In today's Liangyi Palace, the military capital of Wuwen came very together, Fang Xuanling and the eldest grandson Wuji sat in the front on the civil official's side, and others such as Wei Zheng, Xiao Yu and others were behind, and the military generals were naturally headed by Li Jing, but what made Li Su strange was that Li Xiaogong was also sitting there, followed by Li Ji, Cheng Yanjin and others.

As soon as Li Su came in, he found that the people in the hall were all solemn, staring at their feet without squinting, as if they were studying a rare treasure, and no one even looked up when Li Su came in. And Li Shimin, who was sitting on it, had a little flush on his face, and there were even traces of torn in front of the bookcase, which seemed to have a big fire just now.

Although he knew that Li Shimin was angry, Li Su still had to step forward, bow down and salute: "Son, see my father!" ”

Li Shimin, who was sitting with a calm face, saw Li Su, his face recovered a little, nodded and said, "Liulang, you pick up a few books on the ground and take a look!" ”

Li Su felt strange in his heart, but he still picked up a few copies from his feet according to his words. Anyway, he really didn't pay attention to it just now, and there were really a lot of recitals on the ground, probably two or three hundred, to say the least. When Li Su opened the folds in his hand and looked at them, he found that these folds were all played on the same day.

It's been almost two years since he came to Datang, and Li Su's level of ancient literature has also risen a lot, and he can roughly understand the content on these folds, and after reading all the folds in his hand, the corners of Li Su's mouth also flashed a sneer.

These memorabilia were made by different people, not only in different positions, but also in different geographical locations, but the content of the compromises was much the same, which was nothing more than accusing the development of industry and commerce and hindering local agriculture. As a result, the grain production of that year was greatly reduced. Therefore, he asked the imperial court to restrict industry and commerce and impose heavy taxes on industry and commerce, otherwise the situation would be allowed to develop. I'm afraid it will cause widespread famine and so on.

Obviously, this is the official suppression of industry and commerce by Li Su for a long time, with five surnames and seven hopes.

But when Li Su looked at the twists and turns all over the ground. I couldn't help but gasp, and finally had an intuitive understanding of the influence of the five surnames and seven hopes in my heart, the Tang Dynasty was not the Celestial Empire of later generations, the ratio of officials to the people was extremely low, and the number of high-grade officials in the country was estimated to be only more than 10,000 people, and the number of qualified people who were sent here was even rarer. However, the twists and turns in the place in front of him mean that hundreds of officials are influenced by the five surnames and seven hopes, and this proportion is very staggering.

watched Li Su finish the recital. Li Shimin said angrily: "Liulang." You see, there are more than 300 states in the country. Men in almost every state have come up to me to tell me about the dangers of industry and commerce, without mentioning that the tax revenue of the treasury has increased several times in the past two years. ”

Looking at Li Shimin, who was angry and wanted to kill people, Li Su also deeply understood, after all, as a generation of emperors, he saw so many officials controlled by another force, deliberately exaggerating the shortcomings of industry and commerce, but not mentioning the advantages of industry and commerce, which was the most unacceptable to Li Shimin.

Seeing the angry Li Shimin, the ministers sitting below glanced at each other, and lowered their heads very wisely, they are also insiders about the suppression of industry and commerce by the five surnames and seven wangs, and many people are on the side of industry and commerce, but now that there is Li Su, the leader, there is no need for them to come forward.

Just when Li Su just wanted to persuade Li Shimin to calm his anger, he had already told Li Shimin about the next way to deal with it, as long as he officially gave the order, everything would be done according to the plan. But at this moment, a person suddenly walked out of the courtiers below and said loudly: "Your Highness Qiqi, although these people were organized to put pressure on the imperial court, what they said is not unreasonable, agriculture is the foundation of the country, if agriculture is affected, I am afraid that the country will also be shaken!" ”

Dare to say such a thing at such a time, except for Wei Zheng, there is probably no second person in the entire Tang Dynasty. Speaking of Wei Zheng is also an orthodox Confucian scholar, in his opinion, agriculture is far more important than those opportunistic industry and commerce, so no matter how much tax industry and commerce bring to the Tang Dynasty, if it affects the root of agriculture, it must be suppressed.

