Toon scrambled eggs don't require any superb cooking skills.
The authentic eggs sent by the Li family's farm outside Xiangyang, plus the tender toon buds that had just been picked this morning, the earthen stove, firewood, and the big iron pot, after a while, Li Chao fried the vegetables.
Plus a plate of fried broad beans and a bottle of wine.
The emperor, Shang Shuling, and the crown prince, the three of them sat around the kang and started eating.
After the toon was fried, the special fragrance became more and more intense, and Li Shimin picked up the chopsticks and put them in his mouth.
Well, that's the taste, the toon scrambled eggs just out of the pot, the taste is just right, whether it's hot or salty, it's just right.
This is the ability of a good cook, the simpler the dish, the better the effort.
Li Shimin really envies Li Chao, he has good cooking skills, and he can cook whatever he wants.
And he, as the Ninety-Five Supreme, can only eat cold dishes most of the time.
Thinking about it again, Li Chao's family is rich and rich, but as the emperor, his pocket is cleaner than his face.
"Wen Yuan, promise me one thing."
Li Chao had already eaten just now, and now he was eating with the emperor and the crown prince, but he was just holding a few broad beans and croaking them, and after listening to the emperor, he also put down his chopsticks.
"Your Majesty, but if you say that it is okay, the minister will do his best."
"Well, it's good if you have that attitude."
"That's right, I just talked to Ma Zhou today, and listening to him report on the family background of the imperial court really made people feel depressed after hearing it.
The imperial court actually has no money, but all the local officials have asked the imperial court for money, and I am about to be unable to give money to hundreds of officials."
Hearing Li Shimin call him poor there, Li Chao was very calm.
He believed only half of the emperor's words.
Because after all, he is the previous secretary of the household department, and he is still the secretary of the household order, and he is still in charge of the affairs of the household department, where will he not know the family background of the imperial court.
It is true that the imperial court is financially strained, and there are many deficits, but it has not yet reached the point where it cannot even pay the salaries of officials.
In fact, if you put aside the deficits of the imperial court, the imperial court is still good.
As for the deficit, if we use the theory of later generations, it is not a bad thing for the government to maintain the deficit appropriately.
It's like opening a company and borrowing money from a bank.
Using the bank's money to develop and expand is the right thing to do.
But Li Shimin is the kind of person who always feels uneasy when he owes money, and he has the same concept as most people at this time.
However, Li Shimin cried poor at this time, and his intentions were self-evident.
The emperor wants to borrow money like this.
Li Chao was a little helpless.
It's not that he is stingy and reluctant, it's really that the emperor borrowed money from the minister, and this is not good.
Moreover, although the Li family has a big business, it has a big stall.
I really can't do it if I draw out tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands.
Drained all the cash, the Li family's business is still a fart.
If there is no cash flow, the transaction will be yellow.
Besides, the Li family also purchased so many real estates, granges, shops, and workshops, all of which are immovable properties.
The Li family also worked hard before, and prepared for a long time in advance, before drawing out a large amount of money to prepare for the construction of the territory.
Now that money has begun to be spent, buying supplies, recruiting people, etc., which doesn't need money.
If you want the Li family to draw out a large amount of money now, you really can't do it.
"Your Majesty, more than 10,000 times, please excuse me."
Li Chao is not the kind of person who wants to die to save face and suffer crimes, if he wants to open his mouth, he will agree to Li Shimin's request, so where will he get the money to sell the Li family's property at that time Li Shimin opened his mouth wide and stayed there.
Slowly, Li Shimin turned into annoyance.
"I, I opened Chrysostom, it's only worth 10,000 yuan" "Your Majesty, even if it's 10,000, the ministers have to piece it together."
Li Shimin looked incredulous.
"You Li Wenyuan said that it is the reincarnation of the God of Wealth, a bit of a stone into gold, there is a cornucopia and a cash cow at home, the day is in gold, the wealth is widespread, I open your mouth, you will take 10,000 yuan, you are embarrassed to say" Li Shimin angrily put the wine glass on the table.
Li Chao picked up the chopsticks and took another broad bean, threw it into his mouth and chewed it for a while.
"Your Majesty, the minister is just the head of the family, the Li family looks at the scenery, but it has only been better in the past few years, five years ago, my father and I still live in a small broken cave, and the windows of the cold winter are full of wind.
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Now the family business is bigger, but it can't really turn stones into gold.
Your Majesty owns the four seas and the world, but he still tells the minister that his face is cleaner. ” Li Shimin thought about it, but this is also the case.
"No, your Li family's money bank, money in and out every day, not hundreds of thousands of runs" "Your Majesty, although the money in the money village is in and out, the money is from the depositors and the people, and it is not the Li family's money.
If all the money is given to the imperial court, then the people come to withdraw the money, what do we give to the depositors If they can't get the money, the Li family's credit will be gone, and then everyone will come together to exchange the money, which is a run on the trend, and overnight, all the Li family's money banks will be closed. ” What does the money bank rely on?
Credit.
A bank without credit is worthless.
And what is credit Credit means that the depositor has deposited money in the bank, and he can withdraw the money at any time he wants.
Even if it is a large amount of money, it should be withdrawn within the stipulated time.
If you can't do that, then you don't have credit.
"Isn't your Li family's money bank also operating a money lender, isn't your money bank making money, isn't it just to absorb the people's deposits, and then take them out and lend them to others, and then earn the difference in interest" Li Shimin still felt that Li Chao was unwilling to borrow money.
