As for the end of the month, a book suddenly caused an uproar in Luoyang.

That is the little-known Yingchuan people Zhong Fu wrote the evil gold said, this book at first glance, I thought it was a book on how to smelt steel, but the content was to make everyone dispute, although this Yingchuan people Zhong Shi has no prestige, but he is also a son of a big family, he is the general Zhong Liyi, after the officials, from Zhong Jie, Zhong Yan, Zhong Qin, Zhong Yuan, Zhong Period, to his father Zhong Hao, are all a celebrity.

His brother, Zhong Di, is the chief bookkeeper of Yingchuan County, but he is the only one who has not become an official.

has a prominent background, but the works he has made are abused by the family.

He demanded that the state be able to take back the monopoly of salt and iron, and not let the powerful landlords privately, and proposed to set up large-scale smelting plants and large-scale production in areas where minerals are concentrated.

He believed that the decentralized private iron-making and sales could not be compared with the centralized and unified smelting of the government, so if we wanted to renew iron tools on a large scale, improve people's livelihood, and improve armaments, it was necessary to use iron monopoly.

The little fat man, who saw the huge interests in it, hurriedly finished reading it, and immediately summoned the ministers to discuss the matter.

Because the little fat man had already passed this book to He Xiu, Yuan Feng and other important ministers went to see it, and the courtiers also knew what the Son of Heaven had summoned them for.

Yuan Feng, who is cautious and has never given testimony, was the first to walk out, bowed to the Son of Heaven, and then said: "In the past, the Xiongnu were rampant, invading the territory of our Han Dynasty, Emperor Xiaowu ordered Sang Hongyang to monopolize salt and iron, and to collect profits as military funds, and defeated the Huns. ”

"This harsh government is also, so the filial piety and the emperor opened the ban on salt and iron, and the people benefited, and they were already prosperous."

"Now, there is no enemy outside, there is no turmoil inside, the iron market tax, the salt and wine tax, if you take the liberty to open a monopoly again, I am afraid that it will cause turmoil among the people, and compete with the people for profit, this matter must not be done!"

Everyone nodded, thinking so, and someone on the side suddenly sneered: "That's not necessarily, Yuan Jun, it's just because of the smelting of salt and iron, and the hands of you, so admonished, during the Xiaowu period, there was never a place for centralized iron smelting, most of them were scattered, and the establishment of iron officials cost a lot, so the market price skyrocketed, if it was smelted with the location of the minerals, reducing the cost, why did the market price skyrocket?" ”

The one who said this was the one who heard the attack.

Yuan Feng was furious and scolded: "My Yuan family has half an acre of iron field salt land? Don't spew blood! ”

"If you are a monopoly, how are you going to sell? Do you want people to spend thousands of dollars to buy shovels, shovels, hoes, and rakes? Are you going to ruin this great prosperity?! Yuan Feng pointed at him and scolded, and when he heard that people were attacked and scolded, he was naturally angry, and the two debated in the temple, each saying their own thing, and no one could convince anyone, and most of the courtiers in the court supported Yuan Feng.

Because the Han has already tasted the bitterness of a monopoly, as Yuan Feng said, after the monopoly, the private smelting has been greatly hit, and the government in order to seek greater benefits, constantly raise the price, but also lose the competition, so that the materials are piled up, but the people can not buy, the market is depressed, although it is a huge profit in a short time, but it is not a long-term solution.

He believed that today's technology or manpower is much more developed than that of Emperor Xiaowu, as long as he can reduce costs, he will be able to control prices, enrich the treasury, and improve his reputation.

The ten thieves in the court were almost opposite him, and only a few people such as Cao Song always stood on his side and spoke for him.

The little fat man listened for a moment, and was also a little bored, frowned, thought, and turned his head to look at the most important minister in the court, He Xiu.

Today's He Xiu is the most powerful minister in the court, saying that he is powerful, not because he has many henchmen and can lean over the government, but because he has a high prestige and is deeply admired and feared by everyone, and the little fat man is also respectful to him, and most of the old ministers like him have died, so he has become the most senior minister among the ministers!

Over the years, the little fat man has also been rewarding him uninterruptedly, and has given him the privileges of praising and worshipping without a name, entering the court, wearing shoes and going to the palace, etc., just like the previous Xiao He story, praise and worship without a name, that is, when he visited the Son of Heaven, the yellow door of praise did not call his name directly, only called the official position, simply put, it was the little yellow door of the notice, and would not shout "Minister He Xiu asks His Majesty to bow down!" ”。

Instead, it will be called, "Situ asks Your Majesty!" ”。

In addition, if you don't enter the court, the rest of the ministers need to trot in the palace without interruption, and He Xiu can walk in slowly and swaggeringly, and he also walked in like this before, so it doesn't matter if this privilege is this, many elderly ministers will get this privilege, after all, it is not appropriate for you to let an old man trot in.

The last one is terrifying, it should have been a sword to go to the temple, that is, to allow the sword to wear shoes to see the Son of Heaven, but the Son of Heaven thought for a moment, or only gave him a shoes to go to the temple, you just wear shoes, as for the sword, forget it.

It's not that he's afraid that He Xiuxing will stab himself, or that he's afraid that the temple will have a dispute in case of a dispute, the old man shouted the hatred of the ninth world, and drew his sword and stabbed.

That's a bit terrifying, judging from He Gong's performance over the years, the Son of Heaven's actions have obviously saved the lives of many ministers.

The little fat man looked at He Xiu at this moment, hoping that He Xiu could give a solution, He Xiu also noticed the gaze of the Son of Heaven looking at him, he was on crutches and got up slowly, he was already a little old, and his body was slightly rickety, but when he got up, many of the ministers who were arguing suddenly quieted down, sat down slowly, and didn't dare to speak anymore.

He Shi slowly walked to the middle of the temple, and was about to salute, but the little fat man said helplessly: "He Shi doesn't have to be polite, I don't know what He Shi thinks about this matter?" He Xiu looked at the attack, and said: "It is not possible to monopolize it, but now, the official smelting iron is gradually becoming scarce, and the armed armaments of the northern army and the southern army even have to be purchased from the people, which is inappropriate." ”

"It is feasible to set up a large-scale smelting site, but it is not necessary to monopolize it, and it does not compete with the people for profit, and the government makes iron and steel, and it can also drive private smelting, and the technology can also be developed" He Xiu said, raised his head, looked at Wen Ren's attack, Wen Ren's attack forcibly squeezed out a smile, nodded, and said: "He Shi is talented, what he says is reasonable!" ”

The little fat man nodded, and the matter was also handed over to Wen Renxi, who asked him to set up a large-scale government to operate an iron smelting field, mainly to support the weapons and armaments of the Northern Army and the Southern Army, of course, people's livelihood utensils are also to be made, not to be a sideline.

Zhong Shiki, who wrote this book, was recruited by Lu Zhi as a long history and went to Hezhou.

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