Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize a boat.

In fact, this sentence can be used for every class, if you are not popular with the people, then you will not survive, whether you are a merchant or an emperor.

Why does the emperor like to suppress businessmen, it is not that every emperor has the gene of disgusting businessmen, the emperor does everything to meet his own political needs, because businessmen are inherently unpleasant, suppress businessmen, everyone supports, so that you can transfer contradictions, you have to suppress the gentry, there are more people who oppose it, that is to create contradictions.

Therefore, if a businessman wants to rise, this image must be changed, and he must be liked, in fact, before this, Han Yi was often coerced and lured by all kinds of coercion, so that businessmen can do something beneficial to the people, and the status of businessmen will slowly improve.

But Han Yi just said that he took the interests to induce, this can only be seen and fooled, and a mature idea can fool a large number of people, why that article brought a surprise to Han Yi is one reason, because it can prompt businessmen to think and change the image of businessmen.

If it doesn't change, then the merchant is a group of pigs, the emperor can slaughter at any time, anyway, slaughter the merchant, everyone supports it, and the merchant has a lot of money, the previous crisis, has already shown that as long as the person in power lets a little wind out, then everyone will push the wall.

In the midst of this small talk, the people of the Golden Bank, the Yuan Bank, and the Hubu finally came here under the protection of the forbidden army, and they brought all the raw materials for printing vouchers. The division of labor about printing vouchers is very detailed, all the printing tools are locked in the house, the raw materials are in the hands of the three parties who issue them, and the craftsmen who come here, although they are all the world's first-class skilled craftsmen, they can be used for a year by their family for printing once, but they are not craftsmen who produce raw materials, which is very fine, and it is important to ensure that neither party can print vouchers privately.

And when they come here, they also have to be reviewed, and there are strict restrictions on raw materials, and they can't bring more or less.

The examination alone will be reviewed until the afternoon, but the merchants and gentry who come here are not in a hurry at all, and the longer you censor, the more reassuring they will be.

But Han Yi has not participated in all affairs, he has always chatted with Qian Dafang and them, which is also stipulated, because Han Yi's identity is too sensitive, he is not only Shang Shuling, but also the owner of Jinxing, and he is still married to the Yuan family, so Zhang Wenguan asked Han Yi not to participate in it.

Although Han Yi does not participate, but Sang Mu participates, if any of you want to play tricks, then of course Han Yi will not agree, this design is also to supervise each other.

In short, the imperial court is quite cautious about printing vouchers, and tries to make it as complicated as possible, this kind of thing cannot be simple, and simple will cause problems.

However, this time the royal family did not send anyone to oversee it.

......

East Palace.

"Seeing Hong'er's body getting better and better day by day, I am relieved!"

Li Zhi was lying on the rattan chair, looking at Li Hong, who was walking slowly not far away accompanied by the imperial doctor, and couldn't help but smile, suddenly, he turned his head again, looked at Wu Meiniang, who was sitting on the side and was making tea, and said with a smile: "This is all the credit of the queen!" ”

Wu Meiniang said with a smile: "This mother takes care of her son, how can she say that she has a credit." ”

"Yes, yes, I was wrong." Li Zhi nodded with a smile, and said, "By the way, today seems to be the day when the voucher will be printed!" ”

Wu Meiniang snorted.

"I don't know how it's going." Li Zhi muttered to himself, and said, "Isn't the queen going to take a look?" ”

Wu Meiniang shook her head and said, "If I go, it will only cause trouble and won't help much." ”

Li Zhi said: "I have said it many times, and the previous things have passed it, and now whoever wants to hold on to it, I will not be able to spare him." ”

Because of Li Hong's relationship, the husband and wife came to the East Palace for a long time, and the relationship seemed to have returned to the previous glue-like paint.

"Your Majesty misunderstood, what the concubine said was not the case."

"And what are you talking about?"

Wu Meiniang said: "In the past year, the concubine had nothing to do in the palace, so she read a lot of books on Confucianism and Taoism. ”

Li Zhi sighed and asked, "How do you say this?" ”

Wu Meiniang said: "The ancestors have clouds, I do nothing, and the people are self-reliant; I am so quiet, and the people are upright; I have nothing to do, and the people are rich; I have no desire, but the people are simple. Isn't that the right thing for now? Your Majesty, you see that the workshops outside the city have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, producing a large number of goods, but there are far more than the previous small workshops, and they are much better, even the palace has begun to buy toilets and cement from the people, this is wealth, this is also a manifestation of the improvement of national strength, but is this what the imperial court asked them to do?

