The silver brought from the Japanese country was continuously sent to the Tang Dynasty.
Ship after ship of silver landed at Weihaiwei and was transported to Chang'an.
It’s not like the Tang Dynasty had never used troops against Goguryeo and other places in the past.
But at that time, wars cost money and food from the treasury.
Fighting a war will consume a lot of national power.
Moreover, even though Taizong was so wise and powerful, he did not destroy Goguryeo.
But since the new emperor came to the throne, he directly used the King of Shu to easily destroy Goguryeo.
This time, troops were sent to attack the Japanese country again.
Although it has not been defeated yet, it seems that it will only happen sooner or later.
When the King of Shu went on an expedition, didn't he sweep all the way and return with a full load?
This time, not long after arriving, cart after cart of silver was delivered to Chang'an.
The fleet transporting silver has no end in sight.
The vehicle in front has already arrived at the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, while the convoy behind it is still outside the city gate.
Such a grand occasion is truly unprecedented.
The Tang Dynasty established its country with force, and there were as many powerful generals as there were.
But looking at these generals, no matter how great their victory is, how can anyone achieve such an achievement as the King of Shu?
When the king of Shu goes to war, he makes a steady stream of money!
The silver sent back by the King of Shu was enough to cover the Tang Dynasty's tax revenue for a year.
Seeing the King of Shu's achievement, the entire people of Chang'an City were overjoyed and celebrated.
The officials from the Ministry of Revenue are all top-notch, with uncontrollable smiles on their faces.
The most worrying thing for officials in the Ministry of Revenue is that the treasury is empty.
Like this, cart after cart of money was sent to the treasury.
It seems that even if the Tang Dynasty did not collect taxes for ten years, the treasury would not have to worry about expenditures.
The treasury's pockets are bulging, so officials like them can naturally carry out their work easily.
If the work of the Ministry of Revenue is done well, the work of officials in other ministries will naturally be easier to carry out.
In the past, there were many places where they needed money.
But when we go to the Ministry of Finance to ask for money, the Ministry of Finance will often push back and make various deductions and deductions.
But now, as long as you ask, the Ministry of Accounts will happily and generously give you money.
You may even ask, is the money enough?
Then, the King of Shu made another memorial.
The memorial stated that Yeon Gaesumun, a remnant of Goguryeo, conspired to rebel and killed the Japanese king.
The king of Shu raised his righteous troops and defeated the remnants of Yuan Gaisu Wen in one fell swoop.
Now the Japanese country is leaderless, and the people's lives are precarious.
The people of Japan strongly demanded to belong to the Tang Dynasty.
My younger brother did not dare to make the decision on his own, so he went to the emperor's brother to make the decision.
Seeing this memorial, Tang Emperor Li Ke smiled from ear to ear.
"My dear friends, this is a memorial from the King of Shu. Let's take a look and discuss it!"
Soon, strong men came forward and took the memorial from the Emperor of Shu, Emperor Li Ke of the Tang Dynasty.
Then submit the memorial to the ministers below.
After seeing the memorial of King Shu, all the civil and military officials below expressed their admiration.
There is no doubt that we must agree to such a thing.
Although Japan is isolated overseas, it is still a small country.
However, this is truly a contribution to the expansion of territory!
After the new emperor ascended the throne, he pacified Goguryeo and conquered the Japanese state, expanding the territory of the entire Tang Dynasty to a large extent.
This kind of credit is directly matched by Taizu Taizong, and has even exceeded it.
The new emperor's civil and military skills will surely make him a sage.
And as auxiliary ministers, they should also leave their names in history.
How could they not agree to such a good thing?
Of course, I promise.
But in actual operations, they still didn't take Japan seriously.
This is also the thought of the ancient empire and the Great Central Plains.
For example, in some eras, they could clearly capture some barbarian lands.
But they would rather support a regime close to him than occupy these places.
Because they feel that occupying these barren places not only has no actual benefits, but also invests in them.
They would never do such a thing.
So for this kind of place, what they always want is reputational ownership.
As for actual management, I don't really care.
And now, the thoughts of the ministers are also the same.
For a small island like Japan, they didn't take it seriously at all.
Since it now belongs to the territory of the Tang Dynasty, it is inappropriate to call it the Japanese Kingdom.
After discussions among the ministers, it was decided to change it to Haibei Province.
However, the duties of the governor of Haibei Province caused them a lot of headaches.
To be able to serve as a military governor, one must be an important minister. At the very least, he must be a third-rank official.
But among the officials of the third rank, which one is not high-ranking and powerful?
Let them go overseas and serve as governors of a mere island?
