Chapter 171: One Year

Li Wei thought of three words, word prison.

In fact, this is a kind of affectionate name, such as milk candy, which is called prince candy among the people. So the common people are eating their own prince every day? The taboo may not be, but in turn it makes people feel a little loved when they hear it. This is clearly seeing the sales of new sugar, and it is a little delicious. Either because New Sugar interfered with the interests of some people, or because it looked down on businessmen. After staying for a long time, Li Wei began to like to think about conspiracy theories.

But the power of words is terrifying, the Tang Dynasty did not have a prison of words, they were hidden in the shadows, and the strength of Lu Liang and the others was not worth mentioning. It just so happened that Liang Jinzhu and Earth Pony stayed in Luoyang and did not leave. Summoned them to the East Palace, as well as some ministers, to serve them at a banquet.

That's it.

At the beginning, the tax paid was not much, only 2,000 yuan, but now the tax paid is very heavy. Some ministers know very well that 100,000 yuan a year will not be enough, but according to the current situation, 67,000 yuan will not be a problem. Two thousand, with these twists and turns, it is enough to cut the new sugar in half. But tens of thousands, even Li Zhi had to think carefully.

courtiers, including some counselors. Seeing Liang Jinzhu and Earth Horse coming in, he was very dissatisfied. There were two ministers who were directly impeached regardless of the feelings of the people. Li Wei pressed his hand and said, "Gu knows the reason for your advice, but Lu Liang and the two of them, even if there is no tribute tax, can the imperial court prohibit them from selling sugar?" ”

This is impossible, and besides, they are good businessmen in the first place, and since the disaster, they have donated a lot. You can't speak with your conscience.

Li Wei said again: "Or do you say that they pay tribute? I don't know, but I know that the treasury of the imperial court is tight, and one year is better than another. What is the impact of the court's loans, you can check for yourself. The imperial court also has to use the degree, your money, the country's water conservancy and other projects, disaster relief, military expenses, sacrifices, and gentlemen don't talk about profits, but the country has no wealth, and I don't know what will happen? Lu Liang and the others set an example, why are you so hateful? ”

This is etiquette, and the imperial court has paid attention to businessmen more than a year in the past year. The minister is just afraid of this, and he is edified. An official stood up from the table and said.

"Indoctrination? Thinking about it, by the way, it is wrong to assist the imperial court to send the grain thousands of miles away to Guanzhong. ”

"Your Highness, there is nothing wrong with this, but why does the imperial court want to reward officials?"

"That's right, it's not good to talk about profit, the world has been greatly governed, and the king has become a king, or he has changed his father and queen mother to admonish him, saying that the world is under great rule, and the court officials do not need to be rewarded, and they can do good things for the country independently. I don't know how to write, but you write for me. The state does not need to pay money to officials, and it saves a lot of money in a year. ”

When Earth Horse and Liang Jinzhu heard this, they lowered their heads and laughed regardless of the oppressive atmosphere at the banquet.

But the minister did not know how to answer. Li Wei didn't want to dwell on this issue, and continued: "The year of the great murderer is not every year, this is a special matter. Although there was a small reward, it was a righteous act. Scholars and doctors may not all be good, but also look at the ancient scriptures and righteousness, businessmen value profit over righteousness, and more importantly, they must be kings. Or is it good not to assist the imperial court, to leave food at home and hoard it, and to make a fortune? Well, it's no wonder that Lonely saw a lot of big families, not businessmen, and they did it. At best, the common people were so hungry that they rose up one after another and overthrew the imperial court. Anyway, you come from a famous family, and the court can fall, but the gate valve will not fall. Just like Zhou Yu said to Sun Quan, the ministers of Wu State surrendered to Wei, and they were still officials, but what would happen to the lord who surrendered to Wei? ”

Wearing a big hat, who is afraid of whom?

This sentence is a bit heart-wrenching.

There was silence.

