A penny is hard to beat a hero.

The courtiers of all years of Zhenguan are of a very high level.

At the court meeting, so many ministers couldn't find a solution, and Li Kuan's fluttering sentence of "very simple" can be said to have slapped many people in the face.

After Dai Xuan asked, without waiting for Li Kuan to answer, Kong Yingda also stood up, "His Royal Highness the King of Chu, what you said is very simple, is it possible that your Chu Palace's Mansion is willing to pay this money?" ”

Li Kuan didn't bother to pay attention to Kong Yingda, but looked at Dai Xuan and said: "Dai Shangshu, in my opinion, this question is indeed a very simple answer, if you don't have money and food, then borrow it." ”

"Borrow? Millions, or even tens of millions, where to borrow? Who can come up with so much money, Your Royal Highness the King of Chu? ”

When Dai Xuan heard that Li Kuan's answer was so unreliable, he immediately became angry.

He has worked hard for the Tang Dynasty, he is already in his sixties, and he is still busy going out early and returning late every day, as a child of the clan, Li Kuan actually teased himself like this.

Is it that your former self was too easy to talk to?

"Kuan'er, you make it clear, don't stop there halfway."

Li Shimin on the throne couldn't look at it.

Obviously, Li Kuan did not explain his proposal completely, and deliberately misunderstood everyone.

Li Kuan: "Your Majesty, it's not that I'm going to say half of it, it's that you didn't leave time for me to tell me everything." ”

Dai Xuan's face became even more ugly, "His Royal Highness the King of Chu, if you don't say one, two, or three today, then I will personally impeach you for the crime of teasing the minister." ”

Seeing this old man's angry appearance, Li Kuan didn't sell it anymore.

"Dai Shangshu, you may have forgotten that there is a Tang Dynasty royal money house next to the West Market."

"Datang Royal Money?"

Dai Xuan didn't react for a while to what Li Kuan meant.

However, Li Shimin's eyes lit up and he felt that he understood a little.

"This money bank, at the beginning of its establishment, was to facilitate the storage and lending of the people of Datang, the household department has no money, naturally you can also find the Datang Royal Bank to borrow, so that the household department does not have to take out a large amount of money and grain at one time, as long as a part of it is enough every year."

If the treasury has no money, it will borrow from the bank, which is the standard operating procedure of various governments in later generations.

However, in the Tang Dynasty, everyone had not yet developed the habit of borrowing money from the yamen.

Therefore, it is not that everyone is not as smart as Li Kuan, but no one thinks about this aspect at all.

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu, the dignified household department went to a money bank to borrow money, and spread it, where is the face of the court?"

Dai Xuan was stunned, although he felt that Li Kuan's method seemed to have a certain feasibility, but it was difficult to accept.

What will the history books say then?

Will it be mentioned that it was I Dai Zhou who opened the precedent for borrowing money from the imperial court, thus leaving a stench for 10,000 years?

"That's right, His Royal Highness the King of Chu, although this Tang Dynasty royal money house is not as good as ordinary merchants, but after all, it is not a court yamen, and letting the household department borrow money seems to damage the majesty of the court."

Wen Yanbo was on the side, also a little worried.

Even Fang Xuanling frowned, weighing the pros and cons.

Cement roads must be built, and Li Shimin has made it clear in private.

However, the majesty of the imperial court must not be damaged, otherwise the impact will be great.

Li Kuan: "No, I don't think so. On the contrary, I think that this will not only not damage the majesty of the imperial court, but will make the people of the world praise the Tang Dynasty as a good country for the sake of the people, and it is honorable. ”

Dai Guan: "Lord, how do you say this?" ”

"The construction of the cement road, the farmers and the industry, and all the people along the way can get benefits, which is a project that benefits the country and the people. In order to allow these projects to be implemented as soon as possible, the imperial court can reduce unnecessary expenses and use the money to the best of its ability, as long as a little guidance can make the people feel nostalgic, and how can it affect the majesty of the imperial court? ”

In later generations, so many high-speed railways and highways have been built, and no one has ever had any opinions because of the more roads built.

Of course, the same road, built again and again, is another matter.

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu, offering to collect profits, this is a businessman's behavior, and the court has always discouraged it. Now, if you ask the household department to borrow money from the Tang Royal Bank, won't it become an encouragement to collect profits? ”

Kong Yingda saw that Dai Zhou seemed to have the intention of agreeing with Li Kuan's suggestion, and immediately couldn't help but stand up.

Emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce is an important point of view in Confucianism.

