On the square in front of the Taihe Palace, the early dynasty was lowered, and the ministers retreated from the court, walking together in twos and threes, walking outside the palace while chatting.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Liu Jin want to build the Qianqing Palace for free, what do you think about this matter?"

Liu Jian smiled and said to his colleagues that around him, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, Zhou Jing, and Ma Wensheng were all cabinet ministers or six books of the current dynasty.

"It seems that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Liu Jin have really made a lot of money."

Xie Qian sighed with a smile.

"In fact, this is also a good thing, since they are willing to pay for the construction of the Qianqing Palace, the treasury can also have a sum of expenditure."

Hubu Shangshu Zhou Jing is nerve-wracking when it comes to money, he is not a good housekeeper, but this time it is rare to show a smile, because the Qianqing Palace was burned, and the rebuilding of the Qianqing Palace will definitely cost a huge amount of money, and it is impossible to say that it is all from the internal treasury of Emperor Hongzhi, and the treasury is more or less out of it.

Being able to have a sum of expenditure left is definitely a happy thing for him, not to mention that not long ago, there were two million taels of silver paid by Liu Jin's bid for a private salt farm, and the treasury finally had a little bit of silver, so that the rats would not starve to death.

"What I'm worried about is whether the Qianqing Palace built of reinforced concrete is strong and safe, after all, this is where the Son of Heaven lives."

Li Dongyang thought for a while and said.

"We don't need to worry about this aspect, he Liu Jin dares to build the Qianqing Palace, this aspect must be considered, I am looking forward to what this Qianqing Palace will look like after it is built."

Liu Jian said with a smile, he has seen the design plan and drawings, and it is still very good, especially the new Qianqing Palace is no longer built with wood, which can greatly save the construction period, and it can also save expenses.

You must know that in the past, all the wood needed to build the palace needed to be cut from the deep mountains and old forests in the Yunnan-Guichuan area, and it took a lot of people to cut down the wood in the mountains just to prepare these woods.

Then it will take a lot of manpower and material resources to transport these timbers to the capital, you must know that this is the Ming Dynasty, the transportation is inconvenient, and there is no machinery, all of them rely on manpower, a large amount of timber is transported to the capital, and the cost can be imagined.

Building a palace for the emperor has to rise to the level of the whole country, which is extremely expensive, which is why every time the ancient emperor wants to build a palace, build a garden or something, he will be strongly opposed by the ministers.

Without it, it is very costly.

Some people will say, why is this timber cut from the Yunnan-Guichuan area, and there are no trees in the mountains around the capital?

In fact, it is not that there are no trees, but that they do not meet the requirements, and to build the emperor's palace, just these huge wooden pillars in front of the palace, its requirements are very high, and they cannot be done by ordinary trees.

Moreover, because of the early development of the northern region, after thousands of years of cutting, it is difficult to find wood that can be used to build the emperor's palace, and only the primeval forests in the Yunnan-Guichuan area can still find wood that meets the requirements.

Of course, more importantly, in order to highlight the dignity of the emperor's identity, the wood built in the Qianqing Palace must also be precious wood, the most important thing is the golden silk nanmu, which has always been the most ideal, precious and high-grade building material in the civilized Chinese architecture, and has been widely used in the construction of palaces and royal tombs.

The production area of golden silk nanmu is only available in the southern region, and because the ancients liked to use it to build houses, the general area has long been cut down, and you must go to the primeval forest of Yunnan-Guichuan to find it.

Now someone is building the Qianqing Palace for Emperor Hongzhi, which can greatly save human, financial, and material resources, and their ministers are also happy to see it, otherwise building a palace will inevitably cost the people and money.

On the other side, a group of military generals and nobles such as the British Duke Zhang Mao and the Duke of Chengguo Zhu Fu also walked together, talking and laughing with each other.

"Lao Zhang, what do you think of this?"

Chengguo Gong Zhu Fu asked Zhang Mao with a smile.

"I'm wondering if Liu Jin has too much money and no place to spend it, the cost of building the Qianqing Palace is not a small number, if it is really all about using silver to calculate, it is definitely an astronomical amount."

