After Jin Ge finished speaking, he glanced at Qi Mao.

Hearing Jin Ge's words, Qi Mao was very calm on the surface, but he was very unhappy in his heart, and said: "As you said, I am very short of silver, but what does it have to do with you making money?" ”

Jin Ge said: "Because when the grass people planned to make money, they had already counted His Majesty. ”

"Really?" Qi Mao's eyes narrowed.

Jin Ge said: "Cui Yuxuan is still under renovation, and when the decoration is completed, it will not be a problem to make money every day." ”

"The grass people have thought about it, and the grass people will be divided into four or six with Your Majesty, Your Majesty will be forty percent, and the grass people and Meng Lang will each account for three percent."

"What do I need to do?" Qi Mao asked.

"Your Majesty just counts the silver." Jin Ge said.

"I don't need to do anything to count the silver? Jin Ge, you won't have any other intentions, right? ”

Qi Mao was in a much better mood and continued to ask.

Jin Ge hurriedly knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, even if you borrow a hundred guts from the grass people, the grass people don't dare to have any ill intentions towards Your Majesty." ”

"You stand up and talk, don't kneel at every turn, I'm annoyed to look at it."

Qi Mao said.

Jin Ge continued: "Today, the grass people have found that our Daqian Empire does not have tofu, soy milk, tofu brain and other soy products. ”

Qi Mao's face was at a loss, he was a son of heaven, and he had never heard of tofu or any soy products.

"Grass people, I asked the housekeeper today and learned that there is brine, so the grass people still have a way to make a fortune."

"That is to sell tofu and other soy products, the cost of tofu is very low, conservative estimates, the profit is about five or six times."

Qi Mao's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said, "What is this tofu for?" ”

"It's eating!" Jin Ge Dao.

Qi Mao said with a look of surprise: "As far as I know, brine can poison people. ”

"Your Majesty can rest assured, it is absolutely non-toxic."

"Tomorrow, the grass people will start this matter, and when everything is in order, the grass people will sell the tofu immediately."

"Divide it into forty percent for Your Majesty, and the grass people and Meng Lang each account for thirty percent, you just wait to count the silver!"

Qi Mao still looked disbelieving, and Jin Ge no longer entangled with him, and directly talked about another topic.

"The grass people see that Your Majesty doesn't believe what the grass people just said."

"But the grass people now have a way to let His Majesty immediately save the silver to go to Jingzhou for disaster relief."

Qi Mao looked surprised and asked, "What method?" ”

"The grass people dare to ask, how much does Ma Zheng consume treasury silver in a year?"

"About a million taels or more." Qi Mao said with a headache.

"What is all this money used for?" Jin Ge asked cautiously.

Qi Mao frowned and said, "According to what I have heard, the army spends a lot of money every year on raising horses, and most of them are caused by the replacement of horses. ”

"The reason for replacing the horses is that the horses' hooves are too worn out and they can no longer charge, so they have to replace the horses."

Jin Ge smiled and said, "The grass people have a way to reduce the wear and tear of the horse's hooves and extend the life of the horse. ”

Qi Mao abruptly stood up from his seat and said, "Quick, talk and listen!" ”

Jin Ge said: "Your Majesty, do you have paper and pens?" ”

Qi Mao said: "Yes! ”

Qi Mao seemed to have forgotten that he was an emperor at this moment.

personally picked up the paper and pen on the imperial case and handed it to Jin Ge.

Jin Ge took a pen and drew a shape of a horseshoe on paper.

And wrote down in detail how to make a horseshoe, how to nail a horseshoe, how to replace the farrier, and so on.

After checking it, Jin Ge saw that there were no mistakes or omissions, so he dried the ink with his mouth and respectfully handed it to Qi Mao.

Qi Mao opened the drawings drawn by Jin Ge and looked at them carefully.

Gradually, a look of astonishment appeared on his face, then his face gradually relaxed, and then he burst into laughter.

"Haha......"

