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"Lan Lan, why are you always hanging around in front of my desk when you're okay, showing off your long legs?" Yuan Shan said.

"Hmph, didn't Hou Ye keep paying attention to my legs while reading a book, isn't it good-looking?" Lan Lan asked back.

"I'm absolutely sure that it's too noisy for you to talk about it." Yuan Shan was speechless, and now he has no airs with the girls, so there is no need to be tense because it is useless at all.

"Master Hou, I'm wearing cotton slippers, and I don't make any sound when I walk." Lan Lan said, then turned around and ignored him.

Yuan Shan said silently who has the final say in this family.

With a look of helplessness on her face, she saw a group of women sitting there with smiles all over their faces. After a while, Lan Lan walked up and down in front of the table again, and even changed into a suit for Dugu Ruolan and Du Qianyu in the inner courtyard. skirt.

So Yuanshan slipped away again, always holding the books upside down. The girls laughed coquettishly when they saw them, but they just didn't say anything.

"Where did Caiyi go? Are you bullying her again?" Yuan Shan asked.

"How can I just want to share my experience with her, who knows that sister Caiyi always avoids us, alas, we are very helpless." Lan Lan said.

Yuan Shan heard about Caiyi, and knew that the reason for these people's intentions was simple. He was envious and jealous. He didn't think that Caiyi's face was really too thin. Caiyi didn't come to the study for the past few days. To be honest, he was a little bit Not very comfortable.

"Go and call Caiyi here, you guys are a bit presumptuous these days, you really should ask Da Furen to teach you." Yuan Shan said.

Immediately, the complexions of the girls turned bad. If the same women let the hostess know that they have nothing to do recently, they will not be punished for molesting their own master. They are not afraid of Yuan Shan, but they are still a little afraid of Dugu Ruolan.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw that all the girls were honest, and Yuan Shan was quite proud of himself.

Lord Ben Hou is in a good mood today, so don’t sit still, let’s sing and dance, it seems that I haven’t danced for a long time, life lies in exercise.

Then there was the sound of playfulness in the inner courtyard of the Hou Mansion.

Yan Lide, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, was discussing matters with several ministers in the palace at this time.

Yan Lide looked embarrassed: "The Ministry of Economic Development has confirmed that the Ministry of Industry will be responsible for the four mines this time. The Ministry of Industry may not have enough personnel. Please allow your Majesty to call more people."

Li Shimin doesn't quite agree, but it's impossible for no one to dig mines, all they dig is money.

"Your Ministry of Industry can discuss these matters on your own, and let me listen to you at the end." Li Shimin said.

He didn't want to pay attention to these things. Recently, the Supreme Emperor planned to go out to escape the summer heat. His son had to make arrangements for him, and the Li Palace left by Emperor Yangdi of Sui Dynasty, the Supreme Emperor hated the bad luck and didn't want to go. Faced with such pressure, his son had to choose to build the Daming Palace. , in fact, he is also a little cautious, otherwise he would not allow large-scale construction.

Yan Lide and other important ministers had originally broken up to discuss this matter, but they didn't expect Yan Lide to say this matter. It was nothing more than asking for money to hire workers and not paying them.

And judging from the current income of the people, they prefer to pay cloth, gold and silver to exempt from corvee, because these things can be earned back in only a few days, and it is basically not worthwhile to go to the Ministry of Industry to work for a month.

The common people are like a mirror in their hearts. Now the corvee order is tantamount to using people in vain. Usually, only some really poor counties will send people to participate. It is very difficult to hire workers here in Chang’an. Corvettes, even the Li family in the world don't treat people like this.

But the final impact is that Yan Liben, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, is tired of doing it. The final solution to the personnel problem is that some corvee orders and most of them are long-term employees who really need to be paid.

In addition, the working hour system that the engineering team is currently implementing has been popularized by the people themselves. The eight-hour work system, the more you work, the more you get. Of course, there is no such benefit in the Ministry of Industry, so the people are naturally unwilling Work in the Ministry of Industry.

If you want to make money, you can go directly to Lantian County, but there is a shortage of manpower there.

After Yan Lide left the palace, he was a little absent-minded. The people needed for the mining of the four mines cannot be satisfied by thousands of people. In addition, the Ministry of Industry now has a lot of projects, and the construction of Daming Palace is the top priority.

The next day Yan Lide went directly to the Ministry of Economics and Development to look for Yuan Shan, and it happened that Yuan Shan was still there today.

The two exchanged a few words and then got to the point.

"Your Majesty wants to build the Daming Palace. The Ministry of Industry is short of manpower. You need to help out with ideas." Yan Lide said.

Yuan Shan thought for a while and said: "The Ministry of Industry is short of manpower, so you can hire an engineering team. The Building Materials Chamber of Commerce and the Luoyang Chamber of Commerce have engineering teams, which should be able to help you solve many problems."

Yan Lide said embarrassingly, "That's the reason. It's just that the cost of hiring labor is limited. I'm afraid they won't accept this project."

"It's really hard to say if the Daming Palace is built. You think that if the private engineering team participates in the construction of the imperial city building, the honor cannot be exchanged for thousands of dollars. The merchants are very shrewd. You know that you promised to give them a Royal Queen's engineering team They are willing to give no money for the title." Yuan Shan said.

Yan Lide was even more embarrassed, the royal engineering team, he didn't dare to say that directly.

