"Then I'll set up a martial arts hall!"

Li Shimin rubbed his palms together and said, "Wenyuan, how about you come to be the sacrificial wine of this martial arts hall?" ”

Speaking of martial arts sacrificial wine, that is the principal of the Tang Royal Military Academy. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info this military academy will definitely become the cradle of Tang Dynasty officers in the future, and if you can become a principal, you will be a protégé all over the Tang Dynasty and the north and south of the guards.

Well, it's nice to think about.

But you can't say yes.

There are all your protégés and disciples in the guards of the Tang Dynasty, who can rest assured of such a person?

"Your Majesty, how can you do it, this martial arts hall has to be led by Your Majesty himself. Your Majesty is already fighting the world immediately, and there is no one to lead the army to fight, and under the personal guidance of Your Majesty, this lecture will definitely be very successful. Besides, those soldiers who can be selected are also good seedlings in the army, and over time, they will definitely become the pillars of my Tang Dynasty military circle. If His Majesty personally leads the lecture hall, then the students in this martial arts hall will all become protégés of the Son of Heaven, which is also a great honor for the students! ”

The students of the lecture martial arts hall are all protégés of the Son of Heaven.

In a word, Li Shimin was greatly moved.

That's right, the protégé of the Son of Heaven. In other words, if you talk about the sacrificial wine of the martial arts hall, it is equivalent to being the teacher of all the military attaché students.

In order to distinguish it from the sacrificial wine of Guozijian, Li Chao proposed to set up a principal in the lecture hall, and Li Shimin personally assumed the position of principal.

"Okay, then I will be the principal, but the preparation of the martial arts hall will be handed over to Wenyuan."

In the political hall, the emperor and Li Chao sang and harmonized, and the martial arts hall was decided.

When Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda and the others reacted, they were already a step too late.

Just now I praised Li Chao for being disciplined and trustworthy, why did he stand with the emperor in a blink of an eye. What kind of martial arts hall, what kind of standing army, don't need money?

Moreover, it is still a very dangerous seedling to run a martial arts hall, and if you get a standing army to train these officers, it must be for war. Now that the new dynasty should be martial arts, what should they do all day long? As long as you guard the country, you can think about fighting every day, isn't this Yang Guang?

Xiao Yu stood up very unceremoniously, "Your Majesty, train 30,000 standing troops, Taicang has no money." Running a martial arts hall is even more excessive, and the imperial court should now cultivate martial arts. ”

Li Chao also ignored the prime minister's face, and immediately retorted, "Blindly cultivating martial arts, that is, cutting off one of your own legs, a person, you have to have two legs, you can walk and run." One article and one martial arts is coordination. I've never heard of it, cut off a leg, and still be able to run. We don't talk about reckless military force, but we can't abolish martial arts on our own. For example, today there are both liberal arts and martial arts. ”

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the way of selecting students in the martial arts hall can be modeled after the imperial examination system, accepting people with lofty ideals from all over the world, and selecting them after the assessment. Regardless of whether the military attachés of the north and south are the guards, as long as they are of the same age and innocent as the people of the Tang Dynasty, they can sign up, so that there are both the Wei government and the young people who sign up, and the outstanding people in the world have the opportunity, and the court can also choose the best. ”

"Li Xiangguo, what you said is light, but there are 30,000 standing troops, and you have to add a martial arts hall, and even take turns to garrison the border, these all cost money, where does the money come from? Don't expect 10 million in that Taicang. Although the money is thanks to you and the income is obtained from open source, the court needs money everywhere, and there is no extra money. Chen Shuda stood on Xiao Yu's side.

Fang Xuanling came out at this time.

"Your Majesty, there can be a standing army, and you can also do a martial arts hall, but I think it's better to take your time. Don't make it so large-scale at the beginning, now that there are 20,000 feather forests, expand it to another 1,000 cavalry, you can do it in the martial arts hall, don't recruit so many people at once, just choose some officers to teach. ”

It's muddy and the.

