Li Shilong's face was burning.

Li Yuan had lifted the lid, leaving no face for him.

He was also extremely aggrieved. If the old man hadn't made an agreement with the aristocratic family to share the world, why would he have been so stubborn and caused him such a big trouble?

"Father, I don't mean this. Naturally, I want my descendants to live their lives resting on their merits. The bad guys will let my son do it, and the good guys will let that son and grandson do it!" Li Shilong said with a helpless smile.

"Shit, don't give me such a slap in the face. What are you thinking? I don't know what's going on in my heart?" Li Yuandao said, "Jingyun said last time that he asked you to change the state school or the county school. Have you changed it?

Now that the cost of making paper is so cheap and printing books so fast, have you completed the Royal Library that I asked you to build?

Let me tell you, there is no better time than now. If you don’t seize this opportunity and wait for these guys to join the team to keep warm, can you still be so smooth?"

"Lao Ba has been working on the Royal Library. I will call Lao Ba here. Come on, father, don't be angry. Jing Yun, please persuade me!" Li Shilong gave Qin Mo a wink, but Qin Mo didn't bother to tease him.

Who allowed this old man to cause trouble for himself every day?

Let him have a taste of this too.

"Don't drag Jing Yun into this. The child has provided you with so many solutions, but you, the emperor, just don't care.

Be courageous but not courageous, decisive but not arbitrary. I think you should retire early and come play mahjong with me." Li Yuan sat on the dragon throne and couldn't stop scolding.

Li Shilong gritted his teeth angrily when he saw Qin Mo hanging up his sleeve as it had nothing to do with him, but he had no choice but to stand aside and listen to advice.

The living man nodded, and with a stroke of his pen, he wrote in the living note: "In the spring of the eighth year of Jinglong, the Supreme Emperor urged Emperor Li Shilong to be kind to his father and filial to his son..."

Soon, Li Yue came, "My grandson, see you, Grandpa Emperor, and see you, Emperor Father!"

Seeing Li Yue, Li Yuan stopped talking. Looking at this grandson who was 70% to 80% similar to himself when he was young, the wrinkles on his face relaxed. "Get up, I want to ask you, what happened to your royal library?"

How are you doing?"

"Back to Grandpa Huang, the site selection has been completed. I have given you the drawings of the library. An eight-story library will be built in Nancheng with tens of thousands of books. Currently, various rare books have been collected.

There are more than 6,000 copies, each printed no less than 1,000 times, which will be able to accommodate 3,000 people reading together!"

As soon as these words came out, Li Shilong and Li Yuan were shocked.

"Eight floors? So high, attic? The attic can accommodate three thousand people, are you kidding me?" Li Shilong asked.

"Father, this is not an attic, but a new-style building. The foundation is two feet deep. It is watered with glutinous rice juice and limestone. It is tamped with tens of thousands of kilograms of boulders and made of steel. Each floor is eighty meters long and sixty meters wide.

!Each floor is five meters high!" Li Yue said loudly: "At present, in addition to the allocation from the court, I have also raised more than 8,000 taels of charity. At the same time, Hanzi, Li Yongmeng, brothers Cheng Dabao, and Liu Rujian.

.....I also donated 5,000 taels, totaling more than 50,000 taels.

Ten thousand people start the work, lunch is included, and the wages are eight hundred taels per person per day, including lunch, which is one thousand four hundred taels.

Steel, glutinous rice juice limestone, bricks, cost materials, no less than 200,000 taels!

Estimated completion date is three months!”

Li Yue made it very clear, and only then did Li Shilong understand what a huge project this was.

The material cost alone is more than 200,000 taels, and including labor, it is another hundreds of thousands taels.

The construction of a library actually cost hundreds of thousands of taels.

Li Shilong said with a headache: "Building a library is already so expensive. If libraries are built in every state and county, the national finance will simply not be able to bear it."

"Father, because what was built in the capital was the first royal library in Da Qian, it uses the best in every aspect.

Although it is expensive, I think it is very necessary.

If it were decentralized to prefectures and prefectures (prefectures and prefectures are both at the same level, but prefectures are a bit more special, so they are placed in front) and counties, there would be no need for us to build such a large building, and the cost would be greatly reduced.

Secondly, the Royal Library can also sell books, paper and pens, borrow books, etc., which can subsidize the finances.

The most important thing is that with these libraries, the family’s local influence will be further reduced.”

"Listen, your son has more foresight than you. Why waste some money? Jing Yun has a saying that money is a bastard. If you spend it, you can still make money. If you don't spend it, you will still occupy a position!"

Li Shilong smiled bitterly, he couldn't use it all at once, he had to be prepared for natural disasters or something.

There are thirty to forty thousand people in the palace, he must be able to support them.

"Jingyun, do you have any good opinions?" Li Yuan asked.

"Well... Li Yue has basically said it in place, but there are a few points. We can build this library in important prefectures first. We will do ten things in a big way. We can do it in batches. The important ones can be done in batches. State capitals, those with developed economies, can be inspected first.

If we can't afford to build so much at once, we will spread it over three to five years. When all the major state capitals have libraries, will the aristocratic families still be able to do it?

Even if you don’t have money, it’s easy to do business. Let’s do trade. We don’t have many vassal countries. If we do business with them, we can definitely make profits without losing money.

Let them settle with our Daqian Tongbao or gold and silver, and over time, they can make a lot of money."

"Trading with the vassal country? This is indeed a way!"

However, Li Shilong still had doubts, "But if the court takes action, will it compete with the people?"

"Of course not!" Qin Mo said: "There are many small countries around us. They regard us as their suzerain country. They worship us every year, give them some local specialties, flatter them a little, and give them real gold and silver. Are you stupid?

As long as we are strong, they have to call us dad (this title can be traced back to the Three Kingdoms period, don't worry).

If we are not strong enough, wouldn’t Jiaozhi jump out? Either we give too many gifts, or it belongs to the father of the sect leader!

Father, I have to criticize you on this point. Previously, those two hundred and fifty from Honglu Temple were rushing to give gifts to people, but you happily approved it.

Have you forgotten that the treasury was empty before?"

"Bad boy, my father asked you to give me advice, not to step on me here!" Li Shilong's eyes flashed with a fierce light, and his hand was already on the gold belt.

"Old man, look, I'm not happy to give my opinion. Okay, then I won't say it. It's boring!" Qin Mo said directly, "If you don't love this country, who would be willing to say such a thing? Isn’t that just looking for trouble!”
Chapter completed!