Taiji Palace, majestic and tall, so tall that it is often struck by lightning, the weather is fine today, I think there will be no thunder and lightning, so Sun Xiangfu is not afraid of talking loudly in the hall.

"Sun Zhengming, the pastor of Weichen, meet my emperor."

"Come forward and speak."

Li Shimin spit out four words with anger, Sun Xiangfu straightened his waist, and walked forward on the empty passage in the center of the civil and military courtiers.

"Sun Xiamu, today there is a royal history to impeach the prince for participating in private business and competing with the people for profit, which is the Wangjiang Tower managed by you, I ask you, is there such a thing?" Li Shimin's majestic gaze stared at Sun Xiangfu's eyes and said.

"Back to Your Majesty, the son is empty, the management rights of Wangjiang Tower are all in the hands of Weichen, although the prince has investment and shares, but he has no right to operate." Sun Xiangfu replied simply and simply.

"Hmph, ignorant child, as the crown prince, how can the prince invest in business, it must be the bewitchment of a slanderous minister like you, Your Majesty, please behead this person." Cui Shixun saw that Sun Xiangfu admitted that the prince contributed to the shares, and immediately jumped out of the class.

day, as soon as you come up, you will kill your brother, and then your brother will be polite to you.

Sun Xiangfu thought so in his heart, turned to look at Cui Shixun who was angry, and said, "This adult, what is your surname?" ”

"My official's surname is Cui." Cui Shixun glanced at Sun Xiangfu and said.

"Oh! It turns out that the surname Cui, presumably from the Qinghe Cui family, or the Boling Cui family, it doesn't matter, anyway, it is a big family, people like you, adults, you must not worry about eating and drinking since childhood, and you don't know the pain of people like us who came out of the countryside. ”

"Hmph, don't talk about him left and right, now in front of the court, you only need to bow your head and confess, and the official will ask Your Majesty to give you a happy death." Choi Se-hoon interrupted Sun Xiangfu's words.

"This, it seems that Master Cui, you don't have the right to condemn the official to death! Besides, whether the lower official is guilty or not has not yet been decided! Lord Cui has repeatedly drunk the official with the fear of death, what is the intention of this? ”

Sun Xiangfu looked unhurried, but his words were loud, although he did not directly say that Cui Shixun was despising the imperial power, but this is what he meant.

No one who can stand on top of the court is a fool, and neither is Cui Shixun, so he hurriedly bowed his hand to Li Shimin and said, "Weichen is indignant for a while, and his words are inappropriate, I hope Your Majesty will atone for his sins." ”

Li Shimin saw that Sun Xiangfu was not afraid of Cui Shixun's performance just now, and he was overjoyed, so he had a lot of expectations for him, nodded and said, "Cui Qing wait a moment and see how this son explains." ”

After speaking, Li Shimin and the princes of the court all looked at Sun Xiangfu, and Sun Xiangfu also bowed his hand to Li Shimin, "Your Majesty, the prince is talented and intelligent, proficient in the way of governing the country, and when he learned that the people were suffering, he contributed money to find a way out for the people." ”

"Uh······"

In the main hall, many courtiers' mouths opened unconsciously wide, but they didn't know what to say, this is too blind, the eight-year-old prince is proficient in governing the country? Is the contribution to find a way out for the people?

Hearing this, Li Shimin was also happy, he almost didn't laugh, and still said with a straight face, "What are the details, you can tell me carefully." ”

"Wechen obeys."

Sun Xiangfu said slowly after receiving the order, "Here's the thing, Weichen's vocational field is fifty miles outside Xinfeng County, a place called Xingfu Village, where there are fifty farmers, in addition to cultivating Weichen's 2,000 acres of vocational land and 2,000 acres of Huangzhuang field, the villagers also built their own fisheries, pig farms, and chicken farms.

