"Yuan Zhiwang." Tian Meng's mouth spit out a name.

Hearing this name, Li Ke paused slightly, is this a coincidence, "Just do what they say, this Master Yuan is studying agriculture?" ”

"Yes, Master Yuan's ancestors are said to be farmers." Tian Meng nodded.

"Yes, tell Master Yuan, if there is any need, just mention it, we have any fields they want to experiment with, as well as tools and so on." Li Ke opened his mouth and said, "By the way, you can explain and buy a part of the land in Lingnan Road, Jiannan Road, and Huainan Province respectively, and cultivate and plant spice crops such as pepper respectively." ”

"Yes, Your Highness, I have already asked someone to give instructions to go down. This part of the spice habit cannot be grown in our place, so I have already sent someone to buy the relevant land in Lingnan Road. Tian Meng said.

"Well done." Li Ke nodded with satisfaction, his subordinates must have this kind of subjective initiative, otherwise, Li Ke will have to explain it himself, then Li Ke should not do anything every day.

"Report on the renovation progress of Chang'an City." Li Ke said.

"Yes, Your Highness, we have completed sixty percent of the renovation of Chang'an City, and all major roads, including Miyagi, have been renovated, and the same is true for important roads such as the East and West Markets." Tian Meng said, "It can be said that we have announced that we have completed the construction at present. ”

"Oh? So fast? Li Ke was a little surprised.

"Yes, Your Highness, because the remaining forty percent is currently because the population of these Fang cities is not yet full, so it is all a field, there is no need to complete the road repair, and after this part of the area is inhabited by the people, it is okay to repair the road, in addition to all the roads and drainage canals in Chang'an City have been repaired."

"The reason why the speed is so fast is because Your Highness explained before you left, all the people who have work should not refuse, in the second month of your departure, Your Highness, we have more than 20,000 people working in Chang'an City at the same time! At its peak, we even had 33,000 people, and this is the reason why we are working so fast. Tian Meng explained.

Li Ke was in a trance, no wonder many projects in ancient times felt that the efficiency was not slow, in the case of piling up workers, although the tools were primitive, but the efficiency could not be said to be slow.

Obviously, more people are always powerful, and more importantly, there are many people like Li Ke who are different from those who are forced to do it, not to mention that there is no salary at all, and they are all free, and sometimes they even need to prepare their own food.

In this case, there are few people who will work with all their might, but Li Ke is a person who is directly paid for, so their efficiency is much higher than that of conscription.

This is also why the renovation project of Chang'an City is much faster than Li Ke imagined.

"How much did it cost?" Li Ke was a little curious.

"The actual cost is 2.2 million yuan." Tian Meng gave a modest figure, "The main expenses are food and monthly money for personnel." ”

"Only more than 2.2 million guan?" Li Ke was a little speechless, if he remembered correctly, the total amount of money donated at the beginning was more than 7.3 million yuan, right? In other words, Li Ke seems to have earned more than four million yuan?

I'm annoyed, why can't I spend this money?

"Actually......" Tian Meng hesitated.

"What?" Li Ke looked at Tian Meng a little strangely.

"In fact, the monthly expenditure of the personnel in the more than 2.2 million guan, almost we earned back more than ninety percent, because most of these people will choose to buy iron tools in our blacksmith shop, or buy related burlap, fine linen, silk silk and other clothes in our cloth shop, and when the salt begins to be sold in the later stage, these people will spend more money." Tianmeng Expressway.

Li Ke: "......"

"What are our main expenses?" Li Ke was a little speechless, it was not good to have too much money in his hands, so he quickly spent it and threw it into the hands of the people.

"The main expenditure is the construction of Shuwangzhuang, which costs a total of nearly three million yuan, and this part of the funds is also spent on the monthly money of those displaced people and the surrounding people. In addition, it is used to buy a large amount of food for storage, but in fact, a considerable part of this money will still flow back into our hands. Tian Meng looked at Li Ke like a fairy.

Because the money in Li Ke's hands now is really ...... More than the treasury! The Datang treasury is not rich as Li Ke.

Li Ke scratched his head, this money must not include his profits in Xizhou, but Xizhou is currently operating internally by relying on his food stamps, but in fact, food stamps are also money, because Li Ke's sound field scale and materials are expanding!

With such a terrifying fund in his hand, Li Ke felt that this money could not be known to his father at this time, if his father knew, it was estimated that Li Shimin's jaw would fall to the ground, or ...... How many more sets of identical clothes do you make? Continue to pretend to be poor?

It's not hard to spend this money, but what is it used for?

Thinking about it, it seems that there is only one way to go with grain, because grain was hard currency in ancient times anyway.

Datang Zhenguan three or four years of natural disasters, Datang starved to death many people, but in fact, the overall food of Datang is not short at all, the cause of this strange situation is mainly due to two reasons, one is that Datang's gate valve family hoarded a large amount of grain, and Datang was established, but the national inventory of grain was not much, unable to effectively provide disaster relief.

This is one of them, and the second is that the sluggish commercial trade has a lot to do with it, not only the family has grain in their hands, because of the disaster, many people in the areas that have not been affected by the disaster have begun to stock up on grain, and they have a lot of grain in their hands, but they do not sell it, and no one buys it, which leads to the failure of state regulation and control.

Because of the sluggish business, the grain harvested in the world during the Wude period was very little in the hands of the merchants, even if the imperial court wanted to buy grain for disaster relief, there was no place to buy it, and it was impossible to go to the farmers to collect it one by one, and then transport it when it was collected, and the daylily was cold.

This is where useful food is not sold and is not sold in urgent need, so it is impossible to get by.

In fact, if the whole grain is calculated in the middle and early stages of the entire Tang Dynasty, there is really no shortage of grain, even if it is affected by natural disasters, it is because the population of Datang is small, and Datang allocates fields according to 100 mu per household, and there is more arable land per capita, which is enough to feed the people of the world.

However, there is a lack of strong national macroeconomic regulation and control measures, which leads to the inability to supply grain in a centralized manner, and then the disaster-stricken areas are so miserable that they can eat their children, and in the areas that have not been affected, the people are afraid of disasters, and many of the hoarded grains are moldy.

If this money is used to hoard food in various provinces of Datang, it will be a good use. However, what Li Ke is pondering is how to hoard food, how to hoard, and how to maximize the interests of the people.