A cold moonlight shot in from the window, and the night wind was a little cold. I don’t know where it was blowing in, and the candlelight kept swaying.

Both of them were silent.

Pei Yuhe was thinking about what her father said last night:

"He'er, you're going to get married, but many accidental things happened. I think the prince is definitely unhappy. However, the prince is finally a kind person, and he reasoned. When you enter the Eastern Palace, you can only tolerate that although the stone is hard, it can be chiseled with water. He has persevered."

"He'er, although our Pei family is a famous family in the Tang Dynasty, the prince attaches importance to people's livelihood and is kind-hearted. When he enters the Eastern Palace, he must not regard himself as a famous family. He needs to be kind to the people around the prince. Especially the side rooms around the prince, he cannot be arrogant."

"He'er, it's mainly the death of Yang Sijian and Xu Qidan. If you enter the Eastern Palace, you will definitely be indifferent to the prince. But things in the world are bitter first and then sweet, and you need not be arrogant or complain. You should take the actions of the former queen as a warning. The more you are indifferent, the more you should treat them with courtesy."

...

After saying a lot, my mother just cried.

Thinking of this, Pei Yuhe said in the red veil: "Your Highness, I have heard of many things. My family doesn't want it to happen. I know that Your Highness is dissatisfied, but I am willing to do so. After all, it is the will of the two priests."

But Pei Yuhe's words had a counterproductive effect, and Li Wei was thinking in his heart, could you use my parents to suppress me, so he didn't say anything.

After being silent again, Pei Yuhe said again: "The person you like, you have to go to Yangzhou again, and I am also guilty..."

Not a very intentional girl. Speaking of this only made Li Wei even more unhappy and said, "Is it my fault for you alone? A few of my close friends all said you are good, and even Mr. Pei was a lobbyist, saying you are good. Let's go to bed."

After saying that, he poured it on the bed and went to bed. He didn't even lift the veil, let alone drink Heiyu.

A few days later, Li Xian married the daughter of Fang as the princess.

Neither of the couple was dissatisfied with the Fang family of Qinghe. They were also from the famous Qinghe Fang family, and they were well-educated and well-mannered. However, because of all kinds of things, Li Xian had a bad impression of the people. Some conspiracy theorists once again dug out the emperor's enthronement last year. It was said that the emperor was jealous of the prince and wanted to abolish the eldest son and establish the young.

The same embarrassment, one is outside and the other is inside.

A few days later, Li Wei went to Mount Li to hunt despite his newlyweds. The weather became cold, the north wind whistled past, and a few snow fell. Although the sun shone from time to time, it did not melt, and the vast white area between the world gradually became frozen. Even the Wei River was frozen, and the Guangtong Canal project had to be stopped.

When Li Wei returned to Chang'an, he could not see prey on Mount Li, so he could not stay any longer. As soon as he returned to the East Palace, he asked his father to shout over.

Li Zhi said angrily: "Are you not satisfied with the Crown Princess I have taken on your behalf?"

"My son is dissatisfied," Li Wei replied honestly, and said, "Father, my son is lucky enough to make my father the crown prince. What we should learn is that my father governs the country and the country, and there is no need to work hard on the women in the East Palace."

I haven't said the next sentence yet, let alone I can't learn from you. There are so many things happening in your harem, so what qualifications do I have to say to me?

"Are you satisfied if you are the frivolous little lady of the Xu Qidan family to be the crown princess? Or if you are the merciful little lady of the Yang Sijian family to be the crown princess?"

"Although Father, Xu Qidan and Yang Sijian have committed minor mistakes, they have been demoted to Lingnan and have died suddenly. Father, there is no need to care so much."

"Are you dissatisfied with me?"

"The son minister dares, just like the daughter of the Pei family. The son minister does not like it. It is the order of the parents, but the son minister does not dare not to obey it. But it is just the affairs of a few women in the Eastern Palace, and the son minister also has his own preferences. It is not a loss of virtue, and it has nothing to do with the affairs of the state. Just like the father asked the son minister to supervise the country, the son minister should work diligently and share the worries and labors for the father. But how did the father impose his father's preferences on his son minister?"

