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    The reason why Li Shimin hurriedly called Li Min to the palace was because the investigation results of Li Min's assassination finally came out. Although there was no definite evidence, there was information fed back from various aspects, as well as various suspects before the incident.  Evidence shows that the person behind the assassination of Li Min was Fan Yanglu.

    And what they did was just like Li Shimin's analysis. It was through this incident that Li Min was trapped in the struggle for the throne and unable to escape. Then they could take the opportunity to suppress industry and commerce. Unfortunately, Li Min was not fooled and let all their  All calculations fell into place.  .

    Although all signs indicate that Fan Yanglu was responsible for this matter, even if Li Shimin used all his strength, he could not obtain any substantive evidence. It can be seen that the other party handled the matter very cleanly and did not leave any clues at all.  Come on, even if they knew it was the Fan Yang Lu family, there was nothing they could do against them, not even the emperor Li Shimin.  After all, the Tang Dynasty was not the whip dynasty of later generations, because a few words could confiscate a family and exterminate a clan. If the emperor of the Tang Dynasty wanted to kill a minister, he had to have a heinous crime and at the same time, he had to be able to produce solid and reliable evidence. What's more,  Let alone want to deal with a wealthy family that has been entrenched for nearly a thousand years.

    After returning to the palace, Li Min immediately told Wang An about the incident, and then asked angrily: "Master Wang, is there any way you can help me show Mr. Lu a good look?"

    Wang An has been officially appointed as the Prince Fu of Prince Qi's Mansion. After these days of recuperation, Li Min can no longer see the embarrassment and haggardness he had when he first met him.  Instead, there is elegance and wisdom.  After hearing Li Min's words, he burst into laughter and said, "Your Highness wants to take revenge on the Lu family? Actually speaking, the last assassination was not only to get His Highness into the prince's struggle for the throne, but also to be Fan Yanglu's.  His revenge on you, Your Highness?"

    "Retaliation for me?" Li Min was stunned after hearing this.  Don¡¯t understand what Wang An means?

    "Haha, your highness may not know that in addition to occupying vast fields, the Fan Yang Lu family also controlled almost all the tea making industry in the Tang Dynasty. However, after your highness came up with the method of frying tea, the Lu family made  There was no market for the tea cakes. The family also lost a source of income. Although they later bought the patent for the use of fried tea, it was too late. The tea market had been divided up by His Highness and others. The Fan Yang Lu family is now  The profits gained from the tea industry are almost nothing compared to before." Wang An said with a smile.  As far as he knew, apart from the income from land, the Fan Yang Lu family had only two pillar industries, and tea making was one of them. Unfortunately, Li Min unintentionally abolished it.

    Li Min was stunned after hearing this. He didn't expect that he had provoked the other party first, but he was so angry that he couldn't care about it at all. He said angrily: "So what if I provoked them first. If you are not as skilled as others, you will naturally  I want to be eliminated, and I don¡¯t want to fundamentally solve the predicament, but I came up with such a sinister trick to plot against me. It is in vain that they are called heirs of poems and books because they have five surnames and seven hopes. I think they should be heirs of conspiracy!"

    At this point, Li Min remembered that when he was assassinated, Wen Xin and Xijun were frightened, especially when Xijun was pregnant.  Being frightened by this, I wonder if it will have any impact on the development of the fetus?  Thinking of this, he became even more angry. He slammed the table and said, "Fu Wang, I can't swallow this breath no matter what. Do you have any way to retaliate against the Lu family?"

    "Haha, others may not be able to deal with the Lu family, but for His Highness, it is extremely simple!" Wang An saw Li Min losing such a temper, but he still said with a smile, "Fanyang Lu family's main industry  There are three aspects. Let¡¯s not talk about land. The tea industry has been inadvertently abolished by His Highness. In the end, there is only a linen industry left. Hearing this name, Your Highness must already know what to do, right?"

    As expected by Wang An, when Li Min heard that Fan Yang Lu's third pillar industry was linen, his eyes immediately lit up, and the anger on his face disappeared. Instead, it turned into an extremely sinister smile, and he murmured at the same time.  He murmured to himself: "Hey, there is a road to heaven and you don't take it. There is no door to hell. You barge in. What are you doing wrong? But you are a linen maker. Now I will see how you die!"

    The key to why Li Min said this is the linen. Before cotton was widely promoted, there were three main materials used by the ancients to make clothes: fur, silk, and linen. However, the output of either fur or silk could not be compared with linen.  , and linen is also the cheapest among the three, so linen has been the main clothing material for the middle and lower classes for thousands of years.

