In winter, Liu Mu is accompanying the Tang Emperor Li Yuan to play in Lufeng Mountain. One of Feng An's personal guards arrived.

handed over a handwritten letter from Feng Ang to Liu Mu.

After reading it, Yanagi wrote a reply letter for the guard to take back.

After the guards left, Liu Mu said to Li Yuan: "Father, the Duke of Yue Guo surrounded Aizhou and asked me if I was interested in going back, and I wrote back to tell him that I would not go back after thanking him for his kindness." ”

"Aizhou...... What's there? Li Yuanxin said, the small rebellion is extinguished, there was no time to care before, and now that the city has been besieged, it means that there is a certainty of victory, not to mention that those rebellious ministers and thieves in Aizhou have no foreign aid, and it is only a matter of time before the city is besieged and destroyed.

Liu Mu explained: "Father, when I first came to Lingnan. What is the name of the one who occupies Aizhou right now......" Liu Mu patted his head and thought for a long time, but he couldn't remember the name Wenjing, so he had to say: "It's that guy, he talks very wildly, and he has targeted me several times, I put up with it." ”

"Then Feng Ang besieged the city and asked you to vent your anger?" Li Yuan asked with a smile.

"That's what it means, but it's just a little ant, and the Duke of Yue Guo will gently pinch him to death on my behalf."

Li Yuan laughed.

And in Aizhou, Wen Jing didn't even have a chance to commit suicide, he was hacked to death by his subordinates, and then the head was dedicated to Feng An. Feng Ang completely calmed down Jiaozhi and began to enforce the rules of the Westport firm in Jiaozhi.

In the late spring of the following year, Liu Mu left Guangzhou and headed north to return home.

Sitting on the boat, Liu Mu knew very well that it was ten years of martial arts.

There is no martial virtue decade in history at all, and this year should be called the first year of Zhenguan, but in fact, it is now the tenth year of martial virtue.

History has changed, completely changed.

Tang Emperor Li Yuan sat on the bow of the boat, looking at the coastal scenery, since the Chang'an Rebellion, he has been away from Chang'an for ten months, as the emperor but not in the court, I am afraid that only Emperor Yang of Sui has done this.

However, Li Yuan believed that Li Shimin would handle the government very well in Chang'an.

A few days after leaving Guangzhou, after crossing the Yizhou Strait, Liu Mu's fleet encountered an old, heavily armed ship.

The huge sail has the words written on it, Coast Guard.

"Coast Guard?" Li Yuan was very curious when he saw this word, and ordered: "Lean up and ask clearly." ”

The dragon flag was hoisted, and the ship lowered its sails as soon as it approached, and the captain came to the bow to salute.

Li Yuan asked, "What kind of office is this Maritime Patrol Division?" ”

"Back to the words of the sage, at the beginning of the year, there was an official document in Chang'an, abolishing Fengzhou, and merging the three counties of Nan'an, Putian, and Longxi into Quanzhou. The port was built in Quanzhou to provide supplies and repairs for ships from Guangzhou to Hangzhou. Ten ships patrolled the surroundings to prevent the appearance of pirates. ”

After listening to the captain's answer, Liu Mu stepped forward and asked: "Then there are no preparations on the Quanzhou side, just to protect the ships, but what chambers of commerce are involved?" ”

"Back to your words." The captain didn't know who Liu Mu was, but he dared to speak beside the Tang Emperor, this was definitely not a small person. After respectfully saluting: "The last general is only an eight-rank military attaché, responsible for leading people to protect the safety of the waterway." You won't know what you're asking. ”

"Well, look at your ships so broken, your bed crossbows and arrows are pitiful, and your people are yellow and hungry. I'll help you. After Liu Mu finished saying this, he saluted Li Yuan and retreated, but Li Yuan stood there with a smile on his face.

After a while, Yanagi went back to the house and wrote a letter, and then ordered someone to throw it over.

"Give it to you Quanzhou Mansion Yin, and tell him by the way that if he arranges for you to pretend to be pitiful here, then I will definitely trouble him. Of course, if you are really so pitiful, then if you don't have a new ship, new armor, and new equipment by this time next year, I will still trouble him. ”

The captain looked stunned, and he didn't understand who the ringing man in front of him was, but it sounded crazy.

"Don't doubt it, remind him that Chang'an wants to see him before the end of the year."

After Liu Mu finished speaking, he ordered to continue sailing.

The captain of Quanzhou was messy in the wind.

On the boat, Li Yuan asked Liu Mu: "What did you write?" ”

"Father, in fact, there is nothing special, just suggest that they also do some business. My father didn't know that the tea in the world, they were five hundred miles away from Fangyuan, and it could be said that they could definitely occupy one of the four first-class tea producing areas of our Datang. Those small states in the Western Regions need tea. ”

"My father remembers that three of the top ten famous teas come from several prefectures in the west of Quanzhou."

"Father, do you want to turn around? At this time, it is estimated that they have many good teas. Yanagi suggested.

Li Yuan waved his hand: "No, go straight to Hangzhou." This year's Longjing is estimated to have been put on the market, and new tea is to be drunk. Seriously, what else did you say? ”

"Dried bamboo shoots with several kinds of dried fruits. And most importantly, sugar. It will be one of the best sugarcane plantations in Datang, and the sugar industry is now being developed. In the future, after we occupy some places in the south, a large amount of sugarcane can also be pulled back here to extract sugar. The sugar extraction process is complex, and it takes some time for them to develop. ”

Li Yuan nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, you are talented, any place can allow you to find a good industry, the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty is not far away." ”

After a few more days, I arrived in Hangzhou.

Li Yuan tasted the new tea and listened to Li Shentong tell him about some of the major decisions that Chang'an has made to the whole Datang in the past ten months.

"Brother Huang. In the past, Emperor Yang of Sui was also digging canals, and I don't know how many people died. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince dug 300 miles of canals, renovated 1,500 miles of canals, and repaired nearly 200 miles of embankments of the Yellow River. This is still a dug ditch, and I have dug a canal seven feet wide and one foot deep for 8,000 li in Jiangnan Dongdao alone. ”

Li Shentong is eleven years younger than Li Yuan, so he is naturally called the imperial brother.

Li Yuan frowned: "Is this a bit too much digging, what do the people of Jiangnan Dongdao think." ”

"The people praise the prince."

"How's it going?"

"My Jiangnan East Province has increased 140,000 hectares of fertile land and 11,000 hectares of mulberry forests. Jiangnan Dongdao reported that there were only a few hundred and thirty dead and wounded in the service, and all of them were wounded and not killed. It's because there is a lot of money, and it's a hundred times better to work for money than to drive for service. Li Shentong was shining brightly and was promoting his exploits for Li Shimin.

Li Yuan was puzzled: "Some state capitals are rich, but some state capitals are poor, how about it?" ”

"Borrow money, five cents a year. There are eight semicolons in Changping Qianzhuang, and some of them are borrowed money. I'm not afraid that I can't pay it back, and some small county orders still hope that they can't pay it back. Speaking of this, Li Shentong pointed to the willow wood: "The God of Wealth is sitting there, who doesn't know in the Tang Dynasty, the willow horse passes by a mountain, and a cash cow can grow on the top of the mountain." ”