Emperor of the Tang Dynasty

"Your Majesty, do you really want to start a war at this time?!"

Tang Jian hurriedly exclaimed that he, who had a good relationship with Li You, was rarely on the opposite side of Li You this time, it was because of his responsibility as the Minister of the Household.

"The Tang Dynasty has been severely affected by disasters. It can be said that it has suffered four major disasters in a year!" Tang Jian looked at Li You again and said, "His Royal Highness the King of Chu, during the plague of epidemics, drought, locusts and famine. After that, the Great Tang treasury has become extremely empty!"

The implication is that today's Tang Dynasty has no ability to support a war at all.

Li You smiled and said: "Master Tang, don't worry too much, Gaochang State is located on the main road of traffic. Since ancient times, this position has made a lot of money. Their treasury will definitely be able to greatly supplement Datang's treasury. Everything came back?"

"This……"

Tang Jian was sluggish for a while, not knowing how to answer, because Li You's main reason for attacking Gaochang was because Datang's domestic resources were seriously insufficient.

It is precisely because of the deficiency that it is necessary to attack Gao Chang to replenish it, while Tang Jian advocates that because of the deficiency, it cannot be attacked. These two sets of theories are naturally contradictory.

This also caused many ministers in the DPRK to be vaguely persuaded by Li You. This is indeed the case. If we don't fight, what will be used to supplement domestic resources?It will only get less and less!

There are also many officials who advocate not fighting like Tang Jian and others. First of all, the current situation of the Tang Dynasty is really not suitable for war, and secondly, after fighting, I don't know if I can win!

Datang's military is indeed much stronger than that of Gaochang, but if half of the resources are exhausted, causing the supply to collapse, it will be fun. There are countless strong armies in history that have failed because of supply problems!

For a while, the two factions became more and more quarreling, and the Tai Chi Palace became a mess.

"Okay, stop arguing!"

Li Shimin was upset when he heard it, and shouted loudly. Then he looked at Li You and asked solemnly, "Yang Jie, are you sure you will win?"

Chapter 598 Brazenly Helping Li You Hang Up (Part [-])

Saying that, Li Shimin stared at Li You with deep eyes.

Ordinary people will definitely be very nervous when facing the emperor's gaze, but Li You's expression is still indifferent.

"There is no certainty of victory. No one in the world dares to say that they can win. No matter how big the difference in strength is, there is a possibility of failure due to a small probability accident. Meteorites killed them or something."

Li You pointed to the sky, but everyone who had never heard of "Meteorite Terrier" stared at him with wide eyes, obviously unable to understand Li You's humor.

"Okay," Li You shrugged, "In short, as long as the war cycle is shortened to the limit, that is, defeating them in the shortest time, there is no danger of the supply line collapsing!"

Li Xiaogong frowned and said: "This is easy to say, but difficult to do, and as Master Tang said, today's national treasury has done its best just to cope with the expenses of the disaster."

Although Li Shimin didn't speak, he could feel the same thought in his eyes.

"Then I have a plan."

Li You said, "It's this war that doesn't require the capital to be contributed by the imperial court, but my Li family's property. How about the last spoils of war also belong to half of the Li's property?"

Others may only rely on guesswork, but Li You from the future knows very well that Gaochang has a lot of wealth in the country, and even Hou Junji couldn't control himself after seeing it, and embezzled a lot of wealth.

So, this is a business that is guaranteed to make money without losing money!

...of course, the premise is that you can win.

"Fully funded by Li's industry?!"

When Li You heard the words, he took a deep breath, and when Li You could confidently say that he was able to finance the entire war, he made everyone realize Li You. What a rich country!

It can be seen from the disaster period alone that under the circumstances of this series of catastrophes, only Li You can make a lot of money without harming the interests of the people, right?

And it only took more than half a year since Li You started doing business and now became the richest man in Datang!No one can figure out how much Li You's property is!

"You...are you serious 々"?"

Li Shimin was also taken aback by Li You's fury, and said a little sour in his heart.

But I have to say that Li Shimin is actually very excited.

The court only needs to pay people, and the rest of the money does not need to be paid. Even the military pay is paid by Li You, but if he wins in the end, he can directly take half of the treasure. In Li Shimin's view, this is also a business that can make a profit without losing money. !

"Does it even need to be said?" Li You said with a faint smile, "The next question is to ensure victory."

However, the generals looked at each other, but no one spoke, because this was really too much responsibility.

Even Cheng Yaojin calmed down rarely, and Li Jing even said: "His Royal Highness the King of Chu, although this war was all funded by Li's industry, if there is a loss, it will be the Tang Dynasty that will suffer in the end."

Li You looked at Li Jing in amazement, thinking that Li Jing, who is known to be full of knowledge, can still understand this in an era when there is no economics to speak of.

Indeed, as Li Jing said, although Li's industry was privatized by Li You, the huge assets it represented were already part of Datang's economic composition.

That is to say, if this large sum of money is lost, Li You will suffer on the surface, but in fact, the economic lifeline of the entire Tang Dynasty will also be turbulent along with it!

"I don't think so..."

At this moment, Li Shimin made a speech to break the deadlock.

"If Yang Jie's method is adopted, then Li's industry will definitely need to send a person to serve as a supervisor to monitor whether the funds contributed by Li's industry have been misused, so why not just let the King of Chu assume this post of supervisor. ?"

"what?!"

Li Shimin's words surprised the audience, and Li You blinked in amazement. Am I still your dear Li Yangjie?It's actually cheating on me like that? !

Send me to the battlefield to fight... a pit!

As for the rest of the ministers and officials, they were equally astonished.

As far as they know, His Majesty loves His Royal Highness the King of Chu very much, so how could His Highness the King of Chu be sent to battle this time?Aren't you afraid that His Royal Highness the King of Chu is in danger?

Next, Li Shimin added: "...This army that has been conscripted, I intend to let Mao Gong lead the army. I wonder what the Aiqing thinks?"