Yang Jing said anxiously, "Besides, if you do this, the other yamen will listen, and if you don't catch the red-eyed ones, they will be poked out by you!"
"I'm afraid of that!" Li Jinglong stiffened his neck, "Which of them has pinkeye, who should go to the doctor?" He said, and sighed, "The people below have been working hard for a year, and they have worked hard without any credit. If there is no one in the yamen
Forget it if you don’t have money, you can’t just leave the money there and let the people below live frugally, right?”
As he said that, he looked around and lowered his voice, "Your share has been sent to the house and handed over to Madam-in-law!"
Yang Jing was stunned and his hands trembled, "I don't dare..."
"I have said that this money is reasonable! And this money is all left over from this year's official budget!" Li Jinglong smiled and said, "Old Yang, if you don't accept it! Do the people below dare to accept it? Even if you don't accept it, people's hearts will be broken.
It’s gone!”
"This..." Yang Jing swallowed.
"Just accept it in a down-to-earth manner, how can I hurt you?" Li Jinglong said again, "I'll take the responsibility if anything happens! If the Ministry of Revenue takes this matter to make trouble, I'll just make up for it myself! How big of a deal is it?
"
Yang Jing was still worried, "This is public funds for private use..."
"Wrong!" Li Jinglong laughed, "This is the right thing to do!"
At this moment, Li Xiaowai walked up to Li Jinglong and said, "Master, someone is looking for you!"
"Excuse me!" Li Jinglong stood up, apologized, and strode toward the back hall.
Passing through the corridor in the back hall, there is an inconspicuous room in the corner, which is Li Jinglong's official room.
His Duke Cao's mansion was not as magnificent as the Forbidden City, but his official office was extremely frugal and extraordinarily plain.
It's just a bookcase, a few bookcases, no antiques, calligraphy and paintings, only a few pots of orchids.
When Li Jinglong entered, Li Xiaowai carefully took out a letter from his arms, placed it on Li Jinglong's table, turned around and left.
The sealing wax on the kraft paper envelope is intact.
There was no writing on it, it was smooth.
Li Jinglong took a silver knife and opened it with a swipe.
After taking a few quick glances, the smile on his face grew stronger.
"Li Zhigang has gone to Suzhou, and the time to open the sea is just right. With Li's temperament, the wealthy merchants in Suzhou, Guangdong and other places will definitely stay away. I hope that my uncle will make a decision as soon as he is in Beijing!"
Sign the signature, humble Liu Guan!
The Li family has always been involved in sea trade matters.
Li Jinglong's younger brother Li Fangying was involved in smuggling by several maritime merchants, and he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to escape.
Not everyone can be a wealthy merchant, and every family has a backer. But even if they have a backer, they still need someone in the capital to protect them.
Therefore, in recent years, those maritime merchants and their backers have been secretly trying to deal with Cao Guogong for their own convenience.
But for Li Jinglong, what does it mean to spend his little money?
What he wants to do is to get involved in sea trade and even become a wealthy man in sea trade!
But this matter is difficult. After all, Li Jinglong is an official and a relative of the emperor, so he can't look too ugly!
But once Li Zhigang raised the banner of opening up the sea, Li Jinglong's opportunity came.
Li Zhigang was in the front, biting like a mad dog. He, Li Jinglong, was in the back, united with several military meritorious officials, and he was in charge of the treasure ship yard, so he had many ships at his disposal.
When the time comes, he will use coercion, inducement and intimidation. Aren’t the routes and sailors of those giant maritime trade companies all belong to him, Li Jinglong?
"Who are you partnering with?"
Li Jinglong had already begun to make a calculation in his mind, "Well, forget it about the Xu family! The Chang family and the Lan family will do! Hey, we have to get Hu Guan involved, he is in charge of the emperor's private treasury!"
"Well, once we become a sea trade fleet, we can't hide this from the Lord Long Live! Not only can we not hide it, we have to tell it in advance!"