This is simply like being exiled!
Which third-grade official is willing to go to a place like this?
First, we found a middle-aged third-grade official. Because he was strong, young and promising, he got this rare opportunity.
As a result, the third-grade official contracted typhoid fever the next day and took three months' sick leave.
In Haibei Province, it was naturally impossible to wait until he recovered from his illness in three months before taking office, so they had to choose another person.
Then, they looked for a second candidate.
This candidate is called Cui Hai, and he is from the Cui family.
Then, Cui Hai suddenly revealed that his father passed away and wanted to go home to Ding You.
Ding You needs three years. This is filial piety.
The new emperor Li Ke naturally could not force others to violate their filial piety and take up their posts, so this person was left alone.
The third candidate was involved in a car accident while riding in a carriage for the morning.
As a result, he was seriously injured after being thrown down. It was said that his muscles and bones had been damaged, and it would take at least a hundred days before he could return to work.
have to!
These people are simply more ruthless than the last.
No one wants to take office in a remote and barren place like Haebuk-do.
The ministers had no choice but to choose new candidates.
But there are only a few candidates who are qualified to serve as Jiedushi.
After pondering over it, they all agreed that it was impossible for the remaining few people to go overseas willingly.
Therefore, they simply decided to make special promotions directly.
Of course, those who are qualified and promoted may not necessarily want to go overseas.
Therefore, in the end they decided to select the candidate directly as King Luo Bin of Yizhou.
This King Luo Bin is an old subordinate of the King of Shu.
Although he is not very qualified, once he is selected, it is unlikely that he will shirk.
As an old subordinate of the King of Shu, it is impossible for him to dismantle the King of Shu.
Sure enough, after the news was delivered to Yizhou, King Luo Bin not only did not refuse, but was very happy.
After all, at his current level, it is almost impossible to achieve the position of Jiedushi.
But now, I have reached the peak of my life in one step.
Although Haibei Road is isolated overseas, it is very far away from the Tang Dynasty.
But since King Shu was there, King Luo Bin was not afraid at all.
Therefore, the selection of the governor of Haibei Province was finalized, and everyone was happy.
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There are many silver mines in the country of Japan.
In particular, the Iwami Silver Mine is the largest silver mine in Japan and even in the world.
During the Song Dynasty, one-third of the world's silver was produced in Japan.
The Japanese country was also called Silver Islands by people at that time.
The gold reserves of Japan were equally astonishing.
From the eighth century to the sixteenth century, Japan's gold production was approximately 255 tons.
Before the California gold rush began, the total gold mined around the world was 5,000 tons.
The share occupied by the Japanese country accounts for about 5% of the world's total.
And how much of the world’s territory does Japan occupy?
Of course, this time, Li Min mainly mined silver.
The purpose of mining silver is to use silver as currency.
The reason why Li Min was eager to introduce silver as currency was because the current monetary system of the Tang Dynasty actually contained huge risks.
Because in recent years, Datang's economy has developed very rapidly, and the wealth growth has been quite astonishing.
As wealth increases, more banknotes must be printed.
But in fact, the real currency of the Tang Dynasty was copper coins.
The Tang Dynasty did not abolish copper coins, and it did not dare to do so in a short period of time.
Otherwise, it will inevitably cause a big mess.
At present, the copper mines mined every year in the Tang Dynasty are completely insufficient to cast copper coins.
In other words, the denomination of banknotes currently circulating in the Tang Dynasty is far greater than the number of copper coins.
Now, because banknotes have a good reputation, there is no problem that they cannot be exchanged for copper coins.
In addition, banknotes are easy to carry, so few people usually exchange banknotes for copper coins.
It seems that there is no problem.
But in fact, if someone maliciously destroys the market.
You can completely hoard a large amount of banknotes and then exchange them.
When Chinese commercial banks cannot exchange copper coins, the credibility of banknotes will plummet.
At that time, there will be a run.
Banknotes may become a piece of waste paper.
The entire market will be completely destroyed.
And if we want to straighten out the entire mess, I'm afraid it will take several years or even more than ten years.
It will bring an extremely fatal blow to Datang.
What Li Min is mainly wary of is the Four Surnames and Six Prosperities.
If they want to cause trouble, Li Min really doesn't have a good way to prevent it.
Of course, if they really dare to do this, it will prove that both sides have reached the point where they will fight to the death.
If that's the case, there's no need to be polite to them anymore.
Li Min will control them all before they completely disrupt the market.
However, if you really want to do this, it will actually cause some bad consequences.
Li Min would not do this unless it was absolutely necessary.
At this time, what he needs to do is to mine a large amount of silver.
