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When Li Biao saw Li Cun in the Yangxin Palace, Li Cun still had a large group of warblers and swallows around him as usual, surrounding Li Cun in the middle, making Li Cun feel like he was in the daughter country.

And Li Cun's left hand is a young woman lying on an incomparably exquisite carpet, her appearance is dignified and generous, her facial features are exquisite and beautiful, and the heroic posture revealed between her eyebrows makes her beauty even more far-reaching. A pair of clear big eyes are like two clear springs, revealing the unique physical beauty and leisure beauty of a young woman who has just transformed from a girl. When her long hair leaned down, it seemed to be a beautiful landscape, changing postures. Her slender figure is like a fluttering butterfly, which is eye-catching.

There are too many women in Li Cun, so many that Li Biao, who is not very interested in women, can't tell which of them is who.

But lying on Li Cun's left hand, no, it was lying under Li Cun's left hand, and Li Cun was like a cat to this new young woman, but Li Biao knew it.

This new young woman is the queen of the kingdom of Hali Penchai XVII, who was captured by the ministers of her country in a mutiny less than three months after she ascended the throne.

Li Biao was very impressed by Harry Penchai XVII.

Don't get me wrong, Li Biao didn't have a deep impression of Harry Penchai XVII because of his beauty.

The reason why Li Biao was deeply impressed by Harry Benchai XVII was because Hari Benchai XVII once used fluent Chinese in the court to angrily accuse Li Cun of not preaching morality, barbarously invading neighboring countries, and being a despicable and shameless bandit!

At that time, Harry Benchai XVII looked at death as home, which made Li Biao sigh with emotion, although Harry Benchai XVII was young, but he did not lose the bearing that a monarch should have, unlike some monarchs, after being dedicated to Li Cun, he only promised, and even knelt down to thank Li Cun for his grace not to kill.

Who would have thought, less than three months have passed, and Harry Benchai XVII was domesticated by Li Cun to be as obedient as a kitten.

Li Biao couldn't help but sigh that his father was so powerful, as if there was nothing in this world that his father couldn't conquer.

In the face of such Li Cun, Li Biao is really not sure, the wrong person is Li Cun, and the right person is himself.

But when I saw Li Cun lying in the middle of a large group of women, holding Harry Benchai XVII with one hand and a piece of music in the other, looking at national affairs carelessly, like a faint king, Li Biao was a little unhappy.

Therefore, Li Biao bowed respectfully to Li Cun: "The son of the emperor to see his father." ”

When Li Cun heard this, his posture didn't change, and he said, "Get up." ”

Li Biao had already seen Li Cun's style, so he was not hypocritical, so he stood up directly, and then said what he wanted to say straightforwardly:

"Father, can I stop expanding externally?"

Hearing this, Li Cun stroked Harry Benchai's seventeenth hand paused, and then continued to stroke Harry Benchai's seventeenth, and at the same time Gujing Wubo asked, "Why?" ”

Why?

Li Biao felt that he had enough reason to persuade Li Cun to stop.

But after Li Cun casually asked the word "why", Li Biao suddenly felt a lot of pressure, and his reasons that seemed to be very good seemed to suddenly become light.

This is the power of Li Cun, the first emperor of the ages!

Li Biao glanced at Harry Benchai XVII, who was willing to be Li Cun's cat, and thought, "I'm afraid she was conquered by the unparalleled power of her father?" ”

Li Biao took a deep breath, and then said the reason he had been thinking about for a long time: "Years of war, huge cost ......"

Li Cun interrupted Li Biao and said, "Is there no money in the household department?" ”

Li Biao was speechless.

Not only is the household rich, but it is also rich like never before.

To describe it in specific numbers, the account is now lying on the books of the entire two billion!

Maybe all the dynasties in the past and present have never been so rich, right?

The main reason why the Great Qian Dynasty had money to this point was because of the war.

It's true.

The Great Qian Dynasty was really terrible at war.

It only takes two years to destroy a country, and there are few times when you lose in the middle.

And once a country is destroyed by the Daqian Dynasty, then the treasury of the country, the royal family, the family of the clan, the homes of the dignitaries and nobles, and the families of the gentry and the great families will all be looted by the Daqian Dynasty.

This made it so that the Daqian Dynasty would definitely be able to obtain huge war gains in the war.

It can be said that except for some small grassland tribes, the Daqian Dynasty did not pay any losses when it fought wars.

Far from it, let's just talk about the Angkor Dynasty, the small overlord of the Indochina Peninsula that the Daqian Dynasty destroyed a year ago.

The total area of Angkor Thom, the capital of the country, has reached nearly two million acres!

What is the concept of this sprawling metropolis?

To put it this way, the city was even bigger than the cosmopolitan cities of London and Paris!

To use a more graphic analogy.

Bianliang City, Tokyo, once known as the first city in the East, actually only covers an area of more than 500,000 acres!

In other words, the area of Angkor Thom is four times the size of Tokyo's Bianliang City!

It can even be said that before the reconstruction of Jinling City, Angkor Thom was the largest city in the world in this era.

