On Li Er's table were several seals, then several newspapers, and finally a seal in a wooden box with a seal, which came from the Security Department of the Tang Dynasty and was privately sealed by Qin Qiong.
Li Er waved his hand: "Everyone, get out!"
The eunuchs and maids all retreated, and the imperial guards closed the door outside.
There were only three people in the study, Li Er, Fang Xuanling, and Changsun Wuji.
"These stamps are not interesting. This investment makes me feel very fresh. I just don't know what the result will be?"
"I don't know, I can't guess." Changsun Wuji shook his head helplessly.
Fang Xuanling also followed up and said: "Your Majesty, I remember that when His Highness King Qin first mentioned royal silk, all the chambers of commerce had a wait-and-see attitude. In the past year, several workshops with royal names have expanded. Ten times, the exquisiteness of silk is unimaginable!"
"It will be very lively!" Li Er said with a smile.
In fact, Li Er only needs to know about the investment promotion. The person who manipulates it is Li Yuanxing, and the person who finally collects the money is the Ministry of Accounts. Li Er only needs to know a number. That's enough.
Li Er slowly opened the wooden box, and inside were two copies of the watch.
After reading the first copy, Li Er didn't have anything to say, so he put it on the nearby candlestick and lit it, then threw it into the copper basin. This report was Qin Qiong's report about Qin Wangzha mercury mine, copper mine, and Tongguan gold mine. Table seal.
Li Er had discussed it with Li Yuanxing a long time ago, so he burned his seal.
At least until Li Yuanxing's coins came out, Li Er would never mention this matter. Li Er also believed that Li Yuanxing would keep it absolutely secret, because it involved a lot.
Before opening another copy, Li Erxin said that Qin Qiong had heard something from Li Yuanxing again.
But as soon as he opened it, Li Erteng stood up immediately.
The seal said that if all the gold was dug out of several large golden trenches in Liaodong, a new palace could be easily rebuilt.
Li Er knows better than anyone else how much it will cost to build a new palace.
According to Li Chunfeng's site selection, Li Yuanxing's design prototype, and Yuan Tiangang's and Li Chunfeng's improvements, not to mention building houses and gardens, just using gold for decoration would require thousands of kilograms.
The huge gold-covered pillars on the main hall will definitely shock all the countries in the world.
"I want to think about it. I want to think about it. Please step back first!" Li Er waved his hand.
Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji were the people he trusted the most. But Li Er was a little confused about this matter. He had heard Li Yuanxing say that there was gold in Liaodong. But what Li Er didn't expect was that the amount was so huge.
The gold in Liaodong is different from the gold in Tongguan.
If you dig out the gold in Tongguan and bring it back to Qinwangzhuang, it will be no different than putting it in your own pocket.
But Liaodong is different, where the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and it is three thousand miles away from Chang'an. So, how to deal with these gold mines, even a decisive person like Li Er hesitated.
Gold mine! A gold mine beyond your control!
Li Er began to walk around in the study room, and he began to think about how to deal with it.
Full half an hour passed, and Li Er was still wandering around and walking in circles in the study.
An inspiration suddenly popped up in my mind: "Here comes someone!"
Eunuch Gao entered the study in response. From the crack in the door, Li Er saw Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji still waiting outside the door. He immediately said to Eunuch Gao: "Please come in too!"
"Your Majesty!" Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji saluted.
"Then there will be two more issues of the investment fair, and then it won't start until the early morning of the third day?
After hearing this, Eunuch Gao bowed and replied: "Exactly, it was originally planned to be held in Qin Wangzhuang, but later it was placed in Chamber of Commerce Street. Originally, the Cui family had some properties in Chamber of Commerce Street. This time when I heard about Princess Mingyue's Thousand Dumplings Banquet, I So we gave away a newly renovated building.”
Li Er nodded and said to Changsun Wuji: "Wulang discovered a gold mine in Liaodong, and the quantity is huge. I think we should also invite investment together. Once you get the permission to mine gold, you can dig for gold. Otherwise, you will be severely punished."
"Your Majesty, are you buying mines first and then digging for gold?"
"Exactly!" Li Er put the map of the gold mine on the table.
Fang Xuanling did not go to get the map, but just said: "Your Majesty, who has so much money to buy a gold mine?"
"What's the best idea?"
"Sell a lump sum first, and then collect the money every year, and promise that if no gold is dug out in three years, the seniority will be refunded. But those who commit fraud will be severely punished!"
The severe punishments of the Tang Dynasty were already very merciful compared to the cruelty of the whip dynasties of later generations.
Luo Yi rebelled, which is an absolute felony, but in fact, even if Luo Yi did not surrender at that time, he and his son would be killed, and basically he would be exiled or become a slave.
After Luo Yi surrendered, his men arrested hundreds of people, and only three of them were actually beheaded.
The laws of the Tang Dynasty were still very merciful, and there would be no beheading scenes involving rivers of blood.
For example, as Lao Lang often said, kill his whole family!
