Qian Song

Chapter 469 The first confrontation between father and son (please vote for me!)

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When Li Biao met Li Cun in the Yangxin Hall, Li Cun was surrounded by a large group of orioles as usual, surrounding Li Cun, making Li Cun feel like he was in a daughter's kingdom.

To Li Cun's left hand was a young woman lying on an extremely fine carpet. Her appearance was dignified and elegant, her facial features were delicate and beautiful, and her heroic appearance revealed between her brows made her beauty even more profound.A pair of clear big eyes are like two clear springs, revealing the unique physical beauty and leisurely beauty of a young woman who has just transformed from a girl.When she leaned down, her long hair seemed like a beautiful landscape, changing into different postures.Her figure is slender and slender, just like a dancing butterfly, which is eye-catching.

There are so many women in Li Cun that Li Biao, who is not very interested in women, can no longer tell who is who among them.

But Li Biao knew this young woman who was lying next to Li Cun's left hand, no, lying under Li Cun's left hand, and being pampered by Li Cun like a cat.

This newly minted young woman was the Queen of the Queen Kingdom, Haripunchai XVII, who was mutinied and captured by her country's ministers less than three months after she ascended the throne and was dedicated to Li Cun.

Li Biao was deeply impressed by Harry Benchai's seventeenth life.

Don’t get me wrong, Li Biao was not impressed by Harry Benchai [-]th because of his beauty.

The reason why Li Biao was deeply impressed by Haripunchai XVII was because Haripunchai Seventeenth used fluent Chinese in the court to angrily reprimand Li Cun for being unethical and brutally invading neighboring countries. He was a despicable and shameless person. The robber!

At that time, Harry Benchai seventeenth looked at death as if he were at home, which made Li Biao sigh. Although Harry Benchai seventeenth was young, he had not lost the magnanimity that a monarch should have. Unlike some monarchs who were sacrificed to Li Biao After Li Cun, he was obedient and even knelt down to thank Li Cun for not killing him.

Who would have thought that in less than three months, Harry Benchai Seventeenth would be tamed by Li Cun and become as obedient as a kitten.

Li Biao couldn't help feeling that his father was so powerful, as if there was nothing in this world that his father could not conquer.

Facing Li Cun like this, Li Biao was really not sure whether the wrong person was Li Cun and the right person was himself.

But then again, Li Cun was lying among a large group of women, holding Harry with one hand and holding a memorial in the other hand. He was looking at the national affairs casually, like a foolish king, and Li Biao just Some of them are unhappy.

So Li Biao bowed respectfully to Li Cun: "My son, I pay my respects to my father."

Li Cun heard this and said without changing his posture: "Get up."

Li Biao had long been accustomed to Li Cun's behavior, so he stood up directly without being pretentious, and then said what he wanted to say straightforwardly:

"Father, can I, Da Gan, stop expanding externally?"

After hearing this, Li Cun paused for a moment while stroking Harry Benchai [-]th's hand, and then continued stroking Harry's hand. At the same time, Gujing Wubo asked: "Why?"

Why?

Li Biao felt that he had sufficient reasons to persuade Li Cun to stop.

But after Li Cun casually asked the word "why", Li Biao suddenly felt a lot of pressure, and his seemingly sufficient reasons suddenly seemed to become lighter.

This is the power of Li Cun, the first emperor throughout the ages!

Li Biao glanced at Harry Bencai seventeenth, who was willing to be Li Cun's cat, and thought: "Is she probably conquered by the unparalleled power of her father?"

Li Biao took a deep breath, and then said the reason he had been thinking about for a long time: "The war has cost a lot of money..."

Li Cun interrupted Li Biao and said, "Is the Ministry of Household Affairs out of money?"

Li Biao was suddenly speechless.

The Ministry of Revenue is not only rich, but also richer than ever before.

To use specific figures to describe it, there are now a total of 20 billion yuan lying on the accounts of the Ministry of Accounts!

Maybe no dynasty in history has ever been so rich, right?

The reason why the Daqian Dynasty was so rich was mainly because of the war.

Really.

The Daqian Dynasty was really powerful in fighting.

It only takes two years to destroy a country, and there is rarely a defeat in the process.

Once a country is destroyed by the Daqian Dynasty, its treasury, royal family, clan families, dignitaries, and wealthy gentry will all be plundered by the Daqian Dynasty.

This means that the Daqian Dynasty will definitely gain huge profits from the war.

It can be said that except for fighting some small grassland tribes, the Daqian Dynasty never made any losses in wars.

Let’s not talk about it far away, just talk about the Angkor dynasty, the small overlord of Indochina that the Daqian dynasty destroyed a year ago.

The total area of ​​Angkor Thom, the capital of his country, reaches nearly 200 million acres!

What is the concept of this huge city?

To describe it this way, its city is even larger than the later international metropolises of London and Paris!

Let’s use a more vivid metaphor.

Tokyo's Bianliang City, once known as the first city in the East, actually only covers an area of ​​more than 50 acres!

In other words, the area of ​​Angkor Thom is four times that of Bianliang City in Tokyo!

It can even be said that before the reconstruction of Jinling City, Angkor Thom was the largest city in the world in this era.

