Three whips break the father-son relationship, please call me prince

Chapter 231 Li Shimin's Order of the Tang Emperor

"How much did you say?"

Li Chengqian asked.

He is feeding the fish in the garden pond.

He doesn't really like fishing, but it's a way to kill time when he's bored, but usually he just feeds the fish for fun.

Li Zhi said: "Twenty strings of cash per pound."

"You."

Li Chengqian laughed and shook his head, saying, "It's still too conservative."

"More than twenty strings of cash and a pound?"

Li Zhi opened his mouth wide. He thought he had offered a sky-high price, but who knew that for his brother, twenty strings of cash was even a conservative price?
"From Lingnan to Chang'an, how much is the transportation and storage cost?"

"If you don't have ten or a hundred times the profit, who would be willing to do it?"

Li Chengqian said calmly: "Twenty strings of cash per pound, do you look down on yourself, or do you look down on those wealthy families?"

He took two steps, threw some fish food, watched the fish scramble for it, and said, "With your status, do you want to eat 20 strings of lychees, or 50 strings, or 100 strings?"

"It is one hundred strings of cash."

Li Zhi blurted out.

"You eat 100 guan each, how many guan per jin should I eat?"

Li Chengqian looked at the fish and said with his back to Li Zhi.

Li Zhi was stunned.

"What price range should your majesty eat?"

This made Li Zhi suddenly realize, "I understand."

“Lychees are delicious, but what we eat is our identity and status.”

“The higher the price, the more it shows your status.”

"If I eat 20 guan, and others who are not as high-ranking and prominent as me eat 30 or 50 guan, wouldn't I be ..."

Li Chengqian threw all the fish food into the pond, clapped his hands, and said, "So."

"It doesn't matter how much money you have."

"Gaoyang's restaurant is the best proof of this."

"They don't care whether it's worth it, they only care whether it's expensive or not."

"Being able to afford seafood and enter a restaurant is a symbol of status."

“What others don’t have but I have is the most important thing.”

Lychees are definitely not a mass consumer product.

It is transported from thousands of miles away, is it for ordinary people?

What a joke.

Can they afford the cost of it all?
impossible.

Therefore, lychees can only be the top-level high-end luxury consumer goods, and Li Chengqian must make it into such an item.

Otherwise, how can we stir up comparison?
How to get people to spend money?
He wants to make it so that even rich people would feel pained when eating a lychee.

But I feel very proud when I eat it, and I feel proud when I tell others about it.

Your grandson, Li Zhi, this kid, Li Longji, opened a litchi road specifically for Yang Guifei.

After riding the red dust princess smiled, no one knew it was Litchi.

This Litchi Road is dedicated to one person and it cost a huge amount of money.

For someone who can achieve this, having money is useless except for power.

"I understand."

Li Zhi felt relieved and gradually felt that it made sense.

"I heard that His Majesty dotes on Wu Cairen very much, right?"

Li Chengqian wandered around the garden.

"Correct."

"Wu Cairen is charming and is very much favored by the emperor."

Li Zhi had never seen it, but he had heard people talk about it. "Brother, why did you suddenly ask her?"

Li Chengqian immediately smiled, "Does she like to eat lychees?"

"How should I know this?" Li Zhi was stunned.

"She should like to eat lychees."

Li Chengqian smiled and said, "What do you think about your Majesty opening a litchi road specifically for her to transport litchis into the palace?"

Yang Guifei is impossible.

But Wu Cairen is also possible.

"what?"

Li Zhi was dumbfounded on the spot, "What does this matter?"

"You said, if we want to create a big buzz for Litchi, what could be more shocking than this?"

Li Chengqian feels that litchi still needs a sales promoter.

Yang Guifei’s promotion of the product has been passed down through the ages and sparked a lychee craze.

In later generations, if a concubine wanted to be favored, she had to have something to do with lychees in order to show her favor.

Look at the far-reaching impact of this product promotion.

"No, brother, my father is the Holy Emperor. How could he do such a foolish thing?"

Li Zhi waved his hand and said, "No."

"My brother has a point, but father would never do such a waste of money and effort for a talented man."

"Father would never do that."

Hearing this, Li Chengqian also nodded. Now Li Shimin has the golden body of the Holy Emperor.

No stain will be stained.

"That's true, but you can try another method."

"How do I change this?"

"The Concubine Wu was promoted to Concubine, and was greatly favored by the Holy Emperor. Duke Geng heard that Concubine Wu liked lychees, so he was willing to travel thousands of miles to offer lychees to her to curry favor with her."

Li Chengqian asked: "How about this script?"

Li Zhi: “…”

"Brother, it's a pity that you don't write a storybook."

"You're looking for trouble, aren't you?"

"I didn't, I just thought it was just like a storybook, one set after another."

Li Zhi dodged for a moment and said, "But it is indeed feasible."

"But Wu Cairen is still a talented person. Will the emperor agree to promote her to a concubine?"

"You know, once you become a concubine, your status will be totally different."

Li Chengqian walked out of the garden and said, "I'll leave this matter to you."

"The Concubine Wu loves lychees, and Duke Geng is a flatterer."

People are walking away.

Li Zhi was stunned in the place. He came to his senses and said loudly: "Brother, is it appropriate for me to go?"

But Li Chengqian had disappeared long ago.

