Tang Dynasty: The beginning of the game is to touch the Princess Changle

Li Shimin and others returned to the imperial study.

"Send a message, Li Junxian!"

Soon, the eunuch led the commander of the imperial army to the imperial study.

"Junxian, you quickly send people to the mansions of the noble families in Chang'an to tell them that I have ordered them to come to the palace to see me. There are important matters to discuss."

"Do you know which noble families? Just send the thirteen families that have the right to mine salt mines."

Li Shimin added the order.

"I will obey your orders!" Li Junxian accepted it respectfully and turned to leave.

"Wait~wait~wait, Your Majesty, let me discuss some things with the prince first, and then invite the heads of those noble families after I come back."

Su Chen quickly stopped him, he wanted Li Chengqian to communicate with those heads of the families.

"Oh? What do you mean?" Li Shimin asked in confusion.

"Your Majesty, let the prince talk to them about this matter. Your rank is too high, and my rank is too low. It's just right for the prince to talk about this matter! What do you think?"

Su Chen looked at Li Shimin and smiled faintly.

Li Shimin didn't react at first, but then a smile of understanding appeared on his face.

"Hahaha, kid, you're right. My rank is too high, and it's not appropriate to talk about this matter. I'll do as you say."

"Send the prince to the imperial study to discuss matters!"

The ministers also understood the purpose of Su Chen's doing this, but they didn't dare to do so.

Su Chen did this to train the prince and to help Li Chengqian build connections, not to mention that these connections were from aristocratic families.

"Wait, I can go find the prince myself. I haven't been to the East Palace yet!"

After saying that, Su Chen cupped his hands and walked directly out of the imperial study.

Li Shimin and others didn't stop him, and the other ministers didn't say anything, just watched Su Chen walk out of the imperial study.

Sure enough, not long after, Su Chen came back, stroking the back of his head, "Your Majesty, how do I get to the East Palace? Find someone to take me there!"

"Haha, I thought you were capable." Li Shimin said with a smile, glancing at Wang Defa.

"My Lord, I'll take you to the East Palace to find His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" Wang Defa excitedly stepped forward and led Su Chen to the outside of the imperial study.

"Then I'll trouble you, old Wang."

"Oh, my Lord, you're too polite! I can't bear it!"

...

Wang Defa led Su Chen all the way to the East Palace without any obstacles.

On the way, they met two groups of officials leaving the East Palace. Su Chen didn't recognize them, but their expressions were not good.

"Oh, what are you busy with, brother-in-law!"

Li Chengqian looked up and looked out the door, "Brother-in-law, why are you in my East Palace?"

"My Lord, I pay my respects to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" Wang Defa then paid his respects to the Crown Prince Li Chengqian.

"Everyone, go down!" Li Chengqian nodded slightly to Wang Defa in response, and asked everyone else in the East Palace to leave. Wang Defa certainly didn't need to avoid it.

Su Chen came to the main hall and saw several boxes of different sizes placed on the ground. Su Chen just took a look and didn't ask much.

He took out three pieces of paper from his arms and let Li Chengqian take a look first.

"Take a look first, and I'll tell you in detail after you finish reading." Su Chen stood up and walked around, just like the first time he entered the Taiji Hall, looking at this and touching that.

There was a detailed schematic diagram of the construction of a cement road from Chang'an to Taiyuan on the paper, and another one was about attracting investment, which was more detailed than what he had said to Li Shimin and others before.

In addition, there were arrangements for toll collection, service stations and construction arrangements, mainly for disaster victims to participate in road construction.

Those words were written by Su Chen in pencil, and they were easy to recognize.

Li Chengqian spent about two quarters of an hour, thinking carefully while reading, and some of the words were new to him.

"Brother-in-law, I roughly understand what you mean by doing this?" Li Chengqian asked while holding the papers.

He thought that these should be given to his father.

Su Chen smiled slightly, "Go and change into casual clothes. His Majesty is waiting for us to go over. He will summon the heads of the noble families to discuss the road construction. This matter is entirely up to you to discuss with them."

Li Chengqian looked at Su Chen with a faint smile on his face and nodded slowly. He understood the purpose of Su Chen's doing this.

