Zhao Zhen was about to ask him how the reform of the tea law was, so he summoned him in.

Soon Li Zhen came in and said to Zhao Zhen: "Official." ”

"Li Xiang, what's wrong?"

Zhao Zhen asked: "Is the reform of the new law still smooth?" ”

Li Zheng's face was slightly pale, and he coughed twice and said: "Your Majesty Hongfu, in the past few days, we have reached cooperation with many tea merchants, and they will more than double the amount of grain and grass transported to the border every year in the future, which will greatly increase the storage of border grain." ”

"Oh?"

Zhao Zhen was very happy and said, "Great. ”

"But ......"

Li Zhen's face hesitated.

Zhao Zhen wondered: "But what? ”

"However, it is still far from meeting expectations, and there may even be delays in the delivery of grain."

"Why?"

"Because some traders not only colluded with officials at the border and wantonly embezzled coins and tea quotations from the imperial court, but also planned to unite to resist the implementation of the new law."

Li Zheng said: "Do the officials still remember the money law imposed in the Year of the Heavenly Sage, and how those businessmen resisted it? ”

Zhao Zhen frowned.

At that time, it was still the time when Liu E was in power, and seeing that the money law had seriously damaged the interests of those merchants and officials who relied on sucking the blood of the imperial court, they resisted en masse, and the next year they stopped transporting grain to the border.

As a result, the border army was short of food, and the imperial court panicked, so it hurriedly belittled Li Jian and abolished the money law, which calmed down the resistance of those people.

The other party now seems to be planning to do this again.

"What does Li Xiang think should be?"

Zhao Zhen asked.

Li Jian said: "When you kill a hundred people, you must not be merciful." ”

Hearing this, Zhao Zhen hesitated.

He is indeed a soft-hearted person, and Renzong has never ordered anyone to be killed.

The most important thing is that he was assassinated in the palace in the eighth year of Qingli, and after the assassin was killed, he did not order the murderer to be traced, so it was over, which is also outrageous.

If Zhu Yuanzhang encountered this kind of thing, regardless of whether he participated in it, he had to destroy dozens of families and nine clans and kill tens of thousands of people to help him?

Now that he was ordered to punish the unscrupulous traders, he became hesitant.

After a while, Zhao Zhen said: "I want to be punished, but I still have to follow the law..... This is not a capital crime, they will be sentenced to whatever law they violate, and it must not be too severe, and it is better to be as light as possible. ”

"Yes."

Li Jian replied helplessly, and then said: "There is one more thing. ”

"What?"

"At present, the tea merchants who are dealing with it are only some tea merchants who have no background, and there are many businessmen who have the support of officials in the court or Zhishi, and they also embezzle the treasury of the imperial court, and it is inconvenient for the ministers to deal with them one by one."

"That's right."

Zhao Zhen thought about it for a while, and then said, "Then let the Imperial City Division make a list first, and then talk about it later." ”

"Yes."

Li Zheng should go down.

Zhao Zhen is actually helpless about this matter.

The Great Song Dynasty only did not restrict officials from doing business themselves, but did not restrict their relatives from doing business.

Therefore, the style of doing business among officials in the Great Song Dynasty was extremely prevalent, and tax evasion was just a routine operation, and there were also those who used their official status to do evil and bully the market.

For example, that Sun Wei, during his tenure as the governor of Hangzhou, made his subordinates blatantly do business and made a lot of money.

But Zhao Zhen is not easy to deal with, firstly, he does follow the ancestral system of treating scholars and doctors well, secondly, he himself is soft-hearted and can't make that hand, and third, and most importantly, that is, to really crack down on officials and business, this interest is comparable to cracking down on redundant officials and redundant soldiers, and he doesn't have the courage to make up his mind to reform.

Therefore, he can only put it aside for now, and wait for Zhao Jun's eyes to recover in the future, and see what he can do.

The main reason is that Zhao Zhen is not very worried about the border problem.

Now that the treasury has a surplus, Zhao Zhen plans to promote it throughout the country next year if the pilot project of Jiaozi Affairs goes smoothly and absorb a large number of coins.

When the time comes, when the price of grain is low, the grain and grass will be stored first and transported to the border gates.

Although Zhao Jun only said that Li Yuanhao would provoke a war on the northwest border in the next year, he did not say that because of the war, the food prices in the Great Song Dynasty soared and the people were miserable.

