Tian Meng's words made Li Ke smile happily. It was okay. His training was not in vain. At least he understood these principles.
"Two days later, another issue of Datang Weekly will be printed to explain the situation to the people. In addition, Luoyang's Datang Weekly will be printed for three consecutive days. First, we will publicize what happened in Chang'an in a unified way, and then follow the content of Chang'an's Datang Weekly."
"In addition, the donations made by many businessmen this time will be vigorously publicized by Datang Weekly next time! If people donate money, they must be named!" Li Ke said quickly. "Also, our family's finances cannot be known to outsiders. From today on, I, Li Ke, will be a poor person, do you understand?!"
"Yes..." Tian Meng was speechless. He didn't know how to describe His Highness, so he just said some unpleasant words to himself.
"Okay, you go ahead and get started. Construction will start in seven days, but one thing is, don't disturb the people! Give subsidies to those small merchants!" Li Ke thought for a while and thought of another place to spend money! To be honest, Li Ke is really not afraid of spending money on the people now!
Because there is a high probability that the money will flow back to him in the end. In the process of going back and forth, the people will become rich, the country will become rich, and he, Li Ke, will also become rich. Hey, the three wins are so simple and unpretentious.
After Tian Meng left, Li Ke thought for a while and simply found Yang Anning and the tailor who made the garments.
"Your Highness." Yang Anning and the others bowed and saluted.
"Now I'll give you a task." Li Ke looked serious.
"Your Highness, please speak." Everyone said quickly.
"You design a dress for me. This dress will be worn by His Highness frequently in the future. In addition to court clothes, His Highness will also wear this dress on other occasions. Remember! It must be exactly the same. There can be no difference, at least it cannot be used by others. After seeing the difference, make twenty sets first. Including the boots and the underwear inside." Li Ke said seriously.
"Uh?" Everyone was a little confused. They could understand making clothes, but what did it mean to make twenty sets of the same clothes?
"Because from today on, His Highness is very poor and has no clothes to wear, so the task of renovating Chang'an City will begin soon." Li Ke said calmly.
Yang Anning almost choked on her own saliva... What a shameless move this was. Poor... How can a prince be so poor that he has no clothes to wear? The problem is... Li Ke makes twenty identical sets. If he continues like this for a year... I guess some people will really believe it.
"Your Highness, we understand. Your Highness wants to set an example and warn everyone under his command to be thrifty and people-centered. Please rest assured, Your Highness, we will live up to His Highness's trust. We just have to wrong His Highness to wear the same clothes for a long time. Yes." These seamstresses "understood" instantly, and they spoke respectfully.
"It's okay. This is no grievance. I wear the same clothes." Li Ke waved his hand generously.
Several female workers stopped talking. They knew that His Highness always liked to put the pressure on himself and never let them share it. However, he gave them the best treatment as servants. No matter which Duke's mansion he went to, there was no such good treatment as them. treatment.
Over the years, His Highness the King of Shu has never had a slave die violently. Go to other houses and ask, are there many slaves who died violently? And not only that, His Highness the King of Shu did many things that seemed incomprehensible to ordinary people, but he would not hide them from them, but tell them.
What master can do this? His Highness the King of Shu treated every one of their servants with sincerity, but they had nothing in return except their lives. As for this figure, they would not insult His Highness's character at all.
Yang Anning sighed, these female workers really like to think about things, but it's not their fault, after all, they don't have much knowledge. How could a person like His Highness do such a simple thing? Someone above the court must be eyeing His Highness, and I'm afraid they are going to make fun of His Highness's extravagant style.
His Highness has been thinking about the people all day long, and he has millions of people in the entire Tang Dynasty in his heart. He has no time to argue with those bullshit censors, so he came up with this strategy to avoid these censors' remarks.
It's a pity that they can't see it, but this is good, otherwise, when will His Highness fall in love with her and become a close friend with her.