"You bastard!" Li Zhi was so angry that he smashed the teacup on Li Wei's head. Li Wei was quick and caught it, but he didn't hit it.

Wu Zetian escaped the siege and said, "Hong'er, you go back first."

But I added, saying, "Although you have done a lot of things to make Your Majesty happy with me, you have disappointed me in this matter."

This is also the first time that Li Wei has had the most serious conflict with his father in recent years.

Then Li Wei heard in the Eastern Palace that the two kings of Gongyue Shule came to surrender. The reason why Tubo captured the four towns was because of the collusion between Gongyue and other troops in Tubo. However, Tubo was even more cruel and even stripped off people's clothes. Gongyue and other troops regretted it very much and resisted Tubo repeatedly. However, the internal situation was not very calm. Gongyue Shule's two kings first led Tubo to capture Yutian, and then Gongyue led Tubo to attack Shule. The Tang Dynasty sent the Honglu Minister Xiao Siye to send troops to attack him. Before the troops arrived, Gongyue King was afraid and surrendered with Shule.

Since he surrendered, Li Zhi did not pursue the matter, so he pardoned his crime and allowed him to return to his country.

Another thing was that Liang and Lu wrote a letter again, using gunpowder to make firecrackers, and demanding that the court collect taxes. The officials were both ridiculous, but no matter what, the two canals had started construction and were very expensive. I don’t know how much tax it could be levied, but some were better than those that were not. So I agreed.

In fact, the end of the year is approaching, and there is also a sweet spot. The two newly established sea cities are still not moving, and the sea ships in the Central Plains are far away. The Dashi merchants did not hear about it in Guangzhou. They were not very familiar with the Central Plains. They were not as familiar as they were not as good as they were, and the waterways were not familiar, so no ships came. However, many merchants had already started trading in several foreign cities and Guanshi, and they had received nearly 60,000 yuan in taxes for the court. Not small, but it was not long before it started. If this continues, in a year, 500,000 yuan in money can still be obtained.

The accounts can still be calculated in this way. The current imperial court income of the Tang Dynasty was about 10 million yuan. Some of the imperial industries, such as salt farms, horse farms, or official farms, and some were commercial taxes, such as Guangzhou's Maritime Warehouses, but most of them were borne by farmers. The rent and man-made system plus various miscellaneous taxes, a penny was at least two penny money a year, and thirty volunteers. The income of the public city alone was equivalent to 200,000 penny, and the tax income paid by more than one million people.

However, the greater the bottom, the greater the hole you can dig. Not to mention the two channels, we will send troops to the *** next year, and we will also prevent the invasion of the Tubo people. We will also need more funds, so the court's expenses are still short of funds.

The quota of "good merchants" who went to sea also made a decision. Many businessmen from the two capitals participated, but most of them took Zou Fengchi's mentality and treated it as donations. It was impossible for Zou Fengchi's property to be paid in small amounts, so some of them only expressed their intention to give out a thousand yuan of money. However, the merchants in the coastal areas were more enthusiastic, but their assets were not much. In the end, the income was less than 600,000 yuan.

The officials of the court were very happy. Six hundred thousand yuan was already a huge sum of money. Not only this sum, but also the income from the sea tariffs in the future. There were still people who opposed it, including one hundred places and three thousand ships, allowing nearly 50,000 people to go out to sea. How many people in the Tang Dynasty were totally? But in the face of this sum of money, all the opposition became pale.