In fact, both sides are a little wrong, with the current Tang Dynasty, it is unlikely that business will be fully liberalized, and the drawbacks brought by it are indeed unpredictable. But it was only an idea on the land, that is, after the implementation of the two tax laws, the Tang Dynasty collected more than 20 million yuan a year, and it did not solve the most basic problems of the Tang Dynasty, and it was the poorest group of people who suffered.

The admonishment was a little ruthless, and Li Wei's big hat was a little heavy. But Li Wei accepted it when he saw it, his voice softened, and said: "Liang Jinzhu and Earth Horse are both here, you can ask them, they just want to do some righteous deeds, thank their father and mother, maybe they will want to be an official, have you ever begged?" It's just a name, so why bother with swords going on like this? This move is even more unopenable, it will be very dangerous to play games on words, I don't believe it, flipping through the poems and songs written by the government and the opposition, or the poems and songs written by others, if this is started, countless people will be punished and killed. Or such as Lonely, Lone also wrote that he would be at the top of the mountain, but he wrote that the mountain was high, and the spirit was high, and he had no other intentions. If the meaning of the text is obscure, how can the father tolerate loneliness? ”

This sentence was pressed in my heart for a long time, and I finally said it through this matter.

What to do? The so-called new sugar, nominally Earth pony and Liang Jinzhu's, is actually his own. It's just two businessmen, in the face of such strong winds and waves, they don't come out to block it, they are just a small boat.

After finishing speaking, he took out two paintings, handed them to Liang Jinzhu and Earth Pony, and said, "Let's call it this name in the future." ”

Although he said it, Li Wei still bowed his head, saving himself from being verbose, so he gave two names. One is the sun and snow, and the other is the ice heart. Yang Xue, snow, is always white, and it melts when it sees the sun, describing sucrose. Ice heart, but used to describe rock sugar. is not only giving words, but also setting an example in front of so many people. The prince has a good impression of Liang and Lu......

Some officials frowned.

Li Wei said again: "Everyone, Liang Lu and the others told Gu again that the new sugar was conceived by the father and the queen mother. But it's very profitable, and I don't want to specialize in beauty. If someone else wants to run it, they will teach it. It's just that as a custom, half of the tax of the imperial court is required. Lone had already written a note on the matter and submitted it to his father for a decision. Not only that, but the toffee of the Jingzhao Liu family also heard about this and wrote a letter to Gu, saying that he also participated in this feat and paid part of the tax to the imperial court. ”

In this way, many ministers can no longer say it, and even Di Renjie, who knows the inside story, can only sigh.

If the technology is ceded and the number of people who run the business increases, the tribute tax received by the state will inevitably increase, but the interests of the individual will be damaged.

But it took a long time to pass.

It's kind, but the officials don't compete with the people. Turn it over and say it, turn it over and say it again. Li Wei was speechless about this.

But the situation forced Li Zhi to pass in the end.

The main thing is the Jiangdong plow, which itself has a gradual process, because Li Wei, who appeared suddenly, is also the identity of the prince, and it appeared in the field sacrifice, and it quickly became popular. At first, I only felt that it was convenient, but gradually because it was easier to cultivate, some complex terrain, many people moved their minds. It may be ploughed, but there may not be a harvest. Mostly water. In many places in Guanzhong, because there is no relevant water conservancy, there is no farming.

The politics is still clear, and the promotion of officials is certainly a conspiracy, but it also requires political achievements. Business is prosperous, but it is not necessarily a political achievement. But it is a bumper harvest that is a real political achievement. It is taken very seriously from top to bottom. These dish fields are cultivated, and they also need to be assisted by water conservancy.

The water conservancy of the Tang Dynasty was acceptable, but these water conservancy areas were not very accessible. So they all wrote to ask for an increase in water conservancy. The cost of water conservancy is mainly conscription, but large-scale water conservancy, local conscription is not enough. Besides, in addition to conscription, the burden is heavy, and it also requires costs. Originally, the treasury was empty, where did the cost come from? But it can also increase the benefits to the people, and because of the increase in arable land, the imperial court tax will inevitably increase. From Li Zhi to officials at all levels, they attach great importance to it.

But where does the money come from?

