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Text Chapter 128 The Beginning of the Suppression

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    In the Liangyi Hall today, both civil and military personnel came together. Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji sat at the front for the civil officials, and others such as Wei Zheng, Xiao Yu and others were behind. The generals were naturally led by Li Jing, but let  What surprised Li Min was that Li Xiaogong was also sitting there, followed by Li Ji, Cheng Yaojin and others.

    As soon as Li Min came in, he found that all the people in the palace, whether civil or military, had solemn expressions on their faces. They were all staring at their feet intently, as if they were studying a rare treasure. No one even came in.  Look up.  Li Shimin, who was sitting on it, had a livid face with a few flushes on his face. There were memorials scattered on the floor in front of the desk, and there were even signs of being torn. It looked like he had been very angry just now.

    Although he knew that Li Shimin was angry, Li Min still had to bite the bullet and stepped forward, bowed and saluted: "My son, I see my father!"

    Li Shimin, who was sitting with a sullen face, saw Li Min, and his expression recovered a little. He nodded and said, "Liu Lang, pick up a few memorials on the ground and read them!"

    Li Min felt strange, but he still followed the instructions and picked up a few books from under his feet.  Speaking of which, he really didn't pay attention just now. There were quite a lot of memorials on the ground, probably two to three hundred at least.  When Li Min opened the memorial in his hand and looked at it, he found that these memorials were all presented on the same day.

    It has been almost two years since he came to the Tang Dynasty, and Li Min's level of classical Chinese has also improved a lot. He can also roughly understand the contents of these memorials. After roughly reading all the memorials in his hand, Li Min's mouth also became vague.  There was a sneer.

    These memorials were written by different people, and these people not only had different positions.  The geographical location is also far and wide, but the content of the memorial is similar. It is nothing more than blaming the development of industry and commerce for hindering local agriculture and greatly reducing food production that year. Therefore, it requested the court to restrict industry and commerce and impose heavy taxes on industry and commerce.  Otherwise, if this situation is allowed to develop, it may cause widespread famine and so on.

    ¡°Obviously, this is what Li Min has been waiting for for a long time.  The Five Surnames and Seven Hopes formally suppressed industry and commerce.

    However, when Li Min looked at the memorials all over the floor, he couldn't help but take a breath, thinking about the influence of the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes in his heart.  I finally had an intuitive understanding. The Tang Dynasty was not the dynasty of later generations. The ratio of officials to citizens was extremely low. The total number of high-ranking officials in the country was estimated to be only more than 10,000 people. Those who were qualified to submit countermeasures were sent here.  The number is even rarer, but the memorial in front of you means that hundreds of officials are influenced by the five surnames and seven looks. This ratio is very shocking.

    Watching Li Min read the memorial.  Li Shimin said angrily: "Liu Lang, look at it, there are more than 300 states in the country, and people from almost every state have submitted memorials to me, telling me about the harm of industry and commerce. But they did not mention at all that the national treasury tax revenue has increased several times in the past two years.  Are they all blind?"

    Looking at Li Shimin who was so angry that he wanted to kill someone, Li Min also understood deeply. After all, as a generation of emperors, he saw so many officials controlled by another force and deliberately exaggerating the shortcomings of industry and commerce.  But he kept silent about the advantages of industry and commerce. This was what Li Shimin couldn't accept the most.

    Seeing the furious Li Shimin, the ministers sitting below looked at each other and lowered their heads very wisely. They were also insiders about the suppression of industry and commerce by the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes, and many of them were aware of it.  They are on the side of industry and commerce, but now that Li Min is the leader, there is no need for them to step forward.

    Just when Li Ming wanted to persuade Li Shimin to calm down, he had already told Li Shimin how to deal with it. As long as he formally issued the order, everything would go according to plan.  But at this moment, one of the courtiers below suddenly walked out and said loudly: "Your Highness, although these people have been organized to put pressure on the imperial court, what they say is not unreasonable. Agriculture is the foundation of a country.  If agriculture is affected, I¡¯m afraid the country¡¯s foundation will also be shaken!¡±

    ¡°If you dare to say such words at this time, there is probably no other person in the entire Tang Dynasty except Wei Zheng.  Speaking of which, Wei Zheng was also an orthodox Confucian scholar. In his view, agriculture was far more important than opportunistic industry and commerce. Therefore, no matter how much tax revenue industry and commerce brought to the Tang Dynasty, if it affected the foundation of agriculture, it would definitely be suppressed.

    Li Shimin was furious and wanted to get angry as soon as he heard Wei Zheng's words, but Li Min was the first to say: "What Dr. Wei said is reasonable. Agriculture is indeed the foundation of a country, but industry and commerce are also the strategies for making a country rich. Both are equally important, and they cannot be because of industry and commerce."  If the development of agriculture affects agriculture, industry and commerce will be regarded as a scourge and vigorously suppressed!"

