strictlysupreme Chapter 2071 Returning Home to Explain
Chapter 2071 Returning Home to Explain
Li Shen chatted with Concubine Wei for a while, talking about what he saw and heard on his journey to the west, as well as some good deeds he had done to eliminate violence and protect the good.
This made Concubine Wei very happy.
Half an hour later, Li Shen left Cuiwei Palace with his little wife.
After returning to Prince Ji's Mansion, Li Shen got off the carriage and said to Shi Tou:
"Send someone to inform Wang Hongfu and Pei Mingli immediately. Also send someone to summon the brothers Wei Siqian and tell them that I have something to discuss with them."
After giving the order, Li Shen strode into the palace. When passing by the garden, Li Shen took a look and saw several maids gathered together.
His beloved daughter Xixi was lying on the rocking chair, crossing her legs and drinking ice juice.
"You don't know how to sit or stand properly. You are a girl, how can you behave like that?"
Li Shen frowned and said.
"Haha, my dear, don't you feel that he looks familiar?" Lu Dingniang at the side took a look and smiled with her hands covering her mouth.
"What do you mean?" Li Shen looked at Lu Dingniang.
"My dear, Xixi behaves exactly like the prince usually does. I think Xixi must have learned it from the prince."
Lu Dingniang explained with a smile.
"Is this something you learn for fun? Am I usually like this?" Li Shen was a little unbelievable. He felt that he usually looked like an old man when he was lying in the rocking chair.
I didn't expect that he behaved like such a dandy guy.
"I will change my clothes first, and then you will see how I deal with her."
I can’t say it’s not good-looking anymore, otherwise it’s no different from saying it about myself.
After changing his clothes, Li Shen came to the garden.
"Greetings, Your Majesty, Princess." The maid hurriedly bowed when she saw Li Shen and Lu Dingniang.
"Hello, Aye, mother."
When Xixi heard the voice, she quickly got up and bowed to Li Shen and Lu Dingniang without being impolite.
Li Shen walked forward and picked Xixi up, then sat on the recliner.
"Xixi, you are already five years old. After you start learning, you still need to learn royal etiquette and behave properly. Do you understand? You are a lady from a noble family.
Don’t let others gossip.” Li Shen began to educate him.
"Yes, Aye, Xixi will learn etiquette in the future."
Xixi nodded in confusion. She didn't understand what mistake she had made.
"How is your schoolwork going? Didn't Aye ask you to learn women's virtues?" Li Shen continued to ask.
"Yeah, I've finished my studies, one hour every day." Xixi was a little nervous when asked about her homework.
"Have you finished your studies? What about your brother?" Li Shen felt amused. Children in any era would be embarrassed to say if they did not study well.
"Yangyang is writing in the study." Xixi became even more nervous. Her brother was very honest and sticks to the rules. He would do whatever he was told to do.
"Yeah, that's good. When you have nothing to do, you should also play with your other brothers and sisters, okay? They are almost grown up."
Li Shen didn't say anything. They were only five years old and there was no need for so many demands.
"Yes, Aye, but they are too young." Xixi said. Except for Yangyang, the third child could barely walk, and the fourth child couldn't even walk.
"You are the eldest sister, you should take care of your younger siblings. Look, Yangyang, as the eldest brother, plays with his younger siblings.
One more thing, you are not allowed to play with the gold bars anymore, or Aye will take them all away, do you hear me?"
Li Shen was very concerned about the two bloody incidents. The last time he only hit Yangyang on the forehead, but what if he hit his eyes?
A five-year-old child has no idea of depth and is likely to fail.
"Okay." Hearing that her small treasury was going to be taken away, Xixi was reluctant but could only nod in agreement.
"Your Majesty, Shopkeeper Wang has arrived."
A eunuch came to report.
After hearing this, Li Shen stood up and put Xixi back on the rocking chair.
"Okay, have fun by yourself. Aye has something else to do."
After saying that, Li Shen came to the front hall alone.
"Greetings, Your Majesty." Wang Hongfu and Pei Mingli saw Li Shen step forward and salute.
"Well, sit down."
Li Shen sat down and nodded.
"Your Majesty, have you had a hard time on this journey?"
Wang Hongfu first greeted him.
"It's OK. I came back yesterday."
"Your Majesty, I wonder how His Majesty's condition is?"
Pei Mingli asked.
"It's not serious anymore. It should be healed in less than three days. The rest is just conditioning."
After a brief remark, Li Shen got to the point:
“This king has asked you two to come here because he has something to tell you.
First of all, I have done a big business with your majesty, a big business worth one million strings of cash. Tomorrow, I will bring people to the palace gate to meet you, a total of one million strings of cash. "
"One million strings of cash? Your Majesty, I wonder what big business this amount of money can lead to?"
When Wang Hongfu heard about the huge business worth millions of taels, he immediately became curious.
Li Shen took out the contract and asked Shi Tou to pass it to Wang Hongfu and the other man for them to read.
After a while, Wang Hongfu finally spoke:
"Your Majesty, this donkey-hide gelatin is indeed precious, and it will definitely fetch a high price if it is sold.
But the contract requires us to go to the counties around Chang'an City to recruit craftsmen to build workshops and repair bridges and roads. We won't make much money this time."
Wang Hongfu immediately raised a question. When Prince Ji was doing business, investing meant making a profit, but according to the terms of the contract signed by Prince Ji, there wouldn't be much left of the one million strings of cash.
"Can you be more ambitious? Am I the one who embezzled a million strings of cash?
Besides, this is His Majesty's money, who among you dares to embezzle it?"
Li Shen immediately became sanctimonious.
"Old Wang, I'll leave this matter to you. You need to recruit at least 50,000 workers and complete the project as soon as possible. Three hundred thousand strings of cash will be enough for the workshop, equipment, and road repairs.
That leaves only 700,000 strings of cash."
"Your Majesty, why don't you let Pei Canjun take charge of this matter? I am really too busy. In addition to the construction of the Academy of Sciences, we are also responsible for the construction of the nursing home and the Beitianyuan.
I really don’t have any free time.”
Wang Hongfu stood up and saluted to report that he really didn't have time. In addition to the construction tasks, he also had the task of attending a football match.
"Well, Mingli, you can share some of the work for Lao Wang. The football field is almost finished, so it's a good opportunity for you to have some work to do."
"Yes, Your Majesty, I will definitely live up to your expectations." Pei Mingli stood up immediately.
"You must remember what I just said. Recruit 50,000 laborers, and try to recruit one person from each household.
This year, there was a severe drought in Guanzhong, so we can be considered to be benefiting the people.”
Li Shen reminded again.
"I accept your order."
"Lao Wang, the farm needs to raise more donkeys. As before, have the people who raise donkeys record their experience and keep it for future promotion.
There is one more thing. You need to go to the medical school to find Li Xiuwei. There is a medicine for which you need to set the price. The price at the Second Hospital is cheaper, while the price at the First Hospital is a hundred times or even more, at least more than one tael of silver.
And do a good job of publicity, saying that it is available at home and can be taken by both adults and children, and that Your Majesty got better by taking this Chinese medicine.
One medicine, two prices. Li Xiuwei already knows the method.
The montmorillonite powder sold at the Second Hospital is cheaper, while the Guanyin powder sold at the First Hospital is more expensive.
Go discuss this with Li Xiuwei."
(I can predict that if I have diarrhea, someone will definitely tell me to eat incense ash or montmorillonite powder.)