Time Travel: I am the idle king Li Shen and Li Shimin in the Tang Dynasty

In fact, this can't be blamed on Li Chengqian for not understanding. He has never been exposed to business matters. Moreover, since Li Shimin thought about it, all memorials except some extremely important matters are now handed over to Li Chengqian for review.

Li Chengqian was busy from morning to night every day. He didn't even have time to rest, not to mention going out.

How could he have time to understand this?

"Gao Ming, you should be lucky. When you succeed to the throne, you will have such a powerful younger brother to help you. If I had such a rich younger brother to help me,

Today's Tang Dynasty can be twice as powerful. "

Li Shimin said to Li Chengqian in a deep voice, which also reminded him of some sad things.

"What Aye said is that the tenth brother did help a lot." Li Chengqian also nodded.

"No, I'm talking about you coming and taking a look at this after you succeed to the throne." Li Shimin rejected Li Chengqian's words and handed over a memorial.

Li Chengqian opened it curiously, and when he looked at the handwriting, he knew it was written by Li Shen. It was like a flying dragon and a phoenix, quite like everyone else.

What is written in the memorial is very simple: "The Chamber of Commerce collects 800 million guan in annual taxes, and now 400 million guan is sent to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the rest is used for the development of the chamber of commerce." Son, be careful. ’

Li Chengqian raised his head and looked at Li Shimin, who explained:

"Lao Shi once proposed to me that we should collect business taxes and reduce agricultural taxes. Lao Shi said that ordinary people only have a little money in their hands, so it is better to collect money from rich people.

I told him at first that it was very dangerous, so he formed the First Chamber of Commerce of the Tang Dynasty and used other methods to collect fees in disguised form.

Now it seems to have paid off. "

"Aye, 800 million yuan is already [-]% of our tax revenue this year." Li Chengqian was extremely surprised.

He didn't expect that his father and brother would secretly do such a big thing.

"Haha, you think there are so many? There are many big businessmen in the Tang Dynasty who have not joined, such as some nobles, local vassals, and aristocratic families.

They are the richest people in the Tang Dynasty.

If you add them into it, just 800 million yuan is nothing, it can be doubled by then. Today, the members of the First Chamber of Commerce in Datang account for about [-]% of the entire Datang. Most of the rest are aristocratic families and some nobles. "

Li Shimin knew everything about Li Shen Chamber of Commerce. How could Li Shimin not arrange someone for such a big matter?

As an emperor, some things must be under his control.

Li Shen's chamber of commerce is likely to become a super business empire in the future.

The scariest thing about businessmen is that they have a huge amount of supplies in their hands, supplies that can support a large-scale rebellion.

The war is about money. How could an emperor like Li Shimin not understand this truth?

Seeing that Li Chengqian didn't speak, Li Shimin reminded:

"Gao Ming, you should treat Lao Shi kindly in the future. I have been observing him for almost ten years. He has no ambition and no intention for this position.

Otherwise, he would not have been so confrontational with the noble families in these years, and this was also his attitude.

And you think he was so confrontational with several generals in Goguryeo, and had a estrangement with Li Ji, and didn't give any face to Li Ji. Why?

This is because he has finished offending the civil servants and has begun to offend the generals. Those generals are all loyal to me. "

After Li Shimin finished speaking, he left time for Li Chengqian to think.

Sibling fratricide is the last thing Li Shimin wants to see. He doesn't want what he has done to happen again to his descendants.

So he was very relieved and happy that Li Shen could sincerely help Li Chengqian.

He also hoped that Li Chengqian would not be jealous of Li Shen, or to prevent Li Shen from attacking Li Shen after he succeeded to the throne.

He has many important ministers to look after, but they are still outsiders. A member of his own family is always better than an outsider.

"Don't worry, Aye. My tenth brother has helped me so much. I'll treat him well later."

"No, not only Lao Shi, but also Qing Que and Pheasant Slave." Li Shimin added.

Li Chengqian was stunned after hearing this. He didn't know what happened to his father today and why he said such words. Such words were usually given when he was about to die.

However, Li Chengqian didn't think too much, nodded and continued:

"Yes, Aye, I will treat every younger brother and sister kindly and make them prosperous, wealthy and well-fed."

After hearing this, Li Shimin nodded with satisfaction. Apart from his eldest son being a little indecisive, he was very satisfied with everything else.

But this is not a problem, as long as you exercise for a few years.

"You go back to the East Palace to review the memorials. The memorials from the three provinces should have been sent there. I am a little tired." Li Shimin said softly, with a bit of weakness in his tone.

"Yes, Aye, I'll take my leave." Li Chengqian bowed and turned to leave.

After Li Chengqian left, Li Shimin said to Wang De:

"The Ministry of War has been informed that Yanqi in the northwest has made some moves. Now he has sent troops to station two hundred miles from the border of Xizhou in the Tang Dynasty. They may attack at any time.

He ordered General Zuo Xiaowei and the Prince Consort Duwei to lead Zuo Raowei to defend the border of Xizhou and command the troops of Xizhou after he lost his ability and Yuanzheng. "

"Yes, everyone." Wang De took the order and went to the Ministry of War.

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Li Shen stayed at home for several days, but he was not idle either. He lay on the bed, brought a map of Chang'an, and began to study the bus routes.

There are [-] lanes in Chang'an City. For convenience, every lane must be opened to traffic. However, Chang'an City is too big. If there are too few carriages and the route is long, it may take a long time.

So he needed to look at how to plan a detailed route. There must be a ring road. Li Shen named it No. [-] Ring Road.

It mainly goes back and forth around the entire city of Chang'an, but there is no repeated route, and it does not enter the shops, but only passes through the door.

And there are two routes, positive and negative.

Then there are the West Ring Road and the East Ring Road, and then there are buses between every street.

Li Shen spent several days making a total of seven or eight routes, one trip every quarter of an hour.

A total of hundreds of carriages were prepared.

In fact, Li Shen himself has calculated that this business is actually very big and he can make a lot of money.

His costs were mainly the early carriage and the driver's wages, and the horses were not good horses.

Unlike later generations of buses that require burning oil or gas, and paying taxes.

Many ordinary people will choose to take a car if they have a penny. Chang'an has a population of millions.

Moreover, at least tens of thousands of people enter the city every day, especially businessmen.

At the end of the day, there must be a net income of dozens of guan, which is thousands of guan a month, and tens of thousands of guan a year.

This is already a lot for most businessmen, and not every businessman is as short of money as Wangfu.

Li Shen handed the plan to Wang Hongfu and told him to have the carriage workshop make carriages as soon as possible and start the public transportation business as soon as possible.

(Originally, there was a big thing that Wang Hongfu wanted to report, but you guys kept saying that I was incompetent, so I had no choice but to end it plainly.

The major events reported by Wang Hongfu can only be updated in the main text tomorrow. We will not be stuck after listening to others' advice and eating enough. )