Li Wei was not very satisfied. In his expectation, he could get at least one to two million yuan. After all, it was the early Tang Dynasty that people were allowed to go abroad to do business, and the number of places was limited, so the participants were more enthusiastic. Although the money was huge, when it was spring, if we wanted to repair the Guangtong Channel before the spring water flooded, and to avoid spring farming production in February, more people would have to recruit more people to work. Also, house demolition was delayed until the beginning of spring. Spring was coming, and the stone opening technology was mature, and it would cost a lot of money to build a Sanmen Mountain Road and build several warehouses. It is possible that this money would be used up when the Guangtong Channel and Sanmen Road were completed. What should we do next autumn?

After autumn, when the Xinkai River is excavated and the Danshui underwater river channel is sorted out, the surface of the two projects is not as large as the Guangtong Canal Project, but Guangtong Canal is just re-dipped. At most, it is the water of the Fengshu. Even the Sanmen Road has a road that was originally repaired, so the difficulty of the project next year will be several times this year, and the cost will be only high or low. Where will the cost come from then on?

...

Because of the firecrackers, the New Year celebration has been added. Many people walked out of their homes and came to the streets to sing and dance, which has a little bit of a prosperous and prosperous era.

After the New Year, Li Wei expected that in order to seize the time, Wei Hongji had sufficient funds to raise money and recruited civil servants. It was the time when many poor families still needed money in urgent need. At one point, more than 98,000 workers were employed from Sanmen Road to Guangtong Canal, and nearly 100,000 soldiers were employed. March came, Guangtong Canal gradually started to work, and Sanmen Road was the first to work. But the cost was amazing. Wei Hongji was proficient in civil engineering and was very careful in calculating. The civil servants were also very motivated because they were the imperial court's first humanized recruitment workers. Few people were lazy and the project progressed very quickly. However, the 600,000 yuan money was gradually used up.

This is just about connecting the original canal and the road. If you start with nothing, the expenses will be more than doubled at least. Someone boredly calculated that the project may be between 100 and 200 times that of the Guang Canal. In other words, according to Li Wei's method of opening the canal, it will cost at least 200 million to 400 million.

I calculated the two-channel general project again, but there was no way to calculate it. After roughly estimating, it was only with the new quarrying technology that would cost at least 10 million yuan to complete it. It was far from what I thought at the beginning. It would cost 5 million and 6 million yuan, and with the new stone opening method, otherwise the cost would have to be increased by two or three times.

Of course, it is not without benefits. On March 16th, with a command, the embankments at both ends of the canal were opened, and the rivers on both sides immediately rushed in. Thousands of boats sailed in, and the people celebrated. When the two canals were formed, it was too far away, but Guanzhong had already benefited from the Guangtong Canal. Unlike the Wei River, the ships often stranded because of the rapid flow of the water, and the boats were often stranded, and the boats were also composed of force labor. Not only the boaters, but also the ships transporting grain were provided free of charge by wealthy merchants in Jiangnan. Otherwise, the food prices were only freight, and the food from Jiangnan to Guanzhong became an astonishing sky-high price. Moreover, there were no protection measures along the way, and the boats were overturned and people were killed, which was also a considerable burden on the wealthy households. Therefore, many wealthy households found ways to escape.

It’s not that the Guangtong Channel will not capsize, but the accident rate will be reduced. Moreover, the three ways to repair the cost will be reduced, which is another blessing for the transportation of valuable goods, and it also gives the people of Shanzhou a way to make a living. Therefore, from the wealthy families in Jiangnan to the people of Guanzhong, all the people are happy.

The most important thing is that such a large project was not completed by enslaving the people, but by recruiting the people. Even the three ways were built and several people fell off the cliff and died, all of which were given enough compensation and pension, which was a benevolent policy. It also somewhat resolved the problem of canal transportation.

Many people happily called it the Prince's Que.

After hearing this, Li Wei frowned. This was about to stimulate his father again.

March is coming, and everything in the East Palace is also reviving, with flowers and green willows, and a large group of little swallows flying around. This time, many people came back, and there were actually eighteen. Bier came over and was extremely shy. Li Wei glanced at her and asked, "What do you want to say?"
Chapter completed!