Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chen Ji hurriedly took a cup of tea and handed it to Li Jiancheng.

Feeling very confused, Chen Ying lowered his head and secretly looked at Li Jiancheng from the corner of his eyes.

Li Jiancheng sighed and said, "You can do it yourself!"

With that said, he got up and walked out the door.

Chen Ying was stunned on the spot, completely confused about why Li Jiancheng sighed.

After a while, another long sigh sounded from behind Chen Ying.Chen Ying turned around and saw Ma Sanbao's face full of hatred and said: "You are confused, why are you talking nonsense? Don't you know that you are not joking?"

Chen Ying was even more curious: "Brother Ma, please speak clearly."

"You do it yourself!~"

Ma Sanbao handed an envelope to Chen Ying.

"Brother Ma, Brother Ma..."

Chen Ying called out to Ma Sanbao again and again, but Ma Sanbao left without looking back.

At this moment, an ominous premonition rose in Chen Ying's heart.

Could it be that, what did I say in Liangyi Hall last night?What was promised?

Suddenly, Chen Ying opened the envelope.I saw Li Xiuning's beautiful handwriting on it: "Three thousand guan for money, 8000 taels of silver, 500 taels of silver, and [-] pieces of cloth..."

This is a gift list.

According to the number on the gift list, it is almost equivalent to about [-] guan.

Why did Li Xiuning give him such a large amount of money? Could it be because he knew that he was building Wubao?

Chen Ying nodded, feeling that the possibility was very high.

Even if Li Xiuning didn't know how much money she had, she could probably guess it. There could be tens of thousands to several thousand, but any amount would make it difficult for Chen Ying.

Now Chen Ying has Li Daozhen's 3 guan in his hand, plus the [-] taels of silver sent by the warrior Xun, that is [-] guan, the money for building Wubao is almost the same.

goooo...

Chen Ying's stomach growled, and Chen Ying realized that he was very hungry. Chen Ying ate a lot at the banquet last night, but after drinking too much, he vomited everything, and his stomach was empty.Chen Yingdao: "Wen Jin, go get me something to eat!"

After a while, there was the neighing of mules and horses outside the door, and more than a dozen double carriages appeared at Chen Ying's door.Chen Ying thought it was Ma Sanbao who sent someone to bring the money, but he never thought it was the commander of the East Palace, Pei Ju.

Pei Ju did not greet Chen Ying politely, but asked people to unload the heavy boxes from the carriage one by one, and piled them in Chen Ying's front yard, leaving them alone.

Chen Ying didn't have any manpower available at this time, so he just had to go over and see what it was.

"Boom" a dazzling golden light dazzled Chen Ying's eyes. One box of ten taels of gold contained eighty taels, and two boxes contained 160 pieces, totaling 600 taels of gold. Chen Ying hurriedly opened the third one. The box slammed... The copper coins full of it fell to the ground like running water.

Chen Ying felt that the matter was serious, and then opened the fourth, fifth, and sixth large boxes, a total of 22 large boxes, all filled with copper coins, roughly estimated to be no less than 4 guan, and four boxes containing silver. There are also 600 taels, 4 taels of gold, which is equivalent to 6 guan, [-] taels of silver and [-] guan, plus [-] guan of copper coins, a total of [-] guan.

Chen Ying's head was suddenly in a daze, what was going on?

No one gave him an exact answer.Did not tell him what happened.

Chen Ying sat on the doorstop restlessly, resting his chin with both hands, silently in a daze.

"Bang!" A heavy chain was thrown in front of Chen Ying. The full chain weighed about a hundred catties. Looking at the hundred catties of copper coins, Chen Ying raised his head and looked at You Ziying, whom he had not seen for a long time.

You Ziying is one of the veterans who fought with Chen Ying in the bloody battle in Jingyang. After the battle of Jingyang, he was assigned to Tongyang Gate as the deputy captain of the city guard. You Ziying did not choose to continue to compete with Chen Ying on the battlefield. He felt very nourished as the gatekeeper officer of the seventh rank.But You Ziying didn't move out either, and still lived in Chen Ying's house.

