Huang Yaoshi took the account book and slowly recited: "Let's calculate...the labor costs of workers first."

"Each worker has five copper coins a day, one hundred and fifty copper coins a month, that is, one and a half silver. This is the minimum limit. There are currently about 6,500 construction workers working on this Wuyi Mountain. It takes at least about two years to work on such a large project, so we count them all, which is about..."

Speaking of this, Huang Yaoshi took a deep breath: "117,000 taels of silver."

Everyone was shocked when they heard this number.

In this world, one hundred cents are equal to one tael of silver, and ten taels of silver are equal to one tael of gold. In other words, the cost of workers alone is as high as 117,000 taels of silver and 11,700 taels of gold!

Even Princess Cheng Ying couldn't help but jump when she heard the news.

"Yes, so many?" Chen Xiao said in surprise: "I remember building buildings like houses elsewhere, it didn't take that long, right?"

"No, our place is different from other places." Huang Yaoshi said slowly: "This Wuyi Mountain was just a simple renovation in the previous dynasty. Currently, there are only a few dilapidated houses and small roads up the mountain."

"But what we need to build is a large sect, a super huge sect - Xuantian Sect! One of the six orthodox factions in the world, you may not know yet, your Majesty has issued an imperial order. In the future, the disciples of Xuantian Sect can enter the army to serve. This can be said to be the royal face project in the future, so naturally we can't do it without hasty."

"So, this mountain road to the mountain alone needs to be widened five times according to the terrain, which is just a road traffic problem. No road can be done. If you want to build such a large sect, the road must be repaired first. For such a large mountain, the mountain road to the mountain can be imagined."

"It will take at least nearly a year to repair this road up the mountain. The climate here is better, and the winter is not very cold, so you can still start to calculate it. Build the mountain road and build any large building. The wood, stone, iron and other things required for transportation from outside. So I roughly calculated the freight. If you take local materials near Wuyi Mountain, it will cost about 160,000 taels."

After hearing this number, Chen Xiao's heart almost jumped for half a beat.

This is still nothing has been done yet. The cost of the workers who built the road and built the construction worker plus the cost of transporting materials is already 277,000 taels of silver.

Anyway, if there are too many lice, Chen Xiaosurong said: "Well, Master Huangdao, let's continue to talk first and see how much is needed in total."

"Well. These are just two of them. There are still many behind it." Huang Yaoshi continued to recite: "In fact, this is relatively cheaper for various construction materials, but it must be calculated separately."

"From the foot of the mountain, there should always be a mountain gate. This mountain gate is the cheapest building, because it does not require going up the mountain, the freight is cheap and the construction fee is not expensive. It costs about 8,000 taels. Two 4-meter-high Kirin statues in front of the hall are 20,000 taels."

"There are always some handrail decorations around the stone steps up the mountain. If you remove the shipping and manual costs, you will need a total of 30,000 taels to reach the top of the mountain."

"There are several unique scenery in the middle that can be opened and left for the disciples of the sect to practice. The stone slabs on the ground, the resting place, the hand-removing place, and the dining place, all of which are 50,000 taels."

"After we arrived here, all these originally dilapidated houses needed to be flattened, and a flat square in front of the hall was about one mile, with stone slabs on the ground and fences on both sides, and the cost of materials was... 120,000 taels."

"The First Hall of Xuantian Sect, the main hall of the meeting, covers an area of ​​fifty feet and a height of thirty feet. With the construction materials, foundations, and interior decoration, the workers here have much higher wages than the workers who transformed mountain roads before. All the miscellaneous items are included, 80,000 taels."

"Behind the main hall is the inner hall, the square in front of the hall, with a radius of one hundred feet and ninety thousand taels."

"The inner hall covers an area of ​​forty feet, twenty feet high, and sixty thousand taels."

"The martial arts square of disciples on both sides is 40 meters in each radius, with a total of 140,000 taels."

"First a thousand accommodation rooms are built, scattered on the tops of the entire Wuyi Mountain, each with a hundred taels of silver, plus the stone slabs on the road handrails and floors, a total of 150,000 taels."

"There are about ten places to eat, and the total is ten thousand taels."

"There are ten places to solve the problem, and the count is three thousand taels."

"My initial budget is twenty places for the head of Xuantian Sect, the deputy head of the sect, and the residences of the elders and masters. If I build it a little smaller, the total total is 60,000 taels."

"A person must not drink water when he is alive. The wells and water diversion systems for water are worth 120,000 taels of silver. Because this place is above the top of the mountain, the cost is much higher.

"These are just places that must be built. Some other places are relatively fragmented and not explained in detail. If you say it together, it will cost about 100,000 taels of silver."

"All of these add up, total..."

Huang Yaoshi took a deep breath: "One hundred, 31,800 taels of silver."

After hearing this number, everyone present collapsed. No wonder Huang Yaoshi said that this was an astronomical number. This is not just an astronomical number, it is simply a cosmic number. Not to mention Chen Xiao, even the royal family standing behind Cheng Ying could not take it out!

Speaking of which, the most difficult thing to build such a huge sect is actually the freight.

It is extremely difficult to transport materials. If it is on a flat ground, the freight for ten miles is one or two silver dollars, then if it is transported to this mountain that is as high as hundreds of meters and thousands of meters, the freight will be at least one hundred taels of silver.

This is the gap.

I am afraid that even if the palace is built, it is only this number.

After hearing this, Cheng Ying's eyelids kept shaking, saying: "Brother, the difference is indeed a bit larger. The budget given by His Majesty is about one million taels, which is the entire tax silver for half a year. No matter how much, His Majesty can't get it."

One million taels! Speaking of which, the emperor is really interested in us. He can give a lot of money when he opens his mouth.

But where does the gap of 318,000 taels of silver that is still missing come from?

How to make this money? It's so troublesome, really troublesome.

There are 318,000 taels of silver, not to mention that Chen Xiao can’t take it out, even if Dongfang Yuhuang Pharmacist and others took out all their money, they wouldn’t be able to make up enough!

They are just ordinary people in the world. They are indeed not short of money on hand, but no one can afford to spend 100,000 taels of silver at one's own expense. It is still possible if it is 100,000 taels.

Dongfang Yu understood that this was the most embarrassing time for Chen Xiao, and asked in a low voice: "Chen Xiao, if it really doesn't work, I'll go back to Heimu Cliff..."

Chen Xiao waved his hand suddenly: "No, I think about it carefully. There is no way to make money, and it may not be possible."

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So, the financial budget for building a sect...haha...

For example, how the Huashan School was built has always been a mystery... (To be continued. Please search for Piaotianwen, novels are better, updated and faster!)
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