Xingqing Palace has changed very quickly in the past two years, not only because of the use of cement, but also because of various products from Liaodong, such as glass. Xingqing Palace has a greenhouse built with a large amount of glass. It is located in the first courtyard at the west gate of the palace. It costs up to one million yuan to build this greenhouse. This money was jointly invested by the National Treasury and the Anxi Chamber of Commerce, and each lived half of it.

Of course, the Tang Dynasty treasury took out real money, but no one had seen the 500,000 ounces of the Anxi Chamber of Commerce. In winter, Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan liked the most was lying under this warm room to bask in the sun, which was neither wind nor warm. They thought about building a larger and more beautiful warm room in the Hot Spring Palace.

Ye Chang didn't even look at this greenhouse. It was just a larger glass balcony. Li Longji was a treasure, but he didn't think so.

He hurried to the front of the Qinzhengwu building, Li Longji was wearing a silk dress, not an emperor's crown dress, but a regular dress. Looking at his expression, he was neither happy nor angry, as if he had something urgent.

Seeing Ye Chang coming, he smiled: "Thank you for your hard work, Ye Qing."

"It is the duty of a minister to share your worries for Your Majesty and manage the border for China." Ye Chang's eyes slipped away, but he didn't see Yang Zhao, and he felt a little strange.

With Yang Zhao's current defense against him, he should not give him the chance to meet Li Longji alone.

"Ye Qing worked hard in Yunnan and made great contributions. He had wanted to call you back to Beijing for a long time, but state affairs are the priority... Haha...

Li Longji vaguely said a few words of encouragement and comfort Ye Chang, and then he felt it was boring, so he blew up and asked curiously: "I heard that the barbarians in Yunnan have a custom of entertaining people in the mountains and singing to propose marriage. I wonder if it is true or false?"

"It is true that the barbarians live in the mountains and are busy with their livelihoods on weekdays, so they rarely have time to have time. Therefore, they choose a day to gather together and sing and pray for each other. Some people only look for a happy night." Ye Chang laughed and said, "If the granaries are full, they know etiquette. Although this statement is biased, it also makes some sense."

Li Longji was fascinated by the time he smiled and said, "If I go here, I will be like a fish in water."

"A saint is in love with the world and does not regard his customs as strange and ugly. It is a blessing for the barbarians."

"You must meet someone who is good at governing borders like you. Nowadays, I have heard that the wealth is no less than Guanzhong. The population is more than 300,000, but the taxes can be worth one million people. Yunnan has also become politically harmonious and all chaos is calm. The brown sugar and frosted sugar transported from Yunnan every month are as many as hundreds of stones..."

These are all Ye Chang's contributions, but Yunnan has only started. The large plantations have just begun to plant rice, sugarcane, and tea, and the effect is not great. Ye Chang estimated that it will take four to five years to see initial results, just like Liaodong.

After talking about Ye Chang's contribution, Li Longji changed the topic: "Do you think Anxi can also manage the border?"

"Of course," Ye Chang said authentically without hesitation.

"How can you use your method of opening the middle in Anxi?"

"Anxi products are also abundant, connecting with China and foreign countries. As far as my ministers see, there are at least four major advantages to use." Ye Chang had a vague idea in his mind. At this time, he heard Li Longji ask, and then stretched out his finger: "Anxi jade comes out of the name of Kunlun jade, which became famous all over the world in the Han Dynasty. It has beautiful gems and beautiful jade, and every family in the middle and earth rich families want to hide it. This alone is enough to make merchants go."

"When it comes to jade, your jadeite is also good. The jade sculptures you gave to me and my beloved concubine are all very exquisite and cute. I am playing with them every day." Li Longji interrupted.

At this time, jade was not yet popular, and it was unknown among all jades. Yunnan was connected to northern Myanmar. Since Ye Chang wanted to develop it, he naturally had to promote jade as a main luxury. During this period, some hype methods were even used by Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan, thus opening up sales for jade.

"Secondly, the Anxi climate is very suitable for kapok cultivation. It is north of the Tianshan Mountains and the water and soil are fertile. It is a farm and hired to farm. Not only can the grain and clothes be self-sufficient, but the cotton, fruit and wine can be sold in all directions."

"Golden mountains produce gold, and on the slopes of Tianshan Mountain are all good pastures. There are cattle, sheep, horses and camels, so there is another horse farm in the Tang Dynasty."

"Fourth, Anxi is located at the critical moment of the Chinese and Western business roads. It is a must-pass place on the Silk Road. Only commercial tax can support military pay..."

Ye Chang came up with four reasons in one breath. Li Longji nodded repeatedly when he heard this. Sure enough, Ye Chang was not talking nonsense about the situation in the Western Regions, but he was still quite prepared.