Then it was continuously transported to Chang'an.
The Tang Dynasty could use this silver to replace copper coins and become the main currency.
Of course, for a short period of time, copper coins will still exist.
However, it is no longer the main currency and has just become a supplementary currency.
In fact, the best way is to directly abolish this precious metal currency.
Because the cost of manufacturing is too high.
Printing banknotes is low cost, has good circulation, and is extremely convenient to use.
It would be even more cost-effective if, like later generations, it was directly electronic and wealth was directly transformed into digital numbers.
However, the abolition of precious metal currency still requires a certain amount of time to prepare.
If you do not prepare enough and cancel it hastily, big problems will occur.
In the Japanese country - now it has been changed to Haibei Province, where the silver mine was originally located.
Of course, this place has not been discovered yet, and no one knows that there is also the largest silver mine in the world.
There are already 100,000 Japanese people living here, as well as some Goguryeo soldiers.
Of course, all the Goguryeo soldiers who had committed heinous crimes, whose hands were stained with the blood of old people and children, or who had defiled women, were all killed.
As for how to distinguish, it's even simpler.
Does this still need to be distinguished?
As long as someone identifies them, they can all be picked out and killed.
As captives, they are cattle and sheep to be slaughtered.
Therefore, it is better to kill the wrong person than let it go.
Because of these scum, their existence is a huge source of instability.
On the one hand, it will intensify the conflicts between them and the Japanese people.
As time goes by, it will explode sooner or later.
But now, Li Min has killed a group of Goguryeo soldiers who committed heinous crimes in advance, so this conflict will not break out.
Secondly, these people are extremely despicable, leaving them alone would be a huge factor of instability.
However, out of the 30,000 Goguryeo soldiers, more than 10,000 were originally killed.
Now that a group has been purged again, there are only six to seven thousand people left.
Moreover, these six or seven thousand people were scattered by Li Min, preventing them from gathering together.
Here, a large shanty town has been built.
There are more than 100,000 people living here, and all of these 100,000 people are young and strong.
Because the elderly and children were basically killed by Yeon Gaesowun.
These shantytowns are, of course, not permanent residences.
However, in order to accommodate these 100,000 people, it is too late to build houses now, so we can only temporarily use shanties to arrange them.
On the other side, Li Min has organized manpower to start firing cement and planning the city.
This place is currently a deserted land.
Don't say which Japanese people or Goguryeo soldiers.
Even Cheng Chuliang and Xue Rengui didn't understand why the prince placed so many people here.
It's a bit cheap here, but it's very inconvenient to install it.
However, they have been staying with Li Min for a long time.
They knew very well the magic of Li Min.
Since the prince requested to be placed here, he must have his purpose.
Refining cement and burning bricks and tiles naturally required experts mobilized from the Tang Dynasty.
And because of the development of a series of projects, a large number of manpower will be called upon.
The workers recruited were paid ten cents a day and had three meals to eat and drink.
With a salary of ten cents per day, if it were in the Tang Dynasty, it would be impossible to hire a sixty-year-old man.
But here, the wages of ten cents actually made the Japanese people burst into tears of gratitude.
They felt that the Prince of Tang Dynasty must have taken pity on them and deliberately offered such high wages.
Because in this corner of the country, the most they can earn is five cents a day, and there is no one to take care of the food.
Therefore, they work extremely hard.
The food here is really rich.
Dunton consists of steamed buns and white rice, stewed in a large pot with a layer of oil inside.
Everyone can get a large bowl of food, which contains at least four or five fatty meat slices.
They were so moved by this meal that they wanted to shed tears silently while eating it.
I can eat so well every day, let alone pay for my work, I can still do it even if I don’t pay for it!
And they heard that the houses built here were all built for them.
Of course, they need to spend money to buy these houses.
The princes of the Tang Dynasty spent money to build houses and then sold them to them. This is a matter of course.
The first batch of houses are almost completed.
No matter how the yard looks, it cannot be called beautiful.
If they could live in such a beautiful house in this life, it would really be a life without regrets for them.
However, this house is beautiful and expensive.
I heard that this house costs 20,000 yuan!
Nowadays, they can be said to be penniless. Except for the ten cents they can earn every day, their pockets are really cleaner than their faces.
They simply don't have the money to buy it.
However, I heard that the Prince of Tang Dynasty also fully considered this point.
Therefore, they can apply for a loan.
You can move in directly with zero down payment and pay off the loan in twenty-year installments.
I have to repay two hundred cents every month.
Two hundred pennies is really a huge pressure for them.
However, if there are two people in the family working, they can still afford it.
