Tang Zhou knew what he was talking about, and he knew even more about how difficult it was for him to do something. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

For the imperial court, they don't care about one or two people ruining their families because of gambling, they only care about how much benefit this matter can bring to the imperial court, and even for the imperial court, the more people put money into it, the better it will be for them.

It's just that in life, it is impossible to always do something that others are optimistic about and easy to do, and some things that others are unwilling to do but must do, someone has to do it.

Others don't do it, he Tang Zhou does.

Not to win any fame, nor to win the love of the world, do this thing just because it comes from the heart.

However, although Tang Zhou had decided to do so, he would not go straight to the palace to find Li Shimin, and after some thought, he went to Wei Zheng's mansion.

When he came to Wei Zheng's mansion, Tang Zhou was told that Wei Zheng went to the East Palace to teach the crown prince Li Chengqian, if there was anything, he might as well wait in the mansion, if it was before, Tang Zhou left directly, but he had to say today's things, otherwise he didn't know if he still had such a determination after today.

It was a very distressing thing to wait in Wei Zheng's mansion, but fortunately, the later the time, so Tang Zhou didn't wait long for Wei Zheng to come back from the East Palace.

Wei Zheng was very puzzled when he learned that Tang Zhou was coming, so he hurriedly went to the living room to meet him, and Tang Zhou hurriedly saluted after seeing Wei Zheng, and said, "Lord Wei has gone to the East Palace?" ”

Wei Zheng nodded, but he didn't say much about this matter, and asked directly: "The little marquis is just afraid that he will not come to the door for nothing, I don't know what happened to come to the mansion today?" ”

Tang Zhou smiled and said, "The riding and archery competition is about to start, I wonder if Lord Wei has gone to bet?" ”

Hearing Tang Zhou talk about this, Wei Zheng's expression suddenly tightened, and he said very seriously: "The old man is not interested in this matter, and he is also opposed to the imperial court using this method to collect money. ”

Seeing Wei Zheng's opposition to betting on the Mounted Archery Competition, Tang Zhou's heart suddenly felt a little relieved, if this was the case, he didn't have to waste his tongue too much.

"In fact, I am also against it, I came to see Lord Wei Zheng today, I have something to ask for, and I want to ask Lord Wei to propose tomorrow in the morning to stop betting on the horse archery competition."

As soon as Tang Zhou finished speaking, Wei Zheng was suddenly startled, he glanced Tang Zhou up and down, and asked, "Does the little marquis know how difficult it is to know this?" ”

"Naturally, the imperial court wants to rely on this to collect money, and ending this matter is equivalent to cutting off the financial route of the imperial court."

Wei Zheng smiled and shook his head: "Far more than that, in the years of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court fought year after year, and the treasury was empty, but there were enemies outside but they could not help but kill, and taxing the people for no reason was not in line with the atmosphere of the founding of the country, so at this time, someone gave the emperor an idea to use the horse archery competition to bet on the money, so as to gather the people's money, so many years have passed, although my Datang has been prosperous, but this rule is left, since a rule has been used to it, it is not easy to abolish it." ”

"Wouldn't it be okay if the Holy Lord and the Hundred Officials knew the disadvantages of doing this?"

"The disadvantage?" Wei Zheng smiled: "The money that the imperial court gets from this every year accounts for one-tenth of the country's annual tax revenue, can you say that this is a disadvantage?" Even if a few families are destroyed, what are these families compared to so much of the income of the imperial court? ”

"Yes...... But how can the imperial court not care about the lives of the people because of the great benefits? ”

"The court didn't force them to bet."

"Although this is not the case, the ruin of their family is inseparable from the connivance of the imperial court."

Tang Zhou struggled every word, Wei Zheng looked at the young man in front of him, as if he suddenly saw his shadow back then, he smiled, and didn't say anything more, just nodded slightly.

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The next day it rained lightly, and the rain in late spring was a little cool.

Because the riding archery competition is getting closer and closer, the most discussed thing in the morning is related to the riding archery competition.

If the spring test is the assessment of the literati, then the riding and archery is more like the assessment of the martial arts, and between the two, the spring test can be said to be more important, but the riding and archery competition is relatively lively, so everyone's enthusiasm is not reduced, and there is no tension in the spring test.

In the early dynasty, it is just who is the son of the family who is expected to win the championship, and who should be rewarded after winning the championship, these things are insignificant, and they are not a matter at all compared with those family and country events in the early dynasty on weekdays.

But everyone just talked very happily and had a lively chat.

But just when everyone was chatting happily and talking lively, Wei Zheng stood up very sadly: "Holy Lord, the minister has a play." ”

Everyone is talking about some interesting things, no one wants to talk about national affairs today, and the wind and rain in the late spring outside are rustling, but it is very poetic, so Wei Zheng's appearance immediately caused dissatisfaction among everyone.

It's just that the early dynasty let the courtiers discuss national affairs, although everyone thinks Wei Zheng's appearance is very annoying, but no one dares to stand up and say him, on the contrary, the early dynasty, which was originally very casual, suddenly became quiet after Wei Zheng was listed.

The atmosphere in the court was a little depressing, Li Shimin frowned slightly, and asked, "Wei Aiqing, what do you have to do?" ”

"Back to the saint, in the past every year in the riding and archery competition, there will always be people in the gambling house who bet on this, and the minister feels that this move is not conducive to my Tang Dynasty style, so he should stop it in time."

Hearing that Wei Zheng was talking about this matter, everyone looked at each other, but they didn't care, this matter has already become a rule, Wei Zheng wants to change the rules by himself, where is it so easy?

"Lord Wei, gambling is indeed harmful to my Tang people's customs, but betting on the riding and archery competition is extremely beneficial to my Datang, so many benefits every year Lord Wei is not unseen, and after the end of the riding and archery competition, the imperial court will prohibit large-scale similar things, the imperial court is very well prepared, is there any problem with this?"

It was a person named Zhou Ji who spoke in the household department, and at this time of year the household department would get a lot of benefits from this matter, as a household official, he naturally did not like this matter to be banned.

As soon as Zhou Ji finished speaking, Wei Zheng snorted coldly: "Although the imperial court prohibits large-scale similar things, but those people who have benefited from it have developed the habit of getting something for nothing. ”

After saying this, Wei Zheng didn't wait for others to speak, and said: "Originally, many people didn't go to gamble, but because the betting of the riding and archery tournament had too much impact, and the imperial court actively promoted it, this made many people who didn't want to gamble want to play, and once gambling is addicted, how can it be quit casually?" ”

"What does Master Wei mean is that people who have played once can't help but play again? But why don't we see people who have lost their families every day? ”