My harem can't be this messy

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As for the sisters of the Zheng family, they naturally became concubines Zheng and Concubine Zheng. Li Zhi was too lazy to think of names, so he gave them the models of Concubine Yang and Concubine Yang.

At this time, the one who came with the two concubines of Zheng was the original Zheng family's fourth housewife. At this time, the eldest house's wife, Liu Shi, was also the sister of his empress mother.According to the rules of ordinary people, I and Wang Yan have to call Auntie.

Seeing His Majesty, the three of them rushed to salute. Li Zhi raised his hand and pointed to the location.

"Mrs. Zheng has come to Chang'an at this time, she must have something to see me."

"Your Majesty, I came here this time to print books. My husband has always wanted to expand the Zheng family's printing workshop. Recently, books are selling well everywhere, and they are often out of stock, and the supply exceeds demand."

"You can make up your own minds about this matter, and come here to ask me specifically!"

"Your Majesty has said that you must first inform His Majesty about this matter, and we can only do it if His Majesty agrees."

The matter of printing the book was discussed by Li Zhi, who was only King Jin at that time, and the fourth wife of Zheng's family.

Li Zhi passed on the method of printing books by the fourth house of the Zheng family. The fourth house of the Zheng family sold the printed books, and two of the proceeds were sold to King Jin.

The fourth house of the Zheng family at that time had controlled the entire Zheng family at this time, and the then King Jin had already become the Emperor of Tang at this time.

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However, the agreement between the Zheng family and Li Zhi has never changed, and the Zheng family has indeed allocated [-]% of the income from printing books every month to Li Zhi's famous account in Yinzhuang. Cui Yan is in charge of all the money. .

Even in order to avoid Li Zhi's suspicion, after becoming the head of the family, the fourth master of the Zheng family specially arranged Cui Yan's most trusted maid, Ying'er, to the printing workshop to manage the daily accounts of the printing workshop.

Cui Yan knows exactly how many books the Zheng family publishes every month. In addition, the prices of books on the market are basically stable.In the past, this was King Jin's silver, but now it is His Majesty's silver.

At this time, the Zheng family wanted to expand the scale of printing books, and even sent the wife of the head of the family to Chang'an on a special trip.

"For printing books, the Zheng family can just let it go. The Zheng family can also consider setting up printing workshops in Chang'an, the land of Youyan and Jiangnan, so as to avoid the loss of books caused by long-distance transportation. Books are precious at this time Yes, it would be a pity to lose some.”

"Yes, Your Majesty, I will send someone back to report to the master about the Chang'an Yinfang. In fact, the master has already mentioned it to me when I left. Since Your Majesty has agreed, we, the Zheng family, should build the Chang'an Yinfang as soon as possible."

"By the way, Your Majesty, is Miss Cui still available?"

Li Zhi just laughed and looked at Mrs. Zheng.

He understood the meaning of Mrs. Zheng's words in his heart, but he was afraid that he would not trust the Zheng family, so he asked Sister Cui to arrange staff to go to the newly opened printing workshop to supervise the Zheng family's printing workshop.

"Okay, I still trust the Zheng family, so you can just use your own people. Now that the fourth master of the Zheng family is in charge of the Zheng family, there should be no shortage of manpower. Sister Cui's manpower is also very tight. Besides, Shiying is now my concubine, and the Li family and the Zheng family are also in-laws."

As Li Zhi said, he took Zheng Shiying's hand and patted it lightly twice. The beautiful woman looked at Li Zhi shyly.

When Mrs. Zheng saw it, she naturally smiled lightly.

"Both my husband and I are grateful for His Majesty's kindness to us. Please rest assured, Your Majesty, as long as my master and I are in the Zheng family, the Zheng family will always stand by His Majesty's side and do things for His Majesty."

Li Zhi nodded and looked at the Zheng family sisters beside him.

"Shiying, your mother has come to Chang'an, you can spend more time with her these few days, and go around Chang'an, including this palace."