Zhang Mao looked at Zhu Fu, thought about it and said with a smile: "Liu Jin, this kid will do a loss-making business?" ”

Hearing Zhang Mao's words, everyone was slightly stunned and then thought about it and said: "This is free to build the Qianqing Palace for His Majesty, and he can still make money?" ”

"Even if you cut corners and use cement and steel bars to build the Qianqing Palace, the cost is not small, since it is free, the imperial court will definitely not allocate a copper plate, and he can still make money?"

Chengguo Gong Zhu Fu said puzzled.

"Will Liu Jin cut corners?"

Zhang Mao smiled, shook his head, and asked.

"In terms of Liu Jin's personality, he will never cut corners, and on the contrary, he built the palace extremely luxuriously."

Xu Guangzuo knew Liu Jin very well and said very confidently.

"Yes, since it is a palace built for His Majesty, it will definitely be the best to build, even if it costs more silver, he will not frown."

British Gong Zhang Mao nodded with a smile and said.

"In that case, how else can he make money?"

Chengguo Gong Zhu Fu said puzzled.

"Hehe, I don't know, but everyone hurries to raise money after they go back, just keep an eye on Liu Jin, what he does, we will follow what we do, keep it and make money."

Zhang Mao smiled and said confidently.

Liu Jin's ability to make money has been taught him, and he can do a lot of money and make a lot of money by doing anything, Zhang Mao's current investment philosophy is to follow Liu Jin, and it will not be wrong to keep it.

"Why don't we go talk to Liu Jin?"

Xu Guangzuo thought about it and proposed.

"That's what I mean~"

"Go~Go~"

Zhang Mao and Zhu Fu looked at each other, said with a smile, and went straight to Liu Jin's mansion.

In Liu Jin's mansion study, Liu Jin was holding a pen at this time and silently calculating the benefits he could get by helping Emperor Hongzhi build the Qianqing Palace.

In the words of the British Gong Zhang Mao, how could he, Liu Jin, make a loss-making business?

"There are a lot of benefits to working for the emperor, no wonder ancient and modern China and foreign countries like to pat the ass of the superior, and this superior can give some benefits for a lifetime."

Liu Jin silently thought about the benefits that he could get from helping Emperor Hongzhi repair the Qing Palace this time, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

"The matter of running a salt farm has been completed, and the next thing is to find a place to dry salt here in Bohai Bay, and the area where the Changlu Salt Farm is located in the future is very good."

"I didn't expect Emperor Hongzhi to be enlightened now, and he would even think about joining in."

"It's easy to run a salt farm, how to sell the salt after it is produced, this is the problem, to ensure that the sales price of this salt is lower than other salts, which means that I have to control the entire sales connection, it seems that we still have to use the sales model of Tianjin Cement Plant, and engage in the agency system."

"Only by engaging in the agency system can the price of salt be firmly controlled in their own hands, otherwise if it is just a very simple sales model, the output of salt will inevitably be a high price in the hands of the people."

Liu Jin took out a pen and silently wrote this down on the paper.

"The tile factory must be built, after the palace is built for Emperor Hongzhi, this tile will definitely become popular, and then it will be the same as this glass, and it will become the object of competition among the upper class."

"But the ceramic tiles, there is not much technical content, I can build, other porcelain kilns can be made, the key is quality and price, but the first wave of earning is almost the same, and you can exit when the Red Sea is a piece."

Looking at the Qianqing Palace on the design drawing, Liu Jin silently wrote down the tiles, this is also to arrange people to do, there are large and small porcelain kilns around the capital, but the porcelain kilns here are very ordinary, far inferior to the most famous Fujian Dehua kiln in this era, Jiangxi Jingdezhen porcelain, Zhejiang Chuzhou, Jiangsu Yixing These porcelain kilns are not as good as Yongle official kilns.

But the technology is also OK, there is definitely no problem with burning tiles, tiles are not porcelain after all, and the requirements are much lower, a lot.

"The two factories of tile factory and brick factory can be run together, and they can also be put together, and business can be done together."

"But this weaving mill can't be put together, it has to be separated."

Soon, Liu Jin thought of the weaving factory, which uses a lot of glass windows, and must use curtains.

