The First Young Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1274

"Let him in."

"No." Deyi responded, and then shouted loudly to the outside of the hall: "Your Majesty has an order to call Xuan Shijing, Duke of Jinyang County, into the hall to face you."

The small yellow gate outside the Ganlu Hall heard the movement inside, and invited Xuan Shijing, who was waiting outside, into the Ganlu Hall.

"Chen Xuan Shijing has seen His Majesty."

"Excuse me." His Majesty Li Er raised his head and looked at Xuan Shijing: "I called you into the palace in such a hurry today, can you guess why I am looking for you?"

Xuan Shijing cupped his hands and said, "I dare to guess that it's because the Ministry of Industry lowered the price."

"That's right, I heard that people from the Ministry of Industry went to see the big shopkeeper of your chamber of commerce, and were kicked out by your big shopkeeper again and again. Please tell me your opinion on this matter."

Xuan Shijing heard that, it seems that His Majesty Li Er has already sent someone to investigate this matter, so he must know how the Ministry of Industry lowered the prices of the merchants in Chang'an City, and how much they lowered the prices.

"Your Majesty's asking this question is probably because he knows that the Ministry of Industry has lowered the price by [-]% to the merchants." Xuan Shijing said.

His Majesty Li Er nodded: "That's right, I have sent someone to investigate this matter, and the Ministry of Industry is indeed at fault."

"Your Majesty, Qiandui went to Zhuangzi the day before yesterday to report this matter to the minister, and I have explained all aspects of it to the minister in detail." Xuan Shijing said: "Speaking of which, the materials used to build the new palace are the same as Most of the materials used to build ordinary houses are the same, and these lacquered wood bricks and stones are not valuable things. However, if the market price is lowered by [-]%, overall, the merchants will lose money, and naturally no one is willing to do a loss-making business."

"Continue." His Majesty Li Er said.

In the Tang Dynasty, working for officials often required cheap materials, and most of the manpower and material resources had to be spent. By the way, when getting money, they had to give some benefits to those officials. In the end, it was thankless.

"Since the amount of materials needed to build the new palace is huge, the manpower and material resources spent by merchants on it are also huge. The market is originally small profits but quick turnover, and there is not much profit except manpower and material resources. If it is supplied to the government, not only The price has dropped, and the cost of manpower and material resources has also gone up. In the end, who will pay for the loss? Or the merchants will pay for it themselves, so it will be a loss." Xuan Shijing said: "Actually, this is only a superficial problem, and it will become serious. It is said that no businessman dares to do this business with the government. Even if the government puts on airs to force people, in the end, the merchant goes bankrupt and the workers under the merchant lose their jobs. How much labor will Chang'an City have to idle? The Ministry will send people to Longshouyuan to do corvee work?"

"Businessmen value profits. If they can save money for the treasury as much as possible and ensure that they don't lose money, tell me, how much will they make with the Ministry of Industry?" His Majesty Li Er asked.

His Majesty Li Er has also thought about it, suppressing the price can also save a lot of money for the national treasury, but it cannot be suppressed too much. For the time being, both parties will take a step back. Never mind.

"I told Qiandui that the maximum is [-]%." Xuan Shijing told Li Er Majesty the truth in front of him.

"Okay, [-]%." His Majesty Li Er said: "As long as your shopkeeper takes the lead, the merchants in Chang'an City will understand what to do, and the people from the Ministry of Industry will handle it as appropriate. Don't let this This has delayed the construction of the new palace."

After listening to Xuan Shijing's words, His Majesty Li Er realized that if the Ministry of Industry acted like this, who would the merchants in Chang'an City supply materials to the officials?Is it true that the people from the Ministry of Industry will lead a team to purchase materials outside Guanzhong?

As far as the style of the Ministry of Industry is concerned, it is the same wherever you go.

"The new palace was handed over to Yan Lide and Yan Liben. The two of them are in charge of the construction of the new palace. Jing Er, I will appoint you to supervise the construction. The new palace is not only important to me, but also to the entire Tang Dynasty. It is very important to say that the new palace in the future will be the face of the Tang Dynasty, and I will not allow any discrepancy, so don't let me down." His Majesty Li Er said.

"Yes." Xuan Shijing cupped his hands in response.

Good guy, when you come to Chang'an, you have somehow involved yourself in the supervision of the construction of the new palace. Such a large project will inevitably cause troubles in the future, and it is impossible to stay out of it.

"Your Majesty, since the minister supervises the construction of the new palace, if there is any problem with the officials related to the construction of the new palace in the future, or there is something wrong with the project on Longshouyuan."

"If it's not some earth-shattering event, you can deal with it." His Majesty Li Er said, "Don't forget to finish it after dealing with it."

What His Majesty Li Er meant was, if there is anything you can do, do it neatly, and don't leave a mess for him to clean up.

"Yes." Xuan Shijing cupped his hands in response.

Longshouyuan, 12 craftsmen, countless court officials, although it is supervised construction, but just focusing on the officials, Xuan Shijing is already dizzy, no matter what, as long as there is no major event, he will It was easy, after all, after Yan Lide and Yan Liben finished drawing the blueprints, most of the burden of building the new palace fell on them, and the supervisor Xuan Shijing was only an assistant.

His Majesty Li Er in the palace explained things very quickly. It took only a quarter of an hour for Xuan Shijing to leave the palace, and it was still some time. The result of entering the palace and discussing with His Majesty Li Er told Qiandui, as well as those material merchants in Chang'an City, that Qiandui also needed to contact them.

It is enough to resist for a while. After all, it is the government, and the businessman can't make an inch. If he offends the government, he can keep [-]% of the market price. It is also profitable for the businessman, and the materials used in the new palace are not ordinary. .

Thinking about the Ming and Qing imperial palaces of later generations, they are already considered big, and the Daming Palace is as big as four Ming and Qing imperial palaces.

After Xuan Shijing arrived at Xuanwu Building, he went directly to Qiandui's accounting room, and saw Qiandui in the accounting room.

"My shopkeepers, I don't know how the officials handle this matter now, and now I can only wait for news." Xuan Shijing pushed open the door of the room, and heard the sound of money piles in the room.

And there were quite a few people sitting in the room. Judging from what Qiandui said just now, these people should be businessmen dealing in materials in Chang'an City.

When Qian Dui saw Xuan Shijing push the door in, he quickly got up and bowed his hands: "My subordinates will see you, my lord."

The merchants sitting in the room saw the pile of money like this, looked at Xuan Shijing, and quickly got up to salute: "The grass-roots see the lord."

(End of this chapter)