Man Tanghong

Chapter 836 Money and Power

Although Liang Shidu and Dahe Duoluo had enmity with Datang, and despised Datang's behavior of taking advantage of the war to make money, they still silently took out a large number of Turkic, Liang Guo, and Dahe's special products to share with Datang exchange supplies.

The reason for all this is that they have been busy fighting this year, and they have been fighting until the winter moon, and they have no supplies for the winter at all.

In order to let the subordinates and clansmen survive this winter smoothly.

They had to grit their teeth and exchange supplies with Datang.

The situation on Xieli's side is the same, and there are no supplies for the winter, so while denouncing Datang's dishonesty and providing military aid to Suni, at the same time sending people to Lingzhou to exchange various supplies frantically .

Datang is about to make a lot of money by trading with the Turks.

After Li Xiaogong came back from Xingyang, the smile on his face never faded.

"Yuanji, I never thought that opening a border market would be so profitable. In this whole winter month alone, the money we earned may exceed 500 million yuan, which is almost as fast as my tax revenue in the third and fourth years of the Tang Dynasty." Now, this is something that I would never even have thought about before.”

Li Xiaogong yelled loudly while pouring wine into his mouth.

Putting this aside before, it is indeed something that I dare not even think about.

After all, Datang’s tax revenue in the previous year was only 100 million guan, and now it has risen as it recuperates, but it has not exceeded 200 million guan.

However, Datang only earned more than 500 million yuan in one month from the two border markets, which shows how profitable the border markets are.

This is not counting the profits from water and sea transportation, and the confiscation from Zheng's home.

If you add them all up, the money that Datang has received this year may reach 800 million guan, or 2000 million guan.

However, except for the millions of copper coins, gold and silver confiscated from the Zheng family, most of the others are materials.

Basically, what Datang obtained from water transportation and sea transportation was exchanged for grain. After filling the granaries in Yangzhou and Dizhou, some of them were transported to Luoyang granary.

Now the two governors of Yangzhou and Dizhou are still stepping up to build docks, warehouses, and granaries.

Because everything in Yangzhou and Dizhou can no longer meet the needs of water transportation and sea transportation.

That is to say, the granary in Luoyang has not been filled, to be precise, it is only one-third full.

This is the result of counting the grain procured from Duji Province last year and this year, as well as the grain confiscated from the Zheng family.

This is also attributed to the overjoyed Emperor Sui Yang.

It was he who built too many granaries in Luoyang in order to manage Luoyang into an ancient and modern capital, which made Datang transport millions of stones of grain in, but did not fill up these granaries.

However, Li Yuanji firmly believes that Datang will be able to fill them up soon.

Whether it is to seize the Boling Cui family to make a fortune, or continue to develop according to the current procurement situation, all the granaries in Luoyang will be filled one day.

At that time, Datang can start a new journey.

In addition, in the transactions with Jie Li, Suni Shi, Liang Shidu, and Dahe Duoluo, the Tang Dynasty obtained the most cattle and sheep, war horses, and Turkic specialties, and only a very small part of the money.

It's just that cattle, sheep and horses are not dead objects and cannot be hoarded, so they must be digested as soon as possible.

However, this matter is handled by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the three provinces, so Li Yuanji doesn't have to worry too much.

Thanks to Datang’s previous experience in seizing a large number of cattle, sheep and horses from the Turks, officials from the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the three provinces have now learned how to turn cattle, sheep and war horses into Datang’s national strength.

So there is no need to worry about them selling off the cattle, sheep and horses cheaply, or wasting them.

"What my cousin said is that my cousin didn't make less money this time."

Li Yuanji agreed with a smile.

Li Xiaogong was happier, but he didn't get carried away, instead he said very modestly: "Not much, not much..."

Li Yuanji smiled and said, "How much is not much?"

Li Xiaogong was stunned for a moment, his smile became unnatural, and he continued to perfunctory: "It's really not much..."

Li Yuanji continued to laugh and said, "Why won't my cousin tell me the truth? Do you think you can hide it from me?"

The smile on Li Xiaogong's face suddenly froze.

Whether it is water transportation, sea transportation, or border markets, Li Yuanji is behind the push. Now, except for Li Xiaogong, the people who manage water transportation, sea transportation, and border markets are all Li Yuanji's confidantes.

How much he earned this year, if Li Yuanji wanted to check, he couldn't hide it.

He wasn't sure what Li Yuanji meant by asking this, whether he wanted to divide the land from local tyrants, so he was beating drums in his heart.

"Hehe, I didn't hide it from you, even I didn't calculate it carefully..."

While Li Xiaogong was beating drums in his heart, he said with a half-baked smile.

Li Yuanji asked with a smile: "Then should I ask someone to do the math for you?"

Li Xiaogong couldn't laugh at all, and said angrily: "Are you trying to take advantage of me?!"

