The ministers looked at each other, and then an imperial historian stood up and asked, "Your Majesty, what should we do if these countries resist or protest against our behavior?" And even if it shows hostility towards us. ”

"If you dare to reach out, resolutely fight back! Now Datang is not afraid of any challenge, by the way, the military headquarters is in Liaoning Prefecture, and the troops in Silla Prefecture can all retreat and go to the Western Regions. Li Ke thought for a while and said.

"In addition, your thinking is more open, in the eyes of the nobles of these countries, these low-level people who fled are not people at all, they will not take it seriously, of course, these people have fled a lot, these nobles have no one to collect taxes, they must have ideas."

"But when they do, the officials and generals in charge of the frontier will have to talk to them about something else." Li Ke said lightly.

"The Slave Trade." Li Ke didn't wait for them to ask, and directly spit out four words from his mouth.

"The slave trade?" Everyone was stunned, this ...... Doesn't Datang not allow the existence of non-editors? Not to mention slaves? This...... Is it a little contrary to Datang's current national policy?

However, although the ministers were puzzled, no one refuted it, because they all knew that His Majesty was not that kind of person, so His Majesty must have a reason for saying this.

"Whether it's the Ring Sun Dynasty of Tianzhu, Persia, Arabia and Byzantium, anyway, they come to the door, whether it is official or private aristocrats, just tell them that the various aristocratic families in our Tang Dynasty are short of slaves to work."

"So we want to buy a large number of slaves, no matter where they go to find them, we only need slaves, and then the slaves can exchange money, cloth, tea, silk, porcelain and other items that can be produced in the Tang Dynasty."

"Of course, my personal advice is to pay them directly for the goods, and I believe that most of them want the goods as well. Or pay them money, and try to pay Datang banknotes if they can pay them. ”

"When the time comes, you have to tell them that when they buy to trade with our Datang, we will give priority to Datang's banknotes."

"Of course, hard currency, gold and silver are also available, and when their hard currency becomes less and less, they will naturally use more and more Datang banknotes."

"And after the slaves here entered the Tang Dynasty, we didn't treat them as slaves, but as ordinary people."

"To put it bluntly, we have to buy people with money." Li Ke looked at them and said.

"Before these people entered Datang, we had already marked the price for them, that is, we exchanged money for the people."

Li Ke's words made everyone stunned, this is buying people? What kind of routine is this, they have never thought of such a way.

The question is, how much does it cost?

"Isn't this a huge waste of Datang's finances? This...... Is it reasonable? "These ministers are a little stunned, this feeling is very unreasonable.

"Of course it's reasonable, you don't think that the people you bought back can't create value, right?" Li Ke said with a smile.

The current Tang Dynasty ministers are no longer the ones they used to be, and their thinking is at least much ahead of the previous Tang Dynasty ministers, and when Li Ke asked like this, they understood a little bit.

Of course, the people can create value, otherwise, why did so many people buy Kunlun slaves before? But according to His Royal Highness, these bought back are regarded as ordinary people.

If these ordinary people are talking, can the value they create really be comparable to that of slaves?

"Actually, for the imperial court, this is not difficult to deal with." Li Ke looked at them and said.

"First of all, we can use these people to open up a large amount of undeveloped land, which many people were reluctant to emigrate because of the lack of population in Datang or because of the problem of immigration."

"And these people who bought it are different, they can be arranged anywhere by us at will. And these places can be used to develop land. ”

"If possible, we can sell these areas to be developed to these gate valve families, and they have the right to develop for a certain period of time, for example, for many years, all the profits generated by the materials on this land will belong to them."

"Of course, the premise of these profits is not allowed to violate the laws of the Tang Dynasty, for example, timber can be mined, but soil erosion in mountains and forests must be ensured, and indiscriminate felling is not allowed."

"And in this land, for example, the grain grown by the people, or other crops planted, they are allowed to have the right of first refusal at the same price, for example, the people grow mulberry hemp, they want to buy, in the case of the market price, they are allowed to buy first."

"However, if these people want to settle in this place, the family gate valve needs to pay for it. Of course, the state tax in these places, the imperial court allowed them to collect a tenth of it. Li Ke said with a smile.

Everyone was stunned for a moment at this condition.

In other words, it seems that the imperial court is spending money, but in fact, it is still the gate valve family that is spending money, and it is also spending money to develop a certain area that has not been developed by the Tang Dynasty, and this area allows the gate valve family to operate for a certain number of years.

This sounds like nothing wrong, but isn't this condition a little too little?

"This, Your Majesty, the ministers don't have much objection, but this tenth is not too little." Among the courtiers, Gao Jifu hesitated for a moment, but then stood up and asked.

"Do you think this tax will be the main income of these family lords?" As soon as Gao Jifu asked, Li Ke understood what he was thinking, and couldn't help but ask with a smile.

"Isn't it?" Everyone was a little stunned.

"You're all ignoring one thing." Li Ke sighed, "Allow them to develop local resources, mineral resources are their biggest income, with the continuous development of Datang, the mineral resources needed will inevitably be more and more." ”

"And with the current transportation and other conditions of Datang, if people who have migrated from other places have migrated at high prices in the past, I don't need to say much about what the price is, right? The point is that it is useless to simply migrate the people, and only by forming settlements and villages and cities in the local area can there be gradually enough people to hire and develop. ”

"In fact, these people alone can bring them huge profits, after all, most of these people's income must come from farmland income, and most of these farmland income is brought by the imperial court, but the commercial operation of these places, the living materials purchased by the people, etc., of course these people have to participate."

Li Ke probably told them what he thought.