I was engaged in infrastructure construction in the Han Dynasty [Transmigration Book]

Chapter 486 [4 More] 486

But the fact is that Liu Tan really can't bear Lu Xuan to use his beautiful face to act like a baby, anyway... Lu Xuan stays if he wants to, he must be aware of the affairs of Wusun Kingdom, and if he really needs it, he will definitely go back of.

Knowing that the Huns were not doing well, Liu Tan happily prepared for the New Year.

Compared with last year, there is actually no change in the form of Chinese New Year this year.

Even Liu Tan can’t come up with some new tricks every year, and it’s best not to form a pattern for this kind of “innovation”. Once it works, Liu Tan will have no creativity in the future, and the people below will have to come up with some in order to satisfy him. "Creativity" comes, and in the end it can only waste people and money.

It's just that compared to Chang'an's particularly formal New Year's banquet, he doesn't like the way the Northern Borderlands made it. It feels like it's not a New Year's Eve, but that everyone has a mission to rush there.

The excitement is really lively, but if you ask, maybe everyone still hopes to have a family reunion at home.

It's a pity that it can't be like this, because participating in the New Year's banquet in the palace also means having a certain status, and those who don't have enough status can't participate!

Of course, with Huo Guang around, even if Liu Tan wants to make the New Year's banquet a Zhengdan party, it won't work. Amid all the unreliable and unformal, Huo Guang tried his best to turn the tide and make the whole New Year's banquet lively yet solemn. Jinguo saved a little face.

Liu Tan couldn't beat him, and he didn't intend to argue with Huo Guang on this matter. In his words: "Ah Guang has been exhausted year after year, so he can do whatever he wants, and let him do it when he's done." He's going on vacation, so don't bother me with the Prime Minister."

Because of this, Liu Tan's unconstrained ideas finally retained a lottery.

The annual meeting, how could there be no lottery?

Liu Tan has a lot of money, and originally wanted to set the first prize as the three-month income of the Broken Evil Gold Mine, and there is no need to pay taxes. Liu Tan will be responsible for paying taxes.

Although it is only three months, if you really win, after these three months, a well-off family will basically have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of their lives.

Then Liu Tan's idea was suppressed by Huo Guang and Lu Xuan.

Huo Guang directly gave him a map and said, "Come, choose."

Liu Tan was dumbfounded: "What?"

Huo Guang said: "If you choose a suitable place, I will send people to investigate. If it is not gold, silver, copper, iron and other minerals, then it will be awarded as the first prize, but only the first prize must have mines. Whether you can mine or not depends on your luck, the only difference is the size of the land."

Liu Tan was shocked: "You are more ruthless than me."

Send ore directly?His father didn't even dare to do that!

Huo Guang said: "Except for the first class, who knows if there are other mines?"

Liu Tan lowered his head and glanced at the map Huo Guang gave him. There are still large areas of Gobi and grasslands in the northern border country. It is too easy to choose unowned land. Liu Tan glanced at it. Part of the area that Huo Guang circled for him is part of the Gobi. It is grassland.

He thought for a while, and set the fifth prize and below in the grassland. Although the grassland is not necessarily free of mines, the probability is much smaller than that of the Gobi. to the minerals.

And Gobi obviously has more opportunities.

Anyway, it was just for fun, Liu Tan casually circled one, then looked up at Huo Guang and asked, "Are you sure you want to do this?"

Lu Xuan on the side smiled and said: "Even if they don't have anything, they can get a set of Zhuangzi for nothing. I think the place Huo Xiang chooses is not far from the town and they are not at a loss."

Liu Tan sneered: "What's the use of such a Zhuangzi coming? If there is nothing, it's better to divide it in the grassland. After all, you can still get a grassland."

Huo Guang glanced at Liu Tan and said calmly: "It seems that His Highness has indeed not paid attention to political affairs these days."

When Liu Tan heard Huo Guang say this, he couldn't help but reflect for a while, but after thinking about it, he didn't realize that he didn't pay attention to political affairs. He said confidently: "Isn't it all about solving the Huns' affairs recently? How can it be regarded as not paying attention to political affairs?"

Huo Guang asked: "Then, does your Highness know what has received the most revenue from the treasury this year?"

Liu Tan looked at him sadly: "Isn't this king paying the tax?"

To be honest, although he knows that paying taxes is correct, and he doesn't intend to evade taxes, but when he saw the year-end summary made by Miao Rui and the others, he couldn't help but feel a little distressed when he saw the total number of taxes paid—he felt He supported half of the northern border country by himself.

Huo Guang said: "Your Highness pays [-]% of the tax, and [-]% is paid by the common people."

Liu Tan moved his ears: "Then what about the remaining [-]%?"

Huo Guang laughed and said, "The remaining [-]% comes from Cistanche."

Liu Tan was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and he also reflected on what Cistanche was, but soon he remembered, and couldn't help but blurted out: "Salt wood!"

Huo Guang nodded seriously and said: "Yes, it is a parasite of saltwood. In the past two years, His Highness has ordered a large number of saltwood to be planted, and the improvement of water and soil has not appeared, but the growth of cistanche is very fast. The tribute is presented, and some of it is reserved for His Highness, and the rest will be sold."

Liu Tan was a little surprised: "It's so expensive?"

After tossing and tossing for so long, why is it not as good as a little Cistanche?He is not convinced!

Huo Guang said: "I'm controlling the quantity. I didn't understand it before. The release of a large amount of Cistanche has caused a lot of price reduction of Cistanche. Many people who make a living from it have suffered. I plan to release it little by little from next year."

Liu Tan said: "Are you afraid of impacting the market? Well... it's not impossible. You won't collect what is in the hands of the common people and process it before selling it? And you can also make some pills and the like, Let me tell you, you can’t make a fortune selling raw materials, you can only process them yourself. You’d better find one or two better recipes, buy them, or cooperate with others, so that you can earn more. money."

