Ten years of dormancy: Starting as a martial arts master at the pinnacle

Another month passed after Li Changqing was appointed regent.

During this period, the Kyoto Shimbun was basically able to publish one issue per day.

The contents were finalized two days in advance, and then delivered to more than 600 counties in the Great Zhou Dynasty using arrow eagles trained by the imperial court.

The arrow eagle can travel a hundred zhang in two breaths at its fastest speed.

On average, they fly 3,000 li per day and 2,000 li per night.

Moreover, it has excellent endurance and can fly continuously for a day and a night.

After just one day of rest, you can fly for another day and night.

The Great Zhou Dynasty sent several hundred people to carefully raise them, but now there are only a little over two thousand.

The World Society took over 80% of it.

That is, more than 1,900 arrow eagles, used to maintain contact with various counties.

The remaining 20% ​​is still in the hands of the royal family. Nowadays, the government also uses the arrows and eagles of the World Society to transmit messages.

The arrow hawk is only big enough to deliver letters or small items.

Large-scale transportation is not possible.

Li Changqing has already set his sights on Black Hawk of the Black Demon Cult.

Although the black eagle is not as fast as the arrow eagle, it is large in size and can be tamed.

It is said that the Black Hawk's wingspan is seven or eight meters. It could easily grab two people.

Such black hawks are very convenient for transporting important items.

Given their past grievances with the Black Demon Cult Leader, Li Changqing was eager to find an opportunity to completely eradicate the Black Demon Cult.

But this is destined to be something that cannot be achieved overnight.

Li Changqing is currently overwhelmed with other matters, including the Kyoto Daily and his wedding preparations.

The Regent's Palace has been renovated, and Nan Caocao and Li Baobei moved in first.

Before Li Changqing's wedding, all the courtyards needed to be renovated, and it was absolutely necessary to have a female hostess.

Princess Nangong Ya, Princess Li Chang Le, and Nan Cao Cao.

The three women were very interested in how to build the Regent's Palace.

The Regent's Palace, built to standard specifications, has a total of 360 rooms and more than 100 courtyards of varying sizes, making it extremely luxurious.

When it was completed, it was already quite complete.

But Nangong Ya and the others still felt it wasn't good enough, so they revised it from beginning to end.

Inside, they built a greenhouse, a fishpond, and a swimming pool...

Li Changqing watched it twice and thought it was pretty good.

This is even more extravagant and convenient than in his previous life.

It's just a bit manpower-intensive. The Regent's Palace alone has over 800 servants. In addition, there are 3000 imperial guards who take turns protecting him.

In other words, the Prince's Mansion usually had 1,200 to 1,300 people.

In special circumstances, the number of people in the Prince's mansion would be doubled.

The only masters in the Prince's mansion were Li Changqing and Luo Qingqing, who was about to marry into the family.

In addition, there's Li Changsheng's family.

There are only five people in total, with each person having more than two hundred servants on average.

Even after Li Changqing returned to the Prince of Qin's mansion, he never had so many people serving him.

He himself did not want it to be like this.

But there was no way around it; as regent, such a grand display was unavoidable.

Otherwise, how can we blend in with the world?

Everything was progressing in a positive direction until this day, when the imperial court caused another new trouble.

The issue of the Kyoto newspaper's profitability has finally been discovered.

Li Changqing was fortunate to be present at the morning court session.

Although he was the regent, he had a chair in the main hall of the court assembly, and he sat not far in front of Li Zheng.

But Li Changqing couldn't sit down.

His uncle, the crown prince, and his own father were both standing below the steps.

What's the deal with Li Changqing sitting on top?

From the perspective of prioritizing the relationship between ruler and subject over father and son, it wouldn't be unreasonable for Li Changqing to sit there.

After all, the position of regent is equivalent to that of emperor, and he can sit on equal footing with the emperor.

But that was his biological father, not his adopted son.

If Li Changqing really did that, how would the court officials view him?

Even disregarding the entire court, Li Changqing's upbringing wouldn't allow him to do that.

It's fine in private, but disrespecting one's father in public is something only an unfilial son would do.

Li Changqing was clearly not one of them.

Therefore, he, the regent, also stood below the steps, looking just like the crown prince and the King of Qin.

The entire court greatly admired Li Changqing's actions.

The more I look at it, the more pleasing it becomes.

Even the most powerful supreme beings abide by the rules.

This was nothing short of a blessing for them, the subjects of the Great Zhou.

You should know that the personalities of the Supreme Ones are all kinds of strange and wonderful, and not everyone can be like Li Changqing.

The fact that most people are satisfied does not mean that everyone is satisfied.

An official from the Ministry of Revenue had been secretly plotting this for a long time.

At this moment, he stepped forward.

"Your Majesty, I have a memorial to present!"

Li Changqing glanced at him curiously, clearly not recognizing the official.

"Vice Minister of Revenue, the third-ranking official."

Li Yuanhao's seven words clearly revealed his identity and status.

He was able to rise to the third-in-command position in the Ministry of Revenue, one of the six ministries.

Even officials of the third rank wielded considerable real power.

"Minister Geng, please speak."

Li Zheng neither confirmed nor denied the statement.

"Your Majesty, I have something to report about the Kyoto Daily of the World Society."

"What's wrong with this Kyoto newspaper?"

"The Kyoto newspaper itself isn't the problem; the main issue is that this business is making too much money."

Shameless!

Li Changqing gave him a disdainful look.

Many people are just like Li Changqing at this time.

Whether the Kyoto newspaper makes money or not has nothing to do with your Ministry of Revenue.

How much money do they make?

Li Zheng asked curiously.

He really didn't know that.

"Your Majesty, from cutting and printing to finally being sold by merchants, the cost of a newspaper is at most two and a half coins. The selling price is five coins. Our Ministry of Revenue officials have done some calculations. In just this month alone, ten issues of the newspaper have been published in the capital. From now on, there will be one issue daily. The sales volume of these ten issues has exceeded one million. With a profit of two and a half coins per newspaper, one million copies would yield two and a half million, or twenty-five hundred taels."

Many officials scoffed at this.

They thought it would cost a lot, but it turned out to be only two thousand five hundred taels.

With such a small amount of money, how dare their Ministry of Revenue mention it in front of the Regent?

"But it's nothing..."

Just as Li Zheng was about to define the matter, the Vice Minister of Revenue continued, "Our Great Zhou has a full 625 prefectures. Even if the sales volume of other prefectures is not as high as that of the capital, and we take half of that, that's still 300 units of 2500 taels each..."

The entire court was full of shrewd people; they had already calculated the numbers in their minds as soon as they were announced.

750,000 taels.

"This is only for one month. If it continues every day, 750,000 taels multiplied by three equals nearly 2.5 million taels. Multiply that by twelve months, and that's a profit of 30 million taels."

Li Changqing rolled his eyes only after the Ministry of Revenue official finished calculating.

He thought the other party was so capable, but with such poor accounting skills, they thought they could rob him of his money?

dream!

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