Chapter 455 counts as before

The sudden sound of impeachment of Zhang Shuo made the eyes of all the officials turn their eyes, and they took a closer look from a distance, and they knew that Vice Minister Li Yuanhong, a person who rarely speaks and always does practical things, suddenly came out today to impeach Zhang Shuo.

Zhang Shuo also wondered, he was looking for Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan's problem, what did you Li Yuanhong do when he ran out? Could it be that those two people are related to you? Isn't this salty and carrot to worry about?

When I was wondering, I was more angry in my heart, okay you Li Yuanhong, I didn't usually trouble you, but now you are eyeing me? When I'm a good bully?

Just as he was about to ask out loud, Li Longji spoke at this time.

"I've heard a little about what Li Qing said." When these words came out, Li Longji paused, and the civil and military officials were in their hearts, could it be that the emperor wanted to do something to Zhang Shuo?

"Yes." Li Longji said another word, and Zhang said that he was relieved.

"Zhang Qing is the Zhongshu Order, the commander of the hundred officials, he needs to contact the hundred officials, the court is not enough time, and it is not necessary to talk in private, so it is a waste of free time, does Zhang Qing think so?"

Li Longji squinted his eyes at Zhang Shuo, with a faint expression on his face, making it impossible to tell if he was telling the truth.

As if grasping a life-saving straw, Zhang Shuo nodded violently, and the beard floated around with the movements of his body, slightly frost-colored, matching the weather, making people see a kind of desolation.

Yuan Qianyao, who was standing opposite him, sighed softly, old men, all old men, the years are not forgiving, no more than Zhang Xiaobao and Juan Juan, at such an age, you can determine the affairs of the court, and you have a lot of youth to squander.

"That's right" Li Longji said very casually, and then said: "I know that many courtiers don't have other ideas in their hearts, but it's easy for people to misunderstand when they start things, Zhang Qing is like this, and I hope that the ministers can trust their colleagues more around them."

Don't listen to the wind is the rain, and you can't come up with a non-essential thing to affirm that others have bad intentions, and treat others with yourself, according to Xiaobei's words, our court in the Tang Dynasty is united and upward, and Zhongqing thinks what I am doing is right? ”

"Your Majesty, after listening to Your Majesty's words, the minister feels Your Majesty's tolerance and trust, and the minister will live up to Your Majesty's trust." Yu Wenrong came out and said a word, and all the other courtiers who were standing in front came out one after another to echo him.

Zhang said that nature is no exception, after saying flattering words, I understand that I am in vain today, the emperor's intention is very clear, don't just find a trumped-up charge and put it on others, others impeach themselves, the emperor didn't trouble himself, so don't you play with fire if you mention Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan again?

'Hey~ Why can the two of them get such treatment? Zhang said that he was not convinced, his face was even more old, and he quietly retreated to his position and decided to endure it any longer.

The monarch and the ministers harmoniously praised each other for a few words, and returned to the quiet scene at the beginning, the wind is still blowing, the sky has not become clear, it is estimated that when the early dynasty ends, there will be a heavy rain, I wonder if the emperor has prepared an umbrella? There is still a distance from Hanyuan Hall to the office, and I regret not bringing the portable folding umbrella sent by Zhang Wang's family with me, and I will definitely learn a lesson next time.

Li Longji calmed down and said, adjusted his mood, and finally returned to the way he was at the beginning.

smiled and said to the ministers: "Since you don't have any important things, I will talk about my recent affairs, which I suddenly remembered, coincidentally, someone came to bring my things up." ”

The courtiers below didn t think it was a sudden thought otherwise it would be impossible not to let others speak out early in the morning zhang said that if you don t stand up, you should.

Naturally, it didn't take much time to prepare the things that had been prepared earlier, and as Li Longji's words fell, Gao Lishi waved his hand, and a few eunuchs next to him moved the things in front of Li Longji, and the ministers stretched their necks to see what the emperor was doing.

