"What? You're going to give them money? Li Yuan's eyes widened, he thought that Li Yuanji would directly give them an official position, but he never expected that Li Yuanji would give money.

Money is important, but the royal family is not short of money now, and the business group has a unique advantage to accumulate money every year.

Even in the face of this price reduction, the income of the business group has only increased at a slower pace.

Excluding the annual expenses of the royal family, well, Li Yuan doesn't know how much.

But Li Yuanji knew that the annual expenses of the royal family were less than one-third of the annual profits of the business group handed over to the royal family.

In other words, the business group will make a basic budget every year according to the plan for the coming year, and then keep a certain amount of floating reserve funds, after deducting these, the rest of the money will be handed over to the royal family.

Of course, this money is actually not much, because there are many budgets for the coming year, which are directly deducted from the previous revenue, so the real reserved funds are only three months, as well as some large project funds.

How much cash flow does the royal family have now? Li Yuanji is also not clear, 100,000 guan? 200,000? Or 500,000?

Therefore, the last thing the royal family lacks is money.

And what can be solved with money is not a problem for the royal family.

There is no need to worry about whether those people will be able to do the job after becoming officials, and whether they will come around nonsense and so on.

"They are very good, they know their ability, and they don't force it, they don't want to use Jiang Guogong's shadow to make a living, this money is just for the sons to make up for their project losses, in addition, the sons plan to take out a sum of money and send it to the descendants of these deceased heroes, which can be regarded as doing some modest work." Li Yuanji was not angry because of Li Yuan's attitude, but explained seriously.

Li Yuanji's words made Li Yuan fall into silence for a while, sometimes frowning, sometimes relaxing.

After a long time, he slowly spoke: "How can you guarantee that the business group will be profitable every year?" And the imperial court can support this huge expenditure every year? This kind of thing, just like those usury, the interest rolling, you can't pay it off in a lifetime, the more you pay it back, you can hold it, but how to ensure that your son and grandson can hold it? ”

"Why worry about that? And why make this the norm? Giving them money was given by the court for the sake of their father's loyalty to the court, and in all dynasties, which emperor did this? Why does the imperial court give it every year? And why give them a lifetime? Li Yuanji asked several rhetorical questions in a row.

Li Yuan was stunned for a moment, and then burst out laughing.

"It's because I'm worried too much, it's good for you to make your own decisions about this, I'm old, and I can't keep up with the current pace."

yes, why make this the norm?

And once it becomes the norm, they will also get used to this kind of life, and always feel that the court should give them money, and once they don't give it for a certain year, they will express more fierce dissatisfaction with the court.

But what if it's not the norm? It may be sent for several years in a row, or it may only be sent once in ten years, and when it will be given, it depends on the imperial court.

Only if it is not the norm will they be grateful to the imperial court, and they will not be dissatisfied because they don't give it this year.

As a former emperor, Li Yuan's political vision is not low.

Before, he was just blinded by something, but now that Li Yuanji raised these questions, Li Yuan instantly cleared the clouds.

And the biggest advantage of doing this is that it can make those nobles have a better life in the future, and they can be grateful to the court, although I dare not guarantee that everyone will be grateful to the court, but at least the vast majority of people are fine.

The second is to make these officials who are still in power more loyal to the imperial court.

Loyalty, no one dares to guarantee anything, let alone guarantee that loyalty will not decline for a lifetime, and this method can also be seen as an auxiliary way to ensure the loyalty of officials and have a sense of belonging to the court.

If it works well, in fact, the imperial court does not need to spend too much money every year.

The best time is about once every three to five years, and the amount of each time may not be as much as the annual expenses of the royal family.

This kind of price is still borne by the imperial court, and, according to Li Yuanji, these people are not fixed, in other words, they are only issued to the next generation of those noble and important ministers, and when it comes to their grandchildren's generation, if the second generation of children can have this qualification, it will continue to be distributed, if not, they can only cancel their qualifications.

Although the money is not much, who can guarantee that their descendants are not losers? Who can guarantee that they won't have to worry about eating after they die?

Li Yuanji only needs to start a lot of things, and the rest will naturally be done.

Only when they themselves participate in this kind of obviously good thing should be handed over to those ministers, only when they themselves participate, will they know how to maximize their interests, and at the same time they can take care of more aspects, if Li Yuanji is in charge of it, it is inevitable that some aspects will be missed.