Now, Li Chao has to give Li Shimin an economic lesson.
"Your Majesty, the management of our money bank is very strict.
It is true that this is the main means of making profits, but we are also very strict in lending.
First of all, we have to guarantee the reserve fund, not all of which is used for lending. ” In modern times, banks' reserve requirements are generally not high, generally within a dozen points.
But after all, it is the Tang Dynasty, and the financial industry is still more risky, the liquidity of funds is large, and it is much more difficult to borrow.
As a result, Lee Kee Money's reserves are very high, reaching 30 percent.
This means that the Li family attracts 100 yuan of money, and has to leave 30 yuan as a reserve, which cannot be used for lending, and these 30 yuan must be reserved for depositors to withdraw and cash at any time.
The remaining seventy guan can be used for lending.
And when the money is released, it can't be taken back immediately, all of which are very professional anyway, and I can't say a word to Li Shimin.
Li Shimin wanted to borrow money from Li Ji Qianzhuang, not impossible.
But it is impossible for Li Ji to lend too much money to the emperor or the imperial court, especially considering that it may be more risky for the emperor or the imperial court to borrow money, so he cannot lend too much.
The more Li Shimin listened, the more unsightly his face became.
"Could it be that I or the court will still borrow money and not pay it back?"
"Your Majesty, this is not a question of not paying it back, but that the money bank operates and lends money, and has its own set of rules and guidelines.
No rules, no circle.
If the imperial court wants to borrow money, it is not to borrow three or five thousand guan, or even three or five hundred thousand guan, but to borrow several million guan, such a large amount of money, Li Ji cannot take it out. really released so much money, Li Ji's treasury is empty, and he should not continue to operate. ” Li Shimin also took a broad bean and threw it in his mouth, chewing it very loudly.
"Speaking of which, you just don't want to borrow, ask the Li family to borrow, you say you don't have cash.
Looking for Li Ji to borrow, you said that you couldn't borrow such a large amount. ” "What the minister said is the truth."
Li Shimin poured himself a glass of wine, "Then you say, what should I do?"
Looking at the emperor's scoundrel appearance, Li Chao was also very helpless.
Li Shimin is sometimes such a nuisance, and often imposes some troublesome things on his courtiers.
Anyway, it's up to you, and you can figure it out yourself.
Li Chao was also a little difficult.
If the imperial court wants to make money, it is nothing more than raising taxes, or engaging in some monopoly sales, and doing some monopoly business.
But that's easier said than done.
Now the imperial court has done everything that is difficult to do, increasing the two taxes, commercial tax tariffs, increasing monopoly taxes, and even starting the issuance of shares by the Salt Tea and Iron Co., Ltd., and the issuance of salt and tea introductions, the issuance of salt bonds, and so on.
I'm really trying to find a way to get money.
Salt iron tea wine monopoly.
Issued salt and tea, and over-issued part, set up a salt tea iron monopoly company, and issued shares to raise funds.
Mint gold, silver and copper coins, issue denomination currency, and receive minting profits from them.
Well, it also opened border markets with neighboring countries for mutual trade, and the imperial court directly intervened in some transactions to make money, and at the same time collected customs and transaction taxes.
In addition, the imperial court also formed many large merchant groups to conduct international and regional trade, and also made a lot of money.
Again, there is tributary trade, Fanbang comes to pay tribute, send tribute, and the court gives back, in fact, this is also a kind of trade.
The imperial court monopolized the trade with the Fanren, did not allow ordinary merchants to trade with them, and then sold the tributes of these Fanren to merchants to make a profit.
After subtracting the rewards given by the court to Fanren, you can still make a sum of money in the middle.
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In addition, the imperial court also had a way to make money, which was to buy together.
Buy at a low price, buy at a low price at the origin of the goods, and then ship them to other places to sell at a high price.
It is even a direct monopoly on certain goods.
To say, I really thought of everything I could think of.
But Li Shimin still calls him poor every day, and Li Chao has no choice.
Unless the imperial court prints paper money.
But this thing, just like Pandora's box, once opened, there will be endless troubles, with the ethics of the officials of this era, it will definitely be the same as the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties in the future.
In fact, if Li Shimin was not so anxious, with so many financial resources opened by Li Chao for the imperial court, it would not take a few years for the imperial court to solve the deficit problem, and in a few years, it would be able to get rich.
But Li Shimin has to solve the deficit.
"Your Majesty, instead of the edict, all the slaves of the officials, the thieves, the craftsmen, and the merchants can pay money to the imperial court, and then change to a good name."
Compared with ordinary people with good backgrounds, the social status of slaves and lowly people, merchants, and craftsmen is very low, and many places are restricted, such as not being able to participate in the imperial examination, not being an official, and not even being a soldier.
Even marrying a wife and having children are strictly restricted.
Li Chao actually doesn't like this kind of system very much, if he takes this opportunity to let Li Shimin open an opening, so that these people have the opportunity to get out of the lowly status, enter the good family, and become ordinary civilians, this is also a matter of immeasurable merit.
For the imperial court, in fact, there is an increase in good people, which is beneficial.
Because while giving power to those untouchables, they also have corresponding obligations to the imperial court.
It's like a private slave, which has no effect on the court.
For they are not even the subjects of the state, but only the private property of the slave owners.
However, it is still too early to talk about the abolition of slavery, but it is better to start the way. t1706231537: