Before the family returned, the cow arrived at the gate of the Yingguo Mansion without stopping, and the next person went in to report that it was not long before the samurai Tong personally picked it up.

Xiao Zheng said straight to the point: "Your ancestors have always been in business, and the Duke of Guo must have heard about the construction of roads below. But there is no money, but this money needs to be raised, there are many wealthy businessmen in Chang'an who should be known to Guogong, you go to the trouble to see if anyone is interested in this business, and after the road is repaired, I will use my Datang's taxes to offset it, and then I will pay it back with interest."

said that he handed a copy of the relevant plan to Wu Shi Tong, and after reading it, Wu Shi Tong thought about it and said: "Thank you Xiao Gong for looking up to Zaixia, but with such a big hand, the official can't afford to pay so much money, and Zai Xia is also very interested in preparing to buy shares, I'll ask others again."

"But to put it mildly, I'm looking for a wealthy businessman with a clean background, and the five surnames and seven families must be excluded, which must be explained," Xiao Zheng said.

"Don't worry about this, I don't dare to boast about anything else, I know exactly what the background of the rich merchants in Chang'an is," Wu Shi Tong arched his hand and said.

After talking about it in the afternoon, the next day Wu Shi Tong took a person to Xiao Zheng's mansion, this person was also in his forties, and he was dressed very ordinarily, and he knew that this person's name was Pei Mingli, and he was a famous wealthy merchant in Chang'an City.

This person also knew what Xiao Zheng's personality was, and after chatting for a while, he said: "The project that the Jade Principality said is extremely interesting in Xia, and if the adults agree, it can be fifty percent of Xia."

This guy is so generous, Xiao Zheng looked at him and said, "You're not afraid of losing money?" ”。

"Yu Guogong made nearly 500,000 yuan for my Datang in two shots, and will I lose money when I follow you to do business?" Pei Mingli said with a smile.

"Okay, thank you for your support in the next Duopei, please wait for the good news" .......

"I'm curious, why didn't you go to those Hu businessmen this time to raise money," Du Ruhui asked

"This time it is about the national dragon vein, how can you be sloppy, you can't control the lifeline in the hands of foreign races, unless they can prove with blood and life that they are doing their best for the Tang Dynasty, this time I am ready to adopt a new model to build this road, so that those blind adults in the court can see."

"It's still your vision, and I'm not as good as you."

At the beginning of the fifth day of May, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Huangmen officials went to the palace at the Great Dynasty Meeting and said that it was Taishi Ling Fu Yi and Yuxuanguan Wang Yuanzhi who asked to meet.

When the two of them finished saluting in the Xiande Palace, Fu Yixian said: "The minister has been observing the sky recently, the crape myrtle star is shining, and the Lord and I are prosperous in the Tang Dynasty. It's just that the east is still a little bleak, and the minister has observed for a few days, and the minister asks the sage to guide the land in the east to protect my Tang Dynasty for ten thousand years."

As soon as Fu Yi finished speaking, Wang Yuanzhi also followed up and said: "Sage, my Taoist has been watching the celestial phenomena these days, and Xiaodao also found that Ziwei Dongzhao is slightly foggy, and the disciples of Xiaodao sect are looking for feng shui according to the stars, and their direction has determined that the dragon vein from Chang'an to Luoyang is roughly the same as the official road from Chang'an to Luoyang, and there is only a slight blockage between the qi, and the minister asks the sage to straighten out the dragon vein to benefit the national fortune."

After listening to this, Li Shimin asked, "What do you think?"

Everyone in the court was dumbfounded, and even Wei Zheng was silent.

No one dared to say it, Qin Tianjian dared to say that he did this, and Wang Yuanzhi also dared to say that he was a national teacher.

Other people are involved in the national fortune of the Tang Dynasty, who dares to talk nonsense! If you say a little wrong, if you are caught, you will not be able to do it, and you can't do it!

"The minister has something to say" Xiao Zheng, who didn't speak easily, stood up and startled everyone, no one knew why this guy came out.

"Since Qin Tianjian and the national teacher unanimously said that the dragon vein was blocked and it was roughly the same as the official road, the minister suggested that the official road from Chang'an to Luoyang should be rebuilt to benefit my Tang Dynasty."

"Yellow-mouthed Confucius! Do you think that the saints, including us, do not want to cultivate? If the large-scale recruitment of people will make my Datang's weak national strength worse, what is the difference between tossing my Datang and the former Sui in this way? The minister asked the saint to cure him for the crime of demagoguery," Xiao Yu stood up and pointed at Xiao Zheng and reprimanded angrily.

"The minister is also against it!" Wei Zheng also stood up with a black face.

"The minister is also against it!" With the two of them taking the lead, some courtiers have come forward, and it seems that there are many stone officials in the Tang Dynasty.

"Ladies and gentlemen, don't be impatient, wait until you move two things in", after a while, several eunuchs walked in carrying two screens that were more than one person high and one zhang long, and Li Shimin walked down to the front of the screen.

Put the screen and say to the people: "Everyone, give the lower official a little time, this map is the route map of the official road from Chang'an to Luoyang, with a total length of 760 miles, and this one is the map drawn by Xia after the new road is repaired, and the lower official calls it a rendering."

Xiao Yu looked at it for a while and asked, what are you paved on this road? How wide? ”

"All the stones are paved on it, and it is fifteen zhang wide."