Li Longji coughed lightly, rarely walked down from the soft chair, stood in front of the thing placed on the ground, and smiled slightly, and took the thing from the hand of Gaolishi, who came over next to him and squatted down to pick up something, waved it to the ministers, and asked, "Do you know what this is?" ”

The ministers looked at it, knew, light bulbs, and it was not a strange thing, they had it in their own homes, and they were sent by the Zhang and Wang families, and all officials with enough grades could get the benefits of the Zhang and Wang families for free, and there were many officials with small official positions, and they would work hard for such benefits.

The rich and noble people also bought it and put it at home, those who have windmills are driven by windmills, and those who don't have windmills find a way to get a waterwheel, if there are no both, let people take turns to step on the generator, what is the emperor doing today?

Li Linfu had a look, stood up, showed an uncertain expression, and asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, could this thing be the legendary light bulb?" Your Majesty took this small and exquisite, but Your Majesty personally made it? ”

"Well, it's a light bulb, yes, Li Qing's eyesight is really good, you can see it at a glance." Li Longji still admired Li Linfu's statement, praised it, and shook his head, "It's not what I did, I'm afraid of getting hurt, I don't have the ability to blow the light bulb, let alone smoke air." ”

"Your Majesty's dragon body is important." Li Linfu followed again.

Li Longji didn't answer this time, holding a small light bulb in one hand, pointing to another object on the ground with the other, and asked, "Can you know about this thing?" ”

"Huh? Could it be the legendary fish tank? What Li Linfu saw was a box made of glass, not much different from a fish tank, the only difference was that there were no fish in the water inside, but wires connected to it.

"No, guess again." Li Longji is like a child at the moment.

"Please also ask Your Majesty to make it clear, the minister really can't guess it, and the minister only now knows that his knowledge is indeed not as extensive as His Majesty." Li Linfu begged for advice in distress, this time it was not nonsense, he really didn't know, and the other courtiers who were close also saw the fish tank, and they also wondered in their hearts.

Li Longji looked down into the distance, and beckoned, "Come forward, I will show you." ”

The fifth-grade official who was the farthest away, looked at the others, saw that there were people moving around, and they also followed forward, and when they got closer, it was really like what Li Linfu said, it was a fish tank, a fish tank without fish.

When everyone else was puzzled, Li Longji continued to the next step, picking up the two wires in the fish tank, one was wrapped around the bottom of the bulb, and the other was placed on the smallest point, only to see that the two wires had just been connected, and the bulb suddenly lit up.

"Huh? Your Majesty, why is it bright? Colliers exclaimed cooperatively, his eyes wide open, making people worry that the eyeballs inside could fall off at any time.

Li Longji had an unfathomable expression on his face, moving back and forth so that all the people who came around could see it clearly, and after the ministers were puzzled, he said slowly: "Don't you think it's amazing?" There was no wind power, no water power, and no one pedaling the generator. ”

"Your Majesty, why is that bright?" Zhang Jiuling walked forward again, watched carefully, still didn't see the doorway, and asked humbly.

"This question is a good question, why is it lit, I believe that all the people have this doubt in their hearts, this is the wet battery that I participated in the development, with the battery, you don't have to work as hard as in the past in the future, you can use the battery to light the lamp anytime and anywhere."

Li Longji took the wire away from the light bulb, pressed it again, and went back and forth several times, so that people could see it clearly and happily introduce it.

"Your Majesty is really powerful." There was a five-grade official who praised it sincerely.

Li Longji smiled and shook his head, "Don't think that this is my original intention, if you can only make the lights on, then it's nothing, and then look at another thing." ”

Putting down the light bulb, Li Longji pointed to another thing in front of him, two identical things to be exact, and a large bundle of wires, which made the ministers wonder.

This time, without the cooperation of others to ask, Li Longji took the initiative to introduce: "This is a wired telegraph, some people will ask, what is this thing for?" Isn't it? ”

Isn't it nonsense that there are people among the ministers who slander them? Aren't you taking it out for others to see, who doesn't have such an idea without knowing it?

