"Them? They said that the time of a few people with the Queen Mother is not short. After all, there will be some content. Tell them that my commitment to them will not change, as long as they are cooperating with us.

Give them the position of general. Those who are not capable of being generals can cooperate with us. I think their abilities are pretty good, especially that Lou He. If you train him, he will be a useful guy.

.w w. v m)" Li Cong thought for a while and said, these people can't be said to be completely useless. At least they can be regarded as a poster child. As long as they are people who cooperate with Li Cong, no matter what your previous experience is.

Whether you are the queen mother's person or someone else's, as long as you cooperate with us, your final result will be very good. Besides, Li Cong admires Lou He very much. If he can become his own person in the future,

Yes, if you can't become your own person, you can only feel sorry for this guy. Li Cong is not a soft-hearted person.

"Okay, I know what to do. Boss, how long do I have to stay in this position? It's obvious that I have been promoted, but I can't handle this place. Which one of you is the most fuel-efficient person in the Department of Punishment?

The lamp, that Lou He wanted to commit suicide just now, but there was no chance at all. There are too many masters in the Shenxing Division. On the surface, these people listen to me, but secretly, who knows who they are.

Man, maybe someone will take my life away while I'm sleeping." Wu Hai saw that Li Cong was about to leave and quickly mentioned his own affairs. This kid just saw all this.

I'm really a little scared. To be honest, I'm just a little general. I haven't had enough fun and I was thrown into this place. Our brains are incomparable with these people. If something goes wrong in the future,

Losing one's head is considered a trivial matter, but the whole family might suffer as well. The old man didn't laugh when he found out that he had become the director of the Punishment Department in the morning, and it seemed that he knew it too.

"Wu Hai, tell me how old you are. You have reached this position at such a young age. What was your father when he was your age? He was just a general soldier, but you are much stronger than him.

You have tens of thousands of people under your command. This is not an ordinary place. It is the most important department in the entire palace. The people here are Duke Harry's. I paid six million for your position.

At the price of gold coins, your position was exchanged for six million gold coins. Do you have six million gold coins? If you do, you can go back if you take it out. But if you don’t have it, you have to continue to work here.

Here, you and Meng Tian are the same, you just like military affairs and don't like politics. Let me tell you, politics and military courses are inseparable. An outstanding military strategist will eventually become a politician.

"Li Cong threw down these words and left. Six million gold coins is nothing to Li Cong, and it is nothing to Wu Hai's father, Dingxiang Marquis. But for Wu Hai, this is a big problem.

He doesn't have that much money. Of course, this is not the main problem. The main problem is Li Cong's last sentence. Wu Hai knows that his achievements after following Li Cong will be very high, maybe even higher than his own father.

Yes, my family used to say that my eldest brother was the backbone of the entire family, but after I returned home yesterday, my father drank too much with me, and in the end he even said that he is the most important thing in the family from now on.

At that time, he felt like he was confused. Now that Li Cong talked to him about political matters, he finally understood that in the future, he would not only be a soldier, but also an official and a politician.

"Come here, bring Lou He to see me. I want to have a good talk with him." After Wu Hai figured out what he was doing, he put a cold smile on his face. Li Cong wanted to recruit these people, but he still had to do this.

If it is done for Li Cong, Li Cong is his biggest supporter. He must do what he wants to do with all his strength, otherwise he will be unable to help Li Cong and he will be of no use.

After handling this matter, Li Cong originally wanted to go to the emperor to see him, but then he thought it was wrong. The emperor was meeting some local chief executives from other places. He probably didn't have time to see him at this time.

I'd better go home and rest for a while. After coming back from Guangming City, I'm really tired this time. I'd better go home and let my two wives relax my muscles and bones, but who will I become in the end?

It doesn't matter who he loosens them. Anyway, it was Li Cong who loosened the muscles and bones of the two girls these few times recently, making them all weak.

When Li Cong just returned home, he saw two women looking at something in the hall. Next to them stood a young man in his thirties. This guy was the son of Mr. Zhao at the time. He is now a supervisor of Li Cong's merchant. This guy

He didn't send this month's account books or anything like that. It's not that Li didn't trust the two women in his family, but he still had some other secrets, so he asked him to send some account books every month and let the two women check in.

The family is not so boring, you can do some of these things, use your brain, don't be like those noble ladies in other families who start scheming every day when they have nothing to do.

"Greetings to the prince, today is the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. According to the rules set by the prince, I will send some recent accounts to the house for the two princesses to see." Shopkeeper Zhao glanced at Li Cong and said, although he

He wondered why Li Cong didn't let him send all the account books, but he wouldn't say it. He knew that he was where he was today because of Li Cong's credit. If Li Cong hadn't supported him,

I'm afraid that I am still in front of my little frog in the small county below Kahuan County. What I see when I raise my head is still the same sky as Kahuan County. It cannot be the same as now. Even now.

Some marquises and dukes can also speak for themselves. This is because of their strength. There are many nobles, but not many rich ones. If these nobles want to enjoy themselves for a while, they must curry favor with themselves.

