Chapter 38: Persuasion

Do you want to plant it yourself today?

No!

Even if King Jin is a genius, he is only three years old, how much foresight and insight can he have?

Wei Zheng turned his face sideways and shouted in his heart: "Come on, let me see the so-called genius!" ”

"Dare to ask your lord, do you usually farm?"

"Don't plant!"

"So why can you eat fresh food? Where do the meals come from? ”

……

The two seemingly inconsequential problems made it difficult for Wei Zheng.

If you follow Li Zhi's words, you will inevitably fall into passivity. Because he didn't know what Li Zhi was going to do, what was the purpose of asking these mentally retarded questions?

"My lord? Are you listening? ”

Seeing that Wei Zheng didn't reply for a long time, Li Zhi sneered: "You don't even know where the food you eat every day comes from, do you?" ”

"Haha......." The ministers laughed en masse.

Wei Zheng replied: "Rice, noodles, and vegetables all come from the east and west cities, where there are many small traders who provide ingredients for big families and restaurants in the city!" ”

"Good back!"

Li Zhi snorted: "You eat the rice and noodles sent by the merchants every day, but you say that they are shameless and despicable, enjoying the convenience they give you, but you are slandered in the back, who is shameless?" Who is mean? ”

"I ......." Wei Zheng was speechless.

"Please imagine, if it weren't for those merchants, how many days would Chang'an City last? I'm afraid I won't be able to last even a day, right? I don't understand, do you hate them so much? From now on, don't go to the market to buy vegetables, grow your own! ”

"This ......."

The brain is buzzing again!

Li Zhi continued: "I know what you want to say, you want to say that merchants are divided into large and small, small traders benefit the country and the people, and big traders harm the country and the people? ”

"But I want to tell you that no matter how big or small, the vendors all have a vital role to play in the country......."

Li Zhi counted Wei Zheng to death in every sentence.

He didn't even have a chance to refute it.

In just a few minutes, it has become everyone's joke.

"Zhi'er...... Come here! Li Shimin pulled Li Zhi closer, touched Li Zhi's head, and said with a smile: "Zhi'er is well refuted!" The same is true of the merchants of the world! ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, do you have anything else to say?"

"It's ......." Even Wei Zheng has been cleaned up, who dares to speak?

One by one, they became dumb!

Li Zhi thought in his heart: "It's a joke that these stupid people still govern the country!" ”

……

Wei Zheng suddenly laughed: "I always heard Fang Xuanling praise His Royal Highness before, saying that His Highness is a genius who has not been met in a hundred years, and the minister still doesn't believe it, but when I see it today, it really deserves its reputation!" ”

"Congratulations to the emperor!"

"Congratulations to the emperor......." The ministers said.

"Hahaha!!" Li Shimin smiled and exposed all the back molars: "Zhi'er has the ability to never forget, and he has the style of a queen, and I like it tightly." Fang Aiqing, you must teach me well, don't disappoint me! ”

"Obey the order!"

Fang Xuanling complained bitterly.

After getting along these days, Fang Xuanling realized that he had nothing to teach Li Zhi at all, and every time he was scolded and embarrassed from class.

He really didn't want to be humiliated again.

Prepare to ask Li Shimin for a replacement.

However......

What he didn't expect was that Li Shimin instructed him to teach Li Zhi well.

What can you teach?

It's not just self-inflicted!

"Father, don't divert the topic...... Let's move on to businessmen. Erchen thinks that the pursuit of profit by businessmen is the essence, just like being an official for the people, isn't it the same? We can't demand that they be perfect, let alone be one-size-fits-all, so that they have no way to live, which will cause the country's economy to collapse and go to a dead end. However, merchants did rebel against the imperial court, taking advantage of loopholes in the law to make huge profits, and they should be restrained and ......controlled. ”

"Erchen believes that the ministers are all resourceful talents, and they are definitely more than enough to deal with those merchants!"

"If you put the merchant to death because you are afraid of them, that is not wisdom, but cowardice! Because they don't dare to confront the merchants! It has led to the damage to the interests of the country! ”

……

Li Zhi said.

Li Shimin nodded heavily: "Very well said!" ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, some time ago we increased the treatment of chefs so that they are not discriminated against! Today I decide...... No longer suppress businessmen everywhere, and cooperate with them fully to promote the country's economic development. Especially the four major families in Hebei, find someone to contact them as soon as possible, and I want to talk to them personally! ”

"The Emperor Shengming!"

The meeting ended soon and the ministers dispersed.

Li Zhi stayed: "Father, the emperor ......." ”

"Why aren't you leaving?"

"The son has a small matter, I want to ask my father to agree!"

Li Shimin remembered what Li Chengqian had said to him during the day, and immediately frowned: "Zhi'er, you don't really want to go to the palace to open a restaurant, right?" If this is the case, my father will never agree! ”

"Why? If the father did not oppose the merchants, why should he oppose the sons? ”

"Others can be in business, but you can't!"

"Because you are my son, your mission is far more important than being a businessman!" Li Shimin said solemnly.

"Erchen doesn't dare to agree!"

"Don't tell your father those crooked truths, I don't like to hear them!" Li Shimin was afraid that he would be surrounded by Li Zhi, so he simply refused to talk to Li Zhi.

"Hehe......."

Li Zhile said: "Father, are you afraid of me?" ”

"Who's afraid of you!"

"Then why don't you dare to say a word?"

"Okay, you say! I don't believe it, you can say that the prince is going to business, and it is right! Since ancient times, there has been no prince to engage in business! ”

Li Shimin plucked up his courage and was ready to listen to what Li Zhi had to say.

He has already made up his mind, no matter how many crooked reasons Li Zhi has, he will not agree to the prince leaving the palace, let alone agree with the prince to open a restaurant!

Li Zhi smiled and said: "What my father said is very right, since ancient times, there has been no prince in business!" However, there is a prince who farms, right? All the princes who have experienced being farmers think about the people! ”

"Take Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, as an example, before the uprising, he was just a small pavilion chief, and before he became a pavilion chief, he was a peasant who couldn't even afford to eat. But he has won the world, and he is still a rare Ming Jun! Why? Because he knows the afflictions of the people, and knows how to do good for the people. ”

……

"In the same way, when Erchen went to open a restaurant, he just wanted to experience the difficulties of businessmen, what do they need? What is their weakness? There are some things that you can't pay attention to until you die if you don't experience them in person! ”

Halfway through the sentence.

Li Zhi bowed his hand slightly: "Erchen thinks that not only Erchen should go to open a restaurant." The Manchu civil and military should go. Let them figure out what exactly a businessman is! Of course...... That doesn't seem realistic. So Erchen please order, on behalf of the Manchu Dynasty Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, go and experience it first! ”

"You ......."

Li Shimin didn't know what to say.

Because he seems to have been persuaded by Li Zhi again.