Chapter 711

Yan Lide really told His Majesty about the external engineering. Li Shimin agreed when he learned that he could save money, but he didn't have the name of the royal engineering team, so he could only admit the fact that the engineering team participated in the construction of Daming Palace.

With these words, Yan Lide gained some confidence.

During the bidding meeting for the authorization of the mining site, many people paid more attention to the announcement posted by the imperial court. The people in Chang'an knew that His Majesty the Tang Dynasty was going to build the Daming Palace for the Supreme Emperor, and it became a topic of discussion among the people after dinner.

The merchants who came to Chang'an from other places usually like to go shopping in Chang'an City when they have nothing to do. The snacks provided by the street vendors are very delicious. Many merchants are studying how to bring a lot of snacks back to open their own shops.

A group of more than a dozen people from the Luoyang Chamber of Commerce arrived in Chang'an a few days ago.

The people who came to Chang'an City this time were all Luoyang rich and wealthy, Jia Chengwang, Lin Zian, Yu Weizhi, Zhou Yinian, Luo Hongde and others were all shareholders of the Luoyang Chamber of Commerce, and their shareholding ratios varied, but undoubtedly their families were very rich.

Xu Zimo is the head steward of the Luoyang Chamber of Commerce and a businessman himself.

The Luoyang Chamber of Commerce is very different from other industry chambers of commerce. The composition of the chamber of commerce is more like an alliance of business groups. When doing things together, they all start in the form of projects. Those who are interested can contribute money. It’s as simple as that. The force is even stronger.

With the development of Luoyang over the past year, pig raising has made money, vegetable greenhouses have made money, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishing, as long as there are Luoyang chambers of commerce in Chang'an, they have copied it, cement roads have also extended a lot in Luoyang, waterwheels, Luoyang has everything from claims water systems to steam trucks.

Even the horseshoes and pedals made by blacksmiths are learned from Chang'an blacksmiths. What Chang'an has, Luoyang can now have. Lu Zi'ang's mines support thousands of people. Dozens of people will become apprentices.

After the establishment of the engineering team of the Luoyang Chamber of Commerce, rich businessmen in Luoyang were very interested in it. Each family formed an engineering team of dozens of people, and made money together under the leadership of the Luoyang Chamber of Commerce.

After arriving in Chang'an, I heard that the royal family was going to build the Daming Palace, and this time they were planning to recruit civil engineering teams to supplement their manpower. Many people began to think about it.

It was a coincidence that the Engineering Team of the Building Materials Chamber of Commerce and the Engineering Team of the Luoyang Chamber of Commerce became rivals in the election.

"President, the Building Materials Chamber of Commerce took action yesterday. It is said that they are looking for experienced carpenters in Chang'an City. They must want to undertake and participate in the construction of Daming Palace." Xu Zimo said.

"Don't worry, the building materials chamber of commerce is probably the only one that can compete with strength. Our Luoyang chamber of commerce should be very interested in this, but right now we still need to solve one thing at a time," Lu Ziang said.

The Lu family's iron ore mining rights have not yet expired, so he is unable to participate, so the merchants of the Luoyang Chamber of Commerce will take over in a few days after participating in their own names. He believes that the Ministry of Economic Development will act vigorously.

At this time, the businessmen who were chatting changed the topic.

Lin Zian said: "Chairman Lu heard that a boiler factory is being built in Lanzhou to build heating facilities in Lanzhou. He heard that it was started with money from several state officials. If there is a way, can we also do it. "

The businessman Lu Ziang is well-informed and naturally knows about this matter. In addition, he also knows that Zheng Yifu directly reorganized four concrete buildings in Lanzhou for office areas and sub-leasing.

In order to make money, the Luoyang Chamber of Commerce followed Chang'an's development model. The steam equipment workshop of the Yuan family was what they yearned for, and the bearing factory. These merchants did not have the ability to independently develop, but it does not mean that they are not prepared for this.

The construction of the Daming Palace has already begun before the bidding meeting for the authorization of the mining site. After the announcement was posted, the first applicant was not the Building Materials Chamber of Commerce, but Zhang Xingzhi from the Carpenters Union, followed by Gao Shilian's carpentry workshop, and It is Yu Gui, a merchant from Yuezhou.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand that building a palace requires a large number of craftsmen, stonemasons, blacksmiths, and especially carpenters are the most important. They need to complete the carvings and paintings inside the palace. walls and such.

The craftsmen gathered together by several folks all got the corresponding errands, and the master master hired with the least money was very cost-effective. Several shareholders in the Luoyang Chamber of Commerce saw that the Ministry of Industry would not refuse the appointment, and they all joined in one after another. Let the workshops in the family start to join in.

On the contrary, the Building Materials Chamber of Commerce did not have much reaction to this. Zheng Yiman was very smart, knowing that this was done by the Ministry of Industry to save costs, and the engineering team of the Building Materials Chamber of Commerce was already overloaded, so he did not join , This incident surprised many people, and they all thought that the building materials chamber of commerce had missed a good opportunity.

As long as the Building Materials Chamber of Commerce is clear, their engineering team now has tens of thousands of core employees. Lantian County and several ports in the south are their main construction projects. Lanzhou has a small share of construction, but there is no way to not have so many people. , Under such circumstances, how can they still be in the mood to pay money to help the emperor see the palace.