Datang first village

In the afternoon, Li Yuanxing was sitting in his small living room, Yuan Chun was playing the piano there, Lan Qiu was making tea, Li Yuanxing was leaning on the soft chair, listening to He Shu recite to him all the recent events in Qinwangzhuang. Report.

Very luxurious aristocratic life!

Li Yuanxing just reached out his hand as a signal, and a cup of tea was fed to his mouth. It was neither hot nor cold, just right.

The tea was brought by tea merchants for Li Yuanxing to comment on, and it is new green this spring.

luxury?

When Eunuch Gao came to Qinwangzhuang, the first thing he said after entering the small parlor was: "Your Highness is still so frugal!"

Clean and thrifty!Li Yuanxing didn't know how to answer.I had no choice but to smile: "Old Gao is here, sit down. Here is the new green tea this spring sent by the tea merchant, and it hasn't been judged yet. It's rude to give it to the emperor. When the big competition is over, the emperor's drink will naturally be the first three." Great tea!"

Eunuch Gao bowed his hands and sat in the lower seat: "I always heard that His Majesty's mansion is short of manpower. Do you want old slaves to find some profitable ones for His Majesty? The Silk Chamber of Commerce in Zhejiang and Hangzhou trained a team of musicians, but Jiangnan Xiaodiao Don't be funny, it's a pity that His Highness refuses!"

Li Yuanxing waved his hand: "Accept theirs, what about the other chambers of commerce?"

"His Royal Highness, Gao Yi, the justice of the Qin Palace has already been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people!"

"Don't flatter me, you must have something to do when you come, just judging from your attitude, it's not going to make things difficult for you, or make things difficult for me."

Eunuch Gao smiled awkwardly and told what Li Er meant.

After hearing this, Li Yuanxing was stunned for a moment, but he smiled: "Yuanchun don't play the piano anymore, prepare pen and ink."

At this time, Eunuch Gao noticed that Yuan Chun still had a gold hairpin on his head, but there was a small badge on the neckline.This is the badge of the clerks of the Prince of Qin's Mansion, and it seems to be equivalent to the official eighth rank.

Is this the lady officer?

Eunuch Gao naturally wouldn't talk too much about the affairs of Prince Qin's mansion, he was just curious.

"Write, bill!" Li Yuanxing said, and Yuanchun only took notes, regardless of the content.

"First-class fine steel costs seven guan coins per catty. Second-class fine steel costs five guan coins per catty. For four thousand pairs of armor, the shared steel totals 36 catties, and the total material cost is [-] guan! Six thousand pieces of pigskin are used. The total price is [-] pieces!"

Li Yuanxing said, Eunuch Gao just sat quietly, he would not interrupt or ask questions.

Yuan Chun only takes notes, and doesn't ask for extra words.

"The design fee for a pair of armor is [-] guan. This king will give you a discount, and I will accept a total of [-] guan for the design fee."

"A pair of armor requires [-] working hours. For each working hour, the king charges [-] Wen, and the accumulated work is also discounted by the King. Only [-] yuan is charged for manual work."

"Underwear, jacket, boots and other items, each set of armor I charge five guan. The total is [-] guan!"

"Assorted weapons, design and manufacture, I suffer a bit. Each set of weapons has a total of six pieces. I count the cost of materials together, and charge fifteen guan. This is [-] guan. The cost of transportation and maintenance, I will send it to you." Yes. Calculate how much silver you have in total, and type up the total.”

Yuan Chun wrote a diary, took out the abacus from under the table, and slapped it.

"Your Highness, the total is: 53 guan!"

"Okay, write a formal letter to my brother, and then send a copy to the Ministry of Households, Ministry of Industry, Ministry of War, Tianying Pavilion, and Jianyuan."

Li Yuanxing's price is completely nonsense.

Eunuch Gao stood up at this moment: "Your Highness, this old slave thinks the price is too high, why don't I write it?"

"Say it, Yuan Chun wrote it!"

"Your Highness's first-class fine steel is thousands of milled steels, and second-class fine steel is hundreds of milled steels. How about if the first-class fine steel is twelve guan, and the second-class one is nine guan? The total is 60 guan. Besides, the labor cost, Your Highness employs a lot of slave labor, so let’s lower it once. A pair of armor is based on the wages of [-] Wen, which is [-] Guan.”

"Continue!" Li Yuanxing secretly praised, this old eunuch is not so smart.

Eunuch Gao naturally knew that the relationship between the Holy Majesty and the King of Qin was very close, so there was no need for His Highness the King of Qin to collect such money.The straight road from Yaozhou to Chang'an was only paid by the Ministry of Households for a bridge repair. If the road really counts for money, it is equivalent to paving with copper coins.

Therefore, this matter must have deep meaning.

At least what is the deep meaning? Eunuch Gao cleverly avoided this idea.

Eunuch Gao set a new price for Li Yuanxing according to the current market price. For example, the boots only got [-] Wen.The linen underwear only cost fifty cash for a set.

Fifty cash is already an extremely high price. You must know that a piece of fine linen is only three hundred cash.

However, Eunuch Gao made more detailed calculations, two socks were only a penny, and a pair of gloves was only a penny.

After everything was written, Li Yuanxing used his private seal, and Eunuch Gao took Li Yuanxing's seal to Li Er back home, and the official personnel of the Qin Palace delivered the seals to the various ministries.