Moreover, the wealth of Angkor Thom is not only reflected in its size, but also in its grandeur and exquisiteness.

Angkor Wat alone (the temple complex in Angkor Thom) uses more than 500 million pieces of stone.

What is amazing is that the average weight of these boulders is one and a half tons, and the largest even weighs seven or six tons.

To put it more graphically, if all the stone materials consumed by all the temples in Angkor Thom were added, the stone materials consumed would be far greater than all the pyramids in Egypt put together.

As for sophistication?

For such a huge building complex as Angkor Wat, every detail is almost perfect. Its exquisiteness, sophistication, and delicacy have all reached an unprecedented height.

It is not surprising that Angkor Thom has such a large and exquisite temple complex, because the Angkor Dynasty used almost all the craftsmen from Southeast Asia, including India, to build Angkor Thom.

The total number of these craftsmen exceeds 20, and they are all the best in the world. Among them, there are as many as [-] to [-] top carvers alone.

——It is worth mentioning that these more than 20 skilled craftsmen have all been "invited" to the Daqian Dynasty by Li Cun, and they will contribute to the construction of the Daqian Dynasty in the future.

From Angkor Thom, it is not difficult to see how rich the Angkor Dynasty is.

To use specific figures to describe it, after the Daqian Dynasty conquered the Angkor Dynasty, it only captured as much as one billion gold.

That's it, not counting the silver and rare treasures.

If this is included, how much it would cost... Li Biao didn't know.

Just like gold, only part of the silver went into the national treasury - the remaining gold and silver, as well as some rare treasures, all went into Li Cun's private treasury.

Historically, the Kingdom of Jin conquered Bianliang City in Tokyo, which was said to be the richest city of that era. It wiped three feet of the ground from Bianliang City in Tokyo, but only extorted 1000 million ingots of gold and 2000 million ingots of silver (converted into money, about 60 billion).

——In fact, it was not that much. Later, the Northern Song Dynasty court really could not come up with so much money, so it could only use rare treasures, cloth and women to pay off the debt. In the end, it still owed Jin Guojin 34 ingots. The Northern Song Dynasty promised to pay 780 ingots of silver and come to the DPRK every year to make up for the war indemnity.

Looking at it this way, although the Angkor Dynasty is still not as good as the Zhao and Song Dynasties, it is still quite wealthy.

Moreover, the Angkor Dynasty is not an isolated case - other small countries in the Indochina Peninsula are not as rich as the Angkor Dynasty, but they can each produce [-] to [-] million gold coins, and all of them do not count silver and other rare items. Rare and precious.

If you ask why these small countries on the Indochina Peninsula are so rich?

Simply because they are located at the must-pass places for maritime trade between the East and the West and occupy geographical advantages.

It is no exaggeration to say that these small countries can take a large share of the maritime trade between the East and the West by doing whatever they want.Think about it, during the Zhao and Song dynasties, the Wang family made [-] million yuan in more than ten years relying on maritime trade!

Don’t forget, no matter how powerful the Wang family is, it is just a family. How can it compare with these small countries?

What's more, the Wang family has only been a maritime merchant for more than ten years, while these small countries have been established on the Maritime Silk Road for decades, hundreds, or even thousands of years.

The most important thing is that since the establishment of the Daqian Dynasty, Li Cun has vigorously developed maritime trade.

It is precisely because of this that maritime trade has reached unprecedented prosperity.

Undoubtedly, this has further increased the income of these small countries on the Indochina Peninsula.

In other words, the Daqian Dynasty was a dynasty that relied heavily on commercial tax revenue. It was different from previous dynasties in China.

——China’s past dynasties have always been based on agriculture, which is the center of taxation, and agriculture accounts for a high proportion.

However, the Daqian Dynasty was the only exception.

Take the financial revenue of the Daqian Dynasty last year as an example:

The total fiscal revenue of the Daqian Dynasty last year was 600 million yuan.

Among them, the agricultural tax, that is, the two taxes, totaled only more than 6000 million yuan, which was less than a fraction of the fiscal revenue of the Daqian Dynasty and accounted for only a little more than [-]% of the fiscal revenue of the Daqian Dynasty.

This ratio can be said to be extremely low.

The total revenue from commercial taxes, including government monopoly on salt, tea, wine, coal, oil, natural gas, electricity, trains, and ships, is more than 5000 million yuan.

Therefore, the Daqian Dynasty is a very unique dynasty.

During the Daqian Dynasty, the proportion of revenue from business and business-related specialties exceeded [-]% of fiscal revenue for the first time.

If you look at the financial history of Chinese dynasties, you will find that this is unique.

Maritime trade, in particular, was of great significance to the financial revenue of the Daqian Dynasty.

Therefore, the Daqian court under the control of Li Cun tried its best to promote maritime trade.

Today, more than 100 countries have direct trade relations with the Daqian Dynasty.

Not to mention that before the Indochina Peninsula was conquered by the Daqian Dynasty, all countries traded with the Daqian Dynasty. The countries further south such as Java and Bali were all trading countries of the Daqian Dynasty.

