Prince of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 512 The Wealth of the Wa Country
The Emperor Xiaode mentioned by Li Shimin is actually the Emperor Xiaode of the Wa Kingdom, and also the No. 30 sixth generation emperor of the Wa Kingdom Chrysanthemum Dynasty.

This person has read Chinese classics extensively, and has a deep understanding of the ancient sage's way of governing the country. During his reign, he carried out political and economic reforms, and comprehensively studied the Tang Dynasty.

It is precisely because of Emperor Kotoku that Wa country has changed from a slave society to a feudal society. As far as Wa country is concerned, the achievements of this person can be said to be indelible.

And during this period, Wa Guo was also a loyal younger brother of the Tang Dynasty, no matter what happened, he only followed the lead of the Tang Dynasty, and he was so obedient that he could be called "a good son of the Tang Dynasty".

Later, Emperor Xiaotoku passed away, and No. 30 Seventh Generation Emperor Qimei inherited his legacy of "regarding Tang as his father", so Wa Kingdom did not do anything excessive.

But by the time of the No.30 eighth-generation Emperor Tenchi, Wa country was restless.

It may be that he felt that Emperor Xiaode became the son of Datang, and Emperor Qiming became the grandson of Datang, so he didn't want to be a great-grandson, he wanted to be a grandfather!

It is a pity that there is always a huge gap between the ideal and the reality. Even though the Wa Kingdom united with Baekje at that time and gathered more than 4 naval forces and more than 1000 warships, they were still tortured into dogs by more than 1 naval forces of Liu Ingui .

After such an incident, Emperor Tianzhi finally recognized the facts, and he felt that being a great-grandson is actually quite good.

If the normal historical development is followed, the Wa country will naturally be able to be the son and grandson of the Tang Dynasty in peace and contentment, but it is a pity that Gao Ming appeared.

As a time traveler, although Gao Ming is not an angry youth, he does not have any good impressions of the Japanese people. In the final analysis, it is still the old saying-people who are not of our race must have different hearts!
A wolf is a wolf, even if it sticks out its tongue and wags its tail at you at this moment, who can guarantee that it will not pounce on you and bite your neck off the next moment?

As an island country, Wa country has scarce land resources, and their living conditions determine that they will not be able to settle down in a corner. Once they have the opportunity, they will show their ferocious fangs!
As someone who has been there, Gao Mingbi knows the nature of the Wa Kingdom very well, that's why he let Hou Junji pretend to be a pirate to attack the Wa Kingdom, with the purpose of eradicating it before it becomes stronger!
From what it looks like now, Hou Junji is doing pretty well!

Thinking of this, Gao Ming couldn't help but smile on his face.

Li Shimin was still wondering at first, but when he saw Gao Ming smiling so brightly, a trace of suspicion flashed across his face.

"Gao Ming, do you have something to hide from me?"

"what?"

Hearing Li Shimin's words, Gao Ming immediately shook his head.

"No, no, although the islands of the Wa Kingdom are rich in gold and silver resources, as well as rich in fishery resources, I am not greedy at all. People pretend to be pirates to attack them and want to take the opportunity to annex the great thing of the island country. What do you think? Is it like what I did?"

Li Shimin: "..."

Originally, Li Shimin was still a little uncertain, but after hearing Gao Ming's words, he was quite sure - this guy did it!
After figuring this out, the corners of Li Shimin's mouth twitched again, and he waved his hand towards Gao Ming.

"Okay, it's okay, you go back first!"

"Yes!"

Hearing that Li Shimin asked him to go back, Gao Ming immediately agreed, and then walked out, but he only took a few steps when he heard Li Shimin's voice coming from behind him again.

"Um...Gao Ming, you said that Wa has a lot of gold and silver, is this true?"

Hearing the question about Li Shimin's song, Gao Ming stopped in his tracks immediately, then turned his head and grinned at Li Shimin.

"Hey, is there still a fake? If all of them can be mined, it is conservatively estimated that the amount is at least ten times that of Goguryeo's loot!"

"(⊙o⊙)..."

As soon as Gao Ming's words fell, Li Shimin's eyes widened, and his eyes were full of shock.

Li Shimin had asked someone to count the loot that Gao Ming brought back from Goguryeo before. If all these properties were converted into copper coins, the value would definitely exceed 400 million guan, which is equivalent to the tax revenue of the Tang Dynasty for three to four years.

But now Gao Ming said that the amount of gold and silver on the islands of the Wa Kingdom is more than ten times this, so wouldn't it be more than 4000 million guan?
Thinking of this number, even though Li Shimin was calm enough, his heart couldn't help beating wildly.

"Even when Yang Jian was alive, he didn't have so much money, right? If I had this money, what would I do with it? Gao Ming, what do you think?"

"Um... this is..."

Hearing Li Shimin asking himself suddenly, Gao Ming was stunned for a moment, then he also frowned and thought about it, muttering while thinking.

"Since we have exempted half of the farmers' taxes, we can exempt them all when we have money. However, with the supplement of commercial tax, it seems that the money will not be needed... As for the palace, it was just repaired at the beginning of the year, so it is not necessary. Xiu, speaking of it, it seems that there is really no place to spend money, so why don’t you spend it on building the Great Wall, what do you think?”

Gao Ming originally thought that his suggestion was very good, but what he didn't expect was that Li Shimin looked at him in surprise as soon as he finished speaking.

"Build the Great Wall? Why build the Great Wall?"

"Because...uh..."

Gao Ming originally intended to talk about building the Great Wall to defend against foreign enemies, but before he could say anything, he realized a problem—does there still exist foreign enemies in Datang today?
The reason why the Great Wall was built was to resist the invasion of northern nomads, and it did play a big role in the past dynasties, so basically every dynasty expanded or repaired the Great Wall more or less.

However, Datang was not among them.

Datang is the only dynasty in the history that did not repair and expand the Great Wall, not because Datang was too poor, but because Datang was too strong!

After the Taiyuan uprising, Datang's army seemed to be on the hook, catching whoever was attacking whoever it was, and it took only about ten years to unify the country. This is a miracle in the era of cold weapons.

After Li Shimin proclaimed himself emperor, there was no one in the country to hate. Li Shimin aimed at the Turks who had bullied him, and finally "invited" all the Turkic Jieli Khans to Chang'an.

Datang was too fierce, and the small tribes in the north were already afraid of being attacked. At this time, let alone crossing the Great Wall to rob Datang, they were even more worried that Datang would cross the Great Wall to rob them.

So far, the Great Wall is basically useless, not to mention Li Shimin, even the people of Tang Dynasty have never thought of repairing it.

After thinking about this point, Gao Ming suddenly showed a wry smile, and then shook his head helplessly.

"Well, I was wrong. Instead of building the Great Wall, let's build roads. As the saying goes, if you want to get rich, build roads first. When you get the money, let's build dozens of roads leading to Chang'an. What do you think of the idea of ​​roads everywhere?"

"Ok!"

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Li Shimin nodded immediately.

"That's right, roads must be built. As long as the roads are clear, my soldiers and horses will arrive at night and day. Who dares to rebel? When I get money from the Japanese kingdom, I will not only build roads, but also build a north-south road." The Grand Canal is bigger, longer and wider than Yang Guang's Grand Canal!"

Seeing Li Shimin's excited face, Gao Ming suddenly grinned.

"This is the end of Wa Kingdom!"

(End of this chapter)