After the central meeting in the morning, Zhang Ye went to the Foreign Minister's Mansion and discussed with the cunning Zhuang Bufan for a while, mainly to talk about the situation in the land of Beiyan and the upgrading of heating and city defense.

Of course, Zhang Ye wouldn't say it on the bright side, but he was taken aback when he tried it, and finally left with a blue face.

I have to say that Zhuang Bufan is a hungry wolf who eats people and does not spit out bones, and he organized his subordinates to calculate the cost of upgrading the city defense, which is about twice the price quoted by Xiuli Zhenren to Zhang Ye. It does not include follow-up maintenance costs and so on.

If it is handed over to the treasure door to do, not only the cost is much less, but also the so-called after-sales service.

Theoretically, the affairs of the land of Beiyan can no longer be delayed, of course, it is best to bypass the Foreign Minister's Mansion and outsource it. But what Zhang Ye is worried about is that the security of his country's city defense can be done once or twice, but he can't really entrust others forever.

One thing Zhang Ye knows very well, the so-called "it's better to buy than to buy, it's better to buy than to rent" This must be the world's first, the so-called iron must be hard itself, when one day, the person who makes things for you is hostile to you?

Some things are not cost-effective, but they must be in their own hands, and they can accumulate more experience and experience in the process by constantly innovating, researching, and building. This is the reason why Wushuang City has the Foreign Minister's Mansion, and this is also the reason why Wushuang under the leadership of His Royal Highness Changkong Fei is the first in the Nine Realms in the Qimen Array. It was she who created the Dragon Guard Camp.

While walking, Zhang Ye stopped and decided that this time, he could only bypass the Foreign Minister's Mansion and entrust it to the treasure gate.

It stands to reason that such a situation cannot happen in Wushuang, even if this is done, it must be communicated between the Foreign Minister's Office and the Treasure Gate, however, because this time Zhang Ye wants to build a city fire array once and for all, to solve the problem of severe cold in the four northern provinces in one fell swoop, and at this time, the treasury cannot allocate these expenses, and he has also discussed with Wei Zhongcheng, and the matter of the land of Beiyan can only be handled by himself at present.

This means that Zhang Ye must work with Bei Yanji to solve this problem by himself, so since it is not a treasury allocation, Zhang Ye can also bypass the Foreign Minister's Mansion and communicate with the treasure gate by himself.

When she returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion, Mu Zhaojun waited in her seat again, she always looked spotless and solemn, and now it was different from before, she was not cold at all, and her attitude was very soft.

But Zhang Ye felt a little bad about this, Zhang Ye was more willing to face her who hated her, in that case, when he clashed with the Mu Clan in the future, he might feel better.

It's a pity that it backfired, and this woman seemed to be getting more and more likable.

"Xiangye, you're here. Mu Zhaojun got up and saluted slowly.

Zhang Ye forced himself to ignore her, nodded slightly, and then sat down to read the messy paperwork.

Regarding Zhang Ye's attitude, Mu Zhaojun was slightly disappointed, but he didn't say anything, still sitting quietly, looking at Zhang Ye in a daze.

"Come, take my jade plate and summon the chief deacon of the treasure gate, Xiuli Zhenren. After reviewing some documents, Zhang Ye commanded.

Immediately, a little beauty ran away.

Among the officials of the Prime Minister's Office, there are still quite a few women, accounting for at least half. This is mainly because of the Wushuang tradition, while the supremacy of women's rights, it has also formed a tradition of many uncles taking care of their children at home and mothers coming out to do things to support the family.

Not long after, a beautiful figure entered the Prime Minister's Mansion, this is the lobby of the Prime Minister's Mansion, which is more formal, so the beautiful real person still did enough etiquette, "See Xiangye, I don't know what the summons are about." ”

"Here you come. ”

Zhang Ye got up and walked aside, opened the area map of the Peerless Realm, pointed and pointed, and talked to Xiuli about some details.

Xiuli listened carefully and generally understood Zhang Ye's intentions.

After a while, Xiuli shook her head and said: "Xiangye, with all due respect, looking at your drawings and marks, as well as the direction of the cold snap, is to use the land of Beiyan as a barrier to build a fire array to solve the cold problem of the four northern provinces once and for all." ”

"Yes, that's what I'm here for. Zhang Ye said.

Xiuli is really humane: "But the Five Yang Fire Array we discussed at the beginning is difficult to achieve such an effect. ”

Zhang Ye said: "So I want to use the Six Yang Fire Needle this time, and the number of fire arrays will be greatly increased." ”

At that moment, Zhang Ye said the rough idea and details, and said: "Xiuli Zhenren, you give a quote." ”

Xiuli Zhenren thought seriously for a long time, stretched out three fingers and said: "The price is three billion, Xiangye, you know, this is already an acquaintance's price, and it can't be lower." This is close to our cost price. It's only because there is an order from above that our treasure gate must form a good relationship with Xiangye, so that there is such a concession, otherwise it will be difficult to do it for someone else, such a huge city defense construction, and four billion. ”

Zhang Ye nodded, knowing that what she said was true, indeed, when communicating with the Foreign Minister's Office, he had tried to find that for this project, Zhuang Bufan gave the amount of money that needed to be allocated about five billion.

Of the five billion, it should include about four billion construction costs, and there are some losses and losses in addition, as well as the greed of various handling personnel. This is still a conservative estimate.

"Okay, I accepted the price and just asked when it would be available?" asked Zhang Ye.

Xiuli is truly humane: "As long as the cost is in my hands, I will immediately fly the sword to pass the book to the Hell Realm Headquarters, and they will immediately send elites to enter the land of Northern Yan to undertake, and Xiangye will never need to worry about our efficiency." ”

"Good. Zhang Ye nodded and said, "But I don't have so many expenses in my hand for the time being, so I can only pay in batches." This phase promises to pay two layers of fees in advance, and when the project is halfway through, pay for four more layers, and after the project is completed and qualified, pay the last six floors.

"This ......" Xiuli hesitated for a moment, "Xiangye holds the treasury of the Great Peerless, do you still need to be so nervous?"

Zhang Ye sighed and said: "You don't know my difficulties, this time the situation is special, it can't be funded by the treasury, it must be borne by me personally, and the land of Beiyan itself." ”

Xiuli was embarrassed and said, "I'm afraid it's even more difficult." Xiangye, don't say dark words in front of the Ming people, if this transaction is guaranteed by the Wushuang Treasury and officially built by the Prime Minister's Mansion, then everything is easy to say, even if you don't pay for the treasure gate, you are willing to tie this fate. However, if there is no guarantee from the treasury, it is just the personal behavior of the Xiangye, and the convincing power is not enough, and in this case, it is usually after all the expenses are paid, and our family starts to plan. ”

Zhang Yeda felt disappointed, although she was not very happy, but she was embarrassed to persecute Xiuli Zhenren, what she said also made sense, she only did things after receiving money, which was also in line with common sense. Now it's difficult.

Mu Zhaojun, who was sitting next to him and always watching, smiled slightly, of course he knew that Xiu Lizhen's words were insincere, and he meant something else.

At this point, Mu Zhaojun interjected: "The beauty is really polite." ”

"You're welcome, ma'am. Xiuli hurriedly returned the salute.