Gu Changfeng is over fifty years old this year, his hair is hidden in the official hat, his face is slightly wrinkled, and his beard is slightly dark, and a little white is interspersed with it. The whole person is in good spirits. He was also wearing a purple official uniform, he should have just gotten off the morning court, and he didn't have time to take it off, so he hurried over.

After all, there is still some distance between the palace and the national eunuch, and it is too late to change civilian clothes.

"Jinzhou Jiang Yun and meet the teacher." Yun Ji put down the box and bowed to Gu Changfeng.

Gu Changfeng looked at the clouds and behaved very well in line with the etiquette, and there was nothing inconsiderate at all, so he couldn't help but smile. A few years ago, I heard about this prodigy, and when the boy of the Ministry of Rites tried it, he originally wanted to use the most common method - memorizing scriptures to test him. But when I saw this child, I temporarily changed my attention.

I didn't expect this kid to be able to answer fluently.

It is indeed a child prodigy.

Unlike in the past, almost all of those who came to the boy could only endorse and could not explain the answers, and most of those people died young.

And this doll, with a Xuan color between the eyebrows, a scale between the demeanor, walks not fast but has its own soft breeze, and the body is also healthy. There is no premature death at all.

This is a real and down-to-earth child.

"Get up, you are the person Your Majesty gave me, but he can't impose students on me, as long as you pass my assessment, I will recognize you." Although Gu Changfeng saw something from some subtleties, for the sake of safety, he still had to question Yun Ji.

Yun had expected that Gu Changfeng would come here, and he had made sufficient preparations.

"Listen, there are salt and iron merchants who resell fine salt and refined iron without permission, and the court can't catch it for a long time, so one day the court gathers all parties to argue like the salt and iron of the Han Dynasty, do you think these two should be official or official-granted commercial operations?" Gu Changfeng looked at Yun Ji standing in the door dressed in green clothes, and outside the door was a vast white patch, green and white, innocent.

After listening to Gu Changfeng's words, Yun Ji's mind turned away. What Gu Changfeng asked was a question related to the country's livelihood and people's plans. First of all, you have to occupy a seat, Gu Changfeng represents the will of the imperial court, so you must find the right position and express why you are standing in this position.

"Can the students not say which side they are on?" Yun Ji smiled slightly.

"Oh? The reason? "Salt and iron theory, the imperial court will be held soon, and the venue is in this Yingtian Academy. At that time, many ministers of the DPRK and China, and even great Confucian businessmen, will participate in the debate, and the core of the debate is whether salt and iron are official or private.

"Let's listen to the students." Yun Ji said unhurriedly: "Salt is the foundation of the people, iron is the important weapon of the country, the people cannot live without salt, and the soldiers cannot guard the frontier without iron." If a country loses its balance in salt and iron, the people will not be able to eat the indispensable salt and iron utensils as usual, and there will be several major ills. First of all, the lack of salt, the people are unable to cultivate, the so-called can not be stubborn, second, the lack of salt people will definitely think that the imperial court is not well regulated, so the internal affairs are unstable, and iron tools are also the truth. ”

"What you say is ordinary." Gu Changfeng stroked his beard and shook his head slightly.

"Then teacher, the student has a question here, before the theory of salt and iron, wasn't my court of salt and iron from the official camp? Or has it always been run by the government and the private sector? Yun Ji stood sideways.

Gu Changfeng vaguely knew what Yun Ji was going to ask, it was nothing more than that it was an official camp before, and now it is a snake to add to the salt and iron theory.

"It used to be a government business, and there was a clear law that prohibited illegal sales, but so what? Salt and iron have been antagonistic to the private sector and the government since ancient times.

Yun Ji shook his head slightly, and then said: "The student hasn't finished speaking, before this, the imperial court had already issued a decree that those who sell salt and iron without permission are guilty of death, why are there such people who are willing to risk the destruction of the Nine Clans to do such a thing?" It's the huge profits. ”

"This is something that everyone knows, there is no benefit, who will be full enough to do this?" Gu Changfeng was out of the way, he had been singing against Yun Ji to disturb Yun Ji's thoughts.

Yun Ji was unmoved, what he thought had always been his own opinion. Gu Changfeng interrupted once, and he took the opportunity to throw out a sentence, see who consumed whom? His views may not be correct, but he is confident and always feels that there is some truth in his ideas.

"That's why it's been banned repeatedly."

Gu Changfeng: "??? ”

"The ancient Dayu has a practice of blocking and sparse, in the face of this kind of sword going sideways, can't we use the practice of dredging?" For a long time, there has been only oppression between officials and businessmen, and there is no sharing of interests. Just like A-Niang is doing business in secret, the profits will be expropriated by the imperial court for three-tenths.

Since ancient times, he has focused on business and business, and he disagrees with this.

Merchants happen to be the most powerful rope connecting the people, without merchants, how can the people's output be turned into money, and maintain daily life?

When he asked his family why the court valued agriculture so much and despised merchants, A-Niang said something that he couldn't understand. He also said that the nature of the times is such that no one can reverse this status quo, unless one day the system is fundamentally changed. A-Niang asked him not to explore, let alone try to change, because the time has not come, and he will be punished by God if he forcibly goes against the sky.

"Why is it better to block than to sparse?" Gu Changfeng straightened up. Listening to Yun Ji talk about his own point of view, Gu Changfeng began to feel a little satisfied with the student that the emperor had forced on him.

"I heard that the businessmen who are in close contact with the palace are called imperial merchants, in fact, the students have a very immature idea, that is, the cooperation between officials and businessmen, the imperial court designates businessmen to engage in salt and iron business, on this basis, the students believe that it is impossible to completely eliminate this kind of thing, rather than so, it is better to channel, the so-called bell must be renewed, first complete Tianqi's bill on this, and then encourage the people or businessmen to report, the whistleblower is anonymous, and after finding out the truth, the court will secretly use the treasury, everyone is in danger for a while, and dare not do it."

Gu Changfeng looked at Yun Ji appreciatively, and said, "Your idea is really immature, the cooperation between officials and businessmen has long existed, but the latter's anonymous report is a new thing." ”

"The student is stupid, and all he can think of is Er'er."

He wanted to say that if the commercial tax was lowered a little, the land tax of the common people would not fall to this point. It's a pity that if he said such things in the tone of a scholar who had not yet entered the academy, he would definitely be expelled from the academy immediately, and even affect his family. After all considerations, Yun Ji decided to bury this secret.

These words can only be said to my own mother.

"It's already very good, I'll take you." Gu Changfeng sat back on his chair and waited for Yun Ji's apprenticeship.

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