Chapter 30 is a cocoon

When Chen Ying returned to Chen's Mansion to take a bath and change into a new clothes. Suddenly, I received a notice from Gao Wenjin that a distinguished guest had visited. Chen Ying got up and came to the door to greet him, but found that the crown prince Li Jiancheng was looking at Chen Ying meaningfully.

"I didn't know that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had arrived, and it was a ...... missing"

"Alright, there's no outsider here!" Li Jiancheng raised his leg and walked inside.

Chen Ying followed Li Jiancheng into the hall, Li Jiancheng sat on the main seat, sighed long, and stretched out his hand to point at Chen Ying: "You ......"

Chen hurriedly took a cup of tea and handed it to Li Jiancheng.

Chen Ying felt confused, lowered his head, and secretly looked at Li Jiancheng with the residual light of his eyes.

Li Jiancheng sighed and said, "You can do it yourself!" ”

As he spoke, he got up and walked out the door.

Chen Ying was stunned on the spot, completely unable to figure out why Li Jiancheng sighed.

After a while, another long sigh sounded behind Chen Ying. Chen Ying turned around and saw Ma Sanbao said with a look of hatred: "You are confused, how can you talk nonsense?" Don't you know that you have no jokes? ”

Chen Ying was even more wonderful: "Brother Ma, you make your words clear." ”

"Hello for yourself! ~”

Ma Sanbao handed an envelope to Chen Ying.

"Brother Ma, Brother Ma......"

Chen Ying shouted Ma Sanbao again and again, but Ma Sanbao didn't look back at all.

At this time, an ominous premonition rose in Chen Ying's heart.

Could it be that what I said last night in the Liangyi Hall was held? What was promised?

Suddenly, Chen Ying opened the envelope. I saw Li Xiuning Juanxiu's handwriting showing it: "Three thousand taels of money, eight thousand taels of silver, five hundred taels of silver, and one thousand and one hundred horses of cloth......"

This is a gift list.

According to the number on the gift list, it is almost equivalent to about 25,000 yuan.

Why did Li Xiuning send such a large amount of money to himself, could it be because he knew that he was building a dock fort?

Chen Ying nodded, feeling that this possibility was very high.

How much money he has, even if Li Xiuning doesn't know, he can guess it in general, and he can have thousands of thousands, but any more will make Chen Ying hard.

Now Chen Ying has Li Daozhen's 5,400 guan in his hand, plus 30,000 taels of silver sent by Wu Shi Tong, that is, 30,000 guan, and the money to build the dock fort is almost the same.

Cuckoo......

Chen Ying's stomach screamed, Chen Ying realized that he was very hungry, Chen Ying ate a lot at the night banquet last night, but after drinking too much, he vomited all of them, and his stomach was empty. Chen Ying said: "Wen Jin, go get me something to eat!" ”

After a while, the neighing of mules and horses sounded outside the door, and more than a dozen two-horse carriages appeared at Chen Ying's door. Chen Ying thought that Ma Sanbao sent someone to send the money, but he never thought that it was Pei Ju, the commander of the East Palace.

Pei Ju didn't come up to be polite to Chen Ying, but asked people to unload the heavy boxes on the carriage one by one, pile them in the courtyard in Chen Ying's front yard, and don't care anymore.

Chen Ying didn't have any available manpower in his hands at this time, so he just had to go over and see what it was.

"Bang" A dazzling golden light shook Chen Ying's eyes, ten taels of gold, one box contains eighty outside, two boxes are one hundred and sixty pieces, a total of 1,600 taels of gold, Chen Ying hurriedly opened the third box, and there was an uproar...... Full of copper coins, falling to the ground like flowing water.

Chen Ying sensed that something was wrong, and then opened the fourth, fifth, and sixth large boxes, a full twenty-two large boxes, all filled with copper coins, roughly estimated to be no less than seven thousand guan, and four boxes containing silver, as well as forty thousand taels, one thousand six hundred taels of gold, equivalent to sixteen thousand guan, forty thousand taels of silver and forty thousand guan, plus seven thousand copper coins, a full sixty-two thousand guan.

