Zhao Duke’s Mansion.

Li Chao was blocked by Wen Po.

"Women give birth, men cannot go in."

Li Chao also wanted to say that he wanted to go in and have a baby with Thiran Niang, but the stout woman pushed Li Chao out with force and the door slammed closed.

"Sanlang, it's the same if you're waiting outside." The father came over and pulled Li Chao to the side hall to wait.

The cicadas outside kept shouting, making Li Chao feel upset.

Zheng Hongxian, who was also waiting outside, immediately shouted, "You are all dead people, I don't know how to stick the cicadas."

In the delivery room, there is force from time to time, and then a little force sound is heard.

Li Chao was so anxious that he wanted to go in and hold Cui Yingying's hand and shout for cheering.

He also returned to Beijing and found out that Cui Yingying was actually pregnant with twins.

The first child is a twin, which is not good news. Cui Yingying is a little slim and delicate, not the kind with a huge butt. Li Chao is very worried about her first childbirth, for fear of her.

Fortunately, the Li family invited several Weimo women to deliver the baby early, and even Empress Changsun sent an imperial doctor to wait in the mansion. Li Chao didn't care about anything else and taught the midwife a few lessons and taught various disinfection. The needle and thread for delivery should be disinfected, the scissors for cutting the umbilical cord should be disinfected, boiled water should be prepared, and the delivery room should be disinfected, etc.

Fortunately, the midwife are all the most famous in Chang'an City. They are all experienced. Each one has more than 100 births, and they are the kind of one who has delivered more than 100 births and has not had any trouble yet.

The stable ladies told Li Chao that although they were twins, their fetal positions were very positive and there was no need to worry.

After waiting for more than an hour, Li Chao was already impatient.

Suddenly, the door opened.

A midwife rushed out of it and shouted excitedly to everyone, "Birth, born, born!"

Li Chao hurried forward, "How is it?"

The father also asked, "Is it a man or a woman?"

"Congratulations to Duke Zhao, Congratulations to Duke Luo, he is a young master, who is in charge of the hand!"

Li Chao was still very nervous, "Why didn't you hear the cry?"

"How is Thirteen Niang?"

Just at this moment, a midwife in the room wiped the newborn baby clean, then held her feet upside down and slapped her butt.

One palm, no sound.

Two palms, but there was still no sound.

Cui Yingying sweated heavily, raised her head and asked nervously, "How is my son?"

"Don't worry, ma'am, it's okay."

The Wenpo was not panicked at all and slapped the third palm without any haste.

“Wow!~”

The baby finally cried out his first voice, his voice was loud, and then he kept stopping.

Hearing this cry, Cui Yingying breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Chao and his father outside all smiled happily when they heard the crying.

"I cried, so loudly. I am worthy of being my eldest grandson and the eldest grandson of the Li family. I cried with strength!" The father laughed.

Li Chao also smiled happily.

"How is Thirteen Niang?" Li Chao remembered that there was another one and couldn't help but ask quickly.

Some twins were born before and after, while others might have to spend half a day.

The ideal thing is to regain about half an hour, so that the mother can recover her strength and regenerate.

"Quickly, send the prepared century-old ginseng soup to restore your strength to your wife." Zheng Hongxian was there to direct. The ginseng soup had been stewed at home, and it was the century-old Liaodong ginseng. For the mother, this is the most replenishing energy. Even those who only have one breath left, taking a sip of this century-old ginseng soup can still last a lifetime.

"Yes, hurry up and send ginseng soup."

Li Chao wanted to deliver ginseng soup in person, but was stopped by Wen Po.

These stable ladies are all tall and burly. Li Chao is known as tall, but he is no match for these people. With them stopping them, it is really a woman who can be a barrier, and there is no way to get rid of thousands of men.

Eastern Palace.

Li Shimin was discussing affairs with prime ministers such as Fang Xuanling, talking about the recent increase in taxes by the court, and now more than one million stagnant of money is saved in Taicang.

Such a large amount of money, I didn't have it before.

It is not a physical object, but real money, gold, silver, copper, and silk.

When you have money, how should you spend it?

Li Shimin believed that he would expand the Emperor's Imperial Army. Now the Northern Imperial Army has the Yulin Army, with an organization of 20,000 people. However, Li Shimin was not very satisfied, only 20,000 people, which was too small.

"I plan to expand another Northern Ya Imperial Army, specifically for the cavalry unit. Based on my Xuanjia Cavalry, it will be expanded to ten thousand cavalry. I have thought of the military name, and it will be called ten thousand cavalry, with a quota of ten thousand. I belong to the Northern Ya, and recruit elite and brave cavalry from the twelve guards to be the permanent cavalry."

"Your Majesty, the Yulin Army has just expanded 10,000, and now it has expanded 10,000 cavalry. Is it a bit too fast?" Fang Xuanling reminded.

"The expansion of 10,000 cavalry is still a regular soldier. The cost of raising soldiers is quite large. A regular cavalry will require at least 50 stagnant of military expenditure a year. Moreover, if you follow the Yulin Army method, you have to grant 10,000 acres of land to each of these 10,000 cavalry in Guanzhong, which will require 1 million acres at once."

One million acres of land. Even if the court exchanged land with the nobles this year, the court replaced a lot of land and relocated a lot of land by moving people to the border, the land was still quite large.

The last time we expanded the 10,000 Yulin Army, the one million acres of land were not ready.