"I'm not short of money. It's not easy for you to earn this money. You can take it back to marry a wife or buy some land!"

"Brother Chen, tell me something you don't like to hear. I know you're in trouble. Brother, I can't help you much. Here are sixteen pens and three hundred wen. I'll give them all to you. I wanted to borrow some more. Enough for [-] rounds..."

Chen Ying said inexplicably, "I'm really not short of this money..."

"Brother Chen, don't lie to me, it's spread throughout Chang'an!" You Ziying said angrily, "The emperor told you to take 50 guan to build the road from Chang'an to Hangu Pass. Let's say 50 guan, even 500 million guan can't be repaired, everyone in Chang'an said that Brother Chen is going to die..."

Chen Ying's mind slowly came to some vague consciousness. Last night he and Li Yuanji had a drink, maybe it was because Chen Yingjiu was so cowardly that he proposed marriage to Li Yuan again.

Li Yuan firmly stated that it was absolutely impossible.

Chen Ying proposed that he could produce an additional 1000 million jin of steel for Datang every year.

Li Yuan still insisted on not compromising.

Chen Ying proposed that he could increase the combat effectiveness of Datang's army by [-]%.

Li Yuan was also unmoved.

In the end, even Li Xiuning joined in and knelt down to plead for Chen Ying.

But Li Yuan still left in a huff.

Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin and Li Yuanji all pleaded with Li Yuan, but Li Yuan still did not agree directly, but told Chen Ying to go back and wait for the Baicheng County horse.

Chen Ying himself proposed to Li Yuan that he could build a path for Datang.

Li Yuan reluctantly agreed, but Chen Shuda said that the treasury has no money, and he can take out 50 guan at most.

Only now did Chen Ying realize that Li Yuan's night banquet yesterday was actually specially set up for him, and the purpose was to lure him into a trap.

If Chen Ying was clear-headed, he would never dig such a big hole for himself, but when he was drunk, Chen Ying also blew the cowhide.

Building a four- to five-hundred-mile long road in this era is undoubtedly no less than building a railway on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in later generations, and the cost may be even higher than that of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway in later generations.

Building a road is the same as building a railway. The cost is slightly lower in plain areas, and it can pass through mountainous areas. When a large number of culverts and bridges need to be built, the cost is higher.And it will be ridiculously high.

Chen Ying didn't really calculate the specific construction cost of the Chi Road from Chang'an to Hangu Pass, but he can be sure that it will definitely not be low.In fact, Chen Ying just put himself in the pit. Whether Chang'an goes to Hangu Pass or Luoyang, there is a complete water transportation system. There is no need to work hard to build a road. The entire Weihe River is the best. Water arteries.

However, you are not joking.Chen Ying's big words have been blown out, and there is no room for redemption. Either Chen Ying Ruyan created such a long road, or Chen Ying can wait to accept Li Yuan's punishment.

Chen Ying slapped himself hard: "I want you to talk more, I want you to talk more, isn't it a big deal? It's really a cocoon."

Chapter 31 Mingxiu gallops across the river in secret

Chen Ying wanted Chidao to become the transportation artery of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but he never thought about building such an important road by himself.Chen Ying knew himself very well, so it was still good to ask him to point fingers and give some advice, but he was not really mentally prepared to let him preside over the construction of such an important project.

Chen Ying didn't even think that Li Yuan would put his ideas on his head. Such an important project must be done with all the power of the country, otherwise it will easily become a tofu project.

After Liu Bang decided the world, at a banquet, he took his father's hand and pointed to the great country outside the window and said, "Yeah, he said back then that I am not as good as my second brother in setting up a family business. I don't know how the family business my son is building now?"

Liu Taigong repeatedly said: "Incomparable, incomparable!" When Liu Bang said these words, his courtiers such as Xiao He and Zhang Liang congratulated Liu Bang together, and did not feel that there was anything wrong with the emperor saying that the world belonged to his family .The legend of the family world in a broad sense begins from then on...

Li Yuan asked Chen to use 50 guan to build such a road from Chang'an to Hangu Pass, regardless of whether it is necessary, at least in Li Yuan's heart, this is the most normal thing.