Let's see what other tricks the British government has next.

Chapter 138: The Grand Canal Opens The British Mansion's Move

Li Qiao was waiting to receive the new moves of the British Mansion, but the British Mansions definitely had no new moves for a while.

Gambling houses, the British government can't think of a more interesting way to play than mahjong and fighting landlords.

Duck shop, like him, the British government does not raise ducks of its own, and if you want to make duck goods, you have to buy ducks from others.

He raised the purchase price of the duck regardless of the cost, and he naturally did not lower it.

He doesn't mind a price war with the British government.

He can fight a price war, but can the British government fight?

Although Li Qiao didn't know how rich the British government was, in terms of cash, the British government was definitely not as good as him.

If you don't steam steamed buns to fight for breath, he is willing to fight this price war.

But it's hard to say how long the British government will be able to hold out.

For now, eighty percent of the British government has no recruitment.

The joke of the British government should be decided this year.

However, he can't put too much energy into the British government, and he still has to go on with his own little life.

Every day of the lunar month passed quickly, and soon it was the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the sacrificial stove.

Today, I want to sacrifice to the king of the stove, and I have to eat the stove sugar.

Li Qiao's stove candy is made by Li Dashan, it is very crispy, just bite it, and it will fall all over the ground.

This kind of stove candy is delicious, but after Li Dashan took two bites, he suddenly sighed.

"I think my father and mother still have Xiaoshan Xiaolan."

Stove sugar is maltose, which is called how he doesn't want to be in the family.

Although it is said that his father came when Li Xia got married this year, the rest of the family did not come, and they haven't seen each other for a year and a half.

When Li Qiao heard this, he was silent for a moment before he said, "Next time the Han family caravan returns to Sanliu Village, write a letter to them, and ask them to follow the Han family caravan next year." ”

"It's a pity that my sister-in-law didn't come last time."

"I'm afraid that my mother doesn't want to come, there are a lot of things at home."

Li Dashan said and took another bite of the stove candy, and then sighed: "In this way, there are indeed few people in our Li family, and they are not enough at all." ”

"Not really." Li Qian nodded approvingly.

The Li family looks a lot, but who makes him have a lot of industry now.

However, Shengjing is indeed too far away from Sanliu Village, even if it is a normal journey, it will take a month and a half, and if the weather is bad in the middle, it will take longer to walk on the road.

If the road is repaired, the time spent on the road will be much shorter.

But the road was too long, and if he built an adobe brick road like in Sanliu Village, it would not be enough for him to put all his family property into it.

If only I could toss the cement out.

He can make cement, and he will learn it after the end of the world, but there is no suitable opportunity to tinker with it at the moment.

Not by land, he set his sights on the waterway.

The waterway is flatter than the land route, the speed is also fast, and more importantly, Shenghong wants to build the Grand Canal.

At the time of his examination, Sheng Hong had already begun to survey the location of the Grand Canal, and the funds needed for the Grand Canal were funded by the wealthy people of Dasheng according to the method he wrote during the examination.

He only heard it once on Xin Zhi's side, and Xin Zhi said that many people wanted to pay for this silver, but he didn't think about mixing it at that time, so he just listened to it, and he didn't take it to heart at all.

But now.

If the Grand Canal can pass through Hexi Province, no, even if it passes through Yuanhe Province, it will definitely be much easier for the Li family to come to the capital again.

Not only the Li family, but also those merchants who went to Pingcheng to buy vermicelli will definitely choose a combination of water and land routes.

At that time, there will be more merchants going to Heijo.

If you want to get rich, you must first build roads, and now the roads are not good for a while, but the Grand Canal, Sheng Hong is determined to build it.

I just don't know if the route of the Grand Canal has been determined......

If you have doubts in your heart, you naturally have to find someone to investigate.

It just so happened that the New Year's gift to Lord Zhao had not been sent out, so Li Qiao personally prepared the New Year's gift, this year's New Year's gift is still duck goods and cakes, and the strawberries he planted this year are quite successful, so the cake prepared for Lord Zhao's seventh prince Xin Zhi this year is strawberry cake.

In this midwinter wax moon, this cake can be sold for a hundred taels of silver, which is very handy.

The New Year's gift was ready, and on the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, Li Qiao and Tao Zhu went to Zhao's mansion together.

Lord Zhao is a waiter of the Ministry of Works, so it is right to ask Lord Zhao about this matter.

When I arrived at Zhao's mansion, I saw Lord Zhao, because of the relatives of Zhao Shen and Li Xia, the relationship between the two families was much closer.

When Lord Zhao heard about Li Qiao's intention, he knew everything and said everything.

After a year and a half of surveying, the Grand Canal is about to formalize its route map.

However, as long as you are not a fool, you can see the huge profits and various benefits brought by the wharves after the repair of the Grand Canal, so in the process of surveying, some ministers secretly asked the Ministry of Works to change the route.

The Ministry of Industry withstood the pressure, according to the actual situation to give the best road map, from the south to the north, there are several sections of canals, to connect these canals, dig through, this is the most convenient and trouble-free way.

But a few people don't give up, they still want to repair the route, and recently took advantage of the Chinese New Year to find Sheng Hong directly.

