"Oh? I don't know what Li Shilang's high opinion is? When the eldest grandson Wuji saw that it was Li Jingheng who spoke, he did not show a surprised look, the industries of Jiangxia Wangfu are all over the Tang Dynasty and Daqi, if heavy taxes are levied on some commercially developed areas, Li Jingheng and these people will naturally suffer great losses, so the opposition of the other party is also expected by the eldest grandson Wuji.

The eldest grandson Wuji is extremely powerful in the Tang Dynasty, but Li Jingheng is not afraid of the other party at all, don't look at him now as just a four-grade squire, but behind him stands the entire industrial and commercial class of the Tang Dynasty, coupled with his personal relationship with Li Su, even if he can't fight the eldest grandson Wuji, he can pat his ass and immigrate to Daqi.

I saw Li Jingheng glanced at the eldest grandson Wuji lightly, and then said: "Gao Jian can't talk about it, but the lower officials believe that the reason why industry and commerce continue to develop is mainly because industry and commerce have broader prospects, so it continues to attract a lot of manpower and material resources to invest in it, and now the imperial court rashly levies heavy taxes, which will not only discourage the enthusiasm of industrial and commercial owners for development, but also form a huge blow to the existing industry and commerce, so it is really undesirable!" ”

Li Jingheng is very aware of the careful thinking of the eldest grandson Wuji, it is nothing more than that the eldest grandson's family owns a large amount of land in Jiangnan and other places, and now the peasants have gone to work and do business, and the fields in his family are uncultivated, and if he uses slaves, he feels that he will lose the face of a scholar, so he naturally wants to suppress business. And it is worth mentioning that the eldest grandson's family does not want to intervene in manual business, but in the industrial and commercial industry, the industries with large profits have been carved up by others, and they can't look down on those with small profits, so the eldest grandson Wuji is now proposing to suppress industry and commerce, and there is no element of redness.

"Li Shilang is still too young. According to you, should we allow industry and commerce to continue to develop like this? If the farmland is left uncultivated, I am afraid that industry and commerce will also become rootless water. If you can't even eat food, let alone development? The eldest grandson Wuji said indifferently, his tone was already faintly revealing a strong flavor, and at the same time, it was implied that Li Jingheng was too young and his knowledge was very short-sighted.

"The eldest grandson is old, but he didn't expect to be so anxious, and he naturally has something to say about how to solve the problem of agricultural employment!" Li Jingheng also fought back unceremoniously. Since the eldest grandson Wuji has made up his mind to suppress business, he is equivalent to Li Jingheng's enemy. There is no need to worry about offending the other party in your words.

"Hahaha~, it's really terrifying, I don't know what else Li Shilang has to say?" Although the eldest grandson Wuji hid his anger with a loud laugh, there was already a calm aura in his tone afterwards.

It seems that the eldest grandson is really forgetful, and last year an article was published in Datang Daily, which also analyzed the dispute between industry and commerce and agriculture, and in the end, the article pointed out that Datang wanted to solve this problem. We can learn from Daqi, change the current agricultural structure, and encourage the formation of large plantations like Daqi, which has the advantage of unified management of crops. A lot of manpower and material resources can be saved, and some simple manual labor can also be filled by slaves. At that time, this article still caused great controversy in the court, but because of the strong opposition of the eldest grandson. In the end, it was over. ”

Li Jingheng said-for-tat again, his father Li Daozong and the eldest grandson Wuji and Yu Sui have different political views. In the past few years, they have been suppressed by the other party, and their Jiangxia palace is a royal family, and the eldest grandson Wuji is a relative, the two groups of people can't pee in a pot, and they didn't see Li Daozong and Li Xiaogong laughing so happily in the crowd, it seems that they also very much want to see the eldest grandson Wuji eat deflated in the hands of the younger generations of their own family.

"Hmph, my Tang Dynasty rules the world with benevolence and filial piety, many industrial and commercial owners use a large number of slaves, but they brutally oppress slaves, making the situation of slaves miserable, and many slaves rise up to resist, such as the coal mine slave uprising in Taiyuan the year before last, if the army arrives in time, the consequences are unimaginable. Therefore, slaves have become the biggest unstable factor in my Datang, and now what we need in Datang is to limit the number of slaves, and we must not introduce slaves on a large scale! The eldest grandson Wuji said aggressively.

As the saying goes, where there is oppression, there is resistance. When Li Su used slaves on a large scale, he had already noticed that improving the survival of slaves would not only avoid the losses caused by the death of slaves, but also reduce the resistance of some slaves.

However, after Li Su left the Tang Dynasty, some businesses in order to pursue greater profits, unlimited cost compression, slaves are also considered one of the costs, so they are brutally oppressed, which makes many slaves have resentment towards their owners, when this resentment accumulates to a certain extent, it will naturally break out into serious conflicts.

