The Tang Dynasty was very rich in Li Zhi's era of Emperor Gaozong and Li Longji's era of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, and it is no exaggeration to say that he was rich in all over the world.

The maid from Silla, Kunlun slaves from overseas, BMW jade from the Western Regions, falcons from Liaodong, pearls from the South Sea, countless supplies from Jiannan, Sichuan, Jiangnan and other places have caused the entire Tang Dynasty to fall into prosperity.

It is in an extremely strong state in both economic and military affairs, and it has reached its peak in the entire geographical scope of East Asia.

However, in the early Zhenguan period, although Li Jing and others successfully defeated Jie Li, the military status improved greatly, the economic situation of the Tang Dynasty was far from comparable to that of a hundred years later. In this era when the government's income was only 200,000 yuan a year, it is conceivable what kind of shock it would cause when more than 100,000 cattle, sheep and horses appeared in Chang'an City.

Just as the welcoming ceremony ended, a large number of civil servants rushed into the palace and suggested to Li Er how to allocate these large livestock.

"Half of these livestock belongs to others." When the civil servants were happily discussing how to distribute them, Li Jing poked the hornet's nest in one sentence.

"What?!" Li Jing took out the documents he signed with Yan Fei, which clearly recorded that half of all the cattle, sheep and horses belonged to Yan Fei. After looking at each other, the civil servants turned on the bombardment system.

"How can you sign such a document?!" Kong Yingda's hand almost poked Li Jing's nose. In his opinion, Li Jing was simply crazy to sign such a document.

"Thief!" Wen Daya, the Minister of Revenue, jumped three feet high. His Ministry of Revenue should have been the main source of income, but half of the things were separated before they were put into the warehouse. You can imagine the anger in his heart.

"How many benefits have you collected before you privately transfer the national treasury to merchants?" Li Gang's beard was blown up in anger. Compared to other ministers with selfishness, Li Gang, a righteous man, just simply questioned Li Jing's character.

"In ancient times, Wang Jian attacked Chu and asked for fields and defiled himself. Did you, Li Jing, imitate the ancients like this?" Wei Zheng, known as the mirror of the eternal people, pushed Li Jing to Wang Jian's position with one sentence. He believed that Li Jing was learning from Wang Jian's self-deprecation to protect himself.

The Chinese officials in the court were in a turbulent relationship, and they were all constantly swearing at Li Jing.

The generals made extraordinary achievements this time, and these civil servants had long been jealous. At this time, Li Jing gave a big handle, and of course they were holding on and attacking desperately. The conflict between civil and military officials has never stopped since ancient times.

Among the many civil officials, only the Secretariat Ling, namely the Prime Minister Fang Xuanling and the Minister of War Du Ruhui, did not say anything. In their opinion, Li Jing was definitely not such an unwise person, and there must be an understandable reason for doing this.

Li Shimin, wearing a python robe and a sky-crowned crown, sat quietly on the dragon chaise and watched the people below jump. He also analyzed what their true intention was from their words and expressions.

Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui should have thought of hidden feelings, so they didn't say a word. Wei Zheng and Li Gang were upright and simply discussed things. As for others, especially those from aristocratic families, they included the struggle between civil and military officials and other thoughts.

Li Jing had already informed Li Shimin through a memorial, so Li Er knew it. The reason why he didn't say anything was to see the reactions of the ministers. At this time, he had almost understood it, so he gave Fang Xuanling a hidden look.

After receiving the emperor's suggestion, the title of Fang Mou Duan was left in the history books, he understood and immediately stopped many civil officials from siege Li Jing. He stepped forward and asked, "Do you dare to ask the general, why did you sign such a document with Yan Fei?"

When Li Jing and Yan Fei signed the documents, they used the seal of the general, and the general was the official position of the court, which naturally signed a contract with Yan Fei on behalf of the court. If it violated, not only Li Jing would be too disgraceful. If Li Jing signed with his private identity, then it would be a different situation at this time.

Li Jing, who was besieged by a group of civil servants for a long time, finally breathed a sigh of relief. These guys didn't know what they ate during the meal. All kinds of flavors came to him, so he didn't even have the idea of ​​retaliating. If he didn't hold his breath and concentrate, he would probably be smothered to death.

At this time, someone who understood clearly asked clearly, and Li Jing was even moved. "Everyone, so many cattle, sheep and horses were transported back from the grassland. There were also various husbands watching along the way. Our soldiers did not know how to grazed and could not find enough forage. So many livestock could not be brought back at all. I planned to slaughter them on the spot to make pickled meat. I wonder if this is the case?"

Li Jing's words calmed down a little by the original excited civil servants. The transportation capacity of this era was extremely poor, and it was indeed impossible to transport so many livestock from the vast grasslands. Because the required forage far exceeded the transportation capacity of the Tang Dynasty.

"General." Li Jing had not yet surrendered the tiger talisman to Li Er, so he was still the general. Wei Zheng, who had thought for a while, stepped forward and asked in confusion, "Do you dare to ask how the general brought these livestock back?"

In the eyes of Kong Yingda and others, these livestock are countless wealth, and are wealth that is more than the annual income of the Tang Dynasty. In Wei Zheng's view, this is the most urgently needed material for the agricultural-based Tang Dynasty. With so many large livestock, it can greatly increase the grain output of the Tang Dynasty. Wei Zheng, who experienced the tragic famine at the end of the Sui Dynasty, knew very well that food was the foundation of a country.

