Chapter 85

Hou Junji and his son-in-law Helan Chushi arrived at the East Palace.

Helan Chushi is an official of the East Palace, and Hou Junji also went to the prince's study under the recommendation of Helan Chushi.

At this time, the prince is dealing with government affairs, and most of Li Shimin's recitals will be sent to the East Palace and handed over to the prince to deal with!

"Minister, I've seen His Royal Highness the Prince!" Hou Jun gathered in the study of the crown prince Li Chengqian, clasped his fists and saluted.

"Well, no courtesy, sit, I don't know if Chen Guogong is coming, but there is something important?" The prince invited Hou Junji to sit down, walked out of front of the bookcase, and sat next to Hou Junji.

"Your Highness, the minister is here to see Your Highness!" Hou Junji looked at the prince with a smile and said, in fact, he looked down on the prince in his heart.

In terms of ability, Hou Junji looks down on anyone, including Li Shimin.

"Oh, Chen Guogong has a heart!" When the prince heard this, he smiled and said.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, today, the minister went to the shop that sells paper to see, it is said that today's 100,000 pieces of paper are sold out, and this can be worth 200 yuan.

And I heard that this is only half of the paper mill's production, and it is necessary to increase the output, with a daily output of 300,000 large sheets of paper!

In this way, the daily paper mill can have 600 yuan, and in a month, it is 18,000 yuan.

Although Ben Qianchen doesn't know how much, he can guess how much, and it is estimated that it will not be higher than 3,000 yuan! Hou Junji sat there and said to the prince.

And the prince looked at Hou Junji without understanding at all, and didn't know why he said this?

The paper mill now supervises itself, and the higher the income over there, the better it is for itself!

"Your Highness, as far as the minister knows, the royal family accounts for fifty percent of the shares, and the other fifty percent, and they share it among several families, and they have to share seven or eight thousand yuan a month, and in a year, it is 100,000 yuan, I'm afraid it's not appropriate, right?

Moreover, they are all military generals, and with so much money, that's not good! Hou Junji sat there, looked at the prince and said.

"This Chen Guogong is thinking a lot, this matter is for the sake of the world's poor scholars, although it is said that he has made some money, but this money, so many mansions, there is not much!" The prince didn't understand what Hou Junji's purpose was at all, so he didn't prepare to answer, but retorted.

"That being said, but what about decades, centuries of accumulation? Your Highness, you are the crown prince, it is impossible not to think about the future! Hou Junji continued to look at the prince with a smile and said.

The prince turned his head to look at Hou Junji, he really couldn't guess Hou Junji's purpose.

"Your Highness, the minister suggests that you write to Your Majesty to reduce their shares, or rather, to lower the selling price of paper,

There is news in the city today, saying that Qin Huaidao is going to build two houses at the same time, the two houses cover an area of several hundred acres, how much money is in Qin Huaidao's mansion, everyone can calculate it, where did he Qin Huaidao get so much money?

To build these two houses, you can't get down without 50,000 or 60,000 yuan. Therefore, it is rumored outside the palace that Qin Huaidao has made a lot of money by relying on the paper factory! Hou Junji sat there and said with a smile.

"Nonsense!" When the prince heard this, he stood up angrily.

This rumor is dying, I just supervised the paper mill, and today is only the first day to sell paper, and there are such rumors outside.

Next, no matter what you do, it's not good, price reduction? The income of each mansion has been reduced, of course, the income of the royal family will also be reduced, and Qin Huaidao doesn't know if they are willing or not!

It is even more difficult to take back the shares of several of them, not to mention directly offending those families, and also to put themselves in a position of injustice!

Even if these two things are not said by themselves, but by others, Father and Qin Huaidao will think that they have no ability, and they can't do such things!

"Your Highness, it's not what the minister said, it's said outside, Your Highness, you need to take the initiative! Can't be so passive! Hou Junji saw the prince's anger and said with a sneer.

"This matter, Lone will investigate!" The prince calmed down at the moment, looked at Hou Junji and said.

"Yes, but this matter, if you want to block the mouths of the people, it is impossible! I still have to think of other ways! Hou Junji sat there and said to His Royal Highness the Prince.

"Lone knows!" The prince nodded.

Soon, Hou Junji was gone, and the crown prince sat there thinking about it.

After a while, the prince shouted, "Someone! ”

Soon, Duho came in from outside.

"Go and check the rumors about the paper factory outside the palace, what's going on, in addition, find out the source for Lone, who released the rumors, and Chen Guogong's whereabouts in the past two days, also check it!" The prince sat there and spoke.

"Yes!" Duhe heard it and immediately went out.

"Who framed Lone behind his back? King Wei? Family? Dare to make a fuss about this matter? Li Chengqian sat there, gritted his teeth and said.

