Although Tang Jian's words seemed abrupt, all the three people in the venue could understand it. Among them, Fang Xuanling shook his head and smiled bitterly after hearing this, while Li Xuan smirked because of the article he published in the newspaper, which caused a great turmoil.

In order to commend the active big businessmen who were rich and expensive, and also to attract more wealthy big businessmen to buy land vouchers, he boldly put forward the concept of Confucian merchants.

Don't underestimate the power of these two words, what is Confucianism? Confucianism is the foundation for the formation of the scholar class, and it is also the basis for the scholars to hold state power. And what is business? Shang is a cheap industry, a few years ago, businessmen were in the lowest position in the political class of the Tang Dynasty, as long as you get involved with businessmen, no matter what position you can sit in the future, you will be despised by people.

Wu Meiniang's father, Wu Shiyi, is a typical representative, although he was named the Duke of Yingguo, but because he used to be a timber merchant, he was despised everywhere, and after his death, the two sons were not angry, and the Duke of Yingguo Mansion has now completely declined, and even many people don't know that there is such a Duke in the Tang Dynasty.

Confucianism represented the highest ruling class, while merchants were the lowest professions, and although the status of merchants had improved, there was still a huge gap between them and the scholar class on the whole. However, Li Su was so good that he braved the world's disapproval and put two words that were originally very different from each other together, which made countless arrogant scholars feel angry, so they published articles in the newspapers one after another, accusing Li Su of insulting the sages.

In response to the accusations of the scholars, Li Su went against the norm and began to publish articles one after another, starting a polemic with the scholars who opposed him. If this kind of thing had been put in the past, he probably wouldn't have dared to think about it, after all, a person who couldn't even memorize the Analects. How can you compare with those scholars in the article?

But that's no longer the case. Li Su set off a vernacular literary controversy last time, and Datang Daily also opened a vernacular newspaper, and even many local newspapers also have vernacular literary sections. With the spread and influence of these newspapers, more and more people no longer reject the vernacular, and there are even many people who are newly literate. I can only understand the vernacular.

It was precisely because of this that Li Su dared to boldly publish his article to the newspaper, and with his own knowledge and views of later generations, he started a war of words with those scholars. Although the number of people on the other side is large, the noisy and noisy is nothing more than one point of view, that is, Li Su insulted the sages and did not respect the way of Confucius and Mencius.

In this regard, Li Su took a different approach, offering Confucius's words "there is no class in education" as a weapon, shouting that although businessmen are profitable, if they get the teachings of Confucius and Mencius. Remove all kinds of illegal behaviors in the process of business, and at the same time take the gentleman's love of money and the right way as the criterion of behavior. This makes the various behaviors of merchants more in line with Confucian standards. In this way, wouldn't it show the broad-mindedness of Confucianism? It also better reflects the teachings of the saints to the world.

Not to mention, Li Su's Confucian-based theory has indeed convinced many poets and calligraphers, slowly softened their attitudes, and even many people openly support Li Su. The reason why it is so easy for this part of the poets and scholars to change their attitude is mainly because Li Su adopted the correct strategy, did not choose to face the other party head-on, and took the Confucian theory as his own weapon, and used Confucianism against Confucianism, no matter which aspect wins, Confucianism has no reputational loss.

Of course, in such a short period of time, there are still a few scholars who support Li Su, and most of them still hold the old ideas, not only accusing Li Su in the newspaper, but also in the court, there are also a few copies of the imperial history of Li Su from time to time, and even Kong Yingda's stubborn old ministers have also been on the book for several days, participating in Li Su's humiliation of the royal demeanor and so on.

If it weren't for Li Shimin's pressure on these things, plus most of the courtiers, for the sake of maintaining neutrality in the face of the 30 million guan income, I'm afraid Li Su would have been punished a long time ago.

However, this matter is not over yet, the Confucian newspapers are still criticizing Li Su for mentioning Confucian businessmen, and those poets and calligraphers who support Li Su have also published articles in the Datang Daily and the Industrial and Commercial Daily, coupled with the unscrupulous literati hired by some businessmen, the two sides are now arguing more and more fiercely, and it is even very likely to overshadow the last vernacular incident. It is precisely because of this that Tang Jian kindly reminded Li Su to be careful in everything and not to be careless.

For Tang Jian's kindness, Li Su was naturally very grateful, and after thanking him, he personally sent the two out of the house. Looking at the back of Tang Jian and Fang Xuanling leaving, Li Su felt a little emotion in his heart. I met Tang Jian, the reason is just that they both love food, and when they are together, they eat and drink, discuss the rare delicacies in all parts of the world, and they have no deep friendship in other aspects, and they are at most friends with wine and meat.