This King of Chu put the status of various strange and lewd skills in a more important position than Confucianism in the Guanshishan Academy, which already made Kong Yingda very opinionated.

Now, he actually wants to promote the way of merchants to the imperial court.

In the long run, who cares about Confucianism?

"That's right, Lord Wang, ordinary debts are difficult for the household department to accept, let alone if you raise them."

Although Dai Xuan is inclined to accept Li Kuan's suggestion, it is naturally best to be able to use the money of the Datang Royal Bank without repaying interest.

"If you don't do it, you won't do it, as long as the household department accepts some supervision from the Datang Royal Money House when using the money, it's okay not to collect profit this time."

There is no interest on the money saved now.

On the contrary, there is still a storage fee.

Therefore, if you take out a loan, even if it is a zero interest rate, you will not lose money.

Of course, Li Kuan's fancy is not how much benefit the Tang Royal Money Bank can get from this loan.

I hope to take this opportunity to let everyone fully realize that money can be borrowed.

Moreover, the construction of cement roads inevitably involves the procurement of various materials, and the mandatory requirement for households to use gold and silver coins is also of great significance for the promotion of gold and silver coins.

To put it mildly, seigniorage alone is not a small amount.

Of course, the most important thing is that Li Kuan hopes that the system will set himself the task of building a 10,000-mile cement road, and he must complete it quickly.

Otherwise, that all-rounder system is about to become a chicken rib system.

"Your Majesty, if this is the case, Weichen is in favor of building cement roads from Chang'an City to Luoyang, and from Luoyang to Dengzhou and Jinyang."

Dai Zhou actually didn't know that Li Shimin wanted to build a cement road, and he had been against it before, because he really couldn't get so much money.

Now that it's okay, Datang Royal Money is willing to borrow, so naturally I don't have any opinions.

As for his old bones, he will have to go home for two years at most.

When the time comes, it should not be my turn to repay the money.

"Your Majesty, since you want to repair it, then simply build the main cement roads, and the province will quarrel over the construction of roads every year in the future."

The eldest grandson, Wuji, stood up and added his opinion.

The Datang Royal Money Village is a thing made by Li Kuan.

And now the money used in the construction of the cement road is borrowed from the Datang Royal Bank, so in his opinion, it would be best if he could borrow more.

Anyway, in the end, the only way to suffer is to lose money.

……

The court meeting on the first day of February in the twelfth year of Zhenguan came to an end in the hustle and bustle, and Datang also started a vigorous overhaul road. This further stimulated the nobles of Chang'an City to devote themselves to the construction of the workshop.

The gravel workshop used to be looked down upon by many people, but now it is also very promising.

Cement workshops, hurry up to expand production, too late to be seized by others to seize the market.

The blacksmith shops have also become popular, and the demand for various tools is also very strong.

Even the sales of four-wheeled carriages in the Mercedes-Benz carriage shop seem to be rising.

It can be said that in the 12th year of Zhenguan, Datang's economic construction fell into a hot spot.

As Nanshan Construction Engineering, which undertook the construction of the cement road from Chang'an City to Liangzhou, it naturally deserved to become a cement builder from Chang'an City to Luoyang.

The role of this cement road is of extraordinary significance to Datang, and the household department requires Nanshan Construction Engineering to complete the construction within half a year.

Fortunately, the distance from Chang'an City to Luoyang is not far, and before the Nanshan construction work, there were its own craftsmen, the captives of Tuyuhun, and the slaves provided by the slave capture team, totaling 70,000 or 80,000 people, divided into more than a dozen road sections and constructed at the same time, but it could barely be completed on time.

However, in this way, the other roads are temporarily powerless.

This brought new opportunities to other businesses, and all of a sudden, the labor tension in Chang'an City suddenly appeared.

"Master, the salary of this newly recruited craftsman has risen by thirty yuan a month, but he has not recruited enough manpower."

Jin Taida Iron Shop has successfully moved into the workshop city last winter, becoming the first workshop outside the Chu Palace.

In order for Nanshan Construction Engineering to start building a cement road, a large number of tools needed were naturally entrusted to Jintai Iron Shop.

This made Mrs. Jin secretly surprised in her heart, her relocation was really not in vain.

Needless to say, the rent of the land is very low, and even the workshop was built with the help of Nanshan Construction Engineering, and it is said that only the cost price was charged.

However, there are too many orders right now to keep busy.

I'm in pain and happy.

"I heard that there are some slaves from the Wa Kingdom and Goguryeo in the human market in the western market, and they really can't recruit people, so let's go to the human market to buy a batch of slaves first."

