"Don't change the subject for me. I'm asking you if the amount of money is reasonable? I'm asking you where you got so much money!" Li Shimin was confused. He thought that he, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, would build the Daming Palace. I didn’t spend 8 million yuan, not even one third!
As a result, my son was lucky and easily spent 8 million to renovate Chang'an City. The key point is that you don't even know where he got the money!
Want to know how much money Li Ke had a year ago? He has a lot of money. He has at most a hundred thousand yuan in his hand, which is great.
It’s only been less than a year! It’s not like Li Shimin didn’t know how Xizhou got into trouble. There was definitely a lot of money invested in the early stage! Although he may have made some money selling salt in the later period, the money Li Ke invested in the early stage was definitely more and bigger!
So the question is, where did he get so much money?
"Um..." Li Ke scratched his head a little, whether to tell or not. It seems that he can't hide it if he doesn't tell. It's impossible not to tell Li Shimin. Stop making trouble. It's okay to just make small troubles. I really want to play tricks on you. Of course, if Li Ke didn't want to tell Li Shimin, he could still hide it.
But Li Ke didn't think it was necessary. Didn't Lao Li believe him now just because he had something to say?
So, let’s just say, it’s nothing.
"Dad, how much money do you think I have?" Li Ke thought for a while and said, "The money from my membership in the mall does not count, and I have not touched the money. By the way, Changle's dowry does not count either."
Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, and then he began to ponder. Li Ke spent more than 8 million yuan on renovating Chang'an City, and Xizhou must have also spent a large amount of money. If those two kinds of money are not included, Li Ke still has something left in his hands. How many?
"More than one million guan?" Li Shimin tentatively said a relatively high number.
Li Ke smiled proudly, and then said softly: "Dad, the money in my hand is now more than the treasury of the Tang Dynasty."
"Pfft...cough...cough..." Li Shimin choked on his own saliva and coughed violently. He knew that Li Ke's character could not lie. If he said yes, then there was absolutely yes. The problem was...he Where did you get so much money? !
Concubine Yang, who was sitting in the back row, quickly stretched out her hand to pat Li Shimin on the back and looked at Li Ke angrily: "You kid, can't you speak properly?"
Queen Changsun next to her also looked at Li Ke with a smile on her face, but there was shock in her eyes. She had more money than the Tang treasury! What is this concept? ! How on earth did Ke'er get so much money!
On the contrary, Concubine Yang didn't care about money at all. In her opinion, money or not had nothing to do with her, so she didn't have to worry about it.
"I'm fine." Li Shimin calmed down for a moment, and then looked at Li Ke up and down with a strange expression. For a prince, it took more than 8 million yuan to renovate Chang'an City in one year. I don't know how much Xizhou spent, 200 yuan. Wan Guan, right? In other words, Li Ke made money from the two treasuries of Datang in one year? !
Can this money be conjured out of thin air? ! If he were an emperor, wouldn't he be able to earn several treasuries a year?
"How did you do it?" Li Shimin was puzzled.
"Hey, I don't know what to tell you," Li Ke said with a chuckle.
"If you can't explain clearly today, you will go to the palace tomorrow to replace Li Tai." Li Shimin said calmly.
"Well, I'll give it a try." Li Ke immediately gave up.
"Dad, let me give you an example. See if you can understand." Li Ke thought for a while and said.
Li Shimin: "..."
Queen Changsun: "..."
Concubine Yang: "..."
That is, Li Ke dared to talk to Li Shimin like this.
"Actually, it's what I told you last time. Let me tell you again. You see, if I have 100 households and I want to build a road in front of my door, the cost of building this road is 100 yuan. money."
"I mine the cement and slate needed for road construction, and the main expenses are labor and food. Or, to put it simply, I don't care about food, but pay more, and let these craftsmen buy food by themselves. Then should these costs be regarded as Labor cost, because during the transportation process, people are also needed to transport, but it actually costs manpower." Li Ke asked.
"Well, yes, what next?" Li Shimin thought for a while, this is very simple, he can figure it out.
"Then, I hired 50 households to build roads and 50 households to produce cement slates, etc. Does this mean that all costs can be regarded as labor?" Li Ke said.
"Yes." Li Shimin thought for a while and nodded.
"Then when the road was built, I paid a total of 100 yuan. This money was paid to the people, and then the people would use it to buy their urgently needed supplies, such as grain, cloth, ironware, and salt."
"At this time, if these four things are still supplied by my own business, that is to say, the 100 coins that the people earned from me will eventually flow back into my hands."
"The money has been circulated outside and is still in my hand. But the roads have been repaired and people have ironware, cloth, grain, and salt in their homes. My Li Ke's money has not changed. Everyone has There is a bright future." Li Ke clenched his fists and said. In fact, before Li Ke finished speaking, there may be more money flowing back, because people who have made money from other wealthy families will also come to buy his things. !
The real economic model cannot be as simple as Li Ke said, but the principle is correct.
Li Shimin, Empress Changsun, and Concubine Yang were all dumbfounded.
"No, I understand everything you said, and I understand it, but why, roads and the like have been built! The roads are just there, and the ironware and food have arrived at people's homes! Where is the cost?! The cost? Where?!" Li Shimin was a little confused, and he couldn't turn his head around.
"Manpower and time!" Li Ke said with a smile.
"Leave aside time, the concept of time is too broad. Just talking about human power, in fact, all this process is the production process of turning human power into materials, and then using currency to valorize and cost the human power, so that the human power has value, and When human power has value, it can be circulated in society. After all, its source, the original source of the value of all items, is human power. I invented a word for this process and behavior and call it productivity." Li Ke said with a smile. .
Manpower? Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, and then began to think deeply. If Li Ke hadn't pointed it out to him, his head would still be spinning in a dead end, looking for costs, because in Li Shimin's mind, costs were either money or materials. .
Li Ke didn't bother Li Shimin, but let Li Shimin think about this kind of thing... No matter how detailed you asked Li Ke to explain it, how else could he explain it? If you can't turn a corner, you really can't turn it around.
The carriage had been walking on the newly built official road outside the city for a long time. Li Shimin, who was deep in thought, suddenly asked: "According to you, corvee is harmful rather than beneficial? Because corvee cannot convert human power into value, there is no way to circulate it. ?”
Li Ke glanced at his father in surprise and almost blurted out "Dad, are you not that stupid?" Although this conclusion was not entirely correct.
