Chapter 7 Flattery is rewarded
"Cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough"
A violent coughing brought him back to the real world. When he turned his head to look, he saw that his second son was coughing red, his fifth son and his sixth son were helping him massage his back. Although his eldest son always had a stern face, the concern in his eyes was not like a false appearance.
Several smaller ones were also asking questions with concern, but Li Congshan, who was the most popular just now, fell to the end.
Li Jing suddenly looked moved, and a long sigh came from his heart, but there was no special twists and turns on his face. After Li Hongmao's coughing, he said, "Yu'er's words have come to his heart for being a father. If being a father is not the emperor's words, I'm afraid he will be like you, like you, and not even go back to his own bedroom. A real man is better than a million soldiers in a book city!"
He paused and said, "So, since you like this Chengxin Hall, then I will assign you to be the Master of Chengxin Hall to be the Master of the Chengxin Hall and take charge of everything!"
"This, please think twice, Father!" Li Yu secretly felt happy, "bingo, this bet is right," but he pretended to be frightened. "Sage think twice, this scholar of Chengzhi is personally served by Feng Shangshu. Feng Shangshu is a great scholar of the world. His knowledge is a model. Such a talent is worthy of the position of Chengzhi Bachelor. The child is still young and is still studying. His studies are heavy, so I am afraid he has no spare time to take on this job!"
"Hahahaha, Liulang, don't panic. Shangshu Feng has long since stopped working. He asked him to serve as a part-time job to fulfill his childhood wish. Although his father was the Minister of Personnel, he left early. When he was young, his family was poor and could not afford good pens, inks, papers and inkstones. At that time, he thought that one day he would become rich. He would not be Li Mo, Zhuge Bi, Chengxintang Paper, and Sheyan gathered together and would not be a book. When he talked about this, he would send him to Chengxintang. He joked that he would put a mouse into a white rice jar and let him do it..."
"Puff" Li Yu secretly laughed at himself as a wonderful man. Feng Yansi is now a minister and a favorite minister. Naturally, his family is not short of all kinds of exquisite pens, ink, paper and inkstones. However, through this appointment, Li Jing allowed him to fully realize his childhood wish. If the two had not had a deep relationship, they would not have such thoughts. In this regard, they were considered to be in harmony.
But how does it sound like gaygay...
No wonder Feng Yansi was also loyal to Li Jing, but he was not completely flattering.
"He is almost obsessed with it now, and the Minister of Rites is not a light burden, so he did this. There is no need to pass the Secretary of the Central Secretariat, and I will tell him in the evening."
This is the benefit of the royal private libraries and workshops. If you need to make some adjustments, the emperor will make a decision and you will not be able to go to the process of Zhongshu-Subordinate-Shangshu.
"I took out this old mouse and put you, the little mouse, in. Why don't you want to?"
"Damn, you can't show off anymore, otherwise it might be a bad thing if you pretend." Thinking of this, there was a look of surprise and embarrassment on your face.
"I really want to do it, I dare not invite you. Thank you so much for your father. The Chengxintang paper in the child's study consumes very quickly. It's always troublesome to send someone to collect it. Now..." As he said that, he smiled embarrassedly, and rubbed his hands like a fly.
He secretly scolded Li Congshan in his heart, "You are the bastard, you can act cute? I have traveled through time, I have played more with this hand than you!"
Li Jing is a generous person, so generous that he is a good man as long as he does not involve the throne.
Li Yu said just now that he wanted to embezzle Chengxintang paper for himself. Of course, this was a flaw he deliberately released, but he knew that Li Jing would never be unhappy because of this. Instead, he felt that it was a good thing for his son to spend too much paper, at least he was working on learning or calligraphy and painting. Which father would be unhappy when he saw his son working hard?
Sure enough, Li Jing laughed again, "In this way, my father will upgrade your school exam, and the way of calligraphy and painting is also within the assessment..."
"Saint..." Li Yu was sad, but he was overjoyed in his heart. "It's done, it's all done. This first step was done inadvertently. He had to say it really thanks to the little bastard. If he hadn't been aggressive today, I'm afraid I might not have been so anxious."
Yes, after the first night of time traveling, he didn't fall asleep all night. His mind repeatedly rolled over the current situation and the strategy he planned to adopt. The final conclusion was that the Buddhist struggle for the throne was to expand his strength as much as possible while being low-key.
Of course, it is easier said than done. Strength is based on money and power. To achieve the goal, you must use money to open the way. When Brother Kong Fang is not good, power will be crushed all the way.
He is the sixth prince, but he is poor and careless. Looking at the three-body movement of the throne above, Li Hongji is the king of Jiangbei, and he is in charge of military, politics and finances, and he looks like a governor of the late Tang Dynasty. I won’t talk about the third and fourth uncles, one is the deputy emperor and the highest military commander in the country.
Moreover, these three have their own teams, especially the eldest brother. Although he is the youngest, he has the most people under him because of his military achievements and actual control. In addition, the candidates in the central court, Li Yu suspected that if Li Jing suddenly died, Li Hongji would directly lead his troops south and immediately take over the throne seamlessly.
In contrast, I have nothing but the title of prince.
