Li Zhi has already announced the expansion plan of Guangzhou City and the scope of the expansion in advance.

Those who are lucky enough to be incorporated into the new city will naturally be happy about it.

However, those who are not included are worried.

The reason why they chose to live outside the city before was because they felt that there were too many barracks and government offices in the city.

It made them feel very depressed.

That's why they run to live outside the city without the protection of the city walls.

Now that the city is about to expand, they naturally have no feeling of oppression.

So who wouldn't want to live in peace in the city?

So the first to focus on new builds, in addition to those who live on the fringes of the city, are the ones who are not included.

The properties designed by Li Zhi are all three-room brick houses, and they also have their own small courtyards.

The price of such a house is naturally not low.

But this is also deliberately done by Li Zhi.

The purpose is of course very simple, that is, to take this opportunity to establish Datang Bank.

And through the bank's loan business to attract the attention of the people.

Since he Lao Tzu gave him the task, he naturally wanted to complete this matter as soon as possible.

For this reason, he wrote another letter, asking the imperial court to count the amount of gold stored in the treasury and how many copper coins were circulating in the market as soon as possible.

He also asked the imperial court to count the total amount and value of the commodities currently circulating in the market within three months.

These are the reference standards for the issuance of currency.

In addition, he also wrote a separate letter asking Li Su to come and meet him with several students.

They wanted to develop a unique paper for issuing new money as soon as possible.

Since it is necessary to issue banknotes, the work of anti-counterfeiting is certainly essential.

So he also asked Li Shimin to recruit some of the top engraving craftsmen for him.

As for the matter of printing money, it is not Li Zhi willing to interfere.

It's better to leave this matter to someone else if it is too much to do with it.

All he needed to do was to design the printing press and hand it over to the superintendent to build it, and give a preliminary distribution target.

Whoever wants to do the rest, he doesn't want to get involved.

Li Zhi's plan at the moment is very good, and in his opinion, the statistical work of the total amount of commodities is also easy to complete.

However, he overestimated the statistical and computing power of the household department.

It is important to know that in the past, the annual fiscal revenue and expenditure alone had to be counted from June to August and September.

Now, coupled with the total amount of goods circulating in the market, how can the household department complete it in a short period of time?

So after his urgent letter was submitted to Li Shimin, it immediately made Wang Qi vomit bitterness.

Come to think of it, it is now the time to count the finances every year, and the household department is already busy.

Li Zhi gave them such a big problem again.

How can Wang Jue, the new head of the household department, accept this?

So Li Shimin wrote back to Li Zhi to explain the situation that the household department is facing now.

Li Shimin meant to let him have more time to spare, so as to leave time for the household department.

But Li Zhi's plans have already begun to be implemented.

At this time, let him continue to wait, then how can his house be sold?

Isn't all the money invested in the house going to be put on the house?

So he hurriedly wrote back to Li Shimin and asked him to find Yuan Tiangang and seconded some students from the academy outside the city to help.

What he didn't expect was that he caused a big disaster this time, and all the old scholars in the Guozijian were annoyed.

Li Shimin didn't think much about it after receiving Li Zhi's reply.

He immediately found Wang Qi and asked him to go to Yuan Tiangang to borrow someone.

However, after hearing his words, Wang Qi asked with a puzzled face: "Your Majesty, since you want to borrow someone, why don't you go to the Guozijian?" ”

Li Shimin woke up after hearing this.

So he hurriedly brought Kong Yingda, the priest of the country, to explain the matter to him.

Unexpectedly, Kong Yingda immediately jumped up after listening to Li Shimin's words.

I only heard him say excitedly: "It is absolutely difficult for Your Majesty to complete what you ask for as scheduled, please forgive the officials for being difficult to obey." ”

After listening to his words, Li Shimin asked suspiciously: "According to the letter from the pheasant slave, this matter seems to be not difficult to complete, but why did Kong Saijiu say this?" ”

Kong Yingda opened his mouth and said: "Your Majesty, please forgive the minister for the crime of disrespect, the minister thinks that His Royal Highness the King of Jin does not understand the difficulty of this at all, so he will make such a judgment." ”

Li Shimin shook his head and said: "This is definitely not the case, I know that the pheasant slave's arithmetic is very good, and he must have been carefully considered to make such a judgment." ”

Kong Yingda said with a face full of anger: "If Your Majesty doesn't believe the words of the old minister, you can invite the two professors of arithmetic to ask." ”

After hearing this, Li Shimin pondered for a moment.

Then he simply asked Zhang Ananda to invite Wang Qi, Yuan Tiangang and the two professors of Guozijian together.

He would like to hear what was the view of all parties on the matter.

So soon everyone came to the Tai Chi Hall.

Li Shimin first asked Wang Qi to tell about the work content arranged by Li Zhi to the household department and the specific items that need to be calculated.

Then he opened his mouth and asked the two arithmetic professors, "I wonder how long you think this will take?" ”

One of the professors spoke: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this matter will require at least all thirty students of the Guozijian to go into battle, and it will take half a year. ”

Li Shimin couldn't help frowning when he heard this answer.

This was too far from Li Zhi's expectations to make him a little difficult to understand.

Then he asked Yuan Tiangang: "What does Yuan Aiqing think?" ”

Yuan Tiangang glanced at Kong Yingda and the others hesitantly.

Then he gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty, the minister can complete this matter within two months with the same number of people." ”

"Hiss......"

After Yuan Tiangang's words were finished, a gasping sound immediately sounded in the Taiji Hall.

Immediately afterwards, I heard Kong Yingda say angrily: "Lord Yuan, this is discussing the major affairs of the country at this moment, how can you let you talk nonsense here?" ”

The reason why Yuan Tiangang hesitated was because his answer was too far from the other party.

He was afraid that if he said it, he would upset the other party.

But at this time, it is the best time to promote the doctrine of His Royal Highness King Jin.

So he hesitated for a moment and then said a more relaxed time.

However, even this still aroused Kong Yingda's anger.

But at this time, Yuan Tiangang could no longer continue to retreat.

Because Yuan Tiangang represents not only himself at the moment, but also the reputation of His Royal Highness King Jin.

Therefore, he did not hesitate to say to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty is willing to make a military order here, and if it cannot be completed on time, it will be at Your Majesty's disposal." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, before Li Shimin could answer, Kong Yingda had already stood up.

I saw him speak with anger on his face: "Your Majesty, the old minister is willing to make a bet with Lord Yuan, if he can complete this matter within two months, the minister is willing to give up the position of sacrificial wine..."