Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 364 Li Yuan's Interrogation

Li Yuan was counting Liu Mu's faults during this long trip.

Not to mention a small son-in-law, even if the crown prince dares to travel with thousands of cars and thousands of servants, the impeachment will come like snowflakes, and they will be piled up one person high in the Tai Chi Hall.

But so far, no seal of impeachment against Liu Mu has been sent.

Facing Li Yuan's question, Liu Mu laughed dryly, and when he was thinking about how to answer, Li Yuan let out a long breath: "I'm afraid it's just because of a good word."

profit!
Li Yuan hit the point in one sentence, and Liu Mu had a huge obedience in his heart.

Li Yuan asked again: "What kind of profit?"

"Double the tax." Liu Mu whispered next to Li Yuan two steps closer.

Li Yuan nodded slightly: "Then why double?"

"Father, take the cup you drink from. The world only knows that there are cups, but there are good and bad cups. If you divide this cup into nine grades and 21 levels, it will naturally be 21 prices. You only need to buy it again. The Taoist decree, such as the early Tang Dynasty, stipulated that a thousand wastes should be revived, and that luxury should be banned. The ministers can double the tax."

"Oh?" Li Yuan became interested. He leaned forward and was already close to Liu Mu's body: "Luxury is prohibited here, and the top-quality teacups cannot be sold, so how to increase taxes."

"Luxury tax. The sale of luxury goods requires an increase in luxury tax. This tax is used exclusively. The state capitals are used to set up charities, treat the elderly and the weak, and provide free medical subsidies for the poor. But how can this tax go smoothly? Announce it and implement it, there are some famous ministers in your old court, they must have a way."

Li Yuan stroked his beard, thinking about Liu Mu's proposal.

Datang's taxes still focus on servitude, ding, and fields.Commercial tax can be pitifully low, basically between one-twentieth and one-thirtieth.

Liu Mu said again: "Father, give me another gold medal, Xingzhou can build a steel workshop. Steel workshop is a special industry, and it is estimated that countless people are willing to build it if they charge him [-]% tax at once."

"How much will be the output?" Li Yuan is not concerned about taxes, steel is a strategic material, so what Li Yuan cares about is the output.

"Father, how much steel was there in Datang last year, after the completion of the Xingzhou Steel Workshop, it is no problem to double it."

Li Yuan was tempted by this output: "The gold medal is a trivial matter."

The production of iron and steel is very important to Datang. Leaving aside military equipment and weapons, Li Yuan, as the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, clearly knows that the furniture of farmers in some prefectures of the Tang Dynasty is still made of stone. Porcelain knives and stone knives are used here.

Li Yuan asked Liu Mu: "Does Xingzhou have enough coins to build a steel workshop with a production capacity of one million stone?"

"No."

"Where did that coin come from?"

"Five days, in five days, I will guarantee that the money, food, and labor will be in place." Liu Mu said confidently.

Li Yuan nodded: "Go and do it, I'll watch."

"My son retire."

After Liu Mu came out of Li Yuan's study room, he looked to the east and let out a long sigh.

In Liu Mu's heart, Li Jiancheng was not an incompetent person. After the Tang Dynasty raised his army, Li Jiancheng did an excellent job in logistics, and most of the money and food needed for the Great Tang Dynasty's rise of troops were borrowed or begged by Li Jiancheng from the big family.

Right now, Li Jiancheng has lost one support after another, and he is a little confused.

After leaving the Tai Chi Palace, Li Shimin was waiting outside the palace gate.

"Second brother!" Liu Mu cupped his fists.

Li Shimin nodded, asked someone to pull a horse to Liu Mu, and then got on the horse and walked side by side with Liu Mu. After the two walked for a while, Li Shimin said: "Wuji is a little anxious today. I have already talked to him alone. The general situation is in hand." At that time, shouldn’t there be such a small trick, fortunately no one noticed?”

"Maybe no one has exposed it." Liu Mu said beside him.

Li Shimin frowned slightly, Liu Mu's words were the truth, but no one exposed it.

Li Shimin said: "Your second sister-in-law has never wanted Wuji to be in a high position, but I don't know why?"

Liu Muxin said that this was not an obvious reason, Li Shimin knew it, but he didn't want to admit it.So Liu Mu didn't say much, just said: "Why is Second Brother waiting for me outside the palace?"

"It's nothing, I just came to ask if there will be any mistakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival tomorrow."

"No, even if the emperor wakes up in the morning and says he wants to hold a grand ceremony, there will be a grand ceremony at noon. I already have a mature process for doing this, well-trained personnel, as long as there is an order, I will pull out the manpower to work That's it."

Li Shimin nodded after listening to Liu Mu's answer, and said without mentioning the grand ceremony: "The general trend is, just wait."

"Second brother is wise."

After leaving Anfumen, Li Shimin sent Liu Mu to Sulinmen and then turned back.

From the north of Chang'an City to Zhuangzi in Jingyang is still more than 30 miles away. It takes more than an hour for ordinary people to walk, but it takes about three hours in modern times.

Willow's riding skills are still not very good, but it takes less than an hour to trot the horse for this distance.

When they arrived at Jinghe Wharf, Gao Xing, Cui Yiye and others were all making arrangements for tomorrow's grand ceremony. Ma Zhou was still in Chang'an, and he was responsible for processing and integrating the information.

"Two things." Liu Mu said to Gao Xingxing and Cui Yiye: "The first thing is to add a notice to the notices of the two cities in the east and west, saying that I, Liu Mu, is recruiting family members, and recruiting ten thousand people will be screened for a year, and special attention must be paid Ming, give me the one-year selection time of Liu Mu's servant, and everyone will definitely suffer and suffer."

Gao Xingzheng just motioned to the boy beside him to write it down, and then said, "Wei Zheng is waiting for you."

"I'm talking about recruiting servants."

"Understood, isn't it just suffering. Some people are willing to suffer. Let alone 1 people, even 2 people can be recruited within three days." Gao Xingchen said nonchalantly.

Cui Yiye also followed up and said: "There are rumors in Chang'an City that a slave soldier is now appointed as the captain of Zuo Shence Wei, a real sixth-rank military officer, isn't it heart-warming?"

"What?" Gao Xingzheng interjected and asked, "You must have made a mistake. Zuo Shencewei is the upper army, and the captain of the upper army is from the fifth rank, not the sixth rank."

"It seems to be right." Cui Yiye thought about it, since he was in the Divine Strategy Guard granted by the Tang Emperor, he should be at the rank of the upper army.

Liu Mu roared: "Never mind my business, I'm the captain-in-law from the fifth rank."

"Yo, this is jealousy, hahaha." Both Gao Xingzheng and Cui Yiye laughed.

"Say another thing."

"Okay, tell me." Seeing that Liu Mu was very angry, Cui Yiye said with a smile.

Liu Mu said in a deep voice: "Write the invitation for me, and invite the 36 sects from Chang'an to come here. Especially the Liu family in Hedong, the Du family in Chang'an, the Pei family in Hedong, and your Cui family in Qinghe, you must send someone who can make decisions Come here. Didn't they always want to get the workshop from me? That's it."

　The emerald green ice under the snow refers to the wonder of Lake Baikal, emerald ice.

　　Yesterday at noon, I suddenly had a fever. There was no sign, no reason, no inflammation in the whole body, no heat, and no cold. The appetite was surprisingly good, but it was a sudden fever, and the fever reached 39 degrees.

　　Seeing the powerful anti-fever medicine, I resisted taking it. Relying on traditional Chinese medicine and physical treatment, it returned to 37 degrees five at noon today. It should be all over, and my spirit has fully recovered.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)