Ye Chang returned to Beijing this time, one was to report his duties, the second was to offer prisoners, and the third was to seek support from the court for the Anxi Chamber of Commerce.

There are some things that he can make decisions, but if he really wants the plan to be implemented smoothly, the support from the court is inevitable. He can feel that Li Longji's suspicion about him is getting deeper, but at the same time, Li Longji is becoming more and more dependent on his endless ways to make money. This dual relationship makes the two fight and cooperate.

Thinking of this important minister who almost became his daughter's son-in-law, Li Longji had a headache. It can be said that no official has ever given him such a headache. Even if Li Linfu was powerful in the court and the country, he had never been like this.

In terms of merit, Ye Chang was the most loyal minister of the Tang Dynasty. As long as he needed it, he would send money and silk continuously. As long as the country needed it, no matter how difficult the conditions were, he would not say a word. He never bargained over his personal treatment. At most, he would just need some power.

But Ye Chang was the most domineering minister of the Tang Dynasty. When he was in Liaodong, he dared to go to war without authorization. In recent years, Liaodong's tough attitude towards Silla and Bohai were the result of Ye Chang's secret efforts; in Yunnan, he killed Ge Luofeng and other surrendered people without hesitation, and ignored his superior Yang Zhao's intentions; this time in Anxi, although it was another big formation, he even seized Gao Xianzhi's military power and sent Gao Xianzhi to Chang'an. This behavior is almost a war change.

Li Longji sighed while stroking his forehead.

Ye Chang has his own way to pass the news directly to his desk. Even if he is not interested in political affairs, Ye Chang's memorials must be seen in the past year, and Ye Chang himself needs to see them.

"What did the saint sigh? Do you think the song of the colorful clothes and feathers need to be changed?"

Yang Yuhuan walked in slowly with the corner of her skirt, which made Li Longji sigh. Seeing her, Li Longji sighed in his heart this time.

At this time, Yang Yuhuan came here, definitely not to discuss any music with him. I think it was to inquire about the news for Yang Zhao.

"This Ye Chang, I thought he would stay in Anxi for the first half of a year, but I never thought that the war there had just ended, so he couldn't wait to come... Not only did he say that when others came, he also drove three thousand good horses. The matter of preparing horse materials along the way made people panic..."

Yang Yuhuan smiled slightly. Although she was over thirty years old and nearly forty years old, she was well maintained. She looked only about twenty years old and her eyes were so flexible. Whenever she saw her like this, Li Longji felt an impulse and then a melancholy in her heart.

After all, I am not the time to be strong in my thirties or forties. Such a beautiful flower, sometimes... I am really powerless.

"Although Ye Shiyi caused a lot of trouble for the saints, he also made many contributions. If he didn't cause trouble, he wouldn't be able to make these contributions." Yang Yuhuan seemed to be careless: "He is so capable. If he doesn't make any mistakes, wouldn't he be another saint? In the Tang Dynasty, a saint is enough."

Li Longji glanced at her and his face turned slightly cold.

Is Yang Yuhuan talking to Ye Chang or reminding herself that Ye Chang’s great achievements shocked the master?

"However, I think Ye Shiyi caused the biggest trouble to the saint. He was not outside, but in the palace." Yang Yuhuan probably realized that what he said was a bit too much, and said with a smile.

"Inside the palace?"

"Twenty-nine Mother, at the age of twenty-nine Mother, I should have been married long ago, but I still don't marry now. I have said that she has been several times, but it is useless."

This is indeed a big trouble caused by Ye Chang. I don’t know what Shouan thought. After failing to recruit Ye Chang as his son-in-law, he refused to marry him. Li Longji frowned and snorted: “How can she be allowed to... This way, I see that Yang Zhao’s son Yang Chu is both good in character and talent, so I will marry Shouan to him. What do you think

Yang Yuhuan was stunned.

Because Yang Zhao's power is so powerful, his sons have taken important positions one after another. For example, Yang Chu is now the Shaoqing of the Honglu - he will become the Minister of the Honglu. Moreover, Yang Yuhuan has been secretly exerting efforts, hoping to marry a princess to Yang Chu and enhance the Yang family's help in the court.

But Princess Shou'an...

That was the insect girl, the twenty-nine mother. Her relationship with Ye Chang was deliberately concealed by the royal family, but the market was talked about with relish. There was even bored poet who compiled a long poem "The Princess Song" to sing it. What was "The Han princess is of special color, the twenty-nine mother is beautiful, and the foreign marriages are horses one after another, and they walk on the yellow sand and become a field of roads", what was "the hero was angry and threw his writing style, drew his sword and crossed Yishui, lying on the sand and drinking snow to exert his power, and did not teach the noble master to surrender to the Wei of the Shi". It seemed that Ye Chang was managing the border just to prevent Shou'an from marrying and marrying far away. The heaven was pitiful. At that time, An Lushan suggested that he had a relationship with the Khitan and Xi, and had no relationship with Princess Shou'an's half a penny.

