Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

The ministers looked at each other, and then a censor stood up and asked: "Your Majesty, what should we do if these countries resist or protest against our behavior? Even if they show hostility to us."

"If you dare to reach out, fight back resolutely! The current Datang is not afraid of any challenge. By the way, the military headquarters is in Liaoning Prefecture, and the army of Silla Prefecture can already retreat and go to the Western Regions." Li Ke thought for a while and said. .

"In addition, let your minds be looser. In the eyes of the nobles in these countries, these low-level people who fled are not human at all, and they don't take it seriously. Of course, these people have escaped a lot. These nobles have no People can collect taxes, they must have ideas."

"But when they find them, the officials and generals in charge of the frontier will have to talk to them about another matter." Li Ke said lightly.

"Slave trade." Li Ke spit out four words without waiting for them to ask.

"Slave trade?" Everyone was stunned, this... Didn't the Tang Dynasty not allow the existence of non-registered households?Not to mention slaves?Is this... Doesn't it violate Datang's current national policy?

However, although the ministers were puzzled, no one refuted, because they all knew that His Majesty was not that kind of person, so His Majesty must have a reason for saying this.

"Whether it's good for the Jieri Dynasty in Tianzhu, Persia, Arabia or Byzantium, anyway, they come to the door, no matter whether they are official or private nobles, just tell them that all the noble families in our Tang Dynasty are now Aristocratic families, there is a shortage of working slaves." gonb.oΓg

"So we want to buy a large number of slaves. No matter where they go to find them, we only need slaves, and then slaves can be exchanged for money, cloth, tea, silk, porcelain and other items that can be produced in the Tang Dynasty."

"Of course, my personal suggestion is to pay them directly for the goods. I believe that most of them also want the goods. Or pay them money. If you can pay Datang paper money, try to pay Datang paper money."

"At that time, you have to tell them that when they buy and trade with Datang, we prefer Datang's banknotes first."

"Of course hard currency, gold and silver are also acceptable. When their hard currency becomes less and less, they will naturally use more and more Datang banknotes."

"And after the slaves here entered the Tang Dynasty, we did not treat them as slaves, but as common people."

"To put it bluntly, we have to buy people with money." Li Ke looked at them and said.

"Before these people entered Datang, we had already set a price for them, that is to say, we exchanged money for common people."

Li Ke's words stunned everyone, is this buying people?What kind of routine is this? They never thought that there is such a way.

The question is, how much will it cost.

"Isn't this a huge waste of the Tang Dynasty's finances? Is this...reasonable?" These ministers were all stunned. This felt very unreasonable.

"Of course it's reasonable. You don't think the bought people can't create value, do you?" Li Ke said with a smile.

The current courtiers of the Tang Dynasty are not what they were before, and their thinking is at least much ahead of the previous courtiers of the Tang Dynasty. When Li Ke asked this question, they understood a little bit.

Of course people can create value, otherwise, why did so many people buy Kunlun slaves before?But according to His Highness, the ones bought back are regarded as ordinary people.

In the words of ordinary people, can the value they create really be comparable to slaves?

"Actually, this is not difficult for the court to deal with." Li Ke looked at them and said.

"First of all, we can use these purchased people to open up a large amount of undeveloped land, and these lands were previously unwilling to emigrate because of the underpopulation of Datang, or because of immigration problems."

"But these bought people are different. They can be arranged anywhere by us at will. And these places can be used to develop land."

"If possible, we can sell these areas to be developed to these aristocratic families. They have the development rights for a certain period of time. For example, within how many years, all the profits generated by the materials on this land belong to them. .”

"Of course, the premise of these profits is that it is not allowed to violate the laws of the Tang Dynasty. For example, timber can be mined, but water and soil erosion in the mountains and forests must be guaranteed, and random logging is not allowed."

"And on this land, for example, the food or other crops planted by the common people are allowed to have the right of first refusal at the same price. For example, the common people plant mulberry and they want to buy it. Under the circumstances, allow them to buy first."

"However, if these people want to settle in this place, the aristocratic families need to pay. Of course, the imperial court allows them to collect one-tenth of the national taxes in these places." Li Ke said with a smile.

Everyone was taken aback by this condition.

In other words, it seems that the imperial court spent money, but in fact it was the aristocratic family that was spending money, and it was still spending money to develop a certain area that was not developed by the Tang Dynasty, and this area allowed the aristocratic family to operate for a certain number of years.

This sounds like nothing wrong, but isn't this condition a little too little.

"Well, Your Majesty, I don't have much objection from the ministers, but is this tenth too small?" Gao Jifu stood up and asked among the courtiers after hesitation.

"Do you think this tax will be the main income of these aristocratic families?" When Gao Jifu asked, Li Ke understood what he was thinking, and couldn't help asking with a smile.

"Isn't it?" Everyone was a little dazed.

"You all overlooked one thing." Li Ke sighed, "Allow them to develop local resources, where mineral resources are their biggest income. With the continuous development of Datang, the mineral resources needed must be more and more More and more."

"With the current traffic and other conditions of the Tang Dynasty, if people who migrated from other places migrated at a high price in the past, I don't need to say more about the price. The point is that it is useless to migrate people, only to form settlements in the local area, forming villages and cities. , only then can we gradually have enough population to employ people for development.”

"Actually, these people alone can bring them huge profits. After all, most of the income of these people must come from farmland income, and most of these farmland incomes are brought by the imperial court. But these places Of course, these people have to participate in the commercial operation of the business, the daily necessities purchased by the people, etc.”

Li Ke probably told them his thoughts.