Chapter 229: The Noble Gift Is Broken or Not (II)

Then I looked at Bi'er's face, she was still very naïve.

It seems that the Wulu clan who let go is the same age as her, and looks more mature than Bi'er. But if you have promised yourself, you will come back and have a round house. Come back and come back, this place, is it broken or not? There's always some guilt.

is not too upright and gentleman, at least he is holding Yang Min with his left hand and Xu Li with his right hand, and he has no sense of guilt. But after all, he is a modern person, and in the face of a girl, he doesn't feel very good in his heart.

But how to refuse, this question is in front of us again.

Bi'er was just happy now, she didn't think of it, she took Li Wei's hand and asked, "Is there a lot of Nanzhao?" ”

"It's not a lot, otherwise Lone can bring a few more."

"Yes, there must not be many such beautiful birds."

As he spoke, perhaps stimulated by the high-fives of the two little loli, the male peacock spread its tail more than a meter long, gradually opening, and the metal blue and bronze green spots on the tail shone with a beautiful luster under the light of the lantern. The tail feathers fluttered and rattled as it grew.

Even on the road, it was difficult for Li Wei to see it on the screen. The three girls covered their mouths with their hands in surprise, and it was a long time before the male peacock proudly folded his screen. Shangguan Wan'er and Wei Yue clapped their hands again and said, "It's so beautiful." ”

Pulling them, he said, "Let's enter the palace." ”

Send it to the East Palace, and then send someone to place the two peacocks, there is also a garden in the East Palace, and the weather is hot, so it shouldn't matter much. But what to do when it's cold? Fortunately, there are palace slaves in Daming Palace who are raising, so I can ask about it when the time comes.

Bi'er said: "Your Highness, let the concubine serve you to bathe." ”

When I went out, I took care of everything by myself, and I was really not used to it, so I could only feel that I had also fallen. restored his original life again, without hypocrisy, and asked Bi'er to bathe him. Bi'er said as she spoke: "Your Highness, Liang Jinzhu and Earth Horse have sent another 40,000 yuan, as well as a toffee workshop, and there has been a profit of nearly 10,000 yuan in the past few months. ”

"That's a lot," Li Wei replied casually.

"Your Highness, more than that, many things happened after you left last year."

"Tell me about it."

"That Pei, after Pei Yantie was appointed, he immediately went to Yangzhou. After the salt drying began, many flat lands on the seaside were fought for by various businesses, and Pei Yantie was also moved when he saw it. Bi'er didn't know much, and stumbled to tell the whole thing.

As soon as Li Wei left in front, Li Zhi also left Chang'an and went to Luoyang. Seeing him like this, many people began to talk about it, saying that the emperor was not good. Anyway, now the Tang Dynasty has a benefit, and there is no harmonious god, even ordinary people dare to talk about state affairs and royal affairs. It doesn't matter, half of it is because Li Zhi is not worried about his son, and half of it is also for acting. Bi'er knows a little bit. It's mainly Pei Yan, who shines this time.

Seeing the salt come out, many people were moved. ran to the beach to buy land together, and for a while, those deserted places by the sea became tight goods. It's also not right, drying salt requires some special terrain, as well as the salinity of the sea water and plenty of sunlight. Not every piece of seaside is suitable for salt, for example, the land bought or rented by Liang Lu and the others has some discomfort. But most of them succeeded, this thing is not complicated, and you can't hide it if you want to, just send a few people to stand on the beach and take a look. The process is kept secret. As a result, more people are tempted and involved.

Pei Yan intervened on behalf of the imperial court, and no one would be impeached, and the imperial court itself operated the salt farm. Therefore, in addition to the tribute tax, the profit margins on the price of salt began to fall. But the price of salt is getting cheaper day by day. Li Wei also knew about this matter, when he went and when he came back, the price of salt in Yizhou began to fluctuate, not to mention the Central Plains.

There is no fierce competition for sugar, and there are many sugar workshops, and the people do not remember that the number of people who grow sugar cane has not increased. This is the origin, without sugarcane, how to make sugar. As a result, sugarcane prices began to rise sharply. But as more people made sugar, the price of sugar began to plummet. In fact, last year, the profit margins of various workshops in Jiangnan were very small. However, it is a shrewd person, just like Lu Liang and the others who transferred the battlefield to Lingnan, the source of sugarcane is wider, the sugar produced is sweeter, and there are many big food merchants in Guangzhou Port, after seeing it, they immediately placed an order, and there is still a profit margin. Of course, this year is bound to be tragic as well.

In fact, many people resented Lu Liang and the others, not because he made any tribute taxes, but also made money. What should I do if my profits fall? There is a crooked way, according to Li Wei's words, it is called smuggling. Pei Yan just grabbed some salt farms and didn't move, and the merchants became more and more bold. Suddenly, when the New Year was approaching, Pei Yan sent many officials to make a surprise attack, checking the accounts one by one, and checking the salt and sugar on various rivers or passes. There is no legal provision on how to punish after being found.

Pei Yan's method is very simple, and the workshop will be confiscated. Whether it is a salt mill or a sugar workshop, and then intervene on behalf of the imperial court. There are some merchants with backgrounds, so they send people over to plead, we belong to a certain family, and we have a certain relationship with your Pei family. Pei Yan stretched his face and said, the Pei family will not do such a useless thing, even the two ordinary mercenary businessmen know how to win glory for the country, don't mention where you come from, mention it, Pei is ashamed of you.

One by one, they were ashamed and left.

