The next day, Taiji Hall.

"Your Majesty!"

In the morning court, all civil and military officials performed the ceremony of paying homage, but they only bowed and did not kneel.

"Stand up, no need to bow!"

Li Shimin waved his hand, his voice steady and majestic!

"If you have something to report, please report it. If not, please leave the court!"

The court was quiet in an instant, and people were talking casually.

"Your Majesty, the three of us have been ordered to investigate the intermarriage situation in all counties under Chang'an in the past 10 years. Please review the results of the investigation!"

Li Shimin glanced at the ministers and said in a sonorous voice: "Present it!"

Eunuch Wang De received the order.

Changsun Wuji saw that the time was almost right, and stepped forward to report.

"Well, why investigate intermarriage?"

"Yes, I haven't heard of it!"

The court officials below began to whisper again. A large part of the other people came to the court just to make up the numbers, and they had nothing to do at all.

Above, Li Shimin looked at the report, frowning and his eyes showing fierceness, foreshadowing the coming of a storm.

The report was slammed heavily on the table, and the crowd below immediately lowered their heads and dared not look at the emperor.

If someone looked up, they would find that Li Shimin's eyes showed deep regret and sadness.

Li Shimin said lightly: "Assistant, read this report to all the beloved ministers."

"I obey your order!" He took the report handed back by Wang Defa.

"Yesterday, I, together with Fang Pushe and Du Shangshu of the Ministry of War, jointly investigated the intermarriage situation in Chang'an in the past ten years.

The results of the investigation are as follows: 160,000 couples have married in the past 10 years, including 4,210 couples of close relatives, and 86,200 couples of women married and had children before the age of 18.

There are 3,760 couples of close relatives, and the offspring born have premature fetal death, deformity, and intellectual disability.

There are 62,830 couples of women who married and had children before the age of 18, and the fetuses died prematurely and the mothers died, resulting in two deaths."

After Changsun Wuji finished his report, there was another round of whispering below, and some directly reported that they had discovered such incidents, but they all thought it was accidental.

Li Shimin immediately ordered the promulgation of the Tang law to prohibit close relatives from marrying, and the marriage age must be after the age of 18.

Ministers can jump out to oppose.

A civil servant named Lu, Lu Wangcai, stepped forward and said:

"Your Majesty, marriage between relatives has existed since ancient times. Even if the figures in this survey are true, the same situation will occur in non-close relatives. Please think twice!"

Another official named Cui, Cui Geng, also stepped forward and said:

"Your Majesty, once such a ban is issued, it will definitely affect the population and taxation of our Tang Dynasty. Please think twice."

If Li Shimin had not heard of it, Su Chen might listen to his analysis of the reasons for population growth, but who would listen to your nonsense now.

"Hmph, dismiss the court!" He left and went to the imperial study.

"Xuan, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Changsun Wuji, and Wei Zheng came to the imperial study to discuss matters."

...

"Mr. Su, why did you come so early today? Are you hungry? My lady and I just arrived."

The little girl jumped and ran over to greet Su Chen.

"Mr. Su, what's in your package?"

Jin'er asked curiously when she saw Su Chen holding a big package.

"It's not food, why didn't you go to pick tea leaves today?"

Su Chen came very early today, probably around 8 o'clock, and there were no customers in the restaurant yet.

"I don't need to go, Miss, just let me teach her and them. Mr. Su, we picked more than 300 kilograms of tea leaves yesterday, and more than 60 kilograms after frying."

The little girl was very happy to show off to Su Chen.

After touching Jin'er's head and boasting:

"Jin'er, I'm going upstairs to talk to Li Zhi about something, you ask someone to bring up a pot of boiling water."

After that, Su Chen quickly walked upstairs.

...

"Beauty, good morning! Did you miss me?"

Changle was surprised to see Su Chen so early today, did the sun rise from the west?

"Why did you come so early today? Jin'er and I just arrived a while ago. What are you holding in your hand?"

She was completely immune to Su Chen's teasing.

"It's not food. I have something important to discuss with you today."

They all asked him what he had. Su Chen was afraid that they would eat it. These were seeds. Just in case, he only took out a part.

But his seeds, shelled peanuts, should be able to plant ten acres of land, melon seeds are more, and peppers can be planted on five acres of land.

Su Chen sat down next to her and was about to pick up the cup to drink water, but found that there was no water?

Suddenly stood up, and his eyes lit up.

He thought: "Yes, I can get extra rewards for creating things myself, why don't I make a stove?"

Su Chen began to walk back and forth in the living room thinking, lowering his head for a while, and then raising his head.

He thought that it was easy to make a stove, but there was no coal. Would charcoal be durable? FirepowerIs that enough?

Changle did not disturb him. She felt that Su Chen was thinking about something important.

A flash of inspiration came to her, and she thought to herself: "It's not that the Tang Dynasty does not have coal, but that they do not know coal."

Su Chen suddenly turned his head and looked at Changle with a sharp gaze.

He touched his chin and shook his head, and laughed.

Xiao Si brought the hot water.

Changle took the kettle and made tea.

After Su Chen sat down, he thought deeply again:

"This coal mine must be nationalized. It will be indispensable for future development. We cannot mine it rashly.

Steelmaking and ironmaking must use coal. People in the Tang Dynasty will freeze to death in winter because of lack of heating.

Otherwise, if someone sees the benefits and follows suit, it will be troublesome.

This is related to my main task.

Alas, doesn't Li Er, this bastard, like to visit incognito?

Where the hell did he die?"

The palace, the imperial study.

"My dear ministers, please discuss the specific implementation of this intermarriage ban and how to explain it to the people."

Li Shimin fell into deep thought, "Ah, Ah!"

"Your Majesty! Is the dragon body not well?"

Everyone asked with concern.

"I am fine!" He thought: "Is there someone plotting against me again? Is it that kid?"

"Everyone, continue to discuss!" Li Shimin said, touching his nose.

...

Changle saw Su Chen frowning and thinking, and sighing again, and handed him a cup of tea.

"Su Chen, what's wrong with you?"

Su Chen was interrupted and smiled:

"I'm fine. I was supposed to discuss the VIP card with you today, but now there is something more important."

Changle heard Su Chen say that there was something important, and she also felt that it might be really important.

"Can you tell me about it?"

Su Chen found that this girl didn't care about the severity of her actions, but things could still be divided into priorities.

"Do you have any vacant fields at home? The bigger the better."

Changle was surprised why Su Chen wanted the fields to be as big as possible, but she really didn't know this.

"I don't know this."

Su Chen also guessed that she might not know these things.

"Well, I know you don't know. Have some tea and I'll go to your house to find your father later."

When she heard that she was going to her house, Changle was a little panicked. She didn't know if her family had a big field, but she knew that her house was big.

"My father?" Changle had never heard of this.

Su Chen reacted and said it quickly.

"It's your father. Let's not talk about it. Let's go to your house now."

Picked up the package and pulled Changle to leave, but found that he couldn't pull.

"Su Chen, why don't I send someone back to call my father over now!"

Su Chen thought about it and it was okay. It didn't matter if it took an hour.

"Okay, I'll ask you to invite my uncle over."

In fact, Su Chen wanted to ask Changle how many high-ranking officials her father could know in Chang'an with his connections.

Changle went to the first floor, found Zhang Shun, and asked him to go back to the palace to ask Li Shimin to come to the restaurant.

...

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