Take the mall to Datang

"Let me try!" Li Shimin was about to go up to try, when he heard his father-in-law worried: "Your Majesty, be careful of the dragon's body."

Li Chengqian's eyelids twitched for a while at this newly favored father-in-law. No matter how awkward his flattering expression and movements looked, he still reminded him aloud: "Father, you can't wear long gowns when riding a bicycle, or you will be caught." caught in the wheel."

Suddenly Li Shimin discovered that the crown prince was not wearing a long gown or a Hu suit. It was still a royal special, but the style was more streamlined and shorter than the Hu suit.

So when I was riding a bicycle just now, I didn’t encounter such troubles. What kind of character Li Shimin is, the Emperor of Tang Dynasty still cares about these things. It is impossible to take off his clothes, so he directly rolled up the robe and gown to his waist and squeezed it on. Following Li Chengqian's guidance, he began to learn to ride a bicycle.

Then he boldly kicked forward on the ground of his two legs, and after he boldly kicked up, fortunately, the place in the palace was big and flat enough, so he rode four or five times in a row, and he was sweating back and forth.

But the feeling of being upwind is really good.

It was a small mistake when braking, but I stopped with two legs.

"Father, my son has an idea about this bicycle, I don't know if I should say it or not." Li Chengqian said suddenly.

"Let's listen to it." Li Shimin was very happy.

So Li Chengqian said: "Father, the palace is so big that the ministers spend a lot of time on the road every day when they go to court. I know that there is also a three-wheeled bicycle that can carry two people on the back seat. Being able to use this kind of car to take ministers back and forth to court can save a lot of time for discussing state affairs."

"You have a good idea. Did that boy Yuan Shan tell you to say that?" Li Shimin's face, which was quite happy at first, immediately sank.

Seeing Li Shimin's face change, Li Chengqian's heart skipped a beat and seemed to sink, but he immediately argued: "Father, please don't get me wrong. This is the idea that I asked Yuan Shan to help me. I just want to share my father's worries. Shan has brain disease and cannot be an official, but it is undeniable that he is a talented person, so I talked about some things when I was chatting with him, so I came up with the idea of ​​using a bicycle to pick up and drop off. Doing harmless things.”

"Okay, there's nothing wrong with this matter. Let me tell you how much silver this bicycle needs. I've got it out of my internal treasury." Li Shimin immediately responded.

"Tricycle, three hundred cars!" Li Chengqian said.

Li Shimin's face changed slightly. There are many ministers like this. To buy a tricycle, you need to spend a small [-] guan in silver.

"I agree." Li Shimin's heart seemed to be bleeding. As an emperor, he had just established himself and was short of money. It was really distressing to spend one hundred thousand guan at once, but when he thought of his most beloved son , He gritted his teeth and agreed.

The next day, Yuan Shan looked at Li Chengqian with a proud expression, and said, "What's the matter, His Royal Highness, you look listless."

"It's not because of your bicycle. At that time, my heart was pounding. I was paying attention to the money of [-] yuan from the beginning to the end. I was afraid that something would happen." Li Chengqian said.

"It turned out that you were staring at money all night, don't you feel a little bit moved?" Yuan Shan smiled strangely.

"This is my father's money, what do you think?" Li Chengqian responded immediately, but what he said was not so decisive, it seemed that he really made up his mind but didn't dare to move.

"One hundred thousand is a lot, but it's only 1000 taels of gold. When the corn is harvested, you'll know that you're not short of this money." Yuan Shan tempted.

"Really, you're not lying to me, are you?" Li Chengqian asked doubtfully.

"You'll know when the time comes, but I'm sure it's enough for you to squander it for a while." Yuan Shan said, thinking in his heart that if you can really lose thousands of taels of gold, that's your skill. I don't know if your father will beat you at the time.

Speaking of corn, the busy farming season in the first year of Zhenguan seemed to be approaching. Li Chengqian was really concerned and asked, "How is the progress of the corn project?"

"At present, the seeds should have been transported to Chengdu. The reclaimed land is ready-made. The problem may be the transportation problem." Yuan Shan said.

"Then what do you say?" Li Chengqian asked.

"The best way is for the imperial court to organize road repairs, and use cement, and then buy pulley bearings from Yuan's family to make carriages, but there are also some problems." Yuan Shan said again.

"What's the question?" Li Chengqian asked directly in a hurry.

"There's not enough iron to make bearings," Yuan Shan said.

If you still don't understand what Yuan Shan means, then Li Chengqian can find a piece of tofu and crash him to death, but he has nothing to do about this kind of thing, so he can only stare wide-eyed...

