Chapter 660: Imperial teacher
Chapter 660 Emperor Teacher
In the Taiji Palace.
Li Shimin looked at the list sent by the Zhengshitang, and frowned more and more, "Is there a mistake? How can these ordnance be sold at this price?"
A bow and ten arrows cost 50,000 renminbi, a horizontal knife 5,000 renminbi, a crossbow 50,000 renminbi, a set of Mingguang armor 800,000 renminbi, and a hundred arrows are equivalent. It costs tens of thousands of dollars for a bow.
As for the horse, the price is better, not that exaggerated, but it still reaches 100,000 yuan.
"This is a list from Duke Wei."
"Call Qin Lang to ask what's going on."
Li Shimin felt that the Japanese could not be so stupid, how could they accept such an outrageous price. The payment reported by the Japanese for this large-scale purchase is as much as hundreds of thousands of taels of silver for the armaments alone.
When Qin Lang rushed to the palace, Li Shimin was still amazed.
"What's going on here? Did you send me the quotation for the Japanese? What about the deal? Even if you make a quotation, you can't open your mouth like this."
"Your Majesty, the order in your hand is correct, this is indeed a transaction order."
Li Shimin's mouth was wide open. As the emperor who is about to conquer the world, he is very aware of the production cost of these ordnance.
"One piece of Mingguang armor requires 100 cobblers, 120 blacksmiths, and 300 craftsmen who receive Mingguang armor, plus the cost of fuel, leather, iron and other materials. Take the report as an example, it won’t exceed 40,000 yuan, why did you sell it for 800,000 yuan?”
"Your Majesty, please listen to the minister's explanation. Your Majesty actually has a misunderstanding. It is true that the cost of my Great Tang Mingguang Armor is not high, but there is a reason for this. The benefit is that my Great Tang's powerful military workshop system has a large number of highly skilled craftsmen. , and a large number of helpers, buddies, and the newly improved standard parts in our workshop, assembly line assembly, not to mention our developed iron ore mining, low cost of iron and leather materials, so that the cost of our armor depends on It doesn't seem high."
"But in fact, apart from Tang Dynasty, I dare to say that there is no other country in this world that has such organizational and production capabilities. Powerful countries, but their equipment is much more expensive."
"As far as I know, in Rome, a metal-reinforced leather helmet is worth three bulls and costs six Roman ducats. A pair of armor needs six bulls, and a good sword and scabbard cost three Half a bull."
"A spear and a shield together cost one bull, and a war horse costs six bulls."
"They equip a fully armed cavalry, which is equivalent to the money to buy twenty-three bulls. No matter how simple a peasant spearman is, it needs the money of several bulls to equip it."
"In the Japanese country, their weapons are manufactured at a lower level, which makes the cost higher. The cost of a set of rough full equipment produced by the Japanese country is twice or even three times that of Rome. The value of the manor is also worth four or five sets of armor."
"A piece of armor costs the price of fifteen or even twenty oxen, and a full set of armor can reach the price of fifty oxen."
"And the Mingguang armor produced by my Tang Dynasty, even if it is the most common, is far superior to that made by the Japanese, and it has to be delivered to their door across the ocean, and you can pay for the goods first, and sell for 80,000 yuan. I think it is true. It is already very fair. Our construction cost is low, that is our own ability, and we have the right to enjoy the benefits brought by the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty."
After listening to Li Shimin, he calculated in his mind that a big bull could be sold for four to five thousand dollars in Tang Dynasty, and it was calculated at five thousand dollars. A full set of equipment for a Roman cavalry cost twenty-three bulls, that is One hundred and fifteen. A piece of armor costs 30,000 yuan, which is not cheap.
The Japanese technology is even more backward, and the cost of their weapons and equipment is two or three times that of the Futu people. The set of armor sold for 80,000 yuan is actually not much higher than their cost, and Datang's Mingguang armor is of course cheaper than theirs. better.
Thinking about it this way, it makes sense for the Japanese to pay such a high price for these armor weapons.
It wasn't that Qin Lang sent the wrong order, or forced to buy and sell.
"It's just that Japanese people buy so much, can they really afford it?"
Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, Li Shimin had to be moved. After all, the output of gold and silver in the Tang Dynasty was not high. During the Wude Dynasty, the annual silver output of the Tang Dynasty was only more than 20,000 taels.
"There are many Yinshan copper mines in the country of Japan, and the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the royal family and local tyrants. They have money."
Li Shimin suddenly became interested in the impolite Japanese country.
"Tell me about this country, and how do you know it so well?"
"I used to be an **** under orders." Qin Lang replied.
So, Qin Lang turned into Li Shimin's lecturer, and told him the simple history of the Wa Kingdom, such as the lineage of emperors, the myths of Amaterasu, and the rise of Yamato and the unification of the islands.
Another example is the ambition of the Japanese nation for the Korean Peninsula, the gradual loss of the Imina area, and then the reforms led by Prince Shotoku when the ancient empress was introduced, the strife of nobles such as the Soga family, the resistance of the Japanese under the slave system, and so on.
