punished Princess Izumo, Li Jun himself was tired enough, Li Jun lay on his back on the bed, Princess Izumo cleaned up Li Jun's body despite the first pain, Li Jun held Princess Izumo's hand and said, "I hurt you just now." ”

"This is the honor of the concubine." Princess Izumo replied shyly.

Li Jun took Princess Izumo back into his arms and asked, "You are so proficient in Han family etiquette, did you learn it since you were a child?" ”

"Your Majesty, the concubine has been studying with a gentleman named Su Ji for more than a month, and the rest of the time the concubine is in the palace, so she can't get in touch with the Han family."

Speaking of Su Ji, Li Jun was obviously stunned for a moment, but immediately changed his attitude and said: "Su Ji, a traitor, sooner or later I will kill him alive, by the way, in addition to the traitors of the Han people in your Beijin, which other Han people are there?" ”

Princess Izumo thought for a while and slowly replied: "Your Majesty, there are many merchants in the Han family, and even the concubine, who has never been out of the palace, has heard that the best goods are in the hands of the Han family. ”

Princess Izumo's words reminded Li Jun, Shinong Industry and Commerce, but he forgot about this last class, although merchants are not valued in the Tang Dynasty, and will even be despised, but it is understandable that this group of people is the most adventurous group of people, and the empire can also borrow their strength, and if it is used well, it may be a big arm of the empire.

If you want to use businessmen, you can't do without the miscellaneous family, who made his ancestor Lu Buwei a big businessman, what about the hundred schools of thought, and the rest of the schools are all shouting at the businessmen, only the miscellaneous family can accept the existence of businessmen, and even encourage the existence of businessmen.

Li Jun was a person who sat up and walked, and when he thought of this, he immediately bid farewell to Princess Izumo's gentle hometown and went straight to Shangshutai, because there was a person who was a merchant hidden in Shangshutai, and this person was Zuo Shangshu Ling Zhang Zhi.

When Li Jun came to Shangshutai, he immediately called Zhang Zhi and Gong Qing over, Zhang Zhi and Li Lin are different, Li Lin is more aware of death because he is a member of the Fa family, but Zhang Zhi is very sleek, exquisite, and can always handle all kinds of interpersonal relationships well, so usually Li Jun and Zhang Zhi have more contact.

Zhang Zhi will figure out the holy will every time he comes to see Li Jun, and this time is no exception, looking at Gong Qing, who was meeting him at the same time, Zhang Zhi understood in his heart that the miscellaneous family and himself have a common characteristic, that is, they are inseparable from businessmen.

As Zhang Zhi expected, Li Jun saw the two and said straight to the point: "Zhang Qing, I heard that your grandfather used to be a famous businessman and tycoon in Nanyang. ”

Zhang Zhi replied with a smile: "What Your Majesty said is good, but the Zhang family has not been in business since my father's generation. ”

"Why?"

"Your Majesty, the minister will tell you the truth, this businessman is not easy to be now, if a small official without grade can't do it, it will make the whole family have a disaster."

"Hmph, how can this be reasonable, does the little official of Nanyang County have such great ability?" Li Jun snorted coldly.

Zhang Zhi immediately persuaded: "Your Majesty, don't be angry, Nanyang County is as deep as the sea because there are more founding feudal marquis, and as far as the minister knows, in the rest of the place, merchants still have room to live." ”

"What Lord Zhang said is that Weichen was born in Hexi, and there are many businessmen in Hexi who live the life of a prince of Fubi." Gong Qing immediately chimed in.

Li Jun nodded and said: "I came to find the two Aiqing this time just to ask about the way of this merchant, even if the merchant is greedy, he is also one of the four people, as the emperor, I can't ignore it, right?" ”

"What Your Majesty said is very true, and in the opinion of the minister, the biggest problem in commerce now is the commercial tax." Zhang Zhi arched his hand.

"Oh, I remember that our Datang's business tax is not one out of five, I think it's okay, there's a problem there? Zhang Qing. Li Jun immediately asked.

Zhang Zhi smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, the truth is like this, but the minister feels that the unfair is that the grain merchants and cloth merchants are five taxes and one, and these transactions are already less profitable, and those with high profits such as slave merchants and gold and jade merchants are all five taxes and one, and if this continues, those businesses related to the people's livelihood will have fewer and fewer people, and it will not be conducive to the people's livelihood in the long run." ”

Li Jun nodded and said: "I understand what Zhang Qing means, so this time I plan to let Zhang Qing and the miscellaneous family hold a business conference together, the main content of this conference is to determine the commercial tax of my Datang and standardize the business order of my Datang." ”

"Your Majesty, the minister will go and inform the teacher now." Gong Qing said immediately.

Li Jun shook his head and said: "This conference is not held in Chang'an, but to Hedong County, Hedong County is west of Northern Liao, north of Liaodong, east of Guandong, it is the place of the four wars, and it is also a prosperous place for commerce, so I feel that Hedong is more suitable." ”

"Obey." The two immediately replied.

Out of Li Jun's dormitory, Gong Qing arched his hand at Zhang Zhi and said, "Master Zhang, the lower official has thanked you here." ”

Zhang Zhi smiled: "Thank me for what?" Don't forget the temper of our majesty, the most can't rub the sand in his eyes, this time we are actually going to offend people for your majesty. ”

"Ah, what do you mean by what Lord Zhang said?"

