Chapter Eighty-Three: Blue is better than blue

Wu Meiniang shook her head with a slight smile, put one hand on her stomach and touched it gently, and said, "It's okay, pay attention to the concubine, come over and tell you something." ”

Li Shen walked over, stretched out a hand to support her, and said, "It's okay to let people pass the word, you can run in person." ”

"I sit there all day, and the concubine wants to go out for a walk." Wu Meiniang said with a slight sneer.

"Let's go into the house and talk about it."

Returning to the apse of the Xuanzheng Palace, Li Shen stretched out his hand and waved, and the eunuchs and maids in the palace left quickly.

Li Shen sat down and said, "What's the matter?" ”

"It's just some trivial things, didn't you let the concubine say it yesterday to stop brewing wine, the concubine came over today to ask, the brewed liquor can't consume much grain, and the wine in the hotel can be consumed by people with relatively good backgrounds, and in the spring of this year, the concubine also received a lot of food, so ......"

"Don't brew the wine for the time being, and let the people know when the time comes, how do you let me explain it to them?"

"If the wine is not brewed, the concubine will be afraid that she will worry about the business in the hotel."

"It's okay, you can't ruin your reputation for such a small benefit."

"Although the profit is not much, but it is also a lot, I thought that this year's wine money can be used to offset the tax of Datang for half a year, but now that the weather has become like this, the business of this hotel has been greatly affected, and the money in the treasury is not enough, and I am afraid that many things will ...... at that time."

"There is no way to do this, and it will be postponed for the time being that is not the main thing."

Wu Meiniang smiled and said with some annoyance: "You are right, now the treasury is managed by concubines, they care about you so much, do you have any money?" Besides, you say those things are not important things? If you open your mouth all day, you spend more money than everyone else. ”

Li Shen stretched out his hand and scratched his head, and said, "Is it so exaggerated as you say?" ”

"Why not? Why don't you tell you about it, the construction of the academy and the daily use of the academy have been removed, and the construction of the medical school, as well as the medical halls that are now being built throughout the empire, have now used up more than 200,000 yuan, and I don't know how much it will cost in the later stage? A few days ago, Master Xiao of the Ministry of Education also withdrew 300,000 ......"

Wu Meiniang picked up the teacup on the table, took a sip of water, and said helplessly: "How much do you count all this money together?" If it weren't for the glass sold a few days ago, I'm afraid that there would be nothing left in the treasury now, and now that business has deteriorated, and there is no other income, the concubine is really worried that by the end of the year, the officials' salaries will become a problem. ”

Li Shen looked at the gushing Wu Meiniang with a smile, nodded slightly, and said, "These are just small things, and some of them can be saved, and if you really don't have any money, you won't come over and talk to me about these things so leisurely." ”

"To be able to save snacks, the concubine still wants to save some, after all, the wine does not use much food, if it is really forbidden to brew, a few months down, the loss is very large, how to say that the wine is also the main business in the hotel and the means of attracting guests, the meals in the hotel are now basically made by the people in the same way, although the taste is not as good as the hotel for the time being, but relatively speaking, the distance is not very far." Wu Meiniang said helplessly.

She also didn't expect the wisdom of the people to be so powerful, in less than two years, the various dishes in the hotel were imitated very different, some dishes are even much stronger than the dishes in the hotel, and now the business of the hotel has lost a lot, at least the residents of Chang'an City who live far away will not cross half of the city to eat, if there is no wine, Wu Meiniang can't imagine how much this business will fall.

Li Shen nodded slightly, he had long expected that the people of their Great Huaxia were extremely powerful in imitation, and no race could surpass it, and it was better than the blue.

"Let's take one step at a time, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, if you really can't shirk it, let them come to me, but you can also see what the specific thing is."

Wu Meiniang smiled helplessly and said, "If you look at other ways to make money, you won't need to live with a concubine all day long." ”

"How can it be so easy, if it really doesn't work, can you talk to those merchants in Fanbang, if they are willing to buy in large quantities, the price can be relatively low for them?"

"The price is to give them a mirror as usual, and it's the same, after such a long journey to Fanbang, they sell it at the same price as before, so there is no need for that at all."

Li Shen nodded slightly, but it was a little thoughtless, the merchant pursued profits, even if it was given to them for free, I am afraid that the price of transportation to them would still be so high, but his own income would be reduced, and he said: "Let's talk about it then, I can't think of it for a while if I think about it now." ”

Wu Meiniang nodded slightly, it is not so easy to make money, she still knows this, and said helplessly: "There is one more thing to tell you, that is, the matter of Peipei's family building a house, she has come to find the concubine several times, and the concubine is a little unbearable, so you should deal with it yourself." ”

"What happened to Pepe?"

"She needs 50,000 yuan, and the concubine didn't agree and quarreled with her."

"Fifty thousand?"

Li Shen paused slightly, looked at Wu Meiniang in disbelief, and said, "Fifty thousand? What the hell is she going to do? ”

"If you fancy a house, you need 20,000 yuan, and the other 30,000 yuan is the money for reconstruction."

"It's just nonsense, you don't need to worry about this matter, I will deal with it." Li Shen said coldly.

50,000 guan, Li Shen really can't imagine that this woman is embarrassed to speak, first of all, all the life in the ordinary people's homes for a month is only the same amount of money at most, she actually opened her mouth is 50,000 guan, for this woman Li Shen really doesn't know that she is better now, becoming more and more presumptuous, more and more unreasonable.

"The concubine body is just to tell you, in fact, 50,000 guan was not a thing in the past, but now in such a situation, it is a little difficult, you don't blame Pepe too much, in fact, she is like this, in the words of Sister Begonia, not everything you are used to." Wu Meiniang smiled and covered her mouth, lowered her head and said with a secret smile.