If this marriage really happens, it will make the Yang family and Ye Chang become mortal enemies.

Yang Yuhuan is a woman, and although she is a little smart and clever, she is just like fighting for favor and love in the harem, but it is not enough to understand the emperor's mind.

It is precisely because this matter is difficult to accomplish that Li Longji insists on accomplishing this matter. It is precisely because the Yang family and Ye Chang have no chance of slowing down again, so Li Longji has to do it well.

"Why not have to be a long life... In the eyes of my concubine, you can also have a spring of spring..."

"Wan Chun is still young." Li Longji said lightly: "That's what we decided to do."

This time, Yang Yuhuan was really disappointed.

To marry Shou'an out, Ye Chang's support in the palace was cut off. This was the way the Yang family's sisters thought they could solve the problem.

Unlike Yang Zhao and Ye Chang, the relationship between the Yang sisters and Ye Chang is quite good, including Yang Yuhuan, they all admire Ye Chang very much. But women's political minds are either as terrifying as the Queen of Martial Arts, or as shallow as the Yang sisters. They actually thought that after marrying Shou'an, Ye Chang had no support in the palace and had to bow to them. In this way, they can not only get more benefits from Ye Chang, but also make up for the relationship between Ye Chang and Yang Zhao.

They didn't expect that if it were Yang and Ye Yiti, the first person who couldn't sleep was Li Longji, not to mention that Ye Chang would be inferior to others.

Although Shou'an married Yang Chu to achieve some of their goals, the effect was probably the opposite. From then on, Ye Chang would probably not be able to extricate his anger without killing the Yang family.

At this time, Yang Yuhuan realized that Ye Chang... was not a young man without the power to fight back. He held military power and was famous for his side. More importantly, he formed an interest alliance with the powerful and wealthy merchants in Chang'an through the two chambers of commerce of Andong and Yunnan. Even Li Longji dared not underestimate this alliance.

She wanted to persuade her again, but Li Longji waved her hand: "I want to see a foreign minister, you can retreat first."

Although Yang Yuhuan was favored, she knew she could not force her to do so at this time. She immediately retreated silently, thinking about how to save her. After she left, Li Longji thought about it for a while, and then ordered: "Summon Ye Chang to meet you."

Not long after, Ye Chang was brought to him. Looking at Ye Chang's face full of fatigue, Li Longji smiled and said, "I am preparing to go to the Hot Spring Palace... Ye Qing has worked hard to fight. Let's go with me this time. I will rest for a while. I am there, and I will prepare a mansion for you, not far from my palace."

"Thank you, Saint." Ye Chang said.

"I have read the news from you. I never thought you were so anxious. I originally wanted Yang Zhao to lead the civil and military officials to the city gate to greet you. Gao Xianzhi didn't cause trouble for you along the way, right?"

"I was frightened and arrested Gao Xianzhi without authorization. I did this arbitrary thing without obtaining the saint's will. I also asked the saint to give him a crime." Ye Chang said.

"Of course I want to be punished." Li Longji's face became stern: "You are brave. Gao Xianzhi is your chief official, so you dare to take it down. If I were in Anxi, would you want to take it down?"

"I am guilty"

This set is just a procedure. Li Longji knew that Ye Chang didn't feel guilty at all, and Ye Chang also understood that Li Longji's nonsense was just a harsh attack on him. The two of them looked like they were together, and they first completed the procedure between the monarch and the ministers, and then the topic was the main topic.

"What is the situation in Anxi now? In your memorial, you only said that the water attack defeated Dashi, and also said that the Tang military system needed to be changed, but they were not very detailed."

"Yes, Anxi is now, we can only say that the army is temporarily closed. The bitter and cold side is better than Liaodong. It is the plateau again. It will snow in August. No matter whether it is our side or Dashi, it cannot use troops..."

As Ye Chang said, the second half of the year is not the time for military service in the Pamir Mountains. Even if the 20,000 sets of cotton coats, trousers and leather boots urgently provided by the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce to Anxi, it is still extremely dangerous to vent the wind and snow in such a winter. The main reason is that the journey from Kucha to Saiye is really difficult. After October, it will be basically covered with snow, and the wind is so strong that it can blow away people.

Therefore, after conquering Talas, Ye Chang did not continue to use troops westward. He began to drive the prisoners to open mountains and carve stones, and built sixteen forts in the west of Talas. Each fort was sent to two to thirty soldiers to be responsible for the warning of beacon fire. Then he strengthened the city of Talas and drove all the Hu people in the city into slavery, thinking that they would help the Dashi resist the punishment of the Tang Dynasty.

