"I didn't expect that there would be a golden city in such a remote place, this King An really has some ability, and he is worthy of being the God of Wealth today."

Zheng Kun sighed.

Jiang Siwen on the side had a gloomy face and was silent.

"You have done a good job in this matter, and I will report it to the court for you."

Zheng Kun patted Wang Hanyue's arm, and then said something to him.

Wang Han said with a smile: "Gongzi Xie! ”

Originally, he thought that he would suffer a lot of losses if he was assigned to Lingnan, but now it seems that this is simply a good job.

The next day, the carrier hall.

"That's the case, Your Highness, the summer tax alone is equivalent to five first-class mansions, and it is really a piece of fat in my treasury."

Zheng Kun bowed and saluted Emperor Qian.

He just told the matter of the tax of the Xia State, and told the Emperor Qianhuang about the tax of Lingnan as it was.

"How could Lingxi develop so fast! Does this King An have any special skills? “

"This Lingnan alone accounts for one-tenth of the tax revenue of the entire state, which is the first time in ancient times!"

"Isn't this county in Lingnan Prefecture a real rich man?"

Hundreds of people were talking about it, all marveling at the taxes of the Xia Kingdom in the south.

"Father, although Lingnan is a prosperous place, it is a border place after all, and there is no county guard appointed by the court, which is really inconvenient for the government, and I hope that Your Majesty will order the county guard of Lingnan."

Li Yan took a step forward and spoke.

In a word, everyone was stunned.

Sending a county magistrate to Lingnan is not a problem.

After all, every county has an official in charge, and this is a matter of course.

Previously, the county guard of Lingnan County did not have any official position, and that was because the power of the official family was not big enough.

However, this time, the reason for the request of the Lingnan county guard is a little strange.

This was tantamount to warning King Ann to prevent him from rebelling.

The upright and upright Emperor Qian, who was originally happy because Lingnan paid the taxes of the Xia Dynasty, his face became serious at this moment.

I have to admit that what he said makes a lot of sense.

A place that has no quarrel with the world, but has a lot of wealth, used to be a place out of the control of the imperial power, and now it should know King An, but it does not know the imperial power.

If it weren't for Li Su being too good, or a person who didn't know anything, the court wouldn't have worried that the people in Lingnan would be dead set on Li Su.

If you want to say who made Li Su outstanding all of a sudden, in some places, his performance actually surpassed the imperial court, which makes it impossible for others to be unvigilant.

At this time, everyone in the court had a strange thought: "How good it would be if Li Su was still the playboy he used to be." ”

For a long time, whether it was Emperor Daqian or several other elders, they had been secretive about this matter, but now, it was broken by the Great Prince.

In the past, he deliberately did not mention this matter in order not to make his son suspicious.

Even though he is an emperor, he also longs for a blood affection.

As for the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, they were even more reluctant to use this matter to provoke the relationship between the royal family. Now that the prince has told the truth, so let's decide.

Otherwise, sooner or later, there will be a fuss, and it will be even bigger.

"We can discuss this matter."

Emperor Qian thought about it and said.

Although he didn't think that Li Su had the intention of rebellion, as the king of a country, he still had to eliminate the crisis in the bud and completely eliminate the crisis in the bud to prevent future troubles.

In any case, the position of the Lingnan County Guard is justified, and on the bright side, there is no problem with this matter.

A smile appeared on the face of the eldest prince.

"This shows that Your Majesty has become wary of Lingnan!"

He said silently in his heart.

The hundreds of officials in the palace also heard the sound of Emperor Qian's words, which was the acquiescence.

"It seems that in the land of Lingnan, the emperor is also worried."

This is the voice of all those present.

"Now Lingnan is getting more and more prosperous, with more and more people and more and more things.

King An's side will definitely not be able to deal with it, and he can also let a county order solve the problem for him

Fix this. ”

Pan Feng took a step forward and said.

As a relative of the emperor, Pan Feng is naturally loyal to Lingnan Mansion, and he also wants the emperor's relatives to be relatives of the emperor.

However, as Li Su's father-in-law, deep down in his heart, he didn't want this county magistrate to interfere in the affairs of Lingling.

The Battle of Nanfu.

Now, Emperor Qiandi acquiesced in this matter, and Li Tianming was relieved.

At the very least, he didn't need to stand in a position.

But he also knew that this matter could not be violated, so he had to reverse his position, instead of letting his county order become an official in Lingnan.

If this is really the case, then it will be a huge blow for Lingnan, and for them, it will be a huge blow.

Emperor Qian gave Pan Feng an appreciative look, and this is what he wanted.

Moreover, he did not want the imperial court to point the finger at Lingnan, so as not to cause Li Su's misunderstanding.

"I don't know who Aiqing thinks the land of Lingnan should be held?"

Emperor Qian suddenly asked.

"I recommend Chen Daomin, the sixth Shangshu, who is upright, fair, and has a lot of prestige in the court."

The prince was the first to stand up.

Hearing the prince's recommendation, the hundred people in the palace shut up.

As long as you have a little brain, you can see that this is a recommendation to him, and if he speaks, it will completely anger him.

