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Li Shimin was crazy poor.

It was so poor that he was surprised that his father was the emperor, so he was not good at it. At that time, he was still warring every year and his territory was not so big.

After thinking about it, Li Shimin felt that he was too good to the people.

He was exempted from taxes and reduced taxes at every turn, and the world suffered disasters. This was a common thing before, even during the prosperous Kaihuang period. However, at that time, the court did not help the people like him. It was very common for the people to escape from famine and beg for food when they were in disasters. Even Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian often brought civil and military officials to Luoyang. At that time, hundreds of thousands of people in Guanzhong followed the emperor, who were carrying their families and the elderly and the children.

In fact, if Li Shimin and Yang Jian, or his father, were not so tough, then this time, they would not have been so poor and crazy looking for money.

He was even thinking about whether to borrow money from Li Chao.

Li Chao was rich and powerful, and all Li Shimin envied him.

Being an emperor is tired of kindness.

It’s better to have his father’s method. It’s better to have a common rule with the Guanlong nobles. As for the rest, they don’t care about so much. Only those who only pay the capital officials, but other officials don’t pay the salary. The court yamen does not pay the service funds, so they let them lend themselves and collect interest with the government money.

The titles of powerful people are mostly false, so they can give more power in other places so that they can earn money by themselves.

The soldiers of the government did not pay any wages, and the allowance for war was also small.

In short, the court tried to minimize financial expenditures.

When encountering the Turkic people with strong power, compromise with them, give in, give money to women, and pay tribute with their relatives. There is no need to rush to fight with them.

But when he arrived at Li Shimin, his new policy was reformed everywhere, but the more he reformed, the more he spent the more money he spent.

Faced with the aggressiveness of the Turks, they refused to pay tribute and refused to sit and watch them invade the border.

Li Shimin wanted to borrow money from Li Chao, but unfortunately Li Chao didn't have this awareness.

"Speak quickly, what are your tricks to raise funds?"

As long as Li Chao can get the money, Li Shimin doesn't care whether the money was obtained from Li Chao or from others. Anyway, he needs money now.

Li Chao looked at Li Shimin, less than thirty years old.

To be precise, this year should be twenty-eight years old. He is tall and heroic, but he is a little haggard. In the first year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin worked very hard and felt angry. He kept holding it up just to prove that he would be better than Li Yuan in the world.

This is an emperor who forced himself too much, and many places are very similar to Yang Guang. In the years when Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, he also made great reforms. Then the subjects in the world praised him. In the early years of the great cause, it was much more enlightened and powerful than in the later years of Kaihuang.

Unfortunately, Yang Guang's life was too smooth and he gave up on himself after encountering severe setbacks. In many places, Li Shimin was similar to his cousin Yang Guang, but Li Shimin's road to seizing the throne has always been very hard. In addition, he was a martial artist at the beginning, so Li Shimin was much more tenacious than Yang Guang.

The great defeat of the overlord of the Western Qin Dynasty did not overthrow Li Shimin. The tempering in the army gave Li Shimin undoubtedly a more tenacious quality.

This may be the reason why he eventually became a wise monarch for all ages, but Yang Guang was called a tyrant by countless people.

Li Shimin wanted to prove himself, prove that he was better than Jiancheng, even Li Yuan, Yang Guang, and Yang Jian. He wanted to be an emperor like Qin Emperor and Han Wu, and Li Chao was willing to assist him.

Li Shimin asked for money, and Li Chao kept helping him get money.

Now that the court owes 3,000 chunks of national debt, Li Shimin still wants to fight against the Turks, instead of thinking about cede land and paying compensation for personal tribute, Li Chao was also moved.

"Your Majesty, if it is less than 30 million yuan, I have a way to raise funds. But this money is not obtained out of thin air. This money is the wealth of the people. No matter what method is used to collect it, it is actually a depletion of national strength, national prestige, and imperial power."

Li Shimin nodded.

Of course he knew this, just like buying food and issuing bonds from the rich before, he knew the essence of these things very well.

Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn the boat.

There were many reasons for the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and the world eventually returned to the Tang Dynasty. Among them, the Tang Dynasty safeguarded the interests of all parties, which was the key point. If the court had only been focusing on plundering the world's wealth, there would eventually be someone rising up, just like the Sui Dynasty. No matter how powerful the Sui Dynasty was, it would collapse once it broke out.

"Tell me what you do, I'll consider it!"

Li Chao has many ways to raise money, but each one comes without a price.

For example, starting a war to donate and raising donations from the rich in the world is the lowest method, and it is a real forced tax collection that will attract resentment from countless people.

You can also increase the salary, so that the world's Dingkou will add war tax, just like the three salary in the late Ming Dynasty. However, history has proved that at the beginning of the design of the three salary in the late Ming Dynasty, although it sounded like the people were not burdened, in the actual collection process, these additional salary were all transferred to a very small number of poor people. Therefore, the last three salary also became an important straw that suppressed the Ming Dynasty.

According to the nature of taxation, it should actually be to impose more taxes on the people with the most wealth and less taxes on the people with the less wealth, so that the most wool can be pulled out from the least sheep and then the least sheep can be heard.

However, there are many tricks here, and simple taxation methods will make people oppose resentment.

"Your Majesty, salt!"

Li Shimin stared at Li Chao and frowned when he heard the word "Salt".

"Salt?"

The court had implemented a monopoly policy on salt two years ago. One salt had increased the tax of one million chunks of salt to the court every year. This tax made Li Shimin very satisfied. This was a tax that was not available before, but now it has increased by one million.

But the salt tax has basically been around one million guan a year in the past two years. How can it get 30 million guan?

"Does salt have to increase the price and taxes?" Li Shimin asked. He had heard Li Chao say before that salt tax is essentially a cap tax. Because everyone needs to eat salt and tax it into salt, then in the end, every citizen will have to pay for the salt tax. However, the court does not need to tax all the people, but only taxes from salt merchants. By raising the price of salt, the salt merchants are equivalent to collecting taxes from the people.

In this way, the court did not directly impose salt taxes on the people, but only impose taxes on a few salt merchants. The taxes were paid, but there was no need to be so much trouble.

To what Li Chao said to him, this is actually a kind of circulation tax.

Li Shimin now only wants to know how to increase the original one-month salt tax to 30 million guan.

"Your Majesty, the salt tax can rise a little, but we have risen less than 30 million yuan. Therefore, although our money is spent on salt, we still need more methods and strategies."

Li Shimin couldn't help but pinch his beard again. He couldn't figure out how to do it.
Chapter completed!