Datang: My apprentice is Li Chengqian

Chapter 272 Contribution

"Your Majesty, Qin Langjun and the others have returned, and now we are asking to see you outside the Datang Palace."

Just after Li Shimin finished the meeting, Li Junxian reported a piece of good news.

"Xiedao is back? Then what are you waiting for, please come in quickly."

To be honest, Li Shimin is actually quite curious about overseas affairs.

This time Qin Xiedao took a trip to the sea himself, just in time to get a better understanding of the situation outside of Datang.

Soon, Qin Xiedao and his party appeared in front of Li Shimin under the personal leadership of Li Junxian.

"Well, it's a little darker than before, but the whole person seems to be more robust."

Li Shimin didn't sit on the throne today and talk to Qin Xiedao and others, but stood up casually and walked around Qin Xiedao, like a master who bought slaves in the human market.

"When sailing on the sea, there is no one who will not be tanned. For men, tan is a kind of health, and there is nothing to worry about."

Whether it's Qin Xiedao or Li Shimin, they are all handsome guys in this era.

No way, who made both sides have good genes.

"How about this time, did you encounter any trouble when you went to Wa country? Did the people of Wa country bully you?"

Li Shimin didn't immediately focus on money, but first cared about Qin Xiedao and his group's journey to sea.

"It was smooth sailing, there were no accidents, and no troubles were found.

As for the Wa people, they have no time to worship us, so why would they come to trouble us? "

Qin Xiedao chatted with Li Shimin very easily.

After that, Li Shimin inquired about the customs of the Japanese country, and finally focused on money.

"Did you really bring back a large amount of gold and silver ingots when you went to the Wa Kingdom this time?"

"Gold and silver ingots worth more than 1000 million guan have now been moved to the vault of the Datang Royal Bank.

Fortunately, when the treasury was built, it was well prepared, otherwise it would not be able to hold so much gold and silver. "

Qin Xiedao explained Versailles very well.

However, this number obviously shocked Li Shimin.

"1000 million guan? Are there really so many? Didn't you say that the Wa country is poor?"

If you are not in charge, you don't know that vegetables, rice, oil and salt are expensive.

Although talking about money is very vulgar, but after sitting on the throne, I realized that no matter what I do, I need to spend money.

If the household department has no money, he, the emperor, can hardly do anything.

So Li Shimin knows better than anyone else how meaningful 1000 million guan is to Datang.

It is a pity that the 1000 million yuan does not belong to the Ministry of Household Affairs.

"Just a little more! Your Majesty, soon, Datang will probably set off a wave of going to sea. I think the Ministry of Households can set up customs at various ports to levy customs duties on incoming and outgoing goods.

For example, if we bring back tens of millions of gold and silver this time, as long as the rules are set in advance, the court can receive tens of millions of guan in tariffs.

This is very unusual for the court. "

Taking this opportunity, Qin Xiedao brought up the overseas affairs.

Although setting up overseas at this stage will actually harm the interests of the Qin family, which is equivalent to handing over part of the money in his pocket to the court.

But Qin Xiedao naturally wouldn't look at the problem so superficially.

The establishment of customs is very meaningful to Datang in the long run.

Once the sea trade develops rapidly, the tax revenue is expected to become Datang's main tax revenue, and there will be more things that can be used for it.

Whether it is disaster relief or water conservancy construction, it costs money.

And the good reputation of an emperor is often to let the people live a life of food, clothing and clothing, and then reduce taxes and corvees.

As long as the imperial court feels the increase in taxes from tariffs and commercial taxes, it will not easily increase taxes on the people.

After all, no matter when it is, no matter which country's tax authority, it must hope that the difficulty of tax collection is as low as possible.

These days, the cost of taxing ordinary people is very high.

It's not like taxing big merchants like Qin Xiedao, and receiving a large sum of money casually.

"Set up customs? Xiedao, are you sure you want the court to do this?"

Li Shimin looked at Qin Xiedao in surprise.

There are really not many courtiers who are so considerate of the court.

"Yes, Wei Chen is very sure! And in the early days, Wei Chen suggested that the customs tariff should be uniformly set as ten taxes and one tax, and the rules should be established first, and then according to the actual situation, different tariffs will be added to different goods. tariff."

"According to your statement, don't you need to pay 100 million customs duties this time? This is directly equivalent to several years of tax revenue."

Li Shimin couldn't help but click his tongue secretly.

I didn't expect Haimao to come in so much money.

If a bunch of merchants go overseas to do business at that time, how much tariff will Datang Customs receive?

"The 100 banknotes have already been prepared by Datang Royal Bank for Wei Chen.

But this time the customs has not been formally established, and this amount of customs duties will be paid to His Majesty first. "

Under the background of family, country and world, for the emperor, the family is the country, and the country is the family.

Although Li Shimin's internal funds and the Ministry of Household Treasury are in principle two different things, in many cases, the distinction is not so strict.

The financial system these days is naturally full of loopholes.

"One million guan? There is no problem if you don't hand it in. Are you sure you want to hand it in?"

Seeing the thick stack of banknotes handed over by Qin Xiedao, Li Shimin was very moved.

However, he was still a little embarrassed about this obviously taking advantage of things.

"Only when the Tang Dynasty is strong, our personal strength is meaningful. Your Majesty, this time I went to the Wa Kingdom, I felt the significance of the Tang Dynasty's strength even more.

Those Japanese people were more enthusiastic than anything after seeing us.

Many sailors walked around the pier. As long as they dared to walk a little bit apart, they would be pulled into the house to borrow seeds. It was simply possible to achieve the purpose of singing every night without spending money.

The Japanese people will do this because our Datang is strong enough.

So, as a member of Datang, I also hope that Datang will become stronger under the leadership of His Majesty, and I firmly believe that this will definitely become a reality.

So a mere 100 million yuan is nothing. "

When the Datang Palace was built, Qin Xiedao did not spend less money.

Although the current 100 million guan is still a lot, compared with the cost of building the Datang Palace, it is still not so eye-catching.

So after Li Shimin hesitated for a while, he asked Wang De to accept the thick stack of bank notes in Qin Xiedao's hand.

To some extent, Qin Xiedao made another contribution to Datang Royal Bank today.

(End of this chapter)