No, this is all developed by themselves, and what the imperial court gives them is assistance and allows them to develop freely. If Confucianism had relied on Confucianism, it would not have been possible to develop this scale of production, which shows that this is a natural development. And people can not go against the sky, the court naturally can not interfere with this natural development, but should conform to the natural development, to formulate the corresponding policy, make appropriate adjustments, the voucher is actually on behalf of the court of inaction, because it is the natural development to this step, the court did this, if I go, everyone will be concerned about my existence, will feel constrained, but not conducive to the implementation of the policy. Let's talk about the court. ”

Speaking of this, Wu Meiniang sighed lightly and said: "When the concubines revised the new policy, they used Confucianism, hoping to formulate a complete system to standardize everyone's moral behavior, educate the people, and tell them how to make a living, and how to do it is beneficial to the country and themselves, but I never thought that this result would be unsatisfactory."

In the final analysis, this person cannot go against the laws of natural development. Nowadays, although His Majesty and his concubines are leisurely drinking tea here and enjoying this family pleasure, the court is running very well, its efficiency is far better than before, and everything is done perfectly. This is because the courtiers have less restraints, and they are more able to exert their wisdom, instead of consulting the monarch first in everything, no matter how big or small, without exception. The concubine believes that the essence of Confucianism lies in education, so that the courtiers and the people know how to be loyal to the monarch and patriotism, but in terms of governing the country, they should adopt Taoist ideas and pursue the rule of inaction. ”

"Hmm."

Li Zhi nodded thoughtfully, and suddenly his eyes lit up, it was Long Yan Dayue, and said happily: "The queen's words are really wonderful, my Tang Dynasty is governed by inaction, so that I can go further, in terms of governing the country, this Taoist thought is indeed better than Confucianism." Ha ha! ”

Wu Meiniang is a very good politician, everything she says and does has a deep political meaning behind it.

Her words have been carefully prepared for a long time, but they are not said casually.

She knew that this would make Li Zhi very happy.

Because the Li family has always respected Laozi as an ancestor, whether it is Gaozu or Taizong, they have always wanted to promote Taoism, but they have never been able to suppress Confucianism, but have been suppressed by Confucianism, because since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty respected Confucianism, Confucianism has made great progress, it has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, it is difficult to shake, and many ministers still pursue Confucian ideas of governing the country. And Wu Meiniang's words gave Li Zhi a lot of inspiration, and now he is developing business, and business and Confucianism are rarely connected, so whether he can use business to reverse the unfavorable situation of Taoism is very important for the Li family.

If the Taoist ideology of governing the country is recognized by the people of the world, then the position of the Li family will be more stable.

Because at present, many scholars do not agree that they are the descendants of Lao Tzu, this is just Li Tang's behavior of putting gold on his face, which is very shameless, and I also said that I am a descendant of Confucius. But if Li Tang carries forward Lao Tzu's thoughts, then according to the inertial thinking of the ancients, more and more people will agree that they are the descendants of Lao Tzu, then the status of the Li family in this society will be improved a lot, you must know that the social status of the royal family in the folk is not as good as Cui Lu Zheng Wang, otherwise, Li Shimin does not need to engage in what "Clan Chronicles", and use the law to stipulate that my Li family is the first in the world, but the people still do not agree.

Because the belief of the Chinese is actually their ancestors, if you are who has descendants, then it is incredible, think that Di Qing of the Song Dynasty, after becoming famous, some people persuaded him to let others Di Renjie as an ancestor, so that he could improve his status.

"Your Majesty has won the prize!"

Wu Meiniang smiled modestly, as if she suddenly remembered something, and said, "Your Majesty, too many things have happened in our family recently. ”

Speaking of this, she sighed slightly, "Alas... I don't know if the concubine made too many mistakes before, which caused Hong'er to ........ Therefore, the concubine wanted to go to the Temple of Mercy and Grace next month, bathe and fast for a few days, and pray for His Majesty and Hong'er. In addition, some old clothes, tables and chairs in the palace were sent to Zhaoyi Academy to help some children, hoping to make up for the sins committed by the concubines before. ”

Li Zhi hurriedly took her hand and comforted: "Hong'er's body has nothing to do with you, it's all because of ......." If you want to go, then go. ”

He didn't say it, but he knew in his heart that Li Hong's body was inherited from him, if it was like Wu Meiniang, Tang Xuanzong inherited Wu Meiniang's longevity gene, if it was inherited Li Zhi's gene, then Tang Xuanzong was definitely a generation of Mingjun, because the biggest mistake Tang Xuanzong made in his life was that TM lived too long.

