Chang'an City is a sad place for Li Zhi.

After getting on the boat and leaving the Weishui Wharf, Li Zhi did not stop all the way and went straight to Dengzhou.

.The team of nearly two thousand people is composed of eighteen ships.

It was so powerful that it was docked at Wendeng Wharf that it naturally attracted a lot of attention.

"Mr. The ninth prince came to Dengzhou. It seems that he will stay here for a few days. Should we come forward to entertain him?"

As a local snake in Dengzhou, the influence of Chunyu family in Dengzhou is unquestionable.

It can be said that in Dengzhou, except for the current princelings, the Chunyu family is the strongest.

It is not an exaggeration to describe them as a landlord and powerful person.

Although Li Kuan's arrival broke the situation where the Chunyu family dominated, after so many years, the situation has increased, and the Chunyu family's strength has been greatly improved.

Many of the nobles in Chang'an City felt that they were very powerful and did not take the local snake of the Chunyu family seriously, and ended up suffering losses.

"At the beginning, the ninth prince was competing with the King of Chu... His Highness for the position of crown prince. As the princelings, we are naturally not very suitable to deal with the ninth prince.

Even as normal, we should stumbling to the Ninth Prince.

But I heard that when the ninth prince left Chang'an, His Royal Highness went to the Weishui Wharf to see him off in person.

I am a little confused about this relationship. After all, they are brothers, and we are outsiders.

If you do something wrong then, it will be embarrassing after all."

Obviously, Chunyu didn't want to be in the muddy waters.

He had already embraced Li Kuan's thighs and no longer needed to take risks and make contributions to win further trust. He wanted to live a peaceful and stable life.

"Yes, so I feel embarrassed after all. We completely regarded such a large fleet as not seeing it, and obviously no one believed it.

But if you come forward to entertain, you don’t know how to entertain.

According to the spirit of your instructions, I think it is enough to arrange someone to protect the safety of the Ninth Prince and let him not have any trouble in our Dengzhou territory.

We don’t seem to care about so many other things.”

Chunyu Bo is usually a think tank for Chunyu Nan. No matter what it is, he will put forward his own opinions.

But this time, he felt it was difficult to give a satisfactory answer.

The situation that looks very clear is confusing.

What exactly does Li Kuan view Li Zhi? It is difficult for others to accurately grasp except for the parties involved.

Especially those who have been in Dengzhou for a long time, Chunyu Bo is even more inaccurate about the matter in Chang'an City.

"Well, in addition to the fact that something can't happen in Dengzhou, some of the prepared materials for going out to sea, such as wine, iron, etc., should be satisfied as much as possible if they prepare in Dengzhou, and don't deliberately make things difficult for others."

Chunyu Nan thought about it, but he still didn't come forward, but he could give Li Zhi's fleet some appropriate support.

"If you make this arrangement, no matter the ninth prince or the crown prince, you should have no objection.

I hope that after the ninth prince is ready, he can leave Dengzhou as soon as possible, otherwise our lives will be very difficult."

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"Big Niu. Have you seen that the salt we usually eat is actually sunburned from the sea water.

I used to hear that Dengzhou's salt drying farm was the largest in the entire Tang Dynasty. I didn't feel anything at that time, but now I can feel its scale by riding a horse around the salt farm."

After Li Zhi arrived in Dengzhou, he naturally had to let the fleet provide supplies in this largest harbour in the north.

He himself also wanted to take this opportunity to see what the port of Datang looks like.

It is very likely that he will never have the chance to come back in his life.

When he arrives at Jinshan Port, how he needs to build a port must be a lot of things that need to be learned and learned from the experience of the Tang Dynasty.

So after the fleet docked at Wendeng Wharf, he took a team of guards to wander around Dengzhou City.

As an important supply material, although salt comes from the sea, it is actually difficult for the fleet to replenish salt by itself at sea.

So this also requires a lot of preparation.

Li Zhi even went to the salt drying workshop in person to take a look, thinking that he might be able to set up a salt drying farm in Jinshan Port in the future.

Otherwise, if things like salt still need to be transported from the Tang Dynasty, it will definitely not be a solution in the long run.

It will also cause the price of salt to become extremely high in Kingsoft Port.