But these prime ministers of Zhao Zhen are not all wine bags and rice bags, and King Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng quickly analyzed that once Li Yuanhao really wants to go to war as Zhao Jun said, then the imperial court will inevitably raise troops in the northwest and transfer a large amount of grain and grass, causing grain prices to fluctuate.

Therefore, they plan to make reserves in advance, take advantage of the current low grain prices to secretly sweep the goods, reserve some old grain first, and wait until next year after the next year when Li Yuanhao really wants to go to war, and release the old grain can at least stabilize the grain price.

It's just that there was no money in the treasury before, and the fiscal deficit was squeezed by more than 30 million yuan, so there was really no way to store grain, so even if these things were analyzed, they were helpless.

But now that we have the help of handing over the children's affairs, we can embezzle the money for the time being, and we can completely get the grain up first, so that there will be no shortage of food at the border, and there will be no shortage of food for the people.

At that time, even if Li Jian asked the merchants to stop sending grain to the border in a short period of time, there would not be any major mistakes.

After all, the state-owned tea has not been abolished at present, but it has become a state-owned tea seller to selected tea merchants, and those who have not been selected still have to transport grain to the border to exchange for tea, and insist on it for a year or two, and those who do not have tea will not conform to them.

Soon Li Zhen reported the matter and left, Zhao Zhen learned that the matter of handing over the affairs of the son and meeting the money law was quite smooth, he was very happy, and dealt with some other government affairs, and waited until the morning, Yan Shu came back.

Yan Shu asked the palace gate to meet His Majesty, and after getting Zhao Zhen's permission, he quickly entered the palace, he has not been in the palace in the past few days, but he looks a little haggard.

"Gong Yan, how is the lady of Julu County?"

Zhao Zhen asked.

Yan Shu's original partner Li died early, and his current wife is Xu Xian, the daughter of Meng Xuzhou, a member of Tuntian, and the wife of Julu County.

In history, Meng did not accompany Yan Shu to the end, and finally died of illness.

But now, although Yan Shu's face is slightly haggard, his spirit is good, and he said with a smile: "Entrusted to the official's family, Hongfu, Mrs. has turned the corner, and now her body has recovered." ”

"Turning the tide of danger?"

When Zhao Zhen heard this, he wanted to nod his head to congratulate Yan Shu, but when he heard the latter sentence, he couldn't believe it: "Yan Gong, what did you say?" It's only been a few days, and Mrs. Julu County has recovered? ”

You must know that Mrs. Meng has lung fever, modern bronchitis, pneumonia, and lung abscess are all a kind of lung fever, and in ancient times, they were not completely terminal, and they needed to be treated with the right medicine, such as Qianjin reed stem soup, barley aconite sauce powder, and rhubarb peony soup can be treated.

However, the treatment of this disease requires the right symptoms, and the patient's body needs to be able to bear it, otherwise the effect of traditional Chinese medicine will be slower, and the patient will have to return to the West. Therefore, in ancient times, lung fever was still a relatively lethal disease, and even if it could be cured, the body would be extremely weak, rather than recover within a few days.

Therefore, Zhao Zhen was extremely shocked when he heard Yan Shu say that Mrs. Meng's body had fully recovered.

Yan Shu smiled: "Yes, I only took two capsules of amoxicillin." The imperial doctor said that he couldn't determine the medicinal properties, and he didn't know if he could treat the symptoms, and he couldn't eat too much, so he saw that Neiko was terminally ill, so he fed her a pill first, but he didn't expect it to get better soon, and he ate another one the day before yesterday, and now he can get out of bed and move around at will, but he has eaten less during this time, and his body is slightly weak. ”

"It's so magical."

Zhao Zhen was surprised, and then said, "Can the imperial doctor take out its medicinal properties from it?" ”

Yan Shu shook his head and said: "If it is a medicine residue, the imperial doctor will know the smell even if he smells it, but it is a white powder, and he doesn't know what it is, so he thinks it should be the chemical synthesis that Zhao Jun said." ”

"That would be a shame."

Zhao Zhen was disappointed at first, and then said happily: "But there are still many miracle medicines in his later life, which is a good thing." ”

Yan Shu said: "Yes, Your Majesty, if you can survive, maybe you can rely on these medicines in the future to deduce new medicines, and now the top priority is to steal from Zhao Jun...... Well, take a little and keep a part of all his pills. ”

"In that case, let's go see Zhao Jun."

Zhao Zhen said.