Chapter 33: The Boulder That Pried Open!
Cui Mingan's arrival really surprised Zhao Chen, Cui Mingan is a family behind him, and he is the leader of the family.
Although there is more or less prejudice against the family in his heart, Zhao Chen himself actually has to admit that in Datang, the power represented by the family.
Hundreds of years, generations, whether it is the accumulation of wealth or the accumulation of contacts, have undoubtedly reached a terrifying level.
In the real history, the Tang Dynasty, starting from Li Er and ending in the hands of Xuanzong, has actually weakened the power of the family.
But in the end, it was only to reduce the power of the five families of Shandong to a level that was not enough to affect the national policy of the Tang Dynasty, rather than really weakening it.
Therefore, Zhao Chen was a little surprised by the personal visit of the village Cui Mingan!
It was a guest at the door, not to mention that this time it was really a false family, Zhao Chen asked Qin Yuyan to clean up the hall, and then invited Cui Min to enter.
In fact, the two are not strangers, as long as Zhao Chen is in the court, almost they will meet in the court, but they seem to have never had any conversation except for arguing and opposing each other.
There were only Cui Mingan and Zhao Chen in the hall, and after Qin Yuyan asked the servants of the Hou Mansion to serve refreshments, he sent the servants away.
Today's Qin Yuyan, not to mention the servants of the Hou Mansion, is actually herself unconsciously brought into the role of the housewife.
During the half-hour conversation, the two sides had friendly and in-depth conversations with each other, and had an in-depth and detailed exchange of views on major events of mutual concern. In a cordial and friendly atmosphere, the two sides reached a consensus on several points.
Construction of the Palace of Learning. Choi is going to come up with a lot of money, though. As a condition, Zhao Chen must come forward to clarify the truth about the assassin. Of course, when the first-class school palace is completed, the Cui family will send twenty students to study in the school palace.
Second, Zhao Chen agreed without thinking about it, Xue Gong is facing the entire Tang Dynasty, no matter who you are. What is the identity, as long as you are a member of the Tang Dynasty, you can enter the school palace unconditionally.
However, when he was asked to come forward to clarify the assassin's matter, Zhao Chen smiled and shook his head, and Cui Min was speechless in one sentence, because Zhao Chen still didn't know the true identity of the assassin. And how can I come forward to clarify?
Of course, after all, Cui Mingan brought money, and Zhao Chen agreed, and the first-class school palace was completed. Not only the Cui family, but also the businessmen who sent money before. At that time, a monument will be erected in the school palace. The money donated by each person will be described in detail.
With this monument, it is actually very revealing. Cui Mingan also understands that this is a concession made by Zhao Chen. At last. Reluctantly, he asked someone to move in two heavy boxes and open them in front of Zhao Chen.
In the two boxes, there are silver ingots with white flowers, and they are all marked with the name of the money bank, which is quite elegant.
Zhao Chen saw these two boxes of silver ingots, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but skim slightly, during this time, Li Chengqian made the money village prosperous, just like he said before, these days, he really didn't know how to eat, he couldn't sleep at night, and the whole person lost a lot of weight.
That's not for him, but for the result of the money village working day and night, as the money village slowly spreads out in Datang, the price of silver has also risen again and again, Zhao Chen has made a lot of money, but Li Chengqian has also made a lot of money.
Silver is originally a hard currency, and no matter what time it is, silver will not depreciate, so once the money bank opens up for exchange business, the scene can be imagined.
It's just that no one would have thought that the silver they exchanged back like crazy now would one day shrink so much that they couldn't even cry with the merchant ships that kept coming from the Japanese country!
Naturally, in this process, Li Chengqian's hands were inevitably stained with a lot of blood, Zhao Chen said at the beginning, people die for money, birds die for food, and sure enough, this sentence came true.
As the money bank began to collect the evil money in the hands of the people, some greedy people who took risks finally jumped out and drove a large group of people to exchange the evil money at the money bank.
As a result, Li Chengqian, who had been waiting for a long time, found several dens of making evil money in one fell swoop, and put all the participants in the prison of the Criminal Department, just waiting to be beheaded after the autumn.
In those days, the Datang News Newspaper reported on this matter in a big way, and even offered a campaign to crack down on bad money with the participation of the whole people, which was launched throughout Datang under the deliberate promotion of Li Chengqian.
The family finally compromised this time, Cui Mingan's arrival was just the beginning, since Cui Mingan, the rest of the family followed suit, the money was brought, the conditions were left, and then they slapped their butts and left.
Zhao Chen was completely happy, the family's hand was generous, and the boxes of silver were moved into the Hou Mansion from the outside, and Zhao Chen was so happy that when he saw the people of the family, he was about to laugh into Maitreya Buddha.
The money for the construction of the school palace has become more than enough, and the two kiln factories have been transporting masonry and cement to the construction site day and night.
On the official road from Xinfeng to Chang'an, there is an endless stream of ox carts transporting masonry and cement, and this season is just after spring sowing, and the ploughing cattle are just idle, so the two kiln factories hire these idle ploughing cattle to transport bricks and stones for the construction site of the school palace.
The school palace is a huge project, when Zhao Chen designed the school palace, it was all brick and stone structure, the architectural style is naturally biased towards the ancient style, after all, it is a school, from the bottom of his heart, Zhao Chen actually does not like the kind of pants building in later generations.
started construction at the same time as the school palace, as well as Li Chengqian's real estate business, which was vigorous and huge.
