"What Gu always wanted to talk about is horse politics. The imperial court from Longyou to Lanyuan, Qinyuanling, and the land of Hequ were all pastures. At most, it reached more than 700,000 horses, so our cavalry was strong. However, when Dafeichuan was defeated, the number of Qinghai horse farms and the war horses that died in battle decreased slightly. There were also many horses, but the horse prices began to rise slightly. But not only horses, but also large livestock such as cattle, sheep, and Luo. These large livestock were always managed by the imperial court. Not to mention that, the quantity was unified and the rewards and punishments were ordered. However, not only were the pastures managed by the imperial court, from Hequ to Lingwu to Longyou, to the Western Regions, there were many other nomadic livestock. Because they were not good at planting, they mainly ate these livestock."

After Li Wei finished speaking, most people were puzzled. Since ancient times, nomadic peoples have lived like this. Could it be that they were forced to put down their horse whip and cultivate with the Han people, and they had to cause chaos.

Li Jingxuan said: "Your Highness's intention is..."

"I just say one thing. A horse is worth twenty or thirty yuan in the capital. It is less than one person's annual food for food? Twenty or thirty yuan, with this year's grain price, can be exchanged for 3,400 stones of grain, and feeding seventy or eighty people. It's not that it makes management inconvenient for the supervision of the pastor. After all, once exchanged, it involves the word "lift", even the chief of the pastor (one hundred and twenty horses are in a group, with the upper commander, the upper commander, the upper guard, the upper guard, the upper guard) is ashamed. Therefore, except for the horses used by the government soldiers in the official market, they are allowed to live and die. However, there are extremely shortages of large livestock in the Central Plains. You have also seen that some poor families use people to pull the plows. There are also circulations, all of which are smuggled by merchants. The court prohibits selling horses, and they know that inconvenience, so they ignore the past checkpoints and are also used to make the word "convenience to the people."

This is also a fact. Horse smuggling is a gray area of ​​the court. Although it is nominally banned, in fact, no officials strictly prohibit trafficking. But they are afraid that they will be released and will cause bad consequences, so they turn a blind eye and don’t go too far.

Li Wei continued: "Did the merchants get real profits when they go for profit? Gu once talked to Land Horses, but it was not. The past checkpoints needed to be opened and occupied most of the benefits. In other words, the so-called ban on selling by the imperial court was to cover up the ears and steal the bells and raise a group of greedy people. Gu thought it would be better to let go appropriately. After a large number of cattle and horses arrived in the Central Plains, they would plow more fields and save a lot of manpower. The border resettlement also reduced the amount of food and food and clothing. The imperial court could also set up checkpoints and collect a tax. Not only that, Tubo, Turks and other foreign countries lack cloth, salt, utensils, and grain. After all, they all feed on meat, and even if they are on grasslands, they cannot support many people. They can also set up some foreign cities and send people to manage and trade so that the transactions are orderly, and a batch of taxes can be collected again."

"Your Highness, it's a bit inappropriate," Li Jingxuan said uneasy.

"It's not wrong. Why, at the beginning of the founding of the country, as long as the king is not dark, can quickly enter the great rule? It is because a large number of people and landlords die, and a lot of land is produced. After a long time of establishment, the population increases and the embezzlement is getting heavier. Therefore, the rich become richer, the poor become poorer, and then there are Zhangjiao and others. However, the court cannot govern, which is because it involves too much. You don't believe it. You can go down and take a look. Some wealthy families dare to buy and occupy the Yongye field of the court. They are young and young, don't know the truth, but they don't want to cause any storm. The matter of trading has nothing to do with them, and they are not allowed to trade. The court does not interfere in this area, but only places it in the open, collect taxes and effectively manage it. What is only damaged is some greed and some powerful people who do not take the royal family seriously, and do not even take the imperial family seriously. Why should the court respect them?"

A few ministers bowed their heads. Those who dared to ignore the court were just dozens of famous families.

