The residents of Kaifeng only hear their names about Li Yunxiao and Li Yanqing, the two big devils, but do not know who they are.

Even if Li Yunxiao and Li Yanqing sat side by side in the teahouse, the people around them didn't recognize the two of them, let alone Li Zhongyi, who was sitting in the center.

"I said, the imperial court has recently raided a lot of inferior gentry's houses, and the grain obtained is piled up, no, it is piled up like a sea......

"Alas, I've also heard about this, the granaries of the treasury in the capital are piled up, so I took them out and sold them open......"

"Hehe, I've lived a long time, and this is the first time that the rice jar at home is full. If it weren't for the lack of money, I really wanted to buy some back......"

"To put it mildly, since the family has been a loser, my life has not been easy. At noon the day before yesterday, I gritted my teeth and was ruthless, queuing up to buy 30 buckets of rice. I originally thought that there would be more or less a pressure scale mixed with sand and stones, who would have thought, my mother-in-law and I sifted it all over, what do you say, there is not a grain of sand and a stone, all of them are high-quality rice. ”

In this era, people's daily entertainment projects, in addition to visiting the Qinlou Chu Pavilion, are to make teahouses, walk tiles, and enjoy hundreds of operas.

Among them, the consumption is not high, it is suitable for chatting and exchanging information with each other, and the teahouse and wine shop are the most suitable!

Li Zhongyi took a sip of Chinese tea, and listened carefully to the conversation of the citizens with great interest, in this situation where Zhang San did not know Li Si, people are often easy to tell the truth.

Li Yanqing and Li Yunxiao both knew that Li Zhongyi liked to observe the people's habits, and the two of them just drank tea with their heads bored, and they never dared to disturb the interest of the Lord.

In an official-based society, most of the grass people are illiterate, but almost all of them understand the unspoken rules of politics.

The most popular sentence, which has been extended for thousands of years, is still the truth: Disaster comes from the mouth, don't talk about the country!

The little thing in the text is nothing more than a satire on the past and the present, referring to Sang scolding Huai, insinuating and other broken things.

What you say at home doesn't matter, the important thing is that through continuous word of mouth, or through writing books and speeches, through amplified and wide dissemination, you can indirectly influence the ideology of the grass people.

Therefore, the rulers of all dynasties have advocated the divine right of kings, but at the same time they are afraid of being exposed to the truth of exploitation. More or less, there will be text cases similar to Qingfeng who are illiterate and why bother flipping books.

However, the law of the cycle of chaos for thousands of years told Li Zhongyi that it was useless to make a big decision.

The mouth of the people is more than the suppression of the speech of the people, and when you zoom in on the long river of human historical development, you will be surprised to find that the text case is just a cover for the ruler's weak heart, except for making the grass people dare not scold their mothers publicly, there is no use at all.

When vested interest groups unscrupulously suck blood, but the imperial court is helpless, it is equivalent to opening the prelude to the next change of dynasty, and the cyclical rate of dynasty change officially takes effect!

After all, Li Zhongyi is the soul of modern people, and his knowledge beyond a thousand years tells him that people are selfish and interested animals. Divide the pie as fairly as possible, so that the interests of all strata are relatively balanced, this is the right way to long-term peace and stability in the world!

Aside from extremist rhetoric that divides the country or incites religion, it really doesn't matter what the grass people say publicly. It was important that the imperial court took care of the interests of yeoman farmers, small merchants, and small craftsmen.

The soldiers and the people are the foundation of victory, and the people here are mainly yeoman farmers, small merchants and small craftsmen, who are the precious wealth of the imperial court and the basic backbone of the financial resources and soldiers.

Acquiescing to the grass people scolding corrupt officials and corrupt officials will make it easier to relieve the pent-up grievances in their chests, so as not to let the accumulated grievances be ignited by the sparks after they are suddenly ignited.

If you don't explode in silence, you die in silence!

The personal preferences of the leaders are actually very social imitations. For example, Li Zhongyi likes to drink tea with melon seeds.

The teahouses and restaurants in the entire Kaifeng city will put a small plate of fried melon seeds in advance before serving tea or dishes.

For another example, Li Zhongyi likes long-legged women who wear high-heeled leather shoes and their legs cover mesh and black silk. The dignitaries and nobles in Kaifeng City, even if there are no conditions, must create conditions to keep up with the pace of the Lord of the world.

Recently, more than 100 show girls selected in the palace have all changed into tailor-made cheongsams of various colors and black high-heeled leather shoes.

The show girls who are selected from the pile of beauties, whether they are walking, sitting, or twisting their thin waists, their perfect curves are exposed. The white and tender skin shrouded in black silk of the mesh loomed from the slit of the cheongsam of the show girls, which really caught the eyeballs and made the magnates in Kaifeng City drool.

Of course, the defenders also openly scolded: it is immoral, insults the ancestors, and defiles the saints!

Li Zhongyi knew who was scolding, but he just didn't hear it, and still went his own way!

Nima, the show girl who was selected into the palace, is theoretically a woman that Li Zhongyi can enjoy at will. If he even has to look at the eyes of the defenders to dress up his own women, then what kind of supreme person in the world is it? It's better to go home and plant white siads!

In the teahouse, the tea guests chatted with each other, and no one noticed Li Zhongyi's group of four people.