It's only been a few days since I was happy, and someone started to make trouble, isn't this roasting yourself on the fire?

In the evening, Li Chengqian saw the recital.

Du He's recital, the source was not found, however, it was written in the recital that Qin Huaidao went to measure the land, and it was rumored that Qin Huaidao wanted to build two mansions at the same time, one was the mansion of Qin Shandao, the founder of the county, and the other was what Qin Huaidao said before, and he also built his own mansion.

The prince saw that this matter was written in great detail, and the source of the rumors, Hou Junji's movements in the past two days, did not write much.

The prince felt that something was wrong, so he took the piece and put it down, but did not speak.

waited until late at night, Li Chengqian summoned another official from the East Palace and asked him to investigate again!

Early the next morning, the new chapter was delivered, and the prince unfolded it to take a look, but the source was still not clear, but Hou Junji went to overturn the shop that sold paper yesterday, and he was called by the emperor to go over, and he wrote it here.

"Hmm~" Li Chengqian sighed after reading it!

"Get ready, I'm going to the palace!" The prince said to the people around him.

I took the piece of music, went to a jar next to it, lit the piece with a fire fold, and burned it directly.

Soon, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince arrived at the Manna Palace.

Li Shimin is discussing the drought with the ministers, and every year there are droughts and floods in several places across the country, and Li Shimin needs to deal with them.

After those ministers left, Li Chengqian told Li Shimin about the rumors outside.

Li Shimin heard it, sat there, and thought.

In fact, he knew about this matter last night, and he also sent someone to check the source, but he didn't find it, and now Li Chengqian sent Du He's recital to Li Shimin, and Li Shimin naturally wanted to pretend that he didn't know before.

"Is that true?" Li Shimin put down the concerto, looked at Li Chengqian and asked.

"Yes!" Li Chengqian nodded.

"And who do you think it is? Family? Li Shimin then looked at Li Chengqian.

"Erchen is not sure yet, and he can't speculate before he investigates clearly, but this matter is a crisis for the paper mill, and there may be someone who is going to Hu Guogong Boping.

Erchen knew that his father had rewarded Peping a lot, and with the brick factory, Peping had 10,000 yuan in his hand.

However, Pepin's matter is also in a hurry, how can he have so much money when he builds two mansions at the same time, isn't this a handle for others? The prince said a little anxiously, thinking that Qin Huaidao had done something inappropriate.

"There is more than this amount of money in the Peping Mansion, at least 30,000 yuan!" Li Shimin said with a smile.

Li Shimin knew how much money Qin Huaidao had, and Qin Huaidao had reported all that money to Li Shimin.

"So much?" The prince looked at Li Shimin in shock.

Tens of thousands of dollars, those grandfathers here in the capital are not without them, but there are definitely few that can take them out.

"Well, this money was given by me! What's wrong with building two mansions at the same time? I estimate that the two mansions will cost a maximum of 50,000 or 60,000 guan, and the brick factory will have about 2,000 guan a year, plus other revenues from the Boping Mansion, there will be about 4,000 guan a year, and the paper mill will cost 10,000 guan a year, what does it matter if you build two mansions?

However, Gao Ming, have you considered it, except for the people in the paper mill, who can know the income of the paper mill? Li Shimin sat there and asked,

In my heart, I was not surprised that Qin Huaidao built two mansions at the same time, but took it for granted, but the income of the paper mill was leaked out, and this is a thing!

Li Shimin now also knows that the profit of the paper mill is amazing, and in a year, he has to share a small amount of 100,000 yuan, which is a lot.

Li Shimin's family has a big business, but there is no money, in the past ten years, Li Shimin has not built a new palace, but only repaired! It's because there is no money!

Li Shimin also thought that when the money from the paper mill arrived, he would build one or two palaces himself!

Unexpectedly, this money has not been earned yet, and now there are rumors outside.

"This? Father, someone at the paper mill deliberately leaked it out? The prince looked at Li Shimin in shock and said.

"Who will leak it? Who is so stupid? Li Shimin looked at Li Chengqian and asked.

Li Chengqian was also stupid, and when he thought about it, who would be so stupid and leak the money-making thing.

"Hey!" Li Shimin sighed.

"That's the person who bought the paper mill from the family!" Li Chengqian said firmly in his heart.

Li Shimin looked at him and said: "The family has reached an agreement with Qin Huaidao, and will no longer attack Qin Huaidao, not long after the agreement, Qin Huaidao must still have something that the family is afraid of, at this time, the family jumped out?" Once Qin Huaidao counterattacks, will the family be able to bear it? ”

Li Chengqian looked at Li Shimin dumbfounded.