Capital Datang

The reason why Li Shimin called Li Yin to the palace in a hurry was because the results of the investigation into the assassination of Li Yin finally came out. There are indications that it was Fan Yang Lu who was behind the assassination of Li Yin.

And they did this, as Li Shimin analyzed at the beginning, through this incident, Li Yin was caught in the struggle for the throne and could not get out. Then they could take the opportunity to suppress industry and commerce. Calculations fell to nothing.

Although there are various indications that this matter was done by Fan Yang Lu, even Li Shimin did his best, but he did not get any substantive evidence. It can be seen that the other party handled it very cleanly, leaving no clues at all. In this way, even if they knew Fan Yang and the Lu family had done it, there was nothing they could do about them, not even the emperor Li Shimin.After all, the Tang Dynasty is not the whip dynasty of the later generations, because a few words can copy the family and exterminate the family. If the emperor of the Tang Dynasty wants to kill a courtier, he must have a heinous crime, and at the same time he must be able to produce reliable evidence. Let alone wanting to deal with an aristocratic family that has been entrenched for nearly a thousand years.

After returning to the palace, Li Yin immediately told Wang An about this matter, and then asked angrily: "Wang Fu, what can you do so that I can give Lu Shi a little 'color'? "

Wang An has been officially appointed as Wang Fu of Prince Qi's Mansion. After these days of recuperation, Li Yin's embarrassment and haggardness when he first saw him can no longer be seen, replaced by a kind of elegance and wisdom.After hearing what Li Yin said, he laughed loudly and said, "Your Highness wants to take revenge on Mrs. Lu? In fact, speaking of it, the last assassination not only wanted His Highness to be involved in the struggle for the throne, but also Fan Yang Lu Your revenge on Your Highness?" Capital Datang 140

"Revenge on me?" Li Min was taken aback after hearing this, not understanding what Wang An meant?

"Hehe. Your Highness may not know yet. In addition to occupying a vast field, the Lu family of Fanyang also controlled almost all of the tea making industry in the Tang Dynasty. The tea cakes had no market, and the clan also lost a source of income. Although they also bought the patent for the use of fried tea later, it was too late. The tea market has been divided up by His Highness and others. Compared with the previous ones, the profit gained from the tea industry is almost nothing." Wang An said with a smile.As far as he knew, apart from the income from the land, Fan Yang Lu's family had only two pillar industries, and tea making was one of them, but it was a pity that it was abolished by Li Yin inadvertently.

Li Yin was also taken aback when he heard this, he didn't expect to provoke the other party first.But he was getting angry and couldn't control these things at all. He said angrily: "Even if I provoke them first. The technology is not as good as people. Naturally, they will be eliminated. I don't want to solve the predicament fundamentally. But I came up with this Such a slanderous trick to plot against the king, and their five surnames and seven Wangs are called the heirs of poetry and books, I think they should be the heirs of conspiracy!"

Speaking of this, Li Yin recalled how frightened Wenxin and Xijun were when he was assassinated, especially when Xijun was pregnant at the time, so being frightened by this, he wondered if it would have any impact on the development of the fetus?Thinking of this, he became even more angry, slapped the table fiercely and said: "Wang Fu, I can't swallow this tone no matter what, do you have any way to get revenge on Mrs. Lu?"

"Hehe, others may think that there is no way to meet the Lu family, but for His Highness, it is extremely simple!" Seeing Li Yin's temper, Wang An still said with a smile, "Fan Yang Lu's main industry There are three aspects, not to mention the land, the tea industry has been abolished unintentionally by His Highness, and the only thing left is the linen industry. Hearing this name, His Highness must already know what to do, right?"

Sure enough, as Wang An expected, when Li Min heard that the third pillar industry of Fan Yang Lu's family was linen, his eyes lit up immediately, and the angry look on his face disappeared, instead it turned into an extremely sinister smile, and at the same time murmured: He muttered to himself: "Hey, if there is a way to heaven, you don't go, and if there is no way to hell, you rush in. What's wrong with you, but you are making linen. Now I'll see how you die!"

The reason why Li Yin said this is that the key lies in the linen. Before cotton was popularized on a large scale, the ancients used three main materials for making clothes, fur, silk, and linen. However, whether it is fur or silk, the output Neither can compare with linen, and linen is also the cheapest of the three, so linen has been the most important clothing material for the middle and lower classes for thousands of years.

Linen is mainly made of various plants that produce hemp, which are spun into fabrics after retting. However, the linen at this time is very weak and rough, and it feels like needles on the body.In order to solve this problem, it has to be starched and pounded, so that the linen is suitable for making clothes and is durable.

