Chapter 278 I’m Not Afraid of Frugality

After breakfast, Li Chengqi left in a hurry and told his third brother about this good idea.

In the palace, several thirty-six strategies were put on Li Longji's case, and Wei Zhigu, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, was asking for money.

Wei Zhigu ignored the requests from the Ministry of Household Affairs and went directly to Li Longji. The Political Affairs Hall actually asked someone to send a document.

“From last winter to today, there was quite little precipitation in Jingzhao Prefecture and Guannai Road, parts of Hedong Road, parts of Henan Road, parts of Hebei Road, and parts of Shannan East Road.

For fear of drought, the Ministry of Industry and Engineering is asking to take advantage of the water level to drop to clean up rivers and dig wells to benefit the people. I have found a way to prevent people from fighting for water..."

Wei Zhigu said, "I want money, and the Ministry of Industry has to do some work."

When Yao Chong and others heard him say, "I have learned a method," they curled their lips.

Shameless, you still got it by chance. You went there specifically to ask for it, but King Song stopped you.

Li Longji didn't look disdainful when he heard it. He knew that Wei Zhigu only had pressure well manufacturing technology.

What is really amazing is the new well-drilling technology. In many places, wells need to be dug very deep.

Dig a big hole and move it downward little by little, or use a hanging bar to lift the soil upward to fix the well wall.

Not only is it time-consuming and labor-intensive, but if someone digs underneath, it will easily collapse and get buried.

Now we need money, and the national treasury is not very rich, so the southwest must always be on guard.

I can only use part of the money I earn. In the past, when I had no money, everyone stared at me.

Now that I have money, I look at the eyes of the ministers...

"Yao Qing, do you have any plans?" Li Longji didn't want to pay for it himself.

"Your Majesty, Zuozang doesn't have much money left, so it's better to recruit more people from other areas."

Yao Chong gave a plan to find people from other places to come and work.

Rent mediocre tune, tune.

Li Longji stared at Yao Chong with wide eyes, are you fooling me? Do I transfer people from other places to work here?

Are you paying for the travel expenses? People won’t work since spring has begun? You force them to use money instead, and then you have money, right?

"This matter... will be discussed later." Li Longji did not say yes or no.

He was not short of money, but he was unwilling to take it, just like he didn't want others to ask Li Yi for something.

"Please take a look at this book. It is suitable for sending to official schools."

Li Longji took the initiative to change the topic and asked the eunuch to pass out the books, one to each person.

Everyone started to flip through the book, and there was actually a table of contents, with the words 'Victory Strategy' written at the front.

The first plan was indeed to hide the truth.

The second plan was to surround Wei and rescue Zhao.

The third plan...

After the six strategies, switch to the ‘enemy strategy’

The seventh strategy is to create something out of nothing.

The eighth plan is to secretly attack Chencang.

Then attack plan, melee plan, merge plan, and defeat plan.

Just looking at the strategies in the catalog and the names of the sub-plans below made several people's hearts surge with excitement.

Four people were reading, and Li Longji was also sitting there reading, looking at the four people.

He had a bad taste at the moment and just wanted to see the minister look surprised, shocked and helpless.

Only in this way can we make them work hard. Don't think that each one of them is very powerful. I tell you, you are far from it.

If you don't work hard, whoever comes in my place will do the same thing.

What do you want...that? Yes, use your subjective initiative.

How can Yao Chong and others care about what His Majesty thinks? They were fascinated by the book.

They discovered that this book was not only about military warfare, but could also be used in official circles and shopping malls.

While they were watching, Li Chengqi rushed in, glanced at them, ran to Li Longji and continued to bite his ears.

"Third brother, this is the situation. I went to Brother Yi's place..." Li Chengqi began to speak.

He went to get the drawings, but it turned out that the drawings were not ready yet and the actual object was still being built. He was anxious to come back and talk about world affairs.

Li Longji listened with his eyes wide open, narrowed his eyes, smiled, opened his mouth slightly, clenched his fists, clapped his hands, and made various expressions and movements, but did not make any sound.