In addition, Tang Jian is usually lazy and lustful, and the impression he gives Li Xuan is actually a white-haired gentleman, but he didn't expect that at this time, people can still think of reminding themselves, in comparison, because of the relationship between Fang Xuanling, the relationship between himself and Fang Xuanling is closer than Tang Jian, but Fang Xuanling didn't remind himself from beginning to end, but Tang Jian, who was a friend of wine and meat, took the lead to speak.

Of course, Fang Xuanling, as the head of the hundred officials, must have more things to worry about than the heartless Tang Jian, but it is precisely like this that makes Li Xuan have another layer of good impression of Tang Jian, thinking that if it is beneficial in the future, he must be brought to the Tang Mansion, not to mention that the son of the other family is still his brother-in-law.

With money in his hand, Li Shimin's courage immediately grew, first praised Li Su in the court, and then on the grounds that Gao Chang was a vassal country and did not respect the order, he sent troops to attack Yanqi without authorization, blocking the trade route of the Tang Dynasty, and appointed Hou Junji as the general manager of the Jiaohe march, Xue Wanjun was appointed as the deputy governor, and the generals under his jurisdiction also included Zhao Yuankai, Ashina Sheer and others, who led 100,000 cavalry, as well as the affiliated Turkic and Khibi people to conquer Gaochang.

However, on the day of Hou Junji's expedition, in addition to the army, there was also a very large army of merchants who left Chang'an, and unlike the soldiers with solemn faces, all the merchants were smiling, commanding the hired guards to carry all kinds of goods, and marched west with the army.

On the battlefield of Goguryeo, the war with the participation of merchants has made the Tang army see the benefits, so as soon as the Goguryeo War ended, the Tang Dynasty immediately promulgated a law to encourage merchants to enter the battlefield.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that although these merchants accompanied by all kinds of goods, compared with before, they did not carry much copper coins, which greatly reduced the weight of the caravan, and the reason for this result was still thanks to the intervention of Datang Bank.

It turns out that before setting off, I don't know who thought of the way? These merchants who accompanied the army have deposited all the copper coins they want to bring into the bank, and let the bank issue them deposit certificates of different denominations, and then enter the battlefield with these deposit certificates, and when they want to buy trophies from the soldiers, they can directly use this deposit certificate to settle, anyway, the Datang soldiers are the first people to recognize the bank, and they are also willing to accept this thin piece of paper, which should be the paper money spontaneously made by the Datang merchants.

The opening of the conquest of the Gaochang army temporarily diverted the attention of many people, which made the quarrel about the Confucian merchants in the newspapers reduce a lot, and began to report on the itinerary of the Western Expedition army, as well as some of the situation of the other party, Gaochang State, and many so-called experts also expressed their opinions on the role played by the Western Turks in this war. It's just that these bricks are of different levels, and they haven't analyzed any results, and in the end, they quarreled first.

Seeing this chaotic situation, Li Su simply found Li Jing with a cheeky face and asked him to write an article to analyze it, but he didn't expect the old man to be very happy when he heard it, and he wrote his own views on this war without thinking about it, and once the results were published, it immediately caused a lot of sensation, after all, this is the first high-level Tang Dynasty to publish an article in the newspaper in addition to Li Su, the idle king, and many people can also see that Wei Gong's analysis of the battle of Gaochang that has not yet happened in this article, It's many times better than those in the newspaper a few days ago.

The army that conquered Gaochang set off, and there were fewer quarrels about Confucian merchants in the newspapers, Li Su finally relaxed, but he knew that now was not the time to rest, and took advantage of this time to simply get the military academy done first, after all, now that Li Shimin has money and people in his hands, the sooner the military academy is built, the army construction of the Tang Dynasty can be on the right track as soon as possible.

On this day, Li Su entered the palace early in the morning, first went to accompany Concubine Yang for breakfast, and in another month, the child in Concubine Yang's belly will be born, which is the most critical moment, so Li Su has to go into the palace every day to accompany his mother for a while.

After the early dynasty, Li Su went straight to the Liangyi Hall to find Li Shimin, and after saluting, he just wanted to talk about the military academy, but he heard Li Shimin suddenly say: "Liulang, you came just in time, let's take a look at this first!" ”

Li Shimin said, handed a batch of folds to Li Su, but he took it and looked at it, and was immediately startled, although the content of this book is not much, but it is extremely bloody, because this is a murderous fold.

"Father, although these people are hateful, but kill a dozen at once, will this be too much?" Li Su asked cautiously.

"Liulang, you are good at everything, and even your performance on the battlefield is good, although it is not as good as when you were a father, but you also have a little courage, but you have to remember that sometimes the court is more cruel than the battlefield, and when it is time to kill, you must not be soft!" Li Shimin looked at Li Su, but said calmly. When he was young, he killed countless people on the battlefield, and now he is just killing a few people who should be killed, so naturally he will not have any soft-heartedness.