The gratitude in his heart was beyond words. He patted Su Chen's shoulder and smiled:

"Okay, brother-in-law, wait for me to change into casual clothes, and we will go to see my father now!"

...

"Everyone, tell me, this kid is so bold and reckless. He helped the prince win the hearts of the people in front of me. Does he want to rebel?"

Li Shimin glanced at the ministers and asked very seriously.

"Your Majesty, I think it must be so!" Changsun Wuji nodded in agreement with Li Shimin's statement.

Li Shimin was very satisfied and nodded:

"If that's the case, it's not too much for me to eat his pig today, right?" Without waiting for everyone to reply, he immediately said to Li Jun:

"Jun Xian, you should send someone to the manor immediately to pass the order, and let the manor guards kill the pig quickly. Remember to use ice to cool it down and preserve it. I will have lunch at the manor today.

In addition, you will die now."Please tell me to go to the mansion. It's almost time."

"I will obey your order!" Li Junxian turned and left the imperial study.

Li Shimin nodded with satisfaction. He had eaten this pig and there were seven more pigs. He had always remembered them.

However, Li Shimin didn't know that after the road was completed a few days ago, Su Chen killed another pig to reward everyone.

After Li Junxian left, Su Chen and Li Chengqian came to the imperial study.

Looking at Li Chengqian's confident steps, Li Shimin nodded with satisfaction.

Li Chengqian greeted as usual, and then sat with Su Chen.

"Your Majesty, let someone find the King of Wei as well. He is still the nominal manager of the engineering department."

Manager? Everyone said they had never heard of it.

"Manager means business management. "

Li Shimin nodded and asked Wang Defa to send someone to find Li Tai.

"Your Majesty, let the Ministry of Works build 500 large iron pots. After the road construction starts, stoves will be set up wherever the road is built to save the trouble of delivering meals."

Li Shimin nodded in agreement, and Wang Defa went to the Ministry of Works to pass the order in person.

Not long after, Li Tai, who was dressed in casual clothes, also came. He was stunned when he saw Su Chen, and sat down next to Li Chengqian after greeting.

"Fourth brother, take a look at these!" Li Chengqian took out the papers and handed them to Li Tai.

After Li Tai read them carefully, he didn't know how much it cost to build this cement road, so he returned to the palace early.

"What a good investment attraction! ”

As smart as Li Tai is, he understood everything after reading it. It explains the cost of cement road. If the national treasury is the only source of funds, the national treasury will be emptied.

Li Chengqian remembered something and should report it to Li Shimin.

“Father, the East Palace has already received the stolen money and silver from those officials, totaling more than 600,000 taels.”

Li Shimin did not expect that those corrupt officials would surrender and return the stolen money so quickly.

He roughly calculated that 5 million dan of grain was about 250,000 taels of silver, so the rest of the silver should have been embezzled from other places.

In the early Tang Dynasty, the price of grain was 50 wen per dan, and one tael of silver could buy 20 dan of grain.

“I did not say much to them, but after they left the East Palace, I wrote down the names of the officials and the amount of silver.”

Li Shimin nodded, “Prince, you handled it properly. I have my own plans for these officials after the autumn examination. ”

This is the first day that the audit results have been announced. I believe that more people will continue to send money.

About an hour later, Li Junxian came back to report.

"Your Majesty, the twelve heads of the aristocratic families in Chang'an City are waiting in the side hall!"

Li Shimin looked at Li Chengqian and Su Chen, "Prince, you are fully responsible for this matter, and I will only be an observer."

"Your son obeys your order!" Li Chengqian stood up and replied respectfully.

"Your Majesty, when I went to the residence of the Li clan leader, the twelve heads of the aristocratic families were discussing the cement road. I plan to go to the palace to meet Your Majesty after the morning court tomorrow. "

Li Junxian notified each household in order of distance, and the first three households were all gone, as they were told that their heads had gone to the Li family.

After arriving at the Li family, the Li clan leader informed Li Junxian that they were discussing going to the palace to meet the emperor tomorrow.

When Su Chen heard this, he looked at Li Shimin with resentment, as if saying, "I told you to come tomorrow, but you didn't listen!"

Li Shimin received Su Chen's gaze and thought:

Don't mention it, this lazy man has his reasons for being lazy!