Really compete with the people for profit, not yet, the merchant took the initiative to pay tribute, it is not "small money", after New Year's Day, the first month has passed, and February has come, and nearly 30,000 yuan of tax has been tributed. Seeing this number, Li Zhi called Yan Liben and Hao Chujun and told him about it.

Shameful answer.

In fact, there are many people who covet it, but the court does not become customized, and Lu Liang and the others do not let go of their skills, and they dare not use force to force them. After all, Liang Zhu met the prince twice in public and praised him twice. Therefore, some people also gradually went to the book to defend Lu Liang.

At this time, Di Renjie gradually realized why Li Wei wanted to release his technology. It's hard at the beginning. This was the official commercial tax, and then there was the sugar tax, and then there was the salt tax...... The country will gradually become richer, and perhaps, the burden on the people will be lighter. At least because of lack of money, we will not use loans to cut down the people.

But Di Renjie has never been able to judge the gains and losses, so he has to look at it.

It's been a year since I came to the Tang Dynasty!

Li Wei is not worried about the sugar tax. If there is more money, sooner or later my father will be tempted.

Of course, Li Wei did not supervise the country anymore, and when spring came again, he often ran to the suburbs to see Huangzhuang.

Spring has arrived, and there are more things in Huangzhuang, and it is gradually getting better. The seeds and seedlings of various crops have been planted, but they have not yet grown, and they are slightly verdant in the clear water. Alfalfa began to grow on the hillside, and there were chicken coops and pig coops.

But there's no other thing that has made a splash.

The seeds of cotton arrived in Luoyang, and no seeds were imported from Lingnan. There is a process of evolutionary adaptation, and the weather in Lingnan is hot, which is different from the climate of Luoyang. The climate of the Western Regions is also different from that of Luoyang, but the gap is slightly smaller than that of Lingnan. Moreover, in Li Wei's memory, the scale of cotton planting in later generations was very large, but it was the best cotton in Xinjiang, then North China, and then Jianghuai, but Lingnan did not seem to be famous.

Wu Zetian didn't understand, but there was a benefit, he didn't understand it, and he didn't make his own opinions, so he listened to his son's words and brought the seeds of the Western Regions over. It's just a reel, and the envoys haven't returned yet. What his wife did, Li Zhi was silent and let his wife do it. So the momentum was very large, and it was planted in many official fields and imperial fields at once.

The queen's ministers did not object. After all, food and clothing are the most important things at this time, and the people take food and clothing as the sky, not to eat well and dress well, but to eat well and dress warmly. It's just that everyone thinks it's weird, there is always something wrong, first the crown prince, then the queen, and mixed with the palace maids of the East Palace, Lu Liang, two businessmen, in the past two years, a lot of new things have come out. So some ministers asked, and when they asked, the so-called cotton is the grass and cotton in the Lingnan and Western Regions, the yield is not high, and the textile is troublesome.

When I asked again, there was something wrong, the planting method was wrong, and I even heard about some more complex planting methods. I don't know if it's good or not, but the silk cloth is there, and it seems to be really warm. I was not sure in my heart, and I thought of some of the queen's methods, and I was very afraid. can advise the emperor, can advise the crown prince, and the queen, but dare not advise. Of course, if it fails, then it can be admonished. For the queen, more than half of the ministers in the court do not have a good impression. So he was silent and waited to see the excitement.

Wu Zetian didn't have much confidence, and asked Li Wei several times, and Li Wei clapped his hands to ensure the output. That's the only thing, there's nothing the car can do. Then he quietly stuffed Wu Zetian with 10,000 yuan. My mother spent a lot of money and borrowed the land of the official village and the imperial village. There is no cost to this, but with so much land, it can't be like the Huangzhuang outside Chang'an City, which gathers the power of a village and puts it on more than a dozen acres of land. If you want to be productive, to be sensational, you have to be productive. Of course, mother, not afraid of any righteousness, will make my father taboo, the higher the yield, the better, it is best to produce 500 catties of lint per mu. Fertilizer, labor, and even because of the warmth and cold of early spring, and the insulation of the grass shed, all require costs.

