Princess Changle blinked her eyes, surprised and happy.
"Of course, if Lao Li disagrees, I will go to him and tell him!"
Su Chen continued to smile and said: "I plan to renovate the back hill next year and build a separate courtyard. The scenery will not be much worse than here."
"When the time comes, we will prepare a big room for you and Sizi each."
"The entire wall is made of colored glaze, so when you wake up you will be filled with sunshine..."
Princess Changle didn't listen to what she said next. She instantly turned red from her neck to her ears, and her heart was beating loudly.
It didn't take long for the group to return to the house.
Regardless of the others, Su Chen said a few words casually and went directly back to his house.
As soon as he locked the door and took a few deep breaths, he began to check the system eagerly!
After calling softly in my mind, the long-lost system responded!
Su Chen paced back and forth in the room several times, feeling quite complicated.
Although he can live a good life without the help of the system, how can he be willing to be mediocre after finally traveling through time?
However, no matter how good he is, he is only an individual and there is a limit to what he can do!
And his goal is very lofty, that is, to create an extremely powerful Tang Empire and rule the Central Asian continent, and even the whole world!
There are so many countries and dozens of languages on one piece of land, it’s extremely awkward!
It must be unified!
We must ensure that children in the future will no longer have a foreign language subject in their exams!
To achieve this great goal, Su Chen's knowledge reserve is indeed not enough.
The rest was easy to say, but when it came to the steel-making technology, he was very worried!
Who in the right mind would study how to smelt iron?!
So, he really doesn’t understand this!
But, this is the most important thing!
Only when tools are innovated can we promote social progress!
Speaking of external expansion, is it unjustifiable not to arm the soldiers to the teeth?!
If we could acquire the technology of iron smelting, it would not be a big problem to equip every general of the Tang Dynasty with a set of aluminum alloy Mingguang armor!
At this point, preparation alone is enough to crush everything!
Moreover, in this feudal dynasty era, it is absolutely impossible to lack raw materials!
Do you have what I want?
Bring it to you!
After a while, Su Chen gradually calmed down and began to concentrate on studying the newly activated exchange mall.
Soon, Su Chen understood this exchange mall, which can be summed up in two words: krypton gold!
Now, Su Chen was very happy!
Then, he discovered that this exchange mall actually had everything, including the iron smelting technology he dreamed of!
However, as soon as he saw the amount of money, everything seemed boring to him...
Good guy, is it really the whale that has opened its mouth?!
Su Chen probably figured it out. With his current money-making speed, it would take at least four years to save enough money?!
This is not possible, it takes so long, and by the time things are finished, the day lilies are already cold.
Su Chen withdrew from the system and began to frown and think.
How can one earn such a fortune quickly?
Suddenly, Su Chen had a flash of inspiration and golden light flashed in his eyes!
Ahem...it seems to be July now, right?
Li Er's... the treasury is rich again, right?
"Ahem..."
Thinking of his somewhat evil idea, Su Chen couldn't help but blush, then he straightened his mind and said: "Li Er, Li Er, you can't blame me for this, doesn't the wool just come from the sheep?"
"I'm doing this all for Datang!"
"Only if you are bald can Datang become stronger!"
"It's okay to keep the little money you have. Why don't you let me maximize their use..."
Thousands of miles away, Chang'an City.
Today, His Majesty Li Er is in a very good mood, very good, very good!
Although, there was a severe drought and snowstorm last year.
But fortunately, everyone in Datang survived, and the losses were not huge!
Moreover, after winning both wars, countless gold, silver and jewelry were confiscated!
Coupled with the promotion of Su Chen's inventions, the food harvest in the new year will also be good.
All walks of life in Datang are also on the right track and can be said to be thriving!
No, this year’s national tax is out again!
Royal study room.
At this time, Dai Zhou, Minister of Civil Affairs, was reporting to His Majesty Li Er with a pamphlet.
"Your Majesty, the taxes collected this year total more than 39.82 million yuan, chestnuts, rice and other grains..."
After reading it in detail, His Majesty Li Er said in surprise: "There are so many this year?"
“It’s nearly doubled compared to last year!”
"What's with all the extra stuff?"
Dai Gui lowered his head to examine it, then raised his head and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the bulk of this year's tax revenue comes from salt tax and commercial tax."
"I see"
His Majesty Li Er nodded, understanding in his heart.
With his vigorous publicity, Su Yanfa has been promoted throughout the Tang Dynasty.
At the beginning, he first lowered the price of salt collected by the general government and then lowered it again.
However, I found that the effect was somewhat unsatisfactory.
Either the price is still high and people still can’t afford it!
Either the price is too low and the government loses money!
So, His Majesty Li Er had an idea and promulgated a new policy!
The official salt system was directly abolished!
Open up the private sale of salt among the people and only collect salt tax!
Whether you make your own products at home and sell them at a stall, or you open a workshop and sell them with great fanfare.
As long as you pay your taxes, the government will never interfere!
Sure enough, after doing this, the price of salt quickly stabilized.
If Su Chen knew about this, she would definitely be surprised!
Li Er actually started playing market economy?!
Just two words, high-end!
On the other side, with the development of Fanggui, the number of merchants in Datang has increased a lot in the past six months.
Coupled with Su Chen's aggressive road construction, more and more people traveled between Chang'an and Jiannan Road.
Therefore, although the commercial tax is still very low, when accumulated, it is a very considerable number!
Unknowingly, this tax became the main source of revenue for the Tang Dynasty treasury!
"Xuan Yin, do you think the business tax should be adjusted?"
"I feel that the current business tax is still too low..."
Whenever His Majesty Li Er talks about business taxes, he will think of Su Chen's house full of money!
He always feels that at least one-third of it should be his, right?!
Dai Wei said seriously: "Your Majesty, judging from the current situation, it is indeed time to raise business taxes."
"But how to increase it, how to increase it, we still need to study it carefully."
"If you add less, there won't be much benefit."
"And if you add too much, it will affect the enthusiasm of merchants."
"Business in the Tang Dynasty has just begun. If this incident ruins future harvests, it will really outweigh the gains."
