Chapter 127 Professional Construction of the Tang Dynasty

Everyone has an ideal. When they can’t eat, they want to live a life of food and clothing, but when they have no worries about food and clothing, they also want to live a decent life. When they have a decent life, they also want to live a financially free life.

This seems to be an unsolvable problem. The problem facing Xue Li is that he is not afraid of poverty. The key is his wife Liu Yingchun. Liu Yingchun is originally a rich lady, enjoying the life of having no worries about food and clothing. He just started to eat coarse grains and noodles with Xue Li, and there was a sense of freshness, but after the freshness, Liu Yingchun couldn't eat it anymore in the face of simple food and light food.

However, Liu Yingchun is a tactful woman and never makes things difficult for Xue Li. She thinks about him everywhere. She obviously doesn't like eating simple food, but she pretends to like it very much. Especially when other merchants were roasting lamb for a picnic in the wild, Liu Yingchun in the carriage swallowed and smeared desperately.

Of course, doing this would lose Liu Yingchun's identity. Xue Li was not a treacherous person. He felt that he was doing evil and he had to work hard to live a happy life for Liu Yingchun.

Faced with a huge sum of 100 stalemates, Xue Li was immediately moved. With the rise of the slave trade, the slave hunting team heading to Anxi made a lot of money, but many people still had no bones.

Huge profits mean risks.

However, in the face of poverty, many people still like to take risks.

Xue Li finally took down the hundred-tongue bills and stuffed them into his arms. Xue Li hesitated and said, "Brother Li, I am afraid of an accident, so I must first pick them up..."

Li Qingxian smiled and said, "This is natural. If you settle in Anxi, you can have a few things to go out. You might as well consider it!"

"Brother Li, please speak!"

"This is in Tingzhou!" Li Qingxian said: "We have the most Tang people in Tingzhou City, and there are many garrisons. It is also the place where General Xue Wanche and Xue's tent is located on Xizhou Road. Safety will be the first priority. However, since we entered Anxi, it is too far from Tingzhou, and it is very inconvenient to get along. Brother Xue is also newlywed, so there may be inconvenience!"

Xue Li asked, "Where are the other ones?"

"The second is Kucha!" Li Qing first pulled Xue Li to sit down and said with a smile: "Kucha Town is the military town defended by Su Dingfang, the number one strong general under the Anxi Chen Dadu Protectorate. There, all the Hu people are as honest as mice and dare not prick them at all. It is also very safe. If we go north or west, the only bad thing is that Kucha real estate is not cheap..."

In fact, since Chen Ying planned the development of Anxi, the price of real estate in Anxi has risen sharply. Taking residential land as an example, in the sixth year of Wude, the homestead in Kucha was about ten cents per mu, which was about the same price as the fertile land in Chang'an. The land was only one tenth of the homestead, and ten cents of money could be bought for ten acres. In the seventh year of Wude, the homestead land soared to thirty cents per mu. Now, the homestead land is at the lowest rate of one acre of homestead land, and the land is about one third of Guanzhong, and three cents per mu.

Xue Li could barely buy a mu of homestead near the city wall with a hundred stale money, but there was no house.

Xue Li smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Li, can I borrow more money?"

If it were an ordinary person, Li Qingxian would not consider it at all. People like him rely on a pair of eyes to make a living, and his eyes were very vicious. Although Xue Li deliberately wiped away the traces on the carriage, the traces of the word "Hedong" still existed. He heard that Xue Li claimed his surname was Xue, and he must have been from Xue Li in Hedong.

As one of the four great families, although the Xue family in Hedong is not as good as the Seven Sects and Five Hopes, it is definitely a second-class aristocratic clan in the world. It is famous for the Wenxi Pei family, the Liu family in Hedong, and the Wei family in Jingzhao.

Li Qingxian guessed that Xue Li must have had an unhappy relationship with his family, but as the saying goes, the broken bones are still connected with tendons, Xue Li will definitely give up his past grudges with the family, and at that time, he will be able to make a good relationship with the Xue family in Hedong.

Li Qing thought for a while and said, "I can lend you another 300 stakes and deduct them from your share in the future!"

When Xue Li heard this, she was immediately overjoyed.

Xue Li signed the document and used the money to buy supplies. Although the station provided food, it was definitely not cheap, and many merchants chose to cook their own food.

Xue Li bought a lot of things, including three dou of rice, two dou of grain, salt, vinegar, sauce, and half a leg of lamb. These things pressed on her body, making Xue Li feel very accomplished.

Liu Yingchun and his maid cleaned the rice and put them in the pot. They were all equipped with their own pots. Anyway, the coal ball stove was there all night, so merchants lined up to cook.

Waiting for the rice to be prepared, the mutton was stewed, Liu Yingchun brought the rice and had a meal with Xue Li. Xue Li was a martial artist, with a lot of appetite and a very fast speed. She ate all the rice bowl in just over ten breaths.

Liu Yingchun waited for Xue Li to finish her meal, and then asked carefully: "This money..."

