At Mingde Gate in Chang'an, a black-clad knight rushed over. He saw the city gate, but there was no sign of slowing down. The knight whipped the war horse and accelerated. This situation was only available in the 800-limit rapid report, but the sender had special eye-catching clothes and would shout, "800-limit rapid military information!"

But the knight in front of him was obviously not the case. The soldiers guarding the city were furious and rushed up with more than a dozen soldiers on their spears, "Stop!" The captain roared loudly.

The knight slowed down slightly, touched a token from his arms, shook at the captain, and snorted coldly, "Scared your dog's eyes!"

The captain was so scared that he hurriedly dodged, and shouted to the city gate: "Do away and let him go!"

The soldiers dodged one after another, and the knight accelerated his horse again, rushed into the city like lightning, and disappeared. Looking at the knight's disappearing back, a soldier whispered to the captain: "Boss, which royal relative is this? So arrogant?"

"Hmph! I'm not afraid of royal dear."

The captain sneered, but when he thought of the bronze medal, he lost confidence again and said in fear: "It's Tang Feng!"

"Tang Feng?"

The soldiers next to him were shocked. It was the most ruthless intelligence hall in the Tang Dynasty. It had boundless power. You said you were a spy from the Sui Dynasty and you were arrested in one go. You didn’t know how you died. You can’t afford to offend!

The Tang Feng knight rushed into Mingde Gate, galloped on Zhuque Street, and rushed towards the direction of the Qin King's Mansion... The Qin King's Mansion, Li Shimin was discussing with the plot leader Fang Xuanling and the Changsun Shunde to expand the Tang Feng. In the past few months, the Tang Dynasty recruited more than 100,000 soldiers from all over the country, and restored the Tang Dynasty's strength to 300,000. Li Shimin recruited 80,000 soldiers and handed them over to Duan Hongzhi, Yin Kaishan, Liu Hongji and others for training. It has been training for two or three months.

Although the troops increased, Li Shimin was not in a good mood in the past two months because his father finally rejected his suggestion to attack Xiao Xian. Because Li Mi sent Shan Xiongxin to lead an army of 100,000 to attack Xiao Xian, while Xiao Xian joined forces with Du Fuwei to fight against the Wei army in Jiujiang County.

At this time, Xiao Xian's back was empty. He could have taken the opportunity to seize Yuzhang County and Poyang County. Li Shimin tried his best to persuade his father to send troops, but the prince Jiancheng said that this year was a disaster year. The burden of people should be considered. Xiao Xian was just a turtle in the jar, and sooner or later it would be a thing in the plate. He advised his father not to send troops and beware of the Sui army's going south.

In the end, Li Mi's army was not familiar with the water war, and was defeated by Xiao Du's coalition, killing and injured tens of thousands of people. They retreated to Jiangdu. Xiao Xian turned around and stationed troops in Poyang County and Yuzhang County, making this opportunity lost in vain. It was only then that they obtained information that it turned out that Yang Yuanqing's attack on Qingzhou was fake. He personally led his army to attack Goryeo and plundered food and food.

This news made Li Shimin extremely angry, but helpless. The resentment was useless. Unexpectedly, Prince Jiancheng took the opportunity to tell Tang Feng that they did not promptly find out the information about Yang Yuanqing's personal expedition to Goryeo, and missed the military event, causing Li Shimin to be scolded by his father.

Fang Xuanling stroked his beard and said, "Actually, I thought Tang Feng was indeed a little weak in Taiyuan, mainly because he did not bribe the core officials. Some important information was not obtained. I think Tang Feng did not have to be expanded, but should change to a more capable person to go to Taiyuan to preside over the presidency. Li Shouzhong's ability is still a little worse."

Changsun Wuji is the supervisor of Tang Feng. He is most familiar with Tang Feng's situation. He nodded and said, "Mr. It makes sense that Li Shouzhong is a little weaker in ability and he really has not been able to buy important officials. This time, Yang Yuanqing's chance to clean up the officialdom in Hebei was spared in vain. I was also very annoyed, and I agree to replace him."

