The surroundings of Chang'an City are becoming more and more desolate, the scene is like the building of Yongle Fang, which is getting higher and higher, and the people are out of breath, a large amount of iron ore has indeed been dug up near Anyang County, but it seems that it is not enough for this building to eat, as if the flowers and trees in the nearby counties of Chang'an are not enough for locusts to eat, Li Er doesn't know why Yanglin wants to build the building in the sky and the earth so high, and he has to rush into the clouds for half a day, and the craftsmen are still building on it, do they really want to climb to the sky with this building? He didn't know why Yanglin concluded that there would be floods and locust plagues in Guanzhong this year, and Yan zhòng Rusi, Zhang Liang was indeed sent out by Li Er to rob, and the grain in Chang'an City will bottom out in a few months, and the land in Guanzhong this year is basically zero harvest, only the thousands of acres of land that have been spared chickens and ducks by the farm are still good, but this can't maintain the huge consumption of two or three million mouths in Chang'an City, so Zhang Liang's task is very arduous, robbing all the forces along the water that do not submit to the imperial court, and robbing their grain to be transported to Chang'an quickly.

"Your Majesty, Daxi, Master Ma conquered more than 100,000 water bandits in Hongze Lake with just one Chengqian, and now they should have accepted the reorganization of Zhang Liang and Li An, and the sales fleet has also arrived in Yangzhou smoothly." Ma Yongquan happily sent a letter from the political affairs hall, now that the disaster in Guanzhong is everywhere, there has not been a happy thing for a long time, Ma Yongquan is always worried that Li Er's brows will wrinkle into a Sichuan character vertical line, this is his sin.

"Hehe, Xiao Linzi can always develop in the most perfect direction, needless to say, I also expected that he did not kill or wound a single soldier, it seems that the musket that Mr. Gu Yue despised may play a much more powerful role in the war than a bow and arrow! It's just that just the light can't fight, and the more than two million mouths in Chang'an City are waiting for him to transport back grain from Jiangnan! Li Er showed a rare smile, but he didn't hold on for a few seconds, and his whole face sank again.

Since April, the palace has only eaten gruel and no rice, and the meat food is even less pitiful, not because the imperial court has no money, but the tax revenue of the top ten factories in the east and west in the first quarter is as high as more than 500,000 yuan. But money is not food after all, and when everyone has no food, money will depreciate in an instant.

"Your Majesty does not need to worry too much, the old slave heard that there are Luoyang and Bianzhou merchant ships today to pull grain to the top ten factories in the east and west to exchange goods, the construction of supermarkets along the way is a long-term plan, this is just a little more than a month, the goods of supermarkets around the country have been bought by merchants in their nearby states and counties, they are worried about the lack of goods in reserve, so they brought the most needed grain in Chang'an to trade goods, as long as the supermarket stalls spread throughout the country. At that time, merchants from all over the country will bring what His Majesty wants to come to Chang'an to trade goods, His Majesty wants food, so he orders them to send grain to trade goods, His Majesty wants money, so he orders them to send money to Chang'an to trade, as long as His Majesty sits firmly in Chang'an, he can easily grasp the lifeblood of the world, this trick is a super clever trick! ”

What Ma Yongquan said, how could Li Er not know. It's just that some accidents will work so quickly, Yanglin's goods only set up supermarkets in Dazhou City along the canal, so the investment merchants of these supermarkets will naturally spread the product information of the goods to the neighboring states and counties, and the merchants of the neighboring states and counties will concentrate on the supermarkets on both sides of the canal. Then pull it back and resell it to make a profit on the difference, especially in the initial period, the goods will be distributed very quickly. Now that the waterway is unblocked, they will be able to drive the cargo ship to Chang'an in a few days, so the top ten factories in Chang'an, which had some scale at the beginning, are now the place where businessmen want to set up relationships the most.

"This little one. All of them are in his calculations, and I said why did he ask for a river as a fief in the first place! Originally, he wanted to build wharves on both sides of the river and collect docking fees for passing merchant ships, but you don't know that now there are more and more merchant ships in Chang'an, and the docks he built have hundreds of docks a day! "The pot-bellied eldest grandson brought a bowl of milk skin to Li Er, this thing is a new food developed by farms and food factories, the best cold mix in summer, Li Er has to come to a bowl every afternoon, and the eldest grandson also took advantage of the time to send milk skins to chat with him.

"Good money boy, what kind of good money boy is it called if you can't make money! It's just that the method of eating insects that he said is really difficult to implement, otherwise the people of Chang'an City, which this locust plague can harm, will be in panic all day long. Li Er thought of the general matter advocated by Yang Lin, and finally had some comfort in his heart, sucked a big mouthful of milk, and almost choked him, I dropped a good girl, iced, how long has it been so luxurious in the palace.

"Hehe, it's not good to blame the concubine, I didn't tell Your Majesty in advance, this summer ice making method, but Xiao Tai sent it back to the concubine in the letter! There will be a summer relief popsicle for His Majesty to taste later, but don't be weird. The eldest grandson covered her mouth and smiled, the magic of making ice cubes in summer made her happy for a long time.

