Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 277 Was Discovered
As Li Tai had speculated, Li Chengqian's marriage did not succeed.

Because of Li Yuan's death, the children of the royal family didn't say they kept their filial piety for three years, but at least during the funeral period, all vocal music must be banned.

What's more important is that marriage is not allowed for at least one year, especially when the prince is the heir apparent.

Of course, this has something to do with Li Tai. According to normal history, let alone Li Chengqian, even Li Tai should have a child at this time.

But since Li Tai proposed that women should marry at eighteen, it is not easy for Li Chengqian to want to establish a princess.

At the very least, Li Chengqian is older than the Crown Princess, and the Crown Princess must be older than 16, which narrows down the candidates for the Crown Princess.

Therefore, Empress Changsun was not very satisfied with the selection, either the age was inappropriate, or the aristocratic family was inappropriate. As for appearance, virtue and aristocratic family are the most important for the appearance of the crown princess. During this selection, Li Yuan died. .

At this time, Li Chengqian didn't need to choose the so-called princess for the time being.

Because it's fine for the folks, but at least the royal family don't think about marriage in the short term, and they have to wait until the funeral period is over.

Of course, Li Yuan's death not only had an impact on Li Chengqian, but also the farewell etiquette of Li Tai and other soldiers who returned from the victory were all kept simple.

Although there are fewer welcomes, there should be a lot of meritorious rewards, especially the vast majority of the government soldiers holding food stamps, even waving the food stamps in their hands, and exchanged for the supplies they wanted in the first place.

When the supplies were actually in hand, these soldiers and soldiers put their minds at ease, and immediately greeted the car dealers or wrestlers to help send the confiscated from their fights back home. At least they still have memories.

However, Li Tai was not so lucky. He was arrested and put in mourning almost as soon as he returned to Chang'an.

For seven days, he had to stay in front of Li Yuan's coffin to watch the spirit. During the process, he was allowed to drink water, but he was not allowed to eat.

It was Li Chengqian and Changle who had experience, and occasionally secretly handed him a piece of pancake, so he managed to survive, and finally survived the most difficult period of time.

When Li Yuan was buried in peace, he stepped over the brazier and removed his mourning clothes. Li Tai slept in his Yanwang Mansion, and was summoned by Li Shimin to enter the palace. up.

As usual, he waited in the side hall, and soon saw the king's servant come to announce himself into the hall.

Li Tai came to the main hall to meet Fang Xuanling, Xiao Yu, Wei Zheng, Li Jing, and even Du Ruhui who had been repairing the Grand Canal all came back.

Li Tai was a little stunned for a while, he didn't do anything, why did he have such a posture of three trials?
After Li Tai saluted, Li Shimin took out the food coupons, looked at Li Tai and said, "You made this?"

Looking at the food stamp, Li Tai couldn't help but feel his heart tense, and his complexion couldn't help but look a little ugly, but he still bit the bullet and took a closer look.

It says 100 million catties of food stamps. There are not many such food stamps issued by themselves. Basically, they are issued to certain specific granaries to extract grain, and generally they are not circulated in the market.

In other words, normal people would not use these food stamps, so they nodded and said to Li Shimin, "I wrote the food stamps!"

Hearing Li Tai's words, Fang Xuanling stood up and said, "How many food stamps did you print, King Yan?"

"Naturally, how many supplies are there and how much food is printed!" Li Tai said firmly.

"Hey!" Li Shimin said quietly, "Really?! But the army seized it, and you issued a total of 100 million shi of grain, 100 million shi of grain! Xuanling, what was the annual grain income of our Datang last year. "

"Last year, a total of 450 million shiwanshi grain was collected, and 360 seven king ten thousand shi grain was spent."

Fang Xuanling's gaze was a little sparkling, but he wanted to tear Li Tai apart, after all, Li Tai had given out too much money and food.

Although Datang's taxation is not only pure grain, but also other miscellaneous taxes, rent adjustments, etc., grain income only accounts for a part.

However, Li Tai distributed too much money and grain by plundering Tuyuhun this time. There were almost more than 100 million shi of grain, which was almost a quarter of Datang's annual grain income.

