Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

"Don't change the subject for me. I'm asking you if the amount of money is reasonable or not? I'm asking you where you got so much money!" Li Shimin was stunned, thinking of him as the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, even building a Daming Palace Didn't spend 800 million guan, not even a third!

In the end, my son was fine, and easily spent 800 million yuan to renovate Chang'an City. The point is that you don't even know where he got the money from!

Want to know how much money Li Ke had a year ago?He has a fart of money, and he has a maximum of 10,000+ in his hand, which is amazing.

It's only been less than a year!It's not like Li Shimin doesn't know how Xizhou made such a fuss, and the initial investment is definitely a lot!Although it is said that selling salt may have made some money in the later stage, Li Ke must have invested more and bigger money in the early stage!

So the question is, where did he get so much money.

"Eh..." Li Ke scratched his head a little, whether he should say it or not, it seems that he can't hide it if he doesn't say it, it's impossible not to tell Li Shimin, right? Of course, if Li Ke doesn't want to tell Li Shimin, he can hide it.

But Li Ke didn't think it was necessary. Didn't Lao Li believe him now because he had something to say?

So, say it, what's the matter.

"Father, how much money do you think I have?" Li Ke thought for a while and said, "I don't count the money of that member in the mall, and I didn't touch that money. By the way, Changle's dowry doesn't count either."

Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, and then he pondered. Li Ke spent more than 800 million yuan on the renovation of Chang'an City, and Xizhou must have spent a lot of money. ?

"More than 100 million guan?" Li Shimin tentatively said a relatively high number.

Li Ke smiled complacently, and then said softly: "Father, I have more money in my hand than the Tang treasury now."

"Puff...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 he definitely would. The problem is... Where did so much money come from? !

Concubine Yang, who was sitting in the back row, quickly stretched out her hand to Li Shimin and looked at Li Ke angrily while patting Li Shimin's back: "You child, can't you speak well?"

The Empress Changsun next to her also looked at Li Ke with a smile on her face, but there was a smile on her face, but there was shock in her eyes, which was more money than the Datang treasury!What is this concept? !Ke'er, how did he get so much money!

Conversely, Concubine Yang didn't care about money at all. From her point of view, it didn't matter to her whether she had money or not, and she didn't have to worry about it.

"I'm fine." Li Shimin calmed down for a while, and then he looked up and down at Li Ke with a strange expression. A prince, it took more than 800 million yuan to renovate Chang'an City in one year. I don't know how much Xizhou spent. Bar?In other words, Li Ke made money from the two treasuries of Datang within a year? !

Can this money be changed out of thin air? !If he is an emperor, how can he earn several treasuries a year?

"How on earth did you do it?" Li Shimin was puzzled.

"Hey, this minister doesn't know what to tell you." Li Ke laughed twice.

"If you can't explain clearly today, you can go to the palace to replace Li Tai tomorrow." Li Shimin said calmly.

"Uh, let me try it there." Li Ke immediately admitted his cowardice.

"Father, let me give you an example, see if you can understand." Li Ke thought for a while.

Li Shimin: "..."

Empress Changsun: "..."

Concubine Yang: "..."

That is to say, Li Ke dared to talk to Li Shimin like this.

"Actually, that's what I told you last time, and now I'll tell you again, you see, if I have 100 households, and I want to build a road at my door, the cost of building this road is 100 guan money."

"As for the cement and slabs needed for road construction, I mine the mine myself. The main expenditure is labor and food. Or to put it simply, I don't care about the food and pay more, so that these craftsmen can buy food by themselves. So are these costs considered as The cost of manpower, because in the process of transportation, people are also needed to transport, but in fact it is manpower that is spent." Li Ke asked.

"Well, yes, and then?" 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 and slabs. Does this mean that all costs can be regarded as manpower?" Li Ke asked.

"Yes." Li Shimin nodded after thinking about it.

"Then when the road was repaired, I paid a total of 100 guan. The 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 guan that the common people earned from me finally flowed back into my hands."

"The money has circulated outside and is still in my hands, but the road has been repaired, and the people's homes have iron, cloth, grain, and salt. My money, Li Ke, has not changed. Everyone There is a bright future." Li Ke clenched his fist and said, in fact, Li Ke didn't finish his sentence, and it is possible that more money will flow back, because people who have made money from other powerful 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 the truth of what you said, and I understand it, but why, roads and the like have been built! The roads are there, and the iron and grain have also arrived at the people's homes! What about the cost?! The cost Where?!" Li Shimin was a little confused, he couldn't turn his head around.

"Manpower and time!" Li Ke said with a smile.

"Leaving aside time, the concept of time is too broad. When it comes to manpower alone, in fact, the process of all this is the production process of turning manpower into materials, and then using money to value and cost manpower, so that manpower has value, and When manpower has value, it can be circulated in society. After all, its source, the original source of the value of all items is manpower. This process and behavior, I invented a word and call it productivity." Li Ke said with a smile .

manpower?Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, and then pondered. If Li Ke hadn't pointed it out to him, his head would still be spinning in a dead end, looking for the cost, because in Li Shimin's thinking, the cost is either money or materials. .

Li Ke didn't bother Li Shimin, but let Li Shimin think about it. This kind of thing... If you want Li Ke to explain it in detail, how else can he explain it?If you can't turn a corner, you really can't turn it.

The carriage had been walking on the newly built official road outside the city for a long time, and the pensive Li Shimin suddenly asked, "According to what you say, corvee is harmful instead of beneficial? Because corvee can't convert manpower into value, so there is no way to circulate it." ?”

Li Ke glanced at his father in surprise, and almost blurted out "Father, aren't you that stupid", although this conclusion is not entirely correct.