Tang Dynasty: The beginning of the game is to touch the Princess Changle

Li Shimin didn't even look at them, but watched the eunuch weigh the gold carefully.

Seeing that the emperor ignored them, Changsun Wuji pulled Su Chen aside and asked in a low voice: "Where did the gold come from?"

Fang Xuanling and others also came over.

Su Chen smiled slightly, "The aristocratic caravan has returned to Chang'an. They just delivered it."

Changsun Wuji frowned slightly, thinking to himself that the caravan shouldn't return to Chang'an so soon.

According to his estimation, it would take at least half a year for Tang merchants to travel to and from the Western Regions, and the aristocratic caravan was formed less than five months ago.

Could it be that they, like Atana, spent nearly five months on the road?

"Junxian, add ten more groups to weigh the gold!"

There were four groups of people weighing gold with four scales in the square, and Li Shimin thought it was too slow.

"I obey your order!"

Soon, the guards found ten beam scales, each with four people, and joined the ranks of weighing gold.

"Your Majesty, I'll help them register. I'm very familiar with this job!" Finance Minister Dai Zhou stepped forward and volunteered. Without waiting for the emperor's consent, he took the paper and pen from a eunuch.

Li Shimin showed a disdainful smile and glanced at Su Chen unconsciously.

"Haha, you want gold? If you have the ability, just take it from my son-in-law!"

"Two hundred and ninety-six pounds... weigh it!" Dai Zhou was very familiar with this weighing process.

In less than two quarters of an hour, all the gold was weighed.

Dai Zhou collected all the accounting papers and quickly compared them.

"Your Majesty, I've recorded everything. I'll make a statistics later."

Li Shimin nodded lightly, "Jun Xian is here for you." Then, Li Shimin led everyone to the imperial study.

"Your Majesty, the total amount of gold is 53,392 kilograms, which is equivalent to 8,542,720 copper coins."

Dai Zhou took a quarter of an hour to count all the weights and converted them into copper coins.

Li Shimin was shocked. Fifty-three thousand kilograms of gold? Adding the 30% taken by the noble families, it is almost exactly 80,000 kilograms.

Not counting the other more than 200 carriages that have not yet returned to Chang'an, this number alone is scary enough!

If Li Shimin knew, the noble families' business trip to the Western Regions was actually miscalculated.

The glass they carried was not easy to stack, so it occupied half of the carriages. But the most popular thing in the Western Regions was the fine salt and tea of ​​the Tang Dynasty.

Glass was only favored by the nobles and royal families, and the common people could not afford it.

There were nearly a hundred carts of glass, which were forced to be bundled and sold by the caravan. If they didn't buy glass, they would not sell them salt and tea.

Glass was too expensive, and a beer cup with a handle cost 80 taels of gold each.

And not only are they sold, but in sets of five.

This is still a fair price. At that time, the Western Regions sold defective glass bottles to the Tang Dynasty for several thousand taels of gold.

Moreover, it was not easy to buy a cart of glass from Su Chen for 150 wen, and it was not easy to transport it all the way to the Western Regions.

Dai Zhou was embarrassed to see that Li Shimin did not express his opinion.

He wanted to make a fortune from it!

Helplessly, Dai Zhou looked at Su Chen for help.

But Su Chen was calculating how much gold there was in an average carriage, and did not notice Dai Zhou's gaze.

"Tsk~tsk~tsk, a carriage has an average of more than 140 kilograms of gold. The noble families can also get more than 3.6 million guan, and the thirteen families have an average of 280,000 guan each."

Su Chen exclaimed in admiration. He could make so much money in less than half a year, which would be hundreds of millions a year!

"Your Majesty, how do you plan to deal with this money?"

Su Chen looked at Li Shimin and asked proactively.

Li Shimin thought for a while, smiled, and said: "It's up to you, you decide how to distribute it, I won't ask!"

"Really?" Su Chen was a little surprised, wondering if this emperor had made a fortune somewhere, why is he so generous now?

