NIP Chapter 198 Hot Potatoes
Chapter 198 Hot Potatoes
Chapter 198 Hot Potatoes
"Your Majesty, you have to be a servant."
Lin Xuan was a little speechless, but what you said was light.
Li Shimin waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, no matter what they impeach you for, as long as it's not true, I will help you solve it."
Lin Xuan rolled his eyes, and as long as what you mean is true, then he doesn't care about me, why does he feel that Li Shimin is so unreliable.
"By the way, there is news from the Western Turks that something seems to have changed." Li Shimin said.
"Your Majesty, what happened? Could it be that they didn't buy it?" Lin Xuan asked.
Li Shimin shook his head and said, "Someone launched a mutiny, and now the Western Turks have replaced them. As for whether they will buy Liuliwolves or not, I haven't heard any news yet, so I can't be sure."
"Your Majesty, there is no need to worry about this matter. It doesn't matter whether they buy it or not. Anyway, it's only 12 guan." Lin Xuan said indifferently.
In history, the Western Turks and Xue Yantuo were eventually wiped out by the Tang Dynasty. It was the best that could be calculated, but they could not be calculated, and they would not exist for a few more years.
Li Shimin glared at Lin Xuan, and said, "Is that the 12 guan that I was thinking of? I thought it was a low-priced war horse."
"Your Majesty, there is no shortage of money now. Although war horses are a bit more expensive, it is not difficult to buy war horses, right?" Lin Xuan said indifferently.
The lack of war horses before the Tang Dynasty was due to the blockade of the grasslands and the relatively large loss of war horses.
Now that there are horseshoes, the loss of horses has been greatly reduced. As long as you spend money and buy some horses, it is completely enough for the Tang army.
"What you said is light-hearted. Datang needs to spend more money. You said last time, sell salt to the grasslands. I arranged for someone to do it, but the price is too high, and no one buys it." Li Shimin Said angrily.
Lin Xuan was stunned, and asked, "How could it be? Isn't the grassland short of salt?"
The grassland lacks salt and iron. Even if the price of salt and iron is higher, as long as it is not too outrageous, it should be reasonable to sell it.
Li Shimin said with a dark face: "I asked someone to investigate. It was the Cui family who sold the salt to the grassland. The price, the price is a little cheaper than that sold by the imperial court to the grassland."
Since Lin Xuan made the invention of salt production, Datang not only has no shortage of salt, but also the price of salt is very low.
If the sea salt made by the Cui family is sold at this price, they will only lose money.
The Cui family sold all the salt they produced to other countries, and even bought salt from the government and resold it.
Of course, Li Shimin can sell the salt to the grassland at a lower price than the Cui family.
But he can't do this, and once he does, it will be the prairie people who will be cheap in the end.
The Cui family can disregard Datang's interests, but he can't.
Lin Xuan was dumbfounded, no wonder the Cui family didn't respond much to the emergence of the method of making salt.
"Your Majesty, the aristocratic family must have the help of the border generals to transport the salt out of the customs." Lin Xuan said.
A large amount of salt, not some small things, can be transported out without anyone noticing.
Li Shimin said: "Of course I know this. I just got the news not long ago, and I'm still thinking about how to find out about this matter."
Lin Xuan didn't speak. There must be many people involved in this matter, covering each other, otherwise it would be easy to investigate.
Once this matter is investigated, it is unknown how many people will be killed, and Lin Xuan does not want to participate.
"If I hadn't sent people to sell salt on the grasslands, I might not have known about it until now. Do you know what this means?" Li Shimin said through gritted teeth.
What does it mean?
It means that there are many generals and aristocratic families at the border.
It means that the hand of the aristocratic family has reached out to the army.
Although the aristocratic family has private soldiers, some government soldiers are even in the hands of the aristocratic family.
But the frontier army is different. Now they can transport the salt out without telling Li Shimin.
One day, they may collude with all ethnic groups in the grassland and let them in.
This is what Li Shimin is most worried about.
"I want to find someone to investigate this matter, but there has been no good one," Li Shimin said.
Lin Xuan smiled wryly, Li Shimin meant that he wanted him to be responsible for this matter.
"Your Majesty, I don't know how many people are involved in this matter, so we can only investigate it secretly." Lin Xuan said.
To be honest, he didn't want to be involved in this.
Once this kind of thing is found out, the people involved will definitely lose their heads.
If it is known that someone is investigating them, those people will definitely jump over the wall.
If Li Shimin can be concealed from him, the other party's status must be very high.
"Then what do you think should be done?" Li Shimin asked.
Lin Xuan thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, it's best to send someone who is familiar with the army and very prestigious to investigate this matter."
Li Shimin nodded, he also thought of what Lin Xuan said.
"However, once the ministers in the court are sent out, they may alert those people. If they act rashly, who knows what those people will do." Li Shimin said.
In comparison, Lin Xuan is not only capable, but also has a low sense of presence, so he wants to send Lin Xuan to investigate this matter.