There really isn't a need for such a thing.

In this Daqian Dynasty, there is no right to speak, as long as the prince speaks, it is the final word.

"Okay."

Emperor Qian thought about it and asked.

He is very familiar with Chen Daomin, has a good reputation, and is a doctor of imperial history, which is a good choice for Lingnan.

When Pan Feng left the court, he always felt that something was wrong, so he immediately wrote to Lingnan and asked Li Su to be careful.

…… Prince's Mansion.

At this moment, the crown princess Zhong Minyao stood alone in front of a small building, quietly looking at a small golden fish on the water.

That perfect face, with a serenity and sadness that did not match her age.

"Princess, I heard that yesterday's tax exceeded 500,000 taels of silver, which is worth a lot of high-grade taxes.

The five Suzhou cities under King Zhao are not as good as this one city combined, and this King An is really amazing. ”

Beside Zhong Minyao, a maid who looked like a maid stepped forward and asked Zhong Minyao beside her.

When Zhong Minyao heard this, a smile appeared on her always calm face.

"He hasn't realized it yet, he already has a son!"

Zhong Minyao stroked her bulging lower abdomen, remembering the scene in the Peach Blossom Temple.

Although she is the queen, she is like a bird trapped in a cage, with no freedom to speak of.

Because she didn't want her son to be harmed, Yun Ruoyan had to raise a small fish in the back garden every day.

Xiurong often goes out to ask about interesting anecdotes outside to amuse her.

Especially about how King An caused changes in the capital

Variation.

Every time she sees this scene, Zhong Minyao can't help but think of that chic back, as well as the ridiculous Peach Blossom Temple.

"Even though we all forget each other and pretend we didn't do anything, how can we really forget? It's so unconscionable! ”

As soon as she thought of the baby in her womb, Zhong Minyao couldn't help but feel a little sad.

"I'm going to see him."

At this time, Lingnan, Li Su and others were discussing the construction of the railway line there.

The manufacture of steam engines and steam cars, although not very fast, is not too late.

Li Su didn't think about waiting until the steam engine was built before laying the railway.

Roland planned to lay out the tracks and the station, and then fence it off. In that case, when the steam engine is manufactured, it can be put into operation immediately, saving a lot of work. What they lack most at the moment is capital and manpower.

Li Su's "Jingling Railway Planning and Shareholding Book" prepared by Li Su to absorb new shareholders

What he meant was that 50 million taels of silver, Lingnan Group, and 50% of the technology shares. Then let them take thirty percent of the shares, including iron ore, manpower, land.

The other 20,000 taels he bought at a price of 500,000 taels for a total of 100,000 shares.

He was going to value the track at 25 million.

Li Su decided to send Liu Jie to the capital and let him persuade those powerful people.

Liu Lin has followed him for so many years, and his ability to do business has also been brought into full play.

Li Su is confident that with Liu Ji's eloquence and eloquence, he will definitely be able to make those corrupt officials and corrupt officials honestly hand them over.

Even if those people in the court were really blind, Li Su was not without other choices.

At worst, it is just an agreement with the court and princes along the way, and someone should give us some compensation.

But Li Su thinks that if you can't use it, don't use it, if a prince secretly contacts his courtiers, it will be too suspicious, in case something happens, it will be troublesome.

At this time, he didn't know that his official position had been appointed by the imperial court as a county magistrate, and he was rushing here.

In the capital, in the Pan Mansion, Wang Yao's parents were waiting there.

Pan Feng was sitting on the main seat in the hall.

On his left hand side is Liu Xi, who has just returned from Lingnan, and on his right hand side, is his eldest son Pan Zuoqi, that is, Pan Wanyi's younger brother.

"Master, this is our prince's idea, he wants to involve our forces."

Liu Lin arched his hand at Pan Feng.

Before Liu Lin left Lingnan, he was ordered by Li Su to find his father-in-law, and introduced him to His Majesty the Emperor with him as an official position.

"Is this track as powerful as you say?

You know, this is a huge amount of money, if you can't do it, or even can't do it, it will be a big loss. ”

After hearing Liu Xi's explanation, Pan Feng was a little worried about whether this rail was as good as the investment brochure said.

"The minister trusts the prince, the prince has not known how many miracles there have been in the past three years, and the current mountain range is the witness of the prince."

Liu Xi held his head high and looked proud.

"Okay, I'll recommend it for you, whether you can succeed or not depends on yourself."

Pan Feng thought about it and replied.

"Then thank you master, our princess said that when this matter is over, our Pan family will be able to get that small share, which will be regarded as a gift from the princess herself."

Liu Lin added.

"Okay, I'll take it, and tomorrow you can go with me to the palace to see the emperor."

Pan Feng responded and did not refuse.

At the price of 2.5 million taels that Liu Xi said, that is 250,000 taels.

This amount, in the eyes of the Pan family, is simply a huge amount of money.

Although Pan Feng said that he was a household servant, he didn't have much money in the family, which was sent to him by someone's daughter-in-law, so he naturally didn't care.

She has already married her daughter to him, and that is the family.

