Under Li Yuanji's rule, officials were given an unprecedented degree of freedom, and they no longer had as many constraints as before.

As long as it is beneficial to the country, you can let it go, and if you are not sure, you can also submit a report to your superiors and then do it.

Under the premise of such a high degree of freedom, there will inevitably be other problems, such as a lot of waste of time and money, in exchange for failures that no one knows whether they will be useful or not.

In this regard, many ministers have suggested to Li Yuanji that it should be banned.

In order to cater to Li Yuanji's ideas, the ministers suggested that the imperial court should test first, and then gradually open up the authorization in a certain area, so that the hundred officials could use their imagination in these areas.

This suggestion was accepted by Li Yuanji, but a clause was also added that Baiguan could apply for testing in any area.

This incident shows that the current political environment is relaxed, and it is also impossible to get rid of the imperial dictatorship as a feudal society, and Li Yuanji has never thought of getting rid of this model.

Because it's unrealistic, because no one is willing to give up the power they already have.

Even Li Yuanji himself was unwilling to do this.

"Your Majesty, the imperial court has not budgeted for the construction of the palace, and if the scale is too large, it can only compress the budgets of other places, and with the current capacity of the imperial court, it cannot support such a large-scale construction project." Huangfu Wuyi hurriedly stepped forward and reminded.

The palace was built to worship the soldiers who died in battle, and this will definitely not be the only one, if it is not good, the soldiers who died in the war before will also be invited into it, plus the future, its scale can be determined without even thinking too much, definitely more than any palace in the Taiji Palace.

Although the new construction method can reduce the cost to a minimum, the cost of such a large palace can cost tens of thousands of yuan.

Before this decision was announced, or before the various ministries summed up the planned budget for the next year, the household department received an order from Li Yuanji that an additional 15,000 yuan should be allocated to the Academy of Sciences for the next year's budget, which should be mainly used for the research and development of battlefield first-aid drugs and weapons and equipment.

Under this premise, the budgets of the ministries for the next fiscal year have already been reduced considerably, and if there were any further reductions, many projects would not even be able to be carried out and would have to be relegated to the next planning period.

The life of the household department has been much better over the years, and the main reason is because of the money, but this is not an absolute reason.

What's more, everything has a plan, how much money can be done, every consistent money, at the end of the previous year was divided and removed, what the household department has to do is to strictly supervise and supervise the use.

And Li Yuanji did not indiscriminately command in the middle of the year, adding new projects or something, so that even if there is a deviation in the budget, the amount of deviation will not be too much, and the spare funds left by the household department are enough to fill this hole.

But now, the plan has been made, and it has been assigned to the yamen, and if you go to make changes, whose project will you cut? What items to cut? This became the biggest problem.

"If you take Xingdaofang as the size and build half of it into a palace, what is the budget?" Li Yuanji did not respond to Huangfu Wuyi's reminder, but looked at the Ministry of Works.

The Ministry of Industry Shangshu was stunned, and secretly said that he couldn't do this budget himself.

There are too many deviations, with Xingdaofang as the size, and Li Yuanji also said before that such a palace should be built in front of Taiji Palace.

So the question is, where to build? Is it the north side of Nishinachien? Or in front of the Suzaku Gate, or is it the Xingdaofang that Li Yuanji asked?

Today's Xingdaofang is not the previous Xingdaofang, although the commercial atmosphere is not as good as Taipingfang, but under the leadership of Taipingfang, coupled with its special geographical location, the land price there is also rising.

In particular, Li Yuanji changed some policies in order to promote commercialization.

However, if it is the imperial court that needs to use the land, then there is also a privilege, everything in the world is the emperor's thing, and if he wants to use it, he can call it at any time.

But Li Yuanji was not willing to do this, so the alternative method was to replace it on the same scale, that is, if it was chosen in Xingdaofang, it would be necessary to settle the residents in Xingdaofang in a similar location, otherwise it would only be possible to carry out commercial operations and directly buy the entire land, but this is obviously impossible.

Even a wealthy business group doesn't dare to say that it can take over the entire Xingdaofang now.

"Your Majesty, if you take Xingdaofang as an example, according to the conditions proposed by Your Majesty before, it will take about thirty or forty thousand, if there are higher requirements, the budget will continue to increase, and now the minister does not know about this matter, so he cannot give a specific budget situation." The Ministry of Industry Shangshu gave a rough data with a headache, although there is no upper limit, but it gives a lower limit, there is no thirty or forty thousand, this thing is not to think about.

What does it mean to be 30,000 or 40,000? It means that last year, one-sixth of the total income of the Tang Dynasty court.

