In the 20th year of Zhenguan, the economy of the Tang Dynasty continued to be on the fast lane.

Thanks to the use of various steam engine equipment, the production efficiency of many workshops has also been continuously improved.

In addition, the construction of the railway from Chang'an City to Luoyang has a stimulating effect on the line and the stimulating effect on various workshops. The commercial atmosphere in Guanzhong is now very strong.

However, not everyone is happy to see such a scene.

"Wuji, the influence of the Chu Prince's Mansion is getting bigger and bigger now, and it is even a little too big to lose.

While we are still alive, I think we should find a way to weaken the power of the Chu King’s Mansion, and it is best to completely destroy the Chu King’s Party.

Otherwise, if the problem is left to the next generation in the future, they may not have the level to solve it.

Even one day after we were no longer alive, the Chu King Party directly destroyed our power and annexed it."

In the back garden of the Gao family, Gao Shilian and Changsun Wuji sat in a pavilion, while tasting good wine and talking about the things in the court.

Today is the day of rest, which was originally intended for everyone to relax.

However, neither Gao Shilian nor Changsun Wuji were in the mood to relax.

When they reach their position, how to expand their influence and how to continue to pass on the power of their own family is a question that they are thinking about at all times.

Besides, those who enjoy the taste of rights are not willing to really stay at home and relax.

"Uncle, you are right! Not to mention anything else, just in terms of financial resources, the Chu Palace is really rich enough to rival a country.

The tax revenue of the Ministry of Revenue this year is estimated to be able to exceed 50 million trump cards, which is something that has never been imagined before.

But I found someone to calculate it. The money the Chu Prince's Mansion could make this year is probably at least 10 million yuan, which is just based on our conservative statistics.

With this ten million chunk of money, they can do too many things."

Changsun Wuji's words were full of sourness.

The higher you are, the more you can feel the more you have enough money, which is actually very important.

Although money is meaningless to Changsun Wuji's personal life enjoyment.

However, I don’t dislike the realization of Changsun Wuji’s political ambitions.

For example, if you are a minister of the Ministry of Revenue, no matter if you have a net worth of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of dollars, your personal living standards are similar.

But what you can do is completely different.

In the Tang Dynasty, only some very important things were directly invested by the imperial court.

For example, the railway from Chang'an City to Luoyang, etc.

But more things are invested by private people.

This has a lot to do with the money you can mobilize in private.

The simplest thing is, if you have dozens of children in your family serving as officials in various yamen or prefectures and counties, in order to make their political achievements more prominent, then there is a huge gap with a lot of money and no support.

As long as you have enough money, even a county can become a county in a few years.

In this way, even if the original county magistrate remains unchanged, his level is still rising.

Coupled with your excellent political achievements and family operation, promotion is inevitable.

Even if the political achievements are so impressive, there is no chance of promotion. How can the Ministry of Personnel’s assessment convince everyone?

This is true for one person, and so is the same for a group of children.

Therefore, Changsun Chong and Gao Shilian are now showing great concerns about the powerful economic capabilities of the Chu Palace.

Although Li Kuan has few descendants, he has not yet embarked on the official career.

However, there are many students in Guanshishan Academy, many of whom are already county magistrates and county magistrates from various prefectures and counties.

If the positions of these people are further improved, in a few years, the influence of the Chu Prince's Mansion in various prefectures and counties in the Tang Dynasty will reach a new height.

This is a situation that neither Gao Shilian nor Changsun Wuji want to see.

"There are ten millions of monies? Just one year?"

Although Gao Shilian knew that the Chu Prince's Mansion had a high ability to make money, he could earn more than 10 million yuan in a year, which was a bit beyond his expectations.

"Yes, this is because Li Kuan transferred the maritime tax collected by the Maritime Governor's Office back to the Ministry of Revenue a few years ago. Otherwise, the maritime tax alone would be levied several million chunks of taxes in a year."

Changsun Wuji doesn’t admire Li Kuan for anything else, but he has to admire him when it comes to making money.

In the entire Tang Dynasty, no one can compare to Li Kuan’s ability to make money.

"How are these tens of millions of coins made up?"

"The sea trade business of the East China Sea fishery has at least two million yuan a year, only a lot;

Then the Tang Dynasty royal money house now has semicolons on every road, which can bring at least one million yuan in profits to the Chu Palace in a year.

In addition, the workshops in the Workshop City, whether they are glass mirrors, Mercedes-Benz four-wheeled carriages, permanent bicycle workshops and steam engine research institutes, cotton cloth and salt, can bring huge benefits to the Chu Prince's Mansion.

Conservative estimates are that there is no problem with three million a year.

Another thing you may not notice is that the Chu Prince Mansion now has a lot of control areas overseas.

Whether it is the concessions in Pyongyang and Kincheng, Nambatz and Hakodate in Japan, or the middle places of Puro in Nanyang.

Whether these places belong to the court or the Chu Palace is actually an ambiguous thing.

Anyway, until now, the income from these places has basically been controlled by the Chu Prince's Mansion.

This part is at least millions of dollars in it.

If we take it a little longer, the income in this area may exceed 10 million trump cards per year."

The Chu Prince's Mansion has such a great influence overseas, and it is impossible for the nobles of Chang'an City to have no idea at all.

However, most people did not really investigate seriously, so they only knew that the Chu Palace was very influential overseas. How was this influence achieved and how strong it was, not many people knew it.

But Changsun Wuji is different.

He regarded the Chu King Party as his biggest opponent.

"According to what you said, more than half of the income from the Chu Prince's Mansion comes from overseas?"

Gao Shilian was also a little surprised by the numbers given by Changsun Wuji.

"Yes, 80% of the proceeds generated by overseas territories have entered the pockets of the Chu Prince's Mansion. Whether it is the court or other merchants, they have taken very little."

Changsun Wuji said very confidently.

Obviously, he specially arranged for many people to inquire about this situation.

"Wuji, since overseas income is so important to the Chu Prince's Mansion, should we start from this aspect?"
Chapter completed!