Chapter 450: Ten years of change have passed in the blink of an eye

The days are getting hotter and hotter, and people's hearts are more irritable.

The third floor of Changfeng Pavilion once again welcomed distinguished guests, and Li Dong, who had come into contact with the people of the clan who had been in contact with him at the beginning, came over today and gathered more Silla merchants to gather on the third floor of Changfeng Pavilion to discuss important matters.

"Everyone, the matter of building the road has been decided, see how much living money you still have on hand, and gather enough one million yuan as soon as possible to build the road, and the above will give me certain benefits."

Seeing that everyone's eyes were on him, Li Dong took out a piece of paper from his arms, pushed it in front of a person next to him, and asked him to pass it on, and said to a group of people.

There are not many words on the paper, you can see the end from the beginning to the end with two glances, the room is quiet, no one answers Li Dong's words for the time being, and they have passed it on, and after half an hour, everyone has finished reading it, and when they raised their heads again, there was a trace of worry in their eyebrows.

The person who first read the words on the paper hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Li Dongjia, one million yuan is not a small amount for me, and the person above only said that there will be a return in the future, but we can't know when it will be in the future, and how much will the return be?" It's worrying. ”

The others also thought of this, nodded their heads, and looked at Li Dong again, wanting to get a specific time and quantity from his mouth.

Li Dong glanced around, and there was a kind of helplessness in his heart, one million yuan, let himself and others be so difficult, all kinds of news from the Tang Dynasty, not to mention the mountain-like financial resources of the Zhang and Wang families, even if they are ordinary merchants with a little ability in various places, when needed, they can also make up millions of dollars.

This is the gap, if you want to make money for ten years, how can a businessman in Datang have such a ability? Ten years, said long, such as the sunrise and sunset all day long, said short, like the wind passing away colorful clouds, looking back, suddenly flowing away.

When I went to meet with the people of the clan, I also mentioned this matter, in the past ten years, the children who entered the hall at the age of ten have grown up, and in ten years, the grain yield per mu of Datang has more than quadrupled.

Ten years ago, maybe the mountain has not changed its color, the water has not weakened its waves, but the Tang Dynasty is getting stronger and stronger, ten years ago, Li Longji can only be gentle with Silla, ten years later, Li Longji gave an order, gunboats surrounded.

"Hey~" Thinking of this, Li Dong couldn't help but sigh, looked at the people who were still making their own calculations, and said: "Everyone, now that the Tang Dynasty has piled up grain, gathered people into forests, and all kinds of advanced technologies have emerged in an endless stream, if you still think about that little bit of self-interest, maybe there will be no Silla in another ten years, and then you and I will be sinners, and maybe we will not even have the qualifications to be sinners." ”

When everyone heard Li Dong's words, they were stunned for a moment, and then thought about it carefully, it was really the same, once Silla was annexed by the Tang Dynasty, the status of themselves and others would inevitably be lost.

Knowing this, but still uncomfortable in his heart, a person sitting opposite Li Dong moved, and asked, "Since you know, why didn't the clan take out the money to build the road, and it had to embarrass us businessmen?" ”

"It's not that Datang is making trouble, in the past, I Silla went to Datang to pay tribute, and Datang accepted things, and would give more things, money, technology, cloth, and leather as a reward, and then I don't know why, I Silla sent a lot of things, and the things that Li Longji rewarded changed.

There are gorgeous glass products, beautiful and exquisite furniture, and even a voucher to eat at the Zhuangyuan Building and the proud house, every 100 yuan spent, which can be used 20 yuan of vouchers, and recently began to include the water and clouds and the blue sea and silver sand, giving a lot of money, a give is a million.

But what's the use of that? Glass, furniture, can't eat or drink, and if you really want to use up one million yuan of vouchers, you have to take out four million yuan to eat and drink.

In addition, some people in the clan like to have fun, and they exchange my Silla money for the luxury goods of the Tang Dynasty, how can the clan be rich? People of insight found out about this and were worried, so they found us to get through the difficult time for a while. ”

Li Dong was angry when he talked about this, angry at Li Longji's shrewdness, and the incompetence of the Qi Sect people.

The others fell silent for a moment, not knowing what to say.

After a long while, someone asked in a low voice, "Li Dongjia, even if I raise enough money, will it be good for Silla?" ”

This is a key question, and those who have not spoken out want to know that even if it is not for their own selfish interests, they will take out money and build a good road to the Tang Dynasty for Silla, it must have some effect.

Li Dong nodded, "That's the truth, when I went to meet the people above, I also thought about it, and the people above said that it is not a good thing that there are many Tang ships coming and going to Silla now, let them be familiar with my Silla sea area, in case of transporting troops to attack at sea, my Silla will not be able to prevent it."

Therefore, in the future, it is not allowed to enter the land of Silla from any place on the sea, and only two specific wharves are allowed to dock, and land transportation naturally becomes the most important thing.

Compared with Datang, my Silla produces less, and with the existence of tariffs, we can sell less goods to Datang, or not sell goods to Datang, as long as Datang's goods come in, they have to pay 20% of the tariff, and this money will be used by the clan to build weapons and protect people's livelihood.

This money is free, the more they transport it, the greater the advantage we take, and there are other benefits, such as my Silla ordinary people can't afford to eat meat, but Datang meat is cheap, you also know that the current Datang, as long as the people are hardworking enough, they don't need much ability, even if they want to eat meat every day.

Datang is shipped, I think the price will not be too high, at least cheaper than our own side, as well as cloth and other things, especially grain, as mentioned above, if it is affected, you can use the tariff of 20% to buy Datang's grain directly. ”

Everyone's eyes lit up, and they found that it was indeed a good plan, and they were about to agree, when one of them asked a new question: "According to this, my Silla will always take advantage, isn't that Zhang Xiaobao a fool?" I'd rather believe that the sun is coming out in the west than that he has such good intentions. ”

"yes." Several people spoke at the same time.

"This ...... Maybe it's because there are too many products in Jili State, he can't sell them, and he wants to sell them to my Silla, or maybe he wants to get my Silla's good things to Datang faster, even if the two are not the same, but he is going to repair the road to facilitate the Tang army to come, it's just a little faster, there is no good road, the Datang army wants to come, who can stop it? ”

Li Dong said what he said, even he didn't have a bottom in his own heart, he understood that Zhang Xiaobao could not be treated with ordinary people's opinions.

"Xiu, it doesn't matter what he thinks, he will take out more money than us, so let's take advantage of it first." One of them gritted his teeth and said the words.

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