Unexpectedly, when he met the empress's biological father, Wang Mai was a little excited, and he was even happier when he heard that the other party was the secretary of the Ministry of Industry. www.biquge.info In order to please his father, Li Er said that he would build a bell tower in front of the Taiji Palace, and this matter naturally fell on his head, and he was worried that he would be a prisoner without acquaintances, but he did not expect to meet the head of the national project.

"It turned out to be this matter, I have long heard that there is a big bell tower in Luoyang City, which can measure the time without people and animals, and the old man admires Wang Tejin very much." Samurai said with a smile.

"It's just a small road, and you can't enter Wu Shangshu to speak......" Wang Mai said modestly. This warrior Tong is a good temper, always smiling, I heard that he was born in a businessman, when the old Li Jinyang raised the army, he made a great contribution, after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, it is natural to be rewarded for meritorious deeds, high-ranking officials. Lao Li doesn't have to say this, he is still very kind to the heroes, except for Li Er......

The Ministry of Industry is an administrative department, unless it is an important project, generally does not directly participate in the management, but will be a functional organization, although the two are not strictly subordinate, but theoretically the Ministry of Industry has the right to manage all the construction aspects of the state, so the two seem to be more like a subordinate relationship.

In fact, even if Wang Mai does not have Wu Shi Tong as a prisoner, he will do things beautifully, after all, although this is Li Er's idea, but nominally for the emperor, even if Pei Lian, the boss of Shangshu Province, is not happy with Li Er, it is estimated that he will not be embarrassed in this matter. But he has the heart to make friends with this warrior Tong Shangshu, and with his help, it is estimated that things will go more smoothly, so why not?

After listening to Wang Mai's general description of the construction of the bell tower, Wu Shi Tong was surprised that the small bell tower needed such a lot of trouble, and then nodded without hesitation: "Wang Tejin rest assured, this matter will be supervised and the whole will fully cooperate." ”

"Wu Shangshu is serious," Wang Mai said, "I am just worried about the craftsmen who came with the army, they are all highly skilled, and they are all talents, and so many people come at one time, I am afraid that they will not be able to take care of the prison for a while." "I have stayed with those simple craftsmen for so long, and I have to fight for more benefits for them just by virtue of this affection, and it is not easy for these people to come to Chang'an from their hometowns.

Wu Shi Tong looked at Wang Mai in amazement, and he couldn't imagine that his dignified second-grade master would care so much about the life and death of those craftsmen, which was a strange thing.

"If there is something difficult for Wu Shangshu in this matter...... Wang Mai saw that Wu Shitong's expression was different, and knew that the other party might have difficulties, after all, one hundred and ten craftsmen is not a small number, and it is not easy to arrange it at one time.

"It's not a secret...... "Samurai Tong said in a low voice, "Now that I have established the dynasty, the people's livelihood is withering, all kinds of waste are waiting to be rebuilt, the household department has repeatedly reduced the opening, and even the repair of Miyagi is also carefully calculated, since these craftsmen can build such a strange thing, it must be excellent craftsmanship, but ......"

Hearing Wu Shi Tong's explanation, Wang Mai nodded, this is indeed the case now, the whole society except for the royal family, even if it is a high-ranking official above the fifth rank, they are living a very average life, and the wounds caused by the war to the society still need time to heal slowly. This is also one of the reasons why Lao Li issued new coins, the imperial court was too poor, and it was difficult to cope with the increasing expenses without opening the money printing machine.

It seems that it is impossible to let this group of honest craftsmen continue to eat the imperial grain, so they have to find a way out......

Coming out of the East Palace, Wang Mai went all the way to the west, and when he passed by the Qin Palace, he hesitated a little, but still let the guards at the door go in and report it, with his current relationship with Li Er, even if he was uninvited, it was not overstepping, but he was afraid that this kid was busy with things and was not in the mansion.

When the guard saw that it was Wang Mai, he immediately put on a smiling face: "It turned out to be Wang Tejin, King Qin has just returned to the mansion, His Royal Highness has ordered it, you don't need to report when you come." ”

Seeing that the guards were not very old, but they were quite good at talking, Wang Mai smiled: "Then there will be labor......

The guards led the way in front, and Wang Mai followed behind, and the two of them turned around and stopped in front of a hall, and the guards went up the steps to report it.

After a while, Fang Xuanling walked out of the hall with a smile: "Your Highness is inside, Wang Tejin will come with me......"

Thanks to the guard who led the way, Wang Mai followed Fang Xuanling into the mansion, and when he walked in, he found that there were many people in the palace, Du Ruhui, Yu Wenshi, Wei Zheng, and the eldest grandson Wuji...... Everyone else was there, and even saw Kong Yingda, Lu Deming, Du Yan and other people from Luoyang, and now they are also on Li Er's ship.

"Speaking of Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived, I just sent someone to your house, but I didn't expect it to come......" Li Er said with a smile.

I don't know what Li Er was doing when he summoned everyone to come, and suppressed the doubts in his heart, Wang Mai and everyone met and sat down beside Wei Zheng.

With a smile on his face, Lao Wei took out a copper coin from his arms and put it in front of Wang Mai: "This is a newly minted Kaiyuan Tongbao coin, I guess you haven't seen it yet." ”

It turned out that it was for the new money, Wang Mai smiled slightly, touched the money bag from his waist, and poured it on the table "in a hurry": "I just saw it at noon." ”

Everyone was surprised to pass on this gold Kaiyuan Tongbao, and they all praised the workmanship of this money. Li Er took the gold coin in his hand and smiled: "Even this king doesn't have the gold treasure cast in this official furnace, but I didn't expect Wang Tejin to be the first." He already knew about Wang Mai's banquet in the East Palace today, and when he took out the gold coins given by the prince without hesitation, his heart suddenly brightened a lot, and he made a joke about Wang Mai.

"I don't know why His Highness is urgently recruiting us?" Wang Mai asked.

"Naturally, it has something to do with the Kaiyuan Tongbao in your hand," Li Er said, "Father specially blessed him with an official furnace ......."

It turned out that Li Er was summoned into the palace early this morning, and the new money was about to be issued, and Lao Li naturally couldn't forget his son who worked hard, and specially gave Li Er the right to mint new coins.

After listening to the whole story, Wang Mai was speechless for a while, seeing how real the gifts from Lao Li were, and directly gave them to a banknote printing factory, I am afraid there is nothing more affordable in the world.

A mountain of gold smashed on Li Er's head, directly knocking him unconscious, he now has a happy trouble, where to build this banknote printing factory, that's why he invited the think tank. The opinions of the people are mainly divided into two factions, Chang'an or Luoyang.