allendalepharm Chapter 1983 Current Situation of Qinghai Road
Chapter 1983 Current Situation of Qinghai Road
Wang Xuance seemed to be hesitant to speak, but his next words were self-evident.
Last time, Li Shen cheated his father out of four million strings of cash. He escaped when his father Li Shimin didn't react and rushed back to Qinghai Road at lightning speed.
But in the end, he never expected that his father would lead people to Qinghai Road and give him a double beating.
Li Shen thought at the time that his father was mentally ill. As an emperor, he actually chased him thousands of miles for a small amount of money.
Every time Li Shen thought about this, he felt a pain in his butt.
"Then what do you say? I will not leave silently anyway." Li Shen asked.
“Your Majesty, I think it would be better if we report this to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, so that no one will impeach us.
And the prince will also go on the expedition in glory, so we have the best of both worlds."
Wang Xuance advised.
"Notify the prince? Hmm...okay. Then write a memorial to him before you leave. It's a pity to waste the opportunity to trouble him."
Li Shen could only nod helplessly in the end. He also felt that his idea was a bit risky.
Hearing King Ji's agreement, Wang Xuance finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"By the way, I have something important to discuss with you." Li Shen suddenly remembered that he had something important to discuss with Wang Xuance, but somehow he had gone off topic.
"Your Majesty ordered."
"I don't have any instructions, I just want to ask you about the current situation in Qinghai Road. I heard today that the trade in Qinghai Road is a bit chaotic.
There are frequent conflicts between the two groups of merchants, and I even heard that someone died? What is going on? "
Li Shen repeated what he heard at the bank. Wang Xuance’s intelligence organization should know the exact news.
“Your Highness, that is indeed the case. Because the opposition is so clear, there can be some friction sometimes.
Moreover, we Tang people are better at doing business, and the Tibetans always suffer losses, which will lead to some friction and even fighting."
Wang Xuance made a brief report.
"Know how to do business? Humph, you mean cheating people, right? You cheat people on my territory. Do you think I am not worthy of you?"
Li Shen immediately understood what it meant. What a bullshit business man. He was just trying to cheat the Tibetans.
"What the prince said is almost the same, but it is all directed at the Tibetans." Wang Xuance nodded.
“Of course I know they are Tibetans. If they dared to deceive the Tang people, they would have been eliminated long ago.
However, in this city that I have built with great difficulty, it is unacceptable to disrupt my tea-horse trade, even if it means cheating the Tibetans.
I allow them to lower prices, and I also allow them to raise prices, but they cannot cheat.
As time goes on, no Tibetan will dare to do business with us Tang people.
Don't forget, I haven't recovered the money I spent on building the city yet. I invested nearly 10 million guan."
Li Shen didn't care about deceiving the Tibetans. What he cared about was the consequences. He had invested so much, and half of the annual profit had to be given to the court. This was what was agreed upon at the beginning.
Under normal circumstances, Li Shen expects to recover the cost within ten years.
If it is not normal, then it will be a long time before it is achieved and your money will be wasted.
"Your Highness, there is nothing we can do about this." Wang Xuance saw that Li Shen was angry and hurriedly tried to persuade him.
"Bullshit, what's the point of doing nothing? It must be the people from the Protectorate who condoned it, otherwise where would they get the courage from?
I don't care whether they are cheating or robbing, but they cannot commit crimes in my trade.
If they have the guts, they can just cheat outside the city. I won’t care if they kill people and rob outside the city.
Who is in charge of the Protectorate now?"
Li Shen became even more furious. He thought that this guy didn't take himself seriously. Didn't his property matter?
“Your Majesty, it’s Li Zhiming, the Grand Protector of Qinghai Province.
Zhang Xingcheng, the general commander of the Qinghai Road, did not take over the important cities of Qinghai, but stationed outside the city and blocked the Chiling Pass. "
Wang Xuance replied, "The military commander cannot take over a place without the emperor's order."
"What does Li Zhiming do for a living? I told him before I left that he should stabilize the trade. He promised me that.
This king specially trained him and recommended him to be the Grand Protector of Qinghai Road because he is familiar with this king and is a member of the royal family, so he can help this king manage the important cities in Qinghai.
I didn't expect that it would start like this in less than a year. When will I be able to get back the money I spent on building the city?"
Li Shen was really going crazy, his chest was heaving, and it was obvious that he was very angry.
Tens of millions of strings of cash! This was the money Li Shen had saved by tightening his belt. He also hoped that Qinghai Yaoyi could become a treasure trove like the industrial park.
"Your Highness, please calm down. We can discuss this matter in the long run." Wang Xuance didn't think much of it at first. The Tang people cheated the Tibetans, and that was it.
But she didn't expect Prince Ji to react like this. Thinking about it carefully, what Prince Ji said made sense.
The Ji Wang Mansion has invested so much money, and it must be recovered no matter what. The simplest way is to stabilize the trade and improve the business environment.
"Asshole, let's go the route to Qinghai Yaoyi. I want to go and see for myself. As the Junior Secretary of the Zongzheng Temple, it is not my character to take unfair revenge."
Li Shen cursed angrily and prepared to deal with Li Zhiming himself.
“Your Highness, the power in the important cities of Qinghai is in chaos now, with Tibetans, Tang people, and people from various countries in the Western Regions all mixed together.
Among the Tang people there were also ordinary merchants, caravans of nobles, and caravans of aristocratic families.
The period is complicated and it is difficult to manage well.
Especially when encountering the nobles and merchant caravans of the Tang people, the officers and soldiers cannot afford to offend them. "
Wang Xuance explained the reason to Li Shen again, and also explained it for Li Zhiming.
But Li Shen didn't care about these at all:
“I don’t care who they are, as long as they are merchants, they must abide by the rules I set. If I were there, I would have made them behave themselves.
It seems that we have to go to Qinghai Road this time."
"Your Highness, if we take a detour through Qinghai Road, it might delay our mission," Wang Xuance reminded.
"It doesn't matter. Didn't the imperial court mobilize 10,000 soldiers? Adding the soldiers from the original Anxi Protectorate, it would be useful to intimidate Yi Xi'ai in a short period of time.
This king is just going to Qinghai Road to take a look and will not stay for long."
Li Shen waved his hand indifferently at Wang Xuance's suggestion.
"Yes, then I will make arrangements in advance." Seeing that King Ji was so determined, Wang Xuance could only obey the order.
"Well, write a letter to Li Zhiming first, saying that I want the stability of the Qinghai Dao and Yihuo Market, and I hope he won't let me down."
Li Shen thought about it and gave the order.
"Yes, I will send a letter after I return." Wang Xuance accepted the order again.
"Okay, nothing else. Go back and write a letter to Li Zhiming first."
After the discussion, Li Shen said something to Wang Xuance and then yawned.
"Yes, I'll take my leave." Wang Xuance bowed and walked out.
Li Shen looked at the weather, stretched, then lay down in the rocking chair and fell asleep in a daze.
(I think I wrote it wrong. Zhang Xingcheng was in Qinghai Road as the chief military commander of Qinghai Road. I forgot about it.
Just pretend you don’t know.)