Li Shimin pondered for a long time and said, "It will take at least a few months for Yang Yuanqing to clean up the officialdom in Hebei. There should be still a chance. Li Shouzhong has been in Taiyuan for a long time and is more familiar with the situation. If the replacement is now, the opportunity will probably be gone after the newcomer is familiar with the situation. We can urge Li Shouzhong to spare no expenses to win over the more powerful Sui officials and master the internal news of the Sui Dynasty. I think he should give him another chance."

"Your Highness is right, and it's okay to give him another chance. I just hope that Li Shouzhong will not let down Your Highness's expectations."

While discussing, a guard suddenly came from outside the door: "Report to His Highness, Tang Feng of Taiyuan has emergency information!"

Just as Tang Feng was talking about Tang Feng, Tang Feng arrived, Li Shimin nodded, "I'm going to come in!"

The guards walked into the lobby with the black knight. The black knight knelt down on one knee and bowed to Li Shimin with his fists, "I am humble and Geng Zong, and I will deliver a letter to Your Highness according to the order of Lord Li!"

The guard presented a letter and a red cloth pocket with a red cloth tray. Li Shimin glanced at the red cloth pocket, but picked up the letter first. He pulled out the letter from the envelope, shook it away and read it quickly.

The letter said that the Sui Dynasty launched a new silver and money, which was extremely popular in the market. Everyone was snatching this kind of money to collect it, but it was not circulated in the market at all. Li Shouzhong inferred that this was just a test of the Sui court and would immediately launch silver and money on a large scale.

At the end of the letter, another information was added. Not long ago, a fleet of more than 100 tugboats arrived in Taiyuan. The fleet was loaded with silver ingots, and a silver ingot weighed more than 30 kilograms.

This information made Li Shimin take a breath of air conditioning. The Sui Dynasty actually wanted to launch money on a large scale. He handed the letter to Fang Xuanling casually, "Sir, take a look! There may be something wrong."

Fang Xuanling took the letter, looked it hurriedly, and frowned. At this time, Li Shimin's eyes fell on the red bag on the plate again. He picked up the red bag and shook out a stack of silver coins from it. There were twenty pieces, the same size as the Sui New Money, but thicker. Is this the most popular new silver coins in the Sui Dynasty?

Li Shimin picked up a silver coin, carefully pinched the edge with his index finger and thumb, raised it high, squinted his eyes to look at the silver coin, the workmanship was exquisite and delicate, with a square hole in the middle for threading, and the four words "Yuanhe Tongbao" were engraved on it in Yangwen, and the back was a "Yuan" character. Like the copper coins of the Sui Dynasty, the copper coins of the Sui Dynasty were unified from the second batch to "Yuanhe Tongbao" and were no longer called Wuzhu coins.

After reading the letter, Fang Xuanling handed the letter to Changsun Wuji and said to Li Shimin solemnly: "Your Highness, this matter is not trivial. If the Sui Dynasty has a large amount of gold and silver and starts to use silver as currency, it will surely plunder the world's wealth. If this situation is not changed, in just two or three years, the Sui Dynasty will be strong and the Tang Dynasty will be in danger!"

Changsun Wuji also finished reading the letter and frowned: "We can strictly prohibit this kind of money from being used in the Tang Dynasty, or cut off trade with the Sui Dynasty, and perhaps avoid this crisis."

“It’s useless!”

Fang Xuanling shook his head and handed a silver coin to Changsun Wuji. "This kind of silver coin is a good thing at first glance, with a content of at least 90% of the silver coin. Even if we prohibit the circulation of silver coin, merchants can melt and get silver. Even the Sui Dynasty does not use silver coin at all, but they directly use silver cakes. At most, we can only prohibit the outflow of materials in Guanzhong, but we cannot resist the outflow of materials in Bashu and Jingxiang. As well as the tea, rice and silk cloth from Jiangnan, it will definitely flow to the Sui Dynasty. Changsun Changshi, you should understand this point. This kind of silver coin will make the prices of the Tang Dynasty soar and the public resentment is boiling, just like the price surge at the beginning of the year."

