Chapter 127 The Professionalization of the Tang Dynasty

Everyone has ideals, when they can't eat, they want to live a life without worrying about food and clothing, but when they have no worries about food and clothing, they want to live a decent life, and when they have a decent life, they want to live a life of financial freedom.

This seems to be an unsolvable problem, and the problem in front of Xue Li is that he is not afraid of poverty, and the key is his wife Liu Yingchun. Liu Yingchun was originally a rich lady and enjoyed the days of worry-free food and clothing. I just started to eat coarse grain noodles with Xue Li, and there was a sense of freshness, but as soon as the freshness passed, Liu Yingchun couldn't eat it in the face of coarse tea and light rice.

However, Liu Yingchun is an interesting woman who never embarrass Xue Li. Thinking about him everywhere, he obviously doesn't like to eat coarse tea and light rice, but pretends to like it very much. Especially when other merchants were roasting mutton picnics in the wild, Liu Yingchun in the carriage swallowed desperately.

Of course, doing so would be a loss of Liu Yingchun's identity. Xue Li is not a wood, he feels that he is doing evil, and he must work hard to give Liu Yingchun a happy life.

Faced with a huge amount of money, Xue Li was immediately moved. With the rise of the slave trade, the slave catchers who went to Anxi made a lot of money, but there were also many people whose bones were missing.

Profiteering means risk.

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

Xue Li finally took the hundred-piece bill, stuffed the hundred-piece bill into his arms, Xue Li hesitated for a moment and said: "Brother Li, I am afraid of accidents, so I must take care of them first......

Li Qingxian said with a smile: "This is natural, if you settle in Anxi, there are a few good ones to go out, you might as well consider it!" ”

"Brother Li, please speak!"

"This one, it's in Tingzhou!" Li Qingxian said: "Tingzhou City has the most Tang people, and there are many garrisons, and it is the place where General Xue Wanche Xue of Xizhou Road is located, and safety will come first, but because we enter Anxi, it is too far away from Tingzhou, and it is very inconvenient to come and go, and Brother Xue is also newly married, so I am afraid it will be inconvenient!" ”

Xue Li asked, "Where else is it good?" ”

"The second is the turtle!" Li Qingxian pulled Xue Li to sit down, and said with a smile: "Qiuci Town is a military town defended by Su Dingfang, the first fierce general under the command of Anxi Chen Daduhufu, there, all the Hu people are as honest as rats, they don't dare to stab at all, and they are also very safe, if we go north, or west, the only bad thing is that Qiuci 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, initially in the sixth year of Wude, Qiuzi's homestead is about ten guan per acre, which is about the same as the price of good land in Chang'an, and the field is only one-tenth of the homestead, and ten guan money can buy ten acres. In the seventh year of Wude, the homestead soared to 30 guan yuan per mu, and now now one acre of homestead is at most 100 yuan, and the field is about one-third of Guanzhong, three guan per acre.

Xue Li could barely buy an acre of homestead close to the city with a hundred yuan, but there was no house here.

Xue Li smiled bitterly: "Brother Li, can I borrow some 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, his vision is very poisonous, although Xue Li deliberately rubbed off the traces on the carriage, but the traces of the word "Hedong" Yangwen still exist, he listened to Xue Li claiming to be surnamed Xue, he must have been born in Hedong Xue Li.

As one of the four wealthy clans, although the Hedong Xue clan is not as good as the seven sects and five wangs, it is definitely the second-class family in the world, and the Wenxi Pei clan, the Hedong Liu clan, and the Jingzhao Wei clan are famous as the clan.

Li Qingxian guessed that Xue Li should have had an unpleasant quarrel with his family, but the so-called broken bones are still connected to the tendons, and Xue Li will definitely give up his past suspicions with his family, and when the time comes, he will be able to form a good relationship with the Xue family in Hedong.

Li Qing thought for a while and said, "I can borrow you another 300 yuan, and I will deduct it from your share in the future!" ”

When Xue Li heard this, he was immediately overjoyed.

Xue Li signed the note and took the money to buy supplies. Although the post station provides meals, it is certainly not cheap, and many merchants choose to cook their own meals.

Xue Li bought a lot of things, three buckets of rice, two buckets of grain, salt, vinegar, sauce, and half a leg of mutton, these things weighed heavily on his body, which made Xue Li feel very accomplished.

Liu Yingchun and the maid washed the rice and put it in the pot, the pot was all brought by themselves, anyway, the briquette stove was there all night, and the merchants lined up to cook.

Waiting for the rice to be ready and the mutton to be stewed, Liu Yingchun took the rice and dined with Xue Li. Xue Li is a martial artist, and he has a large amount of food, and the speed is very fast, and a bowl of rice can be eaten in a dozen breaths.