But Dai Zhide said: "It is okay to negotiate a feasible way with the border Fanhu transactions. If it is placed in the light, even if it is a war horse, the court can openly control it."

"The same is true for my husband Dai."

"But your Highness, why did you trade with Turkic Tubo? With food and utensils, they will become stronger and the people will reproduce more. If they continue for a long time, it will be a border injury."

"No, Da Xianggong, the Central Plains are richer and the Fan Hu becomes poorer, and they will invade. When people are hungry, they can do anything. Giving food will give them a thought. It is the same as this. With the idea, the looting will not be strong. Maybe it will be strong, and maybe it will invade the Central Plains. But with too many people, it is not possible to just rob, and no transaction will come quickly. Once angered, our dynasty closes the Fan City, which is equivalent to cutting off their wrists and for a long time. The more they rely on transactions, the more they control me. Not only that, when dealing with Fan Hu, we cannot use all our force, and one clan will perish, and the other clan will rise again.

Assimilation, the Han, Bodhi and Hu are all family members, and there will be less disputes. Furthermore, if we get a large amount of livestock, our dynasty will increase the arable land and the population will increase. Whether they are strong or not is not necessarily known. But it is inevitable that our dynasty will be strong. After all, it is our dynasty that the danger of the country is not the mountains and rivers, but the virtues. Without these, there are still many people on the border who continue to trade regardless of the feelings of the court, but not really eliminated. Establishing a dynasty city, levying taxes, and then orderly, and what can be traded and what cannot be traded, such as iron tools, cannot be circulated in large quantities in the Turks and Tubo, and they can be controlled."

The last point touched everyone quite a bit.

In fact, there is also, not only orderly, but also increasing income and large-scale transactions, which can increase employment opportunities. With the civilization of the Tang Dynasty, whether it is Tubo, Turks, Dashi, or Persia, it will always be exporting countries, that is, both sides of the trade, the Tang Dynasty was the winner. And now no one knows the word trade protection.

The ones that followed did not say it, because when they mentioned it, they had a counterproductive effect. In addition, there was no cheese from the famous sect, and not many people opposed it. After Liang and Lu's suggestion, the court had already gained a lot of benefits, which made everyone feel it. So Li Wei said all these things, and these ministers were moved again.

Liu Rengui asked, "Then, what about the last one?"

"The last one is copper coins."

It puzzled everyone again.

Li Wei explained: "Because of insufficient copper, the imperial court had to use cloth instead of currency circulation. In fact, as we all know, because there is little copper, many merchants turned copper into copperware and sold it, which was more expensive. Although copper ores were discovered from time to time, copper was always insufficient. However, cloth was always used to wear, not for money circulation. Even if there is enough copper, it is buried underground and always limited, and it will be gone after it is harvested. It is a non-renewable thing. Therefore, I had an idea to use copper, iron, gold and silver from the world."

"I still don't understand very much," Xue Yuanchao said with a frown.

"The imperial court established a Maritime Bureau in Guangzhou, but Guangzhou is far away in Lingnan, with a remote terrain and poor property. Even so, Guangzhou is therefore the most important of the states in Lingnan, leading hundreds of thousands of tax revenues to the court every year. It is precisely because of the Maritime Bureau. Therefore, I wanted to set up two Maritime Bureaus in Suzhou and Quanzhou to sell the production of the Tang Dynasty to various countries, exchange it for various metals, which can be used as currency and utensils. It can also increase the income of the country. Officials' business... are properly governed (the word "ying" is changed to government) and can continue to increase the income of hundreds of thousands of yuan for the court every year. This alone is enough for the court to hoard grain and expand the two rivers. Having enough copper means having enough money, no need to use bulky cloth, and causing unnecessary waste."