The larger the palace, the greater the cost, and compared to a single palace, this kind of super-large palace requires more materials, higher requirements, and more difficult technology.

"How much money is left in the Inner House?" Li Yuanji asked Song Zhong.

The problem of money, he really didn't look at it, more money or less money, it doesn't matter, just like Fang Xuanling thought before, this is a political attitude, and it is absolutely necessary to strike while the iron is hot, so that more people can see the emperor's beliefs, so as to have more worship for the emperor.

He wants the stability of the Tang Dynasty and its longevity, this is only the first step, although I don't know whether this method is feasible, but it is undeniable that Li Yuanji has a complete set of plans in his heart.

Some of them came up with their own thoughts, and some of them referred to some systems of later generations, as well as improvements to the previous ones.

Anyway, in Li Yuanji's view, this method is theoretically no problem, and it can ensure the longevity of Datang.

"Your Majesty, there are still about 100,000 guan in the inner government, but the fixed monthly expenses of the royal family are 4,000 guan, and the reserve funds of 30,000 guan stipulated by His Majesty, in fact, the funds available to the inner government now are only about 22,000 guan." Song Zhong responded sharply.

Song Zhong is a eunuch, and he is also an internal servant official of the Inner Government, and he is also a relatively high-ranking one.

Although he has no real power in the Inner Government, he has access to all the information in the Inner Government, including those classified information.

At the same time, in order to prevent the emperor from asking about the situation, Song Zhong had to go to the inner government every month to check the latest information, especially the use of funds, the remaining and other issues. Therefore, even if there is a deviation in this amount, it is at most a deviation of about 4,000 guan.

The Inner Mansion was established after Li Yuanji decided that the expenses of the imperial family should be borne by himself, and it was responsible for all the private affairs of the imperial family, including funds, rewards and punishments.

According to Li Yuanji's requirements, the inner government must keep enough expenses for one year, as well as 30,000 yuan of reserve funds, and the rest is the funds that can be used in the current year, and this fund is mostly used for the emperor's rewards, unexpected repairs of the palace, etc.

"With Xingdaofang as the blueprint, the Ministry of Industry should come up with a complete set of design plans as soon as possible, in addition to the palace covering an area of half of the palace, a stone tablet should be erected in front of the palace not lower than the highest place of the palace, and the rest of the places ...... Let's take garden design as the standard! Li Yuanji thought about it, such a large project can not be completed in a year, even if a new construction method is adopted, it will take two or three years from construction to put into use at the earliest.

This is still the case that manpower and material resources can be guaranteed, which involves a series of work such as relocation, resettlement, demolition, and removal.

In other words, even from now, when construction actually begins, it will have to be three months from now at the earliest.

The inner government only needs to come up with 20,000 yuan, which can basically meet the construction needs of this year, as for the garden or something, it can also be temporarily delayed after the design, and wait until next year, or the year after tomorrow to do it, because these are not important.

"Your Majesty, even if the problem of money can be solved, but such a big stele ......" the Ministry of Industry Shangshu looked depressed.

The stele is higher than the highest point of the palace, where can I find it? Even if it is found, how much will it cost to transport it?

What is the biggest problem with transporting stones? Vehicle Problems?

No, those are minor problems, the real problem is that bridges everywhere along the way, in most places, cannot support this weight of passage.

Even if you take shipping, such a large stone monument has to be torn down many bridges on the way to ensure passage.

Even if you survive all the way, how can such a big stone monument enter Chang'an City? Is it for the sake of a stone monument that the city gate will be torn down?

How much of a loser does this have to be?

Li Yuanji was full of black lines on his forehead, and secretly said in his heart, why are these people so upright?

Why don't you know how to turn your brain in circles?

"The stele can be poured with concrete, and a thin layer of stele can be pasted on the outside of it, so as to minimize the gaps, and ......fill it with materials of the same color," Li Yuanji said helplessly.

A stone stele made of concrete is actually far more familiar than a serious stele with eight classics.

The cost of building such a stele is actually about the same as building the load-bearing beams of a large hall, and a single one is even faster than the construction of the palace in terms of speed.

Many people are relieved, really afraid that the emperor will stubbornly go to make such a big stone tablet over, if it is just concrete pouring, and then paste a thin layer of stone tablet, this can already be described simply, and the cost is not high, even if the steel bar is used, dozens of times it is almost the same.

"Your Majesty, where's the money?" Solving the big problem of the Ministry of Industry, Huangfu Wuyi stood up and asked.

"The money comes from the inner house!"