Nowadays, the fishery raises more than 400,000 fish, weighing one million catties, and the daily feed is hundreds of stones, and the pig farm also raises more than 1,000 fat pigs, and the daily feed is also hundreds of stones, and the chicken farm raises tens of thousands of adult chickens, and the daily grain and rice are quite a lot, but most of the farmers are illiterate, do not know the way of management, and it is difficult to maintain the situation, so they entrust Weichen to help them sell part of the output at a good price, so that they can continue to buy feed and maintain germination.

Everyone also knows what kind of livelihood in Chang'an can sell these agricultural and sideline products at a high price, yes, it is a restaurant, so Wechen wants to open a restaurant to help the villagers, but unfortunately some families are not happy to see our farmers make money after receiving the wind, they unite and coerce the merchants of Chang'an to not be allowed to rent and sell the place to Wechen to open a restaurant, so Wechen thought of building himself.

But the cost of building a restaurant is too great, and Wechen had no choice but to ask the prince and several grandfathers of the country, the prince sympathized with the hardships of the farmers, and wanted to help them solve this matter, so he and several princes jointly contributed money and land, so that Wechen built the restaurant, but the prince said that as the crown prince, it is unwise to compete with the people for business and profit, so he did not ask the ministers for any right to operate the restaurant, dare to ask the ministers, what did the prince do wrong? ”

When Sun Xiangfu talked about a small village of 50 families with a fishery of more than 400,000 fish, the ministers' mouths were wide open, not to mention that there were more than 1,000 fat pigs and tens of thousands of chickens, could such a village exist?

"Your Majesty, this person has lied a lot and deceived the king, and he should be beheaded." This time it wasn't Cui Shixun who jumped out, but Wei Zheng, his straight temper was done again, and he thought that the data Sun Xiangfu said was too untrue.

"Dare to ask Lord Wei, is the sentence of the lower official lying?" Sun Xiangfu looked at Wei Zhengdao with some depression.

"How can a village of fifty households raise so many fish, so many pigs, and so many chickens, you are obviously deceiving the king." Wei Zheng almost poked the bridge of Sun Xiangfu's nose with his finger and roared.

"Well, Your Majesty should know about this matter, as well as the Duke of Yiguo, the Duke of Liyang County, etc., all know, Lord Wei may not know, in August this year, when His Majesty ascended the throne, the more than 10,000 catties of yellow eel loaches used in the imperial banquet were provided by Happy Village, even if it is the middle of winter, if Your Majesty wants to hold another imperial banquet of that scale, Happy Village can still provide enough ingredients." Sun Xiangfu looked for witnesses and gave examples.

Then, Wei Zheng's eyes looked at Li Shimin, Qin Qiong, Dugumou and others, and after everyone nodded to him to confirm, Wei Zheng closed his mouth with a look of disbelief, if this thing is true, then the nature of the whole thing will change, after his pair of cloudy old eyes turned around twice in his eye sockets, he arched his hand towards Li Shimin and said, "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the prince is not guilty." ”

Cui Shixun saw that Wei Zheng, the gunner who suddenly jumped out to help him, changed his attitude in an instant, and hurriedly answered, "Lord Wei is confused, this kid is clever and clever, but he can't hide the fact that the prince is in business. ”

"This, what kind of adult, what the surname is, it doesn't matter, anyway, it's a big family, an adult who doesn't worry about money in the family, the lower officials have something unclear, and the law of the Tang Dynasty says that the crown prince can't do business?"

"This ······"

"You don't need this, that, I can't do business as the crown prince! But is the prince in business? The management rights of Wangjianglou are all in Weichen, as long as in the next sentence, Wangjianglou is closed now, legally, the prince can't stop it, he is not a courtier, and he doesn't commit any taboos in business! ”

Although the current law of the Tang Dynasty stipulates that officials and their immediate family members cannot do business, it is limited to the courtiers in charge of the imperial court office, and retainers like Sun Xiangfu are not included, and there are eunuchs in the palace who are specifically responsible for purchasing! That is also the emperor's retainer, and there are people with a higher grade than Sun Xiangfu, what can you say.

