The wealthy merchants of Ting An soon received that the imperial court wanted to rectify the commercial policy, and they ran to Wang Haoran's house to inquire, because Wang Haoran was the most powerful merchant and the backbone of the businessman. Many of these people are Wang Haoran's business partners, and Wang Haoran is not easy to turn away.

"Little master, what's going on with the business rectification? I heard that all investments of more than 500,000 yuan need to be approved by the state and county, and those of more than 2 million need to apply to the imperial court, and the assessment conditions have also increased the previous reputation, but is there really such a thing? A fat businessman asked eagerly.

"It is true." Wang Haoran replied.

"In this way, even if we businessmen have enough funds, I'm afraid we may not be able to pass the approval!" A long-faced businessman said in frustration that they didn't care much about the increase in taxes, because the increase in costs could be passed on to the price of goods.

"Little master, to be honest, the so-called reputation is difficult to compare, and we businessmen have a reputation that is not much different, so who can pass the approval is all up to the court."

"Moreover, the amount of money donated by our merchants to the imperial charity also greatly affects the level of reputation, and if the merchants compete for donations in the future, it will be a bottomless pit!"

"Little master, you are the leader of our merchant, it is not an exaggeration to say that you are the leader of our merchant, you have to fight for our merchant!"

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Everyone complained in front of Wang Haoran about the shortcomings of this business rectification, hoping that Wang Haoran could prevent the introduction of this policy.

"Ladies and ......gentlemen," Wang Haoran just wanted to stop everyone's discussion, but as soon as he spoke, everyone quieted down, so he continued, "I think you all know that since the abolition of the hundred schools of thought and the exclusive respect for Confucianism, the status of our merchants has never been higher. Only in Datang did it change. All this did not come easily. However, the hierarchy of agriculture and industry is still deeply ingrained in the perceptions of others, and we still have a long way to go to break this perception. Until then, we still can't compete with the rest of the class. Not long ago, there was an incident in Linze County, which alarmed the entire Tang Dynasty and ruined the reputation of our merchants, and it was inevitable that the imperial court would strengthen the control of merchants. ”

"So we're just going to have to let it go?" A merchant asked.

"Shinong industry and commerce are an indispensable whole of Datang, and any class failing to have a good development environment will inevitably affect the overall development of Datang, and the same is true for our merchant class. Nowadays, nearly half of the commercial tax revenue is in the source of the imperial court's treasury, and it is impossible for the imperial court to suppress the merchant class excessively. However, this relationship, we say that it is difficult to explain, the court may be able to understand, but the other people cannot, and only if they really feel the influence of the merchants on them, they will pay attention to it. And this business rectification is a good opportunity, maybe it is possible for our merchants to be reborn after this change. ”

The businessmen who can get rich are naturally far-sighted, and they deeply agree with Wang Haoran's analysis, and they all nodded in agreement.

However...... Wang Haoran was afraid that some of these people would take retaliatory resistance measures, which would cause others to resist the merchants, so he had to remind: "We have a bad reputation now, so we can't make any more stubble, let alone resist the business rectification too much." What is natural is the only reasonable thing to accept, so that others can accept it in a pleasing and surrenderable way, do you know what I mean? ”

Although some businessmen are not convinced, who knows how long this will take to go with the flow? But this is what Wang Haoran meant, no matter how unconvinced he is, he can only do it.

On this day, Wang Haoran received Li Zhi's order to participate in tomorrow's court meeting, which was the first time Li Zhi presided over the court meeting, and at the same time to discuss the business rectification and the integrity of the department, it is not surprising that Wang Haoran went to participate. However, it was a bit surprising that after the proposal of the Department of Commercial Rectification and Integrity was passed, Li Zhi issued a decree to canonize Wang Haoran as the king of parliament and hold a ceremony to crown the king on a certain day.

Wang Haoran, the king of the council, is not a king in the real sense, there is no fiefdom, and there are still those who are in the capital. In addition, Wang Haoran did not have a horse mansion in the capital, and he had been living in the princess's mansion after he came back, so Li Zhi also set up another palace for Wang Haoran, which was next door to Li Tai's prince's mansion.

Wang Haoran has reached his current status, it doesn't matter whether he is a king or not, for him, at this time, he has the title of the king of the government, which means that he will have to go to the early dynasty in the future, discuss politics, how to discuss politics if he does not go to court? This can be regarded as a sign of Wang Haoran's official involvement in court politics.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, Wang Qihong invited Wang Haoran to return to Wang's house to celebrate and celebrate. Wang Qihong is now the leader of the Datang Commercial Bank, and when the court talks about business matters, he will let him come to the court meeting.

Wang Haoran readily agreed, and asked Zeng Chengyong to pick up Li Liushuang and other wives and children together.

After the family banquet of three generations in the same hall, Wang Haoran sat in the hall with Wang Furen and Wang Qihong chatting.

Wang Furen sighed: "Parents hope that their children and grandchildren can get ahead, but the old man only has your two sons under his knees, and each of them is much better than the father, which also makes the father a headache!" After working hard for my father for so many years, the family business is not small, but when my father is old, how should I deal with this family business? ”

Wang Haoran looked at Wang Furen, he hadn't noticed it before, it turned out that Wang Furen was now gray-haired and twilight. Roughly calculated, Wang Furen is now nearly sixty years old, and he is really like an arrow!

"Father, you have worked hard for so many years, and it should have been the time to take care of your life, this is all unfilial piety." Wang Qihong said ashamedly.

"I don't blame you, you can get ahead, it's too late to be happy for your father. It's just that my father feels that his body is getting more and more strained, and I'm afraid that he won't have a few years to live. Both of you are now in high positions and powers, and you are not worried about being a father, but there is no one to inherit the family business that your father has worked hard for many years, what do you think should be done? Wang Furen's worries are not unreasonable, Wang Qihong is in charge of the state-owned enterprises of the whole Tang Dynasty, and he does not have much time to take care of the family business, Wang Haoran also has a lot of industries, and now that he is the king of politics, it is also difficult to make time. Wang Furen's family business is not ordinarily big, if there is no special person to take care of it, it can't be taken care of, but they can't let them give up their careers to take care of the family business, right?

"Just call a spade! If there is no solution, the father sells all his property and puts it in the bank. Wang Furen saw that these two people bowed their heads and were silent, so he urged.

"Maybe you can sell shares and hand over the management of the property to other shareholders, so that Seventh Brother doesn't need to spend too much time to take care of these things." Wang Haoran proposed, he thought of the joint-stock system, but he didn't care about how big Wang Furen's industry was.

"No, if you don't want to take over the property that your father has worked so hard to accumulate, then the old man will leave it to his grandson, you must find a proper way to pass on this business to his father's grandson!"

"Then leave it to my sister-in-law to take care of it, right?" Wang Haoran proposed again.

Wang Furen thought about it and was noncommittal, it seemed that this was the only feasible way.