Xue Li said: "Don't worry, madam, don't steal or rob, I borrowed it with my ability!"

As he said that, Xue Li put the remaining money in Liu Yingchun's hands.

Looking at nearly 400 stagnant of money, Liu Yingchun was shocked: "Xue Lang, don't ask for the words of others!"

Xue Li nodded and said, "Don't worry, madam, this is my advance money. With my hands, I can also fight the whole world!"

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Li Jiancheng was a good emperor. He was not only generous to his ministers, but also to billions of people.

In the fifth year of Kaiyuan, the sixth year after Li Jiancheng ascended the throne, Li Jiancheng signed the joint signature of the six prime ministers and states of the Political Affairs Hall of the People and issued Li Jiancheng's edict.

"The emperor's edict said: I have inherited great things and burned firewood to achieve great success. I dare not slacken. The officials and the people are difficult to govern. I heard that in ancient times, the sage king ruled the world, and the people did not increase taxes, but the domestic use was abundant. Although I was not agile, I also yearned for it. The order, from now on, there will be a Tang Dynasty that will never increase taxes!"

As soon as this imperial edict was released, all the aristocratic families in the world were confused.

In the Song and Tang dynasties, whether it is Confucianism or gentry, they still have some shame. At least they will not be as lowly as in the Ming and Qing dynasties. They can still distinguish between good and bad. There are even many scholars who are full of ideals and wise thoughts, and are moved.

Never add tribute!

What a good benevolent government!

Who has mentioned the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors? Who has called it again in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period?

This is the true benevolent king!

I have to say that Kang Mazi's trick is still very frightening, including the later Jin Daxia and countless remnants of mite clearance, but they all think that this is Kang Mazi's benevolent politics.

However, this is simply a nonsense. Because in China, taxes and taxes are always separate. Taxes are used for national defense expenditures, government offices, and various local affairs and channels to dig and repair, etc., while taxes are used to build palaces and temples for the emperor, eat, drink and have fun. To put it bluntly, taxes are the treasury, and taxes are the emperor's treasury, and this thing does not leave the treasury.

Li Jiancheng naturally did not need to increase taxes. Chen Ying created the Royal Commercial Union, which has 30% of Li Jiancheng's shares. At the same time, there are 30% of Li Jiancheng's copper mine in Anxi. Duobaoshan is the name Chen Ying was named. Duobaoshan's mining work is the top priority. Li Jiancheng sent more than 3,000 craftsmen, and the Fourth Palace of the East Palace led a total of 60,000 troops to Duobaoshan. It is expected that the first batch of copper produced will be obtained in the early fifth year of Kaiyuan.

However, in Taolin County, Hongnong County, there is the gold capital of China. This gold mine has been secretly mined for six years and the copper stored is more than 20 million kilograms.

The copper ingots with continuous aid were sent to Chang'an, and the eunuchs were sent to the eunuchs to start casting Kaiyuan Tongbao with all efforts.

Because 20 million jin of copper can cast nearly 3 million jin of copper coins and 3 million jin of copper coins, as long as it is put into the market, it will obviously cause a new round of inflation in the Tang Dynasty.

This money was not distributed free of charge, but was for the transformation of the Tang Dynasty's army.

In fact, whether it was the Tang Dynasty's government system or the Ming Dynasty's garrison system, they all tied the army to the land. This is very wrong. How can a semi-professional army assume the important task of national defense of the Tang Dynasty?

Although the Tang Dynasty established a total of 367 Zhechong Prefectures, the number of these troops could reach more than 550,000, but in addition to the Anxi Army, the Andong Army and the Twelve Guards, these troops were only 370,000 troops, which belonged to professional troops. The professional army accounted for only one-third of the total army of the Tang Dynasty.

Now the construction of professional military forces in the Tang Dynasty has been lagging behind. It’s not that Li Jiancheng doesn’t want to build it. The key is that he has no money and the court has no money. How can he pay military salaries to the army? How can he support such a Tang army with nearly one million troops?

Although semi-commissioned troops can save military expenditures and reduce the financial pressure of the court. The key is that semi-commissioned troops can easily cultivate peasants. For example, the army in the Cao Wei era could defeat Wuheng, Xiongnu, and Qiang people at the beginning of the founding of the country, but later, they became farmers holding weapons.

Of course, the same is true for the Ming Dynasty. There was only a literal army of millions, but even the capital was not defended.

The semi-professional army has only one reason for the deterioration of combat power. There is also one reason for the army, which is instilled by the small peasant mind, easily loses its wolf nature.

Li Jiancheng did not take it seriously in advance, but now with the absolute threat of Li Shimin, he must treat this issue carefully.

After getting the money, Li Jiancheng put the professionalization of the military on the agenda without hesitation.

Li Jiancheng's first step was to free the army from the land.

From today on, although the soldiers of the government were still stationed in various places, they still enjoyed the power of tax exemption from their families, and they received a salary of 7,000 jin per year.
Chapter completed!