This is not the scene that Li Zhi hopes to see.

"It's really shocking. A large piece of white patch is covered with salt. How many of this is needed.

No wonder since the salt drying workshop in Dengzhou was established, the price of salt in our Tang Dynasty has been declining.

The price of a few dozen cents per pound at the beginning has now become a few cents per pound.

Although many people are still reluctant to eat salt at home, they are finally not unable to eat salt."

Wang Daniu is Li Zhi's escort.

I came from the Wang family in Taiyuan with the Wang family.

However, over the years, Wang Daniu has been devoted to Li Zhi's concern and has completely gained Li Zhi's trust.

"Yes, many things are changed after the elder brother made new news.

I heard that he came to Dengzhou for the first time because of disaster relief.

At that time, the people of Dengzhou lived a life of not being full of food and not being covered with clothes.

No one in the court dared to volunteer to come to Dengzhou to solve the problem. At this time, the eldest brother stood up.

Originally, everyone was waiting to see his joke, but after they came to Dengzhou, they initially solved everyone's meal problem in just a few days.

It can even let everyone eat yellow croaker instead of eating, which has simply refreshed everyone's perception."

Li Zhi was very clear about Li Kuan's history of making a fortune.

Back then, he was soaked in the Chu Palace almost every day, and he became familiar with the maids and servants inside.

"It's true. I remember that a book used to cost several cents of money at any time, but now it costs at most a few hundred cents, and some books have even been reduced to dozens of cents.

Even the children of ordinary farmers can have the opportunity to buy books they like if they grit their teeth.

There is also the stainless steel. I used to buy a sword made of stainless steel that I carried with me. It would definitely not be enough without a hundred chunk of money.

However, with the continuous decline in the price of stainless steel, the prices of various weapons have declined.

A sword like me, with a dozen cents of money, can basically be done."

Wang Daniu stroked the big knife around his waist, as if it could provide him with great confidence.

"Salt drying and shipbuilding, as well as sea trade and fishing, these four industries are the pillar industries of Dengzhou.

Actually, I think in the future, Kingsoft Port can refer to the practices of Dengzhou and focus on developing these four industries.

Today we saw the salt drying workshop, and tomorrow we will go to the shipbuilding workshop to have a good tour.

If possible, I would also like to board the fisherman's boat and see the fishing scene.

Kingsoft Port is surrounded by sea, and fishery resources must be very rich. We don’t have to worry about not having food at that time!”

Li Zhi still felt a lot of reluctance to give up on the Tang Dynasty.

Once he boarded the ship and left Dengzhou, it means that he may never have the chance to return to the Tang Dynasty in his life.

So he was trying his best to make excuses for himself so that he could stay in Dengzhou for a longer period of time.

"Jiulang, I think if we can bring a group of craftsmen to our development and growth this time, it will be of great significance to our development and growth.

The tax revenue paid in the Shufangcheng now is much higher than that of a single road.

This fully demonstrates the importance of developing industry to tax revenue.

The most important thing is that after various craftsmen made many goods, they enriched the lives of the people and gave everyone more choices for the money they had."

Although Wang Daniu studied martial arts, he was born in Taiyuan Wang's side-limited family and had read several books and had some knowledge.

"Be careful with this! I, my elder brother, have a good understanding of it.

If you leave the Tang Dynasty with a bunch of goods, no matter what you buy, there will be basically no problem.

But if you bring craftsmen to sea, there are actually many restrictions.

Things like cement workshops are now gradually becoming less strict.

But there are problems like craftsmen in porcelain workshops, craftsmen in silk workshops, craftsmen in cotton workshops and craftsmen in salt workshops.

As for the craftsmen of the iron smelting workshop and gunpowder workshop, if anyone dares to set up similar workshops alone overseas, there will probably be no good ending."

Li Zhi is half of Li Kuan's apprentice, and he understands many of Li Kuan's ideas quite well.

So this time he went to Jinshan Port, although he brought a lot of people, he didn't bring too many things that would violate Li Kuan's taboos.

Especially the flagship products of Datang Haimao, this is a bottom line that must not be touched. Li Zhi never thought of challenging this point at all.

Moreover, as the prince of the Tang Dynasty, he actually understood Li Kuan’s ideas quite well.
To be continued...