The goods in hand represent wealth. If you want it, you have to form a good relationship with yourself. During this period of time in the imperial capital, I was also a frequent visitor to some counts and dukes' palaces. Even the prince's palace himself went in several times.

Yes, but none of this made his mind dizzy. He knew what things should be done and what things should not be done.

"Well, sit down, how are our profits during this period?" Li Cong said casually, and the two ladies continued to read the account book after paying tribute to Li Cong. It seems that women have an innate intuition about this thing.

They like to study things like these numbers, especially since these numbers also represent the wealth of their own families. In the past, Lu Xinlan had some understanding of the accounts of the county prince's palace, but Princess Shengping didn't know anything about this.

I understand, but with Lu Xinlan's help, the two of them watched it with gusto. In the past, they only knew that their husbands were rich. But now they know how their husbands are rich. They made money this month.

His ability is as much as the lifetime wealth of many wealthy families. These two people had no time to pay attention to Li Cong at the moment, and they continued to look at their account books.

"Returning to the prince, in the past month, all our special medicine business has stopped because the epidemic is over, so we have to stop this. However, the sales of our perfumes and soaps are booming, and the tea business is booming.

The business has increased by another 20% from the original share. The accounts show that we actually received 1.263 million gold coins this month." Shopkeeper Zhao pointed at the accounts and said. In fact, the real amount of income was

It was much bigger than this, but he just didn't say it in front of the two hostesses, and he didn't lie. The exact words he said were what was shown in the accounts, and he didn't say much else.

Li Cong nodded, this is not bad. According to the original agreement with Lao Zhao, a quarter of the things will be made into account books. Now it seems that the income must be at least 5 billion gold coins, and the annual income is

It is higher than the empire's fiscal revenue. Of course, it only exceeds the imperial fiscal revenue on the surface. As for Li Cong's secret income, it is hard to estimate. Now Hualong doesn't even know the emperor's secret income. It is even more unnecessary.

I have to speak for myself, but the waters in this empire are really quite deep.

"The income is pretty good. Let's give the guys an extra month's salary recently. I, the boss, can't work hard to make money. Your life is still so hard. You can just get one hundred thousand gold coins." Li Congxiao.

Then he said, for his subordinates, Li Cong is not stingy at all. Li Cong himself is very good at winning people's hearts. It is worth throwing a little money to save so many good subordinates.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness. In fact, our income is already very high. For other shopkeepers like this, it would be good to have 20,000 gold coins a year. For me, 200,000 gold coins a year, Your Majesty, your rewards add up."

I have half a million gold coins a year, which is too much." This shopkeeper Zhao is different from his father. His father died because of money. This guy is not a person who cares about money rather than his life.

We know that greedy people will not live long.

"Okay, it's not a big amount of money. Just keep it carefully. By the way, we will start selling cement next month. This is a strategic material of the empire. You must strictly control these things. They must not be

Sold to the Southern Empire." Li Cong thought for a while and said, the main thing recently is this one, the ability of this cement thing can be seen, of all people, who doesn't want to make their home made of cement, because

So many people were making a fuss, so Li Cong specially approved the products produced by two cement plants for civilian use. Workers in cement plants in many places could also bring some out every day. But soon there was a law stating that cement must be used by civilians.

You need to issue a receipt from the time of purchase. If there is no receipt, it will be deemed that your cement was stolen, and you will be fined double and have to be sent to the army for three hundred miles.

"Is this really the case? Prince, to be honest, quite a few people have come to our business to ask about this cement in recent times. In fact, cement is not as good-looking as those stones or something like that. But now in the Imperial Capital

A kind of trend has been formed. Whoever can get some cement is their own business. If I spread this news, it will definitely achieve great results. By the way, Your Majesty, last time you

I asked the little one to take the chrysanthemum tea and sell it. The effect was very good. The first batch of three thousand kilograms was sold out, but the price was slightly higher. The prince said it was three thousand kilograms.

Ten thousand gold coins per catty, the small one has been raised to 40,000 gold coins, mainly because there are too many people signing up for the small one, and now many businessmen are also asking when the tea will arrive next time." Shopkeeper Zhao was happy.

He said, he is a professional businessman, he basically doesn’t care much about other soldiers, and only the money guy is interested. Who knows that the guy who is talking about business happily now

Nowadays, Li Cong doesn't care much about these money matters. He doesn't even know how much money he has. Anyway, his annual income is more than the empire.

A while ago, Li Cong had a discomfort in his throat when he was in Guangming City, so he drank some chrysanthemum tea. Anyway, now many types of tea have begun to appear. This chrysanthemum tea is very good on the earth, so Li Cong made it.

A batch of tea has arrived. The tea from Bamin Tea House has always been the best-selling product in the world. I heard that they have new products. They all rushed here one by one. I originally thought that I was already the best-selling product.

They are very wealthy, but look at those people who buy millions of gold coins at every turn. They are still very young, many people said. If you want to know who is the richest in the empire, just look at the partners of Bamin Tea House.