The 30,000 emperors' personal troops were about to divide three million acres of land in the capital.

What's more, it takes at least twenty cents of money to raise a Beiya Yulin a year, which is quite small, but to raise a Beiya Ten Thousand Cavalry, it costs at least fifty cents of money to raise a Beiya Yuxin a year.

Two thousand Yulin is a military expenditure of 400,000 yuan a year, ten thousand cavalry is a military expenditure of 500,000 yuan a year. The 30,000 yuan a year alone will cost at least 900,000 yuan a year.

This is not a reward, and various New Year holiday rewards. If there is a war and mobilize these imperial guards in the Northern Yaya, the expenses will be even greater.

In addition, you have to raise horses. Every cavalry must have a horse. Even in the Yulin, there are many cavalrymen, and they also have to raise horses.

The expense of raising war horses is more expensive than raising soldiers.

In the calculation, the 30,000 Northern Imperial Guards will receive at least one million in military expenditure a year. If you count too much, two million is not a big deal.

Even if you save some money, the expenses of this Northern Imperial Guard is really considerable if you have one million military expenditure a year and the three million acres of land in the capital.

"Not much, Li Chao told me that just salt and tea taxes can earn at least five million guan a year. What's more, there are sugar, wine, mineral taxes, commercial taxes, and additional taxes. These are taxes other than regular taxes. In addition to regular taxes, commercial taxes can even reach nearly ten million guan a year."

"Ten million guan, can I take out one million guan from it to support the 30,000 Northern Imperial Guards, isn't it okay?"

Of course, the prime ministers such as Fang Xuanling knew about this.

Li Chao was a pervert, almost causing the Tang Dynasty to increase taxes by tens of millions every year out of thin air. This is not a harsh tax and miscellaneous taxes, nor is it a plunder of people's wealth. Although the increase in salt taxes has some impact on the people, ten taxes and one does not seem to be too much. After all, people eat salt for a year, which is not as limited as grain. One person needs a few stones a year, and one person eats at most a few kilograms of salt a year.

However, the prime ministers have already set their sights on the tens of millions of new wealth.

There are many places in the world that need money.

Some people proposed to raise salaries for Beijing officials, some people asked to pay salaries to foreign officials, and some people asked to withdraw money from the government office to lend money, and then the court will withdraw the office funds of the government office.

Of course, there are really too many places to spend money on water conservancy, roads, rivers, stations, schools, etc.

Not to mention ten million, no matter how much it is, it is not enough to spend.

Anyway, the prime ministers are fond of this money and are even discussing how to distribute it, just live within their means. As much money as you have, you can do as much as you have.

Now the emperor suddenly wants to leave two million, so no one wants to, even if he gets one million, it will hurt.

Is it necessary to build the imperial guards in the North Yaya? There are so many people who need to build standing troops. They even have cavalry. If these ten thousand cavalry are built, can they be transferred out to fight?

"Your Majesty, as the Emperor's Emperor, the cavalry must be unnecessary to protect the palace. Even if you want to build it, just build a thousand cavalry, but there is no need to ten thousand cavalry."

Zuo Pushe Xiao Yu opposed it bluntly.

Xiao Yu and Xiao Shiwen are the son of Emperor Ming of Liang of the Southern Dynasty, the younger brother of Emperor Jing of the Western Liang, and the younger brother of Empress Xiao of the Sui Dynasty. His wife is also the niece of Empress Dugu of Sui and the niece of Li Yuan's mother, so Xiao Yu's wife is also the cousin and sister of Li Yuan with Li Yuan.

Not long ago, Li Shimin promised his eldest daughter, Princess Xiangcheng to Xiao Yu's eldest son Xiao Rui, who became in-laws and Xiao Yu.

Such a noble life experience and such a prominent position as prime minister made him very prestigious in the new dynasty.

Xiao Yu said something at an emperor's banquet not long ago, "I am the emperor of the Liang Dynasty, the younger brother of the Sui Dynasty, the minister Zuo Pushe, and the emperor's family."

It's extremely awesome.

"I only have one million coins!"

Li Shimin didn't expect that his in-laws would be so unpretentious and his face was a little dark. He had to lower his requirements and ask for one million.

"Your Majesty, just build a thousand cavalry, there is no need to build ten thousand cavalry. 20,000 feather forest, one thousand cavalry, and fifty thousand tens of thousands!" Xiao Yu bargained, and cut it by half.

Li Shimin still had to fight, and the eunuch came over and reported in a low voice.

"Your Majesty, Mrs. Cui, the wife of Duke of Zhao, has just given birth to one son, four pounds and six ounces, and the mother and son are safe!"

Li Shimin nodded after hearing this.

"The eldest son of the legitimate son is born, okay. Go and report to the queen and send congratulations to the Li family. Also, I will send an order to the Li family. I will fulfill my promise and give the title of the eldest son of Duke Zhao Li Chao, Lintao County Duke, and actually grant three hundred households and reward 100 Shu Mian!"

"My dear friends, let me tell you a good news. Mrs. Zhao has just given birth to a son." Haha laughed a few times, "When you encounter such a happy event, why don't you end this day? I and you and I go to the Duke Zhao's mansion in our house to congratulate Li Chao and ask for a glass of wedding wine!"

After hearing this news, Fang Xuanling and others were happy for Li Chao.

"Go together, go together!"
Chapter completed!