This whole family, in the Whip Dynasty, would be to kill the Nine Tribes, and in the Tang Dynasty, Lao Lang would mean killing himself, and then his son, and that would be the whole family, not even counting the elders in the family.
Li Er agreed with Fang Xuanling's proposal.
"Go and do it! I will personally write an investment order in the Datang Newspaper. The Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of War will join forces to attract investment. This is the location..." Speaking of the location, Li Er smiled: "It will be placed on the Chamber of Commerce Street. That Wangjinglou is about to open!"
"Yes!" Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji saluted together before retreating.
After leaving the study, Changsun Wuji breathed a long sigh of relief, and Fang Xuanling also breathed a sigh of relief. The two looked at each other and smiled, and both shook their heads thankfully. Fang Xuanling said: "Fortunately, there are no soldiers. Something!" Changsun Wuji also said: "Yes, fortunately there is no need to fight. In the past two years, it is not appropriate to use swords lightly!"
Neither of them cared much about gold mines or anything like that. To put it bluntly, Li Er just turned distant money into cash.
"Does the landlord want to try the gold mine?"
"Of course I want to give it a try. A certain family has a lot of expenses, but they don't have much property. Once the luxury tax is increased, the family will have to wear common clothes, so naturally I have to give it a try. How about the eldest grandson Pushe? Although a certain family I didn’t take a close look, but from a distance, the gold mine seemed to be not too small, but not too much either!”
Changsun Wuji shook his head: "Fanggong, why don't we join forces with several others? I won't participate anymore."
It's not that Changsun Wuji doesn't want to participate, it's that he can't participate because his sister is the queen. It's better for him not to get involved in things like gold mines. Sometimes, he is taboo.
Datang Daily is the official policy newspaper, and Chang'an Daily is the largest private newspaper.
The two major newspapers were completely out of stock. Even if the family had no money, they would buy a newspaper just because of the investment promotion order and just to watch the excitement.
Print!
There will definitely not be any additional printing. As an official newspaper, Datang Daily will have as many copies as there are copies per day. Unless the overall printing volume is increased, but this is calculated on a monthly basis, there will never be any temporary printing.
Chang'an News will not print more copies, because printing three more copies will cost you a penny.
Chang'an News is a newspaper printed at a loss, and the difference in price is earned through advertising fees. However, advertising fees are collected on a monthly basis, so Chang'an News will not print more newspapers unless there are special circumstances.
Hard to come by!
The investment promotion order in the newspaper is the ticket to enter. Without the investment promotion order, you can't even get in.
The next day, forty-eight hours before the start of the investment fair, the two newspapers printed an additional 10,000 copies each, and an additional 10,000 copies were printed for surrounding states and counties.
The whole of Chang'an exploded. Less than half an hour after the newspaper was sold, people running wildly could be seen everywhere in Chang'an city. The running people all had a unified characteristic, that is, their status was not high and they were not wealthy.
A follower is a branch of a certain family.
If we say that the investment invitation order on the first day was just to attract farmers and merchants, even if it was very attractive, it would not make people crazy. But the investment invitation order on the second day was personally written by His Highness the King of Qin. It included a steel workshop and a cement workshop.
, what does this represent? In a few months, Yaozhou produced one million kilograms of fine steel. This fine steel made the entire Tang Dynasty crazy in terms of both quantity and quality.
Although the people of the Seventh Family had heard about it, they were still shocked when the real investment order appeared.
"To participate or not to participate?" When Wang Jishan, the head of the Wang family, was talking, he was holding a Salvia miltiorrhiza in one hand. He was really afraid that his heart would suddenly break.
"Whether you want to participate or not is not up to you, nor are we old guys like us." The old man of the Wang family shook his head with a wry smile, and then continued: "Our Wang family now owns fourteen coal mines, of which nine are rich mines and large mines.
.The brochure I got from Yaozhou has been tried by the juniors in the family. There are five coal mines that can be used for coking. There is no need to buy the mining area map of the Qin Wangfu for the iron mines around Taiyuan. I have it myself. There are more than a dozen small mines.
, there is also one in the big mining area.”
Wang Jishan nodded: "Yes, this steel workshop can really be opened at any time, and the craftsmen can be sent to study in Yaozhou for three months, which can be as long as half a year. I dare not say 300,000 jins of fine steel in January, but 100,000 jins will always be
There will be!"
"The eyes of the younger people in the family are all bright. The master doesn't eat meat and won't let them eat meat. I'm afraid there will be trouble!"
"Don't worry, it's not too late for someone to come to the palace to meet the saint. It's not too late to find a strategy. One million kilograms of fine steel is made into knives every year, and the twelve guards may be able to change their clothes at once, so it's better to be careful with the steel workshop.
"
Wang Jishan thought carefully. If anything else, steel was a strategic material in the Tang Dynasty.
"Uncle, I went to visit a few other houses!"
The Seventh Family was right. Money could be earned and power could be increased. But there must be no items that could irritate the royal family. Steel was one of them.
But in fact, Li Er and Li Yuanxing really don't care, because they don't need enough weapons to rebel. (To be continued...)