Su Chen was a little uncomfortable, worried that he would not be able to kill him in the future.

Li Shimin smiled and nodded.

"Then let me think about it..."

Inadvertently, Su Chen found that Dai Zhou had been staring at him.

Su Chen saw a hint of expectation in Dai Zhou's eyes, and then realized that he was now the Minister of Finance.

He stood up and walked to the side, took out a pen and paper.

After a little thought, he quickly calculated on the paper.

"Pay taxes first, 53392 needs to pay taxes of 10678."

Su Chen and Li Shimin had not mentioned asking the aristocratic families to pay taxes before, because they had agreed that the aristocratic families would pay 70% of their profits as taxes.

When Dai Zhou heard that Su Chen wanted to pay more than 10,000 kilograms of gold as tax, he immediately expressed his gratitude.

Li Shimin and Wei Zheng nodded at the same time, thinking that Su Chen's move was very reasonable.

He could still keep a calm heart in the face of huge interests and think about the court and the country.

This is also in line with the commercial tax policy proposed by Su Chen himself.

"Your Majesty, do you think it is reasonable to pay taxes like this?" Su Chen looked at Li Shimin with a smile.Li Shimin smiled faintly and glanced at the ministers.

"What do you think?"

"We agree, Lord, you are righteous!" Everyone answered in unison.

Li Shimin nodded, "Su Chen, since all the ministers agree, I naturally have no objection, you continue to distribute!"

At this time, Li Shimin was a little excited, and it was finally his turn.

Who would complain about too much money?

"Your Highness, the rest is ours, how do you say we should divide it?" Su Chen looked at Li Chengqian and asked with a smile.

"Well, you can divide it however you want, I didn't help much."

It was indeed as Li Chengqian said, he really didn't do much in this matter.

Those things can be said to be from Su Chen.

Su Chen nodded, very satisfied with Li Chengqian's answer. "Then we each have half?"

"No, no, no, 40% is enough for me." Li Chengqian waved his hand and stretched out four fingers.

Li Shimin felt bad because he didn't get any share.

Just as he was about to protest, he suddenly smiled evilly and looked at Li Chengqian.

"Haha, if I'm in a good mood, I'll give him 100 taels of gold, and Gao Ming will surely kowtow three times!"

Su Chen nodded, "Then we'll give it to each of us in half." Then Su Chen calculated on paper, "We'll give it to each of us in half, and I'll get 21,350 kilograms of gold, a total of 3,416,000 strings of copper coins."

Looked at Li Tai, and continued:

"Give Li Tai 20% of my share, and Li Ke and Li You will share the other 10% equally. I can't take away the remaining copper coins, so I'll leave them with you first. Write me an IOU."

"You owe me 2,391,200 strings of copper coins, and I won't charge you interest."

Li Chengqian didn't answer, and slowly looked at Li Shimin.

"Why do you want to share the money with Qingque and the others?"

Not only Li Shimin was puzzled by this, Fang Xuanling, Zhangsun Wuji and others were also puzzled.

"Oh, I discussed it with Li Tai when I arrived." Su Chen replied indifferently.

Su Chen really didn't care much about the money of the Tang Dynasty, unless fifty years later, the Tang Dynasty could develop technology and buy everything they wanted with money.

The money at that time was still useful to Su Chen.

Under the current conditions of the Tang Dynasty, Su Chen had to make whatever he wanted by himself, or rely on system rewards.

In this case, what's the use of having so much money?

"That's all?" Li Shimin asked again, he didn't believe Su Chen's words at all.

"Tsk! And... I am happy even if I am willing!"

"Humph!"

Li Shimin looked at Su Chen's appearance that deserved a beating and snorted coldly.

"Dai Zhou, take your 160,000 taels of gold, and keep the rest in the Ministry of Finance." Then he looked at the time and stood up and said:

"Everyone, let's prepare the lunch at Leshan Restaurant!"

All the ministers stood up and responded.

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