At the same time, Tianwei Jianer retreated, and the united troops from Hebei Road recruited replaced them, and 30,000 people guarded Kucha. The original Anxi army remained in Talas, responsible for the guard and construction of this winter. The remaining less than 10,000 people returned to Zhuye with the city's troops, preparing to spend the winter in Zhuye.

In order to compensate these soldiers from Zhuhu City who left their hometowns, Ye Chang hoarded the fields on both sides of the Suiyechuan, taking into account both the merchant and military hoards, and promised to distribute the reclaimed fields to Zhuhu City's troops, which to some extent made up for the lack of military strength.

"Do you think Dashi will give up?" Li Longji frowned when he heard Ye Chang's arrangement, "I remember you once said that Dashi is basically in the West, and now he is fighting with Daqin. Will he continue to go east after suffering this?"

"If I were a cannibal, I would reconcile with my Tang Dynasty. But I was not afraid of ten thousand, but I was afraid that if I could only promote peace with war, and only then could peace last long. If I don't consolidate my army and cultivate military affairs, I would prepare for war, there would be no peace. The saying that swords and guns entered Kuma and put them in the south mountain was mostly due to ulterior motives. Therefore, I was in Talas and was still actively stocking up supplies and preparing for a war."

"What you said makes sense, but after this defeat, Dashi still has the strength to fight me."

"Although our army won a great victory in this matter, killing nearly 30,000 enemies and capturing more than 50,000 people, of which only 20,000 people belonged to the headquarters of Dashi, and only 10,000 elite Khurashan. Although Dashi was a severe injury, it cannot be said that it hurt the sperm and bones. Moreover, although Dashi was defeated, Quanrong was not defeated. Quanrong was only temporarily retreated. If Dashi made a comeback, they would also come out to enter Anxi again. Be prepared for danger in times of peace, and be careful."

"What kind of constitution do you say in your memorial is that you intend to recruit refugees to Anxi?"

"I intend to recruit people who have lost land in the mainland and households without a registered residence to enrich Kucha and Ye Chuan, so that Ye Chuan will always be the territory of the Han Dynasty." Ye Chang said again.

“How many people?”

"Ten to 200,000 households, fifty to one million people"

Li Longji is still very enthusiastic about expanding territory. Anyway, Ye Chang opened China and France to manage the border, and the imperial center only provided policies. In addition to the need to allocate some money and grain at the beginning, the biggest expenditure was population. In Li Longji's view, the Tang Dynasty was not short of population. The latest household registration survey showed that there were nine million households and 50 million people. According to Yang Zhao, there were still 20 to 30% of hidden household registrations that had not been registered. If calculated in this way, the population of the Tang Dynasty would finally be between 70 to 80 million.

Moreover, the population has grown very fast in recent years, which is higher than the annual yield increase of 20,000 between the Zhenguan and Shenlong years ("Sui and Tang Dynasty Volume") and reached a terrible 4,000, which means that hundreds of thousands of new populations will be added every year. This is a blessing for the promotion of foliar production and forceps. The maternal and infant mortality rate in the Tang Dynasty was greatly reduced, and the rapid population growth was naturally natural.

Whether Li Longji admits it or not, some of Ye Chang's actions have greatly influenced the Tang Dynasty. For example, the emperor must worry about the hundreds of thousands of people that grow every year. When they grow up and have children, how can they provide land for them to support them?

Ye Chang said everything about Anxi, and listened to Li Longji one by one, according to the arrangements of manpower, how to let merchants operate this migrant work, how to use the Huhu to capture prisoners as serfs, and the land of Anxi is suitable for promoting cotton.

Li Longji has been tired of government affairs for many years, but it is strange to say that when he heard Ye Chang talk about these details, he felt relish. This was the fun of farming. After all, he was a talented politician, so naturally he could imagine that according to Ye Chang's plan, the Anxi land would gradually become the cotton base, animal husbandry base and foreign trade hub of the Tang Dynasty. By then, the Han people's rule in the Western Regions would be stabilized. As long as the trade routes continue, the Han people could even push the countries in the river west of the Pamir Mountains and stockpile and develop there.

"It's my fault that Ye Qing, I'll all agree on what you asked for. However, I just said that if you take Gao Xianzhi without authorization, you will eventually be punished... Do you want to hear my punishment?"

The two talked carefully for more than an hour, and Li Longji finally showed fatigue. He felt that it was time to send Ye Chang away, so he interrupted his question with Ye Chang and returned to the original time.

"I would like to ask the saint to sue him." Ye Chang was full of indifferent.

"I want to give Shou'an a marriage to Yang Chu." Li Longji said lightly: "Since you chose Li Linfu's daughter, don't blame me for your decision today."
Chapter completed!