Poor Fan Qi still didn't know, and still glared at Tang Qi majestically, putting on the appearance of a loyal minister who was out of the mud and unstained.

Tang Qi smiled helplessly: "Where does Fan Zhongcheng want to go, when did he deduct someone's hat?" ”

"As for the matter of competing with the people for profit, I really have to ask Fan Zhongcheng, is there any evidence?"

"Hehe, this is it again? The old man is not afraid of you! Fan Zhi sneered, "The Dahan Department Store in Naxi City is still open, which is proof!" ”

Tang Qi smiled: "This is too far-fetched, Zhongcheng said that he is competing with the people for profit, and he has to make it clear, which people are he fighting for and what benefits?" ”

If it is placed in a later dynasty, it is politically correct in officialdom if it does not compete with the people.

Tang Qi dared to ask this, and the officials had to spray his blood!

However, now it is the Western Han Dynasty, the Han Wu Dynasty.

It has only been less than ten years since Liu Che "deposed a hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone", and the brains of literati have not yet been broken, and it is far from the time when a gentleman is ashamed of his words.

What's more, there is such a thing as competing with the people for profit, and it is not that the son of heaven has never done it.

In order to increase the country's finances, taxing merchants' vehicles and ships, and buying and selling titles with low gold content were all good things that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did.

In another five or six years, the "salt and iron franchise" that will influence the future generations for thousands of years will be launched immediately!

Tell this emperor to "compete with the people for profit", unless you can conjure up money and food out of thin air to fill the treasury, otherwise Emperor Wu will not bird you!

The emperor is like this, and the ministers are naturally similar.

It was Tang Qi who asked this, except for some extreme Confucian scholars who frowned, and everyone's attention was on how Fan Qi would answer.

Fan Ji was a serious Confucian scholar, and his articles were written in a variety of flowers, and he also had a lot of prestige in the academic world.

And he went out of the same school as Dong Zhongshu and learned the same knowledge.

At this time, he was asked like this, and he was even more disdainful of Tang Qi: "That Dahan Department Store has the support of your big farmer's order behind it, so it is naturally rampant to dominate the market, so how will the people do business in the future?" ”

"It's so bad that law-abiding businessmen can't do business well, and it's not competing with the people for profit?!"

Fan Ji consciously said loudly, but since Prime Minister Sun Hong and below, they all showed miserable expressions.

Taizhong Doctor Yi Zhang secretly gave Gongsun Hong a look - that kid, our people?

Gongsun Hong's face was dark, and he bowed his head slightly for a long time.

That's right.

Yi Zhang was speechless and choked.

So stupid, how can you become the middle of the imperial history!

Didn't you see His Majesty's face above, it was darker than the soil in the north!

Fan Yu gushed endlessly: "Only by sealing the Dahan Department Store can the merchants and people in the market live and work in peace and contentment, and they will no longer suffer from the bullying and domination of the market by officials!" ”

Tang Qi patiently waited for Fan Zhi to finish speaking, and then asked with a smile: "So the 'people' in Fan Zhongcheng's mouth are the merchants of the West Market?" ”

"So what?" Fan Zhi glared, "Shangjia is also a people!" ”

"Of course, of course, Fan Zhongcheng is right." Tang Qi suddenly took out a stack of snow-white papers with dense handwriting on them from his robe, "Your Majesty, you have some data here, and I hope that Your Majesty will take a look." ”

"Bring it in." Liu Che was faint.

Chun Tuo immediately walked down in small steps and handed over the things.

Blink of an eye.

The officials of the Shaofu who were working full-time were originally watching the excitement, but when they saw the things in Tang Qi's hand, they suddenly whispered.

"What's in the hands of the Great Farmer?"

"Cloth, not like."

"Maybe it's 'paper'?"

"Nonsense! It's not that we haven't seen paper, how can it be so white and flexible! ”

"I really want to come and see it......"

"Shaofu, you have a good relationship with Your Majesty, don't you?"

"Shut up, you guys!"

Taking advantage of Liu Che's browsing, Tang Qi had already introduced with a smile: "This is the data conclusion drawn by the minister's order to distribute questionnaires around Xishi and survey a total of 2,356 people. ”

"Among them, there are artisans, farmers, small traders, and craftsmen, each of whom occupies a lot of them."

"The survey concluded that before the opening of Dahan Department Store, if people wanted to ensure their health, they needed to spend an average of about 7,500 wen per month on edible oil, and an average of 250 wen per day."

"In fact, most of the daily wages that the people can earn are less than 200 wen per family!"

"That's an average figure, and the average person can't afford it. For a family of five, it is good to be able to eat ten catties of oil every month. ”

"And only two days after the opening of Dahan Department Store, the people only spent 3,000 wen on the cooking oil that the family of five needed for the whole month!"

"If you hold the membership card of my Dahan Department Store, it can be reduced to 2400 Wen!"

"By the way, the membership cards of my Dahan Department Store are distributed in limited quantities every day, and they are all free, no money is required, and money cannot be bought."

"The data is very clear that before the opening of Dahan Department Store, less than 30% of the people in the West Market could ensure that they could eat enough oil every day. After the opening of Dahan Department Store, more than 70% of the families can ensure that their families consume enough cooking oil and have more strength to work and earn money! ”

"The same goes for meat. The cold rabbit sold in my Dahan Department Store is cheap and affordable, which has oil and salt, and ordinary people buy a pack, which is enough to satisfy their families. ”

"The survey shows that in the past two days, more than eighty percent of people have eaten meat for a long time. More than half of them are likely to eat a little meat all year round only during the New Year's Festival. ”

"And that's just the West Market!" Tang Qi gushed endlessly, "Dare to ask Your Majesty, if my Dahan Department Store is opened throughout Dahan, if everyone in Dahan can ensure sufficient cooking oil and meat in the community, how strong and strong should I be!" ”

"At that time, if the Huns want to commit a border and casually absorb the people into the army, they will be first-class strong pawns!"

Liu Che was flushed when he heard it: "Yes, the big farmer order is right!" ”

And the officials of the main hall were even more shocked to the point that they couldn't speak.

This is the first time that someone has actually put out the survey data to reason in the court battle that has always been based on eloquence and backstage arguments!

And Fan Ji can't refute it at all!

Tang Qi's attack has not stopped: "When the Dahan Department Store opened, the people ran and shouted like a festival, saying that such fair and benevolent shops must have been set up by the official family for the people, and they all thanked the kindness of the Son of Heaven." ”

"Then who is the 'people' who compete with the people in Fan Zhongcheng's mouth?"

As if playing a trick, Tang Qi took out another stack of papers: "The survey shows that after the opening of Dahan Department Store, the three largest oil shops around the West Market have seen their foot traffic drop by nearly seventy percent!" ”

"These three oil shops are the only ones in the whole Hengmen, and if people want to buy oil, they have to go to one of them to buy it. And their oil price has actually reached an exaggerated 400 Wen per catty! ”

"The price of oil in Dongshi is 100 Wen more expensive!"

Speaking of this, Liu Che's gaze had become calm.

Fan Zhu also sweated like rain.

Tang Qi smiled faintly and gave the final blow: "And one of them is called 'Zhen Ji Oil Shop', and the uncle of the old man in charge of the shopkeeper happens to be surnamed Fan, and he also happens to be working in the Yushitai!" ”

"Dare to ask Fan Zhongcheng, who is the 'people' in your mouth?!"