The prince just came back, but Li Shimin already felt many differences in his son. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info The son is tanned, but he is also tougher. At the dinner table, Li Shimin heard Li Tai's words, expressing his dissatisfaction with Li Tai's change of title to King of Qin.

King Qin, that was Li Shimin's title before he became the crown prince, Li Shimin had given so many princes to his sons, but none of them were named King of Qin. Now Li Tai has changed his title to King of Qin, and Cheng Qian expressed his dissatisfaction as soon as he returned.

Of course, if this is just the case, Li Shimin will not be blocked. After the son came back, he brought up the old matter again, and he still had to repair the West Canal. This time, Cheng Qian directly said that he didn't need a penny from the imperial court, and he repaired it himself. He doesn't even need the imperial court to levy a people's husband, he repairs it himself.

"Cheng Qian went to Lingnan, but he was rich."

Li Shimin couldn't sleep, lying there, sighing for a long time, the prince, who was only eleven years old after the New Year, actually dared to argue with him.

Why are you so uneasy?

Empress Changsun leaned on Li Shimin's arms, her hand caressing her chest full of black hair.

"Those who went to Lingnan have made a fortune, and they are not the only ones. The one who earns the most is Wen Yuan, and the concubine wants to say, Wen Yuan's talent for making money is no worse than his ability to lead troops to fight or make up books. ”

How much money did Li Chao make this time in Lingnan?

No one said it clearly, anyway, even Li Shimin couldn't figure it out, he only knew that Li Chao had really made a fortune in Lingnan. even pulled many wealthy families to earn money together, and even Prince Chengqian got a piece of the pie.

When the imperial court entered Lingnan, Feng Ning and Chen's three families fell, and Li Chao was full.

Countless relatives of the Central Plains families poured into Lingnan for a carnival and a feast. Of course, he didn't make much money in the imperial court, just because Lingnan had changed from a feudal state to a direct government, Li Shimin didn't know how much he had earned. Moreover, in terms of Lingnan development, annual taxes, port tariffs, etc., he should be the one who earns the most.

"The shares of Nanyang Trading Company, Qinzhou Beihai Port and Xin'an Haimen Port・・・・・ Li Chao is really generous to Cheng Qian."

The queen smiled, "Cheng Qian is Wen Yuan's student and his son-in-law, of course he is generous to Cheng Qian." ”

"I'm not so generous." Li Shimin said with some pantothenic acid.

"Your Majesty, since Cheng Qian wants to repair the West Canal by himself, you can let him repair it. He has money in his hands, and he doesn't spend the money and grain of the court, and he doesn't levy people in vain. "The queen is a rare meddling in political affairs.

Cheng Qian mentioned the matter of the West Canal again at the dinner table, saying that he did not need the money of the imperial court, and he would set up a canal trading house by himself, and the commercial house would pay for it and recruit workers to repair the canal.

This is a brand-new model, such an important project as the canal, actually did not need the imperial court to pay for the excavation, but by the businessmen to pay for the excavation, after digging the fee and recovering the investment.

If the West Canal is completed, it will of course be of great benefit to the imperial court. In the future, Hedong, Henan, Guanzhong, Shandong, Shanxi, Hunan and even Bashu will be connected into a line, and the center of Datang and Hanjing will be even more the center of the world.

"I don't lack this money to repair the river, and the imperial court is not short either, let the prince build the canal privately, what's the matter?" Li Shimin said dissatisfiedly, "Forget it, I will go back and let the Ministry of Industry come up with a charter, which will be funded by the imperial court, and will not levy free people's husbands, and the imperial court will pay to hire workers to dig the river." When the canal is completed, I can also set up customs fees. ”

The prince dug the river himself and waited for the river to collect the river toll to recover the cost. Of course, Li Shimin can do the same, but at that time, the imperial court will not collect river taxes, and the imperial court will collect regular customs duties at that time.

Now there are a lot of money customs on the canal in the east, and after the construction of this side in the future, it can also set up customs to collect taxes. After the canal is completed, it can collect taxes every year, and it will increase taxes for the imperial court a lot.

"Your Majesty has agreed to repair the West Canal?"

"It's just a few sections of the Cao River, it's not a big project, and the imperial court has money to bear, and it won't cost the people and money."

Li Shimin said.

Early in the morning, Li Chao was still exercising in the back garden, and Ma Zhou came to visit.

Ma Zhou actually lives on the Upper East Side, not far from the Li family, but it was quite unexpected to come to visit so early in the morning.

"San Lang's gun is getting more and more powerful." Ma Zhou came directly over and sat down on the stone chair next to him.

Li Chao didn't stop his hand movements and continued to practice.

"I'm practicing fitness, not combat and killing skills, so the focus is different." He said with a smile, Li Chao was telling the truth, anyway, he didn't need to go into battle to kill the enemy, whether it was to practice guns or swords, it was just to strengthen his body, so he adjusted the direction of training by himself.

Compared with the fierce generals such as Wei Chigong and Qin Qiong, although Li Chao is not strong, the muscles on his body are not the kind of explosive and rising, but they are also very well-proportioned, and the muscles are relatively smooth.

After practicing the gun, I will practice the leg muscles again.

Li Chao sat next to Ma Zhou, "Come here early in the morning, what's the matter?" ”

It's already December, Ma Zhou, the Chinese scholar, is very busy, he came early in the morning, it must not be because Li Chao returned to Beijing to meet in a hurry, there must be something.

