Ying didn't look at Li Yuan's sharp gaze, walked to the desk on the inside of the hall, looked at the wine on the desk, poured a glass, and served it to Li Yuan.

Li Yuan stretched out his hand to take the wine glass, and raised his eyebrows: "How about it, you didn't think of this strategy, right?" ”

"Your Majesty is not as good as your majesty!"

Thousands of wears, only sycophants don't wear. Chen Ying sent it in time, and Li Yuan's eyebrows suddenly stretched.

Chen Ying thought for a while and said, "The minister wants a money bank. Use this galloping money to build a big bank! ”

As soon as Li Yuan heard this, he put down his wine glass and said expressionlessly: "You want to lend?" ”

Chen Ying shook his head and said: "Lending is only one of the functions of the bank, and the biggest role of the bank is to connect the world." ”

"Connecting the world?"

Li Yuan was puzzled, and Pei Lin smiled leisurely: "Huangkou Vertical, will you only be a mouthful?" ”

Li Yuan's eyes were about to squint together, and he asked word by word: "What is the convergence of the world?" ”

"To use the simplest analogy. In the future, Datang wants to unify the world, if our Datang garrisons 30,000 troops in Guangzhou, this is not much, right? ”

Li Yuan thought for a while, nodded and said, "The 30,000-strong army can barely deter Jiao Guangxiao Xiaobuchen. ”

"According to our Tang Dynasty's military system, a 30,000-strong army needs at least 20 Zhichong Mansions and 100 regiments, of which 20 are Yue cavalry regiments, 4,000 cavalry, and the rest are foot soldiers. Each horse consumes three stones and three buckets of grain, a year is thirty-nine stones and six buckets, the contract is 158,400 stones, each soldier has a solar eclipse of three liters, a lunar eclipse of nine buckets, a year down, it is ten stones and eight buckets, 30,000 soldiers are 324,000 stones, if you transport 500,000 stone of grain from Chang'an to Guangzhou, I am afraid that three or four stones of grain will not be able to transport a stone, you need to prepare at least two million stone of grain in Chang'an, maybe barely enough, in addition to food, there must be sauce, vegetables, salt, and uniforms, not counting weapons and armor, only material consumption, A soldier needs about 4,000 yuan, and a war horse needs 3,960 yuan, or about 150,000 yuan. ”

Pei Lian, who was on Chen Yingchong's side, arched his hand and said: "Pei Xiang has also been in charge of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, so he naturally knows how much 150,000 guan weighs, right?" ”

Pei Lin nodded.

Chen Ying continued: "If the army supply is handed over to the local government, regardless of whether the local government has the ability to bear the expenses of these 30,000 troops, it is a very big problem for the army to be out of the control of the imperial court!" ”

Chen Ying's words suddenly touched Li Yuan's heart, Li Yuan's national policy is to weaken the branches and strengthen the cadres, and the main force of the Tang Dynasty is actually 16 guards, each guard and an army, 12,500 people, adding up to 200,000 horses. Of course, at this time, most of the sixteen guards were actually missing.

When Chen Ying originally had thousands of soldiers and horses, Li Yuan was not worried. However, when Chen Ying's subordinates, the Lingwu Left Army, the Lingwu Right Army, and the Shuozhou Army were 50,000 or 60,000 horses, Li Yuan had to be afraid. At this time, the left and right armies of Lingwu were split by Li Yuan and incorporated into the Sixteen Wei Army in the form of the Yue Cavalry Regiment, but the Dingyuan Army did not move, because it had to undertake the combat mission of defending the Eastern Turks.

The Shuozhou Army was reorganized by Li Yuan into the Hedong, Bingzhou Army and the Right Guard Army, because he was worried that the branches would be strong and weak, and the balance would be broken.

However, the examples cited by Chen Ying are real problems that cannot be avoided. Transporting 2 million stone of grain up, not counting the consumption of the people, the consumption of grain on the road alone is as much as more than 1.5 million stone, even if the transportation money, 150,000 yuan, is equivalent to more than 700,000 catties, this is also a difficult task.

If you use an ordinary carriage, you need at least two or three hundred of them. The cost of transportation is not low, of course, the most important thing is that the wealth is moving, where to put such a large amount of money, more than 3,000 miles along the way, there will definitely be no fewer people who take risks.

Pei Lin asked, "What does this have to do with Qian Zhuang?" ”

The question Pei Lin asked was actually the question that Li Yuan wanted to ask.

Chen Ying said seriously: "Of course it has a relationship, if you deposit 150,000 yuan in the bank, you issue me a bill, I take this bill, and easily travel to Guangzhou, and then take the bill issued by Tokyo to take out the 150,000 yuan from the money in Guangzhou, do you say it's convenient?" ”