In fact, Mrs. Liu is not Zheng Shiying's biological mother, but at most a stepmother, but whoever has nothing to do will say this out on purpose.

At this time, Mrs. Liu is the wife of the fourth master of the Zheng family, and Mrs. Zheng Shiying is his own daughter, so Mrs. Liu is Zheng Shiying's mother.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Both Zheng Shiying and Mrs. Zheng got up and bowed to Li Zhi.

Li Zhi thought that the matter here was over at this time, but suddenly he heard Mrs. Zheng say something, I want to say a few words to His Majesty, but I don't know if I can say it.

The meaning of these words was to avoid the two Concubines Zheng, that is to say, Mrs. Zheng only wanted Li Zhi to hear these words.

Zheng Shiying and Zheng Shuang understood the meaning of Madam Zheng's words, and now they only said that they should go to pay their respects to the Queen Mother, and they left here after not going for several days.

"Madam, just say what you want! They are not outsiders."

"Your Majesty, a few days ago, the Lu family sent someone to talk to the master about printing books, but the master didn't agree at that time. After all, this matter involves His Majesty, and you can only talk about it with your Majesty's nod."

"Lu's family? Fan Yang's Lu's family, they are also heirs of poetry and books, so it's only natural that they are interested in printing books."

Li Zhi said it calmly, but actually his heart was not calm.

Fan Yang Lu's family is one of the five surnames and seven wangs. At this time, the first-class famous family belongs to the absolute top class of this era. The family of the family has been extremely famous since the Qin and Han Dynasties.

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there was even a feat of three emperors. When the Northern Wei Dynasty split, Lu Jing's three sons served as the emperors of the Western Wei, Northern Qi, and Northern Zhou Dynasties respectively. Not to mention the Southern and Northern Dynasties, even if you look at China's 5000-year history, Absolutely no equal.

It is extremely rare for a family to produce one emperor teacher, which belongs to the level of smoldering ancestral graves, but the Lu family suddenly produced three, a total of three, this ancestral grave is not smoldering, it is shooting rockets.

"Your Majesty, my master sent the members of the Lu family away, but the Lu family never wanted to give up on the matter of printing books. Back and forth, they not only found my master, but also gave me gifts several times. Later, the master thought, Perhaps it is not a bad thing for His Majesty."

"Oh, what does your master mean?"

"Fanyang County belongs to the Northland. The master intends to entrust the printing of books in Youyan Land to the Lu family. This is a matter of fame and fortune. If you want to come to the Lu family, you should remember His Majesty's wishes."

"Then it's a loss for the Zheng family. It doesn't affect me at all."

"Your Majesty has shown kindness to our husband and wife, so we must remember His Majesty's kindness. Some things should be considered for His Majesty first."

"If you have a heart, you can let someone tell your master that he is in charge of this matter. However, in the matter of printing books, you can't let a third company come in. The two are already the limit, and the sales area is the best. The Zheng and Lu families have divided the boundaries well from the beginning, so as not to cause conflicts over some trivial matters and hurt each other's friendship."

When Zheng Shiying left with Mrs. Zheng, Li Zhi walked out of the hall and walked to the place where Cui Yan lived.

Although she has no status in the harem at this time, she can still live here legitimately. Cui Yan is Li Zhi's veritable financial manager at this time. As long as it is Li Zhi's personal bank, it is Cui Yan's management.

For future generations, only the dearest daughter-in-law can manage a man's money.

This Cui Yan has no name or role in the harem, but no one dared to underestimate her.

Not to mention the younger sisters who were familiar with in Prince Jin's mansion before, even the former emperor's concubines and the eldest grandson Empress Dowager treated Cui Yan as the closest person.

Just as Li Zhi walked in, Cui Yan closed an account book in his hand, got up and walked beside Li Zhi, with a slight blessing, he took Li Zhi's arm and let Li Zhi sit where she had just sat.As for Cui Yan, it was a matter of course that he sat on the Holy Majesty's dragon legs, no, on his lap.

