In fact, this can't be blamed for Li Chengqian's ignorance, he has not been in contact with commercial matters, and since Li Shimin wanted to open it, all the memoranda except for some extremely important things are now handed over to Li Chengqian for approval.

Every day, Li Chengqian is busy from morning to night, let alone going out, there is no time to rest.

How much time did he have to learn about it?

"Gao Ming, you should be glad that when you succeed to the throne in the future, you have such a powerful brother to help you. At the beginning, if I also had such a rich royal brother to help me,

Today's Datang can also be twice as powerful. ”

Li Shimin said to Li Chengqian in a deep voice, which also reminded him of some sad things.

"What Aya said is that the tenth brother really helps a lot." Li Chengqian also nodded.

"No, I'm talking about you coming to the throne, so you come and see this." Li Shimin vetoed Li Chengqian's words and handed over a copy of the note.

Li Chengqian opened it curiously, and when he looked at the handwriting, he knew that it was written by Li Shen.

It is very simple to write in the fold: 'The Chamber of Commerce collects 8 million yuan in taxes every year, and now it is sent to the Ministry of Civil Affairs 4 million yuan, and the rest is used for the development of the Chamber of Commerce.' Son, be careful. ’

Li Chengqian raised his head and looked at Li Shimin, who explained:

"Lao Shi once proposed to me to collect business taxes and reduce agricultural taxes, and Lao Shi said that the people only have a few money in their hands, so it is better to collect money from rich people.

At the beginning, I told him that it was very dangerous, so he formed this Datang First Chamber of Commerce and used other methods to collect fees in disguise.

Now it seems to be paying off. ”

"Aye, eight million is already fifty percent of our tax revenue this year." Li Chengqian was surprised.

He didn't expect his father and younger brother to do such a big thing secretly.

"Hehe, what do you think it is? There are many big businessmen in the Tang Dynasty who have not joined it, such as some nobles, as well as foreign vassal kings, and family scholars.

They are the richest people in Datang.

If they are added to it, what is calculated for just 8 million will be able to multiply several times by then. Nowadays, the members of the First Chamber of Commerce of Datang have accounted for about seventy percent of the whole Datang. Most of the rest are from the noble family and some nobles. ”

Li Shimin knows everything about the Li Shen Chamber of Commerce, how could Li Shimin not install someone for such a big matter?

As an emperor, some things must be under your control,

Li Shen's chamber of commerce is likely to become a super business empire in the future.

And the most terrifying thing about merchants is that they have a huge amount of materials in their hands, which can support a large-scale rebellion.

The war is about money, how can an emperor like Li Shimin not understand this truth.

Seeing that Li Chengqian did not speak, Li Shimin reminded:

"Gao Ming, Lao Shi, you have to be kind in the future, I have observed him for almost ten years, he has no ambitions, and he has no intention of this position.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been so confrontational with the family clan over the years, which is also his attitude.

And you think that he confronted several generals in Goguryeo like this, and he also had an estrangement with Li Tao, and he didn't give Li Tao any face, why is this?

This is because he has finished offending his ministers and has begun to offend the generals. Those generals are loyal to my confidants. ”

After Li Shimin finished speaking, he left Li Chengqian time to think,

Cannibalism is the last thing Li Shimin wants to see, and he doesn't want what he has done to happen to his descendants again.

Therefore, he was very pleased and happy that Li Shen could really help Li Chengqian.

He also hoped that Li Chengqian would not be jealous of Li Shen, or that he would attack Li Shen after succeeding to the throne in order to prevent Li Shen.

He has a lot of important ministers to support orphans, but he is always an outsider, and a person with his own family is better than an outsider after all.

"Aye, don't worry, the tenth brother has helped me so much, and I will treat him well."

"No, it's not just Lao Shi, but also the green finch and the pheasant slave." Li Shimin added.

Li Chengqian was stunned for a moment after hearing this, he didn't know what happened to his father today, why he said such things, this kind of thing is usually asked when he is about to die.

However, Li Chengqian didn't think much about it, nodded and continued:

"It's Ayah, I will treat every younger brother and sister well, so that they will be prosperous and rich, and they will be clothed and fed."

Li Shimin nodded with satisfaction after hearing this, this eldest son is now very satisfied except for some indecisiveness, the others are very satisfied.

But that's not a problem, just exercise for a few years.

"You go back to the East Palace to review the recitals, the recitals of the three provinces should have been sent, and I am a little tired." Li Shimin said softly, with some weakness in his tone.

"Yes, Ayah, my son is leaving." Li Chengqian bowed and turned to leave.

After Li Chengqian left, Li Shimin said to Wang De:

"Passing on the military department, the northwest Yanqi has some intentions, and now it has sent troops to be stationed two hundred miles away from the border of my Tang Xizhou, and it may attack at any time.

Ordered the general of Zuo Xiaowei, the captain of the horse, after the loss of Sili Yuanzheng, led Zuo Rao Wei, went to the border of Xizhou to defend, and commanded the soldiers of Xizhou Prefecture. ”

"Yes, everybody." Wang De was ordered to go to the military headquarters.

~~~ Nothing ~~~~~

Li Shen lay at home for several days, but he was not idle, he lay on the bed, brought a map of Chang'an, and began to study the bus route.

There are one hundred and eight squares in Chang'an City, in order to facilitate each square to open to traffic, but Chang'an City is too big, if there are too few carriages, the route taken is long, and it may sit for a long time.

So he needs to see how to plan the detailed route, there must be a ring road, Li Shen named it No. 1 ring road.

It is mainly interspersed back and forth around the entire Chang'an City, but there is no repeated route, not entering the market, only passing through the door.

And it's a positive and negative route.

Then there is the West Ring Road and the East Ring Road, and then there are the buses in every neighborhood.

Li Shen spent a few days doing a total of seven or eight routes, one trip in a quarter of an hour.

A total of hundreds of carriages were prepared,

In fact, Li Shen himself calculated that this business is actually very large, and it makes a lot of money.

His cost was mainly the carriage in the early stage, and the coachman's wages, and the horse was not a good horse.

Unlike later buses, which need to burn oil or gas, and pay taxes and the like.

Many ordinary people will choose to take a car, and Chang'an has a population of millions.

And at least tens of thousands of people enter the city in a day, especially merchants.

At the end of the day, you have to have a net income of dozens of yuan, which is thousands of dollars a month, and tens of thousands of dollars a year.

This is already a lot for most merchants, and not every merchant is as bad as the royal palace.

Li Shen handed over the plan to Wang Hongfu, and told him to let the carriage workshop make the carriage as soon as possible and run the bus business as soon as possible.

(Originally, there was a big event Wang Hongfu wanted to report, but you keep saying that I was Kavin, there was no way, I could only end plainly,

The major events reported by Wang Hongfu can only be updated tomorrow, and I listen to the advice of people to eat a full meal, let's not Kawen. ）