Although Ye Chang said it briefly, each one has its own specificity.

"Only when the Central Plains are rich can we suppress all four sides. If all four sides arise, wealth is better than the Central Plains, what can you do?" After Ye Chang finished speaking, Li Longji asked again.

This problem is extremely sharp, and to some extent it even questioned Ye Chang's border strategy, believing that his approach to developing the border was actually promoting the tendency of separation. Li Longji believed that with Ye Chang's intelligence, he would not be unable to see this tendency of separation. Since this is the case, his border strategy seemed to solve the difficulties in the Tang Dynasty on the surface, but in fact it laid greater hidden dangers in the future.

Ye Chang smiled.

"No matter how rich the border is, there are some shortcomings. How can it be compared to the Central Plains? Besides, if the border can be rich, the Central Plains cannot be richer? Because the land of the original land is huge and the manpower is sufficient, if it cannot be richer than the border, there is only one reason, that is, the prime minister and the county magistrate are not responsible."

"The wealth of the four sides will eventually gather in the Central Plains and gather in Chang'an. Instead of worrying that the frontiers are more prosperous than the Central Plains, the sages should worry about how to make the wealth of the four sides gather in the Central Plains create greater wealth for the Central Plains."

This was very true and unceremonious. Li Longji was not angry but happy and laughed.

"Okay, okay, Shiyilang talks to me about the matter in Yunnan again. The frosting sugar made by Yunnan using the new method of sugar making is really sweet and really good."

Ye Chang talked to him about the customs and customs of Yunnan for a while, so he naturally did not forget to propose the matter of Yunnan's merger of the entire Indochina Peninsula again. He knew very well how important this would be for China to control the two oceans in the future. However, even Li Longji could not think of what the future would look like at this time, so he was not in a hurry, just talking about the business strategy of a century-long business, step by step.

However, Li Longji was not interested in these things. He kept asking about the customs and customs of Yunnan and asked about the beauty of the woman there. Ye Chang never raised his face to persuade him, but he made up his mind and talked about the style of a barbarian woman. However, in order to avoid Li Longji being really lustful, he added with regret: "There are many sunshines in the south, and the terrain in Yunnan is high, and the sun pricks the skin, which makes the barbarian woman's skin dark and red, which is not as many as my Chinese women."

Li Longji laughed loudly and signaled Ye Chang to leave. After Ye Chang left, Li Longji's smile still had not changed. He looked back and said, "Yang Qing, how about it?"

Yang Zhao walked out from behind the screen, and his face was also smiling: "As the saint expected, Ye Chang was indeed prepared... but now he is a member of the ranks and has a high authority. How can he be willing to go to Anxi to help Gao Xianzhi?

"Ye Shiyi has selfishness, but his selfishness is different from you. His selfishness is not about power, but about reputation, and about keeping his name in history for thousands of years." Li Longji clapped his hands slowly, squinted his eyes and thought for a while: "Liaodong and Yunnan, the envoys he had assigned to him to take over the long term, and the court appointed another person to hold important positions. However, don't leak the news, and make arrangements after Li Linfu left the capital."

"I know." Yang Zhao bowed his head and saluted, with a cold smile on his face.

No matter how capable Ye Chang has, what can he do? He is still playing with him in his palm. He just needs to be slightly provoked and he will go to the northwest again.

Yang Zhao was not worried that Ye Chang would make new contributions to Anxi. Because Li Linfu resigned from the prime minister, Li Linfu had not received many news now. For example, Li Linfu didn't know what was happening in Anxi. Even if there was no such thing as it happened now, the muddy water in Anxi was not so easy to go. Ye Chang himself repeatedly wrote to the court about Anxi's situation. Li Longji himself was impatient to read the memorials carefully, but Yang Zhao read them carefully.

Now, Anxi, like cooking oil in fire, is brewing a terrible storm under the prevailing surface of the Tang Dynasty. Ye Chang reminded more than once that when this storm broke out completely, what the Tang Dynasty had to do in Anxi was to consolidate what it had already obtained, turn it into the real national strength of the Tang Dynasty, and then further develop to the west of the Palacio. Otherwise, even if one or two wins by chance, the long supply line would greatly consume national strength and eventually drag down the Tang Dynasty.

"Every step by step, colonize and make profits, turn enemies into us, and use both soft and hard." These sixteen words are Ye Chang's general strategy for the expansion of the Tang Dynasty's borders.

Ye Chang left Xingqing Palace and felt very strange. Li Longji summoned him to come. Could it be that he was really just to ask about the charm of those barbarian women?

If it were just for this, why would it be so urgent?

