Sun Xiangfu really did not disappoint Li Shimin, and arched his hand, "Your Majesty, think about it, wearing and using the items you have rewarded must be an honor for the ministers!" But when the ministers discovered that this glory could be bought with money······

Hehe, Weichen thinks that the price of Supreme Leather Goods and Imperial Furniture can rise several times. ”

Hearing this, the eldest grandson, who has never liked to interject Li Shimin's words, couldn't hold back any longer, laughed on his shoulders, and then covered his mouth and looked at Sun Xiangfu and said, "You kid, you are too thief, those ministers have been cheated by you, I'm afraid they still think it's worth it." ”

"Well, business! Pay attention to your love and my wishes, and when Your Majesty and Niangniang are fine, you should also wear more products of supreme leather goods in front of people, which is very helpful to improve the grade of the brand. ”

"I see that your head is being used for this crooked way, so go down first if it's okay! Remember to do the errands I have given you, and the will and reward will be delivered to your house later, so do it as soon as possible. ”

Li Shimin glanced at Sun Xiangfu with a complicated expression, and then let him go down, and when Sun Xiangfu came out of the hall, he said to the eldest grandson, "The two shops opened by the Forestry Department and the Animal Husbandry Department have been opened, how is the business going?" ”

The eldest grandson replied with a satisfied smile, "The daily profit of the two shops is as high as 1,000 yuan. ”

"Thousands of daily profits?"

Even Li Shimin, who knew that these two shops might make a lot of money, was shocked when he heard this, the daily profit was 1,000 yuan, 30,000 yuan a month, 300,000 yuan a year, two stores, 780,000 yuan a year, and almost 300,000 yuan of Datang's tax revenue.

"Guanyin, in the long run, will all the money in the world be earned by us?" After a few rounds of calculations, Li Shimin was a little confused.

"No, haven't all the money earned by the harem been spent recently, those who have earned our money will be taken away by others, unless someone only earns and does not spend, otherwise, everyone will benefit from this process." Empress Eldest Sun shook her head and said.

"Uh, where did you hear this theory?"

"Who else can there be, Sun Zhengming! He previously gave a chapter to the concubines, in addition to these, he also mentioned commercial taxes, he said, Datang can not only grasp the poorest peasants to collect taxes, should collect taxes from businessmen who make money more easily, at least to open more fields, standardize the scope of transactions, so that neighboring countries and Datang have a stable trading market, but this matter involves the government, if Your Majesty does not ask, the concubines will not mention. ”

The harem does not interfere in politics, this is its duty, so even if the eldest grandson Wuwu thinks that what Sun Xiangfu said is reasonable, he will not make a suggestion to Li Shimin.

The real commercial tax law of the Tang Dynasty was only implemented during the Tang Dezong period, and before that, only the implementation of the market tax was not strict, that is, only after the customs clearance, and the items set up by the imperial court to trade, someone would collect taxes, which was basically only for international bulk trade taxes, because the internal goods of the Tang Dynasty, if not necessary, would basically not pass the customs, and no one would stupidly go to the market to trade.

Sun Xiangfu actually mentioned it to the eldest grandson Wuwu by the way, before the Turks were not eliminated and the commercial roads of the Western Regions were not all opened, the commerce of the Tang Dynasty was not very developed, and it was not easy to really bring up the commercial tax, the first major factor is that the big merchants have family backgrounds, and if you want to collect their money, they will collectively oppose it and make trouble for you in the court.

The second major factor is that a lot of manpower is needed to grasp the matter of taxation, Datang now has less than half a CD of literate people, where can you find so many people who can write and calculate to help the court collect taxes, and how much does it cost to support these people? How much does it cost to collect taxes? Some small taxes, dozens of texts, dozens of texts, may be enough to buy a pen, ink and paper, so it is very unrealistic.

The focus of Sun Xiangfu's recital is actually to want Li Shimin to build more international fields that can levy commercial taxes, and the imperial court will guide the trading of some goods.

Especially in the next year or two, Sun Xiangfu may take Datang's agriculture a big step forward, only with one or two million people in Datang, Datang's output cannot be consumed at all, so it is necessary to pave a road in advance to establish some output ends for these agricultural products, just like Sun Xiangfu established Wangjiang Tower.

Without Wangjianglou, the happy village can not be made into such a large industry, the products can not be sold in large quantities, high prices, the people who produce these things, at most they are full, once they are sold, the whole is revitalized, the happy village can buy and develop a lot of things they need through the money in hand, so that they can develop better.

If there is no accident, in the next two or three years, the price of grain in Datang will drop to a terrible level, Sun Xiangfu is more concerned about the history of crops, knowing that in the entire history, the lowest period of grain prices is the Zhenguan Dynasty, a bucket of rice in a good year is only three or four dollars, what is this thought? A bucket of rice is about 12 catties, which is equivalent to a penny that can buy 3 or 4 catties of grain, and the current grain price is almost 60 or 70 yuan, that is, it will fall by 20 times.

