Chapter 274: The Tea and Horse Trade (6)
Chen Fei immediately wrote a recital, indicating that this action by the government would definitely do more harm than good, and it would bring great consequences to all kinds of people across the country, so Chen Fei resolutely opposed it. And the music was quickly transmitted through the eagle and sent to Li Shimin's hands.
"Du Aiqing, this Chen Fei resolutely opposes our imperial court personally coming forward to make a transaction, because this will bring very serious consequences. Once those officials taste the sweetness of this, then I am afraid that there will be a lot of corruption in the imperial court. And once they taste the sweetness, they will naturally and gradually move towards other industries, and finally wish to completely belong to the government in all industries in the world. Li Shimin said.
And the eldest grandson Wuji was a little unhappy and said: "Not really!" ”
"No, it's probably so!" Du Ruhui said.
Du Ruhui continued: "Although we will not be like this, but whether the bureaucrats in the future will be like this, then I am afraid it is difficult to say." Once they taste the sweetness, they will gradually want to swallow more industries, and then the money will belong to them. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, many industries were also attributed to the government, so that the government and the government operated it, and all interests belonged to the government. In this way, not only will the people not be able to reap the benefits, but the government will compete with the people for profit. ”
Then the harm of doing so can also be clearly raised from Chen Fei's recital. The government runs the industry and uses its power to force the people to buy it, and then exploit the people from it. And because the government is running, there is no way to sell it, so they don't have the idea of serious manufacturing. Chen Fei also has a sentence here, there is no pressure, there is no motivation, if the government runs and uses privileges to force the people to buy, then they will not have pressure, and naturally there will be no motivation to produce well. And those bureaucrats in order to be able to get more benefits. Naturally, they will deliberately raise prices to exploit the people. And it is the people who suffer, spending a lot more money than in the past, but the quality of these products is not as good as one-tenth of the previous one, so it is the people who suffer in the end. ”
"At that time, the people will also be dissatisfied with the government. In the past, they were killed by businessmen, and perhaps they were just scolding profiteers. But if it is returned to the imperial court, then they will hate the imperial court. Never underestimate the ambitions of bureaucrats, we can discipline ourselves, but they may not. Once they are able to lawfully exploit the people. Then they will definitely become an insatiable guy, and eventually the imperial court will gradually collapse, and the country will completely sink as a result! ”
When everyone heard Du Ruhui's analysis, they immediately felt shuddered. Because if this is really the case, and all industries are also taken over by the government, then the final result can only be that the country gradually "dies in peace". For the bureaucrats also take advantage of this privilege to enjoy themselves, and they obtain their income by means of trade, and they do not bear the notorious of raising taxes and harming the people. This kind of monopoly of privilege to force people to buy their products looks as if it were a legitimate transaction. But what is the difference between buying and selling?
And the final result is that the people are being exploited more and more ruthlessly, and in the end, everyone can't stand it anymore and can only rebel. This is also predictable, and Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty also exploited the people through taxes. In the end, the people were forced to rebel? Although this method is not a direct tax, the consequences are the same, because they force the people to buy and sell, and they cannot improve the lives of the people. In the end, it will gradually lose the support of the people.
"However, this is just a tea and horse deal, it shouldn't be like this, right? After all, the war horse was used by the imperial court. It's something that is necessary for the country, and it's related to the safety of the country, so it's not too much to take it back to the imperial court, right? Eldest Sun Wuji still said.
And Du Ruhui immediately said: "The eldest grandson servant, this is true, but what is the trouble of wanting to add to the crime?" Today, we can take the war horse as a national necessity and related to the safety of the country, so it must be returned to the imperial court. Won't those bureaucrats continue to find reasons after that? As long as they want, they can say anything as related to the safety of the country, and the people have no right and can only endure it, and finally they are forced to rebel. And from this, we can see that we cannot prescribe a bad example, and once this bad example is made, the final result will be that future generations will follow the example. Especially the emperor, but the king who laid the foundation of my Tang Dynasty, if the emperor did this, wouldn't the kings of later generations also do the same? ”
And Chen Fei also wrote in this recital that it is best to put the rights of bureaucrats in a cage and not let them do whatever they want. And all this depends on the emperor. ”
Li Shimin was very satisfied with this sentence of "putting the rights of bureaucrats in a cage", because he believed that the central idea of this sentence was to limit the rights of courtiers, and it had no effect on imperial power. But Li Shimin never dreamed that Chen Fei added the word "bureaucratic" to the original sentence, which seemed to be taking the emperor out. If it is according to the original words, then I am afraid that the emperor's imperial power is inevitable. Therefore, the Chinese language is so powerful, just add a few words, and it completely changes the meaning.
If he directly said that he put the rights in a cage, then Li Shimin would definitely be unhappy, because as the emperor, he naturally hopes to have unlimited rights. However, if the word "bureaucratic" is added, then Li Shimin will also be very satisfied, because in this way, the central idea has changed, and it has become a restriction on the rights of courtiers, and it has not interfered with the imperial power. And this just scratched Li Shimin's itch, I'm afraid that any emperor in the feudal period would be very comfortable when he heard this. No matter which emperor is, he doesn't want his courtiers to have too much power, so Chen Fei's words also made Li Shimin, the emperor of the feudal period, feel very comfortable.
Chen Fei's words are also reasonable, once let release the desire of the bureaucracy. Hopefully, in the end, they will devour everything. Therefore, it is necessary to put the rights of the bureaucrats in a cage, so that I can guide the long-term stability of the Tang Dynasty. Li Shimin said.
"The emperor is wise!" Several prime ministers present agreed one after another, if you don't agree as soon as possible, it means that you have the idea of a powerful minister.
Although Li Shimin said that the rights of bureaucrats should be restricted, he "took it for granted" that the imperial power was not put in a cage. Perhaps, although Li Shimin, the feudal emperor, recognized Chen Fei's words, he didn't really take it to heart. (To be continued......)