After thinking about it for a while, Ye Chang sorted out the conversation between Li Longji and him again. Li Longji had a lot of things, including Liaodong, Yunnan, Anxi, and...

Ye Changxin jumped violently: Anxi

The places or events mentioned by Li Longji are somewhat directly related to him, such as Liaodong and Yunnan. He has both official positions in both places, or overseas Xianshan products. He either sent people to discover them or trade with him. However, Anxi has no direct relationship with him except that he often mentioned them in memorials in the past or two years.

Thinking of this, he called Ye An: "Carrange all the information related to Anxi and give it to me

When others were not in Chang'an, Ye An stayed in Chang'an. This tribe he trusted the most, and his work was steady and reliable. It can be said that he was one of his most trusted people. He did not treat Ye An unfairly. Now Ye An also holds a meritorious position, and in terms of rank, he also has a sixth rank. As for family wealth, he is far superior to ordinary rich people.

Ye An left as he said, Ye Chang returned home, Li Tengkong had already returned from Li Linfu's mansion, and the two held hands and whispered with warmth. At this moment, someone came to report: "Mr., someone is asking for a meeting outside."

Ye Chang was stunned: "I'm here today, so someone came to ask for a meeting? Who is it?"

"The famous thorn is here."

Ye Chang took the famous sect and saw that it was "Shaoqing of Weiwei, and Wang Youhuangheng". The name was very familiar. Ye Chang thought about it for a while, and then suddenly recalled: Isn't this Abe Zhongmalu, the very famous Japanese envoy to send Tang Dynasty?

"What's going to see me?" He hesitated for a moment. Seeing that Ye An had not brought the information yet, he said, "Please come in."

After a while, a short man walked in. He was over fifty years old, with a calm expression and a scholarly gesture. However, Ye Chang was a little displeased with his appearance, so he nodded lightly: "Mr. Chao is coming to the humble house, don't know what it is worth?"

He was a little arrogant, but it was normal to see Chao Heng's eyes. In fact, when Chao Heng saw Ye Chang for the first time, he felt awe. He was so young that he became the most powerful person in the Tang Dynasty. His reliance was not his family blood, but his personal hard work.

Such figures can only be found in the Tang Dynasty.

"Sister, Li Taibai's friend." Chao Heng first introduced himself: "I have never met Zhongcheng for a long time. I want to see him at first. It's a pity that Zhongcheng is busy with all kinds of things and works hard for the country. It's rare for a while. Today, when I heard that Zhongcheng returned to Beijing, I was overjoyed and came in a hurry. I was rude and asked Zhongcheng to let him go."

This guy is very kind. He doesn't talk about his official status, but only said that he was a friend of Li Bai. Since Ye Chang and Li Bai were friends, Ye Chang would not neglect him. Ye Chang really stood up and bowed to him: "It's rude, rude, Taibai's friend is my friend... Come and serve tea. Gong Chao please try the wild tea I have sought in Yunnan."

After the guests and hosts were separated, Chao Heng praised the tea and said respectfully: "Today we come to visit the Chief Secretary, one is to comfort our lives, and the other is to ask the Chief Secretary for help if you have something to do."

"What's the matter?"

"I have been in the Tang Dynasty for thirty-four years and intend to return to China with this Tang envoy. Now the saint has resigned, but I regret that there is no boat to cross. I heard that the Andong Chamber of Commerce's merchant ships traveled to and from the Tang Dynasty and Japan, like a river, and was not afraid of storms, so I came to ask the Chief Secretary to borrow a cloud of sails to send my servant back home."

Ye Chang was shocked. He had heard of this person, but he didn't know that he had been in the Tang Dynasty for thirty-four years, and he didn't expect that his return to China would come to his head.

However, he didn't know that this matter was related to him. The envoy sent to Tang in Chao Heng was an envoy from Japan who came from the Andong Chamber of Commerce last year. During the 1st year of this year, he even made a fuss about the seats he paid to Li Longji.

"This matter is easy. Gong Chao can follow the Tang envoy to return to China... However, there are some things I want to ask Gong Chao first."

Ye Chang was originally preparing to respond in one go, but then he thought of something and added.

Chao Heng sat solemnly and said intently: "Ye Zhongcheng just asks, and I know everything."

"What are your plans for Mr. Chao to return to China this time?" Ye Chang asked.

Chao Heng was stunned. He originally thought that Ye Chang was going to ask about Japan's customs and customs - Ye Chang was interested in these things, and it spread throughout Chang'an City, but he never thought that Ye Chang actually asked him about his own plans.

Chao Heng was familiar with Ye Chang's books such as "The Wealth of the Kingdom" and knew very well that Ye Chang's intention to manage the four sides. Such a person would never ask casually.
Chapter completed!