At this time, after getting along with Li Zhi for a long time, Cui Yan did not regard Li Zhi as an outsider at all, and his every move seemed like a couple living together for several years.

Li Zhi patted Cui Yan's leg, and then without leaving his hand, he gently stroked the sister's jade leg.

"What is Sister Cui looking at?"

"The accounts of Yinzhuang!"

"Oh, what's going on in Yinzhuang recently?"

"Thanks to Your Majesty's blessing, the business of Yinzhuang in various places is good, especially in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Chang'an and Luoyang are worse than there."

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"Your Majesty, the stores opened by Yinzhuang in various places are still mainly concentrated in Suzhou and Hangzhou, the Grand Canal, and then spread along the main line from Luoyang to Chang'an to Dunhuang. Your Majesty, do you want to expand more stores to the north and south now? "

"It should be expanded, at least every state and every road in Datang must have it."

"Yian'er will talk to Mr. Tang about this matter."

"By the way, Sister Cui, Mrs. Zheng came to Chang'an today."

"Oh, for the matter of the printing press?"

"It seems that Zheng's family books are really selling well. I want to open more printing workshops and print more books. The books on the market are always sold out."

"Your Majesty, shouldn't the price of that book be lowered appropriately, so that people who are interested in fame and fame in the world can at least take this path. The current book, ordinary people dare not think about it!"

Li Zhi's hand stopped at this moment, and lightly patted Cui Yan's thigh.

"This matter still needs to be done slowly. Also, let the price of books be lowered. This matter cannot be said from me. Let them bring it up by themselves."

"By the way, Sister Cui, let's do one more business."

"Your Majesty, are you making paper?"

Li Zhi looked at Cui Yan, and Cui Yan turned his head to look at Li Zhi at the same time.

At this moment, Li Zhi couldn't help wrapping his hands around the waist of the beautiful woman sitting on his lap, and his chin rested on Cui Yan's perfect jade shoulder.

"Sister Cui and I really have a good understanding. Today, Mrs. Zheng came to me not only for the book printing, but also for the fact that the Lu family also wants to get a share of the book printing. I have already agreed to this matter."

"What Your Majesty means is that we make paper, reduce the cost of the biggest raw material for printing books, and let the Zheng family and the Lu family gradually reduce the price of books in the competition."

"This matter can only be done slowly, and these aristocratic families have to do it themselves. It's good that you push the waves a little bit later."

"The imperial examinations are actually aimed at suppressing these great families. If there are more scholars, fewer people will be able to participate in political affairs through mastering knowledge. The influence of the great families will gradually decrease. Your Majesty, you still want these great families to give themselves Be a gravedigger."

"Gravediggers are not the case, but the power of the powerful aristocrats is too great. If you don't suppress them, trouble will happen sooner or later. I didn't intend to crush them to death, but just released some of the things they held in their hands."

"Sister Cui, you are from the Cui family in Qinghe. You should know more or less that the nobles and the nobles are not in the same heart. If nothing else, at least half of my Tang Dynasty is in the hands of the nobles. Even, I don't know at all. They are still citizens of Tang Dynasty."

Cui Yan naturally knew what His Majesty was talking about. The powerful and nobles reported the number of people under their rule in a panic, and erased the people who should have reported it. This directly caused the population of Datang to be reduced by more than half.

Cui Yan, who was born in the Cui family, was well aware of these things, and also understood that through these, the powerful and nobles could obtain great benefits from them, and correspondingly, the taxes of the Tang Dynasty were greatly affected.

That person actually exists, but is not registered, has no household registration, and collects taxes from there.

This is just one of the dangers of the powerful and nobles to the Tang Dynasty. In fact, His Majesty is worried about other things. Suppressing the powerful and powerful forces is indeed a matter of imminent imminence.

