Sun Liancheng was very quick. He was a silk merchant. There was silk in the warehouse. He also deliberately used his own business channels to receive another 100,000 pieces of silk in just ten days.

He knew very well that the reason why His Highness of Qin used him as the chief secretary was probably because he was a silk seller. If he used not silk but tea this time, then the person who was the chief secretary might be the chief secretary was Manager Li.

In order to show his determination to burn his boats, in less than ten days, Sun Liancheng lent all the silks he owned, sold all his shops, warehouses, caravans, and even sold the ancestral home left by his father-in-law to him, and all the money he sold was "lent" to Zhao Guangmei.

In other words, this wealthy businessman who was once the leading wealthy in Kaifeng City is now cleaner in his pocket and even owes a lot of foreign debts. Even his wife and children have to feel a little wronged and temporarily lives in a relative's house.

At the same time, a staff member who networked the top business talents in Kaifeng City has been quietly formed. With Sun Liancheng's recommendation, Zhao Guangmei, the so-called business elite in half of the city, met. Everyone expressed their interest in his recruitment. They all followed Sun Liancheng's appearance and sold their property and planned to do it with him.

In troubled times, being rich sometimes does not bring you any sense of security.

This kind of behavior of recruiting a large number of merchants really made the civil and military officials in the court confused. After all, Zhao Guangmei is the crown prince, and it seems that there is a great hope of success in the competition for the crown prince. Almost every middle-level civil and military official in the court is ready to go, completely letting him choose at will.

What can you do when you find a bunch of merchants? Is this to make money for yourself? But aren’t you going to compete for saving?

Zhao Kuangyin was naturally curious, but he didn't care about it. His third brother always did unexpected things. He really had some expectations. What kind of surprise would this third brother give him again.

"The third brother has made a lot of merchants, but what have he done?"

"Ah...this...the King of Qin..."

"Um?"

"The King of Qin recently brought Yang Ye and Pan Mei to supervise the worker in the name of the direct bachelor of the Privy Council and build a pergola in the Crane Control Army."

"Why are you stuttering when building a pergola?"

"He is building a pergola with silk."

"What?"

Zhao Kuangyin was furious when he heard this and cursed: "Did he take the wrong medicine? How much does it cost? Is Zhao Pu wrong? Is military spending like this?"

You know, Zhao Kuangyin, the emperor, was extremely frugal, and had even reached the point of being stingy. His wife wanted to get some gold decoration on his carriage. He angrily scolded his wife. His daughter made a skirt with peacock feathers, and he scolded her daughter. She had no hobby to waste money except drinking, and her life was not necessarily better than a richer rich man in the folk.

There is nothing he can do about this. After just a few months of ascending the throne, he first formulated a benevolent government such as paying wages to Hegong, and planned to exempt the skin government from the government, reduce some of the horse government in Hebei, and even plan to reduce the grain tax.

In his opinion, the taxes of the Later Zhou Dynasty were still a bit heavy. In the past few years when Chai Rong became emperor, the country's wars in the south and north had never stopped. Especially the burden on the people in Hebei region had reached an outrageous level. Every year, countless people were forced to go bankrupt by Ma Zheng and Pi Zheng, and he thought this was not good.

But on the one hand, he couldn't bear to continue to exploit the people, and on the other hand, he wanted to unify the world and complete Chai Rong's unfinished career, so he had to use troops to the outside world. He had to spend money on military use, not to mention that he planned to redeem the military power of the old brothers, which was probably another huge expense.

He doesn't have any money.

There is no way, I can only sting myself from my own home and recommend saving.

As a result, my younger brother is actually using silk to build a shed for the soldiers.

I can't bear to slap silk so badly!

You should know that the most feared thing in the military camp is not to worry about the lack of worries but unevenness. Today you built a silk pergola for the Crane Control Army, and tomorrow you set up a cloth pergola for the Japanese army. Is this appropriate? If you set up a pergola for the entire 130,000 imperial guards stationed in Beijing, most of his treasury would be hollowed out.

Isn't this sick?

Wang Jien hurriedly said, "It was not what the Prime Minister did. Now he told everyone that he only gave His Highness four thousand guan. This money was not paid from the Privy Council, but raised by His Highness himself."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Kuangyin's face was a little better. It was not the money of the Privy Council, so at least it was not his money.

"Are you still a fool? Is that pergola in the Crane Control Army?"

"yes."

"Well, I'll go and see what the hell is this third brother doing."

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The Crane Army is undoubtedly the most familiar army to their Zhao brothers. It is even above the Palace Front Office founded by Zhao Kuangyin himself, because his father Zhao Hongyin was once the commander of the Crane Army, such as Zhao Guangmei, he almost grew up in the camp of the Crane Army. Moreover, his father-in-law Zhang Lingduo also served as the commander of the Crane Army for a long time, otherwise he would not have had such a child.

It is precisely because of this that Zhao Guangmei chose the first silk pergola in the Crane Control Army. Their uncles and aunts were all here. They called him Your Highness politely, and those who were familiar with him simply called him Saburo.

When they heard that he wanted to build a silk pergola, the old and young men in the camp were naturally very happy. The military camp was the least lacking in organizational skills. Even if the soldiers had their own patrol and training tasks, the efficiency of their work was far beyond what people outside could compare to. It was just a shed, and how complicated it could be.

Therefore, when Zhao Kuangyin reacted and came to the Crane Control Army to check, the two large pergolas in the army had been built. Zhao Guangmei even used different colors of silk to match the colors. From a distance, the two pergolas were made of red and green. One was made of green on it, and the other was made of red as a rooster, which looked particularly beautiful in the sun.

"He...he...he...he~, the third brother is still a child. What is it not good to use with this idea? I understand that he wants to win over the Ya Bing, but he...how can he spend money like this? I blame me, I blame him, I am so indulgent to him!"

As he said that, Zhao Kuangyin reached out to cover his chest and truly felt waves of angina pectoris.

When I was feeling uncomfortable, someone suddenly saw him when he passed by, but he didn't look surprised. Instead, he said with a smile: "Hey? Official, you are here too. The show has been starting for a long time."

Did Zhao Kuangyin himself grow up in the military camp? Therefore, he was not very arrogant in front of some elders.

"The show? Also? Who else is here, the third brother?"

"Didn't the official make an appointment with the Queen Mother to watch the show?"

"My mother is here too? Watch...the show?"

For a moment, Zhao Kuangyin came to taste it a little.

The third brother, who is so smart that he is like a ghost. Even if he spends money indiscriminately, how could he really just build two pergolas?
Chapter completed!