Chapter 391 Shock~

Not only was Li Shimin surprised, but the ministers also lost their temper when they heard this number, this is a full hundred tons of gold - if this figure is not mistaken, just with so much gold, Datang is equivalent to an additional year and a half of treasury revenue (Datang's annual income last year was 20 million yuan, 100 tons is about 3.2 million taels, one tael of gold to ten taels of silver, that is, 32 million taels of silver), and this is purely calculated according to the price of gold, you must know that gold is hard currency, Liquidity is not powerful in any era, and no one is stupid enough to spend gold directly.

What's more, although the exchange rate of gold against silver is almost 1:10, but it is only a small-scale exchange, if the amount of gold is large enough, no one will follow this law, if a hundred tons of gold really want to be exchanged together, even if the exchange rate grows to 1:15 or even 1:20 is not impossible, the specific situation depends on how much profit the bank can make.

This is a hundred tons of gold, you must know that the king bank that Li Zhen and his brothers made is known as a small treasury, but in fact, the gold reserves are only more than 30 tons.

Although Li Zhen claims to be rich and rivals the country, his annual income even exceeds the tax revenue of the national treasury, and the gold in his hand is only less than ten tons after all these years.

It's not that he doesn't want to buy more, it's really no way - the treasury is definitely impossible, Li Zhen of King Bank is just one of the shareholders, not a decision-maker, only to buy from retail investors......

It's just that others are not stupid, they all know the benefits of gold, unless it is a last resort, no one will sell gold, even if it is sold, it will be sold or given to the bank, because the bank's gold may be withdrawn in the future, and the gold falling into Li Zhen's hands is really a meat bun and a dog will never return.

Li Zhen didn't think about buying at a premium, but he is not a gold collector, there is really no need for this, and it is more cost-effective for him to invest a little more in industry with this spare money.

It can be said that a hundred tons of gold is really a big number, let's take another example, what is Datang's treasury gold reserves? Don't look at the great business of the Tang family, in fact, if I talk about gold reserves, in fact, it is only less than 300 tons, this is a fixed asset, but also the national capital, and it must not be easily used - of course, in addition to gold, Datang also has silver reserves, not to mention these. Even Datang only has a reserve of 300 tons, which shows that the status of gold in the eyes of the world in this era is even stronger than that of later generations.

And now a battle of Tianzhu has increased the gold reserves of the Tang Dynasty treasury by one-third, what does this mean? This means that Datang's national strength has increased by a full thirty percent almost instantly. If you don't consider other factors, just for these gold, the original five-year recuperation plan can be completely nullified, with this batch of gold, Datang can completely get out of the losses in the war in three years at most, and even the economy can take off again, and it will not be a problem to double the treasury revenue after five years.

Of course, those who should cultivate for five years still have to cultivate for five years, if nothing else, just because Datang has been fighting foreign wars in recent years, and while winning repeatedly, it also consumes Datang's own vitality, and the people are even more war-weary, etc., these losses are not compensated for by economic growth, and the only thing that can treat the loss of vitality is time, so in any case, five years of cultivation and recuperation are necessary, and they are not transferred by external forces.

All in all, the injection of 100 tons of gold is also very powerful for Datang, at least the original battle plan seems to be able to be changed after five years, after all, the economic strength after five years is stronger than expected, and it is understandable that the war plan will be changed because of this.

"Actually, it's not that much, because the gold is not pure." Xue Wanche saw that everyone was surprised, and he was very proud in his heart, and said with a little modesty: "Because most of this gold comes from the statues of the gods of the temple and various gold utensils, in order to make the statues look more luxurious and dignified, the craftsmen added some copper to them when casting the statues, so although it is a hundred tons of gold in name, in fact, the gold content is only eighty percent at most, and the rest is copper (there may be other metals, otherwise twenty percent of the copper content, the color of gold is already close to the pink of rose gold.) , this color is not good to look at when used to cast gods). ”

"That's not a lot." Cheng Yanjin still said excitedly: "If all of them are purified, it will be a full eighty tons, and it will be worth a year's treasury tax of our Datang Dynasty even if it is counted as silver." ”

"Yes, eighty or ninety tons of gold, that's not a small amount."

"And don't forget, the copper in it is also a lot of money."

"This battle seems to be really right, but I used to think it was a loss-making deal."

"Who's to say it isn't? Who would have known that there would be so much gold in such a poor countryside as Tianzhu? ”

"I lost a lot of money, I knew that I would also go to Tianzhu, how much loot do I have to make here?"

"Hehe, what's the use of talking about this now? I can't envy it. ”

“……”

For a while, everyone talked about it, some regretted, some envious, some jealous, and everyone had different tones, but most of them had a supportive attitude towards the battle of Tianzhu - nonsense, they got so much gold after fighting a war, it would be good if such a war could come a few more times, and Datang could achieve four modernizations just by fighting a war.

Only a few officials from the Buddhist sect were very dissatisfied, or had a misunderstanding between Xue Wanche and Liu Hongji, so they asked sharply: "It's a good thing that there is a lot of gold, but if you blaspheme the gods and Buddhas like this, aren't you afraid of heaven's punishment?" ”

"Of course it doesn't count." Liu Hongji glanced at a few people, these bastards who eat people and don't do anything will just dismantle the stage for us.

In his heart, he wrote down this hatred, and explained in his mouth: "According to Your Majesty's holy will, Brahmanism has been declared a cult by us, and cult gods such as Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva have also been degraded as false gods. ”

"......" Those people stopped talking, of course there is nothing wrong, this is Li Shimin himself, not to mention that they are disciples of Buddhism, and they can't fight with the Brahmanical sect, they have no reason to cry out for the Brahmanism, the reason why they are against Liu Hongji is because they think that the Tang army is robbing the gold in the Buddhist temple, and now the misunderstanding is clear, as long as the Tang army does not touch the property of the Buddhism, they don't care where your gold comes from - although they are also very jealous of this batch of gold, that is.

(End of chapter)