Chapter 20 The royal family is really rich

At this time, the side door of Chen Ying, the mansion of Pengcheng County, Chang'an opened wide, and carriages slowly drove out of Chen's mansion. Listening to the dull sound of the carriage wheels and the bluestone road, people unconsciously looked at the carriage. People with strong eyes could see at a glance that these carriages were loaded with heavy goods.

But the carriage was wrapped in black gauze, making it impossible for people to see what was inside.

Yu Qing, sitting in the carriage, looked at the carriage that was driving continuously from the Chen Mansion, frowned, and said to the followers beside him: "Go and inquire, what happened to the Chen Mansion?"

There is a saying that cats have cat roads, and mouse has rat roads. Soon Hou Mo Chen's entourage brought the news he wanted to inquire to Yu Qing: "Report to Mr. Yu, they said that the Chen Mansion was going to build a house outside the city."

"Build a house? That's not right!" Yu Qingren was a mature man and could see at a glance that the money pulled out by the Chen family was not a small amount. A carriage like this heavy, at least five or six hundred stags could be pulled down, and more than tens of thousands of stags could be bought in Chang'an. How big would it take to build outside the city? It covers an area of ​​30 acres or hundreds of acres?

"Continue to inquire!"

The carriage walked towards Hou Mo Chen's mansion, and Yu Qing needed to report the news to Hou Mo Chen Qian's Association.

The construction style of Chenjiazhuang in Qinglin changed suddenly. A large number of people no longer simply circled the walls, but instead dispatched two-thirds of the recruiting workers to take hoes and shovels to dig a ditch connecting the Ba River.

The ditch is expected to be more than thirty miles long, and the eyes of the workers suddenly lit up. This is a huge project, which means they can work until the end of the year, or even longer.

In fact, these short-term workers did not know that the final length of this ditch was close to seventy miles and needed to circle the future Chenjiawu Fort.

Leave a place for temporary workers to live temporarily. It was originally planned to build a wooden house and could be used as a place for Tiefang craftsmen to live in the future. However, with the establishment of the fort, this Tiefang is not suitable for building outside. Tiefang will generate a large amount of sulfide, carbon dioxide, dust and other waste, especially huge noise, which will directly affect the quality of life of Chenjiawu Fort. The best way is to build Tiefang on the banks of the Ba River. In this way, Tiefang can avoid polluting the living environment of Chenjiawu Fort...

Outside Chenjiawu Fort, the places where the recruited workers temporarily live are temporary shacks built with wooden houses, while the buildings in the village will be structured with bricks and tiles.

As the excavated foundations were formed day by day, the ditches became deeper and longer day by day, especially as the first batch of bricks and tiles were fired, the main brick-shaped building built began to look one by one day. The progress of this building was indeed exciting, but as the money and grain were pulled out from the Chen Mansion, Chen Ying's money treasury became increasingly empty, Chen Ying was really unable to be excited.

Chen Ying still wanted to grit his teeth and insist, but Lan'er took the account book and began to complain to Chen Ying: "Now, even if Lang Jun doesn't store bulk materials, manpower, food, and other tools that he needs to replenish every day, he will cost three or four hundred guan. It's only been spent in just a few days. If you continue to pay this, you can only hold on for another month. Our family has no land and no income. We may not be able to build this big house..."

Chen Ying did not answer Lan'er's words, Xu Erniang made a cup of tea for Chen Ying, stood beside her head and went to look at the account book. Her black and beautiful hair was slightly tilted to the side, her face was soft, and she shouted softly: "It's so much money! I thought building a house outside Chang'an City could save some money..."

She sprained her ankle and threw herself into Chen Ying's arms that night. Although she had a big misunderstanding, she did not dare to raise her head in front of others for several days. She finally stayed in the Qinglin and served Chen Ying with all her heart. However, she always remembered her identity as a young widow. Apart from occasionally looking at Chen Ying with affectionate eyes, she never let him get any further.

Chen Ying looked up at Xu Erniang. This girl didn't feel that living in the clear forest was hard, with simple food and food, but instead she had white skin, plump and roundness, red lips and white teeth, and beautiful eyes. She felt tenderness in her heart that day, and she couldn't help but hold her in her arms. After struggling, she would not have the chance to re-enter the beauty.

