Chapter 35: I can't put down too much money
Li Shen took more than a hundred cars to the palace, and when he arrived at the palace gate, the guards guarding the gate conducted a routine inspection. When he saw that more than 160 cars were all copper coins, the commander of the military guard was stupid.
He has been guarding the palace for ten years, and Zhenguan began to gain the trust of Li Shimin as the commander of the military guard. Responsible for guarding the palace, and has never seen anyone carry money to the palace.
Even if Li Shen carried knives and guns, he was not shocked, and finally the guards carefully inspected and let Li Shen's convoy enter the harem. There is no way not to let it in, although I haven't encountered this before, but shipping money is not a dangerous weapon.
Such a long convoy through the harem is particularly striking during the day. When the convoy stopped at the gate of the Daji Palace, the concubines from all the palaces came to see the excitement. Even the eldest grandson queen has come over, she is the master of the harem, and she has to ask about anything in the harem.
Wei Guifei received a report from the eunuch that King Ji had come back with a convoy and came out to check, and she saw Li Shen standing at the door, and Empress Changsun also came from afar.
"Shen'er, what are you doing here? Why is there such a big move? What are these cars pulling. Wei Guifei hurriedly asked her son. I'm afraid that my son will make a mistake.
This Empress Changsun also came over with her subordinates, and everyone saluted Empress Changsun. Empress Eldest Sun came to Li Shen and asked with a smile, "Shen'er." What good things did you bring in this time? ”
Every time Li Shen has something good, she will give him a copy, and not long ago, Wei Guifei gave her a box of good wine, which she heard was worth fifty yuan.
"If you go back to your mother, the child will bring back something outside of her body." Li Shen replied, don't you say that money is something outside the body Li Shen thought.
"Oh, what a thing." Empress Eldest Sun was even more curious.
"Mother will know when they unload the car." Li Shen replied. Then he turned to the steward who was in a hurry and said, "All of them are unloaded to the warehouse, and after unloading one, they will return to the food prison." I will ask Mr. Wang to send you the reward in the evening. Start unloading," Li Shen waved his hand
Li Shen gave an order, and the first ox cart opened the cover. The eunuchs began to take money out. Each person can only take ten pounds at a time, more than sixty catties. Fortunately, these eunuchs work a lot on weekdays and are in good health, and Li Shen instructed the eunuchs around Wei Guifei to open the treasury and count the quantity.
Everyone watched the eunuchs each carry a bunch of copper coins into the Daji Palace, dozens of eunuchs back and forth, after unloading a car, the next car, one car, two cars, three cars.
The eyes of the concubines, eunuchs and palace maids who stood by and watched the excitement were straight, although they were also concubines, they all lived in the palace. But there really aren't a lot of them.
In addition to the reward of favor, even the eldest grandson queen has a little light in her eyes. She is in charge of the internal finances, all these years because of Li Shimin's diligence and thrift.
He also paid money to help the government at every turn, and now there are more than 40,000 yuan in the internal money, which is still Li Shen's dividend of 5,000 yuan in the past few months.
Wei Guifei was also stupid, there were so many cars behind the thirty cars unloaded in half an hour, where did this son get so much money. It can't be that she did something illegal, the main thing is that she didn't come up with anything illegal to get so much money in a few days. Looted the treasury?? Wei Guifei thought wildly.
The people who will know the news are here, and they have all heard that King Ji has brought back more than 100 carts of money. Li Mengjiang also came over from the princess hall to see the excitement, and saw Li Shenzheng directing the handling.
Looking at the people around him with their eyes shining, Li Mengjiang felt a burst of pride in his heart. This is her younger brother, and the strength of her mother's family in this era is very important to the place where a woman is at home.
Her younger brother is so capable, she will be able to stand up in her husband's family when she marries in the future, and her husband's family will not dare to bully her. Li Mengjiang thinks so, mainly because she is an unfavored princess.
Li Shen saw Li Mengjiang in the crowd and hurriedly beckoned to Li Mengjiang. Shouting "Sister, sister, come here." ”
Li Mengjiang saw Li Shen greeting him and walked over. "Shen'er, what's the matter?"
"Sister, tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Aren't you going out of the palace with them? It definitely costs money to go out and play. I will let the stone bring you a thousand times. When you leave the palace, you can buy whatever you like. Stone, stone. What about people?"
Li Shen began to look around for this personal little eunuch, and the Tang Dynasty was not so strict with the management of women going out. On festivals like the Mid-Autumn Festival, the princess can still go out of the palace to play with her subordinates.
may be because he is not favored, Li Mengjiang is usually very inferior, low-key and thrifty. Even if Wei Guifei gave it, she didn't spend much.
This time out of the palace, Li Shen estimated that Li Mengjiang might not buy anything. Li Shen felt that his sister could be so inferior. Li Shimin does not favor him as a younger brother.
He wasn't ready to let her sister marry so early, she had to have her sister like it.
"Shen'er doesn't need it. I don't have anything to buy when I leave the palace," Li Mengjiang said very movingly
Just when Li Shen wanted to say something. The stone ran out and said to Li Shen, "Lord, what should I do if the warehouse can't be fitted." "Concubine Wei's Daji Hall originally didn't have any treasury.
It's just that he took out a room to store her and Li Shen's money, which was not big. Li Shen pulled back such money, and he couldn't put down more than fifty cars.
Li Shen didn't dare to imagine how big the treasury was, and he could put down tens of millions of yuan every year. The treasury that can put down hundreds of thousands of pieces of six should also be very large.
The people watching the excitement next to him were also surprised, how much money does it cost to fit in a room. But Li Shen said to Li Mengjiang: "Sister, look, the warehouse can't be fitted." Hurry up and pull it away and help me spend it. As soon as Li Shen's words came out, don't talk about others, even Wei Guifei and Li Mengjiang both felt that what Li Shen said was too show-off.
And the concubines next to them almost didn't roll their eyes, this King Ji is too capable of pretending. Don't wait for Li Mengjiang to speak. Li Shen turned his head to the stone and said, "Stone, go to my sister's courtyard in the princess's palace to send five carts of copper coins." The stone nodded and agreed, directing five ox carts to the princess's hall.
The princesses who came with Li Mengjiang had envy in their eyes. "Twelfth sister, tenth brother is so good to you. You really didn't hurt her in vain. Princess Dongyang on the side said enviously
"Yes, yes, Twelfth Sister. The tenth brother is really capable. I'll give you a thousand. I can buy a lot of cloth and jewelry. Rouge gouache. Didn't you take a fancy to a picture of everyone last time? At the time, you said that ten times the money was too expensive. Now that I have money, I'll buy it back tomorrow," Princess Jin An also said
Li Mengjiang did not speak. The heart is beautiful. This brother didn't hurt in vain.
At this time, Li Shen had already asked Wei Guifei to find a bigger house, and finally moved out after two hours. The crowd had long since dispersed. Empress Eldest Sun followed Concubine Wei into the hall to chat. Wait for Li Shen to finish entering the hall. Wei Guifei asked. "Shen'er, where did you get all this money?"
"Auntie. It's all earned by doing business. I made it by partnering with my eldest sister Lizhi to do business. I've already sent the dividends this time. Li Shen said
"Oh? You also partner with Princess Changle. Princess Changle will follow you to mess around," Wei Guifei didn't believe it.
"Huh. Shen'er was really right. Lizhi told me when she entered the palace a few days ago. 500 percent of the shares. It seems that Lizhi has made a lot of money this time. Empress Eldest Sun smiled.
"The emperor is coming" There is a rumor of eunuchs outside.