Great Tang Southern Emperor

It's just that the imperial court has limited resources after all, and the territory of Nanyang is too large. Even with the power of the imperial court, it is impossible to take care of it at the same time. It can only choose some important places to develop first, and temporarily put aside other places—— Geographically, the location of Borneo is obviously not very important.

At least compared to the Straits of Malacca and Luzon, it is far inferior. In fact, because it is surrounded by ten thousand islands, although the climate and environment of Borneo are very superior, what grows and grows, but the geographical location is from a military point of view. The words are not too important.Now that Nanyang has just been embraced by Datang, of course it is necessary to stabilize the external defense line first. Only by defending the external enemies can the internal be digested slowly, right?

Therefore, although the delay in the development of enemy ships in Borneo is not in line with economic development, it is very reasonable from a military point of view. It is this attitude of the court that reduces the enthusiasm of investors and businessmen.But what Li Zhen knows is that Borneo has great potential for development. After the rubber industry develops in the future, it will be Datang's most important rubber production base. This is when Borneo really took off.

It's just that Luo Zhe's term of office is about to expire, and this scene is destined not to be realized in his hands. However, in the history of Borneo's development, the name Luo Zhe is destined to be an unavoidable hurdle, because it is his efforts that laid the foundation for Borneo. A solid foundation has been laid, which will allow Borneo to develop at the fastest speed in the future, becoming the new economic center of Nanyang, and also the brightest pearl of Datang inlaid in the sea of ​​Nanyang. In this regard, Luo Zhe has contributed a lot, and even the first person in history will remember his name.

"Actually, I don't blame Luo Zhe for becoming such a character. Those businessmen are really blind." Pei Xingjian and Luo Zhe entered Li Zhen's command at the same time, and were entrusted by Li Zhen at the same time. Therefore, the relationship between the two Very good, now seeing everyone laughing at Luo Zhe, I couldn't help but want to defend him.

"This is also normal." Li Zhen said with a smile: "Businessmen are profit-seeking, and if they want to let them invest, it is necessary to give them visible profits. Borneo is barren and far away from the mainland. The Nanyang Peninsula can also be found, and there is nothing special...Businessmen can’t see the prospects of Borneo, so they can’t invest in it naturally.”

The reason why the two said this is because most of Nanyang is not actually invested by the imperial court, but by the rich merchants and chambers of commerce (as mentioned before), and the imperial court only provides guidance, etc. After the local construction is completed, the merchants get a tax-free policy for how many years to ensure that they will not lose money. The imperial court got a city for free. Although it paid the price of not being able to collect taxes for several years, it greatly shortened the construction period. time, and although businessmen have paid a lot of money in a short period of time, as long as they manage well in the future, the tax exempted alone will far exceed their investment, plus the corresponding privileges and tax sharing (that is to say, they Not only do they not have to pay taxes, they can even get a portion of the taxes paid by others in the city they built), if all goes well, it might only take three to five years for them to pay back their capital, and the rest will be pure earned it.

It can be said that as long as you participate in the construction of Nanyang, you will be able to make a steady profit without losing money (provided you have enough money, or several people can partner), and there is a tax exemption policy, even if you want to go bankrupt.

After all, you don't even have to pay taxes. If you go bankrupt again, you are really incompetent to the extreme. How can someone who can raise enough money to build a city be an incompetent waste?What's more, there is also the annual city income share, which is also a large sum, and it is even more impossible to fail.

Even if you are really bankrupt, your tax-free period is still in your hands, and some businessmen rush to get in front of you. Not to mention, even if you sell this tax-free policy, you can make a lot of money. At least one more chance at a comeback.

Therefore, every new city planning bidding conference of the imperial court will attract many powerful businessmen, especially those big families with long heritage and deep foundation, who will spend a lot of money and don't take money as money at all. , except... except here in Borneo...

It's not that Luo Zhe didn't hold a bidding conference, but his luck was rather unlucky. He recruited a black-hearted contractor in the first bidding. The falling cement blocks hit him, which made him suspicious at the time. Regardless of the contractor's objection, he ordered someone to dismantle a house for inspection. As a result, none of the materials used by the contractor was qualified—that is, Said that the contractor delivered a batch of bean curd dregs projects to him.

This made Luo Zhe furious, and directly sent someone to arrest the whole family of the contractor, and locked them in the house he built.It turned out that tofu dregs were just tofu dregs, and the contractor was not lucky. The house he lived in collapsed that night... The contractor's family was directly buried alive...

From the official point of view, the responsibility for this incident is naturally on the contractor's side. After all, it was a house he built himself, and any problems are naturally his own responsibility. Although Luo Zhe's methods are a bit fierce, it is understandable. Coupled with Li Zhen's protection, he was not punished.