Across the Strait of Malacca are the Western Kingdoms, which mainly refer to the various small states in India, including Ceylon (later Sri Lanka).

Further to the west are the Dashi countries, those countries in Arabia that traded with the Daqian dynasty.

There are also African countries and European countries that all have trade relations with the Daqian Dynasty.

Not to mention the Prince Continent, which was already under the control of the Daqian Dynasty. It was the trading area of ​​the Daqian Dynasty, and most of the items there came from the Daqian Dynasty.

It can be said that the maritime trade of the Daqian Dynasty has become extremely developed. Its prosperity not only far exceeds that of previous dynasties, but has even surpassed the early stage of the Great Navigation Age in history and reached the middle stage.

Moreover, unlike the historical Silk Road which only sold silk, porcelain, tea, etc., the Daqian Dynasty has basically completed the preliminary industrial revolution and now even has some overcapacity. Therefore, not only various luxury goods, Various light industrial products are also exported through maritime trade.

Finished clothes, shoes, and hats from the Daqian Dynasty, pots and pans, knives, scissors, and bicycles from the Daqian Dynasty are all luxury goods that countries are chasing after.

Of course, the reason why the Daqian Dynasty was able to sell so many things was mainly because the shipbuilding technology of the Daqian Dynasty had become unprecedentedly developed, even far exceeding the level of the Age of Discovery in history.

Moreover, the ships of the Daqian Dynasty are getting bigger and faster. At this stage, there are already many iron-clad wooden ships of the Daqian Dynasty that are larger than the treasure ships and faster than the treasure ships.

Moreover, the Daqian Dynasty has now begun to develop containers.

This made the Daqian Dynasty's transportation volume increase.

More importantly, the navigation technology of the Daqian Dynasty also achieved unprecedented development.

This made the ships of the Daqian Dynasty fully capable of long voyages.

This also led to a large number of merchants from various countries, such as Dashi merchants, Indian merchants, European merchants, and African merchants, who all took the ships of the Daqian Dynasty and came to the Daqian Dynasty to engage in maritime trade.

And more businessmen from the Daqian Dynasty went out.

——Nowadays, the merchants of the Daqian Dynasty have begun to go to sea on a large scale and go to all parts of the world. They collectively set out for the ocean and move towards ocean trade.

According to incomplete statistics, there are currently at least more than 200 million people engaged in maritime trade, and this does not include people in related industries-these are only businessmen who truly left the Daqian Dynasty and traveled to the world.

In addition to those merchants in the traditional sense, there were also many scholars, even those who did not pass the imperial examination, who also participated in the maritime trade in large numbers.

These businessmen, including these scholars, formed a large-scale overseas immigrant group.

Therefore, in many countries, there are large Chinese communities, and they have established a large number of commercial colonies overseas.

These people also make a lot of money.

According to statistics from the Ministry of Household Affairs, in various port cities of the Daqian Dynasty, there are often maritime merchants worth tens of millions of dollars, and there are even more merchants worth millions of dollars. Among them, there are several sea merchants with the largest maritime trade. Businessmen, they have made hundreds of millions of dollars through maritime trade over the years, and are truly as rich as any other country.

The reason why these maritime merchants make so much money is because there are huge business opportunities in maritime trade. Some of them can make huge profits more than ten times in one trip.

Just these merchants who engage in maritime trade are already making such a profit, let alone the countries on the Indochina Peninsula that occupy the main maritime trade route between the East and the West.

Therefore, Li Cun will definitely make a lot of money after conquering the countries on the Indochina Peninsula.

Let's put it this way, if Li Cun hadn't built railways everywhere, carried out the industrial revolution, and launched wars in recent years, the treasury of the Daqian Dynasty might not have been 20 billion yuan, but 200 billion yuan, or even More.

Of course, if Li Cun hadn't done this, the Daqian Dynasty would not have had the opportunity to make so much money.

This also caused Li Biao to be reprimanded by Li Cun with just one sentence.

But Li Biao has been in charge of the affairs of the Daqian Dynasty for six or seven years, and he is no longer the child he was before.

Moreover, what Li Biao was worried about was not the present, but the future of the Daqian Dynasty.

You know, there is only one Indochina. The 20 billion yuan that Li Cun earned for the Ministry of Household Affairs will definitely be spent one day, and if Li Cun spends it like this, it will definitely not take a few years.

The key is that the expenses of the 350 million troops of the Daqian Dynasty have always existed. They consume the fiscal revenue of [-] to [-] million yuan of the Daqian Dynasty every year.

The key point is that the disabled, sacrificed, and old people among these 350 million troops need to be properly compensated and resettled by the Daqian Dynasty, which also requires huge expenditures every year.

And more importantly, if Li Cun continues to fight, he will definitely spend more money on the war, and the army of the Daqian Dynasty will definitely continue to expand.

Moreover, the countries in the Western Regions and Kievan Rus that Li Cun wants to attack next are far from as rich as the Indo-China Peninsula. Isn't this just compensation?

Therefore, Li Biao did not back down, but bowed deeply to Li Cun and said: "Father, the Ministry of Household Affairs has money, so save some money. Even if you spend it for another ten years, it will be fine, but what about ten years later... "

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