Hanking, Imperial Palace, Imperial Garden.
Li Shimin drank tea absentmindedly, drinking green tea in summer and black tea in winter.
After Li Chao's tea book came out, the habit of drinking tea changed from tradition, and there was rarely sencha, and the aristocratic bureaucrats and scholars took making tea as a new fashion.
The new tea-making process has brought a new way of drinking tea.
Now Li Shimin is also accustomed to drinking fried tea, and among all kinds of fried tea, he loves black tea.
Even when summer comes, he likes to drink black tea.
Among the black tea, I love the big red robe of Wuyi Mountain.
In the royal garden of Hanjing, there are also many tea trees, but these days, all kinds of tea trees in the north and south are actually more ornamental.
Really good tea, or the place of origin, especially those with a hundred years of old tea trees, those tea leaves, coupled with the unique climate, and then fried in the best way, that is the real top tea.
Tea is becoming more and more popular nowadays.
"Wang Hai, do you know how much this cup of tea is worth" Li Shimin asked the eunuch next to him.
As the leader of the six gates and the eunuch of the Inner Servant Province, Eunuch Wang knew the value of this cup of tea very well.
It comes from Wuyi Mountain, Fujian Province, and is produced on those thousand-year-old tea king trees on the cliffs.
This year, many new provinces have been added to the imperial court, and many of the original ones have also been divided into several provinces.
According to Ma Zhou's recital, the imperial court sent Xuanfu envoys to various provinces, and Xuanfu envoys existed in the past, but in the past they were only temporary envoys, and now they are becoming a permanent official position.
This is also another important change since the New Deal, which further determines the four-level administrative division system of Datang Dao, prefecture, county and township.
Xuanfu envoys, officials sent by the central government, are in charge of the military and civil affairs.
Under the Xuanfu envoy, it was divided into three major yamen, which were announced by the political envoy department, the criminal envoy department, and the military and horse envoy division, which were called the three divisions of the yamen.
Each of the three divisions has left and right envoys, who are political envoys on the left and right, and both the left and right envoys are in charge of civil affairs, justice, and soldiers.
With the stationed chief officer and the permanent yamen, the level of Dao is officially determined.
The number of provinces has also increased, and the former Henan Province is now split into Henan Province and Huaibei Province.
In the past, Jiangdong Province was divided into three provinces: Jiangdong, Zhejiang and Fujian.
The big red robe comes from the newly established Fujian Road.
Li Shimin held the crystal moist teacup, "This big red envelope is picked from the cliff of Wuyi Mountain in Fujian Province, south of the Yangtze River, this is tribute tea, only the more than 100 thousand-year-old tea trees on the cliff."
Although there are also Dahongpao teas among the people, the best ones are only century-old tea trees, and most of the tea is just produced by ordinary tea trees on Wuyi Mountain.
The other is the tea trees that were cultivated later and transplanted in the tea plantation. ” "But do you know that even if it is the kind of tea produced by tea trees transplanted in ordinary tea gardens, but because of the three-character name of Da Hong Pao, Li Chao sold it to Fanguo, do you know how expensive it is?"
"Nowadays, not only the Central Plains, inside and outside the Great Wall, no one in the north and south of the river does not know tea, even Fanbang overseas, tea has also become a hot commodity.
It is said that it is the most common Wuyi mountain tea, which costs five pounds of tea in Turkic.
In Khitan and Xi, it is worth six times.
In Goguryeo, it is worth eight times, and in Silla and Dongying, it is worth ten times.
In Persia, Tianzhu, and Eastern Rome, it can even be sold for more than ten pounds. ” The more Li Shimin spoke, the more excited he became.
Some leaves are just leaves, and they are still the most common tea.
Compared with silk, tea is much simpler, picking, frying is good, not more than silk, but also have to plant mulberry and raise silkworms and have to spin silk into silk.
At the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, tea was already relatively popular, but at that time, it was mainly welcomed in the south, and the north did not like to drink tea so much.
But now, tea culture is extremely popular.
Even ordinary people drink tea.
Scholars drink tea as an elegant thing, and the people drink tea simply as drinking medicine for health care.
In this regard, I have to say that Li Chao's tea economy plays a huge role, the Li family runs the tea industry, and its marketing is doing well.
According to a set of data provided by the Ministry of Households, Li Shimin knew that the Li family in Bashang controlled 70% of the tea planting and production in the Tang Dynasty, and occupied the vast majority of the tea trade, especially foreign trade, in which Li Ji was almost monopolized.
How much tea did Datang produce last year A rather astonishing number, anyway, when Li Shimin saw that number at that time, he thought he was mistaken. 20 million catties of tea.
The Li family occupies seventy percent of tea production and ninety percent of tea sales.
The profits in this, calculated casually, can also make Li Shimin's eyes red and ears hot.
Especially when he knew that the purchase price of ordinary tea in Wuyi Mountain was only about 20 wen per catty, and as a result, it was sold to Persia, but it could be sold for more than 10 yuan per catty, he really couldn't be calm.
This is 50 to 100 times the profit, even if there is a transportation and sales link in the middle, but this is still a huge profit.
And now the tea plantations around the country are still expanding, and everyone knows that tea makes money.
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"The household department told me that with the current momentum, in a few years, our total tea output can even reach an annual output of 50 million catties.