After the year, Sheng Hong will officially start building the Grand Canal, and now it is the time when the silver is needed, and Lord Zhao feels that if someone is willing to give enough silver, then this best road map may really make a detour.

Li Qiao is most concerned about whether the Grand Canal passes through the original river province.

According to the current road map, the Grand Canal passes through a county town adjacent to Yuanhe Province and Dongshan Province, which is called Weiqing County, because that county has a Weishui Lake and a Qinghe River, so the county seat is named Weiqing County.

Weiqing County has a lot of water and the terrain is more suitable, so it is included in the best route map of the Grand Canal.

Although there is only a small section of Weiqing County, the Grand Canal does pass through Yuanhe Province.

However, it is difficult to say whether this best route map will be maintained until the construction of the Grand Canal begins. The construction of the Grand Canal is Sheng Hong's advance of silver to the rich people of Dasheng, and whoever pays the silver will have the right to speak.

Lord Zhao couldn't pack a ticket for Li Qiao.

In order to let Li Qiao intuitively feel the distance between Weiqing County and Pingcheng in Yuanhe Province, Lord Zhao specially took out the map of the Ministry of Industry, the level of detail of which is beyond the reach of the outside world.

According to the map drawn, Weiqing County and Pingcheng are separated by a prefecture, which is not close, but if the Grand Canal really passes through Weiqing County, then when the traders go to Pingcheng, they will definitely go to Weiqing County.

Li Qiao looked at the map and knew in his heart, after returning from Zhao's house, he immediately handed over a post to the Seven Princes' Mansion, and he wanted to go with Tao Zhu to give the Seven Princes a New Year's gift tomorrow.

On the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, Li Qiao and Tao Zhu went to give New Year's gifts to the Seven Princes.

The Seven Princes' Mansion is quite big, but it is also very empty, in terms of appearance and behavior, the Seven Princes are completely men, there are no maids in the house, the subordinates are all men, plus a group of guards, the Yang Qi in the house is extremely strong.

Li Qiao couldn't help but praise Meng Yue in her heart.

The Seven Princes are surrounded by men, but Meng Yue doesn't care, just by virtue of this, it is enough to show that Meng Yue is a good person.

It's just that he doesn't see much hope for this pair.

I saw the Seven Princes in the flower hall, saluted, sat down, and served tea and snacks.

After Li Qiao and Tao Zhu exchanged a few words, they expressed their intentions, they wanted to find out, can this section of Weiqing County of the Grand Canal be saved?

The Seventh Prince was a little surprised when he heard Li Qiao's words.

"What a coincidence you're asking, I'm hesitant to tell you about it. I went into the palace yesterday to talk to my father about the case of the Criminal Department, and I ran into the fifth brother. ”

"When I went, he was talking to my father about the Grand Canal, and I listened to it, he wanted to pay for the money to reroute the site surveyed by the Ministry of Industry, and he wanted to bypass Weiqing County, so that the Grand Canal could pass through Daze Mansion in Dongshan Province."

"Daze Mansion is adjacent to Yuanshan Mansion, the hometown of the British Duke, and it also belongs to the territory of the British Duke, and the British Duke has a lot of good land shops in Daze Mansion."

"If the Grand Canal is really changed to Daze Mansion, then the price of land in Daze Mansion will definitely increase, and the passenger flow will increase a lot."

"But I thought that Weiqing County had nothing to do with you, and if you interfered, it would be equivalent to directly confronting the fifth brother, so I didn't notify you as soon as possible."

"Now you ask, but you want to get involved in the Grand Canal?"

Li Qiao: "......"

Boy.

Was it waiting for him?

No, no, no, no.

Before Li Dashan said that he missed his father and siblings, he didn't think about the Grand Canal at all.

With the brains of the British duke, it should be purely from the interests of his British duke, so he focused on Weiqing County.

The British prince directly asked the five princes to come forward, if he went to find Sheng Hong, it would really be directly against the five princes.

"Then what did the emperor say?"

Tao Zhu on the side was a little anxious, and immediately asked, "Has the emperor agreed?" ”

"My father said that he would think about it, but he didn't agree. However, this matter, because the fifth brother is willing to pay money, so if Li Qiao is not involved, then the father will agree to come down nine times out of ten. Because the terrain of Daze Mansion is also suitable, it is feasible for the Grand Canal to bypass Daze Mansion, that is, it costs more money. ”

The Seven Princes said.

Tao Zhu: "......"

He turned his head to look at Li Qiao.

Li Qiao smiled bitterly: "So how much silver are the five princes willing to pay?" ”

"As far as the lower officials know, this is the highest bidder, right?"

"That's right, it's the one with the highest price, but does anyone in Weiqing County dare to compete with the fifth brother? Even if you look at the entire Yuanhe Province, no one dares to offend the fifth brother. ”

When the Seventh Prince said this, he paused for a moment, and then pointed at Li Qiao: "Except for you." ”

"No, no, no, the lower officials only offended the British government, not directly offended the five princes."

Li Qiao hurriedly denied it.

This time, he wants to directly confront the five princes, and he hasn't thought about whether to mix or not.