In fact, Li Hui did not go to visit friends, but went to Chang'an to see Li Er.

This is the first time Li Hui entered Chang'an to see Li Er, the place and Chen have already been arranged, in Chang'an, there are many elegant places, this is in the house in Pingkangfang, the environment is quiet, the trees are dense, spring is coming, in the courtyard, the peach blossoms have bloomed.

He Chen's big belly was a little unbearable, and his body was twisted into the shape of a shrimp, looking extremely affected.

"Can't you just find a stool to put your stomach on?"

Li Er's beard was curled, and his face was displeased.

The eldest grandson queen on the side was rare to come out once, and she was naturally very happy to see Li Hui, and after seeing the son of the shopkeeper and Chen, she also showed a smile from her mother's world.

"Your Majesty, don't be harsh on this child, the He Chen in Lao He's mouth was not like this before, why is he so fat now?"

He Chen scratched his head embarrassedly, his face was extremely embarrassed, "Queen Mother, you are right, I wasn't like this before, but in the past six months, my body has been growing meat, even if I don't eat or drink, I still grow meat, I can't help it." ”

Li Hui spit out a smoke ring on the side, "Hechen, you should go and train with my retainers, or practice with Zhang Xiong, sooner or later you will lose weight." ”

As soon as He Chen heard that he was going to follow the training, he immediately shook his head frantically, "Don't, those in your family are all perverts, they know how to jump up and down all day long, I am a Sven, I don't know how to do these things." ”

Li Hui sneered, "Now you are still young, when you are old, you will naturally find that every piece of meat on your body is God's punishment for you." ”

He Chen is still too young, he has not gone through medical science, he doesn't know at all, at a certain age, obesity is a person's worst enemy, and at that time, it is difficult for you to lose weight.

There is also the most critical question, He Chen is not married yet, so he is not afraid that he will not find his daughter-in-law?

Even if he relied on his money and married his daughter-in-law, could his daughter-in-law stand his body of more than 200 catties?

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The flesh on He Chen's body shook wildly, "Hahaha, Li Hui, who are you scaring for, I'm not afraid!" ”

Li Er went back, just in the crook of the eldest grandson's arm, "You two little guys have done a lot of things in the past six months. ”

"Hechen, how much tax have you paid so far?"

As soon as He Chen heard His Majesty ask about taxation, he immediately took out a pamphlet from his back, "Your Majesty, since the day of doing business, the grass people have continued to pay taxes of 1.93 million taels to Datang. ”

"Li Hui, what do you think of this number?"

Li Hui was stunned for a moment, he couldn't understand what Li Er meant, and hurriedly summoned him and Chen to meet in Chang'an today, and he didn't go to the palace, nor did he go to the home of any dignitary, but asked He Chen to choose a quiet place.

Now after chatting for a long time, suddenly asked about taxes, Li Hui squinted his eyes, and in an instant he thought of something.

Li Er is short of money!

"Hehe, Your Majesty, this is just the tax of the past four months, in fact, according to the development trend of this year, this year's tax payment on business with Chen alone will at least exceed eight million taels."

Empress Changsun's arm holding Li Er's head stiffened suddenly, Li Er's neck also stiffened a little, and her body sat up suddenly.

"Li Hui, do you know that as soon as these words come out, I will not treat you as a child, but as the Lotte Marquis of the Tang Dynasty!"

Li Hui smiled, "Your Majesty, as far as I know, the Tang State Treasury was only three million taels in previous years, but now Hechen alone can pay eight million taels in taxes a year, is there anything wrong?" ”

Li Er was asked, yes, is there anything wrong with this?

Of course! It's just that Li Er doesn't quite believe that He Chen alone can complete such a huge tax payment.

Li Er didn't calculate this account, and at this time he was puzzled, "Li Hui, to be honest, those taxes are not full?" ”

The Datang treasury has three million inputs a year, and you can pay eight million in taxes as a businessman, which is almost equivalent to three years of Datang's taxes. Although Li Hui said less about this number, Li Er still felt that it was a huge problem.

The times have limited Li Er's imagination.

In this era, one tael of silver is equivalent to a thousand yuan in later generations, and a penny in daily life can almost be worth one or two yuan in later generations.

At this time, you said that you can pay 8 million taels of silver in the treasury tax every year, who will believe it?

Li Er's eyes suspected that this Hechen was using silver from other places to fill the profits, and then pay it into the treasury, in order to plot a longer windfall profit in the future.

Especially after being in contact with Li Hui for a long time, Li Er has had such thoughts more than once.

Li Hui smiled at this time, "Your Majesty, I'll settle the account for you and you'll know." ”

"Newspaper, don't the people of Datang need this thing?"

"Even if the people of the newspaper Datang don't need it much, what about salt? That's fine salt! Hechen's refined salt profit is one pound and one penny, and the other penny was taken away by the Datang treasury. ”

When it came to refined salt, Li Er suddenly remembered that when he asked Hechen to make salt, he would take a penny a catty.

Unexpectedly, the profit is so low.

He Chen smiled at this time: "Your Majesty, last year's output was not good, and this year's output of refined salt can be increased several times, and the Datang treasury will definitely be full for you at that time." There is also iron, wine, lime, and glass. ”

Li Er is really worried, now Datang is short of money, most of the money that needs to be prepared to deal with the locust plague comes from the taxes paid by Hechen's business, if Hechen's business is broken, Datang's income this year will basically be broken, and other places will encounter a bad year, how many taxes can be paid a year?

"He Chen, I believe you, by the way, what other way do you have to make money, you can quickly take out those noble money."

Li Er's eyes flickered, and this time, he was ruthless.

Where is Datang's money?

Naturally, in the hands of the rich, how many children can ordinary people have?

Xungui has a lot of money in his hands, how did they get their money?

It was definitely not from Yulu, there are a lot of people like Li Hui who do business outside.

The most important thing is that those nobles are different from Li Hui, when they make money, they hide it or use it to make connections.

Corruption and perversion of the law are not uncommon in the court of the Tang Dynasty, and it is not uncommon.

At the beginning, Li Er also ordered a ban on killing chickens and monkeys, but soon, Li Er found that without money, no one can survive, sometimes turn a blind eye, as long as it does not affect the development of the world, let it be like this for the time being.

And Li Hui and Chen's success above Shangjia gave Li Er confidence.

"Li Hui, think about it, how can you get the money hidden in those noble families!"

"Your Majesty, how good it is to rob clearly, take someone to raid the house directly, hehe."

Li Eryi slapped the table, his neck was red, "Speak well!" ”