Take the mall to Datang

Everyone is clinging to their jobs and they don't have to think about anything else, they just need to continue working here, and soon Yu Jingming, Ma Zhou and other main managers will be busy with their own work, while they are following Yuan Shan gathered together and started to discuss.

"Yuan Pushe, did you agree to His Majesty's request this time?" Hao Dayi asked.

"The projects carried out after the Ministry of Economic Development must be carried out under the supervision of the Sixth Ministry. All income except for the established taxes will belong to the Ministry of Economic Development. However, except for the development of projects and staff expenses, the expenses need to be reported to His Majesty. It can only be used after obtaining permission." Yuan Shan said.

"In this way, in addition to the investment in carrying out the project, wouldn't the cost management be much stricter?" Hao Dayi said.

"Yes, these sacrifices are necessary for the development of the Ministry of Economic Development. Besides, operating under a standardized system is the key to healthy development. In addition, the Ministry of Economic Development has to set up a special financial team to be responsible for supervision and statistics. The accounts of the Ministry and its subordinate industries." Yuan Shan said.

Then several people recorded all the conditions that Yuan Shan told His Majesty, and solved the things that can be solved now.

After the winter, the people in the Ministry of Economic Development were very motivated. After paying back the money to Li Shimin, the small business stopped investing, and the main work focus was all shifted to industrial projects.

For example, wine making and the operation and management of Datang Mining Company and Passepartout Freight Company.

Improving the system is what the subordinates are doing, and Li Shimin mentioned that the authority and functions of the Ministry of Economic Development are also being evaluated.

Because in the near future, the authority of the Ministry of Finance of the imperial court will be separated, and the Ministry of Economic Development will be responsible for economic activities, while the Ministry of Finance will be responsible for tax verification and other matters.

To put it simply, the Ministry of Finance is responsible for the taxation of the national treasury, and the Ministry of Economic Development will use its expertise to manage all businesses in Chang'an City, and the scope of power has been expanded again.

Yuan Shan and the others started to get busy. They couldn't get involved in taxation issues, but they had to do everything from business practices to industry development statistics.

This is only the first step of collecting basic data. If you want to develop a business drastically, you need to analyze all the information before making a plan.

The area of ​​Chang'an City is very limited. If this continues, it will definitely restrict the development of Chang'an. Therefore, Yuanshan and the Ministry of Economic Development are very concerned about this matter. Their temporary goal is to expand the scale of Chang'an City.

Yuanshan is still very confident about this, and it is still a very heavy workload to check out every shop in Chang'an.

After a few months, the industries of the Ministry of Economic Development have maintained a stable income status. At the same time, after such a long period of data collection, the shops in Chang'an City have been clearly understood.

Especially in the case of the eastern and western cities, this is the main commercial district of Chang'an City, the area with the largest flow of activities, so Yuan Shan set his mind on these fan merchants.

Datang's goods are very popular, but the scale of roads and freight restricts economic growth, and these are problems that the Ministry of Economic Development must solve.

Fate to the teahouse.

"Ma Zhou, the business of Passepartout Freight Company should start with these foreign merchants, find someone to contact them, the motorcade of the Ministry of Economic Development will organize all the foreign merchants to do business, and the Ministry of Economic Development will also expand some foreign business. " Yuan Shan said.

"Yuan Pushe, do we really want to go out and sell goods by ourselves? It's very dangerous to do so." Yu Jingming reminded.

"Our Passepartout is also equipped with guards, and they are all brave and good at fighting. Although it is a bit risky, in order to understand the situation in Fanbang, this thing must be done." Yuan Shan said.

Chapter 549

In Chang'an City, the East and West cities, the Economic and Development Departments are actively stocking up these days.

Established a good relationship with some fan merchants, and formed a number of joint caravans from Chang'an to go to Fanbang for trade.

Ma Zhou selected a thousand horse-drawn carriages from the convoy that had just returned from Cangzhou. Each fan merchant team had a size of at least [-] carriages, and they went to Tubo, Monan Turks, Baekje, Silla and other places.

It took nearly a month from preparation to departure. For this trade, Li Shimin sent a team of thousands of people to go back and forth with the business group.

The imperial court also paid attention to business matters, but their attitude was neither against nor support.

