The most important thing is to save money.

There is no need to worry too much about this. Reinforced concrete and cement prefabricated components can free up a lot of good wood. The wood can also be used to make furniture, flooring, and interior decoration. Nowadays, all kinds of machinery are available, so it is not difficult to process.

In the end, even Gao Taotao couldn't stand it anymore. Situ, do you want the officials to build the Afang Palace? It's almost done.

Su You expressed his dissatisfaction. Did Qin Shihuang give enough wages to the 700,000 prisoners? Can the armor and shields not be compensated for the failure of the corvee? Are the rare treasures the income from his own investment?

Can the official family be the same? How can they be compared?

Gao Taotao finally got angry. That was also the money of the official family! The official family had not married a bride yet! There will be a lot of money spent in the future, so we must save money!

The final plan was finally decided, and the royal family spent a total of 10 million yuan to renovate the palace.

The Yushitai and the Remonstrance Court immediately submitted a letter to overhaul the palace and gardens. This was a sign of the collapse of the country. Qin Shihuang did everything he could...

So Gao Taotao became angry again. Did Qin Shihuang give enough wages to the 700,000 prisoners? Can the armor and shields not be compensated for the failure of the corvee? Are the rare treasures the income from his own investment?

Can the official family be the same? How can they be compared?

In the end, Sima Guang and Gao Taotao agreed one by one, no matter how the inner palace was repaired, they could not use a penny of the treasury, the sealing pile treasury, or the Yuanfeng treasury, and could only allocate it from the inner treasury.

A low-level worker earns 300 cash a day, which is 50 cash more than a civilian man carrying a bag at Bianjing Pier.

The required materials must be contracted with the workshop, and the price must not be deducted, let alone the old trick of exploiting pedestrians for free.

If the construction period is too long, agricultural work must not be affected.

In the end, a unified opinion was reached that the Sitong Construction Department would be the general contractor, and the Kaifeng Prefecture would supervise the signing and execution of the contract between the royal family and the workshop, making this transformation a purely business transaction.

Su You only made one suggestion, the Empress Dowager, just agree to all the requirements of Bachelor Sima, and we will ask for just one, and call for a collective bidding.

Whatever is needed for this project in the inner palace, we will open bidding to the outside world and ultimately choose Party B who can provide the best solution!

Gao Taotao was a little confused, Mingrun, have you come up with another trick?

Su You said I didn't. Otherwise, as long as the Empress Dowager proposes this and Bachelor Sima agrees, I will not say a word about this matter or interfere in any detail from now on, is that okay?

Gao Taotao was hesitant and finally added this item to his decision to negotiate with Sima Guang.

Sima Guang felt that this suggestion was fair. As long as the royal family gave the money, there was nothing wrong with choosing the best to use it, so he agreed.

When the first bidding meeting was under the personal supervision of Kaifeng Governor Cai Jing, the bids were opened openly and fairly on the spot, and the bid documents were read out. After the representative general of Bian Gu Children's Shoes read out the winning results and the reasons for the winning bids of those merchants, Sima Guang was dumbfounded.

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The prices given by those merchants are lower than the last!

Jiang Zuojian has not chosen the one with the lowest price because the quality of engineering components must be guaranteed. Too low a price makes Jiang Zuojian doubt the product quality.

This is a good trick!

Gao Taotao immediately summoned Su You: "Situ, what's going on? That Jichang No. 1 won the subcontracting business of making glazed tiles in the inner palace at a price 30% lower than the market price. Is there anything weird here? Such a businessman

How else to make money?”

"I know Cai Jing. His administration is smart, but he is not lenient. Don't let Wu Juhou appear again..."

Su You smiled and said, "I am going to report it to the Empress Dowager. Even though Bachelor Sima is paying attention, even Cai Jing would not dare."

"By the way, Da Su is about to arrive in Beijing. Does the Empress Dowager know about his story about eating pufferfish in Changzhou?"

"oh?"

Su You said: "The Qiting puffer fish restaurant in Changzhou already makes excellent puffer fish. They invited Da Su to taste it without taking any money, but they were worried that Da Su would not comment on it."

"When Dasu finished eating the puffer fish, he finally sighed, 'It's worth dying,' and he gave up his joy."

"That flag pavilion has since become the best business in Changzhou. There is no other reason than that Da Su tasted his puffer fish and commented in four words."

"This is true for a Zizhan, let alone the royal family?"

"Merchants are not stupid. Although they can't make money by baking glazed tiles for the inner palace, they have gained a reputation as a supplier of glazed tiles for the inner palace."