"Your brain is flooded, all the roads from Chang'an to Luoyang are paved with stones, fifteen zhang wide, my Chang'an City Zhuque Street is not as wide as you, what is the difference between you and the tyrannical Qin repairing the Great Wall, ignorant rats" Xiao Yu began to roll up his sleeves after speaking, and it seemed that he was going to fight.

Frightened, Xiao Zheng hurriedly hid from Li Shimin, seeing that Li Shimin wanted to laugh, he waved his hand and said to Xiao Yu: "Don't worry, listen to him first."

"How much money and food did it cost to go this way," Fang Xuanling asked after looking at it for a while.

"Xia Guan has made detailed calculations, if calculated according to the new system, one kilometer is two miles, and the cost is about 2,000 guan, and a total of 800,000 guan is enough," Xiao Zheng replied with a smile.

"Then how much money do I have in the Datang treasury?" Wei Zheng asked.

"I don't have much money in the Datang treasury, a total of more than 200,000 yuan."

"Are you crazy?! Even if I dig out my Tang family's foundation, it is not enough money for this road, not to mention that there are other things to do, you can just take the favor of the saint, and you still talk nonsense when you get to the court, I am a fool when I am a person in the court, and I ask the saint to dismiss him" Wei Zheng was so angry that his face turned yellow, and he pointed at him angrily and said.

When Wei Zheng said this, Xiao Yu was also angry, and the other courtiers were also constantly attacking him, which seemed to have the meaning of killing and then hurrying.

"Rank, even if you want to die in the next place, you have to let you finish the words, the cost of the road built this time is not ready to use the treasury money and grain, this is one of them, as for how the money comes, please rest assured that you will borrow it in the next place."

"The old man doesn't believe that you can lend seven or eight hundred thousand yuan," Kong Yingda said with a smile on the side.

"The old man still believes that you can have this ability, but how can you pay it back?" Yu Shinan patted Xiao Zheng's shoulder and said.

He cast an approving glance at Yu Shinan and said: "The boss has said the key, according to my Tang law, we are going to tax the merchants who use this road, thirty taxes and one, and it is only a one-way tax." To put it simply, Luoyang paid taxes, and the goods were no longer taxed when they arrived in Chang'an, and no taxes were levied on pedestrians, and there was no tax on our Datang agricultural products, and the period was 20 years, during which all the maintenance, repair, and maintenance costs were all taken out of the taxes, and handed over to the court after 20 years."

"If you lose it, it will also be handed over to the court?!" Xiao Yu looked at him and asked.

"The lower officials are absolutely not false."

"Good! I'll see how you conjure up this path," Xiao Yu said angrily.

"Do you want to bet another million yuan, boss," Xiao Zheng asked with a smile.

"This time, the old man gambled with you!" Xiao Yu, who had just calmed down, jumped up and pointed at Xiao Zheng angrily.

Li Shimin grabbed Xiao Yu and said with a smile: "Don't worry about Gong Xiao, how can such a major event of the country be like child's play." He was also afraid that this old guy would be anxious again, and he would fight with Xiao Zheng and make his courtier suffer.

Xiao Zheng waved his hand and said: "This time the road construction of my Datang will no longer levy conscription, but the way of recruiting workers, the people who pass through the prefecture and county will be called on priority, and the money and grain spent on road construction will no longer be distributed to the counties, but will be managed by a specially established organization. As soon as the project started, the Yushitai and the Ministry of Civil Affairs formed an audit department to check the cost of the project, and once the corruption was discovered, it was handed over to the sage and the Dali Temple to be adjudicated and punished, so that everyone supervised each other and did not interfere with each other. In addition, we also have a third-party supervisory agency to conduct audits, and the officials will be asked to sell it first."

Li Shimin looked at the ministers and said: "Everyone, the matter of money will be solved by Du Qing and Xiao Qing of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the repair route will be organized by the Ministry of Industry, and the use of money and grain will be supervised by the Imperial History and the Ministry of Civil Affairs. ”

For a while, everyone looked at each other and didn't dare to speak, it turned out that the matter of the dragon vein mentioned by Feng Deyi did not squeak, you can't talk about the induction of heaven and man, you can't talk about Fu Yi, and you can't do Wang Yuanzhi on feng shui, so what else do you mention?

The two old Taoists and Xiao Zheng tossed like this, everyone saw that these people were prepared, and the backstage commanders understood it self-evidently, and then mentioned that it was anti-national luck and anti-Datang.

"Chen agrees," Fang Xuanling said.

"The minister agreed," and the eldest grandson Wuji reacted quickly.

"The Ministry of Civil Affairs fully supports!" Du Ruhui also said.

"The Ministry of Industry also fully supports!" Li Daliang also said that he was not left behind.

"If you don't have an opinion on this road, but if you can't cultivate it, please treat Xiao Zheng for the crime of deceiving the saint and punish his clan!" Mr. Wei on the side glared at Xiao Zheng angrily and said, this guy is the father of Concubine Wei, Li Shimin's new concubine, and he has some talent, and now he is Shaoqing in the Criminal Department. The Wei family's presence is in Luoyang, and it seems that his family will definitely be affected and bear the brunt of the road as soon as the road is repaired.

As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Yu glared at him and didn't speak.

"Master Wei, as long as you click the lower officials, my family will be wiped out" Li didn't pay attention to him anymore.

"If all the princes have no opinions, please pass the three provinces, I will say it again, if there is corruption, don't blame me Li Shimin's knife fast! Qintianjian chooses an auspicious day to start work! ”。