On June morning, the sun was shining and the sun was a little hot.

More than 3,000 merchant guards in Shimajin City were all tied up and drove out of the city in a long string, gathered outside the city gate.

Cui Jin was very excited to walk past these people, and the more he looked, the more satisfied he was. These prisoners are now trophy belonging to their fleet, with more than 3,000 prisoners, and most of them are young and strong men and women. Such young and strong men and women can now be sold at an excellent price in the slave market.

Such a slave can be worth several horses, especially those who are both strong and speak Chinese, and one can be worth hundreds of stagnant coins.

However, compared to selling it, Cui Jin is more willing to be auctioned by the fleet internally, so that they have the opportunity to buy it soon. Although his territory is still in southern Liaoning, the Cui family has also had a large family business in recent years. It has participated in the manufacturing of perfume, soap, tooth powder, and there is one of them. The Cui family has also opened many department stores. Relying on its relationship with the Li family, they can always get hot-selling products for sale, making the department store business very good.

Today, Cui's department store is their largest industry. The Cui family plans to open branches in more Daozhou in the future, but opening more stores requires not only funds, but also manpower. Moreover, now Li Qincheng and others are opening up land in Lingnan, Vietnam and other places to build sugarcane plantations. The Cui family also wants to get a share of the pie. They can build sugarcane plantations and require more labor.

In addition, starting this year, the Li family began to plant cotton in northwest areas such as Hexi, Longyou, Shuofang, Suiyuan and other places. This cotton Jin knew that it was just an ornamental flower in the palace, but Li Chao had already started planting and training cotton and used cotton to produce beautiful white stacked cloth.

The Li family calls it white cotton cloth, which is very small in the market, but it sells more expensive than silk. Quilts, cotton pillows and cotton jackets made of cotton have become something that nobles and wealthy families compete for in winter.

The prospects for cotton planting are suddenly vast and do not seem to be worse than sugarcane planting. It is much more popular than mulberry planting and silkworm cultivation.

The Cui family also wants to build a cotton tea plantation in the northwest, but whether it is planting sugarcane in the southeast or cotton in the northwest, this is a labor-intensive industry. Even if the mining smelting industry in the Li family requires less labor, the demand is still amazing.

The Li family does not object to wanting to get a share of these industries, but if there is no one, even if the Li family asks them to do what they can't do.

Nowadays, the demand in the slave market is getting bigger and bigger, and the price of slaves is rising. The three thousand slaves here are still such high-quality slaves, which are quite valuable.

Even those old slaves who are fifty years old can still be worth a lot of money, and they can still work for their masters for ten to fifteen years. And those slave children are also valuable. Boys and girls will be sent to train for a while, so that they can learn Chinese, and even learn craftsman skills. Women will be smart and beautiful to learn to serve people, and generally learn textile and other techniques, and will be sent to workshops in the future.

It can be said that the biggest gain of winning Shimajin this time is these populations.

Without a single sword or a single shot, no Goguryeo did not hurt a Goguryeo man, which undoubtedly minimized the losses.

In the propaganda of the Central Plains, the Goguryeo people were a group of cruel and arrogant barbarians. They lived in a wild and bitter place in Liaodong, and could do all kinds of evil things.

They joined wild animals, they ate raw meat and drank blood, and they invaded the territory of Liaodong and killed and enslaved the Han people there.

However, the Goguryeo people in front of us all look very ordinary.

Even no different from ordinary northern Han people, they also have black hair, black eyes and even yellow skin. They are undoubtedly closer to the Han people than the Turks and the Sogdians in the Western Regions.

The old men were also thin and haggard, the boys were innocent and young, and the women even had their hair buns similar to those of the Central Plains women.

Goguryeo merchants wore round-necked silk robes and soft-legged heads, and even said nothing different from those of the Han people.

The Marines who surrounded these people were also curiously looking at the legendary barbarians. The boys even had some doubts on their faces.

The horse shook his head and breathed.

Lu Gao rode on a horse and looked at these Goguryeo people. The Lu family of Fanyang was the most familiar with Goguryeo people. They were very close to the Goguryeo people and lived next to each other. In the past, Lu family also often traded with Goguryeo people and had close contacts.

The children of other families are taking their subordinates to search for spoils from the street to the house.

There is no chaos, no setting fire, no murder.

Rather than saying they are robbing, they are moving.

Overall relocation.

The property, grain and goods in the house were moved out, and then someone registered one by one, and someone was responsible for sorting it.

Finally, the spoils were distributed to piles everywhere.