    Although Wei Zheng had a good impression of Li Min, when it came to such a major national matter, he had no mercy at all. He asked without giving in: "Oh, then I would like to ask Your Highness, what if we don't suppress industry and commerce?"  Let farmers who have abandoned farming to work return to the land?"

    Wei Zheng only has traditional agriculture in his mindDuring this period, I didn¡¯t think of any other way at all.  Li Min was waiting for the other party's words, so in front of all the civil and military officials, he told all the three strategies proposed by Wang An and the rice he had prepared for the city.  In fact, after he and Cheng Huailiang gathered yesterday, these four coping methods had long been circulated among insiders. For example, Li Shimin and most of the civil and military officials present had known about it in advance, so they did not feel the slightest surprise at all.

    As an admonishment official, Wei Zheng didn¡¯t have much contact with people. In addition, he had a strict family style and had never had anything to do with Li Min¡¯s industrial and commercial interest groups, so he didn¡¯t know about it in advance.  Therefore, when he first heard these four methods to solve agricultural problems, he was greatly impressed. After all, he did not care about the individual. As long as the food problem was solved, he still held a relatively open-minded attitude toward industry and commerce that could increase tax revenue.  .

    Most of the people in the court were related to Li Min's interests, and Li Shimin was very angry with the actions of Wu surnamed Qiwang, so the four suggestions put forward by Li Min were immediately adopted, although some of them were from big families such as Wu surnamed Qiwang.  Officials blocked the move, but their slight objections were quickly drowned out by the surrounding voices of approval.

    Of course, what Li Min put forward was just a rough suggestion. The detailed implementation details would have to be completed by ministers like Fang Xuanling. Li Min couldn't help at all, so he wisely closed the door.  Mouth, stand aside and be an honest listener.

    I saw a group of civil servants headed by Fang Xuanling gathered together. They discussed each other one by one, analyzing the difficulties that may be encountered in the implementation of the four suggestions one by one, and then pooled the wisdom of everyone to come up with solutions.  road.  I don¡¯t know how long it took, but four detailed implementation plans were born in front of Li Min. However, these four plans still required the cooperation of Li Min. To be precise, it should be the cooperation of Li Min¡¯s newly founded Datang Daily.

    After everything was discussed, Li Shimin asked the civil and military officials to retire, but he kept Li Min, mainly because he wanted to ask about the newspaper.  At the beginning, Li Min told him Li Shimin two ways to fight back against the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes. One of them was to use newspapers as a tool of public opinion as a weapon to attack the prestige and influence of those wealthy families.  However, in order to achieve this, newspapers must be distributed all over the country. If it is only handled by the court, it is estimated that they can only pour money into it, and the effect may not be good, so Li Min takes this matter into his own hands.  On oneself.

    "Father, don't worry, the newspaper has just started now. Several issues have been published in Chang'an, and the Luoyang branch is also ready. It will be published simultaneously with Chang'an. As for information transmission, Feinu is used. Although  There will be some delays, but it is also very fast. As for branches in other big cities such as Taiyuan, they are also under preparation!" Li Min reported the progress of opening the newspaper to Li Shimin.

    "Liu Lang, I heard that every time you sell a newspaper, you lose a little money. The more newspapers you sell, the more you lose. Is that true?" Li Shimin asked worriedly.

    Li Min smiled after hearing this and said, "Father, this is indeed the case. If we calculate it, on average, for every two newspapers sold, the newspaper company will lose one penny." Although the price of one penny for a newspaper is enough  It¡¯s high, but considering the cost of newspapers, it¡¯s actually still a loss.

    "Liu Lang, I know you are good at amassing money, but losing money at this rate is probably not an option. Otherwise, should I ask the treasury to allocate part of the money specifically to support the newspaper industry?" Li Shimin hesitated, and finally spoke.  said.

    "Thank you, Father, for your kindness, but newspapers can actually be profitable, and the more we sell now, the more we can earn in the future, so Father, you don't have to worry about this problem." Li Min smiled.  said.

    Although businessmen in this era have already had the concept of advertising, for example, when a new store opens, the store owner will hire a group of idle people to promote his store.  When the circulation of the newspaper reaches a certain level and it has sufficient influence, Li Min will launch an advertising space business in the newspaper. I believe it will definitely attract many discerning businessmen to place advertisements in it.

    Hearing that Li Min's newspaper could be profitable, Li Shimin finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although the revenue of the treasury has increased several times now, after the great war in Goguryeo, most of the reserves of the treasury have been consumed, and according to the news he received, there is another  A troublesome matter is before him, and it may even trigger a new round of war. Although the opponent this time is not as good as Goguryeo, it should not be underestimated. I am afraid that the remaining reserves in the treasury alone will not be able to support this war.  .

    Li Min saw that Li Shimin was relieved after hearing what he said, but his brows were still furrowed. It seemed that there was something difficult. He was curious, so he asked: "Father, what are you worried about?  "^-^^-^

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