Li Boyao and their final destination on this trip was the city of Luoqi, the seat of the central government of Tubo, and their final plan was to break through the last resistance of Tubo with the strength of 100,000 troops, completely destroy its country, and include it in the administrative division of the Tang Dynasty, they had no possibility of failure, nor did they have such qualifications, because His Majesty the Emperor was already selecting officials suitable for managing these areas and dividing administrative divisions.

This time the battle was still led by Li Shiji, chief of staff of the Army General Staff Headquarters, and was the commander-in-chief of the Xikaidao March, and the commanders Xue Wanche, Xue Wanjun, Cheng Zhijie, Wei Chigong, Li Daliang, Chai Shao, Su Dingfang, Qi Bi He Li, Ashina Sheer, Zhang Shigui, Duan Zhixuan, Zhi Wei Sili, Cheng Mingzhen, and more than a dozen well-known fierce generals, and it was the first time since Zhenguan's four-year Eastern Turkic march that a super combat lineup of more than 100,000 troops and more than 10 generals was dispatched.

After Suning knew the battle lineup this time, he was speechless for a long time, he felt that such a battle lineup was already stronger than the Han lineup of the battle when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty launched the decisive battle of Mobei, and the famous N generals in history came out in a swarm, do you say that Datang can not be strong? This Nima has so many fierce generals in the same era, and it is used by the same person, it is difficult to think about it!

In order to ensure the logistical supply of the army, Li Er's majesty specially approved 100,000 prisoners of war of the Gongnu Division as the force to transport grain and grass, and the transportation of grain and grass day and night, plus a large amount of meat arranged by the Zongheng Division from the Western Turks and other places, was enough to ensure the food problem of the 100,000 army. The food and wealth accumulated by Datang for five years were undoubtedly revealed at this moment, and the huge financial resources were enough to support Datang to launch a battle of 100,000 people at the same time.

Li Erqi and the Manchu Dynasty finally discovered what the Zhenguan Reform Movement had brought to the Tang Dynasty in the past five years, and finally realized how strong the national strength of the Tang Dynasty had accumulated for the famous reform policies of labor reform, the promotion of high-yield crops, the vegetable basket plan, the Western Turkic Xue Yantuo's Western Regions Trade Action, the rise of Jiangnan and the Shandong Rejuvenation Plan......

Under the order of His Majesty Li Er, Tang Jian, then the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, immediately checked the treasury, counted all the money needed for the transfer of the army, and allocated all the amounts, and then found that this only used up one-seventh of the money accumulated in the treasury in the past five years. Originally, Li Er's Majesty had already planned to exhaustively search his inner library to support the progress of this battle. Who knows if Tang Jian told him with a constipated look on his face, if he still needs to start other wars? Crusade against other rebels?

Li Erqi was stunned for a moment, and after asking carefully, he knew that Tang Jian meant that the treasury was full. Enough to support other wars. Asked for the exact number. Tang Jian said that the war only used up one-seventh of the money in the national treasury, which suddenly caused a thousand waves. The general battle of the 100,000-strong army actually used only one-seventh of the accumulated money? Zhenguan's fourth year emptied the treasury!

When did Datang become so rich?

Tang Jian counted it carefully like a housekeeper: after Zhenguan eliminated the Eastern Turks in four years, he captured a large number of cattle, sheep, horses, household registration, and gold, silver and jewelry, and the treasury was enriched, and those captives did not spend a lot of money to feed, but immediately implemented the labor reform policy, which reduced the burden of the people, and was unanimously praised. Therefore, the aspect of forced labor saved seventy percent of the original money for Datang.

The abolition of forced labor, the people's autonomy time has increased, the time to cultivate the land has increased, the time to engage in other livelihoods has also increased, the income has increased, the taxes of the imperial court have been handed over on time, the taxes collected by the imperial court have increased, and the money has increased, and since the beginning of the Western Turkic trade movement, the commerce of the Tang Dynasty has flourished, although the agricultural tax still accounts for a large proportion, but it has been declining year after year, compared with the rapid growth of commercial tax.

The taxes paid by the Western Turkic caravan in a year are comparable to the total income of the Tang Dynasty in the second year of Zhenguan, not to mention the things after the Western Regions caravan and the Xue Yantuo caravan, and now there is the tax payment of the Tubo caravan, as well as the commercial activities in the people, the total amount of commercial tax has reached forty percent of the agricultural tax, and it is gradually approaching the number of agricultural taxes, which is still the reason why the total amount of agricultural taxes has risen greatly with the promotion of high-yield crops and vegetable basket plans, not to mention the huge gap between the population engaged in agricultural production and the population engaged in commerce.

Therefore, from this point of view, Tang Jian proposed to rebuild the "Zhenguan Law" to Suning, especially the re-revision of the commercial law, expressed considerable appreciation, for the promotion of commercial tax and the strengthening of commercial management norms, Tang Jian believes that this is very necessary, in the next five years and even ten years, Tang Jian feels that we seem to see the day when commercial taxes exceed agricultural taxes, and even agricultural taxes become insignificant, and then, agricultural taxes are not taxed......

