"Brother, this money is too much."

"You're still biting your hands because you have too much money?" Li Chao glared at Niu Jianhu.

"I don't bite my hands because I have too much money. I just didn't expect that our fertilizer factory can really make so much money."

Wubenfang, northwest corner, Zhao Duke's Mansion.

The rest of the fangs in Chang'an City are similar. The northernmost fangs are the largest, and the central city area is the smallest. As the saying goes, the east is noble and the west is rich. The Wuben House where the Li family is located is next to Chunmingmen Street, and to the north is the square in front of the imperial city. Although the fangs are not as large as those on the east and west sides, there is the Imperial College in the fang, which is a good place.

Especially now, there are three of the six most powerful officials of Xuanwu Gate living in this yard, which has led to a sharp rise in housing prices in Wubenfang recently.

The Li Mansion has already included all the house behind it into his own home. This was given by the emperor and he personally came forward to build a garden.

Li Chao was very satisfied with this back garden. It was early March, but the back garden had a sea of ​​flowers. If you want to see the flowers, you don’t need to go out, you can see them at home.

Today, Niu Jianhu and four of them came to visit, mainly to thank Li Chao.

Because Li Chao kept taking the four of them by his side last time, all of these four guys have been named Earl now, and they are actually Earls of a hundred households. In addition, my brother-in-law Cui Yan is also here today, and he has also benefited from Li Chao's glory and has been promoted to Earls, Earls of a hundred households.

Li Chao's father, Li Tieqin, was guarding Li Shimin's wife and children on the same day. Therefore, in terms of merit, he also awarded the title of the county duke, with a total of 300 households in Tongqian. Li Chao probably had some of his contributions, otherwise his father would not have been promoted from his uncle to the county duke, with 300 households, which was a very high title.

Li Shimin was really generous this time. He conferred more than 100 real nobles in one go, and more than 300 virtual titles. It was just like a seal, but with the awarding of the rewards, new rules for the title of titles were also released. No matter whether the real title was sealed, they could first get a Yongye Field, which is twice as much as the standard title of Yongye Field.

A Duke originally had four thousand acres of Yongye Land, but he could directly seal 8,000 acres of land.

A county man originally had only 500 acres, but he could get one thousand acres directly through it.

But the nobles actually enfeoffed the enfeoffed households and exchanged them for Yongye fields, and exchanged them for fifty acres of each household.

At the beginning, many people were so excited that they almost screamed. The prince was too generous, but when they saw the notes behind, everyone was a little stunned, because all the Yongye fields had to be drawn lots, but no matter how they were drawn, they were all in the border areas of the Tang Dynasty.

Because of this, so this time I have won so many real titles, including virtual nobles and titles, and all have higher titles.

Li Chao and the six first-ranked ministers of the Xuanwu Sect, all of whom were awarded the title of Duke of the Kingdom. Li Shimin thought it was not enough, so he issued another Taoist edict this time, and the six first-ranked ministers of the Xuanwu Sect were each given the title of Duke of the County.

It is still a true title of Duke of the County, and three hundred households are truly enfeoffed.

Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and others have sons, Li Chao's son and mother's womb. But Li Shimin doesn't care, the title has been granted, and Li Chao has four wives and concubines are pregnant. If the wife gives birth to a son this time, then the wife and son will be granted the county duke. If the wife has no son, then the other concubines will have the son. Whoever is the son will be granted the county duke.

Li Chao's son has all the titles and titles, and the Duke of Lintao County.

It has to be said that Li Shimin's move has indeed made everyone excited. He has won more than 400 nobles at one time, which is a celebration for everyone.

Although the real seal is not as good as before, there are fewer people in the real seal, and this time the seal is obviously higher, so everyone finally accepted it.

The only thing that was not very happy was the royal families of the Li family. Their titles were not promoted, but Yongyetian and the tax on food and taxes were exchanged for Yongyetian on the border.

Now the Li family has three titles, one is Duke of Zhao, one is Duke of Shangluo County and one is Duke of Lintao County.

Nowadays, more than a thousand nobles of all sizes in the Tang Dynasty are waiting to draw lots.

According to the newly released rules for titles, no matter whether the real title is sealed or the size of the title, the lottery must be drawn. Which border area is drawn, then draw your own fiefdom there again.

Many frontier areas such as Longxi, Gannan, Hexi, Yanbei, Daibei, Liaoxi, Lingnan, Jiannan, etc. are different, and no one knows what they have drawn is better.

Anyway, it depends on luck, but everyone also wants to draw this lottery earlier to see how lucky you are. Then you can arrange someone to go over and see if you can manage it earlier.

In fact, many people have thought it through. Compared with the original faction, there are quite a few nobles. One or two hundred households are already rare. There is not much rent or tax to collect in a year. Now, the high point of titles is given higher and more land is given. Even if the land is not good, it doesn’t matter if it is wasted.

After all, aristocrats are not just the benefits of real taxes, but the benefits of aristocrats are mainly privileges. For example, exemption from classes, such as descendants becoming officials, such as being granted a wife and mother, and being given a gift to ancestors, etc.

Anyway, if you get a noble title, the benefits you get are far more than the income from fiefs and fiefs, which is only a small part of it.

Which one is more attractive, a founding man who was originally a nobleman, or a founding marquis, a founding marquis, a founding marquis, a founding marquis, a founding marquis, a founding marquis, a founding marquis, a founding marquis. After all, the system in the past was too difficult to seal the title, and it had to be surrendered to the title. Some even had a lifelong title. The descendants surrendered to the title, and it was difficult to inherit the title of the title, and they had to be specially ordered.

Now the crown prince has given so many noble titles to everyone, one of which is that most of the nobles are inherited from generation to generation and can be inherited from generation to generation, and those Yongye fields will not be taken back.