"That's right, Your Majesty, last time there were 10,000 new feather forests, and this field hasn't been gathered yet, and another 10,000 horses will be added, 2 million acres of land, and there is not so much land in Gyeonggi."

Gao Shilian also spoke of practical difficulties.

Faced with the opposition of the prime ministers, Li Shimin once again set his sights on Li Chao.

"Wen Yuan, you just said that there is a way to solve the military expenses of Beiya, you might as well talk about it now. I know that you have the ability to open source, and it is no better than this minister who worries about national affairs all day long, and I don't have time to think about this matter of opening up sources and reducing expenditure. Li Shimin's words were a bit heavy, and he looked sarcastic.

was by the prime ministers.

Li Chao opened the source, and the imperial court added 10 million yuan in taxes every year, but with so much money in Taicang, the prime ministers refused to give him even one million.

Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda and others all looked embarrassed.

You're the emperor, so you can tell the truth?

They admit that they are indeed inferior to Li Chao in terms of money, but managing the government is not just about the economy. Each has its own specialty!

Li Chao is indeed an expert in making money, and ordinary people can't compare, and his vision is different.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, it was still a very small peasant mentality, and all kinds of systems revolved around land, whether it was the tax system of rent and mediocrity, or the basic national policy of the equalization of land, or even the military system of the government and military system.

The land system, the military system, and the tax system are the foundation of the imperial court, and the land system, the rent system, and the government and military system basically determine the state system of the Tang Dynasty, which is based on agriculture.

There is no awareness of the commodity economy.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, salt was made and sold by the common people and was not taxed. Minerals, digging and smelting with people. Tariffs were abolished, the city tax was very low, and the commercial tax of the imperial court was almost non-existent.

Taxation is mainly based on the regular tax of rent, if there is a place where money is used for wars, or local disasters, etc., the imperial court has no money to use, so it can only donate and increase.

This kind of donation and distribution is actually a hooligan's style.

On the surface, Datang does not see that the positive tax is high, and the miscellaneous tax is very small, but this kind of donation without a system is actually a mess. In addition, the Juntian system is not so idealistic.

There are still many people who do not have land, and they all have less than one hundred acres. However, the rent adjustment tax system is based on this equalization system, you are uneven to 100 acres of land, and the court collects taxes according to Ding, and the tax of each Ding is fixed.

This is the irrationality, on the surface the imperial court is fixed and guaranteed.

But in fact, in the future, the land will only be annexed more and more powerfully, and the land that the people can get will be less and less, but the tax will not be less. If you don't have land, you still have to pay taxes on 100 acres of land?

How could this be fair, or rather, how could the imperial court guarantee the tax revenue from the receipt of these reservations?

Difficult.

Less than a hundred years after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Juntian system, the rent-yong modulation, and the government and military system collapsed one after another.

It is fundamentally a problem of land, and the more it is annexed later, the less land there is, and the less land is given to the people, then this kind of basic system with land as the core will not be able to be implemented.

Now let's talk about it, and go around to the field again.

The 30,000 standing army, although it is not the unity of the government's soldiers, soldiers and peasants, but they have to be guaranteed. The imperial court meant that these standing army rations were paid, but the fields were also scored. After all, ordinary people are all equal, could it be that the personal guards of the Son of Heaven of the Northern Ya Forbidden Army do not divide the fields? After dividing the land, the imperial court can also set the salary low and reduce some expenses.

Moreover, the division of fields cannot be replaced by salaries, after all, fields can make soldiers more stable.

But 2 million acres of land still have to be carved out of Gyeonggi, how to delineate?

There are a lot of plains in Guanzhong, but there are more people.

The imperial court had previously moved out many people to Longxi and Shuofang, and had exchanged the fiefs of many nobles to the frontier, but Guanzhong was still small and crowded.

The many lands recovered by the imperial court were far from enough to replenish the land for the people of Guanzhong.

