"Then I will run a martial arts lecture hall!"

Li Shimin rubbed his hands and said, "Wenyuan, how about you being the sacrificial sacrificial wine in this martial arts lecture hall?"

The martial arts lecture hall will be the principal of the Royal Military Academy of the Tang Dynasty. This military academy will definitely become the cradle of the officers of the Tang Dynasty. If you can become the principal, you will be disciples in the army of the guards of the northern and southern yamen of the Tang Dynasty.

Well, it's very good to think about it.

But you must not agree.

Your disciples and disciples are all over the various guards of the Tang Dynasty. Who can rest assured of such a person?

"Your Majesty, what's the point of being me? This martial arts lecture hall must be personally led by Your Majesty. Your Majesty will be defeated immediately, and there is no one to command the troops and fight. Your Majesty personally guides it. This martial arts lecture hall will definitely be very successful. Moreover, those soldiers who can be selected are also good seedlings in the army. In time, they will definitely become pillars of the Tang Dynasty's military. If Your Majesty personally led the martial arts lecture hall, then wouldn't the students in this martial arts lecture hall all become disciples of the emperor? This is also a glory for the students!"

The students in the martial arts lecture hall are all disciples of the emperor.

In a word, Li Shimin was very moved.

Yes, the emperor's disciple. In other words, the sacrificial wine in the martial arts hall is equivalent to the teacher of all the military officers and students.

In order to distinguish it from the Imperial College’s priest, Li Chao proposed to set up a principal in the martial arts hall, and Li Shimin personally served as the principal.

"Okay, then I will be the principal, but the preparations for the martial arts lecture hall will be handed over to Wen Yuan."

In the Political Affairs Hall, the emperor and Li Chao sang together, and the martial arts lecture hall was decided.

When Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda and others reacted there, they were already one step too late.

I just praised Li Chao for being honest and worthy of dependence, but why did he stand with the emperor in a blink of an eye? What kind of martial arts lecture halls are there, what kind of standing army is there? It doesn’t cost money?

Moreover, it is a very dangerous seedling to run a martial arts lecture hall. After training these officers in the standing army, it must be for the sake of war. Now the new dynasty should be reclaimed and cultivated martial arts. What should I do when I am fighting all day long? Just guard the country's gates and think about fighting every day. Isn't this Yang Guang?

Xiao Yu stood up unceremoniously, "Your Majesty, you have no money to train 30,000 permanent troops. It's even more time to run a martial arts lecture hall. The court should now stolen martial arts and cultivate culture."

Li Chao ignored the prime minister's face and immediately retorted, "If you just want to silence martial arts and cultivate culture, you will cut off one leg by yourself. A person must have two legs to walk and run. One literary and one martial arts is coordination. I have never heard of cutting off one leg and being able to run. We do not talk about military and military affairs, but we cannot abandon our martial arts skills. For example, today there are both the literary and imperial examinations, and of course there are martial arts examinations."

"Your Majesty, I think that the way to select students in the martial arts hall can imitate the imperial examination system, accept people with ambition in the world, and be selected after the assessment. Regardless of whether the military officers of the north and south yamen are equal in age and innocent people of the Tang Dynasty can register. In this way, both the Wei Mansion and the young people can sign up. The best people in the world have the opportunity, and the court can also choose the best ones."

"Li Xiangguo, you said it lightly, but 30,000 permanent troops will be set up, and even a martial arts lecture hall will be held, and even a rotation to guard the border. These all require money. Where does the money come from? Don't expect the 10 million in Taicang. Although the money is for your blessing and the income from open source, the court needs money everywhere and there is no extra money." Chen Shuda stood on Xiao Yu's side.

Fang Xuanling came out at this time.

"Your Majesty, you can have a regular army and a martial arts lecture hall, but I think you should take it slowly. Don't start with such a large scale. Now there are 20,000 Yulins, so you can expand one thousand cavalry. You can do it. Don't recruit so many people at once, just choose some officers to teach you."

This is mixed.

"That's right, Your Majesty, the last time I added 10,000 new feather forests, and the fields have not been collected yet. I have to add 10,000 cavalry, two million acres of land, and there is not so much land in the capital."

Gao Shilian also expressed practical difficulties.

Faced with the opposition of the prime ministers, Li Shimin once again turned his attention to Li Chao.

"Wen Yuan, you just said that there is a way to solve the military expenditure of the Beiya. You might as well talk about it now. I know that you have the ability to increase revenue, which is no more worrying than the prime ministers who are worried about national affairs all day long. They have no time to think about this matter of increasing revenue and reducing expenditure." Li Shimin said a little heavy, with a sarcastic look on his face.

He was so angry by the prime ministers.

Li Chao opened the source and the court added 10 million jin of taxes every year, but the prime ministers refused to even share one million with him.

Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda and others looked embarrassed.

If you are the emperor, you can tell the truth?

They admitted that they were indeed not as good as Li Chao in terms of making money, but managing the government is not just about the economy. They each have their own expertise!

Li Chao is indeed an expert in making money, but most people cannot compare with him, and his vision is different.

In the early Tang Dynasty, there was still a very small peasant idea. Various systems revolve around land, whether it is the tax system of renting and mediocre adjustment, the basic national policy of equal land, or even the military system of the government.

The land system, military system, tax system, and these three items are the foundation of the court, the equal-land system, the rent-in-one system and the military system, which basically determine the national system of the Tang Dynasty, which is based on agriculture.

There is no sense of commodity economy.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, salt was manufactured and sold by the people, and no tax was imposed. Minerals were mined, harvested and smelted by people. Tariffs were abolished, and the municipal tax was very low, and the court's commercial tax was almost no.

Taxes mainly rely on regular taxes for renters. If there are local areas such as wars or local disasters, the court has no money to use, so it can only pay donations and pay extra money.