In fact, Fang Xuanling did not need analysis. Li Shimin also understood the crisis that this kind of silver and money would bring to the Tang Dynasty. He was extremely worried and couldn't help but say hatefully: "This is the evil consequence of Huining's loss. Now that it comes out, if it is not stopped, the Tang Dynasty will be destroyed on this small silver."

Fang Xuanling said slowly again: "Your Highness. I have three strategies, maybe I can avoid this crisis."

Li Shimin was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Sir, please tell me!"

"Your Highness, first of all, is a 'break' plan to destroy the silver and money of the Sui Dynasty. We might as well make silver and money like the Sui Dynasty. We invest a lot of money into the Sui Dynasty, making the Sui people dare not believe in silver and money anymore."

This is a vicious plan, but it cannot be put on the table and cannot last long. It can only maintain a temporary effect. Li Shimin pondered for a while and asked again: "What about the second strategy?"

"The second strategy is the 'increase' strategy. In fact, we also use silver as currency to fight against the silver and money of the Sui Dynasty. Of course, this requires a lot of silver, which is also our difficulty."

Li Shimin smiled bitterly. If he could get silver, he would have taken action long ago. After the Huining Silver Mine was taken away, they were also looking for silver mines, and only found a few small mines, without any gains. He sighed and said, "Sir, let's talk about the third move!"

Fang Xuanling's eyes became cold and he said lightly: "The third strategy is the 'best' strategy. If neither the first nor the second strategy work, then there is only one way. Your Highness should know what I mean!"

Li Shimin nodded slowly, "I understand, I will go to the palace to meet my father. This matter is of great importance and cannot be delayed for a moment... In the Wude Hall of Taiji Palace, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan, was meeting envoys from the Turks. This time, the Turks sent two envoys to Taiyuan and Chang'an. Jie Li Khan was very skilled. He wanted to make full use of the dispute between the Sui and Tang Dynasties to seek the best interests of the Turks.

The envoy who came to Chang'an was named Moyanzhuo, who was the second prime minister of the Turks. He came to Chang'an under the order of Jie Li Khan, hoping to accomplish three things: one is alliance, two is trade, and three is marriage.

In the side hall of Wude Hall, Li Yuan sat high on the dragon couch with a smile on his face, while the messenger Mo Yanzhuo sat at his lower head with a respectful look on his face. Crown Prince Li Jiancheng and the five prime ministers were all sitting opposite him.

For the Tang Dynasty, an alliance was a concession for the Turks. In the initial connection between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks, it was the Tang Dynasty who surrendered to the Turks. The alliance meant that this surrender was abolished and became an equal position.

Jie Li Khan was an extremely pragmatic person. He did not need such meaningless surrender. He wanted tangible benefits and asked the Tang Dynasty to sell pig iron to him.

Marriage is the icing on the cake, a new move to reconcile the relationship after reaching alliance and trade. However, Jie Li Khan had already married Princess Xiagas as Kedun, so he could only marry the daughter of the Tang Dynasty royal family as his concubine, but not the princess.

But for the Tang Dynasty, alliances were extremely important, which helped the Tang Dynasty get rid of the bad influence of surrendering to the Turks in the early days. This incident has spread all over the world and has been criticized by many people. This is crucial for the Tang Dynasty, which is eager to maintain its orthodox image.

"I am very happy to form an alliance with the Turks, and I am willing to promulgate the daughter of the royal family to the Turkic Khan as a concubine. As for trade, please allow me to discuss with the ministers and then reply to your envoy."

Although Mo Yanzhuo looked respectful and could speak fluent Chinese, his tone was very firm, "Dear Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, on behalf of Khan, I am very grateful to His Majesty the Emperor for his sincerity, but I need to kindly remind Your Majesty that trade is the prerequisite for alliances and marriages. I hope Your Majesty can pay more attention to trade that is profitable to both parties... To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation.)!~!

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