It was very satisfying to eat the meat with hand. Qin Lang didn't really want to go back to Chang'an to be the Luoshi's prosecutor Sikong to build a mountain mausoleum for the Emperor of the Supreme Emperor.

But Ma Zhou was a little envious. He reminded Qin Lang that all the dynasties of building mountain monuments must be led by the prime minister. The Minister of Works is generally specifically responsible, and the Minister of Works is sometimes called the Grand Sikong. This is because in the Zhou Dynasty official system, Sikong was first responsible for construction and other matters.

The emperor gave Qin Lang a prosecutor to Sikong and asked him to be responsible for building the Daming Palace and the Taishang Huangshan Mausoleum, which was actually exactly the same.

"In the past two years, our Tang Dynasty has been in full swing. The eastern Turks in the north were destroyed and the Tuyuhun in the west was pacified. Now there are three consecutive bumper harvests. Do you know that after the bumper harvest this autumn, the grain prices in various places are still falling sharply. Even the grain prices in Chang'an have already appeared in markets of two or three cents of rice. The court had to ask the Transport Department to open warehouses and buy grains in various places. Last year, we bought 10 million stones of grain at the price of twenty cents of rice, which cost 2 million stagnant of rice."

"This summer, we bought tens of millions of stones of grain at a price of fifteen cents of rice. This autumn, we can't stand the long-term settlement in various places. The rice from last year and this summer was still piled up in the warehouse. Now the emperor asked to store rice again, so the Changping warehouse had to open the nanometer again at a price of ten cents of rice."

The rice that is often closed is bought at a higher price than the market price, mainly to prevent low grain from harming farmers. At the same time, to buy reserves while taking advantage of the good times. Who would have expected that there were several bumper harvests in a row, and they bought too much grain when they were always closed, and they bought too much food when they were higher than the market price.

As a transshipment officer, Ma Zhou originally reminded the court that he had been continuously harvesting and grain was everywhere. The grain of the imperial warehouses, Taicang, Military warehouses, Transshipment warehouses, Social warehouses, and Yi warehouses have also begun to fill up one after another. As a special warehouse, there is no need to buy too much high-priced grain at one time.

But Li Shimin was too embarrassed because of the food shortage in the past few years, and some psychological shadows. In addition, after the tax reform of the court, although there was some problem with the grain in the past two years, the money was still very abundant. Therefore, he had money and the food was cheap. A few years ago, a dou of rice was 200 to 300 yuan, and there was no market price. Now a dou of rice was only 200 yuan, and the white rice and wheat were everywhere, and he was not willing to buy it.

The governors from all over the country reported that Gu Jian was injured and asked the court to take action, so Li Shimin naturally had to make the bottom line.

Because there are too many grains bought, many warehouses cannot be piled up. The emperor also asked local governments to build additional warehouses to store more grain and rice to prepare for war and famine.

Border states such as Song, Die and Tao even require the construction of Changping warehouses to reserve Changping grain.

"Guanzhong, Longyou, Hexi is the key place for the new granary this time, and His Majesty asked to store more grain."

Qin Lang heard something out of the way.

Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Chang'an in Guanzhong has actually been somewhat less suitable as the capital of the empire. The environmental damage and the huge population have led to insufficient self-sufficiency in Guanzhong. Especially Chang'an has always been able to rely on the supply of grain outside the pass, and is seriously limited by the capacity for transport. If it is a major disaster in Guanzhong, it will rely more entirely on the food outside the pass, and transport capacity will become a fatal problem.

On the other hand, the center of gravity of the empire has slowly moved eastward. Hebei, Shandong, Henan and other places are not only still important places, but also Huainan and Jiangnan have also become more and more important, and even the weight of the southeast coast is getting heavier. Although Chang'an has the danger of four barriers, it is very safe in an era of turbulent separatist forces.

But in the era of great unification, there is no need to keep up with it.

The court last time spent two years in Luoyang. Although Luoyang was simple, many ministers still felt that as the capital, there were many places that Luoyang was stronger than Chang'an. If Luoyang City and Palace could be restored and built, then Luoyang was indeed more suitable for being a capital, whether it was food security or centered on the central government to govern the world.

After the emperor returned to Chang'an, he had to store a large amount of grain in Guanlong Heshuo and other places. Qin Lang believed that this was not just to prevent the shortage of grain in Chang'an in the future, otherwise it would be better to store grain directly in Chang'an.

"Is it possible that the court is preparing to march into the Western Regions?" Qin Lang asked.

"Sanlang is indeed smart. He knows the meaning of elegance when he hears the string song. There are indeed many voices in the court now, saying that he wants to restore the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty, reopen the Silk Road, and control it in the hands of the Tang Dynasty. Once Tuyuhun is destroyed, the Western Turks are the next target."

Qin Lang threw the clean sheep bones onto the ground, "I'm so impatient."

Ma Zhou told Qin Lang, "Mo Hedu is dead!"

Mohedu Khan was the son of Datou Khan, the famous Western Turkic Khan, and the uncle of Shekui Khan and Tongyehu Khan. He poisoned Tongyehu and established himself as Khan. However, his nephew Mohe Shinishu, but with Yili Khan and Dulu Khan and others, the son of Tongyehu, was Siyehu Khan.

This caused internal strife in the Western Turks, and the two khans asked for marriage to the Tang Dynasty, hoping to form an alliance. Li Shimin refused to agree. Not only that, he finally sent an envoy to enthrone both of them as Khans, and asked them to demarcate the boundaries and rule them without crossing the boundaries to attack.

