The Road to the Imperial Examinations of Farmers in Ancient Times

After a while, I saw that my son-in-law was still pining on Li Wen, and they hadn't finished talking about political affairs at the moment.Yang Shaomu winked, and the nanny who took care of the child understood, hurriedly stepped forward, and said, "Master Li, please give the little master to the servant, and let the servant carry the little master down."

'No.,'

The child insisted on him, and knew he would not let him go. Li Wen couldn't help but smile, and said, "Good boy." He told the child to go back with the person who took care of him.The nanny coaxed the little master back with coaxing words, and after a salute, she went out with the little master in her arms.

The maids met their empresses after they went back, and told their empresses about this as a joke.

When Situ Xue heard what the maid said, she couldn't help laughing, and asked her clever son, "Does Xuan'er like Master Li?"

"When Xuan'er grows up in the future, please ask Mr. Li to be your tutor, okay?" She heard that Concubine Dong Gui wanted to ask Mr. Li to be the tutor of the Seventh Prince, but Mr. Li refused.It's not hard to guess what Concubine Dong Gui is thinking, Situ Xue snorted in her heart, the Seventh Prince is dead, so I don't know if Master Li would like to be her little Xuan'er's tutor in the future.

I heard that Li Liuyuan's teacher, the former Master of Fu University, was His Royal Highness's Taifu, and Li Liuyuan was a student brought out by Master of Fu University, Master Li was born out of blue.If Lord Li is willing to serve Xuan'er as their tutor in the future, he will definitely be able to teach her an excellent son, Situ Xue thought a little bit carefully.

Seeing that the child was sleepy and wanted to sleep, Situ Xue handed the child to the nanny, and asked the nanny to carry the child down.

After leaving the East Palace, Li Wen went back to the government office and had a half-day meeting with his subordinates.

With the successful conclusion of the previous business conference, the next investment promotion conference is naturally not a big problem.There are also matters such as the cooperation plan and the draft of the contract, etc., which they have determined one by one earlier. As long as there is no trouble in the future, the subsequent meetings should be completed smoothly.

Two days later, the investment promotion conference was officially held.

The venue of the meeting is also at [Kezhi], and the time and process of the meeting are basically the same as the last business meeting.However, compared to the seriousness of the previous business conference, this time the investment conference was mainly held for the investment promotion of the Western District trade market, as well as the development of several trade routes, the investment of some projects, and other related projects.

This time, these projects are all in the form of bidding, starting from the reserve price, and the highest bidder wins.

Several trade routes are all about foreign trade. There are some small countries around Dacheng. The silk porcelain, shredded tobacco and tea produced by Dacheng have always been very popular and sought after by these small countries.It's just that the way to these small countries is not very safe. Some businessmen risk being robbed by bandits on the road, or even lose their lives to run business.

However, driven by profits as high as [-]%, quite a few businessmen risked their lives to lead teams to those small countries to do business.

Li Wen is now proposing that for the development of this trade route, the government will send troops to clear the road at that time.These several trade routes carried out by the government will be escorted by special officers and soldiers at that time, but the government will charge 30.00% of the goods and a [-]% transaction tax. Discuss and decide to participate in the auction.”

But this is compared to the profits they can get. The 30.00% remuneration and [-]% transaction tax taken by the government do not account for half of their profits. The various likin paid are more than this amount, so compared with this, this business is completely doable.

"Well, this is good."

"It's good."

Many merchants present were very moved when they heard it, they discussed it one after another, and made an appointment to participate in the auction for a while.

After the new discussion auction started, it entered the climax of the auction. The merchants present increased the price all the way, and the price suddenly rose to a terrifying figure. In the end, only those big business gangs and powerful families had the strength to compete.

In the end, these trade routes were taken down by several powerful merchant gangs and the two major families in the capital.

Originally, it was only planned to hold a two-day investment promotion conference, but it was extended by one more day before all these investment promotion projects were completed.Basically, large and small projects were divided up by these businessmen. Most of the large projects were taken away by powerful business gangs, and few powerful businessmen participated in some small projects.

As for the shops in the West District, except for a few specially set aside, the rest are basically sold out.

After the investment promotion conference ended, Li Wen and a group of subordinates spent a full seven days meeting with the businessmen who won the projects one by one, and negotiated the cooperation projects and terms one by one. and signed

contract of cooperation.

It was not until the seventh day that they signed the last contract with the merchant gang from the South.

The amount of money received in the past few days was too large, Li Wen was still counting how much money he had in his mind at first, but later he simply stopped counting.Early the next morning, I got the general ledger calculated by Su Yuan. Seeing the amount on it, Li Wen felt like being knocked out by money, "We are really too rich haha..."

Su Yuan poured cold water on it, "Isn't it going to be handed over to the household department later?"

"..." Li asked, "Xiao Yuanzi, can you make me happy for a while?"

Su Yuan gave Mr. Li two "hehe..."

"..." Li Wen, well, I've already learned how to hehe.

However, when they thought that the money they had worked so hard to earn ended up in the pockets of the household department, I was really... not reconciled!Why is my heart so stuffy!But who made the Ministry of Households the financial department?At best, their business department is just doing work for people. Forget it, the work of moving money sounds more noble than the work of moving bricks?

