Chapter 298: Calculate the Dragon (Three)

After the banquet in the new house of Prince Yong’s Mansion, we started to take sides!

This team is not about going to the Yong Palace or the Eastern Palace to show off his merits, especially Li Wei does better and keep a low profile! Even if they go to the Eastern Palace, Li Wei may not trust him immediately, but Li Xian held a banquet and had a happy evening. Ming Chongyan gave him six thousand gold and could squander. Just like his usual nature, he was also capable and frivolous. On the contrary, some ministers with good character or inability to expose their face originally wanted to surrender to Li Xian for the sake of their future, but they did not necessarily surrender to him. However, those who expressed their opinions became hesitant.

But more, even if he was called to enter the Eastern Palace or the Yong Palace, he might not necessarily go. He could support it. Entering the Eastern Palace and the Yong Palace, especially the prince's low-keyness, is equivalent to a clear label. If this is the case, he began to retreat again. Li Wei did not force it, but Li Xian was very anxious and tried every means to win over it. Some ministers were originally neutral, but once they forced them, they forced the prince's side.

Wu Zetian laughed in the palace and said to Li Zhi: "Xian'er is more greener than Hong'er."

Li Zhi snorted a little displeased. He was watching. There were still some highlights, but there were too few. He even vaguely felt that Li Wei was "cultivating". Otherwise, a counterattack would be possible and Li Xian immediately revealed his true colors. But he could not help anymore. He could not depose Xiaowu and let Xiaoliu be the prince. I'm afraid that Xiaoliu would lose in that way.

I was extremely disappointed and wished that I could drag Li Xian back to the palace and beat him up. Although you and your elder brother and mother have been in the East Palace for a long time, I have been plagued by illness a few years ago, so the gap cannot be so big!

Thinking about this, I didn't want to touch Li Wei's status anymore. I continued to wait and see if Li Xian could grow. Secondly, the court collapsed in a stable manner, and the threat posed by the prince finally weakened. I patted my painful head and should have done so long ago.

Of course, this seems to be less threatening, but the court is in chaos.

Everyone was standing together, and they didn't have to go to the East Palace, but they could stand in the court. For example, those who stood on the prince's side were disgusted by Xue Yuanchao and Zhang Da'an. Even the old minister Lai Heng was implicated. Those who stood on Li Xian's side regarded Dai Zhide and Hao Chujun as the prince's best friends. Those who could not fight each other with fists and could not open their mouths and curse, how could they express? They had to make an argument in court. When the "***" proposed all opposed it, they were ministers standing on Li Xian's side. The "Yongwang Party" proposed all opposed it, and the prince was on the side. But even Li Wei was silent, and Li Xian ran around, but *** still had the upper hand.

Li Zhi couldn't bear it anymore and issued another edict, asking Zhang Da'an to be the third rank of the Secretariat.

Otherwise, it won’t work. One is like an adult and the other is like a child. How can I play this ring match?

More than half of the ministers were silent, some were continuing to look around, some were just neutral, and some were the forces developed silently by Wu Zetian.

How to proceed with this?

The gods above are fighting, and there is no need to say the ministers below. It’s not that they want to turn to Li Wei and Li Xian, who are not qualified enough, but some ministers follow a big boss. Just like Di Renjie must have helped Yan Liben. The big bosses fight, and the officials below even have to pull up their elbows and beat each other. Not only officials from all over the country, but also disciples of the royal family also participated, such as Li Zhi’s other son, King Ze Li Shangjin, who lives in the world, took this opportunity to bring him to Luoyang to work hard and congratulate Li Xian on his opening. The other son, King Xu, Li Sujie, acted in a low-key manner because his mother was Concubine Xiao Shu, but the prince saved his two sisters and studied under Xu Qipeng, so he still helped the prince from the bottom of his heart.

This is so confusing!

However, there is one advantage, because Xue Yuanchao and the other two became prime ministers, and Hao Chujun and others were not as authoritative as before, so they had to be silent. This gave Li Zhi greater voice.

The chaos above caused another incident. The second group of merchants were finally allowed to go to sea, but repeatedly warned that after letting go, no one would be allowed to write a letter or slander the matter in the future, otherwise it would be investigated by law. It may not be taken seriously, but at least in the past ten or eight years, it is unlikely that the people would be allowed to go to sea for business. Because of the profits and the number of places, there were too many people to compete for. When the prince just let the sea go, he could get a Class C merchant for two thousand money to go to sea, but now, it is possible that even ten thousand money can not get it.