After destroying the Eastern Turks, Li Shimin directly added three new khans to the Western Turks, respectively, recognized the eldest son of Tongyehu, Dadushi Khan, who occupied Tocharo, and also recognized the brother of Tongyehu, Jabir, to establish the Khasa Khanate. Finally, he also named the leader of Tielchibi Gelang as a Khan.

As a result, the situation of the five khans becoming a common enemy in the Western Regions.

The Tang Dynasty did not stop the civil war between the Western Turks. When Mo Hedu was fighting with Siyehu Khan, he was betrayed by his subordinate Geluo tribe.

Gelu's troops turned against each other at the time of the battle, and Mo Heduo was defeated and left Jinshan, and was finally killed by Ashina Nishu.

Mo Hedu's killing also caused a new situation in the Western Regions. Tochar and Khasa are both branches of the Western Turks and are not affected for the time being. However, after the ten tribes of the Western Turks, who are now unified under Siyehu Khan again, Qi Zige couldn't hold on.

He originally wandered between the East and West Khans and survived in the gap. With the support of the Tang Dynasty, both sides also wooed each other to him, and he was still polite.

But after all, he was a Tieler, not a Turkic person.

Now that the Western Turkic tribes are unified in the east and west, the ten divisions of the West Turkic tribe are naturally targeted.

Gelang had a grandson, Qieba Heli, who was a general of guards for Tian Khan in the court. He wrote a letter to his grandson and asked him to ask Tian Khan to take charge.

Li Shimin had long been staring at the Western Regions, but it was beyond the reach before.

Now that the Eastern Turks were destroyed, Tuyuhun was destroyed, and Dangxiang was surrendered, Li Shimin felt that it was time for him to start reaching the Western Regions.

"Si Ye protected Mo Hedu, which obviously went against the will of the Emperor of Tang, and His Majesty was very angry." Ma Zhou said.

Qin Langxin said that Li Shimin was so angry that he might be so happy that he finally found another reason to interfere.

"I don't think your majesty actually needs to be so anxious. Let Qie Ge move towards the Jinshan area first, and move closer to the Xueyantuo Zhenzhu Khan Yi Nan in the north of the Mo. They are all Tiel tribes, and the two tribes were still allies back then, so let Yi Nan help Qie Ge stay for a while." Qin Lang picked up another piece of mutton and ate it.

Ma Zhou was stunned.

"Is it because Saburo wants to provoke a war between the Western Turks and the Tiel people?"

"What's wrong? Xue Yantuo's Yi Nan took advantage of the Tang Dynasty to destroy the Eastern Turks last time, and now he occupied the northern part of Mo. He was really a bit frivolous and arrogant. Although the court also began to pull the Uighur alliance and divide the Tiel people in Mobei, the effect was average. Yi Nan's strength expanded a little quickly and he was a little drifting."

But Qin Lang still objected to turning against his previous ally Yi Nan at this time. It would be unprofitable to impress him.

It would be better to lead the disaster to the west and let them fight with Siye Hu Khan. Siye Hu Khan is said to be quite young and arrogant. Whether it is Siye Hu in the Western Regions or Xueyantuo Zhenzhu Khan in the Mobei region, if the two tigers fight, they will definitely be injured. The Tang Dynasty waves the flag and shouts behind it, and sits in the mountains to watch the tiger fight.

Ma Zhou sighed after hearing this.

"Why didn't I expect this?"

Qin Langxin said that the emperor must have thought of this, but he still couldn't help but want to send troops to interfere directly. The Western Regions are very important, especially during the Han Dynasty, when he conquered the Western Regions countries and established the Protectorate. Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty once extended his hands to the Western Regions. How could Li Shimin be worse than Yang Guang? He would definitely attack the Western Regions.

"Brother Ma, you are now a close minister and celebrity around the emperor. You should persuade the emperor more if you have time. Don't be anxious, don't be anxious. Now it's the fourth year of Zhenguan, and it's only been five years after the New Year. I have done too many things in a few years, and the pace is too fast and it's easy to pull the eggs."

When Ma Zhou heard the words pulling the egg, he couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, "Sanlang, you sometimes speak more and more without any scruples."

"I'm telling the truth." He said, "Yang Guang was also a talented and powerful master back then, but his pace was too fast, and the consequences were very terrible."

Qin Lang asked, "I heard that Ashi Na Nishu had been to Chang'an back then and had brothers from different surnames with His Majesty?"

"This has indeed happened."

Li Shimin has made many brothers in different surnames, such as Tuli Khan, Ashina Niss, etc., many such luxurious bosses. This is also a place where the prince Jiancheng was very afraid of Li Shimin at that time, and he had too many foreign aids.

"When I was in Longyou, I heard that Nishu was very capable. After the assassination of Yehu, many Turkic nobles wanted to support Nishu as Khan, but Nishu did not support Siyehu. I also heard that although Nishu had the merits of supporting him and had great military achievements, Siyehu was very afraid of him and even wanted to get rid of him."

In fact, it is normal to think about it. Nishu is highly prestige and has strong abilities. He is also a sworn brother with Tian Khan from the Central Plains. He can be a khan, but he insists on supporting Siye Hu. As a result, he defeated and killed Mo Hedu Khan now.

Which boss is not worried about such a powerful subordinate?

"The stakes must have hidden stakes in Siyehu in the Western Regions. If they let them provoke and disagree, it is estimated that Siyehu will explode. If Siyehu turns against Nishu, the Western Regions will be in chaos, which is just right for us to stumble and win in chaos. At least, we can also give us several years to prepare, right?"
Chapter completed!