So Chengxintang is the first step in his plan. It sounds pitiful. The main reason for falling in love with this Leng Yamen is that it can get a lot of benefits here.
Li Yu was really afraid of poverty. Southern Tang was a country that valued business, but he could not forbidden the royal relatives to do business. Li Jingsui and Li Jingda had many industries in Jiangdu, and it was not an exaggeration to say that he would make money every day.
Li Yu also thought, and felt that as a time traveler, he could do better than the ancients in terms of business model and commercial products, but he had no capital at all...
In fact, in addition to the monthly banking, he also has a channel for money. Uncle Wu will give him a lot of money every month. However, compared to his big plan, he is still a drop in the bucket, and he is embarrassed to ask for more.
Chengxintang is a royal private library and four treasure workshop. Although it often requisitions national resources such as the Ministry of Works for free, the three provinces and six ministries, the Privy Council, the Three Divisions, and the Censorate cannot control it. If anyone dares to say a few more words to Chengxintang, Li Jing will definitely turn his back on it. "I succeeded to the throne and worked hard for the world, but this small private workshop cannot tolerate it?"
So as long as you become the chief official, it is really convenient to do it. Not to mention anything else, Li Mo, who has a big finger, can't get it if you don't have ten gold on the market. Moreover, this thing is priceless, and all the production capacity is controlled in your own hands. Although I am not an employee of xmi company, I have never eaten pork and have never seen pigs running? Then I will just do it.
Thinking of this, I was even more happy. Moreover, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms have a characteristic. Because of the chaos in the world, the relationship between the emperor and the ministers was more direct and naked. The most common way for the emperor to repay the loyalty of the ministers was to directly grant him a title of Fei Que. For example, after he persuaded Zhou Zong to become a hero, Li Bing directly appointed him as the governor of the Jianwu Army. Under the Jianwu Army, there were two major salt fields, Yancheng and Jinghai (Nantong). Three years later, Zhou Zong became rich, and Li Bing transferred him back to Jiangning to manage the Ministry of Personnel...
Li Jing threw Feng Yansi to Chengxintang, which was also a chance to defile the pen, ink, paper and inkstone. It was a reward for the king and ministers. In addition, whenever Feng Yansi had new lyrics, new songs, new books and paintings, he would definitely be sent to the emperor as soon as possible to appreciate and praise. After going around in a circle, wouldn’t these four treasures of the study be used on his own?
I have to say that the idea of middle-aged literature is indeed a bit different from that of ordinary people...
If you can do this to your good friends, there is no reason not to let your son take advantage of the troubled waters.
In addition to gaining a lot of benefits, Chengxintang is a place where he often goes, and the staff are familiar with them, including eunuchs, small clerks and low-level civil servants. He considered absorbing a few from it as his team. These people are of low-quality and have no real power. One hundred of them are not as good as one Zhong Mo. But these people also have advantages, not to mention the convenience of buying them, because of their level, no one can usually like them, and it is convenient to check their wealth and history. It is unexpected that they are suspected of being loyal.
Li Jing sent several gentlemen to Li Yu, but he would never dare to think about these people. God knows whether Li Jing or Li Hongji sent him to monitor him. If it is true, he will take the initiative to buy these people, wouldn’t he look for a coffin to sleep? Between the emperor, the prince and the ordinary prince, you still need to consider how to stand in a team?
There is no way, but I am not as good as Li Congshan. Inexplicably, a minister of the Ministry of Rites took the initiative to serve. Damn this world, who is the protagonist?
As for whether Zhong Mo was sent by someone else, it is really hard to say.
Besides, Chengxintang is not a formal institution. As the prince, it is natural for me to manage my private libraries and workshops. It is not like being a formal official, and it will attract a lot of unnecessary attention.
Last and most importantly, the bachelor of Chengxintang is considered a librarian, I am Lu You and Runzhi, Hu Shi, Jiang, Qing and Shen Congwen are all made by librarians...
In fact, he valued another position more, Dechang Palace Envoy.
Dechang Palace is the place responsible for storing the royal treasury. Before Li Bing died, he pulled Li Jing and told him that there were seven million gold and silk storage in Dechang Palace for emergency needs.
All the royal family knew about this matter. After considering it several times last night, Li Yu thought that the seven million coins should be seven million coins. The reason is very simple. If it is seven million coins, it is only seven thousand coins based on one thousand coins combined with one thousand coins.
The Southern Tang Dynasty earned 300,000 guan in a year, and the wealthy merchants had to do a big business, and it was impossible for the treasury of only 7,000 guan in a grand business.
If it is really seven million yuan, it would be very amazing. Li Yu has his own ideas about this money, but the first step is to get into this position.
However, it is unlikely to let a thirteen-year-old prince who has no experience manage such a huge sum of money, so Li Yu felt a little regretful. Anyway, he could develop well in the position of Chengxintang and do it step by step.
No hurry.
Seeing Li Yu cheering, several brothers also came to congratulate Li Yu;
At this time, Li Hongmao was staring at Li Jing with the cover of coughing. Sure enough, he found a strange smile on his father's face. If he hadn't been staring at him, it wouldn't have been possible to find this flash of abnormality.
Chapter completed!