Valley Emperor

When going north, Li Xuan's speed was not too slow, but he still stopped and went. In addition, the threat of the official northern Ming army was still there, so he couldn't go too fast, causing some accidents. But this time he went south, Although Li Xuan brought a lot of people, his speed was still much faster than when he went north.

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There are many ships going south, more than 500 ships. Of course, most of the more than 500 ships are small and medium-sized ships, while the relatively large ships are only more than 100 ships, all of which are official ships of the Tang Dynasty. .

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There are civil war warships and armed transport ships of the Datang Navy, as well as inland transport ships of the Privy Council Logistics Department, and then there are transport ships operated by the Guards. There are even a dozen inland warships inside, which are exactly the same as the inland warships of the Datang Navy.

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More than 500 ships carried tens of thousands of people who went south, and also brought back a lot of gold and silver goods from the north.

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However, strictly speaking, many of the gold and silver in it are not the official government of the Tang Dynasty, but belong to the Royal Bank. Because the army has been on the northern expedition, it has successively seized more than 20 million taels of cash, and these silvers are directly into the treasury.

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However, the silver that was put into the treasury was transferred to the Royal Bank, so the treasury got a lot of cashier's checks, and the gold and silver belonged to the Royal Bank's gold and silver reserves.

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However, although the Royal Bank is not an official institution in the strict sense, as a royal family industry, and it is the most special royal family industry, it is the only bank with an official background in the Tang Dynasty. It shoulders many special missions, including issuing The issuance of national debt, banknotes, and large-amount loans supports the important tasks of local infrastructure construction and industrial development.

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Therefore, no one has ever regarded Royal Bank as an ordinary bank!

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Otherwise, it is impossible for the military to directly take over the transport task of the Royal Bank's gold and silver with a value of more than 20 million silver.

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More than 500 ships of various types went south along the canal in a mighty way, with a length of tens of kilometers. After the front fleet arrived at the next destination, the ships behind the fleet often just started to set off. !

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The boat Li Xuan was on was a specially built royal liner.

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The secretariat of the Hanlin Academy put forward the design requirements, and the Shipbuilding Department of the Datang Navy Ship Administration Department was responsible for the establishment.

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The overall displacement is not large, only 80 tons. At the same time, as a typical inland passenger ship, it also has the characteristics of shallow draft. Because of the ability to escape in emergency situations, the tonnage cannot be too large, but its The construction level is better than that of warships, and the level of protection is the best in the same tonnage. At the same time, it is also symbolic to install two five-jin artillery as defensive firepower.

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In fact, its ship type is largely based on the Navy's second-class inland warships.

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Of course, as a royal liner, these are not the key points. The key point is that this ship has an almost epoch-making watertight cabin and numerous anti-sinking measures, even lifeboats. The first priority is to ensure the safety of Li Xuan.

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On the contrary, the luxurious interior decoration has become an embellishment!

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Li Xuan took this royal liner all the way north, and then went all the way south. The whole journey was not as uncomfortable as when he traveled by inland watercraft in the past.

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Because there are other rooms on the ship as offices and several meeting rooms, Li Xuan can also work on the ship.

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Li Xuan is a very busy person. Even if he went to the north, there are many memorials waiting for him to review every day. Although it is said that the left-behind team of the imperial study headed by Liu Bagou has already handled a lot of affairs in Jinling City. , but many of them were things that Liu Bagou and the others could not make decisions, and Li Xuan had to make the decisions himself.

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While he was busy, he went south, and time passed quickly. In mid-July, Li Xuan went all the way south to reach Huai'an Mansion, and according to the custom along the way, he summoned the main local officials.

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The officials summoned by Li Xuan also included Chen Lifu, Deputy Director of the Inspection Office of the Grain Collection Department of the Ministry of Taxation, who was responsible for the tax inspections of Jiangbei Road and Wanbei Road.

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And this is also the second time that Chen Lifu has met Li Xuan, the sage of all ages!

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It was the first time I saw Li Xuan, the sage of all ages, up close!

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When the holy car left Huaian Mansion and returned to Jinling City, Chen Lifu still clearly remembered the situation when the holy monarch of all ages summoned him.

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At that time, he went with the Taoist of Jiangbei Dao, the prefect of Huai'an prefecture and others. He happened to be behind the prefect of Huai'an prefecture.

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The first impression of Chen Lifu was youth when he first saw the Holy Monarch of Eternal Age. The Son of Heaven, who led the crowd to conquer the world, looked very young, but in fact, the Holy Monarch of Eternal Age, Li Xuan, was indeed very young. He was born this year. Only twenty-two years old.

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After Chen Lifu and everyone knelt down together, Sage Wangu kindly told them to get up and then gave them seats. Chen Lifu didn't dare to sit at first, but seeing that all the Taoists in Jiangbei Road sat down, so he It was Xie En who came over and sat on the side of the chair, but he didn't have the courage to sit on the whole person, and he sat firmly.