Why did Li Tai get so much food, just relying on Li Tai's land in Zhengguoqu?What a joke!
Normally speaking, people in this era don't understand Li Tai's financial methods, but they don't understand the process but they can understand the result.

Especially when the army returns, the imperial court has to calculate the part of its own income and seize it.

Originally, Li Tai turned the seizure into food stamps, and replaced the food stamps with consumption or supplies, ensuring the smooth circulation of the entire cycle.

At least for the people in the army, it seems that there is no problem at all, because their seizures were exchanged for food stamps, and then for supplies. The whole circulation is reasonable and convenient for themselves, so what is there to pursue .

But after this process was reported to Fang Xuanling by Li Jing, Fang Xuanling's head almost exploded.

After all, unlike Li Jing who couldn't understand Li Tai's operations, even though Fang Xuanling couldn't understand Li Tai's operations, due to her own sensitivity to administration, she keenly noticed something wrong with Li Tai's operations.

Therefore, Fang Xuanling counted the food stamps issued by Li Tai during this period, and calculated that it exceeded 100 million shi.

That is a quarter of the annual grain tax of the entire Datang Dynasty. This figure is already terrifying.

After all, even if Datang himself wanted to take out 100 million shi of grain, he might not be able to get it out, but Li Tai did it!
Even Fang Xuanling thought that Li Tai was going to break the contract, which would trigger a riot among the soldiers.

But no, the soldiers basically praised Li Tai's behavior, and the appearance of this kind of food stamp saved him a lot of trouble.

Then Li Tai actually wiped out the 100 million food stamp debt. He really spent 100 million shi food stamps.

To be honest, watching this process made Fang Xuanling terrified, and seeing the result made Fang Xuanling silent.

Therefore, Fang Xuanling finally told Li Shimin of his discovery immediately, and at the same time, there was this three-court trial.

Because even Fang Xuanling couldn't understand Li Tai's operation this time. What they saw was that Li Tai obviously didn't have 100 million shi of food, but he issued 100 million shi food coupons, and the soldiers were all satisfied Accepted.

So there must be a problem here, but no one can understand the problem in it!

"The grain income of the entire Tang Dynasty is only 400 million shi. Don't say that your land has produced 100 million shi!"

Li Shimin looked at Li Tai, and to be honest, he was also very curious about how Li Tai managed to make something out of nothing.

Li Tai watched this scene, and the corner of his mouth couldn't help twitching.

Faced with Li Shimin's method of directly mobilizing the entire country's resources to check, and then directly saying that there is a problem with his operation, Li Tai also has a headache.

Li Tai looked at the others, and all the civil servants widened their eyes like gongs, as if they wanted to perform a craniotomy on themselves to see what was going on in their heads.

On the contrary, Li Jing looked down at the bottom at this time, as if muttering why there were no ants!
Anyway, you can contact Li Jing for military matters, but for political and internal affairs, Li Jing said that he has retired and knows nothing.

Although I also saw that King Yan just wrote food stamps casually, and then stamped the food stamps to make food stamps, but I never thought that King Yan didn't have so much food reserves at all.

It never occurred to Li Tai that he had no food reserves, but he solved the matter in a beautiful manner, without causing any confusion to the army at all.

"Sure enough, King Yan is still very good at logistics, but it's a pity that he can only enjoy this once in his life!"

And Li Tai knew better about internal affairs that Li Jing, an ostrich, was unreliable, so he explained helplessly,

"This is not a food stamp in exchange for food, it can be used as currency, you can regard it as Kaiyuan Tongbao!"

"This food stamp is Kaiyuan Tongbao!" Li Shimin couldn't help thinking when he heard this.

Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui suddenly realized something, but Wei Zheng and Xiao Yu didn't understand.

Li Tai explained, "Because our Tang Dynasty adopts real tax and real currency, the most basic currency is grain.

On the contrary, although Kaiyuan Tongbao is in circulation, it is not as popular as physical transactions.

But it is quite troublesome to carry food, so I made food stamps and used these tickets to replace the physical transaction of grain.

And as a guarantee, it is the reputation of my Yan Wang Li Tai, the only way the common people dare to use it! "

"King Yan, you minted coins privately..." Wei Zheng just wanted to sue Li Tai, but found that he couldn't sue.