Huo Guang looked at Liu Tan expressionlessly, once again confirming that His Royal Highness probably belonged to Tianlu, who was born to attract wealth, and he could come up with ideas for making money with just about anything.

The more Liu Tan talked, the more excited he became. I don't know why, although he didn't want to deal with political affairs, but apart from developing people's livelihood and fighting the Huns, he was not interested in anything else, but making money made him very interested.

In his capacity, he can engage in monopoly or something. Unfortunately, Liu Tan still has a bottom line. His money is already spent endlessly, and he probably has no offspring in this life. If he wants to pass it on to others, he can't find it. What do you do with so much money?

Other businessmen want to seek political status after making a fortune, but Liu Tan...his political status is already high enough, and he doesn't need a higher political status.

Huo Guang saw that Liu Tan became more and more addicted, and finally said with a headache: "His Royal Highness, I am writing now, and you can't remember so many ministers. Why don't you talk about it after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month."

After hearing this, Liu Tan was still unsatisfied and said, "Then remember to remind me later, I didn't say that there are too few state-run workshops, you must learn to make money by yourself, and you can't rely on the people to pay taxes for everything."

If the northern border country can form a complete industrial chain, or can have a stable income without relying on the taxation of the people, then Liu Tan can try his best to implement policies to benefit farmers in the future.

It's just that this idea is too shocking to the world now, so Liu Tan didn't speak directly, just keep this idea in his heart, and bring it out when the time is right.

Later, among the places Liu Tan selected, Huo Guang actually found a mine. Although it was only a small sulfur mine, there are many places where sulfur can be used, and the most important thing is that the source is relatively stable.

So the most lively part of the New Year’s Eve dinner was probably the lottery draw. For fun, Liu Tan even set up a turntable for everyone to come up and draw one by one. Anyway, he set up enough awards, and there were a lot of prizes, even the thank you for participating. coins.

Of course, what most people draw are consistent copper coins.

Seeing how exciting they were having fun, Liu Tan wanted to join in the fun at first, but unfortunately he had to keep his own identity, and if he won a relatively large prize, it would not be appropriate to do it or not.

He simply poked Lu Xuan directly and said, "You go over to join in the fun."

Lu Xuan said with a smile: "Then what if you win the first class?"

Liu Tan rolled his eyes and said, "If you win the first prize, I'll prepare another gift for you later!"

Do you really think the first prize is so easy?That's basically a one percent chance.

Lu Xuan laughed out loud, and it was indeed to join in the fun in the past. He turned around casually, and then watched the pointer slowly stop at the first prize.

Liu Tan: ...

Lu Xuan was also taken aback. When he talked to Liu just now, he was joking, but he didn't expect that he actually hit the point.

He looked at Liu Tan with a smile, and Liu Tan couldn't bear to look directly at him, and waved to him: "Come back."

Huo Guang couldn't help laughing: "This doesn't count."

Wei Buyi on the side laughed and said, "Of course it doesn't count, King Wusun and His Highness belong to the same family, so it's back to His Highness's hands."

After he finished saying this, Lu Xuan couldn't help but smile, and just as he was about to lift his feet to find him for a drink, he found that the entire hall fell silent.

Wei Buyi originally blurted out after drinking too much, but when he found the surroundings were quiet, the alcohol turned into cold sweat and dripped down in an instant, as if he accidentally said the wrong thing.

Li Ling on the side had already grown his mouth. Just as he was about to say something, Wei Deng quickly covered his mouth and rolled his eyes wildly: "His brother is probably hopeless, but his brother can't go with him anymore!"

Lu Xuan turned his head to look at Liu Tan, he didn't really care much, but he didn't know if Liu Tan cared or not.

But... Liu Tan seems to have never denied it, he just didn't take the initiative to admit it.

Liu Tan looked around and said, "What are you doing? It's been said that the first class doesn't count. Let's continue to draw the lottery. I want to see who has the strength."

After he finished speaking, he waved to Lu Xuan and said, "Come here, don't fight for prizes with everyone, you don't lack those."

Lu Xuan walked over with a smile, and the hall became lively again, as if Wei Buyi's words hadn't caused any ripples.

When watching the old age at night, Liu Tan said a little sleepily: "Hey, we are all this old, why do we still keep the old age?"

Lu Xuan suddenly asked: "Today, if Wei Bu doubts..."

"Are you still struggling with this?" Liu Tan stretched out his hand to pinch Lu Xuan's chin and said, "What? Are you unhappy because I didn't give you a title in public?"

Lu Xuan held his hand and said: "No, it's just that they all know, then..."

"What are you afraid of? My father and elder brother both know about it and have not seen you afraid. The people below will not rush to say anything in front of you and me. If they dare to say something, they will be assigned to the frontier!"

Lu Xuan was helpless, it happened that Miao Rui came to deliver the soup, he handed the soup to Liu Tan and said: "You are not far enough here?"

Liu Tan took a sip of the soup and said strangely: "What's in it? Why does it taste strange?"

Lu Xuan said calmly: "I ordered them to put some cistanche."

Liu Tan paused, turned to look at Lu Xuan, suddenly smiled, put down the soup in his hand, and said, "It seems that you want to keep the New Year's Eve in another way, just say so if you want to, why are you so secretive?" of?"

Lu Xuan looked at him fixedly: "Then..."

Liu Tan got up and lay on top of him and said, "I'm tired and don't want to leave."

Originally, he just wanted to make a joke with Lu Xuan, but he didn't expect that Lu Xuan directly dragged him to the front of his body and hugged him horizontally, and strode back to the bedroom.