"Li Yang, what Feng Xiang said about the price is true?"

As soon as Ying Zheng finished speaking, everyone looked at Li Yang with a whistle.

This matter is very serious. Just a Qinling that is about to be completed, the cost is one million yuan higher than the normal one. Then Ah Fang and the Great Wall are all calculated, so the extra money is completely unimaginable.

Moreover, more importantly, the entire territory of Daqin is full of disaster victims. How can we talk about labor costs when hiring disaster victims? A full meal is enough!

In this way, the extra profit will not be just twice.

If a businessman takes over Qinling, he will be able to make more than one million gold.

What is the concept of one million gold?

A top chef in the world has three golds per month. Based on the salary of later generations, it must be tens of thousands of yuan.

Of course, in the Qin Dynasty, gold was before quantity, which meant gold. Quantity was before quantity, and gold was behind, which meant how many pounds of copper.

For example, if gold is one hundred, it means one hundred taels of gold, and if it is one hundred gold, it means one hundred kilograms of copper.

Let’s convert it again. There was no concept of writing in the Qin Dynasty. At that time, the value of money was calculated by weight. At that time, the currency was half a liang of qian and twelve jin. Twenty-four jin was one liang, and sixteen jin was one jin. Because of the low productivity, the purchasing power of Yizhu should be about the same as the ten yuan of later generations.

In other words, one gold is one pound of copper, which is equivalent to 384 penalties, and the purchasing power is equivalent to 3,840 yuan in later generations.

One million gold, that is, one million kilograms of copper, is the purchasing power of 380 million yuan.

According to Feng Quji, 300,000 people can complete the Qinling project in half a year. The labor cost is only 900,000 gold, which means that each laborer’s half-year salary is three gold, and the monthly salary is equal to the purchasing power of 1,900 yuan in later generations. If you work as a coolie, this salary will be truly poor in the future. It is normal for a top chef to have three times the salary of a coolie.

If you build a Qin Mausoleum, you can earn about 380 million yuan in the next generation. This is a serious deficit and waste of state-owned property!

Not to mention Ying Zheng favors Li Yang, even if Ying Zheng is Li Yang's father, he would be so angry that he jumped up and scolded the prodigal son!

It is precisely because of this that all the censors involved Li Yang's collusion between officials and businessmen, and he would be so righteous and harsh and passionate.

If you fucking the Qinling that is about to be completed, you can give the merchant an additional profit of 380 million yuan. How dare you say it is not a collusion? If you say this, no one in the world will believe you.

Everyone looked at Li Yang, wanting to see how he would answer and how to argue. If he dared to say that it was not true, Feng Xiang's party would attack together, and the bidding charter was clearly written, and he dared to argue.

If he dares to admit it, there is no need for everyone to attack, and the emperor will not spare him.

I saw that Li Yang was like a vague person and bowed to the emperor, saying, "Report to Your Majesty, these prices have been listed in the bidding matters. The price of the Qin Mausoleum project mentioned by Feng Xiang is true."

Wow...

Some ministers who had never seen the bidding price were upset again when they heard this!

Everyone was shocked by Li Yang's generous prodigal practice.

Is this still the smart Prime Minister?

No matter how stupid a person is, he will not give such a big profit to the merchant, right?

At this time, everyone felt that the censors might have said it right. If Li Yang had not colluded with the merchants and made profits from it, who would have believed it?

The First Emperor Ying Zheng was so angry that he almost vomited blood. A Qinling Mausoleum that was about to be completed would make a profit of one million gold. Li Yang's trick of the goods was so crazy that he was so cruel!

More importantly, this guy Li Yang looked like he didn't agree. He just thought the money was not his own, so he didn't feel sorry at all?

This made Ying Zheng tremble even more angry.

However, he did not get angry immediately, but suppressed the anger in his heart and turned to ask Ji Qie, the Ji-Ki who was in charge of the treasury money and grain, and said: "Ji-Ki, do you know the price of the project bid? If the above price is based on the tax after the autumn harvest this year, can these projects be afforded?"

