Qujiang Pond is in the southeast corner of Chang'an City, slightly expanding part of the east and south city walls, and the most famous is naturally the Hibiscus Garden there.

There is naturally a place that belongs to the royal forbidden garden, in which the Ziyun Tower, Caixia Pavilion, Linshui Pavilion, Water Palace, Mountain Tower, Pavilion, Pavilion, etc., the main role is naturally for ornamentation.

If Li Hong and his entourage want to go to Qujiangchi, they have to go through Chang'an City and walk from south to north.

The carriage exclusive to the crown prince, Li Hong has almost never used it in this way except for royal activities. It was always a two-frame carriage when it went out, and compared to ordinary carriages, it was only much larger overall.

The ordinary appearance does not mean that the inside is also ordinary, Li Hong has always paid attention to the inside, so the inside of the carriage is naturally extremely luxurious, and the Persian carpet that he quietly stole from Wu Mei was laid on it.

The best Nanmu table is placed in the middle, and several cotton-filled cushions and seat cushions are placed in the car at will. The carriage was completely different from other carriages on three sides, but there were three large windows, the kind that could be closed and opened, and the windows were naturally made of his bright glass, hung with two layers of gauze to block privacy.

The carriage had been prepared by Hua Meng and others, Li Hong looked at Xia Zhi and a few people, tilted his head and said: "It's rare, a few of us haven't gathered in the past few years, and we are all here today." ”

If Bai Chun has a straight face, he really has the taste of a fairy who does not eat the fireworks of the world, but as long as she smiles and moves, the charming temperament and graceful figure naturally carry a rhythmic temptation, which makes people see the two completely different beauties of movement and stillness in her.

"Yes, the cheetah is back, and the slaves don't need to go to Taiyi City anymore, as long as you don't have to toss a little thing, we people can serve you in front of you every day." Bai Chun's faint voice was as crisp as a pearl.

"As long as you talk a lot, don't toss you, what do these people in the East Palace raise? Didn't I say you, you wear a white cotton shirt and skirt every day, as if I am a dignified prince who treats you very badly, and there is no satin cloth in the house that you can look at? Can't you give me a boost? "Li Hong has been used to fighting with Bai Chun since he was a child.

Bai Chun is also a dead pig now, and the country of Qiuzi is now in name only, sometimes it is classified as the capital of the Tang Dynasty, and sometimes it is occupied by other countries.

"Please get in the car." Bai Chundun saluted and said, too lazy to quarrel with him, if he continued to fight, he didn't know what ugly words would come out of his mouth.

Xia Zhi, Xiaoxue, Xiaohan, and Bai Lu covered their mouths and smiled, and followed Bai Chun to salute and said, "Please get in the car, prince." ”

"I can't control it, it's too uneducated, Bai Lu, I can warn you, don't always follow them in the future, especially Bai Chun, foreign women are vicious, be careful to ...... you sooner or later Don't push me, I'll get in the car myself. Li Hong shook his head and shook off Bai Chun's jade hand on his head.

Cheetah, Shock, Hua Meng, and Mangzhong had long been accustomed to the fight between the prince and the other six people, and opened the carriage door with a calm face, and then let the six mermaids enter.

After the two carriages were loaded with the six of them, the space inside was still very rich, Bai Chun sat opposite Li Hong, and the dexterous jade hand began to perform, the Tang tea art that she had worked hard to learn over the years, no, it was a kind of tea art that the prince taught her.

After the cheetah and the stinging hall, they followed the carriage on foot, and Hua Meng and Mangzhong were in front, and they did not sit on the wheel, but also stood on both sides to escort.

Both horses were stolen by the prince...... The two horses that His Majesty asked for were not very old, they had just come of age, they were only four years old this year, they were very smart and calm, their whole bodies were as black as ink, there was no variegation, and their spirits were abnormal.

Since having these two horses, Mangzhong and Hua Meng's driving has been much easier, most of the time they don't need to pull the reins, the two good horses can fully understand their meaning, they can turn and run calmly, and automatically slow down when there are many people.

Because of these two horses, the prince was not beaten less when he stole them the year before last, and was taught a hard lesson by His Majesty and the queen for several days, when he returned to the East Palace, he remembered that he was hitched back by Bai Chun and Xia Zhi, and the swollen buttocks made the two of them unable to hold or carry them back, so they could only be hitched back to the East Palace.

Li Hong opened the curtains and looked at the outermost row of shops in the East Market, the location here is significant, and the price is naturally much more expensive, but that's it, it still makes the Chang'an businessmen snatch their heads and sharpen their heads and want to occupy one.

On the bustling, pedestrian-like wide street, two horses unhurriedly pulled the carriage forward, the pedestrians on the road looked at the two, at a glance it was a horse with a great background, they avoided both sides of the road, from time to time to stop to admire the two horses, their mouths were full of praise, and their eyes were full of envy and love.

