Steel Dynasty - Chapter 696

[Chapter 695: A powerful country in industry and a rich country in commerce]

“This Chu country will be mine in the future, and I naturally know it.”

Li Chuyuan glanced at Wang Cheng, with deep meaning in his words.

Wang Cheng immediately arched his body when he heard this. Li Chuyuan was obviously reminding him to pay attention to his propriety. Even if he was a proton, he could not be criticized by his ministers.

Picking up the chopsticks, Li Chuyuan held a piece of braised pork and said: “Since Fei Ge Lao invited me, I will go and take a look. After all, this knife was not cut on me.”

…

Princess Mansion, Princess Pingyang is reading Reading “Qingzhou Daily”, she frowned when she saw the news that King Zhao was about to be beheaded in public, and then she suddenly sighed.

“Hey, I thought that when there was any trouble in Chang’an City, I would know about it immediately, but now I can only read about it from this newspaper.”

Today’s guest at the Princess Mansion was Lady Liu, the wife of Song Guogong. She said, “Who “No, the emperor is keeping a close eye on us, the royal relatives, and no one dares to go too far.”

Princess Pingyang pursed her lips and laughed. After the royal relatives from Chang’an fled to Qingzhou, Xiao Ming didn’t tell them any difference. Secondly, he did not pay the monthly allowance to the royal relatives, which made many royal family members dissatisfied and criticized Xiao Ming privately.

“Of course, this thunder pond cannot be crossed, otherwise we are afraid that if we fall, we will be shattered to pieces. It is safer for us to walk safely on the shore. After all, this emperor is different from the previous emperor. This vassal king dares to kill, who else is he? I don’t dare to kill him,” Princess Pingyang said with a smile, intentionally or unintentionally.

Liu’s face turned red and white, and she could understand the secret message. Among all the royal family members in Qingzhou, only Princess Pingyang had the highest prestige, so they would come to Princess Pingyang to complain if they had any grievances in their hearts.

The Liu family was no exception. Although Xiao Ming did not give regular silver to these royal family members, Xiao Ming once gave these royal family members a large amount of money at one time according to their titles to allow them to do business.

He also ordered Li Kaiyuan to establish a special team of royal merchants for these royal relatives. As long as these royal relatives are willing to do business, the Chamber of Commerce will open the door to convenience.

It’s just that some members of the royal family think it’s embarrassing and refuse to do business, such as the Duke of Song Dynasty.

He took the eight thousand taels given by Xiao Ming to gamble, but lost everything. If it weren’t for Princess Pingyang’s relief, Song Guogong wouldn’t even be able to eat.

Being secretly accused by Princess Pingyang, Mrs. Liu could only accept it. She said: “What the princess said makes sense, but not everyone has Her Royal Highness’s business talent. It is said that the princess now earns tens of thousands of taels of silver per month, so I hope Your Highness

, please give

me some advice.”

“It’s Duke Song who asked you to come here again.” Princess Pingyang snorted softly, “It’s no wonder that the emperor is angry. Each one is incompetent. How can the emperor trust you?”

Even if she spoke, she could only complain and complain.

Sighing slightly, she said to Mrs. Liu: “Even so, the emperor is too neglectful towards the royal family. It cannot continue like this. If these people stabbed Lou Zi that day, it would give officials like Pang Yukun someone to blame us.” Excuse. “

After all, she asked Ouyang Mu to get fifty taels of silver for Mrs. Liu. Now Xiao Ming has to take care of her, and these people really give her a headache.

Mrs. Liu left with great gratitude. Ouyang Mu said at this time: “Your Highness, it is not an option to continue like this. Although the business of the Princess Mansion is very profitable, sooner or later the Duke of Song will be the Duke of Song and the Duke of Tang will be tomorrow.” We have to pay for them, not to mention that they are all generous and have a large family, so no amount of money is enough.”

“I don’t know, it is for this reason that the emperor will give us a sum of money to use the royal family. My dear, I sent it off. When the late emperor was here, it was just this money that accounted for the majority of the treasury expenditure. This emperor is very smart, but the emperor is a little wishful thinking on this matter. If he leaves it alone, he is afraid that trouble will occur. Today, Liu’s words are full of She is dissatisfied with the emperor and has a lot of resentment. This is no accident. They must have discussed it frequently. “

After a pause, she said: “It seems that I need to go to the palace to see the emperor and ask about this reform. “It’s hard to say that you can get closer to the palace first.”

Ouyang Mu smiled bitterly. Although Princess Pingyang takes good care of these royal family members, she doesn’t go to the palace to find the emperor.

Her real intention was to reform. Princess Pingyang was extremely smart, and she had already been prepared after the reform showed its signs.

After asking Ouyang Mu to prepare, she went directly to the palace. After some briefings, she met Xiao Ming who was correcting the memorial in Zhengyu’s study.

“Your Majesty, it’s right to be diligent in government affairs, but you can’t exhaust yourself too much.” Princess Pingyang said slightly affectionately.

Xiao Ming smiled and had to say that Princess Pingyang was very good at being a good person. No wonder Xiao Wenxuan loved this sister very much.

After she lived in Qingzhou, Princess Pingyang would come to this place from time to time to chat with the Queen Mother and Fei Yue’er, and at the same time she would also send him some weird things.

It can be said that he can see Princess Pingyang every now and then.

However, it was rare for Princess Pingyang to come to him directly, so he said, “The eldest princess must not be here to care about my health.”

In the past, when Xiao Ming was still King of Qi, he could call Princess Pingyang aunt, but after he ascended the throne, he could not I can only call her the eldest princess.

Pingyang has long been accustomed to Xiao Ming’s straight-to-the-point way of speaking. In her opinion, she, the prince’s nephew, doesn’t like complicated things, but only likes simplicity.

So she said: “To be honest with the Emperor, I came here this time for royal family matters. The Emperor must also know about Song Guogong.”

“I do know that not only Song Guogong, but also many of the prince’s descendants are interested in me. They are all dissatisfied,” Xiao Ming said lightly.

Princess Pingyang said seriously: “Why should the emperor care about them? As long as it is beneficial to the country of Chongqing, why should you care about them? If the royal family is gone, they will all have to starve to death.”

“The eldest princess is righteous.” Xiao Ming laughed, ” It’s just not right to let them keep asking for money from the eldest princess. Doesn’t it mean that I am unkind?”

Princess Pingyang’s expression remained unchanged and she said: “Your Majesty, you are worrying too much. My money was also given by the Emperor. It is said in a thousand words that they are still grateful to the Emperor.”

In fact, Princess Pingyang didn’t need to say this, he was ready to deal with it. The royal family members, because of these royal children who were used to being domineering in Chang’an, had caused a lot of trouble for him in Qingzhou.

If this continues for a long time, it will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among the people, because these people represent the royal family.

So he said: “I can give them another chance. In this reform, I decided to encourage private businesses to set up workshops. If they actively participate, they will be able to eat and drink without worries. If they still stick to the old rules and spend all their money, they will complain to me. Don’t blame me for being ruthless.”

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(end of this chapter).