"I'll let you know, come and carry the other one far away." Li Longji couldn't hear the voices of others, and there was no evidence to punish him, so he gave an order, and immediately a eunuch came over, carried one of them, and walked down with the wire, until the bundle of wires was used up, and then stopped, waiting for the next instructions.

Another person carried a fish tank over, cooperated and stood next to it, and looked at Li Longji together.

Li Longji looked around, Gao Lishi hurriedly gestured not far away, and a group of people came over there, all wearing the same style of work clothes, strutting one by one, but if you look closely, you will find that some people in the crowd are injured.

When this group of people approached, Li Longji beckoned, one ran to the front, and the other ran to the distance, each took out a small notebook and a pencil, and prepared them properly.

Li Longji looked at the puzzled eyes of the courtiers and introduced: "The function of the telegraph is to send information quickly, and when it moves, it can be received immediately here, and how long the wire is, how far the telegraph can communicate with each other. ”

The ministers nodded, indicating that they understood, and even if they had doubts in their hearts, they didn't dare to show it if they didn't believe it.

"I know that you don't believe it, it's okay, this will make you understand, Zhang Qing, you say something, let this person pass the news over, see if the other telegraph on the other side can receive it, such a distance, you whisper, you can't hear it there, right?"

Li Longji called Zhang out and asked him to speak.

Zhang Shuo nodded, "I can't hear it, there are more than 20 zhang away from here, His Majesty asked the minister to say, the minister really said, well, just say that it will rain today." ”

"Send a report." Li Longji instructed the people who came behind him.

The man hurriedly took out a thick notebook from his bosom, looked it up a few times, and used a pencil to write and draw on the notebook just now, and then pressed a place on the telegraph with his hand, and someone else helped connect the lines in the fish tank, and the same was true for the opposite side.

Everything was ready, and the man began to press the place.

'Didi, di, di, di, ....... With a crisp sound, it didn't take long for the man to raise his hand and gesture to finish.

The ministers immediately turned their eyes to the person below, and saw that the person had just finished writing and drawing in the notebook, and then also opened another thick notebook, looking for it, and after a while, a person came running from that side and said to Li Longji: "Your Majesty, you have received it, the content, it will rain today." ”

"Huh?" Many of the ministers made a puzzled voice, thinking that it was very magical, how could they make a few sounds, and they could know what kind of news was transmitted? It's much easier to use than a beacon.

"What else can I try?" The smile on Li Longji's face was even worse.

"Your Majesty, your Majesty is here." Lu Yanzuo, who did not believe in evil, stood up, put his ear to the person who sent the report, and said in a voice that others could not hear: "I don't believe it is true, send it." ”

The man nodded, flipped through the notebook a few more times, finished writing and drawing, and began to press the keys on the telegraph, accompanied by the sound of dripping, the other side began to receive, and it also took a very short time, and a person came over there, and said to everyone: "Received, the content, I don't believe it is true." ”

Lu Yanzuo was stunned for a moment, looked up into the distance, swallowed his saliva, and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, it's really God, if this thing pulls the thread all over the country and then transmits the information back and forth, the speed is really unimaginable." ”

Li Longji smiled.

At this time, Zhang Shuo began to pour cold water on him again.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks it's inappropriate, and wants to pull the wires all over the country, how long will it take? How many wires do you have to use? It's just a chicken rib. ”

Li Longji's happy mood just now was said by Zhang, and he changed again, glared at Zhang and said, that means why don't you open which pot to mention?

Fortunately, he had already prepared, and when he saw that some of the ministers showed the same idea, he coughed and said: "It's just a test, this is called wired telegraphy, and now the Ministry of Industry is studying dry batteries and wireless telegraphy, and when the research comes out, the battery is more convenient to carry, and the telegraph no longer needs to be connected by wires, isn't this a chicken rib?" ”

"Your Majesty." Colliers followed again.

The ministers' faces also changed, and they naturally knew how fast the transmission of messages would be in the future if they could have something called a battery that was easy to carry, and a telegraph that was not connected by wires.