Chapter 183 Building Materials Chamber of Commerce

The next day, thirty tricycles were delivered to the palace. Li Chengqian also had intentions. When Kong Ying arrived at the East Palace to give him a lecture that day, Li Chengqian had just entered the palace gate and stared at a tricycle to pick him up. The image of respecting the teacher spread.

In Xiande Palace, after Li Shimin heard about this incident, he dealt with the matters stated in some memorials after he praised the crown prince in front of all the officials.

This move of the crown prince has attracted the attention of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, and Li Chengqian's pressure has increased invisibly.

Since the opening of the haulage service for the Shang Dynasty, it has been praised by the ministers. Middle-aged and elderly civil servants like Pei Ji, Xiao Yu, Feng Deyi, Chen Shuda, Gao Shilian, etc. are very grateful for this matter.

In the Xiande Palace, Li Shimin was reviewing the memorial when he suddenly asked, "What is the prince doing recently?"

"Return to Your Majesty, His Royal Highness has been staying in the East Palace today and has not been out." The father-in-law next to Li Shimin replied.

"Is that true?" Li Shimin asked doubtfully.

"It's true, slaves dare not lie to His Majesty." The father-in-law said immediately.

Li Shimin just asked casually, determined in his heart that it seems that the prince is really staying in the palace honestly, thinking that this is strange, didn't the prince tell Yuan Shan last time that he wanted to mine iron ore.

There is a row of carriages parked in front of the office building of the Cotton Chamber of Commerce in Lantian County.

Zheng Man, Wei Da, Gong Shunan and others came to discuss the matter of the Building Materials Chamber of Commerce today. Before they entered the door, they saw a crowded textile factory with two rows of horses, carts, ox carts, and a group of people standing at the door. Looking inside.

"The cotton business is really good," Gong Shunan said.

"Gong Shunan, if you want to do it, you can find a horse-drawn carriage and line up. The cotton is in short supply. Look at those people who came here early in the morning before dawn. A cart of cotton can at least make a few bucks. Chang'an can't even supply it." Come on, the recent batch of merchants are all foreign merchants, and some of them have been queuing here for three days, and they still haven't received the goods yet." Wei Da said.

"Your Wei family seems to have made a lot of money." Gong Shunan said casually.

"Haha, everything is thanks to the President's blessing." Wei Da said.

Zheng Man led the way and soon came to Yuanshan's office on the third floor. Just after entering, the whole wooden floor, spacious wooden decoration, the room is antique, and everything in the partitioned living room is unique.

"You guys are here, sit down." Seeing someone coming, Yuan Shan directly asked people to sit on the cotton sofa.

Sitting on such a soft sofa suddenly, Gongsun Nan almost thought he was going to fall, and everyone laughed when they saw it.

"President Yuan Shan, what is this thing made of, and why is it so soft." Gong Shunan asked curiously.

"This is a sofa, nothing special. This thick cushion is filled with cotton, which is why it is so soft. If you like it, why don't you just buy more cotton and cotton cloth and go back and sew it." Yuan Shan said Feng Qingyun Dan, he has no shortage of cotton, but the three people who are doing it, even Zheng Man of the Zheng family, can't buy so much cotton, let alone the other two.

So the three of them listened to it as polite words, and didn't take it to heart at all.

The four of them talked about the building materials chamber of commerce in detail, and it went very smoothly. The office building of the building materials chamber of commerce temporarily rented a [-]-square-meter hall of the cotton chamber of commerce as a temporary office area for the chamber of commerce.

No one objected, and then Yuanshan dispatched Zhou Liang as the construction director of the kiln factory to start working with several companies.

Seeing off a few people, Yuan Shan sat on the boss's stool, put his feet on the table and said that being the boss is pretty good, but he is a bit busy. Now Datang has two "industrial" chambers of commerce. Down to do something.

Xin said it would be good to take Qin Si and the others with her when she went out today, so they all went out to find Ma Zhou.

As soon as he entered Ma Zhou's office, he saw that Ma Zhou was almost overwhelmed by the bills and bills. The thick bills on the table almost made him think that Ma Zhou was going to take the college entrance examination.

Yuan Shan called him, but he didn't respond at all when he came in. He was too involved, so he called, "Ma Zhou."

Ma Zhou raised his head and immediately responded: "President, you are here."

"I'll go, Ma Zhou, you haven't rested for a few days, why do you have dark circles under your eyes like giant pandas?" Yuan Shan cried out when he saw Ma Zhou.