"I am the transferee of Liu Xiangdao, the emperor!"

Hearing the sound, Li Yin put down the memorial in his hand and raised his head, "Liu Aiqing is exempt from courtesy and is given a seat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Are you familiar with the affairs of the Transport Department? How do you feel?"

Faced with the emperor's question, Liu Xiangdao, who was newly appointed as the Transshipment Commissioner, was a little nervous. He was the newly appointed Transshipment Commissioner. Since the Kaiyuan Dynasty, Transshipment Commissioner took charge of financial plans and was called the Censor. As the chief financial officer of the court, his tasks were still very heavy. Especially in recent years, the court has been using troops continuously. In just one North Korea, he fought for a full ten years, followed by Xi Qi's rebellion, and the fight lasted for another three years and had not yet stopped.

Even the remnants of Silla, Baekje and Goguryeo on the peninsula were still resisting, and the financial expenditure brought by the war was too great. The cross-provincial transportation of money and grain to the peninsula, and countless money and grain were transported in the past ten years, and countless city fortresses were built there.

More than 200,000 horses were lost in war horses alone.

The expenses of rewarding merit and pension are also huge.

The last Ji Xiang Yuwen Jie was exiled to Lingnan in the case of rebellion by Changsun Wuji because of his disagreement with Changsun Wuji. He has been demoted to Lingnan in the case of rebellion. He has not been allowed to return to this day.

Later, all parties competed for the position of prime minister, but they were still vacant. Until now, Changsun Wuji's party was purged, and the emperor ordered Liu Xiangdao.

Liu Xiangdao's father was the Minister of Revenue in Zhenguan, and Liu Xiangdao's youngest successor to his father's title of Leping County. With the family background and connections of the Liu family in Guangping and his own efforts, his career was smooth. Since the new dynasty, Qin Langti was appointed as the Minister of the Central Secretariat, and his career was even smoother.

He served as the Minister of the Secretariat, the Censor of the Censor, the Minister of Personnel, and the Minister of the Yellow Gate, until now he was appointed as the Prime Minister.

From being in charge of selecting officials to being in charge of finance and taxation, Liu Xiangdao has not yet adapted for a while.

"I have recently seen the Transport Department report that the tax payment in Luzon has been amazing in recent years, and it has grown rapidly. The tax source of the two taxes, as well as industrial and commercial taxes, salt and iron tea, and maritime tariffs, etc., has even exceeded that of Yunnan, Qianzhong, Guangxi and other roads. If Luzon and Wu'an are combined, Jiaozhou, which is not considered Wu'an, the tax is not even as good as Luzon."

"I have checked the archives and found that Luzon's taxes have grown rapidly in recent years, mainly trade, minerals, salt and wine."

Li Yin stroked his beard, "The King of Qi is good at fighting and is better at economics. When I was young, I learned the economic and financial methods with him. Twenty years ago, Luzon was just a deserted island, with only some islands of barbarians. But now, in just twenty years, Luzon has now compiled more than 1.2 million Han people, more than 4 million foreign people, and a population of nearly 6 million. This strength is far beyond Baekje or Silla before the war."

"It's not much worse than Goguryeo."

"Even in terms of economy alone, it is far stronger than them. Luzon now has transit trade, sugarcane planting and sugar production, cotton planting and cotton textile industry, abaca planting and abaca textile industry, logging, shipbuilding, whaling and wax production industry.

There are also many emerging and powerful industries such as salt drying industry, winemaking industry, perfume industry, glass industry, porcelain industry, paper industry, etc..”

"I heard that nowadays, countless Hu merchants are heading directly to the port of New San Francisco in Luzon. The glass, silver mirrors, perfumes, ceramics, sugar, wine, candles, etc. of the Qin family in Luzon have become very popular foreign trade products, and have even seized many business in Southeast ports."

Liu Daoxiang replied carefully, "The Qin family has advanced technology and top-secret formulas in the three industries of sugar, glass and perfume. They also have great technical advantages in blue and white porcelain, cotton spinning, paper and shipbuilding."

Li Yin said slowly, "You forgot to mine and smelting. In the past, the imperial court mined only a few hundred thousand kilograms in a year. Since the Qin family took out the method of gut copper, the copper output has increased sharply. In the past ten years, it has ranged from one million kilograms to two million, four million, five million, and ten million kilograms, and the highest has even produced 20 million kilograms in a year. The gut copper mine in Shaozhou, Guangdong alone is 800,000 kilograms at lows and even tens of millions of kilograms at highs."

Of such a huge copper output, 99% were obtained through the method of gutting copper. The Qin family and the imperial court or the royal family, honor and qin, etc. increased the copper output of the Tang Dynasty by dozens or even hundreds of times.

The method of gallbladder copper cannot be separated from iron. A few kilograms of pig iron must be used to refine one kilogram of copper through the gallbladder method. Therefore, compared to directly extracting copper ores from the mountains, the method of gallbladder copper requires enough pig iron.

The imperial court's copper output has been getting higher and higher in recent years. The most important thing is that the iron output is getting higher and higher. There is no other way to replace iron production, so we can only look for iron ore mining.