From the very beginning, Li Chengqian was in another workshop, first building rows of small farm yards, all of which were made of brick and stone structures, red tiles and white walls, bright and clean windows, and flat farm yards, all of which were fastened with cement.
That's not all, the small bungalow was built, and I went to the fourth floor to bring a lot of stoves, one for each family, from the inside to the outside, all arranged properly, waiting to move over and live directly.
When all this is done, then arrange for someone to go to the next square and tell people bluntly that the prince of this square wants it, and if he is willing, he will immediately go to the next door square and have a bungalow for one person.
This is a great good thing, and the people are not happy. In the afternoon, a roll of the cover will be rolled. took the whole family and lived in the new home next door.
Absolute world's first conscientious real estate agent!
The original fang was ordered by Li Chengqian. All of them were overthrown, and as the first real estate developer in Datang, Li Chengqian naturally set his sights on the richest group of people in Datang.
Therefore, from the very beginning, Li Chengqian was ambitious to build this place into the most upscale community in Chang'an, and it was best that once the community was built, Li Chengqian would be sold out immediately if he didn't need to mobilize again.
The whole workshop has been dug up. This made those officials in the court very incomprehensible, and they couldn't understand the purpose of the prince's doing, including Wei Zheng.
Standing on the street between the two squares, Wei Zheng looked at the rows of houses on the left, and then looked at the square that was being dug up on the right, Wei Zheng's eyes were full of puzzlement and doubt.
I don't understand!
Lao Wei said that he was a little gloomy, he knew that there was enough profit in it. Especially when he saw the rows of bungalows that Li Chengqian built for the people with his generous hands, he became more and more convinced that there were huge profits in them that he could not see through.
But he sadly found that he couldn't see through it. can't see through it, Lao Wei wants to find someone to understand, and the prince doesn't have to think about it. I had to go to the Hou Mansion in Xinghuafang and ask Zhao Chen.
When Lao Wei came. Zhao Chen was holding two hands wrapped in gauze and stepping into the carriage with the help of wooden mounds and stones.
"Chang'an Hou, this is going out?" Old Wei had just gotten off the ox cart. Seeing Zhao Chen stepping into the carriage, he couldn't help but ask.
"Something happened on the construction site!" Zhao Chen was about to get into the carriage, but when he saw Wei Zheng who was greeting him from afar, he had to stand on the carriage and said with a smile: "Why did Lord Wei have time to come to me today?" ”
"Wei doesn't understand some things, so I'm here to ask Chang'an Hou for advice!" As Wei Zheng spoke, he had already come to Zhao Chen's carriage and pointed to the carriage, meaning that he could go to the carriage and speak.
Seeing this, Zhao Chen couldn't help but smile, so he had no choice but to be kind and good, and Wei Zheng and the two got into the carriage one after the other, and let Mu Qiu drive the carriage all the way to Lishan.
Along the way, Wei Zheng asked that Zhao Chen should be something else, but as a result, when he heard that it was Li Chengqian's real estate matter, he immediately opened his mouth and laughed happily.
However, he did not reveal a word to Wei Zheng, only saying that he would definitely not lose money at that time.
After all, this is a trade secret, and casually leaking trade secrets to others is a matter that is not authentic, and it is estimated that Li Chengqian will definitely fight with him when he arrives.
When he got out of the car, Wei Zheng was still puzzled, seeing Lao Wei's appearance, Zhao Chen had to give a slight hint, you might as well wait for Li Chengqian to start there, and pre-purchase a house first.
When Wei Zheng heard this, the expression on his face was slightly stunned, and then he arched his hand at Zhao Chen, turned around and boarded his ox cart, and walked all the way to his house.
Looking at the back of Lao Wei leaving, Zhao Chen sighed lightly, Lao Wei has been poor all his life, and when he comes, he just saved a coffin board, anyway, Li Chengqian is rich now, and it is estimated that he will not care about this suite.
There was a boulder on the construction site of the school palace, which happened to be stuck in the road that the school palace wall had to pass, and the foundation of the wall was excavated and had to be stopped.
The public loser suggested digging a pit next to the boulder and burying it, but the people of the Mo family objected. said that this was not auspicious at all, so they argued and argued, and finally had to call Zhao Chen to find a way to solve the boulder blocking the wall.
The boulder is very high, Zhao Chen came to the boulder, and visually inspected it, it was about more than three meters, and it was still an extremely hard white stone, and if an iron hammer went down, it would only leave a little smash mark on the white stone.
"It's a pity to bury such a good stone!" Zhao Chen checked left and right, and finally, looking at the Mo family and the people who lost the family, he said with a smile: "Move the stone to the gate, and then you can engrave the words "Shanggong" on it, how good?" ”
Move?
There were a lot of onlookers at the scene, and when they heard Zhao Chen's words, their faces suddenly showed surprised expressions, although they didn't say it, but their eyes had already explained that Zhao Chen's suggestion was a bit ridiculous.
The people of the public loser and the Mo family looked eager to try in their eyes, they believed in Zhao Chen, and naturally thought differently from others, they just wanted to know how to move the stone.
Zhao Chen didn't sell Guanzi either, under the curious gaze of everyone, and then asked someone to move a few steel pipes from the construction site and erect a bracket on the spot.
Using the principle of levers, the stones were tied with wire ropes, and only four people were used, and in the midst of a shocked shout at the scene, the stones weighing several tons were moved out of the range of the wall.
The boulder moved away, and the long-delayed school palace was busy again! (To be continued......)
PS: More than a foot of snow, I'm also drunk