As far as this matter is concerned, it is actually not a big deal, the taxes collected by the imperial court are really not much, and the burned cargo ships, that is, the three small ones, did not burn the fleet going south along the canal, Qian Dafang They have no loss, and their fear actually comes from the fear in their hearts.

And this fear can be said to have been formed over hundreds of years.

Because since the Shang Dynasty changed the law, it has established the idea of valuing agriculture and suppressing business, merchants are very humble, if the court exploits farmers too much, then farmers will revolt, because the main body of each dynasty is a farmer, once the farmers in the world are all in trouble, the country is finished.

And the scholars are at the top of the four classes, they have the protection of the system, and the ruling class is almost all composed of scholars, even if they fight, it is a dog-eat-dog.

The words of craftsmen, although they are also humble, are not much better than merchants, industry and commerce are one, but people are craftsmen, because craftsmen are working, they will not recruit anyone to provoke anyone.

Only the businessman is the most embarrassing, the purpose of the businessman is to make money, and making money is endless, then it must hurt the interests of others, and the businessman is to make money with wisdom, and he is to make money with a kind of wisdom that is not recognized by the world. As soon as those landlords and farmers saw the merchants tossing their left and right hands, it was enough for them to plant land for several years, so as long as the court punished the merchants, everyone would applaud them, since ancient times, many dynasties encountered problems, especially financial problems, they took the merchants to open the knife, and the merchants were rich and fat enough, and they could also borrow the merchants to transfer the contradictions.

The merchant power is too humble, there is no power to resist at all, in fact, it is not much better now, although under the leadership of Han Yi, the merchant class began to rise, but it is only in the initial stage, this force is still the weakest of the four classes.

It is precisely because of this kind of thinking of valuing agriculture and suppressing commerce that the slightest wind and grass has caused businessmen to be like frightened birds, so afraid that they can't do it, as if the sky is about to fall.

Rao is a big family like the Yuan family, and it is no exception.

"Grandpa, our losses are not big, just three small cargo ships, and a few people have some minor injuries."

After listening to Yuan Xiu's report, Yuan Xi and the others were very solemn on their faces, without the slightest look of joy.

"Losses are secondary!" Yuan Xi sighed and said, "The key is that the imperial court's response is unsettling!" ”

"Yes!" Yuan Le was also worried, and said: "Now that Han Yi is not here, we don't know whether the imperial court is really trying to calm the anger of the public, or whether it is necessary to start suppressing businessmen, and the imperial court has put Li Yifu in charge of the Commercial Taxation Bureau, which is extremely bad for us!" ”

Yuan Xi nodded and said: "If the imperial court is just to appease the anger, then we should also support it, but if not, we will be in trouble." Speaking of this, he added: "No matter what, we have to look at it first, but during this period, we must be extra careful in everything, and we must avoid this kind of thing from happening to us." ”

Yuan He said: "In this case, why not take advantage of the situation to turn the focus to Jiangnan, and even in the Lingnan region, I always feel that doing business in Chang'an is not very stable, after all, Chang'an is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, if something happens, it must be the businessmen of Chang'an first, and if we go to Yangzhou, even if something happens, we can deal with it calmly." ”

The implication is that at least we can run.

In fact, this matter is not very serious, but even the Yuan family thought of running away, which shows the mentality of this ancient businessman.

Yuan Xi nodded and said, "Fourth brother is right, in fact, the wealth of our Yuan family has been shifting to the south, and now we can increase investment in Lingnan." So, I'll write a letter to Peony and see what they mean. ”

......

Gold Row!

"Those idiots, they still want to stay here, hmph, Lao Tzu doesn't care about them, Lao Tzu will go first."

Qian Dafang sat in the VIP room, eating candied fruit while chattering.

After a while, Sang Mu walked in and said, "Old Qian, this is your golden ticket." ”

Qian Dafang took the golden ticket and counted it, this is not a small amount, a golden ticket is worth a hundred yuan, he clicked it several times, to make sure that there were no mistakes or omissions, then carefully put it in the box, and said to Sang Mu: "Sang Mu, didn't you tell Brother Han about this?" ”

Sang Mu said: "Engong is guarding filial piety at home at this time, how can I be embarrassed to disturb him for this little thing." ”

Qian snorted generously and said: "This is not a trivial matter, once the commercial tax is levied, today it will be five yuan, and tomorrow it may be fifty yuan." ”

Sang Mu smiled: "It's not as serious as you think, the imperial court collects commercial taxes, but it is also to appease public anger, this tax is nothing for your old money." ”

"Yes, it's nothing. But with my little bit of goods, it will burn out in less than half a day! Qian Dafang rolled his eyes and said.

Mulberry smiled but did not speak.