It's just that this news came too suddenly, so suddenly that there was no preparation at all.

Yuan Qianyao said excitedly: "Your Majesty, when did my Datang have such an advanced thing, according to Your Majesty, wouldn't it be just a blink of an eye to spread the news from the farthest place to the capital?" ”

"That's not necessarily, listen to Xiaobao and Juan Juan, you need to transfer a few times, otherwise the distance is not enough, you can arrange a special frequency band for relay telegram reception, advanced? Well, it is advanced, at least ahead of the surrounding countries, without the struggle of hundreds of thousands of craftsmen in my Datang, there would be no advanced technology today, they have paid a lot. ”

As Li Longji spoke, the happy expression on his face converged, his eyes looked at the group of craftsmen standing a few steps away, and introduced to the ministers: "These are the researchers of batteries and telegraphs, Liu Liang. ”

"Your Majesty." In the crowd, as Li Longji called out his name, a person stood up, and several places on this person's body were still wrapped in white cloth, and the ministers knew that he was injured, which was the classic packaging cloth of Deyi Hospital today.

Li Longji's eyes looked at Liu Liang softly, Liu Liang looked very excited, kept swallowing saliva, and his legs were trembling.

"Roll up the sleeve of your right arm." Li Longji ordered.

Liu Liang didn't dare to hesitate at all, and rolled up the right sleeve with his left hand little by little, revealing that arm, and when the ministers saw it, they took a breath of cool air almost at the same time.

I saw that the arm was pitted, the skin was wrinkled together, and the arm was small and thin, as if it had been burned by fire.

"Liu Liang's arm was burned by sulfuric acid when he was doing research, but he still determined the proportion of sulfuric acid, without his insistence, there would be no current wet battery, I named him the founding earl, Zhao Cheng, out of the ranks."

Li Longji introduced Liu Liang, shouted to the crowd again, and another one-eyed man stood up, "Your Majesty." ”

"This is Zhao Cheng, who has been in charge of the production of the telegraph, and when he was welding, he broke one eye, but he used one eye to complete the original telegraph welding task, and I named him the founding marquis, Zhao Gong, and he was listed...... Zhao Gong is Zhao Cheng's younger brother, and he followed his brother to do experiments together, originally Zhao Gong was a lifter, gave up the opportunity to take the imperial examination, and was willing to take over the responsibility of his brother, and I named him as a fellow jinshi, Zhang Yan, and ...... ranked. ”

Li Longji called people out one by one, and each time he called out, he told them what they had done, and rewarded them, a total of 32 people, none of whom were missed.

All the people who were called puffed up their chests when Li Longji introduced them, their eyes were full of excitement, and the ministers listened one by one, in the past, some people stood up against the emperor to reward so much, but today is an exception.

Knowing that His Majesty's reward was for the hundreds of thousands of craftsmen, it was really exciting for the craftsmen who had never paid attention to it before to make such a miraculous thing.

Li Longji squatted down, touched the telegraph, and said: "I hope that Zhongqing will know that my Datang craftsman is not of low status, and understand that when you are enjoying good things, someone is shedding blood and sacrificing for it, and every thing is flowing with the hard work of my Datang craftsman, so you should cherish it." ”

"Remember." Colliers spoke first, and then all the ministers answered.

"Well, please go back, you can do everything, remember to keep it secret, and discuss it." Li Longji let the ministers see the power of the craftsmen, and re-carried out the affairs of the early dynasty, and the first thing he proposed was to allocate money to the Ministry of Industry, a large amount of money.

The ministers now understood that the emperor had made such a move in order to clear the way for Zhang Zhong, if there was no telegraph machine, and a large amount of money was given to the Ministry of Industry in plain terms, there would be some objections.

Imagine that thousands of miles away, a person knocks a few times on the telegraph machine, the news is immediately transmitted to the capital, and then the same discussion is passed back, much faster than the 800-mile urgent report, even the pigeon is not comparable, in the event of disasters and wars, the reaction time will be greatly shortened, and the time for war is even better, several armies can cooperate with each other at any time, and what kind of enemy is invincible?

