Chapter 871: Business comes first

Feng Ang felt something in his heart and suddenly became wary. He forced a smile and said, "Your Majesty, please stop joking. The whole world belongs to you. How can you be short of money?"

But I thought in my heart: "Is the emperor planning to take advantage of Lingnan?"

Li Er smiled bitterly and said: "Although the world belongs to me, I cannot take money from the people or my ministers without any reason, otherwise I will be tolerated by the people and my ministers.

My evil deeds will be comparable to Yang Guang, no, even more abominable than Yang Guang.

Therefore, I could only find another way, so I put everything on Li Feng.

As for the rumors about Li Feng, you should have heard about it. There is no one in the entire Tang Dynasty who is better at making money than him.

To tell you the truth, my current internal treasury already has millions of taels, and the current tax revenue of the national treasury already has tens of millions of taels."

"Hiss~~"

Feng Ang took a breath and said, "Your Majesty, is the imperial court already so rich?"

"Haha..." Li Er laughed a few times and said, "You only see that the imperial court is rich, but you don't know how much the imperial court spends."

Immediately, Li Feng escaped from his arms with a short musket and said, "Have you ever heard of a musket?"

Feng Ang nodded quickly and said: "How could you not know that our Tang Dynasty defeated hundreds of thousands of Turkic troops with just one firearms battalion and fled. Now that Jieli has become a vassal, even Tuli can only huddle in

I don’t dare to go anywhere in my own territory.”

Li Feng came back at this time. He came to the table with the drawings, saw the musket in Li's second hand, and said: "Father-in-law, what are you doing with the musket?"

Li Er smiled and said: "Of course I gave it to Feng Aiqing. I want to tell him that although I have made a lot of money, I have also spent a lot of money, and I have spent more than I have earned."

Li Feng suddenly said in embarrassment: "Father-in-law, didn't I say that this money should be spent as it should be, there is no other way, there is still a lot of business in Datang, and there is endless money to be made.

But Datang needed to ensure that two things must surpass all other countries. The first was force, and the second was talent.

Force is not only personal combat power, but also the power of equipment, including defensive equipment to protect oneself and powerful offensive equipment.

However, whether it is developing powerful offensive equipment or defensive equipment, it requires a lot of manpower, material resources, and financial resources to research.

So just spending a little more money from the treasury, there is no need for you to be so heartbroken."

Li Er snorted coldly and said: "Hmph, did I say I meant to blame you?"

"No?" Li Feng scratched his head and said.

"Hahaha..." Cheng Yaojin laughed, "His Majesty really didn't say anything about you, you are being smart this time."

Li Xiaogong and Feng Ang also laughed.

Li Feng shrugged and said, "Okay, I apologize. I misunderstood my father-in-law."

Li Er said angrily: "Okay, have you brought the painting?"

"Bring it."

Li Feng immediately opened the scroll, and a simple realistic sketch appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

Because the first criterion for realistic sketching is realism, everyone who saw it was shocked. They had never seen a painting that was almost exactly the same as reality, which made them forget the purpose of looking at the painting.

"What the hell, is this painted by your mentor?" Li Er asked in shock.

Li Feng said: "Yeah, what's wrong? Doesn't this painting look like a painting? I think you can find rubber trees just by holding this painting, unless there are no rubber trees in Lingnan."

Li Xiaogong said: "This can no longer be called a painting. Who can make a painting so real? Li Feng, your mentor is an extraordinary person."

"Even if I, Old Cheng, are a rough old man, I still know that this painting is amazing. Li Feng, can you also paint such a painting?" Cheng Yaojin said.

Li Feng said without thinking: "Of course, it's just a sketch. It can be drawn in less than half an hour."

"Seriously?" Li Er said.

Li Feng nodded and said: "Isn't it just a sketch? Is it difficult? Father-in-law, what do you want me to draw? I'll draw it for you right now."

"Okay. What I want is your words." Li Er said, "Just draw me."

Li Feng nodded and said: "Okay, I need to prepare some things, you can talk about business first."

"Business? I don't know your plans. How to talk about business? Let's talk about business first. As for the other things, let's talk about it later." Li Er said angrily, as if he was the emperor's plaything.

Losing morale, forgetting official duties for the sake of a painting.

Feng Ang was a little shocked. Someone in this world dared to talk to Li Er like this. You must know that this Li Er was the emperor who was killed. In order to sit on the throne, he killed his two closest brothers.

Li Feng nodded and said: "Okay, business matters are important. I told Duke Geng yesterday about some cooperation matters, and I will go in for an on-site inspection today.

You might as well go together and ask for clues about the rubber tree. After everything is finalized, we will come back to sign the contract. Because everyone's identities are relatively sensitive, you can find someone you trust more when signing the contract.

You can also sign it yourself, and my father-in-law will sign it on my behalf. Everyone knows that I am a businessman, so I don’t have to worry about other people’s gossip.”

Feng An said: "The Marquis Lantian is really thoughtful. Let's talk about the contract later. Let's go and conduct an on-site inspection first. I'm afraid that Marquis Lantian is not satisfied."

"There must be some areas of dissatisfaction, and I can tell you one of them without even thinking about it," Li Feng said.

"Traffic." Li Feng said, "Everyone except Lingnan knows that Lingnan is full of miasma, the terrain is dangerous, and transportation is inconvenient.

There is a lot of miasma and the terrain is dangerous because no one is developing it. Just like Guangzhou, it used to be a small fishing village. As the number of people increased, all the fishing villages slowly turned into the number one port in the Tang Dynasty. Many foreign businessmen wanted to live there.

in Guangzhou.

But even in Guangzhou, to me it’s just average and needs to be greatly improved.”

Feng Ang frowned slightly and said in a deep voice: "How does Marquis Lantian want to improve?"

"Of course it's transportation." Li Feng said, "At present, water transportation is very complete. It can lead to Chang'an from the top and to other countries from the bottom.

Geng Guoguang, please look at the pier, it is densely packed with parking lots, but do you feel it is awkward?"

Feng An stood up and looked at the ships coming and going on the pier. There was nothing wrong with them.

Li Er and three others also stood up and looked at the ships coming and going. They also felt very satisfied and very proud.

"Please give me some advice from Marquis Lantian." Feng An said, he really couldn't find any problem.

Li Er and the others only saw one garbled word, which was what Li Feng said, and they didn't see anything else.
Chapter completed!