"Your Majesty gave a task before, and we messed up, but I haven't figured out what Your Majesty means, so I'm here to ask you."

"Tell me, I'll give you a reference."

Ma Zhou sighed, he has been a prime minister for a few years, but sometimes he really can't understand the emperor's thoughts. For example, this time, not long ago, the emperor summoned Ma Zhou and other ministers to discuss the matter, and gave him a task to publish the surname. This task was handed over to Gao Shilian, Ma Zhou, Cen Wenwen, Wei Ting, and Linghu Defen, and asked them to compile a book of the Tang Clan Chronicles.

Clan chronicles, clan refers to the scholar clan. This clan chronicle is instructed by the emperor to re-rank the scholars in the world. The clan chronicles are divided into two departments: surname and clan, the ranking of the surnames of the Tianxia Shi clan, and the family ranking of the Tianxia Shi clan.

Among the five high-ranking officials in charge of the major, except for Ma Zhou, who was born in a poor family, the other four were all from the scholar family, and Gao Shilian was a surname in the Bohai Sea in the Kanto region. Wei Ting is the surname of Guanzhong County, Cen Wenwen is a southern wang clan, and Linghu Defen is a representative of the northern right clan.

After getting the emperor's will, they were very attentive and moved quickly.

They soon completed the herbs of the clan chronicles and presented them to the emperor.

As a result, after the emperor saw it, he was very dissatisfied and returned it directly.

"Returned by His Majesty? What standards do you follow? Who is the first class?

As soon as Li Chao heard the clan chronicles, he immediately had some confidence in his heart.

"In the book of revision and discussion, Gao Xiangzhi proposed to take the county of the scholar clan since the Northern Wei Dynasty as the standard, so the first class we set is the Boling Cui family, and the Cui Gan family is the first class."

Li Chao couldn't help laughing.

"You put the Bolingcui clan in the first rank, so where do you put the royal family?" Li Chao asked.

Ma Zhou couldn't help but smile bitterly, when they received this task, it was only that the emperor would repair a book on the genealogy of scholars according to the tradition since the Northern Wei Dynasty.

The nine-product Zhongzheng system in the Jin Dynasty can be said to be the beginning of the real prosperity of the scholars, and by the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the scholars reached their peak. Many poor landlords also attached themselves to the Shi clan, and even pretended to be in the name of the Shi clan and clinged to various things. Therefore, there will be a genealogy order of the scholar family, which clearly defines the scholar family, and clears out those landlords of the Hanmen Shu clan who are of unknown origin, dependent, and fake.

They thought that this was the case with the clan chronicles.

Therefore, when the grade is determined, it is naturally according to the county wang.

As a result, the Boling Cui family, which is now the leader of the five surnames and seven families, was the first rank, the Cui family was the head of the surname, and the Cui Gan family, the head of the Boling Cui family, became the first family.

As for the royal.

The royal family is from the Li family in Longxi, so it is ranked fifth.

"Fifth?" Li Chao laughed again.

Royalty, you're fifth.

There are seven families with five surnames, which is the last one.

Li Chao shook his head with a smile, "No wonder Your Majesty will retreat, you haven't even figured out Your Majesty's thoughts." Do you think, why did Your Majesty get this clan chronicle, is it just to hold up Cui Zheng? ”

Ma Zhou pinched his beard, also helpless.

"San Lang analyzes and analyzes for me!"

Li Chao looked at Ma Zhou, "You first tell me what you think now." ”

"I think Your Majesty's original intention in cultivating the clan is to suppress the Shi clan, especially the Kanto Shi clan!"

"Wrong, wrong, wrong!" Li Chao said three typos, "You are very wrong." If you follow the current idea and then revise the clan history, you will definitely be returned by His Majesty. ”

"Why?"

"Because you still haven't figured out the true intention of His Majesty's cultivation of the clan chronicles!"

Ma Zhou was at a loss.

"You have to jump out of the clan chronicle itself first, and first look at the environment in which His Majesty proposed to revise this clan chronicle. When did Your Majesty bring it up? Why don't you fix it early or late, and why do you want to repair it at this time? ”

Li Chao saw that Ma Zhou didn't speak, so he said directly, "The imperial court didn't say about cultivating the clan history when Wude, and Zhenguan didn't say about cultivating it three years ago, but Your Majesty said about cultivating the clan at this time?" When's the time? At the end of the fourth year of Wude, not long after the Hanjing Rebellion. ”

"And this year, after the imperial court just held the imperial examination reform, the first imperial examination county examination, 50,000 talents were admitted."

"There is another thing, this year, the imperial court also pacified the two local rebellions in Lingnan, and changed the custody to a direct jurisdiction. Moreover, there was a rebellion in Meizhou, Hunan, and the imperial army entered Hunan・・・・・"

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"Now, you combine these things and think about it again, is the cultivation of the clan chronicles related to these things at this time?"

Ma Zhou seemed to have an epiphany.

In the Hanjing Rebellion, a large number of old Guanlong lords and Kwantung scholars were implicated. The imperial examination has also completely broken the monopoly of the scholars, and a large number of poor landlords are relying on the imperial examination to enter the ranks, and what happened in Lingnan and Hunan also shows that the old local heroes are in decline.

"Wen Yuan, is Your Majesty going to readjust the Shi clan?"

Li Chao said with a smile, "Your Majesty is not just going to adjust the Shi clan, he is going to comprehensively adjust the old and new classes of the entire Tang Dynasty." ”