Chapter 3 Is Benevolence, Righteousness and Morality Valuable?
The next day, Du He received the "Yuan Cong Forbidden Army" that had been organized as flying cavalry early in the morning and began training them.
Although the "Yuan Cong Forbidden Army" is a little deserted, after all, it still has some skills with the title of the forbidden army. It may not be as good as the thousand people under his command, but it will not be much inferior, but it has always been neglected to practice. Therefore, the strength has declined, and after only half a year of training, it should be able to restore its original style.
During this expedition, Du He asked Li Ji many times for his experience in coaching soldiers, and he also understood it, and generalized his experience to this army, intending to restore their strength as soon as possible and become his own right-hand man.
As soon as the training tasks were distributed, Du He was summoned by Li Shimin, and the training tasks were transferred to Luo Tong and Wang Dezheng, and they came to the Ganlu Palace!
Li Shimin sat on the horse with a depressed face, his brows furrowed, and he was worried about something.
"Uncle Lee?" Du He screamed and bent down casually.
Li Shimin glanced at him, opened his mouth and said: "Money, we have ignored this, we need money to hold such a big event!" ”
He elaborated on the reason, and Du He understood.
This morning, Li Shimin openly discussed the matter that was discussed yesterday and dropped a bombshell on the court.
This is not an uncommon thing to compare arrows, horses, and competitions, but it is unprecedented to have a competition similar to this kind of gathering warriors from all over the world.
The civil and military capital of the Manchu Dynasty attracted Li Shimin's ideas and generated a strong interest.
Of course, there are for and there must be opposition, some ministers think that the scale of this move is huge, but it is extremely expensive and unfavorable to the people, and some think that although the Tang Dynasty is still martial, it is inferior to foreign races in archery and other projects since ancient times, which will not only be ineffective, but will lose the face of the Tang Dynasty.
However, as soon as these words came out, they immediately angered the military generals of the Manchu Dynasty.
Grumpy as Chen Biting Jin and Wei Chi Jingde almost had the intention of beating the admonition, and the other generals also glared at the admonishment officer one by one.
Even the good-tempered Li Ji also widened his eyes, doesn't the official's words mean that their Tang warriors are not as powerful as the warriors of all races?
In the face of this posture, the official was stunned, how dare he say more.
Such a good thing should be agreed to by those who have knowledge, but it is also a fact that it costs a lot.
"Although the Manchu civil and military agreed to hold a 'brave competition', they all expressed the hope that the pomp and circumstance could be reduced."
Li Shimin said a little sullenly, his surname is a little happy, and he has already made up his mind that since such a grand event is going to be done, it will be prosperous. But if the copies in his mind were completed one by one, the amount of silver would be at least ten thousand taels.
Datang is rich, it's not that it can't afford to spend, it's just that this is an investment that only has output and no income. Not to mention the household in charge of money, even he is a little distressed.
But if the project is reduced, he is also a little unhappy and feels faceless.
At this moment, he thought of Duhe, who was full of whimsical ideas, and asked him what he thought.
Du He was stunned, a little funny, I'm afraid that there will be no money in the account for this sports meeting? He immediately said, "Uncle Li, this is not a problem at all!" As long as you can charge the entrance fee at the time of the game, all problems will be solved. He wanted to talk about advertising sponsorship, but when he thought that there were some light businessmen in the Tang Dynasty, he could only keep it in his heart.
"How much does it cost?" Li Shimin vaguely understood the meaning of these four words literally.
"Not bad!" Du He nodded with a smile, "If you want to close the venue of the game, if you want to enter the game to watch the game, you need to pay a certain fee, just like watching a play!" ”
"That's not right!" Li Shimin shook his head and categorically refused: "Even if I don't hold this 'brave competition', I will never take money from the people!" ”
Du He listened in awe, Li Shimin was indeed a good emperor who loved the people like a son, but he shook his head and smiled: "Uncle Li misunderstood, and the kid never thought of getting money from the people." It's like watching a play in a theater, there are good seats, bad seats, seats, and standing seats. Uncle Li can set the seats as upper VIP seats, medium VIP seats, second VIP seats, and then ordinary seats. When the people enter, they pay a penny, and they can watch it in the ordinary seats, I am rich in the Tang Dynasty, and the people still have a few pennies, which will not affect their livelihood at all. As for the VIP seats, you can take advantage of the comparison psychology of the businessmen and nobles and let them pay a high price. Ten silver cakes for one seat, ten thousand silver coins for a thousand seats. Why worry about having no money in your account? ”
"That makes sense!" Li Shimin was amazed and said with a smile: "Such a simple truth, I didn't think of it." ”
"Also, Uncle Li, what are you going to do with those 30,000 Tibetans?" Du He laughed coldly!
Li Shimin said: "This I am also a little embarrassed, and many ministers hope that I will uphold the wind of benevolence and virtue and release them to Tibet......
Before he finished speaking, Du He was furious on the spot: "Which bastard said that this person is either an idiot or a Tubo annihilator, and his crime should be punished!" ”
The captives were all brave and good soldiers, and as long as they put on armor, they were a strong force. Someone actually proposed to put them back, is there really a person in the world who is stupid enough to be this level?
"Don't get excited, don't get excited!" Li Shimin said with a smile: "I am not their pedantic people, those Tubo people are all brave, and letting them go is no less than letting the tiger return to the mountain, and there will be endless troubles in the future." I didn't agree, but I didn't know what to do with them for a while, so I had to take them into custody. ”
"Eat and live for nothing, isn't it too cheap for them, where can these laborers who only give food and don't need money!" Du He felt that Li Shimin was a little funny, and he didn't know how to use such a good strength.
Li Shimin was also a little moved, but his brows furrowed, and he muttered: "Isn't this a bit unkind and immoral!" ”
"Benevolence, morality?" Du He pursed his lips disdainfully, and secretly slandered Li Shimin for being hypocritical, if you really talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality, you would not have launched the Xuanwumen Change, staged a good show of killing your brother and killing your brother, and forcing your father to abdicate, and then again, if it weren't for the Xuanwumen Change, Datang would never have such a grand occasion in Li Jiancheng's hands. Of course, he didn't dare to say this even if he dared to say it, in the Tang Dynasty, especially in front of Li Shimin, the matter of Xuanwumen was definitely a reverse scale!
just looked at him with some disdain, and said, "Benevolence, morality, Uncle Li, you keep telling me, how much is this thing worth?" ”
Li Shimin made Du He look a little embarrassed and a little annoyed, and said, "Where can the price of this thing be measured?" ”
Du He said loudly: "If you can't measure it, it's worthless!" What are you doing with this worthless thing? For the country, interests are paramount, and only interests can strengthen the country, which is not a worthless benevolence and morality! Uncle Li, you are not a pedantic king, and the boy has made it clear. Benevolence and righteousness, morality is for their own people, for alien tigers and wolves, it is useless to talk about so many benevolence and morality! Can benevolence, righteousness and morality make aliens submit to my Datang? Benevolence, righteousness and morality can make me come to congratulate the Tang Quartet? The reason why my Datang is strong depends on strength and the lives of soldiers, not on bullshit benevolence and morality. ”
"Uncle Li, let me tell you a story about Mr. Dongguo......