Chen Ying thought to himself: "It seems that he has to find ways to get some money!"

However, Chen Ying was at a loss for how to make money. The money he needed was not a small amount. You should know that the treasury income of the Tang Dynasty in the early years of Zhenguan was only more than 4.5 million chunks, and one percent of the treasury was used at once. This money was not easy to get.

Before Chen Ying could think of a specific solution, Chen Jinyong suddenly came to report: "Prince Baicheng County is looking for a meeting!"

Chen Ying was surprised that this time Baicheng did not wear men's clothes, but instead wore gorgeous palace clothes, carrying the ceremonial guard of Baicheng County Lord, and slowly came with his footsteps.

Although Chen Ying had seen Li Daozhen, the lord of Baicheng County, and more than once, Li Daozhen never showed women's clothing in front of Chen Ying. The tall lord of Baicheng County, Li Daozhen, was wearing a green robe skirt, with a golden swaying head. After the light gauze curtain as thin as a cicada's wing, what was faintly visible was the beautiful face shining in the sun. The eyes inlaid with stars exuded a deep and blurred look. Chen Ying suddenly felt that this face was insignificantly beautiful, and the eyes were extremely charming, with a faint fragrance pounced on his nose.

When I first saw Li Daozhen, Chen Ying was stunned, as if he was suddenly fascinated by the charm, and forgot to say something else.

Li Daozhen didn't know how to describe it. Anyway, when she didn't see Chen Ying, Chen Ying's handsome face often appeared in her head. She was looking forward to Chen Ying day and night. Seeing him looking at her so fascinatedly, Li Daozhen's heart was shaken and she felt a little confused.

After a long time, neither Chen Ying nor Li Daozhen spoke.

Lan'er couldn't help but roll her eyes: "I was stunned!"

Hearing Lan'er's jealous words, Chen Ying finally woke up: "Chen Ying has met the Lord of Baicheng County!"

Li Daozhen nodded without comment: "I heard that you want to build a house, but I think it will cost a lot. I still have some private money..."

Chen Ying shook his head and said, "This is not suitable!"

Li Daozhen said extremely domineeringly: "There is nothing wrong. If you don't want it, we will all fall into the Ba River..."

"This..." Chen Ying didn't know how to speak, but no one could tell, but as long as Li Daozhen said it, she could really do it. She said she wanted to throw the money into the Ba River, which was definitely not a joke.

Seeing Chen Ying open his mouth and speaking, Li Daozhen said softly: "Qijia..."

Four sturdy palace maids carried their steps and left.

However, there were twelve carriages outside Chen Ying's wooden house, each carriage filled with four large boxes.

Chen Ying shook his head and smiled bitterly, but Lan'er excitedly stepped forward and struggled to open the box on one of the carriages. There was a rumbling sound, and the copper coins filled with them flowed down like running water.

Chen Ying was stunned: "Damn, he is really a Hao sister!"

Although Chen Ying didn't want to use Li Daozhen's money, it can solve the urgent problem now. At worst, if you have money in the future, you can pay it back twice as much. Chen Ying said: "You count the money and give me a number after you click it!"

Chen Ying didn't care, but Lan'er was about to cry.

Because the money Li Daozhen brought was not stringed up at all, and was piled up in boxes of different sizes. If Hongxiu Tianxiang and Xu Erniang were asked to count the money, they might not be able to count the amount of money on one car from dawn to dark.

Lan'er said: "How long will it take to count it? I'm afraid that even if you break your finger, you won't count it."

Chen Ying said: "Actually, you don't have to be so troublesome at all!"

"How do you count?"

"It's very simple!"

"You first count a thousand copper coins, then weigh the one thousand copper coins with a weighing to see how heavy it is, and then weigh all the money. Divide the total weight of the money by the weight of the one thousand copper coins, and you can get the specific amount of money!"

However, despite this, the workload is still quite large.

After two hours of busy work, Lan'er and the four girls finally cleared the money.

But even Chen Ying was stunned by the result.

The total weight of copper is 17,651 kilograms, which is calculated based on the weight of eight kilograms and two kilograms, which is about 2,200 jin. Including the 64 of them, fifty jin, the silver judging of fifty jin, this batch of money is equivalent to 5,400 jin.
Chapter completed!