Chen Ying's head was immediately confused, what the hell is going on?

No one gave him an accurate answer. Didn't tell him what was going on.

Chen Ying sat on the doorblock unrelentingly, holding his chin with both hands, quietly in a daze.

"Bang!" A heavy chain was thrown in front of Chen Ying, the full chain weight was about 100 catties, looking at the 100 catties of copper coins, Chen Ying raised his head and looked at You Ziying, who had not been seen for a long time.

You Ziying is one of the veterans of Chen Ying's bloody battle in Jingyang, after the battle of Jingyang, he was assigned to Tongyang Gate as the deputy captain of the city, You Ziying did not choose to continue to fight with Chen Ying on the battlefield, he was the gatekeeper from the seventh grade, and he felt very nourished. However, You Ziying did not move out and still lived in Chen Ying's mansion.

"I'm not short of money, it's not easy for you to earn this money, take it back to marry a wife, or buy some land!"

"Brother Chen, say something you don't like to hear, I know you're in trouble, brother, I can't help you, here's 16 and 300 texts, all for you, I wanted to borrow some more, make up enough for 20 ......"

Chen Ying said inexplicably: "I'm really not short of this money......

"Brother Chen, don't lie to me, it's spread throughout Chang'an!" You Ziying said with an angry face: "Emperor Lao'er, let you take 500,000 guan to repair the road from Chang'an to Hangu Pass, not to mention 500,000 guan, even 5 million guan can't be repaired, and the people in Chang'an say that Brother Chen is going to be finished......"

Chen Ying's mind slowly had some vague consciousness, he and Li Yuanji drank until they got up last night, maybe it was Chen Yingjiu who was emboldened, and once again proposed to Li Yuan in person.

Li Yuan resolutely said that it was absolutely impossible.

Chen Ying proposed that he could make an extra 10 million catties of steel for Datang every year.

Li Yuan still insisted on being uncompromising.

Chen Ying proposed that he could increase the combat effectiveness of the Tang Dynasty's army by three percent.

Li Yuan was also unmoved.

In the end, even Li Xiuning joined in kneeling down and pleaded for Chen Ying.

But Li Yuan still brushed his sleeves away.

Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin, and Li Yuanji all pleaded with Li Yuan, but Li Yuan still did not agree directly, but told Chen Ying to go back and wait to sit on the Baicheng County Horse.

Chen Ying himself proposed to Li Yuan that he could build a gallop road for the Tang Dynasty.

Li Yuan reluctantly agreed, but Chen Shuda said that the treasury had no money, and he could come up with 500,000 yuan at most.

It was only now that Chen Ying understood that Li Yuan's night banquet yesterday was actually specially set up for him, and the purpose was to lure him into being fooled.

If Chen Ying had a clear head, he would never have dug such a big hole for himself, but when he was drunk, Chen Ying also blew the cowhide.

In this era, the construction of a galloping road with a length of four or five hundred miles is undoubtedly no less than the construction of a railway on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in later generations, and the cost may be higher than that of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway in later generations.

Like the construction of railways, the construction of gallops is slightly less expensive in the plains, can cross the mountains, and is more expensive when a large number of culverts and bridges need to be built. And it's going to be ridiculously high.

Chen Ying did not seriously calculate the specific construction cost of the Chi Road from Chang'an to Hanguguan to really build it, but it is certain that it will definitely not be low. In fact, Chen Ying just got himself into a pit, whether it was from Chang'an to Hanguguan or to Luoyang, there has always been a complete water transportation system, and there is no need to build a Chi Road at all, and the entire Wei River is the best water vein.

However, there is no joke. Chen Ying's words have already been blown out, and there is no room for redemption, either Chen Ying has created such a long gallop as he said, or Chen Ying can wait to accept Li Yuan's punishment.

Chen Ying slapped himself fiercely: "I want you to talk more, I want you to talk more, it's a big deal, right?" It's really a cocoon. ”