"University scholar, just now Jinyiwei commanded Li Jian to send three thousand catties of silver ingots, saying that the saint asked Jinyiwei to send it to the household department, and also said that the scholar knew, and the lower official was a little puzzled, so he came to inquire."

Daming Palace, cabinet, Xu Yousun stood respectfully in front of Li Yu.

When Li Mi heard this, he put down the fold in his hand, "How did you deal with it?" ”

"After the lower officials asked them to count it, it was 3,000 catties, and it was collected into the treasury." Xu Yousun replied.

"That's fine. Today, the Holy Lord also sent someone to inform the official of this matter. Li Yu nodded.

"University scholar, Jin Yiwei said that this is a Japanese man. The Japanese have not sent Tang envoys over the years, nor are they my Tang vassal states, how can there be 3,000 catties of silver ingots sent? Look at that technique, it is still smelted by Jinyiwei himself.

Xia Guan was a little puzzled! Xu Yousun said.

"Naturally, it was not obtained by the Japanese people, this was mined by the sailors and Jinyi Wei from the Japanese people. The Holy Lord has already said that in the future, all the gold and silver mined from the Japanese people will be filled into the royal treasury, and the silver ingots will be half of the royal treasury and half of the national treasury. Li Mi explained.

"The sailors mined in the land of the Japanese people? Would the Japanese allow the sailors to mine gold and silver? Xu Yousun reacted quickly, and looked at Li Yu incredulously, "Scholar, the water master won't be... ”

Li Mi nodded, "The decree directly issued by the Holy Lord did not pass the cabinet. ”

"But that's too..." Xu Yousun felt that something was wrong, "The war between Nanzhao and the Western Regions has just ended, even if the treasury is abundant now, it can't afford to be ransomed by such a poor soldier as the Holy Lord!" ”

"So didn't the Holy Lord ask the sailor and the brocade guard to divide half of the silver ingots to the treasury? Isn't this just giving the military money in advance? Li Mi wasn't too surprised, he still knew about the saint's ambitions.

This saint wants to surpass the ancestors of Taizong and Xuanzong, so he will naturally not be satisfied with the status quo.

I don't know where the Holy One knew that the kingdom of the Japanese people produced gold and silver, so there were these things.

"But these three thousand catties of silver ingots are not enough? If it is an expedition to the Japanese country, it will cost millions of dollars, and if it cannot be captured in one fell swoop, it will cost even more. Xu Yousun said worriedly.

"Do you know how much gold and silver the Jinyi Guard has brought back from the Waren Kingdom this year?" Li Mi said.

"I don't know."

"Three hundred pounds of gold and fifteen,000 pounds of silver were brought back from the Japanese people; A total of 100 catties of gold ingots and 1,300 catties of silver ingots were brought back from Silla; 2,300 catties of gold ingots and 7,000 catties of silver ingots were transported back from Jinzhou; Dongning Prefecture brought back 800 catties of gold ingots and 300 catties of silver ingots.

How much is that? Li Mi asked with a smile.

"So much?" Xu Yousun was stunned for a moment, "Why hasn't the household department seen these before?" ”

Regardless of the gold ingots, the silver ingots transported back from these four places in the thirteenth year of Qianning alone amounted to more than 23,000 catties, with a total value of more than 300,000 yuan.

But with such a large sum of silver, the household seems to have seen the three thousand catties sent today, and there is no shadow of the others.

It's not that the household department has no silver, the imperial court has an official-run institution that specializes in mining gold and silver mines. Although the silver ore mined by the official banking institution is slightly more than that, it is not much.

"Because except for today's three thousand catties, the others have entered the royal treasury." Li Mi said.

"Why doesn't the lower official know about this?"

"There are a lot of things you don't know, these things are all in charge of the water master and the brocade guard, if it weren't for the fact that the official is the head of the household department or the cabinet scholar, he may not know this.

Leave the silver ingots alone, and collect them into the treasury.

According to the will of the Holy Lord, the output of silver on the side of the Japanese may be doubled or even more next year, and then it will be divided into five and a half according to the treasury and the inner treasury. ”

Li Mi is also afraid that this deputy will ask indiscriminately, so it can be regarded as a friendly reminder, come to the household department, just know some things, don't ask too much.

"Yes, Xia Guan understands!"

Li Ye is not afraid that the household department will object, now these 3,000 catties of silver ingots are just the beginning, you must know that the Japanese people can produce up to 200 tons of silver a year in history, what is this concept?

When converted into a Tang weight, 200 tons is equivalent to 330,000 catties, and when converted into copper coins, it is 5,330,000 guan (let's press 1:1000).

Although 5 million guan is not much, after all, the current annual income of the national treasury is tens of millions of guan.

But even if the household department only gets half, almost 2.7 million guan, it is enough to support a big war.

At least the previous Nanzhao, or the Xizhou Uighurs, actually did not exceed two million guan.

On the Uighur side of Xizhou, although the imperial court planned to spend 5 million guan, it did not actually spend that much, because the war ended relatively quickly.

As far as Li Mi is concerned, as long as the silver ingots from the Japanese can increase the income of the national treasury by millions of yuan every year, he can still accept a little military expenditure, after all, he does not pay for the ministry.

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Compared with the time when the Tang Dynasty began to grab gold and silver from the Wa Kingdom and make profits, the Wa State was a bit big.

Because piracy caused a lot of disasters to the whole of Wa Province, not only the coastal countries such as Iwami, Izumo, and Nagato, but also Hizen, Chikuzen, Satsuma, Okui, and Higo in Kyushu in the west, and Sado, Noto, Kaga, and Echigo in the east.

It's not that the Wa Kingdom didn't send people to drive away these pirates, but except for occupying Iwami abroad, the pirates didn't go deep into the interior at other times, they all grabbed and ran, and they couldn't chase them.

However, regarding the matter of piracy, the high-level of the Japanese state was noisy.

Of course, it was a dispute between Michizane Sugawara, who had been promoted to the right minister, and Tokihei Fujiwara, the left minister.

Because with Sugawara Michizane's promotion to the right minister, the conflict with the Fujiwara family has become more intense.

"Your Majesty, according to the situation in recent months, the minister suspects that there are people behind these Han Kou." Sugawara Michizane knelt down at the table and said earnestly to the little emperor on the throne.

The current emperor of the Wa Kingdom, called Emperor Daigo, is only 15 years old this year, which is not very old.

"What is the basis for Aiqing's words?" Emperor Daigo asked in that childish tone.

Don't look at Emperor Daigo has succeeded to the throne, but his father Emperor Uta is still alive, but now he is not called Emperor Uta, but Emperor Uta.

However, Emperor Uta is now in the temple most of the time, although he is also paying attention to the court situation, but after all, he has been forced to abdicate, and he does not have much say in the major affairs of the court.

"Your Majesty, in the past few months, according to reports from Anyun, Nagato, Izumo and other countries, they have found that these Han Kou's weapons are not only Silla's weapons, but also weapons from the Tang people, including horizontal swords, although they are not sophisticated, they account for a relatively large proportion of Han Kou's weapons.

Among the weapons seized by the Han Kou, the weapons of the Tang people accounted for nearly forty percent. Moreover, according to the captured Han Kou, in Iwami Province, they had also seen Tang and Tang merchant ships, and the minister suspected that there must be something wrong with them. ”