Chapter 119: Your Highness, this is the empty land of Chu
"I am about to succeed to the throne in the near future, I will definitely not let my father leave the palace to live somewhere else, it is imperative to build a new palace, I heard that I was going to build a palace before I left Qindu, how is the progress now!"
Zhao Wen's expression was extremely relaxed, and he took a sip of tea, but the cold sweat on the faces of the three people standing at the bottom fell instantly!
"Your Highness's forgiveness!"
The new emperor had no place to live, so it was naturally the responsibility of the prime minister and the young government, but the three of them did not dare to speak when they let the first emperor leave the palace.
"Let me ask you what the progress of Afang Palace looks like now!" Zhao Wen's tone suddenly turned cold.
"Afang Palace still has only one name, because of the continuous revision, the master of the Shaofu has not even made a legend now!"
Returning to the Twenty Princes' Mansion, the Heshi Bi brought back from the world of the Tang Dynasty Double Dragon re-exuded inexplicable fluctuations, Under the blessing of this fluctuation, Zhao Wen seemed to be like a god in the eyes of the three of them, and only slightly brought out a trace of anger, which made the three of them feel the earth-shattering pressure pressing on their hearts at the same time.
"Your Highness's forgiveness!" Under strong pressure, the three of them fell to their knees at the same time with their legs weakened.
"Among the top craftsmen I brought back this time, there are construction craftsmen, let them work with the craftsmen of Shaofu to make the legend as quickly as possible, and the prime minister and Shaofu Order should also choose the location of the new palace as soon as possible, and recruit people to start leveling and clearing the land!"
"Your Highness, all the hard labor this year has been requisitioned!"
Wang Guan's face was embarrassed, not that he wanted to refuse Zhao Wen, but that there were too many big projects in Daqin now, such as the straight road, the Great Wall, the Lishan Underground Palace, and the adjustment of roads and cities in various places, so that the labor that needed to be levied in the next year would be divided up in the first year.
"The personnel of the Straight Road and Lishan Underground Palace do not move, the Great Wall can be stopped, and I don't plan to recruit laborers, you will send someone to the treasury of the Prince's Mansion in a while, I still have some gold and silver, this time the palace is built, all of which use hired labor, ten copper coins per person per day!"
Straight road connects the world, this is the top priority of this country, naturally it can't be stopped, as for the underground palace, the first emperor is not feeling well now, even if he knows that he will recover soon, but if he dares to stop the underground palace, Zhao Wen is sure that the first emperor will kill him for trouble after a while.
As for the Great Wall, although majestic, it is a defensive structure, and in Zhao Wen's opinion, the current Great Qin does not need any defense, and there is no need to waste labor at all.
One copper coin can buy two cakes, and ten copper coins are by no means a low price nowadays.
"It's the same with the straight road and the underground palace, all the conscripted labor will be stopped, the money will be returned, and all the projects in Daqin will use hired labor in the future!"
A large amount of gold, silver and jewelry are about to fill up the space, especially silver, because he released a large amount of gold, and now the value of silver is getting higher and higher, but the most accumulated in his hands now is silver.
But if the gold and silver are not used, they are of no value at all.
Whether it was the Wang Pavilion, the Shaofu Ling and the Qin Duling, they all had a gloomy face when they left the Twenty Princes' Mansion, and in their opinion, Zhao Wen was completely arbitrarily arranged.
All labor is hired by the method of employment, a prince who grew up in the deep palace, does he know how much labor is used in a year?
"Go, ask someone to bring some carriages over, let's wait here and see how much gold and silver the nobles of Chu have sent to His Highness!"
The royal pavilion has decided that if the number is sufficient, this year's labor can be paid some money, but if it is too little, even if he enters the palace to see His Majesty, he will never dare to agree to this request of the twenty princes.
Daqin has been fighting for many years, and after reunification, it is one big project after another, and it is already beyond his means, if he agrees, he will not be able to pay so much labor if he is sold.
Truckloads of gold and silver were pulled out of the Twenty Princes' Mansions, and the three of them looked sluggish!
"That's a hundred carts!" This is Qin Duling's sigh, although his official position is high, but what he does is a grassroots thing, now there is so much gold and silver support, at least this year, the places that need to be sorted out can be easily completed.
Qin Duling had secretly decided in his heart that after he went back, he would sort out all the things that needed to be done and report them, and it was naturally not easy to levy and issue labor, but ten copper coins a day, some people rushed to do it.
"Could it be that His Highness has looted the entire Chu Land and come back!" Wang Guan couldn't believe his eyes, the gold and silver that Po Chu pulled back from Chu that day were far less than those pulled out of the Twenty Princes' Mansion.
"This is His Royal Highness's money, it should be in the hands of my Shaofu, if the court has any money, it can be transferred by the Shaofu after reporting to His Highness!"
"Are you daydreaming?" There was disdain in the Prime Minister's eyes: "Your Highness said very clearly, this is the money for the construction of the new palace and labor in various places, what does it have to do with your Shaofu!" ”
Shaofu Ling is already secretly regretting in his heart that he didn't grab the car just now, and there are also a large number of carriages in Shaofu, otherwise he will directly pull it back to Shaofu, where are these arguments.
However, he still said urgently: "Even the labor of the world and the new palace can't use so much gold and silver!" ”
He saw very clearly that this time His Highness pulled out more silver than gold from his palace, and the value of silver was more than ten times that of gold, and so much wealth added up to probably the treasury of the Seven Kingdoms back then was far inferior.
Seeing that so much wealth was taken away from his eyes, but Shaofu couldn't get a little share, how could he be willing.
The most painful thing is that he still has the opportunity to store all this wealth in the Shaofu.
Qin Duling chuckled on the side and said: "It will definitely be able to be used up, there were many projects in the Qin capital that required conscription and labor in the past, and I will report to Cheng to get along with them in a while!"
"There are still many accumulated projects in the imperial court, but it is just a straight road, and after it is changed to employment, it can be started together in all parts of the world, do you know how much it costs?"
Wang Guan glanced at Shaofu Ling coldly, and directly followed the carriage to leave, he wanted to see with his own eyes that these gold and silver were stored in the treasury, and with so much gold and silver scattered, he, the prime minister, would definitely be able to leave his name for eternity.
The carriage kept moving forward, and in just a while, many well-informed people already knew that His Highness the Twenty had sent a large amount of gold and silver to the treasury, and that he was going to change the requisitioned labor into a matter of employment, and after learning the price of employment, for a while, the eyes of many nobles suddenly lit up.
And the First Emperor in the palace also nodded with satisfaction when he heard that Zhao Wen had sent all the gold and silver brought back from Jiujiang County into the treasury!
It is also an advantage for an emperor not to be greedy for money, and to be able to take care of his own blessings to the people at the bottom, at least to make the people's hearts return to Daqin, combined with the previous large number of popularization of township and county schools, even if he is dead, with such an emperor, at least he can ensure that there will be no chaos in Daqin within a hundred years!