"The village chief is right. His Highness has good intentions and wants to make our people live a better life. If we plant fifteen acres, we can basically grow hemp crops in our mountainous land, which will save us more trouble." Shi Laojiu He spoke loudly.
Soon the entire Shijiawan expressed their intention to plant according to His Highness's instructions.
In fact, although Shi Laojiu agreed, he was lying in his heart when he said he was not worried. What if His Highness could not afford so much hemp during the autumn harvest? But...even if I lose a little, I still have to help His Highness grow it!
The situation in Shijiawan gradually occurred in different areas of the Tang Dynasty, not only for hemp crops, but also for silkworm farmers and other people. Li Ke made plans for them.
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In Liangyi Palace, after writing the relevant information, Li Ke wrote a relevant note to Chang Lin and formally wrote the transfer order.
"Servant Chang, please give me the military talisman." After Li Ke finished writing, he formally asked Chang Lin for the military talisman.
The jade seals passed down to the country are all at Li Ke's place, and Li Shimin didn't take away the military talisman at all. They are all kept at Li Ke's place.
But most people don't dare to touch these things. For example, Li Chengqian and Li Tai both supervised the country, so Li Tai supervised the country. Li Tai did not have the right to touch the national jade seal or military talisman, which was with Li Shimin.
When Li Chengqian was supervising the country, these two were also in Li Chengqian's hands. However, Li Chengqian used the imperial seal twice, but the military talisman was never touched once.
"Yes!" Chang Lin looked as usual and quickly brought the military talisman over. The military talisman of the Tang Dynasty was in the shape of a fish. In fact, it was related to the taboo that Li Ke had mentioned before. After all, it was a tiger talisman in all dynasties.
After taking the military talisman, Li Ke took the seal of the troop deployment order in his hand, and then handed the military talisman to Chang Lin, "Order the Marquis to gather three thousand guards, go to the Prince of Qin's Mansion to find Tian Meng to get this information, and escort this person." We are going to Xizhou with a piece of information, and there must be no mistakes on the way. If there are any problems along the way, this piece of information would rather be destroyed than fall into the hands of the enemy."
The railway tracks and related information in Chang Lin's place were all reprinted by Li Ke. The original copies in the warehouse cannot be used casually.
"Yes!" Chang Lin turned around, took the things and left quickly. He had to do this in person.
Hou Junji is now the Minister of War, so it is normal for him to handle this matter.
Not long after Chang Lin left, a young eunuch came in and said, "Your Highness, Mr. Ning Quan has something to report."
"Oh? Let him in." Li Ke was a little surprised. Is their calculation over? Ning Quan was among the ten people sent by Tian Meng who were proficient in arithmetic. They not only learned the modern and complete abacus, but also modern accounting methods, modern numerical methods, statistics and induction.
These can be said to be the elites of Yuelai Trading Company. In recent years, Yuelai Trading Company, in addition to many lecturers, has trained the most talents in arithmetic.
There was no way, before the warehouse was activated, this was all Li Ke was good at.
But this is also a good thing. Mathematics is never out of date.
"I've met His Highness." Ning Quan quickly walked in from outside.
"Is it over?" Li Ke looked at him and asked.
"Yes, Your Highness, we have compiled all the data. Currently, there is a large discrepancy in the data of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Tang Dynasty. In the ninth year of Zhenguan, there were about 870,000 coins in the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Tang Dynasty that could not be reconciled. In the eighth year of Zhenguan, there were about 870,000 coins. There are 360,000 guan that cannot be reconciled. In the seventh year of Zhenguan, this number was 340,000 guan, in the sixth year of Zhenguan, it was 270,000 guan, and in the fifth year of Zhenguan, it was 120,000 guan." Ning Quan looked calm and bent directly Waist salute.
"Have you counted the repetitions?" Li Ke's expression didn't change.
On the other hand, the face of Li Tai next to him was a little ugly. Although he was not the emperor or the prince, these things belonged to their Li family. If there were any discrepancies in these things, someone must have embezzled them.
Li Ke was very calm. Although there was not much corruption recorded in history during the Zhenguan period, it was not that there was no corruption. It just said that the top officials of the Tang Dynasty were not as awesome as Chu Heshen of the Qing Dynasty, but there must be corruption.
Moreover, after many fiscal decentralizations in Datang, it was normal for people at the bottom to engage in corruption.
"Yes, the calculation has been repeated." Ning Quan said.
"What about the losses? Have they been calculated?" Li Ke asked again. Because most of the materials in the Tang Dynasty's treasury are composed of grain, silk, silk, etc., there are normal losses in the Tang Dynasty's treasury.
Of course the loss won't be that much, but there is definitely some.
"Yes, we have calculated it twice, from multiple angles. All the treasury receipts and expenditures as well as reported losses are correct, but the financial allocations received by the Ministry of Industry and other five ministries and various The salary received by the officials and all the materials rewarded by His Majesty cannot be compared with the expenditure." Ning Quan said seriously, "This is the relevant bill."
Li Ke nodded and signaled. The little eunuch over there was just about to go over, but Li Tai had already ran over. "These moths!" Li Tai roared, taking the bill from Ning Quan's hand, and then lowered his head. Looked up.
Um... After taking a look, Li Tai felt a little embarrassed. What is this? can't read.
He quickly took it and handed the thing in his hand to Li Ke, "Third brother, here you go."
Li Ke took it and glanced at it. The various input items above had been recorded in great detail. Judging from the account books of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, there must be no problem with these data. Whether there is corruption or not, there must be something wrong. of.
After flipping through it, Li Ke put them aside, then raised his head and asked, "What about other data?"
"Your Highness, based on the food tax data reported by various provinces in the world, the actual lack of food for some disaster victims in each province and the need for disaster relief, as well as the statistics of the Ministry of Civil Affairs on some of the food sold by the private sector in the past few years, after roughly According to calculations, currently about 23% of the cultivated land in various Daozhou continents in the Tang Dynasty is not cultivated." Ning Quan quickly reported.
Li Ke frowned, "Are you sure?"
"Yes, Your Highness." Ning Quan looked calm, "But this data is based on the grain on the market, the grain purchased and sold by the people, as well as the data on the court's disaster relief, the average grain output of each province in the world, and then calculated by the average And the calculated figures are not precise figures.”
Although Ning Quan said it was not an accurate figure, Li Ke knew that even if the figures calculated based on these data were not accurate, they were definitely not very different.
Everything can be deceptive, but not mathematics.
So there must be something wrong here.
"Bring it up and let me take a look." Li Ke asked him for something, and then looked at it carefully himself.
"Third brother, how can this be calculated? How can this be calculated if the people do not cultivate land?" Li Tai was a little confused.
"The past few years have not been disaster years. In the absence of disaster years, the average grain harvest of each province is almost the same. Based on the average and the number of registered households, the number of cultivated land in Datang can be obtained, and then after paying Although it is not an accurate data, it is calculated based on data such as tax revenue and some food expenditures for disaster relief in various places, but if the gap is too large, it can still be roughly calculated." Li Ke gave Li Tai a rough explanation.
Li Tai: "..."