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Your Majesty sympathizes with the courtiers for giving them a seat. This is a gift, but it must not be an excuse for the courtiers to ignore the etiquette. Let alone Chen Lifu, the Jiangbei Taoist priest on the side just sat on the edge of the chair.

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Then the kind and benevolent Sage King Wangu kindly asked them how they were staying in Jiangbei, and whether they were still used to life, and then asked about the situation of their family members, saying that it was for the sake of the country, so that everyone had been traveling for many years, and it was difficult to meet their relatives. , is really ashamed.

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At this time, Chen Lifu and several others left the chairs immediately, and then bowed and said, Your Majesty is serious, it is my honor to be loyal to His Majesty and to do things for the country.

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Then Wangu Shengjun turned his attention to Chen Lifu again, and said: "Lifu, I have heard your name, I heard that you did a good job in Jiangbei, and you have done a good job in rectifying taxation, not bad, work hard! "

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A word of hard work, instantly made Chen Lifu extremely excited, and tears were about to burst out of his eyes: Your Majesty is indeed a benevolent prince!

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Renjun is above, I have to work harder. Only by working harder can I come to His Majesty's side as soon as possible, and make suggestions for His Majesty, so that His Majesty will no longer be confused by those treacherous ministers and thieves!

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I have such a benevolent ruler in the Tang Dynasty. Although there are many treacherous officials in the court, he believes that there will still be many loyal and righteous people like himself. When the time comes, when there are loyal and righteous people like himself, he is afraid that he will not be able to create a prosperous era of peace and prosperity?

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Immediately, he said, "This minister will definitely redouble his efforts and will never let down His Majesty's high expectations!"

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Li Xuan, who was at the top, nodded slightly: "That's good!"

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Afterwards, the busy Renjun was talking to a few other people, but Chen Lifu didn't pay attention to what he said. At this time, he only had the last sentence in his mind, work hard!

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Even later, when he bid farewell to the holy driver, he was a little confused. After he was let out in a daze, when he came back to his senses, the holy driver's ship had already started sailing and continued south.

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Li Xuan naturally didn't care about Chen Lifu's reaction. He didn't even remember what he looked like. On the way, he had met too many officials, including Jiangbei Province, Shandong Province, Hebei Province. officials, he met countless.

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Even officials from North Anhui Province and Henan Province would come over to ask for an audience.

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Every day, Li Xuan sees several groups of officials!

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After passing Huaian Mansion, he went to Yangzhou, but after passing Yangzhou, he did not return directly to Jinling City, but changed to a naval cruiser as his new car, and then went down the river all the way east to Suzhou, Go to Changzhou and Songjiang for inspection.

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Especially Songjiang Mansion is the focus of his inspection!

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Because Shanghai County in the current Songjiang Prefecture is one of the five trading ports of the Tang Dynasty, and it is the most important trading port in the central region.

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Jiangnan Shipyard, Songjiang Artillery Factory and Ammunition Factory under Jiangnan Arms Company are all located in Shanghai County.

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At the same time, this place is also a key support area for private industries. With the support of policies, a large number of private factories have emerged in Shanghai County in the past year. Although these private factories are still relatively small, they are mainly engaged in light industry, The processing industry of traditional industries, etc., but still played a very good leading role in the development of private industries in the Jiangnan region~www.wuxiaspot.com~.

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After the Shanghai County of Songjiang Prefecture went ashore, local officials told Li Xuan that although the Shanghai Business District has not been established for a long time, it has developed very fast, and many businessmen have come from it.

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And many routes have been opened, the most important of which is the route from Shanghai to Fusang. Many maritime merchants have made money through maritime trade. When they made money, they also brought a lot of tax to Datang Customs.

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In addition, they also said that they set up an industrial zone on the outskirts of Shanghai County. The government leveled the land, built roads and even railway tracks. At present, more than 20 enterprises have settled down, half of which are state-owned enterprises or royal assets. of enterprises, but half of them are private enterprises, and the development momentum of private enterprises is good.

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The largest private enterprise in the industrial zone is a textile factory with more than 400 employees!

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Hearing these reports, Li Xuan felt very relieved. The development of Shanghai Port was late, and its industrial scale cannot be compared with Guangzhou and Lianzhou, the two earlier developed commercial ports, even worse than Zhaoqing. There are quite a few, but now Shanghai has already shown amazing potential. Over time, it will definitely become the economic and industrial center of Datang! Ps: Book friends, I am raining when it rains. I recommend a free novel app that supports novel downloads, listening to books, zero ads, and multiple reading modes. Please pay attention to the WeChat public account: dazhuzaiyuedu (long press for three seconds to copy) Book lovers, please pay attention!