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

When they came to Qinzheng Hall, Li Shimin asked with condolences, "You'er, are you alright? Is the fire at Shence Mansion a big loss?"

[It's okay, Li Er, you have a conscience, if you know, first ask me if I'm okay. 】

[Speaking of which, if you hadn't sneaked up to the banquet last night, would labor and management have transferred Shence Guard over here! 】

[In this way, you are also an accomplice in this fire, and you have to lose money! 】

Li You complained in his heart and said: "Your Majesty, my son was resting in the palace last night and was not affected by the fire."

"This time, the Shence Mansion is expected to lose as much as 80 million guan!"

Speaking of which, Li You also made a frustrated expression.

The figures reported by Li You caused an uproar among the ministers in the Palace of Qinzheng.

After calming down, Changsun Wuji asked, "King Yan, the original cost of the Shence Mansion was only one hundred thousand guan. Why did a fire cause such a huge loss?"

With a sad face, Li You explained helplessly: "Duke Qi didn't know, this time the fire burned down more than half of the houses in Shence Mansion, including the most important industrial paper workshop and printing workshop in Shence Mansion!"

"Back then, it cost more than a million dollars to build these two workshops, but I didn't want it to be turned into nothing in just over a year."

[Actually, the actual loss this time is tens of thousands, but how can those aristocratic families be complacent without saying more. 】

[And I didn't lie to you about this number, it was reported to me by Liu Bowen, if you have any questions, you can ask him! 】

When they heard that the papermaking workshop and printing workshop had been burned, all the officials expressed regret.

At this moment, their regret was real.

Although the Tang family hated the books printed by the printing workshop for shaking their foundation of controlling scholars, they liked the paper made by the Shence Mansion quite a lot.

Especially recently, Shence House Paper Mill also launched a kind of gospel roll paper, which was in short supply as soon as it came out, and was highly sought after by major families.

It can be said that the appearance of the Gospel scrolls solved the immediate problems faced by many officials in the Tang Dynasty.

After hearing Li You say that the paper workshop was also burned, the first reaction of many officials was regret.

I regret that I didn't send more people to snap up some Gospel scrolls before, and I regret that I didn't cherish the scrolls when I used them, it was too wasteful.

Sure enough, after a while of silence, Cheng Yaojin was the first to break the silence: "What, the paper workshop was also burned!"

"Is the gospel scroll still available for sale?"

Hearing Cheng Yaojin mention the gospel scroll, Li You almost couldn't hold back his laughter.

The word Gospel on this gospel scroll is just for the sake of being nice, but it is actually the scroll used in toilets in today's society.

As early as Liu Yijie reported to Li You that Cheng Yaojin and others bought a large number of books to use in the toilet, Li You had already started the idea of ​​rolling paper business.

However, the task of printing was relatively heavy at that time, so Li You asked them to use white paper instead.

After the printing task was slowed down, Li You specially asked Haig to develop softer and cheaper gospel roll paper based on modern papermaking technology, and also built a roll paper workshop to produce roll paper.

At that time, the space in the Shence Mansion was already insufficient. This workshop was actually not in the Shence Mansion, and it was not affected this time.

But at this time, Li You didn't want to expose this matter.

He said regretfully: "The reality is so cruel, I'm afraid I will disappoint Duke Lu."

Cheng Yaojin did not give up and asked: "How long will it take to rebuild the workshop?"

Li You pretended to think for a while and said, "It will take half a year to re-establish the workshop, and even after the workshop is established, the production of paper for printing should be given priority."

"As for the re-production of the Gospel scrolls, I guess we'll have to wait a year later!"

Hearing this, Cheng Yaojin's face collapsed.

If it wasn't in front of Li Shimin at this time, he probably would have burst into tears with his upright personality.

But even though he didn't cry, he still kept thinking about it: "What can I do, if I knew it, I would have bought more."

"How can it be possible for me to use bamboo after I'm used to rolling paper!"

Suddenly Cheng Yaojin seemed to have thought of something, he immediately said to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, I think there is something to do in the barracks, please leave immediately!"

Hearing Cheng Yaojin's words, everyone didn't understand what he meant.

I'm afraid it's fake because something happened in the military camp, but it's true that they ran back to stock up.

In fact, among the ministers present, there are quite a few people who have the same thoughts as Cheng Yaojin, but they are not as direct as Cheng Yaojin.

Listening to Cheng Yaojin's broken thoughts and his clumsy lies, Li You couldn't help but said: "Lu Guogong doesn't need to be so anxious."

"Fortunately, the warehouse where the Gospel scrolls were stored was not burned down this time. If Duke Lu needs it, I will buy more of the stock for you."

When Cheng Yaojin heard this, he immediately grinned: "That's a good relationship."

"Yan Wang, you don't know, the old Cheng family has a lot of children, so this paper is used up quickly. It really needs a little more..."

"Cough cough!"

However, before Cheng Yaojin finished speaking, he was interrupted by a cough.

It was Li Shimin who coughed.

At this moment, Li Shimin said with a livid face: "Your, since this gospel roll cannot be produced for the time being, the current stock needs to be fully utilized."

"I think it's better to send all of them to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and dispatch them from the palace."

Hearing this, Cheng Yaojin's complexion became ugly again. If all these things were brought into the palace and then distributed to him, then there would be more left.

He looked at Li Shimin helplessly and said, "Your Majesty, this is not so good... I have so many children..."

However, Li Shimin didn't respond to him, but just gave him a hard look.

'Your family has many children, your family can have as many children as mine! '

Being stared at by Li Shimin, Cheng Yaojin had no choice but to be honest.

A man can bend and stretch, and he has to confess when it's time to confess. If the family ran out of paper, he would take the children into the palace and let them go to the toilet in the palace.

Seeing that Cheng Yaojin was going to be honest, Li Shimin continued: "Your, this matter should be done as I said. Later, I will send someone to fight with you. I don't want the money from your household department. Get it out of the internal treasury." .”

Seeing Li Shimin remembered that the internal treasury was taken out, Li You could only agree with a suppressed smile.

Fortunately, Li You was thinking about other things at the moment. If Li Shimin knew from his heart that the Rolling Paper Workshop was still there, he didn't know how he would feel.

With the Gospel Scroll and Cheng Yaojin's gags, the originally oppressive atmosphere in the Hall of Qinzheng was relieved to a certain extent, and Li You also eased from the tense atmosphere when he first came up.

[Hey, you guys can't think of it, there are people who are more anxious than me, so just use any tricks. 】

[Grandpa Li You is here! 】

However, to Li You's surprise, Kong Yingda, who was the first to stand up, was Guozijian Jijiu.