Although the textile industry of the Ming Dynasty was very developed, the cloth produced every year was very large, but because it was all handmade cloth, the quality was very different, and more importantly, the specifications of the cloth were limited, and there was no way to use it as curtain cloth for the glass windows of the Qianqing Palace in the design.

The Qianqing Palace in the design is very atmospheric, the floors are high, the windows are very wide, and the curtain cloth also needs to be manufactured separately, and then this opportunity, Liu Jin is also ready to get the Jenny spinning machine out of the big killer.

The salt merchants, grain merchants, and tea merchants in the Ming Dynasty made money, and in fact, there was a cloth merchant who was also very profitable, because cloth was related to people's clothing, food, housing and transportation, and the market demand was very large, and the strength of merchants who did cloth trading was also quite strong.

Liu Jin took a pen and paper and wrote down one item after another, the construction of a huge palace, it requires too many materials, too many, involving every industry, one field after another, among which there is a lot to be done.

"The most important thing is the steel bar, if you don't build the Qianqing Palace for Emperor Hongzhi, you don't know about the Year of the Monkey if you want to get the permission to run a steel plant, but now it's good, and you can easily get it."

Looking at the more than ten industries that were about to be established recorded on the paper, Liu Jin couldn't stop smiling.

Salt and iron have always been the monopoly of the imperial court, and no one can easily get involved in it, but now all of a sudden the salt factory can be opened privately, and even the permission to make this steel has been obtained.

Liu Jin has always wanted to build a steelmaking mill and smelt steel by himself.

Because there are too many places that need to use steel in many industries under Liu Jin's command, especially in Tianjin, where real estate is almost indispensable.

However, the production of steel in this era was very small, and the key was that the quality was extremely poor, and many of the iron purchased from various sources were very brittle, and the sledgehammer was used to break it when it was struck.

Friends who have read chemistry know that this is because iron contains too much carbon, so iron is very brittle, which is why ancient iron should be repeatedly beaten by blacksmiths to remove the carbon in it before it can be used.

The iron production of the Ming Dynasty was low, and the output of steel was even lower, and all the steel was hammered by a blacksmith with a hammer and a hammer, so the price of good iron was extremely expensive, and it was too expensive to build a house or something, and it was simply unaffordable.

Steel is also an extremely profitable industry in this era, because the demand for steel is too strong, weapons and armor, farm tools, kitchen knives, iron pots, etc., are inseparable from iron.

Successive dynasties have firmly controlled steel in their own hands, although it can prevent people from relying on this smelting weapon to rebel in the purpose, but more for the profiteering of steel.

It's just that the ancient smelting technology is limited, and the smelted steel is often not enough for the imperial court to use, so although this salt and iron franchise, there are still a large number of local gentry and wealthy families in the Ming Dynasty who are smelting steel to make huge profits.

This is also the reason why Liu Jin can easily get a license to smelt steel, because one aspect is to help the emperor build a palace, and Emperor Hongzhi can't help but say that the court doesn't need to spend money, nor does it cost manpower, etc., naturally it doesn't matter, anyway, Liu Jin is not the only one who smelts steel.

On the other hand, the output of the imperial court's own government-run steel-smelting workshops was too low, and they all had their own tasks, and there was no extra production capacity to meet Liu Jin's needs for building the Qianqing Palace.

"The steel plant should be well planned and planned, and it is best to choose a place closer to the iron ore production area, so as to greatly save freight."

Thinking of the steel plant, Liu Jin took out a map again, which was made by Liu Jin with his golden finger, which showed the distribution of mineral resources in various places in detail.

"When Shougang in later generations first started, the iron ore came from Miyun, although the output of Miyun iron ore cannot be compared with other large iron mines in the world, but it is absolutely enough to meet the immediate demand."

Soon, Liu Jin drew a circle here in Miyun, near the capital, and the Miyun iron ore mine was also famous in later generations.

"Well, I'm going to be busy next, how many industries to do at once, and Tianjin and Beijing are running back and forth."

After careful calculation, Liu Jin also began to make a detailed plan for the next itinerary.

But before Liu Jin could plan it, a hearty voice came.

"Stinky boy, stinky boy, it's too boring to talk to Lao Zhang if there is a profitable business."

Hearing this voice, Liu Jin hurriedly put away the paper on the desk.