Because from ancient times to the present, privately minted coins were all made of copper coins, but Li Tai did not make copper coins, especially Li Tai used his own reputation as a guarantee. To some extent, this is more like an IOU than a currency in circulation.

"King Yan, I'm even more curious, how did you maintain the food coupons of more than 100 million shi that you paid for the seizure!" Fang Xuanling said seriously when he heard Li Tai's words.

"Because my Datang uses materials as the basic transaction currency, food stamps have also changed from ordinary loan notes to a currency of a certain transaction nature. If it can only be used to trade grain, then it is just food stamps.

But I have established more material support for the food stamps, not only the grain of Zheng Guoqu, but also the hospital and medical system, the technology and tools of the Agricultural College, all the consumption of Gaoling, and the coal industry in Guanzhong.

Even cattle and sheep, commerce, and salt in Youzhou all became the support for this transaction.

And based on this, it is derived to all aspects of social life! "

When Li Tai said this, he continued with a bit of regret,

"So food stamps are no longer just food stamps that are simply exchanged for food. In fact, they can buy all my industrial products."

Hearing Li Tai's explanation up to this point, several ministers in the court frowned.

They didn't expect that, right under their noses, King Yan had developed such power.

More importantly, they still don't understand this kind of power very well, but they can feel the horror of this kind of power, the so-called creation out of nothing is just that.

"That's why, let's go back to the food stamps I issued to collect the soldiers' seizures.

Yes, I do not have 100 million shi of grain, but the products produced by my entire industry can afford the corresponding goods and services of 100 million shi of grain.

In this way, I can exchange the 100 million shi food coupons reasonably. "

When Li Tai said this, he raised his head and looked at the crowd, but saw that everyone was still frowning.

Li Tai paused for a moment, then asked again, "Do you need me to explain in more detail?"

"Say it! Don't be tricky!" Li Shimin said to Li Tai. To be honest, he didn't expect such an operation to exist in this world!

It still sounds quite novel and unbelievable, and what is even more unbelievable is that his son actually did it?
When Li Tai heard Li Shimin's words, he immediately continued to explain,

"I exchanged food stamps for the soldiers' confiscations. If the soldiers want to exchange for food, it goes without saying that no matter how much food I store, it's not enough!

So I split it up. First, the upper-level generals. I used the "Seed Project" as a bait and asked them to invest together.

In this way, at least the biggest run-off will be reduced a lot, and it doesn't matter whether the "Seed Project" itself is successful or not. "

"King Yan, if all the generals in the army know what you said, I'm afraid they will blame you to death!"

Li Jing couldn't help complaining in his heart, the most important thing was that he threw [-] head of livestock into it, unexpectedly, it was also the plan of King Yan.

These civil servants are really too dark-hearted. If they are not careful, they will be eaten up and wiped out!
Li Tai continued, "As for the generals and soldiers at the bottom, what they need is to exchange their seizures for supplies or services, not the seizure itself.

Because some of these captured they could not bring back to Chang'an, and some of them might just be tricked if they brought them back.

And my food stamps gave them a safe exchange channel, allowing them to successfully cash out their seizures.

When they get here, they need to be further subdivided according to the materials or services they need.

If what they need is service, then I will ask Director Li to let the soldiers have five to seven days of vacation every month to go to Shancheng to relax and relieve fatigue, and at the same time let them spend their food stamps.

If supplies are needed, I asked General Manager Li to give these soldiers a list, and asked them to record everything they wanted. I prepared these supplies at a price higher than the market price, and the soldiers returned to Chang'an. Directly use food stamps to exchange for supplies.

Because of the preparation in advance, there will be no price fluctuations.

More importantly, after these multiple screenings, there are not many people who actually exchange food, and the whole system is stable! "

Li Tai tried his best to explain to them in words that the important officials present could understand.

And Li Shimin thought for a while, but immediately widened his eyes, looked at Li Taidao,
"Qingque, that is to say, you have a way to write a bill of 100 million shi, and then spend it as real money, right?"

"Aye, can you stop focusing so precisely!" Li Tai murmured.

The ministers present looked at Li Tai suddenly differently at this moment, the light seemed to want to eat Li Tai.

(End of this chapter)