Chapter 229: The precious gift is not broken (Part 2)

Then I looked at Bier's face, and she was still very childish.

It seems that the runaway Wulu family is the same age as her and looks more mature than Bier. But she promised that she will fulfill her family when she comes back. When she comes back, is it broken or not? She always feels guilty.

Not too righteous, at least he held Yang Min with his left hand and Xu Li with his right hand, and he did not feel guilty. But after all, he was a modern person, and when facing a girl, he felt that it was not very good.

But how to refuse, this question is in front of you again.

Bier was just happy now, and didn't expect this. She held Li Wei's hand and asked, "Does there be many in Nanzhao?"

"Not many, otherwise I could bring a few more of them back."

"Yes, there must be not many such beautiful birds."

As he was talking, perhaps because of the stimulation of the two little lolis' high fives, the male peacock spread its tail, which was more than one meter long, and gradually opened up. The metallic blue and bronze green spots on the tail shone with the beautiful luster of fireflies under the illumination of the lantern. The bigger and bigger the tail feathers were trembling and making a rattle.

Even on the road, it was difficult for Li Wei to see it spreading its screen. The three girls covered their mouths with their hands in surprise. After a while, the male peacock proudly raised the screen. Shangguan Wan'er clapped his hands with Wei Yue again and said, "So beautiful."

Tugging them and saying, "Go into the palace."

I sent it to the East Palace and sent someone to place two peacocks. There are also gardens in the East Palace. The weather is hot, so it shouldn't matter much. But what should I do when it's cold? Fortunately, there are palace slaves in the Daming Palace who are raising them, so I can ask you at that time.

Bier said, "Your Highness, let me serve you in the shower."

When he just went out, he took care of himself. He was really not used to it. He could only sigh that he had fallen into depravity. He restored his original life and did not have any pretentiousness. He asked Bier to bathe him. Bier said as he said: "Your Highness, Liang Jinzhu and Lu Ma sent another 40,000 yuan of money and a milk candy workshop. He has made nearly 10,000 yuan of money in the past few months."

"So many," Li Wei replied casually.

"Your Highness, more than that, after you left last year, a lot of things happened."

"Tell me."

"When Pei, Pei Yan Tie, took office, went to Yangzhou immediately. After the salt drying began, many flat land on the beach were fought over by various merchants. Pei Yan Tie was also moved when he saw it." Bier didn't know much, and told the whole thing up in a bumpy way.

As soon as Li Wei left, Li Zhi also left Chang'an and went to Luoyang. Seeing him like this, many people began to talk about the emperor's bad things. Anyway, there is a benefit in the Tang Dynasty now, and there is no harmonious god horse. Even an ordinary citizen dares to discuss state affairs and royal affairs. This is irrelevant. It is half because of Li Zhi's son, and half because of acting. Bier knows a little. It is mainly Pei Yan, which shines brightly this time.

When they saw the salt coming out, many people were moved. They ran to the beach to buy land together. For a time, those deserted places on the beach became tight handy goods. It was not right. Salt drying requires some special terrain, as well as the salt quality of the sea water, and plenty of sunlight. Not every piece of salt is suitable for salt drying, such as Liang Lu and the other two bought or rented land, and there was some discomfort. However, most of them were successful. This thing is not complicated and could not be concealed even if you want to hide it. Send a few people to stand by the beach and see it. The process cannot be kept confidential. So they were moved and more people participated.

Pei Yan made a splash on behalf of the court, and no one would impeach. The court originally operated a salt farm. Therefore, in addition to the tribute tax, the profit margin of the salt price began to fall. However, the salt price was getting cheaper day by day. Li Wei also knew about this matter. When he went there and came back, the salt price in Yizhou began to fluctuate, and in the Central Plains.

There was no fierce competition for sugar, and many sugar-making workshops were attended, but the people did not remember that the number of people growing sugar cane did not increase. This is the origin. Without sugar cane, how to make sugar. So the price of sugar cane began to rise sharply. However, more people make sugar, the price of sugar began to drop like a straight line. In fact, the profit margins of various workshops in Jiangnan last year were very small. However, the smart people, like Lu Liang and others, moved the battlefield to Lingnan. The source of sugar cane is wider and the sugar produced is sweeter. In addition, there are many big food merchants in Guangzhou Port. After seeing it, they immediately placed an order and still had profit margins. Of course, this year will inevitably be tragic.

In fact, many people resent Lu Liang and others. It was not because he had some tribute taxes or profits. What should I do if the profits fell? There were evil ways, which, according to Li Wei, called smuggling. Pei Yan just robbed some salt fields and had no movement. The merchants were braver. Suddenly, as the end of the year approached, Pei Yan sent many officials to attack, checked the accounts one by one, and checked the salt and sugar on various rivers or roads. How to punish them after finding them? There are no legal provisions now.

Pei Yan's method is very simple, and all workshops are confiscated. Whether it is a salt farm or a sugar workshop, then it is intervened on behalf of the court. Some merchants who have backgrounds send people to plead for mercy. We belong to a certain family and have a relationship with your Pei family. Pei Yan squinted his face and said, "The Pei family will not do such a hopeless thing. Even two ordinary businessmen who are profit-oriented know how to win glory for the country. Don't mention where you come from. If you mention it, Pei feels ashamed for you."

They all left with shame and looked naked.

