After Ye Siniang finished speaking, Li Shimin's eyes turned to Tang Jian of the Ministry of Rites and Du Ruhui of the Ministry of War.

The two shook their heads at the same time, they had not yet received an official official letter.

"How credible?" Qin Qiong asked.

"I don't know, this news comes from the Ni Khan, but it is not known whether the other party really surrendered to my Datang, or if it is a conspiracy. The Khan told us that Wenyue Pavilion had sent the news to the Western Turks in the hope of helping to verify the situation, but the Khan did not consider it suitable to formally submit documents to the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of War. ”

Ye Siniang said that the news was unconfirmed, and it was not wrong.

Ni Xiao didn't know if the other party was sincere or fake.

Li Shimin asked, "The name of the khan?" ”

"Hui sage, the Western Turks call him Khan Khan of Kham. Ye Siniang replied.

Li Shimin pointed to the little eunuch next to him who was in charge of recording: "Write down this name." Then he said to the ministers: "Wait until Liu Mu comes, let him give a calculation or two, he said that if you believe it, you will believe it, and if you believe it, you will send someone to contact it, and the Ni Yu Khan is currently held back by the civil strife of the Western Turks, and there is no way to send a large number of troops to attack Gaochang." ”

Reckon?

Few people believe it, but one thing is true, Liu Mu's luck is quite against the sky, Qin Qiong believes in Liu Mu's so-called intuition.

Ye Siniang continued to report: "On the grassland in the north, the Hui people fought with Xue Yantuo and Jieli twice. General Ashinadur has already sent 10,000 elite cavalry to mediate the knot, and General Zhili Sili personally brought 20,000 elites and swept away Jieli I don't know how many tribes. At most, on the fifth day of the first month, the official military newspaper will come back. ”

Xiao Yu asked, "Why did Wenyue Pavilion deliver the news so quickly?" ”

"We use pigeons, and we use horses. It's not very safe to use pigeons, so we use secret words to write, a lot of time even if the sealed note is more hydrated, the handwriting can't be seen clearly, this time the note is discolored, so I don't know how many Jieli tribes General Zhili attacked. ”

Ye Siniang's explanation made the ministers very satisfied.

Relying on a pigeon to pass, there is certainly no one on the back of the horse to ride reliably.

It is possible for a pigeon to be bitten to death by an eagle, and there will be all kinds of accidents, and it makes sense that it is a bird after all, and you can't put important things on the bird.

"The unconfirmed news that the minister wants to say is that the people lurking in the Jieli Department have sent back the news, and Jieli seems to want to come to the Tang Dynasty to ask for a marriage ceremony."

"Hah!" Li Shimin commented on this piece of information with a strange character.

Immediately after, the entire side hall burst into laughter.

Qin Qiong said coldly: "It's just that Xue Yantuo, who is lucky and still has a mercenary view, is dead or alive in the future, and he is still looking at their attitudes and actions in the past few years." Jieli Yili is the overlord of one party after all, and it is a bit immoral to kill him, but Chang'an City is not small, and it is still benevolent to give him a house to support his days. ”

Li Shimin clapped his hands lightly: "Uncle Bao's words won my heart, and he spoke well." ”

Qin Qiong bowed and sat back down.

"Why don't we fight Jieli first?" Liu Zhenghui, the secretary of the Criminal Department, proposed.

Li Shimin smiled and asked, "I only ask one question. Two years later, the silk produced by Wadao Island will make the silk of the Tang Dynasty cheap, or will it be temporarily sealed. ”

"This ......" Liu Zhenghui also understood that Gao Jing must fight.

Without Gaochang, there would be no Silk Road, and it would take at least a year to stabilize the regions of the Western Regions after Gaochang.

Cui Junsu turned his head sideways and asked Liu Ruyu: "Chief Liu, how many acres of mulberry forest are there on the account of the general secretary of the company?" ”

"Cui Shangshu, the silk of the first batch of autumn silkworms may have been transported to Huating, and two years later, there will be more than 600,000 acres of mature mulberry forests on the Purple Island, one million small mulberry forests, and one million new mulberry forests. Within two years, the output of raw silk was not enough to supply Datang's needs, but after three years, the output of this raw silk was quite impressive, totaling more than 3 million acres of mature mulberry forests. ”

There is no need for Liu Ruyu to explain, all the generals present know how much raw silk is represented by an acre of mature mulberry forest.

At least 30 to 40 catties of fresh cocoons.

Cui Junsu straightened up: "Sage, Gaochang must fight, from now on, Gaochang will be down within six months." ”

After finishing speaking, Cui Junsu said to the ministers again: "Everyone, don't say how many silk mills there are. The silk mill of the Tang Dynasty has been built a lot in the past two years, if the silk is cheap, then the result is that the craftsmen have no way to live, and I am afraid that there will be chaos in more than a dozen states in the south of the Yangtze River. So the Silk Road must be opened, immediately. ”

And all the princes agreed with this.

The silk workshop can be said to be the workshop with the highest technology, the highest quality and the highest output owned by the aristocracy and the people.

If the silk industry is damaged, it will not only be a headache for the nobles, but the economy of the state capitals will be seriously affected, which is unbearable, so it is necessary to fight Gaochang.

Fang Xuanling came out of the queue at this time, he did not stand up and speak, but walked to the hall.

"Saint, Emperor Taishang. Please take a look at the list of Huayuan secret vaults. ”

"Don't even think about it, I haven't even read the detailed list." Li Yuan directly refused.

Fang Xuanling took two steps forward: "Sage, Emperor Taishang." The minister asked the secret treasury of Huayuan County to fund the westward expedition, and let the household department talk about the settlement problem. ”

"Sage, Emperor Taishang." Cui Junsu also jumped out: "The minister thinks that among the ordnance purchased last time, some ordnance prices are too high, and the minister asks to review the price." ”

Li Shimin stood up: "The ghost worker is high-grade steel, and it may take a hundred furnaces to get a glimpse of the door, is this considered a coin?" ”

"Count. But even if the household department is wronged, it also wants to be clear. ”

Cui Junsu still wants to know the low price.

"I'll tell you, the cost of the horizontal knife workshop is about 200 to 260 yuan. A forbidden area in Huayuan, which is called the Valley of Ghost Workers, has spent no less than two million yuan on the trial production of this object so far. I know that Liu Mu has sent another million yuan, and it seems that he wants to build an object that I don't understand before May next year. ”

Tang Emperor Li Shimin was obviously speaking for Liu Mu.

But there is also truth in what it says.

Xiao Yu got up: "Sage, Cui Shangshu." Don't say that the big and small general cannons, even the old man believes that he can't build one for a million yuan to anyone here, and the money is worth it. Lao Chen has a proposal, Ishimi Yinshan does not want the household, and Bo Si does not want it, all the output will go to Huayuan Ghost Worker Valley, and then Huayuan Ordnance will rise by two or three percent in the cost of the workshop? ”

"I think it's appropriate." Cui Junsu was the first to express his support.

A silver mountain, that has to be dug up.

Li Shimin didn't answer, because he knew that Liumu's ghost valley spent money like flowing water, and any thing that was trying to be made there was enough to affect the fortunes of the Tang Dynasty, so he couldn't save the money there.

"If you add two more ministers, no matter if Liu Juma finds a gold mine or a silver mine outside of Datang, the output will go to the Ghost Worker Valley." Xiao Yu made another offer.