    ?? Linen is mainly made from various hemp-producing plants, which are woven into fabrics after retting. However, the linen at this time is very weak and rough, and it feels like needles when worn on the body.  In order to solve this problem, it is necessary to go through sizing and pounding. Only such linen is suitable for being made into clothes and is strong and wear-resistant.

    ? ?Compared with 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 the texture  Soft, yet strong and durable, some clothes made of cheesecloth 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 coarse to fine. In addition, the texture is fine and easy to color, so both appearance and practicality are better than linen.  Much stronger.

    In addition, Li Min also knew that since the Song Dynasty began to promote cotton, linen has slowly withdrawn from the mainstream of fabrics. Few people wear linen clothes anymore. At most, they can only be made into linen bags to hold things. This is rarely seen in later generations.  The sack is actually a type of sack.

    So no matter which aspect you judge from, cotton cloth replacing linen is definitely the general trend. Now Li Min is partnering with the upstarts and major businessmen in Chang'an City to build textile factories everywhere in order to make huge profits from cotton cloth, but Li Min  I was shocked, but I never thought that the Fan Yang Lu family was the largest linen producer in the country. They were really enemies!

    However, before Li Min could be happy for too long, he heard Wang An speak again: "Your Highness, the cotton textile factory you are building is a talisman for the linen industry. If the Fanyang Lu family loses the mainstay of linen income again, the family will  It will definitely not be able to support itself by just relying on land and other small industries. If His Highness takes action, the other party will decline, but there is a problem in the middle."

    Since having Wang An as a think tank, Li Min has been a lot more lazy. He is too lazy to use his brain on general issues. If there is anything, he can just ask him directly, so he immediately said: "Master Wang, please speak!"

    "Well, actually it's not a big problem. It's just that the time for promoting cotton as a crop is still too short. Due to the restriction of cotton production, we can only build textile factories in a few areas where cotton is planted more. With these factories  With the amount of cotton produced, it is definitely impossible to completely eliminate linen on the market, so the key to cotton now is not the textile factory, but the output of cotton." Wang An summarized his thoughts, and then  He spoke.

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

    The output of cotton could not increase in a short period of time. Li Min's method of using cotton to retaliate against Fan Yanglu's family did not see any results for a while. This made Li Min, who was eager for revenge, a little impatient and asked Wang An for other possible revenge methods.  , but the results are not ideal.  Li Min didn't want to be able to uproot the opponent at once, but at least he had to make them bruised and broken, or even helpless. Only in this way could he intimidate those wealthy families and show them what would happen if they offended him!

    But just when Li Min was having a big headache over this, news came from the court that shocked him, and this news was related to the Turks.

    It turns out that in the fourth year of Zhenguan, the Tang Dynasty sent troops to destroy the Eastern Turks, which not only pacified the north in one fell swoop, but also shocked the countries in the Western Regions. In addition, the Western Turks were in civil strife at that time and their control over the Western Regions weakened. Therefore, many countries in the Western Regions  The surrender of the city allowed the Central Plains Dynasty to once again open the door to the Western Regions after the Han Dynasty.

    At the same time, the civil strife in the Western Turks intensified. The Tang Dynasty saw the opportunity and intervened in the civil strife in the sixth year of Zhenguan. It established its own agents in the Western Turks, hoping to control the entire Western Turks through the policy of restraint.  But it is a pity that the Tang Dynasty chose the wrong agent. It turned out that a guy named Yugushe, the son of a khan who fled from the East Turks to the West Turks, began to rise and combined Ashina, who was supported by the Tang Dynasty, with Russia.  They suffered a huge defeat and even had the potential to unify the Western Turks.

    If it were just like this, Datang would not go to war, but Yu Gushe was dazzled by victory. After controlling Gaochang, he also laid down Yanqi, the gateway between Datang and the Western Regions, blocking Datang and the Western Regions.  The connection between the Western Regions was to cut off the overland Silk Road that the Tang Dynasty attached great importance to.

    As a result, Western Turks and Gaochang aroused public anger. There was a lot of noise in the Tang Dynasty. Most of them asked the court to send troops to re-open the connection with the Western Regions and restore the smooth flow of the Silk Road.

    But compared with the excitement of most courtiers, several important civil and military ministers such as Fang Xuanling and Li Jing expressed opposition. Even Li Shimin, who has always been belligerent, was wavering on the matter and didn't know how to make a decision?

    , please collect it.

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