In the next few days, Li Yuanji went to Ziwei Palace.

Perhaps the greatest benefit of the Tang Dynasty was that much of the infrastructure did not have to be rebuilt at great expense.

The Taiji Palace in Chang'an and the Ziwei Palace in Luozhou were all built during the Sui Dynasty, and their scale and building quality are very good.

If you don't mind too much, you only need a little repair to use it directly, even if you are picky, you only need to spend a little more effort.

As for demolition and reconstruction, only a very small number of buildings need to be demolished and rebuilt, and most of them are fine.

The scale of Ziwei Palace is smaller than that of Taiji Palace, but the various application facilities are not small at all, after all, Luozhou was also the capital of the Sui Dynasty, and many things are exactly the same as Chang'an.

Even if Li Yuanji decided to move the capital, it would only take a few months to move the capital from Chang'an to Luozhou, and there would be no need to bother to build those buildings again.

Subsequently, Li Yuanji dressed up again and walked around Luozhou City for a few days.

And Luozhou gave him the feeling that it was not much different from Chang'an, and the commercial atmosphere was just a few less foreign caravans, but there were not many goods here.

In addition, Luoju is also a hub for the entire central and eastern regions, and many traders choose to buy and trade here.

In addition to trading with these places, Luozhou also traded with Chang'an, and many transactions made up for the losses caused by the lack of foreign caravans, so Luozhou's economy took off in an instant in just a few years, and even reached two-thirds of Chang'an's.

If the railroad is opened, the increase may be even more.

"Poetry Club?" Li Yuanji frowned, what he heard the most in Luozhou in the past few days was the word "poetry meeting", although he was not interested in these, the news that could be passed on all over Chang'an still aroused Li Yuanji's interest.

"Your Majesty, the slave maid has already inquired, this so-called poetry club, in fact, cannot be said to be a poetry club, but it can be compared to a talent conference is more appropriate." Song Zhong has also been inquiring constantly in the past two days, and when he saw Li Yuanji asking, he said it directly.

"Talent show? It's kind of interesting! Li Yuanji nodded, being in a high position, he had forgotten a lot of low-level lifestyles.

It is said that they invited the most popular talented girl in Luozhou, Qinghe, who is said to not only know how to play piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but also write scripts, and is also quite popular in the theater, and it is said that if the work of the participants can satisfy the talented woman, they will have the opportunity to have dinner with her. In addition, they also invited many other troupes to perform, and it is said that the performance is Qinghe's latest work. Song Zhong said with a click.

"Can a talented woman cause such a big sensation?" Li Yuanji felt a little surprised, and secretly said that I was not good enough? Or has the world become too pompous?

"Your Majesty, don't underestimate this Qinghe, it is said that this Qinghe is just eighteen years old, although he has no father or mother, he was raised by the old bustard of the Red Mansion, but his debut has been quite popular in the past few years, and just last year, she has paid for herself to redeem herself, although this dinner together sounds nothing, but if it can arouse Qinghe's favor, it may not be impossible to take her away." Song Zhong continued, if it weren't for the fact that he was a eunuch, I am afraid that even he would have moved his mind.

Five hundred dollars a person, and there is still this opportunity, who doesn't want to give it a try?

In addition, most of the participants in this kind of poetry club are the same kind of people, basically have the same hobbies, and can also be seen as a good place to make contacts.

As for the question of money, five hundred dollars may be a lot for them, but it is definitely not a big deal.

And Qinghe's free body is the most attractive place for them, once they can get lucky, they can take it away without having to give out a penny, and if they can't make a lot of money, it's a stupid thing to let go of this kind of good thing.

After all, the literati, their favorite thing to do is to imagine and hit the luck.

A talented woman who can make money to redeem herself at the age of eighteen, to tell the truth, Li Yuanji is also very interested.

After all, the bustard raised her and cultivated her into a talent, and most of the money she will earn in the future will be the bustard's income, and it would be good to be able to leave them with one percent.

It's not that I'm looking at it, but I want to see how powerful this talented woman is.

"When will this poem begin?" Li Yuanji asked.

"Today has already begun, and tomorrow is the last day, but the ticket money is collected on a daily basis, and each day counts as a day."

"Let's go, let's take a look!"