"A few days ago, when I happened to pass by the gate of the Dali Temple, I witnessed a strange case. Guess what, the officials of the Dali Branch Temple actually did not pay attention to the "money people" and "money" for the first time, and only sentenced the small family in debt to only need to bear one cent of interest every year. ”

"Ah, that's the case?"

"It's impossible, this year, no matter who borrows money, it must at least double every six months, right?"

"It only doubles every six months, hmph, that's really the price of conscience. The profit in my neighborhood has doubled in three months, and the profit in one year has increased at least tenfold. ”

"How can a case be decided like this? Could it be that whoever is poor is justified? A middle-aged man in a blue shirt with a sharp mouth slammed the table and stood up abruptly, "This is simply a ridiculous case of a confused official judgment." ”

Li Zhongyi glanced at the middle-aged man in the blue shirt with a sharp mouth casually, and Li Yanqing immediately reached under the stool and secretly made a gesture that only his henchmen in the Gongzheng Temple could understand.

Usury, no matter what era it is, is just slightly different in name.

For the usury of this dynasty, the people who really paid the money were called the money people, and the people who specialized in lending the middlemen were called the bank money. Money people who have a lot of spare money are hot, because there are so many lending businesses that it is impossible to be busy, so it is very necessary to ask the bank to act as an agent.

The proportion of profit sharing between the money and the bank is usually split in half. The bank did not make a big profit, but the harvest was huge, and it is conceivable that the enthusiasm for lending was very high.

After Li Zhongyi came to power, in addition to tightening the military and political power, the focus of stabilizing the regime has always been to crack down on the local tyrants and inferior gentry who endanger the township.

Among them, one of the most important links is the unprecedented public issuance of a decree: the imperial court does not recognize the legitimacy of private loan interest, and restricts the interest for one year, at most no more than one cent of interest on the loan.

More than one cent of profit, Dali Temple not only does not support it at all, but also regards it as a criminal act. If the amount involved in the private lending exceeds 50 yuan, not only will the principal amount of at least 1,000 times be confiscated and the upper limit will be confiscated, but the person will also be arrested.

Exploitation in the financial sector is the highest level of exploitation. Among them, the convenience of collusion with the government, natural or man-made disasters, and unscrupulous usury by the powerful are one of the biggest stumbling blocks to the survival and development of yeoman farmers, small merchants, and small handicraftsmen.

After the establishment of the new regime, Li Zhongyi took Kaifeng Prefecture as the starting point of the pilot project and gradually established the Dali branch temple across the country, that is, deprived the magistrates of their judicial powers.

There are always two sides to the coin, and Li Zhongyi must not only curb the flood of usury, but also severely crack down on the "old lai" who do not repay their debts.

The labor reform system, a vicious system that has long been scolded by the majority of intellectuals, can be used by Li Zhongyi at his fingertips.

The core point of the labor reform under the new regime is that only debtors or criminals who have passed the judgment of the Dali Branch Temple can be arrested and sent to the engineering camp to undertake the heavy responsibility of repairing bridges and paving roads and building water conservancy projects.

It is only natural to repay debts. If you can't repay the money for the time being, you will use the money earned as a coolie to repay the debt in installments. When to pay off the debts, when to leave the labor camp, Tong Su is not bullied.

I think that at the beginning, in the last years of the Qin Dynasty, hundreds of thousands of prisoners repaired the mausoleum and palace of Qin Shi Huang. Now, Li Zhongyi has sent these people to build bridges and pave roads, and engage in the construction of necessary infrastructure, which not only does not take money in vain to feed idlers, but also greatly promotes the development of commerce and trade.

If you want to build the logic of building roads first, people at this time don't understand it at all, but Li Zhongyi has long seen through the mystery.

"Brother Zhengfang, please be cautious, we grass people, it's better not to talk about the country!" A horse-faced man in a white Confucian shirt was so frightened that his face changed drastically, and he hurriedly persuaded Brother Zhengfang, who might cause trouble.

"Brother Yang, you're also a little timid and scared, aren't you? As long as that copper stinker is allowed to mess around, I am not allowed to wait for the doctor to say a few words? "Brother Zhengfang was in a state of anger, he endured and endured, but the interests of the family were greatly damaged, and he couldn't bear it.

Li Zhongyi touched his chin and smiled slightly, and the policy of severely cracking down on usury was strongly opposed by the four ministers of the entire cabinet before it was promulgated.

Among them, Kong Kun attacked the most fiercely, and gave Li Zhongyi a big hat of competing with the people.

Hehe, Li Zhongyi is indeed competing with the people for profit, but this people are all either rich or noble, and the other people are all homesteaders or small businessmen and small handicraftsmen.

"Brothers, if you allow the copper stinkers to mess around, in the long run, the country will not be a country, and the world will be in chaos." Brother Zhengfang spat angrily, and actually pointed the spearhead of the attack at Li Zhongyi.

The three benevolent brothers who shared the table with Brother Zhengfang were so frightened that they didn't dare to share the table with them anymore, and they slipped out of the teahouse one after another.

Li Zhongyi couldn't help laughing, although he didn't engage in writing cases, but the old tradition that has been handed down for thousands of years, Mo Tan Guo, is still extremely shocking.

"Brother Zhengfang, junior brother very much agrees with you, if you are not particularly busy, can you move this table?" Li Zhongyi put Li Yunxiao and Li Yanqing, whose faces were dark, aside, got up and gave up their hands, and invited each other very warmly.

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