Li Jinglong thought again in his mind, "If we make money, it will naturally be Long live the Lord who takes the lion's share! By the way, Prince Jin must also be involved. After all, he is the emperor's cousin and my son's brother-in-law!"
As he was thinking, a person suddenly appeared in his mind.
"Forget it, Fatty! Don't get too close to him!"
He loves money, but he has a clear understanding of money.
Money is meant to be spent, and the interests are shared.
Only when the alliance of interests is stable can money continue to flow.
Li Jinglong folded the letter in his hand, then picked up the flint and lit it with a bang.
Purple flames instantly rose and engulfed the letter.
When it was a little hot to the touch, Li Jinglong put the burning letter in the tea cup, waited until it turned into ashes, and then poured water into it.
Then, sprinkle it on the orchid's flower plate and turn it into flower fertilizer.
"Little crooked!" Li Jinglong shouted.
"Here!" Li Xiaowai came in with his head held high.
"What's going on in Tangshan?" Li Jinglong asked.
Li Xiaowai bowed and replied, "To tell you what my father-in-law said, we have bought all the three hundred acres of land around Tangshan Hot Spring!" After saying that, he paused and said, "They were all purchased at 20% more than the market price. They were purchased by the villain himself.
The money given by the documents signed from door to door is also the money that the villain went to the Jurong County Yamen to transfer the land title in person!"
"Yeah!" Li Jinglong nodded.
Tangshan Town is located on the eastern outskirts of Yingtian Mansion. It looks like other rural places, but it has things that are not found elsewhere.
spa!
As early as the Southern and Northern Dynasties, this place was the royal residence. Later, the famous female poet Li Qingzhao also settled here.
"Have you found the construction workers?" Li Jinglong asked, looking at the orchids in the flowerpot.
"Found it!" Li Xiaowai said again, "They are the group of people who built the young master's mansion!" He said, paused, "The drawing is modeled after Yuan Dadu Hot Spring Villa..." He said,
After another pause, "There is just no hunting ground!"
"Well, how much is the budget?" Li Jinglong asked again.
"The villain asked the accountant at home to do the math, and it turns out it's about 520,000 silver dollars..." As he said that, Li Xiaowai hurriedly said, "It's better to spend money leniently, I'm afraid it's not enough!"
"No!" Li Jinglong frowned and scolded, "What is 520,000 yuan enough for? Tell the construction people and the accountant at home that I am not afraid of spending money. This amount is a waste! Also, write a letter to Guangdong,
The painted wallpaper used in the villa must be unique and beautiful!”
"Write a letter to Gansu to quickly purchase carpets from the Western Regions! And to Tibet, we must also carefully select thangka Buddha statues, etc. They are all world-class products!"
"By the way, tell the construction workers that the Villa must be completed before September next year! If you delay for one day, I will send them to Burma to open up wasteland!"
"Sir!" Li Xiaowai said with a bitter smile, "If this is the case, this hot spring resort will be beyond standard..."
"Are you going to build a hot spring garden for yourself?" Li Jinglong smiled and said, "Go and bring me the blueprints. I want to enter the palace!" He said, looking down at the orchids in the official room, "What do you think, I am going to do this?
Why don’t the orchids grow so well? They are so wilted!”
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The scene changes to Nuange of Qianqing Palace.
Zhu Yunxi looked at the snow on the roof ridge outside the window, looking a little tired.
He had just brought the members of the Zhu family to sacrifice their ancestors and worship heaven.
Before worshiping ancestors and heaven, they also fasted for several days.
That's all. What made him feel most uncomfortable was that the Zhu family clan members looked half-dead when they were worshiping the sky! But when they were worshiping their ancestors, they all cried as if the sky was about to fall!
Especially when offering sacrifices to the old man, the vassal princes barely shouted, "Father, please open your eyes and see, now your sons are living under someone else's roof!"
"I'll send it to you all sooner or later. Out of sight, out of mind!" Zhu Yunxi thought to himself.