Qian Dafang squinted at Sang Mu again, and said, "Hey! Sang Mu, when Brother Han was leaving, did he really leave any tricks? ”

Sang Mu shook his head and said: "When Engong left, he just asked me to take care of the business, but he didn't leave anything behind, anyway, after two or three years, Engong will come back." ”

Qian Dafang sighed and said: "I don't care, anyway, I plan to go to Yangzhou to find Brother Han, this Chang'an business can be done, and I won't force it if I can't do it." As he spoke, he kept paying attention to Sang Mu's expression, but unfortunately Sang Mu's face was expressionless.

He was bored with himself, so he could only take the golden ticket and leave.

After he left, Sang Mu sat in the VIP room, frowning, and after a while, he suddenly shouted outside: "Someone! ”

A girl in uniform immediately walked in.

Sang Mu said: "Go and talk about the spring branch called." ”

"Yes."

After a while, I saw a young woman in her twenties walk in and say, "Boss, are you looking for me?" ”

Sang Mu nodded and said, "If I'm not mistaken, Cao Hui also has a loan in our gold bank. ”

"Yes, at the beginning of this year, Cao Hui borrowed 100 yuan from our gold bank."

"I'm afraid this account will become a bad debt." Sang Mu sighed: "Now the world is not peaceful, our gold bank also has to shrink the loan, in the future, but all loans of more than 50 yuan must go through my nod." ”

"Yes."

......

......

Daheungzenji Temple.

"Daddy, it seems that we all guessed wrong, Empress Wu recalled Li Yifu to Chang'an, it doesn't seem to be for the sake of the Shishu dispute."

The more Cui Jijian spoke, the more confused he became, and said: "After Li Yifu returned to Chang'an, he did not take revenge on Li Chongde's brothers, and also asked Li Chongde to add his family tree to the genealogy of the Li family in Zhao County, as if he wanted to win over our Shi clan. In addition, in the case of Xuzhou, according to the child's opinion, if there was no instigation of the local scholars, those villagers would not dare to make trouble, which gave Queen Wu a chance for them, but judging from the current situation, Queen Wu seems to be biased against them, is this just their plan to capture and indulge? ”

"They're going for Han Yi." Cui Pingzhong's eyelids drooped, as if he was thinking about something, and he didn't know whether he was talking about it for himself or his son.

"Huh?"

Cui Jijian looked at Cui Pingzhong in surprise.

Cui Pingzhong was stunned, raised his head, looked at Cui Jijian, and after a while, he said: "Think about it, Han Yi made immortal achievements, his father's grave was washed down, Han Yi went home to guard filial piety, Li Yifu returned, and Xuzhou burned merchant ships." Han Yi's father's grave did not collapse early or late, but it was washed away on the eve of Han Yi's worship. The cargo ship in Xuzhou did not burn in the morning or in the evening, but it was not burned until after Han Yi left. How can there be so many coincidences? ”

Cui Jijian asked: "The first thing may be a coincidence, and the second thing may be that those gentry and landlords are afraid of Han Yi, so they choose Han Yi to leave to do this." ”

"But have you ever wondered why they are afraid of Han Yi, a child from a peasant family? That's because Han Yi has always had the support of His Majesty and the Empress. Now that they are no longer afraid, I think the reason may be the same. ”

Cui Pingzhong said: "Actually, after I returned to Chang'an, I was only doing one thing, that is, observing Han Yi, studying Han Yi's changes, and even indulging in it, I always thought that Han Yi was planning something, and I also wanted to know the answer, and I once thought that I was very close to Han Yi, but as these things happened, I felt that I was in a fog, and Han Yi became like a departure in front of me." It wasn't until after this incident that I suddenly figured it out. If there is a contradiction between Empress Wu and Han Yi, then all this can be explained clearly. ”

Cui Jijian was surprised: "How is this possible, Empress Wu has always trusted Han Yi very much, and there has been no conflict between them. ”

Cui Pingzhong said: "If I had known the reason, I wouldn't have been confused at the beginning, but judging from the development of this matter, this possibility is very high, and something must have happened that we don't know about." ”

Cui Jijian pondered for a moment and said, "If this is the case, it is very likely that Han Yi's father's grave was moved by Empress Wu. ”

"Nope."

Cui Pingzhong said: "I think it was Han Yi's own hands. ”

"What?"

Cui Jijian looked at Cui Pingzhong in shock.

Cui Pingzhong said: "Although Han Yi has unlimited scenery, he actually has no power in the court, far inferior to Queen Wu, in fact, as long as Han Yi is taken down, those businessmen are just some ants, deal with businessmen first, in order to weaken Han Yi, this is inevitably a redundant move." The key is that Han Yi is deeply trusted by His Majesty, and with His Majesty's protection, Empress Wu has no way to take him. It just so happened that Han Yi had made immortal achievements at that time, if I were Han Yi's enemy, I would definitely light another fire, so that Han Yi would enter the phase, and his merits would be high, causing His Majesty's suspicion, this is the most effective way to deal with Han Yi, Empress Wu is extremely smart, it is impossible not to think of this.