Li Yuanji said with a smile: "What advantage do you have that I should take advantage of? The little money in your hand is not enough to arouse my covetous heart, and there are too many money-making ideas that I can come up with.

There is no need to covet your money at all.

I just think that I have given you enough sources of income, and I will give you new sources of income in the future, so there is no need for you to eat more. "

Li Xiaogong was taken aback for a moment, then his face completely darkened, and he said in a low voice: "Someone sued me?"

Li Yuanji didn't speak.

But he believed that Li Xiaogong could understand what he meant.

Li Xiaogong's face turned darker all of a sudden, he gritted his teeth and said, "The guys who went to copy Zheng's with me?"

Li Yuanji rolled his eyes.

you do not say.

The embezzleable number he distributed was only 50 guan, but Li Shentong took 25 guan, Li Xiaogong took 15 guan, leaving only [-] guan for others.

After the other people got their hands and distributed them to their subordinates, the remaining ones were less than [-] guan.

Of course people are not happy, of course they have to sue Li Shentong and Li Xiaogong.

Although Li Shentong and Li Xiaogong are respected, they are the leaders, and they have the power to eat the big heads, but they are also eating too hard, so hard that no one else can eat.

Can people still have no complaints?

Take Qin Qiong as an example. He contributed a nephew whose life or death is unknown. He dragged his broken body and shouted in the court hall for a long time. Finally, he was carried to Xingyang by himself, but in the end he only got a thousand coins. In addition, Zheng's cloth shop in Chang'an City.

If it is said that he didn't get much from the Zheng family this time, then Qin Qiong's share of a thousand guan is also very good.

After all, one thousand coins are in the current Datang, and the purchasing power is also very strong.

But this time the money obtained was as many as several million, and the amount that could be shared reached 50 guan, but Qin Qiong only got [-] guan.

But he paid so much, how could he be willing?

Although Qin Qiong didn't write a letter to impeach Li Shentong and Li Xiaogong, he didn't even make a sound.

But Li Shentong and Li Xiaogong's food looks really ugly, which is unfair to Qin Qiong.

"Who sued me for my tricks?"

Li Xiaogong raised his eyes and asked.

Li Yuanji raised his face and said: "Is it really a trick? I won't ask how many lands, houses, and shops you and Uncle Wang have embezzled in Xingyang.

But I believe these things are enough to make you rich.

But you are still not greedy enough, the 50 guan I allocated to you, the two of you have eaten [-]% of it.

Others got only a few thousand guan, Qin Qiong was even worse, only got a thousand guan.

At any rate, he is a duke of the state, his status is only inferior to yours, and he paid a considerable price for this matter.

Why do you have the nerve to send someone a thousand coins away? "

Li Xiaogong blushed all of a sudden, judging from his harvest this year, a thousand guan is not a big deal.

Qin Qiong paid so much, but only got a thousand guan. He also felt that he seemed a bit too much.

However, he still forced himself to defend himself: "We gave Qin Qiong more than 6000 guan, not [-] guan."

Li Yuanji sneered and said, "A duke is worth [-] guan when he has a nephew?"

Li Xiaogong realized that Li Yuanji was angry, and opened his mouth, but he didn't dare to defend himself again.

Li Yuanji snorted coldly and said: "According to my opinion, you and Uncle Wang should not take any of the 50 guan. You have already eaten enough through water transportation, sea transportation, and border markets, and embezzled Zheng's money." There are so many properties, and nearly 30 shi of grain have been distributed, are you still greedy?
If everyone in my Li family is like this, then who else is willing to work hard for my Li family?

Who else is willing to protect my Li family? "

Li Xiaogong opened his mouth, but he was powerless to refute.

Li Yuanji continued: "You have to understand that you are no longer that dandy who hangs out in Jinyang City, you are now the county king of my Tang Dynasty, an existence under one person and above ten thousand people.

It's time for your head to change too, and it's time to learn how to be a county king.

My father didn't teach you before, and neither did your uncles, because it's their first time as a royal family and they don't have much experience.

Now I will teach you, for me, Mrs. Li, for you and me, the most important thing is authority, not money.

As long as we hold the power in our hands and the soldiers and horses of the world, what do we want?
What is the difference between money in other people's hands and money in our hands?
We can take them back at any time through the authority in our hands, and we can snatch them back at any time through our soldiers and horses.

So money is the same thing in our hands as it is in the hands of other people.

It will not affect our prosperity and wealth at all.

That being the case, why don't we spread all the money in our hands in exchange for the loyalty of more people and a stronger authority? "

Li Xiaogong stared blankly, and looked at Li Yuanji in astonishment.

No one has ever said this to him, and no one has ever told him that money is not important in front of power.

So he didn't realize that the most precious thing in his hands was power, not money.

What's more, I don't realize that money is nothing compared to power.

He simply uses his inherent thinking to measure money and power.

Now that he heard Li Yuanji's words, he finally understood what money was and what power was.

(End of this chapter)