Liu Yingchun waited for Xue Li to gobble up his meal, and then asked cautiously: "...... this money?"

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

With that, Xue Li put the rest of the money in Liu Yingchun's hands.

Looking at nearly four hundred bills, Liu Yingchun was shocked: "Xue Lang, you don't want someone else's way!" ”

Xue Li nodded and said: "Don't worry, lady, this is the money I advanced, with my hands, I can also fight the world!" ”

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Li Jiancheng is a good emperor, and he is not only his own courtiers, but also hundreds of millions of ordinary people.

In the fifth year of Kaiyuan, that is, the sixth year of Li Jiancheng's accession to the throne, Li Jiancheng signed a joint signature of the six ministers of the political hall under the door and issued Li Jiancheng's decree.

"The emperor's edict said: I inherit the great industry, burn the salary, dare not slack off, the officials govern the people hard, I heard it, the ancients and the holy king ruled the world, the people did not endow, and the sea was rich enough, although I was not sensitive, I also yearned for it. Its order, from now on, has a Tang dynasty, never endowment! ”

As soon as this holy decree came out, all the people in the world were stunned.

In the Song and Tang dynasties, whether it was Confucianism or the gentry, they still had to show their faces. At least it won't be as cheap as in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and they can still distinguish between good and bad. There are even many scholars who are full of ideals and Mingjun thoughts, and they are moved.

Never give!

What a benevolent government!

Three Emperors and Five Emperors, who mentioned it, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, who shouted it?

This is the real benevolent king!

I have to say that Kang Mazi's hand is still very capable of bluffing, including the later Jin Daxia and countless mites to clear the remnants, but they all think that this is Kang Mazi's benevolence.

However, this is simply a false proposition of. Because in China, taxes and levies. It's always separated. The tax is used for national defense spending, yamen expenditure, and various local affairs and channel excavation and repair, etc. And Fu. It was used to build a palace temple for the emperor to eat, drink and have fun. To put it bluntly, taxes go into the treasury, and endowments are the emperor's internal funds, and this thing does not go to the treasury.

Li Jiancheng naturally does not need to add taxes, Chen Ying created the royal business union, there are Li Jiancheng's three percent of the shares, and now Anxi Duobaoshan Copper Mine also has Li Jiancheng's three percent of the shares, Duobaoshan is the name Chen Ying. Mining at Duobaoshan was a top priority, and Li Jiancheng sent more than 3,000 craftsmen, plus a total of 60,000 troops led by Donggong Siwei to Duobaoshan, and it was expected that the first batch of copper would be produced at the beginning of the fifth year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty.

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 storage of copper is more than 20 million catties.

The copper ingots that continued to aid were sent to Chang'an, and they were sent to the inner chamberlain to begin casting Kaiyuan Tongbao with all their might.

Because 20 million catties of copper can mint nearly 3 million copper coins, 3 million copper coins, as long as they are put into the market, it will obviously cause a new round of inflation in Datang.

The money was not distributed for free, but for the transformation of the army of the Tang Dynasty.

In fact, whether it is the government military system of the Tang Dynasty or the guard system of the Ming Dynasty, they all bind the army to the land, which is very wrong.

Although the Tang Dynasty has established a full 367 Zhichong Mansions, the number of these armies can reach more than 550,000 horses, but in addition to the Anxi Army, the Andong Army and the Twelve Wei Army, these armies are only 370,000 horses, which are professional troops. The professional army accounted for only one-third of the total army of the Tang Dynasty.

Now Datang's professional army construction has been lagging behind, it's not that Li Jiancheng doesn't want to build, the key is that there is no money, the court has no money, how to pay the army? How to feed such a Datang army of nearly one million?

Although the half-job construction of the army can save military spending, it can also reduce the financial pressure on the imperial court. The point is a half-vocational army, which is easy to raise peasants. For example, the army of the Cao Wei era could beat the Wuheng, Xiongnu, and Qiang people at the beginning of the founding of the country, but in the later period, it became a farmer with a blade.

Of course, the same is true of the Ming Dynasty. There was literally a million troops, but as a result, even the capital was not defended.

The deterioration of combat effectiveness in a semi-professional army is only one of the reasons. Another reason is that the army, which is indoctrinated with the meaning of small peasants, can easily lose its wolf nature.

Li Jiancheng didn't take it seriously in advance, but now that he has the absolute threat of Li Shimin, he must be cautious about this issue.

After having the money, Li Jiancheng did not hesitate to put the professionalization of the army on the agenda.

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

From today onwards, although the government soldiers are still stationed in various places, they still enjoy the right of tax exemption for their families, and they themselves receive a salary of seven yuan and two hundred yuan a year.