"Originally, it would be a blessing to bring those horses back. Cattle and sheep, etc., were prepared to slaughter them in order to avoid falling into the hands of the Hu people." Li Jing took a breath and explained, "But Yan Fei, the director of the military officer, could bring all the livestock back alive, but the condition was that these livestock would be divided by half."

Many civil servants subconsciously wanted to yell nonsense. Even Jie Li couldn't guarantee that so many livestock could be brought back intact, let alone the Tang army that went deep into the army alone. But then they thought that the livestock had already arrived outside the Tang city, which means that the small recorder did indeed do it.

"30,000 horses, 47,000 cows, and 59,000 sheep." Wei Zheng carefully recalled the number of livestock transported back. Then he compared the value of simply bringing horses back. The final conclusion was that even half of the share was given to Yan Fei, it would be more profitable than simply bringing horses back.

During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty occupied the entire grassland and even reached the Beihai, and also owned the entire Western Regions. Therefore, there was no shortage of large livestock during the prosperous Tang Dynasty. For example, during the Tianbao period of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, a bucket of rice costs only more than ten cents, an ordinary horse costs about ten cents, and a strong cow costs between four and five cents. However, during the Anshi Rebellion, a bucket of rice costs as much as more than eight hundred cents!

But it was the glorious Tianbao period, not the early Zhenguan period, where internal and external troubles were caused by drought, floods, plagues and locust plagues were rampant. When Li Shimin first took office, the wind was really uneven, the rain was not smooth, frost and drought continued, and locusts were everywhere. As for floods, there were really everywhere.

The first volume of Zhenguan Zheng records that from the beginning of Emperor Taizong's ascension to the throne, frost and drought caused disasters, and rice and grain were booming. At that time, from the capital, Hedong, He, south, and Longyou, there were even more famines, and only one piece of silk could get a dou of corn.

Speaking of this, I have to admire Li Shimin. Under such difficult natural disasters and the constant pulling of the aristocratic families, he still successfully eliminated the Eastern Turks through various means. He is worthy of being as famous as the Qin Emperor and Han Wu.

At this time, although the price of grain has gradually dropped from the sky-high price of a dou of rice and a piece of silk, the price of each dou remains at a level of seventy or eighty cents. As for the more lacking cattle, sheep and horses, the price of an ordinary horse is at least more than a hundred cents. A cow also starts with sixty cents. As for sheep, it is cheaper, because the Tang Dynasty asked for sheep not for wool but for eating.

Whether it is simply calculating its value or the importance of the bull, it is a big profit for cooperation with Yan Fei. However, when everyone thinks that so many livestock have been given to others for nothing, everyone is very dissatisfied.

"It seems that the court has made a lot of money to transport these animals back." Fang Xuanling smiled and nodded, then asked, "But how did Yan Fei feed so many livestock?"

Li Jing looked at Li Shimin. He had already informed the emperor through the memorial to tell the emperor whether he could tell this matter.

"There is another reason for this." Li Shimin stood up and closed the hole. "You guys don't need to ask more questions."

The emperor personally told everyone not to ask questions, which means there was indeed a big problem. However, those who could gain a foothold in the court were all human spirits, and even if they had different thoughts in their hearts, they would not show it in front of the emperor. After everyone responded, they automatically ignored the matter of how Yan Fei transported the forage.

"Since you can't get it back, why not buy all the cattle, sheep and horses in his hands?" Tang Jian said an idea, "Let him sell them to the court at a cheap price."

"No matter how cheap it is, how cheap it can be?" Du Ruhui shook his head directly. "Even if it is all discounted, it will be a huge sum of millions. Where does this money come from?"

The financial and political income of the Tang Dynasty in the ninth year of Wude was only more than 2 million chunks, and even if they were all taken out, they would not be enough to pay for their salaries or raise soldiers.

"Then drag him!" Wen Daya came out (the previous article was wrong, Wen Daya was the Minister of Rites). "There are huge expenses for chewing so many livestock every day. I see that the article says that all these livestock should be sold to the government first. If we don't buy them, let him raise them by themselves. Of course, there are times when he can't afford it."

Wen Daya thought that tens of thousands of animals had to eat at least hundreds of thousands of kilograms of forage food every day. If Yan Fei was dragging him to the money of forage alone would be enough to make him bankrupt. When he couldn't bear it, he could naturally take these livestock into his pocket at an extremely low price.

Many people agreed with Wen Daya's proposal, and some even said that if the cattle starves to death, they will be arrested and all the livestock will be confiscated to the public.

Li Jing sighed repeatedly about the madness of these people. Not to mention that these forages are nothing to Yan Fei, they were successfully brought back from the grassland by twice the amount before. How could they not be able to hold on now?

Besides, if Yan Fei is really angry, with his terrifying performance in the grassland and border towns, who can resist the consequences once he gets angry?

Fang Xuanling also saw something was wrong and hurriedly stepped forward to ask for an order, "Your Majesty, why not let Yan Fei go to the palace to discuss in person?"

"Yeah." Li Shimin nodded, "Xuan Yan flew into the hall."
Chapter completed!