Chapter 245: Banquet Hall on the Rooftop
The advantage of the long-term training queue is to be able to exercise the obedience of the soldiers, it is foreseeable that more than 100,000 Datang soldiers who have undergone more than three months of devilish queue training will become the most elite troops in the Tang Dynasty, no general does not like to completely obey the order of the troops, and with the soldiers who completely obey the order, it is easier to give birth to a strong general, as long as they see the reference troops of Chang'an City, no one will doubt Yanglin's ability to command and train the troops, so the fate of Yanglin after the parade is worrying, Because the Tang Dynasty still can't tolerate anyone who has control over the army except for the emperor, but unfortunately Li Chengqian's brothers still don't understand this truth.
Li Shimin, who positions himself in the position of the king of pioneering, needs more than a son who can become the king of Shoucheng to succeed to the throne, if this king of Shoucheng can master some imperial weighing techniques under the appearance of loving the people like a son and being honest, then Li Er is basically qualified here, and now Li Chengqian and Li Tai are considered to have gone the wrong way, and people who only know the way to fight for power, such as Sima Yi and his son, are not the kings of the third generation. The Son of Heaven, first of all, you have to learn to govern the world, and those who can't govern the world are in charge of the world, even if you can fight for power again, the same will destroy the country, but his two adult sons-in-law did not realize this.
Li Shimin inspected the Heaven and Earth Hotel for the first time today, according to the previous custom, it is impossible for the emperor to receive foreign envoys outside the palace, but today is an exception, perhaps similar exceptions occur every day in Chang'an City, and the new world environment will naturally make them change and impact the original rules.
The sixty-six floors of the Heavenly and Earthly Building are also the tallest floors in the world. It was renovated into a huge banquet hall, and Li Er liked it the first time he came to this place, in Yanglin's plan. This place was supposed to be a revolving restaurant, making the best cuisine, selling the most expensive prices, and making the most money, but unfortunately this plan was rejected by Li Er's words.
"How can ordinary people be on par with the sky?" With this sentence alone, this place was divided into a banquet hall that only Li Er could use.
At this moment, the banquet hall was full of friends. The difference in various costumes means that they belong to different countries, if the envoys of these countries still have any pride in the Tang Dynasty before, then they have seen Chang'an. After seeing the heavenly and earthly buildings, the slightest arrogance was crushed into powder, and the bull fork was like Gai Suwen, Lu Dongzan and other famous ministers through the ages. It can only follow the general trend. Respectfully salute Li Erxing.
If you don't worship, you can't do it! If you don't worship them, you won't be able to get the controlled goods of the Tang Dynasty, such as those medicines for typhoid fever, fever, and inflammation of sores, and taking these drugs to a country like Goryeo can greatly reduce the casualties of soldiers, and if you get it to Tibet or some small countries in the Western Regions, it can even cause turmoil in a country. Modern people will never be able to understand that when the ancients were sick, a stroke of food was effective. How precious is the pill that cures the disease, especially in the barbarian region, you can basically exchange it for all the wealth of others casually, life! Anytime is more precious than money.
What Li Er is going to talk about today is the establishment of diplomatic relations and commercial trade with other countries, and of course, before that, he has to announce the imperial court's policy towards the Hui Ministry.
After Ma Yongquan's long holy decree was intact for a long time, the envoys of the various countries knew that the original Hui returned to the Tang Dynasty, as for what kind of arrangement the Tang Dynasty had for the Hui Dynasty, the holy decree did not elaborate, but only informed the countries that the original Hui Hui territory is the sacred and inviolable territory of the Tang Dynasty from today onwards, and the Tang Dynasty will send the general Su Dingfang to serve as the governor of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, and the 3,000 cavalry troops and the forbidden army of 10,000 will go to the Hui Dynasty to build the new city of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, and all merchants from other countries who enter and leave the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate in the future must pay taxes to it. Goods must be inspected, and officials or envoys must have documents on the prevention of passage, otherwise the Metropolitan Governor's Office has the right to act cheaply and cut it off at the moment.
To put it bluntly, that is a statement, of course, it is impossible for the Tang Dynasty to only give 13,000 troops to this governor of Anbei Protectorate, after all, the territory of the Hui Ministry's activities is not small, and there are tens of thousands of soldiers in the Hui tribe. After the Tang Dynasty will set up 37 cities in 28 counties of Kyushu in the original market town of Huifu, in addition to enjoying the same preferential policy treatment as the new frontier such as Nanzhao, the original tribe of the nine surnames of the Hui Dynasty will also receive an autonomous county town presented by the imperial court, and the nine surnames will serve as the county order, and grant the county viscount, although the county official is small, the county seat, it is not worth mentioning for the nomads, the key is to see the fixed configuration of the Tang Dynasty for each administrative unit above the county, which is a thing that makes people red.
According to the current development, in all the administrative units above the county level in Datang, there will be shops in the top ten factories of the east and west, that is to say, in the city of the administrative units above the county level, you can buy most of the goods produced by the top ten factories in the east and west, medicine, salt, tea, porcelain, ironware, glass, etc., all of which are lacking in the nomads. With the financial resources to build so many cities in the depths of the desert and grasslands at one time, looking at the joy of a few Hui leaders such as Yao Luoge and Tie Le, it is obvious that the Tang Dynasty has done more than that, because in addition to the commodity and cultural trade, each county also has a fixed allocation, and the Tang Dynasty will carry out endless later construction of these new cities.