Therefore, if it was just an accident, it was God helping Han Yi. But based on my observation of Han Yi, everything he does is actually useful, and everything is related to each other, which shows that he is not a person who is willing to entrust his life to God, he wants everything to be in his own hands. If it were someone else, I might believe that it was an accident, but when it happened to Han Yi, I don't think it was an accident or a coincidence. However, this matter was extremely beneficial to Han Yi at that time, if my previous assumption was not wrong, and there was an irreconcilable contradiction between Han Yi and Empress Wu, then I am sure that it was Han Yi himself. ”

Cui Jijian was stunned for a while, and said: "This --- is really unbelievable, how could he do this, this ......." ”

Cui Pingzhong said: "The shocked look on your face is the reason why he chose to do this, because no one believes that he will do this, so that he can hide from the world and pave the way for the next step." ”

"What's next?"

"Not bad."

Cui Pingzhong said: "I remember I once told you that Han Yi's idea of changing the law is from the bottom up, which is diametrically opposed to the idea of changing the law of those virtuous ministers in ancient times. However, Han Yi never proposed to change the law, but in fact, the change has been going on all along, and he is using his identity as a businessman to carry out it.

Therefore, the real power of Han Yi is actually contained in the 'bottom', not the 'up'. Since he joined the company, he has done some things, he has built a new market, built North Lane, built an amusement park, built Zhaoyi College, and built a civil security bureau. Everything is closely related to the people, but he can be said to have done nothing in the court, but whenever there is a fight between the court and the center, he chooses to stay out of the matter, and for hundreds of years, there has been no official like him.

But it is precisely because of this that no one can detect how much power he hides, because there is no precedent, so it doesn't matter if he is the prime minister or not, anyway, he has no power in the court, at the level of 'Shang', he can't fight anyone, he has never suppressed any minister in the court, because he doesn't have this strength, but in today's situation, Empress Wu is going to fight against him in 'Xia', maybe this is what Han Yi wants. ”

Cui Jijian said: "But what is the purpose of his doing this? ”

Cui Pingzhong pondered for a moment and said, "Han Yi created the Six Learnings of the Sage, a completely new thought. ”

Cui Jijian was stunned and said, "What is the relationship between the two?" ”

Choi Pyong-joong said: "Can you understand why Han Yi was able to create a completely new idea? ”

Cui Jijian shook his head.

Cui Pingzhong said: "I can't either, in the same way, I can't guess what Han Yi's ultimate goal is, because our minds are bound to Confucianism and Taoism, and he is outside Confucianism." But as long as you figure out his bottom-up thinking of changing the law, you can still see some clues. ”

Cui Jijian thought for a moment, and suddenly his eyes widened, and a bead of sweat the size of a bean flowed down, and said, "Let 'down' become 'up'." ”

Cui Pingzhong nodded and said: "Yes, only in this way can he be invincible, he can bring his thoughts to the extreme, if not, his situation will be very embarrassing, and everything he has established will be easily overturned, just like now." ”

"Isn't he going to ...... then?"

"Not necessarily, but we don't know, because we can't understand his kind of thinking." Cui Pingzhong shook his head and said.

Cui Jijian suddenly asked, "Why did Daddy tell the child about this?" ”

Cui Pingzhong was silent.

Cui Jijian said again: "Daddy wants the child to stand on Han Yi's side?" ”

Cui Pingzhong said: "Do you think you are 'above' or 'below'?" ”

Cui Jijian frowned and thought for a moment, and said, "Could this be the reason why you have always supported Han Yi, Daddy?" But as far as the child knows, you are not a person who cares about power. ”

Cui Pingzhong said: "This is just the reason why I persuaded you. ”

"Then why does Daddy support Han Yi?"

"Because Han Yi gave me an unprecedented expectation. And doing the same thing all the time is too boring. Fang Xuanling, eldest grandson Wuji, Du Ruhui and others are powerful, but they are just repeating Zhang Liang and Xiao He, if I join the ranks, I can't change anything, because I don't have the ability to create a new situation. Since the result will not change whether I join the company or not, then I might as well live a little more freely. ”

Cui Jijian was silent for a while, and said, "That is to say, Daddy thinks that Han Yi has the ability to create a new situation?" ”

Cui Pingzhong said: "I don't know if he can succeed, but he at least has this intention, I have carefully studied his every move, his thoughts, his actions, and his conduct in the world, all of which are others and today, and I have never seen them, so his intentions must be the same." Moreover, if you bet on Han Yi, it is a small and big one, a charcoal in the snow, and a strange commodity to live in, but if you stand on the side of Queen Wu, you are just icing on the cake. ”

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