Tang Ping had long seen that the Tang Dynasty's foreign wars were likely to become more and more frequent in the future.
Hou Junji raided Beiyan and then captured the entire territory of Beiyan, which alerted all the countries surrounding the Tang Dynasty.
In fact, this move broke Datang's strategic plan and made Datang a target of defense for surrounding countries in advance.
Under the current situation, Datang had to speed up preparations for war.
There is a saying that fighting a war means fighting for logistics and financial resources. This statement may not be entirely correct, but it definitely makes sense.
Tang Ping has been thinking about Datang's current combat model, especially overseas operations. Overly long supply lines will put great pressure on finances.
After private capital has developed vigorously in recent years, wealthy businessmen everywhere are actually very wealthy.
So how can we make them willing to invest money in the Tang Army?
The most realistic thing is to turn their money into more money!
Tang Ping approached Li Shimin at first, and Li Shimin agreed that Tang Ping should follow the army in the way he said.
But Tang Ping's power alone is still too small after all, so gathering more private power is the right choice.
These businessmen are not stupid. As Fatty Liu analyzed, there is only one risk in doing so, that is, Datang cannot defeat the opponent.
However, the development of the Tang Dynasty's military power in recent years has been obvious to all, including various new technologies, breakthroughs in forging levels, the use of steam locomotives, and the development of the Tang Dynasty's divine cannon.
Although these powerful merchants of the Tang Dynasty may not understand military affairs, it is difficult for them to imagine how the Tang army could lose with such a leading advantage.
Since you can't lose, there is no risk.
Who doesn’t want to do a business that can make a lot of money without risk?
Rich merchants in Chang'an even complained about Tang Ping. If we don't go to our local Chang'an merchants for such a good thing, why bother looking for those Luoyang merchants?
Isn't it just donating "a few" duck down quilts?
The Luoyang Chamber of Commerce still has to scrape together, and some even buy it from their own side, but we Chang'an merchants don't need it!
We have many of them in our own warehouse, and we can directly collect 50,000 beds and donate them to the Tang army to show their support for the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty!
So with this scene, Tang Ping was directly blocked on the way back to Chang'an.
"Shopkeeper Tang, you know me. My medicinal materials are said to be the best in the Tang Dynasty. Isn't that too much?" Mr. Li patted his chest: "It's hard to put away the bedding now. Can I donate some medicinal materials?"
"Shopkeeper Tang, you know me. Although I dare not say that my family's fur is the best in the Tang Dynasty, but it is also one of the best in Chang'an, right?" Shopkeeper Liu in the west of the city said: "The duck down quilt keeps the cold away, isn't our sheepskin jacket the best?" Are you keeping out the cold? Can I donate a sheepskin coat?"
Anyone who can get here is not a fool. This early investment and the later returns they calculated are simply not too cheap.
If the Tang Dynasty fought a war to destroy the country, it would be like that of Beiyan. Although the people of Beiyan were suffering, I heard that when their capital city was breached, it took two days for Hou Junji's army to move the precious treasures in the treasury!
I collect those things on the spot, come back and sell them elsewhere. This time, it is a huge profit!
The martyr girl is afraid of pestering her husband, but Tang Ping is actually afraid too!
Anyway, Tang Ping promised that if everyone is willing to help the Tang Military Headquarters solve some difficulties in the past few days, then he will definitely take everyone with him when he goes to play, so he persuaded them to leave.
In the next two days, Tang Ping stayed at home with Wang Qingluan.
It actually messed up the Ministry of War in Chang'an City!
Because many wealthy businessmen from Chang'an came to donate things out of nowhere, saying that they wanted to contribute to the Tang Dynasty, and they didn't have any requirements, but asked for a receipt issued by the Military Department of the Tang Dynasty.
When the Tang military headquarters learned the reason behind it, Li Shimin, who had already returned to Chang'an, was dumbfounded.
He looked at the group of courtiers standing under the Xiande Hall angrily and said, "Hey, everyone usually talks about being poor! I also think that our Tang Dynasty is not rich enough, but..."
Li Shimin couldn't continue talking until halfway through. Not to mention that the courtiers had not thought of such a thing, even when Tang Ping suggested it, he didn't take it seriously.
It seems that although Datang began to pay attention to business in recent years and the status of merchants has been greatly improved, they still underestimated the power of merchants. "Forget it, let's not talk about that boy. Now I want to invite him to Xiande Hall. Even my words are useless. But this boy is not available, so the matter will be taken care of by us, so it is up to him. Bar!"
Li Shimin was quite proud when he said this, and it was not as if he was persuading the courtiers below, but as if he was persuading the CPU himself.
When the meeting ended, Li Jing walked up to Cheng Zhijie with ill intentions and said with a smile: "Old Cheng, you tricked that kid this time. With that kid's shrewdness and big heart, you have to be more careful!"
"Hey, we are all familiar with each other. Don't talk nonsense. When did I cheat him?" Cheng Zhijie himself felt a little panicked as he said it. He knew best whether he had cheated anyone this time.
This boy Tang is becoming more and more sophisticated now. Thinking about it, it would be better for him to have less contact with him recently.
As soon as Cheng Zhijie returned home, a servant came to report.
"Sir, madam, please come over here!"
"Okay!" The old lady in the servant's mouth is Cheng Zhijie's mother, and he doesn't know what he wants from him.
When he arrived at his mother's yard, he was struck with a wooden sword as soon as he entered the door.
Cheng Zhijie thought it was an assassin at first, but when he saw clearly it was his mother, he didn't dare to move.
I could only hold my head and ask, "Mom, what are you doing?"
"What am I doing?"
"What am I doing?"
"I told you to do some messy things every day!" Cheng Zhijie's wife read while typing.
Only after receiving a beating did Lao Cheng realize that Tang Ping had come to his home. Not only did he come, but he also led an engineering team to repair the glass bridge at home.
Who would have thought that the glass bridge would be so scary? Several curious young people in the family were frightened and cried when they went up.
Then in whose family is it not that they have a kiss from another generation? The younger members of the family are so frightened that they cry, how can the ancestors of the family not be angry?
So Cheng Zhijie was beaten when he came back.
Two days later, a new poem written by Li Bai began to circulate in Chang'an:
"The sword in the mother's hand strikes the traitor's body! Twelve strikes in one second, the sword strikes a critical blow!"