When others were satisfied, Li Longji's mind flew to Jili Prefecture's side, 'Xiaobao, Juan Juan, when will you be able to get that kind of weapon that can be used from Luzhou to the capital?' And to intercept? ’

'Didi, Didi....... In a room on the north bank of the mud river, Wang Juan's hand was lit on top of something, and the sound of dripping was heard from time to time.

Zhang Xiaobao sat aside, looked at the map in his hand, fell into deep thought, recovered after a while, and asked, "Okay, right?" As soon as I pressed it, I made a sound, and when I finished practicing, I sent a telegram for me, and said, you have worked hard today, have you repaired the road? If it is repaired, then you should not be in a hurry, but be steady, and tell the other people that you can move on to the next step, and when the next step is carried out, that will be the moment of our victory, and ...... about it. ”

"Comrade Zhang Xiaobao, this is a telegram, not a phone call and chat, do you understand the conciseness?" Wang Juan was about to translate into code, when he heard Zhang Xiaobao say a lot of nonsense, he stopped his actions and complained dissatisfiedly.

"Oh, just when I think about it, I will fight, and Lu Cheng will act." Zhang Xiaobao nodded, turning the pile of words just now into five words.

"Isn't that the end of it? Fei that bull jin, do you think Li Longji will find that the things we use are more advanced than what he sees? And then swearing? Wang Juan still has some basic skills in telegraphs, and soon passed the news over, if Li Longji saw the telegraph machine she used, he would definitely scold the two of them for hiding secrets.

There is no fish tank next to this telegraph, but a block-shaped thing that provides power to the telegraph, and at the same time, the telegraph has no wires to connect to other places, only an antenna that sticks out, this is the dry battery and wireless telegraph that he expects to be made in the future, and he will not think that Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan have already used it.

Zhang Xiaobao said a little uncertainly: "I guess it can't be, right?" ”

"Can't be scolded or can't be discovered?" Wang Juan asked again.

"As long as he can't find out, he won't scold." Zhang Xiaobao replied.

"In other words, you're pinning your weight on the former."

"Yes, I really let him know, it is estimated that he will wear small shoes for us, this is a lot worse than the cable telegraph, it is a cross-era product, which applies electromagnetic technology, and can be made into a radio station in the future, and then use a thin box to receive, this is the people's radio station, what is being broadcast to you now is that the Tang Emperor Li Longji knew that this technology appeared, he was not the first to see it, will he be angry, dear listeners and friends, you can write your thoughts into a letter and mail it to ......."

"Okay, don't be poor, still angry, according to his previous character, you should be killed for this crime, find the kind of 10,000 people to watch, and then use steamed buns to dip blood and go back to eat to treat tuberculosis."

"Is it good to use remiseal for tuberculosis? The medical school guys are so bad that they haven't been researched yet, and the same is true for antibiotics, at least penicillin should be made first, so that people can be treated, and if it continues at this rate, when will it be possible to have heart bypass surgery? ”

Zhang Xiaobao began to complain about the slow pace of research in medical school.

Wang Juan said disapprerovingly: "You should be a game, you can be as fast as you want, that's a system problem, and heart bypass surgery, why don't you say that the change allows human beings to not have to worry about breathing problems, they can absorb the aura between heaven and earth, and fly freely in the universe." ”

"Yes, this is a new topic in the medical school, it is best to first demonstrate from the five elements of Chinese medicine and the balance of yin and yang, the true qi goes through the meridians, hey~ I want to go back, we will be assassinated tomorrow."

Zhang Xiaobao followed Wang Juan's words for a while, and then remembered serious things.

"Tomorrow? Is it early tomorrow? Let's wait until the river starts to connect, otherwise it is easy to go wrong. Wang Juan thought for a moment and put forward his own opinions.

"Listen to you, it's getting late, ma'am, why don't we go and rest." Zhang Xiaobao said with a yearning expression.