In the country's large-scale iron ore mining, Qin's iron ore still accounts for a large share.

The reason why Shaozhou has such a large output of copper is mainly because there is the largest copper spring in the country, and countless pig irons are transported by sea or water transported by Xijiang, Beijiang, Ganjiang and other waters, gathered in Shaozhou coal springs and continuously replaced with copper springs.

Guangzhou and Foshan are the largest iron smelting center in the country today.

The reason why Li Yin mentioned this matter in particular was that the Qin family was quite powerful in the mining industry, and almost occupied the first place in the mining and smelting of carbonite, oil, iron ore, copper ore, gold ore and silver ore.

Although the court encouraged private mining and monopolized the gold, silver, copper and iron collected and processed by the Qin family and others into the official warehouse through mining courses or monopoly systems, these also have to be paid.

The most important thing is that the Qin family's mining industry in the Central Plains was naturally strictly regulated by the imperial court, but it was not subject to this restriction in Luzon, Japan, Linyi and other places.

In fact, nowadays, due to the sharp increase in copper production, the amount of coins in the imperial court has also increased greatly. Now, only the standard Kaiyuan Tongbao coins are minted at least five million stags each year.

The imperial court had a total of twenty-three coins, but half of the five million coins came from the Luzon coins of the Qin family.

The money minted by the Luzon Coin Cricket is of exquisite quality and is also the most popular in the market. Even in Japan, Linyi and other places, Kaiyuan Tongbao with the word "Lu" is far more popular than the money in other coins of the imperial court.

The Qin family also has a large amount of minting for the other eight kinds of coins.

Although for the imperial court, the amount of coins minted hundreds of thousands of coins in the past year has now increased by ten times by millions of coins, the Qin family has occupied half of the coins after all. The profit of coins alone is only hundreds of thousands of coins a year.

The only thing that made the court more gratified was that no matter what industry the Qin family made money, the Qin family never escaped when they paid the tax in the end.

The imperial court could share one-third of the tax in Luzon, but the imperial court collected more and more taxes from Luzon, and the imperial court actually felt worse. This shows that the Qin family got more and twice their share.

Not to mention, they only received one-third of the tax, and the Qin family made greater profits from their own operations, except for two-thirds of the tax.

Liu Xiangdao could not guess the emperor's purpose of asking him to talk about these things today.

I can't I want to attack Luzon?

The court fought in Korea for ten years, with a military expenditure of 30 million yuan each year, almost turning a rich peninsula into purgatory. During these ten years, more than 100,000 soldiers died in the Tang Dynasty and the servants. This is also an important reason why the Xiqi tribes had civil strife after the deaths of Dahe Guge and Keduzhe, and the new leaders would join forces to fight against the Tang Dynasty.

Xiqi and the two countries were ordered to send troops every year, and fought for ten years, and tens of thousands of units died.

And the subordination tribes of the Marine tribes also died tens of thousands.

As for the surrendered troops of Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla, the numbers were not even included in the official number of deaths in battle. They died more, 200,000 to 300,000.

Of course, the rebels of the Three Kingdoms were even worse. Li Ji and Su Ding's Formula bite the Taurus and Da Xue Rengui, Liu Rengui, and even the Hu generals such as Li Simo, Li Sheer, Qin Guozhong took turns to fight on the peninsula, plowing over and over again.

Li Yin didn't play any detention with the Three Kingdoms at all. He comforted this game, just fight or do it.

Even if they were frustrated, they would not be able to kneel down and beg for mercy. Li Yin's strategy was to replace all the people on the island, and the defeated rebels would be directly captured as slaves.

These slaves first helped build fortresses, strongholds, roads under the Tang army, and might even help to reclaim some military camps. They would then be bought by the merchants of the Central Plains, and some would be sent back to the Central Plains to become official slaves or slaves to the emperor.

The money sold is used to supplement military use, or the merit rewards given to the soldiers of the Eastern Expedition.

Under this conquest strategy, as long as the Three Kingdoms have some backbone, they would rather resist to the end. After all, Li Yin would not give him any way to survive. If he could still have a way to survive after surrender, he could divide the land and other things, then even if he had to change to Chinese language, pay taxes and serve, they had already recognized it.

The prime ministers such as Changsun Wuji had always opposed this kind of battle, believing that with appropriate changes to the strategy, the entire peninsula would be settled immediately, the court could save countless military expenditures a year, and also get a lot of taxes, money, and food.

But Li Yin refused and wanted to do it to the end, saying that he would do it once and for all.

But the problem is that the three Koreans resisted fiercely, and even gradually, not only Goguryeo and others rebelled, but also the nomadic tribes such as Lianmu, Xi and Qi could not stand such continuous wars and began to resist the Tang Dynasty.

This triggered the Xiqi War for three years. Li Ji won many battles, but they refused to admit defeat because it was useless to admit defeat. Li Yin had already issued an edict against the rebel Xiqi, destroying the two clans, changing their territory and immigrating to open borders.

