Steel Dynasty - Chapter 56

[Chapter 56 Dividing the spoils]

After the auction of the agency rights of various states and counties, the businessmen dispersed.

At this time, Pang Yukun stood in front of Xiao Ming, smiled rarely for the first time, and said: “Congratulations to Your Highness, Congratulations to Your Highness. This time Your Highness has received seven million taels of silver. It is very gratifying.”

Qian Dafu and Li Kaiyuan also looked at each other .

With a look of ecstasy on his face, Qian Dafu said: “Your Highness, now that we have this money, our mines, workshops, and manors can all start moving at the same time.” “

That’s right. There is also a shipyard, Zhang Liang is short of money to build ships, and the caravan is in urgent need of big ships,” Li Kaiyuan said.

From having trouble taking out a few thousand taels of silver to now having an extra seven million taels of silver in his hand, Xiao Ming suddenly felt like a nouveau riche.

However, he suddenly became discouraged when he thought that just one of the merchants under the command of King Wei was richer than himself. For a merchant to be like this, it showed how wealthy King Wei’s fiefdom was.

He said: “The road is long and long. I will search up and down. This is just the beginning. As long as you and I work together, I believe that our fiefdom will not lose to the King of Wei!”

Pang Yukun glanced in surprise .

Xiao Ming, Pang Yukun was amazed by Xiao Ming’s “Composition from a Guest” last time. Now Xiao Ming’s casual sentence “The road is long and long, I will search up and down” also has a unique charm. He can’t help but Qi Wang’s senses Changed some more.

For him, Xiao Ming can also belong to the category of scholars, and he is also in the same category, so his sense of identity is naturally higher.

But he agreed, and what had to be done had to be done. He said: “Your Highness, spring will start in one month, the production team’s cattle and farming tools are still incomplete, and the money in Qingzhou’s treasury is no longer enough… “

Your Highness, the same goes for Lao Nu’s mine. One hundred thousand taels of silver will soon be insufficient to buy slaves and build a mining area,” Qian Dafu sighed.

Chen Wenlong and Li Kaiyuan handed over their hands at the same time. Xiao Ming immediately raised his hands to them, “No, I understand. No wonder everyone is smiling. It turns out they are thinking about my money.”

The four of them laughed at the same time, Pang Yukun He said: “Your Highness, you can’t do anything without money. Now that your Highness is a talented person, he has earned a lot of money. Naturally, we admire him in his heart. But for the long-term plan, this money should be used on the fiefdom.”

Xiao Ming smiled bitterly, It seems that the money will be lost before it is heated up. He said: “That’s it, that’s all. How much do you need?”

The four of them were overjoyed and discussed and calculated. Pang Yukun took one million taels to enrich Qingzhou Mansion. Qian Dafu allocated 1.5 million taels to prepare for the construction of the mine, and the Equipment Department allocated 2 million taels for the construction, procurement and production of the workshop area.

The remaining two and a half million taels plus what Xiao Wenxuan sent were a total of three million taels. Xiao Ming gave the two million taels directly to the shipyard with a stroke of his pen.

As the saying goes, a ten-year army is a hundred-year navy. When it comes to shipping, Xiao Ming doesn’t care about money at all. Da Yu is just a market, and Da Yu is just a corner of the world. The real big market is the overseas market, which occupies overseas markets. Only the market can control wealth.

After the “dividing the spoils” was completed, the four of them went back. The money in their hands was no longer empty, and they were ready to do something drastic.

For Xiao Ming, he does not care about money, because according to modern economics, spending a lot of money on his fiefdom can stimulate the economic development of the fiefdom and stimulate domestic demand. These benefits will eventually fall on the people. on the body.

Carrying the remaining silver notes, Xiao Ming happily headed to the palace. This auction finally made him a little richer. Should he consider improving his personal life now? For example, engaging in entertainment activities such as visiting a brothel and chatting with an oiran?

All the way, I was thinking about whether the courtesan from Chongqing was as beautiful as a movie star, when suddenly there was a rapid sound of horse hooves.

Xiao Ming turned around and saw Lu Fei charging directly towards him on a horse.

His heart tightened. In this situation, Xiao Ming had to worry. Although Lu Fei was now his close minister, except for Qian Dafu, Xiao Ming could not have 100% trust in anyone else.

After all, to him, these are outsiders and it takes a long time to build trust.

When Lu Fei rushed over, he couldn’t help but feel a little nervous. The shadow of the assassin was still haunting his heart.

“Your Highness!” Lu Fei rushed in front of Xiao Ming before he reined in his horse and dismounted. Lu Fei looked aggrieved, “I heard Pang Changshi say on the road that Your Highness made a lot of money this time, a total of seven million. The two giants, the Governor’s Office, the Equipment Department, and the Shipbuilding Factory have all received a lot of money. Why did His Highness forget about the Qingzhou Army? Isn’t the Qingzhou Army his own mother?”

Xiao Ming really wanted to slap Pang Yukun to death now. , he said why Pang Yukun showed a mysterious smile when he left. It turned out that he was waiting for him here, and his feelings were like a tael of money that he didn’t want to leave for himself.

Taking out the remaining silver notes from his arms, Xiao Ming handed the silver to Lu Fei, his heart was bleeding, “Who said it, it was just that I was going to hand it over to Captain Lu with my own hands, this is the rest One million taels, I’ll give it to you. I always attach great importance to this Qingzhou Army.”

Lu Fei was overjoyed with the money. Since he came to the Qingzhou Army, the Qingzhou Army has never been rich. He said with a silly smile: “Thank you, Your Highness. “

Xiao Ming waved his hand, and Lu Fei got on the horse and went back happily.

“Hey, after decades of hard work, I can go back to before liberation in one move.” Xiao Ming returned to the palace dejectedly.

In the palace, Zi Yuan was instructing the servants to clear out the vacant rooms and put the gifts sent by merchants into them. Seeing this, his mood suddenly improved.

He has been frugal in the past two months, and now he can at least improve his food, because he saw a lot of vegetable oil, beef, venison and other foods among them. The others were some ginseng, snow lotus, silk and satin, pens, ink and paper. Inkstones, jade, porcelain, gold and silver utensils and other Dayu luxuries.

Seeing Xiao Ming come back, Luluo came over happily, “The gifts your Highness received this time are really quite a lot, enough for our palace to spend some time.”

“No, still. Some merchants hid silver in their gifts.” Zi Yuan walked over and gave the silver note in her hand to Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming took it over and looked at it. There were various silver notes worth 200,000 taels. Each silver tael was preceded by the word “Cao”, which was the same as the other silver notes.

“Hey, Pang Yukun, Pang Yukun, God is not as good as man. Keep this money and don’t let Pang Changshi know about it.” Xiao Ming reminded.

Zi Yuan understood and chuckled: “Your Highness’s money must have been taken by Pang Changshi.” Xiao

Ming nodded. In fact, he understood Pang Yukun’s thoughts. He wanted Xiao Ming to spend his money on the right path, so he Didn’t blame him.

However, hiding some private money does not violate principles, and it is necessary to improve your life.

(End of chapter)