Why did Liu Xi inform Pan Feng of the 1% equity he wanted after Pan Feng agreed to the introduction, just to test whether the Pan family would lend a helping hand to Li Su.

Lingnan is now thriving, and a lot of silver is in the account every day, so naturally some people are red-eyed.

Moreover, Li Su's influence in the imperial court is not great, and if he wants to gain a firm foothold in Lingnan, he must have a strong backer.

Pan Feng is Li Su's father-in-law, and he is of course the first to be thought of.

Fortunately, Pan Feng also lived up to Li Su's expectations.

The next day, Pan Feng introduced Liu Ji to Emperor Daqian.

Liu Lin was in the Yanhe Palace, and talked to Emperor Qian for more than two hours, no one knew what he said, anyway, that night, Emperor Qian took Xiaoqu and walked to Concubine Liu's side.

On the court.

"Fu Liulin, King An of Xuanling Lingfu, please enter the palace!"

In Wang Quan's singing, Liu Xi strode into the lobby.

Baichen looked at each other, thinking, what did this official from Lingnan want to do?

"Welcome to the emperor, Prince Chen'an, Fu Liulin!"

Liu Lin saluted respectfully.

"Get up, Liu Aiqing, you came all the way to Beijing, what is the matter?"

Although Emperor Qian knew the answer, he couldn't help but ask.

"At the behest of King An, come to the capital to raise funds!"

Liu Lin's voice rang out.

"Raising funds?"

Everyone was confused, and they didn't understand what Liu Lin meant.

"Do you think Lingnan will be short of this bit of silver? This year's summer tax is equivalent to five times that of Suzhou, do you still need to raise funds? “

There was a whisper from the minister.

"Really? Everyone knows that you Lingnan are the cash cow of my great cadres, so why bother to raise funds from the imperial court? ”

"I see."

"This is the "Jingling Railway Planning and Shareholding Book", I sent it to you, you and the ministers will take a look, and you will know."

Liu Xi said as he took out a copy of the "Jingling Railway Planning and Investment Book" written in advance and distributed it to everyone one by one.

Everyone will take the "investment agreement" with suspicion and start reading.

The equity agreement clearly states the purpose and function of the Jingling Railway, and even the cost.

It was the first time for everyone present to see such a dossier, and their hearts were filled with curiosity.

There is no subtlety, no stiff words, no flowery rhetoric, and no exaggeration or illusion.

There are only clear and clear figures, sound analysis, and reasonable forecasts.

Although they don't know some of the terms yet, they can roughly guess what a railroad is and what a steam engine is.

Li Su also drew railways, trains, stations and other things in the form of sketches, so that those who have never seen railways can also have a concrete picture in their minds.

"Is this rail so powerful?"

"It should be like this, I don't know how many strange things there are over there in Lingnan."

"A railroad track is worth two and a half million, is that rail made of gold?"

"The investment contract says that the road to the iron is worth so much money, anyway, a distance of 1,200 miles."

"That's two years of our taxes! This thing is going to be sold until the Year of the Monkey! ”

Everyone read the share agreement and started talking about it.

"Within two years, I will be building a new railway track in Lingnan County.

At that time, the Jingling Railway Line will be able to earn more than 8 million taels of silver a year, and it will be more and more every year, and it will be able to earn back in three years at most. ”

Liu Lin's voice rang out.

"My God, I make a profit of more than 8 million a year, and it is still increasing, so isn't this rail equivalent to a year's tax revenue from my Daqian treasury?"

"Just a railroad track, with such a big profit? Can we still believe you when you say that? ”

A civil and military official asked.

"May I ask Your Excellency, if you are a businessman and need more than 10,000 kilograms of materials for a transportation from Lingnan to the capital, will you use our rails to transport or our rails?"

Liu Ji said.

"If your railroad costs are reasonable, of course I do."

The minister said.

"Let's assume that the transportation cost of one hundred taels of silver per ton is one hundred thousand taels of silver, I wonder if you will be willing?"

"It's expensive, but it's reasonable."

The Minister of Civil and Military Affairs thought for a moment and spoke.

Everyone thought the price was reasonable, even if it was a horse-drawn carriage, it wasn't so cheap.

Besides, this road will take at least a little more than a month to reach, but this road can be reached in three days, and anyone will choose this road.

"The maximum capacity of our trains is 300,000 pounds at a time, and we can earn 300,000 pounds just by transporting goods.

If it's an hour and 40 kilometers, you can get there in three days.

In a year, it was 3.6 million taels.

That's just a small fraction of our train revenue, and more comes from the businesses we build up at each station.

That's most of our profits. ”

Liu Xi said slowly and methodically, and explained the planning of the commercial area around the station.

Everyone was taken aback by the bizarre ideas in the mall that Liu Xi said.

Department stores, luxury hotels, snack streets, entertainment venues, a whole host of things that have never been heard of before, make everyone eager to enter the business district.

It's simply a place to burn money.

"When the time comes, the investment in my Lingnan Mansion City will be 20%, and after all the expenses are removed, within a year, I can ensure that you can get at least 10 million taels.

Moreover, from the next year, we can get a profit of no less than one and a half thousand taels. ”