One of the most serious is in Taiyuan the year before last, where is the most important coal producing area of the Tang Dynasty, the use of slave miners, many mine owners in order to expand profits, regardless of the life and death of slaves, forced slaves into dangerous mine tunnels to dig, almost every day there are slaves died tragically, so one day, a mine slaves finally launched a riot, but also successfully occupied the mine, and later triggered a slave uprising in more than a dozen mines around, and even they planned to attack Taiyuan, fortunately the army arrived, and then they were destroyed.

This incident had a great impact, not only the owners of the dozen mines were severely punished, but also the Coal Industry Association was fined a huge amount of money because of poor supervision, and also had to bear the military expenses of the army.

The eldest grandson Wuji now told the story of the slave uprising, which immediately aroused the support of many people, such as his hardcore Yu Suiliang, and some old Confucians led by Yu Zhining, although they were not the people of the eldest grandson Wuji, but they also believed that the use of slaves violated the way of the sage, coupled with the hatred of industry and commerce, so at this time they naturally stood on the side of the eldest grandson Wuji.

"Don't choke on anything!" Just when the momentum of the eldest grandson Wuji's side was soaring, suddenly an old voice spoke. As soon as this voice came out, it immediately quieted down everyone in the court, and at the same time, everyone's eyes looked at the old man who spoke, this person was Li Xiaogong, whose status was only under the eldest grandson Wuji.

Since Li Jing's death, only Li Xiaogong is in charge of the entire military academy, and his influence is all over the Tang Dynasty military circles, and Li Xiaogong has no military position, plus his status is high, so he also has the power to participate in political affairs, but he has always been very calm in the court, and rarely expresses any views on political affairs, but he didn't expect to express his position directly today.

"Oh? Please also ask the king of Hejian to speak clearly! The eldest grandson Wuji stared at Li Xiaogong with narrow eyes, his heart was full of jealousy, since the death of Fang Xuanling and Li Jing, the entire court can openly compete with him, only Li Xiaogong is left, but Li Xiaogong is a royal family, and he has military merits, in order to avoid suspicion, he has never interfered much in the affairs of the court, and now the other party is speaking at this time, but it is a very abnormal signal, and then thinking of Li Su's arrival, it makes the eldest grandson Wuji even more upset.

I saw Li Xiaogong open his slightly closed eyes, and then glanced at the ministers in the court, the tiger power of the veteran on the battlefield emanated, so that the other whisperers immediately closed their mouths, and finally his eyes were fixed on the eldest grandson Wuji and said: "This king is old, and he doesn't know much about government affairs, but this king also knows a truth, that is, everything has advantages and disadvantages, although there are many shortcomings in the use of slaves, but it also brings greater convenience, so what we have to do now is to use slaves as much as possible and more reasonably." to avoid the negative effects of slave use, not to limit it! ”

Don't look at Li Xiaogong's easy not to speak, but this time he opened his mouth directly and sharply, directly refuting Changsun Wuji's previous words, which made Li Jingheng and others all mentally shocked, and they also began to refute Changsun Wuji's discussions, pointing out that after the slave uprising, the industrial and commercial circles of Datang have begun to pay attention to improving the living conditions of slaves, and at least in the past two years, there has been no large-scale slave rebellion.

In addition, Li Jingheng also took Daqi as an example, listing that the number of slaves used in Daqi was several times that of Datang, but there were few incidents of slave resistance in Daqi, mainly because Daqi officially regulated the use of slaves in various industries, and Daqi's treasury revenue has far exceeded that of Datang. It can be seen that slaves are not a factor of social instability, but one of the driving forces for economic development.

Although Li Jingheng and the examples of Daqi are very convincing, whether it is the eldest grandson Wuji or Yu Zhining, they are not so easy to convince, not to mention that some of them do not understand the key, but that it involves a conflict of interests, so they will pretend not to understand, but come up with all kinds of specious excuses to refute.

In the era of the Tang Dynasty, the emperor and the courtiers were not as hierarchical as in later generations, such as the emperor and the ministers, and the ministers also had seats, so the relationship between the ministers and the emperor was more like the boss and subordinates in the company.

It is precisely for this reason that there are often such scenes in the court of the Tang Dynasty, where the agricultural faction led by the eldest grandson Wuji and Yu Zhining quarreled with the industrial and commercial faction headed by Li Xiaogong and Li Jingheng, and no one refused to obey anyone. Among them, the eldest grandson Wuji has many people, but most of them are older. On Li Jingheng's side, most of them are young officials, they are more open-minded, and all of them have been deliberately promoted by Li Shimin over the years, and they are not lost to anyone in terms of momentum, and they are even more neutral when they quarrel.

After Li Xiaogong supported Li Jingheng, he refused to speak again, and watched others quarrel with a smile. On the contrary, Li Zhi next to him repeatedly comforted the two groups of people who were arguing, but unfortunately he was not Li Shimin, and he did not suppress the prestige of the ministers, so it was useless at all.

Just when Li Zhi was watching the noisy scene in the court and sweating in a hurry, he suddenly heard a joking voice outside the main hall door: "Huh? When will the Mingde Hall in the East Palace be changed into a vegetable market, will the ninth brother also go to the sea to do business?" (To be continued......)