Li Yuanxing didn't ask anyone to keep this matter a secret, and within an hour, everyone in the entire Qin Palace knew about it!

Many guardsmen touched the uniforms and armors on their bodies, and their first reaction was that they were wearing hundreds of guan, hundreds of guan.What's the difference between this and walking down the street with a piece of gold on your back, robbing an ordinary sergeant from Prince Qin's mansion, and immediately becoming a rich man.

During dinner, Wu Zhao asked Li Yuanxing, "Why did you quote such a high price?"

"There was a fight between two prides of lions on the grassland. Many animals went to help and some persuaded the fight. Will the pride of lions be killed or injured in the end?" Li Yuanxing asked with a smile.

Wu Zhao also laughed and stopped talking about this topic.

The seven princesses of Qin were discussing in one go, and Wu Zhao explained to them that the lion is another kind of very powerful tiger.

The seven princesses of Qin are very interested. What wolves and foxes have come out. Who will help whom?

Wu Zhao understood what Li Yuanxing meant.

When two lion prides fight, only those who dare to approach will die in the end, whether it is to persuade or help.At the end of the fight, nothing happened to the two lions, and they went back to their homes.

Could it be that Li Yuanxing wanted to take the opportunity to cleanse some forces in the court?

Li Yuanxing did not answer Wu Zhao. In terms of political ability, Wu Zhao is not the Wu Zhao in history now.

Even Wu Zhao in history really understood these things after the age of 40.

When Li Er saw Li Yuanxing's badge, he was stunned for a moment and then laughed: "Okay, what a Goro." Then he said to Eunuch Gao: "Starting tomorrow, all the badges aimed at changing the clothes of the Forbidden Army will be sent to you by category. Come up, one must not be missing!"

Kill two birds with one stone!Li Erxin said, Brothers are really united, and I want to adjust the officials, and use Li Yuanxing's seal to keep those real discerning censors, those who will only follow the trend, or talk nonsense, or It is pedantic to the point of being annoying, and sent to other posts.

How much does Li Yuanxing's fine steel cost per catty?

For first-class fine steel, Lu Chengqing of Yaozhou made very serious and accurate calculations.And it wasn't just him, Cheng Motou also brought Sima in the army to participate in the calculation.

For every thousand catties of first-class fine steel, after being made into steel ingots, one bar is ten catties.

The cost is only 310 [-] pennies.Moreover, the second-class craftsman Ma Jiangshi also said that the craftsmanship is still being improved. If everything goes well, it will definitely drop to less than [-] Wen in half a year.It can be said that the price of the first-class stainless steel reported by Li Yuanxing is [-] times the actual price.

Of course, Li Yuanxing said that environmental protection and river protection also cost money, and money should be included in the cost.

Even if you add those rewards for craftsmen and miners.

Li Er believes that Li Yuanxing's quotation is still more than 100 times higher.The price of a thousand catties of first-class fine steel will not exceed ten pennies.This is the achievement of Yaozhou's industrialized steelmaking.

So, will Li Yuanxing take this opportunity to promote the industrialization of various workshops in the Tang Dynasty?

Li Er guessed that Li Yuanxing had this plan. If these things are cheaper, the people of Tang Dynasty will live better and become richer, and the tax revenue of the treasury will also increase exponentially.

A set of Blazing Feather Armor, together with all the equipment, is not counted as a weapon. The price of the complete set is nine hundred cash!

Nine hundred coins, in terms of modern prices, the purchasing power of one penny in the Tang Dynasty is about four yuan and five cents to five yuan and two cents in modern times, which is more than 4000 yuan per set.

Li Er smiled with satisfaction, and ordered an extra jug of wine for dinner.

The price in Li Yuanxing's mind was [-] Wen.He and Lu Chengqing calculated differently. If the coal mines and iron mines were not slaves, and those who did rough work were not slaves but normal workers, fifteen hundred cash would be the real reasonable cost price.

Selling it to the Ministry of War is not too much money.

After receiving this seal, the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War, and the Court of Admonishment were all excited to do a big job, and admonishing the Holy Majesty is an opportunity to make a name for all eternity.Civil servants remonstrate to death, military generals fight to the death, this is the opportunity to be famous forever.

Only Cui Junsu, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, found an excuse not to participate in this matter.

"Master Shangshu, this is an opportunity to become famous!" Cui Junsu's confidant asked after everyone had left.

Cui Junsu took a sip of tea: "Stupid, this is a game between two big men. They are going to clean up those old stubborn people in Yushitai. If you want to show up, just say that it is imperative for the forbidden army to change their clothes. But please push me Finally, please also ask His Royal Highness King Qin to consider the cost, the national treasury is under huge pressure, because we have to build roads!"

"The subordinate understands!" Cui Junsu's confidant gave a heavy salute, and then retreated.

Cui Junsu didn't know the cost of fine steel, but after seeing the huge stamping machine, he believed that the price was inflated.

Not to mention, his Cui family has a weaving workshop, and now a piece of silk is not considered the price of raw silk. The cost of silk weaving craftsmen is only a tenth of the original cost. His Cui family can rely on hydraulic looms to reduce costs .Could it be that His Royal Highness King Qin can't do it?So it must be a trap!

Who would be foolish enough to jump into this trap by themselves?Does Cui Junsu believe that it must be those old and stubborn people who don't change their minds?By the way, it is also a great thing for the Seventh Family to let them go home for the elderly. (To be continued.)