But in the eyes of those businessmen, this Luo Zhe is really abominable, and his methods are too cruel (those businessmen don't think that the house collapsed by themselves, in their thinking, it must be Luo Zhe who is going to collapse the house. After the people were locked in, the house was knocked down), which really frightened the businessmen. Under such circumstances, who would dare to invest in Borneo?

In other words, because of his actions, he was almost ignored by all the businessmen in Datang. Even though he later offered various preferential policies, no one went to invest in Borneo, and no businessman advanced Development and construction, naturally, will not attract immigrants to settle down, which will cause Borneo to lag behind.

In the end, Li Zhen couldn't stand it anymore, and ordered the Chamber of Commerce under his name to support Luo Zhe, but the landlord's family also had a surplus of food. Although Li Zhen made a lot of profits every year, he also had a lot of expenses. You must know that the major organizations under the name are all supported by this chamber of commerce. If there is a problem with this chamber of commerce, everyone under Li Zhen's command will be hungry.

In addition, his actions in recent years have become bigger and bigger, big actions one after another, and huge amounts of money have been invested desperately. In this case, even if he had a cash cow, he would have to shake it to death. It was almost a financial deficit, so I couldn't support Luo Zhe much—but even so, La Zhe still supported Luo Zhe to build Poli City, but that's all.

Chapter 1240 Departure ([-] words)

Chapter 187 Departure ([-] words)

Except for the main city supported by Li Zhen, two of the remaining cities were supported by the imperial court, while the rest were built by Luo Zhe himself with money, and he did everything he could to make money, although I have never done cheating and abducting, but I have done a lot of smuggling. Although I did not transport contraband, but because of his relationship, he bypassed the Shibo Department for some valuable goods and helped the owner save money. A lot of money, and he has also received countless commissions, it is simply a fortune.

The naval fleet under his command was directly used by him as a transport fleet. In the most serious case, the naval fleet did not even return to the base for half a year, and it has been drifting at sea. Fortunately, marine transportation does not require marines, otherwise he would definitely The Marine Corps was sent out, but even so, Borneo was attacked by pirates several times because of the navy in Emmi, and a lot of people were robbed.

It was precisely because of this that Luo Zhe's actions fell into Li Zhen's eyes. Immediately, Li Zhen called him to Yuezhou to scold him severely, and then squeezed himself out of his teeth. The money bought Luo Zhe a batch of coastal defense guns...

It's not that Li Zhen supports his smuggling, it's just that he can't squeeze out too much money. If he had money, he would have built Borneo long ago. Judging from the current situation, he can only acquiesce Zhe's behavior is just acquiescing, but also let him take care of his own back garden, otherwise he is doing business in the front, but the back yard frequently catches fire, then the matter will be serious... Li Zhen can help him cover it up once, But it is impossible to help him cover it all up. Once his deeds are heard by the court, once the court knows that the Governor of Borneo is personally involved in smuggling and plundering huge profits, even if the circumstances are justifiable, the cattle who welcome him will be at least ten years old. prison life.

"When will we set off?" After Luo Zhe's incident, the matter of finding the rebel fleet was naturally ignored by everyone. Anyway, Li Zhen's intelligence system is slowly investigating, and one day it will be found, so this matter The matter is not in a hurry, the most important thing now is to return to Chang'an.

The journey to Chang'an is destined to be uneventful. Although there are many fleets escorting them, everyone does not think that Li Zhen and his party will be safe and sound. After all, the battleships cannot go ashore. The secret enemy will definitely not use all these means to continue to attack Li Zhen - Li Zhen has told them all the plot of the family a few days ago (the identity of the king has not been revealed), they are shocked that Li Zhen's enemy is so In order to prevent Li Zhen from ascending the throne, he actually wanted to kill the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. You must know that although Li Zhen did not like the family, Li Shimin did not treat them badly. Although they were suppressed, Li Shimin's attitude towards the family should be regarded as gentle that's it.

They were even more shocked by Li Zhen's powerful intelligence system, which could even find out such a thing, but they also understood that although they and others had already discovered the enemy's conspiracy in advance, it did not mean that Li Zhen was absolutely safe After all, destiny is impermanent, even the way of heaven is incomplete, let alone human beings?No matter how perfect the plan is, a small change may completely destroy it.

"The day after tomorrow, the navigator said the day after tomorrow will be a good day." Li Zhen thought for a while and said.

"If that's the case, then start preparing today." Fang Yiai said.

In fact, the supplies and so on have already been prepared, and the ship can be sailed at any time, but this is the first time that Datang has so many warships sailing, so we must be careful and careful, no amount of preparation is enough, Fang Yiai He would rather stay in the port for a longer period of time than have even the slightest problem at sea, and no doubt Li Zhen also thought so, so he chose to leave the day after tomorrow instead of tomorrow.

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Time flies, and the third day is coming soon.