Moreover, the richness of Angkor Thom is not only reflected in its size, but also in its grandeur and sophistication.

Angkor Wat alone (that is, the temple complex in Angkor Thom) uses more than 5 million stones.

What is amazing is that the average weight of these boulders is one and a half tons, and the largest even weigh seven or six tons.

Figuratively, if you add all the stone used by all the temples in Angkor Thom, it will consume far more stone than all the pyramids in Egypt combined.

As for the delicate aspect?

Angkor Wat is such a huge complex that every detail can be almost perfect, and its exquisiteness, delicacy, and delicacy have all reached an unprecedented height.

It is not surprising that Angkor Thom has such a large-scale, delicate temple complex, because the Angkor Dynasty used almost all the craftsmen in Southeast Asia, including India, to build Angkor Thom.

The total number of these craftsmen exceeds 200,000, and all of them are among the best in the world, of which there are as many as 60,000 or 70,000 top carvers alone.

-- It is worth mentioning that these more than 200,000 skilled craftsmen have all been "invited" by Li Cun to the Daqian Dynasty, and they will contribute to the construction of the Daqian Dynasty in the future.

From Angkor Thom, it is not difficult to see how rich the Angkor Dynasty really was.

To describe it in specific numbers, after the Daqian Dynasty defeated the Angkor Dynasty, the gold seized alone was as high as one billion.

That's not counting the silver and exotic treasures.

If you count that, how much is it...... Li Biao didn't know either.

Like gold, silver was only partially put into the treasury - the rest of the gold and silver, as well as some rare treasures, all went into Li Cun's private treasury.

Historically, the Jin Kingdom laid down the Tokyo Bianliang City, which was known as the richest in that era, and scraped the Tokyo Bianliang City three feet to the ground, but only extorted 10 million gold ingots and 20 million silver ingots (converted into money, about 6 billion yuan).

- Actually, there was not so much, and later the Northern Song Dynasty court really couldn't come up with so much money, so it could only use rare treasures, cloth, and women to pay off the debt, and as a result, it still owed 342,780 ingots of gold and 871,300 ingots of silver, and the Northern Song Dynasty promised to make up the war reparations every year in the future.

Looking at it this way, although the Angkor Dynasty is still not as good as the Zhao and Song Dynasty, it is also quite rich.

Moreover, the Angkor dynasty was not alone - the other small states of Indochina, although not as rich as the Angkor dynasty, were each able to produce three or two hundred million taels of gold, and all of them were not silver and other treasures.

Why are these small countries on the Indochina Peninsula so rich?

Just because they are all in the necessary places for maritime trade between the East and the West, they occupy a geographical advantage.

It is no exaggeration to say that these small countries can take a big share of the maritime trade between the East and the West by doing anything.

If you think about it, it was only during the Zhao and Song dynasties, and the Wang family relied on maritime trade to earn 200 million yuan in more than ten years!

Don't forget, no matter how powerful the Wang family is, it is just a family, how can it be compared with these small countries?

What's more, the Wang family has been a maritime merchant for more than ten years, and these small countries have been established on the Maritime Silk Road for decades, centuries, or even thousands of years.

Most importantly, since the establishment of the Daqian Dynasty, Li Cun has vigorously developed maritime trade.

It is precisely because of this that maritime trade has reached an unprecedented prosperity.

Undoubtedly, this has further increased the income of these small countries on Indochina.

In other words, the Daqian Dynasty was a dynasty that relied heavily on commercial taxation, and it was different from the previous Chinese dynasties.

-- China's dynasties have always been based on agriculture, that is, in the middle of tax revenue, agriculture accounts for a very high proportion.

However, the Daqian Dynasty was the only exception.

Take the financial revenue of the Great Qian Dynasty last year as an example:

Last year, the total financial revenue of the Daqian Dynasty was 476 million yuan.

Among them, the agricultural tax, that is, the two taxes, is only more than 60 million yuan in total, which is less than a fraction of the financial revenue of the Daqian Dynasty and accounts for only more than 10% of the financial revenue of the Daqian Dynasty.

This percentage can be said to be extremely low.

The total revenue from commercial taxes, including salt, tea, wine, coal, oil, natural gas, electricity, trains, and steamships, is more than 250 million.

Therefore, the Daqian Dynasty is a very unique dynasty.

In the Daqian Dynasty, for the first time, the proportion of revenue from commerce and commerce-related monopolies exceeded 50% of fiscal revenue.

If you look at the financial history of China's dynasties, you will see that this is unique.

In particular, maritime trade was of great significance to the financial revenue of the Daqian Dynasty.

Therefore, the Daqian court under the control of Li Cun vigorously promoted maritime trade.

Up to now, there are almost 100 countries that have direct trade relations with the Daqian Dynasty.

Before the Indochina Peninsula was defeated by the Great Qian Dynasty, all countries traded with the Great Qian Dynasty, and further south, Java, Boni and other countries were all trading countries of the Great Qian Dynasty.

After the Strait of Malacca are the Western Heavenly Kingdoms, which mainly refer to the small states of India, including Ceylon (which later became Sri Lanka).