During this speech, Li Wei used great skills, not only talking about the various benefits of setting up a permanent settlement and digging the two rivers, but also putting it under the framework of the reduction of per capita arable land and the embarrassment of people's lives. Even if it is very action, compared with these two propositions, nothing is. The latter is profit, but the use of livestock arable land and the lack of copper coins to explain it. In fact, large livestock is very short. Otherwise, the court would not issue a series of edicts, and it is not allowed to slaughter the plowing ox. Even if it dies, it must be checked in the middle to slaughter. Copper coins are even more in short supply, and they feel the inconvenience of lack of currency, but they are helpless. Using these two points is not just profit.

After thinking about it, everyone was already interested.

But Li Wei added: "As soon as the Maritime Bureau was opened, the imperial court could only operate the Maritime Bureau and was not allowed to use ships. For the sake of false reputation, they would show off their power and go on a mission to various overseas small countries."

In Suzhou and Haishi and in Guangzhou are different things. Once opened, the benefits brought by the Yangtze River Grand Canal will be amazing and the impact will be even more amazing. Therefore, he thought of the Song and Ming dynasties. The navigation industry in the Song Dynasty, especially the Southern Song Dynasty, was very developed and well-made. It supported the country's large economy without any exposure. However, in the Ming Dynasty, because Zheng He's voyage to the West was not called occupation or trade, but also called showing off his power. As long as he was convinced, he bent his legs and immediately carried cloth from the ship, tea, porcelain, and silver for you. Seven times voyage to the West consumed six million taels of silver from the country. So Liu Daxia burned the ship drawings, banned the sea, and there were Japanese pirates.

Now, it is a bit extravagant, but it is better to say it than not.

This is true, but no one cares about it. Four things, every thing is a big deal, and everyone is considering the importance of the matter.

Li Wei sighed and said, "The Maritime Bureau must make a decision, mainly a compass. I heard a little. It took a year and a half to go from Dashi to Guangzhou. Why is this? Because there is no direction, I have to wait for the monsoon. With a compass, it is different."

I don’t know what the ship looks like now. There are still water speeds of about one hour and ten knots, which means that it can sail about 200 nautical miles a day, and about 6,000 nautical miles from Dashi to Guangzhou. Of course, it is impossible to arrive in January, with various delays, and it can be reached in three or four months. In other words, it can be done back and forth in half a year or less than a year.

There is a prerequisite for this, which must have a sense of direction. Without direction, the risk of navigation is still very high, and even losing direction is not necessarily known whether the ship drifts to Antarctica and the Americas. Li Wei even privately guessed whether the Mayan pyramids were the sea ships of the Great Food drifted over to guide the local indigenous people to build them.

With a compass, sailing is equivalent to ushering in spring. If the Tang Dynasty let go of the order that the people prohibit going abroad, with the civilization and technology of the Tang Dynasty, they would plunder the wealth of the South China Sea, the Great Food, the Masters, and East Africa, and even some European countries in this backward era. However, Li Wei said it and endured it back. Opening a foreign city and a sea city can still find excuses to let the people go out to do business in the sea, purely for profit. As long as he said it, these ministers immediately impeached him.

After only half of the sentence, everyone thought that the prince said that with a compass, there would be more ships in the sea, and the tariffs on income would increase. Increased tariffs would be equivalent to increasing income. It was not that in the name of making profits, exchanged for foreigners' gold, silver, copper and iron to make money, and it was even more pleasing.

But not only this, many ministers looked at Li Wei suspiciously.

Liu Shenli said: "Although your highness has said a few things and I agree very much, it is not a trivial matter. Should I be approved by the Lord?"

"Let me report this after I go back. Everyone will go back and think about it first, and come and discuss it tomorrow."

Let everyone disperse, and then Li Wei began to read the local reports and tried to review them. He did not do anything too much. What his father did was to be responsible for the affairs of various departments. It was not considered as being in charge of the rule of law. He said that he was not qualified to be in charge of the rule of law, so he was considered to be the beginning of a real marriage.

After getting off the court, he returned to the Eastern Palace and was about to arrive at the Daming Palace. Di Renjie and Wei Yuanzhong arrived. These four major events were extraordinary. The two of them immediately heard it. Di Renjie asked uneasily: "Your Highness, are you today..."
Chapter completed!