"Your Majesty, I have three solutions to the sources of expenses for the Beiya Forbidden Army and the Lecture Martial Hall!"

"Three options?"

Li Shimin had a smile on his face.

When it comes to making money, Li Chao is really the most powerful, and there are three plans.

"Speak quickly!"

"First, the imperial court implemented the new money Zhenguan Tongbao in advance, collected all the old money in the world, and recast new money. With the existing coinage technology of the imperial court, as long as there is enough copper, tens of millions of new coins can be minted a year. Your Majesty, half of the profits, mint tens of millions of new money, can make a profit of 500,000 yuan! ”

500,000 kan!

Even Chen Shuda and the others couldn't help but inhale, 500,000, it is estimated that there are not a few nobles in Chang'an City with a wealth of 500,000, but for the imperial court, 500,000 is still a big number.

Why didn't they think of it, 500,000, if they had thought of it, Taicang would have 500,000 more. Now, these 500,000 must have fallen into the hands of the emperor.

Li Shimin laughed.

"This can be had, the Shaofu Supervision Money Minting Bureau has built several mints, money molds, hydraulic stamping machines, these are all good, well, I can issue an edict, let the people of the world take the old money in their hands to the government for exchange within a time limit, and if it is not redeemed within the time limit, it will be scrapped!"

"Wen Yuan, let's talk about this second method!"

One way to get 500,000 guan, which must be very good.

"Your Majesty, in fact, the mint can also recast the gold and silver collected by the court and the government into gold and silver coins, which is also half of the benefit, and the minister estimates that if it is implemented well, it can add about 100,000 yuan a year."

"That's the first method, isn't it? Okay, you go ahead! Li Shimin twisted his beard and smiled.

Li Chao nodded.

"The second method of expansion is trade."

"Trade?"

"That's right, trade is not just about opening up trade, but the imperial court should also take the initiative to join it. Now we have the Silk Road to the Western Regions, the Southwest Silk Tea Road that has just opened to Tianzhu, and the Tea and Horse Road to the Mobei Grassland, all of which are relatively mature routes, and the imperial court can set up its own trade teams to transport goods to foreign trade. Your Majesty, the farther the trade in goods, the greater the profits. ”

"In Chang'an, it may take ten catties of black tea to exchange for a good sheepskin, but in Ningyuan, a pound of black tea can be exchanged for a good sheepskin, and on the grassland, a pound of black tea can directly be exchanged for a big fat sheep. If you go to the far north of the desert, a pound of black tea can even be exchanged for several sheep. Your Majesty, this is the benefit of trade, and the imperial court is fully capable of organizing many large caravans to travel four times. ”

Moreover, this kind of long-distance international trade can not only make a lot of money, but also provide Datang with a timely understanding of the strength of neighboring countries, increase friendship with them, and strengthen contacts. Promote the name of my Tang Dynasty to them, bring the words of the sage, and spread the culture of our Han Dynasty! ”

Let the imperial court directly build a caravan and run international trade between countries, this Li Shimin really didn't think about it before, at most, other Fanguo merchant groups came to pay tribute, and the imperial court accepted their tribute and then gave it back, which is actually a kind of trade with Fanguo, but it is really not the initiative to go to foreign trade.

Listening to Li Chaoyi, it seems to be very interesting. Li Shimin is very interested in spreading the prestige of the Tang Dynasty and spreading Han culture, but he is also more interested in making money.

"Wenyuan, how much can you earn in a year from this trade?"

"Your Majesty, the profits of international trade are huge, and if you throw away the costs, it is not impossible to make ten times the profits. At first, the profit may be less, but when the route and market are opened, not much to say, I dare to say that there will definitely be a profit of three or five million yuan a year. ”

"Three or five million?" Li Shimin was shocked, he was satisfied with three and a half million, let alone three or five million.

"Okay, then engage in this international trade!" Li Shimin slapped his thigh, and he couldn't wait to agree.

"Wen Yuan, is there a third way?" (To be continued.) )