"The daughter-in-law visits her father." Fu Yuanling saluted.

The emperor looked at Fu Yuanling and now had a little headache, he was as uneasy as Xiao Jiu.

"Get up." The emperor put down the pen in his hand and looked at Fu Yuanling with a majestic face as much as possible, "I want to see me in a hurry, but what's the matter?" ”

Fu Yuanling smiled greatly, "There is one thing that I ask my father to decide, so I came to ask my father for his support." ”

I want him to decide, but also ask for support, hum!

"Tell me something." The emperor is still a little interested, whenever this daughter-in-law comes to see him, she must have the idea of making money.

"The workshop in the western suburbs needs a lot of craftsmen, and there is a big gap, so my daughter-in-law thought of a way to let people build water drains along the moat to save manpower. But even if they do, the craftsmen in the western suburbs are still much worse. The craftsman's daughter-in-law of the Creation Bureau did not dare to be delusional, so she could only come to ask her father to allow her daughter-in-law to continue to recruit craftsmen from the surrounding prefectures and counties. Fu Yuanling said with a sad face.

Emperor:......

She can do such a thing as using the lake around the city to build a water drain, which ordinary people can't think of, right?

"It's not easy to build a water drain, and it's difficult to keep the lake flowing smoothly." The emperor looked at Fu Yuanling and said.

The water in the lake needs to have a momentum to drive the water drainage, and the water in the lake around the city is gentle.

"Fill the lake and build a dam, and go in steps, just so that the smelting workshop has a large amount of slag from the furnace to use."

Emperor:......

Even the slag can be calculated, okay, it will save money.

Fu Yuanling looked at the emperor's expression becoming more and more cautious, and said slowly: "My daughter-in-law is a little worried that there will be hidden dangers in recruiting a large number of craftsmen into the western suburbs, so I ask my father to send officials to govern the western suburbs." ”

The emperor was a little surprised when he heard this, he didn't expect Fu Yuanling to put forward a proposal to send officials alone to govern the western suburbs, but he hesitated for a while, "How can you think of this?" ”

"Back to the father's words, the western suburbs were originally derived from the commercial domain of Shangjing, this matter arose because of the daughter-in-law, if the western suburbs are in turmoil, how can the daughter-in-law have the face to see her father? Thinking about it, only by sending officials to station can it be reassuring. Fu Yuanling sighed softly when he said this, "Besides, there will only be more and more workshops in the western suburbs, and the number of craftsmen recruited will increase year by year, and in three or five years, the entire western suburbs will become a new prosperous place in the capital." In this way, it is also a matter of time before the officials are stationed. ”

The emperor listened to the meaning of Fu Yuanling's words, as if he had promised to recruit craftsmen again.

But as long as you think about the scene that Fu Yuanling said, in three or five years, the western suburbs will become a prosperous and rich place, with more and more population, and the entire Shangjing City will expand, it cannot be said that it will become the first city in the world, at least it will be stronger than now.

There are people who are the foundation.

It is not easy for a city to attract a large number of people to take root.

It's like after a natural disaster, people who have left their homeland will want to return to their homeland no matter how far away, and no one wants to leave their homeland to make their home elsewhere.

However, Fu Yuanling can give this method a try.

If you can drag your family to eat and drink enough, and there are household registration documents given by the imperial court to take root, I think there will be many people who are willing to come to Beijing.

The emperor looked at Fu Yuanling again, "You have already thought about it?" ”

Fu Yuanling shook his head, "How can my daughter-in-law be so powerful, you really lift me up." It's just that there is a shortage of people in the western suburbs this time, and the stewards go back and forth, and the daughter-in-law thinks day and night that there is really no other good way, so she can only use this method to attract craftsmen to come. That's why my daughter-in-law said that it would take at least three or five years of hard work, and if I had confidence, I wouldn't say that. ”

The emperor frowned slightly, looked at Fu Yuanling and said, "You must know that once there are officials stationed in the western suburbs, there will be many constraints on your actions. ”

"The daughter-in-law abides by the laws of the imperial court and is not afraid of officials stationed." Fu Yuanling said very frankly.

She does this because she wants to make money in a bright way, and she is not like King Wu to be a mouse in the gutter, hiding her head and tail everywhere.

The emperor chuckled, this was like Fu Yuanling's temperament, "How many craftsmen are you going to recruit?" ”

"Two or three hundred thousand people."

"How much?"

"Three or four hundred thousand?"

Emperor:......

I'll give you a chance to speak!

Fu Yuanling looked at the emperor in disbelief, and then he realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly said: "Father, now the western suburbs have built a brocade workshop and a smelting workshop, and there are hundreds of small workshops under the two major workshops, and there are currently more than 120,000 craftsmen gathered in the western suburbs. With so many people's clothing, food, housing and transportation, a lot of shops will be derived, and there will be craftsmen who will continue to be recruited in the future. ”

Fu Yuanling paused when he said this, "These craftsmen must first have a house to live in, such a big demand, the western suburbs must have their own tile workshop, to recruit masons, in winter, these people want to burn charcoal for heating, they must have a charcoal workshop." Outside the capital, I plan to collect mulberry leaves to set up a silkworm workshop, so as to solve the situation of insufficient silk in the brocade workshop. ”

Emperor:......

His face was heavy, and he listened to Fu Yuanling continue to speak.

"In the western suburbs, the father was in the hands of his daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law deeply felt that her father trusted her, and now she finally has the opportunity to repay her father. Any shop in the western suburbs except for the two major workshops must be allowed by me, and now my daughter-in-law is willing to return this right to the imperial court. ”

The emperor looked at Fu Yuanling, "You say it carefully." ”

The emperor couldn't say that he didn't understand, how stupid he looked.

But he really didn't understand it, and returned it to the court? What to return to the imperial court?

Fu Yuanling was also stunned when she heard the emperor say this, and only after a smack did she know that Her Majesty was still confused, she was silent for a moment, forgetting that Her Majesty was not good at business.

In fact, it is very simple for businessmen, the western suburbs were originally the territory divided by the emperor to her, and she is the king of this land.

Before, the western suburbs were just a prototype, no one thought how profitable these derived businesses were, and now the western suburbs are gradually improving, which is equivalent to an independent small city, and at that time, others will focus on this right in her hands.

Rather than waiting to be suspicious of the emperor at that time, Fu Yuanling would rather give up small profits in exchange for the emperor's trust.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation, all kinds of shops opened in the western suburbs, this is not a small profit, not to mention other places, only to say that after the street around the city lake was set on fire by the Fu family firm, the annual income of the shops on that street has increased several times.

This piece is too tempting, it doesn't take a few more years, as long as His Majesty agrees to continue to recruit craftsmen in the surrounding prefectures and counties this time, and in the second half of the year, it will be difficult to find all kinds of life shops in the western suburbs.

Where there are many people, there is money to be made, not to mention hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the place where artisans gather.

That's a huge profit.