Mother is ambitious, he is insightful. However, the imperial court has limited use and a large hand, and if it is not done well, it will affect the output. The mother will make the ministers laugh, and even many ministers are waiting to see how big their mother's good show, and then "reverse the force" again. Wu may not be able to fall, and her mother will resent herself, thinking that she intends to embarrass her.

Wu Zetian asked after a long time: "You have so much money?" ”

"Lu Liang. After they arrived in Jiangnan, it was not smooth sailing, and Erchen said some good things and donated some. Originally, the ministers wanted to use it for the imperial court, but they thought that the queen mother would introduce cotton, and there would be a lot of expenses, so they did not report it to their father. ”

"It's not good."

"The queen mother, the sons also know that it is not good, but it is not the sons to use, once the cotton is promoted, thousands of families have clothes to wear, there are thick quilts to cover, this is for the benefit of the people, for the benefit of the descendants. It is also the wish of Lu Liang and the others. ”

"They have a good heart, but it's a pity, they're just businessmen."

"There are also good people in businessmen, such as Di Renjie's two righteous daughters, who behave and cultivate morality and talent, even if they are the children of the family, they may not be able to."

Hearing Di Hao and Di Hui, Wu Zetian did not make a sound. After a long while, he said: "After paying half of the tax, their profits are not very large, and the merchants are ultimately profit-oriented, but they cannot bear the money in the future." You are the crown prince, so you need to be careful. ”

"Yes."

The matter of cotton is a little far away, and the seeds only go down, and I don't know if it's good or bad. The variety of operations in Huangzhuang is also very far away, and I only see the chickens and ducklings growing up day by day. The alfalfa began to pull out the green seedlings, so that some greenery began to appear on the hillside, and I don't even know how to get a lot of fry and pour them into the swamp. Where it is easy to gap, it is blocked with a dense net. But some new methods of planting have seen results again.

In some experimental plots, rapeseed was transferred, that is, wheat and barley, and there was no method of sowing, and there were no holes, enough fertilizer, and intensive cultivation. Some states and counties have more, and some have less. It's not much, it's spring, and you can see the growth. Milk vetch may not pay much attention to it, and there may not be many farmers who can listen to it in rotation, but they pay attention to farm fertilizer. As a result, many people asked for horse manure for raising horses in the imperial court.

It has not yet been popularized, and even if the effect is seen, the popularization is slower in this era, and it may not be effective if it is not ten or eight years. But just like the warm breeze of early spring, it seems to bring a piece of vitality.

It's not like a few years ago, I didn't hear about any disasters. The imperial court began to announce one thing, making Liang Jishou, the deputy of the crown prince's left guard, the head of the march of Yaozhou Road, to fight against the rebels. But he was still worried about Tubo, and Jiang Ke was in Liangzhou, he was already old, and he was sick, and he was worried and died. There were rumors among the people that Jiang Ke scared the Tubo people to death. So the shame of the imperial court was heavy again.

After Li Wei heard it, he was noncommittal. The court was indignant about this, but he didn't know much, but he knew that the shame had just begun, and there would be more and more defeats in the future, of course, there were also victories, but like the early Tang Dynasty, invincible, it was impossible.

And one of the most important reasons for all this is the corruption of the government military system. If there is enough Yongye Tian, no worries about the future, and there are enough rewards, the government military system will not be corrupted, and the Tang Dynasty soldiers will still be elite soldiers, and they will also write the glory of the Han people.

To do this, you need Tian, and the imperial court must have enough wealth.

Therefore, what he is doing now seems to be unimportant, but the impact is far-reaching.

I don't want to show merit, but I just see the people's love for him and do my best. But for yourself, saving your life is the most important thing.

Life seems to be very stable, there is a lot of money in his hand, and the money given to Di Renjie, Di Renjie is not used, and he keeps it for preparation. But the more money is left, the more you run, and you won't worry. That's the confidence!

I have a good relationship with my parents.

At this time, his father suddenly issued a strange decree to let him return to Chang'an to continue to supervise the country.

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