I know, in the end, those who make the money are those who cooperate with them. With chrysanthemum tea, shopkeeper Zhao helped Li Cong earn 120 million gold coins in one morning. The more the merrier in this kind of business.

Li Cong chatted with shopkeeper Zhao some more and asked him to go back first. Before leaving, he told this guy that what he had done recently was very good. If there is anyone with good literary talent among his children, he would take it.

I have been studying at Wenhua Academy for a few years, but I was deeply moved by this post. Wenhua Academy is the most advanced school in the imperial capital, second only to Taixue and Imperial College. Wenhua Academy has students who come out every year.

The elites will definitely enter the Imperial College or the Imperial College. There is no need to question such things. Many people try their best to get in. However, it is too difficult to recruit students here. They only admit less than a thousand students every year.

For the empire's total population of more than three billion, this number of people is simply a drop in the bucket. There are even people who come from the Southern Empire and other small countries, and the number is even smaller. If you want to enter Wenhua College, you can.

It must be recommended by someone above the duke. To get this qualification, you must take an exam. You can only get in after passing the exam. The annual tuition fee is as high as one hundred thousand gold coins. If this is not a wealthy family, there will be no chance at all.

There may be people who have this ability. Rich people in the countryside spend all their assets to send their children to school. Is this an ordinary school? However, there are also wealthy nobles who sponsor students. They don't lack hundreds of thousands of gold coins at all.

What they lack is talent. If you use their money, it means you are one of their people. Shopkeeper Zhao does not want all his descendants to be businessmen. If he can be an official, it is better to be an official.

In this regard, they are very similar to some people in China, and the hierarchy is also very similar. They are all four levels of scholars, farmers, industry and merchants. The status of merchants in the Southern Empire is different from them. The merchants in the Southern Empire are ranked second.

Well, this is why the economy of the Southern Empire is more developed than that of the Northern Empire.

"How about it? I said you two little money lovers are going to get into the eyes of money. How long has it been? If you don't clean up, we are going to have dinner." After shopkeeper Zhao went out, Li Cong thought about things for a while.

, what are these two women still studying there? Li Cong came over and took a look. They were not studying the account books, but studying some things about dealing with people. Now what they two saw was about the major princes' palaces.

Things like visiting each other, the birthday of the prince of this family, the birthday of the princess of that family, generally speaking, there are contacts between the princes and other wealthy families, and there are regulations on the amount of gifts.

The number of transactions between the prince's palace and the prince's palace is constant, so there is no loss. However, some other relationships below will suffer losses when dealing with the prince's palace. For example, a prince's palace sends gifts to the duke's palace.

When I went to get a gift of about 100,000 gold coins, the Duke's Palace had to add 20,000 gold coins. It would be easier if a county magistrate below found a pair of prince's calligraphy and gave them to them.

Go, they will have to pay tens of thousands of gold coins next year. Even though the calligraphy treasure is just a piece of paper, with this calligraphy treasure, the county magistrate can get hundreds of thousands of gold coins with this. There are countless such things.

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"I really didn't expect that traveling between the various palaces in the imperial capital would be so troublesome. Fortunately, only the birthdays of the prince and princess require us to attend in person. If the birthdays of the concubines and princes also require us to attend, I think

We just have to do this every day." Princess Shengping said helplessly. Li Cong's status is the same as that of the prince. Even if Lu Xinlan is named a concubine, she is on the same level as the concubines of the county prince's palace outside. They

The status of the two of them can be said to be very high. In addition, Li Cong is now the first among the princes. Except for some masters in the palace, they do not need to bow to anyone they see.

"Haha, what do you think the imperial capital is for? In fact, the imperial capital is a combination of relationships. How can a place as small as the imperial capital rule such a large empire? These relationships are an indispensable part of it. We don't care about other royal palaces.

Why, our mansion is the number one palace, and some things cannot be left behind. I am not very impatient with these things, so I still have to trouble you." Li Cong said with some regret. He knew that these two women of his were both

Not willing to do such a thing, Lu Xinlan was already impatient with this when she was the princess of the county prince's palace. Princess Shengping had no intention of doing this, but after seeing Li Cong's eyes, they also knew that

These things must be done. Both of them agreed. Li Cong told them in his heart that it won't take long. As long as he takes over this continent, you can go out for a walk if you don't want to.

I'm sure no one will force you.

"Your Majesty, I think we should go out to eat today. I'm tired of always eating the food from the cook at home, and it always tastes the same no matter how I cook it. I don't feel like eating anymore when I eat lately." Regarding the cook at home.

Li Cong didn't pay much attention to things like that. In his opinion, the cook's skills were very good. There was no need to replace him. But seeing the coquettish look of the little princess, Li Cong agreed without thinking.

It's not a big deal to go out to eat. However, Lu Xinlan happened to have a headache and didn't go out. In fact, Li Cong knew what was going on with her, although Li Cong had already given her the title of concubine.
To be continued...