Iron Dynasty

People coming and going in the Chamber of Commerce are as noisy as the Chinese New Year.

Facing Pang Yukun’s congratulations, Xiao Ming was rather helpless, not knowing that firewood, rice, oil, and salt are expensive when he is not in charge.

As a vassal prince, he only feels one thing personally. The people want to live a good life. Soldiers and officials need to pay their salaries on time, build ships, guns, and buy materials. There are so many things in this fief, big and small things are basically everything. Inseparable from silver.

Without money, officials are unwilling to handle official duties, soldiers are unwilling to fight, and craftsmen in workshops are even more lazy. From the perspective of a vassal, loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, peace and prosperity, are nothing more than filling their stomachs in the eyes of ordinary people.

At this time, he gradually realized that he had a ticket in his pocket to withstand the toss. If he didn't engage in industry and make money at the beginning, he would just expand the army blindly.

When the barbarians besieged Qingzhou, I was afraid that they had no popular support, no artillery, and only a group of strong men who were dissatisfied with themselves and prepared to escape with ragged weapons at any time. At that time, I was afraid that they had died and had no place to bury them.

Therefore, in his mind, the string of commerce and trade has never been slackened. Only if he has money and resources can he be qualified for violence.

"Your congratulations are too expensive." Xiao Ming could only answer Pang Yukun like this.

With a soft smile, Pang Yukun said solemnly: "His Royal Highness, this is also to attract businessmen to settle in Qingzhou to improve the appearance of Qingzhou. The entire Qingzhou city needs to be paved with cement roads. This project is not small, and it can't be done without money."

From the modern era into this era, Xiao Ming's natural vision is relatively long-term, so the planning of Qingzhou has already begun, instead of waiting for Qingzhou to build indiscriminately and then make up for it.

As the saying goes, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads. Whenever it rains, the muddy roads of Qingzhou City always make merchants and people miserable.

Xiao Ming was even more unaccustomed, so he was going to start his first municipal project after crossing, building concrete roads to beautify the city.

One of the purposes of this is to improve people's livelihood, and the other is to attract foreign merchants to settle down for a long time.

At the same time, an obvious reason is that large-scale construction is the fastest way to stimulate the local economy. In modern municipal roads, real estate has proven everything.

This time a lot of money was thrown down, one is the cost of materials, and the other is the cost of labor, which will naturally fall into the hands of the people.

As the two were talking, Li Kaiyuan, sweating profusely, walked in from the door at this time. His clothes were a bit messy, as if being rubbed on the ground by someone.

"Oh, these vendors who killed a thousand knives saw me like they saw a thief, and my clothes were almost pulled off." Li Kaiyuan complained while saying.

Then he asked: "His Royal Highness, now merchants are asking when the auction will start and how to answer them?"

"No hurry, when is the time now, the real gold master hasn't come yet?" Xiao Ming said, and he hurriedly brightened Xiao Wenxuan's eight hundred miles.

"So, the mirror just spread in Chang'an City?" Li Kaiyuan asked.

Xiao Ming nodded, "Moreover, this king also wants to postpone a little bit, so that Lu Tong and the others can produce more mirrors."

"This subordinate agrees." Pang Yukun was following Xiao Ming now, fascinated by his ears and eyes, and understood a lot.

Li Kaiyuan nodded.

Xiao Ming continued: "By the way, arrange for the merchant ship to send ten more mirrors to Chang'an. Remember to send one of them to Fei Yue'er."

"His Royal Highness cares so much before the princess hasn't started. It can be seen that His Royal Highness in Chang'an was very satisfied with the princess last time." Pang Yukun suddenly smiled when he heard the words.

Xiao Ming recalled Fei Yue'er's face, but he couldn't remember it anymore, but it is normal to give a present to his fiancé in modern times. After all, it is for the harmonious life after marriage. He said, "This king has only met halfway. That's it, sending the mirror to the past is just for icing on the cake."

Li Kaiyuan flattered and said: "His Majesty is now surpassing the world, and now he wants to welcome the beautiful. It is really enviable and enviable."

Even though Xiao Ming is proud of the spring breeze, he is still on thin ice. Faced with Li Kaiyuan's sugar-coated cannonballs, he stared and said, "Stop flattering, do more, don't go."

Li Kaiyuan smiled and nodded, and immediately squeezed out of the merchant pile.

This time, Xiao Wenxuan rushed eight hundred miles to ask about the mirror. The harem concubine likes the mirror very much, meaning that if there is one, I will send some more.

Different from quick consumables such as perfume and soap, Xiao Ming was naturally unwilling to send one to every harem concubine, so he decided to send some more to Xiao Wenxuan.

As for how Xiao Wenxuan allocates it is his business. After all, Xiao Wenxuan has sent eight hundred li to expedite, and he has to give him face, otherwise the first mirror sent will lose its effect because it does not give face.

And those concubines who can't get the mirror can only find a way to pay for it.

The merchants outside still refused to leave. Xiao Ming asked people to release the news that the auction would continue to be delayed for ten days.

But he went directly to Bowen Academy, and he did not slack off when preparing for the auction.

For ten days, he has been teaching Luo Xin to calculate the impact of the shells, and at the same time teaching Yue Yun and others basic navigation knowledge. This course has to continue, because there are still very complicated things to teach for Yue Yun.

When a group of businessmen in Qingzhou faced the mirrors, another batch of mirrors arrived in Chang'an, and nine mirrors were delivered to Xiao Wenxuan.

And a mirror was sent to the house in Fiji.

"Master, this is something from King Qi."

In Fei Mansion, the butler carried the mirror covered with black cloth into the mansion.

When Fiji saw this thing, he immediately understood something. He immediately said, "Be careful, don't fall?"

The man from Qingzhou put down the mirror and left. The old housekeeper didn't know what was in it, so he was clever.

"Master, what's inside?" The butler was surprised.

Fiji stroked his beard and said, "I'm afraid it's a mirror."

After talking ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ he dragged the black cloth off, and a beautiful mirror appeared in front of him as expected.

Looking at himself in the mirror, Fiji's face showed a thick smile. He thought that King Qi was so careful that he would be at ease when he gave his daughter to him.

Then he said to the butler: "Go, send the mirror to the lady."

The butler nodded and immediately sent the mirror over.

Fei Yue'er was embroidering a purse in her boudoir at this time. Hearing the movement outside, she let Xiaohuan open the door.

At this time Fiji came in, followed by the butler.

"Father, what is this?" Fei Yue'er asked in doubt.

The black cloth was covered again, and Fiji said, "Daughter, is this the mirror that King Qi gave you?"

"Ah." Fei Yueer couldn't help exclaiming.

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