The title of false title can also be reduced to the level of inheritance, and the descendants can directly inherit Yongyetian.

In short, the prince gave many benefits and concessions. The nobles also received many benefits, so they no longer had to worry about the little bit of money and the income from the ban on renting and taxes.

Anyway, for these nobles, there are too many opportunities to make money.

Five new Niu Jianhu, who was newly promoted to the founding uncle, were young, so they didn't care about the little rent that Baihu Zhenfeng had. They made a lot of money just by making liquor regional distributors for Li Chao.

What's more, Li Chao just told them that their Chang'an Fertilizer Factory actually had so many dividends.

"Actually, the fertilizer factory has gained a reputation now. The dividends of thousands of chunks of coins are indeed quite good, but not much. Our industry has unlimited prospects. The court has planned to work hard to promote fertilizer and fertilizer fields next year to increase the grain output of arable land. This is a great opportunity for us. I plan to not distribute dividends this year. We will invest the dividends to expand the production scale, recruit more people, collect more fertilizers, and process more fertilizers, and expand the sales area to increase the sales area and sell more fertilizers more and better."

The harvest of terraced fields in Zhangjiagou on Bashang really shocked the people of Guanzhong, and even the officials of the court were alarmed. Not even a little bit, these days, you can harvest one or two more dou per acre of land, which is enough to be paid attention to by the government, and even rewards for criticizing the red and lottery, allowing you to promote and spread your experience, not to mention that rice has been planted in Bashang, and the yield is so high.

It simply subverts their perception.

Even if Li Shimin does not come to power this year, Li Yuan will still let the court promote fertilizers in full.

"Brother, we all listen to you, why don't we put the dividends of Zuixianlou into the fertilizer factory as well."

Last year, when Li Chao first started the fertilizer factory, these guys disliked him very much. He didn't believe that this thing had any prospects and prospects.

But now, the facts speak.

"It's a good thing you are willing to invest money, but I plan to build a seed factory."

"What seed factory?"

"It is to give priority to seeds, wheat seeds, rice seeds, millet seeds, and bean seeds. Select the best seeds and sell them to the people who farm."

"Don't we just keep the seeds after they grow their own grains and they have matured?"

"Seeds are also very knowledgeable. Good seeds will naturally grow well and produce high yields."

In later generations, farmers rarely kept their own plantings, and mostly bought seed companies. Not to mention anything else, just one hybrid rice is quite impressive. One or two thousand kilograms of rice is planted per acre of land and kept it himself, but they cannot grow such hybrid high-yield rice.

Li Chao planned to get involved in this industry, take it slowly, and do it little by little.

A breeding base can be built to cultivate better seeds, select the best seeds, and then sell them to farmers to make the crops better from the beginning.

However, this must be a long-term project, so you have to take it slowly. I guess you have to invest a lot of money and the results won't be so fast. But Li Chao believes that once it is done, it will definitely be very impressive.

"Brother, we don't understand these, but we all listen to you. Let's just say how much money we want, and we will invest." Cheng Chumo said proudly.

These guys are now very wealthy. With Li Chao, they have invested in a lot of projects and they really make a lot of money.

"Go back and ask me if you have any spare money, and if you want to do a candy deal with me."

Li Chao told several people.

"Doing a candy deal? Isn't that the deal you sold to Zhang Yin's two families?"

"They returned the deal to me."

"Oh, that's how they're tactful. But since you've given this deal, then naturally, we'll share your benefits from your family." Li Gan said with a smile.

"Don't worry, the sugar trade is very big. If there are more people working together, it will not have any impact on the Li family. On the contrary, it will make more money."

Li Chao's idea is also very good. The sugar industry is very big, so Li Chao can control the key parts. For example, everyone comes to build sugarcane gardens and grow sugarcane. Li Chao can even give them the technology to squeeze sugar sugar.

They made sugarcane, and even roughly processed and extracted sugarcane from sugarcane, Li Chao directly purchased it, and then refined it into white sugar brown sugar rock sugar.

Each company is the most upstream part, and the Li family masters the most technical part in the middle, and naturally the most profitable part. Then he can also trade sugar with each company, domestic sales and foreign trade.

In this business, the more people, the better. The more people join, the more sugar cane gardens there will be, the more sugar cane sugar sugar, the more raw materials the Li family can process, and the more products it can process.

It really made the Li family and Zhang Yin family monopolize this industry like the ones. They hold it in their hands and operate it slowly. Although others cannot share the profits, the industry cannot be big.

Li Chao chose to do a large scale and share the benefits together.

In fact, in addition to the sugar business, there is another better business, which is salt.

Last time, Li Chao had provided Li Shimin with a way to increase his income, which was to impose a salt tax to allow the court to regain control of the salt industry.

The civil industry, official collection, commercial transportation, and commercial sales were the future salt industry model he provided to Li Shimin. People produce salt, official collection, and then sold it to merchants. Merchants transport and sell it. The court controlled the production of salt and held the salt produced in their hands. Merchants could only buy salt in the court, and each kilogram of salt would be added to the salt tax.

This is equivalent to the court imposing a count tax on the people of the world, but not directly levying it from the people, but directly levying it from the salt merchants. In the end, the salt merchants passed this tax onto the people who ate salt. The court collected taxes, but the tax cost was lower.

The salt business has always been extremely profitable, and in the future, salt will definitely become the focus of competition among the merchants of the Tang Dynasty.

However, selling salt requires no technology, mainly relying on the combination of official and business. Li Chao felt that he was not in a hurry to flow into the muddy water.

Doing a sugar business is not worse than a salt business, and Li Chao has a technical advantage, which is something that others don’t have.
Chapter completed!