From Chang'an City to Liangzhou, it is nearly two thousand miles away.

Before the cement road was built, it took five or six days to reach the fast horse to gallop, and it took more than ten days for ordinary caravans to arrive.

However, after the cement road was opened, the time was immediately shortened by more than half.

The fleet arranged by Baiqisi uses all high-end transport carriages and luxury carriages produced in the Mercedes-Benz four-wheeled carriage workshop, so the speed is very fast.

It's no problem to run sixty or seventy miles in an hour.

For Li Shimin, the longer he leaves Chang'an City, the higher the risk.

So after the convoy left Chang'an, he immediately rushed straight to Liangzhou at full speed.

I rushed forward quickly, but on the fourth day, the convoy arrived outside Liangzhou City.

"Li Zhong, arrange two carriages to follow, and the others will find a place to rest nearby. I want to take a good look at Liangzhou City."

Although Liangzhou is a state city with prosperous business, various caravans come in and out every day.

However, the caravan where Li Shimin is now still too large, and once he enters Liangzhou City, it is still very eye-catching.

This is obviously not the situation Li Shimin hopes to see.

He also wanted to take a low-key look at the real Liangzhou.

"Your Majesty, more than half of the people in Liangzhou are Hu people, or Hu people with registered household registration in Liangzhou. It is difficult to keep some of the Eastern Turks, Western Turks, or Tuyuhun people in those days hold grudges against the Tang Dynasty. Once they recognize His Majesty, someone may take risks."

As Li Shimin's escort, Li Zhong first considered Li Shimin's security issues.

As for the effect of the private visit, it is not his focus.

"Liangzhou City is the Liangzhou City of my Tang Dynasty. Northwest Trade has been operating here for more than ten years. There are still prefectures stationed nearby. What dangers can it be? If there are problems with the safety of a big city like Liangzhou, where is the safe place in the Tang Dynasty?"

Li Shimin's lifelong military service will naturally not change his mind because of some safety concerns.

"Commander Li, with His Highness the King of Chu and the elite guards of the King of Chu's mansion beside His Majesty, you can choose a few good players from the Hundred Riders to follow you. I don't think there will be any major problems. If you are worried, you can arrange a few teams of troops to follow you from afar, and you can respond in time if there is any accident."

Lai Ji is very good at observing his expression and knowing when to say what to say.

At the court meeting where Li You and others were discussing how to deal with it, it was because of his timely statement that Li Shimin's favorability for him increased greatly.

In a short time, he was promoted from a generalist to a Zhongshu Sheren.

This Zhongshu Sheren is not an ordinary official.

His responsibilities include drafting edicts, attending attendants, promulgating edicts, accepting memorials, and also in charge of affairs of the Secretariat. He can be said to be a complete important official in the court.

In the Secretariat, the Secretariat Ling and Secretariat Minister were at a higher position than him.

To be honest, it is only one step away from the position of prime minister.

This shows how important the leader’s recognition of you is.

The leader thinks you can't do it, and you can't do it.

The leader thinks you can do it, but it's okay if you can't.

"Just do it according to Lai Ji."

Li Shimin no longer cared about Li Zhong's opinions and began to appreciate the scenery outside Liangzhou City.

Obviously, Liangzhou City is no longer the same as Liangzhou City he had seen back then.

"Kuan'er, why don't we go down and take a walk and sit in the carriage for a few days, and it will be more comfortable to walk."

As the carriages got closer and closer to Liangzhou City, there were obviously more houses on both sides of the road, and there were more various pedestrians and carriages. The speed of the carriages had dropped to a much faster pace than walking.

"I will follow your Majesty in everything!"

Li Kuan had confidence in Liangzhou City. Whether it was public security or management, it would definitely make Li Shimin's eyes shine, so he never thought of hiding Li Shimin.

Given Li Shimin's intelligence, if Li Kuan had something to hide, he would definitely be identified in the end.

This will have an adverse impact on the future development of the Tang Dynasty.

Soon, under the leadership of Li Shimin, the group got off the carriage and let them follow from afar.

What comes with it is a strong atmosphere of life.

There are tea shops and noodle shops on both sides of the road from time to time. The aroma of roasted lamb stimulates everyone's taste.

"It should be two or three miles away from the city gate. I didn't expect it to be so prosperous."

Although the proportion of Hu people on the street is significantly higher than that in Chang'an City, Li Shimin didn't find anything unexpected.

Instead, I stopped and walked curiously, and even chatted with the store.

"Shopkeeper, this is the only way to Chang'an City to Liangzhou City. There are a large number of caravans entering and leaving every day. Sometimes, without entering the city before the curfew, the caravans can only stay overnight outside the city. Over time, there are inns and restaurants nearby for these caravans to eat, drink and have fun.

In addition, since Liangzhou City attracted many herdsmen from nearby grasslands, some herdsmen could not buy expensive houses in the city, so they had to find a place outside the city to set up a tent to solve the problem. Gradually, some small villages were formed and some fixed houses were built.

After years of development, it has reached its current scale. This is really the south of the city. If you go to the north of Liangzhou City, there is a market formed by herders spontaneously, and the level of liveliness is much higher than that here."

Although Li Kuan has not come to Liangzhou many times, he can receive information sent back from Liangzhou by the Intelligence Investigation Bureau of the Chu Prince's Mansion every few days.

At the same time, Liangzhou Governor Shangguan Yi would write letters to Li Kuan to report some things in Liangzhou city from time to time. Therefore, although Li Kuan was not in Liangzhou, he was still quite clear about the situation in Liangzhou.

"According to your opinion, many of these people outside the city were once herders on the grassland? But I see that their accents were not very authentic, but they were no longer much different from those of the Tang people."

Li Shimin knew the Turks very well.

When he was still the Sui Dynasty, he appeared on the front line of fighting against the Turks, and he even knew some simple Turkic words.

"This is actually very simple. With the temptation, everyone's enthusiasm for learning Chinese will naturally rise. In Liangzhou, if you want to join your local household registration, Chinese must be able to reach a level where you can communicate normally with people, otherwise the yamen will not approve it."

Many of Liangzhou's policies were formulated by Li Kuan himself, so he was naturally very clear about this.

"Are there any benefits of joining Liangzhou household registration?"

In Li Shimin's opinion, if there is no benefit in naturalization, there is no need for those Hu people to work so hard to learn Chinese.

"Of course there are. Not to mention other things, the difference is huge. If you are a Tang people, you only need to pay 10% of the commercial tax. However, if you are not a Tang people, in addition to this % of the commercial tax, you also need to pay additional construction surcharges and safety guarantee taxes. The combined two taxes are equivalent to an additional commercial tax collection, which makes the tax ratio of the Hu people reach twice that of the Tang people. This is just the impact of taxation. In addition, there are some restrictions on walking and living in Liangzhou City, which forces the Hu people to find ways to join the Liangzhou household registration as soon as possible and become a Tang people."

After Li Kuan said this, Li Shimin immediately understood.

Whether it is the ordinary people of the Tang Dynasty or the ordinary herdsmen on the grassland, they are actually the most realistic.

They will fully support any policy that is good to them.

If any policy is not good for them, everyone will definitely resist in different ways.
Chapter completed!