Time Travel: I am the idle king Li Shen and Li Shimin in the Tang Dynasty

After Yuan Zheng

Prince Ji's Mansion also began to resume work and production, because Li Shen wanted to build a road from Chang'an to the important city of Qinghai.

So a lot of cement and gravel are needed.

Wang Hongfu sent people to recruit laborers along the way. This time, because of the speed requirement, construction and widening were carried out on the original road.

So the amount of labor required is very large.

Each state and county must recruit a large number of workers to start work at the same time.

The whole process will pass through three provinces, nine states, and dozens of counties. This should be the largest project since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

According to Wang Hongfu's estimate, hundreds of thousands of workers will be recruited, but because the northwest is vast and sparsely populated, it may not be possible to recruit that many people.

After Li Shen's research, he recruited laborers from Jiannan Road, Sichuan, Chongqing, Bashu and other places on Nanshan Road. Another purpose of infrastructure construction is to boost the national economy.

Most of the 100,000 laborers who followed Li Shen to the important towns of Qinghai Province came from the south and other places.

This time Li Shen planned to change to a place where the rain and dew would be equally exposed.

Recruitment orders were issued by Prince Ji's Mansion, and were distributed to local states and counties with the cooperation of newspapers and chambers of commerce.

They gathered in Qizhou Prefecture at the end of February. This was because Li Shen had absorbed the previous experience. When 100,000 labor troops came to the city, Li Shen was so frightened that he almost peed.

Hundreds of thousands of workers will definitely not be able to come to Chang'an City this time. Qizhou is the first stop for road construction, so they all gather there.

Li Shimin was also very helpful. He sent an official letter to his subordinates, asking local troops from various states and counties to cooperate with Prince Ji's palace in road construction.

And be prepared to prevent labor riots from happening.

Only then did the ministers of the imperial court realize that King Ji had made such a big move this year, building more than two thousand miles of cement roads, and how much manpower and material resources it would cost.

What is King Ji doing? This kind of thing seems to be a thankless task at first glance.

Could it be that King Ji wanted to increase his reputation?

No one understood why King Ji wanted to build a road of more than 2,000 miles.

The reason Li Shen gave was that he once promised to build an eight hundred-mile road, and now that he has built it, he will finish it.

Only Li Shen himself knew that Prince Ji's Mansion had too much money, and Yuan Zheng had received more than one million yuan during this period.

Li Shen is desperately trying to spend the money, but he just can't spend it all.

In two or three months it will be time to open the Shanghai Stock Exchange, and the rents and taxes collected by then will be astronomical.

Li Shen is now considering whether he still wants the 50% bonus.

This move by Prince Ji's Mansion led to many ancillary industries, including steel and stone.

All businessmen with business in this area want to buy Ji Wangfu's car.

The businessmen Wang Hongfu received every day lined up, and they were all introduced by such-and-such prince, so-and-so Duke, and so-and-so nobleman.

The emperor's relatives, princes, generals and ministers all wanted a piece of the pie.

The Wei family even sent a letter to the palace, begging Concubine Wei to help intercede and give the Wei family more quota.

Talk about why the Wei family is so miserable now, it is no longer as good as before, etc.

Concubine Wei sent her personal maid to Prince Ji's Mansion, saying that her mother hoped that the Wei family would be given priority in terms of a fair price.

Li Shen immediately agreed, telling his mother not to worry and that he would give priority to taking care of the Wei family.

After the maid left, Li Shen turned around and asked himself to write a letter and have it delivered to Wei Qu.

There were five pages in total. The first four pages were filled with reprimands and curses from Li Shen. Li Shen wrote down all the curse words he had accumulated over the years.

On the fifth page, five words were written: "Talk to Wang Hongfu."

The Wei family could definitely feel King Ji's anger from the words in the first four pages. King Ji was angry and they disturbed Concubine Wei.

But once the goal is achieved, just curse a few words, it doesn't matter.

"Mr. Lang, I have something I don't know what to do."

Lu Dingniang brought a bowl of white fungus and lotus seed tea to Li Shen, and then said softly.

"What is it? Is it about the child?" Li Shen's first thought was that the child is not mine? But he quickly shook his head,

Impossible. Although women in this period are open, they have not yet reached that point.

Or are you sick? Can't have a child?

Li Shen thought of another possibility. Lu Dingniang would give birth in a few months, so a doctor would check her pulse basically every day.

Po Wen checked the fetal position and made the diet according to the doctor's requirements.

"Don't worry, Mr. Lang, the child is fine." Lu Dingniang comforted her.

"Then nothing is a problem, please tell me, madam." Li Shen felt relieved, as long as the child was fine, nothing was a problem.

This child is of great significance to Prince Ji's Mansion. If anything happens, his father will not let him go, and even Zongzheng Temple will have to come and hold him accountable.

Sometimes it's not good to be favored, because you get too much attention.

"Mr. Lang, my father's house sent someone to deliver a message the day before yesterday, asking me to go home. I went back yesterday."

Lu Dingniang said softly.

"Oh, just go back. It doesn't matter. I haven't said it all. If you feel homesick, just go back and have a look. It's not far anyway.

Just bring a guard, that's okay. "Li Shen thought it was a big deal.

"Lang Jun, that's not the case. Lang Jun should know that his mother is a member of the Zheng clan. Although she is a collateral clan, she has many clan members.

Yesterday, my mother said that the Zheng family sent someone to visit, but she actually wanted her to tell me and let me plead with the prince..."

Lu Dingniang was a little embarrassed to continue talking.

"Do you want me to plead with you and take care of the Zheng family's business?" Li Shen looked up and asked while drinking Tremella lotus seed tea.

"Yeah." Lu Dingniang hummed softly. She was still young and this was the first time she met Li Shen, so she didn't know how to face Li Shen.

"Haha, madam, you don't have to be like this. Since it's your in-laws who take care of you, it's okay. You can just send someone to tell your mother-in-law tomorrow.

Just say that I agree for the sake of my wife, but in terms of business negotiations and prices, I must be the same as others. "

Li Shen smiled and said, this is also to save face for Lu Dingniang. Lu Dingniang is the princess of Prince Ji's palace, so of course she has to save face.

And although the Zheng family is his enemy, there are no eternal enemies in this world, and there is nothing wrong with fair trade.

The more than two thousand miles of road he built required countless materials and could even boost the local economy.

Because hundreds of thousands of workers were assigned to various states and counties, they had to pay for food, drink and sleep. The amount of food alone was astronomical.

Lu Dingniang was even more moved when she heard that Li Shen agreed for her sake. Of course she knew that the Zheng family was an enemy of Prince Ji's Mansion.

"Madam, don't worry about anything now. Just focus on raising the baby. Doctor Sun said that worrying too much is not good for your health.

I can solve everything, don't worry.

Why don't the main hall have ten maids to serve you?" Li Shen helped Lu Dingniang sit down and said softly.

"Lang Jun, there are already more than thirty people in my yard, and I couldn't let them go in the past."

Lu Dingniang looked at her husband helplessly.

It was a good thing that Lang Jun was nervous about himself, but this was probably too much.