Looking at the burned handbook, Xiao Ling'er looked regretful.

Liu Mu said: "However, the management rights that my family wants, this matter can be considered to make you sticky." This matter can't be a matter between Donggang Bosi and Su I's family, because the Yamato royal family will be dissatisfied, and it's impossible for us to make it clear who we want to support, so this matter is a personal matter between you and Su Iling. ”

"Xie Fujun." Xiao Ling'er instantly understood what Liu Mu meant.

"Soga Ezo's wisdom should understand the purpose of this, I believe. Also, you arrange, I'm going to go to the lake for three days. I think there must be something that Soga Ezo will pass on to me through Sogaling, so I'm going to talk to her alone and find a suitable lake. ”

"Don't worry, husband, as long as the husband sets a time, I will arrange it."

As a local, Xiao Ling'er knows what is suitable here, and there are hundreds of servants from her Xiao family who can be dispatched here, so she will definitely arrange it well for Liu Mu.

"Well, you should also prepare, I will go back to Chang'an in a month at most. When you arrive in Chang'an, I will take you to several workshops in Sanyuan, as well as Huayuan Workshop, and when the time comes, you will have a long mind, what can you trade with Su Wuling, what can't, you make a list, and I will screen. ”

Xiao Ling'er nodded violently, she knew that this was a test.

The maidservant brought a tea set, and Xiao Ling'er said when she sat next to Liu Mu to make tea: "At that time, the family was choosing someone, and I took the initiative to ask for me. ”

"Oh!" Liu Mu smiled: "Am I worth choosing?" ”

"My husband's reputation has already spread all over the country, and I don't want to be raised as a canary in the backyard. And I am convinced that with my husband, I can spread my wings and fly high, and the sea and sky will be wide. ”

Liu Mu believed that Xiao Ling'er was telling the truth.

Time flies, and a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

In Hangzhou, Liu Mu and Dugu Lanruo moved into a garden provided by Li Shentong, which was originally owned by a county king of the former Sui Dynasty, and many people wanted to occupy this garden after the fall of the former Sui Dynasty, and was finally obtained by Li Shentong.

Dugu Lanruo has been confirmed by several famous teachers, and it is indeed a slippery vein.

And the two famous doctors claimed that it must be a boy.

After the news came out, Jiangnan Yilian's orders for pine nuts from the Liaodong Transshipment Division and aloe vera from the Xigang Shipping Division increased by nearly 100 times, the price of fresh fish on the seaside almost doubled, and several high-quality fresh fish ordered by Liu Mu have reached the point where there is no stock in the market, and the price is three times higher than before.

Liu Mu accompanied Dugu Lanruo to enjoy the flowers in the garden.

Dugu Lanruo said to Liu Mu: "When will the husband return to Chang'an?" ”

"In the past few days, as soon as the grain ship of the Xigang Shipping Division arrived, I returned to Chang'an with the ship. I am still hesitating whether to take Su Wuling back with me, I am afraid that he will annoy you here. ”

"She, what can she do?" Dugu Lanruo's eyes, Su Wuling is just a cheap maid.

"She told me the other day, in fact, that Soga Ezo wanted her to ask me, if Soga Ezo disobeyed Queen Suigu's succession and chose a new king of Yamato Province that they knew and cooperated with, then what would I do?"

Hearing this, Dugu Lanruo said: "Such a big thing can't be taken lightly. ”

"I thought so too, so I didn't answer her immediately, just told her that this kind of thing is complicated, and I will go to Wajima again as soon as possible, and then talk about such a thing in person, which requires a complete and detailed plan, not a sentence." Liu Mu patted Dugu Lanruo's hand and signaled Dugu Lanruo to feel at ease.

Finally, the grain ship of the Westport Shipping Division arrived.

This is not a new ship, but a rebuilt from an old one, which is slow and cannot go to sea at all, but only sails along the coastline.

But there are two new seagoing vessels on this ship, which are not beneficial.

One, you can use a paddle. Second, the big-bellied tank ship is loaded with a lot of cargo. Third, you don't need to change boats to enter the Grand Canal directly.

On the pier, Li Shentong personally came to see him off.

"Wood, it's all your fault. There is more chaos in the market in Jiangnan, and the rest of the things are easy to say, but the price of rice has also been affected. ”

"Uncle Huang is complaining?"

"It's a complaint, the rice from Jiangnan is seventy percent more expensive than the rice from Xigang Bosi, and the rice from Liaodong is more than fifty percent more expensive than the rice from Jiangnan." Li Shentong said the reason for his complaint.

Liu Mu smiled and asked: "Uncle Huang, rice that is ripened three times in two years and once a year." You want to compare the price with the rice that is three crops a year, aren't you bullying people, you always let the farmers in Liaodong not survive, I think it is quite appropriate, you get what you pay for. ”

"Alright, I won't tell you that. I called a few state capitals where Mishi is located to come over to discuss the matter, and asked Mishi to send representatives to talk about this matter. ”

"Then, Uncle Huang, I will go back to Chang'an."

Li Shentong sent Liu Mu to the side of the boat, watched Liu Mu get on the boat, and Li Shentong did not leave until the boat moved.

Changshi came over to Li Shentong's side: "Boss, why don't you talk to Liu Juma about the price of rice." ”

"He has his reasoning, and it is indeed true that rice that is planted once a year is more expensive than rice that is harvested three times a year. But we have our reason, if the price of rice is unstable, the price of grain will be unstable, and the people's livelihood in the state capitals will be unstable, and it is useless to tell him this. Before the representative of the rice merchant came, an official document was issued, and anyone who dared to use inferior rice to pass off as good rice would be fined 100 times at least and his house would be raided. ”

"Yes."

The fact that Liu Mu on the ship also thought of what Li Shentong wanted to say.

Rice, after steaming, let the willow wood eat maybe you can also divide a good or bad out, or rice when the willow wood can not see the good or bad, in the supermarket of later generations all rely on the conscience of the brand and the merchant.

So Liu Mu didn't want to get involved in Li Shentong's rice price matter.

The market will always take a hit.

Half a month later, Chang'an.

The drought in Guanzhong is already an indisputable fact, Li Shimin is only 28 years old, and there are already a few more gray hairs on his sideburns.

This is more than a sad word can describe.

Guanzhong, also called eight hundred miles of Qinchuan. That is, within the four passes, there is Hangu in the east, Dazhen Pass in the west, Blue Pass in the south, and Jinsuo Pass in the north. Within the four passes, the land in the middle of the pass is fertile, the people are rich, the chariots are ten thousand, the hundred trades are struggling, the fertile fields are thousands of miles, the accumulation is abundant, and the Great Qin conquers the world with the land in the middle of the pass.

The term Guanzhong was an explanation put forward by Xu Guangwei of the Eastern Jin Dynasty when he annotated the historical records, and it had the scope of Guanzhong.

Li Shimin sat in the study, with only a bowl of white porridge and a small plate of pickled vegetables in front of him.

After the great drought, there will be a plague of locusts, and the urgent documents in various places will be issued every day.

Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Xiao Yu, and Cui Junsu came to Li Shimin's study together.

"How serious is the situation?" Li Shimin didn't look up, still looking at the watch seal in his hand.