"In the hearts of the people, the products used by the royal family are the best from the Song Dynasty. The products used in the offerings are synonymous with the best products. Their profits can be recovered tenfold from future business."

Gao Taotao sighed: "So that's it, the world is really prosperous, everyone is here for profit."

Su You said: "Sima Sima has set the rules himself. Everyone does business under the rules of the game. Sima Sima does not see the value of the word 'royal', which does not mean that others cannot see it. This is a business opportunity."

"Smart people will find opportunities and seize them. This is the case with the boss of the Jichang."

"By the way, please sell the five-color soil under the inner palace to the Tianshi Mansion to subsidize the construction costs."

Gao Taotao felt incredible: "You still want to sell those poisonous soils for money?!"

Su You cupped his hands and said, "There is a saying in "A Fang Gong Fu" that 'take all the baht and use it like sand'. How can we, the royal family of Zhao and Song Dynasties, do this?"

"Back then, the price of pulverized coal from the inner warehouse was one penny per catty, but no one bought it."

"I asked the Shi family to buy it and use it to make briquettes. I really made a lot of dirty money."

"Now that I have become an official and have become a supervisor, I naturally cannot let the royal family do such a big loss again."

"That poisonous soil is useless to others, but it contains a lot of sulfur and cinnabar, which can be extracted. Tianshi Mansion has a huge demand for these."

"Of course, the royal family is certainly not short of this amount of money now. However, just like His Majesty planting royal fields every year, and the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother kissing silkworms, it is an advocating trend."

"Your Majesty grows mulberry trees, and the world will focus on mulberry crops. Your Majesty will be diligent and frugal and make the best use of everything, and the world will follow your lead."

Gao Taotao was very satisfied with Su You's words: "Situ taught me carefully, so let's handle it accordingly."

Nowadays, the number of people in the inner palace is simple. Zhao Xu has reduced the number of middle officials to a hundred, and even fewer palace maids.

In addition, the two kings have gone out and Zhao Xu has not yet got married. The only ones left in the palace are Zhao Xu's concubines and younger siblings.

Therefore, there was a lot of free space, so I issued a eloquent decree and quickly repaired it first for His Majesty and several small princes and princes in the palace.

He was very patriarchal, but Su You didn't dare to refute, and just told Bian Guan to speed up the progress.

Bianjing is a city that grew up spontaneously. It lacks urban planning and everyone likes to have a busy time. In addition to the Taiping 100 years, there are actually a lot of people.

After several large-scale evacuations and major renovations, at least the situation around the Imperial City has become better. At least the area in the original twenty-eight games has been properly planned, and the situation is much better.

The royal family had thought about expanding the imperial city several times, and Taizu had already ordered people to prepare the plans.

However, after seeing it, Taizu could not bear to move his people and gave up the idea.

Later, Renzong also thought about expanding it a little, and then the people living near the city wall would be used as nail households, but he had to give up.

Most of the previous palaces were single or two-story. Su You did not touch the main halls in front of the imperial city, but only transformed the harem part into three or even four stories, one of which is underground and the rest above ground.

If the toxic soil needs to be removed, it can be done in conjunction with the underground engineering part.

The project is complicated, and the New Year is coming soon, so there is no big move.

However, many engineering prefabricated parts can be started before the supervision.

There is also the matter of moving. Everything in the palace is precious and it will take a long time just to move.

The funny thing is that during the process of moving and cleaning, many good things were found in the palace. For example, the jade ax that Taizu loved to carry around and played with all the time was found in an extremely remote warehouse of Funing Palace.

This jade ax was related to rumors that were kept secret in the clan. Su You checked it and found no blood.

But there was definitely something fishy about Taizong coming to power. This is recognized by later historians. After all, at that time, the entire Kaifeng government officials and the imperial army were basically controlled by Taizong.

All I can say is that it was handled very cleanly.

There were also bottles and jars of Zhenzong. Empress Dowager Liu hated the Heavenly Book of Alchemy that killed Zhenzong. The first thing she did was to order the Heavenly Book to be buried with Zhenzong, and also ordered the alchemy room to be sealed with bricks and stones.

Nowadays, a complete set of alchemist's alchemy tools and medicines have been found in Zhenzong's alchemy room, as well as flattering articles such as secret memorials, Qingci, and auspicious memorials by ministers at that time, such as Ding Wei, Wang Dan, and Wang Qinruo.
Chapter completed!