Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

Everyone pretended not to hear. As for Li Ke, he didn't care about it at all. What's so embarrassing about this?

"Li Xin is right. The biggest part of the money has indeed flowed into my hands, but what do I use the money for? One is to provide military pay for the [-] elite soldiers of the Tang Dynasty stationed in Xizhou! Their military pay comes from Here! Secondly, all the funds for the construction of the city in the "First Five-Year Plan" of the entire Xizhou also need to be spent by me."

"Finally, we need to spend a lot of money in the early stage to build the official road service area and hire those retired government soldiers."

"In the later stage, you should know about my renovation of the roads in Chang'an City. For example, some of the main roads in our Xizhou, I may even use cement to renovate them. These will cost money!" Li Ke said calmly.

As soon as everyone heard it, the weird expression just now disappeared. After thinking about it carefully, this is indeed the truth. These things cost His Highness money!Think carefully about the money it takes to build a city!Everyone's scalp is numb!The amount of money spent is not a small amount, and now His Royal Highness is fully responsible for it!

It is conceivable that if His Highness does not want to make money, how can he afford to support the entire Xizhou!Thinking about it this way, everyone understood what Li Ke did to make money just now.

Your Highness, it's not easy!

However, among these people, Li Yan didn't have any special expressions on her face, she just looked at Li Ke who was talking eloquently with a smile on her gentle face, while Li Xin had a somewhat weird expression.

Although you are right, third brother, but third brother, the steel plant, cement plant, limestone field, including fishing boats, linen sold, etc., all belong to your own business.

Then all the herdsmen hired also work for you, third brother, and almost all the funds earned by these herdsmen are spent in your business, third brother.

In other words, the circulation of these money finally formed a complete closed loop... and the scale can continue to expand... Third brother, did you really spend the money?It seems that you have to spend raw materials for building roads and cities. The problem is that a complete closed loop from the production of raw materials to the final product to the final construction process is your own industry. If you think about it this way, all your costs will be reduced. It can be regarded as human cost.

And you earn back all the funds spent on labor costs.

Li Xin lowered her head like a quail, and we dare not speak anymore.

"Your Highness, do we want to sell our ironware?" Li Daozong asked.

"No, we need to use a lot of iron for our own construction. We don't have any balance to sell to the outside world. We only need to sell it to all the people in the Xizhou territory. That is to say, we can exchange our food stamps." Li Ke shook it simply. Shaking his head, although his steel output is large, at least for now, there is actually not much margin.

Several cities are placed here, and the construction of these cities alone requires a lot of steel consumption. Oh, I have to say something here. Li Ke’s city building really cannot be called reinforced concrete. After all, the premise of reinforced concrete is that the inside It's steel bars, but Li Ke is called iron bars at best.

Anyway, using iron bars can also guarantee good quality. Although the shelf life is a bit shorter, iron bars can also be used for 30 to [-] years, no problem?It's time for maintenance.

How can there be so much steel used at present.

"Then Lu Hai, when you sell to the outside world, you will follow this." Li Ke said.

"Yes! Your Highness!" Lu Hai bowed immediately.

"By the way, among the first batch of salt sold in Chang'an City, five hundred catties will be sent to the palace, and I will pay the money." Li Ke said.

"Yes." Lu Hai did not refute. The accounts of the firm must be kept in order. His Highness handed them over to them. Even if the entire firm belongs to His Highness, there must be a clear distinction between public and private interests. Even after one year, the firm will hand over the profits to To Your Highness, re-do the accounts next year.

"Then Su Dingfang, Pei Xingjian." Li Ke said.

"The minister is here."

"Starting tomorrow, you will each lead [-] cavalry to start the distribution of cattle and sheep, and prepare for the distribution of seeds. Alfalfa can be planted this year." Li Ke said.

"Yes!"

The population, cattle, sheep, and horses of the entire West Continent have also been counted. Now, with the propaganda of the previous wave of herdsmen going out, many herdsmen who fled to the deep mountains and old forests have come out again, and a large number of herdsmen are coming from the direction of Tubo. migrate in this direction.

The migration of these Tubo tribes is divided into two parts. One part is due to the propaganda of the Tuyuhun herdsmen. Although these Tubo tribes are skeptical, there are many people who are excited, because they are also exploited by the nobles, and there are many people who cannot survive.

Now His Majesty King Qin of the Tang Dynasty has publicly stated that anyone who enters the territory of Xizhou is the people of the Tang Dynasty. Naturally, if you become a person of the Tang Dynasty, you don't have to worry about being exploited by the previous nobles. Distribute Yongye sheep, cattle, and horses.

They believed this, because Datang had Yongye Field, and they didn't know how to farm, so it was normal for them to grow cattle and sheep.

Therefore, many small tribes ran away directly after the cattle, sheep and horses that helped the nobles graze.

But what they don't know is that they don't have to sneak away those nobles and have no chance to trouble them, because almost all the Tubo nobles south of the Kunlun Mountains have been swept away by Murong Shun!

The other part of the migration was because they didn't really believe the rumors of Tuyuhun. After all, in their opinion, the nobles of the Tang Dynasty were so kind?Willing to give them cattle, sheep and horses?

But who knew that Murong Shun came and killed all the Tubo nobles!But they let them go.

Now... it is impossible not to run away. If Zanpu from Tubo arrives, these herdsmen will definitely be killed by other nobles. These people are forced to migrate. Instead of waiting to be killed, it is better to go If there is a way out, maybe His Highness Datang is really like that.

No matter what reason they started migrating, as long as they migrated over, Li Ke would not be afraid of them running away!

Counting these people, the current counted population of Tuyuhun is only 47.3, and there are 11.2 households, with an average of 4.2 people per household.

Now Tuyuhun has a total of 307 million sheep, 102 million cattle, and 72 horses, regardless of the size of the livestock.

According to the number of these cattle, sheep and horses, Li Ke finally made a decision. The sheep are divided according to the number of people. On average, each person is divided into 6 Yongye sheep, and the male and female are divided equally. In this way, a total of 283 million sheep will be distributed. The cattle are distributed according to two per person, a total of 94.6 cattle, and the horses are distributed according to five horses per household, a total of 5 horses.

To be honest, after this figure was calculated, Li Ke was not surprised by the number of cattle and sheep, but the number of horses was less than Li Ke expected.

After careful inquiry, Li Ke found out that in fact, there may be only one horse belonging to these herdsmen, and most of the other horses belong to nobles, because the nobles also control the number of herdsmen's horses.

72 horses sounds like a lot, but ignoring foals, old horses, pregnant mares, and naturally good and bad horses, the number of eligible war horses is probably only one-tenth.

In fact, the word war horse is only distinguished by the Tang Dynasty. It seems that when many herdsmen fight, they ride their own horses and go out directly. They are considered war horses, but in fact their war horses are not qualified in many places. .

For example, the war horses of Datang have to go through strict training, such as selecting horses that meet the age, and then taking these horses to start hitting some paper dummies, and then gradually increase to become straw dummies, and then Use some spears made of straw to stab these war horses, making them think that these "spears" will not hurt them, until they face some infantry phalanxes and cavalry phalanxes and dare to charge directly up. .

But the horses of many cavalrymen in Tuyuhun did not meet this condition at all. Some of them met the requirements, and the other part were directly coerced into charging.

As for the excess cattle, sheep and horses, the Datang Royal Ranch can be established.