Carefree Prince In Tang Dynasty

People in later generations say that a person must have two close friends in his life, one is willing to lend you money, and the other is willing to attend your funeral. Although he didn't know who said this sentence, what basis and logic it had, Li Xin always felt that this sentence was reasonable. Therefore, when faced with two brothers who ran home to borrow money for him as soon as they heard that he was in trouble, he was subtly moved and disgusted.

In other words, the reason why these two guys did this is because they are stupid, right? It shouldn't be entirely because of brotherhood, right?

Li Xin thought with sour eyes.

"You two are really stupid." Li Xin said angrily.

"Ah?" Cheng Chumo and Qin Huaiyu responded in unison, completely unaware of why Li Xin called them stupid.

Li Xin shook his head and asked, "Do you two know how much money five hundred thousand is?"

Cheng Chumo and Qin Huaiyu frowned, but did not answer. Of course they knew it was a huge sum of money, but they didn't have a clear idea of ​​how huge the sum was. After all, they knew nothing about economics.

Li Xin continued to explain patiently: "The tax revenue of the Tang Dynasty last year was only more than three million yuan. This summer was hit by a drought. His Majesty sympathized with the people and reduced some taxes. The full calculation is only two million yuan. About 500,000 guan, which is almost a quarter of the national tax revenue."

He said: "Sell my entire Chu Palace, at most no more than 100,000 yuan, even if you add all the properties of your Suguogong Mansion and Yiguo Gongfu, plus the coffin books of Uncle Cheng and Uncle Qin, it will be a total of 100,000 guan." The total is only about 300,000 guan. If you two run back like this and want 100,000 to 200,000 guan, it would be easy for Uncle Cheng and Uncle Qin not to beat you two prodigal sons to death."

It was only then that Cheng Chumo and Qin Huaiyu revealed a little understanding of the reason.

In fact, this is also very understandable. For example, in Huaxia in later generations, there are many giant companies with a market value of hundreds of billions or trillions. What is the annual tax revenue of the Huaxia government? Tens of trillions! It is impossible to get the country's annual income if all these giant companies are packaged and sold.

Moreover, these giant companies are capital monsters that can only be created under the strong corporate system and business environment of later generations. In the feudal agricultural society of Datang, it was impossible for an economic entity of this level to appear. If you want to understand it simply, that is to say, Datang can only give birth to very rich local tycoons, but never entrepreneurs, and local tycoons can never be richer than real entrepreneurs.

Of course, Li Xin, a monster from later generations, must be excluded. With so many advanced knowledge and concepts from later generations in his mind, even if there is a productivity revolution in Datang, it may be feasible to bring about the germination of capitalism along with it.

All in all, 500,000 guan is definitely a huge sum of money in these years, and even the great Li Er himself may not be able to spend 500,000 guan for a while. In the past few years, Datang's treasury has been empty, and the fiscal deficit is also a serious problem.

Seeing that Cheng Chumo and Qin Huaiyu gradually realized their mistakes, Li Xin sighed and said, "This is not the stupidest part of you two. Take a step back, even if the three of us are stupid together and sell them together, I will ask you , Who can afford it in Quanchang'an? Even if the five surnames and Qiwang work together, it will take at least half a month to raise a huge sum of 500,000 yuan. How can it be possible to raise it in three days? Frankly speaking, even if His Majesty came in person, and I also doubt whether the old man can collect 500,000 coins in three days."

After Cheng Chumo listened, he yelled: "Then how can we do it? Old Chen Yin made it clear that he just made it difficult for you. You have to pay out the huge sum of money that even His Majesty can't afford. He must have found someone at random." An excuse, do you want to cancel the engagement?"

Li Xin shook his head.

It is possible to say that Chen Yin is dissatisfied with the marriage contract between Li Xin and Chen Youlan. Because people these days pay special attention to their career, which is a man's career. In the eyes of most people, the career worthy of praise and admiration is to become an official in the court. Guys like Li Xin who rely on their titles to survive death are definitely a minority among the minority. It is natural for others to think that he is worthless and not want to marry their daughter to him.

Especially for a high-ranking guy like Chen Yin, he doesn't even pay much attention to the title of King Chu. He will only pay more attention to the value of Li Xin himself, and Li Xin himself, at least on the surface, seems to have no Too much value.

However, to say that Chen Yin was so dissatisfied because of this that he wanted to deliberately cancel the engagement between Li Xin and Chen Youlan, that shouldn't be the case.

Although Chen Yin kept saying that the situation in Shandong was very good, and there was no need for marriage to strengthen the strength of the Chen family there, Li Xin still felt that this should not be the real situation.

After Li Shimin installed the Chen family's forces in Shandong, the situation of the Chen family certainly improved. But even under such circumstances, Li Xin and Chen Youlan's marriage contract is definitely not dispensable. Even if it can't be called a timely gift, at least it should be a icing on the cake that will not be rejected. He has no reason to destroy the marriage so forcefully.

What's more, this marriage was arranged by Li Shimin himself. Even if Chen Yin can persuade Li Shimin to cancel the engagement, it will not be a matter of price. How could he do it for no reason?

A very simple logic is: if he is really determined to cancel the engagement between Li Xin and Chen Youlan, and he has the ability to achieve this, why doesn't he directly mention this matter to His Majesty, but hints to Li Xin to go After meeting him, why not put forth an impossible task to embarrass Li Xin?

The more Li Xin thought about it, the bigger his head became.

No wonder he felt something unspeakably wrong at the time. After thinking about it carefully, he always felt that this matter was weird from beginning to end.

On one side he was racking his brains thinking, on the other side, in the spacious Taiji Hall that he couldn't see, His Majesty Li Er was laughing with Master Zhongshuling Chen Yin.

"The old minister almost pointed his nose at him and said he was a waste. Who knew he didn't care at all. Although he was still angered in the end, to be honest, until now, the old minister didn't understand why he was angry at that time. "Chen Yin smiled wryly and shook his head.

Li Shimin smiled and said with emotion: "Yeah, I don't know what is pretending in this child's mind, and his thoughts are always incomprehensible. Some time ago, the Guanyin maidservant told him something. According to him, he was killed by a fairy in a dream." Enlightenment. This kind of nonsense. Really"