69novels Chapter 213
Chapter 213
"Beauty, I don't know how to style your hair! Aren't you going to take a shower? I just have something to discuss with Li Tai."
After the two of them played around for a while, Su Chen remembered to discuss something with Li Tai.
"Well, go ahead!"
Princess Changle stood up and prepared to leave the study. She knew that Su Chen probably couldn't style his hair, and she didn't intend to embarrass him.
"Farewell, Princess!" Su Chen helped her move the chair and bowed to see her off.
"Well! Little Chen, not bad!"
Princess Changle patted Su Chen on the shoulder and nodded with satisfaction.
Then she strode away with her hands behind her back...!
Su Chen glanced at the two pieces of pyrite on the desk.
'Let's go find Li Tai first. This stone won't be of much use for a while.'
Su Chen left the study and came to the living room. He asked the servant Li Tai where he was and learned that Li Tai and Ma Zhou were at the printing house.
"Wang Chao, Ma Han, come with me to the printing house!"
"Yes, Lord!"
Su Chen took Wang Chao and the other two to the printing house.
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"Ma Zhou, you are awesome!"
"If the emperor reads the newspaper, he will look at you differently. You will definitely be entrusted with important tasks by the court soon."
Ma Zhou has adapted to those strange words through his interactions with Li Tai in the past few days.
Li Tai and Ma Zhou each held some manuscripts in their hands. They were selecting fonts and preparing to print the first Chang'an Daily.
Chang'an Daily and Datang Monthly have mostly the same content in terms of current affairs, but the contents of other sections are very different.
"Your Highness the King of Wei is too kind. How dare Ma Zhou accept such praise." Ma Zhou said to Li Tai with a bow while holding the manuscript.
"Ma Zhou, this is not a formal occasion. There is no need to be so polite."
Li Tai pressed down Ma Zhou's bowing gesture with one hand.
"Your Highness, the King of Wei, you are wrong. No matter when or where, etiquette cannot be abolished!"
Ma Zhou bowed again.
"Haha, you will get used to it after you stay with Su Chen for a long time!" Li Tai was too lazy to argue with Ma Zhou.
"Ma Zhou, your idea of 'Hu Merchant Protection Zone' is very good. It is to protect Hu merchants, but in fact it is to supervise Hu merchants and protect the interests of local merchants in the Tang Dynasty."
Li Tai looked at the manuscript again and admired.
It is called the Hu Merchant Protection Zone, but in fact it is to set aside an area for Hu merchants from outside the region to use as a trading place.
However, there will be some additional terms for Hu merchants. The goods that Hu merchants sell from outside the region to the Tang Dynasty need to be officially inspected before they can be traded in the protection zone.
Hu merchants cannot sell goods that are already in the Tang Dynasty.
Similarly, Hu merchants can only buy goods that are officially allowed to flow out in the protection zone.
In this way, Hu merchants cannot set up stalls and trade goods in the Tang Dynasty at will.
Doing so would not only make it easier for the court to supervise the Hu merchants, but also protect local products from being impacted.
Ma Zhou also mentioned tariffs and border checkpoints.
"Hey, what are you two busy with?" Su Chen asked with a smile.
"Su Chen, when did you return to the manor?" Li Tai didn't even turn his head back, he was picking up the type tray.
"Ma Zhou greets the Marquis!" Ma Zhou immediately put down the type tray and bowed to greet him.
"You don't have to be so formal in the future, just be casual. What books are you going to print?" Su Chen said to Ma Zhou with a smile.
Ma Zhou looked at Li Tai, and it was more reasonable for Li Tai to say this. Ma Zhou still knew the main and the secondary.
He was just editing the newspaper content under Li Tai's guidance.
It was just that Li Tai was concentrating on picking the type and typesetting, and didn't talk to them.
"Marquis, His Royal Highness the King of Wei is planning to print the first Chang'an Daily." Seeing that Li Tai didn't talk, Ma Zhou bowed slightly and replied to Su Chen.
"What a coincidence! I came to you just to talk about this newspaper.
Since you are all ready to print, I have nothing to do. You guys are busy, I'm leaving first!"
Su Chen clapped his hands and said happily.
On the Mid-Autumn Festival, he and Li Tai promised that His Majesty would see the first newspaper in about ten days. Now there are only five or six days left.
When Li Tai heard Su Chen say that he was leaving, he turned around and looked at Su Chen and said, "Don't you want to take a look at the manuscript of this newspaper?"
"What's so good about it? Just wait until the newspaper is printed and read it.
Was the article on court policy drafted by Ma Zhou?"
Su Chen waved his hand, indicating that he would not read the manuscript, as he was worried that he would not understand it.
"That's right, Ma Zhou is amazing. The three suggestions he made are quite awesome!" Li Tai exclaimed again.
"Oh, that's even less of a concern. I guess it's probably about import and export trade and tariffs."
Su Chen had long known that Ma Zhou, a famous minister, had unique insights into policy making.
Ma Zhou often heard Li Tai talk about Su Chen. When he heard that the noble family formed a caravan to sell glass at high prices outside the region, Ma Zhou thought of tariffs.
"Enter and exitImport and export trade?" Li Tai and Ma Zhou asked at the same time.
"Foreign merchants and the Tang Dynasty trade in goods, which is called import and export trade." Su Chen explained.
The word trade has existed as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. What they don't understand is "import and export".
"How do you know Ma Zhou's idea?"
As soon as Su Chen explained, Li Tai and Ma Zhou looked at Su Chen as if they had seen a ghost.
How did he know?
"Haha, you will know if you read more. I'm leaving!"
Su Chen was too lazy to talk to them and left whistling.
Watching Su Chen leave, Li Tai and Ma Zhou looked at each other in silence for a long time.
After a while, Li Tai said to Ma Zhou inexplicably:
"Ma Zhou, you may not believe it, Su Chen... is actually not very cultured."
It is not clear whether he heard what Li Tai said clearly. Ma Zhou nodded silently, as if he agreed with Su Chen's words.
"Your Highness, King Wei, please don't be surprised! Can you repeat what you just said to Ma Zhou again? "
Ma Zhou said apologetically. He was in shock just now and didn't hear what Li Tai said for a while.
"Nothing, let's continue!" Li Tai came back to his senses and continued to typesetting.
"Okay, Your Highness King Wei!"
The two of them entered the working state again, but Su Chen's guess before leaving still shocked Ma Zhou.
Li Tai was fine, he had long been accustomed to it, but he was shocked at the time.
...
After leaving the printing house, Su Chen returned to the study.
"Oh! I forgot to tell Li Tai about getting alcohol." Su Chen slapped his head and muttered.
"Li Tai is a worker, and I am a worker! I worry about this and that every day."
"Let me see what this stone is!"
After looking at it for five minutes, I couldn't see anything special, so I scraped it with a dagger.
This pyrite doesn't seem to be too hard and will fall off.
"Xiao Le, do you know what this pyrite is used for?"
Su Chen had no choice but to try his luck and ask Xiao Le.
[Brother Chen, Xiao Le doesn't know! ]
"Okay, it's okay, go to sleep!"
Su Chen said helplessly, the system that was so awesome and said it could do anything will never be seen again.
No matter what you ask it, the answer is "I don't know"!
"It's been three days of training. There are two days left to arrange the exams for those candidates. I will prepare two test papers for them!"
Thinking of this, Su Chen nodded with satisfaction.