The four readers looked at the two people above with their peripheral vision and listened intently. They didn't hear a word, and they were worried, what happened again?

Zhang Shuo looked up at Yao Chong, and Yao Chong looked up at Zhang Shuo at the same time as if he had a tacit understanding.

Zhang said in his eyes: something big is going to happen.

Yao Chong: You still have to say it.

Zhang said: Ever since King Song went to Zhuangzi, I have been on tenterhooks all day long.

Yao Chong: Wouldn't you be worried if he didn't go?

Zhang said: Do you think I am afraid of you?

Yao Chong: I'm afraid you can't do it.

At this time, Lu Huaishen turned his head and looked over: Don't fight, you two have a strong enemy on your side, and there is still internal friction. Think about the defeat strategies in this book and see which one is more effective against that boy.

Zhang said, holding out his finger: The first plan is the beauty trap.

Yao Chong shook his head slightly: No, he is not attracted to those beauties in Nanqu.

Zhang said, gesturing downward: Beauty trick.

Lu Huaishen gave a disgusted expression and glared over: Be serious and stop making trouble.

Zhang said, holding out three fingers: Countermeasures.

Yao Chong and Lu Huaishen sneered together: They would get themselves involved.

"Uh-huh!" Wei Zhigu coughed suddenly, startling the three of them.

"Uh-huh!" Li Longji coughed, and the three of them were startled again.

"Just now Wei Qing was talking about the Ministry of Industry's digging of wells, and Yao Qing said Zuozang didn't have much money. Uh... I want to be frugal and use my money to get water for the people."

Seeing four people looking over, Li Longji brought up the topic of further discussion.

The three prime ministers looked at each other and felt something bad in their hearts. Your Majesty is so easy to talk to, and you still take the initiative to provide money?

As for frugality, you can automatically ignore it.

"Your Majesty's love for the people should be an example for all the ministers in the world." Wei Zhigu quickly praised him and said, no matter what happened to him, he was rich anyway.

In the past, whenever there was a disaster, the court would not pay for it. Instead, it would usually order local governments to provide disaster relief and reduce or reduce rent.

Only when the imperial court built major water conservancy projects, UU read books www. uukanshu.net will spend extra money to hire people.

One of the money left hidden was used to pay officials' salaries, and the other was given to the army, while the smaller amount went to the civilian population.

And those in Youzang are all tributes and treasures sent from the local area, and are used by the royal people.

Nei Zang, Nei Zang is the income of various imperial villages, and is purchased separately by the palace.

Your Majesty is willing to pay for it now. Well, as long as this hole is opened, you can still ask for it in the future.

When Yao Chong and the others were not very stable in their hearts, they also thought about this problem. If they had to do it once, there would be a second time.

It's just that they don't believe that His Majesty doesn't know, so why does Your Majesty still...

Their eyes turned to King Song who was standing next to him as if everything had nothing to do with me.

"Third brother, I suddenly remembered that I have something to do. Let's go first." Li Chengqi said a few words and ran away.

The heads of the four people turned as he moved, until his figure disappeared outside the hall.

They turned their heads and looked at Li Longji again.

Li Longji looked serious: "I heard that in Chang'an City, the salt eaten by the people varies. Although sea salt and pool salt are cheap, they are not suitable for the taste. Shu salt is delicious, but the price is higher than the first two, is that right?"

"Of course!" Four people responded at the same time.

"I heard that there are not enough salt wells in Shu, so the price is high. I can't bear to see the people in poverty eating salt. Therefore, I would like to save money and use some money to dig wells in Shu to collect salt for the benefit of the people."

Li Longji threw out the most critical thing.

The four of them looked at each other and saw that they were frugal and something big was going to happen.

"Your Majesty, salt wells are not easy to dig. Throwing money in may not yield anything." Yao Chong advised kindly.

"As long as there is a chance, I will give everything I have." Li Longji looked like I would risk everything.