King Qi shamefully replied to the request to repair the palace for himself.

Xu Muhe was a little worried, because the overhaul of the palace has always been a subtraction item in the evaluation of Chinese feudal emperors in history books.

But he really wants it very much, just like a child who longs to get the most favorite toy - there is also a real need, in recent years, Xu Muhe has married a lot of side concubines, concubines, as well as the palace people and eunuchs who intercepted and pro-ship the fleet, plus the newly born prince and the guards arranged by Xu Shiyang, all the people from all walks of life have added up to nearly two thousand people.

In addition, during this year's Spring Festival, in order to show respect for the king of Qi, the king of Goryeo presented 30 women.

The garrisons in various places specially selected a total of 100 foreign boys, made them into eunuchs and presented them to the king of Qi.

The population of the Qi Governor's Mansion was growing rapidly, and the usable area of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion was already quite crowded, and the queen (Xu Shiliu's mother) and some other favored concubines complained about it to the King of Qi himself.

couldn't stand the pillow wind, Xu Muhe naturally had to find a way to get the support of Xu Shiyang, who was at least the prince of Wang Shizi, who was equal to him.

Xu Shiyang was not opposed to the plan to build the palace, except for the exchange of support, this thing would be owned by him sooner or later, and he could think of this.

He even suggested that the new palace be called "Schönbrunn Palace" on the grounds that it was in line with the characteristics of Spring City, but no one could understand his COS.

The design of Schönbrunn Palace is a combination of Xu Shiyang's favorite modern style and traditional Chinese architectural style, and it is extremely gorgeous.

In terms of building stone alone, there are white marble from Fangshan in Yanjing, five-color tiger skin stone from Jixian County, Hebei Province, granite from Quyang, Hebei Province, Taihu stone and gold bricks (floor tiles) imported from Jiangnan, and city bricks produced by Qi State.

In terms of timber, in addition to the large number of giant trees that Liaodong can provide (Xu Shiyang likes oak, but oak is considered 'miscellaneous wood' in the traditional Chinese concept), it is also necessary to buy precious timber such as Nanyang golden silk nanmu through the Li family.

In addition, there are a large number of decorative gemstones, such as glass and colored glazed tiles produced by Qi country, ceramic tiles imported from Jiangnan, and volcanic ash imported from Fuso as binders.

In addition to the labor and design costs, as well as land acquisition costs, decoration costs, etc., etc., the budget of the first phase of Meiquan Palace is as high as 200 million catties, and it is estimated that the second phase of the project is not less than 500 million catties, and the third phase may reach one billion catties!

It is estimated that there will be four and five phases of the project, and if King Qi really reaches the top, then the capital of the future empire will inevitably not be Quancheng, whether it is in the south or in the north, and then build a new ......palace according to this posture.

Moreover, the current budget does not include the royal utensils, daily consumption, salaries and rewards for internal affairs personnel such as concubines and concubines, palace concubines, and guards, as well as the premium problems that will inevitably arise in the process of repairing the palace.

Many officials were anxious when they saw these figures, and they kept writing letters urging them to stop the renovation of Schönbrunn Palace.

There were even people who wrote further, asking the king of Qi to streamline the palace eunuchs in order to save the cost of the royal family.

Xu Muhe was helpless about this, but at this time, Xu Shiyang did give great support.

In order to dispel the doubts and anger of the officials, Xu Shiyang proposed that Schönbrunn Palace, of course, also includes all the buildings belonging to the Wang family in the future, whether they are newly repaired or rebuilt, all the costs will be funded by the inner government at the original price, and not a penny of the user department will be touched.

It wasn't until Xu Shiyang said this that everyone suddenly remembered that Wang Shizi Xu Shiyang is not only the world's number one general who can beat the Tartar like a dog, but also a living Tao Zhu who can make money and can make money!

Speaking of which, let's briefly introduce the enterprises of Qi at this time.

At present, Qi enterprises can be roughly divided into several categories:

1. Private enterprises:

Enterprises invested entirely by non-governmental people, including the common people of Qi and the merchants from Jiangnan, are still small in scale, and because they cannot afford the patent fees, they can only produce low-tech products or undertake auxiliary work such as primary processing and production of accessories for large enterprises.

However, with the gradual involvement of Jiangnan Capital and the gradual opening up of the Qi market, it is expected that it will not be long before some native enterprises that can compete with Yamen enterprises will emerge from the private sector.

2. Cooperative enterprises:

At present, this kind of enterprise is mainly in some special industries, such as traditional Chinese medicine materials and other enterprises with their own special technology, and the imperial court of Qi will support them with investment and dividends from them.

In addition, state-owned textile factories now allow private investment, which is also a kind of cooperative enterprise.

3. State-owned enterprises:

This aspect is concentrated in the central bank, arms, gold and silver deposits, salt industry, shipbuilding and other strategic enterprises, these factories in Qi State are only allowed to be fully controlled by the state (but the private sector can also open its own factories, for example, Qi State now has many gunsmiths who make their own guns), and all the proceeds go to the household department.

4. Inner government enterprises:

This is the Xu family's own industry, Xu Shiyang consciously controls several glass, perfume, soap, shochu and other luxury manufacturers, in addition to a part of the textile factory, coal mine, steel factory equity, even if not Wang Shizi, he can be regarded as a big capitalist in the transition period from feudal society to capitalist society.

What's more, the Xu family also has a large number of inner manors, pastures, forest farms, and ocean-going fleets.

There are also private banks.

It is precisely because of these internal enterprises that Xu Shiyang feels that the construction of Schönbrunn Palace is not a big problem, at least not economically.

Because the royal family can completely pay for this without using the state treasury and completely by their own family.

Moreover, in doing so, it can also stimulate domestic demand and put the money and grain stored by the royal family into the normal circulation of the market.

In fact, unlike officials at all levels who oppose it for fear of spending too much money, Xu Shiyang's biggest concern is whether the expropriation of land for the construction of the palace will trigger **.

He suggested that the address of Schönbrunn Palace should be outside the city of Quancheng, because the palace was equivalent to a small city, and a blank sheet of paper was easy to paint.

In this way, the first phase of Schönbrunn Palace is completed, and after the King of Qi moves in, the former Metropolitan Governor's Palace, the Qi Palace, can also be sold to the outside world to recover part of the investment.

As the administrative center of Qi at this time, the land price and housing prices in Quancheng are not cheap, and Meibrunn Palace can save a lot of money outside the city, while the old Qi Palace in the city can get more premiums when it is sold, so why not?

At this point, the officials had nothing to say, in their opinion, King Qi spent his own money to repair his own house, and he didn't need the state to pay for it, so the people on the other side naturally had no right to say anything.

In this regard, Xu Shiyang can only secretly rejoice that they have not learned the work attitude of the Ming Dynasty officials who take pleasure in scaring the emperor and scare whether they are reasonable or not, otherwise, even if the emperor spends his own money, he will not be able to pass a plan like Xiu Meiquan Palace - the country is the emperor's, and if you change the way of expression, then the emperor's will be the country.