Li Zhen arrived at the port early in the morning, accompanied by almost part of the governors of Nanyang and the captains of the fleet, including the chiefs of several naval districts, and the other part set sail alone because the distance was too far, such as Speaking of Du He, governor of Gaoda Prefecture, he will go directly to Hangzhou and meet Li Zhen there.And no matter those around you now, or those who haven't come, they are all absolute fans of Li Zhen, they belong to the confidantes of his confidants, and some of them are even Li Zhen's disciples—for example, Zhuge Zhiming and Sima Qing Hou, seven or eight years have passed, and they have already graduated from Wentian Shuyuan, and after several years of experience in the officialdom, they have slowly climbed to the positions of governor of the Spice Islands and Governor of K Island. It is not a prosperous place, but it is more than enough for two young people in the officialdom to practice, and with their efforts, the construction of these two places is not bad, especially the Spice Islands were built by Zhuge Zhiming even better than Borneo A few points, and Sima Qinghou's K Island is not bad, although it is not prosperous, but the reason is the same as Borneo, there is no support from the imperial court, and it is enough to prove that they can build this place by themselves. It's up to me.

This time when Li Zhen returned to Beijing to take over the throne, how could they not go as confidantes?Moreover, their terms of office almost all ended during this period of time, and naturally they returned to Beijing to report on their duties at the same time.What's more, after Li Zhen succeeds to the throne, they will all be rewarded. How can they not go at this time?Some anxious officials have even begun to discuss in private what title they have won.

"I think I can get a county uncle anyway?" Pei Xingjian said to Fang Yiai in a low voice.

"It should be about the same. Don't worry, Your Highness knows it well." Fang Yiai nodded and said, with Pei Xingjian's contribution, it is definitely no problem to be a county uncle. No steel is not willing to say more about this matter, after all he Just following Li Zhen's side, although it was a whisper, it was likely to reach Li Zhen's ears, and Li Zhen's attitude might be uncertain.

"It's easy for you." Pei Xingjian glanced at Fang Yi'ai angrily, with envy and jealousy in his eyes. This is the benefit of Conglong Zhigong. Fang Yi'ai can be said to be the one who has followed Li Zhen for the longest time. People, and in the years of following Li Zhen, Fang Yiai has also accumulated military merits and reached the level of county marquis, and with Li Zhen's reward this time, he can at least be a county magistrate. Make a little contribution in the next unification war. With Fang Yiai's qualifications, it can be said that there is no pressure to be promoted to the Duke of the State. By then, the Fang family will be a Duke of the Two Kingdoms. He will truly become the unparalleled top wealthy family of the Tang Dynasty. It is estimated that It is also similar to his qualifications, and it is very likely that he will also enter the Du family where Duke Du He belongs to be comparable to him. Even the families of Cheng Chuliang, Yuchi Baoqing and Qin Huaiyu may not be comparable to them.

"..." Fang Yiai smiled and said nothing, came to Li Zhen's side, and said with a slightly solemn expression: "Your Highness, it seems that everyone is very relaxed. Everyone thought that this time it would go well. What you said The words are a bit too much, with their mentality, if there is a problem... Do you think you want your subordinates to warn them? Let them take it easy?"

"No, let's make everyone happy. Besides, everyone is right, isn't it?" Li Zhen has actually heard the conversation between Pei Xingjian and Fang Yiai, including everyone's discussions, which fell into his ears. But he didn't take it to heart. He came from later generations, and he advocated freedom of speech, and he didn't care about the slightly disrespectful words of his subordinates.As for the warning, it seems that there is no such thing. Anyway, even if someone attacks Li Zhen, the escort fleet and the youth army will block the attack, and it will not be their turn to attack. If this is the case, what is the difference between the relaxed and heavy moods of their enemy ships?Since it was too exhilarating, and it was also too worrying, why did Li Zhen become such a villain, and lost her calm and good mood?

"Okay." Fang Yiai was actually worried that Li Zhen would be offended by the words of the people below, and now that Li Zhen herself had no objections, he naturally had nothing to say.

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In this cheerful atmosphere, a group of people soon came to the pier, and the scene in front of them can be said to be very shocking-thousands of warships, large and small, arranged in a neat order according to their respective enemy ships. The military formations are densely packed together, as if this is not a ship formation, but a complete sea building complex, even if these warships are only motionless, let alone firing salvos, but the stern aura still reaches the sky, even the sky. Frightened by this momentum, the floating clouds slowly dispersed, revealing the blue sky.

"Today is really a rare good weather." The sky was clear, and Li Zhen's already good mood became even better.

"It is indeed a good weather for sailing." Cheng Chuliang also came over and nodded. He was also in a good mood. This time when Li Zhen returned to Chang'an, only his Yuezhou Fleet was a complete and full fleet, so His status is faintly higher than that of all the naval fleet commanders - although he is usually treated like this, everyone is often convinced by him, but this time it is different, with the prince beside him as a deterrent, Finally, these bastards were deterred, and no one choked on him anymore. For a while, Cheng Chuliang was in a good mood, and his bones were three points crisp.