"Boy, you just entered the Shangshutai, you don't know about those disgusting pickled things in the place is understandable, the old man told you, since ancient times, it has been the collusion of officials and businessmen, and the owners behind those unfounded transactions are either the princes or the princes and kings, and the redetermination of commercial taxes is actually Your Majesty feels that this group of people makes too much money, and snatches food from these people, do you think it is a good errand?"

After speaking, Zhang Zhi didn't pay attention to Gong Qing's stunned appearance, so he hummed a small song and left, this time he is generally not a big risk, because he is representing the emperor, Xungui will still give His Majesty this face, but the miscellaneous family is difficult, their ancestor is the originator of the collusion between officials and businessmen, and now Lu Buwei's disciples and grandchildren are coming to suppress these, isn't it "a thief shouting to catch a thief"?

Sure enough, when Lu Hang got the news, he was not happy at all, and gave an order with a sad face to gather the famous businessmen of the Tang Dynasty, Lu Hang regrets it now, what are you doing as an official, it is better to be your own idle nobleman at home, this is to be the county guard of Hedong, it is to kill people, and to offend people, sooner or later he will become the target of the public.

Li Jun can't feel Lu Hang's sadness, even if he knows Li Jun, he won't care, in the eyes of the emperor, everything in the world can be abandoned, Lu Hang can't, and Li Hang and Zhang Hang, for the sake of power, for glory and wealth, people will do all kinds of things without a lower limit, which history has long proven.

Since the last time he heard in Zhang Zhi's eyes that the slave trade was legal, Li Jun became interested in this group, so on this day, Li Jun took Ji Meng to the largest slave market in Chang'an City, and when he came here, Li Jun felt that hell was not the most terrifying, and the world was much more terrifying than hell.

The slave market in Chang'an is built underneath, commonly known as the "dungeon", ordinary people want to enter in advance and contact the tooth shop in the East City, only if they issue a certificate, you can enter, there is Ji Meng, the former ranger leader, it will not be troublesome to take this certificate, Li Jun looked at the certificate in front of him, and couldn't help but be surprised by the ancient anti-counterfeiting technology, this thing is actually very simple, that is, put some fireflies on a piece of paper, will display different images, and each business has its own different images, some are tigers, some are eagles, There are even lions, but there are no dragons, except for Li Jun, those who dare to seal dragons will be killed.

After Ji Meng accompanied Li Jun in, he began to guard with fear, the people here are outlaws, in case there is a non-long-eyed collision with His Majesty, it will be over, Li Jun doesn't care, frowning and glancing around, everyone saw Li Jun's appearance of a noble son, so they were busy looking for Li Jun to sell goods, and Li Jun didn't care much about those Hu people, but the words of a thief-eyed guy aroused Li Jun's interest.

Li Jun looked at the two young women in the cage behind this guy and asked, "What did you just say?" ”

"This son is really good-looking, these two goods are good families, their husbands dislike these two cheap goods only give birth to daughters, not sons, so they sold them to Zaixia, and they looked quite handsome, so they bought them."

"Oh, do you have a baby here?" Li Jun asked lightly.

The guy immediately came to his senses and said: "Childe, don't worry, I have everything here, whatever you like, you can find me Hou San, our children here can dress up as any animal, as long as you like, I Hou San promises to let Gongzi get his way." ”

People's hearts, Li Jun has heard in later generations that many abducted children will be artificially made into various animals, but he didn't expect that this is a tradition, and the ancestors have already started here.

Li Jun said to Ji Meng: "Ji Qing, Jinyi Guard, the Imperial Forest Army, and the Jingzhao Mansion jointly sealed this place and checked the population in detail, I don't want to see this place tomorrow, and their city lord dares to call it the "Underground Emperor", and he will be cut by a thousand knives. ”

"No, the minister obeys."

After Li Jun left, Ji Meng smiled at the guy and said, "Come on, take it." ”

A group of plainclothes men rushed over, Ji Meng grabbed this guy and gagged and pressed and left the dungeon, the dungeon is a special existence, here is a place where the laws of the Tang Dynasty can't control, as long as you have money here, you can do whatever you want, you can do whatever you want when you are the emperor, many princes have come to experience, when Ji Meng was in the rivers and lakes before, many of his enemies often hid in the dungeon, so he knew a lot about the dungeon.

But Ji Meng believes that from tomorrow, the dungeon that has been crisscrossing Chang'an City for many years will be over, thinking of Boss Fan's ugly face, Ji Meng will not mention how happy he is, the emperor will not allow such a dirty place in his capital to exist, the sun is shining all over the world, the emperor is the sun in the sky, and it is not right to see the sun.

Li Jun returned to the palace, his heart was full of anger, and then Xiao Meier walked in with a bowl of tea and said, "Your Majesty, who made you angry?" ”

Li Jun told Xiao Mei'er about today's events, Xiao Mei'er was shocked when she heard it, Li Jun smiled bitterly: "Queen, don't say it's you, I didn't expect it." ”

At this time, Xiao Mei'er suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said, "Your Majesty, the concubine has an idea. ”

"Queen, please speak."

"Your Majesty, the concubines are thinking of establishing a royal orphanage to care for orphans and widows, what does Your Majesty think?"

Li Jun's eyes lit up, and he suddenly hugged Xiao Mei'er in his arms and said, "Mei'er, what a good idea, I am really fortunate to have this good wife......