Datang: The prince of salted fish was overheard by Li Er

"Prince Chu, I still think there is something important."

"Isn't it just a matter of the land? It's simple. The Du family still has a few squares in the south of the city. Whichever one the King of Chu likes, I will immediately ask them to clean it up and hand it over to the King of Chu."

At this moment, Du Yan was immersed in his gratitude to Master Yin, and his idea of ​​cultivating low-level officials for Datang became more certain.

Hearing that Li You was distressed because he had no place to expand the new school, he immediately prepared to use the Du family's land.

Li You nodded in satisfaction and said: "Since Du Shangshu has such an idea, then the king will be disrespectful."

"To tell you the truth, in fact, this king did take a fancy to the cultivation workshop in the south of the city before."

"However, this king assured Du Shangshu..."

Li You was also very frank, he felt that there was no need to lie about his true intentions in this matter.

Although if Du Yan refused at this time, then everything he did today would come to naught, but he still believed that he was right about Du Yan.

Sure enough, before Li You could finish his sentence, Du Yan interrupted him.

"Prince Chu, if you say that, it makes me look stingy, doesn't it?"

"The old man's words have been said just now, so there is no intention to take them back."

"Chengnan Practice Workshop, right? No problem. This old man can make the decision."

"I just hope that the king of Chu can keep his promise and make full use of this huge market."

Although Du Yan's words and deeds were all within Li You's expectation, Li You was moved for a while when he really said it.

He hurriedly said: "Thank you Du Shangshu, within five years, this king will definitely build the practice workshop into a training base for the successor officials of the Tang Dynasty."

"This king already has a rough plan for the development of this square city..."

Then Li You simply stated his plan for the university town.

In the end, Li You concluded: "Please believe me, once the University City is established, the land price in the south of the city will increase exponentially."

"The Du family will not lose anything from this transaction, but will be one of the biggest beneficiaries."

After hearing Li You's plan, Du Yan was also shocked.

Although he seldom touches on business-related matters, he still has the basic concepts.

I have to say that Li You's plan as a university town is very attractive.

And as long as Li You doesn't make any big mistakes, Li You's identity is enough to complete this plan.

Although the five years Li You said seemed exaggerated to him, ten years was definitely enough for him.

Of course, what shocked Du Yan even more was Li You's business talent.

"Prince Chu, did you come up with this plan?"

Du Yan asked incredulously.

He has been in the Ministry of Officials for a long time, and among the local officials he has contacted are also good at business, but none of them can come up with the plan just now.

It is not too much to describe the person who came up with the plan just now as a business wizard.

This time Li You shook his head modestly and said, "Of course not, this is all the idea of ​​Wu Leichuan and the other teachers."

"By the way, this Wu Leichuan is now the vice-principal of Xinxue. Soon the king will ask his father to win a doctorate in Xinxue for him, and then ask Du Shangshu to show his respect."

After Wu Leichuan came over, Li You from Xinxue also acted as the hands-off shopkeeper, and handed over everything.

At the beginning, Kong Yingda still had some repulsion towards the little-known Wu Leichuan, and hoped that even if Li You didn't care about it himself, Xinxue would have to send someone from the Imperial College to manage it.

But after Kong Yingda got in touch with Wu Leichuan and his team, he completely gave up on this idea.

Wu Leichuan himself is a great Confucianist, and he is not much better than Li Gang, Kong Yingda, a master of Confucianism.

And Wu Leichuan's subordinates were also outstanding in their respective fields, which made Kong Yingda admire from the bottom of his heart that Li You was able to find so many capable people.

At the same time, it also made Kong Yingda full of expectations for Li You's new study.

Du Yan had also heard of the name Wu Leichuan, but he never thought that Li You would use him so much.

Leaving Wu Leichuan's personal ability aside, Li You's unquestionable employment alone made Du Yan look at Li You, the little prince, with admiration.

He nodded quickly and said: "This matter is easy to handle, but the normal selection process of the Ministry of Officials cannot be abolished. I just let the people below not make things difficult."

Li You kept thanking him after listening.

However, Du Yan continued: "King of Chu, although business can get a lot of money, it is still a small way after all!"

"Chu Wang is a prince, and what he will be responsible for in the future is to govern one side for His Majesty. Remember not to be too concerned about business."

Du Yan's words also represent the thinking of most of the scholar-bureaucrat class in this era, and it has always been the status quo of this era to emphasize agriculture and despise business.

In their view, land, resources, and manpower are the foundation of strength, and with these things, money is an accessory and a derivative.

And if you want to possess these three things for a long time, you can't do it with money. What you need is social relations and rights.

Just like Du Yan, he felt that it was enough that those squares and cities belonged to the Du family, and he didn't care whether the land price went up or down.

Anyway, without special circumstances, it is impossible for him to sell the land.

This is also the reason why although he was shocked by Li You's business plan, he still persuaded him in the end.

Li You nodded sensiblely, he understood that Du Yan was also doing it for his own good.

Although he was educated a few words, Li You's mood today was not affected at all.

Although the transaction has not been formally completed today, he believes that Du Yan will never regret it.

Among the cultivation workshops and the political maintenance workshops, the more difficult training workshops have already been obtained, and Li You feels that the Wei family's political maintenance workshops are at his fingertips.

Especially when thinking of the daughter of the Wei family, Li You felt a little more hopeful.

If it weren't for Du Yan's current affairs here, Li You would have planned to go directly to Wei's house.

Li You and Du Yan discussed some things about the future direction of Xinxue, but found that Du Yan's face was getting redder and redder.

Du Yan's blush was not because he was excited when he heard Li You's plan, his simplicity was just hot.

As early as just now, when reading the letter, Du Yan felt hot all over.

However, at that time, he didn't feel anything strange.

He felt that maybe it was because he was a little too excited after reading the letter.

However, as the conversation between Li You and him continued, the heat didn't subside, on the contrary, it got hotter and hotter.

Gradually, Du Yan felt a little unbearable.

But Li You was here, out of politeness, he could only endure it.

Seeing Du Yan's blushing face and sweat oozing, Li You smiled slightly and said, "Du Shangshu, do you think the thing that His Majesty bestowed to protect you from the cold is okay!"

Following Li You's fingers, Du Yan finally saw the stove under the corner.

"This is His Majesty's reward?"

Du Yan asked suspiciously.

Li You nodded and said, "This stove burns briquettes, which are much better than charcoal in terms of heat and burning time."

"When I came in just now, I ordered someone to ignite one, and the time we chatted, it has already started to play a role."