— even though both are essentially the same, both work hard!

But being able to receive so much money was beyond his own expectations.

On that day, Li Wen took the account book and went to the palace to meet the emperor. The emperor was very happy, and it was obvious that he was in a good mood to see the household department entering so much money.

Li Wen was embarrassed to tell the emperor that although their Ministry of Industry and Commerce's ability to make money is good, their ability to spend money... should also be very good.Just look at the amount of money invested in the West District, and he plans to set up a shopping mall next time.

After this investment promotion meeting, he realized that running an auction house should be very profitable, so taking advantage of the emperor's happiness at the moment, he told the emperor these ideas one by one.

These are all good deals to make money. The emperor, whose money is still warm in his pocket, "..."

Emperor Zhaozong felt pain and happiness in his heart. The happiness was because the household department had such a large amount of income, and the pain was that the money would be spent again soon.

"Your Majesty, I don't want the child to be able to trap the wolf. How can there be any benefit without investment? You say so." Li Wen saw the emperor's appearance and said hastily.If the government dared to swallow all the money used for the project, he would never suspect that this was the last money the government got from the merchant.

If these businessmen do not make money from the projects that cooperate with the government, these businessmen will never trust and cooperate with the government in the future.So at this time, their strength and reputation are very important.

Your Majesty, don't let me down on you... There is a villain in Master Li who is pretending to be pitiful.

"Well, what you said is true, I understand." Emperor Zhaozong clearly understood this truth in his heart. The few jobs Xiao Liuyuan mentioned just now are all good, and it would be a pity to give up.The emperor expressed his attitude, agreeing with the points mentioned by Li Wen just now, and can do it later.

"...Your Majesty, you see that the Ministry of Accounts is in arrears with the army in the west. Now that the Ministry of Accounts has money, can we distribute some of it?" Taking advantage of the emperor's good mood at the moment, Li Wen mentioned The household department owed the army's salary.Originally, these salaries should have been distributed a long time ago, and it has been delayed until now, which shows that the court is really poor.

He has been thinking about this matter all the time. His master and General Zhao are both guarding the border gates. When Xie Yunfei said that the soldiers at the border gates did not have enough food and clothing, he actually felt very uncomfortable.He is willing to be the sword in the emperor's hand, and get rid of a large group of officials in the Ministry of Households. In fact, the most important reason is for the soldiers who can't eat enough at the border. It is impossible to store grain in the rice jar.

Why was the household department so poor before?In addition to the fact that the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs do not plan their own affairs in their positions, another big reason is that the Ministry of Household Affairs is rotten to the bone.After the last big purge, the household department is now under the rule of His Royal Highness, and it is different from before.

Emperor Zhaozong thought for a while, nodded, and said, "It's time."

"I thank the emperor on behalf of the tens of thousands of soldiers at the border." Li Wen kowtowed sincerely.

"You boy, get up quickly, then I will use you to thank me for the soldiers at the border. It is me who should thank you for them." Emperor Zhaozong asked the boy who was kneeling in front of him to get up.

Li Wen smiled, and got up neatly from the ground, "Don't dare, it's all thanks to your majesty, your majesty's contribution is huge, without you, there would be no minister today..." Thousands of wears and thousands of flattery If you don't wear it, you have to flatter the emperor occasionally to make the emperor happy. The emperor is very happy, and everything can be discussed.

Seeing the emperor waving his hand, Li Wen saluted and came out of the palace.

After finishing the emperor here, Li Wen let out a sigh of relief in his heart, he was really afraid that the emperor would not release the money at that time.He still has to go to the prince to have a talk later, for the convening of these two conferences, and some work in the future

, I have been busy for nearly half a month.

On the morning of the second day, the officials in the court heard that the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and Li Wen had brought in such a large sum of money in less than half a month, and they were all dumbfounded. , with an expression of disbelief.

Li Wen took the booklet and proposed to supply the soldiers at the northwest border with one year's food and pay, and to apply for a batch of New Year's supplies for the soldiers at the border.The generals over there stood up one after another to echo, and His Royal Highness also stood up to speak for the soldiers at the border, and the emperor approved it without hesitation.

Few of the civil servants here dare to raise objections. They don't doubt that if they dare to jump out and say no, the knives in the hands of those generals will be unceremoniously waved towards them. Just don't mess with those big bastards right now.

After the conference ended, these merchants gathered from all over the world began to leave the capital in batches, and there were caravans and horses leaving the capital at the gate of the city every day.

Several big business gangs with trade routes were smiling. Some businessmen who won the contracts were in a good mood, but there were also many who came to the capital after hard work and returned without any benefits. .

"Hey... It seems that we have to wait for three years."

"No."

Three years is not a long time, but when seeing those business gangs and businessmen who have signed cooperation with the government earn a lot of money, those business gangs and businessmen who did not get the cooperation project will regret it!If they had known that there was such a big profit, they should have fought for it in the first place...

Hey, I still blame them for losing such a good opportunity to make money after hesitating for a while.

It's just that after three years, others have already run far away, and they are still chasing after them. By that time, they will no longer be able to catch up. The mood can no longer be described as regret. They lost an opportunity, and what they lost was an opportunity to change the fate of themselves and their family...

But these are all things to come, so I won’t mention them in detail here.