Jin Gezi looked at Qi Mao, who was crazy, and shook his head helplessly.

After a while.

Qi Mao stopped laughing and said to Jin Ge: "The Protector didn't mistake you!" ”

After Qi Mao finished speaking, he shouted loudly outside the door: "Come on, Ma Lian, the secretary of the Xuanbing Department, and Qian Gang, the secretary of the household department, come and see me quickly!" ”

"Yes!"

The eunuch outside the door answered and left.

About a quarter of an hour passed.

A man in an official robe with a horse's face walked in with an official with a square face.

After the two of them visited Qi Mao.

The horse-faced man immediately shouted to the square-faced officials on the side.

"Lord Qian Gang, why don't you give you 50,000 taels of silver, how about you solve the problem of the replacement of war horses this year?"

Hubu Shangshu Qian Gang smiled and said: "Lord Ma Lian, fifty thousand taels is already a lot. ”

"If you had proposed it a few days in advance, maybe it would have been more, just yesterday I allocated a million taels of silver to your military department."

"Now we really don't have any money for you! Master Ma! ”

The military department Shangshu Ma Lian frowned and said: "That one million taels of silver is a military salary, how can it be confused with this matter." ”

Qian Gang looked at Ma Lian, bowed down and said: "Master Ma, please, don't embarrass our household department anymore, 50,000 taels of silver is really the limit of our household department." ”

Ma Lian dodged Qian Gang's bow, snorted coldly, and said: "Now that the war with Dashang and Daxia is at the beginning of the war, our Daqian Empire doesn't even have a usable war horse, Lord Qian, this is not a joke." ”

Qian Gang was silent when he heard this.

This consequence is not something that he can afford as a household scholar, and his eyes for help looked at Qi Mao.

Qi Mao pinched the two Shangshu of the military department and the household department when they met, rubbed his eyebrows, and glanced at Jin Ge.

Jin Ge looked at his nose and nose as if he didn't see it.

Qi Mao smiled and said to Shang Shuma Lian of the Ministry of War.

"Ma Aiqing, the reason why you have to change the war horse every year is mostly because of the wear and tear of the horse's hooves."

"What if you could stop wearing out the hooves?"

Ma Lian was slightly stunned, bowed down and said.

"Back to Your Majesty, if this is the case, the annual cost spent on war horses can be reduced by more than seven or eighty percent."

He paused, and continued: "But ......, throughout the ages, countless people have tried, but no one has ever succeeded. ”

As the secretary of the military department, Ma Lian of course knew that if the wear and tear of the horse's hooves was avoided, it would not cost so much horse money.

It's just that the problem is that countless people have tried countless experiments over countless years, all of which ended in failure.

Qi Mao smiled, handed the instructions and drawings written by Jin Ge to Ma Lian, and said with a smile: "Ma Aiqing take a look!" ”

Ma Lian took the pieces of paper, puzzled in his heart, and secretly said in his heart: "Could it be Your Majesty, has this eternal problem really been solved?" ”

Ma Lian's gaze fell on the paper.

The first thing I saw was the semi-circular drawing, and then I looked at the description below the drawing.

"Nail this object to the horse's hooves to avoid contact between the horse's hooves and the ground, and if the iron is damaged, simply replace it with a new one......

Ma Lian didn't start reading loudly.

Gradually, he had forgotten that he was still in the Heart Cultivation Palace, trembling his hands, and couldn't help but exclaim loudly.

"This ...... That's it? ”

The problem that has plagued countless people for nearly a thousand years has been solved by this small iron bar.

"Your Majesty, if this law is followed, the treasury will not only save a great deal of money."

"There is no need to worry about the wear and tear of the horses' hooves, the cracking, the safety of the cavalry and the horses."

"And the combat power of the cavalry will also rise to a new level! Your Majesty! ”

He felt that he had lived on a pig all these years, hurriedly put all the papers into his arms, fell to his knees with excitement, and said in a loud voice.

"Congratulations to Your Majesty!"