Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

The environment inside the mountain is too bad, before the army arrives, it is estimated that half of the soldiers will fall.

Hey, how do you think of a way to dissuade His Highness?

These thoughts flashed through everyone's minds.

Li Ke glanced at the expressions of everyone. He probably knew what everyone was thinking. Three cooked, right?"

"Yes." Everyone nodded, not knowing why His Highness asked this.

"In other words, there is no shortage of food in Lingnan?"

"No shortage." Everyone said nothing. In fact, there is no shortage of food in the whole Tang Dynasty. The main reason is that the population of the Tang Dynasty is small. The population is estimated to be only a fraction of that.

There is no shortage of arable land, and naturally there is no shortage of food.

In history, natural disasters in the early Tang Dynasty still caused people to starve to death. In fact, it was because food was not allocated in time.

The second part of the reason is that the Tang Dynasty was just established in the early stage, and has been fighting for years. A lot of food collected from the local area was given priority to supply to the army. How can there be no refugees?

Secondly, in a disaster year, when people want to buy grain, even the people in unaffected areas dare not sell grain. They are also afraid that they will suffer a disaster here. food shortage.

Moreover, at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, there was a lot of waste waiting for prosperity, the official water transportation was insufficient, and commerce was not as developed as the later Song Dynasty, and both official and private transportation were lacking.But the Tang treasury was poor, and Li Shimin and the others didn't understand the principle that the economy needs circulation. The treasury was poor, and if they wanted to save money, they would not do some things if they could.

But an ordinary person in later generations knows the truth that saving can only save small money, and big money can never be saved, especially for the country.

There is no shortage of food in Lingnan, but it does not mean that all the people in Lingnan have food. For example, the tribes in the mountains, Li Ke knew that they must be short of food.

Think about it, more than 1000 years later, the mountainous areas of Yunnan are full of poverty-stricken areas, and even many ethnic minorities in the mountains have no national poverty alleviation policies and still rely on the mountains to live on them. One can imagine their lives in Datang.

"I understand. Although we have no way to communicate with these barbarian tribes, I think you must be able to contact a few barbarian tribes, right?" Li Ke looked at them and asked.

"Of course this is possible." Everyone was not surprised. Some of these tribes were unwilling to communicate with the Han people, and naturally there were some who were not so resistant. It would definitely be possible to contact a few barbarian tribes.

"Okay, that's the end of the matter. You can go back and think about it. Then I will give you three days. We will talk again in three days. By the way, Sun Simiao and Daoist Sun have followed me. I can help you take a look first." Body." Li Ke nodded with a smile.

If Li Ke remembers correctly, several people here are about to die. For example, Qiu He seems to die next year. If Sun Simiao is here, it will be no problem to let him live for another year or two, right?Old people like Qiu He, although they are a little older, are still very influential. How can it be possible to die next year?

Why don't you live another two or three years, at least you have to wait until Datang takes over Southeast Asia before you die.

And some clans sent by the Tang Dynasty, such as Li Daoxing, died in office last year due to miasma. Unfortunately, if he dies again this year, Li Ke will definitely be able to rescue him.

"Thank you, Your Highness." Regarding this, everyone was full of joy. Sun Simiao's reputation is well known in Lingnan Road, not to mention that the Datang Weekly has publicized it several times. Of course they know, and it's like this The old god can see a doctor, but he can't even ask for it at ordinary times.

The ancients all knew that doctors and doctors, the older they get, the better they are!

Even a doctor who was not very knowledgeable when he was young can see most of the diseases with experience alone.

After the discussion, the next thing is naturally to have fun with the guests and the host. After the meal was over, everyone also left one after another. After they left, a man in his 40s walked in.

"Your Majesty Li Dai has met His Highness." The man saluted Li Ke excitedly.

"Excuse me, how about it? Are you used to the weather in Lingnan Road?" Li Ke asked with a smile. Li Dai is the person in charge of Yuelai Commercial Bank in Lingnan Road.

"When you return to Your Highness, you have already adapted. When you first came here, you were not used to it, but in the past few years, you have adapted a lot." Li Dai's tone was still a little excited, this is His Royal Highness.

"Don't get excited, I will stay here for a while, you can often see me, so it's not okay to be so excited." Li Ke made a joke.

"Yes." Li Dai took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down, "Your Highness, this is what you need."

After calming down, Li Dai handed over a document he had brought to Li Ke.

Li Ke took it over and took a look. It was mainly about the price of Lingnan Road, and the top one was grain. The grain in Guangzhou is currently 100 mana per stone, while the cheapest food in some other prefectures of Lingnan Road is only 60 mana per stone. , according to the price of 120 Wen a stone in Chang'an, here is only half of the price in Chang'an.

In other words, if you buy grain from Lingnan Road at a price of 60 Wen, and then transport it to Chang'an with a new type of ship, you can still make a profit. The cargo is 10 tons, about 1200 shi, and the profit is more than 700 guan.

It seems that the profit is not high, but don’t forget that the Tang court did not make money in transporting grain in the past, and they all lost money. Now they can still make money. This is a huge progress in itself, which has a great impact on promoting grain trade. Influence.

As long as there is profit, there are businessmen willing to do it.

The consumption of grain transported by land is too large. From Lingnan to Chang'an, the loss is estimated to be close to [-]%, or even [-]%. For every stone of grain, people on the road have to eat [-]/[-].

But large ships don't have this problem. They can transport enough food at one time, and if it is a cargo ship, it doesn't need too many people at all, only basic sailors are needed.

Then there is the price of table salt. Li Ke's Chihai salt is not sold here. After all, other places in Datang can consume it, so there is no need to sell it here, but Guangzhou actually sells it!But it was not Li Ke who sold it, but other merchants bought Li Ke's high-grade salt in Chang'an and sold it back in Guangzhou.

Not to mention, there are actually many wealthy merchants here who buy it.