This kind of donation and extra money is actually a hooligan style.

On the surface, the Tang Dynasty looked like the regular taxes were not high and there were very few miscellaneous taxes, but this kind of donation without a system was actually a mess. With the equal land system, it was not so ideal.

There are still many people who do not have land, and all have a quota of less than one hundred acres. However, the tax system for renting and taxation is based on this equal land system as the core. You are not even equal to one hundred acres of land. The court collects taxes based on the ranks, and the taxes for each rank are fixed.

This is the unreasonable point. On the surface, the court has fixed taxes and is guaranteed.

But in reality, the land will only become more and more powerful in the future, and the land that the people can get will become less and less, but the tax will not be less. If there is no land, there will be a tax of hundreds of acres of land?

How can this be fair, or how can the court guarantee the taxes received for these reservations?

Disaster.

The Tang Dynasty was less than a hundred years old, and the equal-field system and the rent-in-one system collapsed one after another.

It is simply a problem of field. The more mergers go, the less fields the people give, the less fields they give, so the basic systems with field as the core will not be implemented.

Now, after talking, I went around the field again.

Although the 30,000 permanent troops are not the unity of the army and the farmers, they have to be guaranteed. The court meant that these permanent troops would be paid, but the land would also be divided. After all, ordinary people were equalized. Could it be that the imperial guards of the Northern Imperial Army would not divide the land? After the land was divided, the court could set a low salary and reduce some expenses.

Moreover, the distribution of land cannot be replaced by paying a salary. After all, the land can make the soldiers more stable.

But two million acres of land still have to be marked out from the capital, how to draw it?

There are many places in the Guanzhong Plain, but there are more people.

The imperial court had moved many people to Longxi and Shuofang, and changed the fiefs of many nobles to the border, but Guanzhong still had few lands and many people.

It is far from enough to make up for the people of Guanzhong to make up for the equal land.

"Your Majesty, I have three solutions to the expenses of the Northern Imperial Guards and the martial arts lecture hall!"

“Three solutions?”

Li Shimin smiled.

Speaking of making money, Li Chao is indeed the most powerful. There are three solutions at the same time.

"Speak quickly!"

"First of all, the court has implemented new coins in Zhenguan Tongbao in advance, collected all the old coins in the world, and changed to minting new coins. Crushing new coins can be profited from half a profit. With the existing coin minting technology of the court, as long as there is enough copper, you can mint tens of millions of coins a year. Your Majesty, if you have half a profit, you can mint tens of millions of coins in new coins, you can make 500,000 coins!"

Five hundred thousand coins!

Even Chen Shuda and others couldn't help but breathe. It was 500,000. There were probably not a few nobles in Chang'an City with wealth of 500,000, but for the court, 500,000 is still a big number.

Why didn't they expect that it was 500,000. If they had thought of it, Taicang would have another 500,000. Now, the 500,000 must have fallen into the hands of the emperor.

Li Shimin laughed.

"This can be found. Shaofu Supervisor Coin Crime Bureau has built several coin workshops, coin molds, and hydraulic presses. Well, I can issue an edict to let the people of the world take the old money they have to the government to exchange within a specified period of time. If they fail to exchange it within the specified period, they will be ruined!"

"Wen Yuan, tell me this second solution!"

I got 500,000 yuan in one way, and this is definitely very good later.

"Your Majesty, in fact, the coin minting workshop can also convert the gold and silver collected by the court and the government into gold and silver coins. This is also half a profit. I estimate that if it is implemented well, it can add about 100,000 coins a year."

"This is also the first method, right? Okay, you continue!" Li Shimin smiled while twisting his beard.

Li Chao nodded.

"This second method of expansion is trade."

"trading?"

"That's right, trade is not just about opening up trade, but the court should also take the initiative to join in. Now we have the Silk Road to the Western Regions, the Southwest Silk Tea Road to the Tianzhu, and the Tea Horse Road to the Grassland of Mobei. These three are relatively mature routes. The court can form a trade team and transport merchants and goods to foreign trade. Your Majesty, the further the trade of goods, the greater the profit."

"In Chang'an, you may need to change to a piece of black tea with a good sheepskin, but in Ningyuan, you can change to a piece of black tea with a good sheepskin. On the grassland, you can change to a big fat sheep directly. If you go to the far place in the desert, you can even exchange for several sheeps with a pound of black tea. Your Majesty, this is the benefit of trade. The court is fully capable of organizing many large caravans to travel far away for four rounds."

"Also, this long-distance international trade not only makes a lot of money, but also allows the Tang Dynasty to understand the background and strength of the surrounding foreign countries in a timely manner, increase friendship with them, and strengthen contact. Promote the name of the Tang Dynasty to them, bring the words of the saints, and spread the culture of our Han Dynasty!"

Li Shimin never thought about letting the court build a caravan directly and international trade between countries. At most, other foreign merchant groups came to pay tribute. The court accepted their tribute and gave them back. This was actually a kind of trade with foreign countries, but he had never taken the initiative to trade abroad.

After hearing what Li Chao said, it seems to be very interesting. Li Shimin was very interested in spreading the reputation of the Tang Dynasty and spreading Han culture, but he was also more interested in making money.

"Wenyuan, how much can I earn in this trade in a year?"

"Your Majesty, international trade profits are extremely high. If you abandon the cost, it is not impossible to make a profit of ten times. At the beginning, the profit may be less, but when the route and the market open, I will not say much, I dare say that there will definitely be profits of three to five million yuan a year."

"Three or five million?" Li Shimin was shocked. He was satisfied with 300,000, not to mention 300,000.

"Okay, then let's do this international trade!" Li Shimin slapped in the thigh and agreed in a hurry.
Chapter completed!