"That's basically it. Our Shu Prince's Mansion will be very busy recently. Some of your performances will go on as usual. If nothing goes wrong, study more on some songs and the like. Don't do it all yourself, let the others Sisters should also share more, we are not here to show off, we are just performing, it doesn’t matter whether it is good or not." Li Ke said with a smile.
"Yes, Your Highness." Yang Anning immediately bowed.
When Li Ke was explaining, in another Youjian shopping mall, all the donation merchants just gathered together again.
"Everyone, we are fortunate to be together today, and thanks to His Highness the King of Shu's high righteousness, we have this opportunity, so just now I was thinking whether we can set up a membership system similar to His Highness the King of Shu's. Yes? Almost all of the people here are businessmen, why don't we call it the Chamber of Commerce?" Bai Ling, who had just made the suggestion, said loudly to everyone.
"May I ask Mr. Bai Lang, what is the significance of this chamber of commerce?" one person asked.
"Actually, it's very simple. Our chamber of commerce doesn't have to pay membership fees, but because we have a common experience, we might as well join forces. The strength of our individual families may be very weak, but the dozens of us now put together are no better than some Isn't a big family weak?" Bai Ling asked.
"I have made my thoughts clear. We have earned a lot of money, but the one who is willing to give us people opportunities and fame is probably His Highness the King of Shu. Today His Highness the King of Shu is renovating Chang'an City, and he may be renovating it tomorrow. Luoyang City, let’s not talk about this for now, but when we put it together, we can’t help His Royal Highness the King of Shu with some official connections, but a little money should be no problem.” Bai Ling said seriously, “You just heard about the Royal Academy of the Tang Dynasty. thing."
"I think you all want your children to have the right to take the imperial examination, right?"
Bai Ling's words are very straightforward. To a certain extent, they are the first group to have benefits from Li Ke. Although the people here are all businessmen and some from down-and-out families, in fact many people have no shortage of money. money. For example, Bailing's business cannot be said to be comparable to that of those big wealthy families, but he can still make a profit of more than 100,000 yuan a year.
And these people have accumulated a lot, so the money donated to Li Ke is nothing.
Bai Ling's words made everyone think deeply. Indeed, they had never had this opportunity before, and they didn't even have the money to spend! And Li Ke gave them this opportunity and didn't even let them spend more money!
"I agree with what Mr. Bai Lang said. Although I am a barbarian, I have been in the Tang Dynasty for many years. I would like to say a few words from the perspective of a bystander. Don't dislike it." Ashilu stood in the crowd. stand up.
"Ashilu Langjun, please speak." Almost all of them are businessmen, regardless of how the barbarian people feel in their hearts, but they are naturally quite polite on the surface, and they all understand business very well.
"Actually, I think many of your families are related to big aristocratic families. After all, when doing business in the Tang Dynasty, we cannot avoid them. To use an inappropriate metaphor, we are like going to the temple to offer incense one by one. The believers, and they are the Bodhisattvas sitting there, they receive a lot of offerings almost without having to do anything, but we have to work hard and end up with nothing.”
"To be honest, instead of doing this, I would rather follow His Highness the King of Shu. First of all, His Highness the King of Shu is a prince, and his status is not bad. Moreover, His Highness the King of Shu has won a great victory in the battles with all the powerful men. Still applied for a gold membership for His Highness the King of Shu? Isn’t this just admitting defeat in disguise?”
"I thought that when they handed over the money, they didn't even plan to spend it!"
"In this case, why do we still pay tribute to them? Why not pay tribute directly to His Highness the King of Shu? Moreover, the only members of His Highness the King of Shu are us now, but we are not the only businessmen in the entire Tang Dynasty. Many businessmen are not as powerful as us. No, but they are just located in various parts of the Tang Dynasty." Ashlu said loudly.
"His Royal Highness the King of Shu is well-known in Chang'an City. He even treats his servants fairly and reasonably. He will treat us, the first batch of people who followed him, not bad at all?"
Ashuru's words stunned all the businessmen present. Thinking about it carefully, these words... make so much sense!
