Chapter 1585: The greedy Li Duo? The warmth of the back house
Chapter 1585: Money-grubbing Li Duo?
The warmth of the back house
"Hahaha!"
Li Renyou laughed loudly, "The Prime Minister is overthinking. The emperor of the Song Dynasty is not a fool. If Shen Tang is really closely related to the Jin Dynasty, can the emperor reuse him and give him military power?"
"I'm afraid, some things are just rumors! As for marrying the princess of Jin Kingdom, don't worry about such things! When did those Jurchen barbarians ever care about women?
Not to mention the princess, it’s not unusual for a princess to get married for a certain purpose!”
Ren Dejing suddenly realized, "Your Majesty is right. If it hadn't been for Your Majesty's explanation, the truth would have really gone wrong!"
"Hahaha, the Prime Minister still needs to work hard these two days.
The Minister of Rites is obviously greedy for money, and the Prime Minister does not need to care about some silver coins. If we can find out some of Shen Tang's bottom lines, it will be easy to negotiate next."
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I dare you not to die?"
At this moment, the money-hungry Li Duo was looking at Shen Tang with admiration. This gentleman of his was simply a genius. This design directly caused the Dangxiang people to fall into the plan of himself and others! Moreover, he I still don’t know, but Ren Dejing wants to find out the information. It’s hard to say, easy to say, but not easy either.
All of them are in the eyes of An Ye Pavilion. Whatever they want to do, or even whom they say something to, will appear on Shen Tang's desk immediately.
Moreover, most of the sources of information were people from Dark Night Pavilion who were discovered by chance.
They couldn't find out some information that they didn't want them to know...
"Sir, they said that these coins were lent to us. How can we get the court to repay them in the future?"
Shen Tang sneered, "Repay?
I borrowed it based on my ability. If they want to take it back, they can come and tell me about it! If they want money, it depends on their ability."
His master's rogue appearance really opened Li Duo's eyes.
"How much do you think they can lend us?"
Shen Tang thought about some data about the party members from the Dark Night Pavilion, and after a long while he slowly said, "According to the annual taxes paid by the party members, they can't get much money, and they can double it to around one million at most! The rest of the ordnance They are just the most common bows and arrows, cloth armor, etc. Almost everyone in the party has a copy of these things, so it doesn’t hurt to ask for more.”
"They produce a lot of green salt. We can ask for more of this, at least three times more.
After all, this thing is also a good thing in our Song Dynasty."
"Iron armor and horses are difficult. Although they have no shortage of horses, they will not give us a large number of war horses! However, we can ask for more cattle and sheep!"
"In addition, we need more food! Although the Xia Kingdom is not big, it has quite abundant food reserves."
The main source of income for Dangxiang people is commercial tax, which is basically around 10% of goods! As for agricultural tax, the previous monarchs of Dangxiang have lowered it to an extremely low level!
First of all, if the wasteland is reclaimed by the people themselves, there is a three-year tax exemption policy.
After three years, three liters of grain per acre will be paid as tax, and if there is a natural disaster, the court will also exempt everything.
Moreover, the Dangxiang people were extremely strict in controlling taxes. At least they did this much better than the Song Dynasty.
And, perhaps precisely because of the barren location, the Dangxiang people attach great importance to food.
In order to store grain, the imperial court established "Grain Stalling City", "Royal Cang", "Guoguan Cellar" and so on.
The current emperor Li Renxiao attaches great importance to this, and the national grain reserves amount to millions of stones.
Of course, this does not mean that the people of Xixia live a happier life than the people of the Song Dynasty. In fact, although the Song Dynasty did have many policies that harshly criticized ordinary people, in this era, the people of the Song Dynasty probably have the most sense of existence. Relatively speaking, the happiest people.
The entire Dangxiang people are soldiers, and they have been fighting for years. It is not difficult to imagine how difficult the life of the people will be.
"After you go back, think about it carefully! Discuss a charter with me! However, I think they will still ask you for some information and my bottom line. You should know how to do it!"
"Don't worry, sir!"
After Li Duo left, Shen Tang stretched and let out a long breath! In recent times, although most things did not require him to do it himself, they were equally laborious.
Not only the government affairs of the Chengdu government, but also the peace talks and the follow-up of the Wang and Fan families required his attention.
After looking at the time, Shen Tang simply went back to the backyard!
As soon as they entered the backyard, they saw Xiao Nianli wearing a pink dress, with her legs in the air, rushing towards Shen Tang.
"Daddy...Daddy!"
Behind her, there were four or five wives and maids, nervously guarding the edges and corners around them, lest they get bumped.
The moment he saw his daughter, Shen Tang felt that all the fatigue in his heart had been swept away! Moreover, what satisfied Shen Tang the most was that the first word his good daughter called out was daddy! On that day, Shen Tang He talked about it when he saw people in the hall, and it immediately spread throughout the entire Chengdu government office.
"My dear daughter, do you miss your daddy?"
I couldn't help but rub my daughter's pink face!
"think!"
Xiao Nianli nodded vigorously. On weekdays, she liked to be close to her father the most.
Although she is still young, she also knows that if she makes a mistake, her mother's slap will never be merciful.
But as long as you stay in Daddy's arms, you'll have nothing to worry about!
"My husband is back!"
From behind, all the girls came forward to greet him.
Xiangling held the small rice ball with both hands and strode her short legs.
The little rice ball is still unsteady now. If there is no one to support it, it will fall to the ground after taking two steps. However, it is not tired of this novel activity, but Xiangling and the girls are tired.
Maybe he saw his father hugging his sister, so the jealous little rice ball couldn't help but move his short legs up a little faster.
Shen Tang stepped forward and picked up his son, one on the left and one on the left! Seeing the two pink little dumplings fighting for position in his arms, Shen Tang finally felt the happiness of being a father.
"The master is so kind to Xiao Nianli, my wife will be blessed in the future!"
Yan Rui whispered into Murong Yu's ear.
Preferring sons over daughters is almost a common phenomenon in this era. After all, sons represent inheritance and the future, but daughters will eventually marry as other people's wives.
Moreover, daughters basically have no genealogy, so every family hopes to have a son.
But Shen Tang was the complete opposite. Shen Tang loved these two children very much.
However, everyone can see that Shen Tang obviously loves his daughter more than his son.
Murong Yu smiled with satisfaction. Isn't Shen Tang's love for his daughter also his love for her?
"Don't worry, sister, you are now my personal maid!"