"How many shops are there in the East Market? After a while, I will give it to other Chang'an businessmen according to the plan, the store can no longer meet us, the focus only needs to be placed on Taiyi City, managed well, there is a perfect system, whether it is the East Market or the West Market, the market rules will be in our hands. Li Hong looked outside and said to Bai Chun opposite.

"Well, now that we have entered the substantive stage, we need to carefully screen the merchants, whether it is porcelain or glass, we hope that these merchants can strive for the maximum profit for them." Bai Chun glanced at a shop he had just passed by, and the name given by the prince: "Come again!" "It couldn't be more vulgar.

"There are many foreign merchants in the West Market, and most of the transactions are in the West Market, as for the tariffs I mentioned for foreign merchants, how much do you think it should be appropriate?" Li Hong curled up in Xia Zhi's arms next to him, his head comfortably resting on the towering Xia Zhi, and asked lazily looking at the roof of the car.

The roof of the carriage is also a famous painting, well, it was also stolen from his father's study, and this famous painting was pasted on the car by him, which was actually the biggest reason why he was beaten.

"According to your percentage, the slave thinks that five percent is enough, so that at least it will not scare them into running to the household department to impeach you." Bai Chun tilted his head and thought about it, his beautiful eyes were full of caution.

"You have always been reluctant to admit that you are stupid, who is in charge of the household now? The tax of five percent is too low, not to mention that these things are all items monopolized by Taiyi City, look at the trading volume you handed over to me, the trading volume in the embargoed list accounts for a small one percent every month, and it has only been released for a month, and the trading volume of prohibited items has reached thirty percent, and it will be even more in the future. ”

Bai Chun gave him a puffed up of anger, what's wrong with being stupid, stupid you let someone else do it, it's not as good as me. You are now a household secretary, only one hand to cover the sky, but you can only cover the household of the sky, foreign businessmen from Honglu Temple, Menxia Province, Zhongshu Province can play, when the time comes, you can't eat and walk.

"Still not convinced? Do you feel sorry for those foreign businessmen in your heart? Tell you a sentence to remember: mercy is not in charge of the army, righteousness is not good. Businessmen are born for profit and run for profit, you only see their hard work, but you never see the dedication of my Tang craftsmen in Taiyi City. If you think about it, the sales volume from the Taiyi City you gave me to the countries of the Western Regions, not including the items shipped to several regions in the south, has already reached a bottleneck in our production capacity, and it is difficult to make an inch. ”

Li Hong snatched the tea in Bai Chun's hand, took a sip and handed it to her, and continued: "Today I said that I want to expand the scale and give Chang'an merchants technical methods, but these take time, in a year and a half, the businessmen can do the general craftsmanship of Taiyi City is fast, what should I do during this time?" Could it be that you want to exhaust the craftsmen of Taiyi City? ”

Bai Chun obviously hadn't bypassed the game yet, and argued angrily: "Even if it is a tax increase, won't it be able to solve the problem you said?" You can't ban it for a month, right? Bai Chun's sexy red lips pouted, and his face was full of unconvinced.

"If the ban is opened, it is untrustworthy, and the reputation of the Prince's Mansion must still be guaranteed. Therefore, you need to raise taxes to slow down the volume of foreign trade, and what is wrong with the original ten cents of rice becoming twenty or thirty cents? As long as you put out the news that Taiyi City's production capacity is too slow, and then leak some news about the embargo through the mouths of businessmen in the east and west cities, to ensure that your tax increase can convince them, and even because they need to meet the trading volume, and the price will take the initiative to rise, at this time, you will take one step back and two steps, the price will be reduced by one percent, and then in the name of humanity, the tax will be increased by three percent on the grounds that you need to add money to the craftsmen to rush to work. ”

Bai Chun listened to a chill, his expression was full of fear of the prince, he was simply a demon, a demon who specialized in sucking money from foreign businessmen.

According to his method, the merchants of the Western Regions will also sing praises to him, I am afraid that as long as he is willing, he will set up a memorial arch in Taiyi City, and the merchants will be happy to do it for him.

"In this way, Datang will only have money left, at least your Taiyi City can use the money to build a palace." Bai Chun snorted and said sarcastically.

"Do you think this is for me, the money bank wants to create a large scale, and there is no money to open it? Without a large sum of money, what do you give to the businessman to assure and trust? Besides, for foreign merchants, my aim has always been to keep the money and take the goods with them. Li Hong said as a matter of course.

Bai Chun nodded thoughtfully, yes, money is worth more than a pile of sand, poor merchants from all over the Western Regions, just for these worthless sands, they obediently sent the real gold and silver money to Datang, and happily and cautiously pulled away a cart of sand.

Money is limited after all, sand is available everywhere, even the river at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, any shovel of sand, I am afraid that in the hands of the prince, it can be turned into money and sold.

"I know, when I return to Taiyi City, I will do as you instruct."

"Don't rush back, I'll go with you in a few days to have a look, the matter of the Chamber of Commerce is also imminent." Li Hong looked at a familiar shop and sighed.

As expected, this well-located shop was taken out of the palace, and the current owner is his aunt.