"Did you bring someone to carry away the money from the king's side room?"
Li Xuan asked slowly.
"Back to your Majesty, you are just a villain!"
Li Chang replied quickly.
"Where did the money go?"
Looking at Li Chang's extremely serious face, the anger in Li Xuan's heart suddenly became less intense.
"My lord, don't you remember?"
Li Chang looked puzzled.
"Does this king know?"
Li Xuan was stunned.
"Your Majesty, I have told you before that I invested all your Majesty's money into Lu Jiansi!"
Li Chang said with a serious face.
"Did you vote for Lu Jiansi?"
Li Xuan looked strange, "But the road from Chang'an to Qingzhou!"
"Back to your Majesty, that's exactly the way!"
Li Chang had a guilty look on his face, "I'm ashamed of myself, I have invested a total of 100,000 yuan in the Jin Palace, but I didn't even get half of it!"
Li Xuan: "..."
He didn't expect that his housekeeper would do such a big thing without saying a word!
"Did you know that even the Wang family in Taiyuan only invested 60,000 yuan!"
"Your Majesty, the Wang family is just a noble family in a county, and they are the people under your rule. How dare he surpass the Jin Palace!"
Li Xuan was speechless. He actually saw a hint of pride in Li Chang's old face, which was full of wrinkles and traces of time.
Old housekeeper, you are drifting!
Then, when he thought of something, his eyes widened.
"Butler, how much money does the palace have now?"
"Back to your Majesty, I still have 20,000 yuan left in case of emergency!" Li Chang replied.
"There are still 20,000 guan, that's good!"
After hearing this, Li Xuan couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.
You can still keep on wandering!
"But please don't worry, Your Majesty. It's the end of the month soon. According to past practice, the palace can probably still get 30,000 guan of money!"
Li Chang added again.
"Very good!"
Li Xuan was finally relieved.
There is a lot of money in the family, which can be spent as much as you want.
"I wonder if there is anything else your Majesty has to do?"
Li Chang asked again.
"It's okay for now!"
Li Xuan waved his hand.
"Since the king is fine, I will take my leave first. Those brats outside will build a separate courtyard for the king. I will have to keep an eye on it from time to time!"
Li Chang said quickly.
"what ever!"
Li Xuan nodded, "But as the steward of the palace, you can leave these matters to your servants, so why bother!"
"If you leave it to others, I won't worry!"
Li Chang replied firmly.
Li Xuan waved his hand helplessly. The old man was too stubborn and he couldn't persuade him.
…
On this day, while Old Man Li was returning to Chang'an, Li Xuanzheng was stroking Li Xiong with a happy look on his face.
Li Chang came to Li Xuan with sweatdrops.
"Your Majesty, Zheng Balang and Cui Wulang want to see you!"
"Why did the two of them come to see me?"
Li Xuan asked.
"Go back to the king, I don't know!"
Li Chang replied honestly.
"Forget it, let them two come in!" Li Xuan said helplessly.
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Li Chang responded respectfully and walked out quickly.
A moment later, the two familiar faces of Cui Hongmo and Zheng Mingde appeared in front of Li Xuan.
"The villain has seen the great king!" "The villain has seen the great king!"
"You two don't need to be polite!"
Li Xuan nodded lightly.
"I wonder why you two came to see me?"
"Back to your Majesty, I am here to report to your Majesty the situation of the cotton clothing workshop in the past few months!"
With that said, Cui Hongmo took out a ledger and handed it to Li Xuan respectfully.
"Cotton clothing workshop?"
Li Xuan's face was full of doubts, but he still subconsciously took the account book in his hand.
Cui Hongmo and Zheng Mingde couldn't help but feel pain in their hearts.
"Your Majesty, please don't forget that the cotton-padded clothes workshop is a small workshop jointly run by Your Majesty and I. We sew cotton-padded clothes with white sheets..."
"Don't worry, you two, I will certainly remember this!"
Li Xuan laughed sarcastically and asked quickly: "Why is this account book so thick? In addition to sewing cotton-padded clothes, what other clothes have been sewed?"