This inventory was prepared a long time ago, and like a thunderbolt, many people were involved in it. After hearing the news, all the merchants were much more honest. Then Pei Yan sent someone to run it again. Therefore, last year, the income of the imperial court, plus the tribute tax, actually reached more than 800,000 yuan. Of course, half of them were copied by Pei Yan. Some people are not very appreciative, but in the face of an income of more than 800,000 yuan, almost no one in the government and the opposition has spoken.

"This must be done," although he was at odds with Pei Yan, Li Wei was also very much in favor. Pei Yan hasn't dealt with it yet, and it has been handed over to the government to operate, and there will be a lot of things to be greedy for ink in the future, so it is better to come to the auction, of course, even if you know this sentence, you can't say it. And this scene is far from over, just like a cat catching a mouse, catching tens of thousands of years and hundreds of thousands of years, the game still continues.

However, Lu Liang and the others started early, and the cost of those salt farms was also low, and the profits were still considerable. But this year, many businesses had no choice but to come up with a way to sign a contract with the people and pay to support the people to plant. It is almost unprecedented, it is forced out, sugarcane is tight, the sugar source is too expensive, and the cost will be very high. There are similar developments not only in Jiangnan, but also in Lingnan. Of course, the output is large, but because it is cheap, there are many people who eat it, and after this kind of thing comes out, the big food merchants have begun to buy it aggressively, plus sell it to foreign countries, and more foreign merchants will order it in the future, but they will not worry about sales. Speaking of which, it's the cost.

In this context, Lu Liang and the others also had to join.

Before leaving last year, Li Wei repeatedly said that they could not give Li Wei all the shares they had to keep for themselves. After calculating the accounts, everyone divided a point, or Li Wei took the lion's share, and the account book was in Liu Qun's hands. Then the rest of the money is invested again.

"It's just that many people hate Earth Horse and Liang Jinzhu, it's not that the court has repeatedly ordered rewards, and the concubines suspect that someone is wrongdoing them badly," Bi'er said worriedly.

At this time, he had already dressed Li Wei.

"They forgot who started it!" Li Wei snorted coldly and said, "It's not good for them, who dares!" ”

Immediately asked Shangguan Wan'er and Wei Yue, who were sitting on the side to watch, to bring pen and paper and write two lines of big characters: The benevolent man in the world is the good business of the country. I wrote two copies, and I paid for them. Then he said, "Tomorrow I will send someone to give it to them, one for each person, and I will see who dares to do wrong to them." ”

"Yes."

Li Wei thought for a while, and then said: "You sent someone to send 20,000 yuan to your father, saying that it was just sent by Earth Horse and Liang Jinzhu, 10,000 yuan is for orphans, and 10,000 yuan is for the soldiers in front of you." ”

I have more money in my hand, and I don't need so much. It can also be said that there are many people who hate Lu Liang, so the two want to hug the prince's thigh, after all, the emperor's tribute tax has been hugged. The money was used to research movable type printing. If you know more, you know that it is not that the emperor can use as much as he wants, of course, Yang Guang is an exception. The money of the imperial court is divided into two parts, one part is controlled by the inner palace and supplied to the inner palace, which is not much. The bulk is the treasury, which belongs to the six ministries of the three provinces, and the main thing is that the household department and the Taifu Temple control the dispatch. The official salaries, military salaries, military expenditures, water conservancy, construction, clothing, and reception of envoys of the state were all allocated from here.

Therefore, Wu Zetian planted cotton, if it wasn't for Li Wei's 10,000 yuan, it would be a little difficult. If it is used from the state treasury, it must be blocked by officials, and it is used from the inner treasury, and the expenditure is insufficient. Without that money, cotton would not have grown so well, it would not have been able to be promoted quickly, and her righteousness would not have been contested. At least this time when I went back to Chang'an, I saw more people planting cotton, and I talked about my mother a little better than before. The same is true for movable type, tens of thousands of Chinese characters, at least hundreds of thousands of movable types must be prepared. Large-scale printing has the potential to prepare millions of movable type. There are other expenses, and this money is also a lot of money. With money, movable type can be quickly rolled out, otherwise the mention of this expenditure will be controversial for a long time......

……

Bi'er went out.

It took a while to come back, there was little copper, it couldn't be cash, most of them were replaced by cloth, or gold, or silver, and they didn't dare to put it in the East Palace. I bought a house in Chang'an and put it in it and carefully sent someone to take care of it. So there was a long delay.

Li Wei asked, "What did my father say?" ”

"Just hesitated for a moment, then mumbled, and didn't say anything."

"Just huh?" Li Wei was puzzled, but he couldn't guess it, Li Zhi couldn't guess him, and so was Wu Zetian, the family was catching cats.

……

"Your Highness, what does the South look like?" Bi'er asked with her little hand caressing Li Wei's chest.

Li Wei said it, but deliberately omitted it and didn't mention it, and felt very embarrassed.

"It turns out that the Tibetan people can't do it either."

"No," Li Wei thought back to the battle that night, shook his head, and said, "No, no, no matter the combat effectiveness or tenacity and discipline, it is not under the elite soldiers of our court. The reason why he was defeated miserably that night was that he was tired and unprepared, and he was on the dam, just like Xue Rengui in Qinghai, the time and place were favorable, and the people were not occupied, and the plan was wrong, so he was defeated miserably. Under normal circumstances, there are no famous generals, the two countries are at war, and the victory and defeat can only be said to be in half. ”

"Those days the concubine was very worried, until she heard His Royal Highness's great victory, and the concubine's heart fell to the ground," After finishing speaking, he rubbed his petite room on Li Wei's chest and whispered: "Your Highness......"

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