Moreover, the Tang Dynasty did not have any laws that stipulated the behavior of the monarch and the prince, but the ministers said that the impact was not good, and Sun Xiangfu took the law to refute them, and they had nothing to say.

Seeing that everyone was speechless, Sun Xiangfu said again, "Then let's talk about competing with the people for profit, the prince invested to help Weichen and the villagers build a restaurant, in order to help the farmers sell the things they produce in their hands, so that the farmers can benefit, and this is the profit of the people?" ”

"Hmph, dozens of restaurants in Chang'an, all of them are withering because of your Wangjiang Tower, and the diners are withering, and they can't make a profit, and you still say that this is not competing with the people for profit?" Choi Se-hoon sneered.

"Hehe, then according to what you say, should there be only one restaurant in this world? Otherwise, any restaurant that appears again is competing with this restaurant for profit? Does this make sense? ”

"This ······"

Cui Shixun was dumbfounded again, but Sun Xiangfu didn't want to look at his face more, and continued. "It's ridiculous that uneducated people who don't even understand the meaning of the word Shang have the face to stand on the court."

Sun Xiangfu twice made Cui Shixun indefensible, and Li Shimin on the dragon chair and one of his hardcore supporters were secretly cool, at this time, they all looked at Cui Shixun with a forced gaze to see what else he had to say.

"Hmph, businessmen, buy low and sell high, hoard, do not produce, and get huge profits, which is the moth of the country."

Cui Shixun was provoked by Sun Xiangfu, so he said out loud the explanation of Shang Yizi at the moment.

"Oh, it turns out that Master Cui understands! Then tell me, in the whole process, the Wangjiang Building built by the prince can buy low and sell high, hoard and live, do not produce, and get huge profits? Sun Xiangfu asked rhetorically.

"This ······" Cui Shixun was speechless, people sell their own output, and there is no problem of buying low in the first place, so it really makes sense to say that the prince is not in business.

"You're out here! Wangjianglou sells, are all self-produced in the micro-minister's field and Huangzhuang, dare to ask the court, your family's career field fiefdom produced things, don't you sell out? I do not believe that all the gold, silver, and copper coins you spend grow out of the ground. ”

As soon as Sun Xiangfu said this, all the princes in the court were stunned, but although Cui Shixun's anxious brain was short-circuited, he also wanted a lot of comrades, and one of them, an official of the Ministry of Rites named Wu Yingxue, came out of the class and said, "Our ministers are different from the royal family, don't confuse the public." ”

Sun Xiangfu looked at this Wu Yingxue like a fool, "You are still allowed to sell, not the royal family?" Then you tell me that Your Majesty owns 90,000 acres of Huangzhuang, does the grain produced by these 90,000 acres of farmland have to be eaten by the royal family himself? Do you calculate for everyone, how many years can the output of just one year be enough for the royal family? Shall all the surplus grain be put into the warehouse and rot? Do you think this makes sense? ”

"This ······"

Wu Yingxue was dumbfounded, and Cui Shixun was already short of breath at the moment, his eyes were rolling, and he wanted to find a reason to refute Sun Xiangfu, but found that he couldn't find it.

At this time, Li Shimin on the dragon chair almost couldn't help laughing, Sun Xiangfu's words were simple and rude, but it was very reasonable, buying low and selling high, it was the businessman who hoarded Juqi, and it was human nature to sell the things from his own land in exchange for what he needed, everyone has this need, and the royal family is no exception.

Finally, after slowing down for two minutes, Cui Shixun thought of a way to break the situation, and said, "That's good, not to mention the prince's business, you look at the high prices of Jianglou, and the extravagance of Chang'an is prevalent, this is true!" ”

"Well, it turns out that such a trivial matter in the court can be discussed! Forgive your ignorance, this Lord Cui, how did the Wangjiang Tower, which was only opened yesterday, cause the extravagance of Chang'an overnight, and it is still prevalent? ”

"This ······"