However, compared to linen cloth which is troublesome to make and has a rough and stiff appearance, the textile factory Li Min is building now produces better cotton cloth. Compared with the shortcomings of linen cloth, cotton cloth has many advantages, not only soft texture , and durable, some clothes made of coarse cotton are enough for a person to wear for more than ten years.The weaving of cotton is not as time-consuming and labor-intensive as linen. At the same time, cotton can be woven into a variety of cloths, ranging from thick to fine. In addition, the texture is fine and easy to color, so it is both in appearance and practicality. , are much stronger than linen.

In addition, Li Yin also knows that since the Song Dynasty began to promote cotton, linen has gradually withdrawn from the mainstream of fabrics. Few people wear linen clothes, and at most they can only be made into linen bags for holding things, which is rare in later generations. The sack is actually a kind of sack.

So no matter how you judge it, it is definitely the trend of the times to replace linen with cotton cloth. Now Li Yin, in partnership with the upstarts in Chang'an City and major businessmen, is building textile factories everywhere in order to make huge profits on cotton cloth. However, it never occurred to Min that Fan Yang Lu's family is the largest producer of linen in the country.

But before Li Yin was happy for too long, Wang An said again: "Your Highness, the cotton textile factory you are building can be said to be a reminder for the linen industry. Relying on land and other small industries alone will definitely not be able to support it, and if the time comes to show His Highness to do something, the other party will decline, but there is a problem in the middle."

Since having Wang An as a think tank, Li Yin has become a lot lazy. He is lazy to use his brain on general questions. If there is anything to ask, he can just ask him directly, so he immediately said: "Wang Fu, please tell me!"

"Well, it's actually not a big problem. It's just that the time for the promotion of cotton crops is still too short. Due to the limited cotton production, we can only build textile factories in a few areas where there are more cotton. The amount of cotton cloth produced is definitely impossible to completely eliminate the linen cloth on the market, so the key to cotton cloth now is not the textile factory, but the cotton production." Wang An summed up his thoughts, and then Open your mouth and say.

Li Yin also nodded after hearing this. This is a problem. Cotton production will not increase in a short while. After all, it will take a certain amount of time to promote even the best crops, not to mention that cotton is a cash crop. It cannot be eaten as food. Even if many farmers plant it, they only plant a small amount. Most of the land still needs to grow edible crops such as wheat and rice. Therefore, although the production of cotton is growing rapidly, it is still limited.

Cotton production could not increase for a short time, and Li Yin’s method of using cotton to retaliate against Fan Yang Lu’s did not see any results for a while. This made Li Yin, who was eager for revenge, feel a little impatient, and asked Wang An for other possible revenge methods , but the effect is not ideal.Li Yin doesn't want to uproot the other party at once, but at least he wants to make them hurt, or even slump, so as to deter those aristocratic families and let them see what will happen to Li Yin if he provokes him!

But just when Li Yin was having a headache because of this, a piece of news that shocked him came from the court, and the news was still related to Turks.

It turned out that in the fourth year of Zhenguan, the Tang Dynasty sent troops to wipe out the Eastern Turks, not only pacified the north in one fell swoop, but also shocked the countries in the Western Regions. In addition, the civil strife in the Western Turks at that time weakened their control over the Western Regions, so many The countries of the Western Regions surrendered their cities, making the Central Plains Dynasty open the door to the Western Regions again after the Han Dynasty.

At the same time, the civil strife in Western Turks intensified. Datang saw the opportunity and intervened in the civil strife in the sixth year of Zhenguan. , to control the entire Western Turks.But it is a pity that Datang chose the wrong agent. It turned out that the son of a Khan who fled from East Turkic to Western Turkic, a guy named Yugushe, began to rise up, and put Ashina, who was supported by Datang, with Russia. After a big defeat, there is even a tendency to dominate the Western Turks.Capital Datang 140

If it was just like this, Datang would not have made a big move, but Yugushe was dazzled by the victory. After controlling Gaochang, he took down Yanqi, the gateway between Datang and the Western Regions, blocking the connection between Datang and the Western Regions. The connection between the Western Regions cut off the overland Silk Road that Datang attached great importance to.

As a result, the Western Turks and Gaochang provoked public outrage, and there was a lot of noise in the Tang Dynasty Hall. Most of them demanded that the imperial court send troops to re-open the connection with the Western Regions and restore the smooth flow of the Silk Road.

However, compared to the excitement of most of the courtiers, Fang Xuanling, Li Jing and other civil and military officials all expressed their opposition. Even Li Shimin, who has always been belligerent, was vacillating about this matter. He didn't know how to make a decision?