The Ministry of Economic Development has dispatched dozens of people from the city to be responsible for the trade of each business group, and each caravan is also equipped with a painter who will draw maps along the way. For this reason, the Lantian Medical Center also sent a medical team to follow. Their purpose is not only to In addition to treating patients, it is also necessary to record Fanbang's herbs, plants, medical skills, living habits, etc.

The business group's recent route goal will take a month or so, so the living supplies are also well prepared. In Yuan Shan's view, foreign business is very important, but the safety of the business group's personnel is always the first.

Yuanlai Tea House still has a lot of people every day. The multiplayer harmony version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is hard to get tired of listening to, but always listening to a book will always make you tired, especially after Li Chengqian paid for the Romance of the Three Kingdoms to be compiled into a book. , the sales volume is very high.

Although the sales volume is very large, this kind of romance novels are also classified as low-end books. For candidates rushing for the exam, these are miscellaneous books, even if they are not helpful, they still attract a large number of scholar readers.

As a result, in order to prevent these candidates from wasting time on these books, the Confucian school led by Kong Yingda began to strongly advocate boycotting these books.

After Kong Yingda did this, Li Chengqian was embarrassed. After all, he had a great interest in making money from publishing books. Now his teacher came out to stop this and made it difficult for him. Although he didn't say anything later, he still felt a little uncomfortable.

Within a few days after Kong Yingda came forward, all the Romance of the Three Kingdoms books on the market were withdrawn, so many people began to go to the original teahouse to listen to the books every now and then.

But many people did not expect that in addition to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, storytellers began to talk about a new content called "Journey to the West".

Why don't people come to the teahouse to listen to the books every day? Compared with Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West is more popular with people. People in feudal society are very superstitious.

Even some Taoist priests and monks have become audiences, so some debates are unavoidable, but teahouse storytellers still intentionally control the public opinion of propaganda, mainly advocating the story in the book, rather than feudal obsession .

However, what is unexpected is that after listening to Journey to the West, many people began to think about some extra stories, so the stories that were deduced from various deliberations were even more attractive than Journey to the West itself.

Then Yuanlai Teahouse opened a discussion program, where people discussed the stories and characters in the book at a fixed time. The popularity was no less than that of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and even more lively.

The flash mob crew has added a new drama this time, and there will be a performance every ten days.

These are all trivial matters. What Yuan Shan cares more about is the interest value created behind these activities. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms book was not printed, which lost a lot of benefits, so Li Chengqian did not print it, and Yuan Shan began to look for other books. Businessman invests.

There are many rich merchants in Chang'an City, so after Journey to the West was mentioned more than a dozen times, Romance of the Three Kingdoms books began to go on sale again.

The person who contributed the money was from the Shi family, not only invested in the publishing rights of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but also reserved the publishing rights of the next Journey to the West.

The cost of publishing a book is very high, and Yuanjia Papermaking Workshop contracted this business.

In the next few days, Yuan Shan was ruthlessly impeached by Kong Yingda, but Yuan Shan didn't care about him.

Everything is carried out in accordance with the needs of the market and business practices. In this regard, even His Majesty the Tang Dynasty has no money to interfere.

In the palace, Li Shimin was busy with official duties, not to mention reviewing many memorials every day, he also had to deal with some trivial matters.

"Your Majesty, do you have a headache? Do you want to send for the imperial doctor?" said Empress Changsun.

"No need, it's not that I have a headache, but this Yuan Shan is looking for trouble for me again." Li Shimin said.

When Empress Changsun heard that people were involved, she couldn't speak up.

"This Yuanshan's publication of a book can cause Kong Yingda's impeachment, and there is no one who has the ability to cause trouble." Li Shimin said.

Then Li Shimin talked about the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Kong Yingda as if telling a joke.

After hearing this, Empress Changsun said: "Kong Yingda is also thinking about the candidates of the scientific examination, and Yuan Pushe is busy with the business of the Tang Dynasty. At this moment, it is really hard to say who is right and who is wrong."

Li Shimin smiled playfully after hearing this, for a person in power like him doesn't care about right and wrong.

"Okay, maidservant Guanyin, it's getting late, you should step back first." Li Shimin said.

He still has some memorials to review, and it's too early to rest now.

After Empress Changsun left, Li Shimin looked at Kong Yingda's memorial and shook his head, put down the memorial and took out a book from the book left on the table. This was the hardcover version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

The card description in the book records the progress of the reading, and Li Shimin read it after opening it.

Among the books on the table are two new books written by Li Jing, both of which are taken from the art of war and strategy in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.