Further west were the Great Eclipse Kingdoms, that is, those countries in Arabia that traded with the Great Qian Dynasty.

There are also African countries and European countries, all of which have trade relations with the Daqian Dynasty.

Not to mention the Prince's Continent, which was already under the control of the Great Qian Dynasty, it was the trade area of the Great Qian Dynasty, and most of the items in it came from the Great Qian Dynasty.

It can be said that this kind of maritime trade of the Daqian Dynasty has been extremely developed, and its prosperity has not only far surpassed that of all dynasties, but has even surpassed the early stage of the Age of Discovery, reaching the middle stage.

Moreover, unlike the Silk Road in history, which only sold silk, porcelain, and tea, the Daqian Dynasty had basically completed the initial industrial revolution, and now it has even begun to have some overcapacity, so not only all kinds of luxury goods, but also all kinds of light industrial products are also sold through maritime trade.

Like the finished clothes, shoes, and hats of the Great Qian Dynasty, like the pots and pans, kitchen knives, scissors, and bicycles of the Great Qian Dynasty, they are all luxury goods that all countries compete to chase.

Of course, the main reason why the Daqian Dynasty was able to sell so many things was that the shipbuilding technology of the Daqian Dynasty had been unprecedentedly developed, and even far exceeded the level of the Age of Discovery in history.

Moreover, the ships of the Daqian Dynasty are getting bigger and faster, and only at this stage the iron-clad wooden ships of the Daqian Dynasty are larger and faster than the treasure ships.

Moreover, the Daqian Dynasty has now begun to engage in containers.

This made the volume of the Daqian Dynasty more and more large.

More importantly, the navigation technology of the Daqian Dynasty has also been unprecedentedly developed.

This made the ships of the Daqian Dynasty fully equipped with the ability to sail far.

This also made a large number of merchants from various countries, such as the Great Food Merchants, like the Indian merchants, like the European merchants, like the African merchants, they all took the ships of the Daqian Dynasty and came to the Daqian Dynasty to engage in maritime trade.

And more often than not, the merchants of the Daqian Dynasty went out.

-- Nowadays, the merchants of the Daqian Dynasty began to go to sea on a large scale, going to all parts of the world, and they collectively set out to the sea and marched towards the sea trade.

According to incomplete statistics, at least more than two million people are currently engaged in maritime trade, and this is not counting the people in related industries - these are just the merchants who really left the Great Qian Dynasty to go to the world.

In addition to the merchants in the traditional sense, there were also many scholars, even those who did not pass the imperial examination, and also participated in the seafaring trade in large numbers.

These businessmen, including these scholars, formed a large group of immigrants from overseas.

So, in many countries, there are a large number of Chinese communities, and they have established a large number of commercial colonies overseas.

These people also make a lot of money.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Households, in the various port cities of the Daqian Dynasty, there were maritime merchants with a net worth of tens of millions at every turn, and maritime merchants with a net worth of several million were everywhere, and several of them were the largest in maritime trade.

The reason why these maritime merchants are so profitable is because there are huge business opportunities in maritime trade, and some of them can make more than ten times the huge profits once they run.

It's just that these merchants who run maritime trade are still so profitable, not to mention the countries on the Indochina Peninsula that occupy the main maritime trade routes between the East and the West.

Therefore, after Li Cun conquered the countries on the Indochina Peninsula, he must have made a lot of money.

Let's put it this way, if it weren't for Li Cun's construction of railways everywhere, his large-scale industrial revolution, and his wanton waging wars over the years, the treasury of the Daqian Dynasty might not have been 2 billion yuan, but 20 billion yuan, or even more.

Of course, if Li Cun hadn't done this, the Daqian Dynasty would not have had the opportunity to make so much money.

This also made Li Biao scolded back by Li Cun with a word.

But Li Biao has been in charge of the government of the Daqian Dynasty for six or seven years, and he is no longer the child he was at the beginning.

Moreover, Li Biao's concern has always been not the present, but the future of the Daqian Dynasty.

You must know that there is only one in the Indochina Peninsula, and the two billion yuan that Li Cun earned for the household department must be spent one day, and according to Li Cun's spending, it will definitely not take a few years.

The key point is that the expenditure of the 3.5 million troops of the Daqian Dynasty has always existed, and they have to consume 100 million or 200 million yuan of the Daqian Dynasty's financial revenue every year.

The key point is that the disabled, sacrificed, and old age of these 3.5 million troops all need to be properly compensated and resettled by the Daqian Dynasty, and these also require huge expenses every year.

And more importantly, if Li Cun continues to fight, he will definitely spend more money on the war, and the army of the Daqian Dynasty will definitely continue to swell.

Moreover, the countries of the Western Regions and Kievan Rus' that Li Cun will fight next are far less rich than the Indochina Peninsula, isn't this just a compensation?

Therefore, Li Biao did not flinch, but bowed deeply to Li Cun and said: "Father, the household has money, save some flowers, even if it is spent for another ten years, it will be no problem, but what about after ten years......"

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