If it turned out that the merchants did not dare to force them. Now the court was divided into pieces, and the merchants saw the wedge machine, so they wrote letters to protest. Since the court went to sea with good merchants, it depends on moral character, not how much money it is. Could it be that those with more money are good merchants, and those with less money are evil merchants? Those with powerful actually forcefully put pressure on officials. There are indeed powerful ones. This time, the ones who are moved are not only merchants, but also some wealthy families, and even famous families, who do not want to pay the court, so they force them to take a look.

Originally, it would have been a conclusion if the book was made. But now the court has collapsed, so many ministers agreed.

Li Wei has always wanted to hide behind the scenes, and his mother would not be able to resist it sooner or later. Besides, the splitting of the court is also a great opportunity for her mother. But when she heard the impeachment, she immediately summoned the relevant officials and some protesting businessmen.

Then he pointed to a censor named Cai, who had seen it at the banquet of Li Xian's mansion. He was also the one who made the most trouble these days and asked, "Does the court need officials?"

Censor Cai didn't understand the meaning and nodded.

"Why do officials need?"

“Without official governance, the country will have no order.”

Li Wei sneered: "Civil Secretary Cai, you also know that officials are trying to maintain national order!"

Censor Cai's face turned red and he didn't say anything.

Then Li Wei asked everyone: "Officials are needed. Should the court distribute the salaries of officials?"

No one has any objection to this.

Li Wei said again: "But if there are no soldiers, how can the territory be safe? Will the court distribute military expenses?"

Without objection, he said again: "But do the imperial court need to build and maintain road schools in various places? Is this a cost? For example, the major disasters in the past few years. Although some merchants and big merchants have helped, did the imperial court put out the most strength when solving the disaster? Does this require money? Or some people say that the imperial court built a palace, such as the palace built by the father in Jiucheng Palace for his son. But please ask yourself, no matter how much civil engineering was used during the reign of Emperor Gaozu, or Taizong, or in the hands of His Majesty, it can reach one-tenth of the Sui Dynasty?"

"The money from the treasury was emptied due to several wars and disasters. Why, everyone knows, defend the country and help the refugees. However, the construction of two channels is helpful to the state and the people. You merchants have even benefited from the two channels to more or less. But at that time, Gu wanted to build two channels, but there was no funding, so he had to come up with a way to raise funds from wealthy merchants. But he could not force the funding, and he came up with a way to go to sea, so he would benefit from both benefits. It only broke the imperial system, making many people think that Gu raised the status of merchants, valued profit and neglected righteousness, and promised the people to go abroad. This was a helpless move. Now Gu often regretted it and wanted to stop the two channels, return the funds to all merchants, and seal the sea again."

Of course, this is not what I think, but if I say this, I stand at the height of morality.

"Everyone said that I will use money to win good deeds, but not morals to win good deeds. Wrong! I remembered something. During the time of King Wei of Qi, Jimo's doctors made contributions to governing the people, but they were not good at accepting them. The ministers in the court slandered many times. On the contrary, the people used the money to curry favor with their close ministers, and there were many applauses in the court. This made Gu think of Liang Jinzhu and Lu Ma. The two were good merchants, but Gu heard that they were often squeezed in Jiangnan. It was because they took the initiative to pay taxes to the court and deprived them of their own interests. They did not go to the court.

The court tributes taxes, and wants the court to benefit. Everyone, the richer you are, the more you can eat up land and give usury. If you continue for a long time, the people of the whole country will either leave you rich families who are rich who are unwilling to pay taxes, or only tenants and subordinates. As a result, the court has no place to collect taxes, no military expenditure in the army, and the combat effectiveness is lax. Even because of the lack of civilians, there is no source of military soldiers. The officials have no official salary, so they have to eat fish in the countryside. The people are desperate and have to rise up. This is what you call morality and conscience!"

He slapped the table heavily and said, "Man is doing it, God is watching. Are you good? I don't know whether you are good, but I believe God can see it. You are so fussy that I don't believe it. There are still a few people among you who have consciences."

Hao Chujun patted his hands and said, "Okay, Your Highness, people are doing it, God is watching. I often see incense in the temples, but I don't know if I do bad things all day long, will the Buddha be willing to forgive me in the future?"

From the perspective of the country, from the people, and from the moral standpoint, many people bowed their heads.