Ji Xie stepped out and glanced at Li Yang. Although he was Feng Quji's subordinate, he was still interested in Li Yang. However, this time he could not shelter Li Yang, so he had to say carefully: "Report to Your Majesty, this... the price of the project bidding was indeed seen this morning. According to the prices of those projects, to be honest, even if the taxes can be collected in full this year, it is probably difficult to pay the funds for these projects."

This time, Ying Zheng was so angry that his lungs hurt!

The taxes of a country are collected in full, but they are not enough to pay the project funds. It can be seen that the prices of these project funds are so high that they are so terrifying!

Moreover, if all the money is spent on the project, what should I do if the Qin Dynasty is in the country?

Do you want to raise the army, support the government, and spend money on various names?

This is not to solve the famine? It is clearly to make the Qin Empire collapse directly!

In the words of later generations, it is to make the country's big machine stop running directly. The treasury is gone, the army mutinys, and officials strike. It can be said that this will completely lead to the direct destruction of the regime. Even Ying Zheng will become a victim of famine...

Can the emperor not be angry? If anyone becomes the emperor, he will be furious when he hears his prime minister doing this.

Bang!

Ying Zheng angrily slapped the table, pointed at Li Yang, and shouted loudly: "Bold Li Yang! If you can't explain a reasonable explanation today, I will definitely kill you, this confused head!"

hiss……

The entire hall was silent.

Everyone looked at Li Yang, wanting to hear what else he could explain.

Of course, even for any reason, it is difficult to make it reasonable for such a serious deficit?

Especially Feng Quji's party, he was already filled with gloating.

No matter how much the emperor favored him, he would not have spared him easily this time he committed such a crime of deficit in the national treasury.

At the very least, it is not impossible to lose your official position and get rid of your title, and at the worst, it is not impossible to cut off your head directly.

Of course, Zhang Han and other military generals were also despised and thought he was so awesome. He had a rumor before that he would quell the chaos and quell the disaster first. It turned out to be such a ridiculous operation.

If the treasury is so deficient, and the money and grain are fed to a group of merchants, it would be strange if the emperor is not so angry that he kills people.

Li Yang looked aggrieved and said, "Your Majesty, if I say the bid price is just to attract everyone to bid, it will not be the final project price, do you believe this?"

Ying Zheng frowned and snorted coldly: "What do you mean is that the merchants will suppress the price themselves?"

Li Yang nodded: "It is precisely this reason. The reason why I set the bidding price of the project to the sky is actually to attract 120,000 wealthy businessmen in Xianyang City to this matter. As long as everyone participates in the bidding, those who are low-priced will get it, the final transaction price will naturally be reduced. What's more..."

"What's more, just say something, and just let go if you have nothing to do!" Ying Zheng glared at Li Yang in annoyed manner.

Obviously, the emperor was really hurt by his anger this time.

Li Yang said: "What's more, this is a matter of benefiting the country and the people. Any businessman with a little patriotism cannot make money by taking advantage of the disaster. I dare to guarantee that the final transaction price of each project will definitely make a very reasonable profit. This project bidding is a win-win situation."

"Li Yang, I think you are really confused!"

When Ying Zheng heard this, he sneered and said, "Do you know that merchants are all profit-oriented. Do you actually think that they will lower the price on their own? How foolish!"

At this time, Feng Quji also sneered: "Prime Minister, you are really thinking too well. Merchants seek profits, so the greater the profit, the better. How can they voluntarily suppress prices from each other? Even if there is a little competition, there will be enough profit margin. It would be whimsical to want them to push the price to a reasonable level by themselves. And..."

Speaking of this, Feng Quji glanced at Li Yang and continued: "Also, I heard that during this famine disaster, the grain merchants in Xianyang City had more than doubled the price of chestnut rice. Such a profitable merchant would not be an exaggeration to say that they were taking advantage of the disaster to make money."

Zhang Han also said: "What Feng Xiang said is that merchants seek profit, and in their eyes, they all regard the word profit as the most important thing. How could they talk about patriotism and love for the people? The Prime Minister of the Central Committee praised merchants for being so noble, which is incredible!"

The civil and military ministers nodded, and extremely agreed with Zhang Han's words.

Businessmen are patriotic and loving the people? I'm afraid even children won't believe this.

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Chapter completed!