In the sixth year of Wude, 623.
Counting with his fingers, Li Chao has been here for three years.
Li Chao is twenty-five years old this year, has lived in modern times for twenty-two years, and then lived in Datang for three years.
Twenty-five years old is not entirely the right approach, after all, he was born in 1994, and now it is 623 AD, if you really want to calculate, his actual age should be minus 1371 years old.
Negative 1371 years old, a very interesting statement, thinking of this, Li Chao couldn't help but shake his head and laugh.
Whether he is twenty-five years old or more than a thousand years old, Li Chao now has a place on the rich list of Datang.
In terms of money, Li Chao estimates that the top ten is no problem.
He now doesn't do anything every day, and when he lies at home and counts the money, he counts with cramps in his hands, and he can't count it at all.
In terms of fields, Li Chao has sugarcane orchards in Lingnan, pastures in Longyou, Zhuangtian in Shuofang, Guanzhong, Hebei, Henan, Shannan, Hexi, Huainan in Hedong, Jiangnan and other provinces, the Li family has a large number of fields, and the specific number has long exceeded 1,000 hectares, with more than 100,000 acres of land.
However, although there are thousands of hectares of fields, the fields did not make Li Chao much money.
In terms of land, Li Chao actually spends more than he earns.
The one-time purchase of land costs a lot, but the annual income is not much, especially for a landlord like Li Chao who is unwilling to be black-hearted, and he earns even less.
He also had to spend his own money to buy cattle and rent them to tenants, to dig wells and repair canals for the land, and to make farm tools, waterwheels, windmills, etc. and rent them to tenants.
The land property is not profitable, but it is a high-quality real estate with the guarantee of asset preservation.
Li Chao's real money is those industrial and commercial industries, the sugar processing factories in Lingnan, and the merchant fleet at sea.
There are also pastures in Longyou, salt farms in Shuofang, Hetao, and mines in Qinling, plus caravans, trading houses, and various handicraft workshops.
Relying on more than a thousand years of knowledge, Li Chao lived very well in the Tang Dynasty.
Li Chao wants money, wealth, status, and status, but he feels that the sages have a saying that is very right, if you are poor, you will be good alone, and if you are good, you will help the world.
Since God has brought him here, and he has the powerful position he has now, then he can't lie at home all day and wait for death.
People should always have something to pursue.
If you have enough food and clothing, a house and a house, a wife, a concubine, and a son and daughter, you must always reflect your own value.
I remember that there was a horse God of Wealth in later generations who said, "When I earn 100,000 million a year, I am very happy."
Because the money is mine, it can greatly improve my life, fulfill my dreams, and I am very happy.
But when I made 100 million a billion a year, I wasn't as happy as I used to be.
Because those billions and tens of billions, he doesn't really belong to me, it's just that everyone puts the money in my hands to help them keep it, and I have to help everyone keep the money.
Li Chao didn't understand these words before, but now he understands.
The sages interpreted this long ago.
As much power as man has, he has great responsibility.
If you are just a small person, then it is enough to take care of yourself, and if you are more capable, then take care of your family and friends.
When you have greater ability, you also have greater social responsibility.
No matter how much money there is, it is just a number for Li Chao, and he can't eat a bucket in a meal, let alone a thousand stones of grain.
At night, he can only sleep in one bed, and it is impossible to sleep in thousands of rooms.
It is impossible for him to be like those landlords and old wealth, and when he makes money, he immediately uses it to buy land, build a house, and lend money, and then collect rent and interest, and then buy land and lend money.
There is no point in living like that, it is just a slave to money, not a master.
Therefore, although Li Chao will also buy land, he will not maliciously merge and steal it, and his land is more developed from the original barren ditch such as the bathing ditch in Guanzhong, and the original frontier wasteland in the Longyou Hetao is reclaimed.
He lent money when he had, but it was not usury, but pawnshops and money banks, which was a more helpful way for the people.
Li Chao prefers reciprocity, giving others the help they need, and at the same time, reaping some practical benefits, rather than cheating, robbing, and squeezing.
Li Chao's style of acting is incompatible with many landlords and heroes.
It's even a little weird.
Other landlords actually like the year of the catastrophe, although the year of the catastrophe will cause a poor harvest, but the landlords will never have to worry about running out of food.
Their granaries are always full, and they are resilient enough.
And ordinary people don't have this ability.
When a catastrophe strikes, it often leads to bankruptcy.
Homesteaders may have to sell their land, and poor people may even have to sell their sons and daughters to sell themselves in order to survive.
In the year of the great disaster, it was a good time for the landlords to harvest, they took advantage of the disaster year to sell grain at high prices, borrow money, and then buy the fields at a low price, and even took the bankrupt people who lost their land and could not repay their debts as their slaves and tenants.
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After a great calamity, their debts increased, the fields in their names increased, and the servants and tenants on their estates increased.
This is how most of the landlords and tycoons have so many fields and so many slaves and tenants.
Every time there is a catastrophe, the strength of the landlords has increased by a few points, and the loss of natural disasters has long been made up.
How can there be such a thing as Li Chao, in the year of natural disasters, lending grain to tenants at low interest, and even in the event of natural disasters, the loans in pawnshops and money banks can be deferred and reduced interest, isn't it stupid?
So much effort to help the victims, all over the disaster year, who still sells the land, who still sells the sons and daughters, who is willing to sell themselves Do you have to let the landlord plant the fields in the landlord's house?
In fact, Li Chao is also short of people, and his workshop has to rely on a large number of apprentices for boys and girls.
His mines and salt farms can only rely on those seasonal migrant workers.
If there are enough slaves, workers, Li Chao's mines, salt works, workshops, etc., the benefits will definitely be greater, and even a few times it is not a problem.
However, Li Chao did not regret his choice, he did something and did not do something.
Just a few days later, the emperor was about to arrive in Xiangyang.
Li Shimin arrived about half a month earlier than the scheduled time, the Turkic civil strife, the second Li showed his sword in the north once, the drought became more and more serious, and the food in Guanzhong became more and more tight.
The emperor sent someone to deliver a decree to Li Chao, he would arrive in Xiangyang about seven days in advance, and he would bring the ministers of the court to arrive first.
Originally, the time was very tight, but now it is half a month ahead of schedule, which makes Li Chaofa hurry.
Standing at the head of the city, Li Chao looked at the Han River, and his heart settled down a little, although the drought was still serious, the situation in Shannan Dongdao was still very good. t1706231537: