Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

"Yuan Zhiwang." Tian Meng spat out a name.

Hearing this name, Li Ke paused for a moment. Is this a coincidence? "Just do what they say. This Master Yuan is a student of agriculture?"

"Yes, Master Yuan's ancestors are said to be farmers." Tian Meng nodded.

"That's right, tell Master Yuan that if you need anything, feel free to mention it. We provide any fields, tools, etc. they want to do experiments with." Li Ke said, "By the way, explain it to me. Lingnan Road, Jiannan Road, and Huainan Road each purchased a part of the land and cultivated and planted spice crops such as pepper."

"Yes, Your Highness, I've asked someone to give me an order. We can't grow this part of the spice habit here, so I've sent someone to buy the relevant land in Lingnan Road." Tian Meng said.

"Good job." Li Ke nodded in satisfaction. His subordinates must have this kind of subjective initiative. Otherwise, Li Ke will have to explain it himself, so Li Ke will not do anything every day.

"Report on the progress of the renovation of Chang'an City." Li Ke said.

"It's Your Highness. At present, we have completed [-]% of the renovation of Chang'an City. All major roads including Miyagi have been renovated. The same is true for roads in important cities such as Dongxi City." Tian Meng said. Said, "It can be said that we have announced that it is considered complete."

"Oh? So fast?" Li Ke was a little surprised.

"Yes, Your Highness, because the remaining [-]% is due to the fact that the population of these cities has not yet been fully populated, so it is all a field, and there is no need to complete road construction at all. After this part of the area is populated by people, we will start You can also build roads, other than that, all the roads and drains in Chang'an City have been repaired."

"The reason why the speed is so fast is because Your Highness told you before you leave that no one should refuse any people who have work. In the second month after your Highness left, we had more than 3000 people working in Chang'an City at the same time! At the peak, we even reached [-] people, and such a large number of people is also the reason why our project is progressing so fast." Tian Meng explained.

Li Ke was in a daze. No wonder many ancient projects felt that the efficiency was not slow. In the case of accumulating workers, although the tools were primitive, the efficiency could not be said to be slow.

Obviously, a large number of people is always powerful. More importantly, a large number of people like Li Ke is different from a large number of people in corvee. There is no salary at all for corvee, and they are all free of charge, and sometimes even corvee You also need to prepare your own food.

Under such circumstances, few people would work with all their strength, but Li Ke hired them directly, so their efficiency was much higher than that of corvees.

This is why the renovation project of Chang'an City is much faster than Li Ke imagined.

"How much did it cost?" Li Ke was a little curious.

"The actual cost is 220 million guan." Tian Meng gave a modest figure, "mainly food, and personnel monthly expenses."

"Only more than 220 million guan?" Li Ke was a little speechless. If he remembered correctly, the total amount of donations was more than 730 million, right?In other words, Li Ke seems to have earned more than 400 million yuan?

I'm so annoying, why can't I spend all the money?

"Actually..." Tian Meng hesitated.

"What?" Li Ke looked at Tian Meng strangely.

"Actually, the monthly expenses of the personnel of the more than 220 million yuan are almost more than [-]% of our income, because most of these people will choose to buy ironware in our blacksmith shop, or buy related burlap in our cloth shop. Clothing such as linen, silk, etc., after the later period of salt is added to the sale, these people will spend more money." Tian Meng said quickly.

Li Ke: "..."

"What are our main expenditures?" Li Ke was a little speechless. It is not good to have too much money in his hand, so he hurriedly spent it and threw it into the hands of the people.

"The main expenditure is the construction of Shuwangzhuang, which costs close to 300 million yuan in total. This part of the funds is also spent on the monthly money of those refugees and the surrounding people. In addition, it is used to buy a large amount of food for storage. But in fact, a considerable part of this money will still flow back into our hands." Tian Meng looked at Li Ke as if he was looking at a god.

Because the money in Li Ke's hands is really... more than the national treasury!The Tang treasury does not have Li Ke's money.

Li Ke scratched his head. The money must not include his profit in Xizhou, but Xizhou is currently operating internally on his food stamps, but in fact food stamps are also money, because the scale of Li Ke's sound field and supplies are expanding ah!

Holding such a terrifying amount of funds in his hands, Li Ke feels that his father should not know about the money at this moment. If his father finds out, Li Shimin's jaw may drop, or...do more by himself How many identical sets of clothes?Continue to pretend to be poor?

It is not difficult to spend the money, but what will it be used for?

After much deliberation, it seems that there is only one way to go, because grain was a hard currency in ancient times.

During the three or four years in Zhenguan of the Tang Dynasty, many people died of starvation in the Tang Dynasty. However, in fact, there was no shortage of food in the Tang Dynasty. There were two main reasons for this strange situation. There is a lot of grain, but at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, there was not much grain in the national stockpile, and it was impossible to provide effective disaster relief.

This is the first, and the second is that the sluggishness of commercial trade has a lot to do with it. Not only the aristocratic families have food in their hands, but because of the disaster, many people in areas that were not affected by the disaster began to hoard food. There are also a lot, but they are not sold, and no one buys them, which leads to the failure of state regulation.

Because of the sluggish business, there was very little grain harvested in the hands of merchants during the Wude period. Even if the imperial court wanted to buy grain for disaster relief, there was nowhere to buy it. They couldn't go to the farmers to collect it one by one and wait for it to be harvested. After transportation, the day lily is cold.

This is where useful food cannot be sold to desperately need, so it cannot tide over the storm.

In fact, if the overall food is counted in the middle and early stages of the Tang Dynasty, there is really no shortage of food, even if it suffers from natural disasters, it is because the population of the Tang Dynasty is small, and the land is allocated according to 100 mu per household in the Tang Dynasty, and the per capita cultivated land is more , counting those who suffered the disaster are enough to feed the people of the world.

However, there is a lack of strong national macro-control measures, which has led to the inability to centralize the supply of food, and then the disaster-stricken areas are so miserable that they have to eat their own children. In the non-disaster-affected areas, the people are afraid of disasters, but many of the grains hoarded are moldy.

If this money is used to stockpile food in various roads of the Tang Dynasty, that would be a good use.However, what Li Ke was thinking about was hoarding food, how to hoard it, and how to maximize the interests of the people.