"I said that when you go to sea, you have to go abroad to go to sea, it means that we are the Tang Dynasty, showing the style of our Tang Dynasty to those small countries, self-reliance and self-esteem. Because each ship needs people to drive and guard, the most people need to bring two hundred people on a ship, and the few people need to bring dozens of people. But what you need is good merchants to go to sea, and not all good merchants can go to sea. Going to sea is ultimately for fundraising and fundraising is for two channels. But what do you want to do? I think

If you can go out to sea, or learn from Doctor A and advocate, you are a good merchant. Is it a good merchant? I don’t know whether it is a good merchant. I have also discussed this matter with Gong Dai and Gong Hao. Once the two channels are opened, it will not only benefit the country and the people, but also benefit the descendants. Can you see if you are Dujiangyan, Yizhou? This is an urgent matter. Such a big incident is another act of benefiting you. It is not really a profit to you. At this time, you don’t raise funds. I just want to talk and find a place to go out to sea. Are you embarrassed to say that you are a good merchant?"

Everyone was silent.

After a while, a Shang *** said with courage: "But your Highness, if you don't have huge capital in your hands, you will never be able to leave the sea."

"It's like this, but have you not understood Gu's words? Gu did not let you go to sea, but made an exception for fundraising. Gu also has to warn you here that the wind and waves are strong on the sea, and although there is endless wealth waiting for you, life is at stake, and there are also many risks waiting for you. Never act for profit, think twice before doing it."

Some people want to laugh, while others frowned. After this sentence is released, they can no longer blame the prince for the sank on the ship on the sea.

But for businessmen, this sentence is equivalent to not saying it. Those who should be content with oneself should be content with oneself, and those who should be jealous are still jealous.

"Also, if a good businessman wants to help the country and the people, one household cannot do it, ten households should do it. Ten households cannot do it, twenty households should do it. Others don't know, only know that Liang Jinzhu and Luma had at least one businessman who cooperated with at least one merchant in the early days. Or he opposed the promotion of businessmen, but he also heard a saying, "How big is it to be profitable. Could it be that you don't even have money to eat, and you just want to go out to sea to earn 100,000 yuan a year and come back. Then everyone, I would like to advise you to lower your head when you walk, and maybe kick a golden doll out with one foot."

This sentence finally made many people laugh. But it undoubtedly made the competition even more intense. There were many merchants who wanted to withdraw, and the quota fee was probably too high, and they had to build ships, load goods, and hire people, but they didn't have the capital. But the prince reminded him, which made many people feel enlightened. Yes, if one person doesn't work, we can gather people and spread the risks evenly.

This gathering finally suppressed all those who wanted to go to the wrong door and pay attention to it. However, the competition became fierce. The "Clan Chronicle" compiled during the Zhenguan period was expected to have nearly 400 surnames, and each surname almost represented a famous family in the local area. The Tang Dynasty had been stable for a long time, and there were many emerging commoner landlords and merchants, such as Zou Fengchi, who was a miscellaneous family in Jingzhao. Some of these people were very business-minded, regardless of reputation, some were wealthy enough to be comparable to ordinary famous families.

But there are only one hundred and twenty people in the quota, and the competition can be imagined.

After hearing this, Wei Xuan and Wei Hongji, who were supervising the worker, their hearts finally settled down.

Especially in the Danshui Canal, money is used faster than running water. Li Wei is also preparing to go to Danshui again, mainly because he is in the whirlpool and cannot be quiet anymore. It is better to go to Danshui to relax. At this moment, Wu Zetian called him into the inner palace.

Wu Zetian asked: "Honger, I want to talk to you about something."

"My mother, please give me instructions."

"I am the palace, but look at the relatives of the outside world..."

As he said that, his beautiful horoscope was not very happy. No matter which queen was alive, the relatives of the foreigners would always be appointed as officials, either big or small. Although they had no good feelings for their parents' family, they had been the queen for many years. Helan Minzhi was just looking for death. Wu Chengsi was transferred back to the capital and allowed his son to Jiangzhou.

In fact, Li Wei was helpless. If someone else was a filial son, he would not need the mother's instructions, or even offered to let his relatives serve as officials. However, when your relatives arrived in the capital, they immediately changed their nature and wanted to build a royal family.

But the mother didn’t say it early or late. Speaking at this time means that the mother finally couldn’t sit still and was about to take action!

I went to talk to Di Renjie that day, didn’t I say that I had peace for a year? It’s only been a few months, and the Tang Dynasty is about to be in full swing.
Chapter completed!