"If you dare to do anything while I'm asleep, I'll chop off your groping hands."

"You took it upon me."

"Chop it down too."

After receiving the orders of the little boy and the little lady, the people of Zheng Zheng Construction worked much faster, and did not stop at night, lighting torches and lighting, and continued to direct the people of Silla to build roads desperately.

As the days progressed, the road on the Silla side was about to be paved, and the place where the customs duties were collected was also built, and anyone who paid the customs duties would be allowed to pass through the road, and those who did not pay the money would be blocked on the other side.

The merchants of Silla looked forward to the benefits they would receive after the arrival of the tariff, and the clan members of Silla also counted on using the money to build the region.

Two more days passed, and the last section of the road was being watered, and when it was dry, the moisturizing straw mats on it were removed, and the road could stretch all the way to the farthest point.

Another day, Li Dong listened to the movement of firecrackers, happily stood at the place where the customs duties were collected, and the caravan waiting for Datang to arrive took the initiative to send the money, and the information sent back by the people sent to Datang showed that there was already a caravan of considerable size, An Li said, it could arrive last night, but I didn't think about it, I haven't come yet.

In the anxious waiting, the sun reached the middle of the sky, and just when Li Dong and other Silla merchants thought that the caravan of the Tang Dynasty would not come today, a large amount of dust was raised on the path in the distance with the wind.

"Come on, get ready, be careful when you check the goods for a while, you can't charge more, you can't charge less, 20% tariff, remember."

Li Dong saw the approaching procession, and hurriedly instructed the person in charge of collecting the Datang tariff on the side.

The group of people agreed unevenly, their eyes fixed on the caravan, and all they could think about was the sound of money.

The more anxious they were, the slower time passed, and just when Li Dong and the others couldn't wait, the caravan finally slowly came to the checkpoint where the tax was collected, looking at the people in front of them blankly, looking unclear about the situation.

Li Dong, the main leader, knew that it was time for him to go on the field, so he took two steps forward and asked the caravan, "Where is your host?" According to the agreement between Silla and Datang, you need to pay 20% of the customs duty to sell goods in Silla, that is, 20%, and you can pass through after paying the money. ”

"When did it happen? Twenty percent? There are too many. After Li Dong's words fell for a while, a person stood up in the caravan and asked suspiciously.

"The matter of not a long time, it was put forward by Zhang Xiaobao of your Datang, twenty percent is not much, how much your goods can be sold for in Silla, don't you know, if you can't get the line money, you can replace it with two percent of the goods."

When Li Dong said this, he had other thoughts in his heart, that is, all the businessmen who came over did not have a good attitude towards them, as long as they had doubts, they would immediately push it on Zhang Xiaobao's body, so that the contradictions between Zhang Xiaobao and other businessmen would intensify.

The caravan man obviously felt that there were too many, and the man asked, "What if you don't pay it?" ”

"If you don't pay it, you can't go here." Li Dong was not in a hurry at all.

"That's it, go, go back." The leader of the caravan was even more agile, and with a wave of his hand, the team turned around with a bang, and left many times faster than when they came.

Li Dong looked at the caravan that gradually disappeared from view, and wanted to stop it, but found that he was in the land of Datang, and he didn't have that qualification.

After waiting for the last wisp of smoke and dust to disappear, Li Dong gritted his teeth and said depressedly: "These merchants of the Tang Dynasty are treacherous, iron roosters, and they don't pull out a dime, show me well, lest they sneak over by the night." ”

The Silla people, who were also disappointed, were also indignant, agreed to Li Dong's words, and vowed to guard this place well and never give any chance to the merchants of the Tang Dynasty.

This waited until the evening, the moon hung high in the sky, only the moon missing one side made the surrounding stars dim, and Li Dong, who still insisted on not sleeping, kept dozing, drank cup after cup of tea, and did not have the slightest effect when he got his hands, and his upper eyelids went straight to his eyelids.

