Li Shimin opened the letter, and the first sentence of the letter was, the saint is fine, and Lingnan is fine.

This sentence takes up a page.

Turning the second page, Li Shimin did not see the current situation of Lingnan that he wanted to see, but a balance sheet written in small print and extremely thin lines. Li Shimin's brows were twisted, and he barely knew the words and symbols on it, but he couldn't understand the table at all.

Then turn to the third page, and there is another table, called the profit and loss statement.

Flipping back, there is another table, this table is called the Profitability Analysis Table.

And then...... There is no then.

There are four sheets of paper in a letter, one small and three large.

For half an hour, Li Shimin took a magnifying glass to study the three forms, until finally Li Shimin had the urge to scatter the three tables into pieces.

Finally, Li Shimin suppressed the restlessness in his heart and put away the three forms. He believed that these three pieces of paper hid a huge secret, otherwise Yanagi would not have bothered to make the tables himself and send them to himself.

"Well, this king already knows something about Lingnan, and the affairs of Lingnan are hard for Liu and Ma, and the people who travel with him are also hard."

It doesn't matter if you don't understand it, the important thing is that you are the King of Qin, the general of Tiance, and the crown prince, which does not affect your continuation at all, Li Shimin asked Gao to perform: "The matter of Wutongfang, this king has already heard about it, and it is also a good thing." The blessing of the people of Chang'an, the blessing of the Tang Dynasty. ”

His Royal Highness Xie praised that the richness of Lingnan specialties is no less than that of Jiangnan. Liu Juma once said that the degree of dependence of Lingnan on the Central Plains determines the loyalty of Lingnan even a small people to Chang'an. Among them, Jiangnan East Road and Hangzhou are an important part. "Gao Cheng stepped forward to report.

Li Shimin couldn't help but scold Liu Mu in his heart, what kind of complicated table to draw, how simple and direct a report like this is.

Immediately, people can understand that the candidate for the governor of Jiangnan West Road and the candidate for the governor of Hangzhou Prefecture. These two people are very, very important, and this king can pick reliable and capable people, but the form is too sad.

Gao Cheng took another list and sent it: "Your Highness, this is the list of the next batch of Lingnan goods, even if there are discrepancies, there are very few adjustments." ”

"Yes, that's good." After Li Shimin saw the list, he was very satisfied.

This is tantamount to completely exterminating the spice trade of Persian merchants, so if Persian merchants want to get silk from Chang'an, there is only gem trade, and the rest of the things are not valued by the Tang Dynasty.

Gao Cheng took out three more stamps from his sleeve: "Your Highness, there are three here, which are the silk support table, the porcelain production increase table, and the shipbuilding table. ”

Li Shimin took it and looked at it briefly, this is Liu Mu's suggestion, hoping that Jiangnan will increase the output of raw silk several times, increase the output of porcelain in the fifteen major porcelain producing areas, and increase the efforts of Laizhou Shipyard to build good ships and big ships. Then it was proposed that the canal ships must be improved and the number of ships increased.

What was written on the table was very simple and clear, and Li Shimin didn't react for a long time.

Because the Tang Emperor Li Yuan is in Lingnan, why did Liu Mu ......

Li Shimin understood, some words could not be said clearly, it was obvious that the power of the Tang Dynasty had begun to slowly transfer to his own hands, and I am afraid that his father Li Yuan also recognized this.

Li Shimin said: "This king has understood that this matter will be discussed with the three provinces. ”

Ma Zhou stepped forward: "Your Highness, last year, the minister and Liu Juma talked about the Silk Road, and Liu Juma put forward four words, and the minister thought it was a great good." ”

"Speak!"

"Sword trader."

Li Shimin sighed heavily, after the end of the Jin Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, the Western Regions were no longer passable, the Silk Road had been broken for hundreds of years, and the little amount of goods of Persian merchants was not as good as a year when the Han Dynasty was strong.

Opening up the ancient Silk Road is what Li Shimin wants to do most in addition to killing Jieli.

"Elder Gao, you personally go to deal with the goods from Lingnan and Chang'an, and the goods that Liu Juma needs to transport to Lingnan are as good as possible. Let the king think about the rest. ”

"Yes!"

After the three of them retreated, Xiao Yu was waiting not far from the door.

Gao Jian came to Xiao Yu, Xiao Yu handed Gao Jian an official document, Gao Jian opened it and saw that this was the book of Honglu Temple, many Persian merchants wanted to borrow a boat to go to Lingnan, hoping that Honglu Temple would give convenience.

"What do you mean, Gong Xiao?"

"I'm here to ask for your opinion." Xiao Yu kicked the ball back again.

Gao Jian said in a low voice: "I have a lot of resources in the Tang Dynasty, and I don't have anything to do." Aside from gold and silver, the goods of the foreign land are nothing more than a pile of rags, and there is something that makes people care. This is obviously to cut off the livelihood of the Persian merchants, why should we give the Persian merchants a way to live. ”

"I still have to give a way to live, and I heard that from the sea, Persia has a sea route to Lingnan."

Gao Jian smiled: "Then let them go by sea." ”

Xiao Yu took out another official document and handed it to Gao Jian.

This one is about building a special market in Guangzhou, aimed at overseas merchants.

"This, we have to discuss it again." Gao Jian couldn't make up his mind for a while, but Xiao Yu said: "Let Ling Gongzi take him to Lingnan." ”

"Good!" This time, Gao Jian agreed without saying a word.

Xiao Yu obviously wanted to consult Liu Mu's opinion, so Gao Jian had no reason to refuse.

Gao Jian said to Xiao Yu: "Xiao Lao, there are two kinds of business. One is the righteous businessmen, these people trade different goods from the north and the south to make up for their shortcomings, which is beneficial to our Datang. The other is a businessman, only talking about the spices, but I know that the grass and fruits are picked from the mountains, and they are not dried for a basket of more than a dozen yuan. ”

"Yes. The old man doesn't like these merchants very much, only for profit, not for righteousness. ”

Gao Jian said: "I also repair a book, our willow horse is too soft-hearted, I heard that some people in Lingnan gathered in the city to stand on their own, inciting Diao people to affect the harvest in the forest, if it were not for the saint to come in person, Yue Guogong also prepared Huairou according to the advice of the willow horse." Kill, kill him cleanly, kill him safely. ”

Xiao Yu laughed: "Then ask Gao Gong to repair a book, and I will write one too." However, although I don't know the details of Huairou's matter, I can't blame Yue Guogong. ”

"I really don't blame him, I think he also knows that many people impeach him for disobedience, so he doesn't dare to use the sword lightly. At the beginning, if Yi Guogong had gone south with him, I am afraid that it would have saved a lot of trouble. ”

Gao Jian said this, and both of them laughed.

In fact, who said that Liu Mu did not dare to kill anymore.

At this time in Lingnan, more than a dozen people were hanged alive in Fanggang.

The first to be hanged were locals.

Among the second group of hanged people were Han Chinese.

The third group hanged five Persians, two large cannibals.

In one of the woods, Willow took a leather whip and whipped a red-bearded Persian even harder, scolding as he scolded: "It's a pity that he didn't bring anyone who can be tortured." ”