Li Shimin was angry, and immediately wanted to attack when he heard Wei Zheng's words, but Li Su preemptively said: "What Dr. Wei said is reasonable, agriculture is indeed the foundation of the country, but industry and commerce are also the policy of enriching the country, both are equally important, and industry and commerce cannot be regarded as a flood beast and vigorously suppressed because the development of industry and commerce affects agriculture!" ”

Although Wei Zheng had a good impression of Li Su, he didn't have the slightest affection to talk about when he encountered such a major national event, and asked without concession: "Oh, then I want to ask Your Highness, if you don't suppress industry and commerce, how can you let the farmers who abandoned farming and labor return to the land?" ”

Wei Zheng only had traditional agriculture in his mind, and he didn't think of any other way at all. Li Su was waiting for the other party's words, so in front of the civil and military officials, he told all the three strategies proposed by Wang An and the Zhancheng rice he prepared. In fact, after he and Cheng Huailiang had a meeting yesterday, these four coping methods had already been circulated among insiders, such as Li Shimin and most of the civil and military officials present had already known in advance, so they didn't feel the slightest surprise at all.

As a counselor, Wei Zheng usually does not have much contact with people, coupled with his strict style, he has never had anything to do with Li Su's industrial and commercial interest groups, so he did not know in advance. Therefore, when he first heard about these four solutions to the agricultural problem, he was greatly impressed in his heart, after all, he was not right about things, and as long as the grain problem was solved, he still had a relatively open-minded attitude towards industry and commerce that could increase tax revenue.

Most of the court is related to Li Su's interests, and Li Shimin is very annoyed by the practice of the five surnames and seven hopes, so the four suggestions put forward by Li Su were immediately adopted, although some officials from big families such as the five surnames and seven wangs obstructed, but their slight opposition was quickly drowned out by the surrounding voices of approval.

Of course, what Li Su put forward was just a rough suggestion, and the detailed implementation rules had to be perfected by the ministers like Fang Xuanling, which Li Su couldn't help at all, so he wisely closed his mouth and stood aside and honestly acted as an audience.

I saw a group of Wenchen led by Fang Xuanling gathered together, and you discussed it word by word, analyzing the difficulties that may be encountered in the implementation of the four suggestions one by one, and then gathering the wisdom of everyone to come up with a solution. I don't know how long it took for the four detailed implementation plans to be born in front of Li Su's eyes, but these four plans still need Li Su's cooperation, to be precise, it should be the cooperation of Li Su's newly opened Datang Daily.

After everything was discussed, Li Shimin asked the civil and military officials to retreat, but he kept Li Su, mainly to ask about the newspaper. At the beginning, Li Su told him Li Shimin about two counterattacks against the five surnames and seven hopes, one of which was to use the newspaper as a tool of public opinion as a weapon to attack the prestige and influence of those big families. However, if you want to do this, you must let the newspaper be distributed all over the country, if it is only run by the imperial court, it is estimated that you can only put money into it, and the effect is not necessarily good, so Li Su took this matter on himself.

"Father, rest assured, now the newspaper has just started, Chang'an has already issued a few issues, and the branch in Luoyang is also ready, it can be issued simultaneously with Chang'an, as for the transmission of information, it is Feinu, although there will be some delay, but it is also very fast, as for the branches of other big cities such as Taiyuan, they are also in preparation!" Li Su reported the progress of the newspaper to Li Shimin.

"Rokuro, I've heard that every time you sell a newspaper, you lose a little money, and the more newspapers you sell, the more you lose, isn't that true?" Li Shimin asked with some concern.

Li Su smiled after hearing this, and said: "Father Qiqi, this is indeed the case, if you calculate it, for every two newspapers sold, the newspaper will lose a penny. "Although the price of a penny for a newspaper is high enough, in terms of the cost of the newspaper, it is actually a loss.

"Rokuro, I know you're good at collecting money, but if you lose money at this rate, I'm afraid it's not a way, otherwise I'll let the treasury set aside a part of the money to support the newspaper industry, right?" Li Shimin hesitated for a moment, but finally spoke.

"Thank you for your kindness, but newspapers can actually be profitable, and the more we sell now, the more we can earn in the future, so you don't have to worry about this problem." Li Su said with a smile.

Although merchants in this era already had the concept of advertising, for example, when a new store opened, the owner would hire a group of idlers to promote his shop. When the circulation of the newspaper reaches a certain level and has enough influence, Li Su will launch an advertising space business in the newspaper, and I believe that it will definitely attract many discerning businessmen to advertise on it.

Hearing that Li Su's newspaper could be profitable, Li Shimin finally breathed a sigh of relief, although the treasury revenue has increased several times now, but just after the great war in Goguryeo, most of the reserves of the treasury have been consumed, and according to the news he received, there is another troublesome thing in front of him, and it is even likely to trigger a new round of war, and although the opponent this time is not as good as Goguryeo, but it cannot be underestimated, only relying on the remaining reserves of the treasury, I am afraid that it will not be able to support this war at all.

Li Su saw that after Li Shimin heard his words, although he was relieved, his brows were still wrinkled, and it seemed that there was something difficult, so he was curious, so he asked: "Father, what is on your mind?" ”