Chapter 85

Hou Junji and his son-in-law Helan Chushi arrived at the East Palace.

Helan Chushi was an official from the Eastern Palace. Hou Junji also arrived at the prince's study under the recommendation of Helan Chushi.

At this time, the prince was handling government affairs, and most of the memorials from Li Shimin would be sent to the East Palace and handed over to the prince for handling!

"I have seen Your Highness the Crown Prince!" Hou Jun gathered at the study of Prince Li Chengqian, bowed his fists and said.

"Well, don't give me a gift, sit down. I wonder if Duke Chen is coming, do you have something important?" The prince asked Hou Junji to sit down, walked out of the desk, and sat next to Hou Junji.

"Your Highness, I'm here to see Your Highness!" Hou Junji said with a smile as he looked at the prince. In fact, he looked down on the prince in his heart.

In terms of ability, Hou Junji looked down on anyone, including Li Shimin.

"Oh, Duke Chen is intent!" The prince said with a smile when he heard this.

"Your Highness, today, I went to the store selling papers to see it. It is said that the 100,000 pieces of paper today were sold out, which can be worth 200 cents of money.

Moreover, I heard that this is only half of the production of the paper mill, and the output needs to be increased, with a daily output reaching 300,000 large pieces of paper!

In this way, the paper mill can earn 600 coins every day, but in one month, it will be 18,000 coins.

Although the capital minister doesn't know how much it is, he can guess how much it is, and it probably won't be more than 3,000 guan!" Hou Junji sat there and said to the prince.

The prince looked at Hou Junji without understanding at all, wondering why he said this?

The paper mill now supervises itself, and the higher the profit there, the more beneficial it will be for itself!

"Your Highness, as far as I know, the royal family holds 50% of the shares and 50% of the other 50% of the shares. How many of their families have to share 7,000 or 8,000 guan a month, and in a year, it only costs 100,000 guan. I'm afraid this is inappropriate?

Moreover, they are all military generals, and it would be bad if they have so much money!" Hou Junji sat there and said as he looked at the prince.

"This Duke Chen has been worried about this. This matter is for the poor scholars in the world. Although he has made some money, there is not much money for so many points in the mansion!" The prince did not understand what Hou Junji's purpose was at all, so he was not ready to respond, but refuted.

"That's right, but what about the accumulation of decades or hundreds of years? Your Highness, you are the prince, and it is impossible not to think about future matters!" Hou Junji continued to look at the prince with a smile and said.

The prince turned his head and looked at Hou Junji. He really couldn't guess what Hou Junji was about.

"Your Highness, I suggest that you write to Your Majesty that you shall cut their shares, or that the price of selling paper,

There is news in the city today, saying that Qin Huaidao is planning to build two houses at the same time, covering an area of ​​hundreds of acres. Everyone can calculate how much money is there in Qin Huaidao's mansion. Where did Qin Huaidao get so much money?

It is impossible to build these two houses without 50,000 or 60,000 yuan. Therefore, it is said that Qin Huaidao has made a lot of money by relying on the paper mill!" Hou Junji sat there and said with a smile.

"All nonsense!" The prince stood up angrily when he heard this.

This rumor is so terrible. I just supervised the paper mill and sold paper on the first day today. There are such rumors outside.

Next, no matter how you do it, it will be bad. The price will be reduced? The income from each mansion will be reduced. Of course, the royal income will also be reduced. Moreover, Qin Huaidao and others are not sure whether they are willing or not!

It is even worse to take back the shares of several of their companies. Not only did they offend those companies directly, but they also put themselves in a state of injustice!

Even if these two things are not something that others say, father and Qin Huaidao and others will think that they are not capable of doing so, and such things cannot be handled!

"Your Highness, it's not what I said. You need to take the initiative in your own right! You can't be so passive!" Hou Junji said angrily when he saw the prince.

"I will investigate this matter!" The prince calmed down at this moment and said to Hou Junji.

"Yes, but it is impossible to block the people's mouths in this matter! You still have to think of other ways!" Hou Junji sat there and bowed to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and said.

"I understand!" the prince nodded.

Soon, Hou Junji left, and the prince sat there thinking.

After a while, the prince shouted, "Come on!"

Soon, Du He came in from outside.

"Let's check the rumors about paper mills outside the palace. In addition, find out the source of the orphans, who released the rumors, and also check the whereabouts of Duke Chen in the past two days!" The prince sat there and spoke.

"Yes!" Du He heard this and immediately went out.

"Who is framed by the orphan behind the scenes? The King of Wei? The family? Dare to make a fuss about this matter?" Li Chengqian sat there, gritting his teeth and said.

