The next day, Concubine Fu's father, General Zhenxi, changed his previous style of "nothing to do with himself, hang high", and stood up and was the first to speak: "Your Majesty, the minister has a book to play." ”

"General, please speak." Lin Du vaguely knew what he was going to say, Concubine Fu's mother, the original owner's aunt had just entered the palace the day before yesterday and talked about family affairs with her daughter.

"Your Majesty, Xijon has frequently disturbed our border in recent days, and the war has become tense. Since ancient times, the soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first, the northwest is not as good as the capital, and the winter is early, but this year, the cotton clothes of the soldiers have not been settled. "What General Zhenxi said didn't seem to have anything to do with Lin Duan's heavy agriculture and wide merchants, but in the end, it still fell on the silver money.

"Tobe Shangshu, what's going on?" Lin Du challenged the Hubu Shangshu again, "Didn't I say that? No matter what, we can't shorten the food and clothing of the border soldiers. ”

Hubu Shangshu had a bitter face, it was really a fight between immortals, and mortals suffered. Ever since the emperor wanted to change the tax system and emphasize agriculture and business, he himself was made into a raft in various ways. However, even if he felt uncomfortable, he still stood up and replied respectfully: "Your Majesty, this year's Luohe flood, Luohe has always been an important cotton producing area in our country, and this year is so ......" His voice gradually became smaller, but everyone understood what he meant.

"But Your Majesty rest assured, the minister has already collected cotton from other places at a high price, and will never let the soldiers of Zhenguan have no cotton clothes to wear during the winter." first said the difficulties, and then showed his determination, the emperor wants to send himself out of no reason, the head of the household is not in vain to be an official for so many years.

Seeing that the head of the household was almost finished, General Zhenxi continued to report: "Your Majesty, the old minister has not finished speaking just now. ”

"What else?" Lin Du followed him and asked.

"Your Majesty doesn't need to worry, the problems of cotton clothes and food for the soldiers in the past two days have been solved." General Zhenxi smiled, "This is thanks to the Northwest Lu family." ”

Lin Du leaned forward, looking very interested: "Oh? Which Lu family? ”

"It's the Lu family in the Northwest Dart Bureau and Qianzhuang, the rich one." General Zhenxi introduced, "He heard that the cotton clothes of the northwest garrison had not yet landed, so he raised a batch of cotton clothes and sent them over, as well as a lot of food and meat, so that the soldiers could defend the border with peace of mind." and said that in the future, as long as His Majesty needs it, he is willing to bear a part of the food and salary of the Northwest Garrison. Because he is in the northwest, he is also a person who is protected by the northwest garrison. ”

"There are such righteous merchants!" Lin Du looked very moved, "This is the pillar of the country!" Spread my will and crown the head of the Lu family as the Marquis of Loyalty. ”

"Your Majesty!" Zuo Du Yushi is also impatient to instruct anyone to come out to oppose now, and he and the emperor have already torn their faces, so he directly stood up and objected: "We understand your thoughts about rewarding such righteous businessmen, but why don't you change the reward." Since the founding of the country, how can there be a merchant who is a marquis, and a merchant can't even enter the court. ”

"I have already said that in the future, the agriculture and commerce will be the same, and there will be no so much exquisiteness. Zuodu Yushi, you are old, and you have forgotten what I said for a while. After listening to Lin Dui's words, everyone knew that the emperor was angry, and he didn't even call "teacher" anymore, and he was a "Zuodu Yushi".

"That's not going to be a marquis." Zuo Du Yushi said in a tough tone: "Your Majesty, look at this court and the opposition, the people who can be crowned marquis are all people who have made great contributions to the society, how can a businessman be ranked as a marquis with them if he has some stinky money?" ”

Before the emperor could speak, General Zhenxi preemptively said, "Isn't Lu Jiali's meritorious work?" ”

"Lord Zuodu Yushi, you don't know that you haven't led troops to fight. What does this grain and grass clothes mean to the border soldiers? In the past, there would always be reasons for arrears of grain and wages, and this year's harvest was not good, and next year there would be a problem with the need for disaster relief, and the next year's grain and grass delivery line would have a problem. You always have a reason, but you don't know that the soldiers are fighting the battlefield, but they can't eat enough and don't have warm clothes when they go off the battlefield, which will make the soldiers feel cold. It's easy for us to be in the court, but please put yourself in your shoes and think about it, if there were no soldiers with those horse leather shrouds, how could we stand here safely? General Zhenxi said it with blood.

"That's it!" The mighty general couldn't hold it back, "When Lao Tzu swore to fight to the death, you actually told Lao Tzu that there were not enough weapons. In the Battle of Yumen Pass that year, Lao Tzu's men all went to the battlefield with knives to kill pigs, 50,000 elite soldiers, and only 6,000 people came back in the end. You only know how to play tricks here, if you dare to say that you will go to war in the future, I will not speak today. Otherwise, if you give up this military exploit, Lao Tzu will also support Your Majesty to make the Lu family a marquis. ”

Lin Du liked this fast-talking mighty general very much, she was afraid that this general would be caught by Wenchen and said that he was disrespectful in front of the palace, so she preemptively said: "Aiqing, I know your feelings, but you are too excited, I will not pursue it today, and I will pay attention to words in the future." This is the court, a mouthful of 'Lao Tzu', not elegant. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, the minister remembers." The mighty general nodded.

A mighty general, a Zhenxi general, both of them are great generals with great military achievements, with a very heavy killing aura on their bodies, and they are extremely majestic.

Seeing that everyone was no longer talking, Lin Duan said, "What the two generals said is extremely true. However, there is some truth in Zuodu's words, if this is the case, if you have other ways to provide food, clothing, and weapons for the army, I will not insist on sealing the Lu family as a loyal and righteous marquis. ”

Above the main hall, the birds are silent, what can be done, that is, to give out silver, but when it comes to silver, who will have more merchants?

Seeing that no one spoke, Lin Du continued: "As far as what the two generals said, in fact, people who have not been on the battlefield will not have such deep feelings. Do you have any comments? If not, it will be determined that the head of the Lu family will be the Marquis of Zhongyi. ”

After listening to the words of these two generals and Lin Dui, who dared to say anything, Lin Dui kept saying, "People who have not been on the battlefield don't have that kind of feeling." I'm afraid that once they say more, Lin Du will send him to go to the army to experience it in person, and most of the civilian officials are still afraid of going to such a bitter place in the barracks.

However, Zuodu Yushi didn't say anything, but Lin Du didn't expect it, she was improving the status of businessmen little by little, and truly realizing the importance of agriculture and business, the original owner, the most pedantic teacher, actually didn't jump out to oppose it?

Looking at Zuodu Yushi's pensive appearance, Lin Duan was a little puzzled.

But since he didn't say anything against it, it was even better, "The matter will not be discussed again." ”