At this moment, the bastard came in quietly and said, "Your Majesty, Duke Cao Guo is here!"
"Well, pass!" Zhu Yunxi said.
Not long after, Li Jinglong came in with a scroll under his arm and kowtowed, "Your Majesty, Li Jinglong, kowtow to the Emperor!"
"What's under your arm?" Zhu Yunxi glanced at him and asked with a frown.
"Your Majesty, do you look bad?" Li Jinglong stepped forward and asked with concern, "Why do you look so thin again? Are you still a little weak?"
Zhu Yunxi rolled his eyes at him and said nothing.
"Hey! In this big world, family affairs, national affairs, and affairs for hundreds of millions of people all fall on the shoulders of the emperor!" Li Jinglong sighed, "After seeing this, I feel that you... are too much. Difficult!"
"Well, I'm in trouble!" Zhu Yunxi glanced at him again, "Why am I in trouble? Isn't it because no one can help me?"
"I am incompetent! I cannot share the emperor's worries!" Li Jinglong immediately lowered his head and said with a random smile, "I am born stupid, there is nothing I can do about it. But although I am stupid, I have a filial heart!"
"Oh?" Zhu Yunxi looked at the other party suspiciously, "What filial piety?"
Li Jinglong smiled and presented the scroll in his hand with both hands.
"Your Majesty, you are the lord of the world, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty! You work hard and fast in the country and the country, and I cannot worry about the emperor in military affairs! Only some small tricks can relieve the emperor's fatigue!"
As he spoke, he unfolded the scroll with a smile, "I have said earlier that your life, Your Majesty, is too hard... You stay in the Forbidden City all year round. People outside think the Forbidden City is so good. In fact, In my opinion, that’s all it is!”
"I heard people say that soaking in hot springs can relieve fatigue, prolong life, and eliminate all kinds of diseases! But in Tangshan Town outside Yingtianfu, the hot springs have been famous for thousands of years! So I made my own decision and bought it there. Hundreds of acres of land. We have asked people to start construction on the model of the Royal Villa in the former Yuan Dynasty..."
"Aren't you talking nonsense?" Zhu Yunxi said angrily, "Aren't you spending money randomly?" After saying that, he stood up and looked down at the scroll, "Is this a blueprint?"
"Yes, yes, it is just a tentative drawing. Please correct me, Long Live Lord!" Li Jinglong said with a smile, "I heard that overseas kings have several villas. You are the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, so you can't wrong yourself, right?"
"Besides, in the future, more and more foreign vassals will come, and they will all be received in the Forbidden City, which will also lower the glorious power of the Ming Dynasty!"
"Hot spring?" Zhu Yunxi looked at the drawings, feeling a little hot in his heart.
The hot springs are great!
In my spare time, I take a few beauties with me...
"What do you think you are spending this money on?" Zhu Yunxi said angrily, "Am I an emperor who is greedy for pleasure?"
"I deserve to die!" Li Jinglong lowered his head and said, "I made my own decision!"
"You let the ministers outside know about it, and you still think that I want to build a palace?"
"I understand your guilt!" Li Jinglong said hurriedly, "But the construction has already started, we can't stop it!" He said with a smile, "Long live my Lord, I must say something inappropriate, you... you are always so miserable.
Look, I really can’t stand it! Besides, even if you don’t think about yourself, you should think about the Queen and the Crown Prince. At least with this hot spring resort, they can have a place to relax!”
"You! You are so clever!" Zhu Yunxi rolled his eyes at him again, pointed at the drawing and said, "What are these rows of houses for?"
"That's a place where deer and cranes are raised!" Li Jinglong said with a smile, "Next to the pine forest, the pines and cranes live longer!"
"Yeah!" Zhu Yunxi nodded, "Where is it?"
"Flower garden!" Li Jinglong said hurriedly, "Plant some exotic flowers and herbs!"
"Eating or drinking?" Zhu Yunxi glared at him again, "I don't do anything serious all day long!"