......

......

Nameless Square.

"It's... And that's the latest voucher? ”

"It's so beautiful!"

"Yes! Who is willing to spend this voucher! ”

......

Although the printing is not yet over, it is estimated that it will take a month, after all, it is all manual, not machine printing, but this is far faster than the previous coinage, which is much faster, and the cost will be reduced by at least eight or nine tenths.

But Han Yi asked people to take out a few sets of brand-new vouchers in advance and show them to these merchants and gentry.

Because no matter what, this voucher must be recognized by them to have value, in the final analysis, it is just a piece of paper.

As soon as this new voucher appeared, these people were immediately amazed.

The most intuitive point is that this voucher is color, as far as today's technology is concerned, this color printing is black technology, and today's printing is black and white.

Although Han Yi printed the golden ticket at the beginning and used the color, it cannot be said to be colored, it can only be said to be colored, and this voucher is actually colorful.

This whole set of vouchers has seven denominations, one cent, five cents, one penny, five wen, one yuan, fifty yuan, and consistent. Moreover, it is not a color, the main colors are white, cyan, green, yellow, blue, red, and purple.

The color of the penny is set to yellow, in fact, it is also to symbolize copper, which is very similar to copper, and has a clear difference from the color of the dragon robe.

Based on this alone, it is very difficult to forge it.

"It's... Is this our Chang'an City? ”

Yuwen Xiumi took a voucher for one penny, looked at the pattern on the front of the voucher, and said in surprise. It's not easy to draw Chang'an City, and it's incredible to print it.

Han Yi nodded and said: "Yes, the pattern on the front is our Chang'an City, I won't say much about the meaning, and the back is the Hexi Corridor, that is, the road from the Central Plains to the Northwest, which represents trade, and also represents that the Central Plains and the Northwest are one family." ”

In fact, it was originally proposed that Yinshan Mountain be used as the back pattern, but the Tang Dynasty relied on the Battle of Yinshan to eliminate the Turkic Empire of Jieli, and the people of the Central Plains and the Northwest were very profound about this battle.

"This painting seems to be from Yan Shangshu?"

"Yes, this is exactly what Yan Shangshu personally painted." Han Yi nodded with a smile, and said: "As for the printed version, we also found two world-class craftsmen to carve it for half a year, which is unique in this world." ”

"The words on this look very familiar, as if.... It seems to be Chu Suiliang's word! ”

The previous voucher was written as a voucher, but the latest voucher is no longer written as a voucher, and in addition to the face value, it is a word, Tang. Originally, Han Yi wanted to use "Tang Yuan", but Zhang Wenguan took into account the Yuan family, which would make people mistakenly think that the Yuan family was on par with the country.

"Yes! This is indeed like Chu Suiliang's words. ”

Everyone seemed to be very surprised by this, and looked at Han Yi uncertainly, because Chu Suiliang had already been demoted, and he was from a criminal minister, so it was impossible to use his words, but it looked like his words.

Han Yi said with a smile: "This is indeed Chu Suiliang's word, and this is decided by His Majesty, Your Majesty is very enlightened, no matter what mistakes Chu Suiliang made at the beginning, but he is one of the most outstanding calligraphers in my Tang Dynasty, and his calligraphy is also a symbol of the brilliant culture of my Tang Dynasty." ”

Originally, Han Yi suggested that Li Zhi write it himself, in addition to patting on the back, this meaning is needless to say, but Li Zhi is really embarrassed to use his own words, because the ancients were very concerned about calligraphy, Li Zhi thought that his words were far inferior to Chu Suiliang and their calligraphy masters, if this was to be written, it would definitely be laughed at by the world, this is really possible, because Zhang Wenguan, Liu Xiangdao and these Wenchen did not agree with Li Zhi to write, so Li Zhi finally decided to use Chu Suiliang's words, Because Chu Suiliang's calligraphy is indeed very remarkable, it can be said that it opens the 'Tang Kai' portal, and the words on Kaiyuan Tongbao are not the words of Li Yuan and Li Shimin, but the words of Ouyang Xun.

It can be seen that the current generation still has to be more disciplined than the people of later generations, and culture has nothing to do with wealth and power. The people of later generations are not looking at words, but power and wealth, as long as these two things are up to standard, even if your handwriting is not good, there are many people who applaud, and they are eager to hang in the most conspicuous place, in short, it is very shameless.