One person earns 300 coins a month, and two people earn 600 coins a month.
I only need to pay back 200 yuan a month, so it's not a big problem.
The construction of the house is in full swing.
The Chinese Commercial Bank also officially settled in Haibei Province.
Various shops have sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain in every town in Haibei Province.
The dazzling array of goods dazzled the Japanese people.
There are many things that they have never seen in their lives.
Moreover, some things are indeed not very expensive at any price.
Currently, Haibei Province is under construction everywhere.
These Japanese people had more or less spare money in their hands.
With this money, they can happily buy the goods they need.
At this time, King Luo Bin, the governor of Haibei Province, took office.
After sailing on the sea for several days, King Luo Bin felt a little cold.
This place is indeed quite remote.
No wonder, all the big bosses are either pretending to be sick, Ding You, or simply causing car accidents.
I would rather have broken bones and broken tendons than come to this place.
When I first arrived at Haibei Road and landed, what I saw was a deserted ruined town.
This town has been burned beyond recognition, and its original appearance is no longer visible.
Because it is pitch black and lifeless, even birds are unwilling to visit here.
Seeing this scene, King Luo Bin felt even colder.
Soon, he arrived at Silver City.
Of course, this Silver City is naturally a city built outside the silver mines.
This name was also given by Li Min.
After arriving here, King Luo Bin's eyes suddenly lit up.
The so-called broken and re-established, not broken but not established.
Let me just say, where the master is, how could anything go wrong?
The construction here is exactly the same as that of Yizhou back then!
I believe that Haibei Province will become a prosperous place in less than ten years.
Now here, there is a lot of waste waiting to be done, and it is a good place for me to show my talents.
I became a military governor at a young age. Isn't this all thanks to my master?
Thinking of this, King Luo Bin became excited again.
The first thing to do next, of course, King Luo Bin was going to meet his master.
Soon, King Luo Bin met Li Min.
"Master, please accept my disciple's bow."
Li Min laughed, stepped forward to help King Luo Bin up, and then said to him: "I don't know what those old guys in the court think?"
"It's such a wonderful paradise, but no one wants to come? This time, it's your chance!"
King Luo Bin said respectfully: "Disciple is willing to listen to the master's teachings."
Li Min smiled slightly and said: "Actually, the development model of Haibei Road is similar to that of Yizhou."
"Although it does not have as rich tourism resources as Yizhou, it does have the largest silver mine in the world."
"This place is really a silver mountain! Are you worried that the development of Haibei Province will not be successful if you are guarding the silver mountain?"
"Here, a large number of Tang people still need to be introduced, and then there will be a cultural integration to truly turn this place into a part of the territory of the Tang Dynasty."
"Also, there is no need to be too nice to the people here. These people have a mean personality. If you are too nice to them, they will lose themselves."
King Luo Bin kept what Li Min said firmly in his heart.
Even for fear that I would forget, I took out a pen and paper and wrote them down one by one.
What the master said must be a wise saying.
As long as you listen to the master, you will be right.
However, there was still something that King Luo Bin did not understand about his master's teachings.
King Luo Bin couldn't help but ask: "Master, my disciples will remember your teachings. However, it is not a big deal to ask the Tang people to migrate to Haibei Road!"
"The wealth in the interior is comparable to that of Haibei Road. I'm afraid not many people are willing to come here, right?"
Hearing King Luo Bin's words, Li Min couldn't help laughing and said: "Actually, this matter is very easy to do."
"First of all, the development of many fields in Haibei Province is extremely backward. What experts can you spend a lot of money to recruit?"
"From now on, leaders in every industry will spend a lot of money to recruit."
"Which Tang people do you want to know that money is everywhere in Haibei Road?"
"As long as they are willing to come, they can pick them up until they are weak."
"People die for money, and birds die for things. There are benefits, and it will naturally attract more people."
"Also, as long as those who are literate and can read and write, they will all be given high wages."
"The same is true in Haibei Province. You need to let them understand the benefits of being able to speak Chinese and write Chinese characters."
After listening to the master's words, King Luo Bin suddenly became enlightened.
The master's resourcefulness is truly unfathomable.
Following the master, King Luo Bin completely felt like he was always learning.
During this time, the first batch of houses had been built.
However, very few people come to buy a house with a zero down payment loan.
It's not that this house is bad.
The house is really beautifully built.
Moreover, this house was built by their own hands.
The quality of the house is absolutely top notch.
What they worry about is that they are afraid that they will not be able to repay the loan.
Now they can also work on construction sites.
What if the house construction is completed?
At that time, where will they get so much money to pay off the mortgage every month?