He had no choice but to head towards Taiji Palace after thinking it over.

Li Shimin was thinking about how to arrange the transfer of relevant positions.

Li Zhi's arrival came as a surprise to him.

"Zhi Nu, you don't come to see me very often." Li Shimin said with a smile, "Come here and let me see if you have made any progress by following Gao Ming."

Li Zhi sat obediently beside Li Shimin and allowed himself to be looked at.

"Yes, you are more energetic and look much more mature."

Li Shimin smiled and said, "Tell me what you want from me."

"Father, this is what happened."

Li Zhi was a little embarrassed and didn't know where to start.

Li Shimin showed a look of understanding, "Gao Ming asked you to come, right?"

"My brother asked me to come."

"What is it?"

“I came for the lychees.”

"litchi?"

Li Shimin was stunned, "What does this have to do with lychees?"

"Here's the thing."

Li Zhi recounted the incident and asked, "What do you think, Father?"

Li Shimin did not speak. He tapped the table with his knuckles and narrowed his eyes slightly. "Would Feng Ang do such a flattering thing?"

"He has to do it even if he doesn't want to. It's not up to him."

Li Zhi's tone sank. He moved closer to Li Shimin and said intimately, "Father, if this matter is handled well, Lingnan can develop and be stable, and the official roads can be guaranteed to be smooth."

"As long as Feng Ang is not a fool and does not want to die, he should know what to do."

Li Shimin knew all this, of course. He said calmly, "How is this money divided?"

Li Zhi was shocked, and he suddenly understood.

My father doesn’t care about anything else. What he cares about is how the benefits brought by litchi are divided.

"I don't know yet. My brother didn't tell me."

"But I think it accounts for the majority."

Didn’t say who it was.

But both of them knew that the big head could only be the Taiji Palace and could only enter the inner treasury.

"Tell your brother not to forget the court."

Li Shimin said: "I will issue an edict in a few days to promote Wu Cairen."

"Ah!"

"How about giving the title of Litchi to Concubine Wu, who loves lychees?"

"Princess Li."

Li Zhi almost couldn't hold back his laughter, he knew his father was joking.

Li Shimin saw it and said, "Just laugh, kid."

"Stay with your brother and learn well. You will never be able to learn all your brother's skills in your lifetime."

"I understand. I'll take my leave now."

"Go."

After Li Zhi left, Li Shimin felt a little anxious.

Regarding Lingnan's affairs, Gao Ming could actually come up with such a brilliant idea.

"Feng Ang."

"Ah!"

"I want to see if you can handle the prince's moves."

……

Not a few days.

Li Shimin really issued an edict to confer the title of Concubine Li on Wu Cairen, and she became Concubine Wu Li.

I don’t know if it’s a pun.

However, a rumor spread quietly that Wu Cairen was able to maintain her youthful looks because of her love for lychees, and that she was canonized because of the favor of the Holy Emperor.

I don’t know if it’s true or false.

But it is enough to ensure that it is curious, popular among the people, and a topic of conversation after dinner.

The people of Chang'an talked about this matter with great relish, but it was soon overshadowed by another incident.

Order from the Emperor of Tang!
The chief officials of the prefectures and counties in the capital will not return to their jurisdictions for the time being. The court will implement a parallel exchange of positions, and they will take up their posts after the jurisdictions are changed.

This news has been announced, and it immediately turned the government and the country upside down.

This is not a discussion; Your Majesty is using the form of a formal imperial edict.

Once the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty issues an order, there can be no changes or doubts.

This is the supreme authority of the emperor, and it is also the absolute majesty of the emperor's words being final.

In other words, I am telling the local officials in Beijing that if you have grievances, you should keep them to yourself, and if you have resentment, you should endure it.

Everything must obey the orders of the Emperor of Tang.

Whoever dares to act rashly, whoever dares to oppose.

That is to challenge the majesty of the Holy Emperor.

This order from the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty fully and profoundly demonstrated Li Shimin's arrogance and autocracy.

There is no possibility of turning around at all, and it can only be transferred according to the will of the Holy Emperor.

because.

Chang'an was indeed in the open, and no dissenting voices were raised.

Donggong was silent.

The three provinces and six ministries remained silent.

All officials were silent.

At this moment, the order of the Tang Emperor is bigger than the sky.

There is only obedience in the world, and no voice is allowed.

Only the holy emperor can exercise power and do good deeds.

East Palace.

Li Chengqian was also amazed.

The height that Li Shimin reached was unprecedented and his achievements were great.

Now, thanks to his series of operations, Li Shimin's prestige and status have reached a peak never seen before among emperors.

If the First Emperor came, I'm afraid he would say to Li Shimin, "You're such a good little brother."

"Your Highness."

"Duke Zhao requests an audience!"

Chang Sun Chong reported that he was handling official business impartially, and the Eastern Palace called him Chang Sun Wuji by title, while his family called him Aye.

"Oh?"

"Uncle never comes to visit you for no reason."

"It seems like he's under a lot of pressure."

Li Chengqian could roughly guess Changsun Wuji's situation.

The transfer to a parallel position happened at the end of last year, and he was also aware of the affairs of the Ministry of Personnel.

With this kind of news breaking out this year, no one dares to confront Li Shimin, but you, Duke Zhao, cannot escape.

The pressure that Changsun Wuji was under was not small.

(End of this chapter)