The envoys of Gaochang, Qiuzi and other countries were greatly moved when they heard this, and this Anbei Metropolitan Governor Su Dingfang may be the Tang Dynasty official they will befriend next, because once these goods of the Tang Dynasty begin to flow into Huifu in a steady stream, then they can purchase the goods they need at their doorstep, and some good things will be of help to their own people in economically and culturally underdeveloped countries.
Li Shimin looked at those foreign envoys with a smile, and the foreign envoys were thinking uncertainly about something, Hui and Xue Yantuo, Tuyuhun, Gaochang, Qiuzi, and the countries are approaching, and a commodity developed trading market was suddenly born under the noses of these countries, whether it is good or bad, these countries will undoubtedly have a lot of changes, after all, the things of the Tang Dynasty are good, but the good things cannot flow into their countries endlessly, because the price of these good things is not cheap!
Take this heavenly and earthly hotel as an example. The accommodation fee for the luxury suite is 100 yuan a day, not counting the meals, Datang only provides free accommodation for envoys from various countries to the third day after the military parade. Originally, these envoys brought more or less worth of more than tens of thousands of yuan, but people could only cash money, and these things would be sold cheaply when they arrived in Chang'an City, and their usual expenses were too amazing, and there were too many good things that people couldn't help but buy, and in less than a month, these princes and ministers who had already been local tyrants felt that their purses were empty. Some even went to their home countries to send money in an urgent letter.
There are naturally smart people, such as Gai Suwen and Lu Dongzan. They are not only thinking about taking some valuable items to buy the hearts of their subordinate leaders and generals or the people, they are thinking about what kind of changes will be made to the people of their country once the things that can corrupt them, the top magnates of their country, flow into their country without restrictions, at least. Stayed in the Heavenly and Earthly Hotel for a month in a luxury suite. After eating the delicacies that they wanted to eat the root of their tongue for a month, even they were reluctant to leave this place, and they knew better what the needs of an ordinary person in their country were, a pill that could cure illness, a small packet of fine salt, a ball of tea leaves that could make green tea, and an iron pot that could be used to cook. can easily exchange the cattle and sheep in their hands, thinking of this. Lu Dongzan and Gai Suwen's faces changed greatly, and they realized that the Tang people must be uneasy and kind, and they invested so much capital in Huifu in vain, and the ultimate goal was to sell their goods to the Western Regions and the grassland countries, so that the wealth of the countries would flow into the Tang Dynasty.
But this is a problem that is not so easy to solve, people build cities in their own countries, open shops, you have no reason to meddle in the internal affairs of other people's countries, the price of goods is clearly marked, you only buy it when you have your own needs, and the Tang people will not pull you to do business and force transactions, do you let Datang insert a pipe that exhales people's blood so lightly to his side?
In the banquet hall, there were not many people who could think of this floor, at least a few young princes were just excited to buy good things from Datang nearby in the future, and they didn't even want to go back to their own country.
"Your Majesty, the emperor of the Tang Kingdom, although my Goryeo Kingdom is willing to establish diplomatic relations with the Tang Kingdom, but if you are trade, I am afraid that there are certain restrictions, since the Tang Dynasty wants to control the goods sold, then we Goryeo must also control the goods bought, and will levy heavy taxes on the merchants of the Tang Kingdom."
In a hurry, Gai Suwen didn't think of a better way, Datang didn't play cards according to the previous routine at all, and the Central Plains Empire before the Tang Dynasty had always restricted the mutual market, but at that time they were not as developed as the current Datang, and there were not even so many businessmen who were willing to go abroad, and now it is different, the merchants of Datang don't know when they began to become accessible in all directions, and the number of people has increased exponentially, which has to start from the establishment of the Ministry of Commerce by Datang and the giving businessmen a certain social status.
This year's big competition, the children of businessmen are no different from the children of scholars, they can participate in scientific examinations normally and become officials, and businessmen only need to pay business taxes in accordance with the rules of the imperial court, and the rights enjoyed by the people are exactly the same in other aspects, and even they have more protection from a commercial law, the people are not fools, and businessmen are even more not, it is inevitable to take advantage of the situation, which leads to the situation that Datang is everywhere in business, no way, Datang now has more than 100 million people, even if there are only one percent of businessmen, That's also a pretty terrifying thing, more than one million businessmen, this is almost the entire population of a small country, in front of the Tang Dynasty, they seem very powerless.
"No problem, we only do business with people who like to do business with us, and we only sell the goods you want to buy, but one thing you have to remember is that Datang determines the export quantity of controlled products according to the trade quota, that is to say, whoever does a big business with us, then we will sell them more things they need, such as iron, and even ordnance and equipment, etc., and countries that do not trade, of course, are not qualified to obtain these things, this is the specific content of the bilateral diplomatic relations we will talk about next."
Li Er still said with a smile on his face, in this game, Datang took the lead, this is the benefit of listening to the words of scholars, workers, farmers and businessmen, all of which are beneficial to the country. (To be continued......)