Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

"The village chief is right. Your Highness is kind enough to make our people's lives better. If we plant fifteen acres, we can basically grow hemp crops in our mountainous land, which will save us more trouble." Shi Laojiu said loudly.

Soon the entire Shijiawan expressed that they would plant according to His Highness's instructions.

In fact, although Shi Laojiu agreed, it was a lie in his heart to say that he was not worried. What if His Highness didn't want so much numbness during the autumn harvest?But... Even if you lose a little, you still have to help His Highness!

The situation in Shijiawan gradually occurred in different regions of the Tang Dynasty, not only the hemp crops, but also the silkworm farmers and other common people. Li Ke made plans for them.

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After writing the relevant materials in Liangyi Hall, Li Ke wrote a related note to Chang Lin, and wrote a transfer order very formally.

"Chang's servant, please give me the soldier talisman." After Li Ke finished writing, he formally asked Chang Lin for the soldier talisman.

The jade seals of Chuanguo are all here with Li Ke, and Li Shimin didn't take away the soldier talisman at all, they are all kept here by Li Ke.

But this thing, most people dare not use it. For example, Li Chengqian and Li Tai have both supervised the country, and it is fine for Li Tai to supervise the country. Li Tai has no right to move the jade seal of the country and the military talisman, and it is with Li Shimin.

When Li Chengqian supervised the country, these two things were also in Li Chengqian's hands, but Li Chengqian used the Chuanguo Yuxi twice, but he never touched the soldier talisman.

"Yes!" Chang Lin looked normal, and quickly brought the soldier talisman over. Datang's soldier talisman is in the shape of a fish. In fact, it has something to do with the taboo that Li Ke said before. After all, all dynasties have been tiger talismans.

After taking the soldier talisman, Li Ke handed the soldier talisman seal in his hand to Chang Lin, "Order Hou Junji to dispatch three thousand guards to find Tian Meng in the Palace of King Qin to get this information, and escort the If there is any problem on the way, this document would be destroyed rather than fall into the hands of the enemy."

The railroad tracks and related materials are in Chang Lin's place, all of which are reprinted by Li Ke, and the isolated copies in the warehouse cannot be used casually.

"Yes!" Chang Lin turned around and left quickly with his things. He had to go to this matter himself.

Hou Junji is now Minister of War, so it is normal for him to handle this matter.

Not long after Chang Lin left, a young eunuch walked in, "Your Highness, Mr. Ningquan has something to report."

"Oh? Let him in." Li Ke was a little surprised. Is their calculation over?Ning Quan is one of the ten people sent by Tian Meng who are proficient in arithmetic. They not only learned the complete modern abacus calculation, but also learned the modern bookkeeping method, modern number method, statistics and induction.

These can be said to be the elites of Yuelai Firm. In recent years, apart from many lecturers, Yuelai Firm has cultivated the most talents in mathematics.

There is no way, when the warehouse was not activated before, this is what Li Ke was good at.

But this is also a good thing. Mathematics is never out of date when you learn it.

"I have seen Your Highness." Ning Quan quickly walked in from the outside.

"It's over?" Li Ke looked at him and asked.

"Yes, Your Highness, we have already calculated all the data. At present, the data of the Datang Ministry of Civil Affairs is quite discrepant. In the ninth year of Zhenguan, there were about 87 records of the Datang Ministry of Civil Affairs that could not be reconciled. In the eighth year of Zhenguan, there were 36 records. Unable to reconcile the account, the number is 34 guan in the seventh year of Zhenguan, 27 guan in the sixth year of Zhenguan, and 12 in the fifth year of Zhenguan." Ning Quan looked calm, directly bent down and saluted.

"Have you counted repeatedly?" Li Ke's expression didn't change.

On the other hand, Li Tai next to him had an ugly expression on his face. Although he was neither the emperor nor the prince, this frankly belonged to their Li family. If there was any discrepancy between these things, someone must have embezzled them.

Li Ke was very calm. Although there was not much corruption in the Zhenguan period recorded in history, it was not without it. It just said that the top officials of the Tang Dynasty were not as powerful as Daqing Chuheshen, but there must have been corruption.

Moreover, after many of Datang's finances were decentralized, it is normal for low-level personnel to be corrupt.

"Yes, it has already been double-calculated." Ning Quan said.

"What about the loss? Has it been calculated?" Li Ke asked again, because most of the materials in the Datang treasury are composed of grain, silk, silk, etc., so the Datang treasury has normal losses.

Of course, the loss will not be so much, but there must be some.

"Yes, we have calculated it twice. It is calculated from multiple angles. All the treasury's inflows and treasury expenditures and reported losses are correct, but the financial appropriations received by the Ministry of Industry and other five ministries and various The salaries accepted 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 that the little eunuch over there was just about to go, but Li Tai had already run over, "These moths!" Li Tai roared, took the bill in Ning Quan's hand, and bowed his head looked up.

Uh... After taking a look, Li Tai was a little embarrassed, what the hell is this?can't read.

He hurriedly took it over and handed the contents to Li Ke, "Third brother, here you are."

Li Ke took it over and glanced at it. The various items above have 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 a problem. of.

After flipping through them, Li Ke put them aside, then raised his head and asked, "What about other data?"

"Your Highness, based on the grain tax data reported by various continents in the world, the actual missing data on some of the disaster victims' food needs in various continents, and the statistics of some grains sold by the private sector by the Ministry of Civil Affairs in the past few years, after roughly According to calculations, at present about [-]% of the arable land in the Daozhou of the Tang Dynasty is not cultivated." Ning Quan quickly reported.

Li Ke frowned, "Are you sure?"

"Yes, Your Highness." Ning Quan looked calm, "However, this data is based on the grain on the market, the grain purchased and sold by the common people, and the disaster relief data of the imperial court. The average grain output of all provinces in the world is calculated by the average. And the calculated ones are not exact figures.”

Although Ning Quan said it was not an accurate number, Li Ke knew that the data calculated based on these few data, even if it was not accurate, was definitely not much different.

Anything can be deceiving, but not mathematics.

So there must be something wrong here.

"You bring it up and let me have a look." Li Ke asked him for something, and then looked carefully at it himself.

"Third brother, how is this calculated? How can this be calculated if the people don't farm land?" Li Tai was a little confused.

"The past few years have not been disaster years. If it is not a disaster year, the average grain harvest of each province is about the same. According to the average number and the number of registered households, the number of arable land in Datang can be obtained, and then after the payment Taxes, and food expenditures for disaster relief in some places are calculated, although it is not accurate data, but if the gap is too large, it can still be estimated." Li Ke gave Li Tai a rough explanation.

Li Tai: "..."