The tea market in the country is very profitable.
"The purchase price of ordinary Wuyi mountain tea is only 20 wen, and good tea is only 2 or 300 wen.
But the cup of tea in my hand is worth ten times in the market.
A cup of tea is worth ten times.
Hehe, I can't imagine it, Li Chao pays me tea for free every year, and I really take a lot of advantage.
He shook his head and smiled.
"There is also this blue and white porcelain, a specialty of Li Ji Jingdezhen.
Compared with Yuejiao celadon and Xingjiao white porcelain, the blue and white porcelain of Jingdezhen in Lijia is now more popular.
Such a cup is also worth several times.
I feel that I am really extravagant now, a cup of tea is worth ten times, a teacup is worth five times, and the bottle of mulberry purple wine on my table is also worth thousands of dollars. ” "Li Chao is much richer than me."
Eunuch Wang didn't know how to answer on the side.
"Do you know what Li Chao has been doing lately?"
asked Li Shimin again.
"Zhao Guogong recently inspected the shipyard in Dengzhou, Huaibei Province, and recruited people for the territory and fleet."
Li Shimin shook his head, "Li Chao is already rich and rivals the country, and he can't be idle."
Li Chao has a lot of chickens that lay golden eggs, tea, porcelain, sugar, wine, as well as mining and smelting steel, money and pawnshops, as well as shipyards, carriage shops, trading houses, and fleets.
What to make money, he does what, this money is faster than the imperial court. ” Eunuch Wang also admitted this, and he didn't understand why Li Chao made so much money.
The rich rival the country, and it has already been done.
He is not afraid of making too much money and making others jealous Now even the emperor is red-eyed.
"I can't make more money than Li Chao."
Eunuch Wang thought to himself, the emperor didn't want to rob Li Chao, he just tossed nearly 20 million from the Li family last time.
"I very much agree with what Li Chao said, the imperial court is the administrator, and should not directly interfere in business.
In the past, the imperial court included salt in the monopoly, and the annual salt income was more than 12 million yuan, and according to the report of the imperial court, it is expected that the salt industry income will increase to 20 million yuan within three years. ” "That's a good way.
The imperial court does not directly produce salt, nor does it sell salt, but the imperial court manages it.
I decided to make tea, sugar, wine, porcelain, and steel in the same way as the salt industry.
In the future, if a merchant wants to sell tea, he must first obtain tea quotations from the imperial court, and then he can engage in tea trading, otherwise it is illegal to buy tea from tea farmers without permission. ” Li Shimin watched Li Chao make a lot of money easily, and his eyes were red.
Whether it is the rent adjustment tax of the imperial court, or the supplementary tax of the two tax laws, it is not very applicable to tea, wine and sugar.
Even if it is the industrial and commercial tax, he thinks that it is still a loss.
For these goods, he believed that they should be taxed as heavily as salt. 20 million catties of tea, an average of 100 catties of tea to collect 100 wen money for tea, that is, 2 million yuan.
"Two million yuan of tea a year attracts money, do you think it's high?"
Li Shimin asked Eunuch Wang.
On average, a pound of tea is 100 yuan for tea, even if the tea output increases to 50 million catties, a pound will have to be 40 yuan for tea.
Even considering that many teas are already expensive, especially some good teas, this tea is also expensive.
Exports are to make money, but they have to pay tariffs, and businessmen have to pay other business taxes.
"A tax of 20 million on salt, 10 million on wine, 2 million on tea, 1 million on sugar, and a tax on porcelain."
Li Shimin made a simple and crude list, according to the scale of these goods, and then set a tax amount.
Taxes are levied at this rate.
The annual tax on these commodities alone is more than 30 million yuan, as well as industrial and commercial taxes, regular customs duties, and customs duties, etc., and you can still earn a lot of money in a year.
Coupled with the rent adjustment tax and the two taxes and auxiliary taxes, the income of the imperial court can reach a new high.
Eunuch Wang secretly thought in his heart that several of the industries operated by the Li family were among them, and the Li family would account for most of the large amount of taxes added by the imperial court in a year.
Li Shimin smiled and said to Eunuch Wang, "Don't feel sorry for Li Chao, I just can't get used to Li Chao making money so ruthlessly, besides, paying taxes according to law is also the obligation of the people of the Tang Dynasty."
Although I raised the taxes on these commodities a little, these things were already very profitable, and I was just sharing a piece of the pie with Li Chao, and he only made a little less, not that he didn't make money. ” "He still makes a lot of money, and the most profitable transactions are in his hands."
"Actually, I really want to rob the Li family's industry, but think about it, these industries are only the most profitable in the hands of Li Chao.
When I get it, maybe it will be yellow.
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Let Li Chao earn it, and I will collect taxes later. ” Eunuch Wang asked a question.
"Your Majesty, Zhao Guogong is simply the reincarnation of the God of Wealth, and his ability to make money is unmatched.
However, the Li family is now so rich, what are their families still desperately trying to make money for?"
Li Shimin glanced at Eunuch Wang, and then said slowly, "Li Chao is a person who likes comfort, of course, the money he earns now and his industry are enough for him to live a hundred lives comfortably."
He is still desperately trying to make money, and there is only one reason, that is, to develop and operate his territory, and then let his children and grandchildren be comfortable for generations to come. ” "Zhao Guogong can really think long-term."
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