Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

The reason why Li Ke brought it up in court instead of discussing it with Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji in private was naturally to take advantage of Wei Zheng's character.

With Wei Zheng's character, Wei Zheng would definitely object to the method he proposed before, and then took the opportunity to propose the second method for them to discuss.

During the discussion in the three provinces, doesn't this mean that all the powerful families in the world know about it?As for the methods of this state-owned commercial bank, the wealthy families in the world cannot ignore or reject them.

The bigger the family, the more they cannot ignore it, because they have engraved the family inheritance in their bones. How could they give up this method of profit distribution for decades or even centuries, a method of stabilizing the source of family assets? ?

Especially those related to minerals, land, etc., can be said to be stable to the naked eye. Even if a prodigal son appears in later generations, if these things still exist, then the family will not fail too badly, and the family will still have a chance to turn around.

This is a huge advantage for them.

What's more, they don't know that Li Ke knows the approximate mineral resources and the distribution of large mineral veins in the entire Tang Dynasty and even the world.

Even though they knew clearly that the reason why the imperial court proposed this plan was because it cost too much money, and the imperial court was using their money to develop the place.

But aren’t they complementary to each other?As long as the local development is good enough, then their dividends will be high enough!

Of course, what they didn't expect was that the profits in this state-owned commercial bank could be deployed.

It's not that they won't be given dividends, but at the very least, if the profits are too much, then whether it's letting the commercial bank invest in research and development, improving infrastructure, etc., there will be too many places to spend money.

Of course, these shares have value in themselves. Even if they do not pay dividends and they are willing to sell them decades later, the actual increase in the value of these shares will not make their investment lose money.

It just means that the growth rate of this kind of assets is far less than that of the asset appreciation speed of a certain industry that appears during the rapid development of a new country.

"But you should discuss this policy of purchasing the people as a whole first, and then start to include all the surrounding countries into the territory of the Tang Dynasty. Then the three provinces should be ready to send relevant officials. For example, Tubo, there is no winter in the place where Tubo is now. Relevant officials can be reached directly by sea." Li Ke said simply.

"In addition, officials from the Western Turks can also arrive by sea. The Ministry of Construction will speed up the construction of railways to the Western Regions. The construction of insurmountable mountains can be postponed. Preliminary terrain and other related surveys will be carried out, and the plain areas in the middle will be constructed first. come out."

"And after the railways in these plain areas are built, they can also greatly speed up the transfer of materials."

"Yes, Your Majesty! But should we start railway construction in Myanmar and other states? If built along the coast of these places, the terrain is relatively flat. In addition, transporting these places to Tianzhu and other places can also speed up the transportation of logistics materials." Yan Lide hesitated and asked .

"Let's postpone these places. We will replace them with shipping for the time being. We can't produce that many rails for the time being. More importantly, you have to consider the impact of typhoons in these places. Coastal construction is prone to accidents. Let's do our best to ensure the railways in the Western Regions first." Li Ke After thinking about it for a while, I simply refused.

The Tang Dynasty does not have that much energy, and the current population is so large. In fact, the railways can mainly connect some densely populated areas. The other is strategic railways, such as crossing the Yili River Valley and directly entering the territory of the Western Turks along the Tianshan Mountains. .

This railway is considered a strategic railway of Datang.

Because the Tang Dynasty is different from China in later generations. Central Asia in later generations is now the territory of Datang. Therefore, Datang must have a strategic railway to connect it. Although the sea can reach areas such as Persia, Persia and other areas are far away from China in later generations. The hinterland of Asia is still too far away.

Even in later generations, these places were mainly nomadic, and there were less arable areas in these places. If you want to control the West Siberian Plain and other places further north in later Russia, you can develop these areas in order to have more advanced technology in the future. prepare for.

Then the area stretching from the Tang Dynasty to the Caspian Sea, and even the Eurasian dividing line in later generations, must be adequately controlled. The extension of the railway represents the absolute extension of force of the Tang Dynasty.

If you can't cross the Tianshan Mountains, you'll have to build directly along the gap between the Tianshan Mountains and the Altai Mountains to the north of the Tianshan Mountains until you completely bypass the entire Tianshan Mountains. Then, one will go northwest to the Ural Mountains, and the other will go south along the Tianshan Mountains. The mountains reached the Persian border.

Anyway, these places are now Datang's own territory.The matter of traversing the Tianshan Mountains will be done in the future when technology is advanced.

In this way, the technical difficulty has dropped a lot.

With Datang's current strength, it is estimated that it will be completed in a decade or so. Even if the entire railway needs to be completely rebuilt in future generations, it is enough for temporary use.

"Yes!"

After the court meeting was over, Li Ke patted his butt and returned to his Liangyi Palace. He could just leave the remaining matters to the three provinces. What should be implemented needs to be implemented now, and things that are temporarily discussed should be allowed to ferment first. Fermentation.

Just as Li Ke had guessed, although not many decisions were made at this court meeting, the entire three provinces were actually busy again. Although winter had entered Chang'an City, people's hearts began to become hot.

Li Ke's proposal of a state-owned commercial bank to develop local areas, allow wealthy families to take shares, and then purchase slaves from India, Persia, Arabia, Byzantium and other countries quickly aroused heated discussions among various wealthy families.

They don't know Li Ke's future plans, but their current thinking is that His Majesty... finally gave them another way to make money!

Is it even necessary to think about it?You must keep up.

Nowadays, the Tang Dynasty uses iron tools, ships, and various minerals. Any fool knows how expensive iron ore and other mineral resources are now.

What's more, there may be gold and silver mines in these places!If it does, then it’s a big profit; if not, it’s definitely not a loss!

Because they can probably guess that the place His Majesty wants to immigrate to and develop must be a place with good farmland, water resources and development conditions.

Didn't you see that His Majesty has begun to move the people out of places such as the Loess Plateau where the land is not actually fertile?

As for places with fertile land, there are too many in the Tang Dynasty now, because the population of the Tang Dynasty is too small.