Lin Xuan quickly said: "Your Majesty, the aristocratic family is staring at me now. Once I go to investigate, it will definitely arouse their vigilance."
"It's nothing to grow. You have the guts to let me trust you with beauty." Li Shimin said with contempt.
Lin Xuan's careful thinking could not be hidden from him at all.
However, Li Shimin also knew that Lin Xuan was indeed being targeted by the aristocratic family, so it was not suitable for him to do this.
What!Said I didn't plant?
Lin Xuan almost jumped up, but after thinking about it, he held back.
As long as you can avoid this big trouble, if you don’t plant it, you won’t plant it.
"Your Majesty, I have something to pay attention to." Lin Xuan said.
I don't want to take over, but it doesn't prevent him from coming up with ideas.
"Tell me." Li Shimin said.
Lin Xuan said with a smile: "Your Majesty didn't send a few generals in the court to investigate, isn't it because you are worried about arousing their vigilance? As long as there is a legitimate reason, it will be fine."
"You are right, but there is no war now. Where is the justification?" Li Shimin asked.
Lin Xuan said: "The stability of the border is related to the safety of the Tang Dynasty. Your Majesty can send people there on the grounds of rewarding the soldiers and inspecting the border fortress."
"Then which general do you think is suitable?" Li Shimin asked.
Lin Xuan smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, I don't know much about the generals in the court, so it's hard to say."
No matter who takes over this matter, it is a hot potato. If he is asked to recommend someone, in the end they will know and thank him.
Li Shimin didn't embarrass Lin Xuan, waved his hand, and said, "Go down, I will seriously consider this matter."
"Your Majesty, I don't know if His Royal Highness Prince Jin is in the Lizheng Hall. I have something to give to His Highness." Lin Xuan said.
Li Shimin said curiously: "What? Just give it to me, and I will send it over."
"Your Majesty, most people don't know how to use this thing. I have to teach His Royal Highness King Jin how to use it." Lin Xuan said with some embarrassment.
How dare he show those things to Li Shimin? If Li Shimin knew that he gave Li Zhi toys, he might have the intention to kill him.
Regardless of the ancient princes, they were born noble, but they didn't have any childhood.
At a young age, Li Zhi had to learn etiquette and read and practice calligraphy every day.
As for toys, that doesn't exist.
Li Shimin didn't think much about it, and asked Li Mu to arrange for someone to take Lin Xuan there.
Li Zhi lives in a courtyard of the Lizheng Palace, not far away.
Don't Lizhengdian, there is a word "dian", which means a palace.
In fact, the Lizheng Palace is very large, otherwise Li Shimin would not have allowed Empress Changsun to live here.
"Report to His Royal Highness King Jin, the Marquis of Jingyang County, please see me!" The eunuch leading the way reported.
Li Zhi's eyes lit up, and he asked, "Where's the person?"
"Go back to Your Highness, I'm waiting outside the courtyard!"
"Let him in quickly, wait a minute, I will go in person," Li Zhi said.
"See His Royal Highness King Jin!"
Seeing Li Zhi coming out, Lin Xuan hurriedly saluted.
Li Zhi ignored Lin Xuan, looked around, and found that Lin Xuan didn't bring anything, and asked, "What about the things you promised me?"
"Return to Your Highness, the things have been brought, and now they are outside the Lizheng Hall, and His Highness needs to send someone to get them." Lin Xuan said.
He can bring things into the palace, but without approval, he cannot bring them to the Lizheng Hall.
Li Zhi quickly said to the eunuch beside him: "Go outside the Lizheng Hall and have someone bring in the things that the Marquis of Jingyang County brought in."
"Yes!"
After a while, the eunuch led several forbidden soldiers and brought the things in.
Li Zhi looked at the things made of wood and asked curiously, "How do you play with these things?"
"Your Highness, don't worry, wait for the minister to finish it first." Lin Xuan said with a smile.
Lin Xuan commanded the imperial army to fix the slide in the yard, and asked the maid to find a carpet and spread it on the ground.
After finishing it, Lin Xuan said: "Your Highness, climb up from here, sit there, and slide down."
"Try this king." After Li Zhi finished speaking, he climbed up the small stairs.
Those eunuchs and maids hurried forward to support Li Zhi, for fear that he would fall.
After Li Zhi climbed up, according to what Lin Xuan said, he slid down from the upper door.
"It's fun!" Li Zhi said excitedly.
Li Zhi played with it a few more times, pointing to the wooden horse and asked, "How do you play this?"
"Your Highness can just sit on it." Lin Xuan said.
Hearing this, Li Zhi rode on the wooden horse.
There was a curve under the wooden horse, and it began to swing with Li Zhi's weight.
"Drive, drive, drive!" Li Zhi shouted as if he was really riding a horse.
Seeing that Li Zhi liked it, Lin Xuan said with a smile, "Your Highness will play first, and I will leave first."
(End of this chapter)