Others, such as the various treaties signed by the defeated countries after being defeated by the Tang Dynasty, the annual tribute to the Tang Dynasty has increased greatly, etc., the Tang Dynasty has increased several times from the fourth year of Zhenguan to the ninth year of Zhenguan......

Li Ermaxi and the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu were quiet for a while, quietly digesting the huge amount of information, and reshaping the inertial thinking of thousands of years, Li Ermaxi suddenly remembered some of the words that Suning had said when he was chatting with Suning: "We despise merchants, look down on merchants, suppress merchants, to put it bluntly, we are just worried that those giant merchants will appear again during the Warring States Period, and we are worried that the development of commercial activities will compete with agriculture for strong labor, which will lead to the instability of agricultural production."

However, there are so many of our land, and there are only so many people who are suitable for cultivating those lands, and if there is more than a certain number of people, the land will not need so many people to cultivate, and when the Mo family disciples of the Ministry of Industry will make those advanced agricultural tools out, one person can top the labor force of ten people. Better tools make good work. This is the admonition of the ancestors, the tools are advanced enough, and there is no need for so many people to be crucified to the ground.

What about the people who are idle at that time? Eating white rice and not producing? That will definitely not work, then it will inevitably lead to a surplus of strong labor and a shortage of food, what should I do at that time? However, business is different, there is no upper limit to the number of businessmen, and the wealth it produces will be dozens of times or even hundreds of times the wealth generated by farming. There is no money. We can't do anything with food alone, but with money and food, we will be strong.

When did the wealth of the Tang Dynasty differ from the wealth of those other countries to a certain extent? We just don't use weapons. You can kill them with money. Money is needed for national construction, money is needed for military conquest, and money is needed for people's livelihood. There is nothing that does not need money, as long as Datang has money, it is not difficult to send money to those poor people, it is not difficult to be rich and poor, the difficult thing is that there is no money to be rich and poor! The most important thing that the rich and the poor need most is money!

The ministers were wary of the merchants, because they were worried that since the Warring States Period, those big merchants and magnates used power to escort their own business, and even spread their business all over the country and monopolized a certain industry, such as salt making, winemaking, iron smelting, etc., so that the wealth of the entire country would be plundered by these officials and merchants, and this kind of thing could not happen.

And as long as the businessmen are restricted from engaging in politics, they are not allowed to obtain any rights related to the public, and the things related to the national economy and people's livelihood, such as salt making, iron smelting, and winemaking, are in the hands of the government, then we don't need to restrict other things so strictly, at least they are still the people of the Tang Dynasty, or the people of the Tang Dynasty, not the lowly and not the slaves, but the people, and they can't look down on them because of their business, isn't this contrary to the concept of the great harmony of the world?

The reason why the minister begged His Majesty to rebuild the "Zhenguan Law" was because the minister thought that in the near future, the commercial tax revenue would far exceed the agricultural tax income, which would mean the great prosperity of commerce, so it was necessary to strictly stipulate the code of conduct of merchants in the national law, which things can be done and what things cannot be done. ”

At that time, I just felt that it was very reasonable, but in today's court, Li Erma Xià is unprecedentedly lucky, feeling that he has such a talent, a talent who can make predictions for the future and prevent it in advance, which will make Datang take fewer detours and fewer detours that do not need to be taken, for this reason, Datang will also have many people who do not have to bear the pain that they originally needed to bear.

For the meaning of the war, Li Ermajesty doesn't care much anymore, Datang's financial and material resources and manpower are completely affordable, financial resources don't need the people, material resources don't need the people to pay, manpower doesn't need to be sent by the people, the people who suffered from the war in the past don't have to worry about these things at all now, everything is arranged by the imperial court, there is no need to disturb their normal life at all, only one point, they will still bear the pain of life and death that they have to bear.

50,000 soldiers set off to Guzhou and Hunzhou in the right place of Longyou, this old land of Tuyuhun is well managed, in addition to some of the Tuyuhun aborigines (female), there are also some singles and poor people who can't get along in the Tang Dynasty to try their luck here, how to say it, their luck is good, as soon as they come, they have a wife arranged by the government, a small house, a piece of land that can be cultivated, or do you want to engage in business? Yes, sign up to enter the Western Regions or the Tibetan caravan, oh, the Tibetan is at war, you better not go, the Western Turks and the Western Regions, whatever you choose!

Hundreds of years ago, the prosperity of the Silk Road has gradually begun to reappear, this reappearance is accompanied by the vigorous development of Datang commerce and the pace of military conquest, after the complete conquest of Tibet, this area will be completely the back garden of Datang, the paradise of commerce, and the paradise of singles who can't mix in the Tang Dynasty.

Yes, for the Tang Dynasty, it is heaven now, but for Tubo, which is in strict civil strife, there is no doubt that this is hell, especially for Songtsen Gampo, the former king of Tubo, there is no doubt that the original Tubo Zampu, the ruler of the entire plateau, now only a quarter of the territory and 200,000 troops remain, or crooked melons and inferior dates, and the talents under his command are running to death, and there are few left.

After the first wave of the Western Resistance Army was wiped out by the Western Expeditionary Army of the Shenming Sect, Songtsen Gampo personally led 60,000 troops to meet the Shenming Sect army......

Songtsen Gampo's mood at that time was also understandable...... (To be continued......)