"Let's go, let's get on the boat." Li Zhen glanced at him, he knew Cheng Chuliang's Xiao Jiujiu too well, but he didn't point it out, it was very important to maintain the competition among his subordinates, Li Zhen didn't say anything.

Li Zhen was still on the Holy Prince, and the last war did not cause any damage to the Holy Prince, that is to say, it caused a little damage to the hull in the subsequent rapid attack, but it was later repaired by the shipyard at Coconut Port , there is no serious problem.On the contrary, the squadron brought by Fang Yiai suffered heavy losses after turning on the rapid mode. After returning, Lin Fa almost fought desperately with Fang Yiai. Fortunately, after the overhaul, it was found that although the lifespan of these ships was reduced, they did not The situation was unacceptable, and with Li Zhen's mediation, Lin Fa finally gave up. Even so, he knocked on Fang Yi'ai's hundred altars of fine-bound Wuliangye fine wine, which made Fang Yi's heart ache.

"Set sail!" As the fleet slowly set sail, the huge ship array began to move. Under the command of the watchman, although the ship array was densely arranged, there was no collision, and all ships moved in an orderly manner. Spread out without looking messy at all.

Soon, the fleet sailed out of the port. The scale of nearly a thousand warships gathered together was huge, and setting sail at the same time was even more shocking, but Li Zhen was not intimidated at all. After all, he was also a person of later generations. To the ancients, it was indeed shocking, but in his opinion, it was just that. Compared with the grand military parades and regiment exercises of later generations, it was really a small scene, and it was not worth mentioning at all.

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After more than ten days of sailing, the fleet was not far from Dengzhou Naval Base. The journey was as the navy expected, and the journey was calm. Although there were some thieves following them, after seeing the size of Li Zhen's escort fleet, they immediately became Shrinking his head like a turtle, he never dared to offend him in the slightest.

Although the journey was uneventful, the people in the fleet, including Li Zhen and all his confidants, did not dare to be careless at all. They knew very well that the closer they were to Chang'an, the more dangerous Li Zhen's situation would be—— After all, the enemy would never allow Li Zhen to return to Chang'an easily.Because once Li Zhen returns to Chang'an, not only does it mean that their plan fails, Li Zhen will succeed in ascending the throne, more importantly, all their plans will be in vain. Down, there will be no room for turning over.All aristocratic families will become targets of Li's suppression, Buddhism will also become a mouse in the dark, Confucianism will lose its orthodox status... all enemies will lose everything they have now, this is something they absolutely cannot allow.

And in order to maintain their current status, they will never allow Li Zhen to succeed, so assassinations and assassinations will come one after another. In the past, it was nothing more than when they were at sea, with nearly a thousand warships escorting them, even if they controlled Datang. A certain naval base is also absolutely irresistible.But it is different on land. After all, the navy cannot drive on land, which means that their opportunity has come.

What they didn't know was that Li Zhen had already made preparations for this. The [-] youth army was ready to go. Besides the youth army, Li Zhen also had other secret weapons ready, waiting for the enemy's attack at all times.In Li Zhen's plan, returning to Chang'an this time is not only a good time for him to ascend the throne, but also a good time for him to eliminate those secret enemies this time. Once the enemy shows their real fangs, then under Li Zhen's plan, not only The enemy's plan will come to naught, and he will collect enough evidence to wipe out all the enemies...

Chapter 1241 See Locke + "Jungle Survival Guide"

Chapter 188 See Locke + "Jungle Survival Guide"

At the Dengzhou Naval Base, after Li Zhen got off the ship, Yuchi Baoqing and Qin Huaiyu, who had returned to Dengzhou first, were already waiting on the pier.

Seeing Li Zhen coming down, Qin Huaiyu immediately stepped forward and said: "Your Highness has worked hard all the way, and the dust-cleaning feast is ready, Your Highness, please move."

"Meiniang and the others haven't arrived yet?" Li Zhen glanced at Wu Meiniang and the others, and asked involuntarily.

"The Crown Princess has sent a message this morning that they have arrived at the boundary of Qingzhou, and they will arrive in two days." Qin Huaiyu said, thinking that Li Zhen was unhappy, and quickly explained: "The Crown Princess and the others are tens of thousands of people after all. People, most of the journey is on dry roads, so naturally it is not as fast as your Highness, who came with the wind and the water."

"You don't need to explain, I know it." Li Zhen nodded. Although Wu Meiniang and the others traveled closer and left earlier than Li Zhen, only half of their journey was by water, and the rest was by water. It was a land route with a large number of people, so naturally it was not as fast as Li Zhen.