However, such a low price of grain, in addition to allowing the people to eat enough, did not allow the country to accumulate much capital, because most people in this period did not know how to exchange grain for other things, if the Tang Dynasty in this period used grain to exchange for the people on the grassland who did not have enough to eat, then, without starting a war, most of the small tribes on the grassland would not exist.

It is precisely because the Zhenguan Dynasty is no longer short of food after two or three years of hardship, so many people who are full of food and support go to rebel, which is not unrelated to the landlord class's inability to receive benefits and secretly promote, and it may also be that after the world is invincible, those people at the top of the Tang Dynasty are too lonely!

However, all this is destined to be impossible to follow the original trajectory of history, because Sun Xiangfu this variable appeared, this year, he successfully let Guanzhong lose hundreds of thousands of acres of grain fields, in the future, it may be one million acres, or even more, when everyone does not concentrate on growing food, then the world will be more rich and diverse.

After returning home, Sun Xiangfu began to make practical preparations for going south, first of all, the number of guards.

There are only twenty guards in the inner world that Sun Xiangfu can mobilize, and they want to stay in Chang'an to protect Yu Xiu'er, so Sun Xiangfu transferred fifty people from the escort team of Xingfu Village, with Zhao Long as the leader, Xi Junmai as the personal guard, plus where did Zhang Gongjin borrow thirty sailors and boatmen, as well as more than a dozen boatmen and more than a dozen craftsmen from Xingfu Village, and the water steamer named Happiness by Sun Xiangfu was basically full.

Then there are the items to be carried, the grains, vegetables and fruits for personal use must be some, and then there are the five thousand pieces of leather goods of the Supreme Leather Goods, which are actually only one hundred boxes in a bag, and they can't even occupy half of the space in the second-floor cabin.

There is also Li Shimin entrusted Sun Xiangfu to bring to Lingnan a hundred Quyuan ploughs, all folded in the cabin, and loaded a thousand silk cloth, ten boxes of gold, silver and bronze, three sets of furniture, only to fill the space in the cabin is almost the same, as for the keel of the treadmill without a shelf, a long strip on the deck of a few shelves, this thing, carpenters go to Lingnan, teach them to make it is not difficult, the emperor rewards, that is what it means.

The Happiness loaded with goods was very stable on the water, and the faint waves of Qujiang Pond could not even make it shake any bigger, until Xuanzang, who took the little novice, and Li Chunfeng, who brought a Taoist boy, also squeezed onto the boat, and the Happiness could officially set sail.

On the dock, Yu Xiuer sent Sun Xiangfu all the way to the ship.

"Husband, take care of yourself all the way, go and come back quickly."

"Well, don't be idle at home, teach your younger brothers and sisters to read, arrange the later scenes, and in addition, the ice-making method I taught you last night can give them a strong hand, and when the melons and fruits in the field are harvested, let them dig some deeper cellars and save the melons and fruits."

"Knowing the husband, when you come back, the concubine will keep you and return you to a happy village that makes a lot of money." The entanglement on the eve of departure is not enough for outsiders, Sun Xiangfu mentioned the incident of last night, but Yu Xiu'er's face was a little unbearable, and she said coquettishly.

"Alright, let's all go back! It won't be long before I'll be back. ”

It was not only Yu Xiuer who saw them off, but also many villagers from Happy Village, Sun Dali's brothers and Shi Bao were all there, Sun Xiangfu gave them reassuring eyes one by one, their work had already been on the right track under Sun Xiangfu's arrangement, if there was no accident, when Sun Xiangfu came back, the situation was already very good.

Raise the sails and set sail.

The sailors in charge of maneuvering the ship did not even dare to raise all five sails, in that case, the speed would be too fast, who called it spring and smooth sailing!

When the Happiness was far away from the sight of everyone on the dock, Sun Xiangfu quickly cut off his sorrow and said to Zhao Long beside him, "Let the escort team wear armor and equip it!" ”

"Order!"

Zhao Long bowed, and soon, under his leadership, fifty guards went to the bottom cabin, and in less than a quarter of an hour, when they came out again, their whole bodies were already covered with shining armor, and the standard weapon Jingtiepu knife was already hanging on their waists, at this time, each of them was holding a hard crossbow in their hands, and it was a double crossbow for one person, and each crossbow had a box of crossbow arrows loaded on it.

That's right, Sun Xiangfu is still afraid of death as always, so his subordinate craftsman research and development team has never stopped developing weapons and protective gear, with a large amount of money invested, the Zhuge repeater that was widely used in the military during the Three Kingdoms period was created, and after strengthening the toughness of the raw materials and the pulley device, the crossbow is stronger, equipped with a special fine iron arrow, it can do armor piercing within fifty steps, piercing people within eighty steps, and killing within one hundred steps.

As for the kind of armor that covers the whole body and also wears face armor, the cost of each pair is not less than 100 guan, and it is composed of chain mail and plate armor, although it is heavier, but it has little impact on the action, and it is generally stronger than the fish scale armor worn by the senior generals of the Tang Dynasty and the defense of Ming Guangkai.