"Are you healed? Didn't you refuse to go with the army before? Why are you going again now? Li Shimin turned his head to look at Mo Shuyu, as if he wanted to see which tendon Mo Shuyu was wrong.

"The kid just thought about it for a long time in front of the grave, and he thought that I still had to go to the Turks!" Mo Shuyu also stared at Li Shimin, wanting to prove that he was fine.

"What are you doing in the Turks?" Li Shimin was also stunned, he was asked to go before, he wanted to die, but now he took the initiative to go.

"Revenge! In order to defeat the Tibetans, capture Wang Youxue! Mo Shuyu thought about it, and he still had to implement the plan quickly, so that he could get rid of Tubo and catch Wang Youxue.

"Tubo and Wang Youxue are both in the south, and the Turks are in the north, so they are in the opposite direction." Li Shimin didn't understand what Mo Shuyu was thinking, why he had to go to Turkia now.

"Your Majesty! Do you remember what I said when I gave my advice? The emptiness of the treasury could not support two major wars, and the boy offered a plan to get the businessmen to pay for the treasury. "Mo Shuyu has a huge plan in his heart, but he still has to rely on businessmen to do it.

"I remember, but what does this have to do with your trip to the Turks?"

"Your Majesty, let the boy take the merchants to the Turks, and every time Uncle Li Jing conquers a piece of Turkic territory, the boy will value it and sell it to the merchants, as well as the prisoners of war and all the treasures obtained by the army." Mo Shuyu couldn't wait to finish fighting the Turks and then let the imperial court issue national bonds, he was ready to directly save the bonds, and directly exchange the land, population, and treasures for money and wealth with merchants, and he could also buy people's hearts.

"Selling the land to the merchants, isn't it all the land that the Tang Dynasty army has beaten down to the merchants? So what do I get? "The ancients were still too obsessed with land, and even Li Shimin, who was already the largest landlord in the Tang Dynasty, was reluctant to sell the land he got to others.

"Your Majesty, we can state in the contract when we sell to the merchant that the land will be sold for only fifty years, and after fifty years it will be state-owned. And when we trade, we give priority to the merchants who carry grain and grass, and when the time comes, the merchants will not only enrich the treasury, but also bring the prisoners and treasures back to the Tang Dynasty, so as not to reduce the pressure on the army? ”

Mo Shuyu's idea is actually very simple, where the army fights, the merchants will follow, and encourage the merchants to carry food, so that the army of the Tang Dynasty will reduce a great logistical need, and the merchants will definitely not only carry food, and the soldiers can also buy materials from the merchants to enrich their lives.

"It works, and I have it. It's up to you. Li Shimin had already gotten up and was about to leave, and walked back to listen to Mo Shuyu's plan.

Li Shimin is not worried at all that Mo Shuyu will use public and private interests after he arrives in Turkic, after all, there is a good chance that the people around Mo Shuyu are sent by him, and Mo Shuyu's every move cannot escape his eyes.

"I also ask Your Majesty to issue a document to inform the world that if it is done by a boy, I am afraid that except for a few businessmen, they will not believe the words of the boy. After all, since ancient times, there has never been a war in which an army fought in front and merchants bought land in the back, and merchants would inevitably doubt the credibility of this matter. ”

Mo Shuyu knew that if he went to announce the news by himself, except for Ma Cheng and others, I am afraid that there would be few businessmen. can only beg Li Shimin to tell the world to prove this.

"Well, let's do it, I'll say it tomorrow at the court meeting."

Li Shimin agreed easily, but only he understood the hardships and dangers, and when the time came, I was afraid that the scholars would buy land on a large scale while hindering it.

"If the nobles also buy land on a large scale, will it affect the current situation?"

"Your Majesty, land is only the first step of the boy, and the whole Shi clan bought land, but it was only used for farming. But at that time, only Han people were allowed to enter and exit the Turkic territory, and with the boy's plan, in the Turks, the Han people were expensive, how could they give the scholars to farm? Even the scholars bought a lot of Turkic slaves for him to farm, and as long as the rice in Zhancheng was promoted, the price of grain would definitely fall to the bottom. If the gentry had bought land just to delay my plans, they would have lost even more. ”

Mo Shuyu had already arrived, and the scholars knew that Li Shimin and the two of them had been planning to weaken the power of the scholars, and the Turks were part of the plan. With Li Shimin's support, they can't stop Mo Shuyu, but they can still do it if they stumble on Mo Shuyu.

Mo Shuyu calculated the Shi clan from the beginning, and since the Shi clan knew that Mo Shuyu was going to deal with them, they would definitely not be able to sit idly by and ignore Mo Shuyu's plan, and they would definitely rush to buy Turkic land with the merchants when the time came. Mo Shuyu's next plan was to let the Shi clan lose money after buying the land, and even his mother didn't know him.

"Haha, okay, Sanfeng's plan is linked one by one, the Shi clan buys land, not only will it have no impact on you, but you will also lose all your money, and if you don't buy it, you can only watch you weaken their power. You're not a conspiracy, it's just a conspiracy, okay, good. ”

Li Shimin listened to Mo Shuyu's explanation and shouted a few times.

"Your Majesty, the Shi clan is not Er'er, it is easy to deal with it, but it cannot be eradicated, after all, the Shi clan is deep-rooted, if it is forced into a dead end, I am afraid that there will be a big turmoil in the Tang Dynasty under the death of the fish."

Most of the current government of the Tang Dynasty is controlled by the scholars, and Mo Shuyu can suppress them from all aspects such as the economy, but there is no way to squeeze the scholars out of the court.

"Yes, so what do you have to do?"

Li Shimin touched his chin and thought for a while, feeling that what Mo Shuyu said was reasonable, even if Mo Shuyu could squeeze the scholar clan from all aspects of the economy and other aspects, there were still too many places above the court that were controlled by the scholar clan. If the net is broken, all the scholars will strike the dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty will probably be in chaos.

"Your Majesty, for example, the siege of the city, no matter how good the chance of victory, is to surround the three and give the enemy a hope of life. For the scholars, too, they must not be forced into a dead end, and they must be allowed to see the hope of life. ”

Mo Shuyu took a sip of tea and seriously discussed with Li Shimin how to deal with the Shi clan.

"Then according to what you can see, how can you weaken the power of the scholar clan in the court?"

Li Shimin and Mo Shuyu discussed for a long time, and finally asked the most critical question.

"Since ancient times, it has been difficult to produce noble sons from poor families, and nearly seven of the world's scholars are in the hands of the scholars. His Majesty can select outstanding talents from among the children of the poor family to become officials in the court, and gradually weaken the influence of the scholars in the court. ”

"Well, since the Sui Dynasty, the imperial examination has indeed sent a lot of fresh blood to the imperial court. Sun Fujia, the first imperial examination in the fifth year of Wude, is now also a Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and he is also an official from the fourth grade. There are too few officials who can be selected every year for the reliable imperial examination. Li Shimin also knew that the selection of the children of the poor family in the imperial examination was a great help to weaken the influence of the scholars in the court, but the selection of the imperial examination every year was only a few people.

"Your Majesty, why do you only take a few of the best people every year? And why can you become a big official if you do well in the imperial examination? ”