Just when he couldn't hold on to sleeping, a person hurriedly ran in from outside, and reported anxiously: "Li Dongjia, it's not good, the caravan of the Tang Dynasty bypassed us and entered Silla from somewhere else." ”

"What? Got in? How not to block? What Li Dong was worried about finally happened, and the businessmen didn't care what the system was, and they would never take out a little more if they could pay a little less.

"Stopped, but the place is too big, we don't have enough manpower, the caravan of the Tang Dynasty is divided into countless small teams, coming to my Silla from all over the place, whoever is stopped by us will say that the night is dark and go the wrong way, turn back, send out more than 100 people, stop 30 small teams, but look at its scale, there should be seventy percent of the Tang Dynasty team has not been stopped, that is, seventy percent of the goods have entered Silla."

The person who came looked depressed, as if he was complaining about the Tang people, and also seemed to complain about the lack of manpower on his side.

Listening to the words of the visitor, Li Dong's brows furrowed deeply, formed a Sichuan character on his nose, looked at the people waiting there, and asked, "Brothers, what is the best way?" ”

"Yes, one is to send more manpower, if you want to completely stop this place by land, at least 5,000 people who are familiar with this place will be able to do it." The man replied.

Li Dong's eyes looked at a place, he was stunned and did not move, and after a while, he said: "It's okay, then after discussing with someone tomorrow, send five thousand people out to specifically stop the caravan of Datang, you can't let them pass so easily, otherwise who will give money?" ”

"Yes." The person who came said yes and left in a hurry.

The next day, it was noon again, and the heat made people's hearts feel stuffy, but fortunately, another team from Datang arrived at the place, also inquired about taxes, and turned around and left like the previous one.

The 5,000 people that Silla finally found were divided into places according to the distance, and the people from Datang secretly came over at night to block them.

But this time, I didn't wait for the sky to get completely dark, and when the sun just set, someone came running over to find Li Dong.

"Li Dongjia, no, the merchants of the Tang Dynasty crossed over in the narrow place of the mud river, they actually brought a raft, I think they have been prepared, Li Dongjia, think of a way?"

Li Dong was completely stunned at this time, he could still send 5,000 people to block it by land, but even if the waterway was counted, let alone 5,000 people, even 50,000 people couldn't stop it, the place was too big, and there were many places where the river channel was relatively narrow, and it was very easy to pass it if you thought about it.

Could it be that the tariffs really can't be collected? So what else do you want this place to do? It also cost a million yuan, and it was all wasted?

The more I thought about it, the more uncomfortable I felt in my heart, Li Dong really had no choice this time, so he came to the third floor of Changfeng Pavilion again and brought other businessmen to discuss, hoping that someone could come up with a better idea.

"Listening to what Li Dongjia meant, the land route connecting my Silla and Datang is too wide, and there are still many narrow places in the two rivers? Is it possible to find a way to widen the river so that their raft cannot be easily crossed, and then narrow the connection from the road? ”

A businessman who is a partner thinks of the crux of the problem and comes up with an idea.

The other businessmen nodded in agreement.

"So how do you make the river wider and the land narrower?" Li Dong muttered and tried to think of an idea.

The rest of the merchants were also thinking about this, and suddenly, one of the merchants' eyes lit up and said excitedly: "I thought of a good way, that is, to connect the two rivers, so that the flow of water will increase, and the river will naturally widen, and the bulge that was not flooded in the original will form a reef once it is submerged, and it is easy for accidents."

Then find a place, such as our road connection, build a bridge there, let the merchants from the Tang Dynasty cross the bridge, so that they want to detour it will be difficult, really overturn a few ships, the loss is not only 20% of the tariff, the value of the goods transported to Silla is a lot, plus human life, I think it can solve this problem. ”

"That's right." The other merchant slapped his thigh in approval, and suddenly showed a confused look, and said, "How can I sound so familiar with this idea?" ”

Li Dong thought quickly, and then said: "Naturally familiar, that was the method that Zhang Xiaobao proposed at the beginning, wasn't it mixed up by our hired people?" There were also quite a few fights with the hired people.