Mrs. Jin didn't want to see Yiren in her blacksmith's shop, but when she really had no choice, she could only give some unimportant work to the slaves to do.

Anyway, it's slaves, and if these people are disobedient, don't blame yourself for being unkind.

"Okay, I've heard that several workshops are already doing this. It costs several dollars to buy a slave, but in fact it is only two years' wages, which is actually cheaper than recruiting craftsmen. ”

Since you are a slave, you don't have to think about wages or anything, it would be nice to be able to feed you.

Therefore, Jin Tai thought about it and felt that what his apprentice said was good.

……

In the spring flowers, in the courtyard of the Chu Palace, Li Kuan took Li Xinning for a walk in the Baicao Garden.

Li Zhi and Li Mingda, the two little guys, followed behind them step by step, and from time to time said that they wanted to hug this little niece.

Especially Li Mingda, who often muttered: "Little corn, call your aunt quickly." ”

However, the only voice that answered her was uh-huh.

Five or six months old, where can they talk?

"Second brother, why did you give Xinning such a strange nickname."

Li Zhi couldn't help but complain on the side.

"It's weird, I think it's good."

Li Kuan naturally wouldn't explain to Li Zhi what corn was, anyway, he had already made up his mind.

In the future, if there are children, they will be called small potatoes, small peppers, small tomatoes and the like, and when these huge crops in the Americas reach the Tang Dynasty, they will justifiably name them after the children.

Cheng Jingwen was behind her, watching Li Kuan laugh all the way, and she also felt that this scene was very warm.

"Lord Wang, Uncle Laifu has mentioned it to me several times, saying that the pepper and cinnamon in the West Market have risen a lot, and many nobles in Chang'an City are hoarding, and ask us if we want to hoard some in the house?"

Li Kuan basically doesn't care much about the affairs in the Chu Palace.

However, such as spending a lot of money to hoard spices, whether it is Laifu or Cheng Jingwen, they dare not make decisions without permission.

"Hey, it's just some spices left and right, what's there to stock up, don't bother."

Li Kuan naturally heard of these things that happened in Chang'an City.

Wang Xuanwu even went to check the situation of Abdul in Chaxi City and reported it to Li Kuan.

"But the government consumes a lot every day, and the price of this spice is still rising, so it seems that it is a loss if you don't hoard some."

Cheng Jingwen has seen the price of spices rise all the way, and now it seems to have more than doubled.

"Don't worry, this spice can't keep rising. The people of Chang'an City can't live without spices, but now there are just people hyping up there. ”

When it came to spices, Li Kuan couldn't help but think of Yu Chihuan and Fang Yiai, who had already gone to Nanyang.

Seeing that it's been a year, calculate the time, why should you come back?

According to his previous estimates, the fleet was almost ready to return last winter, but no news has been received.

If it weren't for his confidence in the clippers in the East China Sea fishery, Li Kuan couldn't help but wonder if something had happened to the fleet.

In particular, the Fang family and the Wei Chi family have recently come to ask if they know the movements of the fleet, which makes them feel a little stressed.

As if telepathically, Wei Chihuan, who had just arrived in Luoyang along the Grand Canal, couldn't help but sneeze.

Who's missing me?

Yu Chihuan stood at the bow of the boat and couldn't help muttering.

"Brother Wei Chi, aren't we going to rest in Luoyang? Anyway, it's about to arrive in Chang'an, and the brothers have been floating on the sea for so long, they can't help it, or go into the city to rest for a while. ”

Although the weather is still a little cold, Fang Yiai is wearing a short coat and is not afraid of the cold at all.

"Pull it down, you want to go to the Qinglou again, right? When I arrived in Guangzhou, you said that the brothers had been adrift at sea for so long and that they were going to go into the city to rest for a few days, and I agreed. When I arrived in Quanzhou, I agreed. But how many times have you used this excuse along the way? Returning to Chang'an City early, isn't there a place for you to rest? Are you afraid that if you go back this time, Mrs. Fang won't let you go to sea again, right? ”

Yu Chihuan looked at Fang Yiai with disdain.

This guy can't wait to stay overseas and not go back.

"Brother Wei Chi, look at what you said, don't stop. This time, as soon as you go to sea, it's a year, and I don't believe that you don't worry about being scolded when you go back. ”

Fang Yiai didn't know what the embarrassment was, and muttered into the cabin.

The flotilla moved on.

Fortunately, when the fleet was in Hangzhou, it had been replaced by a flat-bottomed boat suitable for inland river walking, otherwise it would have to run aground.

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