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"You kid!" Li Shimin pulled Yan Kai aside alone: ​​"You said your kid didn't want to rebel. Why are you doing so much iron ore?"

After saying that, he looked at Yan Kai with some suspicion: "You won't rebel, right?"

"Your Majesty, please don't accuse me unjustly!" Yan Kaixin was actually a little moved.

The fact that Li Shimin was able to ask himself this question actually meant that he had never doubted himself.

Of course, there was nothing to doubt about him. Although the development of Kuoding County was good, he did not set restrictions on many technologies of the Tang Dynasty government.

Now the Tang government has slowly begun to build various hydraulic machinery in Kuoding County.

He even asked craftsmen in the county to make a set of wind power equipment and send it to Chang'an. Wind power can also be used in places with strong northwest winds and water shortages.

He never kept grain seeds for himself. As long as they were harvested in Kuoding County, they would be sent to Chang'an for Li Shimin to promote them.

This year has been a mild winter, and Qin Tian Jian is already estimating that there may be a locust plague next year.

But Li Shimin didn't panic at all.

Because the government has food and a large amount of sweet potato flour, potato flour and the like have been stored, even if there is a severe drought and locust plague next year, they will be able to survive the whole year.

All of this can be said to be the result of Yan Kai.

Even this kid had no intention of taking credit. Many people thought that the food was discovered in Dengzhou and did not know who Yan Kai was.

It was because of his past actions that Li Shimin never suspected Yan Kai of treason.

On the contrary, I fell in love with him even more.

"Then tell me, what are you going to do with these iron ores?"

"Building ships!" Yan Kai said confidently: "Our caravan in Kuoding County used to be bullied by the Pippi Shrimp. Look, this time we were beaten by the Korean Navy!"

"So we think we should build armored ships like the Chang'an in the future. At least they can run fast and won't suffer any loss in a fight!"

At this point Yan Kai started to count on his fingers: "Your Majesty, you own 20% of the shares in our maritime business in Kuoding County. I have been pulling money from Chang'an City in the past two years, right?"

"I did the math, the total is..."

"Okay, okay!" Hearing Yan Kai say this, Li Shimin quickly stopped him.

Yan Kai was indeed right. When he said he wanted to go overseas to do business, Li Shimin agreed to Yan Kai, and then Yan Kai gave him 20% of his shares.

At that time, Li Shimin didn't take it seriously. How much money could he make from doing business in such a small county?

As a result, the first dividend that was taken to Chang'an was stopped at the city gate.

I don’t know if Yan Kai deliberately didn’t change the copper coins into cloth, but he wanted to enter Chang’an with more than ten carts of bright copper coins pulled by ox carts.

It took Li Shimin to come forward and let the Chang'an City Guards in.

Then everyone knew that it was the money His Majesty earned from doing business in Haishan.

It can be said that Yan Kai provides more than half of Li Shimin's current expenses in the palace.

Hearing that Yan Kai wanted to settle matters with him, even Li Shimin looked a little worried.

Even though Yan Kai is a courtier, he still feels a little embarrassed when he uses the money earned by a teenage boy.

"But your craftsmen should bring their apprentices out quickly. The shipbuilding craftsmen I will send later will have to leave when the time comes." This was what the two of them had agreed upon at the beginning.

It was impossible for the Tang Dynasty not to build its own navy.

Even if Li Shimin continues to favor him, when Kuoding County's navy becomes too powerful, the DPRK will either ask for it to be taken back, or it will have to build a more powerful navy itself.

Even Li Shimin couldn't stop it.

"There is also the matter of you selling land in Goryeo this time. There must be ministers in the court who want to impeach you..."

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I'll take the blame! It just so happens that I also had some credit for the attack on Goryeo this time, so how about that offset that?"

The three-thirds of an acre of land in Kuoding County was prospering on his own, and Yan Kai didn't want any credit for his promotion.

Li Shimin sighed. Yan Kai had no credit for his achievements this time. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it was his first achievement.

However, no matter if we give him another two years, he has not yet reached the top, and he has no foundation in the government.

It would be good to run a good business in Kuoding County for another two years, and he had already made up his mind to send Li Chengqian to Kuoding County.

Even if Yan Kai cannot be an extremely popular minister this time, he will definitely not treat him badly when Cheng Qian ascends the throne in the future.

"Okay!" Li Shimin originally planned to encourage Yan Kai a few more words.

When I heard people from Kuoding County in the mining area down below shouting slogans while loading trucks, my face darkened.

Despite his young age, this kid has great ideas.

My own beating or estimation would be of little use to him, so it would be more practical to give him a few craftsmen.

With a cold snort, he turned around and took the people back to Pyongyang.

"When Li Zhi leaves, take more of those canned fruits with you. If you have any good ones, I don't know how to send some to the palace!"

"Yes!" Yan Kai didn't leave. It was obvious that Li Shimin was not in a good mood, so he stopped following him to cause trouble.

Besides, he saw a few familiar figures just now.

"Dad, Mom, why are you all here?"

Yan Kai ran down to the mining area, and just now he saw his parents pushing a flatbed truck from a distance.

"Hey, didn't I hear that the more people you want here, the better? There hasn't been much work in the fields recently. Daozhang Sun and your sister Xiu'er are watching at home, so we'll come over and help." Yan Laoer said honestly. said.

"Who was the person who was talking to you just now?" Sister-in-law Yan asked a little strangely: "Just because he pulled you aside and pointed fingers at you, he was so honest and unceremonious, is he an official?"

Yan Kai suppressed a smile and said, "Well, that's right. Your son will be older."

"Tch, you're so old, and the official is a little older than you, but he doesn't have much potential! You still have the nerve to point fingers at you!" In Aunt Yan's eyes, her son is naturally the best.

Yan Kai burst into laughter, then started to help the second elder load a cart of ore, and then helped push it out to the shore for loading.

This time all the new and old ships in Kuoding County came.

If we bring these mines back, we can build two more ships like the Chang'an.

Kuoding County in Yankai now has money, mines, workers, technology and experience.

It is estimated that two new ironclads can be built in one year.

There is nothing to worry about in Northeast Asia for the time being.

But Yan Kai still wants to see the Maritime Silk Road.

If you really want to make money at sea, you still have to go to Southeast Asia and go to the Arab Empire.

Then take a boat to those places to bring goods!

And in this day and age, there are still many places in the world that are simply deserted.

In this empire on which the sun never sets, why can't the Tang Dynasty take over?