Regarding the division in Li Ke's mouth, Li Shimin didn't ask why, but directly frowned and asked, "What does it have to do with Li Shiji?" ”

"It's nothing, he's a gold member of Erchen Youjian Mall, and Erchen said that he took him to do business." Li Ke shrugged his shoulders.

"500,000 guan, you will give him 20% of the business of making 2 million guan a year?!" Li Shimin's eyes widened, he really wanted to say that your head is fine, you.

"Thousands of dollars buy horse bones, of course, you have to set a good example." Li Ke said as a matter of course.

"Okay, the technology is yours, you can do it yourself, but isn't this too much for the local garrison? Also, I don't want to do it. Li Shimin thought for a while and said.

"You have to take this money, if you don't take it, others don't feel at ease, after all, there are tens of thousands of troops here, if they are all handed over to the generals, then these soldiers will definitely be very loyal to the generals, which is not good for your rule, so, this matter must be in your name, if you really don't want this thirty percent of the profits, Erchen can make Tuyuhun become a monolith in a few years! Completely return to Datang! Li Ke said with a smile.

"I said no, don't, how do you say to do it?" Li Shimin's eyes lit up, he was not interested in any money, the money of his emperor's treasury was his Li Shimin's money to a certain extent, although there is now a distinction between the treasury and the inner treasury, but you have to see what the emperor thinks.

Li Shimin can't look down on this amount of money, but the temptation of expanding the territory is even greater for Li Shimin! Because of the change in Xuanwumen, Li Shimin urgently needs more merits to prove himself!

"This is simple, if Sancheng is only used to maintain the Tang Dynasty's garrison in Tuyuhun, 100,000 people are enough! I don't think 100,000 people will be needed here, 50,000 elite soldiers will be enough! Taking 50,000 yuan as an example, Erchen can do other business incidentally, but the local grain should not be purchased from the 36 countries of the Western Regions, nor should it be transported from the Hexi Corridor, but from Shannan Province and Hedong Province. Li Ke said very simply.

"Why?!" Li Shimin is a little confused, isn't this spending more money? "Do you know how much food is lost from Sangnam-do, Hadong-do? At least seventy percent. ”

The so-called seven achievements refer to the transportation of 100 catties of grain from these places, and only 30 catties can be left when they arrive at the place, because the transported soldiers also need to eat, and these are losses.

"I know." Li Ke smiled, "Aren't you the thirty percent?" The thirty percent is used to pay the food and salary to these government soldiers who transport grain, and because these government soldiers are only responsible for transportation, the ministers mind that they can consider using some government soldiers who are old or have made meritorious contributions, but have returned to their hometowns. ”

"Calling them to transport food, first, they have combat effectiveness, and second, this can be regarded as a subsidy for them, and they will be paid military salaries."

"Isn't that a conflict with the existing military system of Datang?" Li Shimin frowned. I have to say here that the military system of the Tang Dynasty is the government and the military system, and everyone in later generations has the impression that it is rich to be a soldier and fight, and the Tang Dynasty only earns 10 million yuan a year, how can it afford to raise nearly 800,000 soldiers in the country? !

In fact, there is a misunderstanding here, first of all, there is no military pay in the government military system. That is to say, when the government soldiers have no money, this is because when the government soldiers send you the Juntian system Yongye Tian in the country, you need to serve in the military, so there is no money to take, not only no money, but the government soldiers also need to prepare to buy light weapons by themselves.

For example, bows, horizontal knives, and bring your own food! That's right, the food for the government soldiers to serve is brought by themselves! Of course, this is talking about non-war times. These weapons are usually kept by the imperial court, and they are used to receive relevant weapons with a certificate issued by the imperial court.

The court is only responsible for the armor, but the armor can be used in rotation.

Therefore, the army of the Tang Dynasty consumed very little money on the imperial court.

But there are special armies in it, such as the border guards, and the troops guarding the border can get their salaries after more than a year! But there are not many soldiers in this part, and for the Tang Dynasty, the burden is naturally very easy.

This is also the reason why the Tang Dynasty cannot garrison troops in these small vassal countries for a long time, because they cannot afford to station.

"It's not a conflict, this part of the government soldiers can be hired." Li Ke grinned.

Li Shimin was a little confused, obviously he didn't understand it very well.

"This is the Tang royal family's order to sympathize with the frontier soldiers, and then hire meritorious soldiers from their own treasury to solve the food problem of the frontier soldiers, which is not a state act, and it does not conflict with the country's government and military system." Li Ke explained with a smile.

Li Shimin: "......" aren't you just saying it another way? But if you think about it, it seems to ...... Can it really be said? And this also promoted his Li Shimin's prestige, making him quite prestigious among the low-level soldiers.

Thinking of this, Li Shimin glanced at Li Ke strangely, no wonder he could make the entire courtiers and families powerless by himself.

"You haven't explained why you have to ship grain from the mainland." Li Shimin looked at Li Ke and asked.

Li Ke has a headache, this thing is not easy to explain, this is an economic problem.

In the hearts of people in this era, for example, there was a war in the Western Regions, in order to save the funds of the imperial court, it was natural to directly transfer grain from Longyou Road in the Hexi Corridor, which was not wrong.

However, although Longyou Dao can produce grain, at present, the output and surplus grain are not much, and too much grain will inevitably cause local grain prices to rise.

And the output of a country is constant, and the people who eat grain are also constant, that is, the total amount is constant.

It seems that seventy percent of the grain transferred from the interior was consumed, but in fact, this seventy percent was eaten by the government soldiers who transported the grain, and the grain in the homes of the government soldiers who transported the grain was left, and when the people's grain could not be preserved in large quantities, it would naturally be sold, so the total amount of grain in the market remained unchanged.

As for the transportation of grain from the mainland, the surplus grain in the Hexi Corridor will be retained, which itself is also a method of strategic storage, which can assist in regulating and controlling grain prices in various regions of Datang.

Secondly, giving money to these government soldiers, there is also a hidden role is to hide the wealth from the people, the people have money, naturally there is money to buy the goods produced by Li Ke for consumption, Li Ke has money, you can find a way to make more money for the people, in this process, the country has also been developed, a virtuous circle, three wins!

In ancient times, both ordinary people and gate valve families had a bad habit, that is, burying money! The people are fine, after all, there is not much money.

And like these gate valves with five surnames and seven hopes, as well as rich households, their money is either moldy in the warehouse, or they have secretly found a place to bury it.

And these families are all thieves and rich, and when they are buried, they are millions, tens of millions, and the money is buried and not circulated, what is the difference between that thing and the underground copper mine? If there is less copper money available for the whole country, there will naturally be less of it, and this is a vicious circle.

Now all the families of the Tang Dynasty have a large number of coins in the hands of the previous dynasties and even the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

If they dig out all this money and recast it, the copper coins of Datang will definitely be enough, and there is no need to replace currency with silk and silk.

What Li Ke is doing now is to find a way to circulate the money, this method can only be for him or Li Shimin to throw money and give the money to the people, in fact, this is also part of improving the country's strength.

"Dad, why don't I explain this to you another day?" Li Ke said helplessly, this thing can't be explained in a while.

"What do you mean?" Li Shimin glared at him.

"I'm afraid you won't understand." Li Ke said tentatively.

Li Shimin: "......" Are you itching your butt again?