Just when Xia Yan was dejected, a piece of good news came.
Yuan Liyang seemed to have received some news and hurried to the center of the court.
"Your Majesty, the playing cards have been proofed. Please take a look."
"Oh, the mold was made so quickly. Come on, let me take a look."
A guard wearing armor brought up two playing cards and placed them in front of Xia Yan.
Xia Yan looked at the two playing cards below with confusion on his face.
"What, there are two pictures?"
Upon hearing this, Yuan Liyang hurriedly explained.
"Your Majesty, it's like this. The first one is a playing card made according to your drawings. It is beautifully made and brightly colored, but the cost is very high. It is very difficult to find the materials, so each playing card requires a hundred dollars.
The cost of money.”
"But the second one is a slightly cheaper playing card that we copied based on the playing cards of the first one. The material is cheap but the feel is relatively rough. The cost is only one penny per pair, so we want to let Your Majesty
Come choose!”
After hearing Yuan Liyang's words, Xia Yan's eyes seemed to flash with a light.
Isn't this coming? It's great to make playing cards. It costs one hundred cents to make a pair. You must know that one tael of silver is equivalent to one thousand cents.
In other words, for every ten decks of playing cards you know, you can consume one tael of silver.
The most important thing is that like Huazi, if this thing is promoted to the whole army, it will not improve the military index at all.
Moreover, it may cause the army to be idle and its combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced, which is simply a good place to burn money!
Afterwards, Xia Yan began to show a serious face and used a preaching tone.
"It must be the first type. Only those made from the first type of mold can be called playing cards. Otherwise, wouldn't they be just a pile of junk paper?"
"Yes, yes, then I will let the following do it."
"Well, how many playing cards can be produced every day?"
Yuan Liyang's brain began to spin rapidly when he heard this, and after some not-so-careful calculations, he spoke.
"Your Majesty, we currently only have one mold. We can produce about a hundred decks of playing cards every day."
"What the hell? Only a hundred?"
Xia Yan almost vomited blood when he heard this. If he had one hundred pairs, he would only be able to spend ten taels of silver a day just to play.
"Try every possible means to increase my production to more than two thousand per day. If possible, the more the better!"
"What the hell?"
At first, Yuan Liyang almost thought he heard wrongly.
This piece of shit is so expensive. Xia Yan actually plans to produce more than 2,000 yuan a day?
Isn't this an act of courting death?
Yuan Liyang just wanted to refute, but when he thought about Xia Yan's previous decisions that seemed to be extremely successful, he began to doubt himself slightly.
Is it possible that this thing can also have miraculous effects?...
After thinking about it, I still felt that maybe I was getting old, and maybe what Xia Yan said was right.
And the most important thing is that Daxia is rich now!
More than 60,000 taels of silver have just been put into the treasury in the past few days, and there is simply no way to spend it all. Such a small amount of silver is nothing.
Even if it is really wasted, just treat it as something for the little emperor to play with!
Thinking of this, Yuan Liyang felt much better. He didn't say anything more and just went down silently to prepare for the birth.
Seeing Yuan Liyang like this, Xia Yan said nothing more and announced his withdrawal from the court.
As usual, Xiao Haozi and Xiao Kaizi appeared in front of them just after announcing their resignation.
Xia Yan rolled his eyes, his life was no different from being imprisoned.
Others only saw the glory of being an emperor, but they never thought that they would have to live a life similar to being imprisoned every day.
Fortunately, I have worked hard to get rid of this life.
As long as you go back to your previous life and serve a small goal, you don't need to live a miserable life!
When he arrived in the study room, Xia Yan began to think silently about how he should spend his money.
It will definitely not work if you sink to the bottom of the water, but you have to think of some ways to keep yourself afloat.
Hmm... wasted?...
In an instant, Xia Yan's eyes flashed.
Yes, there is no lake in Daxia, but there is a Lake Tai that borders it.
Because the ownership of Tai Lake has always belonged to the Xi State, there was no ship in the entire Daxia territory.
If you spend huge sums of money to hire someone to make a ship, wouldn't it be flattering?
There was also an explanation to the officials that Daxia must have its own warships. Only with warships can a country be strong.
As for the lack of lakes, it has never been a problem. You can fool the officials and dock the ships to the edge of Tai Lake. When the country becomes stronger in the future, you can directly attack Xiguo on both land and water, and capture Xiguo in one fell swoop.
In this case, the warship can be put to use!
And you can also have an explanation, and you can waste a lot of money for no reason.
And since there are no ships in Daxia, no one in Daxia knows how to build ships.
If you want to build a ship, you must ask people from other countries to build it.
In this way, it can prevent silver coins from entering the hands of the people of the country and transferring assets abroad in disguised form.
Wonderful!
By the time a group of ministers discovered that the ship had been built, but they had been reluctant to issue the order to launch it, it was too late even if they knew they had been deceived.
Okay, just do it like this!
After thinking everything through, Xia Yan felt happy.
On the second day, Xia Yan couldn't wait to tell his thoughts to the officials.
After listening to Xia Yan's thoughts, all the ministers' eyes widened.
Good guy, there is no lake in the country, and at most it is a stream less than half a meter wide flowing in the city. You actually plan to build a boat?
Is this a brain show? Or is there too much money and no place to build it?
As for what Xia Yan said about the two armies of land and water occupying Xi Kingdom, a few people directly regarded it as fart.
What kind of spring and autumn dream is this?
You must know that there are six empires directly adjacent to Daxia, and the most powerful among them is the Xi Kingdom.
In terms of territory alone, the Xi Kingdom was more than three times the size of Daxia.
Not to mention the military, Daxia only has an army of 12,000 people even including the expansion in the past few days.
As for Xi State, it is said to have an army of one hundred thousand.
Moreover, the Xi Kingdom also had the 70,000 navy army that the Xia Dynasty had always dreamed of.
Among them, there are hundreds of warships alone.
It can be said that Xi State has already given face to Daxia without coming to invade Daxia, but Xia Yan actually still wants to invade Xi State.
It’s simply unreasonable!
Almost everyone's eyes showed embarrassment, but two people looked a little calm, Zhuge Liang and Di Renjie.
For some reason, Xia Yan felt something bad in his heart when he saw Zhuge Liang like this.
I wanted to explore Zhuge Liang's tone, but Zhuge Liang seemed to be tight-lipped and simply refused to answer what Xia Yan said.
Whether it was Xia Yan or the seven old men, Zhuge Liang just smoked Huazi silently, always saying those four words.
"Hua Zi is good." This chapter has been completed!