Lao Eleven's performance today made Li Shimin very puzzled at first.

Whether the salt-drying technology is really as exaggerated as his younger brother said, Li Shimin naturally has doubts in his heart - for the ancient emperors, learning to distinguish the truth from the falsehood in the words of the courtiers is a matter of great question, and Li Shimin naturally will not believe Li Yuanjia so easily, even if he is his younger brother.

After all, there have been a lot of absurd things in these years, and the local government can make one hundred and eighty auspicious things for the emperor at any time.

In other words, it was Li Yuanjia who said that, and if he changed someone casually, I am afraid that the emperor would have reprimanded him a long time ago, plus he would have been demoted.

Merely......

Because of Li Yuanjia's previous "great military exploits", although the emperor was suspicious of his so-called method of drying salt, he also attached great importance to it.

Even if Datang is not short of salt, the price of salt is not high, but what if this method of drying salt is really so powerful?

If you really don't need to boil, just the wind and the sun can bring the salt out of the sea, it is a great thing for the people of the world - if you do the math, there is no problem in reducing the current salt price by half! And in this way, it means that whoever controls this method of drying salt may control the salt in the world!

Therefore, Li Yuanjia was willing to sell the method, and the emperor was naturally very satisfied.

He didn't even want to collect the salt tax, so naturally he wouldn't, and he didn't want to take this method of drying salt into his pocket. But because of Li Yuanjia's special status, Li Shimin would never be willing to let this method only be in his hands - the benefits of salt are too great, so big that the emperor cannot allow a certain person or a certain group to control it.

As for how much money he can make from it, Li Shimin doesn't care much about it.

How much more, how much more?

Anyway, it's not Li Shimin who spends money, so he doesn't care how much Lao Eleven can make from it...... For the emperor, if this method of drying salt is really so powerful, the more people who know it, the better. So after listening to his brother's plan, Li Shimin was still quite happy.

Merely......

Then he heard his younger brother say "let's do glass business together", which made Li Shimin completely stunned, and after a while, his eyes widened and said, "You, what did you just say?" Let me ...... with you Trade? ”

As he spoke, a wave of anger came up!

How bold!

It's just a matter of making salt drying methods and glass by himself, and if he wants to sell them, considering that these are all good things, Li Shimin, who borrowed them to make some money or something, thought about it and put up with it. As a result, now this kid has intensified, and he actually wants to pull himself in......

This kid is too bold now!

The dignified Emperor of the Tang Dynasty opened his door to do business, did he want to laugh at the dead?

I am rich in the world, but I lack your money?

Just when Li Shimin's anger rose and he was about to scold, Li Yuanjia, who saw that his eyes were wrong, quickly blinked his eyes and stretched out an index finger: "Second brother, one million!" ”

"You...... Yes? ”

The breath in his chest just spurted out of his mouth, and after hearing his words, Li Shimin's eyes instantly froze, and he swallowed back the words that followed.

Not only that, after being stunned for a while, Li Shimin's eyes began to flicker frequently, and his face finally couldn't help but change - don't look at the emperor getting angry in front of his younger brother at every turn, in fact, it was all Li Shimin's intention, deliberately letting Li Yuanjia see his attitude.

But this time, he really couldn't hold back!

A million times!

Even if it is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, he will be shocked when he hears this number!

After a year, how much is Datang's tax?

Others may not know it very well, but Li Shimin, as the emperor, understands it very well - the sum of all the money collected is not much more than one million guan!

In the early Tang Dynasty, taxes were mainly based on rent.

To put it bluntly, on the basis of the uniform land system, each household is granted 100 acres of land, of which 80 acres are divided into fields and 20 acres are Yongye fields, and then "rent" is collected according to the north and south. In the north, corn is paid at 2 stone per ding, and rice in the south is paid at 3 stone per ding...... The rice milled into rice is also about 2 koku, which is considered the unification of the north and the south.

As for mediocrity, it is actually hard labor, and every adult male has to serve the country for 20 days a year, which is to work for the country for free. If you don't want to, you can use silk instead, 3 feet a day, 20 days is not a small number.

Then there is the tune, the harvest is the textile, the place where the silkworm is raised, silk, silk, a total of 2 zhang, in addition to 3 taels of silk; The hemp-producing area collects 2.5 zhang of cloth and 3 catties of hemp......

Therefore, the country is so big, and the taxes collected by the imperial court are basically grain, silk and linen, and there are not a lot of copper coins.

Moreover, in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, it was really light and thin, unlike the Han Dynasty, which was a monopoly on salt and iron, and tea and wine were also bought and sold casually, and the imperial court did not care about it at all, and there was no national tax to collect commercial taxes! In addition, the tax exemption policy for the old, weak, sick and disabled and retired soldiers......

The reason why Datang is so awesome is really not luck.

Therefore, even if the annual tax revenue of the Tang Dynasty is quite large, especially the grain and cloth are quite rich, but because the money in the Zhenguan period is "very valuable", it is actually not much money when converted. In the twelfth year of Zhenguan, the total is less than 10 million!

If you count the money alone, it is more than a million guan!

Therefore, when he heard his younger brother suddenly say the words of one million guan, Li Shimin was suddenly stunned, and then his face changed - he didn't care about Li Yuanjia's money from selling the method of drying salt, which was tens of thousands of guan at most; He also didn't care about the carload of copper coins that Thirteen Xiang earned at the beginning, because although that thing was very expensive, the raw materials bought by Han Wangfu were not cheap.

But this time Li Yuanjia said a million words, Li Shimin couldn't take it seriously!

"Goo-dong!"

After swallowing his saliva, Li Shimin's expression became serious: "King Han, what you just said...... But a million?! ”

"Yes, a million times!"

After taking a deep breath, Li Yuanjia's face became also solemn: "Your Majesty, what my brother just said is a million guan!" ”

Before they knew it, the names of both of them had changed.

Li Shimin rarely calls his younger brother's title, and in order to shorten the distance between him and the emperor, in private, Li Yuanjia mostly calls the second brother, not His Majesty, but at this moment, both of them are subconsciously formalized.

"Whew...... Tell me more! ”

Exhaled lightly, Li Shimin's voice became a little muffled.

And Li Yuanjia was not in a hurry, he first considered the words and words, and then said seriously: "Your Majesty, you should know that the younger brother has plans to sell glass outside...... Not only to sell to our wealthy families in Chang'an and Luoyang, but also to sell them to the outside world......"