"Summer ice making? Needless to say, it must have been the method that Xiao Linzi came up with. Li Er said as he sent a bowl of chilled milk skin to his mouth, and it was very comfortable to eat.

"Well, naturally it's him, but what he said about the method of eating locusts, I'm afraid it may not be unfounded, recently the breeding factory began to buy a large number of locusts, I heard that this is a good thing to raise chickens and ducks, he sent someone to send 500,000 to the farm, said to collect all the locusts in Guanzhong, grind them into powder, and then process them into chicken, duck and fish feed, look at the tone in his letter, I'm afraid I'm worried that we can't finish the chickens, ducks and fish meat in Chang'an next year!" The eldest grandson said with a smile. Like Ma Yongquan, her favorite thing to do recently is to make Li Er laugh, but it seems to be difficult to do.

"This guy, the letter to me was also read by me I was stunned, he actually advised me not to be too frugal, to encourage everyone to spend more money, to live a more luxurious life, I don't understand, is it wrong to be diligent and thrifty? I went to reprimand him, but who knew that he said that I was ignorant, and that I really should be beaten, and I didn't know what he was doing to build such a tall building for those women in the kiln, and if it collapsed, I am afraid that half of the people in Chang'an City would suffer. Li Eryue became more and more angry, he had never been scolded for ignorance in his life, even if he was scolded, it should not be scolded by the little children of this son's generation, the hundreds of officials in the court have already complained about his wanton construction at the expense of the people, and it is time to restrain it.

"Your Majesty is angry, Xiao Linzi naturally has his reason for saying this, think about those furs worth a thousand gold in winter! Those furs are indeed luxury, and it costs a lot of money to wear them, but they also give the people of the bitter cold land one more way to live, and he allows you to live a more luxurious life, I am afraid that it is the same as this, when the rich people begin to spend money, the poor people begin to make money, just like the goods produced by the ten major factories in the east and west, are made by some poor disaster victims, but they are bought back by those rich people to use, this is a kind of rich and poor, poverty alleviation superb means, as the richest people in the world, You should take the lead in using those products, by the way, Kobayashi said it's called. Endorsement and promotion', as long as His Majesty also wears the new clothing of the garment factory, the clothes of the garment factory will not be sold, as long as His Majesty uses the daily necessities of the top ten factories, the people of Chang'an City will follow suit, those ministers are opposed, because they did not invest in the top ten factories in the east and west, did not take advantage of the interests, and the expenses are increasing day by day, so they are opposed, but the concubines have heard that several heavy industry factories that no one cared about before have now begun to negotiate, I believe that in a few days Hu County Order and Wang County Order will have a chapter up. The eldest grandson touched his face and smiled, the alabaster produced by the top ten factories is her endorsement, not only received a lot of benefits from Wang Shouren, but also will get the top alabaster produced by them for free, and she only needs to praise this alabaster when attending some women's gatherings.

"The old slave also thinks that the goods of the top ten factories in the east and west are in demand, and our inner house is also stained with light, don't forget, our royal family holds fifty percent of the shares of the top ten factories in the east and west! According to the profit figures for the first three months, the sales of 16 million guan (plus orders from concerts and several major supermarkets) excluding the cost of labor and raw materials are 12 million guan, the profit is 4 million guan, the internal government has received 2 million guan, and the treasury has also been stained with more than 500,000 yuan in taxes. Ma Yongquan said worriedly, this is a big problem with no money, too much money is also a big problem, when all the wealth is concentrated in the royal family, the emperor does not spend money, he will be scolded by the world, no wonder the ministers have recently intentionally or unintentionally accused the emperor and the heavenly concubine, it turns out that the root is in the money.

"When did we get so rich?" Li Eryi thought that now is a disaster year, everything should be thrifty, and the eldest grandson of the iron rooster who is used to thrift is even more happy to see this situation, but there is so much wealth in the world, and if the emperor is rich, he will be poor and hundreds of officials, and those officials who have a few losers in the family are probably tightening their belts to live now.

"Your Majesty, we are really rich, the two million piles in the inner house are like a big mountain, and the old slave is afraid that all this money will be piled up in it and rust!" Ma Yongquan said with a bitter face.

"Then let's save a ball, tell the six palaces, restore all the degrees to normal, double the original basis, and call Fang Xiang and Wei Xiang to play tomorrow, and add money to officials at all levels, double the Beijing officials in Chang'an, add eighty percent to local officials, double the generals and soldiers in the army, and settle the money in cash." Li Er said one by one, Ma Yongquan remembered one by one, until Li Er's face really showed a smile, Ma Yongquan wrinkled his chrysanthemum face and went down to deliver the decree.

"Your Majesty, I feel more comfortable now!" The eldest grandson gently hammered Li Er after Ma Yongquan left.

Li Er is tall and strong, slightly obese, very afraid of heat, a bowl of frozen milk skin just dissipates the heat on his body, and then there are two mung bean popsicles sent by the waiter, he is all hot and dry, how can he not know what Ma Yongquan and the eldest grandson said! The reason why he feels inexplicably irritable these days is that he has suffered from lovesickness again, and he hasn't seen Xiliang for a few months, and he thinks about it in a panic. (To be continued......)