Cui Hongmo and Zheng Mingde looked helpless, but they still explained.
"Your Majesty, the cotton clothing workshop cooperates with Your Majesty to obtain wool without the smell of sheep from the Shaofujian, then spin the wool thread on a reel, and then sell the wool thread to the Shaofujian!"
"I am processing wool thread for His Majesty, I know!"
Li Xuan nodded slightly and recalled it completely.
Open the account book in your hand and start reading.
"How much money has the cotton clothing workshop made in the past few months?"
Hearing this, Cui Hongmo and Zheng Mingde couldn't help but burst into tears. The king finally knew how to care about the situation of the cotton-padded clothes workshop!
"Back to your Majesty, the cotton-padded clothes workshop used to sell cotton-padded clothes and earned more than 200 yuan. Not long ago, during the spring plowing, because we needed to sow Baidiezi, we hired ten old farmers and planted more than 20 acres of land. Because we needed to buy land,
A total of twenty strings were spent.
During this period, I made a total of twenty guan of money by spinning wool thread for the Shaofu Supervisor!"
"It means that except for the money earned from selling cotton-padded clothes, basically the cotton-padded clothes workshop has not made any money in the past few months?" Li Xuan was stunned.
"Your Majesty is wise!"
Cui Hongmo and Zheng Mingde said quickly.
"You are from an aristocratic family with five surnames and seven families. The two of you run a small workshop together, but you can't make any money?"
Li Xuan was speechless.
"Your Majesty, Mingjian, the cotton-padded clothing workshop was only built for Baidianzi and made a living by making clothes. However, there were not many Baidianzi in the Tang Dynasty. Instead, they spun wool threads for the Shaofujian, and a pound of woolen threads only cost five cents.
And a pound of wool does cost three cents!”
Cui Hongmo looked bitter.
"You are also the two most miserable among the children of the aristocratic family!"
Li Xuan sighed somewhat depressedly.
"In a few days, when your majesty has enough wool, you can sell the wool directly to you!"
"Your Majesty, I have thought of a good deal for the cotton-padded clothing workshop, and I have come to ask your Majesty for your approval!"
Cui Hongmo and Zheng Mingde said with expectant faces.
"Oh, what's the deal?"
Li Xuan's face was filled with curiosity.
"Back to your Majesty, it's tea!"
Cui Hongmo glanced at Li Xuan cautiously and continued: "The tea made by the king is simple and easy to brew, and has a refreshing and elegant taste. If it is sold, many literati will love it. And those rich businessmen and powerful people will buy it like crazy!
"
"I don't know what the king wants?"
"Sell!"
Li Xuan waved his hand, his face full of surprise.
Tea!
Why didn't he expect that the tea in the previous life was not only liked by literati, but also by eighty-year-old men and ten-year-old children, regardless of gender or national boundaries.
Anyone likes it!
Moreover, the price of high-quality tea is tens of thousands, or even more than 100,000 per catty.
Nowadays, why can’t a pound of roasted tea be worth ten sticks?
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Cui Hongmo and Zheng Mingde both looked overjoyed.
"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, with Your Majesty's tea leaves, we and I will definitely be able to sell these tea leaves to all parts of the Tang Dynasty within a year!"
"Why all over the Tang Dynasty?"
Li Xuan couldn't help but frown slightly.
"We are stupid and don't understand the king's intention!" Zheng Mingde asked cautiously.
Li Xuan chuckled and said slowly: "Since the purpose of selling tea is to make money, why not sell it to Tibet, Goguryeo, and Turks? Even the Japanese can sell it!"
"Your Majesty, how virtuous and capable are those barbarians to deserve to drink tea?"
Cui Hongmo and Zheng Mingde looked arrogant and looked down upon those barbarian hozens.
Since ancient times, only the real nobles and literati could drink tea. Those barbarian hozens outside the Tang Dynasty were not even qualified to stand aside and take a look!
This is the attitude of the noble family towards those barbarians.
Some items can be sold to the barbarians, but the barbarian hozens don't even think about those things that belong to the literati, especially the pride of the aristocratic families.