Shen Jinqiao said that he was about to reach out to hug the prince, but the prince took a step back: "I just came back, the night breeze is cold, and my body is cold, wait for me to take a bath first." ”

"Don't be afraid." Shen Jinqiao pulled up the quilt and threw himself into the prince's arms, the whole person pounced on him, and the quilt also wrapped around him: "I'm warm." ”

Prince: "......"

Stretched out his hand to hug her, sighed helplessly in his heart, but the smile on his face couldn't be suppressed, he really lost to her.

Shen Jinqiao hung on the prince: "Your Highness, you are not alone, husband and wife are one, I will always accompany you and wait for you, if you live up, I will accompany you for this life." ”

The prince smiled: "What's wrong today?" Suddenly you find yourself in love with me? ”

Shen Jinqiao gnawed on his neck in annoyance: "I'll talk to you well, can you be serious?" ”

The bite she bit didn't hurt, but it tickled her heart, and the prince's eyes darkened: "Lone is naturally very serious." ”

Sensing the danger, Shen Jinqiao stepped back: "Didn't you just go to take a bath?" Why don't you hurry up? ”

"Hmm...... Let's wash ...... later."

Emperor Xia came out, and he naturally had to go to court the next day, and he had to go to court with his sick body in tow, which was really strong enough.

The crown prince stood on the left hand of Emperor Xia, with King Xiang standing on his side, and King Yu and King Ming standing on his right, forming an opposing trend on both sides.

The Seven Princes and the Eighth Princes were weak, and they didn't participate in this battle for the time being, so they stood behind.

King Ming stared at King Xiang, his eyes full of ridicule and dissatisfaction: "Brother Five Emperors didn't stand here in the past, why did they stand there today?" Are you afraid that we will squeeze you, or are you wrong with a bad look? ”

There was a needle hidden in these words, and the smell of gunpowder came in an instant.

King Xiang looked ahead, his back straightened: "Don't worry about the sixth brother." ”

King Xiang only said a word and didn't say anything, these obviously provocative words, it is useless to say more.

King Ming disdainful, what is pretending to be high? I used to hug the prince's thighs so dogleggedly, but now I can't go up and down, right? Seeing that the wind makes the rudder, a snob, now that his father has been rescued again, the prince will soon lose power, and as soon as the prince falls, he is afraid that the king of Xiang will not be able to do it for long, and he deserves it.

Emperor Xia went to the court, and immediately someone reported what the prince had done these days, saying that the merchants were forced to suffer by the prince, and some were no longer able to operate, resulting in the closure of business.

This is really called a snob, they couldn't fight when the prince suppressed it before, but now when Emperor Xia appeared, he immediately turned against the prince.

He counted on Emperor Xia to uphold justice, but he forgot what happened to betraying the prince, the prince couldn't move Emperor Xia, and he couldn't move him?

But he should be glad that the prince has a lot of opponents now, and he has no time to deal with him as a little minion, and if there is some good show, there must be a little minion to start.

Emperor Xia heard about this yesterday, and then he was stunned by the prince, and when he woke up, he was diverted by the prince, so he forgot about it, but he kept thinking about it last night, and he was angry, and now he is quite calm.

"Prince, what do you explain?"

The crown prince stepped forward: "Father, son, may I ask, what is the root of a country's prosperity and strength?" ”

Emperor Xia replied without thinking: "Of course, the country is strong, the soldiers are strong, and the horses are strong. ”

Prince: "What is the foundation of a strong country, the foundation of strong soldiers and horses?" ”

Before Emperor Xia could say anything, the prince replied: "It's the people, it's the grain, so the farmers are businessmen and commerce, and agriculture is second only to the scholars." ”

"A strong country is not judged by the royal nobles, not by the bureaucratic family, but by whether the people are rich, if every common person has enough food in their hands, has surplus money, does not close their doors at night, does not leave the road behind, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, then it is a prosperous age."

King Ming sneered: "Who doesn't know this?" But what does this have to do with the prince's increase in business taxes? ”

"Of course it does." The prince said: "Increase the commercial tax, you can reduce the agricultural tax and the tax on the people, the people pay less taxes, naturally there is surplus grain and surplus money, and although the increase in commercial tax seems to damage the interests of merchants, you can greatly promote the commercial system, open up the circulation of merchants, can promote the circulation of goods in the east, west, north and south, grain, cloth, culture, collect heavy taxes from merchants, but the court can protect the interests of merchants, if the treasury has spare strength, open mountains and roads, meet water and build bridges, then the country extends in all directions, why worry that the country is not strong, the people are not rich? ”

After hearing this, King Ming didn't want to refute immediately: "You are all thinking about businessmen, and it has also increased the income of the people, but what about the army?" If they don't pay food, where will the army's food and grass come from? ”

King Ming thought that he had caught the loophole of the crown prince, and his expression was proud.

The prince glanced at him, and looked at him even more like a fool: "There is a way in this world called taking money to buy things, and the people's families are rich in food, so we can use money to buy them." ”

King Ming sneered: "This should be the food of the people, we still have to use the money to buy it for the people, it's a joke." ”

The prince didn't want to answer such a stupid question.

However, the head of the household replied: "His Royal Highness King Ming, the way of the merchant lies in the circulation and operation, just like the blood of the human body, we get money from the hands of the merchant, buy the people's grain, the people take the money to the merchant to get what they need, and the merchant buys things to the people to pay taxes to the state, and the cycle repeats, and the cycle repeats, which can be endless." ”

Yan Zhong immediately stepped forward: "Lord Wang said very much, Your Majesty, if you blindly levy taxes and food from the people, the people will be burdened and miserable, counting the history, which time the people rebelled and rebelled not because of heavy taxes and poor livelihood, so the people had to rebel?" Now that we are in the country and the people are safe, we should reform it, and we should not wait for the people to starve and complain before thinking of a solution, but should take precautions, when a country is prosperous and strong, even if those young people want to rebel, it depends on whether the people are willing to live this stable life. ”

Zhao Shuo, the secretary of the ministry, said: "Your Majesty, it is said that there is no treacherous business, businessmen are indeed treacherous and cunning, so they should be strictly controlled, but businessmen are not without merit, as Lord Wang said, businessmen are like the blood of my Xia Dynasty, circulating all over the body, indispensable, as long as the control is used properly, it will definitely seek the well-being of my Xia Dynasty." ”

"You ......." King Ming jumped to his feet angrily: "A group of dogs know how to pat on the back, what businessmen, what blood, it's just bullshit." ”

"Presumptuous." As soon as Emperor Xia sent the table, he immediately coughed a few more times.

The officials were so frightened that they hurriedly knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty is angry, please take care of your Majesty's body." ”

Emperor Xia pointed at King Ming: "King Ming, above the Golden Palace, how can you talk nonsense?" What about the books you read? ”

King Ming didn't expect that it was himself who was scolded: "Father, the son is angry with them, and he is in a hurry." ”