Chapter 207: The Lost Son (II)

"Even if you kid wants to get some pocket money, it won't be like this, right? Do you want to rebuild Qingzhou City? Li Xiaogong pointed to the cement kiln that covered the entire mountain, gritted his teeth and said.

"Rebuilding Qingzhou City is my father's business, what does it have to do with me?" Li Chengqian sat on the wheel of the carriage and said with his legs flailed.

Some of the cement kilns on the hill have already started, and the billowing smoke and dust make the small hill seem to be on fire.

"So what are you doing with so many cement kilns? Don't you need money to hire workers? Li Xiaogong jumped off his horse, found a stone on the side of the road and sat down.

"Many?" Li Chengqian also jumped out of the carriage, found a place to sit next to Li Xiaogong, pointed to the distance and said: "Within a year, I will make all the main roads in Qingzhou Mansion become cement roads, and they will be twice as wide as the current road surface." ”

"Do you really want to build roads? Do you know how much it will cost to complete the road your way? Li Xiaogong was surprised by Li Chengqian's goal, but he still rationally calculated the cost of building the road.

"Food will not always be so expensive, as long as the local government does it according to my father's decree, the price will drop soon, and it will not be so expensive to build roads at that time." Li Chengqian, who was prescient, naturally knew that the price of rice would drop to five cents a bucket in three years, so he was very confident when he spoke.

Li Xiaogong smacked his lips, staring at Li Chengqian with complicated eyes, and vaguely seemed to see Li Er's shadow overlapping with him again.

Although Li Chengqian often does some things very out of line, even incomprehensible, it is undeniable that Ya does things with great atmosphere. Even sometimes he knew that he was calculating, but he had to say the word 'obedience'.

Looking at a series of things that Li Chengqian has done since he succeeded to the crown prince, although it is indeed very cheating at times, it is also enough to meet the sentence 'If you are far away from the rivers and lakes, you will worry about the king'.

"What is Uncle Wang thinking?" After a long time, Li Chengqian was finally looked at by Li Xiaogong, and shrank back and asked.

"The old man is thinking about how many boards you will suffer after you return to Chang'an." Li Xiaogong let out a loud voice, with a malicious smile on the corner of his mouth. What I pondered in my heart was: Lao Tzu will not say that he intends to take refuge in you.

"Who knows what the future holds? Maybe as soon as Uncle Wang is happy to say a few kind words for me, the board will be freed. Li Chengqian shrugged his shoulders and said perfunctorily.

"How about telling you a joke about Chang'an?" Li Xiaogong did not dwell on the issue of playing the board, and after being silent for a while, he suddenly said with a smile.

"Uncle Wang said come and listen!" There has been no news from Chang'an for a long time, and Li Chengqian also wants to know about Chang'an's movements.

Li Xiaogong is not a ruffian in the market, what can make him talk about it as a joke, how can it be what happened to the fourth rank of the court.

"Cheng Lao's house has collapsed, and there is not a single one left." Facing Li Chengqian's inquiring gaze, Li Xiaogong said with some schadenfreude.

"This is impossible, he took fifty carts of cement from me, and it is enough to build his house into a fortress, how can it fall." Li Chengqian's face was full of disbelief, and he shook his head and said.

"It's impossible to wait for you to go back to Chang'an, anyway, the old guy is waiting for you to go back to Chang'an to find you to accompany the house!" Li Xiaogong said with a smile.

At this time, Li Chengqian realized that the unscrupulous old man gloated not because the house of Cheng Fairy's family had collapsed, but because he was in big trouble after returning to Chang'an.

But what does it matter, it's still early for me to go back to Chang'an. As long as the old man doesn't speak, he doesn't plan to go back in five or seven or six years, and Cheng Lao will let him wait if he wants to wait.

However, Li Chengqian was still very curious about why Lao Cheng's house collapsed, so he asked curiously: "Why?" I mean, what happened to make the house fall down. ”

"The earth dragon turned over, what else could happen, but the one in our Zongzheng Temple is very strong, and it hasn't even shed a little dust." Li Xiaogong said with a smile.

In his opinion, whether it is Lao Cheng's house falling, or Lao Cheng wants to trouble Li Chengqian, it is a very interesting thing.

"Forget it, let's go to the new school, there's nothing to see here." Li Xiaogong's schadenfreude made Li Chengqian a little speechless, so he decisively changed the topic.

"What is a school?" The schools in Datang are all called academies or private schools, so Li Xiaogong is very curious about what the school is.

"It's about the same place as the academy." Li Chengqian jumped into the carriage and turned around and said.

"You're running a college?" Li Xiaogong's eyes were bigger than a bull's eye: "What about your students?" Don't tell me it's the children of the common people. ”

"Yes, it's the children of the common people, but now only the children of the employees of the cement factory are accepted." Li Chengqian nodded and said.

"Children's school? The free kind? Li Xiaogong asked.

When he was in Chang'an, Li Xiaogong once heard Li Er talk about it once, but at that time, Li Er and Li Xiaogong were both tossed around as a child, but they didn't expect Li Chengqian to really get involved.

"Yes, it's free!" Li Chengqian continued to nod.

"Where is your teacher from?" Li Xiaogong raised a very real question.

"I give books to students who want to publish their own works, and they have to teach me for two years, so I don't have a shortage of teachers." Li Chengqian briefly explained his own coping method.

Then, Li Xiaogong completely shut up, and began to calculate in his heart how much Li Chengqian's plan would cost to achieve his goal.

In the end, Li Xiaogong came to the conclusion: uncountable!

Riding on a horse, Li Xiaogong only has three words in his heart, that is, 'loser'.

There are hundreds of Tang Prefecture capitals and thousands of county seats, and if Li Chengqian's plan is followed, each of them will build at least one so-called 'children's school'.

In this way, there are more than 1,000 schools in the entire Datang, and there will be countless books and stationery that students need, and there are countless books that teachers need to publish. Seventy-eight thousand is simply not worth mentioning in the face of this cost.

Li Xiaogong decided that he had to stop Li Chengqian, a loser, if he couldn't stop it, then go back to Chang'an to find Lao Li, in short, the unreliable plan of the 'children's school' must be stopped, otherwise he was afraid that the entire treasury would not be enough.

However, Li Chengqian did not intend to let go of Li Xiaogong, and after poking his head out of the car window and looking around, he said to Li Xiaogong: "Uncle Wang, how about giving you a good piece to sell and buy?" ”

"Don't!" Li Xiaogong's head shook like a rattle, and he firmly rejected Li Chengqian's proposal.

The more I came into contact with Li Chengqian, the more jealous I was of his ability to bewitch, and the best way to think of not being fooled was not to let him say it at all.