“There is a lot of food.”

A grain mountain is forming, including rice, wheat, millet, and jerky meat.

"It's also a lot of money."

Copper coins, gold and silver found from house to house, gold and silver coins, gold and silver coins found from the treasury and shops, and silk.

Various goods in Goguryeo shops, fur, ginseng, medicinal materials, cloth, grain...

In the end, even the furniture was moved out.

How much spoil can you get by emptying a town of three thousand people?

Several mountains were piled outside the city.

“We sent it.”

Cheng Yaojin couldn't help but sigh.

He has also participated in robberies in the past, but it is impossible to rob them so cleanly every time. Every robbery is often accompanied by setting fire and killing people, and in the end, many of the property was actually burned.

There are many other things that are kept privately.

But this time, all the spoils were handed over to the public and searched in batches. After searching for the first time, another team searched again, and then the third team checked it out the last time.

Plow three feet.

Especially those prisoners were still questioned, and even the underground cellar could not escape.

"How do you divide so many spoils?" Cheng Yaojin asked.

Li Chao pinched his chin, and the gains were really amazing.

People, animals, money, grain, and merchant goods.

“Have you registered all the books?”

"Yes, all of them have been registered in different categories, in triplicate."

A group of noble playboys came over, waiting for Li Chao's distribution plan. They never thought about splitting it evenly, after all, each family made different efforts.

"The distribution of spoils must be a fair way, which is the long-term way. My distribution method is very simple. First, I will hand over all spoils to the registration and statistics, and there is no private storage. After the statistics are completed, we will count our costs."

The words cost and expenses made those people a little puzzled.

However, Li Chao insisted that robbery is of course also a commercial activity, and naturally there will be operating costs.

The ships dispatched, crew members dispatched, soldiers, and ammunition and weapons consumed are all costs.

All of these must be calculated first.

Each ship is calculated based on the size and level of the ship, and each crew member, sailor, and Marine member must also calculate wages based on their positions and qualifications.

Then there are the equipment consumed, the food consumed, etc., which are also costs.

Calculate all these, and then deduct them from the spoils first, the crew's wages are given to the crew and the ship's expenses are given to the captain...

"Do you have any opinions on this?"

Seeing that Li Chao was so clear, the crowd felt that there was no problem.

"Okay, there is another cost, that is, those who perform particularly well in action must also be rewarded, and this bonus must be considered a cost."

“We agree.”

"Also, the management of the entire fleet, who are responsible for commanding the formulation of action plans, should also get one, which is also a cost."

"This is OK, either." The dandy didn't object.

"Very good, now, deduct all our costs from the loot first."

The accountant immediately pulled out his abacus and began to calculate the money based on the operating costs and expenses set by Li Chao.

Finally, according to this result, I deducted the spoil from the loot.

The remaining spoils are still abundant.

"Now, the rest are the benefits of our actions after deducting costs. Of course, these cannot be divided directly. According to the rules, we have to pay 10% to the court as taxes."

The account office pulled out the abacus and deducted another 10% from the rest.

At this time, Cheng Yaojin couldn't help but feel a little wonderful on his face.

The emperor stipulated that 10% of the robbery would be held, but Li Chao had just explained what business costs and expenditure items were, and the rest was given to the court as taxes, which actually meant that the court had less taxes.

"Are we evading taxes?"

"No, we are reasonably evading taxes." Li Chao said with a smile. Tax evasion and reasonable evasion are two different things. As a citizen of the Tang Dynasty, of course, he has to pay taxes according to law. However, reasonable evasion of taxes is also to win legitimate rights and interests quickly.

"Reasonable tax avoidance, it's OK." Cheng Yaojin was stunned, and then laughed.

"We also have a tax avoidance method, which is that we do not sell the remaining spoils, but divide them by internal auctions. In this way, we do not need to sell them and cash them, so that we can pay less transaction tax. Of course, if you still want to sell the spoils you have obtained after the internal auction, you still have to pay taxes to the court, but if you don't sell them after the division, you don't have to pay taxes."

Cheng Yaojin gave Li Chao a thumbs up, and Li Chao could find these gaps.

"Just just a little spoil, why are you selling it? Just auction it internally, and then everyone will share the money. We will adjust it internally, so of course we don't have to pay taxes."

But there are dozens of companies. Although there are a lot of spoils, they don’t have much money.

"Wenyuan, while the news in Beisha City has not been so soon, let's hurry up and send people to sweep the surrounding area again, break down those Goguryeo villages, catch everyone back, and make a profit."
Chapter completed!