Travel to the early Tang Dynasty and become a salted fish

"I don't know anything, and I don't want to know. Li Er, I am a businessman, and I have always believed that peace brings wealth. If you are willing to have a good negotiation with me, then fine, let's sit down and talk about it."

"But if you just want to exploit me, then I'm sorry. Even if you are an emperor, to me, you are no different from those cats and dogs outside."

Taking a deep breath and suppressing the anger surging in his heart, Li Shimin also remembered that Chu Mo was a donkey. If he was pulled back, he would not go away, so he had to let go of his hair.

"Now that it's all said and done, okay, tell me, what do you want me to do to get the supplies on hand?"

Chu Mo looked at Li Shimin like an idiot and said, "Old Li, I have said before that if you want something from me, it is very simple. You can just buy it with the money."

"Why, you don't want to pay, and you want to swallow my things with empty words just like last time?"

Li Shimin couldn't help but blush when Chu Mo mentioned what happened before. He was about to explain a few words, but when he thought of what happened before, he also paid the price.

Then he said with a cold expression: "I have already given you enough compensation for what happened last time. Why, are you not satisfied?"

Chu Mo rolled his eyes and chuckled: "Yes, why should I be satisfied? Who would be willing to exchange tens of millions of taels of supplies for a piece of wasteland?"

"Besides, what happened this time was that you wanted nothing to show for it. Why, you thought you were the emperor, so your face is bigger than others? I will obediently give you what you want with both hands? "

Although Chu Mo made sarcastic remarks, Li Shimin was not angry at all this time. He looked at Chu Mo calmly and said:

"In this matter, I did indeed go a little too far. Let's do this. When this matter is over, I will compensate you accordingly."

"No, if you want compensation, give it now, you don't have to wait until later."

Chu Mo didn't give Li Shimin any face at all and directly tore up his bad check.

Li Zhenying on the side blinked and looked at the two of them, wondering if she shouldn't be sitting here.

His thoughts were dispelled by Chu Mo. Li Shimin laughed twice, and then solemnly said:

"Chu Mo, you also know that the treasury really can't get out much money now. If it can, I hope..."

"No, it's better for us to pay with one hand and deliver the goods with the other hand."

Without waiting for the other party to finish speaking, Chu Mo interrupted directly.

"Li Er, don't cry about poverty with me here. We cheated Buddhism of so much money before. If I remember correctly, you shared 1200 million taels that time, right?"

"Also, don't you feel ashamed that you, a majestic emperor, come to the house of a common man like me to cry for poverty?"

"If you are really short of money, it would be easy to find a few aristocratic families and just arrange a few charges and confiscate the house. Are you afraid that the money will come too fast? Is it true?"

Hearing that Chu Mo was thinking about the money he had in his pocket, the muscles on Li Shimin's face twitched involuntarily.

But when he heard the other party say that he was looking for someone to search his home, Li Shimin's eyes lit up instantly.

However, he soon gave up this unrealistic idea.

"Chu Mo, it's not that I don't want to raid homes. It's just that the salaries of those officials are not high. Even if they raid homes, they may not get much profit. In my opinion, it's the merchants who make the money faster."

Seeing that the other party still focused on raising taxes, Chu Mo snorted coldly:

"Li Er, I have told the people outside before that we can't fish all the water, but look at what you are thinking now, do you have to fish all the water?"

"This is different. It's just a group of merchants. If we kill them, I believe that another group of merchants will appear soon. As long as there is profit, are we afraid that there will be no merchants?"

Chu Mo felt a little funny when he heard Li Shimin's thoughts as a gangster.

He sighed and said: "Li Er, if I tell you that if you touch these merchants today, then they will probably unite and give you a fatal blow at the critical moment. Do you believe it or not?"

"What's more, if you bully merchants and belittle their status now, aren't you afraid that in the future, everyone will be in danger and no one will want to be a merchant?"

"Haha, Chu Mo, just those merchants? They are just a bunch of rabble. If you had not taken the initiative to stand up today, I believe that the Laoshizi Chamber of Commerce in the city would not have dared to do anything even if I gave them a few hundred more courage. "

"What's more, from ancient times to the present, there has never been a shortage of merchants in this world. As long as the profits are enough, those merchants will pounce on them like local dogs that smell dog shit."

Seeing that Li Shimin was not moved at all, and his prejudice against merchants reached the point of paranoia, Chu Mo sighed softly:

"Old Li, have you ever thought about how many merchants you will bankrupt with this knife? How many merchants will you be afraid of? Will they not dare to do business in the future?"

"What do you think would happen if the Tang Dynasty lost these merchants?"

Li Shimin looked disdainful: "Without these merchants, there will be less a group of hoarding borers. If the Tang Dynasty has lost a pair of blood-sucking locusts for a long time, the people will spend less money."

"Ha ha."

Chu Mo sneered, then looked at Li Shimin extremely seriously and said:

"Old Li, what if I tell you that without these merchants, goods will not be able to circulate, and the things in the hands of the people will not be sold, and they will have no choice but to barter. The court will have less business taxes, and it will want to mobilize supplies in the year of disaster. It’s even more difficult, I wonder what you would think?”

Without prompting Li Shimin to speak, Chu Mo continued: "Those businessmen do like to hoard, and they often take the opportunity to make a fortune in years of disaster."

"But you can look at this from another angle. If there were no hoarding by these businessmen, then when a disaster comes, it would be like this year's drought and frost."

"If everyone hoards supplies in advance, will it mean that when a disaster strikes, people will not be able to buy anything and will have to lie at home and wait to die?"

"Yes, they deserve to take advantage of the disaster to make money, but they also saved some people by hoarding goods."

"Although at the same time they also collected all the money in the hands of the people, but have you ever thought about it, in a year of great disaster, if you cannot exchange for food, what is the difference between the money in your hands and stones?"

After listening to Chu Mo's long speech, Li Shimin's face was gloomy: "You are a gangster's logic. Is this the reason why you want to go against me?"

Chu Mo shook his head and said, "I just want you to reduce your prejudice against businessmen."

"But it is precisely because today's businessmen are all thinking about hoarding, that's why I established the Chamber of Commerce, and the first thing I did after establishing the Chamber of Commerce was to re-price."

(The definition of merchants in this chapter is purely for plot needs and does not represent any opinions. Please be gentle╭(╯^╰)╮)