This investigation was prepared long ago, like a thunderbolt, many people took it in. After hearing the news, all the merchants became more honest. Then Pei Yan sent someone to manage it again. Therefore, last year's income, plus the tribute tax, actually reached more than 800,000 yuan. Of course, half of it was copied by Pei Yan. Some people did not agree, but in the face of the income of more than 800,000 yuan, almost no one in the court and the country spoke.

"It must be done," Li Wei agreed with Pei Yan. Pei Yan had not handled it well and handed it over to the government to operate it. There will be many things to be greedy in the future, so it is better to come to auction it. Of course, even if you know this sentence, you can't say it. Moreover, this scene is far from over, just like a cat catching a mouse, it has been caught for tens of thousands of years and hundreds of thousands of years, and the game continues.

However, Lu Liang and the other two started early, and the salt farms were also low, so the profits were still considerable. But this year, many merchants had no choice but to come up with another way to sign a contract with the people and pay to support the people's planting. It was almost unprecedented and forced to do so. Sugar cane is tense, the sugar source is too expensive, and the cost will be very high. Not only are there similar developments in Jiangnan, but also Lingnan. Of course, the output is large, but because of the cheapness and the number of people eating, and after this thing was released, Dashi merchants began to buy in large quantities. In addition, they would sell to foreign countries, so there would be more foreign merchants to order in the future, so they would not have to worry about sales. In short, it was the cost.

Against this backdrop, Lu Liang and the others had to join.

Before leaving last year, Li Wei repeatedly said that they would keep some of the share of their own, so they could not give it to Li Wei. After calculating the accounts, everyone divided the score, but Li Wei took the big part, and the account book was in Liu Qun's hands. Then, the remaining money was invested again.

"It's just that many people hate Lu Ma and Liang Jinzhu. It's not because the court issued repeated orders to commend them. I suspect that someone is not good at them," Bier said worriedly.

At this time, Li Wei had already put on his clothes.

"They forgot who initiated this!" Li Wei snorted coldly: "Who dares to do it against them!"

Immediately, Shangguan Wan'er and Wei Yue who were sitting next to watch took paper and pen, and wrote two lines of big characters: The benevolent people in the world are good merchants of the country. They wrote two copies and the money was paid. They said, "Tomorrow, someone will be sent to them, one copy for each person. I will see who dares to behave badly to them."

"yes."

Li Wei thought about it and said, "You sent someone to give me 20,000 yuan to your father, saying that it was just sent by Lu Ma and Liang Jinzhu. Ten thousand yuan was for the orphanage, and ten thousand yuan was for the pension of the soldiers in front."

The more money in hand, it is not enough to use so much. It is reasonable. There are many people who hate Lu Liang, so the two of them want to hold the prince's thigh. After all, the emperor has been tributed. The money is used to study movable type printing. If you know a lot, you will know that it is not the amount of money the emperor wants to use. Of course, Yang Guang is the exception. The money of the court is divided into two parts, part of which is controlled by the inner palace and supplies the cost of the inner palace. This money is not much. The big part is the national treasury, which belongs to the three provinces and six ministries, mainly the Ministry of Revenue, and the Taifu Temple controls and dispatches. The court's official salary, military salary, military expenses, water conservancy, construction, clothing, reception of foreign envoys, etc. are allocated from here.

Therefore, if it weren't for Li Wei's ten thousand yuan of money, it would be difficult for Wu Zetian to grow cotton. If it weren't for Li Wei to use it, it would definitely be blocked by officials. If it was used from the treasury, it would be insufficient. Without that amount of money, the cotton would not grow so well and could not be promoted quickly, and her righteousness would not be able to be won. At least this time, I have seen more people growing cotton, and my mother was slightly better than before. The same is true for movable type. For tens of thousands of Chinese characters, at least hundreds of thousands of movable type must be prepared. It is possible to prepare millions of movable type for large-scale printing. There are other expenses, and this money is also a lot of. With money, movable type can be quickly launched, otherwise it will take a long time to mention this expense...

...

Bier is out.

I came back after a while. The copper was small, and it was impossible for me to be cash. Most of them were replaced by cloth, or gold or silver, and I didn't dare to put them in the East Palace. I bought a house in Chang'an and placed it in it and carefully sent someone to take care of it. Therefore, it took a long time to wait.

Li Wei asked, "What do you say about Father?"

"Just hesitated for a moment, then uttered, and didn't say anything."

"Just huh?" Li Wei was puzzled, but he couldn't guess it, Li Zhi couldn't guess it, and Wu Zetian was the same, and the family was catching cats.

...

"Your Highness, what does the south look like?" Bier asked, stroking Li Wei's chest with her little hands.

Li Wei said that he deliberately missed Wulu's words and felt very embarrassed.

"So Tubo people are not good either."

"No," Li Wei recalled the battle that night, shook his head, and said, "No, no, no, no matter whether it is combat effectiveness, resilience or discipline, it is not under the elite soldiers of our dynasty. The reason why he was defeated that night was that the exhausted army, unprepared, and on the dam, just like Xue Rengui was in Qinghai, the right time, place, people and people were not occupied, and he made mistakes in planning, so he was defeated miserably. Normally, there were no famous generals and the two countries were fighting, and the outcome could only be said to be halfway."

"I was very worried about those days. Until I heard of Your Highness's victory, my heart fell to the ground." After saying that, I rubbed Li Wei's chest with my petite room and murmured: "Your Highness..."
Chapter completed!