Naturally, Cui Yan didn't talk to Li Zhi about this matter. Everyone knew that, in fact, the royal family of the Tang Dynasty was originally from a powerful family. In the Sui Dynasty, the nobles at this time thought and did what they had already done. , also done earlier.

As for the nobles, perhaps the Li family of Longxi knew best.

Naturally, there is no need to talk to His Majesty about this matter.

"Your Majesty, I will let people do the paper-making. Wherever the book printing workshops of the Zheng family and the Lu family are opened, the paper-making workshops will open there. However, the price of paper does not mean that the price of paper will be suppressed. Your Majesty, Raw materials for papermaking, labor, and workshops also need to be invested.”

"Don't worry, I won't trade at a loss, you just let go and do it first."

Cui Yan nodded, she listened to His Majesty, she would arrange whatever His Majesty ordered.

"Well, there is one more thing. Jiangnan Xiao's family plans to set up a branch in Chang'an to make silk materials for us. When the time comes, you can see if there is anything that needs help and help them."

"This Yan'er knows."

"Sister Cui, it's great to have you. As long as you're here, I can save a lot of energy."

Li Zhi leaned against Cui Yan's shoulder, maybe after saying this, his emotions moved a little, raised his head, turned Cui Yan's cheek, and kissed that cheek lightly.

"Your Majesty has saved so much energy, where is it?"

Li Zhi laughed, hugged the waist of the jade man, and stood up.

"I'll let Sister Cui see where the saved energy is being spent."

At Ganye Temple, it was already afternoon, and the nuns here had just had their fast meal, and each returned to their own residences. Huijing took Wu Meiniang, and they sat cross-legged facing each other. Huijing explained some Buddhist scriptures to her.

Although it was His Majesty's intention to let Wu Meiniang follow him, Huijing still liked her very much after this apprentice took care of her for a while.

Not to mention anything else, Wu Meiniang is really quick to learn something, it can be said that she has a unique root of wisdom, if some things are not specially arranged by His Majesty, Huijing thinks that Wu Meiniang can be the next one after staying in Ganye Temple for a few years. The abbot of Ganye Temple cultivated it.

In fact, not only Huijing was amazed at her learning speed, but also the senior sister was amazed several times.

It's just that Wu Meiniang just came to Ganye Temple not long ago, which really made her stay in Ganye Temple for a few years, and she really didn't dare to think about her Buddhist attainments.

At this time, after some things were finished, Huijing began to sit cross-legged and recite scriptures to cultivate herself.

Wu Meiniang put away the things there, walked out of the meditation room, but stood there quietly, looking at a figure in front of her, her expression changed several times.

"Your Majesty, why are you here?"

"What's the matter, don't you welcome me?"

"No, it's Mei Niang who really didn't think about it. And there is no movement in the temple."

"Looking at my attire, you should have guessed that I didn't come to Ganye Temple with much fanfare this time."

"Your Majesty didn't come out of the palace, did he come out secretly?"

"What nonsense, I want to leave the palace, do I need to sneak out?"

Wu Meiniang just smiled. In the meditation room, Hui Jing was originally chanting scriptures and Buddha, concentrating on practicing, but the words of the two people outside came in faintly, and someone's heart could not calm down at all.

Hui Jing opened her eyes, and sighed helplessly. After meeting His Majesty, her practice in these years was completely ruined.

Once the heart of dust is aroused again, it is indeed difficult to calm down.

Every time His Majesty comes here, it actually makes the path of self-cultivation even more difficult.

Huijing sighed, let go of the rosary she was twisting in her hand, and walked out of the house.

"Your Majesty, Huijing is being polite."

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Hui Jing in Buddhist attire bowed slightly to Li Zhi, but Li Zhi was already holding a wooden box in Hui Jing's arms.

"Your Majesty, what is this?"

"You'll know if you open it and have a look. In order to send this thing here, I have spent a lot of trouble. You don't know, those tails of mine are not easy to get rid of!"