I was only happy for a few days before someone started to do something. Isn’t this putting myself on the fire?

In the evening, Li Chengqian saw the memorial.

The source of the memorial that Du He came up with was not found. However, the memorial stated that Qin Huaidao went to measure the land. It was said that Qin Huaidao wanted to build two houses at the same time, one was the mansion of Qin Shandao, the other was what Qin Huaidao said before, and he also built a mansion for himself.

The prince saw this incident and wrote it in detail, but the source of the rumors and Hou Junji's movements over the past two days did not write much about it.

The prince felt something was wrong, so he took the memorial and put it down, without saying a word.

It was late at night when Li Chengqian summoned another official from the East Palace and asked him to investigate again!

Early the next morning, a new memorial was delivered. The prince opened it and saw that the source was still not clear. However, Hou Junji went to overturn the paper-selling shop yesterday, and the matter was written by the emperor.

"Yeah~" Li Chengqian finished reading and sighed!

"Prepare, I want to go to the palace!" the prince said to the people around him.

I took the memorial and went to a jar next to me, lit the memorial with a fire note, and burned it directly.

Soon, His Highness the Crown Prince arrived at the Ganlu Hall.

Li Shimin is discussing drought with his ministers. Every year, there will be droughts and floods in several places across the country, and Li Shimin needs to deal with these.

After the ministers left, Li Chengqian told Li Shimin about the rumors outside.

Li Shimin heard it, sat there, thinking.

In fact, he knew about this matter last night and sent someone to check the source, but he didn't find it. Now that Li Chengqian sent Du He's memorial to Li Shimin, Li Shimin naturally pretended that he didn't know about it before.

"Is this true?" Li Shimin put down the memorial and looked at Li Chengqian and asked.

"Yes!" Li Chengqian nodded.

"Then who do you think it is? Aristocratic family?" Li Shimin continued to look at Li Chengqian.

"My son is not sure. Before the investigation is clear, we cannot make random guesses. However, this matter is a crisis for the paper mill. It may be someone who went to Hu Guogong Boping.

My son knew that my father had rewarded Boping a lot, and Boping had about 10,000 yuan in his hand.

However, Bo Ping was too anxious. How could he have so much money to build two mansions at the same time? Isn’t this giving others a handle?" The prince said a little anxiously, thinking that Qin Huaidao was doing something wrong.

"There are more than this little money in Boping's mansion, at least 30,000 yuan!" Li Shimin said with a smile.

Li Shimin knew how much money Qin Huaidao had, and Qin Huaidao reported all the money to Li Shimin.

"So much?" The prince looked at Li Shimin in shock.

There are tens of thousands of guan in the capital, but there are definitely few that can be used to bring out.

"Well, this money is given by me! What's wrong with building two mansions at the same time? I estimate that those two mansions will cost up to 50,000 or 60,000 yuan. The brick factory has a profit of about 2,000 yuan a year. In addition to the other income from Boping's mansion, it will be about 4,000 yuan a year. There is also the paper factory, and there will be about 10,000 yuan a year. What's the relationship between building two mansions?

However, Gao Ming, have you considered it? Apart from the paper mill, who can still know the profits of the paper mill?" Li Shimin sat there and asked.

I was not surprised that Qin Huaidao built two mansions at the same time, but instead took it for granted, but the profits of the paper mill were leaked, and that was all the matter!

Li Shimin now knows that the profits of the paper mill are amazing. In a year, he will get a small 100,000 guan, which is a lot.

Li Shimin has a great family and a great business, but he has no money. In the past ten years, Li Shimin has not built a new palace, but it is just repaired! It is because he has no money!

Li Shimin also thought that if the money from the paper mill has arrived, he should build one or two palaces himself!

Unexpectedly, the money has not been made yet, and there are rumors outside now.

"This? Father, someone deliberately leaked it out from the paper mill?" The prince looked at Li Shimin in shock and said.

"Who will leak? Who is so stupid?" Li Shimin asked as he looked at Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian was also stupid. When he thought about it, he was so stupid, who would have leaked the money-making matters?

"Hey!" Li Shimin sighed.

"That's the people from the aristocratic family have bribed the paper mill!" Li Chengqian said firmly in his heart.

Li Shimin looked at him and said, "The aristocratic family has reached an agreement with Qin Huaidao and will no longer attack Qin Huaidao. It has only been reached soon. Qin Huaidao must have something that the aristocratic family fears. At this time, the aristocratic family jumped out? Once Qin Huaidao counterattacks, can the aristocratic family bear it?"
Chapter completed!