Li Shimin was very curious when he heard this.
"Unexpectedly, there is still a queen in Wa Kingdom, who can reign for thirty-six years and die well?" Li Shimin felt that such a thing could not happen in the Central Plains.
How can a woman be the emperor?
"Your Majesty, Queen Tuigu's original name was Nutabe. She not only served as the Emperor of Japan for thirty-six years, but was also the princess of the twenty-ninth Emperor Kinmei. Emperor."
"However, before becoming the emperor, Empress Utabe first became the empress of the 30th Emperor Minda."
"Wait!" Li Shimin was confused. "What is the relationship between this Emperor Kinmei and this Emperor Minda?"
"Father and son."
Li Shimin was surprised, "Emperor Minda married his younger sister as the queen? His own sister?"
"Yes, there has always been a tradition of marriage by blood relatives in Japan, in order to ensure the purity of the royal family's blood. Emperor Minda and Empress Utabe are half-brothers and sisters. The first empress of Emperor Minda married Hirohime, and Empress Utabe The princess is his second queen."
"Brothers and sisters are actually intermarried, this country is too chaotic!" Li Shimin sighed.
After the death of Emperor Minda, the fourth son of Emperor Kinmei, the fourth brother of Emperor Minda, succeeded to the throne as Prince Yomei.
It's just that the brother of Utabe had only been emperor for two years before he got smallpox and died.
Another younger brother of Utabe, Prince Anahobe, wanted to ascend to the throne of the emperor. He knew that the two major powers in the court at this time were the Monobe family and the Soga family. My clan, at that time Suga was the minister of the court, and the minister was the post in Dalian second only to the Monobe family. The Monobe held military power, and Suga was in charge of finance.
While he was in the mourning hall, he wanted to **** his younger sister Utabe, hoping to make her obey him, so as to gain the support of the Suga family to sit on the throne. As a result, Utabe would rather die than obey, which alarmed the mourning hall officials.
Utabe therefore resolutely opposed Prince Anhobe's succession to the throne. The Soga family supported his niece, and Prince Anhobe turned to the Monobe family for support. As a result, a large-scale civil war broke out between the Monobe family and the Soga family.
In the end, the Monobe clan was defeated and destroyed, and the Soga clan took the opportunity to take charge of the government alone, and supported his nephew, Prince Horaibe, to succeed him as Emperor Sujun. Use the brother of the emperor tomorrow. It's just that the emperor was dissatisfied with Suga Mazi's seizure of power, showing resentment.
Suga Mazi simply found an opportunity to kill Emperor Chongjun. After the death of his nephew Emperor Chongjun, the heirs of Emperor Kinmei had died, and the sons of Emperor Minda and Emperor Yongmei were too young.
Supporting other branches as the emperor, the Soga family was worried that they would not agree, and finally chose to choose, so they had to support the niece Utabe, who had become the empress dowager, as the emperor.
After his father and three brothers became emperors for four times, he experienced a large-scale civil strife and a coup d'état. Finally, the 38-year-old Utabe succeeded to the throne as the thirty-third emperor of Japan in the twelfth year of Emperor Kaihuang of Sui Dynasty. , and the first female emperor.
"Is it true that there was no one to inherit the Wa country at that time?" Li Shimin exclaimed.
"That's not true. In fact, the empress dowager hoped to support her son, Prince Takeda, to succeed him. However, although the Soga family had eliminated the Monobe family, there were still many anti-Soviet forces in the court. They proposed to support Min Prince Hirohiko Oshisaka, born to Hirohime, the first empress of Emperor Tatsuya."
"Because the eldest prince is the elder brother of Prince Takeda, Soga Mako and the Empress Dowager did not force Prince Takeda to succeed him immediately, but planned to use the Empress Dowager as the transitional emperor, but soon after the Empress Dowager took the throne, Prince Takeda He died of illness, so Empress Tuigu came to pick his nephew, Prince Sudoto, as the regent prince. Prince Shotoku’s father is Empress Tuiku’s half-brother, Emperor Yongmei, and his mother is Emperor Tuigu’s half-sister.”
In order to maintain his own power, Suga finally let Empress Tuigu hold the position of emperor until she died of illness in her seventies and reigned for thirty-six years.
"I can't think of a small Japanese country with such a complicated court history." Li Shimin was thoughtful, as if thinking of the court battles at the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty.
But in comparison, it is simpler, at least there is no powerful foreign relatives and officials to interfere.
"This Suwo family is a bit like Yang Jian in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Is Su Wo Cangma, the deputy envoy of the Wa Kingdom, also from this Suwo family?"
"Return to Your Majesty, Su Wo Cang Malu is the nephew of Su Womazi, and also the contemporary patriarch of the Suga clan. He is currently the minister of the Japanese court, and has power in the court."
Li Shimin nodded, muttering in his mouth, "Foreign relatives intervene in politics, power ministers disrupt the country, and princes fight for the throne... we have to guard against it!"
(end of this chapter)