Zhang Xiaobao, Zhang Xiaobao, Zhang Xiaobao, you can do it, I understand, this is a change of law to connect the river, admire, let me wait to know it, obviously aggrieved, and have to do it, if you don't do it, there will be no tariff of 20%, the above can no longer bear the pressure, and we have taken a million yuan. ”

Other businessmen are not stupid, they understand when they hear it, they look at each other, and see deep worry in the eyes of others, this Zhang Xiaobao is finally handed over, without direct contact with him, he really can't understand his ability, he has turned around a lot, the river that should be passed can be passed, and the bridge that should be repaired has to be repaired.

Li Dong was very helpless, and sighed: "Let's discuss, discuss with Zhang Tie of Zheng Zheng Construction Group, let someone send a letter tomorrow, everyone, remember, be careful, Zhang Xiaobao has to think about anything again, don't be fooled again, I know why Li Longji sent him, it's a good person." ”

Everyone nodded, deeply agreed.

The news that Silla was going to cooperate with the Tang Dynasty to connect the two rivers and build the bridge soon spread to the capital of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty.

In the early days of the Li Dynasty, when Li Longji was discussing with his ministers about how more merchants would go overseas to explore new places and bring good things back to the Tang Dynasty, Gao Lishi was sent by the little eunuch to get a letter.

After reading the letter handed by Colliers, who left and returned in a hurry, Li Longji was stunned for a while, and suddenly laughed loudly, "Hahahaha, Xiaobao, Xiaobao, I really didn't disappoint me. ”

The matter that had just been discussed in the early dynasty was suspended, and the letter was first delivered to Zhang Shuo's hands, and his official was the largest, and when he read the letter, which was not too much, and passed it to the next person, Zhang Shuo was silent.

Another impulse to overturn the method he just said, just now when he talked about collecting goods tax from merchants who returned from going to sea, he proposed to bring the coast guard team in Luzhou into the hands of the imperial court, and it was really in the hands of the imperial court, not in the hands of Luzhou, that is, to take back the power of the Zhang and Wang families in disguise.

That's a team that makes money, whoever controls it will be able to get both power and money, and there will definitely be no fewer people who beg to come over to do things.

But after reading the content of the letter sent back from Jili Prefecture, he was a little afraid, afraid that his proposal would be known by Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan.

The officials looked at it one by one, and they read it quickly, and the expressions of everyone who read the letter were different, some were nervous, some were relieved, some were dazed, and some were deep in thought.

When it was passed back into the hands of Gao Lishi, the hundred officials had different opinions on the question of the ownership of the coast guard team in Luzhou just now.

Li Longji was still excited, and said to the courtiers: "Xiaobao is really reassuring, if all local officials are capable of this, then what else do I have to worry about?" It's a pity that Xiaobao and Juan Juan only have a pair, and it's hard to find them. Zhang Qing said that he wanted to withdraw the control of the Coast Guard to the Zhongshu Order, how to do it? ”

Li Longji sighed, remembered what happened just now, and looked at Zhang Shuo to ask.

Zhang said it, looked at the gloating people in the row opposite, and replied calmly: "Your Majesty, the minister thought about it again, for that place in Luzhou, the minister still doesn't know enough about that place, it's better to send more people there to see, study, and then discuss, so as not to act in a hurry and cause deviations." ”

"Oh? Don't be in a hurry to collect it? Others also talk about it. Li Longji deliberately asked, he didn't want Zhongshu Ling to control too much, then the power would be too great, or Xiaobao and Juan Juan were more reassuring.

"The minister seconded the proposal." The person who helped Zhang Shuo speak just now also quickly changed his words at this time.

With his words, others would not offend Zhang Xiaobao, who had just calculated Silla, and expressed their approval.

The expression on Li Longji's face remained unchanged, and he said calmly: "That being the case, let's move on to the next topic, about the courses that should be taught in the academy where the conscripts went to in their last year of discharge." ”