This is to force people to the dead end and can only resist to the end.

But the military is still very supportive of the emperor's mad dog-like fighting style. Li Jisu Ding Fang Cheng Yaojin and other generals are easy to fight. They have been fighting for more than ten years and become more braver. For the generals, fighting can only reflect their own value.

Besides, the past ten years have not been in vain. From Liaodong to Haidong, the land that has been spread thousands of miles apart is just a real achievement that can be recorded in history?

Although there were many casualties, the court's rewards for military merits were always fulfilled, and they have always been relatively generous. Liaodong, North Korea and the court used a lot of land as honorary titles. There were rewards for military wars, and there were awards for meritorious achievements, and even military merits were awarded and even the opportunity to award titles and officials.

Which soldier is unwilling to do it?

It is precisely because of this that the army expressed support in unanimous manner when the emperor was preparing to purge Changsun Wuji's party.

After fighting for another two or three years, Xi Qi will probably be completely conquered, and then this area will become a territory directly under the jurisdiction of the court, which can be regarded as expanding the territory.

According to the news, the Xiqi war will have to be fought for at least several years, but the resistance of the Martell in the east is becoming more and more intense. Xiqi and Martell may merge, and it may even make the remnants of the Three Kingdoms on the peninsula rekindle again and a new round of great resistance arise.

If this is the case, it is possible to fight for another ten years, and even military expenditures will not only not decrease, but may also increase.

Liu Xiangdao felt that he might have guessed the emperor's thoughts. Fighting war requires money, rewarding soldiers and pensions is even more expensive. Although in the past ten years, the court has purged the three Koreans and conquered Xiqi, and sold at least five million Koreans and Goguryeo as slaves. The money for selling slaves alone is hundreds of millions, but the annual war expenses of at least 30 million are actually not profitable.

It is true that you have earned thousands of miles of territory, but this is real estate.

"Liu Qing, I know that you have a good relationship with the King of Qi, so I hope that after you take over as the Transport Department, you can lead the Transport Department well. Luzon is just a corner of the South China Sea, but you can have such a prosperous economy. For the sake of your plan, you have to do a good job in charge of the entire Tang Dynasty."

"Okay, you go back first."

After the emperor finished speaking, he waved to Liu Xiangdao.

Liu Xiangdao quickly bowed and left the hall, and was still confused along the way. What does the emperor mean today? Should the Transport Department attack Luzon, or do you really just let him learn from Luzon and Qin Lang?

After thinking for a long time, he had no idea. Liu Xiangdao planned to return to the Transportation Office and immediately summoned his subordinates to carefully check the economic accounts of Luzon over the years. This is called knowing one's own and his opponents, and he can never win a hundred battles.

Let's go home first.

It just so happened that my brother Liu Yingdao had just returned from the Ministry of Personnel.

"Is the Ministry of Personnel so early to disperse the squad?"

"The county lord made an appointment to take his mother-in-law to Mrs. Cui's house to drink tea and enjoy flowers today, and I'll give them to them."

Liu Yingdao is currently the Minister of Personnel. His wife, County Lord Wenxi, was the daughter of Prince Yin Jiancheng. He was originally Prince Wenxi, and was later named Prince Wenxi by the Holy Ancestor. Later, his marriage with the Liu family was also a matchmaker for Cui Shibao. After the Xuanwu Gate, Zheng Shisanniang was entrusted by Prince Yin's concubine Zheng Guanyin and fled with Prince Wenxi and a prince, and finally got Qin Lang in it.

Qin Lang pleaded with the Holy Ancestor to protect Princess Wenxi Li Wanshun.

Because of this relationship, Liu Yingdao and Li Wanshun and his wife have always had a good relationship with the Qin family and have been close to each other for many years. Li Wanshun lived with Concubine Zheng in the palace for many years, and then married into the Liu family. After so many years, she was completely different from the golden branches and jade leaves of the Li Tang royal family. Li Wanshun, with a beautiful face, read books, has amazing talents but is hidden, and is content with poverty and humbleness, takes care of her husband and children, usually read books at home, arranges flowers and burns incense to repair gardens, and rarely participates in the circle of noble ladies outside.

However, every month, I would go to the Qin family to have a seat with Princess Yin and her sister, Prince Guide.

Both Liu Xiangdao brothers are very talented, but Liu Yingdao prefers to study and learn more than his brother's behavior.

He reminded his brother, "Now in a turbulent situation, just ask your servants to escort your younger brother and sister to the Qin Mansion, so don't go. Now that you are an official in the Ministry of Personnel, I am also planning to pay attention to some influence."

Liu Yingdao looked at his brother in confusion, "Is something going on? It's involved in the Qin family?"

Liu Xiangdao could only say, "You have to be more careful at this time now, be cautious."

"Brother, if you really involve the Qin family, no matter what, the Qin family will be of great help to our Liu family and our brothers, and my wife's family. Even now, my eldest brother and I are all taken care of by Mr. Qin. Brother, you must not forget your roots. If you can do your best, you must help."
Chapter completed!